The New York Herald Newspaper, November 11, 1865, Page 4

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SOUTHERN RESTORATION. An interview of a very important character, as ehow- Sing diatinctly tho extent of President Johnson’s require- ments at the hands of the States lately in rebellion pre- Timinary to recognizing them as having fully resumed their loyalty took place at the Executive Mansion yes- terday. A delegation of membors of the North Carolina Convention visited the President, and one of their ‘momber, Mr. Reed, gave him a synopsis of what the Con. vention had done, annulling of the secession ordinance, ‘the prohibition of slavery and the repudiation of the Febel debt. In conclusion Mr. Reed made two requests— hat tho fall reconcilement of North Carolina with the ational government might be officially de- elared and that the Congressional test oath might be ropealed. ‘The Pre , in reply, congratulated the Rontlemen on tho progress their State had made aud the spirit evinced by their people, but told them that some- that thing remains yet to be done, and this is the adoption by the North Carolina Legislature of the slavery prohibilion amendment to the national constitution. This, the President said, “is, im my Judgment, practically important to the successful resto ration which is so much desired by all.”’ He also in- Formed the delegation that Provisioval rnor Holden will be again instructed to continue to act as State Kxecutive until be shail have been expre relieved by orders ty that eff At will be remembered that in the States of Mississippi and South Carolina, which some dime since elecied Governors, the Provisional Governors Continue to exercise the executive tuncuions, by the ent Johnson's expectations of the Bouthern States in regard to the ratiticavion of the con- wtitutional amendment, similar to that je to the North Carolina committee, have, by his directions, been officially transmitted te the Provi: 41 Governors of South Carolina and Florida by Secretary Seward. In sshase the people of those States are informed that the early adoption by their Legislatures of this amend- mont is deemed hy the President peculiarly important, THE EXECUTION OF WIZZ. Tho execution by hanging of Henry Wirz, keeper of the Andoraonville rebel prison pen, for inhuman treatment, resulting in numberless deaths, of the captives in his oharge, took place # little after eleven o'clock yesterday Foronoon, in the yard of the Old Capitol Prison, in Wash- ‘ington, all efforts of bis counsel for executive clemency Dhaving proved unavailing. A strong itary guard sur- ‘rounded the scaffold, ana besides the soldiers there ‘wore aeveral hundred civiliuus in the enclo- Bure as witnesses of the solemn spectacle. The mer was accompenied from his cell to the Natform, i addition to the inilitary officers, by the Rey. ‘athers Boyle and Wigget, of the Catho! ‘hurch, from ue former of whom, before leaving the prison, he re ved the sacrament, The War Department order, jounded on the finding and sentence of the court martial in Wirz's case, with the President's order approving the me and fixiug the time of execution, were read; and ‘Su this and other necessary ceremonies about three quar tors of an hour passed from the time the condemned ap ‘prarod under the gallows till the fatal stroke and drop Sef him suspended between heaven and earth. On the feaffold Wirz conversed with those near him, was appa rently wolf possessed, and continued to assert his inno oonce, Tho fact has jaat been made public that some weeks qo, during the visit of Wirz’s wife to Washington, an mitemp! was made by her to forestall the sentence of the onrt in her busband’s case by poisoning him. When kciaging him at parting in the cell after one of their inter- ‘views she managed to convey from her own mouth into Dis a little bali of strychnine, covered with coatings of oiled silk and licorice, Colonel Baker, who was present and noticed the suspicious ptoceeding, sprang forward, (wna, by seizing Wirz by the throat, compelled him to pit out tho article, An examination showed its poizon wns character and the object’ it was dosigned. to accom ish: Mrs, Wirz was not again allowed to visit her hus Dand in hie cell MISCELLANEOUS. Important news from the west coast of South America {contained in our despatches by the steamship Ovean Queen, which arrived here yesterday, from Aspinwall on he Bist of October. The Ocean Queen brought to this port @ million and a quarter of dollars’ in specie. The diMouities between the republic of Chile and Spain, which fora considerable time have worn a threatening mepect, have at last culminated in a positive refusal by 6 former of the demands of the latter and 9 declara tion of war. These demands grew out of the late hos- @lilies between Spain and Peru, during the continu- woo Of which supplies were refused the Spanish ‘war vessels in Chilean ports, For the losses