The New York Herald Newspaper, October 27, 1865, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BROADWAY THEATRE. Broadway.—Sax. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway, opposite Metropolitan Hotel.—Erimiorian Sunaina, Dancina, &.— Bnouisu Caritacists on 4 Lark. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. 201 Bowery.—Sing- unc, Daxctxc, Buaesques, &¢.—-OL.D Dame Guines. DODWORTH HALL, 806 Broadway.—Biixp Tom’s Piano Conceurs. Biden ee BROADWAY ATIHENZUM, Broadway.—Movine Diona- ma or Noxtueen anv Soutuxen Evxorx. MONTPELLIER'S OPERA HOUSE, 37 and 39 Bowery.— Munsreuusy, Sivcivc, Danciwna, Pantomimes, &c. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Ermiortay Mtx- STRELST—BaLLavs, BURLESQUES AND PaNromiues. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— ‘Open from 10 A. M. till ly P.M. STEREOSCOPTICON SCHOOL OF ART—Corner of Grand and Crosby streets, New York, Friday, October 27, 1865. THE NEWS. EUROPE. European news to the 15th inst. was brought by the Cunard steamship Africa, which arrived at Halifax yes. terday. The steamships Hansa, from Southampton on the 1Lih, and tho City of New York, from Queenstown on the 12th inst., arrived at this port yesterday. ‘An explanation, stoted by the London Times to be given on authority, has been published with revard to Earl Russell's proposal of a commission on the Alabama claims, This explanation asserts that the position taken by the British government would preclude the losses from the piracies by the rebel cruisers being referred to the proposed commissioners, More of the “Fe land, and docnmenta with the signature of Head Cen- jora appears to die hard ‘ope, and in Madrid, Paris aud in England the attacks have increased in num- ber since the lust previous advi The approach of winter, however, is looked forward to to put an end to the epidemic for this year, In tho London money market, on the Mth instant, United States five-twenties were quoted at 6714 2 0514, and British console at 8874 a 89, MIECELLANIOU3. The trial of JeMforson Davis for the crime of treason, before the United States Supreme C: either in W ington or Richmond, at an early day, has, our despat from the decided on, and the arrangemen I completed, the counsel for tho govermmen ng beon selected by Attorney General Speed, and the friends of Davis havin; red counsel for him, It is reported in Washington that the Secretary of the Navy has directed all oar available steam war veezels. to dezpatehes, we are infor: With consid ble cortainty the early recap imperialist entire State « ‘Tho e deepate forces, contirmed by official advices rece and the full denonement of important plans ve been (or some time part in process of execution by the Mexican republicans along the Rio Grande border is said to be 4 for. tamoros was so closely besioged by from the five thousaad repiblicans that the impo. Fintists dared n ture beyond the fortifications of the town, their conimunications with other points Rio Grande and with the in terror, exerting via Brownsville, on Aun do, of the river, w utom, Tt is also ed that the | repiblienn chit eral Vega has invested the um perialist ypico | Bighteeas leandred imperial | tronps for t af Matamoros, in charge of two | Million do!tors in specie, wore said to be on the way from Ms < in connection with the affairs xico, we wive thie morn ne new Mexican fosn for th hich was placed on this mi last, and also a ropresentat on of the bonds of the pation of five handred hese he: er of the some facts ¥ miltion: mand ja tr country warm expr in de Iturbide, tie eldest son of the firs Empecor ot Mevio, is now in this He has been ofer:d ronk ond emoluments by Maximitian, but has de. | erined them Despatches tothe 17th inst. from Ponana and other | port «republic of in reached ns by tt steamshiyy ork, wh sterda from Aspinwall, having put i ton | the way. The New York brought over one million one | Dundeed thotsand dollars in -per me specimens | of gold ore token from the newly d red Tathnies depos ts neor the linc of the Patume ‘oud, More extensive divcoveries are expeeted to w, and the Seed’? Fenians have been arrested in {| ident) Mahony figure largely in the evi- | | minatod by the lator ve | dony. that the Leguilature of the Chickasaw Nation has ratified the treatics lately negotiated at Fort Smith, Arkansas, including the provision abolishing slavery. The Health Commissioners of this port, in accordance with a call of Mayor Gunther, yesterday held a meeting to devise for preventing the visitation of the cholera, is entertained regarding its appearance during the winter; but it is thought neces. sary to be prepared against it in the spring. Several of the gentlemen present spoke briefly, and finally a resolu- tion was adopted appointing the Mayor of Jersey City, the Health Otticer of the Port, the Health Officer of Brooklyn and the Resident Physiclan of this city a com- mitteo to apply to the national government fora site suitable to retain passengers arriving on cholera infected vessels and those coming from ports where the disease has appeared. Sandy Hook is proposed as the location of this establishment. ‘The Railroad Committee of the Board of Councitmen held a meeting yesterday to hear arguments on the pe- tition of down town merchants for the removal of the street car rails (rom Greenwich and Washington streets, below Canal street, Several