The New York Herald Newspaper, October 29, 1865, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. en cnngrannenen young Gladwin, uow confined in the Tombe on charges Of forgery and stealing Western railroad bonds, out of nine hundred dollars, and then fed with another man, was accidentally shot and killed by this man, named Tim Kinnifick, on last Monday morning, during a drunken debauch in which the two were engaged, at a house of alleged ill repute near Holyoke, Massachusetts. Ayoung man named Hopkins, who had been in the groeery business in Providence, R. I., for some time, nd had succeeded in such a good reputa- tion that he was able to buy largely on credit, has, it is said, recently disappeared suddenly, after having vic- timized some of the merchants of that town to the amount of forty thousand dollars. ‘The stock market was firm yesterday. Governments were dull, Gold was firm, and closed at 14554. ‘The greater ease in the money market rendered com- ‘mercial transactions more easy of consummation yester- Johnson in the matter of restoration, Some of the members of the convention manifest a rather tn- traotable disposition, and evidently need « little entight- enment from Washington, which they will probably soon receive, ag we aro informed that Secretary Seward has notified the Provisional Governor of Georgia that the President cannot recognize any State which assumes a particle of its rebel debt as having resumed its allegiance to the national government. The Grst article of the new constitution has been seported to the convention and adopted. It contains a section abolishing slavery, with & proyjso that this action shall be no estoppal to tuture com. pensation claims fofslaves manumitted, In Louisiana the Provast Marshal’s courts organizod by the Freedmen’s Bureau have been abolished by Gen- Fullerton, and all cases relating to the freedmen ere turned over to the State courts, the officers of the bureau, however, being instructed to see that the negroes receive OFFICE N. W. CORNER 0! FULTON AND NASSAU STS. TERMS cash in advance. Money sent by mail will b atthe risk ofthe sender. None but bank bills current in New York taken. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Foor cents per copy. Annual subscription price, $14. THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Five cents per copy. Annual subscription price:— . One . prs” justice. The rebel ex-Governor Allen, now a voluntary | day. Still the markets were generally quiet, as usual on ™ ‘exile in Mexico, who was nominated by his admirers for | Saturday, and but little business was done, especially in Five Copies, re-clection a3 Governor of Louisiana, bas, it is said, de- | imported goods. Cotton was rather quiet, Groceries ‘Ten Copics... clined the honor, expressing his intention of remaining | were dull. Petroleum was quiet, but firm. On ’Change flour was dull and lower. Grain was firmer, generally speaking. Pork was rather unsettled, closing firmer. Beef was steady. Cut meats were nominal. Lard was dull andheavy. Whiskey was steady, with a moderate demand. in the dominions of Maximilian, Governor Humphreys, of Mississippi, in his recent in- augural address to the Legislature of that State, main- tained the supreme authority of the national government, in opposition to the State rights doctrine, and said that (though he wasa general in the rebel army) “I have always believed that no one or more States could con- stitutionally sever the ties that unite the people of the several States into one people,” Wise men, however, he says, thought differently, and the matter was submitted toatribunal from whieh there is no appeal, and em- phatically decided against'the right of secession, He notices and contradicts the assertion thatthe South is not sincere in her professions of loyalty and acquiescence in the results of the war. While acknowledging that Mississippi has not abolished slavery willingly, but under the pressure of events, be maintains that she has done so in good faith, and that she will never allow it to again exist within her borders. He recommends the passago of laws for the education and ele- do not return rejected communications. vation of the freedmen and to protect them ——— in all thoir rights of person and property, but insists that they can never be admitted to social or political equality with the whites, as this is “a govern- ment of white men.” ‘Miscegenation,” he says, “must be the work and taste of other climes and other people.’’ Bishop Davis, of the Episcopal Church in South Caro- lina, has addressed a letter to his clergy and laity on the subject of the proposed reunion of the Northern and Southern branches of that denomination. 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NO NOTICE taken of anonymous correspondence. We The Military Character of the Candi- dates im this State. Twenty candidates for State office are put before the people by the two perties, and of this number eight are soldiers. The,repnblican party bas given the ¥army just one-half its ticket, either very grateful to the army or con- scious of some bad political timber; and the democratic party, recognizing the army as little as circumstances permit, gives us three soldiers to seven politicians. Of these eight soldiers six are general officers and two are colonels, All have undoubtedly served the country in the last four years with all their might in the most devoted spirit, and some of them with distinguished ability. They pledged life, fortune and honor for the publio welfare in the greatest necessity that ever fell upon the country; and having done that we must recognize that they are a better class of men than the people are usually required to vote for. It is to be regretted that all these soldiers are not distributed through the various offices, so that they would collectively Volume XXX. ed AMUSEMBNTS TO-MORROW EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE. Broadway.