and Inconveniences thus suffered the Spanish government demanded indemnity of Pera, and authorized Admiral Pareja, commander of naval squadron in the Pacific, to act, if necessary, iw the double capacity of auiniater and warrior—to ‘or reparation, and, if mot successful in that manner, to seek it at the sword’s point and cannon’s mouth. ‘The civ!) portion of his mis- Pion was» complete failure, owing 10 the peremptory aud indignant refusu! of the Chilean government to mocedo to his demands, which were made in an insulting end threatening manner, and theretore, on the 24th of Boptomber, Ite assumed the belligerent portion of his mis sion, and instituted a Blockade of the coast of Chile. Immediately afterwards the Chilean Congross declared war against Spain, authorized a tean of twenty millions ‘of dotlars, and granted the President unlimited power to raise troops and increase the navy. lp to the date of fateat accounts no collisions between the hostile forces had oocurred; but Admiral Pareja kept up his blockade, fod threatened to bombard the city of Valparaiso, and the Chiteans were arming. The Spanish squadron, however, ix @ntirely unequal to an efficient blockade, and even from "Valparaiso two well armed Chilean war vesvely, on an fundivulged expedition, succeeded in getting to sen Bhrough it. The foreign Ministers had held meetings Bod protested against the ation of Pareja ‘The latest advices from Peru gotice no Ghange of im Fiance in the relative positions of the government and @ revolutionary forces, though the revolution con- Rinved, There hod been a battle, in which it is reported Pho revolutioniste were defeated. Al the latest dates a Bolumn of their troops was said to be moving on the city of Lima, and the government forces were throwing ap arthworks around town, General Mosquera has Been again elected President of Colombia, From the other Spanish-American sepublice the news is not im- Vt. From Kl Paso, Mexico, our correspondent, writing on Bho 13th of October, announces the continuance of Presi- hs t Juarez and his Cabinet in that city at that time. ine imperialiste bad not yet advanced on Ff! Paso from jbuahua; but it was thought that the President would leave there, going own the Rio Grande and joining army of Gen. Kecobedo in the States of Coabuila and jow Leon, By a recently isened, order of General Dowell, United States commander of the Department California, our forces in that State and Arizona are \@ prevent the tramsporiatiou of arms or the movement of armed bodies of men across had in the meantime surrendered himself to the authori- | restoration, and that f° Legislature of Ala- into Mexico. This, the Mexican republicans complain, | ties, but was immediately released on bail. 1s making a discrimination to their prejudice, sine the ‘The Inman line steamship City of Boston, commanded shipment of arms from San Francisco by ea is per- | by theexperienced Captain Kennedy, will sail to-day at miited, thus allowing the imperialists, who hold the | noon for Queenstown and Liverpool, from pier No. 44 Mexican Pacific coast, to receive supplies thence. A Toronto despatch announces that the Canadians have at last discovered the Fenian plot to rob their banks, for which they have been for some time most assiduously ‘tching. Two men, who it is said have made a confes- sion of the conspiracy and disclosed its plans, have been committed to jail in Toronto, and the financial com- munity of that place is much agitated over the affair, The Fenian bonds are selling in Quebec and Montreal. Our Ottawa correspondence informs us that meetings of the Executive Council have been held both there and in Montroal, at which plans for placing on the frontier an armed force of six or eight thousand men were con- sidered. Interesting reports of the progreas of the rebellion in the republic of Hayti against the government of President Geffrard. have reached us. At the date of latest accounts the rebels still held the town of Cape Haytien, and a daily exchange of fire was kept up between them and the be- siegers. The former had raised the blockade of the port by capturing the government blockading vessel. It appears that the English have been to some extent drawn into the contest, throngh indignities shown to their Consul at Cape Haytien by the rebols. The affair is variously reported from different sources. One account says that the difficulty occurred by the Consul refusing to give up to the rebels certain loyalists who were under his protection. Upon this refusal they broke open the doors of the Consulate, seized the refugees and took them out and shot them. Thereupon the British gunboat Bull- dog opened on one of the rebel forts, from which the fre was returned. During the fight, however, the Bulldog got aground, when, her men being taken off in boats, she ‘was set on fire and biown up, by orderof her commander. Another account states that the