The New York Herald Newspaper, October 21, 1865, Page 4

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Proposals will be received untl October 25 for a Fire- Proof Building, to be erected for the New Yorx Hera E-vasuisamest, 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. SEWARD'S DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. We have received from Washington an interesting ab- Stract of the fourth volume of diplomatic correspondence recently published, but which, owing to the advertising spreasure on ourcolumns this morning, we are unable to give at length. The svbject of the extent of Spain’s jurisdiction over ‘the waters around the island of Cuba bad been revivéll in a correspondence opened with the Spanish government 4n October, 1863. The matter seems to have been settled. dn Juno, 1864, when Mr, Seward wrote that our govern- ‘ament had no vital interest in determining the jurisdiction ‘roforred to. Under date of November 23, 1863, Mr. Soward denies hat the United States were concerned in originating or aiding the revolution in St. Dommgo; but states, on the contrary, that they maintained the policy of non-inter- ference in the wars of other countries. ‘The subject of preventing the slave trade in Cuba was ‘also renewed ina correspondence through our Minister mt Madrid. Mr. Seward again instances the policy of meutrality in the refusal of our government to receive von informally the agents of the revolutionary autho- sities of St. Domingo. ‘ In roply to an inquiry of Mr. Koerner, our Minister at Piadrid, as to how he should regulate his conduct towards Maximilian, who was expected to make an official visit, (Mr. Seward wrote:—‘* * * * You will hold no offi- pial intercourse with any representation at Madrid of any fovolutionary government that has been or shall be es- @ablishod against the authority of the government of the Dnited States of Mexico, with which the United States mre maintaining diplomatic relations.’ ‘The St. Domingo question recurring, he wrote his be- Jief that “our government would be strengthened more Dy the establishment of republics on this continent than Dy any extension of our now very large domain.” This ‘was to dispel the fears which it was intimated Spain en- tertained regarding our aggressive policy. On the 19th of May, 1864, Mr. Seward assured the Gpaniah government very emphatically that the United Btatos could not regard with indifference the attempt to conquer and reannex the territory of Peru. Mr. Motley, our Minister to Austria, defines, mm far as the could ascertain from the Count Rechberg, the position of that country as regards the Mexican question. Maxi- gu'lian’s project was a purely personal one; and that country, not being a maritime nation, was unprepared 4o support his undertaking by sending ships or armies to Mexico. Under date of November 30, 1864, Mr. Seward con- ‘veyed @ pointed but polite rebuke to our Minister in Deumark, Mr. B. R. Wood, for having exchanged visits ‘with tho “envoy of the so-called imperial goyernment”” of Mexico. TRIAL OF WIRZ. ‘The Wirz military commission met again yesterday, when the reading of the argument of Judge Advocate Chipman for the prosecution was commenced. Alto- gether it consists of five hundred and fifteen manuscript spages, threo hundred and fifteen of which were read during yesterday's cession, leaving still two hundred spages to be gono through to-day. It ranges over an extensive field, replying to the objections which have urged to the jurisdiction of the court and analyzing immenze mass of testimony adduced on the trial, |i the principal points of which have already appeared the Heaato. Colonel Chipman divides his address Into the four parts of a defence of military jurisdiction jn auch cases as thie, an examination of the evidence and & portrayal of the horrors of Andersonville, an elucidation of the matter of alleged conegfPacy on the part of certain Webel officials to torture and starve national soldiers to ‘death, and s presentment of the guilt of Wirz, on all of ‘which he argued at considerable length. The responai- Dility of Jom. Davis, as the head of the robel confederacy, for the sufferings endured by the captured defenders of ‘Bho Union ts insisted upon. On the conclusion to-day of ‘the reading of the argument the case will be submitted ‘to the members of the court, who, after deliberating on {at im socrot and arriving ata decision, will transmit the greault of their labors to the Executive Department, and ‘whus end their connection with the matter. The court, eich met for the trial of this case on the 26th of Au ‘must lant, has been in session thirty-eight days, and has ‘@coumulated a record covering over five thousand fools- ‘cap pages. MISCELLANEOUS. ‘The North Carolina Convention adjourned on Thursday ‘of this week, to meet again in May next. Beforo ad- Wourning the ordinance preventing the Legislature from assuming any portion of the State debt foontracted to nid the rebellion was padsed. (Fhe Raleigh papers have published @ despatch to AQovernor Holden from President Johnson, in which the dolares that every dollar of indebtedness incurred assist the rebellion should be repudiated finally and !gorever, and hopes that North Carolina will wash her ‘hands of ovetything that partakes