The New York Herald Newspaper, October 4, 1865, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, J 1g N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. Volume XXX... 60. seeb eee secceneecese NOs BT AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, _mnoapway THEATRE, Broadway.—Tax Woman 1 HIPPOTHEATRON, Fourteenth street.—Kqueseaian xD Grunastic Frats—Tue Baxsex ano tux Beapir. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 535 Broadway, opposite tan Hotel.—EraioriaN SiNGiNG, Dancing, &c.— Young Aruica on tux Trarsze. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. 201 Bowery.—Sina- mmo, Dancing, Buniesques, £c.—Pueasant Naicupon. VANNUCHI'S MUSEUM, 000 Broadway.—Movina Wax Figunes ov Paxsipynt Lixcoun, Juve, Davis, &c. W YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. Open Trou 104 SE uO P.M: ” New York, Wednesday, October 4, 1865. NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION. Reeeipts of Sales of the New York Daily Newspapers. OFFICIAL. Year Ending New Yor Heratp.. Times, Tribune, World and Sun combined.. ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY. 871,229 Advertisements for the Wzexty Herat must be handed in before ten o’clock every Wednesday evening. Its cir- culation among the enterprising mechanics, farmors, merchants, manufacturers and gentlemen throughout the country is increasing very rapidly. Advertisements in- gerted in the Wxrxty Hrranp will thus be seen by a large portion of the active and energetic people of tho United States. Oat gent THE NEWS. TRIAL OF WIRZ. But little testimony was taken before the Wirz court raartial yesterday, and that little was immaterial in its character, nearly the whole of the day’s proceedings con- sisting of arguments of counsel for the accused in favor of an adjournment for one week, to enable them to per- fect their defence and secure the attendance of their witnesses, aud replies thereto by members of the court. Judge Advocate Chipman insisted that counsel should proceed with the examination, arguing that there was no good caus for delay, as the prosecution had already granied them every reasonable indulgence. In the course of his remarks the Judge Advocate took occasion to con- tradict a report which has gained currency to the effect that Generals Lee and Johnston and other prominent rebels have been subpoenaed as witnesses for the defenco, though he had been informed that application would be made to bring them into.court. Atter two consultations ‘with closed doors the court decided that farther taking Of testimony for the day would be dispensed with, but that no longer postponement could be granted than till ten o'clock this forenoon, to which time an adjournment took piace. ‘ EUROPE. ‘The steamship City of Edinburg, from Queenstown on the 21st ult., reached this port yesterday, and the Per- sia, from Queenstown on the 24th, arrived here early this morning. By these arrivals we havo received some furthor inter- exting details of the progress of the Fenian movement in Ireland, and of the mysterious and impenetrable na- ture of the organization in that country. Arrests con- tinued to be made in both England and Ireland ; but still the organizations were undismayed, and were vigorously prosecuting their secret work. MISCELLANEOUS. Our Vera Cruz correspondence to the 2lst of September represents a terrible condition of aifairs in the dominions over which Maximilian claims to be Emperor by the grace of God and the will of the Mexican people. Guerilla forays, robberies, murders and outlawry and violence of all kinds contmue as prevalent as ever, and society gene- rally is in a most painfully disorganized and chaotic stato, notwithstanding all the fine promises that the em- pire was to effect the sulvation of Mexico and her people. Troops continue tp arrive from France, sixteon Tiundred having landed at Vera Cruz within the wook preceding the 2lst ult, and it was m- mored that a thousand negro soldiers presented by the Viesioy of Egypt to Louis Napoleon would also soon make their appearance to assist in upholding Maximilian’s throne. This latter instalment of warriors, it was feared, ‘would bring with them the cholera, to add to all the other afliictions of the country. In the capital city Marshal Bazaine, the French commander, cis independently of the Bmperor, and arrests and imprisons every person whom he suspects of sooret disgust with the imperial régime. On the occa- sion of the anniversary of Mexican independence, on the 16th of September, there was great alarm among the imperialists in Vera Cruz, in consequence of reports which, however, were not verified, that the republicans moditated an attack, and the vessels of war in the harbor wore placed in readiness for action and every prepara- tion was made to fire on the city. ‘The North Carolina Reconstruction Convention, which met on Monday of this week, adjourned over to yester- day after organizing and electing printers and appoint- ing committees to prepare rules and to wait upon Pro- visional Governor Holden. We have received no report of yesterday's proceedings. The people of Georgia will to-day elect dclogates to their State Convention, which is to mect on the 25th instant. In addition to the work of the Alabama Convention heretofore noticed, it provided, before adjourning, for the election of State officers on the 6th of next month, Jegalized the marriages of negroes, made provision for the care of the indigent and helpless portion of the colored population, and directed the State judicial officers to continue to act as agents of the Freedmen’s Bureau. Governor Brownlow, in his message delivered yester- day to the Tennessee Legislature, congratulates the mombers on the favorable manner in which civil law is working in the State; recommends amendments to the Franchise law, but is disposed to discourage sweeping Changes