The New York Herald Newspaper, November 4, 1865, Page 4

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New York, Saturday, November 4, 1965. The Cunard steamship Java, which arrived here yesterday morning, brought two days later newa from Europe. The ministerial crisis caused by the death of Lord Palmerston had not terminated when the Java sailed. Earl Russell had undertaken to reform the present ministry, and had convened a Cabinet council; but nothing definite would be decided upon until after the funcral of the late Premier, and until the Queen returned from Scotiand. Tho London press generally agrees that Earl Russell's personal unpopularity will render any ministry which he may form very unstable, and Mr. Gladstone is looked up to as the man best qualified to conduct a liberal government. r Another meeting of the irrepressible holders of the rebel cotton Joan had been held in London, at which statemeuts of a singular character were made. Erlanger, who put the loan on the market, and Schroder & Co., his London agents, refused to give the unfortunate victims any information as to what money they had received or what they had done with it, or as to the na- ture of their contract with the rebel government. A Jong opinion from an ‘eminent international lawyer’? was laid before the meeting, demonstrating to the satisfaction ofthe holders of the loan the doctrine of State rights and United States responsibility; and with this slender ray of comfort these dupes of the rebillion were ovliged {to rest content. Loud complaints were made that the “large and influential holders of the loan known to exist’’ did not come forward, and in their absence the meeting was adjourned. One interested inuividual made the remarkable confession that ho was ‘always opposed to the South, but took up the loan as a matter of speculation, buying the bonds “very cheap.” ‘The cholera had nearly disappeared from Madrid, there being only thirty-three cases there on the 18th ult. Troubies had arisen in Madagascar, growing out of the payment of the French indemnity. In the London money market on the 2ist ult. United ‘States five-twenties closed at 641g a 64%, and British consols at 89 a 8934. MISCELLANEOUS. The despatch of President Johnson to the Provisional Governor of Georgia in regard to the State's rebel war debt, noticed in our issue of last Sunday, f given in full in this morning’s Heraup. It is of the same tone and purport as the communication on this subject addressed some time ago by the President to Governor Hol- den, of North Carolina, and tolls the Georg‘ans that they should not hesitate one single mo- mont about repudiating every dollar of a debt treated to aid in taking them out of the Union and sub- verting the national constitution. The only consolation he has for those who invested their capital in this debt is that they must take the results of their venture and meot their fate; and he conel des with this distinct and important announcement :—*It should at onc> be made known at home and abroad that ‘no debt contracted for the purpose of dissolving the Union can or ever will be paid by taxes levied on the people for such purpose.” It is raid that Secretary Seward is preparing a reply to the despatch of Earl Russell in which was proposed a commission to adjudicate the claims against each other respectively of our own and the English go’ernment for damages suifered by the citizens of the United States a: Great Pritain during the late rebellion. The lower house of the Mississippi Legislature has passed over the Governor's veto a bill abolishing the Special Court of Equity established by Provisional Governor Sharkey, and it is said that the Senate will likewise pass it, The Legislaturo has appointed a com- mittee to solicit of President Johnson the pardon of Jacob Thompson, Secretary of the Interior in President Buchanan's Cabinet, and subsequently one of the reputed rebel agents in Canada, In Copia county, Mississippt, a difficulty recently oc- curred between the sheriff and the agent of the Freed- men's Bureau, terminating in the former imprisoning the latter, General Osterhaus, upon learning of this, sent thither troops, who liberated the imprisoned offic al, an the county was again placed under close military surveillance, The lower house of the Missouri Legislature, which convened at Jefferson City on Thuraday, yesterday elected the radical candidate Speaker by a vote of sixty-nine to sixtoon. General Frank P. Blair, Jr., having in a recent speech charged that there was fraud in the counting of the votos cast at the election by which the new constitution of the State was declared adopted, the Secretary of State, 1n a communication to the Legislature, asks that a com- mission be appointed to make a recount and decide the matter, Later intelligence regarding the progress of the war in Fouth America between Paraguay and the ailles is con- Jained in our despatches and newspaper files dated in Bucnos Ayres to the 12th and Rio Janeiro to the 24th of Beptember. There had been no sovere engagement of the ppposing armies since the battle of Yatahy, fully described tho Hera of the 19th ult. ; but the siege of Uruguayana iM continued. On the Sth ef August about seven or eight thousand Paraguayans shut themselves up in this town, which was immediately besieged by an army of twenty thousand Brazilians, Argentines and Uruguayans. Up to the date of latest accounts the investment had continued thirty-seven days, the little army within hav- ing worked night and day to strengthen its position, and {ta