The New York Herald Newspaper, October 16, 1865, Page 4

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Receipts of Sales of the New York Daily Newspapers. OFFICIAL. Year Ending May 1, 1865. 151,079 90,548 095,000 Times, Tribune, World and Sun combined., 971,229 THE FENIANS. The Weekly Herald. ‘The sketch of the Fenians which was published in the Heraxy of yesterday will appear in the Weexty HeraLp of this week. Ordera from agents and others should be ent in on or before Wednesday evening next. AOVERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY. Advertisements for the Wrex.y Harat.o must be han ied” im before ton o'clock every Wednesday evening. Ils cir ‘ulation among the enterprising mechanics, farmers, merchants, manufacturers and gealemen throughout the country is increasing very rapidly. Advertisements in- eortod in the Weexty Hesatp will thus be seen by a large portion of the active and energetic people of the United Slates. THE NEWS. EUROPE. Faropesn intelligence five days later was Wrought by the steamship Nova Scotian, which passed Father Poiat last evening, from Londonderry on the 6th inst. ‘The recently published list of subscribers to the rebel foan has caused quite a stir among prominent Eugltsh- mon, who are anxious to escape the odium at- taching to financial sympathy with the exploded confederacy. Several of them, including Mr. Gladstone, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Hon. Evelyn Ashley; Mr. Ridoyt, proprietor of the London Morning Post, and Mr. Laird, M. P., have rushed into the newspapers with as- sertions that they never bad any interest in snid loan. The London News styles the list “a malicious impos- tare.” @ ‘A meeting of holders of Southern State and railroad bonds and bank securities issued previous to the rebel- lion had been called to be held in London, It is said Chat if the people of the indebted States should manifest ‘8 disposition for an arrangement their English creditors would be disposed to meet thom half way. In the London money market on the 6th inst. United States five-twenty bonds wore quoted at 693, « 70. Console for money wero at 88% @ 88%. In Liverpool, on the 6th, the cotton market was excited, and cloned at an advance of from two pence to two and a half pence per pound for Ameri- can descriptions. Breadstuffs, provisions and produce had experienced no material change, but were drm. MISCELLANEOUS. The steamships Manhattan, from Vera Cruz on the Sth ‘and Havaua on the 10th inst., and the Montezuma, from Kingston, Jamaica, on the Tth ivst., arrived at this port fast night, but brought no news of particular im- The Jamaica Colonial Legislature is to weet on tho Tth of November. ‘The Legislature of Mississippi is to meet to-day, and all focal State officers elected on the 24 inst. are to be sworn in. This is the last chapter im the work of reor. ganization in Mississippi, and that State will have the honor of being the first of the late rebel confederacy to Greely become again a loyal member of the Union. The North Carolina Convention has not yet concluded ita work, and is expected to be in session for some days yot. On Saturday laat the members wero still engaged in the discussion over the State debt incurred in aid of the Febellion. A resolution requesting the President to re- move the colored troops from the State was adopted. Strong fears aro oxpressed by our Jackson corre- @pondence in reward to next year’s cotton crop in Mis- masippi. The depredations of the contending armies havo loft the fields, gin houses and other necessaries for the production of the staple in a very dilapida- fd condition, and there is also a great scarcity of the’ stock and implementa indispensable to its planting, cul- ure and preparation for market, Addod to this, the planters generally appear to lack the energy and practi- @ability requisite for proceeding with work under the new order of things, and in the matter of indolence the nogroes are disposed to imitate those who formerly were their masters, Our correspondent thinks that if the planters would set an example of industry the freedmen would not be slow in following it, a8 has been illustrated in several cases in the State where the matter has been tried. Thore isa great demand for Northern overseers, # they have much more influence with the freed negroes than Southernors, and the planters aro offering jarge parios to Northorners to suporintend their work. fouth Carolina adviees of interest are given in Bik Ciaciouva correspoudouge, Tuo glanion fur Salad Attempted, Pasty changes iy grouad Wo | aEW YORK HERALD, MUNDAY, OUTOBER 16, 1865. Charleston, has been informed of the departure for that place from Northern cities of betweea four and five hua: dred thieves and mon of that class, About forty persons, supposed to be part of this gang, have been arrested by General Bennett's orders. That portion of the recent speeoh of Treasury Secro- tary McCulloch to his fellow townsmen at Fort Wayne, Indiana, which related to our national finances appeared in yesterday's Henao, and to-day wo give his remarks regarding President Johnson and his reconstruction policy. Though the President's situation isa trying and dificult one, requiring the profoundest wisdom and the the qualities that fit him for the position. Mr. McCulloch describes Mr. Johnson as @ man of excellent judg- ment and great singleness of purpose, honest himself, and