The New York Herald Newspaper, October 6, 1865, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. * JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OPPios N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, panoapwar THEATRE, Broadway.—Tux Wouax ww HIPPOTHEBA' Fourteenth street.—Kavesretan AND Gruxasric Feata—Tae Banacr anv tux Taper. Bi ‘Armica on Tas Trarcas, OPERA HOUSE, 21 Bowery.—Sing- Pi 9 tg z ec.—Pisasant Neicazor. ‘ANNUCHI’S MUSBUM, 600 Broadway.—Movina W. ee ee Fhesmene Lanooux, June. Davu, &0. a8 UM OF ANATOMY, ys EY TORE MoE aah f, 618 Broadway. New York, Friday, October 6, 1865. Receipts of Sales of the New York Daily Newspapers. OFFICIAL. Year Ending Express. ‘New Yoru Herat... + eeee 1,095,000 ‘Times, Tribune, World and Sun combined., 871,929 NOTICE. New York Herald Bullding. 0 MASONS, IKON, MARBLE AND DORCHESTER STONE WORKERS. Propozals will be received until October 25 for a Fire- Proof Building, to be erected for the New Yore Hxrap Estapusement, on Broadway, Park row and Ann street. Plans and specifications may be seen and examined at the office of JOHN KELLUM, Architect, No. 179 Broadway. THE NEWS. TRIAL OF WIRZ. "The gréator part of yesterday was occupied before the Wirz Military Commission in a continuation of the exam- ination of George W. F. Reynolds, witness for the de- fonce—in a continaation, and to a considerable extent a repetition, of bis wonderful stories of the previous day regarding the interior life of the Andersonville prison pen. According to him, it was a regular city, and. on tho whole a rather pleasant sort of acity to live in. His. statement regarding the manner of his capture previous to being sent to Andersonville was on @ paf with his other marvellous relations. His regi- ment met an equal number of rebels, and fought with them an hour, when all his party were taken prisoners; but not one of them was either killed or wounded during the engagement. Of the one thousand dealers of nearly all vocations among the prisoners in the stockade, five ‘hundred were bakers, and about half adozon dealt in weal estate, selling sites of the main stroots to other prisoners who wished to commence business, There were many eating houses, at which a first rate men! could be got for ten dollars in groen- backs, and a thimbleful of whiskey for three dollars, He himself was a flour and provision dealer, had a well stocked establishment, and some days gold a thousand pounds of flour alone. When he entered the prison he had no money at all, but by selling a portion of his rations each day accumulated a capital, and left, after a confinement of only two months, with over five huadred dollars, At one time during his .imprison- ment, he eaid, he bad five thousand dollars in green- ‘backs. It will be remembered that on the previous day he testified to there being many gamblers in the stockade. Many of the prisoners kept barber shops, where they dyed the whiskers of their fellow captives, acted as doctors and sold medi- eines. He said that there were fifty wells and four hundred and fifty springs in this delightful city, and that ‘the water in them was clear and pure. On bis cross-examination Reynolds acknowledged that half the prisoners were in rags, and that he had seen men deliperately cut their own throats and dic. In explanation of this rather strange con- duct in a place where there was so much of happiness and plenty, he said that he didn’t know why theso unreasonable beings committod these acts, unless because they were reduced to akin and bone and were destitute. This physical condi- tion, he maintained, was not caused by the treatment at Andersonville, but by the men being wasted by sickness at Washington. There was half a million of dollars in greenbacks in the stockade, which was inthe hands of one-fourth of the prisoners. Many other things of a similarly enchanting character were related by this rival of the author of “The Arabian Nights.’ MISCELLANEOUS. Later returns from Mississippi indicate that General B. G. Humphreys, instead of Judge E. 8. Fisher, was the successful candidate for Governér at the election held in that State on last Monday. General Humphreys has not yet been pardoned by the President, as we have hereto- fore stated. Abr. A. M. West, who is said to be a good Union man, is elected to Congress in the Fourth dis- trict. Another grand charge of the democratic legions in the Present political campaign in this State was made at Al- Dany last night. They had an immense gathering in the Capitol grounds, and brought out something like the en- thusiasm and political paraphernalia of the old and palmy days of the party. Cannon thundered, bonfires Diazed, lamps and torches gleamed, and flags and ban- mors flaunted in the evening breeze, General Slocum ‘and John Van Buren wore among the speakers, and both wore enthusiastically received. ‘The North Carolina Reconstruction Convention pro- fgremses slowly. It has now been in session four gays, and has