commander peremptorily refusing to surrender. The Emperor of Brazil and the President of the Argentine Confederation had gone to Uruguayana to assist in the direction of affairs and to hold a conference with General Flores, President of Uruguay, who was superintending operations on behalf of the allies. The latter appeared to be suffering much more from lack of supplies than the ‘posteged, and many of their troops had died of starva- tion. However, they feit confident of soon having posession of the town. All the prisoners the allies take they incorporate in their own armies, and it fs said that these recruits fight very woll against thoir own flag. On the Parana river the Paraguayans had gained some advantages, having considerably damaged the Brazilian flect and advanced their positions and ‘works on its withdrawing down tho river. It ia believed ‘that Paraguay, after manning all her garrisons and Placing her boundaries in a good state of defence, can put one hundred thousand men In the field outside of her Own territory for offensive operations, Nothing in reference to the reported severe repulse of ‘tho republicans by the imperialists at Matamoros on tho 25th ult. additional to what we have heretofore published has been received. A New Orleans despatch says that the imperialists still held the place on the following day. ‘Tho case of William Alien versus the Mexican Genoral Ortega, heretofore noticed at different times in the Hxr- ed yesterday before Judge Garvin, of the Superior ft, On @ motion cf counsel to vacgte the ord whioh the General 18 10w held in sven thous 1a Dail not to leayg thig sountfy iili a ofaim on him to that @mount by for afloged sorvices in the Mexican Focruiting schome cf last syring, shall have boon Re ’ NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1865., adjudicated. A number of affidavits and wit- President Johnson Versus the Radicals memes on doth sides wore Lacan those for General Ortega declaring that he never had anything todo with Allen's operations, and that the charactor of the latter for veracity was bad, while those for Allen ‘assorted that he was employed by the General and that the General's witriesses were unreliable. After all the testimony was in and counsel had been heard on both sides, the Judgo took the papers and reserved his de- cision, The Fenian excitement continues to increase in Canada. Toronto and its approaches are picketed, Orangemen are arriving for its defence, several soldiers have been ar- rested on suspicion of sympathy with the order, and ‘American residents are preparing to leave. It is said that the Fenians have a fast steamer ready for arma- ment and that government officials are in league with them. ‘The steamship Atalanta, from London on the 10th and Brest on the 13th ult., arrived at Quarantine in our har- bor on Thursday night, having had on board during the passage from fifty to sixty cases of cholera and Aftcen deaths from the disease, The Atalanta had altogether five hundred and fifty-six passengers, over five hundred of them being in the steerage, and among these latter the cholera was ontirely confined. Yesterday the Atalanta was sent to the lower bay, about fifteen miles from the city, and the hospital ship Florence Nightingale was despatched to her relief. These facts, however, need cause no alarm among our people, as no communi. cation between the infected vessel and the shore is per- mitted, and the strictest quarantine arrangements have been made to meot any similar cases that may occur, A mecting of the Health Commissioners was held yester- day, at which a memorial to President Johnson asking for the temporary appropriation of a piece of govern- ment land on Sandy Hook on which to establish a hos- pital of detention for cholera cases was adopted. The Commissioners inform the citizens that there is no cause for alarm, warn them against sensation rumors, say that all proper precautionary measures aro being taken, and Promise to issue from time to time true statements in rogard to the disease, if it should manage to effect an entry among us. Eleven more of the survivors of the wrecked steamship Republic arrived in this city yesterday from Hilton Head on board the steamship Empire City. They were three days and four nights at sea after leaving the scene of the disaster, suffering greatly, and were about relin- quishing all hope when a sail hove in sight and afforded them tho longed for rescue. Three boats out of the four which put off from the Republic, with her passengers and crew, have up to the present time been reported as safe. They were those in charge, respectively, of Cap- tain Young, Captain Hawthorne, and tho second mate, One boat, in charge of the first mate, containing seven- teen persons, and the raft, carrying eighteen, we have | not yet heard from. Three government steamers left Hilton Head on last Wednesday to look for them. The bark William Van Name, which arrived here yes- terday from Galveston, was roughly dealt with by the late sovere storm, suffered considerable damage, lost one man'overboard, and during the 27th and 28th ult. passed numerous fragments,pf a wreck or wrecks and the float- ing body of a dead man. A number of additional disasters along tho Southern coast will be found reported in our colamns this morn- ing. Some of these were attonded with loss of life and the sinking of vessols, On the eastern and southern coasts of Florida the storm appears to have been particu larly terrific and destractive, and the shore in many places is strewn with wrecks. An immense