The New York Herald Newspaper, November 7, 1865, Page 4

a “earrying twelve guna, ai \ prvtom N. w. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASEAU STS, Wotuame MEX... eects ceeseneeeeee ee Oe BLO x SS AMUSEMENTS THIS KVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway. —Say. ‘SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway, opposit: “item WoteL—Evsiorian sixcina, DaNccna eo. foUNG Armica ON THE FixinG Trarxst. yi vs a ts TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Sixc- a, Dasorsc, Buaixsques, &c.—-O1p Dame Grinxs, e belay Sond INSTITUTE, Astor Place.—Prorgsson Wise- man's unos or Mystery axv Visions, Sucoxp Sigur, &c. (. MONTPRLLIER'S OPERA HOUSE, 87 ana 99 — Minerent sr ‘Singing, Dancrva, Pantomuxs, af i ME im Ser, 4 HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Ermroriax Mix- @regisy—Uarians, BURLRSQUES AND PANTOMINES, Yi NEW YORK MUSEUN OF ANATOMY, a Spon from 10.4. MUO P WANA TOMY, 618 Broadway. { BROADWAY ATHENAUM, Broadway.—Gnanp Scxx10 ONS—PANORAMA OF NoktinKgN AND SovriteRN Ev- 'STEREOSCOPTICON SCHOOL OF ART—Corner of Grand and Crosby streets. : HOWR'S EUROPEAN OIRCUS—Junction of DeKalb and aoe = rs New York, Tuesday, November 7, 1865, THE ELECTIONS TO-DAY. ‘The clection to choose State, judicial and various local ‘Officers and members of both houses of the Legistature, will bo held in this State to-day. The polls will open at sunrise and close at sunset, being thus open from thirty- Six minutes past six in the morning till eight minutes before five ™ the evening. The officers to be elected on tho State ticket are Secretary of Stato, Comptroller, Attorney General, State Treasurer, Engineer and sur- veyor, Canal Commissioner, Inspector of State Prisons, two Judges of the Court of Appeals and a Court of Appeals Clerk. No Governor, however, is to be chosen. There will also be elections in several other States to-day; but, Degides in this, in only four—Meesachusetts, New Jersoy, Wisconain and Minnesota—wil! there be anything more Important than local candidates voted for. These four lect Governors as well as other State officers. Lists of all the polling places in this city and of the candidates Bominated for the various offices by tho different Parties, as woll a3 a large number of political adver- tisomonts of interest to the citizens, will be found on the first and second pages of this morning's Hersnp. Voters Will remember that, in addition to the filing of the Bymerous offices, they are to decide by their ballots whether the State voluntcer bounty loan of thirty millions Of dollars shall be paid off next year by the levying of a special tax, or whether its payment shall be deferred for twelve years, The rogistoring of voters was quite active again yor terday, in consequence of it being the last chance for those who wished to participate in the contesi at the Polls, Altogether there were placed on the voting lists in tho entire city, during the five days that the boards of registry wore in session, ninety-seven thousand nine Bundred and thirty-eight names, ‘This number is about twelve thousand less than the vote polled by the city at tho Presidential election in 104. EUROPE. The Quebec steamship Peruvian touched at Father later news from Europe. desire of Queen Victoria, Lord Palmerston ‘was being houorced with a public funeral in Westmmeter Abbey on the day the Peruvian sailed, ‘Tho ministerial crisis consequent upon the Premier's @eath continued. No namo but that of Karl Russell was d in connection with the Premiership. An Official anuouncemeht of the ministerial arrangements Was Lo be ware on the 30th of October. To the London me market, on the 27th ult., United Staies five twenties re quoted at 63'y British Gonsols closed at 882 a 887%. MISCELLANEOUS. everal nogro regiments are shortly to be mustered out 6f service fo Louisiana, General Canby having received prders fevin the War Department to disband all he can Bpare. The Geveral, in order to prevent these colored troops creatiug disturbances after their disbandment, has @ireotat that they shill not be allowed to purchase their arms. Voluminous docnments advising the State to claim tho cotton seized by General Sherman durivg his grand March (through Georgia, and subs-quently confiscated by the nations! government, h been submitted to the State Convention by Provisional Governor Johnson, regularly done, and that the charges of the Police Com, minsioners were groundicss, The Street Cleaning Com- mission decided to lay the answer and evidence before the Police Commissionors, and if they cannot rebut them the charges will be dismissed. ‘Yesterday the November terms of the law courts in the city commeneed; but most of them adjourned over ‘until after the election without transacting any business, im consequence of the panels being exhausted before jurors were obtained. In the United States Circuit Court yesterday, Judge Nelson presiding, the Grand Jury presented between thirty and forty true bills of indictment, the offences charged being principally violations of the Internal Re- venue law and attempts to defraud the government by making and passing counterfeits of the national cur- rency. Judge Shipman will take his seat on the bench of the United States Circuit Court to-morrow, when the criminal calendar willbe taken up and the oases thereon immediately proceeded with, In the Superior Court, before Judge Robertson, argu- ments were yesterday heard for and against a motion tc dissolve the order requiting Edward B, Ketchum to tes- tify previons to his sentence in the suit against