The New York Herald Newspaper, October 20, 1865, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, FHIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1865. owned by him, and which was referred to Lieutenant | which there was great slaughter] is reported. It and ten, adhering to the tie vote with great sopeunmnting the out Wiets-of Cla sisal Maptiaap- NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. Volume XEX......... seceeese MQ, 292 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Sau. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway, opposite Metropolitan Hotel.—Eruiorian SINGING, DaNcinG, &0.— Youne On tux Tugrese. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. 901 Bowery.—Sunc- amo, Danomna, Buaixsquas. &c.—Srectke BuipecRoom. DODWORTH HALL, 806 Broadway.—Buinp Tom's Praxo Concants. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Open from 10. A. M. till 10 P. M. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Ermiorian Mix- @rxeLsy—Baciads, BURLESQUES AND PAwtomiues. Now York, Friday, October 20, 1865. NOTICE. New York Herald Building. TO MASONS, IROM, MARBLE AND DORCHESTER STONE WORKERS. Proposals will be received until October 25 for a Fire- Proof Building, to be erected for the New York Hurap Esravuisgwent, on Broadway, Park row and Ann street, Pians and specifications may be seen and examined at the office of JOHN KELLUM, Architect, No. 179 Broadway. THE NEWS. EUROPE. Tho Cunard steamship Scotia, which arrived in this port yesterday morning, brought European news two days later. The steamship Borussia, from Cowes on the 4th inst., also arrived here at an early hour this morning. Nearly all the prominent men whose names were asso- ciated with the rebel cotton loan have now denied their connection with that remarkable speculation. Secretary Seward’s letter to Mr. Adams, our Minister in London, with respect to the Prioleau cotton bonds de- cision, continues the subject of hostile comment in England, though the French papers in the main approve of it. Cholera had spread to Paris. In the London market on the 7th inst. United States five twenty bonds were quoted at 69 a6: Consols closed at 88% a 853g for noney. The Bank of England has again advanced its rate of interest to seven per cent. Ia Liverpool on the 7th the cotton market was buoyant at an advance of Sne-quarter of a penny. Breadstufls wore quiet, but drm, and provisions were steady. MISCELLANEOUS. News of interest from the Rio Grande border is fur- nished in our-correspondence from Brownsville, Texas, and New Orleans. Considerable of a sensation, and apparently a little dissatisfaction, had been caused in military circles by the recent order of Lieutenant General Grant, published in the Heratp of the 13th inst., direct- ing the mustering out of a large number of the colored troops, By this order the Twenty-fifth corps, under Genoral Weitzel, loses eleven regiments of volunteer colored soldiers, from the States of New York, Massa- vhusetts and Connecticut. Our correspondent speaks highly of the efficiency, soldierly bearing and perfection of drill of the sable warriors. Much sickness, attended by considerable mortality, is reported among the troops ‘on the lower coast of Texas. Affairs continued quiet on our sido of the Rio Grande. On the Mexican side of this dividing stream, however, an agitated and confused state of matters of course pre- vailed. Cortina and other republican leaders were still hovering with their bands in the vicinity of Matamoros, and skirmishes between them and the imperialists were still occurring, though not as frequently as some time azo, some of the liberal chiefs in that region remaining in a comparatively quiescent state, awaiting the result of General Carvajal’s mission to the United States, which they ars confident will result in furnishing them all the mn, money and material necessary to rid their country of Maximilian within the next é¢ighteen months. Al- ready they have received reinforcements from somo quarter, Prisoners taken on either side in these border contests have little chance for their lives. Generally a ter being subjected to a mock trial they are taken out audshot, The reported defeat of the imperialists by the repablicans at El Parral is confirmed. 1 the city of Bl Paso, President Juarez’s cypital, the angiversary of the birth of the re- public was celebrated on the 15th and 16th ©! September by the ringing of belts, firing of cannon, ons, Mluminations, gieat enthusiasm among the »le, & graud ball and other ceremonies. Many Awerican officers were present. The imperialists in Matamoros had two splendid balls ov the 17th and 24th of September, in honor of Mexican independence and the brthday of General Mejia, the commander there, which also were attended by several United States officers, including Generals Steele and Weitzel. Six thousand imperial troops were expected at Monterey on tie 26th of September, to reinforce those on the Rio Grande. Maximilian, it is said, has ixsued.a decree directing that no vessels be admitted into Mexican ports which cunnot show proper papers from a consul of his emp're in the port whence they sailed. ee South American news of importance is contained in oir despatches brought by the government steamer F orida, which arrived here yesterday, from Aspinwall on the 10th inst. The prospect is that the republic of Guile will be compelled to submit to the demands of Shain for indemnity for alleged damages suffored by the Spantsh flcet in the Pacific during the l’eruvian troubles, in consequence of being refused coal and other supplies in Chilean ports, Admiral Pinzon, who commands this flvet, has had conferred on him by his government the additional rank of minister, and been endowed with on the indemnity demands, He bas also the facilities for enforcing them. Tuough th * great indignation among the Chilean people on the subject, it is