The New York Herald Newspaper, October 13, 1865, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD.| JAMES GORDON BESNEPT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OPFIOR N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ' gRoapWaY THEATRE, Broadway.—Sau. SRE eae aeons 8 c ? DODWORTH HALL, Broadway.—Bump Tom's Puaxo VANNUCHI'S MUSEUM, @00 Broadway.—Movine New York, Friday, October 13, 1865, THE NEWS. PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION. Prestdent Johnson yesterday issued a proclamation or- @oring the cessation of martial law in the State of Ken- ‘uoky, where it has existed since the 6th of July, 1864, it ‘Weing established by a proclamation issued at that time by President Lincoln, for the purpose of onabling the national authorities to suppress disloyal combinations in the State, and to prevent incarsions of insurgent bands from withoat. ARMY REORGANIZATION. General Grant bas commenced the wong of reorgan- izing the army and reducing it to the diminished proportions necessary in time of peace. In a general order issued by bim, which we publish this morn- ing, be makes various assignments and distributions Of differout organizations, and directs the discharge ; from service of others, All the volunteer cavairy ; east of the Mississippi river are to be forthwith mustered out, and ail the seacoast forts south of Fortress Monroe, . excepting Forts Taylor and Jefforson, Florida, are to be 2 " garrisoned by colored troops. All the other colored troops are to be mustered out of service as fast as they can be dispensed with, TRIAL OF WIRZ. ‘The Wiz trial, which waa adjourned over from last Suturday, was resumed yesterday. Counsel for the de- Jenee read two letters written by Wirz to ‘his superior olticer woile he had charge of the Andersonville prison, representing the miserable condition of the prisoners in regard to food and clothing, and requesting that he might ‘be allowed to take measures for tho alleviation of their salferings. Judge Advocate Chipman objected to these documents being received as evidence; but the court overruled the objection. Mr. Baker, one of Wirz’s coun- sel, reqnested that all the remaining testimony for the Prosecution should be put in at once, so that the evi. deuce for the defence might then be proceeded with without interruption. This was not acceded to, the right Deing veservod to examine witnesses for the govern auent “hevever it may be practicable to secure thetr at- tendance. F. G. Ruflin, who was a lieutenant colonel in the rebeb service, connected with the Commissary Department, and stationed near Richmond, was then called for the defence, and stated that there was a deficiency of com- missary supplies in the rebel military establishment, and # scarcity of provisions in the South generally, during the greater part of the ime that the war lasted., & B. French and G. W. Proctor, majors, und J. W. Armstrong, captain, likewise of the rebel Commissary Department, also testified to the scarcity of supplies aud the inede- quacy of transportation, The lattor said that the rations xiven out at Andersonville were very unwholesome, and hhad been condemned by several boards of survey, nnd that Wirz had remonstrated against their quality. These ‘witnedges and others asserted that they had never huown of the death of any of the prisouets from Deng beaten, kicked or shot. by Wirz. Some addi- tional testimony was taken to show that Wirz was sick and absent from the prison during a con- siderable portion of the summer of 1864, and conse- quentiy not responsible for the sufferings of the prison. eva during that time. Dr. Bates and R. H. Kellogs, who bad been previously examined for the prosecution, were eatled for the defence. The former testified to the Kearcity of medicines in the prison hospital, and said Abat in consequence of the filthy condition of the stock- ude, the imperfect commissariat and the exposure to which the men were subjected, they were fearfully liable 1o disease, and that owing to their vitiated physical con- dition the slightest abrasion of the skin would result in gangrene, followed by the loss of limbs or death. Mr Kellogg testified that Wirz had the reputation of being Drutal, profane and insulting to the prisoners, and, though he bad never seen any of thei shot, beaten or kicked to death by the accused, he could not say thot such things had not been done. He had seen large num bers of newly arrived !prisoners robbed and stripped of nearly all their clothes. Other witnesses were examined, but presented no ad- ditional statements of importance. The commission will be in session again to-day. MISCELLANEOUS. Ry the arrival here yesterday of the steamship Colum- ‘bin, from Havana on the 7th inst., we were furnished ‘with ur city of Mexico correspondence to the 30th nit, ‘Tio imperialists were rejoicing o the removal