The New York Herald Newspaper, November 8, 1865, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. aaa JAMES GORDON BENNETT, + EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OPFION MW. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. _————————— Wolume XXK.....6:cccseseeseesceeees eee BEL ‘AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway. —Sax. 585 Broadway, opposite MINSTRI BAN FRANCISCO Ei Ba te gy = M Hotel.—Brmioriax x ‘Arnica oN Tas Firing NY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. 201 we Ds Buauasques, &0.—O.v Daus 100 at 36 0 00! STITUTE, Astor Place.—Pxot Wus- ie Rramues oF Mrereny ano Visions, Secon ko. S$ OPERA HOUSE, 87 and 90 Fond poner gars 0 z ae. te Fissoe arr. at Two o’Clock. BOoLays OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Eraiorian Mux- Boatesques a> Pawrourmes. UM OF AN, EW YORE MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway, BROADWAY ATHEN, ‘mors. at REOSCOPTICON SCHOOL OF ART—Cormer of aruud aoa Orosby rota Mm Bowery.—Sing- Guiugs. Mati- Broadway.—Granp Scuxic ‘Ge Souruman Ev- HOWE'S E! PBAN CIRCUS—Junction of DeKalb and Fulton ee heen New York, Wednesday, November 8, 1865. NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION. Receipts of Sales of the New York Daily Newspapers. OFFICIAL. ee Name of Paper. May 1, 1865. ‘Herap. $1,095,000 ‘Times. 368,150 Tribune. . . 252,000 Evening Post. 169,427 World. 100,000 ‘Bun... 161,079 Express... 90,548 Mew Yors HERan.......0-seeceeeeeeeeee $1,095,000 ‘Times, Tribune, World and Sun combined.. 871,229 THE NEWS. THE ELECTIONS YESTERDAY. ‘The returns received of the State elections held yester- «day are barely sufficiont to show that the republicans are again victorious, and that the vote everywhere is unusu- ally small, The canvass in this State has been unattended ‘among the peoplo with the usual animation, and much Of its interest is therefore lost. The republican majority in the State will be from fifteen ta twenty thousand, while in this city the democratic majority has dwindled down from thirty-six thousand to twenty-five thousand. The proposition to make our State bounty loan of thirty millions of dollars a twelve years debt, instead of order- ing ita payment next year by the lovying of a special tax, has received the almost unanimous vote of the In New Jorsey, although the result on the State ticket is still in doubt, a republican majority has unquestionably been returned to tho Legislature, by ‘which the ratification by that State of the slavery pro- ‘hibition amendment to the national constitution is so- oured. Massachusetts, Wisconsin and Minnesota, which also elected State officers yesterday, went largely for the republicans, as was of course anticipated. General Banks -is among the Congressmen elect in Massachusetts. In Maryland an election was held for county officers ‘and to Gil certain Congressional, legislative and judicial EW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1885, min F. Dunkin Chiof Justice of the State, to fill the place ‘The Elections Yesterday—The Result in of Judge O'Neal. The cleotion in North Carolina for Governor, members of Congress and the Legislature and county officers will take place to-morrow. Among the visitors to Boston wo notice the name of Provisional Governor Parsons, of Alabama. On Monday last, by special invitation, a number of gentlemen of this city met the Governor, and also General Wager Swayne, Assistant Commissioner of Freedmen’s Affairs in Ala- Dama, to listen to thoir statements concerning the condi- tion and wants of the State. The destitution in certain regions is v. at, and it appears that unless relief is afforded vsconlla must perish. This suffering is by no means eonfinod to the freedmen. AS an indication of a growing interest in a subject to which we have repeat- edly called attention in our columns, wo are glad to Jearn that our citizens are moving in this matter, and propose to hold & public mecting next week in this city for the purpose of arousing the people and inaugurating practical relief measures. Commodore Craven was yesterday arraigned before the court martial in Washington of which Vice Admiral Farragut is president, on charge of failing to use suf cient exertion, while in command of the steamship Niagara, to capture the robel ram Stonewall, then lying in the Spanish port of Forrol. The Commodore, on be- ing asked if he had objections to any member of the court, named Gaptain Alden, and that gentleman was ox- cused from serving. Without urging a response to the question of guilty or innocent, the court adjourned till to-day, to enable the accused to procure counsel. ‘The insurrection of the nogroes in Jamaica, which commenced in the parish of St. Thomas in the East, ap- pears to be a much more serious affair than it was at first supposed, and the insurrectionists are carrying it on with great ferocity. It broke outon the 11th of October, and on the 16th not asingle white person remained in the parish, many of them having been killed and the re- mainder having fled to save their lives. It is reported that the negroes are guilty of the grossost out- rages, torturing their prisoners and mutilating the bodies of the dead. A number of the inaurrectionists had been captured and executed by the British authorities, and martial law had been proclaimed by the Governor. The State Department