expecting honesty in others—‘‘in a word, @ clear- headed, upright, energetic, self-relying statesman, a dig- nified, courteous and kind-hearted gentleman; and, though in the work of reconstruction he bas found it necessary to use some of the leas guilty of the partici- pants in the rebollion, to the plotters of it andthose who systematically tortured and starved national soldiers the Secretary apprehends there will no hasty pardons. A survey of the political campaign throughout the State iagiven in our columns to-day, including a list of the Senatorial nominations of both the parties as far as made, From this it will bo seen that the radicals havo carried nearly all the districts where heavy republican majorities have been given, ag also that important move- ments have been developed for thé reorganization of the radicals by which a reconstruction of their platform has been effected, and Weed and Greeley both act asido, Senator Morgan and a comparatively new set of men being brought forward for the control of the party, with a view to the advancement of Morgan in place of Soward for tho Presidential support of New York in the National Convention. ‘The Chairman of the Pennsylvania Republican State Central Committee announces that the republican ma- jority on the home vote at the election on last Tuesday in that State will exceed that of President Lincoin on the home and army vote last fall by several thousands, It is estimeted at from twenty-two to twenty-four thousand. In Iowa Stone, the republican candidate for Governor, has a majority of about fifteen thousand, the remainder of the republican ticket being elected by a majority of about twenty thousand. ‘The Rev. Dr. John J. Conroy was yesterday consecra- ted as Bishop of Albany by Archbishop McCloskey, of this city, in the Albavy Cathedral, with all the solemn ‘and imposing ceremonies of the Catholic Church usual on such occasions. Bishops Loughlin, of Brooklyn, and Timon, of Buffalo, wore the two principal assistants in the ceremonial. There was present a large number of other clergymen of distinction, and the body of the edifice was crowded with auditors and spectators. The sermon was preached by Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati. The in- tended procession from the episcopal residence to th» Cathedral of the bishops, priests and attendants, in their official robes, which would have fosmed a very august feature of the ceremonies, was prevented by the rain storm. ‘The record of the testimony in the Wirz trial, whi wagommenced on the 26th of last August, and, so fai a3 the taking of evidenco is concerned, concluded on Sat urday last, covers five thousand foolscap pages. One hundred and sixty witnesses allogether wore examined on both sides. Tho general congress of the Fenians in the United States assembles in Philadelphia to-day. There is a per- fect outpouring of the faithful to attend this important convention, this city alone sending fifty delegates, and each delegate representing at least one hundred men. From California and the far Territories of the West repre. sentatives are coming, and it is more than probable that Penianism will on this occasion take some decisive step. Possibly the design is to promulgate the declaration of independence, or the bonds, or both. At all events, it is reasonable to expect that the superabundance of Ameri- can Fonian declarations and declamation will, before the holding of many more ‘national congresses,"’ culminate in something of a tangible nature. Our government has received information of tne seizure by the Canadian authorities of six hundred Spencer rifles which were being smuggled from this country into tho province at Niagara, supposed for the use of the Fenians. Ata late hour on Saturday night a party of men who had been drinking and playing cards in the tager beor saloon at 372 Hudson street made an assault on ono of the proprietors, named John Ramming, one of them stabbing bim in the face with a knife, inflicting a wound which penetrated to the brain and resulted in death a short time after. Three or four of those supposed to be implicated in the assault wore arrested and locked up; but up to last evening the man believed to be the mur- dorer had not been apprehended. A man named William Ryder was yesterday commitied to the Tombs on charge of having on Saturday night stabbed and dangerous!y wounded a woman named Margarot Greenwood, with whom, it is said, Le had beon living on torms of intimacy, at a house in East Houston street. The terrible casualty ou the Pennsylvania Railroad, on last Saturday, between Harrisburg end Lancaster, by which nine persons were killed and others injured, was, it appears, caused by the breaking of an axle of one of the cars. The loss of life by the explosion of the boiler of the steamer Yosemite, on Sacramento river, California, on Thursday last, was much greater than at frst reported Fifty-four persons, of whom thirty-two were China men, were killed, and thirty-two othors received injuries. ‘The schoonor Joseph Fish, laden with twelve hundred barrels of petroleum, was run into in Nantucket Roads yesterlay morning by the bark Schainyl, took fire from the overiurning of her stove, and was totally destroyed Though it is required by the rogulations of the man agers of the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations, which is to open in Paris carly in the yoar 1867, that