believed that the govern- mont will finally succumb,» Owing to the excitement re- garding this matier, business throaghout this lately pros- pereus republic is stagnated. In Peru the revolution continues, but drags along in a very slow manner, and no change of importance in the relations of the two hos- tle parties is recorded. In of the States of the Colomb an republic revolutionary operations were still cvntinued; but they did not appear to be of serious pro- pstions, No new revolutions are reported in any of the oiber republics of South and Central America, and they seem to be enjoying a season of quiet. ‘The North Carolina Con: ention, on Monday last, unan imously adopted an ordinance submitting to a vc the poople the ordinances forever prohibiting slave declaring the secession ordinance null and void. An ordinance to scale down both the old and new debts of the Stato toa gold basis, consolidate them, and issue new bonds im lieu of the old ones, was ed and lsid over, It provides that nono of the debts incurred by the State to aid the rebellion shall be recognized. A resolution requesting Congress to repeal the test oath imposid on the national legislators was introduc d and also laid over, The Convention, after considerable dis cussion on the matter, has decided to again meet, after the conclusion of the present session, in May, 1966, In the Mixsissippi Legislature on Wednesday of this week a proposition to place the national flag over the State Capitol caused considerable debate; but it was Gne'ly carried by a large majority. The person elected State Printer is an editor who has advocated the admis- sion of negro testimony in the courts, which fact is re- garded as a straw showing the direction of the legislative wind on this voxed question. The Benate of the Tennessee Legislature yesterday passed by one majority a bill providing for the admission of negro testimony in the civil courts of that State. The Assistant Adjutant Geueral of the Freedmen's Buroau im Mississippi, who hos lately arrived in Wash- | ington, reports that (he abandoned property in that State is now being restored to the former owners as rapidly as posable, Joe Davia, brother of Jeff. , bax made a perempto ry demand for the restoration of the lands formerly owned by both of them, and intimates that he will brook no delay, bat will take possession of the prop rty whether he receives a permit from the military authorities or not, ‘The recent application of Henry A. Wise, of Virginia, ‘who declines to take the oath of allegiance, to have re wey yp by the goveramout ceriain lauds formeriy Genera! Grant, has, our Richmond correspondent states, received from that officer a complete refusal. General Canby, commanding in Louisiana, has issued an order revoking all previous orders imposing restraint or conditions on the sale or transfer of lands in that State. ‘Treasury Secretary McCulloch has concluded to receive deposits of gold, under the authority of the act of Congress approved on the 3dof March, 1863, and to igsue in re- turn for them certificates payable on demand in gold, as authorized by the act alluded to. ‘The oxamination in regard to the supplementary or miscellaneous charges agaist our city officials was resumed before Governor Fenton at the Executive Chamber, in Albany, yesterday. Tho charges against Comptroller Brennan were taken up by Mr. Law- rence for the defence, his argument being fortified by documents and testimonials, inctuding letters from John J. Cisco, ex-Mayor Opdyke and others, endorsing the fiscal acts of the Comptroller to which the charges referred. John McKeon followed on the part of Anson Herrick, and was replied to by James T. Brady in a manner which exhausted every point, At- torney General Cochrane and Judge Advocate General Harvey sat at the hearing with the Governor. The Cor- poration Counsel's case will be heard to-day, and the City Inspector's case will be concluded by the submisiion of a written brief on Wednesday. Aletter from Major General Slocum, democratic can- didate for Secretary of State, containing a reply to the partisan charges of his connection with the Misewssippt cotton apeculation, and responses to several questions propounded by a republican journal, appears in our columns this morning. The National Congress of the Fenian Brotherhood is still in secret session in Philadelphia. Among the arrivals yesterday was Mr. P. J. Meehan, who returned recently from a trip through Ireland. He represents tho organization as powerful and on hand for the delivery of the blow. Colonel Murphy has tendered the Brother- hood the alliance and assistance of an organization om- bracing twenty colonels and othor officers and soldic:s of the lato volunteer force of the United States. The Board of Councilmen held a lengthy seasion yes- terday, President Hayes in the chair. Resolutions wero adopted requesting tho Mayor to offer a reward of a thousand dollars for the arrest of the murderer of Danicl Clafty, and directing the printing of twenty-five hundred copies of all acts pertaining to the city passed at the last session of tho Legislature. An appropriation of two thousand dollars was donated to the Industrial School. ‘The Board concurred with the Aldermen in overriding the Mayor's voto on a resolution previously adopted by the Common Couneil directing the publishing of twenty- five thousand copies of the proccedings attending the obsequies of the late President Lincoln. A resolution | directing the Comptroller to withhold payment of any bill for advertising meetings of the respective commit- tees of the Common Council, unless certified to by the chairmen of the respective committees, was offered, and gave rise to a debate, after which it was referred to the Committee on Donations and Charities. The Board ad- Journed till Monday. ‘A case interesting to government informers has been for the last two days under