meeting of the republicans of Kings county was held last evening in the Brooklyn Academy of Music, As it was to be the last grand rally of the party in support of the republican ticket the turnout was the largest and most enthusiastic held during the present canvass, The building was crowded to a perfect jam, the boxes being filled with ladies. An excellent band occupied the orchestra and enlivened the proceed- ings before the opening of the meeting and during the intervals of speaking. Besides the vast assemblage inside there were large numbers outside, where a couple of stands were erected, from which speakers addreased the assemblage, and where music, bonfires, rockets, cal- cium lights and enthusiasm were in abundance. The inside assemblage was addressed by Generals Logan and Kilpatrick, Hon. William D. Kelly, of Philadelphia, and General Walbridge. The speeches of the two first named gentlemen wore very stirring and offective, and Slicited loud and continous applause from their audience. The Board of Fire Commissioners mot at the usual hour yesterday afternoon and organized by electing Com- missioner Engs Chairman pro tem. The death of Presi- dent Pinckney’s mother was then announced, whereupon the Board adjourned without transacting any business, The next-meeting will bo held on Monday afternoon, at three o'clock. Tho boards of registry generally throughout the city were kept pretty busy yesterday in recording the names of voters who had neglected to attend at the previous sessions. Thus far, including those who appeared yes- terday, seventy-four thousand six hundred and fifty-fvo voters have been registered in the entire city. To-day and Monday are now the only chances left for all who wish to vote at the election on next Tuesday. On Monday last Messrs. J. M. Woekes and J. W. Hop- per, the United States steamboat inspectors, commenced an examination into the cause of the recent explosion on board the steamboat St. John. Considerable testi- mony was clicited from a number of experts; but the general opinion prevailed that there had been an imper- ceptible flaw in the iron of the boiler, which defect had been increased by the injection of cold water subsequent to the blowing off of water and steam. The witnesses agreed in the statement that the boilers were made of excellent iron and byilt in the most approved manner, and appeared to consider the accident as having been wholly unavoidable. The inquisition is still in progress. A man named George Goodwin Baker was on Thurs- day night arrested by a detective and yesterday com- mitted to prison to await an, examination on the charge of having, on the evening of the 17th of September ast, stolen, in the St. Charles Hotel, Broadway, from Mr, Michael B, Cline, of 107 Waverley place, while the latter was under the influence of intoxicating drink, nearly four thousand dollars, in government certificates of indebtedness and notes, The Inman steamship City of New York, Captdin Leitch, will sail at noon to-day for Queenstown and Liverpoot from pier 44 North river. ‘The mails will close at the Post office at half-past ten A. M. The United States Mail steamship Star of the Union, of the Cromweil line, will sail to-day at three P, M. for New Orleans direct, from pier No. 9 North river. The mails will close at the Post office at half-past one P. M. The steamship Quaker City, Captain West, of the Leary line, will sail at hbalf-past four P.M. to-day for Charlerton, from pior 14 East river. ‘There was another government auction sale of cotton at 11 Broadway yesterday, at which about twenty-six hundred bales were disposed of, at average prices of sixty cents for middling fair qualities, fifty-six cents for fully middling, fifty and a half cents for good ordinary, forty-two cents for ordinary, and seventy-one conte for sea islands, ‘The stock market was somewhat irregular, but on the whole strong, yesterday. Gold was firm, and closed at 146%. There were activity and buoyancy in commercial cir- cles yosterday, owing to the further rise in gold. Both foreign and domestic goods sold rather more freely. Groceries were steady. Cotton was unchanged. Petro- Joum was quiet. On ‘Change flour was higher, Wheat was a shade firmer. Corn was without decided change. Pork was irregular, closing decidedly lower. Beef was steady. Lard was unchanged in every respect. Whis- key was firm, with a fair demand. Toe Fentan ‘Panto my Canapa—The Cana- dians are in a regular panic about the Fenians. It is settled that the F. B. are this winter to invade Canada from the United States, and that then from that quarter they are to operate directly against England. This programme looks very plausible; there may be something in it; and the worst of it for the Canadians is that, should it be put into practice, “the Yan- kees” will be bound by the British and Cand- dian rules of neutrality established in reference to our late rebellion. This may be cold com- fort for the Canadians; but it is the best we have to spare. Has Tammany Sonn Ovr?