The New York Herald Newspaper, October 17, 1865, Page 4

ar NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OrrION N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. ‘olume XXX..........-+- seereeeeerees oe Os 989 = AMUSEMENTS THIS BVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Sau. $85 Broadway, 0; te ING, Dinwina ac BAN FRANCISCO tan Hotel. —KTHIOPIAN: Tearess. ae? ‘Araica ON THE ' PONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. 201 Bowery.—Sixa- Wwe, Dancing, Buavusques, &c.—Srecrne Biiveckoow. DODWORTH HALL, 806 Broadway.—Buixp Tow's Piayo Soncunrs. VANNUCHI'S MUSEUM, 600 Broadway.--Movixg Wax uae Or Paxsipens Lixcoin, Jerr. Davis, &e. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. Open rome DAME THO PS a ’ eer = a ree | New York, Tuesday, October 17, 1965. =—=— ———————— = NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION. RMecoipts of Saics of the New York Daily Newspapers. OFFICIAL. Year Ending < Name of Paper. May 1, 1865. « « 1,095,000 368,150 252,000 169,427 100,000 61,079 90,548 Now York Heratp...... ‘Tires, Tribune, World and Sun combined.. THE FENIANS. $71,449 The Weekly Herald. ‘The sketch of the Fenians which was published in the Honato of Sunday will appear in the Wxexiy Heranp Of this week. Orders from agents and others should be gent in on or before Wednesday evening next. ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY, Advertisements for the Werexty Herag must be handed | « in bofore ten o'clock every evlation among the Saterpr merchants, inanufactarers and gontlomen throughout (he country is increasing very rapidly. Advertisements In- serted in the Waekiy Hanenp will thus be seen by a liye Portion of the active and energetic poopie of kno Tuiied Slates. ae slay evening. Its cir. | Specinl advices and nowspaper tho neighboring colony of British Hondiras furnish us From files from Mexico aud with intelligence of a very important character. Belize we learn, in the shape of official correspond. ence, that the English government bas repudiated the aitempt made by Maximihan in 1861 to extend the Youndary of the empire into British Honduras by means Of a military mail from Yucatan, The British Minister Ain Mexico city declares that “Mexico Las no claim what- ever to any portion of the territory,” and to this. Senor Kawoirez, on bebalf of the government, acquiesce doubtful policy of Napoleon towards Maxin| the reported determination of the United States g) amont to uphold the Monroe doctrine, influenced the sub. missive toue of the Mexican reply cousilerably. In Moxico the supporters of President Juarez were ex- tremely active, the leading republicans defraying the exponse of arming the guerilla bauds from their private purses, At Tampico and along the coast line the cause of imperialism was decidediy declimug, and iderable mercantile confusion exited in and aroand the city in consequence of the strife, The great hope of the repub- Jicans was in the expectation of aid from the United Bintes, [tie said that Maximilien has forwarded five millions of dollars to Washington in order to “influence”? Congress in favor of his recognition by our governme The newspapers in the imperial interest glowing accounts of the prospecte and res pt the empire, They claim that the country has eight and a quarter millions of inhabitants, and thot it agricultural and mineral resources render I! ing. Quite a numbor of rebels from thi domiciled in Mexico. The ex: General Sterling Price, of Mi nor Isham G, Harris, of Tennescee, Roberts, J. Perkins and W. f. Harde Commissioners of Colon milian’s government, Additional troop Mexico from France. rors re. Manry, are appointed | had arrived in | eetttiony showing that, yes Trade, at the date of Iatrrt advic wae very dull at Belize, Honduros, and (hore were uo American versels | in port, The planters of Cuba have addressed a memorial to the Coyrt in Madrid asking for the abolition of slavery on the istand. ‘The first meetings of the boards appointed to anperin. | de tend the registration of voter, preparatory t ber election, in accordance with the Jost session of the Lagisiainre, will be held elcetion districts to-day. Ii is important thet voter should anderstand the change made by thiy law, whieh only applies to the Metropolitan Police district. Under | {i there can be on election day uo swearing in of votes, and no vote will be received at the polls unless the | fume of the porson offering it appears on the book. To insure his name being there tt is necessary for the Individual to personally appear before the board in Nis district, and not trust to the mere fact of having beon On the list at the time of the Inst election. The bowrds rogistey will be in seion from eight o'clock in the morning till pine o'clock tp th tng to-day, and will hold subsequent meetings on tis month, We publish this mor assemblage in this city. M ¢ Od and Oth of next ing o list of their places of | ry Gouther has issued a | proctamation in regard to the matter. The firemen’s parade in Philadelphia yesterday was a most imposing divplay, One hundred ant fourteen companies took part in (he procession, which was over woven miles in length and occupied over three honrs in passing @ givon point. It was estimated thas» twenty thousand firemen were in line, one bh had boon soldiers during the late war, ‘Ty | monatration was a most entlusinetic ony | was decorated at every step, and showers of wreaths and | fiowoera grested the red-«hirted heroes thronghont the fine of march. Large numbers of visitors were presant from New