the assignecs of Ketchum & Co. Tho Judge's decision was reserved. ‘The November term of the Court of Genoral Sessions ‘was commenced yesterday, City Judge Russel presiding. The Grand Jury was empanolied and briefly charged by the Judge, he having selected Mr, Wilson G. Hunt to act asforeman. Assistant District Attorney Bedford called the calendar, and arranged with counsel for the trial of the large n’ «ber of prisoners now confined in the Tombs. A motion was then made by counsel for Irene MoCready, who, it is alleged, kept a house of prostitution in a fash- jonable locality, to have the complaint returned to the magistrate. District Attorney Hall oppose the motion, claiming that the Court had no jurisdiction in the matter. The Judge took the papers and reserved his decision, whereupon the court adjourned till Thursday next, at half-past ten o'clock. The Fire Commissionera, at thelr meeting yesterday, adopted a resolution of thanks to the members of the volunteer department for continuing the performance of duty as long as their services were required. A room in Firemen’s Hall was tendered to Exempt Association for meeting purposes. Payment was ordered of bills amount- ing to nearly twenty-nine thousand dollars, auiended meeting of the members of the Musical Protective Union was held yesterday afternoon at the Germ: bly Rooms, in the Bowery. The were of an animated character, A scale of adopted, to which it was resolved to adhere, and it was unanimously agreed that every member losing his situation in consequence of compliance therewith shall receive from the Union fund fourteen dollars per week. The resignations of four members wore recoived and accepted, and votes of thanks to several theatres for paying the prices demanded, and to the Heranp and other newspapers for the encouragement given to the movement of the musicians, were adopted, A mecting of the New York County Medical Society was held last night at the corner of Twenty-third street and Fourth avc Dr. Isago A. Taylor in the chair, Dr. T. ©. Finnell was elected president for the ensuing year, and Dr. ST. Hubbard vice president, instead of Dr. Conant, deceased. Dr, W, C. Roberts read a paper on the !ife and character of the late Dr, Gilioan, of Counceticut. Dr, Underhill spoke of the decease of Dr, Abraham J. Borry, of Brooklyn, and a member of the body was appointed to prepare a sketch of his life, next meeting. rgo Wilkes ancl Commodore Vander- mateh for two thousand dollars, mile heats, best three in five, to wagons, at the Union Course, L. L, yostevay afternoon, ‘The former won, distancing in the fourth heat. Dowling Lad under examination before him yesterday in the Tombs Polfee Court the ease of William Chace Barney, lately a Custom House in this city, and Benthin Fabian, charged with attempting to do- frand the governiaent of forty thousand dollars, by ex- ecuting several days ago three fic s bonds as securlty for the withdrawal from the Custom House of three hundred barrels of aleoho!, subsequentiy seized on board easel lying ata Brooklyn wharf, for atleged evasion niernal revenue, Some of the particulars of this affair appeared in the Henan of Saturday, the 28th ult. At the time of the seizure of the alcohol Fabian could not be found; but last Wednesday he was arrested im Richmend, V and it is expeeted that he will arrive in this city to-day. Nelson K. Wheeler, Deputy Collector of the port, made a complaint against the two accused pet Juste Dowling’s juris hy counsel on both sic dered to-day, ‘The material contained in the box which oxploded on Sunday with such disastrous, effects at the Wyoming n Greenwich street, is believed to have beon the seovered explosive compound of Mr. Nobet, of Hamburg, Germany, compoced principally of glycerine tier was argued sion will be ren- | A dolegation of twelve Baltimors Indies, claiming to Pepresen! fifteen hundred of their sex, visited tho Prest- day and presented a pelition for the pardon Tavis. sno abatement of the totfion in Canada rein- tive ty ho apprehended Ieninn raid and uptising. On the contriey it inereases, ond vigorous measures have eon resorted to by the authorities, Toronto, our cor- Fesponrient ia that city state Places in the province, is, in effect, under martial law, the volunteers Loving been 1 out on last Thursday Dight, double guards being placed around the public buildings and on all the apyresches to the town, the Btroats being doubly picketed, and other precantions Deing resorted to. Our ex yident reiterates his pre- wious *facement, which he + 1 soon be made meni. fest, that the Fenians have on L.ekeOntarioa fast steamer the belief is exte mony Protestants and as well as other important thoy bave In their-rnks Mon! officers, The Oranyemen are arming thy the province, as they hare been admonished in their newspaper organs and by a me from one of their leaders that the Fenian demonstration will certainly be made. ° Ovange ¢ voronto calls on the hank Officers to weil (o the safety of their property | fatinates that bigh government officiala wink at the Operations of the brotherhood. Canadian business in all rely feeling the eff cts of the scare. ing of the 1 of Supervisors yes- » communication was recotved from A. Oak £ the counsel for the Police Commis nd inspeators of election on election day. resignation are to be filled by the When theee officers fail to ap- and nitric 1 wos a sale yesterday, under direction of the as- ece, of certain real estate belonging to Mr. Morris Ketchum, of the late firm of Morris Ketchum, Son & Co, Tro lots of ground on the