of the merchants appeared and spoke in behalf of their petition, representing the railroads on those streets as @ great impediment to busi- ness and little accommodation to the public. The com- mittee, without giving any decisive reply, adjourned over till Tuesday next, in order to learn in the meantime from the Corporation Attorney the power of the Com- mon Council in the matter. Arrather novel freak of an applicant for admission to practice in the United States Circuit Court was exhibited yesterday. While Judge Nelson was on the bench United States District Attormey Daniel 8S. Dickinson made the usual application to practice in the United States Circuit Court on bebaif of Henry 8 Foote, ox Governor of Mississippi, ex-United Slates Senator and ex-member of the rebel House of Representatives. The applicant, by direction of the Court, presented himself at the clerk's desk and took the ofth tosupport the constitu- tion, But there wasa test which Mr. Foote evidently did not dream of—an oath required bya late act of Con- gress, to the effect that the applicant has not voluntarily borne arms ag: he United Statea, &c. This oath Mr. Foote dectined to take, and so declining loft the court, An interesting and somewhat complicated caso in re - gard to who is the proper person to remove an execution of sale was yesterday before Judge Ingraham, of the Su- preme Court, on the a jon of Mr. John Kerr to be of certain lots of real catate bought by him at a referee's sale in July lust, the title to uupposed to be defective. The Judge heard a nt of the ease and the arguments of counsel, and el his decision, In tue case of Margaret Boyle, committed by a police ice on acharge of disorderly conduct, and who was lay before Judge Ingraham, by virtue of a writ of s corpus, ox an application for her dischargo, the red a decision refesing the applicatien, or. sromanded to custody and in the Tombs yesterday, and was ambers of the Superior Court, it boing the appointed for taking his evidence 1 the suit brought McVickar for the recovery of seventy thousand on placed to his credit by young m in the keeping of Greenleaf, Norris & Co. The however, dd not proceed, in consequence counsel having appealed from the order of a his evidence to bo taken, ained Ketchum will not testify tian by ptehum nm of the Phenix Bank ia e wamed as the place of de- aimed by Charles Brown, alias od with being imptieated tn In the Court of rat Sessions yesterday James Jortan, indicted for stealing eighty dollars’ worth of ward W. Burdick, of Wooster street, October, pleaded guilty. Charlies Sinith, charsed ry in entering tho establishment of Albert I. De of Broadway, on the night of the 6th of Cetoly milty to the offnee, Jordan and Suni wee nt to the State Prison Cor three yours Ann Foley was convietsd of stenting fy deliars from wm ams, ata house in Washington street, and was ent te tentiary for one year. Wm, €o was also found guilty of stealing a quarter p'po of | dv, worth four hundred dollars, the property of Theodore Hebn, of Dey street, ‘The prisoner employed a cartman ake it from the sidewalk toa house in Oliver street, a domestic, charged with stealing a thon «worth of wearing apparel and other propor- Zacharia Simmons, of East sixteenth ed guilty to petty larceny, only twen- worth of the goods being traced to zbeth Rourke, indicted for steating theee hendred dotiars’ worth of lados’ clothing from Elza A. Hambiia, on the 19th of October, pleaded guilty to an attempt atrrand larceny. These prisoners were \ for Patrick C. Commerford pase aton dollar Hank « no evidence of guilty knew of the bill, quitted, ert it bil on : bat, as there of the charact he was a who was charged with stealin of hsix hontred dotlars, the property of Dovg equitted a, Hike the first, dock te a the ooskt and Algonquin. was pre In the p of the nin, ordered the he encines of his v 1 on the groond technical advantage of him had been ta’ having charge of the Winoork’, whieh ti The engines ef the Winonski, stopped, and will continae to ran unt'l the ninety-six hours asrced npon for the test are completed, which will ocenr this afiernoon, Her engineers «ay that ste was gaining rapidly on the Algonquin for some time previous y tor. son, emplatically “e, wore not Panama and Aspiawall people are anticipating a great | Tash tothe new digginys, and a conseqrent animation in | to the revot Chile, by demands on and no news of consequence from the Central to that steamer withdrawing from the contest The American Christian Commission cont'nned its | meeting yesterday from the day previous at the Bible | Honse, Astor place, Among the gentlemen prescmt wer? HL. Stuart, President; Chief Justice Chase, ome of Geo American repubiies, bat wé have acconnte of additional | '¢ View Presitont+, and several clergymen of promi- insuerectionsry operations In Colombia and apprehen. | Renee The business bevore the assembiage on Werner {ome of stl greater dm psions, Ae a sort of | 42¥. consisting of mattors relating to the organiztion Lonsenwenee of the Invadon of the State of | 204 location of a contral office, determination of a plan of Yovama te of Canes, the suppression of which wel Inonieled, Cayca bee recently maflored on from th ate of Antioquia, Thix now wart: h eon hy ny ta merely the advance © ever trodbled Cotomb an vied. the [ethmus of Panama , from Savan® wit brought Jc, Capiain tl ere