The New York Herald Newspaper, October 8, 1865, Page 1

ees WHOLE NO. 10,632. NORTH CAROLINA. other Good Day’s Work in the Constitutional Convention. A ge of an Ordinance Forever Pro- hibiting Slavery in the State. HE ELECTION ORDINANCE: ALSO PASSED. Rebel State Debt to be neni ne Convention Out and Out a ‘Union. fHE BLACK CONVENTION ‘ADJOURNED. do. &o, &e. ge of the Ordinance Prohibiting Slavery. Wasuinaton, Oct, 7, 1865, ‘The following despatch was received by the President 0 t:— iii Raumon, N. C., Oct 7, 1865, ‘The Convention has just passed unanimously the fol- bwing ordinance:—“That slavery or involuntary servi- other than for crime, whereof the party shall have n duly convicted, shall be and is hereby forever pro- within the btate,”” ‘The Convention will in all probability ignore the rebel debt. The Convention has also passed an ordinance providing the election of Governor, members of the Legislature, d seven members of Congress, on the 9th of November. ‘The Legislature is to meet on the 19th of November. ‘W. W. HOLDEN, Provisional Governor. Our Raleigh Correspondence. Rateiou, N. C., Oct. 4, 1865. ‘THE SECESSION ORDINANCE COMMITTEE REPORT. _ In the Convention to-day Judge Bagden, from the Com- eon the Ordinance of Secession, reported the ordi- Pance declaring null and void the secession ordinance of 20, 1861. MOTION TO SUSPEND THE RULES, Mr. W. A. Smith, of Johneon, moved to suspend the y in order to put the ordinance at once upon its nd reading. A SQUFAK FROM FRCESH, | Judge Manly (secession) said this was the most im- | 90 it ordinance that would come before the Conven- jon; and he trusted that the Convention would not pro- d to its consideration with undue baste, but allow it take the regular course. He did not desire to discuss question now; but he should, at the proper time, ra substitute modifying the language used in the ¢ of repeal. He hoped that time would be given the examination of the most important measure prhich would come before the Convention, and that the iypecific object for which the Convention had assembled old be allowed to pass without a suspension of the ‘to hurry it through. He moved to lay the motion {0 suspend the rules upon ‘the table. || Mr. Phillips reminded the Convention that if the mo- ion to lay on the table should prevail, it would carry Behe ordinance to the table with it. F Judge Manly—Then I withdraw the motion. \) Mr. Bedford Brown (Union) said that this was truly a very important question, and he thought it desirable that iit should go through the regular form under the rules. tlemen might honestly entertain different views in on to the language to be used, while agreeing as to the propriety of repealing tho ordinance of secession. ere question of phraseology ‘was one on which all ihad a right to be heard, He therefore renewed the mo- to lay on the table. Mr. Mel (secession) called for the yeas and nays, en Mr. W. A. Smith withdrew his motion, and the ordi- L>ance went to the table to lay over for one day according o the rales. . TUE COMMITTEE ON ABOLITION OF SLAVERY RETIRE. Mr. Settle - chairman of the Committee on the \bolition of Slavery, asked permission for the committee hold meetings during the session of the Convention. Leave was granted, and the committee retired. COMMITTEE ON A GENERAL AMNESTY. ‘The President appointed the following committee on a ral amnesty :— Messrs. Gilliam, T. R. Caldwell, Clark, Cowper, ‘Lash and her, Gchagan, Henrahan, Jarvis, Jones, ove. Mr, Settle having announced that the Committee on Wie Abolition of Slavery would not be prepared to report ntil to-morrow, The Convention adjourned until eleven A. M. to-mor- ‘THR FRRLING OUTSIDE. Every person, except some few of the ultras on both es, is well pleased with the excellent spirit manifested the Convention, and it is a matter of general rejoicing the Union, anti-secession spirit of the Convention ds doflance to the misrepresentations of the most ma- nant of the Northern radical. Even Greeley must be # loss for anything to find fault with in the proceeq- of the Convention. The ¢: ordinance inti y Mr. Moore is looked upon as finally settlin, question—tne State debt during secession included. a aoe debate on Pe eA Sd & ption or assumption debt, but ct is introduced at all, I believe none of it will be med. I should have said that of the committee that reported the ordinance declaring secession illegal, null and. void, were members of the Convention of 1861 that »» d the ordinance of secession—! Brown, Pat- onand Berry. But they all voted to submit the ordi- ‘mance first to the popular vote. The blacks finally adjourned last evening, after an ad 8 evening, an ad- ‘dress from ‘sbrudder Ad Their jaddress has not yet been before the Constitutional ention, but’ the of all express the ‘hope that it will be kindly received. me attempt was ‘made to create at the North . by introducing reso- Beqroce were “in danger “of” ceault, ak. esking ‘megrocs were as! General Ruger for on protection their ‘return home; but not » solitary instance of their being ‘molested has ocourred or will occur, and they have been eft entirely alone, These silly resolutions were intro- cowed by Soa he ag teria equal and not by the y ere int tie pn the cost sand dollars. Tency abo ‘States currency about three thousand otherehi siderably sometimes to borrow corn for the dopendents. Mr. W. J. Palmer, hia report :—The stock of and having no fands to perintendont of the on Maj manding the Department of North statement of the condition of the inatit He mag 4 offered to give any power to enable us to carry on our operations, dered the Commissary Department to ‘as might bo necessary for our support. of 1865, I have received the provisions from this source, with the exception of a fe articles Feat ee ~ with funds received for work the mechanical departments, Crime in Philadel! RREE MURDERS IN LESS THAN TWENTY-FOUR | ‘Three murders bave been committed since ten o'clock Jat evening. Bernard F. Kane, aged nineteen years, was shot by Baward Simons in tho sourthern part of the city, and a member of the Twenty-fourth United States colored reg!