northwest corner of Fifth avenue and Thirty-eighth street, with a first class four story brown stone front house thereon, sold for one hun- dred and one thousand dollars; a lot twenty-four by pinety-nine feet, having on ita handsomely fitted up two y brick stable, situated on Thirty-ninth street, west of Madison avenue, brought twenty-four thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, and a four story brick house and lot on the corner of Fifth avenue and Thirty-sixth street, subject to a life interest and an inchoate right of dower, sold for three thonsand five hundred dolare. Counterfeit Treasury notes of the denomination of ten dollars wero put in circulation at Greenpoint, Long and, early yesterday morning. ‘They were offered and vd at several places, and but two storekeepers were victimized, t Lake Ontario was visited on Sanday night by another severe gole, which continued during yesterday, doing arent damoge to the shipping, and being attended also, ns supposed, with loss of life. Tho telegraph reports nine vorsels, prinetpally schooners, so far known to have goue ashore, and others suffored less severely. Aflre broke out on Sunday evening, supposed acci- dentally, in the sash and blind factory in Quincy street, near Clacson avenue, Brooklyn, and totally destroyed that building and seven adjoining houses, rendering ten farnilies houscleca and entailing a loss of forty thousand wR W. Greene, of Hartford, Connectieut, and lately President of the Connecticut Fire Insurance Company, on last Sunday night, while ina fit of insanity, oat his wife's throat with a razor, causing her death immedi- reasons the Board of Supervisors are to fit! No farther business of importance came Hoard. Nu new cases of cholera were reported as having o¢ Surred among the pas sof the steamship Atalanta |. but they, as well aa the veesel, are all still ae. al the Lower Quarantine. The Secretary of the ‘Treasury tas placed at the dizporal of our local authori- y one Of the rebel blockade ranners now lying ‘die fat’ the itrooklyn Navy Yord which may be chosen for tho porporo of reesiving the uninfected passengers, the Bick on we removed to the floating hospital ship Ploronce Nightingale as fast as any symptoms of the dis- ease 3p The well prevengers of the Atalanta have Bont a comnaunication to Meyor Gunther, complaining of Pheir being prevented coming to the city, and mai Ang that there las been no cholora on hoard that vowel, Tho Mayor ty his reply sympathives with them in the fn. conveniences and discomforts which they are undergoing Dut tells them that their detention js unavoidable, and Hopes that at an early day they can be safely ree Heased. The passengers of the steamship Earope, which arrived (com Havre on Inet Mriday night and which @lso gras detained at the Lower Quarantine, were allowed, pith « portion of their baggage which had undergone Purilication, to come to the city yesterday, there being Bocholerm symptoms among them; but the veseol and Phe retmainder of the baggage were still kept below, and Phe work of fumigating them was continued. It is ex. Pected that this ship will be allowed tocome up to-day Ff to-morrow, 4 Gorrespondonce on the subject of cholera haa passed Potween Governor Fenton and the Quarantine Commis- @oners. The Governor transtaits a communication from States Surgeon General Barnes, enclosing an Aiticlo on Asiatic chojera sont to the State Department our Minister im Constantinople. In this agticle the is maintained, in opposition to the opinions of } that the disease is contagious, and strict quaran- fogulations are advo ated, ‘The Sireot Cleaning Commission met yesterday, and ved the answer of the contractors to the charges Sli ‘The anawer wasn complete denial of all in detail, with a sjatement of the dates at ately, and then attempted to take his own life by cutting hie throat in two places and inflicting a gash in one of his arms. He was still living yesterday, but was not ex- pected to recover. Accorling to the City Inspector's report there were 413 deaths in the city during the past week—being a de- crease of 35 as compared with ihe mortality of the week previous, ané4 lees than occurred during the corre- sponding week last year, The recapitulation table gives the following reanlt:—Acute diseases, 198; chronic diseases, 173; external causes, &e., 42. There were 254 natives of the United States, 93 of Ireland, 35 of Germany, 10 of England, 5 of Scotland, and the balance of various foreign countries. The stock market was strong but uneven yesterday, 1g buoyant. Governments were dull, but firm. ld cloeed steady at 147. ‘The rise in gold bad the effect of causing increased firmness in business circles yesterday, and as a general rele higher prices were demanded for both foreign and ic merchandise, There was considerable specula- were firmer, Cotton was dull and nominal, Petroleum was firmer on ‘Change. Flour was lower. ‘Wheat wns moderately active, but at lower prices. Corn | was steady. Onte were dull and heavy. Pork was un- settled and lower, Beof was steady, Lard was @ trifle firmer. Whiskey was higher. Pieces or Caxpmates—We hear a great deal about the local candidates for office making pledges to secure the votes of this or that faction. This is no doubt the gene- ral rule. They all stand ready to promise any- thing they are asked to; but who ever heard of one of them keeping his pledge? The candidates, to be in the fashion, should say yes to everybody, and, if successful, forget all about it. That is the way the thing is done. That is the latest fashion among