tanc onl ilon, Walter A. For. fort word, Judge of the Supreme Court of P Savaunat on the 19h Inst, Assistant Sor; OF the TWAT Maine regiment, has beer cal Director of the ent district of the Og eches, Georgia, in place of Dr, Baldwin, who returned home with bie regiment —the One Hundred aud Seventy-thirnd New | York. An addition to Louis Napoleon's naval fleet tn our harbor wn« made yesterday by the arrival of the Frew i gunboat D'Rstaing, Captain do Bonsuuge. The South Carolina Logistatare, clected on the 18th rida, died im on Towles, prointed Medi. | vocated in the strongest terms. inst., assembled in Columbia on Wednesday of this week, and yesterday the message of Governor Perry wan delivered. The Governor congratulates the membera on the rapid progress the State has made in reconstruction, ‘on the good foatures possessed by the new constitution, find on the benefits which will result to the State from setion, arrangement of financial matters on a proper | basis, the election of officers and appointment of standing committees, was continned, and other affvirs were also ed of. aft vr which an adjournment subject to the call of the Executive Committee took place, Pero, who made a short and encouraging apeceh. There wos nothing farther of special public interest in the pro- © ed ng: of the Union, «hose anniversary session termi: nated last evening, ‘The ao: meeting of the American M.sstonary Aaso- clation was commenced at Plymouth chareh, Brooklyn, on Wednevday and conclided yesterday evening. The attendence was lance, The subject of conferring upon the freedmen of the South the right of suffrage was ad. Reports wero given in and addresses made by Rev. Dr. Patton, of New Jorsey; \ Rey. Dr. Kirk, Messrs, Whipple and Baldwin, and Mr. Iv wis Tappan, A voluminous communication was te- coived and read from Horace James, Assistant Commis- sioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abatt- doned Lands for the State of North Carglina. Tho exer. cises closed with addresses by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and Rev. Dr: Storrs. Mr. Beecher endorses President Johnson and holds that Christian love ts the only ‘weapon now to be used to conquer the projudics of the the abolition of slavery; eulogines President Jonnson for | South. his liberal and venefloent course towards the South; recommends the fostering of internal improvements, Commerce and manufactures. the passage of laws for the protection of the freedmen and the encouragement of Immigration; suggests eabmitting to the people the choosing of Presidential electors, and urzes the organiza- @ion of tho militia, as the authorities at Washington have informed him that so soon as the clvil government is Completely established the national troops will be with drawn from the State, ‘The Secretary of the Treasury has officially announced that the entire fifty millions of government five-twenty ‘bonds recently offered to the public in lieu of certificates of indebtedness, compound interest notes and Treasury wotes have been taken. Mr. B. A. Rollins was yesterday promoted to the posi tion of Commissionor of Interna! Revenue, to succeed Mr Orton, who resigned on the previous day, and Mr. Daniel 6. Whitman, of New Jorsey, was appointed Deputy Commiesioner, to fill the place made vacant by Mr Rollins’ promotion. ‘ ‘The Taodian Bureau yesterday received intoling ce Levi L. Farwell, charged with the murdor of bis min- trem, Harriet Wells, in Washington, was arrested im this city last evening by two of our detective police. Mr. Andrew H. H. Dawson, of Savannah, Ga, de- livered a lecture last evening on the subject of ‘“Recon- ciliation” to a small but select audience im the Cooper Institute, during which he made one or two references of on Interesting character to the address of Wendell Phillips, in the same hall, on the previous night. ‘The ante-mortem examination was taken yesterday at the New York Hospital of policeman Hanford Corby, who received supposed mortal injuries, on Wednesday night, at the store 22 Columbia street, by being beaten, ng alleged, by the proprietor, Julius Brechtman. On the conclusion of the depomtion, and after some addi- tional testimony had been taken, the Coroner decided to admit Brechtman to dail in the sum of three thousand dollars, Horatio J. Kendall, a private of the Twelfth Maine regiment, was accidentally drowned noar Savannah, Ga, on the 20th of this month, The stock market was buovant yesterday. Govegy. NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, OUTOBER 27, 1868. ments were heavy. Goli was dull and closed at 1453; a 145%. ‘The fallin gold had a very depressing influence in commercial circles yesterday, and but little business was consummeted. This was especially the case with imported merchandise, which was very quiet. Do- mestic goods were irregular, Cotton was more active and higher on the strength of the foreign news. Petro- Joum was dull, unsettled and lower. Groceries were steady. On ‘Change flour was dull and lower, Wheat was firmer, but very quiet, Corn was higher and more active. Pork was firmer at the opening, but closed heavy and lower. Lard was dull and a shado lower. Whiskey was inactive and also lower. The Approaching T of Jeff. Davis for Treason. One of our Washington correspondents announces this morning that the authorities have made all the necessary arrangements for the