investigation before United States Commissioner Osborn. A quantity of whiskey was soized in May last, Kbelled and sold, bringing in | $34,586 87. The half of this sum goes to the informer. ‘There are three claimants as informer, and it was for the purpose of ascertaining which of them was the first inform- er that the matter was referred to Commissioner Osborn, who, after taking evidence in the matter and hearing the argument of counsel, took the papers and reserved de- cision. “ Accurious double marriage case was yesterday before Judge Clerke, inthe special term of the Supreme Court. ‘An Englishman named James Leach appeared and made astatement to the effect that when he established his residence in this country he left behind him in England a wife, who, after he had been here some time, be was informed was dead, and thereupon he married a second time; but recently, as he states, he has learned that his first wife is still living, and he now asks that his second ‘marriage be declared null and void. This petition the second wife opposes. The case was not concluded, and ‘was adjourned till the 10th of next month. Judze Ingraham, of the Supreme Court, yestorday dis- charged Matthew C. Cline, the man arrested by the police as a military deserter from Richmond a few days ago. ‘The Judge, in giving bis decision, stated that the man ought never to have been taken into custody. In the horse contract case of Harris versus Vining, Tilton and Tully, the seafed verdict ef the jury was opened in court yesterday morning and found to be in favor of the defendants. A gold brokers’ case was up in the Superior Court yes- terday morning before Judge Barbour. Tho plaintiff was Henry B. Fairman, and the defendants Wm. F Taber, James A. Taber and C. W. Kenworthy. The plaintiff alleged that he entrusted some gold to the defendants, who were gold brokers, to be sold. by them for his beno- fit, and that out of the transaction there was due to him still three thousand and seventy-five dollars. The answer to this was a general denial, and also a special denial to the effect that Kenworthy was not at the time am r of the irm, having retired from it before the eon and that, therefore, he could not be held Hable. The case is still op. In the case of the libel suit of Henry Dawson against John Jay, Judge Cardozo rendered a decision yesterday refusing to dismiss the complaint on demurrer for sup- posed insufficiency of cause. The defendant, on demur- rer, it will be remembered, took the position that the matters complained of by Mr. Dawaon were on their face not libellous. The decision, however, does not settle the question whether the criticisms of Mr. Jay wore libellous ‘or not, but merely goes so far as to assert that the pa- pers show some sert of case sufficient to justify allowing it to go through the regular course, The defendant is permitted to answer in twenty days, on payment of costs. Jndge Moncrief, of the Superior Court, yesterday granted a temporary injunction against the Central Piano- torte Company, restraining them from displaying or sell- ing certain instruments alleged to’be an infringement on the rights of certain manufacturers of a peculiar style of pianos, ‘The trial of George Wagner, indicted for the murder of his wife, was commenced yesterday in the Court of General Sessions. A number of witnesses testified to seeing the prisoner in tho act of striking the deceased on the back of the head with a hatchet, which literally dashed her brains out, causing almost instant death. The theory of the defence is that a man possessing such a peaceable disposition as they proved the prisoner to have would only have committed such a savage act in a moment of frenzy. The case will be finished to-day. A special meeting of the Chamber of Commerce was held yesterday afternoon, for the purpose of electing & Pilot Commissioner in place of Captain Charles H. Mar- shall, deceased. After a ballot Captain Thos. Dunham was declared duly elected, Observation of the eclipse of the sun which occurred yesterday was considerably obstracted by the provailing clouds; but occasionally rifts were broken in them, affording brief view of the intoresting phenomenon, which thousands were constantly on the alert to take advantage of. The sun's obscuration began at five minutes before nine in the morning, attained its maxi- mom at half-past ten, and ended at about a quarter past twelve, The brig Titania, of Philadelphia, bound for Mobile, foundered at sea on the 16th inst., in latitude 32.20, longitude 74, and sunk two hours after her abandon- ment by the crew and passengers, who drifted twenty- four hours ona raft until pleked up and brought to this port by the United states gunboat Florida, which arrived yesterday. Tho schooner P.C. Ericsson, Captain Ward, of New Haven, from Roanoke river, N. ©., for an Eastern port, went ashore ina gale on Hog Istand Shoals on the 14th inst,, and became disabled, She was communicated with on the 16th by Captain Conary, of the schooner Island Queen, who, finding the crew sick and worn out by fatigue, took all hands on board his vessel, and towed the Ericsson to Hampton Roads. ‘There was no matter of genoral interest before the Episcopal Convention in Philadelphia yesterday. A Jargo number of resolutions were submitted; bat they principally had reference to proposed canonical and diocesan changes. The resolution adopted on the pre- vious day, that no new subject for discussion or action should be brought before the convention after yesterday, wan rescinded, A circular has boen issued to heads of buréans in the Treasury Department calling tor a thorough examination of the employes and a weeding out of the ineficiont, in competent perfivons, It is also enjoined that wherever by this operation vacancies shall oocur prefer. once ghall be given in fling them to discharged soldiers who shall be found qualified for the positions