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‘being advertised. ‘The republic of Mexico ‘has come to this market as the most favor- able: for subscriptions to its bonds. The Fenians are also asking for 4 loan, and thus we ‘find New York rapidly becoming the financial centre of the world, and, in less than one year after the suppression of the rebellion, two foreign loans presented to our capitalists, We may soon expect to see every government on the Western continent applying for financial ~assistance in our market, and at no distant day some of the Powers of Europe will be in Wall atreet with their bonds. Complication of Our City Government. The reference made by Mr. Brady, in his @peech before the Governor at Albany, to the patchwork government in this city, really etrikes at the root of all our evils, Through the intrigues of politicians for place and the Jobbery of the lobby around the Legislature our city charter hes been tinkered and over- thauled, new departments created, and/ the re- @ponsibility divided and scattered around to uch an extent that we now present the anomaly of some half s dozen separate adminis- ‘trations, all working on their own hook, re- sponsible to no general head, and in many instances not only conflicting, but pretending to perform the same duties. In some instances the city is obliged to pay two parties for the same “work, and then not haye it half done. The ‘checks and balances have been, through this system of Albany tinkering, so generally re- «moved that no person can be held responsible. ‘Whenever an effort is made to hold an offi- -cial accountable it is thrown off on. the shoul- ders of some one else, over whom that official ‘bas no control whatever. Thus, between the numerous commissioners, supervisors: and coun- ‘ty government, ciiy departments and the Com- ‘mon Council, our taxes are rapidly increasing, sand there is no possible way, under the pre- gent law, to arrest it, since there is no way of holding @ check upon any of the half a dozen administrations. The Supervisors and county officials push ‘along by themselves, and have full au- thority to do just as they please and spend all the money that they wish, upon their own edict. Tle police, fire, excise and ‘charities commissions make their expenditures, present their bills, and there is no power that oan say yea ornay. The finance and tax de- partments the same, and such is also the case, toa greater or lesser extent, with all the heads of departments, Amid all this stands the Mayor, like a figurehead upon a ship, perfectly useless, ‘except as an ornament. He may do very weil as @ clerk to the Common Council, attesting to their ordinances, visiting ships or receiving guests from abroad, but beyond this he is a mere cipher. It no doubt sounds well abroad to ‘have it said that we have a mayor of the -oity; but in the administration of the cily wovernment he is, under the present compli- seated laws, of no account whatever and is actually prohibited from doing any good #hould he be ever so well inclined. This con- ‘dition of affairs is a disgrace to the city, and ‘should be remedied at ohce. The Mayorshould ‘be the recognized responsible head of our city jgovernment—not only in name, but in fact— and all the commissions and departments so many cabinet officials, working under his eye and amenable to bim for all their deeds, This sould effectually put an end to the conflict of sauthorities pone 88 payment teas “depart «ments for the same work.: Whenever anything es wrong there will be some chance to cor- wect the abuse; for there will be a responsible dead. The Chinese government—which is said to be the most democratic of any in exist- ence—has several distinct cabinets, not only in their general but local administrations. Thus ‘the Emperor has a cabinet of war ministers, a eabinet of foreign ministers,a cabinet of finance ‘ministers, and so on in every department. ‘When any question of war is at stake the cabi- of war ministers are called together; in Binance the cabinet of finance ministers are e@onsulted. ach of them is responsible to ithe Emperor for all that it does. This form is \said to extend down to the smallest municipal ‘administration in the empire. Would not this jplan be infinitely better than the conflicting, irresponsible, headless half a dozen municipal governments through which our city is ruled at present and continually swelling our taxes without its equivalent? Preswwent Jounsox’s Pian or Reconstrue- tion.—The recent speech of Secretary Seward at Auburn was more ingenious than ingenuous, In one passage he attempia to clatm for him- elf all the credit for President Sobnson’s plan of reconstruction, Ho insists that it is not a mew plan; that it is not Andrew Jobnson’s gplan; but that “it is the plan which abruptly, pret distinctly, offered itself to the last adminis- tration.” Yet, im another portion of the same speech, speaking of the clomency granted to the late rebels, which lies at the bottom and is one of the real foundation stones of the recon- gtraciion idea, Mr. Seward asks, “Ate you ‘aware that President Johnson’s terms of am- mesty to offenders are far more rigorous than those which were offered by Abraham Lin- «olnt” Now, if the terms of amnesty are more wigorous, how can the plan based upon those terms be the same? Secretary Seward is de- cidedly mistaken. President Johnson’s plan ds emphatically his own. A Sorr Answer Tursera Away Wrara.