The New York Herald Newspaper, October 9, 1865, Page 4

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Proposals will be received until October 25 for a Fire- Proof Building, to be erected for the New Yorx HenaLp Estamasuaxyt, 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. The election in Gcorzia for delegates to the State Convention took place on last Wednesday. We have yet, however, but little regarding the result. Our cor- Tespondence by the steamship Varuna, which left Savannah about noon on that day and arrived here yes- terday, says that everything was progressing quietly up to that time. No military were near the polling places, and evorything in connection with the election was being managed by the civil officers. In the majority of the counties but one ticke: was being run, and it is said that a good class of men have been selected for candi- ates, In the intenor of the State generally harmony and quict prevail, and the people accept with a fair amount of grace the new order of things, though plant- ers coming into tavannah from some sections make strong complaints of the negroes neglecting their work, and say that in consequence next year’s crops will be a failure. The North Carolina people, especially those in the region around Raleigh, one of our correspondents states, are very decided in their approval of the emphatic way in which the State Convention disposed of the secossion ordinance, by declaring it not only to be null and void, Dut to have always since its passage been so. The in- habitants are also represented as being extremely hostile to those men who assisted in plunging the State into the rebellion, In the Convention on the 4th instant resolu- tions were introduced, but laid over for fature action, expressing the utmost confidence in President Johnson, and thanking bim for the course he has pursued towards the erring pegple of the South, to the gratitude of all of whom, it is believed, he is entitled, The resolutions also endorse Governor Holden, and express the belief that no State will ever again have a desire to abandon the Union. South Carolina news of Interest is contained in our despatches by the steamship Andalusia, which arrived here yesterday, from Charleston on the 4th inst. Mayor Macbeth and the Common Council and other members of the old civil government of that city have been restored \) to the exercise of their functions, and the principal mu nioipal buildings have been given up to them, in accord ance with a military order issued by General Bennett, commander of the Sub-District of Charleston, on the 2d inst, The Mayor is to have jurisdiction of all eases by- tween whites, whilo the negroes ar the Provost Marshal; bat th military present be retained. The organization 0’ militia is rapidly progressing in some sect aro to be subject to the national officers operate with them in the suppression of the pre Jawlessness, General Bennett has issued an o irccting his subordinates to assist in the formation of this State force, every member of which, before joining must take the natignal ooth of allegiance. There isa great stir among a South Carolina politicians tn an- tiolpation of the fort@coming State and Congressional elections, and candidates are issuing addresses to the good people through the newspapers. A Governor and mombers of the Legisiature will be elected on the 18th instant. ‘An election for members of Congress takes place in Arkansas to-day. A correspondent sends us an account of a recent visit to the rebel Vice President and Postmaster General, Alexander H. Stephens and John H. Reagan, in Fort ‘Warren, Boston harbor. The former gentleman he found physically in the eame emaciated state which has wharacterized him all his life, but with intellect unim- paired, while the latter is robust and in excellent health. Both aro cheerful and bopeful, and conversed freely on public affairs, Mr. Stephens looks with distrust on the Present activity of prominent rebels in the work of weconstruction, Judge Reagan has written and for- warded an address to the people of Texas, He cheer- fully accepts the results of the war, raying, “We etaked fail and lost all.” He advises all robels to regain their @itizenship as soon as possible, and to hereafter be faithful @o the constitution jand the national government. In segard to the freedmen of the South, he is in favor of ‘admitting their testimony in the courts and of granting elective franchise to such of them ag can read and ite, and thinks it will be impossible long to deny them those privileges. 