of President Juarez and bis goverament from Chiluelua to El Paso, and had also the absurd story whieh hax been cireulated in this country, to the effect that Juarez ad deserted his country and gone to Santa Fe, in the United States Territory of New Mexico. Maximilian’s adherents, however, were forced to acknowledge that the republican govern. ‘Ment was in a much better porition to sustain itself at Fi Paso than at Chibaahus, that there would be much difficulty in dislodging it from the former place, and that Jauren has there an immense tract of country and great re- tourees at his disposal, Severai recent small victories over ‘the republicans are claimed by the imperialists; but still Kuerillas swarm on all the highways running out of the eupital, and order seems tobe no nearer being established 4m the country than when Lonis Napoleon and Maximi- Nan commenced their work of regeneration. The Em- perur’s court had gone into mourning for a week in consequence of the death of the Grand Duchess of Baden. Liontenant Maury, formerly of the Washington Obrerva- tory, and who figured during our late war as a noisy werventific rebel, has beer naturalized in Mexico and be- ome ® subject of Maximilian. Reports from the island of St. Thomas, West Indies, the place of exile of Santa Anna, say that that Mexican veteran is recruiting forces for Juarez. The steamship Columbia also brought us some later §ntelligence from the two adjoining insular republics of Hayti and 3t. Domingo. In the former, in addition to the republican revolution against President Gefirard, an attempt had been made to get up in Port au Prince ono of an imperial character, in the interest of the ex.Em.- peror Soulouque; but from the meagre accounts fur. tunhed we are led to infer that it was frustrated. In St. Domingo, the people being at leat rid of the Spanish invaders, President Cabra) and his effcers were busily engaged in reorganizing thegovernment and attempting to eatablinh order. ‘The election in Virginia i# reported to have passed off quictly yeuterday. It is believed that the Union candi- dates for Congross are elected in the First, Second, Third ‘and Fourth districts, There is nothing definite from the other Congressional districts. The Third district includes dhe city of Rithmond. Mississippi despatches announce that Mr. Benjamin G. ‘Humphreys, tho Governor elect of that State, has Deon pardoned by the Prosident, and is therefore quali- fed to mesume the duties of the office. The returns received up to yesterday gave him a majority over Judge Fisher of five thousand votes, The guerillas are resum- ing their outlawry and robbery in Mississipp! with fn- creased vigor. General Steedman, commanding in Georgia, has directed the suspension of aj] military orders relating to Comitracts between individuals, except those which inte- feat freedmen, or determine the right to property of any @xoept that belonging to or claimed by the govern. ont, and atiny officers are prohibited hereafter adjadi- cating Conflicting contracts or questions of claims to pro- poerty, Unless meceseary in order to protect the govern- ‘mont’s right, = ‘the committee appoinicd by the South Garolina Con- VoUtion Lo Intarpede for Jeff, Davia veaterday had an ia- deeply indebted to many officers, but more especially to of doubt,”’ said Sherman, “was in your knowledge of grand strategy and of books of science, and history; ‘Dut I confess your common sense seems to have sup- plied all these.”” State Comptroller Robinson bas issued a circular giving notice to the people that they are to decide at the No- vember election whether the bonds issued for bounties im accordance with the acts of the last Legislature shall ‘be paid at once by a special tax or shall become a debt payable in twelve years, with seven per cent interest. Some interesting facts and figures are also supplied by ‘this circular, The present debt of this State, including canal and general fund debt, but excluding the bounty bonds, is $25,634,539, it having been reduced nearly eight millions of dollars since 1860. The total amount of the bounty bonds is estimated at twenty-six millions: of dollars. ‘he aggregate value of the reafand personal property of the State is put down at $1,550,879, 686. A meeting of the Board of Counciimen was to have been held yesterday; but, a quorum not being present at the appointed hour, an adjournment to Monday next was ordored. In the Harris divorce case at New London on Wednes- day aad yesterday some very strong testimony in favor of Mrs. Harris was introduced, evidence being taken to show that many of her alleged improprietics had their origin in the jealous hate of the husband. Mr. Maurice Bacon, who was implicated as.