at Washington has received official in- formation of the facts already given in the Heranp re- garding two Spanish war vessels having been tendcrod by the Captain General of Cuba and accepted by the Eng. lish officials to assist in quelling the rebellion. Our Con- sul in Kingston, Jamaica, expresses the opinion that soveral months will be required to suppress it, aud hopes that an American war steamer will be sent thither immo- diately. It is believed that the outbreak bad bech in preparation for a considerable time, and that it 18 designed for the extermination of tho whites, of whom there aro only ten thousand in the entire island, while the num- ber of blacks and mulattoos 1 three hundred and ninety thousand, Six chiefs of the Fox tribe of Indians yosterday had a conference with the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in Washington relative to their difficulties with the Sacs. Both these tribes wore placed together by government on a reservation in Kansas; but the two could not agree, and the Foxes removed to Towa, where they wish to re- main, their chiefs saying it is impossible for them to live with the Sacs, They are to have an interviow with the President soon. Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, has appointed Thursday, the 7th of Decomber, the day chosen by President Johnson, for the annual thanksgiving occasion in that State. § A bill was yesterday introduced in the Senate of the Tenncasee Legislature to authorize the salo of tho Hermitage estate, the homo of General Jackson, which is the property of the State, excepting two acres sur- rounding the tomb of the hero, providing that the land be divided into lots and sold to the highest bidder. No new cases of cholera in our harbor are reported. At a meeting of the Board of Health held yesterday it was resolved to have a thorough medical examination to-day of the facts connected with the disease on board the Atalanta. A revenue cutter has been tendered for service to the city authorities by the Secretary of the ‘Treasury, in addition to the offer of the Secretary of the Navy, notic:d yesterday, of any unemployed blockade runner at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. As there is now no blockade runner thero suitable for receiving the unin. fected passengers of the Atalanta, it is supposed that the old recsiving ship North Carolina will be gent to the Lower Quarantine for that purpose. There was a mect- ing last night of eminent physicians and citizons to ‘vacancies. Mr. Thomas, the republican candidate for Congress in the Second district, composed of the fret oven wards of Baltimore city and Harford county, was -successful, EUROPE. ‘Two days later nows from Europe is brought by the ‘Cube at Halifax. + Lord Palmerston was buried in Weatminter Abbey on ‘the 27th ult., with all the pomp of a state funeral and in the presence of an immense throng, comprising nearly all the most distinguished persons in the kingdom. The Empress Eugenie bad addressed a private letter of con- dolence to Lady lalmerstov. ‘The proposed reconstruction of the Cabinet with Rus- Gell at the head of affairs meots with a cold welcome from the London press. The arrangement is only ac- copted till a better can be mad=. Arrests of supposed Fenians on board American ships continued, The latest capture effected by the British government was a supposed correspondent of the New York Tribune, in whose possession were found a note- book and « revolver. All three were detained by the United States five-twenties were quoted at 63 a 64 in the London money market on the 28th ult. MISCELLANECUS. ‘Tho interview on Monday, noticed in yesterday's Hanan, of a delogation of Baltimore ladies with Presi- dent Johnson, to sue for the pardon of Jeff. Davis, has resulted in giving us an official announcement as to what disposition is to be made of the rebel chicftain, and in showing the entire correctness of the statements made in our columns on the 27th and 28th ult., to the effect that full preparations had been made for the trial of Joff. for the crime of treason. The President, in courteously but firmly declining to accede to the request of the ladies, expressed his regret that tho importance of the question to the whole nation necessarily restrained all private sympathy, and announced that complete arrangements had been mado for the carly legal trial of Davis, accord- Ang to the laws of the land. The sentence passed upon Wirs, the Andersonville Jailor, by the court martial before which he was tried has been approved by President Johnson, and the prisoner is to be hanged on Friday of this week, between six o’clock in the morning and noon. Wirz was visited on Monday Yast by the proper military officer, who informed him of his fate, and the time of his execution, and read to bim the death warrant. The doomed man conducted himself with apparent composure throughout the solemn pro- ‘Doodings. The members of the Florida Reconstruction Conven- ‘ion, elected on the 10th of October, assembled in Talla. hase on the 25th of that month, and on the same day tho meesago of Provisional Governor Marvin was de. | livered read tg the body. It isa document of much Apparent earnestness, and meets all the questions at iesue with directness and candor. The Governor does | mot think it would be wise at present to confer tho | privilege of voting on the