The New York Herald Newspaper, October 24, 1865, Page 4

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TO MASONS, IRON, MARBLE AND DORCHESTRE STONE WORKERS. Proposals will be received until October 25 for a Fire- Proof Building, to be erected for the New York Herat Evtanumssment, on Broadway, Park row and Ann street. Plans and specifications may be seen and examined at the oflice of JOHN KELLUM, Architect, No. 179 Broadway. Weare so very much crowded with advertisements that we have to Icave out from one to three columns very day in order to afford room for the news. We have, therefore, to ask our advertisers, as an accom- modation, to cut down the length of their advortise- moats as much as possible, Wo do not wish to leave alvertisoments out of our columns if we can possibly beip it, because they make part of the local news of the day. They are, as it wore, an epitome of the lio of a great city, and therefore possess duo interest as mattors of news, But unless the public accommodate us by compressing their advertisements, we must continue) as wo havo been obliged to do for several months—that fs, to leave ont aconsidorable number each day. It 1s Dut a fow days azo that we were obliged to leave out an advortisomont of Helmbold, the Broadway druggist, one “of the most enterprising men in his line in tho country, although he offered two thousand dollars for ono inser- tion. If our advertisers will make their advertisements © little shorter they will gavo money by it, and at the game timo enable the Heras to come out every day with all ite advertisements, and give us more room for news. THE NEWS. EUROPE. Tho steamship Hibernian, which arrived at Father Point yesterday, brought European nows five days later. Groat excitement had been caused by the publication tn tho London official Gazette of the correspondence in which Mr. Adains, our Minister in London, in unmis- takablo terms sots forth our claims with regard to the rebel pirate Alabama’s depredations, and Karl Russoll, fn equally unmistakable torms, ropudiates all liability on behaif of the British government. Tho London Times hopos that the suggestion of commission of inquiry which Earl Russell throws out may be accepted; the in‘nisterial Post is silent on the subject, and tho London Neve and Star hardly disguise thelr foar of « hostile rupture. ‘Thirtcen more Fenians had been arrested in Cork, and & nember more in Dublin. A special commission was shortly to bo convened for the trial of the leaders, ‘The strictest scrutiny was stil! exercised over vessels arriving from America. The steamship Helvetia, which attempted to pass Queenstown without landing her Irish passongers {on account of stress of weather, as the captatn sald), had doen p raved and taken into that port, where, aftor dili- gent search, alive Fenian was found on board. Among tio most important {toms of Continental news are statements indicating that the Fronch occupation of Romo witl soon cease, and that Poland will shortly be relieved of martial law. American securities had been depressed abroad by the tightness of the English money market, At the date of last advices, however, they had recovered sli:htly, and five-twenties wero quoted in London on the 13th instant At 68% 069. American cotton bad shghtly advanced at Liv Terpool-MUSCRLLANEOUS. Mexican news of a iater date und very interesting char- ‘actor waa brought by the stenmsbip Liberty, which ar- rived in this port yesterday, from Havana on Wednesday last, Our advices are to the 7th inat, from tho city of Mexico and to the 12th from Vera Cruz, On the 2d Max. imilian issued a proclamation declaring that the repub- licau government was at an end, in consequence of Prest- dent Juarez’ term having expired and no Presidential election having been held, ana that Juarez himself had fete the country. He overlooks the fact that by provision of the constitution of the republic the Vice President tnd Chief Justice of tho Supreme Court (General Ortega) succeeds to the Presidency in case of there being no el c- \ton. He compliments Juarez and his supporters on the valor and constancy with which they have supported their cause, but asserts that mow al! honorablo organized >pposition to the imperial régime has ceased, and that henceforth the struggle will Be betwoen respectable men and gangs of criminals and bandits, Ina docree issued on tho following day Maximilian announces that hence- forth the most severe measures will bo taken to suppress: all opposition to bis authority. All those in armed hostility and their aiders who are caught aro to bo instantly tried by court martial, and, if convicted, are to bo oxecuted within tweaty-four hours thereafter. Maxi- milian's projected visit to Yueatan, for the purpose of avitting the difficulties among the natives, and in rogard to the boundary of British Hoaduras, has been postponed ll November. The Betafetle, published in the city of Mexico, gives currency to a rumor that Juarez has pro- {poved to give in his adheston to the imperial government ‘on condition that all the foreiga troape shatt be sont out of the