York and other prominent cities The mpectators wer pated at nearly three hundred thou. wand, In the Ing portions of the city were {llumin- ated, and many of the visiting companies wore enter. tained by the Philadelphia conipanies. An informal meeting of the members of the Fen an Congress, at which about six bund yf thom were pre. | nt, was held in Philadelphia yeeterday, when an ad- ress was delivered by the chairman. The organization ‘for business will take place today. A largely attended iand onthusiastic Fenian mass meeting was held in the povoning, at which speeches were made by several advo. yentes of the cause, Some Interesting facts in regard to tis congress and the Fenian movementa generally are mivon in another article in regard to the fraterniiy ia hia morning's Heratn, The old telographie relations which existed between the | press of the North and the Southern press from 1950 tit! polorrapted, in 1861, by the commoncementof the war have ‘Deon again restored, and there is now a daily interchange of nows directly from the central office in this city with every daily Journal in the country, North, South, Fast and Woat, The diificulties which Intely existed betwee the Now Orleaus newspapers huy Dusted. rly A vory Interesting ene, in which the bonds of Jeff, Dnvie’ confederacy figured, wae yest before Judge Fogralam, of the Supreme Court, at chambers. When the revellion broke out George W. Gooch, the defendant in the case, according to the statements mado, wae in Noxas a agent of the large Broadway dry goods house of «nos, Boyoe & Co., ontrusted with the collection of one jadeod and soventy-one thousand dollars, duo ther mm Texas merchants. Ou the 4th of Maron, 1861, | (G07 Lawes Bord & Co. tnened ovor their business to | 4 ) la > NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, .1860. Leroy M. Wiley and Frederick N. Lawrence, who are the plaintiffs in the present action. Gooch went on with his collections, and, as he alleges, with the approval of Mr. Wiley, invested about one hundred thousand doliars of the money he colleoted in rebel securitics, which of course havé sine proved worthless. A short time since Mr. Gooch returned to this city, and, at the instance of the plaintif™, was arrested and locked up, in default of twenty-five thousand dollars bail, on charge of misappro- priation of the funds of the firm. The proceedings yes- terday were in connection with a motion for bis release, ‘and there was considerable argument of counsel over the question whether the rebel bonds turned over to the credit of his employers by Mr. Gooch discharged his tu- debtedness to them, ‘The decision is reserved. Judge Ingraham had also before him at chambers yesterday a curious case, in which a matter of identity was at issue, The defendant, Mr. Samuels, is detained in the custody of the Sheriff on five orders of arrest, ob- tained by creditors ia various parts of the country. The defendant states that ‘he 1s the wrong man; that he is not Stephen A. Samuels, but Charles A. Samuels, and, there- fore, that he ouglt to be discharged. The plaintiff, how - ever, insist that he is the right person, in spite of his agweverations to the contrary. ‘The case was postponed on a technical informality, the proper notice of the mo- tion not having been served on the plaintiffs, ‘The Greenteaf-Mumford case was again before the Su- preme Court yesterday, at special term, Judge Clerke presiding. The action’ was brought to test the validity of the attachment obtained by Greenleaf & Co., the plaintiffs, and served on the Nassau Bank before the assignment to Albert 8, Speyers for the benefit of the creditors in general, The assignee claims that inasmuch as the amount in litigation (fifty-three thousand doliars), on deposit in the bank, had been certified to by Mr. John Oukoy, the money should be under the control of assignee and the bank could have no claim, The question was argued at great length by several counsel. ‘The decision was reserved. Mr. Samuel D. Adams yesterday brought a suit in tho Marine Court, before Judge Hearn, against Captain Charles Caftrey, of the police force, laying damages at five hundred dollars, for ejoctment from one of our city theatres, Captain Cafirey’s defence alleged that the plaintiff was acting in a disorderly manner. The jury returned a verdict in the Captain's favor. The Court of General Sessions adjourned yesterday without tranzacting any business. The first.cage on the calendar was that of Petor Wagner, indicted for the mur- der of his wife. A number of the witnesses for the ution failing to answer, it was set down for Thurs- day, as was also the trial of Dr, Charles Cobel, charged with being an abortionist, ‘The cases of Electa M, Pot ter, an alleged abortionist, and of Peter R. Strong, both of whom are indicted for manslaughtor, were put down for trial yesterday. Counsel for srs, Potier suc- ceeded in procuring a postponement of her trial, in con. Mr. Strong, who oxpressed a desire to have disposed of this , his trial will be set down for to-day, Recorder n heard a motion for the disehargeot Brown, alias Brower, in the clerk’s room. His counsg} gifigzned that there was not a particle of Legal > Complicity with Henry B. Jenkins, the alleged Phonix Bank defaulter, Mr. Mo- Keon, who represented the peopl, was about to read an affidavit in opposition to the motion when the Recorder decided that, inasmuch as the Grand Jury had found an indictmont against Brown, he did not feel called upon to examine the evidence in the middie of the term, but intimated thatthe