negroes, and believes Congress | ‘will aot demand this concession on the part of the States lately in revolt as an indispensable preliminary to the admission of their representatives; but he urges upon ‘the convention, as a matter of the plainest justice as woll as of wisdom, that laws for the most com- plete protection of the freedmen’s civil rights bo (Passed, and that their testimony be received im tho courts, Without these, he says, the colored People will have no safeguards against the impo- sitions of cruel or dishonest employers, and with them devise proper measures to be taken in the event of the cholora making its appearance in the city. It was proposed to raise @ fund of fifty thousand dollars to ostablish hospitals in every ward for the reception of the sick and to make other necessary arrangements to prevent the spread of the disease, Committees were appointed, and it was re- solved to hold +a larger meeting soon. The steamship Europe was yesterday released from detention at the Lower Quarantine, and allowed to come to the city. A largely attended meeting of the New York Historical Society was held last evoning at the corner of Second avenue and Eleventh street, at which an interesting paper on the Christian catacombs of Rome was read by Mr. William J, Hopkins. The Society of Friends, otherwise known as Quakers, held a meeting last evening in their mecting house in Twenty-soventh street, to listen to the remarks of one of their ministers from Now Jersey, who delivered to them an interesting discourse. ‘The funeral of Mr. John P. Cooke, the musical com- poser and orchestra leader, took place yesterday after. noon at Trinity chapel, in West Twenty-fifth street, and was largely attended by members of the musical and theatrical professions and citizens generally. Mr. Cooke was aged forty-five, and was a native of England, but for the last fifteen years of his life made this city his place of residence and professional labor. The balloon bridal, which has been in contemplation for #0 long a time, will take place this day, the weather permitting. The names of tho happy pair are Miss Mary Wost Allan, of St. Louis, and Dr. J. F. Boynton, of Syracuse. During a quarrel yesterday morning at a drinking house on the corner of Second avenue and Thirty-ninth street, between two men named Daniel McDonald, alias Yankee Dan, and John Goodman, the latter, as alleged, stabbed the former in the neck, causing death soon after. Goodman was arrested and locked up to await the result of a coroner's investigation of the matter, which will take place to-day. Extensive efforts were made on Monday night to flood the city with counterfoita of the ten dollar bills of the Albany City Bank. A number of the bogus notes wero offered by various persons at different places in Broad- way, and four men, named Lorimer Payton, David Fowler, John Walker and William Nelson, were arrested on charges of attempting to passthem. Yesterday the accused were arraigned in the Jefferson Market Police Court and committed to await tho result of a further examination. A fire on Monday night in Binghamton, N. Y., de- stroyed the Franklin House and other property, alto- gether valued at twenty thousand dollars, on which the insurance is fifteon thousand dollars. The stock market was, on the whole, steady yertor- day, but it closed feverish. Governments were inactive and barely steady. Gold closed firm at 147% There was a more active movement in trade circles yesterday, etimulated by the continued high price of gold, and o fair business was done in both foreign and domestic produce, generally at improved prices. Gro- ceries were moro active and very firm. Cotton was dull, nominal and lower. Petroleum was more active and firmer. On ‘Change flour was higher. Wheat was a shade higher. Corn was also firmer, Pork was irregu- lar and beavy. Beef was steady, Lard was firm. Whiskey was a trifle higher. The market for beef cattle was substantially the same this week as last’ The range of prices was from 90. to 18¢., with a few at oither oxtrome, The bulk of the sales wore at 13c. 2 16340. ; prime, 170, a 18¢. Common ‘ho thinks this emancipated poople will be generally con- ‘tontod, tadustrious and ontorprising, even in the absence of the exercise of tho ballot. Ho also recommends that ‘the convention declare the secession ordinance not re- pealed, but null and void, and advocates the adoption by the Legislature of the amendment to the national con- stitution forever probibiting slavery throughout the country. It is not believed that the members of the Convontion will come up to Governor Marvin's standard ‘Of progress, since nearly all of them wore elected as une- qui vooa! opponents of granting any privileges whatever to ‘the nogrocs, and, though no opposition is expected to tho act recognizing the abolition of slavery, it is sup. poved that the State rebel war debt will not be repudia- ted, and that the seoession ordinance will not be declared nail, bat meroly be repealed. ‘The South Carolina Legislature has electe’ ex Gov. emor John L. Manning United States Sonator for the short torm, onding in 1867. Provisional Governor Perry, as wo lin © Ler tof ro announced, has been chosen for she lovg tor, ‘The Logatutore bas algo elected Bonja cattle predominated, while strictly prime were im mode- rate supply. Milob cows were in fair supply, and prices took a very wide range. Veals wore steady at 100. & 1430. Sheep and lambs wero firm, and prices varied from $4 25 to $860. Hogs wore active and firmer, and the sales wore at from 13c. to 144. The total receipts were 6,317 beevos, 01 cows, 849 voals, 20,482 sheep and lambe, and 14,140 hogs. Not Ons.