- ‘ment killed another in the cars, near Havre do Grace, The regiment has just passed up Chestnut street, with the assasein under guard. Burglars were secreted in White's dental depot, Arch ‘street, this morning, at six o’clook, when the store was + @pened by a colored man, aged forty years. The burglars pect him to death with a rope, and then from him the key of the safo, and plundered it of Sarpaty-fiye hundred dollars io notes Bil s MISSISSIPPI. General Humphreys Undoubtedly Blected Governor—The Successful Congressional Candidates—Governor Sharkey’s Pros peets for the National Senate, dic. Jackson, Miss,, Oct, 6, 1865. Returns of the lection come in slowly; but these ie no longer any doubt of the election of General Hume phreys as Governor. Judge Fisher, hie opponent, is here, and has declared his intention to communicate with President Johnson, urging the immediate pardon of Genera! Humphreys. Charles Potter is elected to Congress in this district; ‘Mr. Haverson is elected in. the Second district, and Mr. Priton is elected in the Third district, 16 ig feared that Governor Sharkey’s opinion that tho action of the Convention conferred on the negroes the right to give testimony in courts of justice will defeat ‘hime for the United States Senate, though the Governor ‘Dimeelf ie confident that the Legislature will sustain bm, - OBITUARY. Brevet Brigadier General Horace T Sanders. Brevet Brigadier General Horace T. Sanders, of Racine, ‘Wis., expired in the city of Washington on Friday even- ing, of pulmonary consumption. General Sanders was for many years preceding the war among the prominent lawyers of Wisconsin, and abandoned a good practice to enter the service in 1861, By extraordinary effort bis regiment, the Nineteenth Wisconsin infantry, was raised, clothed, armed and equipped, and mustered into the ser- vice April 19, 1862, and ordered to the Army of the Po- tomac. Since then its history is that of the Grand Army in its advances against Richmond.. General Sanders’ health broke down to such an extent as to unfit him for field service nearly two years ago; but his ability as a lawyer rendered him invaluable on military commissions and courts martial. An injury received in one of our attacks on Drury’s Bluff still further incapacitated him for labor, but failed to drive him from the service. He was sub- sequently appointed provost marshal of Norfolk, and acquitted himself in that trying position to the satistac- tion of all whose opinions were entitled to consideration. He was finally mustered ot of service with the non- veteran portion ef his regiment at the expiration of their three years term of service, and brevetted a brigadier general from that date. Finding himself too feeble to Tesume the praciice of his profession he went to Wash- ington one week ago to ask some appointment from the vernme: | le had literally sacrificed his life to defend, it succumbed to disease before his hopes were realized. General Sanders was an able lawyer, a warm friend and a true Stanton has ordered the remains to be sent to Wisconsin at government expense, in chargo of an officer to be dosignated by General Augur. . The body will leave Washington for the West on Tuesday afternoon. The Two iters—Mrse. Thomas Moore, ‘Widow of the Irish Poct, and Mrs. Mary Duff, the Actress. The Hi .D of the 22d of September contained a brief notice of the death of Mrs. Thomas Moore, widow of the Trish poet. This event, which occurred at Sloperton Cottage, England, on the 4th ultimo, severed one of the strongest links which unite the literature and poetry of the present day with the productions of the era of Lord Byron, Mrs. Moore was in her sixty-sixth year. Her maiden mame was Elizabeth Dyke, She was bornin Dublin, Ireland, and was the elder of three sisters who lived in thatcity, and who were remarkable for their beauty, character, and high order of inteliec- mal attainments. In Dublin also was born Moore, the author of the “Melodies,” her future husband, and here lived his sisters, the Misses Moore, ually beloved and Moore fell in love with his wife at an early age—he married her in 1811—and the feeling intensified and endured to the last hour of his existence. He was not only fond but proud of her, and in his private letters and diaries be invariably praised her to his intimate friends, and to none go prominently and fondly as to his mother. Writing to his mother in the year 1813, he says:—“You cannot imagine what a sensation Bessy ex- cited at the ball the other night. She was very pretily dressed, and certainly looks vey beautiful. never saw 80 much admiration excited. It strikes Melb al- most that sees her how like the form and expression of her face are to Catalina.”’ In this strain did Moore speak of his wife through all his journals and to all his associates, Sho was the pride of his life, and he was never tired of telling how she looked, what’ she said, and how she was Praised in ba pe The cldest—we believe only—child of the marriage, ‘was a son, named Thomas Landsdowne Parr Moore, incompliment to the late Marquis of Landsdowne, who ‘was an carly, firm and unwavering friend and patron of Moore. This young gentleman studied in the Royal Mili- tary College ai Sandhurst, England, and was commis- sioned in an infantry regiment of the line; he joined for service at Cavan, Ireland. Young Moore was then of a delicate constitution, and rather lax fibre of body, and died after some years’ service. Mrs. Moore was the last member of the Moore family. The late Mrs. Moore is not often mentioned or alluded to in the poetry of her husband. She was too much the idol of his heart, and he did not wish, nor had he the power, to idealize one who made him so truly happy. Of the Temaining members of the Dyke family it will interest many thousands of Americans to know that they have seen Mary Dyke, tho youngest of the two sisters of Mrs. Moore. She was the most beantiful also. Many in this country have gazed upon her face as upon a Madonna Maria, and wept with her in her sympathet'c delineations of the human heart. Mary Dyke was Mrs. Mary Duff. Sho was a favorite daughter of Melpomene. and captivated with entrancing power the minds of all who witnessed her tragic acting, and who have acknowl- edged freely that her Belvidera, Isabella, Jane Shore, Mrs. Beverley and Mrs. Haller have never been excelled’ Mrs. Dufl’s voice was a breathing melody, and her fea- tures