—Sau. SAN FRANCISCO MIN: LS, 585 Broadway, opposit Metropolitan Hotel.—Eratorian Singing, Dancina, &0.— Youna Arrioa ow Tae FLYING ie. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. 201 Bowery.—Sino- ang, Dancing, Buntasques, &c.-O1p Dawe Grins. IRVING WALL, Irving place.—Coxcert sy tax Forues Buorauns semble in Mobile during next month. make one ticket, and that the people would cDODWORTH HALL, 806 Broadway.—Buixp Tow's Praxo | A Georgia journal says that many of the leading Metho- | no¢ haye to vote against any one, but could dist clergymen of that State, in consequence of their hostility to their Northern brethren, have mado over- tures to the Episcopalians for a union with them. ‘The United Statés naval steamer Saranac sailed from Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, on the 17th of September, in search of the rebel pirate steamer Shenandoah. A list of ninety-five American whalers is published by a Honolulu paper, thirty-three of which had been burned or boarded by the pirate, and the remaining sixty-two of which had not been heard from. Buenos Ayres newspapers of the 20th of September have reached us by way of Europe, They contain little additional, however, in regard to the war between Para- guay and the allies. We are told that the Paraguayans have respected property protected by our national flag. The new line of steamers between New York and Rio Janeiro, in addition to the subsidies granted by the United States and Brazil, has been voted twenty thou- sand dollars per annum by the Argentine Congress, on give one broad, distinct expression of their faith in this class of men and their contemptfor the politicians. General Slocum, who heads the democratic ticket, is the most distinguished soldier of the number. He is a graduate of West Point, and also alawyer. He left this State in command ofone of our early regiments, and at the close of the war commanded, under Sherman, orte- half of the army that marched from Atlanta to Raleigh. He went up from a coloneley to one of the exalted positions in our great armies--hardly heard of by the country; making no noise, never announc- ing his own merits, never factions, but doing BROADWAY ATHENAUM, Broadway.—Movina Diozs- wa OF NoRtueuN ann SooTuxen Evrors. MONTPELLIER’S OPERA HOUSE, 37 and 39 Bowery.— Munsraxisy, SINGING, DaNcING, PaxTommuxs, &c. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Ermorian Min- stautsY—BaLias, BuRLusquss xy PaNromiaes.” NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway. Open trom 10.4. M. till 10 P.M STEREOSCOPTICON SCHOOL OF ART—Corner of Grand aud Crosby streets. New York, Sunday, October 29, 1865. “NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION. Receipts of Saics of the New York Daily ish duln Rt condition that the trips of the vessels be extended to | his duty earnestly, thoroughly and quietly, and Year Ending | Buenos Ayres, taking his well-earned rewards when they Name of Paper. May 1, 1865. Addespatch from Morehead City, N. C., says that the | came with true modesty. His record is some- Heraco. +. -$1,095,000 | Purser of the steamship Eagle, from Havana, states that | times supposed to be not of the “brilliant” the negro insurrection in Jamaica, heretofore reported, ‘Times... cesses 368,150: | 1.04 assumed serious proportions, and that at the sollct. kind. It has not the brilliancy that is associated ‘Tribune. . sece 252,000 | tation of the ea, aan Spanish war vessels | With the names of Sigel, Butler and that class Evening Post. 169,427 | had been despatched to assist in suppressing it. of heroes, His name has not been dinned into 100,000 ‘The latest advices from the republic of Hayti report | the ears of the people year in and year out in - the rebellion against the government of President Gef- | connection with stories of victories claimed and : 151,079 | frard as continuing, though in a nearly exhausted condi- | 4, +1109 to bntif th is Express. 90,548 | tion, The rebels were still besieged in the town of Cape | 22 108 10 08 Ty Se Sy One OE eee Re Faytion, and were so short of provisions that it was | fellows with a “brilliant record” could justly New Yoru HEmao...........cccseeeeeeeee $1,095,000 | thought they must soon succumb. claim one-half of Slocum’s fights he would con- ‘Times, Tribune, World and Sun combined.. 