trial of Jefferson Davis before the Supreme Court. The necessary counsel for the prosecu- tion have been retained, and the arrange- ments are perfected, in order that the trial may speedily follow that of Wirz. It is apparent that the President, with that firmness which has ever characterized him, is determined, while dealing leniently with the masses of the rebels, to so enforce the laws | against the leading spirits of the rebellion as to make good his declaration that he would “make treason odious.” While he is daily pardoning the deceived and misled masses he is selecting from among the leaders such as represent the most criminal phases of the rebellion, and, while putting them on trial for their lives, is employing the occasions to expose to the scorn of the world the horrible atrocities which have resulted from their crimes, The trial of the conspira- tors served to show the vindictive nature of the traitors, In that of Wirz the world has been shown what inhumanities these leaders, of whom Wirz, though only a tool, was yeta representative, were capable, and the purpose of the government in convicting Wirz has been leas to punish the man than to prove the rebel government capable of committing cruc!ties more horrible than those of the Black Hole of Calcutta. In trying Jefferson Davis for treason the government will aim, not so much to convict and hang the traitor, as to define the nature of the crime, fix ils punishment and reveal what atrocities it has fathered and pro duced. ; In such a trial, before the highest tribunal in the land, there will come up for final logal arbitrament the various questions which e agitated the country, in Congressional halls and on battle fields, for the past forty years. The Anglo-Rebe) Pirate Imbrogio—The Semi-OfMicial Explanatio:, It is announced in the foreign news by (he Africa that the London Times has an “expla- nation” in relation to.the just published cor- respondence between Earl Russell and Mr, Adama, and. farther, that this explanation is “gomi-official.” The explanation iv that “the position taken by the British government wonld preclude the losses from the piracies by the rebel crnisers being referred to the pronosed commissioners.” This is an explana very much like the plea in the tub ease, Defendant, being ened fora tub loaned to him, sud re- turned in a damaged condition, replied, first, that he retarned the tub in a sound siate; second, that it was broken when he got it, ond third, that “he never had tho tuba The planation” of the London Times is equally rea- sonable. [i informs Wa that Bngland’s position renders it impossible fora cor:ain comm sion, proposed by her, to take up the only question that we could possibly carry before the said commiasion, and the only antject of the corres- pondence that led to the proposal of the com- mission. This semi-oflicial explanation of the London Tis her 2 canard, or it is put ont to quiet the British public. [i may have been thourhi in Mngland that the pos'tion of her Majesty's rovernm aa little Inconsistent; that it denied in on ath the existence of a claim thet in another it proposed a commin- sion should coasid and this explanation is sont ont to he difficulty, and to assure the pobtie that Russell has not com- mitted any blunder. A fiitle reflection will sa’ one that this must be the The whole mut rin discussion between - 3 is ¢ sell and Atoms was this oue of British Con- federate cruisers, Through the whole length of the able docnments given by us terday any other topic. Th was the racies on our commerce, the exclusion of ail others, that was before them, and a! the end of bis own argumeat Earl Russell declares that her Majesty's gov- ernment is ready to consent to the appoint- ment of a commission to which shall be referred the etnime of the two Powers. And now we are informed that the positioa of Eng- land will render it impossible for fhe ecommis- sion to take up ihe only elaim we eare a rsh tor. This diplomacy would be sufficiently British, but we do not believe that uny such declaration restly came from her Majes‘y’s government. The published correspondence between the two ministers exeites the deepest interest in the two countries, in both of which the doca- ments have opparently been read with avidity and the qnestion weighed. and peace or war may rest upon this discussion. Perhaps the mass of the British pablic may find themselves fortified in the notion that they are right by the perusal of Russell’s able letter; and it Is cer- tain that the letter of Mr. Adams will deepen the conviction, already clear in the American mind, that great wrongs have been done us in the past four years by the direct agency and action of England. When two such people take positions from which they will not recede, and one feels deeply an injury done it, the ap- peal to the law of foree, to war, seems to be the only solution, There appears to be one ready way to avoid the bitterness and the worst result of this discussion, and that is by the submission of this question, with several other international questions, to s Congress of the great Powers. An international Congress is the real remedy. Tue Mostcians ann THR MaNaoEns.