counsel had the right under tho statute to renew his motion at the end of the second term, Willian Kane, who several weeks ago escaped from the custody of a United States deputy marshal while being escorted to prison, was lately recaptured, and 19 now in safe lodgment in Lndiow ‘street jail. He is charged with frauds upon the government. ‘The Forman wiil was still on trial before the Surrogate yesterday. In consequence of this day (Tuesday) being appointed for the registration of voters the Surrogate adjourned his court over till to-morrow, ‘The yachts Palmer, of Philadelplus, and Henrietta, of this city, started from Sandy Hook on their ocean race to the Delaware capes and back at noon yesterday, io the midst of # strong gale, owing to the prevalence of which none of the other yachte which were expected were r it to witness the departure or accompany the rival vessels. ‘The contending yachts passed Long Branch about one o'clock in the afternoon. At the meeting of the Fire Commissioners yesterday two new steam fire engine companies and one now hook and ladder compariy were organized, and appointments for all three were made. The engine companies are to be known az No. 26, to be located at 138 West Thirty- seventh street, and No. 27, to be located in the house of Norih River Engine Company, 30 Franklin street. The hook and ladder company will be known as No, 8, and located in the house of volunteer Hook and Ladder Gom pany No. 16, in Franklin street. ‘The officers and mem. bers of volunteer engine companies Nos. 46 and 50 and Hook and Ladder Company No. 16 were relieved from duty and will be honorably dscharged before the Lat of next month. Several communications were received, among which was one warning the Board against making use of certain patent hose. ‘The notice to the citizens of the Croton Board, hereto. fore all to in the Hxxaun, urging economy at pre sent in the use of wate ss m this morning's pa- per. This i# rendered necessary by the Croton river being now, by the long drought, reduced to its lowest silage, pening exercises of the winter term of the medi- rtment of the College af Physicians and Sur os, corner of Fourth avenue and Twenty-third street, k place last evening, in the lecture room of the , in the presence of @ large assemblage of stu- and their male and female friends. ‘The opening addr se was Uelivered by Professor Detmold. ‘The winter geasion of the University Medical College, The in Fourteenth streM, was commenced last evening. lecture room, in which the ceremonies took crowded with doctors, students and Indies, os Budd delivered a lecture on the rise of medical science and ile progress from the earliest period down to the present time. In the couree of bis remarks he look o to pay a tribute to the memory of the late Dr. Vaieutine Mott. . Mre. C. #. Dayier, M. D., delivered Inst evening the opening lecture bf the regular session at the Woman's College of Physicians and Surgeons, in West Twenty-sixth sirect, A large and intelligent audience, consist. ing principally of ladies, was in attendance and manifested much faterest in the tec. turer's arguments to demonstrate the usefulness and necessity of female physicians in the treatment of their own sex. The delicacy of the relation between the sexes, she said, acts as an insurmountable obstacle to the succeay of male practitioners in many dangerous cases, She explained the advantages of the institution, and said that It supplied tho inmates with that home feoling which i# 60 essential to recovery. A coroner's inquest was held yesterday in regard tothe | death of John Ramming, keeper of a lager beer saloon at | 272 Hudson street, who died from the effects of a stab nit inflicted on him in his barroom on last Saturday ‘The jury, after hearing the evidence, rendered a t to the effect thet the fatal wound wae inflicted by named Augastus Buckley, who, up to last even- ing, w | eo rrel early yesterday morning in a drink. ing honse in Mott street kept by John Mulholland, be- tween him anda man namod Owen Kiernan, the former, as alleged, shot the latter with @ pistol, inflicting a very dangerous wouud. Kiernan was taken to a hospital, and Muiholiaud was detained to await the result of his in- juries. Tn the Honse of Delegates of the Epiacopal Convention in V’hiladelphia yesterday several proposed amendments to the canons of the Church wero submitted, It was agreed to Join with the House of Bishops to-day in special thanksgiving services for the restoration of brotherly fecling between members of the Church im ‘the North and in the South, A communication was pre- sented representing that © largo and growing party of the priesthood in Italy, backed by many of tho laity, desire euch changes in their ghurch as will assimi- late tt to the Episcopalian, and appeal to Americana for encouragement and counsel, The communication was referred to # special committed, It was agreed to hold the next convention of the church tn this etty, A fire lost night in the storage store No. % Mridge stret, which contained a largo amount of valuable property, destroyed merchandive valued al two Londred thousand dollars. A fire yosterday forenoon at 296 Rast Thirt'e:!) atroet did domage estimated at about two thousand dollars A fire in Chicago last night destroyed a large planing mill, the freight depot of the St, Louis Railroad, in | which immense quantities of goods wore stored, and a mount of lumber, coal and wood in am adjoining cargo on the Mississippi river, on the Oth inst, when Afveon hundred and n inety-four bales of cotton