671,229 Fdward B. Ketchum wns arraigned yestorday in the | gider that he had grounds to justify the wildest Court of General Sessions, and pleaded guilty to forgery in the third degree. His counsel moved for a postpone- ment of the sentence until Ketchum's testimony was taken in a number of civil suits now pending, and stated that evidence would be furnished to the court showing that he was a young man of correct habits provions to the commission of the offence, District Attorney Hall acceded to the motion, and the Recorder postponed the sentence. A motion was made for the discharge of Charles Brown, who is charged with being ismplicated with Jenkins in the Phenix Bank frauds. The Recorder reserved his decision. George FE. Weaver, who pleaded guilty to an assault with intent to commit a rape, was sent to the State Prison for five years. The police yesterday pouncea upon and closed upa very extensive depot for the storage and sale of counter- feit Treasury notes, located in a dark rearjroom at No. 5 Goerck street. Francisco Bohagar, an Italian, the oceu pant of the room, was arrested and committed, and on making search in it there was found a stock of bogus Treasury notes, of the denominations of five dollars, twenty dollars and fifty cents, representing altogether one hundred and eleven thousand dollars, put up in one thousand dollar packages, ‘The bills are rather poor ones, and would not deceive those accustomed to handling money; but it is believed that large quantities of them have been sent to the West and South, where they may have a better chance of getting into circulation, Boha- gar refuses to name any of his accomplices or to disclose the place of manufacture of the spurious currency; but the police are sanguine of learning these shortly. Major General Sandford yesterday issued another order, postponing until the 26th of November, in accord- ance with @ request of the Governor, the review and parade of our city military, which were to have taken place on the Ist of the month, Some specimens of the new ten cent currency notes have been received in this city, and they are nearly ready for geuoral distribution. They are half an inch longer and a quarter of an inch wider than the old notes, and their engraving. is more elaborate. A fire about eight o'clock last evening on the second floor of the grocery store No. 260 Greenwich streot, the origin of which is supposed to have been accidental, did damage estimated at betwoen seven thousand and eight thousand dollars. The annual regatta of the Atalanta Boat Club took place yesterday afternoon on the North river, off the Elysian Fields. There were two races—a single scull contest, for which there were three entries, and a race between the boats New York and Colyer, manned respectively by married and unmarried rowers. The former race was won by the D, Banks, Jr., and the latter by the married men. A large lot of silverware and other articles supposed to have been stolen, together with burglara’ tools, were seized by the police of Poughkeepsie yesterday on board schooner in the North river. Three men found on bonrd wore arrested. ANorfolk despatch states that the disaster to the steamship North Star, heretofore reported as having put into that port on her way from New York to New Orleans, ‘was more serious than at first announced. It js said that only the greatest exertions of all on board and the lighten- ing of the vessel by throwing overboard @ considerable portion of her cargo prevented the water from extinguishing her fires, as it poured in through the leak at a tremendous rate, The passengers have adopt- ed resolutions condemning the owners of the North Star for sending her to sea in the condition in which she is sald to have been. The Agawam (Mass.) cotton miffle, located at West Springfield, were partially destroyed by fire om Fri- day morning. The damage is estimated at about twenty thousand dollars. The property is insured for fifty thousand dollars, five thousand of the amount being in the Home Insurance Company of this city’ A smash ocourred on the New York Central Railroad, near Fisher's Station, on Wednesday Inst, by which several freight cara were demolished, and the fireman ‘and several others were slightly injured. Soon after leaving Rochester the train became divided, and when the locomotive backed up to resume the connection @ collision took place on a short curve. A portion of the party of European capitalists now in thie country, inclading the son of Sir Morton Peto, vis. ited Richmond and Petersburg, Va, during the past week, and spent some time, with much interest, in viewing the scenes in the vicinity of those towns intent of @ Committee to ascertain from the | so nesiortile by the pdb an fd decisive pare AThe last is the Iturbide farce, showing that the wernor whether the repudiation of the robe! | which marked the close of the rebellion. manager is at his wie’ ond to keep up bis A ae time gum on Wh Frovidow b Aunn Ie Qoonr, tho isl who pqine months pao opced | optablishmont stories he could tell of his own achievements, and would be ahappy man. Slocum was a hard worker in the national cause from the com- mencement. He was the other day exposed to the degrading imputation that his appearance in politics before the war was by “permission” of Thurlow Weed. But he has shown that in a nobler and harder sphere than that of politics he needed no “permission,” and no other assist- ance than that of his own brave heart and clear head. He is indebted for his advancement in the army to his acts, He served with great success on the Peninsula, in the battles on South Mountain, at Antietam, at Chancellors- ville, and more notably than all at Gettysburg. He subsequently served, as the country knows, in the great campaign against Atlanta, and in that which brought Sherman to the sea. If this is not a brilliant record in the best sense of the term where shall we find one? General Barlow’s military character is that of a hard fighter. He differs from Slocum in the important fact that he has always had to obey orders and seldom to give them; and while Slocum has had the opportunity in the command of large bodies to indicate an intel- lect of a high order, Barlow’s sphere of duty has only given him the opportunity