—How many of the late insurgent States, in their work of reconstruction, have met the condition of @ legislative ratification of the constitutional amendment abolishing and prohibiting slavery throughout the United State? Not one. How many will be accepted by President Johnson, as fit for Congress, with- out this ratification? Not one. How many will come up with the ratification? From pre- sent appearances, not one Now York, the returns before us of the elections yeaterday in half a dozen States there is very little in the results for democratic congratula- tions, except in the saving of New Jorsey—if they have saved her. In the State of New York, upon a deficiency in the popular vote, as compared with that of last November, of perhap: two hundred thousand, the republi- cans have the advantage of a considerably in- creased majority. From the loss of the demo- crats in the city their losses throughout the State will probably put them ina minority of from fifteen to twenty thousand. We should guess it will be more likely to exceed twenty than to fall below fifteen thousand, The odds, however, were all against the democrats from the start, and the October elections in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana wore calculated to chill them. Thos, after all, it appears that the malign influences of the copperheads, the Vallandighams, the Buchan- ans and Jerry Blacks, outside of New York, were too strong to be overcome by the John- sonian democratic principles of the Albany platform, although the ticket upon this plat- form was headed by one of the foremost soldiers of the war, who was endorsed by General Sherman while denouncing the copper- heads from stem to stern. Tho question recurs, what will be the poli- tical consequences of this New York election? What course will the democracy now pursue? What ground will they take in reference to President Johnson’s conditions precedent to the rebellious States—such as tho ratification of the great constitutional amendment-—the de- claration that secession and all iis works are null and void, and the répudia'ion of the debts of the rebellion in overy shape and form? The election being over, we may now expect some opinion upon these subjects from the shent-per-shent managers of the World, who have been playing fast and loose with the ad- ministration, and embarrassing the honest de- mocracy with their double dealings. We now enter upona new chapter in our political history, and whatever line of. action may henceforward be pursued by the New York democratic leaders, the Southern States will do well to follow throughout the good ad- vice of President Johnson. ‘The Anglo-Rebel Cotton Loan—The Last Kick of the Bondholders. The British holders of the rebel seven per cent cotton loan are in a very bad way. They are beginning to see through the grindstone. They had in the London Tavern, on the 18th of October, a regular Irish wake over the corpse of their Southern confederacy, and they tried to console themselves that its debts of honor would at least be paid by the heirs at law; but the effort was a failure, They will, with the arrival in England of the steamers which left this port on Saturday, realize the astounding fact that their so-called “Confede- rato cotton loan bonds” belong to the category of South Sea bubbles, Yazoo speculations and morus multicaulis investments. Presi- dent Johnson’s despatch to the Provisional Governor of Georgia, which went out for England Saturday, in which he says that “it should at once be made known, at home and abroad, that no debt contracted for the pur- pose of dissolving the Union can or ever will be paid by taxes levied on the people for such purposes,” knocks the bottom out of the tub, and breaks it up past all mending. The meet- ing of these English rebel bondholders in ‘the London Tavern tor the discussion of this de- spatch of President Johnson will bea doleful spectacle. Meantime these anxious bondholders do not utterly despair. First, they proceed to inquire how stands the case. Messrs. Terrell & Co., of London, address a note to Messrs. Emile Erlanger & Co., of Paris, the contractors ofsaid rebel cotton loan, asking for a copy of their contract, the amount of bonds issued, the bonds cancelled, and what moneys they have received in respect of the loan, and what effects they have on hand which can be. made available in the payment of interest, &c. To which Erlanger & Co. reply (Erlanger being the happy son-in-law of John Slidell,) that they have no funds and no property available for the said interest on said loan; that the money received by them in re- spect of the loan has been paid over to their accredited agents, and that their contract with Jeff. Davis & Co. is a private document, and cannot be seen. The bondholders must be sat- isfled with the prospectus. J. Henry Schroeder & Co., London agents of Erlanger & Co., make a similar reply; whereupon, at the London Tavern meeting, the committee of inquiry say that “as, sooner cr later, the United States government, as successors of the late