@ lover of Mrs. Harris by the testimony of Margaret Drudy, explicitly denied every statement of that witness, and added that he had been competled to dismiss the girl when in his employ on suspicion of theft. He swore that he was never alone with Mrs, Harrisin his hfe. Mrs. Hannah Brown, the mother of Mrs, Harris, testified as to the unkind treat- ment and jealous conduct of Mr. Harris. His manner to his wife and children had always been coid and repul- sive, and she had never seen him kiss the latter. Mr. Frederick Miner testified relative to his relations to the Barris family, and denied that Mrs. Harris had ever acted or been treated in his presence in any way other than bo- came a lady, Miss Helen Lawton explained thg conduct of Mrs, Harris on the occasion of her forcible removal from Mr. Rickelson’s room in the Metropolitan Hotel by Mr. Thompson, and stated that she was with her during the whole time, and that her conduct was perfectly proper and ladylike. “A letter from Mrs, Major Williams, dated as late as June, 1865, and revoaling the close intimacy exist. ing between thé two families, was introduced. Mrs. Harris was then placed on the stand, and gave a clear and con- nected statomentof her difficulties and the abuse which she said she had endured from her husband. Her evi- dence was highly interestng. A letter from Mrs. Harris to Samnel G. Courtney, son-in-law of Hon. Daniel 8. Dickinson, which was intercepted by Mr Harris, and held to b= evidence against her, was introduced by Mrs. Harris aud admitted as evidence, with the design of showing the unwarrantable jealousy of the husband. Mrs. Ann Lozier, a lady who suffered the loss of a leg by reason of injuries received through th e carelessness of adriver while getting into one of the Knickerbocker stages in Broadway, got a verdict of four thonsand dol lara against the company yosterday in an action in the Supreme Court. ‘Two actions for libel have been brought in the Court of Common Pleas, in this city, by Henry B. Dawson, editor of the new edition of the Fedrralist, against John Jay, well known as.@ writer on political and other sub- jects, the alleged libel being contained in two letters written to a newspaper in which the defendant com- mented on views expressed by Mr. Dawson in his intro- duction to the publication mentioned. Damages in the first case are laid at ten thousand dollars, and in the second case at fifty thousand dollars. Yesterday the matior was before Judge Curdozo, of the Common Pleas, ona motion of Mr. Jay’s counsel to dismiss the com- plaint, At was argued at length by counsel on both sides, and the Judge's decision was reserved. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday John Brown, a noted pickpocket, waa convicted of stealing & gold watch from James T. Walker, of Vaimyra, while riding in a University place railroad car, on the 30th of September. The Recorder sent him to the State Prison for five years. Wm, Mulligan was found guilty of grand larceny, in stealing one hundred and sixty dollars from Janes Masters, while he was asieep in a drinking safoon, corner of Forty-second street and Eleventh avenue. Edward Neilan, against whom Thomas Shandley prefer. | red a charge of robbery, was convicted of assault and | battery. There was ill feeling between the parties, and while at the corner of Fifteenth street and First avenve Shandley was attacked by the prisoner and others, durmg which time he lost his watch. These prison- ers were remanded for sentence. Rose A. Martin, keeper of a restaurant in Catharine slip, who was charged with taking one hundred dollars from John Hen- nessy, was promptly acquitted, the testimony of the complainant being uncertam, and she proving by very Tespectable witnesses an unblemished reputation, Wil- liam Haring, charged with stealing sixty dollars’ worth of clothing from Patrick Dowling, in Baxter street, was also acquitted, Aasistant District Attorney Hutchings having abandoned the case. The third annual fall race meeting of the Passaic Agri cultural Association closed at Pateraon yesterday after. | noon, and a more successful and satisfactory meeting never took place at the North. Five races were run yes- terday, every one being closely contested throughout, the last boing the most brilliant of them all. This was amiloand a quarter dash by Throgsneck, Lord Mon- mouth, Climax and Aldebaran, the former winning after a hard straggle. ‘The Surrogate’s Court was yesterday occupied with the trial of five thousand dollars against of Kentucky. The assets are sworn at two hundred thou- ‘od dollars. “The counsel for Harriet E. Christy, claiming to have deen the only lawfal wife of the late Rdwin P. Christy, of negro minstrel celebrity, yesterday filed in the Surro- gate’s Court the petition of that lady, in which she prays to have the former detree set aside, and that letters of administration on the estate of Mr. Christy may be granted to her. ‘The sessions of the Episcopalian Convention in Phila- dolphia were resumed