—In Secretary Seward’s speech at Auburn he tries Ko silence his enemies by complimenting them. We puffs Blair, who bas been abusing him. Ile Fox, who connected him most injuriously the Fort Sumter affair. He puffs Chase, who quarrelled with him. In short, he puffs @verybody, even including Secretary Stanton. But he goes too far when he claims that Presi- ident Lincoln’s Cabinet was “harmonious,” and ite members “loyal to ench other and their phief.” Are we to forget that Seward and sara disagreed so violently that they both ered their resignations, and had to be juieted and brought back again? Are we to t the Chase-Pomeroy circular agairst Lin- Int Are we to forget that Blair's “time had ”” Why, Secretary Seward shows in this speech that Cameron was turned out for Won; that Chase gave way to Tessenden, 1d Fessenden to McCulloch; that Fox, and Secretary Welles, has really culed the Navy ‘tment; that Usher succeeded Smith, and larlan succeeded Usher as Seoretury of the \erior; that Blair was ousted 10 make room Dennison, and that Bates was got rid of in of Attorney General Speed. Here are changes wad half a dozen resignations in years, Do you eall that harmony or ath? But why meglevt poor Bates? dant anu menien Wim, + B. Stillman, , oo UNBW ) XORK . HRRABD, LOCAL POLITICS. WASHINGTON. ‘Wasurxatow, Oct. 21, 1865. THE BRISCOK TRIAL. Judge Advocate Burnham closed the proceedings in the Briscoe case yesterday by a brief argument for the prosecution, in which he bore very lightly upon Briscoe and his misdemeanor. The commission now has the case, and will undoubtedly bring a verdict against the accused at an early day, Pubiic opinion as well as that of the commission and other officers of the army has taken a strong turn in Briscoe’s favor since the trial commenced, and the verdict will probably be coupled with a recommendation to Executive clemency, THE RAM STONEWALL, The United States sorew vessels Hornet and Rhode Island have been ordered to proceed to Havana to seoure the quondam rebel ram Stonewall and convoy that craft to New York. They will be absent about aix Weeks upon this commission. The Hornet sailed at noon to-day, and her consort leaves to-morrow morning. ¥KES OF PENSION AGENTS. Numerous complaints have lately reached the Secre- tary of the Interior im reference to certain fees charged by agents appointed by the Department, Only such fees as are legally authorized by the respective State laws for administering the oath necessary in the preparation of ‘Pension documents and certifying thereto are allowed, and any chargo whatever beyond thoge authorized by the statate are illegal. The Secretarg of the Interior bas further decided that hereafter pension agenta will be required to exhibit the vouchers which pensiovers are made to execute under oath when receiving their semi-annual stipends. NATIONAL THANKSGIVING. A committee, appointed by the Congregational church of this city, are about to call upon the President to Petition that the 80th inst may be vet apart as a day of national thanksgiving. PRRSONAL. Genoral Grant leaves for Philadelphis at eleven A, M ‘to-morrow, but will return by Tuesday morning. Commissioner Orton and Chief Clerk Whitman, of the Internal Reyenue Bureau, are both absent, but expected back to-morrow. The former will probably send in his formal resignation on Tuesday, General Stahl, Superintendent Sells, of the, South- western Indian Agency; Major General Tom Crittenden, and whilom Congressman J. M. Curry, of Alabama, are in the city, A RECORD OF ANDERSONVILLE. The Quartermaster General is having printed a pam- phlet contaming the names of the Union soldiers who died and were interred inthe Andersonville cemetery, together with other matters of interest in that con- nection. BOUNTIES TO_NEGRO VOLUNTEERS. Tn accordance with a recent opinion of the Attorney General, the Second Comptroller has decided that all colored volunteers shall be placed on the same footing with white soldiers in regard to bounty, and paymasters are instructed to pay them accordingly. This decision will, it is supposed, call for an additional twenty millions of dollars. MURDER OF A WOMAN. Harrict Wilkes, alias Houghton, was found dead this morning at her house, in Thirteen and a Half streot. It is supposed she was killed by her former paramour, Levi L. Farwell. Marks on her neck indicated that she had been strangled and subsequently pushed in a closet, where the body was found. The coroner's jury returned a Verdict, based on the evidence of a physician, that they believed chloroform had been administered and that she was subsequently choked. The murderer robbed her of gold watch set with pearls, diamond rings from her fingers and other jewelry. The deceased was originally from Albany, SHORT OF WATER. ‘The city authorities are in a high state of anxiety on the water question, in consequence of the drought that has prevailed in the district for several, weeks, The supply in the Georgetown reservoir is very low and quite. impure. Yesterday the Secretary of the Interior was notified of this fact, and instructions were at once issued to employes in the different departments to exercise the strictest economy in the use of water. ‘In this way only the serious inconvenience of dry fite pluga, &c., can be averted fora time, inasmuch ag there are no indications of @ coming rain. deat ib hl Hs aa YT” “SiRAMBOAg inspscrion. a? NRW YORE. Captain William Bradford has been eppoitited Supervi- sory inspector of Sieamboats at Néw York, vioo Thomas THE RIVER QUEEN TO BR MUSTERED OUT. The River Queen, Captain Bradford, left for New York Inst evening to be there discharged from the government service. ‘The Physical Condition of Captain Wits, ’ Wasuxeron, Oct. 22, 1865. Captain Wirz was on Saturday examined