country. Additional small ‘but nose of importance, of the hostile forees in parts of the country are reported. Teeops continued to arrive from France, The only Cuban ttom of particular interest brought by @ho Liberty isa rumor, whic lacks confirmation, that @evoral cases of cholera have occurred in Havana Vee- pels arriving {rom infected porte aro placed ander strict quarantine survoillance, Among his customary dally crowd of visitors Presi- dont Johnson was yesterday waited apon by a delegation of members of the Congregational church, who ex- Pressed their admiration of his course in his high official ‘Position, pledged him their support and prayers, and re- quested that he would appoint the 30th of next month as @ day of national thanksgiving for the proservation of the Union, the destruction of slavery and the restoration of peace. The President thanked them for their kind re marks, and sesured them that ho should hereafter be Fuided by the same principles of right and justice that had formed the basis of his ection heretofore, but did that we are informed, give them any decisive reply regard to the proposed thankagiving day. A resolution to allow the negroes no greater civil rights PP4 Privileces than thase they onloved while in s state ! . i py Wi 4 NEW YORK HEKALD, TUKS)AY, OCTOBER 24, 1865. : . of slavery has boon laid on the table by «large majority im tho Fenate of the Miastesipp! Legislature. ‘The course of General Palmer, commander of the De- partment of Kentucky, about which » number of people im and outuide of that State have kept up considerable ‘excitement for some time past, appears to have met the approval of President Johnson, according toa Loutsvitle despatch, which says that the President has approved the retention m command of Palmer by his superior officer, Major General Thomas, commanding the Military Division of the Tennessee. The principal offence given to the Kentuckians by General Palmer was bis granting of pasees to leave the State and go northward to all ne- groce who applied for them, The General's reasons for his action in this matter havo already sppeared in the Henan; but it seems that they are mot satisfactory to Governor Bramlette, who has writtems letter of com- plaint against the Genoral to the President. Governor Hamilton, of Texas, has officially informed the people regarding the necessary procecdings in apply- ing for Presidential pardon. Ail applications will require the Governor's endorsement. The Assistant Commis sioner of Freedmen’s Affairs in that State, ine ciroular iagued on the 12th imst., expresses tho wish that the Emancipation Proclamation will be liberally construed, directa the officers of the bureau to adjust all difficulties Ddetwoen whites and blacks where the civil authorities fall to do justice to the latter, and taforms the freeamen that idleness among them will not be tolerated, and that they must enter mto contracts for werk with those who are willing to employ them. A similar ciroular has been lasued by the Assistant Commissioner in Louisiana. In the Hunato of the 14th inst. it was announced that the Court of Appeals of this State had decided that shares in national banks aro taxable by Stete and local authorities, although the entire capital of the banks be invested in national securities, and this. morning wo give a synopsis of Judge Denio’s opinion tn the matter. ‘The litigation was on three cases appealed from Supreme Court decisions, in one of which it was decided that sald shares were taxable, and in the other two that they were not, The Judge sustains the first and roverses tho oth- ers, and maintains that the taxation of aad stock is legal and valid. The question will now be carried to tho Sa- prame Court of the United States for final and decisive disposition. Judge Nelson took his s¢at yesterday morning ob the United States Circuit Court bench for the trial of cases set down for the October term. A grand jury was called; but, a quorum not answering to their names, the mem: bers present were discharged till eleven o'clock this fore- noon. Edward B, Ketchum, formerly of the firm of Ketchum, Son & Co., and now confined in the Tombs under indict- ments for the heavy Wall street forgeries, yesterday on- Joyed a temporary release from imprisonment, he being, by virtue of a writ of habeas corpus, taken from his cell and conveyed to the chambers of the Superior Court, where he was kept under guard while argument was beitig heard on @ motion that he be allowed to testify in 4 certain case growing out of his transactions. The suit was ono brought by Mr, William H. McVickar, who claims a fund of seventy thousand dollars held by Green- leaf, Norris & Co., under an account which they opened with young Kotcbum, in the name, as alloged, of Mr. McVickar, On the conclusion of the argument tho Judge took the papers, reserving his docision in regard to allowing Ketchum to appoar as a witness, and the lat- ter was returned to the Tombs. Our American Cousin was again up in the Superior Court yesterday, but was again postponed, Tuesday of next week being fixed as the timo