yesterday, after e vacation of one day. In tho Bouse of Delegates, some miscellancous subjects received attention, and then the rogular order, the acceptance by the House of Bishops of Bishop Wil- mer as the regular prosiding eoclesiastic of the diocese of Alabama, was taken up. Another long discussion on ‘the matter took place, and finally it was agreed, with bat one dissenting vote, to consent to Dr. Wilmer continuing to nct in bis present position after he shall have fur- nished full evidence and particulars of his consecration, and promised to conform to the present rules and canons of the Church, This in effect is © non-concurrence with the House of Bishops, and places Dr. Wilmer om tempo- rary probation, A resolution was adopted dividing Pennsylvania into two dioceses, In today's paper we givo the oficial cireular of the Fenian authorities calling a congress of the fraternity 10 this country. The council, after about a woek's session, during which the most important matters to the organi#a- tion wero acted upon, adjourned to meet again alter the gosaion of the Phitedetphia Congresa | hamism,” Pennsylvania “Jerry Black Bnchan- ‘Tho taland of ante Crus, in the West Indies, has re- cently been visited by a severe earthquake, which pros- trated many buildings, but, eo far as. we have learned, caused no logs of life, The shock of the same earthquake ‘was felt in St. Domingo. Some of the West India islands have also ately been visited py a severe hurricane. ‘The stock market was strong yesterday morning, but Decame heavy in the afternoon. Government securities Were strong but quiet. Gold was steady and closed at 15H. ‘There was a rather more buoyant feeling in com- morcial circles yesterday, yet business was still circum: ‘scribed. ‘As a general thing higher prices were de- manded for both foreign and domesci¢ merchandise; bat the enhanced views of holders in many cases checked transactions, Groceries were steady. Cotton was firm. Petroleum was quiet. On 'Change flour was tofair de- mand and higher. Wheat was excited and higher. Coro was doll and lower, Oats were higher, under a firm inquiry. Rye wasa shade firmer. Malt and barley were without decided change, Provisions were generally steady. Whiskey was in fair demand and firm. The Late Elections—The Reel Test in New York in November. The recent State elections, though not amounting to much, are still very suggestive as indicating the drift of public opinion. The ruling popular idea in all of them was adhe- sion to the policy and the party of Andrew Johnson’s administration. Iu this view the charter election in Newark, New Jersey, is very significant, That city, upon @ pretty heavy vote, has been lost by the democrats for the first time in half a dozen years, and by a handsome majority the other way. How are we to account for this? The answer that the democrats were divided or stayed away from the polls will not do. John B. Haskin has doubtless given the true explanation in his letter on the Albany platform, in which he says he made it @ special purpose to weed out the “Cam- den and Amboy Rip Van Winkleism” of the New Jersey democracy. In other words, the Jersey democracy of 1865 are asleep and still stand upon the exploded copperhead fallacies and rubbish of 1864, making the support of President Johnson’s Southern restoration policy only a convenient tail to the old party kite. But the Newark election shows that the day for the running of the old party machine has gone by even in Jersey. The democrats in Pennsylvania were de- feated by their folly in still adhering to their old copperhead leaders, or to what the finisher of the Albany platform describes as the “Jerry Black Buchananism of Pennsylvania.” The party there had a fine chance on a new line of departure to carry the State ; for, between the the radical howlings of Thaddeus Stevens and the negro suffrage whinings of Horace Greeley, the republicans had become embarrassed, apa- thetic and indifferent. But they stoutly ad- hered to Andrew Johnson and repudiated the negro suffrage test of Greeley, and so they have carried the State against the defunct is- sues of old Mr. Buchanan and his man Jerry Black. In Ohio the immediate and unconditional negro suffrage radicals were defeated in the Republican State Convention by the soldier delegates from the war. They rejected the radical shibboleth on the suffrage question, and their candidate—General Cox—empbatically declared himself in favor of the policy of Andy Johnson. The democrats, on the other hand, were hampered with what Haskin rejected as | “Ohio Vallandighamism,” and so they hove been rebuked aguin with Vallandigham. In Obio, a8 in Pennsylvania, we see that the con- | trolling popular idea is the same—the support j of President Johnson. But how is it in New York? Here the de- mocracy have really taken a new departure, Old