A battle in Japan, about the beginning of September, between the furces of the Tyovom and tho rebels. in thought that peace would soon be restored. ‘The stock market was weak and unsettiod yesterday. Governments were heavy. Gold opened at 146% and closed at 146. ‘The stringency in the money market to act a3 a hindrance to commercial transactions yesterday; ‘but the changes in the markets and prices current wero not especially important. Foreign merchandise was steady and firm. Domestic produce was rather irregu- lar. Groceries were firm, with a good demand. Cotton was irregular. Petroleum was firmer. On 'Change, all grades of flour were lower, under a vory moderate in- quiry. Wheat was dull and lower. Corn was inactive and drooping. Pork opened dull, but closed higher, with amore active demand. Lard was firm, with a fair do- A New Crisis in Our Affairs— Revolution and Anarchy from the East. A stormy petrel is regarded by the sailor as the courier of an approsching storm. Espe- cially when a little flock of Mother Cary’s chickens make their appearance in an un- known sea, and beyond the sight of land, does Jack respect their coming as a solemn warn- ing. We are inclined to accept with similar emotions the reappearance of Wendell Phillips in the Gulf Stream of our political affairs, He is one of Mother Cary’s chickens, and tho gathering elements of a storm are not far be- hind him. On Tuesday evening last, in the Music Hall at Boston, this bold pioneer of the radical abo- lition faction, Wendell Phillips, delivered to an admiring audience. a lecture entitled “The South Victorious,” the leading idea of which was an irrepressible abolition conflict with President Johnson upon the everlasting negro question. Phillips takes this ground: that “State rights, the subordination of labor, the impracticability of the two races living equally together, are the principles upon which the South went out—upon these principles she returns;” that “not one single rebel State convention has even uttered one doubtful note upon any of these points,’™but that “the same men, with the same theories and with the same elements of government, are to put their hands on the helm of state.” The chattelism of slavery is abol- ished, and that is all, To this policy of the South Phillips holds that President Johnson has committed himself; that to the South Carolina rebels “he has made himself three-fourths of a rebel, in order that they may be one-fourth Union;” that the only liberty which he has to offer to the black Union soldier and all his race “is the liberty to work.” Then, referring to the President’s late speech to a regiment of negro soldiers, Phillips, holding up his pious hands, exclaims, “O God, grant that no Jer- rold, Swift nor Rabelais, with his immortal pen, hold up that speech to the indignation and scorn of the world!” Phillips believes that President Johnson is honest, and speaks his sentiments and purposes truly; that leading republican Senators and journals and State conventions betray the weakness and cowardice of the party; that the republican party, in fact, has ceased to exist ; that “there is a spectre walking through the country in its shroud, but there is no such party;” that “it has not existed since the Bal- timore Convention, when it was buried in the will of Abraham Lincoln.” The members of the Cabinet, according to Phillips, are dumb and afraid to speak what they think; there is some danger that the House of Representatives may cave in at the threshold; but, as “the people checkmated Sherman when he surrendered to Johnston, the people can checkmate Andy Johnson when he surrenders to Davis.” Now we come to the issue. Phillips demands that Johnson be checkmated, if we would avoid the alternative of “a country lashed by wretch- edness and infamy into a new civil war. Do you own a bank share? I warn you that re- pudiation is behind the President's plan. Are you a merchant, and think, when the laboring system of the South is finished, you will have a crop of cotton? Oh, no! You will bave a harvest of blood ;” and this harvest of blood will be the horrors of St. Domingo. “The negro has felt freedom, has used arms,” and, continues Phillips, he “holds his hand on the neck of Mr. McOulloch, and he can strangle your finances, because the justice of God makes his fate the measure of yeur pros- perity.” But what means all this fearful outcry against President Johnson and all concerned? What mean these awful threatenings? What does this modern Cassandra want? He wants negro suffrage, and right away. He wants immediate and unconditional suffrage to the four mijlion Southern blacks just released from the dark- ness and brute ignorance of slavery. He must have this, or we are to have another civil war, the horrors of St. Domingo in the South, “a harvest of blood,” and with it repudiation and universal bankruptcy, ruin and confusion. This is the alternative of Phillips. We have had Thaddeus Stevens preaching the crusade of a sweeping Southern confiscation to pay the national debt; we have hada manifesto or ‘two from Senator Sumner, urging the reduction of the Southern States to the condition of Territo- ries; we have heard the Rev. Brother Beecher “ringing the alarm bell” for the inevitable con- flict with President Johnson; but Wendell Phil- lips is the only trumpeter of the whole aboli- tion Jacobin faction who fally, defiantly and fearlessly discloses their whole scheme of rule or ruin. - Now, to rational men, who recognize the ne- cessity of government and laws, it will suffice, in answer to Phillips, that President Johnson, in his Southern policy, is following the land- marks of the constitution, and that in leaving the question of negro suffrage with the several States concerned he is leaving it where it con- stitutionally belongs. It is evident, however, that between the Johnson policy and the Phil- lips programme there will be s conflict in the coming Congress, We know, too, that Phillips will have his active allies in both houses from the republican camp. It becomes, then, the duty and the manifest policy of the republican party, its candidates, leaders and followers in this State, to declare themselves broadly and decisively on the side of President Johnson in regard to negro suffrage. They have the inside track, the prestige of the war and the encour- agemehis of the late elections on their side; but, with all theso advantages, if they carry New York it must be by the popular strength of President Johnsgn. They have no time to lose. Election day approaches, and the issue between the democrats and the republicans is, which is the party of the administration. ‘Tue Meppte is rue Fiera ayn Srerit Sewa- vortaL Distaicrs.