for proccoding with the case. ‘The libel suit brought by Max Mareizek against the proprictors of the Sunday Mercury was again up for argument bofore Judge Barbour, of the Suporior Court, yesterday morning. Mr. A, Oakey Hall, counsel for the defendants, stated to the court that he was unable to agree upon & stipulation with his opponent relative lo alterationsin the second suit, and, therefore, asked for an order postponing the second suit until after the trial of the first. The Court stated that it could not grant such 8 motion, as the proper place for it would be at the spocial term; and that the Court only granted on the last argument a postponement, and not an order that the first suit should be tried before the second, The trial of Dr. Charles Cobel, charged with producing an abortion upon Emma Wolfer, which was commenced on Friday last, was resumed yesterday in the Court of General Sessions. A large amount of evidence was taken, the main facts of which have already appeared in the Hzzatp, Two medical gentlemen were examined at length ; but their testimony, though of a scientific char- acter, is unfit for publication in the colamns of a widely circulated newspaper. The examination of witnesses in the case will be concluded to-day. Edward Gilmore, a pickpocket, who pleaded guilty last week, was sentenced to the State Prison for three years. In the case of Dixon versus Iyos, where the latter, di- rector of the Albemarle Hotel, was sued fora debt dus to the plaintiff as landlord, Judgo Leonard yesterday de- cided in favor of the plaintiff. In the Surrogate's Court yostertay the Forman will trial was further postponed, in consequence of tho ab- sence of counsel, until the 6th of November. The Sar- rogate announced that no othor trials of issues of fact would be takem up during the present term. The Board of Councilmen did not hold a meeting yer- terday, only seven members being present when the roll was called. An adjournment till Thursday was ordered. Tho Fire Commissioners held a meoting yesterday afternoon and disposed of various miscellaneous matters. A resolution was adopted releasing from duty tho officers and mombera of volunteer hose companios Now, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 13, 27, 31, 39, 60 and 61, and promising to all those connected therewith in good standing an honorable discharge on and after the 1st of November proximo. A number of appointments were made of foremen, engi nocrs, firemen, drivers, &c., for newly organized com- panies, in place of persons who had been previously ap pointed, but who either declined, resigned or failed to report. Some communications were received and two contracts for improvements to engine houses wore awarded. The Board adjourned tv next Friday foreucon at eleven o'clock. Arenewal of -the dock trial of the capacities respec. tively of the steamors Algonquin and Winoosk! was com- moncotl yesterday at the foot of Delancey streot. It is for the same objects, to be conducted in the samo manner, and to continuo fOr the same longth of time as agreed upon for tho formor trial, which was not comploted. The engines of both vessels are to be run for ninety-six con secutive hours, ‘The Righth regiment of the National Guard, Colonel J. M. Varian, yesterday underwent its regular fail inspec ton, Itturned out nearly ive hundred muskets, and mado a fine appearance. ‘An address was dolivored before the Young Men's Christian Association last ovening by Rev. J. B. Cook, of Paris, France, in which that gentleman furnished some interesting particulars of the origin of the kindred society in the Frenca capital, The chief difficulties were to find Protestant young men aad to get permission from the police to associate. The Chief of Police could not see how young mon in Paris would moet to pray, sing and lecture. He supposed there would be the addi- tional inducemont of political discussion, billiards, cards and beer. He sent his dotectives to see, and some of them returned to him with « very contrary report. The soctety commenced with twolve members fourteen years ago, aod now numbers thousands, with branches all through France. Rev. Arthur Warren last evening delivered an addreas im the Madison avenue Baptist church on missionary operations in Haytl, of which he spoke hopefully. He has himself been a missionary in Hayti for thirty-five ‘The twenty-eight mon arrested on Sunday afternoon tm the alleged gambling cstablishment Nos. 97 and 99 Mixth avenue wore yesterday morning arraigned in the Jefferson Market Police Coart and required to give bail to answer the complaint against them, Wm. W. Smith, the reputed proprictor, in the sum of five hundred dol- lara, and the others one hundred dollars each, Coroner's inquests were held yesterday over the re mains of two infants whose dead bodies were picked up, one in Fourteenth street and the other in a vacant lot. One was cut ia pieces, and had evidently been experi- monted on for the purposes of amputation and dissec- tion. The other, when found, was enveloped in a piece of flannel. ‘A construction train with some passenger