Con- federate government, will call upon Messrs. Erlanger & Co. to render them an account,” the committee will seek no further information in that quarter. The United States are to make Erlanger & Co. show their contracts and settle up with these men! If the melancholy and morose Slidell has ever laughed an honest laugh for the last five years, it must have been at this good joke from the London Tavern. Andy Johnson and his Secretary of State have doubtless enjoyed it as the best thing of the season. But the distressed bondholders in question did not stop here. They consulted a lawyer, a Mr. Fleming—a learned man upon international jurisprudence ; and what does Mr. Fleming say? Ho says the bonds are legally good, that they ought to be paid, according to his views of State rights; but, then, as the conquering party (the United Stgtes) may disallow and reject it, and deny the liability of the late Confederate States, the best thing that these bondholders can do is to bring suit against Erlanger & Co, Fleming thus gets off a good joke for the amusement of Erlanger and Slidell, who, with their money in their pockets, can afford to be jolly. The committee finally conclude that proba- bly at some time or other the United States, or the States of the late Southern confederacy, will redeem their bonds—about twelve millions of dollars; that, as they eell now for something at the London Stock Exchango, they are not wholly wortuless; that Mr. Soward does not understand his true policy at all, and that, by holding out to them strong inducements in view of other loans, perhaps the Southern States may club together and pay this one, because they are bound to do it to fulfil their sacred ob- ligations ; and lastly, that if “the large and in- fluential bondholders” in this cotton loan do not come forward and help in this business they will be shown up. From all this it will be seen that these unhappy small fry bondholders, the chaps who have really put in*their money, are in that “parlous state” which calls for a charitable knock in the head to put an end to their misery ; and President Johnson’s despateh to the Governor of Georgia will do it. The New York ld Agitating the Whole World. This journal acema to come out like a daily earthquake, agitating the whole world, if the remarks of its contemporaries may be accepted as true. Happen what may, the Hxraxp is held responsible for everything that occurs. In vain have we modestly declined a responsibility so universal and so onerous; it is forced upon us, nolens volens, by the reat of the press. At va- rious times cliques and factions, alarmed at the extent of a power the origin of which they could neither understand nor appreciate, have conspired to put us down. Some of these con- spiracies have been large, some small, some worth noticing and some contemptible; but it is hardly necessary to say that they bave all been unsuccessful. We have gone on, peaceably and benevolently, upon a course which we dis- tinctly marked out thirty years ago, until wo now have the greatest and the best journal ever published. Our detracters have been many; but our friends bave outnumbered them a thousand to one. Every day we address a constituency more numerous than that of any President or other potentate, and every day we find tho number of our readers in- creasing. The Arctic explorer, wintering upon frozen seas, looks to tho Hurarp for his news, and the missionary carries it along with his Bible among the savages of the tropic zones. There is no monarch who does not have it read to him, and no democrat who does not desire to peruse its crowded columns. Many per- sons foolishly profess to dislike it; but every- body reads it, That a paper so universal in its circulation and so comprehensive in its records of current events should excite con- siant comment is not singular; but yet the space and attention bestowed upon it by other papers are really remarkable in its history. Just at present the Heratp mania appears to have broken out with renewed vigor. You cannot take up one of the other journals of this city without finding the Heratp treated as a most important and interesting topic. How much money wo make and how much money we have lost; what bargains we closed and what bargains we backed out of; how we quar- relled with this man and how the other man quarrelled with us; what a splendid new office wo aro going to build and whata splendid old office we are going to leave; how the French mission was offered to us and how the French mission was not offered to us; what extraordi- nary crimes we have committed and what extra- ordinary virtues we possess; how we are the greatest ignoramus and how we are the greatest philosopher of the age—those are the staple gossips of the rest of the press. Our personal appearance does not escape these tatilers. Sometimes we are more ugly than Andy Johnson and more shabby than Greeley, and sometimes we have a most majestic coun- tenance and dress like Beau Brummel. Our religion is not spared. Otten we are set down as a Roman Catholic and a great favorite with the Pope, and often we are classed as an infl- del. The less these scribblera know about us the more fluently they write, and those who have never seen us describe us with the utmost ease. The country papers imitate the city press in this Wonderful fondness for writing about the Heraup. As