all applications of persons designing to become exhibitors must be presented befoge the 31st of the present month, it is thought that, in accordance with a request of Mr. Bigelow, our Minister in France, an extension of time will be granted. The Peculiar Strength of Our Govern- ment—Centralization a Bugbear. One of the windmills which the Don Quixotes of the South have been continually assailing, assisted in the fight by the Sanchos of the North, has been the idea that there was danger that the government of the United States might become centralized, and so, despotic. It was therefore necessary to assume and maintain that the real sovereignty lay in the individaal States, and should be insisted upon. To this end all sorts of statements have been made, and have found favor in the South, until the doctrine began to be believed in, and men were ever ready to shed blood in malataining it. Even in the North there are some who have gone so far as to assert that the first treaty of peace made between England and the United States was “made with every one of the United States as sovereign, independent nations, having exclusive control and jurisdiction over their affairs.” This is what @ political orator said, a few: nights since, at a public meet- ing in New Jersey. Such a perversion of history and fact surpasses anything in im- pudence that has yet been uttered from the stump. But let us examine the pretence that we are in danger from centralization, if such absurd statements aro really anywhere credited and acted upon. ‘There is not a word of truth in the assertion. Centralization cannot possibly take Washington, for one plain and palpabl There is not and cannot ';6, and nevor was, any permanent sucrasion of contralized power at the ggat Of government. Tho administration | of power and the dispensation of patron are too épheizgral tp make any siich polloy permanent and succossful if oven it wero \ . often; leaders “come like shadows, 60 depart;’’ continual changes are eccurring; popular sup- port ia uncertain and legislation too varying to allow the possibility of such a policy as centralization, if attempted by any set of rulers temporarily at the head of affairs, On tho contrary, the States are far more stable in their career and their policy. Thus we find these ditierent members of the Union going on for years after their own peculiar notions. Not to speak of such States as those in the North, who occupy polit- ically the same ideas and continue to select the same sort of representative men, we might al- lude to Virginia, the Carolinas, Alabama, and even New Jersey, where we see an entire repe- tition of traditional views, from year to year— indeed, from generation to generation—and an ever ready disposition to oppose the general government when it is not of their choloe. So important is the support of States to political aspirants, to secure their success, that it is un- derstood no one can rise to national honors until he can first carry his own State. Now, it is very evident that if there was any power in centralization—any supreme control in the national administration—the leading politi- cians would abandon their States to bask in the sunshine of Executive favor. Far from this, it is the invariable custom of our Presidents to form their Cabincts almost en- tirely with reference to the political importance of these States, and select the men who for the time being have the most influence over them. If there were really anything in centralization it would not be compelled to go hunting over the Union for Cab- inet ministers or other great officers of State. We have seen Presidents succeed each other with entirely different views, with entire changes of officials under them, and then go into obscurity, neglect, and even poverty, almost forgotten. No fumilies are per- petuated by them in ease or honor; they have no political heirs or succession. They melt away into the masses from which they emerged. No one can even name their secretaries with accuracy for twenty years back. If there were any such thing ag centraliza- tion, if it really had any force or influence, we might not only look for despotism, but a per- petuity of it, in the bands of those who might seek to establish it. This we have never seen, and never shall see; for it is impossible. On the contrary, there is nothing weaker in some respects than a national administration. It is pulled and hauled to pieces by its friends; it never can fully gratify or compensate its followers; it is attacked, assailed and over- thrown by its enemies. It has. as much as it can do to go through its four years of office with even common comfort. There never has been a Chief Magistrate who thought much of any- thing else than how to retire with some show of public favor, some mark of public confidence. And not all of them: have been able to ac- complish this, much less to remain permanenily in power, to. govern unlawfully, to destroy the States or leasen their just, conceded and con- stitutional powers. The original thirteen States were at the siart proprietary and charter governments—never sovereigns at any time. There were represen- tatives in the first or Continental Congress not chosen by the States at all, and while in, Con- gress they admitted, by public and official com- munications with the government of England, that they were still colonies, and willing to re- turn to their