cars attached and a milk train, one rupning up and the other down on the samé track, on the New Haven Railroad, came to- gether under considerable speed and with a fearful crash, about seven o'clock om last Sunday evening, near Coscob bridge. One person was killed, and a number, estimated all the way from fifteen to thirty, injured, several seriously, The two engines were Grmly wedged to- gether, thaee of the platform cars were piled one upon the other, and other cars were pretty effectually wrecked. It said that the collision occurred from the milk train running in violation of orders, The steamer City of Providence, from this port for Providence, bad bor eides stove ia by the waves im the Sound oa last Friday morntug, during the gale, and in order to lighten her about thirty thousand dollars worth of freight was thrown overboard. She was subsequently towed to New Havon by the steamer Metropulis, ‘The members of the Tunisian embassy have recontly visited the Falls of Nisgara, and were amazed and de- lighted at the wonders of tho great cataract, According to the City Inspector's report there wore 471 deaths in the city during the past week—being a do- crease of 23 as compared with the mortality of the week Previous, and 107 more than occurred during the corre- sponding week last year. The recapitulation table gives the following result:—Acute diseases, 237; chronic diseases, 203; external causes, &c., 41. There were 207 natives of the United States, 111 of Ireland, 43 of Germaay, 5 of England, 2of Scotland, and the balance of vartoes foreign countries. ‘The Fonian Congress continued in session ia Philadel- phia yesterday. A complete reorganizaten has ‘been effected, modelled after our national government, with @ President, Cabinet, Senate and House of Repre- sentatives, Both houses of the newly established Con- gress hold sessions yesterday. Colonel Joba O'Mahony was unanimously and amidst great cheering deciared President, after which hoe took the oath of office and de- livered an address. A committee was appointed to draft an address embodying @ recognition of aa Irish republic, which is to havea building tn this olty for govermental purposes. There is said to be much rivalry for the pos- seasion of the bonds authorized by the Congress te be issued, which are now nearly f not quite ready for dis- tribution. Is isthought that alt tho business will te finished to-day. ae In tho Episcopal Convention in Philadelphia yeeter- day Rev. Dr. Randell was elected Bishop of Colorado, Rev. Dr. Howe Bishop of Nevada, aud Rev. Dre. Wi!- Hame and Robert H. Clarkson Missionary Bishops, the former for China. The othor business transacted by the convention was not of general mterest. ‘The fair in Philadelphia designed to aid in establishing a home for disabled soldiers and eailors was inaugurated last night. The attendance was very numerous. Among those preseat were Generals Grant and Meade and Admi- ral Farragut. Genera) Meade delivered an address. ‘The present total number of employes, male and female, in the Treasury Department in Washington is two thou- aad soven hundred and cighty-one. It ia expected that @ reduction in the fores will soon be made, The stock market improved yesterday, closed buoyant. Governments were heavy. Gold cli steady at 146. ‘There was but little change in the markots yesterday, though as a general thing there was rathor more firm- mess, Foreign goods were quiet. Domestic produce was irregular, Cotton was in good demand at full prices. Potroloum was quiet; refined was lower, but crudo was firmer, On ’Change flour was somewhat higher, Wheat and corn wero also firmor. Pork was irrogular. Lard was more active and firmer. Whiskey was steady. Important from Eng! nd—Our Claims on the British Government, By the steamship Hibernian, which arrived at Father Point yesterday, we have received important information affecting our future relations with Great Britain. On the 7th of April last Mr. Adams, our Minister in London, wrote to Earl Russell, intimating in diploma- tic language that the Washington Cabinet held England responsible for the damage done by the Alabama and her piratical companions. On May the 4th, nearly a month afterwards, Earl Russell courtly replied that British lin- bility could not be measured by United Siates loss, and that the real and only question was whether the British government had faithfully and honestly performed their duty as neutrals. The same day Mr. Adams rejoined that the insurgent States became belligerents at sea solely by reason of weasels furnished them by England, and he charged the Custom Honse officials of Liverpool with fla- grant negligence in permitting the Alabama to eaonpe, Three months passed without any reply from the British Foreign Office. At the end of that time Earl Russell addressed to Mr. Adams a despatch justifying the conduct of his govern- ment and declining the ofer of arbitration which bad previously been made by Mr. Sew- ard. “The law officers of the crown (said Lord Russell) must be held to be better interpreters of British statutes than any foreign government