1 On the » 1 page of this morning’s Henawp is printed the impor'vnt treaty of penes and mutual friend. ship entered | n the 10th of last month, at Fort Brith, Ar » the government commis nations and tribes of Indian we 0 ia ba bay lato Wary Rie * es NEW YORK HERALD. | ‘A significant speech recently delivered by Mr. J. A. Macdonald, Canadian Attorney General, is noticed by our Toronto cotrespondent. The Attorney General was speaking of the future of Ottawa, the new Cauad ian capl- tal Ottawa, he said, will ere long be the metropolis of ‘one-third of the American continent, the capital of all the British North American provinces, which the British government and the Canadian authorities are determined shall be unitod in one grand confederation, in spite of all opposition, before another year has passed. It is said that John ©. Brockinndge, rebel ex-Secretary of ‘War and ex-general, proposes to become a British sub- ject, and enter into the pork business in some Canadian town. Nova Scotia papers of the 28th ult. announce the ar- rival in that province of General Sir Fenwick Williams, lately Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in Canada. General Williams has been sent out to take the management of Nova Scotia, which hitherto has obsti- nately refused to see the desirability of confederation. ‘The Fenians are creating a stir in Canada, 4gents of the organization have recently visited both Quebec and Ottawa, with the view of establishing lodges, and it fs reported that a number of the Brotherhood have late%g left Toronto on a special mission to Ireland. ‘Some light is thrown on the condition of affairs in that wild and troubled region of contending Mexican factions, the Rio Grande border, by our Brownsville correspond- ence. It was said by the republicans in the middie of last month that their projected grand attack on Mata- moros and other imperial strongholds in the same sec- tion of country had been delayed till the return from his mission to the United States of their agent, General Carvajal, who, it was whispered, had been successful beyond anticipation in securing material aid for the cause of Juarez, ‘Then a@ vigorous campaign was to be commenced, and it was anticipated that the imperialists would be compelled to give up both Mata. moros and Monterey. General Escobedo is in command of il the Mexican troops in that section, but finds much trouble in managing his subordinate chiefs, particularly Cortina, who obeys or disregards orders according to his own whim or convenience, It is sald that Cortina has acquired by his border operations a fortune of about a million dollars, which he has safe on deposit in New Orleans. The republicans still hold several towns on the upper’ Rio Grande, Steady, plodding, old fashioned, stay-at-home citizens of this great republic, who never entertained for them- selves an enterprise so enormous as that of crossing the Atlantic, will be surprised, on reading in this morning’s Henauo the article from one of our Paris correspondents, under the heading of “America Abroad,” to learn how many of their fellow countrymen are now sojourning or travelling in various portions of Europe. The number is sot down at the figure of about fifty thousand persons, who are scattered among the various gay capitals of that conti- nent or the thousands of rural or lets crowded resorts rendered interesting by history, song and story. These Americans, it is estimated, are spending in Europe at the rato of one hundred millions of dollars in gold per year, and the figures are constantly increasing, as each steamer from this side gives an accession to the number of por- sons. During last month there was a series ot fraternizations between the officers of the American squadron in the harbor of Cherbourg, France, and the officers of the Russian corvette Askolt. The Russians have little friendly feeling for the English, and leas for the French, and on the occasion of the Emperor Alexander's birth- day, on the 11th of September, when, as a part of its celebration, the officers of the Askolt gave a banquet on board their vessel, they asked as guests only the officers of the American squadron, entirely ignoring Englishmon and Frenchmen. Toasts to President Johnson, the Czar and the American aud Russian navies were drunk, and every effort was made by Aloxander's falthful subjects to show their friendship for and desire for a closer alliance with the sons of Brother Jonathan. The compliment of the Russians was reciprocated by the officers of the Colo- rado, on board their vessel, two days after, by a return banquet, when similar fostive and friendly ceremonies were cbserved. somo days subsequently the officers of the Frolic entertained the officers of the Askolt on shore. Our correspondent from the capital of the Italian king- dom represents Victor Emanuel's Finance Minister as environed with difficulties, There is a large deficiency in his accounts, and to extricate himself he suggests the imposition of heavy income and other taxes, and has thereby caused great apprehension and excitement among the people. A formidable iron-clad ram for the Ttalian navy has recently been completed at a French shipyard on the river Seine, A commission of eminent engineers has been appointed by the Italian government to select a route through one of the passes of the Apen- nines for @ railroad across the peninsula from Florence to the Gulf of Venice, It is said that the titles and ac- companying decorations of some of the imperial orders of Maximilian of Mexico have lately been conferred on several eminent Italians, ‘Tho large number of twenty-one