yot done scarcely anything. Tho members were yes terday principally engaged in a discussion as to whether they should deciare the secession ordinance null and ‘void or formally repeal it; but no vote on the question ‘was reached. Governor Pierpoint, of Virginia, ina lotter which ho has written relative to the ineligibility of candidates tor ‘Congress in that State who, in consequence of their con, qection with the rebellion, cannot conscientiously take ‘the oath prescribed for every member before being ad- mitted to the floor of either house, says:—" Has it not Ghe appearance of persistent and continued rebellion for ‘men to run for Congress who by the law of Congress can- mot take thoir eats?” { Im regard to freedmen’s affairs, one of the assistant ‘Gommissioners, who has just completed a tour through ‘Western Alqbama, reports that the negroes are in the gain industriously at work, but that the crops are poor, end it is thought that they will not be sufficient to sus- Gain the population. The greater part of the inhabitants Gre indisposed to co-operate with the Freedmen’s Bureau officers, and refuse to consider the results of the war as (ecisive, {t is declared that there is but little loyalty ‘among the majority of the whites, and that they regard ‘the oath of allegiance as a mockery, to be broken when- ‘ever convenient, though returned rebel soldiers are men- Goned as exceptions in these respects. » 4m articlo on Italian affairs, from our Florence cor- Fespandent, which we print this morning, gives an ac- ‘@ount of some mysterious communications and interviews: "ehich have lately been passing between the Emperor outs Napoleon and King Victor Emanuel, which aro supposed to be the forerunners of the recognition of the Kingdom of Ttaly by Austria, the settiomont of the Roman difficulty, and tho shearing of the Pope of his Yemporal power. ) Yn the Convention of the Episcopal Church in Phila- detphia I from North Carolina, the eecond Southern to bp fopregented, made thelf ap- pearance, a delegation from Texas having been admitted ton the previoun day. Propositions in reference to dioce- Judge Whiting recited the details of his connection with the bidders for whom he had signed as security, and also ‘as to the proceedings of the Commission, at whose scs- sions he was present, Nothing could afford » more com- until they should have time to further case. Tho Governor gave them until to-day at eleven o’clock to prepare their argument, In it they will havo to present something besides the testimony thus far to have any bearing upon the cage. The Governor declared that he would send the reat of the investigation to a legal gentleman who could devote such time to the subject as he did not now feel warranted to afford it. ‘Tho case of Anne Lorking versus Frederick I. King, which everybody thought was finally disposed of on last Monday, was revived yesterday before Judge Barnard, of the Supreme Court, in consequence, as alleged, of the, inability of the officer in charge of the order of the court for Mr. King to deliver up. the drafta claimed by Miss Lorking to find Mr. K. The Judge so-modified his original order as to direct that these drafts shall be deposited in the custody of the United States Trust Com- pany, subject to the will of the Court, and subject to a suit against one of the thirteen thousand dollar drafts. Mr. King has instituted three suits in the Superior Court against three several firms, 28 acceptors of the three bills of exchange in litigation. Several hackmen were some days ago arrested by the police for annoying passengers at one of the North river steamboat wharves by soliciting their custom, and the matter came before Judge Barnard, of the Supreme Court, at Chambers, yesterday, on an order to show cause why the prisoners should not be released. The Judge decided that the hackmen have a right in such cases to solicit custom, and that for doing it, unfess they be disor- erly, the police cannot legally interfere with them. A sult was institatod in the Marine Court, before Judge Hearno, on Wednesday, by 2 seaman named Jobn Wilson, against Captain John H. Cromwell, of the ship Ceuturion, for illegal confinement on board that vessel. The jury rendered a vordict in favor of the plaintiff for eight hun- dred dollars. : In the Court of General Sessions yesterday Patrick Cahill, a teamster of the New Haven Ratlroad Company, was convicted of grand iarceny, in stealing a carpet bag containing wearing apparcl owned by Mortimer 8. Crosby. The agent of Adams’ Bxpress received the bag at Dan- bury, and when the train arrived at the depot it was missing. The detective who searched the prisoner’s house found the bag and other bags which passengers had lost. Judge Russel, in passing gentence, said ho understood Cahill had been committing these depreda- tions for the last two years, and, as an example to rail road employes, he would impose a severe sentence, which was five years in the State