politicians, and a person might as well be out of the world @s out of fashion x vexnatiaanaten A) abenewrimmncntan AS Pi ARES NN Ge Fleotions for State ofcersand s Legislature, ‘end also for a Governor, excepting New York, take place in each of the following States to- day, viz:—Mascachusetts, New York, Now Jer- sey, Wisconsin and Minnesota. In several other States there are elections for county or town officers, which are only interesting to the poli- ticians immediately concerned. Nor is there, beyond thelr respective borders, any general interest attached to the elections in Massachu- setts, Wisconsin or Minnesota, it being gene- rally conceded that they will, asgusual, all go the same way by decisive republican majorities. Throughout the country, however, there isa lively interest manifested in and conside- rable importance attached to the contest in New York and the issue in New Jersey. The sharpest and most actively contested can- vass of the season has been that of New Jersey, where the republicans, under the famous cav- alry leader Kilpatrick, have been vigorously fighting to revolutionize the State, The demo- crats over there, as Judge Haskin has described it, have been hampered with “the Camden and Amboy Rip Van Winkleism” of their old hide- bound democratic leaders, and have therefore had an uphill fight. They have professed a sort of adhesion to President Johnson, but, with the drawbacks of certain effete copperhend idens, including the dead weight of their re- cord, views and purposes in regard to the great constitutional amendment for the permanent removal of slavery from every foot of the soil of the United States, General Runyon, the democratic candidate for Governor, has flatly declared this constitutional amendment “a usurpation of the consolidated despotism at Washington;” so that he and his party may be considered as staking their chances of success upon opposition to this measure. With the olection, therefore, of another demo- cratic Legislatare in New Jersey, it is probable that the refusal of her last Legislature to ratify said amendment will be repeated, while the success of the republicans will secure the rati- fication. Upon this issue, and upon the Inbors of General Kilpatrick among the soldiers, the republicans expect to carry the State. But they have the seven thousand majority of Gen- eral McClellan of last November to overcome, and the Jersey democracy are political vete- rang, whose lines are not easily broken, Their party discipline may save them, but the spirit and the vantage ground of the fight are with the other side. Consequently it will not bo surprising to anybody outside of Jersey if the democracy this time lose the State. In New York the republicans last November, upon the unparalleled popular vote of seven hundred and thirty thousand, had a majority of seven thousand—a close run—and we under- stand that the subsequent changes from cither party to the other have been very few. We presume that the aggregate vote of this State to-day will fall short of that of last November at least one hundred thousand; but as it is not known whether the majority of sbsentees will be on one side or the other, the issue may be considered doubtful. Both parties stand upon the same platform, and the party antecedents of the candidates on both tickets are nearly the same, The disaf- fected radicals on the one side, and the dis- gusted copperheads on the other, appear to have been coaxed into the party traces; so that the contest assumes the shape of a sharply con- tested party fight without any distinct lines of demarkation. What, then, is the meaning of this extraordl- nary political struggle? It means tho prelimi- nary marshalling of the republican forces and the democratic forces, upon what they have dis- covered to be the most available platform, for the next Presidential campaign. This contest in New York is the first sharply defined skirmish for the inside track for the next Presi- dency, which will probably determine the governing party of the country for fifty years to come. Hence the importance which the leaders on both sides attach to the result in this State. So far as the affairs of the Com- monwealth are concerned, it will make but little difference whether this or that ticket is elected; but in reference to 1868, and even in view of its moral influence upon the coming Congress, the result in New York to-day will bea matter of no small importance. The con- test, from present appearances, will be close, and a few votes lost or gained in the several counties of the State may determine the vic tory one way or the other and clear the track for the party of the futuze. Tue Cnevarien Wikorr at St. Crovn.—Every- body has been wondering why the Chevalier Wikoff left so suddenly for Europe. Some thought that he had gone to settle up the diplo- matic differences between England and this country; others that he had been deputed to import an immense operatic and theatrical company, and others still that he had been sent toget the French quickly out of Mexico. In the last Golignani we find the annowacement that “Mr. Henry Wikoff, of New York, had the honor of s «pecial audience with his Majesty | the Emperor yesterday, at the palace of | St. Cloud.” This was probably only a friendly call. The Chevalier and the Emperor are old comrades, having been in prison together at Ham, and concerned together in all sorts of serapes and schemes. If we may hazard a conjecture in regard to the object of the Chevalier’s mission abroad, it is to make art’s,” or “This’ establishment does not dine et arrangements with the booksellers for his forthcoming work upon the United States, France and England, which is to be pub- lished simultanconsly in the capitals of the three countries. This book has been for a long time in preparation, and will contain the Chevalier’s reminiscences and opinions of all the great men of his day. If our conjecture be correct, the reports that the Chevalier has gone abroad to diplomatize, engage artiste or get married are unfounded. All his diplomatic arts will be employed upon the book pub- lishers. He has had quite enough of artiste, and he is alrendy wedded to his great work. Tae Maxacers ADVERTISING THE Heraty.