—The- musicians of this city have determined to do mand an advance of wages. To this advange they are of course entitled. Their profession brings them in but a precarious support; they are employed but part of the year, and the prices of all the necessaries of life are very high, and appear to be going higher. Wf we are to believe the other papers, the managers of this city were never making s0 much money before, and are rapidly accumulating large fortunes. Under these circumstances we pre- same that they will accede at once to the to and allow their poor to share in their progperity. This will settle the whole question. ‘The National Museu Botany and Art at the Pérk. There is already in the Parkan admirable The Cholera Sensation—The Duties of | nucleus for a grand national =museum—the Citizens. The nows from Europe by the Africa tells us of the ravages of the cholera at Madrid on the 12th inst, fifteen days ago. It is reported that there was a great increase of the epi- demic there, and that in five hundred and forty cases there were one hundred and seven- ty-five deaths on that day. As the disease has made such progress on its westward march, and as the latitude of Madrid is about that of Philadelphia, this news will be seized with avidity by the sensation makers, and may be made to cause a great deal of unnecessary alarm. It should be remembered that the latitude of forty degrees on the Spanish penin- sula is very different from the same latitude on our coast, This difference is due to the influence of the Gulf stream—an influence so great that the climate of Spain is practically a tropical one as compared with ours. The ap- pearance, therefore, of cholera at Madrid in the middle of October, and the fact that it should rage there with intense fury, giving ils own type to all the autumnal diseases, do not by any moans overthrow the argu- ment that the disease is cut short by frost— the argument upon which the view of our own safety for the present year is based. Tho sengetion papers baye been sprending a silly story as to the presence of the cholera here. There has occurred in Brook- lyn a case of intestinal disease that looked to somebody like cholera, and some physi- cian is said to have declared it that disease, There may possibly have been a sporadic case of cholera; but what of that? There are cases of cholera every year. Nota year has gone by since the cholera first visited us in which there have not been oases of in- testinal disease which were diagnosed and treated as cholera, and called cholera, and which undoubtedly were just as choleraic in their character as this Brooklyn case. But this is a very different thing from the visitation of epidemic Asiatic cholera, as the Brooklyn people will find to their infinite sa''sfaction. It is consistent with the character of the sensation journals—ready to make money out of the most dangerous alarm—that they should make the most of this story. But it is in a high de- gceo probable that we may have cholera next year. On the first visitation of cholera here there were several scattered cases at the end of one season while the diseass was raging else- where, and then it was cut short by the frost; but when the conditions favorable to the dis- ease came in the next summer it raged with full fury. If it should visit us next summer how are we prepared for it? The answer to that is a disgrace to our city. Every people must sooner or later pay the penalty for their political sins, and perhaps a heavicr penalty when they are sins of omission than when they are of the other sort. It is possi- bie that our time mzy have come to settle for a very heavy score of this nature. Fora great many years it haa been the distinguishing sin of our citizens that they did not care—that they were utterly indifferent to the political fate of this city. They have not generaily de- clared themselves to be 80. On the contrary, so far as declarations go, they would scem to Lave taken the deepest interest and to bave felt the most intense horror at observing the gradual degradation of municipal politics. hey have denounced municipal corruption without stint. They bave spoken agains it in occasional public haranguos. They bave grumbled terribly at the taxes it brought to their doors, and the grumble3s and harangnes have echoed and re-schoed over every break- fast table in the metropolia; and as the echoes died away the worthy merchant went abont his business, and all thonght of the political condition of the city passed out of his bray brain. Except in words our people have been rt- terly apathetie on this point. They have con siently filed to take any practical action— any steps that had even the promise of posi- tive resulta, They have neglected their politie ont dutics until they may be said to have waived and relinquished their political rights, and (hose rights have gone by default to others. Ifthere were any taet in our constitution or in our laws thet disfranchised the better class of our cilizens and disqualified them as voters for municipal cficers, we should have a revo- Introa and the bloodiest of civil wars over it. Aud yet this. very claes of our citizens have, a8 a whole, deliberately and practically disfran- chised themselves by peraisienily staying awoy from the polis, the conventions, the primary elections and similar places that our present system requires they should go te They have just as persistently refused position, as we saw in the late attempt to induce a pum ber to become imspectors of election, in which very many refused to give up their private