they clip all the news from our columns, they seem to have a per- sonal interest in our affairs. Their Now York correspondents actas if they were especially instructed to devote themselves to our busi- ness, They can tell what we are going to do about the Managers’ Association and what we have had for dinner. The few facts about us that they glean from the Heratp iteelf—for we have no other medium of addressing the pub- Retake it their i nations aud work ny 4 fine frenzy. fellows investi- gate our private account books, keep the run of our circulation, overhear our most confiden- tial conversations, copy long extracts from our diary, know all about our dreams, are acces- sory to all our plans and read our secret thoughts. If we had anything to conceal we should be terribly afraid of these omniscient chaps; but our sound and healthy conscience, our pure and virtuous life, and our Christian and consistent career, enable us to laugh at them and their ridiculous stories., It is curious to notice how completely the Bohemians of both the metropolitan and the provincial papers identify us with the events which it is our duty to record. Had we any desire to dispute with Thurlow Weed for the honor of being the person who winds up the sun every day, wo might procure ample evi- dence in support of our side of the case from the writings of these veracious people. If a perty is beaten, we destroyed it; if another party started, we originated it. Does the Heratp contain the news of a dreadful mur- der, straighway we are pronounced a murderer. When # monarch dies, we are accused of killing him. There is no extravagance of assertion too improbable for these Munchausens. They think the Hzrat a better subject to dilate upon than any other in ancient or modern history. The European papers give us more space than they gave to the recent rebellion. The Mana- gers’ Association has been a godsend to them. Olly nm of the opera furnishes free seats to sbout two hun- dred critics and correspondents of the city and country press, and every opera night he fills them full of lager beer and scandal about the Heratp. The other places of amuse- mont doubtless follow this very admirable ex- ample. A fling at the Huratp is thus secured in every criticism, and half a dozen paragraphs about the Herat adorn every New York let ter. We do not, of course, complain of these frequent allusions; we simply refer to them as curiosities of journalism. They are at once the proofs and the price of popularity. The mass of rifbbishy falsehoods about the Hanatp served up to the public every day amuse the world and amuse us. They might easily be contradicted; but, in the first place, the game is not worth the candlo, and, in the next place, we are too busy with other matters to take tho , necessary time and frouble, Theso gcandgla ~ are mannfactured, sot afh’st have their little term of existence, m™d then dis- appear to make room for othex® Often our enemies try to revive them; but such at- tempts have always been failures But now that the presg of Europe has taker ti? matter up, and treats of the Hurat as‘diligomtly and copiously as our own press, we may expect more food for mirth from such stories. We shall seo them invented here, sent across the Atlantic, revised and improved there, and then returned to us in new forms and with further particulars, like the old fable of the three black crows. In this way the list of subscribers to the rebel cotton loan, which was communicated to the press by the State Department, came back to us endorsed by the London papers as “q Hunan forgery.” We notice, however, that year by year, although the reports about us grow wilder and more numerous, they find fewer and fewer persons credulous enough to beliove them. Time always vindicates us from every slander, Tho objects and motives of the Henaxp are stendily and rapidly becoming more and more thoroughly known and re- spected, and we can therefore well afford to smile at attacks that are as impotent as they are malicious. Livetivess 1s New Yors.—The oity of New York, as the metropojis of the nation, promises to be as lively the coming winter as it ever was during a previous season. Two years ago we had the shoddy aristocracy in full blast and brilliant vulgarity. Last year we had tho petroleum aristocracy, which flashed like a meteor for a while, and suddenly went into darkness as dense as a dry oil well. This winter we shall have an aristocracy of heroes and practical men—an aristocracy based upon a reunited and gigantic republic, more poworful, if not as dazzling, as any of the aris- tocracies of the Old World. While Washington city will be the capital where all the kitchen work of the nation will be transacted, New York will be the metropolis where all the bril- liant men who have passed through the cruci- ble of tne rebellion and come forth like bur- nished gold will mingle with our practical men and lovely women, and erect an aris- | tocracy of patriotism and brains, beauty and wealth, that shall be enduring. That New York will have a lively winter there is every indication. The frat class hotels are already filled to excess, and will be obliged to increase their dimensions as well as their rates of fare. Both, we believe, in some in- stances, have been determined upon. These hotel keepers—hotel princes in their way—are pretty good barometers