were con- sumed, was four hundred and sixty thousand dollars. All the officers of the boat and the passengers were res- most of the cotton was insured in this city. Dr, charged with introducing yellow fever into this country from the West Indies, with the design of disseminating the plague in the large Northern cities and the national armies, has been released on his own Fecognizauce in Toronto, Canada, to appear when called for. According to the City Inspector's report there were 404 deaths in the city during the past week—being an in- crease of 18 as compared with the mortality of the week previous, and 81 more than occurred during the corre- sponding week last year. The recapitulation table gives the following result:—Acute diseases, 245; chronic diseases, 219; external causes, &¢., 30. There were 315 natives of the United States, 105 of Ireland, 44 of Germany, 10 of England, 3 of Scotland, and the balance of various foreign countries. ‘The slock market was heavy and unsettled yesterday. Government securities were lower, Gold was firm, and closed at 1451; a 14554. There was but little change in commercial affairs yes- terday, though; if anything, merchandise was held firmer, particularly foreign goods. Domestic produce ‘was irregular. Groceries were firmer. Cotton was steady. Petroleum was quiet, On ‘Chango flour was dull, and a trifle lower. Wheat and corn were also a shade in buyer’s favor, Oats, rye, malt and barley were without material change. Pork was fairly active, but at lower rates. Beef was steady. Lard was firm, with a fair inquiry, Whiskey was more active, and very firm. Aspects of the Campaign in Now York— Curl Muddie of Parties. Public opinion ripens and rots sooner in New York than in any other State of the Union. This is an axiom which has been confirmed in all our political revolutions of the last fifty years, Why? Simply because in New York we have the great financial, commercial and political centre of the Union, in which all the progressive movements of the country take their active form and final development, Thus, in the autumn of 1865, we find both the politi- cal parties of this State far in advance of either party in any other State on the leading political issues of the day. In New Jorsey, Pennsylvania and Ohio, for instance, we find republicans and democrats mixing up their en- dorsements of Andy Jobnson with stultifying conditions and obsolete party issues, while in New York we find both parties, under a more advanced development of public opinion, squarely and unpeservodl pledging themselves +s the support of the administration. ‘This is the highest compliment that could he paid to President Johnson in behalf of bis’ Southern reconstruction polloy ; for where he is sustained by both the greai political parties of the country he cannot possibly fail. It is contended, however, by some of the leading republican journals and by their stump orators that the democracy in this business are not sincere; that they are only trying again the old game of deception which they played so successfully with John Tyler and Millard Fill- more ; that John Van Buren and his “recon- structed” democratic followersare playing for the spoils and nothing more ; that the Albany democratic platform is a Trojan horse, filled with hostile Greeks, and that their purpose ia treacherous—being nothing less than the cap- ture of the republican citadel and the over- throw of the administration and all its works. These accusations, however, are readily answered from the other side. John Van Buren is willing to prove his faith by his works. Heis so far satisfied with President Johnson as to proclaim him the proper man for the democracy tor 1868, Nor docs Mr. Van Buren, in thus nominating Andy Jobnson for the succession, ask any present reward in the way of federal spoils. He is willing to let the republicans, if circumstances may require it, onjoy their present monopoly of the spoils till the 4th of March, 1869; but then, if Mr. Johnson shall have been re-elected throngh the assiat- ance of John Van Buren and his Johnson demo- crata, they will probably expect a share in the good things of the kitchen. Inany event, all that Van Buren could do to prove his sincerity as a supporter of the administration he bas done in proclaiming Andy Johnson, aa he stands, his candidate against all comers for the succession, The democrats, right and left, second this motion, which is farther than the republicans have chosen to commit themselves, Thus Van Buren may retort against Raymond that it is not the democrats but the republicans who are insincere in their proiessions of ad. miration for President Johnson and his recon- struction programme. The protestations and arguments on this question, on both sides, are very amusing, and the pretensions of the democrats are naturally regarded by the republicans with much disgust and as the height of impudence. What the result will be it remains to be determined. The republicans have the advantage of the inside track; but the democrats are close upon them, sharp set, hungry and hopeful. The victory will probably be decided by treacherous bush- whackers on the one side or the other. It is generally understood that the city democracy have been gold out in a bargain between Weed aud the Woods; but then, as an offset to trading copperheads, there are the Puritanical radicals of the Beecher-Cheever school who have declared war against President Johnson; and there are next the original Fremont German red republicans, who proclaim that they can give no countenance