things have been cast away by them, and ; ail things have become new, including a new platform and a new style of a State ticket. Judge Haskin, the chairmon on the platform, has told the world plumply that he believed the time had come for the rejection of all such stuff and cumbersome trumpery os “Ohio Vallandig- 1 | } anism” and New Jersey “Camden and Amboy Rip Van Winkleism.” All such rubbish was accordingly cut out of ihe Albany democratic platform, and the party in this State was firmly planted on the piatform of President Jobnson, | and there it stands to-day. Nor is this all. John Van Buren—one of the | democratic State ticket—has unequivocally, as a democrat, proclaimed Andrew Johnson his candidate for the next Presidency, and the supporters ef Van Buren second the motion. Thus the New York democracy stand in a much better position than the party in any other State. The reason we have given here- tofore. It is because New York city and State are the fountain heads of all the great move- ments of the age in this country. Public opin- ion ripens and rots sooner in New York than in any other State. In this view it has been un- fortunate for the democracy elsewhere this year that the New York State election did not come off in September instead of being fixed for November. As the case now stands the New York de- mocracy have to fight against the blunders and defeats of the party in other States; but still, from the advanced position of John Van Buren, they may carry the State. In any event, as the great body of the people are with Andy Johnson, the November vote of New York will determine which party they regard ae the genuine party of the administration. Parowe or Tam Conrmperate Canivet.—We published yesterday the proclamation of Presi- dent Johnson paroling all the mombers of Jeff. Davis’ Cabinet who remain in this country, together with ex-Vice President A. H. Stephens and Governor Clark, The most strenuous ad- vocates for the release of these gentlemen wero the radicals. The organs of that faction have been urging their liberation for several weeks, and almost censuring the President for detain ing them in prison. Now that they are on their parole we shall no doubt very soon hear of their efforts in the reorganization of their respective States and in aiding the adjustment of the local interests to the new order of things. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1865. | permitted, what must take place in the concert Te i t . g es camps and hospitals of the army. of all good men have been devoted, not ee to iteelf, the ordinary safeguards of society be- ing withdrawn, crime has run riot through the land, and it at last culminated in the assassina- tion of the President by an actor who had learned his morals in the coulisses of a theatre. Now the war is over, the rebellion is sup- pressed, and President Jobnson is satisfactorily proceeding in the work of reorganization. The pulpit, the press, the religious and benevolent societigs and all good men and women should now turn their attention to reforming those evils which have gained such prominence during the past four years of terrible conflicts. In this city, the centre of the civilization of this continent, these reforms should be inaugurated. The murders, rapes, robberies and burglaries may be left to the officers of the law, upon whom we urge unusually energetic measures to detect and punish the offenders; but there are various social reforms which the pulpit, the press, the religious societies and all good men and women should at once undertake. Look at the concert saloons that infest the city, and, by some trick of legislation, are just out of the reach of our legal authorities. Look at the class of plays produced at some of our theatres, outraging decency and defying the law. See the results of the influence of these establish- ments in such cases of defalcation as those that have recently startled Wall street. These things can be reformed if the proper means be em- ployed. During the war an evening stock ex- change flourished up town, demoralizing busi- ness and business men and developing such frauds as those of Jenkins and Ketchum. As soon as the war was over we called upon the honest financiers of this city to suppress this evening exchange nuisance, and pointed out to them its deleterious influences. They listened to our words of warning, they acted upon our suggestions, and, as if by magic, the institution was abandoned and the building devoted to other purposes. If so great a reform as that could be so easily accomplished by the co-ope- ration of a single class of men, there is no reason to despuir in regard to the other and greater reforms which still remain to be achieved. We see the demoralization caused by the low state of the Opera, the drama and the concert saloons showing itself everywhere. It crops