a living harmony; her form a model for the senlp- tor, while her Christian fortitude and humanity were ex- pressed in her dark and brilliant eyes. Many recollect how these noble attributes were brought into play by her administering to those dying of cholera on a voyage from New Orleans. The acts performed by Mary Duff on board that vessel render her name perbaps more ilus- trious than that of either of her gifted sisters. ‘Mavrocordato, the Greek Patriot. ‘The death of the Greek hero and statesman, Mavro- cordato, which has just occurred, recalls the battle plains of Misselonghi, where Byron toiled by his side for Grecian emancipation, and died of the result of his over exertion in the cause. Mavrocordato was one of the characters modern Greece has produced. Born in 1791 he started early in the service of his country, to which he devoted great intellect with unswerving honesty of purpose. True to King Otho as long as that Santor i at satay a bined onan bs of of his first ministry, but resigned on the passin, ‘anti-constitutional measures. “Recalled, however, by the voice of the country he accepted the post of President of the Chambers, and subsequently that «qpe.mbassador to Paris, but conceiving that King Otho S.d not fulfilled the conditions on which he accepted that mission Mav- rocordato , and retired into private life. King reece, has ordered five days of public George, of mourning, and paid his widow a visit of condolence on her loss. Appold, Inventor of the Centrifugal Pamp. Appold, the English engineer and inventor of the cen- trifugal pump, died on the Sst ult. at Clifton, England. ‘The paying-out apparatus used in laying submarine tele- graphs was mainly his contrivance. The most remark- able proofs of his cleverness as an inventor, however, were collected | own house and the works adjoining There ev: the ould be made so was auto- and hed water came closed; a seif-acti ature rising or ling above or below certain fixed pointe; and the air supplied for ventilation was both Washed to cool and screened to cleanso it from blacks, Even the gates of his stable yard ed of themselves as he drove through, and closed again without slamming. Mr. Appold was a dresser of furs katona gens which he practiced successfully for many years, an which secured him a tical monopoly of the trade, ‘and he always maintained that this was a far more effectual way of working an invention than any patent. Death of a Young Bostoni: ‘Hong Kong dates of July 11 advise of the probable loss of tho Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Corea, and also the steamer Chanticleer, both sailing from that on board, during a fearful typhoon. Among the passen- Ghanticlesr we rogret to neo a name of ‘aupo P, MaYxand, formerly of this cit for the @ resident of Hong Kong, had been revious and, by tho ad- his NOMINATION FOR THE MARING® COURT. Pe Ferg democrats and German Democratic ‘nion nominated Michael C. Gross for the office Ju of the Marine Court, for the place of erga Meesriny, Sesmeiaks nor form, tn ASSEMBLY NOMINATION. Everett P. Wheeler bas been nominated by the demo- rats of tho Fourtepnth district for Assembly. NEW YORK, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1865. THE WIRZ TRIAL. Generals Lee and Johnston and Other Rebels Not AHowed to Appear. Judge Advecate Chipman’s Refusal to Permit Them te be Subpazned. HIS DEFENCE OF THE COURSE PURSUED. They are Held to be Co-Conspirators with Wirz, and Incompetent to Testify im His Bohalt, ADJOURNHENT TILL THURSDAY NEXT. * Wasmrnaton, Oct. 7, 1865. ‘The newspapers have made a mistake in the name of the defendant’s witness who on Wednesday and Thurs- day testified to the thriving business affairs, &c., at Andersonville. The name is George W. Fechnor, but at the prison he assumed that of Charles W. Ross. This morning Captain Selph was recalled, and testified that some of the boxes with sanitary goods for soldiers were broken open on the way to their destination; the command of the witness with the rebel army at Vicks- burg were vaccinated for the smallpox, but those who had the smallpox recovered sooner than those who had been vaccinated; vaccine matter was at that time very scarce in the South, Mr. Baker made a statement to the Court and then asked that an adjournment take place till Thursday. He was satisfied that if the time was granted he could #0 arrange matters that the business would be facilitated. He telt satisfied that then, if the Judge Advocate should take up no more time in the cross-examination than he should in the direct examination, all the witnesses could be examined within a week. Colonel Cutrman said that that was a matter entirely within the discretion of the Court. The Court, after voting, said the members were willing to adjourn till Wednesday, at ten o'clock. Mr. Baxgr eaid that would not afford him sufficient time. Col. Curpman suggested that the Court adjourn till Thursday, and that then and thereafter they sit without regard to regular hours, and thus make up the time lost by an adjournment over. ‘The Court acquiesced in the suj tion. Judge Advocate Cirpmax said that some of the wit- nesses asked for by the defence had been subpoenaed in- advertently, while subpoenas for others which bad been issued were after further consideration revoked. . These remarks applied to a certain class of witnesses, which the Court understood embraced high and prominent men in the rebel service—Generals and Johnston, Howell Cobb, Mallory, Moore, Commissioner Oula, and others. Colonel Chipman remarked that his action was based on what he believed to be the law, on his own judgment, without consulting any one, and within the discretion as he thought by virtue of his office. He de- = to fae 9 = mel bya oe alee for roy howd fence may object, or, e Court disapprove. may take the matter ont of his bands, He then called the atten- tion of the Court to some decisions and opinions with regard to certain propositions of law applicable to the question now submitted as to the competency of certa'n classes of witncases asked for by the counsel for the accused, saying:—I have no desire to exclude any evidence proper to be don record in defence of the charges here laid, nor in any way to te or detract from the evidence in direction; but there are rea- sons good in law and fact for excluding certain wit- Resses and a certain class of testimony, which I think sufficient to justify the course of the government in this particular. In tenth Johnson, page 95, It ix decided “thata party in the same indictment cannot be a witness for his co-defendant until! ho has first been acquitted or convicted, whether they plead jointly or separately.” Again, Addison's Reports, page 353, says:—‘‘If circumstances are proved from which it is possible for the jury to presume facts amounting to guilt, a defendant in an indictment cannot be a witness.’’ Again in the case of the State ve. Alexander and others (Second Reports of Connecticut, page 171,) it was decided ‘where the evidence avainst one of the defendants was not sufficient to convict him the court refused to strike his name out of the indictment for the purpose of making him a witness for others, without the assent of the Attorney General, though he might advise his acquital.”’ In the text (First Starkie’s Evidence, page 130, sixth American edition) we find “when the evi- dence isof such a nature that an acqnittal would inure to the benefit of either in a joint indictment, one is incom- tent as a witness for another. Thus an accessory be- fore or after the fact would be incompetent as a witness for principal, and a conspirator would be incompetent to discharge his associates.” A distinction seems to be made between accomplices and necessories before or after the fact and conspirators. The fret named are competent witnesses for their aseociates, though they be severally indicted for the same offence. (Statkic, second volume, page 11, sixth American edition.) The Jast named—40 wit, accessories and co-conspirators— as we have seon, are incompetent (first volume, page 150); but in second Hale, page 180, seve’ ral cases’ are cited showing ‘that the text in Starkie is not quite accurate, as his proposition is not true where the offence is joint. Without arguing propositions so clearly stated as these, I think it is safe for the Court to conclude that:—First—All principale in the first degree—that is, thore who directly perpetrate the act—are incompetent. Second—Principals in the second degree, actually or constructively present, are incompetent. ' Third—Accessories before or after the fact, whose conviction the evidence evolved will warrant, or against whoin sufficient circumstances point to guilt, are incompetent. Fourth—All conspirators are incompetent, and this s true in all these cases, whether the parties be named or not in the indictment, £0 that the proof is sufficient to convict them, as above stated, with the offences alleged. Again, I answer that there {s not one of the rebels whom the counsel ask to subpena as witnesses who will not be compelled to answer on his war dire that he has committed treason against the United States. His confession in open court, according to the constitution of our country, is equivalent to the testimony of two witnesses. He stands, therefore, convicted of the highest crime known to our laws; and all that is wanting to render him infamous is a formal verdict. I say, therefore, he is incompetent, , this rebellion has been one gigantic act of treason, one common conspiracy to overthrow our government. Not a single rebel engaged in it, according to the strict rules of taw, is a competent witness for another on trial, charged with le offences, as he is an accessory before or after the fact, or a co-conspirator or an accom- plice, and therefore excluded. I say, then, until they are purged by special pardons, by a general pardon or by acquittal before a competent court, no one of them ought to be permitted to testify for hls associates, . Baker replied that when these witnesses were asked for he su would include ex-Governor Brown, Howell b, Generals Lee, Johnston and Imbo- den, Dr. Moore and Golonel Ould. He wanted them for the following reasons: It was testified for the prosecu- tion that Howell Cobb had made a speech at Anderson- ville, not only treasonable, but so criminal as to be almost demoniacal, encouraging the Confederate soldiers this by that witness; whom ho. wasted to pat upon the is by that witness, whom he wisl upon Mant tease the valve of law. Cobb's was the best evi- dence to show the words charged were never uttered. He had sul ex-Governor Brown, of Georgia, to int about supplies, a question which ly into the prosecution. The govern- ment had brought some insignificant witnesses to testify on that subject, but he thought he would take those who knew best. ‘The Governor had to protect his own people from starvation, and to take ssa of railroads for the transportation of —. and he intended to show by General Lee that he bad to leave his command and exert his great influonce pri- vately aa an inuividual in order that supplies might be sent to his soldiers to save them from starvation, He intended to call General Johnston to show that his army could not be supplied, in order that the question might be seen in the proper light. Every witness named was important. After they had been subponaed he heard that the orders were countermanded. Colonel Ould was here in attendance at the court ander what was believed to be eqitivalent to an order, but was discharged in con- travention of his (Mr. Baker's) wishes, and without his knowledge. 