or support to Johnson’s policy or the Syracuse Johngon platform. They go for Uncle Tom and “equal rights,” and are dead against Johnson and “Southern rights.” These German reds want the original style of the French republic of “liberty, equality and fraternity,” with the Goddess of Reason and plenty of lager beer; the Beecher Puritans want & military protegtor over the South for twenty years to come, of the style of Oliver Cromwell, with his Praise-God-Barebones Parliament. As for the copperheads, they are in the market, cheap for cash, In this curious muddle of factions‘and parties the result, we think, will depend upon the trimmers and bushwhackers, the copperheads, the Puritan radicals and red republican Ger- mans. So far, however, as President Johnson is concerned, the result, one way or the other, will be the same—a popular ratification by the Empire State of his wise and masterly policy of Southern restoration, Potsticat, Taxatiox.—The order of Secretary Welles to permit no taxation for political pur- poses of the workmen in the government shops and navy yards has been universally approved. Now, as we are on the eve of an election, when such taxations are generally made, the heads of all tho other departments, and especially the Postmaster Goneral and the Secretary of the Treasury, ought to issue similar orders, and The loa ¥e the burning of tho steamer Trcoon and | ip every instance where the money has already an hour or two from his work of reorganization te rebuke and exterminate this outrageous swindle upon government employes? ‘The Confederate Cotton Loan—The Eng- Msh Denials. By the latest European news we have seve- ral so-called denials of the statement that shares in the Confederate loan were owned in very influential quarters in England. The London Times, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Laird, the Hon. Evelyn Ashley, and Mr. Ridout of the Morning Post, make their several denials, each in his own peculiar way. It is amusing to see these English friends of the rebellion so anxious to wash their hands of that magnificent failure, and instructive to notice that however great King Cotton was the other day there is now “none so poor to do him reverence.” But the important fact in relation to these denials is that not one of them is sufficient, Not one of them is an open, satisfactory declaration, suffi- cient to discredit the original statement. They are ingeniously contrived to seem like denials to the English people, that people being igno- rant perhaps of the peculiarly American sys- tem by which these several gentlemen were made shareholders in the loan. Thus they show a dishonest purpose on their faces, and are so far confirmations of the charge of a cor- rupt influence as it is made against the persons in question. The system by which these men were “put down” for certain amounts of the Confederate loan doubtless originated here in the lobby, as part of the machinery by which bills are carried through our State Legislatures and through Congress, By this system men who want to carry a bill through for a railroud or some similar matter pick out the influential members, editors and others and put their names down for so much stock. The persons whose names are thus used may not know it at first; indeed, they may never know 4t until they find out some day that they are some thousands richer by the possession of stock in a paying road, though perhaps they could have guessed at it at almost any time. Of course if the road should fail they would be nore the poorer, and they could at any time deny their interest. Generally they are in- formed of this litle transaciion whenever their assisiance is wanted--whenever a vote, a speech or an article may help or save the bill. Now the Confederate agenis carried this Ameri- can systom to England, and applied it on a large scale. They applied it skilfully, too. he Southern confederacy was the measure they wanted to carry, and in favor of which they wanied to influence the British public. So they put down two or three men on the Times, aman on the Morning Post, some members of Parliament, and they even went so high as the Cabinet. None of the gentlemen thus put down of course ever invested a dollar; none of them bought or sold; none of them “had an inter- esi,” as that term is usually employed; and of course none of them “lost” when the con- federacy went to smash, They would be none the fy of for the lost of ‘millions writtop on but how much richor they woe — on such paper; would have been if the confederacy had not gone to smash ! This explanation will enable the English public to appreciate the answers made. The Times says, “The statement thet the editor of the Times is a loser is a complete falsehood.” Certainly. Asa matter of fact he never lost a cent, for he never invested one; but that statement leaves quite unanswered the real charge that the editor of the Zimes would have been some thousands of pounds richer if he and his associates conld have gotten the confederacy recognized and so make it a success—the charge that the course of the Times on the American question was influenced by his knowledge of that fact, It is the same with the Hon. Evelyn Ashley; the same with Mr. Laird, who “never sold” any of the shares, and the same with Mr. Ridout, of the Morning Post, who “never applied for” any. It is worthy of notice that Mr, Gladstone makes no denial at all, He wishes it to be assumed that he is not one of the men in Walpole’s cate- Gory—that fe iias no price—at least none that can be counted in pounds. He only expresses the hasty desire to have his name taken out of such bad company. Perhaps he may consider that the less he says on the subject the better, “Ho that refraineth his lips is wise.’ The Times attempts to discredit the whole story of the Confederate loan, and sneers at itus a matter given to the world by the New York Hrrar, The Times dared not “face the music.” The document in question emanated from the State Department, and was one of the archives of the Southern government. It was given simul- taneously to the whole American press, + tee OSES a aS Ssorerar? Motu ‘3 Spercu.—Secretary McCulloch’s Indiana speech on the financial affairs of the country has been widely cir- culated and diffusely commented upon. The Tribune assumes that the views of the Secretary differ materially from those which we have ex- pressed; but this only shows the Tribune's ignorance of the history of finance. If it had studied the question it would find that our opinions and those of the Secretary of the Treasury were similar, differing only upon the question of time. Mr. McCulloch put forth certain dogmas which are quite practicable, but they require a tengih of tims te od EAI jen reduc! results aimed at. ion paper currency to a specie value would neces- sarily involve great difficulty in all our in- aed for waist is no necessity. Mr, McCulloch desires « re to specie currency; but he is not ambitious to accomplish it over the ruins of all our commercial interests, our manufacturing interests and our agricultural interests for the purpose of enriching the hond- holders. It is manifest that it should be con- trolled by the circumstances of the times, which, according to natural laws, are gradual in their development and regu- lar, but sure, The regulation of our financial affeirs must be like the rise and fall of the tides, not like the action of the volea- noes of South and Central America, There need be no volcanic convulsion. A little time will settle the whole financial question, without imparting any shock to the machinory of com- merce. If we were an old country it might seem expedient to.return in a hurry to a specie basis ; but the danger would be none the less for the expediency. England tried that course after the war of 1815; but the result was a general break up of all the commercial and agricultural interests of the country, which it took twelve or fifteen years to remedy. ‘The taken from the clerks it ought to be at | financial reconstruction which had ta be sccom- once refunded. Will President Johnson spare { plished after that experiment demanded all the fact and sagacity of her statesmen and financiers, and, after all, it was only time that settled it. Being a new country, with inex- hanstible resources at our command, no such policy is necessary here, nor have we any idea that such # course will be pursued. Our views, then, and those of the Secretary of the Trea- sury are, in the main, the same. The efforts to restore the country to its financial equilibrium must be gradual and natural, not voleanic or convulsive, The Most Wonderful Development of the Negro Race. Blind Tom, the negro pianist now perform- ing at Dodworth Hall, is certainly one of the greatest musical geniuses of this or any other age. With the utmost ease he plays the most difficult compositions by ear alone, after hear- ing them played but once by some other pian- ist. His own compositions are far above the average. Although his other mental faculties geem to be darkened, his musical sense is so acute that ho can immediately distinguish and name every note in the most complicated dis- cord. To this negro pianoforte prodigy wo call the attention of Henry Ward Beecher, Horace Greeley, Wendell Phillips and the rest of the abolition leaders. He is a very splendid illustration of their arguments in regard to the intellectual development of the African race. Born and reared upon a South- ern plantation, the war has emancipated him that he may astonish the world. How many more such wonders may there be among the freedmen of the South? We have diecovered a colored Gottschalk, a negro Liszt, an Ethiopian Thalberg, why should we not find a mulatto Milton, a negro Newton, a slave Shakspere, a freedman Fulton, an emancipated Ericsson, a contraband Colum- bus and a darky Demosthenes? The aboli- tion editors and parsons ought to be writing and preaching copiously about Bind Tom. He is one of the strongest arguments they could present in favor of negro suffrage. But there is another point of view in which Blind Tom is exceedingly interesting. In spite of the verdict against Colchester, at Buffalo, and the exposure of the Davenport Brothers at Paris, spiritualism still lives, and our friend Judge Edmonds is its prophet. Let the spiritualists go and take a look at the negro pianist, His ungainly body and his musical soul consort together so oddly that it appears almost probable that he is inspired by the spirit of some defunct musician, who has come back from the seventh circle of Paradise or elsewhere to 8] is ungodly generation the music of the spiritual spheres. Why not claim Blind Tom, then, ag the highest order of medium yet developed? His music is far in advance of that of the Fox Sisters or the Davenport Brothers. They could only rattle tambourines, blow tin trampels, ring dinner bells and twang phosphorescent Quitars, and they required a dark room and a select circle to accomplish even that. But Blind Tom comes out on an open platform, in the full glare of light, before «large audience-— the larger the