occan steamships cleared at this port on Saturday last, Of those two were for Europe, ono for Havana, two for New Orleans, one for Galveston, one for Mobile, three for Savannah, one for Charleston, one for Key West, one each for Wilming- ton, Newbern and Beaufort, N. C., and the others for different Southern and Eastern ports. s The Board of Excise will hold their last session on next Thursiay, the 12th inst, at twelve o'clock noon, and | alter that time no more licenses will be granted for ths present year, It is understood that the Governor has intimated that the Excise law must be rigorously en- forcea, A discussion on the moral influence of the theatres on the public took place at Metropolitan Hall last evening. It was evident from the tone of the discussion and the doportment of the audience that a reform in the present management of the theatres of this city is demanded. Our Tunisian visitors remained indoors yesterday, in deference to American customs. We give a short ac- countof their religion and religious observances in to- day's issue, ‘The Fifty-cighth New York Volunteer regiment ar- rived in this city yesterday, from Bridgeport and Steven- son, Alabama. This regiment, which now numbers twenty-nine officers and five hundred and sixty-eight men, algo includes the Forty-fifth New York, which was some time ago consolidated with tt. A German pedler, named Richard Marschall, was arrested in this city on Saturday night, on charge of having been imuplicated In a murder committed a fiw weeks ago in Pittaburg, Pa., for which place he was yes- terday staried, in charge of an officer. A government bonded warehouse on Dickerson street wharf, Philadelphia, was destroyed by fire yesterday, entailing a loss of ninety-six thousand dollars, The colored citizens of the State of Wisconsin meet in the city of Milwaukee to-day for the purpose, a8 the call states, “of taking into consideration the most practicable means to secure a fair and impartial expression of the voters at the coming fall election for the amendment to the constitution granting to all men the right of suffrage, irrespective of color.” Afreight train qnd a passenger train on the Grand ‘Tronk Railway of Canada collided on Friday morning jet in @ heavy fog, near Stratford, instantly killing one person and geriously injuring several others and smash- ing both engines and « number of the cars, Growiixa Over THe Loss or tHe Party Foxp.—The republican politicians over in the City of Churches are in a wonderful state of excitement over the stoppage of the assess- ments in the Navy Yard, They had made their calculations upon collecting twenty thousand dollars from the employes, to nse in the pre- sent campaign. Admiral Bell’s veto has spoilt their calculations, and they are ranning around trying to get the order countermanded or the Admiral removed. It is reported that a com- mittee called upon Senator Morgan yesterday requesting him to have the order rescinded ; but it is said that he endorsed Admiral Bell’s course and refused to have anything to do with it. As the last resort the disappointed Brook- lyn politicians have appointed a committee to wait upon Secretary Seward, in hopes of ac- complishing something in that way. Why not call upon Thurlow Weed? We supposed that he was the man who looked after the financial arrangements of the party, assessments. &e., five per cent included. There ise decided tempest in the teapot over this unexpected order ; but the Admiral is immovable. Never having been 8 politician, but @ practical sailor, the squirm- ing of the politicians no doubt affords him , wreat amusemens NEW YORK AERALD, MONDAY; <UUTOBER. 9, The Campaign in New York—The Repub- Means Frightoned. N The democracy of Now York, on their new platform in support of Andy Johnson’s admin- istration, are crowding the republicans to the wall. They are uneasy and evidently appre- hensive of defeat. Perceiving their danger, however, they are making the necossary ar- rangements for a vigorous fight. They cannot afford to lose New York this fall, and they know it, To save it they realize the necessity of active work. John Van Buren has pretty thoroughly waked them up. Accordingly they have determined to’ open the campaign this week with vigor, right and left. Hon. H. J. Raymond and General Martindale will open fire at Tweddle Hall, Albany, on Wednesday. General Barlow, within a few days, will also take the field, and he will be supported ina stumping tour by that famous Massachusetts radical, Senator Wilson. What is it that brings Senator Wilson at this juncture from Massachusetts toNew York? He has doubtless been sent for, as a leading aboli- tion radical, to repair the damages done here among the brethren by Weed and Greeley, and especially by the disaffected and whimpering Greeley. It will be, we presume, the mission of Senator Wilson to show that the case is not so bad as Greeley would have his friends be- lieve ; that Andy Johnson is not so very far out of the way on negro suffrage after all ; that ap- are deceptive, and that he will come out all right in good