—We were asked this question yesterday in reference to one of the Senatorial districts of this city, in which ban be el, to have the only ate domodratic title deeds We can give no satisfactory answer; but we hope that the people of the district will on election day. and Copperheads. President Jobnson’s instructions to the Pro- visional Governor of Florida touching the necessity devolving upon that State of a ratifi- cation of the constitutional amendment is not satisfactory to the abolition radicals nor to the Sopperheads. It is'too little for the one faction and too much for the other. For ex- ample, the Independent, a leading Puritanical radical organ, says that if the President can require of the State of Florida the ratification of said amendment, he can and ought to de- mand the concession of equal righta or negro suffrage. Some of the more outspoken of the copperhead organs, on the other hand, cannot restrain their wrath at what they call the Pre- sident’s invasion of State rights, and they sug- gest that if his policy is to restore the Southern States under Executive dictation, it would be better to declare them at once in the condition of Territories. Now, it is somewhat remarkable that neither the radicals nor copperheads can bemade to understand or recognize the simple facts and purposes of President Johnson’s restoration policy. He holds, first, that the late’rebellious States have not been and were not carried: out of the Union by the rebellion ; secondly, that they have been left in a chaotic condition, which, in consequence of the overthrow of slavery with their rebel confederacy, requires a thorough-going reor- ganization. The rebellion is down, slavery is extinguished, and, though the States con- cerned remain, they are in chaos, for all their Confederate and local, military and civil, rebel law and authorities are gone. What, then, is President Johnson to do? Under the war pow- ers with which Congress has invested him he may hold the States wrested from the rebellion subject to the action of Congress, under the most rigid military despotism. But he adopts a different policy. He proceeds to put the work of reorganization into the hands of the people of said States, conforming, as far as compatible with the paramount interests of the Union, to their State laws and usages in force just before they went into the rebellion. Thus, in the exercise of a wise discretion, he the other day informed his Provisional Gover- nor of North Carolina that secession and his rebel State debts and doings must be declared null and void; and next, the same information was given to the Provisional Governor of Georgia. Lastly, the Provisional Governor of Florida is notified that another condition pre- cedent of restoration is the legislative ratifica- tion of the constitutional amendment abolish- ing and prohibiting slavery throughout the United States. On the other hand, in the exer- cise of his discretion, the President declines to enforce negro suffrage as a condition of resto- ration, but leaves this matter to the future con- sideration of each of the States directly con- cerned, believing this the best and safest course. The difficulty with the copperheads is this’ they seem to think that if South Carolina has never been out of the Union the President has no ‘right whatever to interfere in her State affairs; while the abolition radicals contend that ifhe can dictate one condition of recon- struction he can dictate another, and is play- ing false in failing to enforce negro suffrage. But President Johnson, pursuing his course be- tween these rash extremes, aims, by ongrafting the prohibition of slavery upon the “supreme law of the land,” to cut off any possibility of ita revival in any State hereafter; and next, in declining to enforce negro suffrage, he believes he is avoiding that bloody war of races which the too sudden trial of the experiment of “equal rights” In the transition from slavery and its teachings to universal liberty would be apt to bring about. The policy of President Johnson thus com- mends itself to sensible and patriotic men of all parties. It was and is within his discretion to go with the radicals or the copperheads; but in disregarding the clamors of both these revolutionary factions he has won the appro- bation and confidence of the masses of the people, North and South. Faigatrc. Conprrion or Tatas iv Mexico.— ‘The empire brings no peace to Mexico. From the copious details of Mexican news which we published yesterday, that unfortunate country was never so near the worst condition of anarchy as it is at this time. It is the con- dition of East Tennessee during the reign of the rebellion there. Neither age nor sex, com- batants or non-combatants, are safe against the armed foreign mercenaries of Maximilian and their local confederates. The liberal armies, beaten and dispersed by smperior forces and superior arms, have reappeared in the shape of bands of guerillas, operating over the whole country; and here and there an exposed de- tachment of French, Austrians or Belgians are frequently surprised and routed. To put an end to this harassing style of hostilities Maximilian has issued his decree for the ex- termination of his enemies found in arms, including the execution of those taken as prisoners. The result has been to make the war on the part of the liberals a war of the black flag. Thus it appears that the five French officers lately captured by them and put to death “were sacrificed according to Maxi- milian’s own method of doing business.” And this is the work of amelioration inaugurated by the representative of Louis Napoleon against a people whose country he has seized, and by whose consent and for whose benofit he claims to govern them. As an outrage against civilization and hu- manity, this war of extermination calls for an earnest remonstrance from our government, however strongly Mr. Seward may be attached to his policy of non-intervention. He knows from the resolutions of the last Congress that he will be sustained in a remonstrance by the new Congress; for there can be no division of public opinion in this country on this subject. It may be, however, that Mr. Seward has anticipated usin this matter. If so itis well; but other- wise we would appeal to the President to re- mind his Secretary of State that he has been trifling with this Mexican business long enough. Under other circumstances it would: perhaps be wise to wait for Congress; but a war of the black fiag within the territories of our next door neighbor ought not to passa single day unrebuked by our government, We can assure the President that the people of this State and of the whole country, of all parties, would wel- come the protest suggested with great satisfac- tion. Exrtasations.