in legisiation; thinks the mass of the people ‘who engaged inthe rebellion should suffer at least ten oars of disfranchisement, and that the leaders should ‘receive neither mercy nor forbearance; recommends the geception of negro testimony in the courts, but believes @bat the white and colored people cannot live together as Political or social equals, and therefore favors setting part some portion of the national territory for the Wwpecial residence of the freedmen. He desiros immigra- ion into Tennessee from the Eastern States and Europe ‘to be fostered, and regards President Johnson's recon. policy as the sole hope of the country. Colonel Wells, Assistant Superintendent of Indian Af- im, concluded on last Friday a treaty, which has been Wan abeyance for two years, with the Osage Indians, by which that tribe relinquishes claim to over two million @cres of land situated in Kansas, which will now be @hrown open to white settlers. Governor Fenton resumed the examination of the against our city officials in the chamber of the of Councilmen at noon yesterday. The counsel for the officials demanded the right to cross-examine the (Scousers, which the counsel for the latter sought to by refusing to produee Mr. Gregory, who had the sworn charges. The Governor, after extended ‘@rgument, ordered Mr. Grogory’s appearance. Meantime + Auld, the Mayors clerk, who acted as secretary for Street Cleaning Commission, was put on the stand, yond occupied the rest of the day. His testimony detailed Proceedings about the spocifications and the award of e Contract, Nothing illegal or corrupt was indicated us far, All the Commissioners had co.operated, and material act and fact was found tg Baye boon rected and consummaygd bY fhanInibus actioh of the (16 nacap lng Jo We Iae, All bad acroed that wo NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, OUTOBER 4, 1865. — Jaw id not direot an award to the lowest bidder, but, for |The Great Question of the Day—The the best interests of the city, to the most efficient and responatb!e partios. ‘The evidence goes to show that such action has been taken as wifl make it very difMoult for the contractors or for any change in the city officials to effect an evasion of this contract, Unlike its predecessors, it is made to hold. Every county in Connecticut excepting ono gave a 7 | majority against the constitutional amendment granting ogro suffrags at the election on Monday. The total majority against it in the State is thought to be six thousand. Among the resignations re:ently accepted by the War Department is that of Major General Henry W. Slooum, democratic candidate for Secretary of State of the State of New York. It ts reported that the rebel ex-Governor Clark, of Mis- souri, and Dr. Gwin, ex-United States Sonator from Cali- fornia, ox-rebel agent, ¢X-Mexican imperialist and sot- disant Duke of Sonora, have been arrested and incarcera- ted in Fort Jackson, Louisiana. The Ketchum frauds wore acain yesterday undor legal consideration in @ somewhat complicated form, Judge Ingraham, of the Supreme Court, at chambers, being ‘engaged in hearing arguments on a motion to vacate én attachment for five hundred thousand dollars on the assets of Edward B. Ketchum, which was secured by his copartners in business during the time that he re- mained secreted, The motion to vacate is brought by the two firms of Isham & Isham and Isham & Gallup, claiming to be creditors of the Ketchum firm, with the object of letting them into a preference so far as regards the property of young Ketchum, The Judge's decision ‘was resorvod. Judge Ingraham also yesterday heard at chambers & charge of libel! brought by Alderman Lewis R. Ryers, Tepresenting the Ninth Aldermanic district, against William B, Rankin, a citizen of said district, for the alleged utterance of false and slanderous language concerning the plaintiff, charging him with disreputable and corrupt conduct in office. The affidavit of the Alder- man and the answer thereto of the defendant were read. The defandant denies uttering libellous language regard- ing the Alderman, on the ground that the latter’s char- acter was not damaged by the charges made, which, it is claimed, are susceptible of substantiation. The Judge heard both sideg and reserved his decision. Mr. David Tilton brought an action yesterday in the Court of Common Pleas, before Judge Cardozo, against the proprietors of the Madison avenue line of stages for injuries sustained by him in January, 1863, by reason of one of the said stages knocking against his wagon and throwing him out on the pavement, ao Secu) 9 thousand dollars damages, but tb& jury gave him only two hundred ind My a The Grand Jury was empanelled yostorday in the Court of General Sessions, Mr. Salem H. Wales being chosen foreman. Recorder Hoffman delivered a brief charge, stating that there was no topic of public intoreat requiring any specific instructions from him. Judge Russel sentenced Clark and McDonald, who were con- victed as being accessories after the fact of the homicide of Harry Lazarus by Bernard Friery, now under sentence of death. Clark was sent to the State Prison for two years and six months, and his associate got two years’ imprisonment in the same institution. The Recorder sentenced a number of pickpockets tothe State Prison. The dislike of citizens to serve as jurors was mani- fested this month in the fact that out of a panel of one hundred for the Supreme Court, Circuit, part 2, there were but twelve or fourteen who did not claim legal ex- emptions, and Judge Barnard was obliged to adjourn the court for one week, and ordered an additional pancl of jurors for Monday, the 9th inst. New panels were ‘also ordered for four other courts, including one thousand for the General Sessions. If jurors endeavor to furnish ex- cuses which, when sworn to, the eourts respect and as- sent to, there