to indicate an inflexible will and the most dauntless, un- conquerable courage. He is a striking in- stance of the possession of these qualities in an eminent degree. His mind is a good one, as it was the influence by which, without special military education, he rose from the ranks to his position of major general. He has carried troops forward through as hot a fire as any other man that ever trod the field of battle, and though always wounded he has always recovered marvellously and been ready to repeat his exploits on the next battle. General Barnum’s military character is the same—that of a stubborn, persistent fighter. General Jones and Colonels McNett and Howland have the characters of faithful, reliable soldiers; and General Martindale has always been regarded as one of the most accomplished officers of the Army of the Poto- mac. General Patrick has done good fighting, and notably at Antietam; but he is best known in connection with the position he long held of Provost Marshal General of the Army of the Potomac. In this position he gained in the army ® reputation for incorruptible honesty. He was aman of whom all wrong-doers were shy, and all swindleps, sutlers and skulkers were on their good behavior when ;“Old ‘Patrick” was reported in the neighborhood. No man Who was to be bribed could have maintained such a character in that army, where plenty of money was always ready to purchase the privi- lege to rob and cheat the soldier; and the fact that Patrick’s character in that position was never impeached is a satisfactory evidence of his real integrity and of his fitness for the very position for which he is now named. NATIONAL THANKSGIVING. Proclamation by President Johnson. ‘Whereas it has pleased Almighty God, during the year ‘which ix now coming to an end, to relieve our beloved ‘couatry from the fearful scourge of civil war, and to permit us to secure the blessings of poace, unity and harmony, with a great enlargement of civil liberty; and whereas our Heavenly Father has also, during the year, graciously averted from us the calamities of foreign war, pestilence and famine, while our granaries aro full of the fruits of an abundant season; and whereas right. eousness oxalteth a nation, while sin is a reproach to any people: Now, therefore, I, Axpnew Jonson, President of the Waited States, do hereby recommend to the people theroof that they do set apart and observe the first ‘Thursday of Recember as a day of National Thanksgiving to the Creator of the Universe for these doliverances and Diossings. And I do farther recommend that on that occasion the whole people make confession of our national sins against His infinite goodness, and with one heart and one mind implore the Divine guidance in the ways of national virtye.and holiness. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand ‘and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Dono at the city of Washington, this twenty-cighth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and of the indepen- dence of the United States the ninetieth. ANDREW JOHNSON. By the President— Wu. H. Sewaxn, Secretary of State. THE NEWS. EUROPE. Our Earopean files by the steamship Africa, which Feaohed Boston yesterday, give further details of the manner in which the Adams-Russell correspondence ts viewed by the British press, All the most influential Sournals acknowledge the serious nature of the difficulty, and some urge that the settlement of our claims in one shape or another is absolutely necessary for the future ‘woll-being of England. The London Pos, usually re- garded as the organ of Lord Palmerston, advocates the plan which the Hanatp has from time to time recom. mended—vis: that a conference should assemble to agree upon some common code to be observed by all neutral States, President Johnson's address to the Brazilian Minister ‘thas attracted considerable attention both in France and England, and in each country itis strangely onough (aferred that the Prestdent’s advice to the Brazilians to aim at sustaining themeolves absolutely alone implies @0 araudoument ofjthe Monroe Doctrine. MISCELLANEOUS. President Johnson having by his proclamation appoint- 94 Thureday, the 7th of December, as @ day of thanka- Biving throughout our entire country, it is to be hoped, and reasonably to be expected, that there will be concert erith thia action on the part of all the Governors, 80 that our national and State thankagivings shall be one pnd the same occasion. The Governors of Maine and Bow Hampshire have alrondy issned their thanksgiving the former appointing the 28d of Novem- er and the latter the 60th of that month to be ob- porved as the annual religious festival; but it is reason- pblo to suppose that they will now substitute for those the one named by the President. The Georgia Convention on Friday, as announced in yesterday's Hunatp, repealed the secession ordinance, Suatend of declaring it null and void. On the samo day pn ordinamoe ignoring the Btate debt incurred in aid of @ rebellion was introduced and referred to a committee. ‘esterday there was an animated discussion over a mo. ition, which waa Gipally lost by heavy majority, for tho Taxarnicats iv Mextoo.