allegiance. They never exerted any separate national power, or claimed any. From this condition of colonies merely they passed into a confederated and finally into a more perfect union, providing for the exercise of national authority in a new and original form. They conceded to each other certain rights necessary for their local govern- ments—which no one seeks to deprive them of—nothing more, and provided that as States they should not assert or assume any national character. It is true that many patriots at that day feared too much power was given to the general government, and they too feared centralization. But we nover have had it--never can have it. There are no elements in our nationality to produce such a result; experience proves it, and it ia sheer folly at this day to pretend to fear it. De Tocqueville, for a wonder, understood this subject when he declared that all our Presidents ne- ceasarily became much alike from the very character of our institutions. We have had no Cwsars--we never can have any. Until we cease to have States we can have no centraliza- tion, and when the States cease to exist only ahall we have centralization, and not till then. Our real danger has been in their pretensions; for some of them had almost proved able, as we seo by the late rebellion, to overthrow and destroy the Union. The danger always lay in tho States, never in the national government. We hope that too is now passed. Ramroap Prooress in. Ta® Soura—Practi- cat, Reooxsrrvctiox.—The work of recoo- struction in the South is rapidly assuming a practical shape, more quickly, indeed, than per- haps the most sanguine mind anticipated. While Andy Johnson is gradually extending his humane policy towards the leading rebels, and assuring delegations from the Southern States that the government has no prejudices to in- dulge, no thirst for blood to gratify, that he would rather pardon twenty than to refuse one— while these things are being done in Washing- ton the solid work of commercial reconstruc- tion is going on in the South. The railroads are being rebuilt and steamship lines estab- lished. Railroad communication between the national capital, the Northern cities and the States of Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee is now complete by way of Alexandria, Knox- ville and Lynchburg. Thus, while the Presi- dent and the politicians of the South are send- ing ideas into the desolated regions of the late rebellion, the railroads are carrying the com- merce of the North to restore prosperity and bring comfort as well as substantial sup- plies to the Southern people. Ideas are very good in their way. Theories, when based on a foundation upon which a sound structure can be raised, such as the ideas and theories which Andy Johnson enunciates, are invaluable at the present time ; but, after lJ, the fruits of reconstruction are best scen in the development of commerce, the restoration of communication, and the return which they involve to the old relations between the North and South. One railroad train or steamship ‘hted with boots and shoes, dry goods, beef and butter, and the long-denied luxuries which the South has been pining for during fous years of drought, are worth oceans of sentiment for the practical of recon- structing the Union on its old basis of mutual trade between the North and South, from which alone can spring perfect prosperity for both. This may seem material to the transcen- dentalist; but it is with material things we have the necessaries of life living will, of course, be- conmie cheaper. Indeed, even at the present prices for board at first class hotels in Rich- mond, living is cheaper than at similar estab- lishmonts in New York. At the Spotswood House, for instance, where it was erroneously stated the other day that the price of board was six dollars a day, it appears that the charge is only four dollars—half a dollar less than that of firet class hotels in the North. - We hail with satisfaction the progress in rail- road communication with the central States of the South. It is a wholesome sign of the ap- proaching “good time” which every one except the insane radical leaders earnestly desires to see arrive, and which, in connection with Presi- dent Johnson’s sound policy, may soon be brought about, . e negro suffrage radicals, stunned fora few days by the late Connecticut electidn, are recovering their wind, and returning to their hue-nnd-cry against the administration. They are harping again their noisy chorus on “hu- man rights,” “equal rights,” “manhood suf- frage,” “justice and political equality,” “na- tional degradation,” “colorphobia,” the “en- tranchised rebels,” and “discarded loyalists of the South,’ and upon immediate and uncon- ditional negro suffrage in the late insurgent States, as the only thing that can save the country. The radical trumpeter of the Tribune, when- ever he finds himself in a corner or a band of his brethren of the faith in a difficulty, Issues a proclamation defining his position or instruct- ing his disciples in their line of duty. The Rey. Brother Beecher and his associate politi- cal clergymen of the Independent have adopted this custom of the Emperor of China and the Tribune philosopher, in a “special edict” to their “fellow countrymen.” Hear them:—“We crave your sober attention on the state of the couniry,” and they straightway proceed, to anything but a sober