intthe slightest degree tof the attempt to sever her connection with the Union. $ Pho Mississippi Legislature on Thursday of this woek ex-Provisional Governor Sharkey to the position one of the national Senators from that State by a ote of One hundred for him against twenty-six for his thongh many of thore voting in his favor de- ared that they did not approve of his proclamation ing the reception of negro testimony in the courts, jut acted in accordance with the Instructions of their Agonstituonte, Yosterday Mr. J. L. Alcorn was elected as NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1865. the other Senator to which the State is entitled. There io a small majority in the Legislature in favor of the ad- miasion of the freedmen's testimoay in the courte, Alexander H. Stephens, rebel ox-Vice President, who was lately released from Fort Warren on parole, and who arrived in Washington on Thureday, yesterday had an interview of over an hour's duration with President Johnson. The conference was marked by courtesy on Doth sides, and it is understood that Mr, Stephens ex- pressed his approval of the President's reconstruction Policy, A republican ratification meeting was held last evening ‘at the Cooper lastitute. The building was crowded, there being among the audience a large number of ladies, and great enthusiasm was manifested throughout. An ex- cellent band discoursed music outside, while a glee club inside, with the speeches of some of the prominent lights of the republican party, gave sest to the proceed- ings to the close. The President's policy with regard to reconstruction was fully endorsed. The speakers were General Kilpatrick, Hom. Daniel 8. Dickinson, Genoral Carey, Horace Gresley and others. A large and enthusiastic republican maes meeting was also held last night in Washington Hall, Brooklyn, E. D., which was addressed by State Senator Andrews, of Otsego county, and other gentlemen. ‘The proceedings of the Fenian Congress at Philadel- phia are still enveloped in comparative secrecy. The secretaries afford only @ brief outline of the business transacted, and that of a character whose publication is Rot prejudicial to the objecta of the fraternity, During yosteraay, however, it was evident from the glad faces ‘and earnest hand-shakings of the delegates that the Con- gress had decided upon some important measure, the development of which is intimately connected with the success of their plans. Funds are promised the move- mont in great abundance. The members of the Congress are personally to subscribe half a million of dollars, ‘The steamer Atlanta, running between this city and ‘New Orleans, was wrecked on Sunday Iast, while about two hundred and eighty miles south of Sandy Hook, caused by the springing of a leak ina gale. There were seventeen passengers, including three ladies and ome child, and a crew of thirty-five, on board at the time of the disaster, of whom only one of the passengers and four of the crew are kncwn to have escaped. The sur- vivors managed to escape by clinging to a raft, upon which they were for two and a half days, when they wore discovered by the bark Wm. A. Anderson, Captain Pierce, from Mobile for this city, and were by him rescued and brought to this port yesterday morning. ‘The steamship Circassian, from Bremen for this port, with six hundred apd fifty passengers and valuable freight, having sprung a leak at sea, was run ashore on the coast of Cape Breton island yesterday or the day be- fore, in order to save her. The passengers and cargo wore all safely landed, and there are hopes of getting the ‘vessel off with slight damage. But littio damage is reported as having been caused, either on shore or at sea, in this vicin:ty, from the severe gale which prevailed during Thursday, Thureday night and yesterday; but along the New England coast it was very sever, and did much damage to the shipping. We havo already a list of betweon twelve and twenty vessels of different classes which suffered in some degroe, one of them being sunk, some stranded, and others being in- jured toa less extent. Some lives also were lost, though how many has not yet been positively ascortained. Files of late West India papers furnish us additional dotails of the terrific hurricane, heretofore noticed in our columns, which swept over some of those islands un the 6th of last month. Inu Guadaloupe it was particularly severe, Houses were lifted from the ground, torn to pieces and blown in fragments to a considerable distance, and the alr was filled with the flying debris. In one town a hospital was blown down, and all its inmates wero either killed or wounded, Between two and three hundred persons altogether were killed, the crops af the island were destroyed, scarcely a treo was left standing, and it is believed that many vessels wore stranded or sunk. A molancholy affair occurred in British Guiana on the 19th of last month. A party of several gentlemen left Georgetown on tho 18th of September to visit the penal settlement of the colony, and on their rotura two boats carrying a number of the xeursionists undertook to go oyer the dangerous falls in the Massaruni river. One boat passed thom in safety, but the other became un- manageable, and out of twenty-one persons on board, nine, including Captain