trouble was caused by the rebels firing on a British vessel. A very interesting history of the causes and progreas of the rebellion, with sketches of the character, policy and movements of the leaders on both sides, is given by our Port au Prince correspondent. It seems that our national army has not been reduced to such diminutive proportions since the termination of the rebellion as is generally supposed. Our Washington despatches state that its available strength ia still one hundred and eighty thousand men, about equally dis- tributed on the east and weat sides of the Mississippi river. Mr. William P. Johnson, only brother of President Johnson, whose senior he was by four years, died re- tly in Texas, his adopted State, from the effects of an accidental gunshot wound, The deceased was Collector of Customs at Velasco, Texas, Hon, Jacob Collamer, United States Senator from Ver- mont, and who held the position of Postmaster General in President Taylor's Cabinet, died at Woodstock, Vt., on ‘Thursday of this week, aged seventy-three years. An election took place in the new State of Nevada on the 7th inst, for one Congressman, mombers of the Legis- lature and tocal officers. Mr. D. RB. Ashley, the republi- can candidate, was elected to Congreas by about one thousand majority Another meeting of the Health Commissioners was held yesterday to devise means for meeting the visita- tion of the cholera, in case it shall reach our city. Dr. Sayre reported the result of his visit to Washington to procure from government the privilege of selecting a site on Sandy Hook for a cholera hospital. So far his efforts have not met with success; but negotiations are in pro gress to secure a location for the purpose at Fort Schuy- ler, on the Fast river. It is proposed to assign a suitable number of men to the duty of making sanitary inspec- tions of the city and rendering.daily reports of all mat- ters dangerous tothe public bealtn which may come under their observation, No new cases of cholera are reported in the bay. Tne work of fumigating the Ata- lanta is in progress. ‘The Cincinnati Railrowd Company yesterday brought an appeal in the Supreme Court froma judgment re. cently rendered, in a suit between them and Horace N. Seaver, in favor of the latter. The object is to recover the face value of certain bonds of the corporation do- posited with Mr. Seaver, which, it is alleged, he sold for ten cents on the dollar. ‘The decision has not yet been given. Argument was heard yesterday, by Judge Clerke, of the Supreme Court, on a motion to dissolve an injunc- tion obtained by Mr. Moses Taylor to prevent Mr. Heury D. Brookman and others extending to the bulkhead lino & pier at the fvot of Nineteenth street, East river, in the vicinity of property owned by Mr. Taylor. The decision was reserved. Judge Clerke ulso yesterday heard argument ow a mo- tion for the release from confinement of George M. Swift, accised of administering poison to ® person in Toronto, and arrested und detained here awaiting a requisition irom the Canadian authorities, in accordance with the provisions of our Extradition treaty with Groat Britain, The conciusion of the case was postponed till Monday next Alitule after six o’clock yesterday morning one of three steam boilers, located on the premises of ‘the Con- vent of the Sacred Heart, corner of Tenth avenue and 131st street, And used to gonerate steam to heat the building, exploded, killing Danie! Fitzpatrick, engineer, and shattering the boiler into many pieces, some of which wore thrown a considerable distance. The con vent building was not damaged, however, and no other person besides Mr. Fitzpatrick received injuries. A coro ner’s investigation of the affair took place, and, after hearing considerable testimony, the jury decided that the fatal secident was caused by an insufficiency of water in the boiler. In the case of the application of Me. McVickar for the examination of Kdward B, Ketchum relative to » fund of seventy thousand dollars claimed by the former, the de- cision has been rendered in favor of allowing it. The exammation, accordingly, took place yesterday, privately, as the matiers involved are altogether of a business character and it 1s not desired by the parties interested to have them made public. A nit was commenced in the Superior Court yesterday morning against the Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railroad Company by Margaret Noonan, who alleges that in August of 1864 she was run over by one of their cars while in the act of crossing Broadway. She complains that she was severely injured by the accident, and laye damages at tive thousand dollars. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday Albert Loteer, charged with stealing forty dollars’ worth of clothing from James D. Myers, pleaded guilty to an at- tempt at larceny, and was sont to the Penitentiary for six month. Jacob Keifer was convicted of stealing a gold watch and chain from William €, Brandon on the 7th of October. Judge Russel sentenced him to the State Prison for two years, John Hoctor and Patrick Hoctor were tried on an indictinent charging thom with robbing John Dempsey, a resident of Chicago, of one thousand dollars. It appeared from the statement of the com- plainant that the accused persons were relatives of his, whom be visited at Manhattanville, and while there he drank freely. Other witnesses showed that he was very drank, and, as the teatimofy was not clear, the jury ac- quitted the prisoners. Louis and fouisi Kenoda, keepers of a concert saloon in William street, wore trled on u charge of stealing one hundred and forty dollars from Michael Welsh, on the 2ist of August; but, as the testimony was contradictory, his Honor told the jury that it would be unsafe to convict, and they rendered a verdict of not guilty. John R. Blair pleaded guilty to a attempt at grand larceny, he having stolen five hundred dollars’ worth of combs from a Chambers street store on the 10th of October, He was remanded for wntenee, The Hoard of FireCommissioners held a meeting yes- terday afternoon, at which payment was ordered of bills amounting to some eighty-five thousand dollars, and a requisition was made onthe Comptroller for one bun- dred thousand dollars. A report was received from the Chief Bogineer, recommending the providing of four hnndred and twenty-six additional hydrants throughout the city, The Committee on Telegraph reported that communication was established between the Central of- fice and twenty seven engine and hook and ladder houses, six police stations, the repair yard and the insu- rance patrol house, The old system of bell ringing will conse after the Lith inst, The Board meets again on next Monday afternoon. The particulars of the riot at Paterson on Wednesday evening last are given in another column. The trouble, it seems, originated on the Monday previous, in a dispute between Conductor Doremus and a passenger named Hargrove, which resulted in a fight when the train reached the town, wheroin Hargrove was severely beaten. An attempt was made to arrest the condactor on Wednesday evening ona charge of senault and bat. tery preferred by Hargrove. This was resisted in part by some soldiers on the train, and by the train employes. Honce the riot, A renewal of hostilities was expected | grace North river, The mails will close at the Post Office at half-past ten A. M. The United States mail steamship United Statos, Capt. Shore, will sail at three P, M. to-day for New Orleans, from pier No. 9 North river. The United States has recently been added to the Cromwell line, and her supe- rior accommodations cannot fail to give satisfaction to all passengers. The mails will cloge at the Post Office at half-past one P. M. The second lecture of a series for the season was delivered last night before the pupils of the New York Ophthalmic Society, by Dr°Garrish, The address was highly interesting and instructive, showing, as it did, the growth of this branch of tho practice of surgery, which the lecturer hoped would be able to compete with any other branch of the art in the world. Ho concluded by exhorting the pupils to study well, that they might be able to help their suffering fellow creatures. The stock market was dull and rather heavy yester- day. Governments were depressed. Gold waa steady, and closed at 146%. There was but little change in commercial affairs yos- terday as compared with Thursday, either as regards the demand for goods or the prices current, Both foreign ‘and domestic goods were generally quiet and steady. Groceries were steady. Cotton wasa turn firmer. Pe- troleum was more active and decidedly firmer. On ‘Change flour was lower. Grain was steady. Pork was irregular, closing at about Thursday's prices. Lard was dull, but unchanged. Whiskey was firmer. The Secession Spirit South—It Must be Cast Aside. We have been watching with terest the proceedings of the different conventions and Legislatures of the late rebellious States engaged in the important work of Southern re- construction. We have been gratified with the evidences thus furnished of a prevailing dis- position to recognize the overthrow of slavery with the confederacy of which it was the cor- ner stone, and to return as soon as possible to the benefits, rights and privileges of the gen- eral government of the Union. There are, however, two sides to every bargain; and the equivalents required of the States concerned for their full restoration to the benefits of the Union they seem to be very reluctant to fulfil. There is considerable activity in secur- ing the offices involved, but a suspicious delay in meeting the conditions annexed. President Johnson’s pardons and concessions are Inuded to the skies; but his indispensable conditions are evaded. As an illustration we will take the case of