1t seemed to him it was very unusual for a | ogre ,to take such authority, and it should not exercised. But he made no point Le mg the Judge Advocate of a personal nature, becake he sup- posed the gentleman acted under the sound and pradent action of the goveriiment, but at the same time he feit bound to protest against such proceedings. Another of his witnesses (Duncan) was arrested and placed in the Old Capftol. fe had always understood that a witness was [ape | by the of bringing him here, He was informed by the Judge Advocate that Duncan was a criminal, and therefore had ne to testify. So now it seemed to be solemnly argued before this court that Persons could not testify because they were a with offences, while others could not testify because they had been conspicuous in the Southern service, The by his own conduct. hore, and he (Mr. Baker) took and ‘and put them on the stand. He had been informed that persons of infamons character could not be allowed as ‘witnesses in a court of justice, but it would take higher eorherity than that of Johnson, which had been cuoted, to sustain that point. The testi of such persons De iD re; inet the brief argument he fe fea ‘was the Otepring and no one else was res; ‘The degree, or as conspirators. With re- he awaited his trial. These parties under acommon chi for acommon eataly: from those law allows that one of ‘a witness for the others. It did not enter of the counsel (Mr, Baker) that one of them called to Leaaity against his associates. BAKER remii the gentleman that Colonel had been called for the government, but Colo- excluded for the defence, They were both in e rank, CurrMaN was uni to say that Colone) even if guilty, ree tent witness against hia aasoclates in erime. ‘and that Colonel Ould would be with them before the cqpclusion of the trial. not testify in their favor. asked the gentleman whether he could persons could be put on the ov put i E 4 z ge # tee i in the Medi- a, and the rebel authorities, concerning the &e., at Andersonville, It appears that his objeet was to illustrate facts relative to gangrene, malarial fevers, and camp and other diseases. This report shows the frightful Crogerg tare number of deaths during one iod being as large in the stockade as in the hospital. le describes the men as miserable, hopeless and abject in the extreme. Very many of them were mere skele- tons, encrusted with dirt and covered with vermin. Some of them cursed their own government for refusing an exchange of prisoners, It was, he said, impossible to depict the scene, Vaptain Gilmore, on duty at Norfolk, testified as to the seizure of watches, silver spoons, forks, watch chain: lockets, photographs, &c., taken from @ man nam Garrison on the eastern shore of Virginia, who claimed to be counsel for R. B. Winder. A watch chain, with a medal attached, was exhibited to the witness’ to connect these articles with the plundering at Andersonville. It belonged to Darius Morris, of the New York Volunteers. ‘The court adjurned until Thursday morning. NEWS FROM FORTRESS MONROE. The Attempted Escape of Dr. Mudd from the Dry Tortugas—Nothing New from Texas—The Revenue Cutter Kankakee, de. OUR FORTRESS MONROE CORRESPONDENCE. Fortress Monrox, Oct. 6, 1865. The steamer Daniel Webster arrived last night from New Orleans, She stopped at the Dry Tortugas and Key West, leaving a number of prisoners at the féfmer place. She brings nothing later or new from New Orleans. At the Dry Tortugas there had been some excitement, through the attempt of Dr. Mudd, one of the assassina- tion conspirators of President Lincoln, to escape. Dr. Mudd, it appears, came very near making successful his effort to regain his liberty. As heretofore published, the Doctor enjoyed unusual liberties on the island, through his being detailed in the hospital department. Taking advantage of this liberty he managed to secrete himself in one of the coal bunkers of the steamer Thomas Scott. When he was found to be missing a most thorough search of the steamer was instituted to find him, and the search was very near abandoned, and the idea of his concealment on it given up, when an officer who was assisting in the search thrust{ the point of his sword into the Doctor's face, causing himto cry out and thereby make known his place of conceahnent. The Doctor lay wholly hid under the coal except a portion of his face. On his dis- covery he was taken back to and put at hard labor, which occupation he is likely to follow for some time. The quartermaster of the Thomas Scott was sub- sequently arrested on a charge of complicity in aiding Dr. Mudd to escape. There have been no changes in the disposition of the other assassination conspirators. AVPAIRS IN TEXAS. Captain Hall is among the passengers on the Daniel Webster, He has just come from Texas, and reports no changes there for the past several weeks. THE KANKAKER. The Upited States revenue cutter Kankakee leaves this afternog; for. guigide the caper: News from the Pacific Coast. Saw Franersoo, Oct. 6, 1865. George 0, Yount, pioneer of the Napa Valley, died yes- terday. The Oregon State Fair commenced at Salem on the 34 instant. The exhibition of goods and the list of stock was larger than ever before. Governor Gibbs, of Oregon, has issued a proclamation calling a special session of the Legislature for the 5th of December. The object of the session is not stated in the telegram announcing the fact. The Supreme Court of Oregon has sustained the Sun- day law. It has also decided that all State taxes must be paid in gold. rived, steamer California, from New York; also ar- rived, steamer Orizaba, from Oregon, with nearly $300,000 in treasure, Sax Francisco, Oct. 7, 1865. Nearly all Eastern goods are advancing. Large trans- actions are taking place, partly on specul ation, in East. ern whiskey, candles, mack at higher prices, Coai oil sells at $1 70 per ¢ erel at $3 a kit and $11 a half barrel. Whiskey is' $1 75a $1 80a gallon, The markt is entirely bare of Eastern products in first hands, Wheat bas advanced to two cents per pound, Flour solle at $6 75 per barrel. Money is plenty and secking investment in merchan- dis, Loans are effected as low as ten per cent per annum, Mining stocks are flat. The Park. THE MUSIC AND VISITORS YESTERDAY—APPEAR- ANCE OF THE PARK—RECENT DONATIONS, BTC. Another change in the weather yesterday caused a crowded attendance at the Park. The thermometer ran up among the seventies, and the numberof visitors could be counted by the thousand. The cold winds which pre- vailed during the first part of the week have left their mark behind on the foliage of the Park. In the crimson and gold of autumn the trees looked as gorgeously at- tired as the hundreds of ladies who have already as- sumed the dark colored robes and gleaming trimminy of the fall. Many of the trees are already almost catirely divested of leaves, and all the foliage of the Park is as- suming the appearance of departing life. The attendance on the Mall during the concert was as great as at any ume during the summer. The music was Judiciously selected and admirably executed. Those for whom music hath no charms wandered off to the zoo- ical collection or