must necessarily be a clog on our legal cal- endars ; but in the end the Judges will be accused of the paucity of business transacted in their various courts. During the draft times there never were so many men in New York above forty-five years of age and under eighteen as now, and we have never before seen so many jurors who claim to be deaf, rheumatic or suffering from some other unenviable infirmity as during the present law term. Surrogate Tucker has had on trial this wock the con- tested will of the late Mrs. Sarah’ Shaffer, The decedent left a property of twelve thousand dollars, most of which is given by the will to one of her daughters, Mrs. Jones. The will is contested by another daughter, Mrs, Shard- low, and a granddaughter, Miss Shaffer, on allegations of mental incapacity. The Surrogate’s decision is reserved. The New York Mail Steamship Company's steamer Northern Light, Captain Wojr, will sail at three P. M. to- day, from pier 46 North river, for New Orleans direct. The mails will close at the Post Office at half-past one P.M. ‘The Liverpool, New York and Philadelphia Steamship Company have just contracted with Messrs. Tod & MeGregor, of Glasgow, for a new steamship for their line, to be fifteen feet longer than their new steamer the City of Boston, puton the station Inst summer, and which veasel has proved herself one of the fastest ovean- going steamships afloat—the average of her last three voyages between Cork and New York having been nine days eighteen hours and forty-five minutes westward, and nine days eleven hours and twenty-six minutes eastward. The new steamer will be 327 fect long by 30 feet beam, with engines to work up to 1,450 horse power. The new double-turreted iron-clad Miantonomah went on her trial trip down the bay on Monday, and acquitted herself admirably and to the utmost satisfaction of all on board, among whom was Vice Admiral Farragut, The police magistrates yesterday made the following commitments:—Francis Gonzales, a Spaniard, charged with committing a supposed fatal assault on last Sunday evening on William Weimphol, keeper of a drinking place at No, 38 East Broadway, because, as alleged, the latter refused to take in payment for some beer a coun- terfeit iifty cent stamp; John Regan, keeper of a board- ing house at No. 49 James street, charged with inflicting with a pistol, on Monday night, in the aforesaid place, a dangerous wound on his brother-in-law, John Smith, residing at No. 61 of the same street; two men, giving their names as Charlies C. Davis and John C. Henry, who took lodgings at the St. James Ho- tel, on Monday night, charged with being hotel thieves, and breakigig into the room of James M. Connor, a patron of the honse, and robbing him of money and papers of value; and John Lowery, alias Danie} Casey, on charge, while pretending to purchase jewelry in the store 416 Broadway, of stealing property valued at nearly two hundred dollars, the missing articles being found in his possession. On Monday night policeman Miles Sullivan, of the Fourteenth precinct, while conveying towards the station house a man whom he hed arrested in Canal street for disorderly conduct, was attacked and violently beaten by confederates of the prisoner, whose escape as well as their own they succeeded in effecting. A meoting of the Tobacco and Cigar Dealers’ Associa- tion was held yesterday afternoon, at the Steuben House, in the Bowery, at which farther perfection was made of the arrangements of the mombers for petitioning Con- gress at the next session to so amend the Internal Reve- nue law as to transfer the tax from the manufactured tobacco to the raw material. Permanent officers of the organization were also elected, and some additional busi- ness was transacted, Major Pierce, formerly of the United States Army, and later of the Military Board of the rebel State government of Texas, has been arrested, and is held as a prisoner at Anstin on charges connected with the malfeasance of ‘hat board. ‘Three passenger cars of the six-forty P. M. mail train of Saturday last Syracuse for Auburn, when about two miles from latter place, were thrown from the track by a broken rail, and seven passengers were 80 neverely injured as to require modical attendance, while nearly a dozen others received slight bruises. The stock market was active yesterday, and closed at a fractional advance. Governments were dull but steady. Gold was strong, and closed at 144%. ‘There was considerable activity in trade circles yester- day, and the markets were, almost without exception, buoyant and Orm. Foreign goode were in demand, and holders asked vory full prices. Domestic preduce was active, and prices wore generally higher. Groceries were firm. Cotton was in fair demand at fuil prices. Petroleum was firmer. On ‘Change there was consid- erable activity. Flour and grain were decidedly higher. Pork waa irregular. Lard was firmer, Whiskey was stendy. on ‘The market for beef cattle was firm under a good do- mand this week, and good to prime both Sold freely at 180. a 196., being in sg The tutk of the cat- tle were ii 16° Cimon, which ceid at from 90. to 16, All at within the Milch cows were teal “Vouis wero in fair spp and frm at 90. to 34g0. Shoep and lambs sold fairly at from $4 to $8. Hogs wore in fair demand at from 14¢. to 14%¢, The total receipts were 6,361 boof cattle, 164 cows, 1,113 youls 26.612 aheop and lambp, ppd 1,020 hoga =, Formation of the Ruling National Party for the Next Fifty Years. ; Wo are in the midst of a great political revo- lution. We see it in the ruins of the rebellion, in the work of Southern reconstruction, in the embarrassments of the politicians and in the drift of our old, disjointed political parties. The Southern democratic Bourbon dynasty, founded upon African slavery, has passed away. A new order of things, on the basis of universal liberty, must