—It appears from our latest European advices that the explanations of Mr. Bigelow, our Minister at Paris, were satisfac- tory to Louis Napoleon in regard to the sonsa- tion telegrams that our government had re- solved that no more French mercenaries should come to Mexico. This may be all very well; but with the assembling of Congress we expect an explanation trom President Johnson that will be satisfactory to the American people. The Associated Managers and the Asso- elated Musicians at Loggerheads. ‘The associated managers, under the lead of the Oily Gammon of the opera and the Joyce Heth in breeches of -the Museum, are getting deeper and deeper into trouble. They began by assuming that they could do without the press,and now they profess to believe that they can do without the orchestras. The next point in their programme will be to do without the actors. By that time they will certainly be compelled to do without the public. We shall then have what the followers of Oily Gammon and Joyce Heth in breeches doubtless consider model entertainments. If we may judge of their ideas from their practices, a theatre with- out advertisements, without an orchestra, without actors and without an audience is in their opinion the very best proof of the skill, ability and liberality of its manager. Let any one of the associates of Oily Gammon and Joyce Heth’ achieve this proud result, and he will wear the dramatic diadem and be crowned lord of all the rest. One or two of them really seem to us quite sure to secure this honor. They may not be able to clutch it at a single bound, but they are approaching it by a series of bounds, the longest and most difficult of which have already been taken. What remains is so very easy of accomplishment tbat we expect to see, before many weeks, the theatres completely empty and the associated managers completely happy. At present, however, the organs of the man- agers are roundly asserting that business was never so brisk, that the managers were never so rich, and that the theatres were never so prosperous. Admitting, for the sake of the argument, that this view of the situation is strictly correct, the question oc- curs to us why these wealthy man- agers should retuse their poor musicians the slight advance in wages that they demand. The musicians have always been the worst paid performers in our theatres; and yet no play of the present day can be satisfactorily presented without them. To opera and pan- tomime they are, of course, indispensable. Two years ago, when the Musicians’ Association was formed, these gentlemen were paid the beg- garly pittance of nine doMars a week. By what is popularly called a strike they succeeded in forcing the-ewealthy managers to raise their salaries to fourteen dollars a week. Now they have the good sense and the spirit to demand twenty dollars a week, and they ought to ob- tain it. “The managers have doubled their prices of admission, and are rolling in money if their own accounts be true. They can, there- fore, well afford to pay the just dues of their employes. Twenty dollars a week is only three dollars and thirty cents a day—less than the wages earned by most mechanics, and much less than the pay of journeymen shipwrighta, The musicians are men of talent, and have devoted several years to the acquire- ment of skill in their profession. They are mostly men with families dependent upon them for support, and they find that all the necessa- ries of life, from @ spool of cotton to a load of coal, have increased three or four fold in price, while their own salaries have not been doubled. To their reasonable request for an advance which will enable them to maintain themselves and their families respectably the managers return a defiant answer. They do not even offer a compromise; they will not part with a single cent of the money which they boast is pouring in upon them in constant streams. Under these circumstances the cause of the musicians becomes the cause of all laboring men, and the various trades’ Unions ought to take the part of the Musicians’ Association, and see that this strike, if it may be so called, is carried through successfully to its legitimate result. The party most interested in this last de- velopment of the plans and principles of the association engineered by Oily Gammon and Joyce Heth in breeches is, however, the pub- lic. The managers do not care whether they have orchestras or not. Theatres in this city are conducted, not with any artistic views, but simply as machines to make money. The fewer employes the managers have to pay the larger are their profits. A piano ora hand organ costs much less than an orchestra, and it is therefore to the advantage of the managers to make the change. If by so doing they re- duce their theatres to the level of lager beer concert saloons they are all the better pleased; for this is the sort of entertainment