—The bargain which Street Commissioner Cornell made with Fernando Wood does not seem to work since the explo- sion of ihe new ring. The Mozart Convention in tue Fifth Sonatorial district atitt atand tan tenacity. In this dilemma we will give Cornell a little piece of advice, which if he will follow bis nomination will no doubt be secured on the first ballot, and the jingle of ten and ten at once end. Lethim pay Fernando Wood ten or fifteen thousand dollars, and we have not the least doubt but that he will secure his nomina- tion without any further trouble. That appears to be the mode in which the business of Mozart Hall is done of late. We do not pre- tend that this will secure his election; but it will enable him to run. Success on the day of election is quite another affair, which we do not propose to advise him about. He must look after that himself. . There appears to be a similar muddle among the republicans in the Sixth Senatorial district. There the radicals and Weed men are divided, the vote standing ten and ten on all the bal- lots. Since the pervading rule in local politics is bargain and eale, where everything is deter- mined on the basis of dollars and cents, one of the candidates should at once maké a bid end | settle the controversy there. What isthe use of wortying the “delegates by keeping them away from home &t nights, voting hour after hour, ten and ten, when everybody knows that the managers behind the scenes are only waiting fora bid? According to the present political philosophy now in vogue in this city the highest bidder wins, Why delay? Weed will no doubt do the business for a five per cent com- mission and save all further trouble. Good Advice to the Poor Managers in Their Distressing Troubles. Blind Tom, the wonderful negro pianist, con- tinues to be the great aitraction in amusement circles. Dodworth Hall is crowded every evening with the most fashionable people, and a number of abolition parsons and spiritual professors hang about the door and listen en- tranced to the amazing melodies that the great musical genius evokes. Of course opinions widely differ as. to the source of Blind Tom’s astonishing inspiration. The abolitionists con-" tend that the African race is naturally musical, and that we have in Blind Tom a magnificent specien of the capabilities of this abused and down-trodden people. The spiritualists, on the other hand, have eagerly adopted the theory which we suggested a few days ago, and hold that the body of Blind Tom is inhabited by a good spirit from the melodious sphere— in other words, that the negfo pianist is an ex- traordinary medium, far surpassing Home, Colchester, the Davenport Brothers and the Fox Sisters. But, however diverse these views may be, there can be but one opinion as to the fact that Blind Tom furnishes a most peculiar, original, marvellous and enjoyable ontertain- ment, and, therefore, everybody is anxious to hear him perform. The success of this genuine wonder of the age induces us to kindly recommend him to those poor managers of the opera and the theatres, who are not doing anything as well ‘as they expected at this season of the year Poor Oily Gammon is‘a most terrible fellow, and seems to have already smashed up all the voices in his company except that of Signor Mazzoleni. One by one the tenori, bassi and soprani have given way, until poor Oily Gam- mon has been obliged to go out and hire acon- cert troupe to fill up the evening. This con- cert troupe is composed of a singer from the London Crystal Palace, a fiddler, a trumpeter, and a pianist who is by no means equal to Blind Tom. Upon their first appearance all of them were lost in the vastness of the Academy, like four needles in a haystack. The singer sang, but she could scarcely be heard, and her agent had to come before the curtain and apologize for her, saying that she had a bad cold ora bad something. The fiddler fid- died, but the audience could only catch a stray note occasionally, and found him more aggra- vating than agreeable. The trumpeter—we do not mean Bateman—blew his horn, but it might almost as well have been a bellows, so rapidly were the notes swallowed up by the immense space of the building. As for the pianist, he only served to remind the public of Blind Tom, who far excels all other performers upon that instrument in his miraculous style of playing. If Signor Mazzoleni did not come to the rescue with his magnificent organ, poor Oily Gammon would not know which way to turn to eke ont his little season ; but Mazzoleni cannot do the singing tor a whole opera troupe, and, if he is overtaxked, may soon break down also. For this reason we adyise poor Oily Gammon to engage Blind Tom, who will draw tremendons houses and who will pever by dowy ; ror the more he plays the better he appears to like it, so that he actually grows happier with eveay performance. Among the theatres the Broadway is the only one thet is doing a first rate business. Poor Wallack changes his pieces every night or two, when he used to run them for months, in the hope of inducing the public to walk