Beresford, the Governor's son- in-law, were drowned. Judgment was rondered yesterday in the Supreme Court, by Judge Sutherland, in favor of the Lamar Fire Insurance Company, in a suit brought to recover from it the amount of its insurance on about one hundrod and forty-four tons of hay lost on the Mississippi river in tho year 1863 by the barge containing it colliding with a steamer and sinking. A clause in the policy of insur- ance provided that the company would not be liable ox- cepting for general average on losses not amounting to twenty per cont, and the loss in this case was only about nine per cent of the entire cargo. The motion to reduce the amount of bail in the case of Thomas 8. Cline, arrested on the application of Mr. Maguire, manager of a San Francisco theatre, for alleged breach of" fiduciary trust in the misappropriation of funds entrusted to him for the purpose of engaging artists in this city, has been denied by Judgo Ingraham, with ten dollars costs. In the gold brokers’ case before Judge Barbour, of the Superior Court, where Mr. Kenworthy and others were sued for the recovery of a certain amount of money alloged to be due to the plaintiff, a verdict was rendered yesterday in favor of the defendants. The trial of George Wagner for the killing of his wife was concluded yesterday in the Court of General Ses- sions, and resulted in the prisoner's conviction of mur. der in the first degree. Ho will be sentenced on the last day of the term. The trial of Dr. Charles Cobel, indicted for the homicide of Emma Wolfer, by procuring an abortion upon her, was commenced. One witness was examined, after which the Court adjourned till Mon- day, when the case will be resumed. ‘Three drivers of cars on the Eighth Avenue Railroad, who wore arrested by the police tor being unprovided with city licenses, were yesterday arraigned before the Mayor, who, after hearing arguments on both sides, de- cided to sustain the action of the police in the matter, but requested them to make no more similar arrests until the queation of their legality can be fully settled by a test cage, which it has been “arranged shall shortly be tried in the Supreme Court, in which the Eighth Avenue Company will be the defendants. A. J. Dittenhoeffer has been appointed by Governor Fenton to fill the vacancy in the Marine Court in this city occasioned by the death of Judge Florence McCarthy. The Surrogate has admitted to probate the wills of Philipp Stoppeaheil, George E. Mendum and Caleb E. Crane, Tho first bequeaths all the property of the testator to found in this citys home for friondless and illegitimate German children, and the second makes a conmderable bequest to Neptune Lodge of Masons. ‘The steamship City of Baltimore, of the Inman line, ‘will sail at twelve M. to-day, from pier 44 North river, for Queenstown and Liverpool. The mails will close at the Post Office at half-past ten A. M. The United States mail steamship George Cromwoll, Captain Valli, of the Cromwell line, will eail for New Orleans direct to-day, at three P. M., from pler No. 9 North river. The maile will close at the Post Office at half-past one P. M. The steamship North Star, Captain A. G. Jones, of the Star line, will also sail at threo P. M. to-day for New Orleans, from pier No. 46 North river. ‘The steamship Quaker City, Captain West, of the Leary line, will sail to-day at half-past four P. M. for Charles- ton, from pier 14 East river. The mails will clos at the Post Office at three o'clock. ‘The Fifty-sixth regiment of New York Volunteers, which was organized in Newburg, in September, 1861, by Colonel C. H. Van Wyck, then member of Congress, ar- rived in this cfty yesterday from South Carolina. It originally contained fifteen hundred men, of whom only about two hundred remain in ite ranks, though, by hav- ing received a large number of reoruits, it returns with about forty officers and atx hundred and fifty privates. ‘The Seventh regiment of the National Guard, number. ing about eight hundred and fifty muskets, was yester- day formally inepected by State Inspector General Batchelder, and paraded through some of our prinJipal streets, The mombers appeared im their new uniform, and presented a fine appearance. ‘The right wing of the Fifth regiment of the National Guard was also inspected Yesterday, and marched through Broadway, making a creditable display. Frorence McCarty, the man who, as alleged, was stabbed on last Saturday night, in the drinking place No. 9 James slip, by Dennis Foley, died yesterday from the effects of the injuries then received, and a coroner's inquest was hold in the case. The jurors, after hearing the testimony, gave it as their opinion that Foley was the man who inflicted the fatal wound, and he was com- mitted to the Tombs to await the action of the Grand dary. ‘ment of Margaret Greenwood, living in the alleged dis- reputable house 45 East Houston street, who, as charged, received a fatal stab wound on last Saturday night from ‘@ knife in the hand of William Ryder, with whom for a Considerable time she had been living on intimate terms ‘Margaret states that Ryder bas stabbed heron several ‘cocasions, and this last wound it is believed will reault im death, Ryder has been committed to the Tombe, ‘There was another sale by government