time. ‘Phis, we guess, will be the réle of Senator Wilson. Will he succeed in it? That is another question. The New York republican managers in calling him here admit their danger and betray the point where the shoe pinches. The radical Greeley faction are disposed to be fractious and to kick out of the traces. Senator Wilson, in the character of Rarey, the horse tamer, comes with his leather straps and his winning ways to cool them down. We shall have ait interesting contest jn Now York. The issue from the action of the De- mocratic and Republican Conventions is nar- rowed down to this single point—which party in this State is best entitled to be considered the administration party? Both parties endorse + the President’s policy, from Virginia to Mexico. The people of all parties respond “ Amen!” They appreciate the wisdom of Mr. Johnson’s plan of Southern reconstruction; they feel that in laboring to re-establish the Southern States as soon as possible fully in the Union, and to get them fairly to work again in the production of their great commercial staples, President Johnson is pursuing the only policy for our financial salvation. Without the help ofthe Southern States we cannot sustain the heavy load of our national debt, and the heavy taxes and high prices which it entails upon the country. The question is, shall we bear this national burthen, like England, or scatter it to the winds like the assignats of the first French republic? It is apparent, too, that unless the American people are soon con- vinced, by satisfactory resul's, that this national debt is diminishing, and will within a reason- able time be paid, thers will be a popular reaction and a financial cgllapse. Hence, of all things, our first necessity is the powerful financial assistance of the Southern States as soon as possible, and hence the necessity of strengthening President Jobnson in his work of getting the Southern States on their legs again. Herein lies the great secret of the popularity North of his Southern restoration policy. Negro suffrage can wait;e but we want at once all the cotton, tobacco, rice, sugar, tar, pitch, turpentine, &c., that the Southern States can produce to help us in lightening this burthen of our national debt. Which party, then, in New York shali the people sustain as the party most closely identified with President Johnson’s platform? The war is over, the business of a reparation of its damages is upon us, President Johnson has buckled himself manfully to the work, the peo- ple are with him; but which is the genuine Johnson party in New York? Both parties en- dorse him for the present; but John Van Buren, in behalf of the washed and purified New York democracy, goes a step farther. He goes for another Presidential term to Andy Johnson, as the champion of democratic prin- ciples. This is the test question. We must call, therefore, upon the New York republicans to walk up to this test and face the music. Is Mr. Seward in favor of Andy John- son for the successon? If so, he has only to give the hint to his good man Thurlow Weed in order to bring out the little Master Ray- mond, Is Senator Wilson a believer in the Van Buren doctrine of a second term to Andy Johnson? Doubtful. We fear that he is in the same boat with Chaso, Greeley, Beecher and Fred Douglass. But still the alternative is pre- sented of meeting the bid of John Van Buren, or of losing the State of New York. The crisis of life or death to the republican party is close at hand. It bas, with the suppression of the re- bellion and the extinction of slavery, done its appointed work; it hangs loosely together, and with a télling blow in New York it will fall to pieces. Are the republicans of this State pre- pared to meet the bid of John Van Buren? Upon that question hangs the balance of power. If yea, they may survive and prepare for a new lease of power ; if nay, they must | clear the track for Andrew Johnson and the enthusiastic and hungry democracy. Tae Awmpassapors ynom Tuxis—THe Ot Wortp axp THe New.—For a few days past several stout-looking, dark-faced gentlemen, wearing little red caps, looking the very pic- tures of imperturbable satisfaction, have been driven in carriages up and down our main streets, These are our visitors from Tunis, ambassadors from Africa, come to congratulate us on the return of peace, and to utter their 1865. than they were in the days when Carthage poured out her innumerable armies, circulated her stamped curreney and made human sacri- fices to the Supreme Governor of the Universe. They find the differences before thom of the re- sults of different systems of civilization, of their application in the Old World and in the New, and they can see the contrast. In a small way even this embassy, this mere visit to a free country of two or three men, has its tendency to let light into a country like Tunis, These men seem to have observed with some interest the progress of our war, and to observe now with much intelligence the condi- tion of our people. They receive many pre- sents—specimens of American industry and in- vention—and