Mississippi. There was a ready response in that State to the initial provisions of President Johnson in the way of reconstruction. A State Convention waa elected which framed a new State constitution on the basis of the abolition of slavery, and provided for the election of a Governor, State officers, a Legislature and mem- bers of the lower house of Congress. These elections were next held, and tho Legislature 80. chosen has met and elected two United States Senators, so that a complete delegation from the State to both houses of Congress stands ready for admission. So far it has been plain sailing. But the essential conditions laid down by President Johnson in view of the future security and harmony of the Union have been strangely overlooked by both the Mississippi Convention and the Legislature. Among these conditions precedent to an ad- mission, with his consent, into Congress, offi- cially made known by the President, are:— First—A declaration in the new State con- stitution that slavery is dead, and that seces- sion and the late rebellion, and all their doings, null and void. Second—The repudiation of the State debts f the rebellion in every shape and form. Third—The ratification by the Legislature of great constitutional amendment prohibiting r all time to come the revival of slavery within the limits and jurisdiction of the United States. / With the fulfilment of these conditions an- ‘other necessarily follows—tbe recognition of the national debt of the United States and provisions to meet its obligations. Now what have the reorganizing bodies of Mississippi done in regard to these casentials? Hep State Convention partially repudiated se- cession and its financial liabilities, but only par- tially. The State Legislature, in session for some time and still sitting, bas not touched the con- stitutional amendment prohibiting slavery, nor has the Legislature of any other State involved in the late rebellion. Nor does there appear to be any inclination in any one of them to act upon said amendment. On the other hand there appears to be among them a unanimous purpose to evade it. The inference is strongly suggested that this evasion can only be for the purpose, if possible, of securing the restoration of all the Southern States to Congress before the ratification of said amendment, and then, in defuult of its ratification, to re-establish slavery by State authority. Preposterous as this scheme may appear, how are we to know that it is not entertained by the politicians managing these Southern Legislatures, when of all things they seem Icas! inclined to touch this constitutional amend- ment? If they have no dream of the revival of slavery, why should they hesitate to put its revival beyond the power of any State, or any five, ten or twenty-five States? The truth is that the old spirit of secession still lives and flourishes too largely in these reorganizing Southern conventions and Legislatures and among their newspaper or ans, There been a remarkable silence among them on subjec ; but since the publication of the Presi- dent’s instructions to the Provisional Governor of Florida we are beginning to hear something from the secession expounders of Southern rights. The Mobile Register and Advertiser, for in- stance, whose cditor has just been transferred from the service of Jeff. Davis to the blessings of loyalty, says, in his issue of the Sist ulti, that his “next Legislature will be called upon to pass upon the so-called constitutional amend- ment;” that “it ought to be called a constitu- tional abrogation;” that “it is a cunning and covert attack of the radicals upon the essence of the State rights principle;” that “it isa sham;” that “it stinks a rank heresy in the nostrils of every democrat and State rights man;” that “the amendment, as expounded by the Sumners and the Wilsons, clothes the federal Congress with power over the black code in the States;’” that “the war, God knows, has made inroads enough upon the constitution of the fathers,” and that “there must be a stop somewhere «nd goon.” Here we bave it. “State righta’”—the old secession war cry of “State rights.” This gentleman evidently forgets his position. He thinks that he is in “the Union as it was” in the good old times of Pierce and Buchanan. He forgets that he remains in Mobile by the saving of Andy Johnson, that this amendment is last evening. but no demonstration Wek plagt Qorumue bone of bis inflexible conditions of Southera bama must ratify it before can be read- mitted to Congreas upon his recon’mendation. The rule applies to all the late xebellious States seeking a restoration to the federal Con- gress. Their rebellion and its consequences, in- cluding the war powers of the President, have placed the reconstruction of those States, to a great extent, under his discretion. His condi- tions of reconstruction cannot, therefore, be avoided. They must be met. He has made