Prison. Hudson Margin was convicted of petty laycony in stealing two pawn tickets from Jobn Kelly. George Smith, charged with stealing two thousand dollars’ worth of diamonds from the firm of William W. Crane & Co., Maiden lane, on the 3d of December, 1864, pleaded guilty to an attempt at grand larceny. These prisoners were romanded for sentence. John Drum- gold, indicted for stealing a silver watch worth thirty dollars from Thomas Reilley while asleep in a drinking saloon, pleaded guilty to an attempt at larceny, and was sent to the State Prison for two years and six months. James Lindsey, who was charged by Henry H. Buckbee with stealing his gold watch, while riding on an Eighth avenue car, was acquitted. The evidence showed that it was acase of mistaken identity, for witnesses wore present to show that the accused was elsewhere at the time, and that he was a young man of irreproachable character. The Harris divorce case was continued in the Con- necticut Supreme Court, at New London, on Wednesday and yesterday, the evidence being taken at length of Miss Jenne Harris, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harris, the litigants; Mrs. Teresa Cook, niece of Mrs. Harris, and Mr. Samuel C. Thompson, President of tho First Na- tional Bank of this city, who was at one time engaged to be married‘to Miss Harris. The testimony of all three, even that of the daughter, makes statements of very imprudent conduet, to say the least, on the part of Mrs. Harris, in the company of different gentlemen. Major Williams, of the army, anda Mr. George W. Ricket- son figured couspicuously as men with whom Mrs. Harris, as alleged, had been exceedingly intimate in this city, at Newport and at other places. Miss Jennic Harris, in giving her evidence so strongly against her mother, and describing the difficulties between father and mother, was doepiy affected. eo The regular monthly meeting of the Chamber of Com- merce was hold yesterday. A large number of new membors were elected. Mr. Opdyke presented a report and resolutions, which were adopted, setting forth the insufficient mail accommodations of the city, and urging on the Postmaster Gencral and Congress the necessity of providing for the erection of a now Post Office building worthy, of the metropolis and suitable to its wants, on the present site. The report of the delegation to the Detroit Commercial Convention was submitted. Resolutions of respect for the memory of the late Captain Charles H. Marshall were submitted, ‘and, after remarks from several members, adopted, and a copy of them was ordered to be presented to the family of the deceased. One of the members presented to the Chamber a it of John Bright, M. P., of England, the firm neg ot! human progress and the great Ameri- can republic. A letter was received from the widow and children of the late Richard Cobdon, M. P., of England, expressing thanks for the sympathy with them in their affiction which had been manifested by the Chamber. A letter was also received from the Secretary of State, and referred to the Executive Committee, urging action in regard to the forthcoming International Exhibition in Paris. ‘The Central Council of the Fenian organization were yesterday in session at the Astor House. They have called a special congress of the entire organization in this country, to assemble in Philadelphia on the 16th inst, ‘Admiral Bell, commandant of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, has issued an order giving notice that ho will not tolerate the custom which has heretofore prevailed of levying taxes on the workmen of the yard for political party purposes, and ail such moneys already obtained from employes and in the hands of master workmen must be returned to the persons from whom it was pro- cured. Hereafter any one connected with the establish- mont who participates ia this offence will render himself liable to discharge, and party committeemen will not be allowed to'visit the yard to make collections. Two of the branches of the democratic party of this city, the Mozarters and the MoKeonites, held their county conventions and nominated tickets last night. The f0rmer nominated Daniel P. Ingraham for Supreme Court Judge, James Monorief and Samuel Jones for Sa- porior Court Judges, Charies P. Daly for the Common Pleas and Robert D. Livingston for the Marine Court. For the Supreme Court and Common Pleas the McKeon- ites made the same nominations as the above, and nomi- nated Anthony L. Robertaon and James Monorief for the Superior Court, Henry Atker and Charles Price for the Marine Court, and William A. Kobbe for Supervisor. Our Tunisian visitors yesterday passed through our Principal streets, calling at the Park, &. They ex- pressed themselves delighted with everything they saw. They are still staying at the Astor House, ‘The fing of the Sixty-ninth regiment, of this city, was lest evoning returned to Mr. Richard O'Gorman, the do- nor, by Colonel Coonan, in tho presence of a