these they will carry home, and each will doubtless have its little effect in spreading the ideas and thoughts of our people in that country. This, perhaps, is very little; but it makes our name our greatness more known in that early home of the human race; and if more intimate relations should grow out of the visit such an association must have its influence in elevating somewhat a people who need elevation certainly as much as any popu- lation thronghout the Old World. The Squabbles of the Theatrical Man- agers. The eleven unfortunate associated managers, led by Oily Gammon, of the Opera, and Joyce Heth in breeches, of the Museum, are getting deeper and deeper into trouble. Their associa- tion was originally formed to reduce the wages of their musicians, and in order to accomplish this one of the managers sagely proposed to abolish orchestras altogether and substitute hand organs. But of late the original idea of the association has been largely extended, and the eleven foolish managers now undertake to control the press, regulate the whole theatrical profession and bully the bill-posters. The re- sull of ail this is that the actors and other em- ployes of the theatres cSiider that the man- agers have associated together t@ make a strike against them, and they are now preparing to strike back by organizing an actors’ protec- tive society upon a grand scale. That there is a great deal of justice in the view which the actors take of the managers’ aesociation must be admitted. The other day an bonest bill-poster was called up before the associated managers and ordered to refuse to post bills for all places of amusement not re- presented in the combination. The bill-poster declined to succumb; told the managers to go to the place which Mr. Henry Ward Beecher declares does not exist, and was immediately dismissed. The actors are by no means certain that their tarn will not come next. The asso- ciation may reduce their salaries at a moment’s notice, or it may dictate to them at what theatres they must or must not appear, or it may decide what line of parts each player shall adopt, or it may abolish all distinctions between what are technically called lines of business, and make everybody play “general utility.” Having so far exceeded its original plan, there is no telling with what the association may next attempt to interfere; and at present the actors have no redress if the blow be aimed at them. Hence the necessity for a protective society. Already loud complaints are made of petty outrages on the part of the managers. It seems that a poor ballet girl left a Bowery theatre and engaged at a Broadway theatre, her wages being advanced from five dollars a week to twelve, The Bowery manager de- manded her back, and, under a rule of the association, the poor girl had to go, thus losing seven dollars a week and all chances of rising in her profession. Another instance is that of an actor who went from an up-towa theatre to one lower down, on the promise of better wages and a better position. He, teo, was de- manded back and given up, like a fugitive slave. Other artists have been fairly driven out of the city, and others stitt have been semi- officially notified that they cannot appear on Broadway, because they have offended the asso- ciation in some manner er other. * What with their differences wifh the press, their squabbles with the bill-posters, their diminished andiences and the storm brewing be ween them and their employes, the man- agers are already pretty thoroughly disgusted with the leadership of Oily Gammon and Joyce Heth in breeches. At every step they become more involved in difficulties. The weekly press, formerly so subservient, has now turned against them, and, with a refinement of cruelty of which we are fortunately incapable, it shows up the characters of Joyce Heth and Oily Gammon in the most vigorous and uncharitable style. Bhe daily press is begining to assert its independence, and criticises plays recently produced by one of the associated man- agers as “disgusting,” “filthy,” “beastly” and “anspeakably revolting.” Several new thea- tres are in contemplation or in process of erec- tion to supersede the present effete concerns and completely reform the drama. The public no longer hesitate to hiss bad actors and sing- ers, The unknown artists lately imported for the Opera do not even compare favorably with Kellogg, and nobody ever thought her a first class vocalist, worthy to be mentioned in the same breath with Grisi or Malibran. Instead of the flourishes which we expected, the orgins of the managers’ association print column after column of apologies, explanations and excuses, This singer did not appear; that singer had a bad cold; the other singer was nervous, and the rest will do beter in other rélea, and so on to the end of the chapter. There is a great deal of damning with faint praise, but no enthusi- asm, although the organs are paid to get it up. All these things have a bad look for the eleven foolish managers. We must confess that our amusement at their silly conduct is not unmin- gled with