out in the courts, theatrionl cases being always relied upon as food for scandal. It is evident in society, the lessons of seduction, intrigue, roucism and harlotry learned at some of the theatres being too often carried into private life. It is on record in the police reports, the policemen discovering that the concert saloons supply them with their worst and most numer- ous subjects, and that the youth of the east side of the town are prone to imitate the perform- ances of the dramatic Jack Sheppard, Dick Turpin and Blueskin. It pervades the whole city, and justly alarms those who respect virtue and morality. If! at our bess theaires — datas actresses * SE, + Maa se exh.bit themselves in revolting plays, or ele- gently dressed men teach by example how beeutiiul women ean be seduced, what must be the condition of affuirs at our lowest mis- called places of amusement} If in the temples of the regular drama such performances are saloons? Is it not time for the press, the pul- pit, the religious societies and all good men and women to rouse themselves and call these sinners to repentance? For the sake of so- ciety and of the city, for the sake of the rising generation and of the whole country, we direct public attention to this subject. Let the reverend gentlemen who occupy our pulpits— from Mr. Henry Ward Beecher down, or up— discard politics, take their texts from the Bible instead of party platforms, and raise their elo- quent voices against the social, theatrical and other evils which now afflict the people of this city. Let the religious and benevolent societics send forth their missionaries to the managers and directors of all haunts of vice, and let them post and distribute their tracts as conspicn- ously as these men display their invitations to sin. Let all good, pious, respectable people discountenance entertainments that corrupt and enervate the mind and the morals, no mat- ter at what theatres or under whose auspices they may be presented. The press will do its part in pointing out what to avoid and in en- couraging the reforms and the reformers. From this city the good work will spread throughout the whole country; and the repub- lic, happily restored to peace and union, will also be restored to virtue and morality. Hion Prices at Tar Sovra—Tar Cavsn.— Throughout the South the present is an era of high prices, Southern ‘landlords and dealers in the necessaries of life quite outdo the modest efforts of Northern men to make their custom- ers pay much for little. Railroads in the Southern States run at the respectable figure of six cents s mile, while at the North an average of three centsa mile enables all the companies to declare good dividends. Southern hotels are run in the same high style. Our best Northern hotels are content with four dollars and a half per day, and for this their patrons are comfortably lodged, and are fed on the fat of the land—its beef, mutton, chickens, corn and cauliflower, not to mention the fat of the sea that comes in the lobster salad. At the Spottswood House, in Richmond, the wayfarer is compelled to stand and deliver at the rate of six dollars a day, which, as Wellington said of ascertain cavalry charge downhill, is “Very steep, sir.’ Other hotels in Southern cities agree with the Spottswood to charge the tra- veller ‘atl they can and give him the lesst that i if 1 : f j 5 FeEE Hite af i pae re He reer i { pride the So merely paying for their little whistle. Lire anv Deata on Tas Ferry Boats.—The other day an unfortunate man jumped off one of the Brooklyn ferry boats crossing to Fulton street, and was drowned. A humane effort was made to save him by a passenger and one of the hands of the boat with such appliances as were at command, and the result was that their own lives were placed in imminent peril by the capsizing of the miserable thing in the shape of a “death-boat,” which was supposed, in the parlance of ferry monopoly humanity, to be a lifeboat. It was only by the accident of a tug steamer passing at the moment that the vic- tims did not number three instead of one. The fact is—and it is one to be thought ot only with shuddering and horror—that the lives of nearly forty thourand people—men, women and. chil- dren—are in danger every day in crossing the Brooklyn ferries. There is a law which pro- vides that ferry boats shall be supplied with sufficient means to save life in case of acci- dents; but what do the ferry monopolies care about law? We venture to say that in case of @ passenger fulling overboard from one of the Brooklyn boats there would be no eartlily chance of saving him by any means which the ferry boat could employ. How, then, would it be in case any accident should occur by col- lision or explosion? ‘There are certain hours during the day when these boats are loaded with a freight of five hundred human beings ; and what