can be presumed to be. Her Majesty’s govern- ment must therefore decline to make repara- tion or compensation for captures made by the Alabama or to refer the question to any foreiga State.” In place of the arbitration thus rejected the British Foreign Secretary proposed # commis- sion of inquiry. Our Minister, his backbone atifening as the negotiations grew more on- tangled, answered that he did not believe this alternative would be acceptable to his govern- ment, and he added that the recognition of the South as belligeronts by England “was such an’ act as was never before done by one oa- tion to anothcr ina state of amity,” and that the blockade of Southern ports was “the con- sequence, not the cause, of British policy.” At thie stage the correspondence stops; but & somewhat remarkable ciroumstance now comes to light, It was exactly at this pe- tiod that « London journal, supposed to have exclusive sources of information, anmounced that the negotiations respect- ing the Alabama claims had reached « criti- cal and unpleasant stage. The government being questioned on the subject utterly denied that such was the case, Lord Palmerston as sured the House of Commons that the question was being discussed “in the most friendly and amicable terms;” and Mr. Layard, his Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, went further, and seid that no new claim had been made since President Johnson’s accession to power. How far these assertions were sincere may be judged from the fact that the publication of the correspondence has called forth openly expressed fears from portion of the British press of a hostile rupture with this country. ‘The latest phase which the difficulty has as- sumed may be gathered from Mr, Seward’s re- cent speeoh at Auburn, in which he eaid:— “The discussion of these claims involves prin- ctples essential to the independence of States and harmony among the nations. I believe that the President will conduct this part of our affairs in such a manner es to yield and re- cover indemnities justly due, without any com- promise of the national dignity and honor.” According to this Mr. Seward evidently means to insist upon arbitration. As the matter at present stands, « portion of the British press openly express their fears of a hostile rupture with this counters. Utteramces of Public Mon—Tne Really Great and the Abundantly Little, Beecher, Weed and Seward have just favored the public with their opinions on several toptos. Seward’s opinions were given in 4 apeech de- livered at Auburn, Beecher’s in # speech deltv- ered from the pulpit at Beecher’s church, and Weed’s in » lottor in relation to the dignity and influeace of the high and mighty T.W. And it happens. that just at the period when all these grandiloquent manifestoes sep the light thore appears in the papers, modestly enough, 8 short account of certain utterances of Andrew Johnson—the report, to be true, of whet be suid in the courye of on our on te ¢ question of reconstruction now before _ The differences between these three manifestoes on the one band and the aimple report on the other are instructive. Seward’s was a digrossive, diffuse, rambling, loose jointed, magazine article. Its pith was in two or threo sentences. It was like the conversation of Gratiano in the Merchant of Venice—“an infinite deal of nothing.” And Seward’s reagons are, like Gratiano’s, “as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff, Yon sball seek all day ere you find them, and when you have found them they are not worth the search.” It was all chaff but the fow sen- tences alluded to, and those have been fully digested by the public » thousand times over. Tt was merely on exploitation of Seward’s vanity before his Auburn neighbors, telling them what a great big fellow he is, Beecher’s speech was also an exposition of personal vanity, congratulating his Brooklyn congrega- tion upon having such a great man for a parson. “J have never felt,” says Beecher, “the slightest Inclination to marry black woman,” and hence he argues that miscegenation is all fudge, acknowledging that he would certainly have felt the desire if any white man did. This is the only modest part of bis speech. All the rest isa vain and uscless jumble of words, words, words, without a single new idea or any especially forcible expression of an old one. Thurlow Weed's manifesto is the worst of all the trash with which that fivent personage has lately astonished the public. But thero is at least something amusing in its impudence. It denies once more the imputation that Thurlow Weed is not the most spotlessly honest of human creatures, and even calls attention to the fact that the Cataline contract story had been disproved. It lets the country in‘o the little secret who it was that saved the Union, and shows by 3 compact.argument that Thur- low Weed was the man. “I sot myself feu lessly and constantly warning the people,” says Thurlow, that the ultra abolition and secession elements must be checked. They wore checked accordingly, and to that fact “are we indebted for the men and money that enabled