pity for their misfortunes. They have a hard winter before them; everything is dear, condolence in bereavement that struck down the léader of the people. All the way from the neighborhood of Car- thage—trom the land that was subject to that great free city, subject to Rome, subject to the Vandals, subject to the Greek empire, to the Caliphs, to Spain, to the Sultan—from a land with ali these strange vicissitudes in its history— these visitors come to look upon the success of free government ina new world. Ina new world | that was as yet undiscovered, whose existence was not even guessed at, when in tLeir native land the problems of human destiny had been’ fought over for ages. And in this new world all is light and life; the people are free, pros, perons and comparatively happy; and in that from which they come, after the experiments, the efforts, the wars for ages of different races of men, the people are hardly in a better con- dition, socially, jatelleotually or polidcglly, © and their expenses are very heavy; they have cut themselves off from the great body of the | public, who respond by leaving them alone se- | verely, and now their employes are contem- | plating a rebellion. Oily Gammon and Joyce | Heth in breeches have involved their associ- | ates in all their own difficulties. The sad re- | sults of evil companionship were never more | strikingly exemplified. | Tax Necessity or Soctat, Rerorw.—The re- | cent revelations of vice and crime in this country show the necessity of a thorough re- | form, and we call upon all good men and women to go to work at once. In this city especially there is a plentiful crop of vicious weeds that need to be pulled up by the roots. The concert saloons, which produce such frauds as that of Jenkins and corrapt the morals of the tiging goueratiogs; gpme of the thanked. Waial ° dull the consciences of playgoers by the repre- sentation of the most horrible crimes or gild harlotry and seduction with gay colors to fas- cinate thoughtless youth; gambling houses and establishments of an even more vile and de- moralizing tendency—all these should be put down, and those who conduct them should be accommodated with cells in Sing Sing. The war seems to have developed the worst passions of men, and it has brought all the scum of American life to the surface. Now ig the time to reform society by suppressing such places and persons as we have mentioned; and the clergy, our religious societies and all classes of respectable people should unite together, warn the public against these fearful traps for virtue, and endeavor to bring back to socie' ies parity and morality: ‘Where Does the Union League Stand on the Political Issues of the Day? A short time since the political organization known as the “Union” or “Loyal” League was very active and a “power in the land.” Its profession of « high pressure patriotism ral- lied to its support a vast amount of wealth, intelligence and a heavy vote, and it used these in a most effective manner in strengthen- ing the hands of the government during the war as well as in the Presidential and other elec- tions, We hear little of it mow. And our Washington despatch yesterday informs us that the New York republicans (or Leaguers, we suppose,) “held a meeting at the Union League rooms in that city to discuss the propriety of visiting their respective homes to participate in the November elections,” and “that there was a sort of apathy or downheartedness mani- fested at the meeting.” i * The same apathy appears to exist here. And we are led to inquire what is the cause of this? Does the Union -League consider its mission ended? Do these soi disant patriots above all patriots think there is nothing more to be done? Or are they disgtisted with the course of events? We call upon them to show their hands, The sword fs sheathed, it is true, and we hope will never more be drawn in cfvil or sectional war in this country. But the wounds it made are not yet healed. President Johnson, as a skil- ful physician, is doing remarkably well with his patient. His wise restoration measures inspire us with hope. Still, he looks to the people for their support in and approval of what he is doing. And he naturally expecta this in the most marked manner from those who profess such intense and unalloyed loyalty as the Leaguers do. There is but one way to close up the war, to restore peace and harmony to the country, to give confidence im the future, to bring stabil- ity and prosperity out of our embarrassing financial situation, and to come back again safely to specio payments and our normal con- dition anterior to the war; arid that is by the conciliating, constitutional and firm course of the President. Are the Union Leaguers for this? We want to avoid party political agita- tions until the country is fully restored and working harmoniously, as in former times. We need quiet, in order that the people, hav- ing their minds divested of all distractions, may go to work in developing our resources and in creating wealth to meet the burden of the debt. Unless we have this there