them as easy as possible in view of the para- mount interests of the Union. If the States concerned are wise they will cast aside the secession spirit and fulfil President Johnson’s reasonable conditions, and make haste to do it, so that they may come before the new Congress backed by the moral power of his endorsement. Without it they can do nothing at Washington but face about and return home. The Execution of the Rebel Captain ‘Wirz. A The rebel Captain Wirz, the keeper of the infamous slaughter pen at Andersonville, was hanged at Washington yesterday. Upon the gallows he conducted himsejf with apparent calmness and self-possession, and his last words were a repetition of his previous pro- testations of his innocence. The noise of the falling of the drop is said to have been received by the promiscuous crowd outside the prison walls with shouts of approbation; and although we most decidedly disapprove of any such un- seemly and indecorous manifestations of re- joicing upon so solemn an occasion, still we know that the action of the government in pro- curing the conviction of this man, and of the President in refusing to reprieve or pardon him, will be generally endorsed throughout the country. If ever a man deserved death that man was Captain Wirz; and it is no mere senti- ment of revenge that leads the country to feel a sense of relief when so inhuman a monster suffers the just penalty of his crimes. Wirz wasa bad man. He could be all things to all men. According to his own account of his life he had been a physician and a banking clerk in his own country, a laborer in Connec- ticut, a weaver in Massachusetts, a watercure doctor in Kentucky and a slave driver in Mis- sissippi. When the recent war began he en- listed in the rebel army, not for any love of the rebel cause, but because he happened to be on that sido of the line. As his death shows, he was not without @ certain kind of cour- age, and no doubt he fought bravely against the Union, ,He was wounded at Fair Oaks, and by an accident was assigned to the charge of Union prisoners. It seems that he treated them just as the rebel authorities de- sired that they should be dealt with; for of the thousands of our soldiers who were at various times in bis custody not one has been found able to testify to a single act of charity or kindness upon the part of this rebel jailer. At last he was transferred to Andersonville, where he killed more Union soldiers than General Lee, according to the official evidence, and ac- cording to his own wicked boast. We have no desire to repeat the sickening record of the horrors of that den of infamy and murder. Wirz has expiated his crimes with his life; he has left a name forever infamous, and he has gone before a Judge whose decisions pre in- fallible and whose punishments are eternal. In the trial and execution of Captain Wirz the government has established the principle that humanity must not be lost sight of even in times of war, and that those who maltreat our prisoners will be held sternly responsible when the war is over. Let that principle be accepted by the whole civilized world, and we shall hear no more of such hells upon earth aa the black hole at Calcutta, the Jersey prison ships and the rebel prison pens. The life of Wirz was of no consequence. Had not General Winder died before he could be arrested he would have stood in the dock and upon the gallows instead of his cruel tool, this merci- less Wirz. But it was necessary that an ex- ample should be made; and, as Winder had es- caped, the man next in rank at Andersonville was secured and punished. Any doubts that may exist as to the wisdom and expediency of the course of the government in singling out individuals for retribution will be at once re- moved when we consider that the men thus selected are the incarnations of the vices which it is the duty of the government to rebuke and repress. Jeff. Davis has been no more guilty of treason than other rebels who might be easily named; but in order that this crime may be rendered odious, as President Johnson ex- pressed it, the most prominent rebel is selected to stand his trial. For the same reason Wirz, the most cruel of the rebel jailers, represented the crimes of them all. Those who are spared muy thank the government for its magnani- mity; but the fact that the majority are spared does not justify us in any misplaced sympathy for those who ere punished. Neither Wirz nor Jeff. Davis is individually of any importance. Dead or alive, they can no longer injure the republic and desolate our homes. But as re- presentative men we are compelled to deal with them and to punish them. Wirz is bung ; Jeff. Davis may or may not share the same ‘Tae Verpicr anp tHe Morat.