seloct party of friends, Edward Donohue, alleged to have heen concerned in the murder of policeman Thomas Walker, which occurred on the of the 16th of August last, om the corner of Séventh avenue and Seventoonth atrest, was arrested on Wednesday night and committed for examination. He had till Wednesday night kept himself out of the way of the police, On Wednesday night premires 78 Eighth avenue wore entered by # burglar, who Jeft an accomplice in the rear Jnrd to keep i Took ; While i wp stairs was at work the noise he. made ‘ened a man named Romeo St. Clair, sleeping in an adjoining room, oA Sanbies and Zupaipilens pS surah Las No ower ob a Rhos OR TREK & VyMdoN Pad JpoWing ppd ap fred - e¢ ‘ NEW YORK ‘HEALD, ‘FRIDAY, OUTOBER' 6; 1865, upon by the burglar’s confederate in the yard. St. Clair ‘The match game of billiards in this city last night for two thousand dollars, beween Mons. Carme and Dudley in which mach interest was taken. , A Toronto paper states that Bennett G. Burley, the rebel lake raider, who, at the head of a party of fellow. conspirators, captured on Lake Erie, last fall, the steamer Philo Parsons, with the design of using her to effect the release of the rebel prisoners on Johnson's Island, and who recently escaped from the jail at Port Clinton, Ohio, is now safely on bis way to Scotland, his mative country. Burley, «it will be remembered, was surrendered to‘our government, under the Extradition treaty, by the Canadian authorities, and, after being brought across tho border, was confined first at Detroit, and then at Port Clinton. The steam frigate Neshaminy, the largest vessel ever launched in Philadelphia, was launched yesterday after- noon. ry ‘The stock market was active and buoyant yesterday. Gold was firm, and closed at 146%. ‘ Trade was irregular yesterday; but as a gencral thing merchandise was more active, and prices were higher. Foreign goods were held high, in sympathy with gold. Domestic prodtice was irregular. Groceries were firm. Cotton was in good export demand at full figures. Pe- troleum was no higher, but a heavy business was done. On ’Change flour was in active demand, and rates ad- vanced. Wheat was fairly active, anda shade higher. Corn was in moderate demand at steady prices. Provi- sions were firmer. Whiskey was dull, but unchanged. The Restoration of the South and the Restoration of Specie Payments, There isa great deal being said about the restoration of the South and how it can be best effected, and the radicals are very eager to proffer their advice to the President upon the subject. But it requires to be generally un- derstood that there is another subject less dis- cussed, but none the less, if not even more, important, and that. is the restoration of specie payments, How long it may be before this end which the nation has in view is reached is very doubtful; but it is a question which should engage the serious attention of all in- terested in the welfare of the country. At present there is an almost universal dis- position shown to ignore it, and to leave the financial future to take care of itself, On the principle that it is prudent to make hay while the sun shines, all but those dependent on fixed incomes are endeavoring to profit by the re- dundancy and depreciation of the currency, and are opposed to contraction or whatever tends to improve the public credit and make the paper and gold dollar approximate more closely in value. It may be safely said that the entire trading and manufacturing interest of the nation is opposed to contraction, and that every step in our progress towards specie payments will be bitterly con- tested; for while expansion is _slways attended by an appearance of fictitious prosperity, contraction is invariably pain- ful, and in proportion to. the extent to which it blots out spurious wealth it is im- poverishing. The process is, however, salu- tary, and the only one, excepting repudiation, by which a nation reduced to an irredeemable currency can return to a hard cash basis. France, during the Revolution, after her as- signats and the mandats into which they were funded were discredited, returned to specie payments by popular repudiation, which was established notwithstanding all the efforts of the government to preventit. England, on the other band, returned to specie payments in 1823, after a suspension which dated from 1797, by the slow process of appreciating the currency. Thus eight years elapsed from the time of the battle of Waterloo before specie | payments were ventured upon; and then it was premature, for before the end of the year 1826 the Bank of England had been drained of all but about a million pounds sterling of its gold., A panic preceded the return to specio payments, and another followed it at the end of 1825, which latter caused the failure of nine- ty-seven banks in England and Scotland, as well as an immense number of commercial bankruptcies and general distress among the people. It took England