will be danger of the most fearful financial crisis. If political agitators should be able to keep the country disturbed about their negro suffrage theories and by hostility to the adminis- tration there would be reason to fear that the currency and government securities would decline until they would become as worthless as the paper money of revolutionary France, specie payments would be put off to an indefi- nite and remote period, or there would be a general crash and wiping out of all financial obligations, This is by no means an exagger- ated or improbable state of things under such circumstances. We have only to look at barometer in’ Wall street to perceive the tru! of these remarks. Gold is ready to leap up at the least rumor in the air er apprehended dif- ficulty. It does not go down even with our present hopeful prospects, and seems to stand waiting the result of events. No one can be so dull ag not to see what would be the conse- quence of continued agitation. To avoid this, therefore, the President must be sustained in his healthful, quieting measures; and as it will take to accomplish what he is working at so well a longer period than his~ present term of office he should be the candidate of all con- servative parties in 1868 Indeed, to give greater assurance and stability im our political and financial affairs he should be taken up at once. What does the Union League say? Is it for Andy Johnson’s restoration policy heart- ily and without mental reservation? Will it declare that, for the peace and welfare of the country, Andy Johnson ought to hold the reins of government a second term? Now is the time for the League to speak. The election in this State will be the test. Loyalty to the Presi- dent and his policy will be regarded by the masses of the people as loyalty to the country. Let us hear from the Union League—if it still lives—what position it takes in the State elec- tion and with regard to the President. Increase in American Cotton Manufactures. Among the resources of the South which the war developed was the extent of its ability to manufacture domestic goods for home con- sumption. Being compelled to manufacture its own clothing for its armies and people, new factories were erected, and although, of course, not so perfect as the New England esteblish- ments, they were still a great improvement upon those that existed before the war. The immense water power existing in nearly all parts of the Southern country has now been pretty well developed, and it is open to all enterprising capitalists who are seeking op- portunities for investments in manufactures. The fact of having the raw material near at hand is one advantage the South has over the factories of New England and Europe. It is only the procuring of operatives that makes the question of a rapid and extensive increase in the manufacturing business of the South at all one of conjecture. But this difficulty will no doubt arrange itself ag soon as the strength of foreign and Northew immigration is felt, and the negro population are made to comprehend that they must labor or perish. But while the manufacturing futerests of the South present such auspicious indications for the fatare, it is only necessary for the intelli- gent observer to look at the present condition of the New England manufuctories to satiefy him also of their wonderful and increasing prosperity. The manufacturing power and re. Great sousoes of thy Squps and tho igmeney and well | Tavdloped power of the North combined, and the bulk of the cotton fabrics for the use of the world can be manufastured here. Al- ready’ able to feed the world, the United States, now iat 2 happy state of peace, is amply compe- tent fo els the it. We see the great New Eng- land manus. cturing establishments beginning to deplete som” of the manufacturing districts of Old England by ® demand for operatives. Vessels are continua ly coming over filled with passengers of this clam, The revolution that England bas most to fous’ 9rises at this time as much from the imponding* 1088 of her factory, operatives as from almost any Other cause. Our New England manufactuvess, no that the war fs over, are not able to fill the orders they receive from merchants all over the country. The mills are running night and day, but, being short handed, cannot do full work. One establish- ment, capable of running one hundred thousand spindles, is only able, for the want of help, to run over forty thousand. Operatives labor from fifteen to twenty hours out of the twenty-four in most of the New England factories, receiv- ing dends New England corporations are enormous—equal to any of the oil companies in their palmy days. Thirteen to elghteen and twenty per cent on capitals of from two to three millions are nothing uncommon, leaving @ surplus furfl of a million or two for running capital. The oil wells now-a-days are the cot- ton mills, and more than one extensive operator in the former are now investing largely in Eastern manufactories. The cotton manufac- turers calculate upon a continuance of the present high tariff on account