are the appliances at hand to save any one of this precious cargo? A small, ricketty boat, capable of holding about four persons, which is tightly lashed on the upper deck, out of reach of every one except the pilot—and which, it appears from the recent disaster, it takes fully ten minutes to launch—und Yhree cylindrical tin tubes, about three feet long, also firmly lashed to the posts on the upper deck, called life preservers, one of which in the case of the late accident came so near drowning the man who got hold of it that it was only bya miracle of endurance he was saved. The authorities ought to see that there is some provision for the protection of life on the Brooklyn ferry boats. It is appalling to see some of these ‘¢onveyances leaving the New York side between five and six o’clock in the evening, and to think that the slightest acci- dent or panic might plunge hundreds of fami- lies into desolation ; for in case any such event should occur there is not the slightest chance of escape for a soulon board. The Ferry Com- pany is making ten moderate fortunes a year out of the transit between New York and Brooklyn, and it should be compelled to ex- pend something upon really useful lifeboats and life preservers. At present we doubt whether there is eyen a rope on any of the boats that might be thrown overbdard in case of accident, and we are very much disposed to think that there is not. We trust that whoever has the executive power in this matter will see | that the law is enforced. ‘Tue Enonmovs Bustsess Doxk By The Srock- nrokers.— We publish this morning the full re- turns made to the Internal Revenue officers by the stock and gold brokers in this city of their business for the year ending on the 30th of last June. The amount of sales seems almost in- credible, several of the largest houses exceed- ing one bundred and fitty millions, while the returns of all show in the aggregate the enor- mous amount of six thousand and seventy-three millions seven hundred and eight thousand eight hundred and eighteen dollars. Quite a number of the firms have only made retarns for one, two, three and five months, If the list included a full statement of all the houses for the entire year the amount of sales would exceed three times our entire national debt, The talk about such villages as Boston and Philadelphia competing with this metropolis in business is all moonshine, when one ¢lass of trade alone reveals results like these. We dare say that the tax which tliese brokers paid to the government on these sales is almost if not quite equal to the business of all the brokers in either Philadelphia or Boston during the same period. Under the Internal Revenue law of Congress the brokers are compelled to pay a tax to the government of one-tenth of one per cent on all sales of gold, and one-twentieth of one per cent on all sales of stock. Computing the tax on the basia fixed for the transactions in stocks we find that the brokers contribute to the revenue of the government three millions thirty-six thousand eight hundred and fifty-four dollars. When we take into consideration that at least one-third of the business thus reported was gold transactions, on which a tax of one-tenth of one per cent is paid, it is safe to place the receipts of the government from brokers’ sales alone atfally three millions and a half annually, which, from all indications, will increase every year. Thus it is that the working of the Internal Revenue Department is gradually bringing to light the amount of business done in this metro- polis and country. The figures presented in all departments of trade are almost astonishing. In every department—private incomes, mer- chandise, newspapers or stocks—New York so far distances all other cities that the returns from all other points do not appear hardly worth considering and are a mere bagatelle by the side of those in this metropolis, Fever anp Aave Mar or New Yors— General B. L, Viele has published a topo- eraphical and bydrographical map of New te i Ly ‘THEIB PAST AND PRESENT CONDITION- D REV. JAMES LYNCH, OF SOUTH CAROLINA, AT THB APRIGAN METHODIST CHUROH IN ‘THIS CITY., ability of the speaker actually deserved gathered in the African Methodist Episcopal church fast listen to the remarks of the Rev. James Lynch, of Carolina, who was announced to deliver an address on the condition of the freedmen of the South. Shortly ~ . i were free, But they were still in the cond! in which slavery pO.snem, 208 needed prio, tion, which could from by tee v4 were ten thousand slaves im the soa islands of South Carolina alone—ten thousand bondamen, toiling night and day on their masters’ plan- | tations, and each rece'ving for nourishment one of corn a week and not fifteen pounds of meat a year. The capture of Port Royal brought their lamenta- ble condition to the knowledge of the Unionists, who