onslaught upon President Johnson, They say that, after all his promises of punishment to traitors, he is working them off at the rate of “from one hundred to five hundred pardons a day ;” that after promising that the rebellious States “should be moulded by loyalists and not misshapen by rebels,” he has, in the reconstruction of Alabama, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi and Louisiana, “denied the rights of loyalists and legalized the usurpations of rebels—trampling justice under foot and framing iniquity into a law;” that President Johnson has thus become “the champion of the Chicago Times, John Van Buren, the Daily News and Fernando Wood;” and, therefore, say Beecher and his reverend brethren of the Independent, “we feel con- strained to put our hand to the rope and ring the alarm bell—arousing the party of justice to the perils of the hour.” What are these “perils?” They are the perils threatened to “equal suffrage” and “equal rights” from President Johnson's Southern policy. If, says, the indignant Beech- er, “President Johnson had wished to invest the negro with the citizen’s right to the ballot he has had and still bas the logical argument, the moral duty and the political opportunity. This is the greatest duty which he owes to the republic, and this duty will be required at his hands.” Mark the words—“will be required.” These radicals have resolved to make him toe the mark; and Wendell Phillips having appa- rently retired in disgust, Brother Beecher ad- vances to lead the forlorn hope. Greeley whines and scolds, but he is a trimmer. Beecher is the man to “ring the alarm bell.” And all this fuss and fury against President Johnson is because he has thought it best in his work ot Southern reconstruction to leave the question of suffrage to be regulated here- after by the several States concerned, each for itself, according to~the constitution and the usages of the country. This policy is all wrong, according to Beecher and Company. The Southern negro must forthwith have the right of suffrage or the country goes to the dogs. But why stop with negro suffrage? If the seven hundred thousand black men of the South just released from the darkness of slavery, who hardly know their right hand from their left, are now necessary at the ballot box to save the country, has not the time come for “equal rights” to the ten millions of white women of the North? Is not Anna Dickinson, for instance, as well qualified for “manhood suffrage” or “equal rights” as Uncle T. These radical clamors against ent Johnson are, in fact, only modifications of Garrison’s old war cry that the constitution ‘ig a league with death and a covenant with hell,” “No union with slaveholders,” &c. Such disorganizing reformers as Beecher, Cheever, Phillips, Thaddeus Stevens and Sumner would turn the country upside down in their schemes of fanaticiom. Their ideas of “manhood suf- frage” and “equal rights” are monstrous per- versions of the turms. Rational, thinking men shrink from them, while Satan and his imps shake their sides and wag their tails with joy. They like the agents of wickedness, strife and confusion, such as those reverend and impious agitators of immediate and unconditional ne- gro suffrage. The Prosident’s policy for the restoration of the South is wise, humane, safe and sound, in view of the interests and harmo- nious association of whites and blacks. It meets the approval of the country, North and South, and public opinion will shape the policy of Congress, Steam axp Canvas.—The decline of sailing power on the advance of steam power on the ocean is strongly manifested by the fact that on Saturday twenty steamships left this port—two of them for Europe and eighteen for our own Southern ports, to aid in the work of reconstruction, It is an evidence, also, of the way in which this country adapts itself to cir- cumstances. Our sailing marine was becom- ing elmost cumbersome, We bad pot dook Fine Arts. “THE REPUBLICAN COURT UNDBB WASHINGTON.’ Mr. Huntington’s last great work, under the above title, is now on exhibition at the Derby Gallery, 626 Broadway. The picture took him five years to paint, the figures introduced, of which there are upwards of sixty, being all portraits. Asan evidence of the authen- tic value of these we copy from the catalogue the ar- tist’a statement of the manner in which he procured them :— * “He not only consulted the more accessible portraits by Copley and Stuart, the miniatures of Malbone and the public records of the time, but was enabled to pro- cure family likenesses from the living descendants of many of his subjects. Several were painted in the very costumes they had worn upon occasions of this kind, the artist working with the mantle or the robe before him. Sometimes when the resemblance had been trans- mitted through two generations a granddaughter would sit for her grandmother's picture; at others, when a face had been laboriously transferred from parchment or ivory to canvas, an expression caught from the living features of the grandeon or great niece would give it obaracter and animation.’”” 