of the national war debt, and upon prices keeping up; and the erp of cotton promising to be all they want, they do not hesitate to enlarge their mills and extend their operations to the ut- most extent the supply of physical force will warrant, The days of cotton manufacturing were never more flourishing, nor the court of Queen Calico ever more dazzling and gay than at present, fe ae Mozart Hall, Tammany and the City Factions. The Mozart Hall organization and the Gunther faction have come out with their manifesto in reference to the local contest, and made a portion of their nominations for the November election, They have exhibited in their manifestoes a fondness for “glittering generalities” and high-sounding phrases, as if, by this mode, they could cover up their past deeds and the bargain and sale which have heretofore been the proverbial mode of tactica of these factions. They almost entirely ignore reference to the questions of national interest, no doubt considering this the most feasible way of covering up their pagt copperhead, anti-war, anti-Union and secesh record, while ‘their pretensions about local reform are like “Satan rebuking sin.” We imagine, however, that this effort to galvanize themselves, by adopting the pretended garb of respectability, will deceive no one—not even: themselves. The Tammany organization—which is the regular democratic party in this city—has thus far been silent, Theré have been many sounds of preparation, and numerous promises by its leaders and organs; but thus far no official order has been promulgated or expe- sition made of its position on the ques tions now at issue. Election day is fast spproaching; and if Tammany expects to maintain its position as the party of the de- mocracy immediate steps should be taken and the position of the organization formally pro- mulgated. This election is the tarning period in the politics of this country, State and city. More than ordinary questions are at stake, aafl if the Tammany organization does not move at ence, and that, too, with properly efforts, it will lose its present power, and be- come a weak minority, instead of the regular party of the city. The Tammany representa- tives, therefore, should immediately assemble and issue their address to the people, laying down their creed on the all-important question of reconstruction of the country. As yet no steps have been taken toward endorsing the Albany platform and ticket. Silence has char- acterized their action in regard to the policy of President Johnson since the adjournment of the State Convention. This will not answer. The present is the period of bold and unequiv- ocating platforms, not only om national, but State and city affairs, Nothing else will an- swer under the new political régime. Tammany has the position and power, as the recognized regular organization, to make a re- cord that will give tone to the democracy of the city, State and Union. But its voice should be immediately heard. A meet- ing should be held without delay, An- drew Johnson’s policy in all particulars approved without any quibbles, bold measures taken to inaugurate reform in the cityand State governments, and such steps adopted in regard. to national finances as will strengthen the hands of the government, increase public con- fidence, that reorganization of the South, re-~ turn to a specie basis and reform may keep pace with each other, and all brought to an early consummation. There should be no de- lay n nominating the ticket. If there is the public will consider that the delay is: gor the pugpose of bargain and sale with the outside factions—the great evil which we have been laboring under in the past and the cause ofall the corruption at the City Hall. The election in No- vember will have important bearings upen the charter election in December. It is, therefore, essential that Tammany, in the nominations for legislative, county and judicial officers, should put the best foot forward, or a repetition of the result of two years ago may follow, when the people, disgusted at the bargain and sale in November, repudiated Tammany at the charter election. Tammany Hall must nominate a clean ticket, refuse to touch any of those candidates trotted out by the Mozart and Gun- ther factions, and go before the public on its own men and platform. In the adoption of this course that organization may be able to wield an all-potent influence by becoming the exponent of the people of this commercial metropolis of the nation on all the questions which agitate the political world, including the reconstruction of States and the finances of the country, which are wedded and inter woven together. Is Tammany todo its duty? Rese. Geverats iN Private Lire—The rebel generals, like our federal soldiers, are dropping quietly back into civil life. General Lee has just been installed, with great humil~ ity and no show or ostentation, as President of Washington College, at Lexington, Va. General Jolnston sought for the presidency of a rail- toad, end, baving fajled to obtain it for come y for extra hours’ work. The divi-