at once provided for their as well as ther physisal welfare. Fifty young men, all college gradi were at once sent to the islands, and thes», by dividi: the country into districts and establishing schools, the freedmen under the guidance of liberal and educated men. The ladies of the North followed their example, and ere long there were not two hundred children of a population of ten thousand but attended school with the ‘utmost regularity, So much more was accomplished that within a few weeks one thousand men were enlisted from ‘the mags of the former slaves and were formed into a regiment, which did good service against the rebels. Thousands who before the outbreak of the war could not sign their own names, could now both read and write. ‘The colored laborers on the docks in Savannah and at Hil- ton Head carried everywhere their spelling books in their hats, and of the Thirty-third colored regiment belonging to the regular army, the members of which were all ex- slaves, not one of whom could write his name bof inception of the stroggle, upwards of two hundred. and fifty could now make use of their pen. The freed- men in Beaufort, $. C., had in the savings bank estab- lished in that town by General Saxton no less than one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, earned by hard labor since the pees on slavery. But, continued the 5) cer, the feel ape towards the freedmen was still bitter, and had unde! no change. The majority of the Southerners still believed in the right of seceesion, aud only regret their past conduct on account of the misfortune caused by the war. They had submitted to the Union laws and to the presence of the freedmen ander protest, and would still be guilty of acts of cruelty were they not held ia restraint by the bayonets of the North. Moreover, many of the white citizens of the South were so ignorant as to be jealous of the zeal of the blacks. But there little doubt of an eventual change, and the colored p’ at least cause to thank the people of The popular blacks, and the trne patri Chartists of wor triumphant, and the colored and privileges due to fellow ‘The speaker's remarks were with marked attention, and will doubtless a larger audience, im this city for many days, has adjourned. As has been already intimated in the Henano, the most important matters were discussed and actions of vital moment do- cided on. The following is copy of the circular a4. dressed to cach centre for the purpose of calling to , at nine o’clock A. M. Each circle is entitled to one cox to an additional one where thi exceas of one hundred mombers. No proxies al od. Centres and dofegales required to havé thelr _ dentiais endorsed tag at Phi iphia~ ¥, By order of the Cen' incil. ‘ “- a mf R. ere, President C. 0. A meres joux O’Manony, . ae 0 hevagel and bien we Le it hay hed measures to represen and an immense of the Gaelic clans in the Quaker City is anticipated. The Council took other steps which will Ai the acts was themselvep at the congress, Among the a bow the following resolution regarding its late financial minister of the movement, McCarthy :— * ‘ Resolved, That, in his demise, our Council has suffered an irre} the organization its brightest orna- ment, our American citizens of Irish descent # noble example, and Ireland one of her truest, most self-sacth on the fieing and illustrious patriots. Ks engrossed After nearly a week's work the It was ordered that the foregoing be minutes of the Council. body adjourned. plece plays closer and quicker. We must again oongrat- ulate Manager Wood upon the admirable manner in which Sam is put upon the stage, The scenery is as handsome as the play requires, and the dresves are equal to the scenery. Mr. Chanfrau, tho star of the Broadway, is supported by the regular company, which has been strougthened by the engagement of Mr. vam, who makes his frat appearance in New York; Mr. Parsloe, who is the most acrobatic of actors, and gL Delille (Olive Logan), who is has, Wke oe Mr, Davenport, jnquished her star tor, which the comical in fally justify. Mr. Chanfran plas very. neatly and never overdoing his and ee el de tis sadionce He co my of Mrs, Delille, are very “ Pee priately 80, eee T charactor of the comedy, & second view of the convinces us that Mre. Delille’s facial and her awkward- } i 3 hi igF + ‘Tux Anton Coxcrwr,—The Arion gtand concert at Irving Hall on to-morrow evening. The Arions have been always successful in producing good! musical entertainments, and will no dowtt presont w choioe prograrame on this occasion. The North Carolina Bieetion. , Rawmon, N, C., Oot. 22, 1865. Gon, Howard is addressing the members of the Conven- tion anda large assemblage of citizens at the Capitol to- > Convention today was occupied in disoumsing the State debt. Sn Ot at of 1,000 bales middling at 520. o ‘ Molasses dull. Freights drm. the , i