4 work composed under such circumstances of course offers wido scope for criticism; but taking into consider- ation its difficulties we think the country as well as tho artist has reason to be proud of it. Its prevailing fault is hardness and a certain patchiness of color, which we attribute in part to a bad arrangement of light; but against this we have to balance a number of fine qualities, There is an clevation of séntiment and breadth of treatment in it that raise it far above the commonplace attempts at hiatorical composition that have hitherto beon bazarded by our native artists, In grouping and general arrangement it shows careful study, and will compare favorably with almost any of the works of the modern European schools. In its details of drawing it is not always as fortunate, but where- ever any blemishes of this sort occur they are of so unimportant a character tbat they in no way militate against the general effect of the pic- ture, The work has again the great disadvantage of being exhibited by gas light, and that not very skilfully arranged. Despite all this it at once impresses the spec- tator with its importance, both as an artistic effort and as ‘a faithful reproduction of the social characteristics of one of the most interesting epochs of our early history. Among the numerous portraits introduced the most interesting are perhaps those of the celebrated beauties of the period, now for the first time grouped together. The likenesses of our great men, statesmen, soldiers, lawyers, wits and writers have been more or less famil- iarized to us, but it is only in family collections that those of the distinguished women who shed lustre in the court of Washington could hitherto be seen. In an age in which high breeding and intellectual pro-eminence have given place to the vulgar pretensions of a shoddy aristocracy, the effort of such an illustration of the man- ners of a better and purer period of our history cannot be without its fruits. We are glad to find thal this Ane work is in process of being engraved by Ritchie, one of the best of our Ameri- can artists in that line. He has beon a year engaged on it, and, from an inspection of his first proof, we are ina Position to state that his reproduction of it will be in evory way satisfactory. Mr. Seitz, the proprietor of the copyright, which has cost him twonty-five thousand dol- lars, has judiciously fixed the price of the engravings at fifteen dollars, At this low sum there js scarcely a house. hold in the country that cannot afford to become the possessor of a copy. Mr. A. 'T. Stewart is the purchaser of the picture, The sum Which he gave for it was twenty thousand dollars— not too large a price considering the time and the im- menae amount of labor bestowed on it. We are glad that it has fallen into Mr, Stewart's hands, If report be correct in reference to his views in the formation of his now large collection our community will enjoy all the benefits resulting from the possession of so invaluable an historical work. Pennsylvania Election. Pumapatrara, Oct. 15, 1865. Mr. Jon Cessna, Chairman of the Union Central Com- mittee, furnishes the following information to tho press :— ‘The result of ths late election in Pennsylvania has not been correctly reported. Forty-two counties (official) overcome the majority of 1862, and leave the Union can- didates a clear majority of 17,000. The reported major. ities in the balance of the State—twenty-four countios— give from 5,000 to 7,000 Union majority. The majority on the home vote will certainly exceed that of President Lincoln on the home and army vote by several thou- sands. The Un'on party will have two-thirds of both branches of tho Logislature, The Union party gains in thirty-eight of forty-two counties officially returned. Virginia Eiection. Norrorw, Oct, 18, 1865. The election yesterday in this city and Portsmouth passed of quietly. The vote was small. L. H. Chand- ler, for Congross, leads with a handsome majority, His majority in Peteraburg is one hundred. Messrs. Hurst and Langhor were ciected to the House of Delegates from Portamouth. Ricamonp, Va., Oct. 15, 1865. No additional returns from the Sixth and Righth dia. tricts have been received. Joha B. Baldwin, ex-mem. ber of the Confedorato Congross, has been elocted to the House of Delegates for Augusta county. Towa Election. Desmomvns, Lowa, Oct. 14, 1965. The majority for Governor Stone, who advocated negro suffrage, will be 15,000. Tho balance of the repubtican ticket is elected by nearly 20,000 majority. “ News from New Orleans. New Oninans, Oct. 14, 1865. Mr. Watterson, the special agent of the government, sent to inquire into the condition of Southern affaira, left yesterday afternoon, after a short stay. It is under. stood that bis opinion of the Freedmen's Bureau is that it is am unnecessary burden to the government. ‘The Provost Marshal bas ordered an inspection of the city registered voters, with a view to strike from the rolls a certain portion charged with acia of disloyalty antecedent to the President's amnesty proclamation, and of those who in 1862 registered themselves enemies of the United States. This would strike of one-Afth of the registered voters of the city. Governor Welles protests against this a8 an interference with an established State law. If the Provost Marshal persists Governor Welles will appeal to the Presdent. — Marine Disasters. A Provingnon, Oot. 16, 1865. The brig Humboldt, of Bucksport, from Bangor for Newport, went ashore last night two miles east of Bren- ton's Reof and wont to ploces this morning. The crew was saved, Part of ber cargo of lumber will be secured. Bostox, Oot, 15, 1865. ‘The achooner Jogoph Fish, of St. George, from Phila. dolphia, with 1,200 barrets of petroleum oll, was run into by the bark Schamyl, from New Orleans, while at anchor in Nantucket Roads this morning. She immo- diately took fire by the overturning of the stove, and was totilly destroyed, The Schamy! had her foremast sprung and commenced leaking, #0 that in a few hours she bad three feet and half of water in the hold. precieataacnsanS Sinking of the Steamer Huntress. Carmo, Ul, Oct. 14, 1966, ‘The steamer Huntress sunk on the wreck of the Biackbawk in this harbor last night. The cargo will probably bo saved in a damaged condition. Brooklyn City News. Buratary.