of the movements of the fashionable as well as travelling population. Besides the hotel palaces already ornamenting the city, several new and splendid ones are contemplated—one by Cranston, intended to eclipse everything now existing, and another by the Lelands, that is intended to eclipse Cranston’s. The Lelands have already nearly completed their extensive enlargement of the Metropolitan, with its new and immense ban- quet hall, which will prove the hotel wonder of the season; but they intend to outdo themselves on their new and magnificent hotel on the grand Parisian plan, a charter for which was granted by the last Legislature. Besides these new hotel projects, our far-seeing capi- taliss are preparing {o erect new theatres and opera houses on the most eligible sites in the city. A new French theatre is already in course of erection, and the ground fora new opera house selected. A free museum and zoological garden is already fully under way in the Park. A new theatre is to be erected in the Bowery, which will be relieved of the dramatic butcherics that nightly occur in the theatres now there. There will be as many people in the city this winter seeking amuse- ment as ever, and the managers of theatres might have profited by their presence had they not been both mean and stupid. There will be more private balls and parties this winter than usual, and the silly managers, in discharging their musicians, only afforded the public a better opportunity for the selection of a high order of musical ability to enliven private salons and soirées dansante. Those parties--gay, chaste and fashionable—will take the place of the old {heatreg during the winter. Thus, while the silly, and selfish, and stupid are going to smash, we see the live and electric men and capitalists of the age in- augurating new schemes that will keep pace with the ever increasing prosperity of the city in all that relates to the comfort of strangers, the pleasure of ite inhabitants, the heanty of ita embellishments and the grandeur of its proportions. Pourricat. Moratiry.—For a month past every man nominated for office has been in a sort of political pillory, and his opponents have hurled at him, without stint, every malignant reproach or sneer that they could invent. Was he a candidate? Then he was a scoundred—a liar—a robber—a traitor—a murderer. Any stranger coming among us, and unlearned in our ways, would suppose that we nominated only our jailbirds and wretches for posts of honor. In some cases all that opponents have said is true; but in the majority of the stories are lies, told with political purpose. Some little time ago General Siocum was a highly respected soldier—a man who deserved well of the country; but yesterday half the poli- tical leaders were ready to swear that he wasa rogue—one of the worst of men. And the most atrocious of these political lies start among the men who pretend to possess all the good qualities, the honor and the truth that are to be found in our city or State. But last night purified all the men who had been thus lied about. The election was over, the slander was no longer useful, and even its inventors are now ready to give it up—perhaps even to repent it, When shall our politics be purged of this sort of tactics ? A Tar Fars or Wree.—It is understood that the President has approved the death sentence passed upon Wirs by the late military tribunal at Washington, and that his execution by hanging will take place on Friday of this week. To this measure of justice every man through- out the United States who is not at heart a traitor, or who is not a fool, will say amen. Had this most horrible monster of modern times ten thousand lives, the sacrifice of the last of them would hardly balance the frightful catalogue of his murdered Union prisoners of war. There is some satisfaction, however, in this reflection, that as in this inhuman and re- morseloss savage were concentrated all the ferocious instincts, crimes and orueltics of the rebellion, ho, at least, has not escaped the arm of justice. Nor oan we rogigh the thought tat, es yp. ene Se ot enema me od of his unnumbered victims ot a.’ 4 will rest more quietly in their trencbe: his sentence be carried out. Sew. Tavs Conscrance Dozs Maxe Cowagps oF Us Att.—Her Majesty’s loyal province of Canada is in a very remarkable condition. No’ war is waged against it; no army marches to- wards it; no fleets threaten it—at least none that the ordinary, unassisted eye can see. But the streets of at least one of its cities are trodden by armed patrols; its arsenals are guarded by double lines of sentries; depositors are withdrawing their cash from the banks; merchants are closing up their affairs and going away, and every one is his neighbor of “treason.” In short, Canada is frightened out of ite wits. It has reflected on its conduct against us in the last four years, and now expects the return, and, coward like, trembles at every breath and every rumor. Tria. or Jurr. Davis.