as to his physical coudijion before the Milltary Commission by Dr. Bates. While the examination was in progress Dr. Ford, the physician at the Old Capitol, came in and was called to the stand, und testitied to the following effect: —He had attended the prisoner since June last, and frequently ex- amined his right arm, which was much swollen, inflamed and ulcerated im three places. The arm appéared to have been broken, and a portion of the bones were dead. He did not know how much strength the accused had, but his condition vas such that he could not knock a man down or lift a be: instroment with nis right arm with- out inflicting injury nyon himself, the bones being de- ceased (pecrosis) wre! Lis arm being so seriously ulcerated, Dr. Ford alvo exaruined the prisoner's left shoulder and found there a large sear, and one-half of the main muscle of the shoulder gone, only the front portion being, left. The efloct of this was to provent a .perfect ele. vation of the arm above the hend, but no material cilect in the inflexion of the arm in othor direo- tions; as, for iustance, he could move it from the elbow, and was capable of striking out with some force from that point. Iwo fingers of the right hand are slightly coutracted|—the result of injury to the nervous system, Both legs of the prisover are covered with dark brown sores, ax though th had been at one time ulcerated, There were alee trares of scurvy in hissystem, He was now much prostreted, and in his present condition could not do much violence to any one. He was scorbutic, and had beon so for some time. He might phsh a per- son down, hut could not do @ greater act of violence with- out inflicting great injury on himself. The witpess, in reply to ihe Judge Advocate, said he only spoke of the prisoner's present condition, and had no reference to what his condition might have been a yearago. He should not thik his right arm was in a better condition in 1864 than wow from all appearances. He could not with certainty as to that; but the wounds look as if there had been ua extensive injury to the bones and tissues, Witness could not say whether the wound had ever been healed. aud thie was the second breaking out; but when the prizoner came to the Old Capitol his wounds were tn the same condition as at present. ‘The prisoner, by permission of the Court, made the following statemont;—-In 1963, his health beginning to fail, he ask! and received » furlough and went to Bh. rope, and after #n examination by several physicians he ad his arm operated on at Paris, and the doctor there told him that all the dead bone bad come out. He after. wards went to Engiand und shipped to this country, and while on shipboard Lis wound broke out afresh as it was now. Dr. Bates, who was examined, said he concurred en- tirely with Dr. Ford's opinion. fe had seen the prisoner several times at Andorsonville, but had never examined him there, He had, however, noticed that Captain Wirz was deficient in the use of his right arm, but did not know the cause of it. From the present examination the witness found the prisoner's shoulder deficient from the destriction of a portion of the main muscle, He considered the prisoner bad suffered from scurvy, and probably {tor syphilis. He certainly gave indica- tions of syinptoms of syphilitic taint. Ho did not think the prisoner ce ishuent on an News from New Orleans, Camo, Oct. 22, 1965. New Oricans dates of the 15tb ray a circular from the Freedmen s Bureau states that abandoned plantations, geod, (mplewents and auimals will not be given to freed. men by (he government, as they expected, and that lands will be delivered ouly to these who can show they have the capiial necessary to buy seed, tools, animals and carry on farms in a proper manner; and it advises all who cannot do so to make contracts for labor with planters or others neediny their service. The Now Orleans Times (Union) strongly urges the abol- ishiment of all freedmen’s bureaus. A democratic meeting at New Orleans has passed reso: lutions asking that the sdme clemency be shown Jeff. Davis as Ww other leaders in the late rebellion, and do- nouncing Thatdews Stevens and Charles Sumner av having raised » vindictive, wnchristian and un-American clamor for Davis’ blood, SovTMeRs Manet x. —('aptain John W. Magill, act- ing seeret ory of the Georgia Land and Emigration Com- pany of Sivannab, Ga, hex inangurated the emigration of free while labor to the South, On Saturday Jast he shipped one huedred and ton stalwart mon, mostly div- charged volillor tw work for Gulk Rested, per cua'ly destroyed daring the war These Meh ace bo re tye tery Jollae® per. month and found, the price of paawnge ve be advanced andl deducted feum Uap wagon tah The Senatorial and Assembly Nominations. A LEGISLATIVE MONOGRAPH. ke. York. The doubt which has hung over every point in the legislative programme has been im a good degree dis- Pelled by active consultations during the past three or four days, and it ie now possible to indicate pfetty near- ly the list of representatives which will be elected here for 1865, exclusive sway. Charles G. by Tammany, the ri This LJ &. The Tammany Hall Senatorial conventions will be held to-morrow evening, and make nominations for the four districts inthis city. All the other parties and factions ape generally holding back to see what Tammany Hal) will do. The vote is now so overwhelmingly on the side of the latter organization in this city that only the most reckless mismanagement could prevent the election of a Solid democratic delegation to both houses from New YEE FOURTH DISTRICT. ‘The Fourth