in all ten years from the termination of her wars with Napoleon to restore specie payments. It does not, however, follow that it will take us an equal length of time to achieve a similar result. It may occupy a longer or a shorter period, and meanwhile we are exposed to a multitude of contingencies; but we have the important advantage of ours being a gold pro- ducing country. Time, however, is an essen- tial elenient in the development of mines. The first step for us to take towards restoring specie payments is to restore the South so that its immense agricultural and other resources may be developed and made tributary to the national wealth and revenue. With the abund- ant crops of cotton, tobacco and rice which it is capable of producing, our finances would soon begin to assume a more promising aspect, and in the copiousness of our prosperity the backward course toward the hard money basis would be smoothed. The proper policy, there- fore, for the President to pursue is to ignore the negro-worshipping arguments of the radical politicians and restore the political rights of the South as speedily as possible. His policy is every day removing the obstacles to recon- struction, and he has only to continue on his course in order to bring harmony out of chaos and achieve a great political triumph. The signs are everywhere promising. The problem of « return to specie payments is much more difficult to solve. Our redundant and depreciated currency has already inflated prices to such an extent that the cost of living is about as great as when gold was selling at 260. The prices of leading articles of pro- duce are considerably higher than they rule in the English market, and hence our export trade is discouraged, while our imports are stimulated and foreign goods are relatively much cheaper than those of our own produc- tion or manufacture. This causes o drain of gold from the country, and hence the rising tendency of the premium. It devolves upon the Secretary of the Treasury to make @ care- ful Ea and append such recommendations as may be best calculated to impose a check upon further inflation and bring us gradually back to our normal condition despite the opposition of the speculative and mercantile community. That in any event we shall have many ‘| serious difficulties to surmount in the adjust- ment of the currency we may rest assured, and this will give rise to political agitation; but the sooner we improve our national pros pects and take the financial bull by the ‘horns the better. The restoration of specie payments is of equal importance with the speedy restora- tion of the South, and the latter will greatly expedite the former. Reconstruction im the Churches—The Episcopal Convention. ‘The least important of all the points brought up by reconstruction is the reconstruction of the churches, in relation to which, however, there is now some fuss. Years before the war the abolitionists of the North destroyed the harmony.of all the Protestant churches by introducing resolutions in reference to slavery. The Southern churches, viewing slavery as a tact, and not an opinion—and as a fact regu- lated by law—could not follow their Northern coreligionists—could not adopt their resolu- tions; and so there was a separation, and the sections looked each upon the other as fit sub- jects for missionary labor. Only the Catholic churches kept out of the muddle, and kept in mind the distinctions between the sphere of religion and political life. They alone obeyed the moral law of the founder of the churches, and left to Cesar the things that were Crsar’s, and went on quietly trying to save aouls in 4 simple way, and not trying to shape national pdlicy. But the Protestant churchmen, like Beecher and the rest, wanting to be God and Cesar too, simply drove out the Southern churches because these churches would not join with them in a fanatical religious persecu- | tion and refuse the offices of the Church to men who differed in opinion with the Northern par- sons. But now there is a spirit of reconstruction in the air, and slavery, the great bone of con- tention, is gone; so the question arises whether all the churches cannot arrange their differences, and all labor together to keep the souls of the Southern people out of hell. But the Southern churches are contumacious and stubborn, and there are awkward facts in the way. Some of the Southern parsons won’t pray for Andrew Johnson, and zealous generals have shut up churches on account of it. That may have been jwise enough, and may not, It depends upon the value of the prayers. Perhaps the same divines hfive been praying for Jeff. Davis for four years past, and if the influence of their prayers in his case is a measure of their value it is not desirable that the army should secure them for Johnson. If, therefore, any Southern parsons want to keep on praying for Davis, he certainly has most need of that sort of assist- ance, and we would let them do it. Ifthey can