the government to save the Union.” And while Thurlow was at this stupendous labor such nobodies as Slocum were away off out of the way somewhere, fighting little con- temptible battles at Richmond, Antietam, Get- tysburg and other places of no note. Each of these threo men is merely doing his utmost to keep his little light from get/iag under s bushel-—to keep himself before the people and make # noise. And thence the rig- marole of words without ideas, How different 8 figure does Andrew Johnson present in the few and simple sentences with which he comes before the country and discusses and deter- mines the very questions that the men of words go round and over and under and never touch. He speaks with dignity, authority and case, witbout flourish or nonsense, and goes straight to the point. His account of the position of the democratic party, his illustration of the position of the States, his reference to treason and traitors, to State rights, to negro suffrage and to the principle of representation aro ad- mirable. He touches here on every topic of interest to the country, gives distinct expres- sion to noble ideas on each, and in how fow words. He does it all in half a column, and Seward, Beocher and Weed take eight columns together for all their trash. Johnson is cailed a practical man, and the others men of ideas, This is nonsensical. Henceforth let the distinction be between prac- tical men and men of words. Practical men are the real men of ideas. Rercry or Tun Powowsy Cuaticn to Tae Lars or Frayce ann Enouany.—The republic of Mexico has applied to this market for a loan of several millions of dollars. The old filibus- tering element in our population which, prior to our rebellion, sought an outlet for ite encr- gies in the small nations in the tropical cli- mates, increased py the termination of our war, with many who “‘txve been reduced to mere adventurers by the results of our sirug- glo, together with the Knights of the Golden Circle, who are everywhere preparing them- selves, and # large class in the late rebel army, is now moving towards the Rio Grande in readiness for an important movement against the imperialists in Mexico. In a few months there will be an army of one bundred thousand men gathered in that vicinity, and all that.will be necessary is the absorption of this loan to furnish them with all that will be required to make short work of Maximilian. That this loan will be taken there can be but Mitle doubt; nor oan Napoleon raise any objections; for was not the rebel loan‘ offered in Paris and Lon- don without any objections being offered by either the French or English government? And did not the journals and press generally, in both of those countries, boldly and openly ed- vocate itt If, then, the French and English aided the running of our blockade, and allowed the bonds of a government which had not been recognized nor its ministers received at any court to be taken up in thelr olties, surely Napoleon cannot say a word if @ government which has for years been recognised in Mexico ‘applies here for financial aid and receives it. ‘Thus is the bitter cup which these nations held out to us returning to them sooner than they anticipated. Faavve at tas Euxcriow.—The party papers are making a great noise about contemplated infamous frauds at the ensuing election. We have no doubt that there are e great many frauds in contemplation, and the party that loses will make the greatest outory about them when the election is over. Tar Tatons oF Toommy Sraser Over Acar.—Every one has heard the story of the three tailors of Tooley street who constituted themselves the people of England, and under- took to settle the affairs of that empire and the whole continent. We have two tailors in this country of equal importance. Seward alaime to be the administration, President, Cabinet, republican party, people and all, Weed takes the credit of baving made all the leading poli- tioians and Governors of the State, including Seward, from DeWitt Clinton down to the pre- sent day. So here we have the tallors of Tooley street over again. Thurlow Weed Winding Up the Politi- eal Sum for Next Day. In the distant village in which we spent our boyhood there-was s poor, harmless lunatic, who imagined that he had control of the whole solar system. Every dey, at noon, he would go to the public square of the village, and, with great earnestness and seal, move bis arm round and round, as if he were turning an im- mense clock key. If anybody interrupted him while thus occupied and inquired of him what he was doing he would regly, without turning his head or desisting from his labor, and in a voice husky and broken by the violence of his exertions, “Winding up the sun for next day. If I didn’t do it—world would go to smash.” Thurlow Weed’s garrulous and egotistical let- ter in yesterday’s Times fotcibly reminds us of that village Iunstic. According to his own sc- count Weed has been winding up the political. un for hext day during the past forty years. He is very anxious, indeed, to wind it up now. With s vast amount of amusing indignation ' he protests against those wicked people who are trying to stop him and let the political world go to smash. If we are to believe the old king of the lobby he never was in the lobby at all; never knew anything about it, never had anything to do with it, has always opposed and denounced it, “Ags a journalist at Albany,” he says, “I stood sentinel over the treasury for thirty-five years, never taking myeelf or allowing others to take, if in my power to prevent it, an unlawful dol- lar.” In reading these words, as in talking to the village lunatic, we found it impossible to repress a quiet smile. Thurlow Weed has evi- dently adopted Secretary Seward’s policy of denying every fact that is at all embarrassing. Just as Seward recently declared that there never were any divisions in President Lincoln’s Cabinet, and that its members were perfectly harmonious and “loyal to each other and their chief,” so the veteran lobbyist now assures us that he has beon totally and innocently uncon- ecious of the existence of such an institution as the “third house.” Instend of being engaged for the past forty year’ in jobs of more or less magnitude he has devoted his whole attention to winding up the sun. He tells us that he sup- pressed the rebellion and proserved the gov- ernment and the Union. To his successtul efforts 4o defeat both the secessionists and the -abolitionisia, as he assures us, “we are in- debted for the men and money” that enabled Mr. Weed to break down the Southern con- foderacy. He modestly admits that, for forty yeara past, be bas controlled the State adminis- trations. He informs us that he created and superin‘ended Governors Clinton, Seward, Fish, Hunt, King and Motgan; Lieutenant Gov- ernors Bradish, Patterson, Raymond and Sel- den he claims as ithe work of his hands, Ho adds, “Lieutenant Governor Campbell, too, waa one of my creations,” Rates Cook, Jobn A, Collier, John C. Spencer, Philo C. Fuller, Millard Fillmore, Washington Hunt, James M. Cooke and Robert Dennison he fashioned as @ potter fasbions the olay and moulds it to his will. Christopher Morgan, K. W. Leavenworth, Horatio Ballard, Jacob Haight, G. H. Barstow, E. G. Spaulding, Philip Dorshiemer, Ogden Hoffmaey Ambrose L. Jor- dan, Charles G. Myers, D. S,’ Dickinson, 8. B. Ruggles, S. Newton Dexter, G, H. Boughton, Aaa Whitnoy, Charles Cook, Henry Fitzhugh and Thomas Clowes were, he humbly states, entirely of lis manufacture. He confesses that he tried to make Francis Granger and Jesse Buel, but the workmanship was not up to his usual mark, and they were spoiled daring one of the processes. We take these names from Mr. Weed’s letter, and wonder that he left the list so short. Had he put in a fow more names he might have established his title to omnipo- tence. As it is there can be no doubt that he is firmly persuaded that, during the last forty years, Le has been consiantly winding up the sun. What an ungrateful world not to have appreciated and rewarded him long ago! We were never one of those wicked boys who used to throw stones and call names at the harmle’s village lunatic, and we have not the heart to cast a severe word at poor old Thur- low Weed. If he finds it convenient to forget his lobby eperations, or if his memory is fnil- ing him in his age, why should we ruthlessly remind him of unpleasant circumstances? Our regard for the truth of history, however, will not permit us to pass unnoticed Weed's curious delusion that he created Major General Slocum. When the lobby kiug was on the other side of the ocean, dining with dukes and duchesses, Iunching with lords and ladies, breakiasting with baronets, writing letters home describing the fine company he kept, buying arms aud Clothes in Belgium, and making all sorts of contracts and plenty of money, General Slo- cum was winning his reputation at the cannon’s mouth.” No doubt, if General Grant should ever run for office, Weed would assert that he had created that great hero algo. It will not do for Mr. Weed to attempt to General Siccum’s merited fame, nor oven In iaattili ago. Yesterday he attacked Comptroller Robinson, accusing him of being » mere poll changed hie party for the sake of He ai lit i E ii} Ei? 38 | ik ; ; i Fil t tH ii bers of Parliament and other ' influeatial the wheel. The sun would rise and sot with- out them. ‘The world would not go to smash if they were to cease winding and depart life. The independent press is the true creator of public men; and now, backed by the in dependent people, it is setting the professional politicians aside and entrusting the govere- ment of the country to independent, unpartl een stateamen, like Andrew Jobnson. Tus Fewan Movewnnt.