that some of them are best calculated to conduct. Upon the same principle of economy in their ex- penses the most of the managers produce old London plays, because they are cheaper than original American dramas. They have thus deprived us of an American dramatic literature. One theatre in this city has stock company of three men and three women and a few super- numeraries, and yet pretends to present standard plays. It is evident, then, that if the public permit the orchestras to be abolished the managers will never object. Artemus Ward's extravagant idea will thus be realized, and we shall have Hamlet dying to slow music, played on a flute by himself. Why not dispense with scenery, which is also expensive, and adopt the ancient expedient of painting ona board the words “a forest,” or “a drawing room,” as the case may be? The associated managers have displayed about as much sense as Bully Bottom, and we do not see why they should not conform strictly to his modes of theatrical representation. If the public do Not interpose its veto we may soon have performances of this kind at our princi- pal places of amusement. The abolition of orchestras is clearly a step in that direction. Relieved of the expense of an orchestra, Oily Gammon will have more money to spend upon libel suits to defend the reputation of his house, and Joyce Heth will have larger means to devote to the manufac- ture of Fejee mermaids and the transformation of Dutch girls into Circassian beauties, The other managers, too, may grow wealthy enough to drop all aliases and patch up their past troubles, But the public, which has to endure all the loss, ought surely to have something to y in regard to its deprivation of music at the theatres, and in regard also to the treatment which the poor musicians are receiving at the hands of the rich managers. Let theatre-goers demand a*proper orchestra at every theatre and there will be no further difficulty. The in- difference and good nature of New York audiences have already been imposed upon sufficiently, and if the present programme of the associated managers be carried out no theatre in the city will be worth attending. pouctranlbrntsizat: sien cee Tavatow Weeo’s Conresstons.—Thurlow Weed adds one more missive to the un- clean warfare that has been carried on so long in the partisan journals. He charges Comptroller Robinson with treachery, corrup- tion and “conduct unbecoming « gentleman.” He declares him to be an “arttul dodger,” and “part of » cheat and fraud” that is “shallow and shameless.” He could not, of course, indite one of the epistles without some moderate use of this species of personal vituperation; so we must suppose that he bas on this occasion used as little of it as was consistent with the charac- ter of a politician. The part of this epistle that will have most interest for the public is that in which Thurlow comes square down on his knees, and with joined hands confesses to his speculations in whiskey. He acknowledges that he speculated “largely” in that flery fluid: And where, he aska, is the harm? Why not he as well os another? “If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked.” While he confesses to one charge he deniesanother. Comptrollér Robin- son had accused him of corrupt influence in the | lobby, and made quite little picture of his whisperings to members. Thurlow denies the “whisper” with the most solemn asseveration. He confesses to “whiskey;” that he specu- lated largely in it; that he was willing to make a fortune, if he conld, out of. national necessity or public vice, and he cannot see the harm. But as for this whis- per—this heinous, terrible lobby whisper that he is charged withal—oh, no! he was never guilty of that. “Never did I whisper with a member on the subject of railroads.” He made half a million, if you please, in whiskey specu- lations when whiskey was a great power in the lobby of Congress; and he even takes gredit for not having made a great deal more; bit he was never guilty of a “whisper.” His confession as to his wealth is peculiar. He denies that he “enriched himself,” but con- fesses that he ishundreds of thousands of dol- lars richer than he was before the war. Who enriched him then? Who was it that impudent- ly thrust wealth upop this retiring stoic—this pure politician, who could not soil his fingers with it? If he did not enrich himself, what was the result of his whiskey speculations? He makes one remarkable statementas to his lobby operations. He says, “Inever in my life sup- ported or opposed a bill before the Legislature but upon a full knowledge of its merits or de- merits.” He knew all about the bills he worked for or against, and that is doubtless the case with all lobbymen. Wessuppose that the lobbymen know very well the merits and de- merits, especially the financial ones, of all the bills that they either support or oppose. We suppose that they can see the merits of a mea- sure wonderfully when it makesits appearance on their cash accounts; and when it does not make its appearance there it is generally ac- knowledged that they are fully informed as to all the points against it. On some minor points Thurlow contents him- self with a general denial; buthe promises to meet and refute all the charges some day if te should live. How long he requires to be spared for this particular purpose he does not even hint. But it is to be feared that if he does not begin soon he will never complete that remarkable labor. Tae Cuoiera.