better—and produces the finest melodies upon the best fostrument that man- kind has heen able to invent. Observe him when he is not playing and no one would ever suspect the tremendous musical genius be pos- sesses; but when he once touches the keys of the piano he is like one inspired. Is his in- spiration spiritual, or is it merely musical? ‘That is a question which Judge Edmonds and the spiritualists must answer. If Blind Tom be not accepted by the abolitionists as the most marvellous development of the negro race, and as a striking and convincing proof of the extra- ordinary capacity of the emancipated slaves, then the spiritualists should take bim up and claim him as a first class musical medium. He will afford an excellent text for the abolition parsons, if they take advantage of his appear- ance among us; but if they miss the golden opportunity the spiritual professors will not be £0 foolish as to let this amazing phenomenon pass unnoticed, Dodworth Hall is too small the audiences that crowd’ in to bear Blind Tom, Poor Kingsland, of the Academy of Music, is boasting that the upper ticr of his edifice—the low-priced portion of the house—is now filled every opera evening; but if he would engage Blind ‘Tom be would find this American prodigy of African descent more attractive than Italian singers, and the parquet, the balcony and the boxes of the Academy would then be thronged with fash- ionable people. Poor Stuart, of the Winter Garden, might profitably withdraw Our Ameri- ean Cousin and bring out our African cousin, Blind Tom. The Joyce Heth in breeches of the Museum—whose fat woman is becoming as thin ag the living #kelcton op secount of the ba Se aan have coed of exhibit- ing one genuine curiosity if he could only secure Blind Tom. Why should poor Wallack continue to persecute the public with a stapid Russian Serf, when here is an astonishin; American serf, just released from slavery and sure to draw thousands to the theatre? Indeed, we may with equal force recommend this musical wonder to all the theatrical mana- gers. Except dandy “Snm,” at the Broadway, Blind Tom is the only novelty among our amusementy this serson, Everybody the Ravel family who ave 0 vom ieee out with their flip-flaps that there are only two of them leit to look at; but Blind Tom ts per- fectly fresh, and is an good an a half dozen per- formers rolled into one, while his contortions are quite as amusing a6 thore of the Ravels, and result in a great deal better entertain- ment. Of “The Streets of New York” we had quite enough last season; but Blind Tom would empty the streets of New York into the Olym- plo theatre if poor Mra, Wood could got him to for play there, The sham negro minstrels cannot, | of course, be compared to this real negro minstrel, Blind Tom. It would be « very re- munerative speculation, therefore, to transfer Blind Tom to @ larger theatre, where the crowds who wish to hear bim could be accom- modated. But as he. has a very refined ear, sensitive to discords and unpleasant noises, he would not go to the theatres in the Bowery, where the crunching of peanuts and the “hi, hi’s” of unruly urchins would drive him crazy. In fact, we do not Enow but that Dodworth Hall, emall though it be, is, on the whole, the most respectable place in the city for Blind Tom. Davornovs Bore 1x tHe ReroBLican RANks.— | The radical republicans of this State are out | ina manifesto against the President and the republican ticket nominated at Syracuse. The | THR vas inenoe, as if willing to aid thom in thelr efforts against the nominees. This move, bet the sanction or aid of the Tribune, Ls withdraw from the republican ticket at\leas thirty thousand votes in the State, and giveth” the field with but little contest, If this is the object aimed at by Greeley in giving, prominence to the German republican move- ment, we presume that it is done for the ex- prese purpose of laying Weed and Seward upon the shelf for the future, which the defeat of the republican ticket effectually will do. In this case it would seem singular te sce Greeley and Jobn Van Buren laboring for the same object, although from far different motives. and opera- ting from different standpoints. Turow Weev’s Dentat No Dantar. ar Att.— Thurlow Weed has written another letter, not quite as long as usual, but far more evasive. He pretends to deny the assertions of the Hza- Atp in reference to a proposed coalitiow with Wood; but he denies that which was never charged, and is silent in. reference to the aecw- sation made, He declares that “there has net been, and never could be, either time or eis cumstance that would induce him to vote for Caleb Cushing or Fernando Wood.” We never charged that he would do anything of the kind, and we doubt if any person ever sup- posed that he would. We did not mention Caleb Cushing's name, and what it has to do with combinations in local politics in this city is, we imagine, more than Weed can explain. Were it not for the extract at the hoad of “T. W.’s” letter, it would have been next to impos- sible to have found a montion of the charges against him, so marked is the effort of Weed te write and yet not say a word about the coali- tion. What we did charge was that there was 8 combination between the parties named, work- ing from different standpoints and operating from their party centres, which would secure a division of the spoils of the Corporation an& jobs in the Legislature, as well as the offices in this city, to their parties. Weed has not denied it, and if he had said he would never vote forthe