yesterday, at 111 Broadway, of Mobile, New Orleans and North Carolina captured cotton. About fifteen hundred bales were sold. ‘There were two fires among cotton lying along the East river yesterday forenoon, the cause of neither of which was positively ascertained. The first broke out among a lot of the staple on the bulkhead between picrs 86 and 37, where about five thousand dollars worth were destroyed. The other ocourred among some bales lying on pier 48, and did about three thousand dollars worth of damage. A meat packing establishment and a tannery in Chi- cago were destroyed by fire on Thursday night, entailing ‘a loss of about one hundred thousand dollars, which is principally covered by insurance. ‘The Washington Foundry, in Providence, RB. 1., was destroyed by fire yesterday morning. The loss, which is about twelve thousand dollars, is covered by insurance. Afire yesterday in Charlestown, Massachusetts, de- stroyed several buildings and burned to death nino horses, The total loss is estimated at thirty-five thou- sand dollars. There were also destructive fires yeater- day in Philadelphia and Detroit, The only matter of general interest in the proceedings of the Episcopal Convention in Philadelphia yesterday was the reading of a chmmittee's report om education, reviewing the Various kinds of instruétion in the Sunday school, the public school, the academy and the college, and urging the importance of a higher moral standard on the part of parents and teachers. The late Edward Everett's residence, in Summer street, Boston, and the furniture it contained, were sold at auction on Wednesday last. The sale attracted a large number of persons; but the articles generally sold for much lower prices than might have been expected, owing to the interest attached tothem from having be- longed to the distinguished statesman and author. The house and adjoining grounds brought fifty-seven thou- sand dollars, The notorious guerilla Champ Ferguson was hanged at Nashville yesterday, in accordance with the sentence of the court martial by which he was tried. Another guerilla, named Henry C. Magruder, was also executed by hanging at Louisville yesterday. There is a rumor current in Washington and at For- tress Monroe that John Mitchel will shortly be released from his casemate imprisonment at the latter place. The Republican Convention of Oolorado has met and nominated William Gilpin for Governor and George Mec- Chilcott for Representative m Congress. Tho stock market was weak yesterday. Governments were depressed. Gold closed steady at 14634. the markets were generally quict, not to say dull, yes- terday, the demand for all kinds of merchandise being very moderate and checked by the tightness of the money market. Groceries were firm. Cotton was irre- gular and lower. Petroleum was firmer. On 'Change flour was dull and decidedly lower. Wheat was very dull and nominal, with a tendency to decline. Pork was unsettled, but closed higher. Beef was firmer. Lard was steady. Whiskey was firmor. A Close Contest, Bat a Grand Adminis- tration Victory. Our November State elections, from present appearances, will be a close contest between the republicans and the democrats, upon & popular vote heavily reduced from that of last year. Only the immense sweepstakes and im- portant issues of a Presidential campaign can bring out the full strength of the people. For @ year or two, and sometimes for three years, after the labors and oxcitements of @ Presiden- tial struggle our State elections have mostly Gone'by default, one way or the other. This rule has held good in all the State elections of the present year, from Maine to California, But, while they show, from Maine to California, a considerably diminished vote on ‘both sides, they show that upon the aggregate vote cast there is not a State, so far, in which the repub- lican majority of last year has been seriously disturbed, except in Connecticut, upon the radi- cal issue of negro suffrage. In Maine the democrats set up @ compara- tively liberal and progressive platform, but their endorsement of President Johnson was 80 intermixed with old party abstractions that it made no impression on the party lines of last year. So it wasin Vermont. In Pennsylvania, on the other hand, where the democrats were saddled with “Jerry Black Buchananism,” they have lost ground; and where the republicans flatly rejected the abomina- tions of Thaddeus Stevens, and the negro suffrage sine qua non of Greeley, they have im- proved upon Lincoln’s majority. In Ohio General Cox, the republican candidate, from his unequivocal support of President Jobnson’s negro suffrage policy, comes in with a splendid majority, notwithstanding the disaffection of the radicals. In Iowa, where the republican candidate for Governor boldly took the ground for negro suffrage, he falls con- siderably behind his party vote on the rest of the ticket, although he is elected. He was saved by the red republican German element, which in Iowa is very strong. But in none of these elections, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, were the democratic party planted fairly and squarely upon the solid platform of President Johnson; while in all of them, more or less, their copperhead leaders and copperhead prin- ciples still stood