affairs for even a single day to devote that dag to the public service. The consequence of this apecies of absentee ism is that the city years ago fell into the hands of unscrupulous men, who made politics and place hunting their sole pursuit, and who gave up their lives to: making their several places pay to the utmost. Of course these men had no care-for the interest of the city in any, rm- spect. They felt no moral obligation for tie proper discharge: of their duties. Appointed to take care of the public welfare;. they took care: of themselves, and left the pnbiic welfare to do likewise. We have secon this: in every fact of our history for nearly: thirty years, and now it is possible we may see the result of it in.a more striking way.. If the cholera should be developed here next season it will, perhaps, devastate this island. It will sweep members ont of nearly every family in our city. No prevision has been made against it, and it ie almost against hope to. expect that any will be, Our sewerage is defective to the Inst degree, and our city is always filthy. Sach circumstances will favor the epidemic, and its effect will be terrible. And witose fault will it be? Every one is ready encagh to ery out that it is the fault of the corrupt, thieving, selfish politicians in office, who donot give us ® natural chance to escape the discase. But how much more is it the fault of the citizen whose neglect to performs his duties has per- mitted offices of trust te fall Into the hands of such men? It is the faalt of every man who has stayed away from the polls and given up our city to the plu.adorers, who are able to de- feat overy mea‘mre devised for the public good. It is a rafty that the eyes of the people could not be opened by something Leas terrible Gepands.of the musicians in their orchestras. | than the visitation of this scource, commencement of a collection that will some day rival the finest in the world—that will equal that of the Zoological Gardens in London or the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. We give an account in another column of the acquisi- tions made up to the present time. Without noise or flourish of any kind, it will be seen that there has been brought together in this splendid public resort a collection of beasts and birds that is even now better.than any private collection ever exhibited here. From the quietness with which all has been done the people scarcely know, what is the literal truth, that there is now open to the public at the Park a better museum than any ever before seen in this city, Here are fine speci- mens of different varieties of the American bear, the American bison, the Hindoo bull, the American deer, the Central American pec- cary, the Mica lion, ant bears, prairie wolves, monkeys of both the Old and the New World, and many smaller animals, The collection of birds is large and fine. Nearly all visitors to the Park have noticed the splendid specimens of the American eagle and of the swan. Seventy-two swans have been presented— twenty-two by the Senate of the city of ue burg, twenty-four: by the Company of Vint- ners of London, and twenty-six by the Com- fany of Dyers of the same city. There are storks, flemingoes, pelicans—in short, a large collection of birds, many of them quite rare and very beautiful. An excellent start has also been given to an art department for this national museum. Mra. Crawford, the widow of the artist, has contributed a full set of her busband’s works—splendid pieces of sculpture, bas re- liefs and sketches, ‘There are in this one donation eighty-seven piecee—making alone a noble gallery. One marble statue has been presented and some fine bronzes. All the ar‘i- oles in, the art collection are voluntary contri- butions, as are also the larger number of those in natural history and botany. Though it has from the first been contemplated and intended that what is necessory for the perfection of the noble museum thus begun shall be bought, if has so far been necessary to apend but very little money. Our own citizens—men of wealth, artisis and othora—have taken up the idea in the best spirit, and thus show their readiness to further it by all means in their power. In their far away travel they remom- ber home, and the Park has experienced the benefit of this. One liberal citizen, sesing the busy beavers building their strange villages far out in Idaho, thought at once how rare a curiosity such o beaver village would be on one of the streams or ponds in the Park, and at his own expense sent a pair of beavers to San Francisco and all the way round to this city. Unfortunately one of these little Westerners died, but the gentle- man, n0 way fniimidated, means to send an- othe. How magnificent a museum will such a disposition make! The Park, from one end to the other, will bo all museum. Beavers in the out of the way ponds, swans on the open lake, strange ruminants browsing on the meadows, timid gozelles leaping away bebind every copse, and strange plants and rare flowers on every band. How umich of edues- tion there woald be insxch a» museum! How much of refiring inflnence for every class of the people! Flow much better such a resort than the low hovels of the city—the purlieus of the rumshop—where all has the contami- nation of inherent hambug and deception, the contamination of Glib, physical, mental and moral! What is