take its place. We are about to enter upon ® new career of national unity, prosperity and power, such aa the world has never seen. We must first, however, clear away the debris of the late national earth- quake and re-establish the disorganized South- ern States in full communion in the Union before we can cross the threshold to this new epoch of national harmony, strength and glory. The war is ended, but we have yet to bury the politically dead and remove the wounded from the field before we can enter into the joys of the Promised Land. We are now in the transition state from the cocoon to the butterfly. “The Union as it was,” and parties as they were, are impossible things. The administration party and the opposition party of to-morrow may not be those parties of to-day. They may stand as they are, or they may change places with changing events. President Johnson is master of the situation. The politicians on both sides are perplexed, but the people rest in confidence upon Presi- dent Johnson. Outside of New York neither the republican party nor the democratic party occupies anything but a dubious position re- specting his Southern reconstruction policy. They support him with saving clauses and loop- holes of escape. They rather like him; they pat him on the back; but they are still suspi- cious. It is only in New York that the manag- ing politicians on both sides fully comprehend the popplasliy of My Joh4i8hls Southern policy; and hence it is only in New York that we find both parties planted upon the same platform. The New York republicans are de- lighted with their President; he is the very man they wanted to step into the shoes of the lamented Lincoln; while the New York demo- crats contend that they alone have tendered him a hearty support, without reserve or equivocation. How the approaching fall elections may go in other States will be a matter of small im- portance, but the result in New York in Novem- ber will be of some moment, as indicating in the judgment of the people the party entitled to their confidence as the party of the administra- tion. This is the great issue in New York. What the result will be is doubtful. The republicans have the advantages of a war which was not “a failure,” and of the occupation of the Cabinet, Congress and the State. The State, however, is close, and this election may be decided by the de- fection of Greeley and his abolition radicals on the one side, or of Ben Wood and his disgusted copperheads on the other. Mantilini Marble and the shent-per-shent Chicago troupe, having failed to get into the White House kitchen, may also be missing at the eleventh hour; but in any event Andy Johnson in November will be emphatically endorsed by the Empire State. This result, no matter which party may win, will bring powerful reinforcements to the ad- ministration, but it will not of itself reveal the dominant party of the future. Something more to this end will be required than success in our November election. President Johnson has fulfilled bis réle as a republican. The mission of that party, so far as he was pledged to it, ended with the suppression of the rebel- lion and the abolition of slavery. He is now perfectly free to stand upon his own platform and build up his own party. His platform is before the country, and his party, by hundreds and by thousands, from all the old parties in every section, are gathering upon it. All the Southern States are and will be with him, and the Northern party which adopts him now as its candidate for the succession, will be the party of the future, and to the end of the nineteenth century and beyond it. This is the test which will make the repub- licans or the democrats a unit with the ad- ministration; this is the one thing needful to prove the sincerity of the professions of slip- pery politicians. If the republicans believe, as they profess, that President Johnson is the man of all men for the crisis, why should they hesi- tate to proclaim him their candidate for 1868, in order that he may have “scope and verge enough” for the great work before him? If the democrats really believe that he is a man after their own hearts, a democrat of the old school, with “all the modern improvements,” why not, by a dexterous flank movement, capture him and make him their champion for the succes- sion against the field? The Seymours, the Val- landighams, the Comstocks and the Cassidys, the war, the peace and the shent-per-shent democracy, all swear by Andy Johnson. What, then, is there to prevent bis nomination, right away, as the democratic candidate for 1868? ‘This is the test. President Johnson, we say, is master of the situation. The party which adopts him, therefore, as its ticket forthe suc- cession will win the succession and will be the ruling party of the future. Are the republicans or the democrats ready to take him up? That is the question. Preparations FoR A Potiticat Fiaut i Tats Statz.—The democracy are preparing to enter the canvass in this State with unusual zeal. A large amount of money has been already raised, and John Van Buren opens the cam- paign at Albany to-morrow, and intends to make a tour through the State. He will prosecute the work with vigor, and will no doubt have a grand array of assistant, What is the other side doing? Who have they got to pit against Van Buren? Where are their lead- ers? Who do they expect will marshal their forces during the canvass? Greeley is used up, and bas gone to St. Paul to ascertain the price of butter. Weed has played out, and is devoting his time to writing out his past dreams, fighting his old battles over, aince he cannot get up courage to make new fights, and bothering his head about some clerkship of no account, as if that was all that was to be done in the canvass. Raymond does not appear to know what to do, and, forfear that he will take & tnistake, has dropped