—In one of bis commentaries yesterday Ben Wood says the verdict of the late election signifies pte 4 nothing; but in another article he says that the moral of the late election is, that the democracy have been so severely cut up that they can only be saved from destruction by the intervention of Providence. Jake Thompson’s fund is exhansted. Important Nava Orgrations.—We have re- cently published, as items of news, certain atements that important naval operations, such as the fitting out of vessels, &., were in contemplation and in progress. These reports seem to have created an unusual sensation in Wall sirect and other stockjobbing localities, and Mr. Fox, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, has been appealed to for the purpose of ascer- taining the correctness of the statement, Mr. Fox, in reply, denies the truth of the reports, and states that they have no foundation what- ever in fact. Now, we do not for a moment imagine that Mr. Fox would knowingly endorse a misrepresentation; but he must be guilty of one thing or another—he either intentionally misrepresents the facts or he fs ignorant of the operations of the navy, although he is the re- ported working head of the Navy Department. The fact is notorious that our squadrons on certain foreign stations comprise as many vessels and heavier material than were num- bered among the first class vessels in the entire navy before the war. A special squadron, in- cluding iron-glada gad fret glass wooden shine, have just left for the Pacific, and our naval force all over the world is being strengthened by the addition of a number of the modern style of fighting ships. Some newspapers have undertaken to deny that important naval movements are under way, and at the same time publish lists of special squadrons des- patched upon extraordinary missions. Both ‘they and the Assistant Secretary of the Navy will have to wake up and pay a little more attention to what is going on in the navy, or we shall have to classify them all among the Rip Van Winkles of the age. * fim South America—The More Trouble: 8) ish-Chilean Digiculty. By the news from South America which we give to-day it will be seen that the Spanish Admiral Pareja has actually inaugurated another war in South America by the blockade of Chilean poris, and that the Congress of Chile has declared war against Spain. President Johnson, in what he said to the Minister of the Argentine Republic on Thursday, expressed pretty distinctly the interest that the United States has in all these South American troubles. He expressed the “special favor and affection” with which we “regard the republics on this continent;” and while he regretted the miseries that war must inevitably bring, he hoped also that the issue “would involve no detriment to the cause of republicanism.” This expresses the national thought as to the fate of South American republics, while it intimates to the Argentines that their present relations with the empire of Brazil, in war against a sister re- public, necessarily lessens our interest in their welfare. In the case of the war just begun against Chile there is no such cause to qualify our in- terest; and all our sympathies with an American republic at war against a European monarchy are even intensified by the arrogance—the as- sertion that might should make right—with which Spain has entered upon this contest. It had been supposed that the difficulty between the two governments was amicably adjusted some time ago; but the Spanish Admiral, arriv- ing at Valparaiso on September 17, with a con- siderable fleet, announced, in the most brusque manner, that his government entirely repudiated the arrangement that had been made, and an- thorized him to commence hostilities at once if certain things were not done by the Chilean government, The things required were that Chile should make certain explanations of sup- posed outrages to Spanish dignity, and salute the Spanish flag, the Admiral agreeing to salute the Chilean standard in return, These requisitions show the war to be a truly Spanish war—a war for dignity, punctilio and etiquette, Spain, in thus coupling her demand with a threat, made it an insult, and at the very start rendered it impossible for Chile to accede to it without national humiliation. Chile at once, and in the most distinct manner, refused to meet the requiréments of Spain. Admiral Pareja, therefore, declared a block- ade of the Chilean ports—a measure which he has seven ships to enforce. His ships are nearly all heavy steam frigates, Chile has a coast line of more than two thousand miles, and the whole coast is exceedingly bold and has a large num- ber of ports. The Spanish Admiral proposes to blockade these with the same number of ships that we required in our blockade to close one port. His blockade is therefore an absurdity. Chile has met this measure by a declaration of war, and by authorizing the President to raise troops and to contract a loan of twenty mil- lions. Pareja proposes to continue his blockade for forty-five days, and threatens then to resort to stronger