now necessary is that the Park Com- missioners should do all that lies in their power to foster ami encourage the spirit that needs notiing else to make this great mational institution. They should issuea circular on the subject, to be sent capecially io the American consuls at every foreign port. By that menns they will put themscives in commuuication with all Americans in foreign countries, and will take an excellent practical step toward the enlargement of the collection. Every Amorican abroad would take « pride in con- tributing, and thas the Commissioners will securs the larger animals of Asia and Africa, or they will learn of opportunities to purchase. All the collections in Europe have duplicates, and our citizens abroad, if shown exactly how, would secute many of these for us. Much less money would have-to be spent by the Commis- sioners than is tlionght. What is wanted is tact in the management. Let them manage details properly—the public spirit of our citi-- zens will do the: vest—and such a collection, gathered from alli the quarters of the globe by the public spirit and munificence of our citizens, while it will be a noble monument to that spirit and mumificence, will also be the most magnificent collection ever made. Tae Camraton: mx New Jxesey—Tar Con- strroTtonaL AMENpasext.—They are having a very animated campaign in New Jersey. Mass meetings of thousands ot men, in cities; towns and villages,.are the order of the day over | there. The republicans are tighting with ao will; for they are: fighting to win: They have- the seven thousand democratic majority cast for General McGleflan to overcome, but they think they can: do it, The democrats are fighting resolutelly to hold thea ground; but upon one point, at least, they are fighting under « great.disadvantage. General Runyon, their candidate. fer Governor; in his impla-. cable hostility to the constitutiensl amendment abolishing slavery, is on the wrong tack. He claims to-be- an admirer of the reconstruc- tion policy, of President Johnsca; but he stullifes himself in oppading ‘his arsend- ment, whic is one of the main tim- bers of, the Johnson platform. The New Jereay democracy, however, in, refusing to ratify this.amendment by their Legislatare last winter, made the great mistake which we guess has placed Goneral Runyon im his pre- sent unfavorable position. If he and his party are dofeated they may gharge it to this, consti- tutional amendment.. ‘The best thing, there- fore, that he and can do is to put their heads together, andi come out beldly for the amendment, and for its ratification hy New Jersey the comiag winter, as one of the main pillars of the Johnson platform, accepted by the Jersey democracy. If they have any doubt upon the swadject let them send for Judge Haa~ kin, the finisher of the Albany democratic platforra, aad he can tell them what they qaght to da. Musical Intelligemee, - ‘ CONCERTS OF THE BROTHERS FORMES. ‘Tho combination of these three brothers should have just such voices—so exactly suited to form 4 concert company of themselves, Theodore Formes is a tenor robusto of the grand school, with a voice of ex- traordinary power and a style which has won for bim » brilliant and sterling reputation all over Europe. He is beyond contradiction a great artist, and should alone be of sufficient attraction to crowd Irving Hall. William Formes, the baritone, is also a first class artist, whose style and taste are unimpeachable, while Carl Formes, as basso profundo, has no superior in America. His long reat has invigorated him, both physically and vocally; indeed his superbly sonorous voice has recovered all its old excellence, aud we shall once more hear him in the vigor and ripeness of his natural style. The concerts of the Formes brothers, which commence at Irving Halt ‘on Monday evening next, will be the first musical sensa- tion of the season. BLIND TOM, THE NEGRO GENIUS. In the case Of,this extraordinary boy genias triumphs over caste and color. The profession, never genorous, and seldom even just to their own color, come to Tom to sneer, and go away believing and astonished. The genius of Tom cannot he denied. It risea superior to. prejudice, and it enables him to do what our educated and brilliant ‘musicians ca_- not accomplish. He can repeat by an unconscious effet of memory any pieco of music after he bas heard tt once, He seizes the thought at once, and follows’ it through all {ts modaiations and variations without em- barrassment, and with an assurance hen ernest yr Tom comes out in @ new accomplishment erst ‘He will perform solos on Cle ale oe which fig bas only 6 ps aoe phe: mon that the world doca not s9¢ once im cutury. Tom's hall is crowded every night. MISCELLANEOUS. fae Among the passdugérs ig the steamer New York, which arrived hore last night fro! Liverpool, 1s Mr. Grau and twelve principal artists of thé Taian Oper, engaged for the United Stetes and Havana. ate Madame Anna Bishop gave her first concert in Sam Francisco since her return to that city, at Maguire's ‘Academy of Music, October 4. She was to give another concert on the 6th, and a matings on the Tth of October, Messrs, Charles Lascelles and George T. Evans assisted Madnme Bishop. Signor Morley took a benefit at the Metropolitan the- atre, September 23. The comic opera of 1,’ Elixir d'Amore was rendered. Signorina Brambilla «ang as Adina, Jake