into his pasteboard box; but the returns from the box office afford him no consolation, and he stalks about, very handsome and very dreary, half inclined to act Hamlet by way of a curiosity, and half inclined to go to Europe to meet the friends of his father. Let him engage Blind Tom and his troubles wili all be’ over. Poor Stuart is in even a worse plight. The color has fled from his cheeks; his clothes are getting too large for him; he can no longer spend the most of his time at New London, and his houses are tar below those which he anticipated at the opening of the season. If be desires to be comfortable again let him secure Blind Tom, and all will be well. The ancient Ravels, who are getting too old to cut capers much longer, still live upon their past reputations, and occupy a theatre that Blind Tom could easily fill with fashion- able and appreciative audienc®s. The Joyce Heth in breeches is vainly bothering himself about a museum, when we already have the nucleus for such an institution in the Park ; and he would find it much more pleasant and profitable to secure Blind Tom and crowd his building to overflowing. We offer this advice in a spirit of Christian charity and for the benefit of those who are now in actual need of some assistance from the benevolent. We will even volunteer to induce Blind Tom to play in the Academy or in one of the theatres in order to get the poor managers out of their difficulties. By the time that Blind Tom is ready to leave for Europe Impreseario Grau will be back here with a dozen new prime donne and half a dozen each of tenori and bassi, to say nothing of a large number of choristers. He night consent to lend poor Oily Gammon a few artists to assist. Mazzoleni to finish out the we wore to move bis sympathies by ing case; and he might also detail » singer or two for each theatre at our solicitation. But the first point by which the poor managers can’ tedeem themselves is the engagement of Blind Tom, and we should not be surprised if they were outbidding each other for him before noon to-day. Taw Democracy, TH REPUBLICANS AND PRESI- pent Jounson.—Weed, Raymond, Greeley and the principal writers and orators of the repub- lican party ‘are epending their time and direct- ing all of their efforts in trying to show that the democracy of this State are not sincere ‘in their professions in endorsing President Jobn- son. Their arguments to prove that the de- mocracy will cheat Mr. Johnson are, however, up hill work and extremely lame atevery point. Af all the principal mass meetings of the de- mocracy held in this State during the present canvass Andrew Johnson has been nominated for the succession by the speakers, and no sen- timent has been more enthusiastically cheered by the rank and file than this. Certainly this is far better evidence of their sincerity than the falminations of the editors and orators who are trying to prove to the contrary. In our estimation the democracy have the decided ad- vantage over the republicans in that respect. Many of the high priests in the latter party openly denounce the President, and a large number of the party organs are filled with abuse and denunciations of the most bitter character. His restoration and reconciliation policy is the theme which they harp upon, in season and out of season, and call upon the party to frustrate it at all hazards. There are so many of the principal actors in the republi- can party who take this course that it is neces- sary for Weed, Raymond & Co. to do some- thing else besides charging the democrats with the intention of cheating the President to prove that the republicans will sustain and support him. If, then, the republicans are really in earnest in their endorsement of Mr. Johnson, why do they not proclaim this fact by nominating him for the Presidency for 1868 at their meet- ings now being held throughout the country, and through their organs? The republicans having elected Andrew Johnson, they have the first claim to him, and by nominating him for another term they would beat the democracy at their own game. But as long as they fail to do this the inference is that they intend to abandon him immediately after election. The course which the party leaders are now pur- suing only makes this conviction the stronger, and that they are really charging upon the democracy in this State what they intend to do themselves. If they really desire to convince the public that they are in earnest they should nominate Andy Johnson at once. Raymond and Greeley can both do more ser- vice to their party by devoting their editorials to the advocacy of Mr. Johnson’s re-election than by the silly charges which they are now making. Weed should also write a letter on the subject, and thus give some life to his short and long winded lucubrations on State politics. Nothing short of a decided and earnest cam- paign in favor of the re-election of President Johnson will save the republican party in this State. * Dangzrovs Paces Wsen THE CHOLERA Comes.—The English papers continue to report the progresg westward of the Asiatic cholera. We do not apprehend its presence here the present season, but when it does come where will it first strike? Without a doubt in those undrained, unhealthy, fever and ague districts defined in General Viele’s hydrological map of New York. Some of theee districts are located in several of our fashionable precincte—the lower part of Fifth avenue, Madison square, Washington square, St. John’s Park, &c. Resi- dences located in the upper part of Fifth ave. nue, on Murray Hill, on the ridge of Broadway, in the old Bowery and upon other high ground, will no doubt escape the epidemic as they ea- cape fevers and agues and other distempers that now prevail in the lower and imperfectly drained districts. Imperfect drainage is the cause of all this, The whole system should be overhauled and amended. Members or THE Leistatcre.