—It has been stated that Sir Frederick Bruce, British Minister at Washington, has applied to the State Depart- ment for information concerning the Fenian movement, It is quite probable’ that be bas, and we have no doubt that the government will accommodate him with e}l the information in ite possession. It is now ascertained that the Fenian organization numbers about 250,008 fn the United States, besides. the body im Canadas. The Fentan Congress. at Philadel- phia, we perceive, is about to isgue bonds for e loan of some twenty millions or co. Mf the British government wants information | about this we can only refer to the Confederate loan raised in England by the editors, mem- gentlemen, And if the Fenians shoyld ap- which they can easily procare—ani get them off into neutral waters, ‘to strike at English commerce everywhere on the ocean, and shut up Canada, which the Irish Alabamas could very easily accomplish, our government has only to point to the Confederate Alabames and Shenandoahs, Sir F. Bruce ought to be satisfied with this suggestive answer to his de- mond. England has set an exeelleat ex:mple az to how loans can be raised, and givens most admirable lesson as to how rebellion can be carried on at sea, and, of course, she cannot grumble at other people for taking the lesson. Tas Fmst Nouramny Lvpontartoy iro Norra Canotina.—The Convention of North Carolina the State House, 60 they had to send to Now into North Carolina, teatod b>fore the public, Tho object of the Conservatory, fully it will proves very useful institution. day at two o'clock, ...-%. Lu Wage Personal Intelligence. parted company with him. At tho time Cooper had net @ dollar in the world, and his companions, with the exception of Jeff. Davis, were nearly alt in the same de- plorable condition. He manaxed to borrow a few cons from some one of his fellow fugitives, and, disappearing, has never since been heard from. ersor. Governor Gilpin has for been him tn Colorado, colonel in the pay department. He has been connected Regen) ane ine vente 0 al the war, and won ity by gallantry distinguished rer- Mr. Baker, a famous traveller, arrived at Cairo, on the 19th of September, via j, Suakin and minister of commerce an officer in tho Imj campai wig: in, and commanded the voyage round the world, Montgomery on the 8th of October, from the City Hotel, New Orleans, to ‘Major Ned aualtn' i tne asian aoe rebel health and good Sir Charles Eastlake, of the Royal Academy, pacumonia and dysea- Operations at Cape Haytien. of tho addrom, which was interesting. HUH tl Hee i i Eg He if i i if 175 Te t i i i i | H i i 3? il ii : l i ! iit if z i i ! i Ff The Mississippi Legislature. JaoKeox, + Oot, 23, 1866, In the Missiesippt State Henate a resolution restricting the right and privileges of freedmen to vat tho statute laws granted before the war waa laid gn the table hy » large majority, has just discovered that there’is not a national flag in the North Carolina capital to hoist over York for one. Some one ought to send with the flag a box of volumes of the constitution of the United States, That would bog an cxcel- lent addition to the first Northern importation Nationa -CovenvevoRY oy Music,.—A concert was given by the pupils of this institution at the Acadomy ef Music yesterday afternoon, at which quite a number of young ladies mado their debit a8 pianists, Tho Conser- vatory has been establshed just one year, and this isthe; first time that tho qualifications of its students were “* ‘wo need not say, is to impartan artistic and scientific musical education, and if it accomplishes this suocess- It is under the d'rection of Mr, Edward Mollonbauer, tho ominent violinist and composer, It could hardiy be expeoted that a public performance of pupils only one year under {he discipline of the Conservatory would be perfoat, bat it served to demonstrate ¢o some extent the advantages of ayatematizod study. Thore will be apothor concert te- The present whereabouts of Samuel Cooper, Senior Generel in tho rebol service, appears.to bo a mystery Which noither ho nor his friends dare to develop, He loft Richmond with Davis, and was 8 companion in the flight of that worthy to the vicinity of Augusta, whore be By recent intelligence from Colorado. we learn ¢' at the the Union State Convention has nominated ox-Gov- ernor William Gilpin aa its candidate for Gov- twenty years identified with the dovelopment of the mineral resources of the Rocky Mountains, partiou- larly tn Colorado and the great Parcs, and, as tho Gent Governor of the Territory, moulded it into its present eli- gible shape for admission inte the Union as a sovereign State, Governor Gilpin has.a strong party to suppers vice in the fleld during the momorabiy seven days’ coa- filet before Richmond, ‘his tast promotion was for “faith ful and meritorious services.” - Baron de Wulleradorf. Urban, who has been appointed ‘the Rmperor of Austria, was ial navy. Ho took part in the of the Anstrian fleet during-the war of Schles- gate Novara on her Ex-Governor John G. Shorter, of Alabama, wan im General Hood, of the late rebel army, has removed residence of Tho General Paul 0. Herbert, of Louisiana, has made his appearance at New Orieams, looking in fae . The Rev. Arthur Warren on Missionary Tho Rev. Arthur Warren, formerly missionary of the Amorican Foreign and Christian Union, delivered an a ’ € ‘ply this twenty millions to Miting out half Major J. W. Beazell, of Western Virginia, paymaster 7 in the volunteer service, has been promoted to lieutenamt "