Emperor of France for President of the United Stutes it would have been just as appropriate for « denial »s what he did say. The facts which we stated existed then, and still exist, and we now reassert that there is a project or a coalition proposed between Weed, Wood, Sornell and Tweed, for the control of the Cor- poration offices and patronage and the legisla- tive jobs, the benefits and profits to accrue to those parties, ‘There are several big jobs coming before the next Legislature, and the session promises to be the most prolific in that line of any since 1860. There are the piers and wharves project of the Tribune, the Broadway railroad, and numerous others; while in this olty are all the fat offiges, from the Mayor down, in- cluding the heads of departments, Weed, of course, would not dare openly support Wood, but he can do it secretly, as he and his friends have boasted he has done during the war. When Wood comes to receive one part of his pay from the coalition—the election as Mayor— Weed can pretend to oppose him by supporting or bringing forward some weak man 06 a& opponent nah Deir TRO , Mustoal Affairs. Impressario Grau will return from Europe in a day or two with the company of artists which he has engaged for opera in this country, Allof them, we understand, have attained an- excellent reputation in Southern Europe, where they have aung in all the leading theatres. ‘His offective chorus and orchestra he has sent by way of Quebec en rowle to Chicago, where Mr. Grau opens his opera season; from whence he will proceed to St, Louis, Cincinnati, New Orleans, and thence to Cuba and proba- bly Mexico. As the Chicago season does not commence until the 16th of November, Mr. Grau will have a full month in New York with his leading artista, which he might employ profitably to himself, and certainly greatly to the gratification of the musical public bere. He might obtain a concert hall and give us the gems of the fincet operas with his leading artists, who would be gladly wel- comed by persons of musical taste and refinement at the present time, when the infenor singers at the opera new in progress have reduced the audiences to a condition of indifference about opera music altogether, Graa is bringing with him the ecenery and costumes for Meyerbeor’s grand new opera, L'Africaine, which he intends tg produce in Chicago, where it wilt be presented in all probability for the first time in this country, He might, therefore, give us concorts, with the addition of his splendid scenery, which ¥ been iumens¢ a | in this dull season of musical exost- lence, Madame jazzaniga—a dramatic ariiete who has no rival on the American boards—bas already arrived. She bas already acquired a fame here which has been enhanced during the fow years in which she has beea singing in Europe in the interval of her absenco, Mr. Grau is a manager of great experience and sage- city, Such an enterprise as we suggest, of concerts, with the addition of his new scenery, would not only be ex- ceedingly popular, but entirely novel, and would supply a want io fine operatic acsic, rendered with fall justice to the composers, Which is greatly felt just now. Ashe cannot obtain at present a theatre for opera it would be 4 foretaste of what we may aspect when ho givgs ns ag opera season next spring. Boca.ey's Comatvarion Trovrs, Is oxcellont troupe of arliste, Which unites song, and magic, wilt appear at Washington Hall, Harlem, on to-morrow and Thursday evenings, Professor Millar, who enjoys a very good reputation as @ magician in Europe, and who per- formod his feats of sleight of hand before Queen Victoria, together with Mavamme Millar, who made « grost success in Great Britain as & concert slager, are among Mr. Buok- company, The performances combine negro min- strolsy with ballad music and the other attractions of @ good combination company. The devizons of Harlers and ite vicinity up town will, no doubt, be glad to wel- come this metropolitan entertainment in thelr circle, e Britieh 7 GaNadtaw a Toroxto, C. W., Oct. 10, fee5, Dr. Biackbuve, of yellow fever notorioty, has been ad- mitied to bail on his own recognizances to appear when called for, and bis sureties have been discharged. A.N. Sickles, A. Potter, Samuel! Bailoy and J. and R. Quackenbush have been committed for trial at Bolle- ville ior counterfeiting om « large scale. A number of persons of influence are reported to be connected witt: them. Military Affairs at Kimira. a Oot. 16, 1965. A large sale of honpital which have lated here tn immense quantities dari place here to-day. Pilea of bed Ee her tablos, &c., were disposed of, was quite spicited, and the Prices realized wore much ‘hae was expected. 6 articles sold for more coat the government, The sale will be continued to- morrow, arr large oe ‘be realized for the vernment from the o ©The ‘extonsive mil here ts being tapidly reduced to the lowest porsible Agure, he’ One Hundred and Sixty-frst we York, which lately arrived here from Fort Jefferson, Florida, was General Banks said aa = rival and bravery at the battle of Sabine Cross Roads. —$—— ‘The Iowa Election, Bu Towa, Oot, 16, 1866. ‘the Chairman of the iblican State Central Com~ mittee of Towa anpounces that the election rare oe far indicate Governor Stone's majority to bo about 16,000, and that the Legislature will be about three-fourths ro- publican. Mrs. Barney Williams Robbed. Partaverrata, Oct. 16, 1865. os Mra, Barney Willams has just been robbed at the Con. tinental Hotel of watch, jowsiry and money, amounting to Crom $1,000 to $1,500,