—The nomina- tions being made for the lower house of the State Legislature do not appear to give any encouragement for a reform at Albany. From all appearances the policy marked out by the Trilune a few days since is being followed, in which that journal declared, “It is all nonsense glecting mombers of the Legislature; you can buy them cheaper after they have been chosen.” After laying down this as the general rule, the Tribung advises its friends to “olegt all yoo conveniently can and buy as many more as you need.” This, we judge from the developments, is the rule which is being everywhere adopted. There is every indication of the next Legisla- ture being oue of the most corrupt ever known— just ihe body needed to put through the Tribune job of piers and wharves. No depbt this is (he project which the writer meant when he advised his friends to elect all they could conveniently and buy the balance needed. Farms ix THE Sovra.—Public attention is being directed very considerably towards the plantations and farm lands in the Southern States asa good investment of capital. This is just the time to purchase these estates for the raising of next year’s crops. We publish in another column a notice that General Robert Anderson, of the United States Army, offers for sale several tracts in Georgia and Florida, consisting of rice plantations, pine and hom- mock land and cotton plantations, in farms varying from five bundred to five thousand acres, We should think that if any one is able to give a secure title to the lands in the late rebellious States it 1s General Anderson. ———$———— Tum Mayoratty.—The explosion of the tri- umvirate ring which the Heratp showed up a few days since has opened the field for a-regu- lar scrub race for the Mayoralty. Wood is determined to run, and is now dressing up his skeletons so as to make a decent show; Mayor Gunther will also be a candidate tor re-election; the Citizens’ Association will run one of their leaders, either “Superior Fish” Roosevelt or one bundred dollar Herrick ; Tammany will nomi- nate some gallant soldier or an out-and-out war man, and the republicana, no doubt, will trot oul Orison Blunt—making five candidates in all. In this five cornered fight it is probable that Blunt will carry off the prize and distance all his competitors. The Mayoralty field is becoming quite interesting, to say the least. The developments bid fair to become rich and ) Splev, NORTH CAROLINA. The Convention to Hold a Sec- ond Session. Proposition to Seale Down and Consolidate the Old and New Debt. Submitting the Anti-Secession Ordi- mance to the People. THB TBst OaTa. Its Interference with the Post Office Business. ae ae ae. Our Raleigh Correspondence. Rataiae, Oot, 35, 1806. At the opening of to-day's proceedings an effort was made to suspend the rules in order to pass the erdinance imposing a per capita tax om freedmen, but failed, - AM INDIGNANT STATE AGENT, Judge Donnell prosented a lengthy petition from Mr. Thomas J. Hughes, the State agent for the purchase ef rosin during the rebetliony complaining that injustice is | done him by the State Treasurer in hie re- port. The agent ts charged in that document with having received ton thousand dollars im gold to turn into Confederate currency and buy rosin for the State; with having purchased only as much as would have cost one thousand dollars in gold, and with keeping the balance of the money on the ground that he had at some previous period advanced coin to pay wages due to the crew of the ateamor Ad vance. Mr. Hughes states that be has honestly ex- poe all the Stato money placed in his hands; that be ag falthfuliy discharged the duties of State pent, and cae the appointment of a committee of investiga- jon. - ‘THE TEST OATH. Judge Eaton introduced a resolution, which lies over, requesting the repeal or the modification of the oath imposed by Congress upon representatives from the seceding States, SCALING DOWN THE DEBT. Mr. D. F. Caldwell introduced an ordinance to scale down the State det id and new. The preamble sets forth that the old bonds are in the of men who obtained them at greatly reduced rates; that for the new war debt incurred by the State she received only a nomi- nal value; that the whole of these debts cannot be paid, and that when a party cannot pay all he owes a fair dis- tribution of his asseis should be made among all his creditors. The ordinance provides that the surer of the State shali scalo down the del since May 20, 1861, to its specre value when contracted, provided that no part of the debt which was created ox- clusively for war purposes shall be taken into the ao- count; that he shall in like manner scale down the old debt to its present specie value, consolidate the two debts, and exchange the existing bonds for new bonds bearing three per cent. The ordinance lies over. AN ADJOURNED £BSSION. Judge Thompson introduced a resolution widing for a future session, and the Convention suspended the rules and considered the proposition at once. After consider- able discussion it was decided that a second session should be held on the fourth Thursday in May, 1866. A subsequent motion was made to reconsider the vote saopting the resolution, so a8 to ne the second session until after the adjournment of but it did not prevail. 