the Art Museum. Sailing on the lake, which had been somewhat interrupted by the late chilly weather, was again indulged in yesterday by many hundreds of ladies and children, Great interest is taken in the Art Museam and zoolo- gical collection, not only by visitors to the Park, but also by persons residing in all parte of the civilized world. That this is the caso is shown by the num- ber of donations being constantly received by Park Commissioners, * = following have been received during the last two weeks :— ‘Two badgers, from D, G. Wells. Seven white prong three ring doves and one pair of "Hight photographic views of the city of Richmond photographic views of the cit; ichme va. ‘& HL. T. Anthony. " ‘One silver xray fox, W. R. Morgan. One Caracas sheep, J, C. Buckingham, One piece of petrified wood, J Chase Coffin, One turtle, John 8. Stiners, SS pvt] ae agg taf De @ pair guinea pi rs, rotte Rape, One Woodshuck. Pe tecabe. if One alligator, one turtle, . Dixon, One guinea pig, Mrw. M. Grint, Two trumpet swans, Adolph Strauch, Two hawks, Major ©. H. Boyd. One pair lop-eared rabbits, James W. B. Rockwell, Four Orclin plants, Sig. G. Napshigy!. One pair guinea pigs, Mra, W. larsball, One ospray, Richard Hastings, One toncan, Charles A Whitney, Seven California quail, A. G. Agnew, One pair ring doves, one parrot, J. Pimtspenrma Estarenise.—The manufacturers of Phil- Adelphia, from the lack of facilities for shipping direct to their Southern customers, are compelled, many of them, to keep branch houses in New York, from which point'they can be shipped at once. — This simple fact is too pertinent to be overlooked, for it clearly shows how content Philadelphia is to play second fiddle to New York, So long as such things exist it is not difficult to make out which is the metropolis and which the provincial city, —Pittaburg (Pa.) Commercial, Uct. 6. Smarr Practice.—Thero are some smart rascais in Memphis, Tennessee, who, when they find & horse un- marked, represent themselves as goverment agents, and boldly claim the animal asa “U, ge horse, that has beon stolen from the government. If the owner of the horse claims that there are no “U. 8." marks on the ani- mal, the rogues produce a ginee, which they declare is a magnifying one, and, as the lens of this glags bas a faint §."" lined upon it, the looking through it makes the “U, 8." visible, apparently on the horse. This astounds the owner of the beast, and*with cool mudacity the thieves tide off with the horse they have thus appropriated. + dollars per mont... WASHINGTON. New York Republicans Apathetic and Downhearted. Important to Applicants for Positions in Navy Yards. THE CHOLERA AT BARCELONA. Closing of the Port and Suspension of All Business in the City, i &e. de. ‘Wasnrnatoy, Oot, 7, 1865. DOWNHEARTEDNESS OF THE NEW YORK REPUBLI- CANS IN WASHINGTON, A meeting of the New York republicans was held at ‘the Union League Rooms a few evenings since to discuss the propriety of visiting their respective homes to par- ticipate in the November elections. There was a sort of apathy and downbeartedness manifested at the meeting ‘unaccountable, except on the supposition that they con- sidered their presence of no earthly use, inasmuch as the result of the election isa foregone conclusion with them. Comparatively few will go homo. IMPORTANT TO APPLICANTS FOR POSITION IN NAVY YARDS. The following important circular from the Navy De- partment, following closely on the heels of Secretary Welles’ letter to Admiral Bell, will probably convince republican politicians that the patronage of this depart- ment, at least, cannot be prostituted for political pur- poses. Neither political wirepullers nor corrupt mem- bers of Congress will be permitted to dictate who shall or shall not be employed in the navy yards of the na- tion: — Navy Department, Oct. 7, 1865. Application to fill the position of master workman in anyfof the navy yards will hereafter be addressed to the Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, stating the name, age and residence of the applicant, with testi- monials as to his character, habits, professional skill and competency and physical ability.’ Whenever a vacancy shall occur in the office of muster a board will be con- vened at the navy yard where such vacancy exists, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, a 1a selection will be made from the qualified candidates who shall have passed a satisfactory examination. The selec- tion of master workmen will hereafter be made irre- spective of locality, no district or State being entitled to preference for these position? GIDEON WELLES, Secretary of the Navy. THE SIGNAL CORPS. With the exception of Colonel Fisher, Chief Signal Officer, and a single aid, al! the officers of the Signal Corps of the army who have been on duty east of the Mississippi river are honorably mustered out of service. There are twenty-five officers on duty with Sheridan, Pope and Hall west of the Mississippi. These are all that remain of a corps of one hundred and forty oflicers, selected during the war on account of bravery and men- tal capacity for the performance of the most difficult and dangerous kind of staf duty on the battle field. The corps goes out of service leaving a good record in the army from the War Department ALEXANDRIA CONFISCATED PROPERTY. Preparations are being made to restore to the original owners a large amount of property situated in Alexan- dria, Virginia, and adjoining counties, the libel for con- fiscation, by order, having been withdrawn. THE KENTUCKY DELEGATION AND GENERAL PALMER, The Kentucky delegation, headed by Garrett Davis, obtained an interview with the President thie) ing, and urged the removul of General Palmer with earnestness, The President, it is said, has referred the whole matter to General Thomas for investigation, and declines to interfere until General Thomas makes a re- port upon the subject. PARDONS. Sixty amnesty pardons were granted to-day, all of them to parties hailing from Alabama. Among the prominent pardon seekers now bere is Mr. Trescott, Assistant Secretary of State under Mr. Bu- chanan’s administration. INTERNAL REVENUE RECEIPTS, The receipts at the Internal Revenue Bureau to day amounted to $1,300,000. Dr. Jobn McCook was