—Mexico is a stage on which Maximilian is amusing the world by performing French farces. We have had several of them within two or three yoars, which, though funny enough to us, aro likely to serious before long to the actors, ———— ‘This is an old story ; we had expected that with both parties in this State on the same platform, and each with a mixed ticket of sol- diers and civilians, old line democrats and re- publicans, there would be but little of the usual violent and vulgar personal assaults be- tween the leading politicians of the opposing camps. It appears, however, that it is as diffi- cult for the mere party politician to correct his vicious propensities as it is tor the leopard to change his spots or the negro to tarn white. Just before the opening of the State canvass between the two parties we had a foretaste of what was coming in the spiteful personal con- troversy between Horace Greeley and Thurlow Weed, in which each, according to the other, was better qualified for Sing Sing than any other place. But an armistice has followed between these belligerents, and we presume that it is agreed between them that each “is a good enough Morgen till after the’ election.” But since the two party State tickets were put in the field Messrs, Weed and Greeley have made some remarkable discoveries of the un- fitness of General Slocum and Lucius Robin- son for any post of official responsibility ; for the one is denounced as a cotton swindler, and the other, by: his late party confederates and admirers, as 8 corrupt and trading lobby job- ber. Weed says that since the Albany conven- vention he has been met with the proffered hand of Robinson, but that “with those who know me it is scarcely necessary to say that the hand which had so recently reeked with foul personal calumny was spurned.” Robinson responds that this “sensation story is as false as it is silly.” Weed retorts with the lie direct against Robinson, and says “the truth is not in him.” All this is bad enough, but the gener- ous old grandfather of the poets of the Post has to step in and make it worse by a sly hit at “the King of the Lobby,” and “the debasing influence of that body upon the legislation of the State.” This brings out the lobby king in all his glory. He shows how he was provoked to expose the lobby jobs of the Post, to “break some of its glass windows,” to arraign as a criminal and eject from his office of Navy Agent the unfor- tunate Henderson, of the firm of the Post; and Weed concludes by saying that the mistake of Kohnstamm, a government swindler now in Sing Sing, “was in not connecting himself with the Evening Post before commencing his depre- dations.” Such are the courtesies brought into play among the happy family of the republi- cans, and, therefore, it is not surprising that Horatio Seymour should turn up his nose at John Van Buren, nor that Van Buren should flippantly describe the ex-Governor as “a damned fool.” The personal compliments of this sort in vogue among the editors, stump orators and travelling managers of the two contesting parties against each other and their candidates before the people are, however, the subject now before us. Two specimens of this atyle of electioneering will serve to show what is the most conspicuous and the most debasing clec- tionecring trick of this canvass. The first is from the Tribune. “How much,” it inquires, “Aoes Joe Davis propose to charge the United States for the use of his and Jeff.’s plantations since he ran away from the service of the rebellion? Couldn’t be induce General Slocum to give bim a certificate and order for the cotton which ‘he must have lost by the war?” Here we have the baseness, malice and venom of party hostility in full play. Our second specimen is from the World, the Monsieur Mantilini of which affects a!l the proprieties of the head of a millinery store. In aconspicuous headline to a report of a democratic meeting at Rochester the speeches delivered are de- scribed as “the scraping of the old sow Seward.” Here we have this affected Manti- lini of the World in his true colors. And yet from day to day he devotes a whole broad- side to the ventilation of “the campaign of calumny against General Slocum.” In these coarse and vulgar personalities so habitual to our professional politicians, editors and stumpers we have the fountain of bitter waters which has made our political election- tering system a disgrace and a nuisance in the judgmont of the civilized world. To this source of political and popular demoralization ‘we may trace all those downward steps from law and order to rebellion and the bloody civil war through which we have passed. Freedom of speech and of the press is the peculiar boast of our political system; but when under this freedom of opinion every prominent candi- date for public favor becomes a traitor, a mur derer, a swindler, defaulter or public rob- ber, we cannot wonder that the management of our political parties has been and is in the hands of demagogues, rogues, ruffians and reck- less adventurers. The blessings of liberty ineuch hands inevitably lead to anarchy or despotism, unless seasonably checked by a wholesome public opinion. Tas Rervewic or Great Brrrainx.