2 SIFTING TER CALENDAR. ¢'Averto exnesino. tho calender, sud to report of five, to examino e row what ordinances and resolu itis necessary act upon during the present session, and to fix a the final adjournment. The rules were suspe! os resolution and the committee a) lows:—Messrs. Winburne, Brooke, 4 and Mebane. FILLING VACANCIES, Judge Kina heerbcory an borer which was as ‘once consi an providing any vacan- cies that may ocour in the vention shall be filled by election, to be called by the Governor. SKCRBSION OR NON-SRCHSBION. Mr. Moore reported an ordinance providing for the aub- miasion to the people of the ordinance de ing sion null and void, and prohibiting slavery in the The ordinance pro; that the ballots should “for the ordinance denying the Gog of secession,’’ “against the ordinance denying right of secession,'? “for the ordinance prohibiting slavery,” and “against Ste ee ntee apes wording aoces- sion gave rise to considerable foward taking the lead in ition to the . Mr. Caidwell, of Burke, General }, Judge Brooks ang : posed any modification of the original propo- sition. Judge Howard, in a manly speech, declared that he and many others had believed in the ‘right of asa revolutionary it, and had resorted to maintain that right. y had been beaten in and, recognizing the judginent as final and power of the United States, they were no’ give up secession forever, to swear the constitution of the United States faith, and to abide the their lives by the verdict rendered of the United States, that the constitut! forever boa binding instrument upon all the the Union. He belioved tho President government were willing on such terms to recet those who had rebelled against their au accept their honor and their oath as security future allogiance and conduot ag faithful olf tho United States. ey asked nothing that could not in a be asked and in ‘rips ee But Togrotted to find a petty policy adopted State, which it was sought to drive men to the alternative stultifyiug and dishonoring themselves, or of voti seeming opposition to the government of the Uni States, Let them put the test to the as strong Janguage as thoy chose, that ti up now and forever the doctrine of and vote of the State will be a unit. them apply a toast thatthe United States does for, let them strive to make the people say not only they how and forever FH and renounce it, but they never ‘believed in {t, when many of them once di ‘and the vote will botdivided. It was only done to force & sort of political division in the State, and to enable some politicians to raise against others the false charge of dis- loyalty. All were, he hoped, loyal now; and he had. more faith in those’ who, without making toud prof6a-* sions of what they had always felt and believed, honestly srl i i ° Hl i “4 tie 32 ge: Resgeke BEE gave upall their past ideas, and avowed henceforth good citizens of the Uni }, than in those whose fierce zeal for the Union had slumbered during all the yohrs of rary and only broke out in the hour of the triumph of the Union cause. He declared {hat bul two members of the Con- fsUilon= NOs Moore and Starback—had eee pablie- ; Jnion men prior to the success ‘vion EO ee hspercgy a np papeoomareytns< eI After a good deal of debate, upon motion of Mr. Moore, the wording of the ordinance was so altered as to make the ballots read respectively, ‘‘anti-secession ratified, and “anti-secession rejected,”” and it was then passed by a unanimous vote, and the “tempest in a teapot” was at an end. - oon ‘The Convention took a recees until eeven P. M., having agreed op holding an evening session. Ts, THR THT OATH. The Hon, Willian) 4 um has written a letter to the Sentinel of this city owing the conetiitionatiy Of the tost oath, a copy of which T enclose. | The Subeortainty need some modification if the business of the United States government is to be efficiently per- formed in the States recently in rebellion. I am informed by the special mail agent here that the great trouble with the Southern mails, their irregularity and unrelia- bility, are mainly attributable to the fact that the best ‘and most capable men are debarred by the oath from filling offices and taking mail contracts. several States seceded they took with them not only the property, but the employes of the United States as well, The postmasters, agents, carriers, contractors, &c., who were and are familiar with the businoss, re- mained in office under the Confederate government, and consequently cannot now take the required oath. Yet they are now truly loyal, and the only men hereabouts competent to do the business properly. This matter should receive the immediate attention of the be ment; and if the test oath is not abolished or modified, some rule applicable to the Post Office Department should at least be adopted. The Ca: OUR RICHMOND CORRESPONDENCE. “ RicuMox, Va., Oct, 18—Evening. Some time singe it will be remembered this corres pondonce set forth the character of the application of @x-Governor, ox-Genernl, and cx-rebel Henry A. Wise to be repossessed of his estate in Virginia by the govern- ment, The papers which were submitted by Wise to Major General Terry, through General E. W. Smith, were of av claborate character, like unto everything emanating from the gray-haired re table for the past twenty years or more I remember how they were regarded at the time by the leading officers at headquarters, and therefore am not now surprised to learn that apon their reference to Lioutenant General Grant, that officer has denied the application in toto, adding a significant inti. mation that Wise must either take the oath allegiance, which he has heretofore altogether refused to'do, or take up his quarters at no very distant day in some one of the national forts. As memory serves, there was contained in the papers asking clement conet- doration, and submitted to General Grant, a distinct an- funciation by Wise of his inability to take the oath of allegiance. Only on yesterday I saw this broken down old man tottering his way from the presence of loyal military majesty, only the owner in his own right of senility and senselessness, As he passed I wondered how so much of human anomaly could possibly be vouch- eafed to one frail man. How faery to bim and bis future the tine in the (dipus nents P of Henry A. Wise. Tor Nicaracva-Caurorsta Strauens.—We have to notice the postponement of the sailing of the steamor Fricsson for California, vis Nicaragua, to Monday, Oetobor 23, ut NOs ¢