appointed Assessor of Internal Revenue for the Seventeenth district of Ohio. MOVEMENTS OF GENERAL GRANT. Geveral Grant left for Philadelphia this evening and will peturn with his farnily Wednesday, COLONEL HEINTZELMAN ORDERED TO DUTY. Colonel 8. P. Heintzelman, former major general, is or. dored to join his regiment at Hart's Island and report to General Wessels, who was a captain in the former's regi- ment in Mexico. At this rate one or two more wars would practically reduce bim to the rank of second lentenant. TRIAL OF CAPTAIN PRTTIT FOR ALLEGED CRUEL- TIPS AT ALEXANDRIA JAIL. Captain Pettit, formerly of the Twelfth Veteran Re- serve Corps, Will probably be tried daring the coming weeks on charges of crucities and frands alleged to have been perpetrated by him during his long command of the jail at Alexandria, A court martial is now being formed for the trial, and Colonel John Mansefield is nated as the President. ° THE CHOLERA AT BARCELONA. Advices recoived at the State Department to-day from the consulate of Bareclona contain the intelligence of the closing of that port by royal decree, in consequence of its infection with the Asiatic cholera. Business of all kinds has been suspended, the stores and offices having been abandoned, and half of the inhabitants fled to the inte- rior country. All operations of the Commercial Ex- change had ceased, and even a draft upon London could ‘not be negotiated in the city, THE CONFLAGRATION AT CONSTANTINOPLE. A private letter received from Constantinople states that the conflagration that broke out in that city on the Oth of September destroyed about ten thousand tene- ments, by which upwards of forty thousand people are loft without a roof to cover them. STRUGGLE FOR POSITIONS ON THE MEDICAL STAPF OF THE REGULAR ARMY. Agrand stroggie is going on among young medical men from all parts of the country for the fourteen places on the medical staff of the regular army. Tho propor. tion of applicants as to places is as one hundred to one. It is noticeable that a very high order of medica! talent has entered the lists for these vacancies among assistafit surgeons. Perhaps twenty-five per cent of the applicants are staggered at the outset by the exacting schedule of necessary acquiremonts which they are required to fill, and abandon the struggle. From the balance; it will bo no difficult matter for the board now in session to select a superior fourteen. The fact that one hundred and twenty dollars a month is 80 great an attraction for medical men between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-six augers well for the sanitary condition of the country. During sickly times young doctors make vastly more in legitimate business, A‘ UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE PAVER IN NORTH CARO- LINAS A new paper bas been started at Raleigh, N. C., under the management of Edward P. Brookes and J. Q. A. Crane, both lately federal officers in the war, The sheet fs cailed The Journal of Freedom, and in its prospectus it indulges in the following sentiments, which cannot fail to fall oddly upon the ears of the Carolinians:—“ Be. Heving that {t is warranted by the republican spirit which should control our democratic form of government, wo shall advocate the abrogation of all laws which mako any distinction on account of color, and urge the enact ment of laws such as will give every man equal rights.”’ It ts the intention of the projectors to publish a universal suffrage paper. CHEAP RENT FOR NEGRO LANORERS, The Campbell Hospital in thie city has recently been turned over tothe Freedmen’s Bureau, by which it will bo used for the occupancy of negro laborera, The building will accommodate upwards of two hundred tenants, and will be let to each family at the moderate rental of three ‘The Rureau is endeavoring by such PRICE FIVE CENTS. actsas these to force down the exorbitant prices de- manded for the miserable hovels in which the megroes are at present forced to herd at the rate of eight dollar per month. PERSONAL. Baron Gerolt, the Prussian Minister; Senor Romero, the Mexican Minister, General Howard, General Frank P. Blair, and Adjutant General Townsend were all await- ing Presidential interviews at one time this forenoon, Major Generals G. F. Shepley, L. C. Rousseau and C. ‘Vaughn are at Willard’s, Secretary Harlan has returned to Washington from Towa, RECOGNITION OF CONSULS. ‘The President has recognized the following named consuls. for Hayti:—F. Usher at New York, B. C. Clark at Boston, and Albert Emerson at Bangor. THE PRESIDENTIAL WHITE MAN'S GOVERNMENT STORY DENIED, [St.Louis (Oct. 5) correspondencs Post, the radical city, is authorized to state that President not say to Governor Fletchor, of Missouri, In a recent conversation, as has been alleged, “This it a white man's country, and while I am President it shall be a white man’s government.” The report is incorrect, cud it was net Governor Fletcher who authorized the papers w blish it, As far as Governor Fletcher remem! ident Johnson used about the following words, am in favor of the white man,” or, “I be! to the white man’s party.’? dad With Killing Her Husband in Jersey City. An inquest was held in Jersey City last evening by Coroner Hanley on the body of Thomas Belifield, resid- ing at No, 223 South Sixth street, under circumstances that led to the belief that his death was caused at the hands of bis wife. From the testjmony of the daughter, Emma, fourteen years of age, it appears that her mother is of dissipated habits and was intoxicated on Friday. On the evening of Friday Belifleld came home, and finding his wife lying upon the bed, ordered her to get up; but refusing, he pulled her off the bed on to tho floor. Some diffleulty occurred, when the witness heard a heavy fall, and running into the room, saw her father lying inssnsible on the floor, and her mothor exclaimed, “I have (or will) put you where you will never hurt me again.” Witness supposed ai the time that her'wother had killed her father, und told the people so that came in. A pliysician was immediately sent for; but when he arrived ber father was dead. Dr. James Craig testified that he made a post mortem examination, and found both lungs diseased, and the brain congested, with extravesation of blood through it. The immediate’ cause of death was congestion of the brain, The jury rendered ® verdict in accordance with the above facts. Mrs, Belifield, who had been arrested und committed to the City Prison, was set at liberty. 