—The Atalanta, which arrived late on Thursday night, had fifty or sixty cases of cholera and fifteen deaths during the pas- sage. She has been sent to the Jower bay and the hospital ship Florence Nightingale sent to her relief. The Atalanta had over five hundred steerage passengers. The cholera continues its ravages in some of the great cities of Western Hurope. It is in Madrid, at Marseilles, at Havre and at Paris. By the constant transit of European steamers it may be considered as only ten days distant from us; and the steamers that thus almost immediately connect us with the prea- ent resting place of the pestilence gome to us constantly, as in the case of the Atalanta, bearing from five to fifteen hundred persons. If it is possible for the disease to be carried in this way, as recent experience here and in Europe seems to prove, we are certainly in some danger, and the more so as we have not yet had any weather that could be relied upon as sufficiently cold to destroy the pestilential poison. We have shown the inefficiency of the drainage of the city; and this, with the filth always on the surface, in the streets, alleys and tenement houses, will give the cholera a fearful hold if it should come, and will render ita violent outbreak next summer a positive certainty, if even it should do but little harm this year. ‘ Will the city authorities take any steps to guard against this visitation? Will they take the alarm while it is yet possible for an alarm to insure our safety? +Or will they take no precautions at all, and leave all to mere chance and meetings of the Board of Health, with the samo fatuity that was seen in Constantinople? Tae Centae or tar New Rivo.—Every ring must have a centre, and the centre of Ben Wood's new ring is the next Board of Super- visors. Seven of the twelve members of this board will be from the Fourth Senatorial Dis- trict, viz :—Tweed, Fox, Roach, Hayes, Smith, Shook and Bleakley. This majority will be re- sponsible for the politics, the taxes and the government of the city; they will practically nominate and elect our officeholders, and levy and raise our taxes. Ben Wood boasts that he has secured them, and will be elected by them. Their term of office is for six years—or perhaps for six months. ‘Tun Remeanssts any Conceats of tun Prinaanomo Sootsty.—A misstatement was recently made relative to the dates of the rehearsals and second concert of the Phi:harmonic Society. The first rehearsal will take place on the 18th instant; the second December 2; the third on December 16, and the secc nd concert of the season on the evening of the same day. The first cacert will be given this evening at the Academy of Music. Nrcona Maverer’s Diorama. —The lange and fashionable audiences that nightly assemble to applaud the master pieces of art now on exhibition at the Broadway Athe- nw®um bear good evidence of the interest excited by the entertainment. The views, which have beon sketched from nature, are no less effective because exhibiting on & reduced scale the grandeur of Alpine scenery and the glorious tableaux on the Rhine, and can rival the most artistic productions that the American public have been Paes we to behold on tho walls of an art gallery or on 10 atago of a theatre. The ladies will be pleased to learn that a matinos will be given this day, the Ahrowa ongn gt two o’olagk, THE LATE GALE.’ Additional Particulars ofthe Wrecked .- Steamship Repablic. Ten More of the Passengers and Crew Brought to This City and Thir- teen Landed at Savannah. Reports of Further Disasters tn the Gulf. &. &. &. The Steamship Republic. ‘The steamship Empire City, Captain Alexander, arrived at this port last evening from Hilton Head. Among her passengers are eight of the crew and two passengers of the lost steamship Republic. The following are the names of the crow and passen- gers saved from the steamship Republic and brought te thia port by the steamship Empire City :— B. F. Byer, N. Nash, freman. ego piace Edward Ryan, second mate, ——, remainedat J. seaman. Chas, Collins, fireman. ‘ STATEMENT OF CAPTAIN B. F. RYER. Captain B. F. Byer, late Captain of the Twentieth New York Battery, being a passenger on board the Re- public, states that he left the voasel, her with tem others (as above named), on the 25th of Octobor, at three o'clock P, M., in the captain’s gig, a small four-oared boat, in company with three other larger boats; but when darkness set in thoy became divided from the other, three boats, and in the morning found themagives com- pletely alone and at the mercy of the winds and waves. At times the boat would be half full of water. In this fearful situation they remained for four nights and three days, besides neither having food nor water for the whole of chat time, as in their hurry to leave the sink- ing ship, they being the last ones, provisions or water never for a moment took possession of their minds. Consequently their sufferings were terrible. They were about giving up all hopes of being rescued from a watery grave when a welcome sail hove in sight. It proved to be the schooner Harper, Captain Coomba, / from Bucksport, Me. They were ail taken on board the schooner In an exhausted state, and much swollen; but in consequence of the careful attentions they received from Captain Coombs and the inhabitants of Hilton Head * they aro all doing well. At daylight, October 31, three stoamers, comprising the surveying steamer Bibb, gunboat Nypsic and steamboat Samson, sailed in search of the missing raft, which, when last seen, had eighteen persons on it, and the sea breaking over It some three feet high. As it is said to haye been very poorly