Senatorial division, or district, comprises the lower portion of the city below Houston street, the Bowery and Division street. It has presented én unu- suaily mysterious aspect in this canvass thas far, the very sharpest courters of the lobby from Albany being ‘entirely baffled about it. Two facts only are now certain as to the “Old New York’? district. William M. Tweed, the trenchant chairman of Tammany Halt and of the city Sonate—the Board of Supervisors— holds the Tammany Convention, and will positively have the nomination tendered to him. The Mozart organization is only conditionally demonstrative in this region, and its regent, the Hon. Benjamin Wood, M. C., is a constructive candidate, with full jurisdiction and Like Poter B. Sweeny in the Seventh district—who will probably receive a complimentary nomination there, and would accept it upon no sort of persuasion—Ben Wood has been made a candidate for the vindication of the interests of hia district and organization, With the certainty conceded to Cornell in the Sixth district, it may be doubtful as to Twood’s pur- poses about running, and hence also as to Ben Wood being in the field, and ergo the entire subject of the Senatorial canvass in the Fourth district continues as mysterious as ever. One point has been determined in the matter thus far asthe result ef Ben Wood’s being brought forward, which is, the probable consolidation of forees by all the factions on any nomination by Tam- many—including the republican vote—should Ben be in the race for Mozart. This, however, is not on any per- sonal ground, but for reasons of organization. TS FIFTH DISTRICT. The Fifth district reaches from the Bowery to the East river, between Fourteenth street and Division street. Cornell will be nominated here and sustained by more or leas (probably more) of all the outside organizations. He has already the soldiers’ nomination (he was Quarter- master of the Seventy-first regiment); the McKeons also have been captured by him, and, as ©. Dean, the republican nominee, he will be strongly intrenched among the conservatives or his old whig associates of the opposition before election day. His fight for the Mozart nomination and support would indi- cate that he divides the honors of those cohorts, as ruler of the classic Mackerelville, with the Hon. Daniel Mor- gan O’Brien. THE SIXTH DISTRICT. ‘Tho Sixth Senatorial district, which has been repre- sented by Senator Laimbeer, lies south of Twenty-sixth street, and comprises the Sixteenth, Kightecnth, Ninth and Fifteenth wards. The outside democratic orgapiza- tions have named Vincent C. King in this district, and the republicans have had frequent ballotings, which seem to indicate that Assemblyman Thomas E. Stewart, of the last Legislature, will be the republican candidate. The Tammany nomination will be given to Robert C. Hutchings, the Assistant District Attorney. of this district promises to absorb the chief interest. of the city campaign. With both King and Hutchings in the field, #tewart will have a clear course; butthe proba- bility of this ts very uncertain, since the race between Stewart and cither one of his antagonists does not pre- sent, perbaps, a thousand votes of margin in favor of the democracy, at the best. Then, this district comprises the aristocratic portion of the city, where the obtuse tactics of the Citizens’ Association and the fickle politi- cal quicksands of the “high-cality,’’ renders the naviga- tion of the rising statesman extremely uncertain by showing him very curious errora'in his caloulations and soundings when the votes are counted. all that may be said about bargain and salo in this istrict for the benefit of Raymond's Senatorial aspira- tions or Weed’s little matters, it will probably be found at the polls that only one democratic ticket will have to be canvassed. With two such suitable and engaging candidates as Hutchings and Stewart in the field, how. ever, and the battle cries of a St. Germain! « St. Denia! this polished, fashionable and ambrosia! district must experience a decided sensation, affording sport envugh, possibly, even to distract the attention of John Morrissey, Esq., and Mr. M. C. Wood, from leas exciting matters of this nature elsewhere. THE SEVENTH DISTRICT. In the upper Senatorial district, the Seventh, repre- sented by Senator Fields, the efforts made by his friends will secure him @ renomination from Tamman, The inability of Oliver Charlick to sccure the or McKeon nomination exhibits the entire demoraliza- tion of the outside organizations in that district. while val nominations of Charles O’Conor and W. McLean indicate a determination to elect either Mr. Fields. or his republican antagonist, stood, will be Thomas Murphy of the Twenty-first ward: js a man of wealth, belonging candidate the extreme liberal flank of his Fourteenth wi 5— Parts of Eighth, 6—Parts is year on any ei shall coatinne the vote there will be very close, It comprises Twenty-first and Twentieth of Twenty-sixth street, THR ASdRMBLY NOMINATIONS. ‘The Assembly nominations will be made by the Tam- many conventions on Thursday evening, the 26th inst. ‘We give a list of them as his who will not permit a division of their vote ron ‘any of the caudidatos, If thiaaspoet of the H. A, Cargill, radtord (Public Admints- of a snug salary of two thonsat I eae to Albany. diversion this bit has a pore us rent hastened. those | pendent habit, so that they now seldom meet wearee half the “business’’ they formerly accomplish withont salary, THE NOMINATION OF ANDREW BLRARLRY FoR 8u- PERVISOK. The misunderstanding in regard to the Supervisorship