2, Insane Newspaper Correspondent. 18 ARRESTED AND LOCKED UP—LETTERS TO CROWNED HEADS OF EUROPE, ETC. D, Stelifer Moulton, a young man about twenty-cight years of age, was yesterday brought before Justice Dodge, by special officer Perry, of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, charged with having defrauded the proprietors of the hotel out of a large board bill. After conversing with the prisoner the magistrate soon discovered that he was partially deranged, and during the interview Stelifer styled himself “Stelifer the King, Reigning Prince of the House of David, and Guardian of American Destiny.” It also appeared that the parents of the self-etyled King live in Centre Ossepee, New Hampshire, and that he has . been the regular New York correspondent of the Boston Traveller. From papers found in his possession it ap- peared that he had Doarded at the Tremont, Revere aud inthrop houses in Bostou, likewise several other hotels in this city, and left without paying his bills. He pro- mised to pay whenever he could colleet a trifling claim of $3,000,000, witch he held against the government, The landlords, however, had no contidence in Stelifer's claim, and requested him to seek quarters elsewhere. He had A mass of correspondeuce, portions of which will be found below: — To this Excellency Montuovoy, Minister of the Emperor o France:— Sm—Wherefore do vou care so little for our Emperor’ Be pleas i vin New ‘ork, that se; if Ih obli yy toa. nations will oblige ine pr n- nrape, and T wish to ehow you in the y itis good that the Emperor of Franco his kpecial ambassador aud minister, Far. ther also, A that the power of your Emperor ts Fobbing ind destroying the people of iy euardianelip. tn Mexico, and the aword of Steliter wishes to give counsel con- corning this matter. have the honor to be, your very hut ble servant, STELIPER THE KING, Keigning Prince of the House of David and Guardian ‘of ‘American Destintes, Next follows « Jotter addressed to Sir Frederick Bruce, Minister of Great Brituin, in which he asks why the British government is disquicting Stelifer's liege subjects in the Canadas; and another letter, addressed to the Minister of the King of italy, asidne ‘questions concern- ing the Church and Papal States, In visiting churches Ptelifer rould leave notes addressed to the officiating clergymen, as follows:— Stelifer the King has today visited this con Peace und gladuess to all the people and joy Iu mountains ot Zion “The king commands.” Below will be found the copy of @ letter left at one of the synagogues in this city:— HE Emperot shonld send ov tion. ‘all the Virrw Avesce Horet, New York, Sept. 29, 1865. r the Mayor OF New LOUK, thin’ Exce! yoTe Stary or New Youk, to his est oF Tite UNITED STATES fords an sealed and ed and broucht the nected the letter to the given to some of 1 to bring ne poo id Tee ath me. Your ha STKLIVER THE KING, Reigning Prinee of the House ef David and Guardian of American Destinies, Next comes:— To thy Goveuxwnst oF THe UxtTED Seathe—Pleane poy to mvrelf orto der three m five hundred thousand, dollars, the same being thy ainount of allowances: me, according t Cited States Congress, for allow: ances for the second quariers of the chrrent Breal year. Your great servant, STELIFER The King, it supenrs communicated with Mr. Ai Belmont, the banker, for the purpose of obtaining from him the small sum of $500,000, vhich he begged Mr. Belmont to accept either Steliter order on the govern= ment or his own paper, as the houve of Belmont & Co, might elect, Other Jetters show that the King recently sent proposals to the editors of the leading journals of this city, proposing to establish a new daily paper in New York, to be his special organ. Justice Dodge committed Stelifer the King to the care of the Comminsioners of Charities and Correction, and if pronounced to be @ con- firmed lunatic he will be sent to the asylum. News from New Orleans. ARREST OF ALFRED JONES, TER ALLEGRD ERIB RAILROAD DEFAULTER—THR PLANTERS’ CONVEN- ‘TION—MARKETS, BTC. New Ontxane, Oct. 6, 1866, Alfred Jones, the Erie Railroad defaulter, was arrested here to-day. : The Planters’ Convention met yosterday, and discussed the subject of the broken levees. The convention peti- tioned Governor Wells and General Canby to assist them with aid from the State and genera! governments, #0 that they could make the necossary repairs. Both gentiomen promised to ess their attention to the matter. Governor Wells bas written a letter accepting the gubernatorial nomination. The steamer Monterey, from New York, has arrived. Cotton excited, and advanced 2c. per th, Salon to-day 4,000 bales, at 4c. n 47. for middling. Freighte to New York %o.'a 130. per Ib. on cotton. Checks on New York 13¢ 01% per cent discount. New Ontrass, Oot. 6, 1865 Cotton firm. Sates to-day 4,000 bales, ‘at a dBc, bales. Stock for middling. Sale# of the week 24,000 107,000 bales, Sugar and molasses quict, Freights higher—%o. @ 2c. per Ib. on cotton to New York. Checks on New York 14 per cent discount, The Tennessee Nasavinue, Tonn., Oct. 7, 1866, In the Legislature to-day Mr. Wines, of Montgomery county, presented a memorial from the citizens of his county requesting that measures be adopted to reliove the financial embarrassments of the people, The me- morial proposes to withhold execafions until the planteng can derive the proceeds of two or three crops, or to stag, sales of property not bringing two-thirds of their assessed value, or to extend the time to four years for the redemp- tion of claims where the defendants agree to pay the principal and six per cent interest, The bill was referred to the Judiciary Committee, The Case of Champ Ferguson. ri Naswvinia, Ter Oct. 7, 1865. The papers in the case of Champ}Ferguson, have been forwarded to the President for his approval or rejection, The Philad rd Ciyoado, Oct, 6, 1866, The proprietor of the Chicago Tribune states that the ‘William 1. Smith referred to im the alleged conversation with Judee Caton is mot the editor of that pager.