— According to their own accounts the associated managers are getting so rich since they stopped advertising in the Heravp and dismissed their orchestras that they can afford to advertise this journal every day in all the other papers in the city. While we are appropriately grate- ful for this kindness we do not need it; for the Herat, with ite immense and unequalled circulation, always advertises itself. Why do not the managers spend their surplus cash in advertising their friends in othor kinds of business? Why not insert over their notices 2 in y Wits dated % Gry goods at A. T. Stew- Delmonico’s,” or “This establishment uses Hanter’s Red Drop, but not Brandreth’s pills,” or “This establishment prefers gin to cham- pagne,” and soon? By and by, ff the associ- ated managers keep on getting wealthy, we shall expect them to pay off the national debt. That will be easior than paying their own debts, and will make them famous forever. A New Explosive Material—The Chemis- try of the Universe. The accident at the Wyoming Hotel on Sun- day will probably prove to be the startling announcement of the agyent of a new explo- sive material. We have heard so much during the war of torpedoes and other infernal ma- chines that the community came naturally to the conclusion, on the first account, that the mysterious box so long neglected in the hotel contained only one more of the destructive devices of our enemios. But the statement of Leers that the box contained specimens of “chemical ols,” brought here with a view to make money, and with no evil purpose, is in all likelihood true. Leers brought the box from Hamburg, which place he left in June. Some few months before that a chemist of Hamburg, Mr. Alfred Nobel, announced the discovery of a new blasting oil, which he claimed would supersede gunpowder for all ordinary explosive purposes. Nobel’s com- pound produces on explosion five times the volume of gas produced by an equal weight of gunpowder, and, as its inventor claims, has thirteen times the power. It isa chemical com- pound of thirty-seven parts of nitric acid with one of glycerine. This nitro-glycerine is a yel- lowish oily fluid in appearance. It is not solu- ble in water nor explosive by fire. It detonates under certain circumstances. We give a fuller account of it in another column. The accident in Greenwich street answers in all respects to an explosion of this material, especially in its terrific power. It is evident that the explosive material was a fluid; there was some evolution of gas just before. the explosion, giving out an odor that was mistaken for that of hydrochloric acid, and when the box was let fall on the street there was a sufficient blow no doubt to explode a detonating compound. Before the box was carried out flames iseued from it, and Novel’s nitro-glycerine will burn without exploding. Nobel’s compound, though without the im- mense force of chloride of nitrogen, has been found to possess great power in mining opera- tions, Had General Grant at the time the mine was run under the rebel works at Peters- burg placed init a weight of this material equal to the weight of gunpowder placed there the explosion would have simulated an earth- quake. He would have shaken down every fort that stood between the two armies and every house in Petersburg, and would have made himself felt throughout the territory then held by the enemy. Its difficult to say what might have become of the two armies. This chemical discovery is one more of the secrets ot nature secured by science; and it is still safe to say that we are only on the threshold of discovery in this direction. Gunpowder, nitro-glycerine and chloride of nitrogen stand perhaps as only A BC in the ascending series of explosive forces with which the great opera- tions of nature have been wrought. By their aid we may dimly guess at the powers whose explosion piled up such ranges of granite as the Rocky Mouniains, the Andes and the Alps; at the lesser powers that have torn open the mountains through which great rivers, as the Hudson, flow fo the sea; that have “dusted down the domes” of cities like Lisbon, and that require such vast vent holes and safety valves as Vesuvius and Etna. By con- sidering the earth as one grand chemical laboratory, with forces of unknown and unimagined power operating within it ac- cording to fixed laws, we can gain a beiter conception than in any other way of the opera- tions of nature that have most astonished the world, that have been most regarded as im- penetrable mysteries, and that have been most used by superstition to darken the human mind. , From a purely chemical standpoint, also, we can gain our only possible comprehension of the oldest of traditions—the greatest puzzle of philosophers of every ageo—the story of chaos, when the earth was “without form and void.” Chemistry shows us how, by the lnws of nature, the same body may