the whole sub- ject, and has gone off on an investigation of chills and fever agd preparing essays on the de- parture of a ship load of Massachusetts women for Washington Territory. Can it be that his attack of the chills was caused by the sudden departure of so many of the fair sex? All this does not look very flattering for the are thus idle the democracy are making « bold fight, and we should not be surprised if they secured 60 great advantage as to be able to win in the contest without any great effort, and thus become the party of the future. But who do the republicans intend shall answer Prince John? Where is their leader? Negro Saffrage in Connecticut—The Rad- feals Badly Whipped. On the proposition for amending the State constitution by an extension of the right of suffrage to the blacks the people of Conneo- tiout, on Monday last, by a decided majority, rejected this proposed amendment. The result, so far as Coffhectiout is concerned, is a matter of but little consequence; for, had the amend- ment been adopted, it would have added less than three thousand votes to the vote of the State trom its black population. But a ques- tion and a principle were involved as broad as the issue between the abolition radicals and President Johnson in reference to Southern restoration, and upon this issue the result of this incidental Connecticut election is of the highest national importance. Whatever the white people of Connecticut may think in regard to the isolated question of extending the right of suffrage to the blacks within their borders, they have emphatically declared that this is not the time for this con- cession, when such concession would involve a condemnation of President Johnson’s pro- gramme of Southern reconstruction. The local issue was merged in the national one, and Con- necticut has voted to sustain the President in his plan of leaving the question of negro suf- frage in the South to be settled hereafter by the | several States concerned. The moral effect of this vote of Conrfecticut will be very great, North and South. It will strengthen the Presi- ate game of (hé radicals in seer Con President Johnson is now backed in this Con- necticut election by a very powerful argu- ment. He has shaped his Southern policy from the conviction that it would be unwise and mischievous to enforce negro suffrage upon the late rebellious States to-day, in which the institution of slavery was abolished only yesterday; and he may now boldly ask, am I not right in this? If Connecticut, with a mere handful of citizens of African descent, is not yet prepared to give them the right of suffrage, relieved of slavery as she has been for more than half a century, what justice will there be in forcing this thing of negro suffrage upon South Carolina, in which her bewildered freed- men of to-day were yesterday her passive, ignorant slaves, and to the extent of more than half the population of the State? How can the representatives of Connecticut in Congress vote - for this test of loyalty after this vote of their own State against it? These questions the abolition radicals will find it hard to answer. It will not avail them to plead that this Connecticut election went by default, nor will it do to argue thet this vote of Connecticut does not apply to South Carolina. The simple trath is that Connecticut has ap- proved the course of Andrew Johnson in the South, of postponing the question of negro suf- frage to a.more convenient season, and this we doubt not is the popular sentiment of all the Northern States, The Fi Condition of the Country President Johnson’s Administra- tion. The attention of the government and people of this country has been so much occupied hitherto with closing up the war and the resto- ration of the Southern States that other matters have been made subordinate to this or held in abeyance. But there is one scarcely less im- portant, and intimately connected with that, which will now call for consideration. The public finances, including questions regarding the currency, revenue, banking, and the national debt and credit, will require imme- diate attention and the ablest statesmanship. The President, in his message to Congress next December, and the Secretary of the Trea- sury, in his report, must take up and elucidate the subject in a masterly manner. And it will be the duty of Congress to pass such measures as will give confidence and stability to the public creditand to the business of the country. In order to do this it will be especially necessary to provide for the return to a specie circulation and basis of trade in such a gradual and healthful manner as to prevent a fever of excitement or a commercial and monetary crisis. The financial affairs of the country may be compared to a person in a high state of fever which requires the most deli- cate and skilful treatment. The pulse beats quick when the patient is in danger. Stimu- lants would only increase that. Soothing and quieting medicines alone can restore the pa- tient to his normal condition. Such is pre- cisely the condition of the country at the pres- ent time, and such is the treatment required. Every thing is inflated by the appreciation ot gold, or rather by the depreciation of the green- back currency. And in many cases this is so in a far greater degree than the proportionate value of specie and paper money would war- rant. The spirit of speculation takes advan- tage of such an abnormal state of things to ride rampant over the ordinary laws of trade and values. The consequence is that, while there is a difference only of forty- three or forty-four per cent betaveen gold and the currency, prices have risen in many instances to one or two hundred per cent above what they formerly were. In this there is nothing new or extraordinary. It always has been so in every country in times similar to these we are passing