—A move- ment is on foot, but not yet fully developed, to change the Fenian programme, end instead of aiming alone at the liberation of Ireland, to aspire to a still greater object, and that is the overthrow of the English monarchy and the erection of the republic of Great Britain. Not Treland alone is to participate in the Fenian liberation movement, but the entire British empire is to share in its beneficent operations. Included in this grand 4rrangement are, first, a lodgment in and the possession of Canada; and, second, the fitting out of a fleet of Fenian cruisers, after the manner of the British-rebel oruigers Alabama, Florida, Shenandoah, Stone- wall, &. The vessels can prey upon British commerce in the same manner, but with more effect, than the rebel vessels preyed upon American commerce during the rebellion. The capture of Montreal with the force the Fenians can send will be but the work of an hour. There is only a garrisott of British troops there, and no defences of consequence. Quobec will fall after @ brief investment, The new capital of Canada, Ottawa City, can be occu- pied without resistance. In short; there fs no place in Canada that cannot be taken posees- sion of by the Fenians if they determine to do 60. Once in their power, the Fenians can make Canada a point d’apput, and their authorities can proclaim the British republic covering the whole empire. That is what the British people want. The Fenians may cease talking alone for Ireland, and the English radicals, with John Bright at their head, may cease agitating the subject of suffrage, and all hands go in for establishing the republic of Great Britsin. That ig the to bi tho ae or promising fire-eater, Wade Hampton, is very likely after all to make a better and more use- ful, as well as more loyal, Governor of South Carolina than many men from that State whose NEW YORK, HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER. 29, 1865. © The Seandslous Personalities of Our Our Orry Govannaur—Judging from the general character of the nominations made for the Legislature in the rural districts, there is but little hope of that body doing anything for this city which will in any form prove benef- cial to our tax-ridden citizens, be sure, many good men in the field, buts majority of the radical nominations are no im- Provement on the past few years. It is alto- gether probable that the worst men everywhere throughout the State will succeed; that the Legislature will be thoroughly partisan; and if our citizens desire relief they must pursue some other course. The Tribune declared a few days since that it was much cheaper to buy members after they were elected than it was to elect them, That concern has had some ex- perience in that line with republican legisla- tures, both as applied to United States Senators and the piers and wharves job, and therefore no doubt speaks from practical lnowledge. This being the position of affairs, our capitalists had better try the Tribune’s plan as an invest- ment—buy up a majority of both Houses, and in that manner secure the appointment of a commission to govern this city for the next four or five years. There is no hope in any other course, and if they will try the Tribune's experiment they may possibly be able to make 8 good interest on their investment in the re- duction of their taxes. There are, to Tar New Govesnor or Sours Canorina.— The dashing cavalry rebel, and once uncom- rebellious instincts were less demonstrative. Daring. the rebellion Hampton was in ex- tremes, He was the fiercest rebel of them all. Having honestly accepted the consequences of defeat, and become truly penitent, it is quite probable that he will now be as extreme in his loyalty as he formerly was in his treason. Such a kind of man is more likely to be sin- cere in his conversion than your milk and water rebel, who, during the stirring times of war, mostly stood upon the fence. Wade Hampton did his best to divide the Union, and he now promises to do his best to restore it. Andrew Jobnson may find a staunch adherent in Wade Hampton, and South Carolina a very reliable Governor. Mowrprutzer’s Orens Hovsr.—During the past week, which was the first of the season in this new Bowery Opera House, the large measure of patronage extended to it ought to satisfy the manager as to its permanent success. The theatre, which is very capacious, and, we may add, very perfect in its arrangements, has been crowded every night.. Mr. Montpellier has the advan- tage of avery strong company, and a corps de balle'— which is one of the leading features—not surpassed in any house in the city, The performances combine ex- cellent farces with good singing, athletic feats, and a really admirable ballet, put upon the stage with all the accessories of costume and scenery necessary to the pro- duction of this attractive entertainment The clog dan- cers Montpellier, Tim Hayes and Messrs. Childs and Car- roll are not second to any to be mot with in the me- tropolis. Altogether, the Montpellier Opera House is an institution that ought to be encouraged by the pleasure seekers of the East End, It presents a strong contrast, in point of refinement and tho absence of all demoraliz- inginfluences, to the Bowery theatres, which, unfortu- nately for the morals of the youthfal community, have hitherto exorcised so banoful a control over that class. Varextive’s MANOAL oF THR ConPoraTion or New Yor«.