Wallace's Minstrels were received by a fashion- abio and crowded audience at the Academy of Music, San Francisco, September 28. The champion clog dance of Peel and Collins was greatly landed. ‘The New York Minstrets (Hussey, Collins, Wallace and Clintons) had been at the Academy of Music, and were wolt! supported, ny Theatrical Intelligence. BROADWAY THEATRE. Tha highly popular picce of Sam at the Broad- way has ful a most extraordinary success, In fact, it is the only drama now on the doards im the city which seems to absorb a general and popular interest. The house is crowded every night almost toa degree of discomfort, and were it not for the goed arrangement of the management in the front of the house, wich judiciously provides for the accommoda- tion of the. immense audiences who as-emble every night, there might be some incenvenicnes experienced . Auother tam matinge will be given to-morrow, and we advise every one to go oarly. WALLACK’S THRATNE, Last night, a new comedy in five acts, with the very happy title of The Needful, was played here a full house, It is the’ production of Mr. Craven, the author of the Chimney Corner, Miriam's Crime and Milky White—ait adtmirbie | ttle domestic dramas. In the constraction of such dramas Mr, Craven ha deservedly had great suce:as. His’ style was freah and piquant, the delineation of .cha acter sometimes mas erly. There was concentration, directness, vitality, pith and point in every scene. That field of authorship ia Mr, Craven's true sphero, and he will, perhaps, nob have the same marked snccess incomody. There lon want of purpose in The Needtut—a want of a central idea, The racters havo too little relation with one another, aud are cun her on the thread of a story, Despite this fault the play was. dantly amusing, and parts of it elicited the laughter and applause, Tho part of Mrs. Meek, the managing mother who browbeata herhusband, tyran- nizes over her stepdaughter, and'throws her own tor into the arms of every man she meets, is well drat and was admirably acted by Mrs. Veravn, Mr, Sinith as Mr. Store, a retired shopkceper, a-capital preow ‘ot character, was eminently genial an@ happy im the personation, | Miss Burke as the: stepdanghter alluded to played her part with a very nice ption of ite reli tion to (he stoty. There is mech that ts good im The Needful, and with very hberal pruning im the ad second acts it will, no doubt, run very well! MISCELLANEOUS. Mr. Hackett’s (Sir John Falstat) representations ef Shaxsperean and other characters drew tmmense auft- quces at Pike's Opera House, Cincinnati, during the week whieh ended October 21. His brief engagomest would be regarded as an immense triumph if Mh Hackess needed a triumph. It must, however, please: him very nwich ty receive such a spontancous friendiy endorse- ment asa true representative of the legitimate: drama, evon after lis retirement from the stage. Im San’ Francisco the different places-of amusemens. wore well’ filed during the fortnight ending October 3: Anh na: Porno was on the boards of the Metropolitam theatre. Mesdomes Brown and Yeamans, and Mocera. Whentieigh, rhompson, Pauncefort, Leach snd Shiels pertorn A grand matinés was tobe given authewame house on the Tih inst, Daniel E, Bandroann, annonnced asam Anglo-German travedian, was at’ Ce gg + oy Housein his'fevorite character of Narcisse Taman: play was put on with new scenery and now ments Paradise Loat was tobe exhibited ot the- gave Nizo6 tke Woods at Maguire's Opera House: ‘ae on himsetf acted se Damot CaptatrCooke (a traveller in his own way) wedlked from the Cua House, San Fransciseo, to Seal Hock, aed bark. again, ome tight rope. Manager Wilton closed his circus season imiem Brea September 25. Tone: Pagror’® Orgea Hover. —Thit honse-maintaine- its popatarity, a it well de-erves to do, -among’thethea- tres of tte Bowery district, Without pandering to, the Jowost tastes, which have been so sedulous!yoaktivated: in ile Bawery cheatres, to the great detrimen#os public morals, Tomy Pastor's entertainments provide cacegh of furandmusic ard light enjoyment, suitable toehe de wires: o6 the frequenters of place: of smnsement, without introdscing those exeiting dramas of the love; murder aust blsodthirsty school so common os the Bow stage, and which corrupt while they amuse. caneniay teroerives withaet Delng introduced $0: itx most seduetive but not less pernicious fom: A\ hearty laug) is always worth the price paid ves it. can de-obteined at Tony Pastor's bmi Howe night. me varies, there -is Stood al Sole under the direction of Mx Grafulm,, whith proved are wuecesa sceaon, veill, carve, oe renee on nth ‘ we glad to as) commencing tomorrow, and ending.om the 3d of to. conciliate the Liurbide family, by making some of its members ‘and vaming a battalion of troops: “The Byarbide.”’ Don Agustin has, howevor, refased any; titles, or condecorations from Maximilian; and on the Chrincetlor of the order sending him the Grand Cross of Griadalonpe he returned Wt, with the remark that “if turned to imperial institutions, “he was the Mexico rorernter such. distinctions, and “aot to receive Major General Jobn A. Logan, of Iiinois; Hon. ox- ‘or John Wentworth and Lieutenans Governor William Ps ne Boar, of Chicago, re topping at theySt, Nicholas Hote, being for Washington. Ul ‘adam ef Hy Br, this oventag, whee Kilpatrick will algo may» an address,