through. Nor need we be under any apprehension if the government displays ability equal to the occa- sion. Although the debt is enormous and the volume of circulation vast the magnitude of our resources and the wonderful increase yearly of our real wealth from actual production are such that we may come out of our difficulties easily and in a comparatively short time. The financial pulse in Wall street beats pretty steadily now, as if waiting the operation of public affairs to raise or lower it, as the case may be, , In fact, its action depends chiefly on that of the government. While it does not come within the scope of this article to discuss the various and delicate questions of public finance, upon which political economists and statesmen even disagree, we may advert to certain general pring! Which ought to be kept in view, Yai Conhde ads is the first thing necessary in this matt’.r, ag it isin private and commeroial trar,¢. "tions, There is no want of confidege in gnacess of tho rupublicgn ticket: While they, §.¢he resources of the country: f9r they aro as until the public money and securities would become little better than the assignats of the revolutionary government of France. Con- fidence, stability, peace and harmony of the different sections of the country are all we want to insure a safe and early return to a gold and silver circulation and the greatest prosperity. The national debt, under such ciroumstances, will not be much felt, and will be placed under a process of liquidation. The admirable policy of President Johnson is working out this grand object. He pos- seases in an eminent degree those qualities re- quired in the greatest crisis of our history. His comprehensive views, strong common sense, tnflextble honesty and will and concilia- tory course will golve the difficulties, if not thwarted %y a factious Congress. We do not think he can be, and our hope in the future is bright. But it requires time to accomplish so great work. It siust not be obstructed by olitical agitations, We have found most providentially a helmsman who can guide the ship of state through the tempest and breakers, The people rely upon him. Let us give him time, then, to bring us safely to port. His present term of office may not be long enough. It ought to he extended. And if we do not mistake the cur- rent of popular sentiment and the signs of the times, he will be called upon by such a loud and overwhelming voice as none of his prede- cessors ever heard to continue his valuable services for the next Presidential term. Let this idea be firmly settled in the public mind, and we shall have, what the country needs, a long term of peace, exemption from dangerous political agitations, restoration of economy in the goverament expenditures, an honest admin- istration, harmony between the North and South, a return to specie payments and general prosperity. ‘Tar Usrrep Srares Texas Inpeunrty Boxps.—It may be of interest to the dealers in public securities to know that all of these bonds which wore ever legally put into circulation by the State of Texas were endorsed, in ac- cordance with the requirements of an act of the Legisla- ture of Texas, either by Governor P. H. Bell, E. M. Pease, H. R. Runnels or Sam Houston, before the ordi- nance of secession of Texas. After the rebellion the rebel government of Texas placed sundry of these bonds in the hands of rebel agents to purchase military supplies to aid in the rebellion. A number of these have beon hy- pothecated and never accounted for by faithless agents. Judge George W. Paschal, of Texas, was sent by Gov- ernor Hamilton, Provisional Governor of that State, to investigate these matters. The result is that, although a few of the bonds, not endorsed, had been paid before the arrival of Judge Paschal, the circumstances were 80 un- satisfactory that, upon the protest of Governor Hamil- ton, further payments have been stopped and inves- tigation ordered. Judge Paschal is now stopping at the Metropolitan, and would be glad to receive any informa- tion in regard to these bonds, The Judge is well known to the mercantile community of this city. Hirroragatron Mavinex.—There will be another ma- tinee at the Hippotheatron thisafternoon. The perform- ances at this house are of the most enjoyable character. ‘Tho matinees afford an excellent opportunity for ladies and children and families from the country to witness equestrian, acrobatic and pantomimic scenes which are not equalled and have never been surpassed by any es: tablishment in the United States. , Hereuann.—Herrmann, 1n pursuance of his arrangé- ments in other cities, can perform here for only a few nights more; that is to say, on Thursday and Saturday of this week and the same ovenings next week, when he will exhibit his extraordinary feats in prestidigitarian- ism at the Academy of Music. For the past two weeks he has been delighting the Brooklyn people, and will appear there again this evening and Friday. If any one does not make it a point to see Herrmann it will be a de- cided loss to the absentee, A couple of hours cannot be better spent than at his soireos. Snarriay's Mixerrris.—It has been stated by one of the papers that this excellent troupe had been discon- tinued. Such is not the fact. It is in full force and ac- tivity, and will play at Buffalo on the 7th and 9th of this month. Sam Sharpley himself will appear on both occa- sions. Tux Aruixss So.prer.—A lecture which no doubt will be highly interesting is to be delivered at Cooper Insti- tute on Monday evening next, by Miss Susanna Evans, for the benefit of Mr. Alfred A. Stratton, a young soldier who lost both arms at the assault on Fort Steedman, Pe- tersburg, Va., in June, 1864. He was sergeant in one of the New York volunteer regiments. Governor Fenton says of the gallant fellow, who is almost a boy, “I knew him when he was not armless: a poor, honest orphan boy, residing in Chautauqua county, this State. He went into the service upon small pay and with large patriotism. His situation appeals to the liberality of = grateful and generous people.”’ The title of the lecture is “The Soldier's Empty Sleeves." Personal Intelligence. Our fashionable party givers will be giad to learn that their favorite band leader, Helmsmuller, returns this month from the German baths in greatly improved health, and that he brings back with hifh a large collec- tion of new dance music. City Intelligence. Mesto at ru Parx.—The Park Commissioners announce that the Park Cornet Band will play on the lake this afternoon, commencing at half-past two o'clock, and cantinue until balf-past five o'clock, should the weather prove fine. Havaxa Parcavs,—Bombalier & Co's. Express notily all persons having packages to their address at the office, Nos. 40 and 42 Broadway, to send for their pro- perty within three days, after which time it will be sold, ‘as authorized by the jaw of the State of New York. Dr. Caartw’s New Cavrcn.—The Church of the Divine Paternity is the name to be given te a new edifice for Dr. Chapin’s congregation, to be erected at the corner of Fifth avenue and Forty-fifth street. The corner stone will be laid on the 11th instant, on which oocasion Dr. in and Rev. Drs. Sawyer, ‘and others will officiate, and the children of the Sunday School will par- ticipate. Orricans or tae Board of Piror Commresiowmns.—A meeting of the Board of Commissioners of Pilots was held yesterday at their office, 69 South street, for the purpose of el officers for the Ing two years. Russell unanimously Freedmen’s AssemBinge in Petersburg. —— Va., Oct. 3, 1905, An immense freedmen was hold here last night. Th largest, frican church in the city was crow ‘excess, Captain Stuart Barnes, of tho Froed- mon’; ffureau, mado an address, exhorting the froe¢men ty, tabor, and digabusing the minds of tye blacks of the {dea that the lands of their Inte ownors wore to be divided among them. The Poy os Ree Addresses wore also Yellvered a colored speakers, all ¢ Xho freedmen sobriety ‘and industry, and coun! y, friendly fooling he whites, Tha meoting, ~ i] and the price of sale of $1,550 60, or Lk @ lage BOWE. ot NEWS FROM TENNESSEE. Message ef Governor Brownlow—He Urges Ten Years Disfranchisement for the _ Rebels and No Morcy or Porbearance for the Leaderse—White and Colored People Cannot Live Together Polita- cally or Socially as Equals Woman Murdered by Her Paramour, &c. Nasavizs, Tenn., Oct. 3, 1868. Governor Browalow delivered his annual message to and the signal triumph of our arms. In regard to new % subjects of legislation the wishes of the honest and loyal) people of the State should be consulted, for they ere always right. He recommends amendments and adéi- tions to the franchise law; but says, ‘I am by no means ‘an advocate of its repeal, nor do the loyal people of the State wish any sweeping change.’’ The restoration of civil law has worked well, and prosperity is promised im every section. Guilty rebels should be treated with severity in proportion to their offences, the mass of them with not less than ten years’ disfranchisement, ané the leaders with neither meroy nor forbearance. Imuml- gration should be fostered and encouraged, and @ com- missioner stationed at the East to secure a numerous foreign immigration of skilled labor, He says:—‘“I am convinced that the white and colored people cannot live together politically or socially as equals.” He advocates the setting apart of some portion of the national territory best adapted for the purpose for a nation of freedniea. ‘Tho testimony of negroes is recommended to be taken in the courts on the same basis as that of white persons. President Jobnson’s reconstruction policy is endorsed ‘as the sole hope of the country. ‘A woman named ityal Sevior was shot and instantly killed to-day by a man with whom sho had been living, named Garrett, Six shots were fired into her, all of which took effect. Jealousy was the cause. Garrett is in jail. 4 ‘The Grand Masonic Lodge of Tennessee met to-day for the first time in four years, Large dolegations were in attendance from all parts of the State. ‘The Methodist Episcopal Conference of Tennessee will meet on Wednesday, in Edgofiold., A large number of preachors are already in attendance. It is expected it will be the largest assembly since the war. A: Suit About the Puro! road Stoo) SUPERIOR (OURT—PART I. Before Judge McCunn. =~ Oor. 8.—Jereniiah @. Hamilton ve. Wentworth 8. Butler. According to the complaint in this caso the plaintiff on or about the 26th of April, 1864, purchased ‘one hundred shares of the capital stock of the Michigar Southern and Northern Indiana Railroad Company foe the account and risk of the defendant, for which he paid the sum of ten thousand five hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents; that afew days previous to said pur- chase he had received one thousand dollars from the de- fendant for the purpose of making said parchese, the agreement being that the plaintiff should hold the stook when purchased asa security for his payment; that after the purchase, the market value of the stock declinin, and becoming insufficient as a security, the plaint vendered to tho defendant a certificate for one hundred shares of the stock, with power of attorney to transfer, and demanded payment of the balance duo thereon, which the defendant refused; that in consequence of this rofusal the plaintiff sold the stock at public auction with a difforence between the price of purchase 550 60 over and The with above the sum paid to plaintiff by the defendant. plaintiff therefore demands judgmont for $550 60, interest from the 6th day of May, 1864, and costs. The answer admits the agrecment with plaintiff, but denies that the piaintia purcaaséa the ‘shook i agcord- ance with their understanding; that if the hase waa made it was on the 23d of April, at the rate of ninety- three per cent, or for $9,300; that immediately there- after the market value advanced to 105, making its value $10,500, which the defendant could have sold at oom of $1,200; but that the plaintiff purposely concealed the fact of the purchase and converted it to his own use, and subsequently sold it without giving the proper notice or reo¢iving the consent or authority of the defendant. The case occupied the whole day. Fire im South Street. BURNING OF A LIQUOR STORE AND ‘TENEMENT HOUSE—LOSS ESTIMATED AT ABOUT TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS. At about a quarter to twelve o'clock last night a fire broke out in the liquor store of Jacob Lambert, No. 196 South street, corner of Oliver street. The flames-spread with great rapidity and destroyed the whole of the in- terior of the store and stock. Loss estimated at about $7,000; said to be insured. Tho building was five stories, and the whole of the upper part was occupied by poor fami- lies, sixteen in all; but few of them sueceeded in getting out any portion of ir furniture. The greater partof the Danian hot xetieed wo bed oad many of them barely es- Fm ply on] wt Neuen, there having been cut seen W egress ing off by the fire ascending the stairs, Ladders against the building, but were found not enough to reach the windows, The affrighted then made for the roof, and in that way escaped taken down on the adjoining building. Up to time of our re r leaving no lives were lost that we could learn. The tenants lost pretty much all their fur- niture; their average loss will be about three hundred dollars for cach family. We learn none were red. The names of the families are as follows:—Mr. Ws Green, McGonogan, Riley, Miller, Daly, Mi y, Conly, Brown, Constantine, Conly, and four or five German families whos? names we could not ascertain. All the tenement part of the building was pets, much burned out. The estimated loss on the building is about $10,000; insured. The origin of the fire is considered mysterious. There are some remarkable circumstances atiending it, which the Fire Marshal will investigate. Captain Thorn, Sergeants Kelly and Wilson, of the Fourth precinct, and a platoon of men were quickly the premises and kept most excellent order. Meeting of the Cigar and Tobacce Dealers. The German association of cigar and tebacco dealers and manufacturers, whose object isto secure an altera- tion of the tax law by Congress, held a meeting yester- day afternoon at the Steuben House, for the purpose of i making further arrangements to carry out their scheme. , | The tax om the manufactured article is to be abolished and to be levied on the raw material—on leaf tobacoo. Mr. Raeth presided, In regard to the reorganization, it was announced that in only one district a reorganization had been effected, and it was therefore proposed to aban- don the district organizations, and to form ® con- solidated organization of the tobacco and cigar doal- ers and manufacturers. A resolution to this effect was passed @ unanimous vote. The executive committee was authorized to make the necessary amend- ments to the constitution. Permanent officers were elected, composed of Messrs. H. M. Raeth, President; Charles Schmidt, Vice President; —— Peesch, Socre- ; — Schroeder, Financial Secretary; and 1. Diet- Hick Treasurer A board of trustees, com; of five members, was also elected, as follows :—Messrs. Genz, A. F. Moores, 8. C. Herz, J. Sax, H. F. Evers, and H. M. oor Moores that the association should forthwith communicate with the commission ap- ted by Congress to inquire into the ope- tion of "ihe tax tne which holds its sessions in the naval office at the Custom House; also to call another convention of the dealers and manufacturers to be held at an early date, in the of the different States, iar to the one held at the city of New York, sim! Institute on the pose of furthering the interests of the trade and carryii out the objects the organization. The Executive the Tobacconists’ National Association, at which the or- ‘7th of December of last year, for the pur- | is represented, is to be called upon to take the « | measures for convening the National Convea- tion of Dealors and Manufacturers™ ‘The meeting adjourned subject to the call of the executive committee. The North Carolina Convention. Rauaton, N. C., Oct. 2, 1866. The North Carolina Convention met to-day and organ- ined by electing Hon. E. G, Reade President, and Joseph H. More, of Halifax, clerk. Over one hundred members’ were present. Messrs. Cannon & Holden, of the Stand- ard, wore elected printers, Committees wore appointetl to wait upon the Governor and to prepare rules for the government of the convention, which adjourned until to- morrow. The Work of the’ Alabama Convention. Mowraommny, Ala., Sept. 20, 1865. ‘The Alabama State Convention before its adjournment ‘adopted ordinances ordering the election of State officera, on the first Monday in November, legalizing the mars riages of negroes, authorising the county commissiqners to provide for indigent and helpless negroes, and direct- ing judicial ofieers to continue as agents of the Freed- ‘men’s Bureau. News from Mississippi, TacKson, Miss.. Frept, 20, 1866. Governor Sharkey has given the oginion that unpar- doned legislators will not be able to take their seats, This will make General Humpb,oys, the gubernatorial candidate, ineligible. y . Business is assuming grea’, kotivity in this city. ————— ‘goitaary. | WILLIAM F, M'CORMICK, OF CHICAGO. W. 8. MoCor-aick, the inventor of tho famous reap, ing machir,¢ now generally used in the Western prairies, and by which he mado an immense fortune, died lately in ‘,n¢ Titinols State Lunatie Asylum. He was a native, \ : j of the moat ris " % crete a y ot nk of ey