in the way. In New York, and only in New York, have the party fully recognized the mighty political revolution brought about ‘rom our four years of the most stupendous civil war since the fall of Lucifer. The engineers of the New York democracy, however, are practical business men, and do not care to fight under three times tried and thrice defeated leaders and detunct party abstractions. Hence we find that the New York democracy, leaving the dead to bury their dead, casting out the offal of the Shent- per-shent Chicago Convention, and putting the copperheads into the back seats of the syna- gogue, have fairly and fully come up to the Tatification of President Johnson’s policy, Monroe Doctrine, financial system, Southern reconstruction, nogre suffrage reservations, and all. The republicans likewise promise a large and liberal support to Mr. Johnson, and have quietly given Greeley end his negro suffrage ultimatum the cold shoulder. Thus, with the two parties on the same platform, and with a margin of only s few thousand votes between them upon an aggregate poll last fall of seven hundred and thirty thousand, the issue in our approaching November election may well be considered doubtfal. It is possible, as there are only a few local offices and the spoile of the Legislature at stake, that the vote of the State this fall will not ex- ceed five hundred thousand all told. The peo- ple, as if satiefied that the result, one way or the other, will be substantially the same, are indifferent concerning it. The stamp orators on both sides have failed to raise a breeze of popular excitement. The disaffected copper- heads on the democratic side, and the disgusted radicals on the republican side, are the most doubtful elements in the ganvase. Whether the copperheads or the radicals will wield the balance of power in defeating their own party is the most important problem at issue between Coronbr Collin yosterday took the ante-mortem atate. | them. The republicans have the advaataces of the inside track; but still, in failing to meet John Van Buren’s test of Andy Johnson for the succcesion, they may lose the race. In any event, the vote of New York in No- vember will be to Andrew Johnson the highest compliment which any President has received since the time. of Washington—the solid vote of the State in the ratification of his foreign and domestic policy. ‘The Fenians im the United States and Neutrality. It is reported by the late news from England that Sir Frederick Bruce, the British Minister at Washington, had asked Mr, Seward for an explanation of the Fenian movement in this country. If this be true, Sir Frederick Brace has undoubtedly received by this time such an answer as would properly rebuke that piece of international impudence. Citizens of the United States, whatever their nationality, whatever their faith, have the right to meet in larger or amaller bodies—to organize in societies—and to express their opinions fully and freely on any and every subject. That is exactly what the Fenians have done. So large a license is given to the expression of opinion here that the United States government did not interfere with it when the threats were against its own sovereignty; yet now it is asked to explain on this topic by the representative of a govern- ment that could not repress the hostile acta of its own citizens against us. England acknow- ledged that her laws were not sufficient to en- force a real neutrality. She would not make any new laws; and her citizens waged actual war against our government. Now she asks us to explain the very words of our citizens. Certainly there has not before been any piece of national impudence equal to this, Sustaining the supposed course of the Eng- lish government in asking this explanation, the London Times claims consideration “for the circumstances which made it impossible to check entirely the building of Confederate cruisers” in English ports. Very well. Will the Times algo allow some consideration for the circumstances that render it impossible for our government to dictate what shall be the speeches of our people, or even to dictate in what ways or how often they shall assemble for the expression of their opinions? “It was not so much,” says the Times, “the want of a more stringent foreign enlistment act that baffled our efforts as the extreme difficulty of applying any law that could be endured by a free and high epirited people to cases which so nearly resembled the legitimate transactions of commerce.” It was not the defect of the law, but only that the English people were too free and high spirited to be made subject to the law. Well, then, suppose our people also should prove to be high spirited? Does Eng- land require us to do against our people for her benefit what she would not do against her people for our benefit? Is not this giving us credit for being better than England? Has the Times recenfly changed its opiniont Is not England, as of yore, the greatest, the most enlightened and the most virtuous of nations? Are we not benighted wretches and blackguard democrats? The Times finds some comfort in the reflec- tion that, easy as it is to descant on the ravages of the Shenandoah, “no one as yet pointed out what form of eriactment would have en- abled the Crown to