—The volume of this publication for 1865 has just been issued from the press. It is a book of eight hun- dred and seventy-nine pages. Like those which have preceded {t and been annually printed since 1845, it is creditable to the venerable clerk of the Common Coun- cil, D. T. Valentine, whose name, as author and com- piler, now as heretofore adorns its title page. Aside from the dull and dry detail of elections and lists of public officials, which natarally fill a goodly portion of the work, the lighter and more interesting line of read- ing has not been entirely neglected. Reminiscences of the early days of New York, likenesses of celebrated and ancient Kmickerbockers, and engravings of time- worn buildings and localities, are scattered here and thore among its pages with an artistic confusion, ina measure relieving the heavier portion and making the volume of considerable value even to those seldom caught in as profitable an occupation as looking within the covers of anything more ponderous than the last new novel. Several new reformatory and benevolent institutions are noticed, Al new public buildings of importance, with the political changes of the year, find appropriate mention in the Manual. Mr. Valentine may again congratulate himself upon having supplied a valu- able contribution to the statistical and historical publica. tions of the year. Art Intellig Mr. Heade, the artist, who has arrived at Boston front England, has handed over for public exhibition at the Atheneum, in that city, his picture of Oliver Cromwell, which is to adorn the gallery of historical portraits in Providence, Rhode Island. Jones’ collection of paintings has been exhibited at Lancaster Hall, Portland, Me. Turkey has been startled by the rumor of a great inno- vation perpetrated by the Sultan. He is having his por- trait painted by a Fronch artist, M. Guillemet. Hitherto all representations of the human form have been deemed profane by the true Mahometans. Gustave Doré’s great masterpiece, the “Illustrated Bible,” upon which he has been ongaged for four years, is now on the eve of completion. Messra. Cassell, Petter and Galpin, of London, have purchased the engravings for their exclusive use {n the English language, and this great work, for England and America, will be shortly announced. The illustrations will consist of two hun- dred and thirty large page drawings, the cost of their production being, it is said, upwards of Gfteen thousand pounds. ‘The design for the proposed monument to Shakspere in Stratford-on-Avon is illustrated ina London journal. Tt is a very fine conception and in splendid proportion and finish. The column will be one hundred feet im height, and thirty-six feet broad at the bottom of the steps. It will be ornamented through all its stages with Shaksper- jan Ggures. The upper tier of statues is shown upon tle third stage, which, with those below and the crowning group at the top, St. George of England Slaying the Dragon, number between thirty and forty. The esti- mate shows the following items of cost:—Mason work, £2,220; extornal sonlpture and carving, £000; in- ternal sculpture, £200; statue of Shakspere, £500; color, £100—total, £3,620. A monument has been erected on the seaside, at Schev- iningen, in commemoration of the day when the Prince of Orange (afterwards George the First, of England), King of the Netherlands, returned to Iris country from Britain. The monument is insoribed :—‘‘God has Saved the Nether- lands. November 30, 1813." ‘The Nation is Grateful. August 24, 1865." ‘The O'Connell monument at Ennis, county Claro, Tre- land, was uncovered, Wednesday, October 4, with con- siderable ceremony. ‘Tho removal of the miscellaneous portraits from one of the gallories of Hampton Court Palace, Ringland, to thé Cartoon Gallery, disclosed @ serios of decorative tapestries @n the walls, which are of the latter part of the seventeenth century. The Retrospective Exhibition, at present open im the Champs Elysées, Paris, has lately received a valuable addition in the collection of arms and armory of the Baron de Rothschild, said to be the finest and scarcest in existence. A statue ‘has been erected at Boulogne, France, in honor of Dr. Jenner, the famous English physician, DEATH OF AN ARTIST. John Neagle, son-in-law of the painter Sully, and him. soit an artist of repute, died in Philadelphia lately, at the age of sixty-five years and ten months. He was a native of Boston, and commenced his professional carcer at Lexington, Kentucky, in 1816. His portraits always commanded a high price. His portrait of Bony Clay fags aunane the maut enonasaful, fii out the piece is got up in unexceptionable style, If, however, the comedy had been compressed into three acts, instead of being drawn out in five very short enes, it would have been an improvement; but, on the whole, it is so full of admirable situations and eo well inter. ‘ larded with fun that the play never tires, MISCBLLANEOUS. : ‘The Irish Huszar, or The Military Execution, was played at the Washington (D. 0.) theatre, October, 9m Mr, W. J. Florence personated O'Neill. Mra. Florenes appeared as The Yankee Housekeeper in the farce. * Arrah na Pogue was in the tenth night of a rum 8 Grover’s theatre, Washington, D. 0., Ootobor 26, Mr. Glenney appearing as Shaun the Post. rN ‘At the Canterbury, Washingtob, §D. 0., October 26, the = audience Iwas amused with a drama called The Female Clerks of Washington, or Early’s Last Raid, the negro burlesque of The Mutton Trial, the Wesner Sisters ut the comic act of The Nerves, and other funny perfor mances. * ‘The fall business of the New Orleans theatres, an@ other places of amusement in that city, promised to pro- duce very brilliant results from and on the 26th of Oote- ber. Mrs. F. 8. u, Messrs. Macauley and Fiske, Mrs. Seymour end C. Adams continued in muck favor at the Varieties. N Miss Charlotte Crampton played Medea, in the tragedy of that name, at the theatre at Wilmington, N. C., Oote- ber 25, Miss Nelly Proctor appeared in a dance. Edwin Forrest was greeted, as Richelieu, by a large audience in Hartford, Conn., October 26. Frank Edwards, of the Providence, R. I., and Wor- cester, Mass., theatres, is to bring a dramatic