—Some time since we gave in the Heratp an account of the prelim inary arrangements msde for the trial of Jeff. Davis, including the names of counsel, &, Some of our contemporaries, ignorant of the facts, denied the correctness of our statement, and insisted that the government had, so far, made no arrangements at all for the trial of the arch traitor. But the reply of President John- son to a deputation of ladies who recently waited upon him, suing for the pardon of Davis, fully substantiates the Heratp’s report. In reply to the petitioners, the President stated that he “regretted the national character of the question restrained all private sympathy which they might have awakened in him,” and fur- ther, “that complete artangements have been made for the early legal trial of Mr. Davis, a0- cording to the laws of the land.” So that doubt is settled. The sooner we have the trial the better. Then will the curtain drop upon the tragedy of the rebellion and its principal actors, we hope forever. Tae Srreet Conrnacrors’ OrpoRrTontrr.— Now that the election is over, and the accumu- lated political filth of the past few months been cleared off, the street contractors have an op- portunity to attend to their proper duties and clean the public streets. Now is their oppor- tunity to give our public thoroughfares a thorough cleansing, and, by keeping them so during the winter, destroy the food the cholera might feed upon if it visits us next summer. Tony Pasror’s Orena Hooss.—The ontertainments a this popular establishment offer an unusual amount of attraction this week. The new trick pantomime and @ @ veriissement, made up of dancing, singing and burlesque acting, constitute elements of amusements that are not often found combined in a single evoning’s perform. ances. The judgment with which this establishment is managed is procuring for it a largo amount of family support. We observe that ladies and children now form @ largo proportion of its audiences. . San Francreoo Mivstreis.—Ono of the most prosperous places of amusoment in the metropolis is the hall occu- pied by this inimitable troupe. It is always crowded, whether the weather is favorable or adverse. Cortainly, nowhere can theamusemont secker find better value for his money, He is not treated to stale programmes, spiritiess burleeques, and cracked voices, as in other establishments. Everything is of the best. Thoro not four such artistes in tho profession as Birch, Bernard, Wambold, and Backus. Such a combination of talent will always be sure to monopolize public favor. Nicota Matsran’s Firtu Grano Mattxee,—A delightful hour may be passed this afternoon at the Broadway Athonwjum, between Fourth street and Astor place, where Nicola Moister’s beautiful paintings still attract large and fashionable audiences. Tho scenic illu. sions representing dawn, noonday, sunsot, moonlight and tempest, that add to the charm of these superb specimens of dioramic art are admirably managed, and the exhibition has the additional advantage of prosent- ing not one solitary feature or incident that could wound the most susceptible imagination or offend the most fastidious taste. In fino, it 1 reallya meritorious effort addressed to the intellect as well as to artistic fancy. The ladies will be gratided to learn that the fifth matl- nee takes place to-day at two P. M., and will no doubt crowd the hall, , (| SOUTH CAROLINA ELECTIONS. - The New Senator Elect—Ex-Governor John L. Manning Elected for the Short min F. Dankin Elected Chief Justice. = Savannan, Nov. 2, 1866. A despatch to the Savannah Republican from Columte bia, 4.C., on the Ist inst, says:—Ex-Governor J. 1. Manning was clocted United States Senator for the short term, ending 1867, and Hon. B, F. Dunkin was elected Chief Justice, to fill the vacancy of Judge O'Neal. Mocting of the Society of Friends. DISCOURSE OF A NEW JERSEY MINISTRR—FRIENDLE SENTIMMUNTS ON WAL AND PEACE—S8OTS, LAWS, LOVE, OHARITY, ETC. iene 3 Lae The Soovety of Friends held a meeti ig ab their meeting house in Twenty-seventh stroot, near Sixth’ society, having no stated regular mootings or ‘ministers, come together at occasional pe- riods, as the call of @ eschor rogularly “minuted’” from his own ‘meeting’ may sc"amon them. When # moet- ing deoms a member tmprossé? with concern for the general society, and desirous and worthy of {mparting instruction and religiots good to their poopie, their iF obtali "the oocasion Of the, meclag” Ist 0 jon m of New from Minister John Hunt, travelling among his oe at The worship room was filled with’ members, one side being occupied by the ladies and the @Rer by the male Mr. Hut proceeded to address the meeting. He said:— The society of God's people called Quakers make a spe~ cialty of being eminent!: ritual-minded. Had all the Friends been watchful this spirit principle there it ing within them. ing to his moasure of I ritual life in the soul is true no jivision in Christ, He was not susceptible of separation, The creaturely minded distracted Christianity. As Nim- rod, the hunter, went out to build up a tower, so tag leaves the bosom of Christ to invent new means of climbing to heaven. The Society of Friends are the bone and sinew of ents. do not fight against flesh and blood. oer tae w in vo ep as bn Saviour, cheerful ng ion iel all exacti or tee” Geaer this good overataeat the Friends should rally in love and break n secta- rianism. Mr. Hunt continued at length to impress hie in theark. So should this buman flowing goniality, in unity of spirit and the interesting exercises, prayors, &¢., Balloon Bridal. If the weather provo favorable this day the intende® balloon bridal will tako place, A wedding ceremony so novel and romantic will doubtless be witnessed by aa rey eee ke