—About four o’clock on Sunday morning the residence of Mr. Charles Fowler, corner of Third and South Ninth streets, E. D., was entered by burglars through @ rear second story window, by means of a Indder, and the follows rty carried away:—One lady's gold watch and chain; six silver tablespoons, marked “C. M. D. F.;!" one child’s silver knife, fork and spoon, marked “L{llie;" one do,, marked “Charlie,” and one do., marked ‘“Gazelle,”’ | T! e agerenate vgler of the articles stolon is about two hundred dollar, 7,” burglars escaped with thoir plunder. che Sovpax Deatn,—John McKinley, 9 oo” ponter, folt dead on Saturday evening While at WOR ‘i thy store of Mr. er cornet of Ware a ‘avenue and Borgen street, reser y who wae thirty-five leaves a wife and family; who Bite in Paoltie ae ny Sep pp ie coroner hold an inquest on ropdored oy abo ur. Of Death from apoploxy”’ was WASHINGTON. -.. ‘Wasainatos, Oot. 16, 1866, GPRCULATIONS IN ADVANOM OF THE PRESIDENE’S ‘approaches, discussion and speculation inorease im alt ‘quarters concerning the stand the Presideat will (ake in bis message on the practical question of admitting repre- = © eontatives from the Southera States. He mey pes- sibly say little that is new on the subject. Au his words and deeds attest that he believes the American People are for the union of all the States; that individuate who stand im the way of that result will have to stand aside or be trodden down in its progress; that we made war forthe Union, denying the right of any State to secede, proclaiming all so-called acts of secession utterty null and void; that the men who strove to break up the Union have mainly given up the attempt in good'faith and offer to come back, and that we of the North cas- not stultify our past action by now asserting that they not only were out of the Union during the rebelitoa, but shall remain out of it after making proper submission. These assertions have been expressed or implied ia almost every public address of his sinco his installation, and may be taken as the unerriog indices of his future action. INTERESTING FORTHCOMING DOCUMENT. Among the more important reports concerning the late war that will be brought to the notice of the next Com- gress is one now in rapid process of compilation at the headquarters of the Commissary of Prisoners, .. The above report will be ready in about six weeks, aod. wil! Present a most accurate and remarkable renwmé of the captivity of federal and rebel soldiers and all essential * matters pertaining t6 their imprisonment. In anticipa- tion of this important document we may state the fol- lowing:—The principal depota for the government prisoners during the late war were located at Point Look- out, Johnson’s Island, Alton, Elmira, Chicago, Nashville, St. Louis ang Fort Delaware, These prisons, during the Bummer of 1864, contained more prisoners than at any other period of the rebellion, the captives numbering between seventy-five and eighty thousand moa. The report in question will show that the number of prisoners taken on both sides was in the aggregate fully up to half a million, and will give in accurate \\ numbers the strength of the Southern armics at the \ time of théir parolement and disbanding last spring. It will algo indicate the number oxchanged, enlisted om the side of the enomy, died, escaped and took the oath of allegiance, with ist of men dying in Southora prisons, The business now being transacted by this bureau is almost incredible. Besides the vast amount of clerical labor required to perfect the records bofore the report of its operations can be entirely completed, it has also to render certificates of the government's indebtedness to each Union soldier upon its, rolls, the War Department having allowed all such commutation of rations at the rate of twenty-five cents por day during the period of their confinement, and also three months’ extra pay to all who were not released pfevious to the 30th of May last. These certificates are collect- able of any commissary of subsistence in the country. * We are authorized to state, in this connection, that dig- charged soldiers who intrust their claims of this nature to the agents of the Sanitary Commission ‘and State agents will be paid in checks upon government depost- tories, Those making applications for commutations of rations in person should apply directly to the Commis- sary General of Prisoners. , THE SPENCER RIFLES $MUGGLED INTO CANADA, Several days ago the government received information of the serzure, by the Canadian authorities of Niagara, of six hundred Spencer rifles, which wore being smug- gled into Canada for the use of Fenians or other agitators in thé British Provinces, It has since been ascertained thas these arms were the purchases of one Moses, in Toronte, alittle