pray him out of Fortress Monroe, all the better for poor old Jeff. As for Johnson, he can perhaps get on without the prayers of the Southern parsons, especially as there are a great many men who can pray very hard in the Northern States, and who will be stimulated to go their strongest if the opposition rans high. The result plainly shows that we have prayed the South quite out of time through the war, and as Johnson has done withont the Southern church prayers for so long may be he can just continue to kecp on his legs without them a little longer. It would be well enough to try. We do not estimate very highly the import- ance of the reconstruction of the churches, and we are sure that making them into s vast polit- ical machine will destroy their only value, and will result in their eventual overthrow, and perhaps in the overthrow of religion through- out the country. The proceedings of the Epis- copal Convention are not worth the paper the various reports are written on. They*make a rigmarole of the most sleepy, hum-drum, drony palaver ever put before living, think- | ing readers. They are the words and thoughts | of a set of old women in breeches, “most igno- rant of what they’re most assured,” who cate more to hear their own sweet voices and to dawdle over doctrinal nonsense than they do for the moral welfare of any community under the sun. The Roman Catholic Church is the only earnest working one of all the churches— the only establishment whose ministers go to the people in the real spirit of Christianity, and who confine their efforts within a proper sphere. They have no reconstruction to arrange—a fact to their honor; and if they prayed hard for Jeff. Davis for four years they will pray just as hard for Andy Johnson now, or for any one else that needs it. Tae Caxarp Asovr Genera Grant AND Mexico.—The despatch from Philadelphia published by the preas generally yesterday, which professes to give the expressions and views of General Grant with regard to Mexico and the Monroe doctrine, bears on its face the marks of a canard. And its source is enough to arouse suspicion, without examining its spurious ‘features. The rectangular city has become famous for such crooked despatches. When any one reads a sensation press despatch nowadays the question is immediately asked where it is from; and if the answer be Phila- delphia, doubt is thrown upon it at once. All such despatches from there awaken suspicion as naturally as do the humbug sensation stories of the press here about opera singers and wonderful discoveries in the Alps. General Grant is remarkable for his pru- dence and reticence, and, whatever his own opinion may be with regard to Mexico, it is quite certain he would not pretend to say what the government would or would not do in the matter. He would not anticipate the action of the President and Congress, with whom the question rests, by any such declaration as is attributed to him. It is quite likely General Grant holds the same views as the people of this country almost unanimously hold as to Mexico and the Monroe doctrine; but he neither could nor would speak for the government on the subject. The President and Congress will speak in due time, undoubtedly, and the Gene- ral will be ready to act if required, but he will not make foolish speeches for sensation pur- poses. Preeton Kine Must Devine Hrs Posrrion.— The Collector of this port, Hon, Preston King, has now been discharging the duties of that office a little over one month, and ho doubt ts matnring his plans for the future. In view of this fact it is important that the public know his position in regard to the succession. Is he for the Presidency in 1868, and will he use the influence of that department to accomplish that result? The public are so emphatic in their approval of the President’s course that they will not consent to allow persons to ocoupy these important offices unless they are certaip that the officials are honestly in favor of John- ton for the succession. We call upon Preston King to define his position. If he is not in favor of the nomination of Mr. Johnson, then he must be turned out of the Custom House. The Republican Party in Danger. The republican party is in danger. It drifting about like a ship without « pilot, and if not speedily brought up with a round turn it will drift among the breakers and go to pieces. The radical abolition faction must be cast over- board or the ship will be lost. With the aboli- tion of slavery the public mind is disposed to rest a little on the negro question. The new radical movement for the immediate and un- conditional enforcement of political equality in behalf of the four millions of emancipated blacks down South has been sprung too sud- denly upon the whites, even of the Northern States, and they are setting their faces against it. The vote upon negro suffrage in Connecti- cut the other day indicates the public opinion of the North. It is against the abolition radi- cals