constructed there are litle hopes entertained of the above vossels being suc- cessful on their mission. CAPTAIN HAWTHORNE’S STATEMENT. Captain Hawthorne, who commanded one of the boats of the Republic, states that he was assured by the sailors that the persons placed on the raft were nearly all, if not all, firemen and deck hands. When the Republic wont down there were only two persons on board, one an elderly sea captain and tho other a German sailor. Had these two had presence of mind enough to make an effort they would, doubtless, have been saved. Captain Hawthorne picked up seven persons from por- tions of the wreck after the steamer went down. It w generally believed that Lieutenant Caziarc, of Boston, was among those who took refuge in the second mate's boat. The Lieutenant was indefatigable in his exertions to rescue his fellow passengers. Captain Hawthorne w, peculiarly fortunate in saving himself and family; he lost everything else except the clothes ho wore. ARRIVAL AT SAVANNAH OF ANOTHER BOAT’S CREW. ‘The Savannah Herald of the 31st ult. reports the arri- val of the barkentine Horace Beals.with a boat from the steamship Republic, picked up on the 26th twenty miles east of Hunting Island, containing tho following per- sons:— 8. E. Young, chief officer of the Republic. PASSENGERS. Colonel William Nichols, - Horace D. Ellsworth, Major R. 8. Nichols, Ferdinand Muller, John E. Harioe, John C. Pottor, First Lieut. L. V. Caziaro, George Long, Capt. George W. McNear, © James Cavana, fireman; Charles H. McNear, John Many, coalpasser. They were in the lifeboat fifty hours without food or wator. A demijohn of water placed on board was broken by gecident. They lost all their clothing and valuables and were nearly naked. Report of the Bark William Van same. ‘The bark William Van Name, Captain Loughlin, ar- rived at this port yesterday from Galveston. Captain Loughlin reports:—Ootober 23, lat. 2802, lon. 8016, at five P. M., in aburricane, blew away lower maintop? sail; at six P. M. shippoda heavy sea, washing Joha Cowell, aged 21 years, anativo of Ramsgate, England, overboard; at half-past six P. M. blew away fore- sail from tho gaskets. October 27, lat. 3050, lon. 79 26, passed two new water casks. October 28, lat. 83 10, lon. 7690, at ten A. M. pagsed one bale of cot- ton; at a quarter past ten A. M. passed the body of a dead white man; at two P. M. passed solid framo work of cabin skylight or companionway. Disasters Along the Coast. The Savannah Herald of the 3ist ult. reports that the steamship Catherine Whiting, from New York for Galveston, went ashore on the 28th ult., flve miles so of Carysfort, The Whiting had picked up two men fri the wreck of a schooner, the remainder of the crew having been washed overboard. | The British brig Fairhaven, from Galveston with cotton for Liverpool, was also ashore, having been in tow of the Whiting and dismantied. The steamor General Barnes, which communicated with them, was unable to render any assistance, both being so far on the reef. The Barnes counted seven vessels ashore and dis- ‘mantled in sight of Carysfort. The English bark Margaret, from New Orleans for' Europe, dismantled, was picked up by the steamor Her- man Livingston, when near Key West, but was forced to leave ber, having parted all hawaors. A despatch was printed in the Savannah Herald teom Morehead City 28th of October, announcing the arrival of | the steamer Chase short of coal. She would leave the: next day for Savannah. ‘The light boat on Martin's Industry had broken adrift, She would soon be replaced. The Steamer Fung Shuey in the Gale— Reports of Disasters on the Coast and in the Gulf. New Ontsans, Nov. 2, 1865. Arrived, steamer Fung Shuey, from New York. On the ‘27th ult., cighty-seven miles cast of Beaufort, N. C., she fell in with the steamer Chase, from New York to Savan-| nah, with her ensign Union down, hoisted by the purser while the captain was below. The Chase mot with a heavy gale on the 23d. Her hull was full of water, her Gres put out and hor engines stopped. The passengers baled hor. The captain reported her tight and sound! with plenty of coal and provisions The Fung Shuoy also reporta, between Jupiter ploman and four of the crew of the schooner Minnie, Mystic for Key West, tost in tho heavy gale of tho 234 off Jupiter Inlet. From Hillsboro Inlet to Saltboro Light House, the! Fung Shuey passed ashore, with masts standing, brigs and one ship, and the wrecks of five veseela sunk dismasted. Captain Appleman reports that while at Jupiter he! saw & propellor towing a dismantled brig. Large quayti- ties of steamboat cabin furniture floated ashore, A large black ship with cotton was ashore on Grecian Shoals, surrounded by wrecks. The steamer Horman Livingston brought a part of crow of tho barks John Wesley, Caroline and M. E,, Smith. The Wesley sailed hence for Liverpool, and wont) ashore one hundred and fifty miles from Key West. Hi officers and crew wore taken up. Tho M. E. Smith from Mobile for Liverpool, and went ashore on Fret Reef, forty miles weat of Koy West. Ono of the boat’ crow of nine men reached Key West. The captain anc the rest of the crew were ae hen the boat's one lof bu been heard of them since. if ay ship Mercy, from Honduras, went ashi two hundred miles ni of Key West. Four th crew had been picked condition. reat ap in a dying and crow had taken to the boats and rafta. Nothing bi been heard of them when the Livingston left Koy Steamer Disabled. 4 Fortress mn, Nov. 1865. ‘The steamer Baltimore, from New York to Washingt: paadied. ao ee