Jew, formerly of Atlanta, Georgia, and one of the heaviest hardware merchants of the South, who, since his retirement into Canada, has been turning dighonest pennies by blockade running and other transactions, im connection with yellow fever Blackburn, Steele, Sau- ders, and others of that class. The last notable transac- tion in which Moses was concerned, and which came to the knowledge of the War Department, was the stealing and smuggling into Canada of patterns of Burden’s patent horseshoe machinery, with a view to the ultt- mate establishment of a horseshoe factory at Atlanta for ‘the benefit of the rebel government; but Sherman's operations spoiled that game. Next, Moses wont into the Fenian pike business, and furnished large Invoices of that formidabte weapon to Irieh repub- licau agents, Latterly, through agents ia the principat cities of the North and Wost, he has been purchasing serviceable firearms for the same purpose, The business has really grown to be one of considerable magnitude, and inasmach as the purcl of firearms in this country is a perfectly legitimate business the government cau do nothing to stop it. It behooves British American reve- nue and detective officers to maintain a reasonable vigi- lance. GENERAL PALMER AND THR KENTUCKY IMBROGLIO. The telegraph lately forwarded what purported to be the substance of the matier in dispute between Goneral Greon Clay Smith, as the representative of the Union men of Kentucky, and Generai Paimer, in command of the Kentucky Department. The correspondence in full, as forwarded to the War Department, represents the affair in another light altogethor, General Smith complains that General Palmer very properly ordered the State officers of Kentucky to pro- tect the freedmen of that State in their rights, but very | improperly failed to protect such officers when indicted, sued and put under bond for doing #0. He thinks Gene- ral Palmer's usefulness in Kentucky at an end, and aske his removal and the appoiztinent of General Gordon Granger to the command. General Palmer, in reply, gives his reagona for grant- ing passes to slaves to leave Kentucky, saying that he found, on sasuming command in Kentucky, that slavery was destroyed, and ail contro! of the master over the negro lost, and that the latter wero flocking into the large cities in such numbers as ronderod it impossible to subsist or aid them. While this condition of things ox- isted the masters, instead of ondeavoring to relieve the community of thom, advised all parties, by advertisoment, against harboring them, and thus confirmed them as vaga- bonds. Hs had, therefore, given them passes out of the State in order to relieve the communities opprossed by their pressure in such hordes. The Kentuckians rofuned to employ them or allow their neighbors to employ them, and now objected to the removal of the negroes toa State where they could find employment, He dented the second allegation of General Smith, to the offect that he had failed to protect the officers who had carried bis orders into effect. Ho gave orders to no State officers, and does not consider himsolf justified in interfering with the courts which have takon jurisdiction of offences by civil officers, and announces himself ready to protect all bis subordinate officers prosecuted for carrying out his orders. General Palmer's letter to Secretary Staaten fe vory ablo, To this Gonoral Smith adds @ rejoinder, throwing 20 additional light on the subject. It ie apparent from the correspondence that the secessioniste of Kentucky are as noisy and offensive in their demands, sad the Unica men as inoffensive and meek with regard to the question of slavery, as they were four years ago with regard to se. cossion and neutrality. She has to be alternately coaxed: and kicked to keep step to the march of events. The very ‘best assurance after his own arguments which we have that General Palmer ie right is that General Roussees sustains him and endorses his course. MILES O'REILLY PARDONED. Of all pardon seekers at tho White House om Saturday, the longost intorviow was accorded to private Miles O'Reilly, fle came out joyous, saying he bad confessed all bis sine and received entire absolution from the par- doning power, No attempts to extract from the private the nature of his conversation with his Excellency have yet been successful, except we take his emphatic asser- tion that tho Fonians have nothing to fear from Andrew Johnson, As giving some clue to what he spoke about, private Miles also seoms to fect quite confident that seo- retary Stanton ie sound as & bolt @® tho Fonian and Brit. ish neutrality question. —_.- THs Wins TRIAL. The record of te9"mony in the Wire trial makos five thousand fo*/cap pages, divided into seventy parts, and conta, yetweon three and four hundred objections and Cv" ogs of the court, One hundred and sixty witnesses wore examined on both sides, sovoral of whom were it. individually on the stand for two days for oxamination in chief and oross-oxamination. Mr. Baker, of the - counsel for the defence, thought tt would take him seven or eight days to properly read this mass of testimony, . addition to the subsequent task of oxamining al) ung points of law, and last of all tho criticisms of ‘ino gtate. monta of witnesses, the comparison of the dierent classes of testimony and tho writlag out of the argu. mont, He iqaiated on baving 49 full Woeks Cor the pers