and in favor of the conservative Southern reconstruction policy of President Johnson. This is the direction in which the tide of public opinion, North and South, is now ran- ning, and the republican party must go with and follow in the wake of the administration or the party will go down, never to rise again. Asa national organization it is jabisth § to tell just now where it stands. In one State we find it on the platform of negro suffrage, in other States we find it astride the fence, and everywhere it holds a dubious position, except in. New York, where it stands fairly upon the national platform chalked out in the foreign and domestic policy of President Johnson. But this is not enough. No man is so well qualified to carry out the policy of Andrew Johnson as Andrew Johnson himself, The three years and six months remaining of his present term of office will hardly be sufficient for the work be- fore him. Some important unfinished paris of his programme will in all probability go over to the administration to be elected in 1868. If, therefore, the republicans of New York have that confidence in Mr. Johnson and his policy which they profess, what is to prevent them from’ declaring him their candidate for the succession ? This is the question and this is the test which the New York republicans are called to meet. If they lead off for Johnson the party in afl the other States will follow, and thus, as a national party, it will become a unit and a cohesive or- ganization, with a fixed purpose and a clear course before it. Why, then, cannot the New York republicans come together under this banner of unity and victory? The answer de- pends to.a great extent upon what William H. Seward, Thurlow Weed, Horace Greeley and Henry J. Raymond may have to say upon the subject, if we may believe one half ot what is said of them and what they say of each other. Mr. Seward is the recognized head of the New York conservative republicans; Mr. Weed is only too proud to be known.as his lobby manager, whipper-in and good man Friday in every thing; Mr. Raymond, as the proiégé.of Weed, aspires to Seward’s seven-league boots when he shall cast them offand retire to the cul- tivation of potatoes and philosophy. These three men are, therefore, the representatives of the original joint stock firm of Seward, Weed and Greeley. But here comes the pinch. Gree- ley is running an opposition boat—the high pressure radical concern. .He must be con- ciliated and bought off in some way, or both lines will be run off by the democracy. In that event there will probably be a change or two in the Cabinet, which will lay Mr. Seward on the shelf and disband the republican party root and branch. The advice, therefore, which we have to offer to the New York republican managers of both sections is simply this: that, without further loss of time, they strike hands under the stand- ard of Andrew Jobnson as their candidate for the Presidential succession. In a great crisis it will not do to stick upon trifles, and this is the crisis of life or death to the republican party. It must go with Andy Johnson or it goes to destruction. It cannot stand apart from the administration. Apvance 1x Gotp.—There was considerable excitement in and around Wall street yester- day, otcasioned by the temporary rise in the premium on gold, and the speculators, who have been bobbing around for the last four months without being able to produce fluctua- tions of more than a half to three-quarters of a cent a day either way, were in ecstasies over the anticipated return of activity to the market. By noon they bad managed to run the price up to one hundred and forty-seven and one-fourth, when it was supposed that the government dumped a load on the market, and it suddenly fell one per cent. . The rise was evidently spasmodic, as no reason could be given for it, and it was attributed entirely to the manipula- tions of the bull speculators. While it is evi- dent that every movement of Secretary McCul- loch tends to cause greenbacks to approxi- mate the value of gold, we think there need be no fears at_present of any permanent advance in the premium. Sions ov Tae Furor Baxw 1 THR CONNECTICUT Exgcrion.—The fate of the old sbolitioniste— now revolutionary negrophobists—may be seen in the Connecticut election. A new conserva- tive element has arisen in the country which Sraeca or Gunerat Stocum.—The speech delivered at the mase mecting in Syracuse last Monday night Slocum, which we publisheg y, is a straightforwary and frank expression of sentimont, an~ gito- Rother different from the speecher of the pro- report ofthe nancial situation to Congros | in favor of tho nomination of Andrew JohpAen,y foxxlpnal politicians, 1s is the Wk of » go}dor Tas New Yorn Camraign—Joun Vax Boren’. Last Nicat.—The demoorats have had the start of their opponents in vigor- ously supporting the policy and the personnel of Andy Johnson.