exist in a solid, a fluid ora gaseous form; how from a solid it may be rarl- fied to gas, and how again it may from an ex- pansion that sounds almost fabulous be con- densed and restored to its solid form. The application of this law of condensation on a grand scale lo matter expanded through space in a gaseous form might result in the formation } of planets—the chemical contact of the vari- ous gases in the evolution of heat--and heat in motion. So out of proportion are the gase- ous and solid forms of a given body that our own earth might perhaps be so rarified as to fill the whole of the space in onr system. Sci- ence, while thus looking upon the visible uni- verse.as the result of fixed laws, yet secs that the power which made and fixed those laws is still incomprehensible; though it teaches us to regard that power with infinitely higher thought than is possible to any blind faith. We can best understand the history of the Universe and of the Earth by regarding the succession of events as so many grand chemical changes, by looking at them in the light ot ascertained laws of science ; and hence the axiom of the | faith of modern philosophy, “Man, the servant and interpreter of Nature, underatands and performs so much as he has gathered by ob- servation or experience, nor does his know- ledge or his power extend further.” ‘Tue Issue To-Da¥.—The great question to be decided to-day is whether Lucius Robinvon offered to shake hands with Thurlow Weed or not. A vote for the democratic ticket is a de- claration that Mr. Robinson did not offer Mr. Weed his hand, while « vote for the republican ticket declares that he did. Vote early. Ie Davis aND THE SovrHERN PetrtroneRs.— The Legislatures of Mississippi and Georgia have petitioned President Johnson to set Jeffer- son Davis at large without trial or punishment. This we conceive, in the present state of affairs, is asking a little too much. Let the Southern States firat accede to all the President dematids of them, Let them declare the acts of seces- sion null and void, aseume theit portion of the payment of the national debt, repudiate h rebel debt, admit the negroes to certain political rights, say upon the same: basis as established i thie Siaterthete right of franchise to be ee aay 25 4 they assume that they accept and ao- pow bye ee ee grap ota Preshdent’s policy. This will be the time to au 4 ask a \reprieve for Jeff. Davis, which President | {1 “F adiudication soo: Repel oe Johns,’ might be not unwilling to grant. Of devices to regain its p’ A common dodge These Legislatures claim that the sin of rebel- | to tranefer it wo porsons oPunquestioned loyalty, o lion was\ theirs as well as Jeff. Davis’; that | those holding Troasury permits to purchase, they were the principals, he only the agent. Douglas is among the latter c.'asé, and is believed to Neverthelea' there must be a constitutional | P& S¢riously imposed upon Ly unquestionably settlement ot ‘the question of secession in the aig grag Ase ee courts, Rebe Ilion must be proved not merely | doubtful transactions, and, unless‘ overruled by an error, but a crime, and that can only be de- | authority, not even the shadow of Mr, Douglas’ cided in the yp 2rson of the chief leader of the | #™¢ Will obscare the proportions of \each frauds, rebellion. 3 ee ss sp boatieidtersags nla ent ai When the Legi: ‘latures of the Southern States | repettion during our Inte governs 2 . have fulfilled all Ae requirements made upon | rebel General Longstreet,§ Dr. Garnett and other them—have practic ‘ally demonstrated their ad- | officers at a dinner party to-day, The fete ‘sana herence to the poh'cy of the President in all | ‘be not so much a compliment to Longstreet as things, their petitions in behalf of Jeft Davis | Ttmeat part in the Ite reolion, Tal visio a P ; stylo of will be in order, and» they will then probably | thinking and talking 1s quite popular with boarding not be disregarded. ‘ house keepers and pre-rebellion residents of Washing- The War Deposit and Our Gene 2 ee ee Laan indignant comment | During the war some curfous developments | »,, SN oi pe rte paeey celles ential ? were made relative to the course of the War | acdotary of State, who accompaniod them to the Execus Department toward some of our most promi- | tive Mansion: The object of the visit was to take leave nent generals. Since its close it seems the of the.President. The interview continued about ¢ same policy is continued, the whole aiming at | Minutes, and was of the most agreeable charactor, The the breaking down of our chief military heroes. bpp eafey ph reioppetaitts cin eee The public mind has recently been shocked" potn py the ofiieers of the government and many cal 4 by the abusive and scandalous attacks of the | hospitable citizess, and will lave Washington to-morrom republican press upon General Slocum. But | for Philadelphia, intending to depart’ from the United these attacks did not originate here in New | States next week- Petr’ bg . be York. They were started in Chicago, in a| ' aicaie deca Pet aivec newspaper called the Republican, and bear the | ing to represent fifteen hundred of their sex, called om ear-marks of some one familiar with the opera- | the President to-day and presented @ petition, signed by’ tions of the War Department. These develop- | that number of women, asking for the release and par- | ments begin to revenl certain facts in regard to | 1° of Jefferson Davis: j the Republican which the public will be grati- | ™® iueeiniter emo nestor wg DIsoHaRGE OF fied no doubt in knowing more about. The | tye ordor which is known to have been printed am@ Chicago Republican is edited by one Dana, who | ia shortly to be issued by the War Department relating was formerly a member of s Fourierite phalanx | 0 the discharge of a large number of general officers near Boston. He passed the varions phalanc- | fom the sunnier service is causing considerable com terie degrees of scullion, cook, chambermaid ee in an ae awakes wi and manager, and graduated as first class in- SOLDIERS’ CLAIMS AGAINST GOVERNMENT. fidel of the Fourier stamp. Dana next allied The Second Auditor's clerks are busy s°ttling olaims.of himself with Greeley, and both labored to- | heirs of deceased soldiers, having reactied the considera~ gether as philosophers of the free love and | ‘iom of clams dated m the autumn of 1864. A large Grahamite school, until they quarrelled. Sub- pe dpeabe resto fiver Pipers sequently Dana went to Washington, entered | soverat months. the War Department, and finally became As- An immense number of claims. for baek pay for dim sistant Secretary of War. In this capacity he | charged soldiers have been roferred to the Paymaster acted asa spy upon the operations of all our pera sneer ae order eens the — Audie generals, General Grant among the rest. From pet ici beitbosscPuldeecniartn gt k23 besaaae the course pursued from this time it is apparent THE PACIFIC SQUADRON. that Mr. Stanton, at the head of the War De- hinge ae iced ahr fron-clads from Fore ‘s partment, had determined upon smashing up, | ssbb esd a is pronounced untrue every prominent Union general as ‘fast as he bese nator piers badculhcr. became a popular favorite. In this work he PunsOnAtin found a serviceable agent in the person of | ur. Frederick W. Soward, having sufficiently recovers the graduate of a Fourier phalanx - and | ed from his injuries, has resumed his duties at the de the Tribune school of philosophy. First | partment as Assistant Secretary of State, ae McClellan was smashed up; then Fremont, Major Generals A. A. Humphreys and George Stone in the cit General Grant du Banks, Butler and others. Several attempts hgh in PAS. chy, ae colerm say were made to undermine General Grant in | major Generals J. D. Webster and Tewis Wallace have popular estimation; but they did not succeed. | both resigned their positions in the army. Attempts to belittle General Sherman also | _ Maor General Schofield will sait from Now a failed. Finally out comes, in Chicago, through pit by the next steamer. & Senta leave the mouthpiece of Stanton’s former military ‘ REMITTAL OF SENTENCES. spy, this gross and shameful attack upon Twenty-eight members of Company M, Twolfth New another military hero, who has risen fast in | York petty baal hid rg fll apes rs bps ue) x . ©., by general court ma ving cau ? sentenced to be discharged the service, confined at forte Mr. Stanton, in the general management of | Mu on and Caswell at hard labor for the term of one year, the business of the War Department, is entitled | with loss of all pay, allowances and bounty due them, to much credit. We have nothing to urge batty R. alr ig tae gdccapaad inte rere ‘ Paes : __ | boon engaged for against him in this respect. In the perform: men, bas, by. solicitasjom, with the President, p ance of the legitimate duties of his office he | tno rsmitial of the sentence. They will, therefore, be was, like Carnot, who held a similar position | immediately released from confinment, with all their a during the French Revolution, the Hercules of | lowances of pay and bounty. the war. But he should be magnanimous. He WHITTELSEY INDICTED. . should not sully the brightness of his record | Wallace W. Whittelsey, arrested in September last am chargs of embezzling funds from the United States Treat by unworthy acts, He should not attempt to | ure and altering Coupons, has becn indicted by the break down our heroic generals in order to get | Grand Jury of the United States Circuit Coury and wilR them out of the way so that his own ambitious | ve tried at its appronching session. schemes may prosper. ‘THE CASE OF WiRz. The public must be on their guard against | Mr: Lewis Schade, counsel of Captain Wirz, called to. all attempts to malign and crush down our es sores Sule netioe ser aba pep agin great military heroes, whether these attempts | Commiseion shall be fually acted upon by him. There emanate from the head of the War Departmeat, | being « crowd of persons in the room, and the President, his creatures, or from any other quarter, The | consequently busy, Le informed Mr. Schade he would noble reputations of our victorious generals | %¢ Him on Wednesday upon that subject, must always be cherished by the people. They have been heroically won. They comprise a moat brilliant part of the history of the coun- try, and are inseparable trom a just apprecia- tion by posterity of the stupendous proportions of our late struggle for national existence. y Intel Ye Tre Sr. Joux Disaster.—At nine o'clock to-morrowy (Wednesday) movning, Coroner Wildoy will commenc@ his investigation in the case of ‘the boiler explosion om J board the stenmer St. John, on Sanday morning, 29th ult, The inquisition will be held in the- Sessions Court room, or the Tombs, and not in the’ ner’s offlee, as previously reported, ¥ A Novis Darp.—On Friday of last week, as the steame@: Hibernia was toading at pier No, 2 North river, an om- known mau felloverbourd, and would ways: have: ished, although a great many persons Witnessed Renitant’ were it not for (he noble daring: Of Br. J. Pouwntcat Foxerat.