ascertain her destination and lay an embargo on her in the dookyard.” Let us apply this reasoning to the case toward which the Times directs it, What form of enactment will enable us to ascertain the destination of any given Irishman that announces himself to be a Fenian? Can Congress make a law that will define and do- clare exactly what extravagances his exube- rant fancy may drive him to? Is not the case quite as difficult for us as it was for those very well meaning saints across the water? Who has told the Times that we can lay an embargo on any of our citizens? If youcannot govern your dockyards, can we govern the barroom? If you cannot prevent ships constructed for war ships, manned with English men-of-war’s men and armed with English cannon, from finding their way out of your ports, how can we prevent florid or fiery sentences from find- ing their way out of the mouths of our Irish citizens, and expressing a hatred of England with which we fully sympathize? The Times considers it an additional atrocity on the part of Fenianism that it “has not the advantage of any commercial disguise or pre- text ;” and the final wickedness—the fact that damns Fenianism more than all other tacts together—is, that it cannot possibly be success- ful ; that “the English hold on Ireland is too firm to be shaken,” The morality, then, of the Confederate loan and of all the British pirates—the latent virtae—was that the South- ern States might win. Here is national mo- rality. Did any man ever write more pure British than this? At the end of all this the Times puts a sentence that it intends shall be aclincher. It entreats the Americans “to ask themselves, in all honesty, what they would feel if they were to hear of volunteers muster- ing in myriads on the Canadian frontier, for in- stance, and before the eyes of the Canadian sutborities, for the invasion of the United States?” We need not excite our imaginations to find out how we would fecl in this case. We bave bad the experience. We have feltit. We have seen men gather on the Canadian fron- tier and make their preparations for months together, perfecting plans to fire our cities, And we knew it to be done “before the eyes of the Canadian authorities.” We have seen the same men cross our borders, fire our cities, plunder our banks, murder our citizens—mur- der even the venerated first man in the nation— and when they crossed the border we have seen them screened, protected, helped away by those “Oanadian authorities.” And when here and there one was brought into a court of “jus- tice,” we have seen him discharged with his crimes proven against him; and we have been told by the “Canadian authorities” that he held the right to do what he did because he had some one’s commission to do it. Does the Times want to know how we felt? We felt an intense hate of England and her institutions that enables our people to sympathize with all who strike at her, and that will never be satis fied till it has itself given back blow for blow. Wr Weev Rerty to Ganenat. Siocumt— We have not yet seen a rejoinder from Thur- low Weed to General Slocum’s philippic on the “King of the Lobby.” Is he afraid to ox- plain this matter to the public?, The people are becoming interested, and ate anxious to know all the facts. Does Weed intend to gratify the public curiosity aroused by the letter of General Slocum. or hava Weed and bia f Grundy—filled with the same toothless gabble with which the old lady would have run on if her life had not been cut short. The Round Table gives some indication of healthy life. It has a touch of real vital fire in it. It is marred by the defect of a too pretentious style. It should relinquish that pompous error and talk the pure clear English that gives Addison and Goldsmith their greatest charm. No argument or topic is 20 high as to require any extension of the semi-Latin jargon origi- nated by Johnson, and any view urged by a newspaper will gain a new force by being stated in the simple, Anglo-Saxon, honest English of the people. The Round Table has taken up Barnum ina sensible and trenchant way. Let it goon and discuss the theatres all through in the same vein. It has there a fruit- ful field before it. The city weeklies that are really successful, and deserve to be, are Bonner’s Ledger, the Citizen and the Leader, The Ledger is con- ducted by a good business man with tact and sagacity. It has the largest circulation of any of the weeklies, It amuses and instructs an immensely large class of readers of both sexes and all ages with its well written stories. The Citizen and the Leader have the double charac- ter of literary and political weeklies. The Citizen in its literary phase is an outgrowth of the war, and is impressed with the changes that the war has brought about in our literary tastes. It. gives sketches of generals, accounts of marches and campaigns, soldiers’ songs and stories full of spirit. In its political phase it’ reflects the vague notions of reform that originated with the old fogies of the Citi- zens’ Association and leans a little toward republicanism; but ita politics are of no ac- count, and are quite subordinate to the points of excellence in its other character. The Leador represents the better class of politi- cal weeklies as they flourished before