in the Republican County Convention hae been closed Tt arsso out of the assump- of the Twelfth Ward, was te be au- jeakley, whove politienl identity with KE city fie =e wi unterste up and fully harwoniaed. tion that Mr, Davi perseded by Mr. the lower such that the past four however, that foregone conclusion) dees acu ward, on what is known as th loom ingdale road poston tte the tnternal % Tenldenice not Suyervizor Bleaier oth We Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New York, which: had been closed for repairs eiuce August, was opened October 16. The Hidden Hand and Fanchon draw well at the Rochester Opera House. Mise Mollie Williams sustained five characters in the Wizard Skiff, at the Opera House, Pittsburg, Pa, October 20 and 21. Felix Vincent played Tony Bavard. The St. Charles theatre, New Orleans, was being ren- ovated, altered and repsinted October 14, Mr. Ben de Bar was to open it witha talented company, including “Dolly” Davenport, Annetti Galletti appeared at two ballet entertainments in the Academy of Music, New Or- leans, October 14. Mr. Proctor appeared as Jibbenainosey, the avenging demon of hig race, in tho play of Nick of the Woods, at Gienn’s theatre, Norfolk, Va, October 17. On the 19th of October he took the leading character in Jack Cade, the English bondsman. Mrs. Fred. Meek and Jerry Taylor support him. Toodles is on the boards at Templeton’s theatre, Vicks- burg, Miss. Miss Alice Vane sings Boautiful Dreamer and Jabel Vane dances the Highland Fling. Orlando Brace appears as Gregory Jumble, The audience which fills the house in Vicksburg is of a very heterogeneous character, but exceedingly critical in its taste. Messrs, Mills & Breyer open the Academy of Music, Milwaukee, Wis, a8 a theatre on Monday, October ‘23. Miss Julia Daly is engaged as @ star in comedy, Tho Canterbury theatre, Milwaukee, openg every night with Ethiopian comicalities, songs, dances and burlosques. At the now Casino, Richmond, Va, October 19, tho elder Denville, gymnast, carried Miss Mary Florence, one of the troupe, on his back over a tight rope stretched across the house, A Mobile (Alabama) journal complains that very few of the ladies of that city attend the dress circle of the loading theatre. ‘The ladies state that they do not ap- prove of Camille, which is now boing played there, rejoinder the editor prints, “Hons suit qui mal y pense,’ and recommends it to the attention of the ladies an a sound aristocratic maxim. Miss Leo Hudson plays Emily St. Evremond in the Ticket of Leave Man in the Louisville (Ky.) theatre. The Wilmington theatre, Wilmington, N, C., was re- opened October 19, with a new company. DEATH OF AN ACTOR. ‘From the New Orleans True theatros in the Crescent Cit rted this life on Wedn jonee on Franklin street, near wat a native of England, and aged thirty-nino years, the last twenty of which were passed in different times he has been connected with all our city theatrical establishments, and was an actor of considera- ble merit, besides being a won the esteem of all who, it is underg far as they have been ap- proximately determined, leaving those districts blank where the vote at the polls or the nominations may be fairly considered as doubtful. Renom! — thus.* 1-1 Second and Third wards, Wm. Miner @. L. Smi declining). 2—Fourth and Bryan Gat a 8—Fifth and Eighth ~s Geo. a er (former Fk 9} Sixth, Seventh, a Se and th Ninth and Fifteenth wards. of Tenth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Soven- toonth wards. 1—Parts of Ninth and Fifteenth wards. 8—Parts of Seventh, Eleventh and Thirteenth wards, Jacob Seebacher.* 9—Sixteenth ward. 10—Seventeenth ward, Thos. J. Cramor.* Ti—Twentieth ward, Alexander Frear. 12—Eleventh and Seventeenth wards, Joseph A. Lyons.* 13—Twenty second ward, B. P. Fairchild. 14—Eighteenth ward, Gideon J. Tucker (Surrogate). 156—Twenty-first ward. 16—Nineteeath war 1i—Twelfth ward, trator). THE SALARY QUESTION, ALDERMANIC AND COUNCIL- MANIC. Nearly all these nominations will be brought forward by common accord of the several grand melee of strength on a division tions, being reserved for the munictpal elections, The reason of thia moro particularly is the fact that the forty-one places of aldermen and councilmen sinoe the act of last session, now positivel as “Archy hebtios of rd morning, at his lato resi. Poydras. Mi ow Orleans. At hearted man, who knew him intimately, At the termination of the Varieties season last spring he formed, in connection with Mr. Gobay, a troupe of per. formers, with which he went to Tei considerable success. tracted a disease which speedily terminated his exist. i was buried yesterday afte and played with ly, however, con- ence. Mr. Campbell being followed to the grave by ma He leaves a young wife to lament bi [From the Natchez Courter, Oct. Mr. Campbell made many past summer, as manager of mourning friends. watimely ‘taking 0.) hile in this city the Barrett ina Present the attraction per annum, while the islative places offer only three hundred doliars with an The place of councilman, fort of 80 little account, has suddenly absorbed the strife of she usval Assembly candidates, and hence an important To be ® councilman is now the ition of the wards. This effected one other curiona result. people into a more leisurely and inde- Literary Intel THE HISTORY OF THR One of the most frequent impositions on the reading public in the prosent age is the publication of historios individuals who have not heard a hostile gun fired nor beheld a single battle feld We have had works of mach pretension, ‘and, for that mattor, much ability, but