“ Their orators haye com- menced the campaign boldly, recognizing, no i E i i i E E Bis platform is not that of @ party, but country. As far as any distinct cerned, all parties in the State have lost individuality, and the party organizations the other States may fret,and fume, and cavil upén this question and that, but they cannot ‘command the situation. The democracy and the republicans of New York both de- clared in favor of the President’s mode of reconstructing the South in the professions of faith made at Albany and Syracise; but the democrats are the first to give practical evi- dence of the faith that is in them. General Slocum and John Van Buren have commenced to stump the State for Johnson’s policy. Mr. Van Buren, in his speech at Albany last night, which we give in our columns to-day, en- dorsed Andy Johnson’s measures ‘wholly and squarely in every form and shape. Thus the demoerats have got the inside track, and-if they only keep well in harness they will leave the republican wagon with ita radical “ - on the wheel far behind the distance post in tho race for supremacy for the next fifty yoars. Srymour anp Hrs Promises.—Ex-Governor Seymour, in his speech at Syracuse, made the strongest possible assertions in favor of Presi- dent Johnson’s policy, and held that the sup- port of his administration was now the test of loyalty. But we remember that Mr. Seymour made numerous promises in favor of support- ing the prosecution of the war in 1862, which he seemed to forget afterwards. Are hig asser- tions at Syracuse of the same class, to be for- gotten when the time comes? In other words, is he in favor of President Johnson’s election in 1868? ‘That is the test. If he is, why not publicly nominate him, and so proclaim the fact to the world?’ New Moctropolitan Theatres. ’ The rovolution in the theatrical world is progressing, and one ot its first effects is the number of new projects to which it is giving rise. Out of the many on'the tapis we may mention two which are already in progress of realization. Mr. Avery Smith, the larges’ circus. proprietor im the United States, or, indeed, in the world, has pur- chased Dr, Chapin’s church, on Broadway, with the ad- joiming property on Crosby street, for the purpose of building upon the site an equestrian theatre on tho plan of the London Astley’s. It will be much larger than the lattor celebrated place of amusement, and, fromthe im- mense-artistic resources at Mr, Smith's command, will ne doubt in all other respects excel it. The price paid for par sil a4 4 The above pu will probably serve to explain the sale effected on Monday last of that popular place of amusement, the Hippotheatron, which was parted with by its owner, Mr. Ricbard Platt, to Mr, L. B. Lent, the popular circus manager, for $56,000. A new theatre, euibodying most of the latest Paris tm- provements, and to be built in the immediate neighbor- hood of Union square, has been decided upon. The principal mover in the scheme is Mr. Barney Williams, who has put his name down for $60,000 of tho stock. If Mr. Williams takes the control of the proposed establish- ment its success is certain. His popularity, both with the public and the profession, his long experietice and thorough knowledge of stage business, and his energetic, pushing habits, are just the qualities to insure it, Madame Gazzaniga, a prima donna well known in this country, as well as in Europe, as an artist of fine dra- matic power, such as we have rarely seen in America, and infinitely superior to any singer now on the boards, arrived in thi8 city by the French steamer the day before yesterday. She is engaged by Mr. Grau for an opera season in Chicago, New Orleans and Cuba. Signor Muzio and Madame Muzio are also of Mr. Grau’s troupe, the former as conductor, the latter as second soprano, Whether they will give concerts here or not we do not know. Their opera season will be inaugurated in Chica- g0, as thore fs at present no available: theatre for that purpose here, Mr. Grau has applied to the directors of the Academy of Music for that house for the apring sea- son. Mr. Grau af a manager has always acted likea gen- tleman and man of business. j ‘The three new artists recently imported from Italy—a prima donna, tenor and basso—about whom there has been such a row got up, have been heard by the pubitc for several nights, and even the organs of the opera have to admit that they are comparative failures. None of them surpass, or, indeéd, equal, Kellogg. The organs are always apologizing for the shortcoming of the new artists, ‘and it would appear that the only difficulty with them is to decide whether they are second rate of third rate Broapway Tueatee—Bexurtt or Mapawn Cxueere.— ‘This evening Madame Celeste will take her benefit a ¢ the Broadway, which will be the last nightof her ap- vention was strictly privato It is stated apon pretty good authority “ast it was presided over by Col, J, O'Mahony, and (het exciting and momentous events transpiring ta oe ae nen 9 Pre Chia git ae at