the war. Its literary character is good, and its political character also, as it represents that part of the democracy that has kept up with the spirit of the age, and has understood the growth ‘and tke necessities of tlie country. We have but one fault to find with these two latter papers, and it is one In relation to which we are disposed to give their respective editors some advice, Both journals are conducted by young editors, and we would advise those men never to let themselves be used by political cliques to assail the characters of one another. Let them not become the mere tools of politi- cal tricksters, who use newspapers, like so many stale quids of tobacco, to throw at each other. This advice comes from our own ex- perience. We have had all sorts of relations with politicians for thirty years, and in that time every little clique has tried to use us against some other clique; but they never did it. We were never at their service. On the contrary, we have always made free use of these rogues for the benefit of the public; and we recommend that course. But the politi- cians are vile material. They are treacherous, unscrupulous rogues, through and through. They know just enough of the law to keep out of the State Prison, and they owe their liberty to that little knowledge and not to their hon- esty. Do not blacken good characters in the warfare of such fellows. Tux Moszum aT THE Parx.—A gentleman nanied Banvard has issued a circular in regard to the establishment of a respectable and well regulated museum, devoted to natural curiosi- ties, mineralogy, chemistry, conchology, me- chanics, the fine arts, and so forth, and he in- vites subscriptions to the stock and contribu- tions to the museum. We should be happy to aid Mr. Banvard in his undertaking, as we have no respectable establishment of that kind in this city, were it not for the fact that in a metropolis like this the great museum ought to belong to the public, like the Zoological Gardens and British Museum of London and the Jardins des Plantes of Paris. We have, at the Park, the nucleus of a great public museum, which already attracts crowds of visitors, and only needs the attention and patronage of our citizens to develop into something worthy of the metropolis, The gov- ernment has in its archives and at the Patent Office duplicates of historical and other curiosi- ties which it can well spare for the Park mu- seum. Our consuls and sea captains should be called upon to collect and contribute articles valuable for an institution of this kind. In the Knickerbocker kitchen of the Sanitary Fair there were many things that ought to be en- trusted to the public for perfmanent preserva- tion. If the Park Commissioners will take an interest in this matter, issue circulars and call for contributions, the Park museum will soon the necessity of any private estab- lishment of this sort. A Gan@rat Ovrrianxina tHe Potrmicians.— See General Slocum’s reply to the charges of the partisan editors. Broapwar Takatee—Those who havé not been able to see Mr. Chanfrau’s admirable personation of the funny ‘Bam’ during the week, in consequence of the im- mensely crowded state of the house every night, will be Towr Pastor's Ormna Hovee.—A grand matinée will be given to-day at this highly entertaining house. The company is first class in ite Way, and the programme always teeming with fun and variety. ‘Toe ALmouamians, Organized in 1846, 80 popular as vocalists and Swiss bell ringers, sail from this port in the steamship Caledonia to-day. The troupe will fulfll on- gagements in London, Liverpool and Paris, and thon re- turn to tha Taited States. THE LATE GALE. Destruction of Shippizig on tho New England Coast. a Vessels Dismantied, Ashore and Sunk. FOUR MEN LOST OFF NEWPORT, R. L The Gale ‘in New York and Vicinity. do. ‘The Gale in this Vicinity. A very sudden and marked change came over the state of the atmosphere on Thursday night; and it was sti more changed during yesterday. The threatening clouds wore rapidly dispersed, the streets dried, and dust again became a component part of the air to be breathed by ‘human beings. All this was sccomplished by the high wind which kept up blowing great guns throughout the hours of daylight, Fora time it was feared that deptruc- tion might be wrought upon the shipping. Up to last night, however, the daniage to water craft in this port had been slight; nor had any materia! harm been done to buildings on shore, A few awnings were wrenched from their fastenings and sent kiting, and one or two heavy sign boards were thrown down, to the imminent risk of the pedestrians, but no loss of life or extensive loss of pro- perty had been announced. ‘With the exception of the stranding of a lighter on Governor's Island, and the canal boat John J. Coville, from Syracuse, loaded with oate and lumber, on the Battery enlargement (since towed off), we have not yet heard of any disasters among the vessels in our harbor or vicinity. ‘The Gale at the Hastward. Provipance, Oct. 20, 1865. The effects of the gale last night were very severe on the coast. ‘The schooner Israel H. Day, of Providence, Captain Davis Chase, from Baltimore, sunk outside of Newport laat-night. The Captain and three mon were lost. The Captain loaves a family in Somerset, Mass. The