—A grent political fune- | ral will trke place in this city and State to- morrow. The votera will decide to-day who ; will be the mourners. | | ation, jumped into the water, of his own life, succeeded im rescuing-the sufferer. ‘svAL AccipENT.—Henry Pine, residing at No, 167 Ei. | dridge street, was killed yesterday affernoon by falling from the roof of a five story building at No. 18 Thomea”* street, Deceased was a carpenter, @native of | thirty-fonr years of age and leaves a family. Broanway TaraTee —Mr. De Walden’e comedy contin: ues to attract crowded honses. The piece is one of the most popular that has heen produced ber some time, Its snecess will postpone Mr. Owens’ reappearance, as his engagement commer nly when the management thinks proper to withdraw it. lging (rem present »p- Tee Coal ar tk Gat COGN WORE Biuten wey pearances the piece has several we more of 8 profit | sium of fire in the Second distriet ast ob —the able run before it; but whether Mr. Wood will retire it | gignt o‘ctock, was capsed by the <tr f roy bofore its time to gratify Mr. Owens’ natural impatience | 16 on nase rane santo ope, is a question that would be useless to speculate upon, | are Forty-sectiid baile ne Peas As it is possible he may take it into his head to do so at | wee pala es, eveibrtes cog tite very short notice we wonld advise all those who have | the fire, and it burst forth steonger the a ‘axing | not seen the piece to avail themselver of the earliest op- | hold of the large shed, which wee ¢ mplotely portunity of witnessing it | down, and, the burnt Cinbers Gilling a’ (he immense pile ee | of coal, ignited the whole surface, prar onting to view & mountain of fire. Chief Exgincer ¥ ingsland, it provided the Gas Company with swf” ent hose, @ engine and three hydrants, one superintendent in-, forming the chiet that he wot keep the fire dowm, Prorssson Wreemay's Somme Macigur.—Lost evening this gentleman gave his first entertainment in the larre hall of the Cooper Institute to a rather «anal! audience, | Ho apologized for sant of preparation, and suid that the | instend, of which It onmears, the performance would hardly be mor» than a relirarsal. He | night the fire burnt move viole iy succeeded, however, in amusing and ntere-ting hie ai- remarkable fact that at the bre aking ont of the ience with » succession of skilful delusions, He did | Fridays week ago, the Atacly of No Gas Company se. not leave out such time honored tricks ax shooting the | Obliged to neat totheengior ¢ neunsine, aad Wey. wane gentloman’s watch from a blunderbuss and restoring {¢ ] Hionwavwns ww HTK! goemer—Two highwaymen, | safe and sound, or tearing the lady's handkerchief into | wivoge names are unkBOW ». om Sunday evening met Mr.) ribbons and giving it back as good asever, On the other | petor Dervit im 128th MW cot, near Fourth avenue, and band he performed with excellent skill some of the Most + without ado demanded ye money. At tho same time admired fete of Herrmann, and threw cards With ® che robbers attempte’ (to auatch a gold watch anf sleight of hand not unworthy the great pres(idigitatenr. from Mr. Dervit?s vf st pocket, but they wore Howe's Evrorean Cros, —This splendid estal ” ho Se - - % mont commenced its brief season in Brooklyn yesterday rane cng Fai Mad 5 odes gn: Thay areal ae with an afternoon and evening perform: During | large; ut as ¥ .."hervie deseribed them minutoly to the day the whole troupe, magnificently caparisoned, Willy of thet of the Twelfth precinct, there is @ paraded the streets with « grand triumphal car, a fine She NE OT al Ss band and a live lion, This was am évent which was dniy News from Missouri. appreciated, expecially by the young folks. The streets | INTERES’ oiyG RELICS OF THE RADELLION-—NOTOs were lined with people, and the ut Amiration was RIOUS REBELS PARDONED. : oxprossed at the gallant appexrance of the troupe. Their | St. Lovie, Mo., Nov. 6, 1866. Arab costumes shone brilliantly in the sun, and the | ox of Claib Jackson's headqnarters papers, plumes of the cavaliers towed Uravely in the breeze, | *t 6 afoln, Ala., lias been recotved at Jefferson City This js one of the finest cirous companies we Have bad |‘ wed over to Adjutant General Eimpson. Among among us for come time, We doubt whether the capa. | 1% .pers are Sterling Price's commission for Jackson am city of the temporary amphitheatre in Brooklyn will be. ” -lajor General of the Missouri Stato Guard, dated May sufficient to accommodate the thousands whd'etince az) 1:3, 1861, three days after the captntoe of Camp — | anxious desire to Witness the performances. { the journal of Jackvon’s bogus Legislature oe 4 Neosho, which, with less (han half a quorum, passed ’ Missi L ree Decrees i: aot natn, Nor ‘The Miasiasip, stature 4 so-c@Hed ordinet secession, appointed ;, 186s, I proposer to set Puy twenty-five per mn Of the public debt to Pe, rie | tives to the rebel eit lar ities ftom debt tax to be levied for the support of Mie eae ¢/ Jackson's treason, | nent citizens of the State reydaling their complicity im | rate aol and the widows And children TBs | q eae Gaveraee Biaioee tas Negier | pierd _ the } were also it to compel railway comp. sident for sev rebels, including nies to provide for the preroe and teygs. | Frost, com Camp Jackson; Dr. Patton, ge eer Hon of debts in the Sate for | wator poisoning fame; John W. Roid, whilom | a La ne he Another bill w, introduced proposing tq" 1 | of the: National Congress, and Ge@rge Weat, t Pe suts bronahea tue ted States courts, ‘gimp 4 yioleut and (bo gblegt rebel in Jagkaon’s Logisiatura, i