compasy to Hartford, Conn., to play on October 30 and 31. They will open with The Fenian Chief, or The O'Connor's Oath, : De Haven’s cirous was.to epread canvas in Natches, La, the 19th of October. M. Vince, an old theatrical favorite with the citizens of Louisiana, but now in the “sear, the yellow leaf,” deliv- ered a lecture “In Defence of White People” at Pike's theatre, Baton Rouge, October 9, when he took a benefit. ‘The Denver (Colorado) City Museum has been closed for a few cays, the proprietor having ‘‘gone to the moun tains to purchase a few wild animals.’” ‘Miss Avonia Jones was in Paris lately, hesitating, 1% was said, between “engagements” in England aad America. # The Epoque of Paris says that it has received the fol- lowing advertisement :—The second public stance of the Brothers Davenport and Mr. Fay took place at Herts's Rooms; it was ono long triumph—a victorious refutation of all attacks; these wonderful séances take place every evening at half-past eight at Hertz’s Rooms. ‘The editor says that he publishes this advertisement gratis, as he is ! not rich enough to lie for three francs a line.”” ‘The revival of Never Too Late to Mend, at the Princes? theatre, London, led to somotbing like a row on the night of October 6, the second or third of its representation. Ths second act, representing the interior of @ prison, wit the horrors of penal servitude heightened by abuses 6 S the part of tho governor, was deemed exceedingly offea- sive by a portion of the audience. Several gentlemen im the stalls vigorously denounced the performance as “re volting;”” and the manager felt bound to appeal tothe audionce in self-defence. Among other new ideas connected with the arrangemen® of the great exhibition to be held in Paris in the year 1867 is a proposal to build a suramer theatre in the Champ de Mars, where dramatic pieces composed in the prinale pal countries of Europe are to be performed by Grat rete actors. ‘They are exhibiting Chang-woe-gow, a native Ohiness giant, said tobe the largest man of modern times, tm England. Ho is nineteen years of age. Chang's setual height, out of his shoes, turns seven fect six inches; an@ the length of his limbs is in such just proportion to this measurement that his outstretched hands end arms re peat exactly the length of his body, which is the lengtts of eight heads, in strict accord with the eculpturesqua: ideal. In St. Petersburg, Russia, crowds of persons rush to one of the theatres to seo an English sailor, who pro- fesses to have been tattooed when in captivity among the savages of one of the Pacific islands, and who age pears in what is termed “the costume of a cannibal.” “andy Blake,” “The Irish Diamond” and ‘Toodles* were played at the Theatre Royal, Montreal, Canada, October 23, when Mr. John Mathews took a bene®, : Miss Alice Kingsbury also appeared. «dee... ae Messrs, Maskeline and Cooke, who style théniselves “The Davenport Rivals,” have given an entertainmend at the Town Hall, Cheltenham, England. bic arraet Breech Musical Intelligence. ‘Wo would dgalii call the attention of the public to the concert to be given to-morrow evening at Irving Hall by the three justly celebrated Formes Brothers. We have already alluded to the merits of each of these three prime singers, and a glance at the programme will not fail to prove its genuine excellence. Irving Hall should, and we have no doubt will, be crowded to the ‘utmost to welcome the Brothers Formes. q Mr. David Bidwell has (October 16) organized a talented company to perform at the Academy of Music, New Ow leans, during the fall season. Mr. Swift was lately singing at Dublin, Ireland, te Fidelio. Victor Massé’s new opera, Fior d’ Alisa, is in rehearsal, and will shortly be produced, in London. Mile. Frezzoline is about to establish a school of song in Italy. Mr. Whitney, an American tenor, is to sing in Port land, Maine, Ootober 25. ‘The gamins and organ grinders of Paris have under. taken to extinguish spiritualism in France by singing en@ playing it “out” in @ chant, entitled the “Davecpes® Shipwreck,” thus:— Sonn Bul sacra 4 Saaads vob peter | o’avait jamais rien va, ‘ -4 ft. Les deux fror's regard’nt cans rire See Meisel: Allons Paris.. ‘ost le demon qui nous La nows serons aactes Sila les Cos Eight verses follow. ‘They wil! contribute to @atsh the Brothers Davenport—seeing that, in France, &¢ riélento tue.’ The song is stamped with the blue stempef the Home Office, which proves thet M. fe Ministre is ate convert to spiritualiam. Miss States, an American singer, has been engaged fer the opera at Madrid, Spain. i Christy's Minstrels, reorganized by E. Byton Christy, performed at Ely Hall, Elmira, N. ¥., October 23 ané 94, when George Germain, J, H. Clifford, J. H. Tayler, with a large company, gave tho ‘Serious Family,” tee (now) song “Pat Malloy,” “Hit Him Wid « ‘Grick"* ‘and othor amusing vocal performances. —— News from the Indian Commission. St. Lous, Oct, 27, 1868: ‘Aw arrival frosty Oppér Missour! reports that the Indias Cornmtssion had abandoned their steamer one hundred and twenty miles below Fort Sully, and were pron It is not believed the Commission will accom- plish its mission, as no hostile Indians are paid to be withimeeven hundred miles of Fort Salty, Forts Union and Berthold are ovacuated. ‘An immense amount of freight is stored at the monty of the Yellow Stone river and Fort Union, fg conse quence of the inability of the steamers to reach thelr ontipabion. aud will have oolle over iit Spc i444... eee