schooner White Cloud, from Georgetown, of and for Providence, is below, having lost sails, both anchors and chain during the gale in the bay last night. Brenton's Reef lightship went ashore a oe about half-past nine o'clock last night. ashore. We have no further particulars as hope Two schooners went ashore on Goat Island, Newport harbor. One of them was the Ann Leonard, from 88. Andrews for New York. Both will probably come off. The sloop Forest, of Newport, sunk at the wharf, and the smack J. C. Dexter sunk at her moorings. The pilot boats Eliza West and Pathfinder parted from their moorings ‘and went ashore. ‘Tho steamer Nereus, from Boston for New York, pat into Newport for a harbor and remained this morning. ‘At Stonington the schooner Elizabeth M. Smith, Childs, from Elizabethport for Fair Haven, with pig ifoa, sunk at tho wharf. ; The schooner New Regulus, Carson, from Elizabeth- port for Providence, with coal, lays aground ‘near the dook, badly stove aft. The schooner Mystery, Kelly, from New York for ‘Weymouth Point, was badly damaged by the schooner New Regulus dragging afoul of her. ‘Several smatior veasels in the harbor received slight Hramwa, Oct. 20, 1606. ‘The schooner Alice B., Captain Chase, from Boston for Baltimore, with ice, is ashore two miles from this place. Also an unknown ‘schooner. The schooner W. R. Glenn, from Philadelphia, a ashore, two miles from this place. Beaton, Oct. 20, 1866. ‘The gale last night was very sevore on the coast. ‘The steamer Franconia, from New York for Portland, passed Highland Light, Cape Cod, at noon’ to-day. Owe of tm Poor Mansozas m 4 New Rows. —The de. a. As we have already said, there can be no objections to poor Wallack turning book podier; but he ought to be made to understand that it is a disreputable thing to sell wares without the required license. By all means let Mr. Bernard bring him up before the Collector of Internal Revenue, and have him and his business regularly re- corded on the books and in the newspapers. Buno Tom at Dovworta Hatt.—The force of natural genius is asserting its supremacy in the case of that wonderful phenomenon, blind negro Tom. Could any of our so-called first class pianists crowd a concert hall night after night as this wonderful boy is now doing? ‘They may display a finer mechanism, a more thorough mastery of the genius of tho art, but in fire and impul- sive genius Tom leaves them all behind. Our articles, which have clearly defined his extraordinary abilities, have so aroused the interest and the curiosity of the peo- ple that crowds are turned away from the doors every night. By day Tom is besieged by professional mea, who come to test his powers in various ways. They play to him new pieces, they extemporize to puazie him and test his memory, but they find him apt and ready, and able to meet them upon every point, and they leave him‘ astonished and wondering at his extraordinary gifts. ‘Tom has now got a new passion. He has taken a fancy to the cornet.a-piston, and in a few days he has ecoom- plished what it would take others a year todo. His mu- sical genius is evidently so comprehensive that he could eee en as Shae SAMMI TSING, foe he undertook to Tom hase voice, and long we shall display of bis vocal abilities, once are of no moan order. Tom is indeed a wonder, wed cannot be imatehed in the whole range of musical phenomena. Tex New Yore Panaanmomo Socurr.—The seconé rehearsal of the first concert of the twenty-third seasca: of the New York Philharmonic Society takes place this afternoon, at three o'clock, at the Academy of Music. The instrumental pieces to be rehearsed are Robert Scha- mann's symphony No. 4, in D minor; Poeme Sympho- Cunwrv's Firrn Avawos Oraxa Hovsa,—The Christys, one of the oldest as well as tho mort excellent companics of minstrels who have made Ethiopian epera popular | throughout the country, are about to build a splendid new opera house on Fifth avenue, on the site of Gallaher's Evening Exchange, This is but another of the theatrical ‘enterprises of this character on foot in the metropolis, and which include the new French theatre, now ia course of construction, and the theatre contemplated by Barney Wil. liams. Christy's house will be of fine proportions. The height of the auditorium will be forty-nine fect and the dopth seventy, seated throughout with Allen's patent opera chairs. There will be a gallery capable of seating four hundred persons, while the parquet will con niently accommodate six hundred. The depth of the will hue adents the mal nt eh, dt 2 ee ‘and machinery. the opera house will be a great Maaition to, the wocstlty beleced, aa wollas a great convenience wo uplown people Montrxesmen’s §OPrRna Hoos. —This eatablishment, whioh is situated In the Bowery, will open to-night for the first time with a eplendid bill, represented by one of the largest companies in the city. It includes no leas than twelve male artiste—Mr. Tim Hayes, the celebrated clog dancer; Mile. Julietta de Monfrene, promiore beetrot M. Guiseppe de Carolla, dancer, and eighteen Jadies of the corps de ballet, sciietantooma nan entertainments of the Bowery ays pera refined and more rational, and yt ant i cae has for 80 tinued to damage the morals of the ry a vicinity—‘‘a consummation devout; devoutly to 00 4