wnfortunately of little truth, from various prominent mon, from dis. Lnguished abolition editors down to petty Connecticut preachers, who have never roved farther beyond the imited confines of New Haven than the purliews of Frank! n square; from colonels and aids-de-camp, who have all the private, papers of the generals of whom they write, down to tho majors and aides-de.camp who make history out of lopg winded conversa tions with intelligent contrabands of the works on the war thus far the diMentty bas beem that the writers have been ‘cmmiped either by Ignoranes oF patronage. These works v invaluable to those who agroe with their anchors as wo the ofigie and the political features of the war, bot of the late rebellion, by oy property, on te «the inoammbent of enee Depertinem and tiv en im the Eighth ward Superior Megkiy wil make au hae digerd, ONDAY, | OOTUBER, 23 1865. MUSIC AND THE DRAMA. Musical Intelligence. Mr. Uliman, formerly director of the New York opera, announces the third and last season of his Patti concerts, im the course ef which he intends te visit Berlin, en route for Warsaw, St. Petersburg and Moscow. The concerts will commence in Berlin, at the saloon of the Musical Academy, on the 16th of next month, with Carlotta Patti, Viewxtempe, Alfred Patti and M. Jacl, pianist. Duyachock and Kontsky are also engaged, besides seve- ral other leas distinguished virtwosi, and ag tho prices are quite moderate (from fifty cents to a dollar and a half) the entertainments given by the enterprising American manager will no doubt be numerously attended. Max Strakosch announces the grand opera in the Young Men’s Hall, Detroit, Michigan, from the 284 to the 26th of October. Srnani, Martha, JI Trovatore and Faust are selected for a numerous troupe, Sem Sharpley's Minstrels, with eighteen stars and ‘everything new,” were at Critgenden Hall, Titusville, in the oil regions, October 18. The petroleum aristocracy and people have turned the old Presbyterian church, ‘Titusville, into a grand concert hall. The Seventh and Twenty-second regiments, New York State Militia, are preparing for their annual, promenade concerta, The concerts of the Seventh will commence Saturday, October 28, and those of the Twenty-second on the 11th of November. The Elixir of Love, Euglish opera, is popular at the Academy of Music, Chicdgo, where Mr. Castle, Mile. Augusta and Miss Cooke are favorites. An opera house and first class theatre are to be estab- Mshed in Memphis, Tenn. ‘The Great Weatern Light Guard Band of Chicago gave ® concert in Masonic Hall, Pittsburg, Pa., October 19. Mons. F. Jehin Prume, a violinist from Europo, gave concert in the Music Hall, Toronto, Canada, October 19. The performance opened with a morceau de concert upon the Hymne Autricion; Fantasie Brillante, composed by himself, and a piece by Ernst, called L’Elegie, were also rendered. Mr. Prume was assisted by Mra. Gilbert, who sung several songs, among them Fleurs Nouvelles, from Meyerbeer’s new opera, L’ Africaine. The prevalence of cholera at Marseilles, France, has Touted most of the company performers at the Grand theatre, Tho representation of the Jewess and the Queen’s Musketeers had to be postponed, as M. and Madame Meillet left the town, and the tenor, Bertrand, who went to look after them, was followed by the tenor Poschard, who said he was going to seek Bertrand. A European biography of Mlle. Lucca, the celebrated prima donna, says that she isthe daughter of a poor Viennese Jew, named Kasch, and that she was singing in,the streets of Vienna about twenty years ago, when her remarkable voice attracted the attention of Karl Formes, the renowned basso, and, at his suggestion, Count Balf caused a musical education to be given to her. Sho is rather petite, but remarkably beautiful, and her eyes aro distinguished for their great brilliancy. She was one of the most admired performers at a concert recently given by the Dowager Empress of Austria, the haughty and intellectual Archduchess Sophia, at the Palace at Ischi, that most select and aristocratic of Euro- Pean watering places, Baptistini, the Rollande Brothers, Billy Emerson and Dick Parker were at the Academy of Music, New Or- leans, Qctober 14. Theatricals at Home. Miss Laura V. Ellis, a girl only twelve years of age, has been exhibiting at Springfeld, Masa, in wonderfully mysterious cabinet “manifestation,” which are said to have thrown the Fox sisters, and, of course, the Daven- Port tricks, entirely in the shade. Miss Lizzie Wood appeared in the Foundling, at tho Front street theatre, Baltimore, October 20. Monte Cristo was still attractive at the Holliday street theatre. ‘Tho Octoroon was given in the Detroit Athenwum, De- troit, Michigan, October 19. Miss C. Richardson took the part of Zoe. The Stage Struck Yankee was brought out, first time, at the Varieties, Detroit, eame night, with Signor Abijah Couse and N. Loring inthe principal parts. Barney Williams acted Ragged Pat and Mrs. Williams Jody O'Trot in ‘Irelandas It Wasy? Wednesday and Thursday evening (18th and 19th), in the Arch street theatre, Philadelphia. A ‘glorious!’ jig (came next, r which Mrs, Wiliams sustained six characters i Law for Ladies. stuart Robinson appear d as Ma- zeppa. The house was crowded as on the first night of the Wiiliams engagement. Fatty Stewart, who claims tobe the “funniest man I'ving,” twat the Varieties theatre, Ch Frances Brothers, as a star company. Varieties announced:‘‘No lady admitted without a gen- he attempts to varrate cap pick any number of flaws of dates and personages in the narrative proper. Abbott and Headley write with a looseness. that crics out for remedy. The former bas actually published an account of the campaign of General Franklin in tue Teche coun- try without knowing the name of the commander, giv- ing the credit of the expedition to General A. J. Smith, and missing Gates in some instances by a whole year, Another work on Sherman and his campaigns is an- nounced with « long letter from that General as an introductory flourish, im which we are told that the author “is an old friend,’? has read all Sherman’s “secret thoughts and acta, and ia in possession of all the the authentic facts,” &0. So far this is good; but, though the letter docs not say so in so many words, we are also told that the author will give us nothing valuable but dates; that his impressions and his criticisms can- not be independent, and therefore neither reliable nor valuable. Such works have no real value. The proper persons to write the history of the robel- lon are those who can truly place upon their title page the sentence:—‘All of which I saw and partof which Iwas.” This is the motto for historians; all the others are mere romancers. We are glad to see that the better class of the war correspondents appreciate the fact that they are to write the reliable histories, and that, asa general thing, they are keeping their valuable material im reserve for the proper time, which will be years henee. They recognize that as war correspondents they ‘Were more collectors of materials, and they have gone to work to study themselves up to the standard of historians. ‘This 1s the proper spirit, and these persons will furnish ‘us really valuable works. In the meantime the publishers have been noising it abroad that this is the ‘time to make hay,” and many of the war correspondents have bees throwing off their lighter impressions and expertences and giving us highly entertaining works which willbe of future value and are Of present interest. Among the most valuable of these works ig @ volume just published by Thomas W. Knox, formerly a war correspondent of the Henatp, and one of the ablest, though least pretentious, writers who ever served in that capacity of any editorial staff. His work ig entitled “Camp Fire and Cotton Field—Southern Ad. venture in Time of War,!’ and details his adventures in campaigning and corresponding, and in owning @ Loui- siana plantation. His impressions of men whom he met and engagementa which he witnessed are written with ease and independence, and his simple style con- vinces the reader at once of his truth, He has nothing to flatter—either pet political schemes or pet generals. His book is a harmonious picture, with not a character nor an event detailed of whose existence or occurrence the reader can have any doubt It is to be hoped that Mr. Knox’s book, or Mr. Knox himself, will be multi- Plied by several similar works or tuto several equally excellent writers, Seientific Intelligence. Dr. Stein, of the University of Prague, has delivered a most interesting lecture on the subject of the “Main Results of the Latest Researches as to Infusoria."’ The doctor reviews, in a vory elaborate and able manner, the theories advanced during the past one hundred years Tespecting the propagation and ¢@xistence of ‘infusorial animal life,” and concludes with’ the assertion—the re- sult of his study—that the smallest forms of animal life are only brought forth in like forme of the same species, and that under no circumstahoes are they developed from inert matter, E. Lindner, of Vienna, claims the invention of a new principle in breech-loading firearms, in winch the breech {s closed with a bolt. It consists in fitting a pin or needle at right angles tothe axis of the bore ef the gun, or at any other angle thereto, for the purpose of exploding the charge, the detonating or falminating composition being placed in such a position in the cartridge case as that the pin or needle shall come fn contact with it when the chargo is fred. The pin or needle works in a chamber fixed to the gun and through. greased and incombuatible stuffing of asbestos or other suitable substances. The needie may be driven by a rod or lever acted upon by the lock or by the hammer according to its position; the needle is withdrawn into a postion ready for being again driven to fire the charge, either by cocking the bammer, or by opening the breech, or otherwise. ‘HL. A. Bonneville, of London, England, proposes a pa- tented plan for simplifying the manner in which bars or Feds of om are produced At present, ‘The apparatus consists of a serlea of cylinders ot rollers, in and around each of which are cut grooves Or flutes, having one or other, or half of one or other, of the forms generally given to iron rods, viz: round, half-round, square, octa- gonal, and hexagonal, and this apparatus allows of using fron slit by any of the known systems. The iron for any of the above forms should undergo two operations, The lump on leaving the reheating furnace should be worked im such a way as to be able to pass the glitter. As soon as this operation has taken place the frst part of the ‘work ts done. , The workmen employed in piercing Mount Conis have come upon a bed of extremely hard quartz, which turns the edge of the best tempered steel, and it is t that this obstacle may retard the opening of the tunnel for four years. In the month of May or June the en- gineers were expecting to come upon quartz, Perbaps the quartz has proved harder than was expected, but early in the year they were lucky in finding an unusually soft vein of rock. Foreign engineers have expressed an opinion that the tunnel will take longer to complete than Italian managers anticipete. The summit railway is likely to be: made beforo the end of 1866, and will shorten to four hours the passage of the mountain, It is stated asa remarkable fact that olectricity travels #0 rapidly that it may be driven through gunpowder without igniting it. It is only when the current is re- fracted that an explosion takes place. Nitro-glycerine, or blasting oil, introduced to the scientific world some months since by Alfred Nobel, of Hamburg, is being experimented with im the Cornish mines, Wales, as an agent caloulated to gupersede gun- powder. Its powers are praised highly, but it is said to possess very poisonous properties for the workmen. ‘The Roman Prince Torlonia’s colossal undertaking of the drainage of the Lake of Fucino has recently been en. tirely centred in his own hands by the dissolution of tho company founded in Naples in 1853. Twelvo years ago the capitaliste doubted the ruccess of the operation, alleging the failure of the Emperor Claudius, who spent millions on it in vain; but the Princo persevered, al though, instead of the eight years originally calculated, the works have been going on twelve gears, and the capital required to be doubled. On tho 9th of August, 1862, the Torlonia emissory was opened, and in fifteen months it drained two thousand hectares of land. On the 28th of August, 1965, the emissory wasopened again, and will continue in operation for two yours, during which period five thousand hectares of land will be drained. All that will remain to be effocted will be a canal in the basin of the lake, which will drain eight thousand hectares more of most fertile land. Pharaoh's Serpent is the name given by the Partsians to an extraordinary coil of smoke which is made to issue from the lighted apex of a tinfoil cone charged with sulphocyanide of mercury. This substance, when heated, emits a smoke which assumes the most fantas tical shapes, and is so thick that it may be touched with the hand. The Shah of Persia has sent an agent to Rurope for the purpose of studying the present system of naval construction in France, England and Holland. The giant “‘progross’’ ie moving the hoary, or, aa it has been termed, the “unchanging,” Bast. They are to have omnibuses in Bombay; three of them, London made, white painted, with sunblind and special venti- lators, aro already on their way to ‘the island.’ Cotton presses, with Nasmyth’s patent cylinders, are being set up here and there in India. But the greatest novelty is ind Set, anative banker, has sent to England for a large quantity of machinery and moans to sot up a cotton mill in Oude. James Walkor is employed on a study of the “Fight of Chickamanga." De Haas bas returned from his coast trip along the Long Isiand shore. James H. Baird is at Painesville, Obio, painting “A Court of Justice,”” Astatuette of Longfellow has been completed at Na- bant by FE. J. Kememe, Lauot Thompsom: hes commenced a statue of the late Goneral Sedgwick, Ordered by the Sixth army corps for the Woat Point Military Aendemy, Maximilian, of Mexiee, attended, with the Empress and Court, lately at the inawgummbion of astatne erected to the memory of Morales im Mexico city. After bis ro- Hiroment the populace rushed im, and broke down all the royal benches. ‘The annual distribation of premiums ay the Manches- tor (Pingland) School of Art has takeo place im that town before 9 very crowded audience, Thor treasurer's ao- count showed that the total receipts for the your wore Pleven hutdred and Hft7 pounds, of which four hundred Poe ee , 5 eleven pounds in donations, and six hundred aad sixty- nine pounds in students’ fees. The total disbursements were one thousand and four pounds At the oud of 1463 the balance owing by the school was one hundred aud seventy-seven pounds; at the ond of 1864 it was Lhirty- one pounds ‘The Congress of Buenos Ayres is discussing a bill ap- Propriating twenty thousand silver dollars for the pur- pose of collecting and forwarding productions of the country to the Paris Exhibition. ‘The coremony of declaring the jury awards at the Dub- ln Exhibition was gone through on Monday, Octobor 2, in the presence of Earl Russell and Sir Robert Peel. In consequence of the death of the Countess of Clare the Lord Lieutenant was absent. The Turf. UNION COURSE, L, 1.—TROTTING. Saronpay, Oct. 21.—Match $400, mile heats, best three in five, John Murphy named b. g. Butcher Boy, in har. DEBS . ... se eeseeseeres sees SS B, Walker named Bay Mare, * Time $:01—2:50—3:01. ae Day.—Match $600, mile heats, best three im T. Churchill named b. g. Tony Pastor, to on -~Li2n -2212 ‘The betting on the match between Butcher Boy and the bay mae was at even before the staft, and large @mounts were wagered on the result, Butcher Boy wom very easily, the mare never getting in fromt during the race. In the second trot Tony Pastor was the favorite at two to.one; but there was not a great deal of money posted, as there was little confidence in the iegitimacy of the affir, The driver of the bay gelding violated the Fules several times, but the judges did not, for some reason or other, punish bim. ‘Commodore Vanderbilt and Geo, Wilkes are matched for $2,000, and will trot at the above course on Thure- day ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY. Advertisements for the Waexiy Hanan must bo handed in before ten o'clock every Wednesday evening. Its cir- culation among the enterprising mechanics, farmers, merchants, manufacturers and gentlemen throughout the country is increasing very rapidly. 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