measures if satisfaction is not in the meantime given. It ix supposed he may bom- bard Valparaiso. Chile has no effective navy to meet him, and Valparaiso is regarded as de- fenceless. But forty-five days is time enough for the constructionof splendid earthworks, and if Chile has any heavy guns at all the Spanish ships may have a warm reception. We may expect stirring events soon. It is to be regretted that the United States is only re- presented in Chilesn waters by the old sailing sloop St. Marys, Goon Apvice to THe Raprcars,—Let such counsellors of the republican party as Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens remember that as they were kept in the background in all the late elections, it becomes them so to remain. Their disorganizing instructions have been re- jected from Massachusetts to Missouri, and they are not wanted. Mextco—A Rewor ov Freven Cowrtanyts Serriyo.—A rumor was set afloat yesterday that the French government hed lodged in the Custom House of this port complaints against certain steamers here as having articles on board contraband of war, destined tor Mexico, and against certain individuals as sympathizers with the Mexican liberal cause. This siliy invention was speedily snuffed out by a note from the Assistant Collector, although there was hardly a necessity for his retutation of the story. Complaints trom the French govern- ment against any proceedings or fanatics in this country musi be lodged, not in the New York Custom House, but in the State Depari- ment at Washingion; and, in the next place, t depariment does not recogniz a party baving ane right to complain in refer- ence to Mexican aftnirs. ligerents there by our government ave Maxi- milian and Juarez, and the recognized ruler ix Juarez. Green Timper.—The State election bas proved that the timber of the new democratic Albany platform was too green, It oughi to have been prepared and seasoned at Chicago, Tae Tria ov J Davis—Crine Josrick Cuase on 4 New Tack.—-It ix reported trom Washington that in a late consultation on t subject with the Iresident, the Chief Justi gave it as his opinion that it would be inappro- priate and inexpedient to try Jeff. Davis in Virginia while still under military law, and before the State is wholly strneted, unless under a special act of Congr Justice does not like the idex of holding a court subject to military authority, Cirenm- stances alter cases very materially sometimes. The upshot of the master will probably be the | holding over of Jef. Davis for some action on the part of Congress. Tur Two Jonns.—The facetious John Van Buren, said before the election that. be was nominated “to go into the same hole that he had crept out of twenty years ago.” Now he can join hands with General John Cochrane and take a new departare, The two Jona are free, and ‘Tho world is ail before them where ty choogs, ¢ France as) The recognized hel- | The Chiet | Ped ri Pea ile, een osrrvarn *. Hon, Jacob Collamer, of Va “™o™t. Hon. Jacob Collamer, Senator from Verm * for the term ending in 1867, died at Woodstock, Vi, % tow P. M. on the 9th inst, Mr. Collamer was born iw’ Tey, New York, in 1792. His father was a native of Soitm 40) Massachusetts, and his mother was of the nation win? founded the Empjre State. While he was very young. his father removed from Troy to Burlington, Vermont. { The elder Collamer was a mechanic, and designed aut built several of the churches and other edifices in Bur lington. He was enabled to give his son but am ordinary education; but young Collamer succeeded whea sixteen in gaining admittance to the University of Vermont, and by big own exertions defrayed the expense of bis cal- legiate course, He graduated at tho University im 1810, when eighteen years of age, and immediately thereafter bogan the study of law, in Franklin county,.in his native Mate. While thus engaged, and before he could be admitted to the bar, the war of 1812 broke out, and Mr, Collamer enlisted for the war, receiving shortly after a aubaltern's commission. He participated only in the first campaign of the “second war of Independence,” and saw but one battle—that of Bladensburg, the disgraceful defeat im which William H. Winder, tee fatber of the late ‘Hog Winder,’’ was concerned. This engagement, which re- sulted in the occupation and destraction of Washington, was the only one in which Collamer was engaged’ He | went bome and bad much difficulty in igwey say for service, "On reaching Vermont again he van 2 He abortly after poedtopet te ir Wind- and succeeded to the ° Dudley Chase, who had just been elected to the Senate. Up (o this time he had never plead @ case, and had never supposed it possible that he could, His success in bi first case surprised him more than it did his friends, and spréad his fame all over the county. On that day, be- fore @ magistrate’s court, he pirced his foot upon the lowest round of a ladder which he has ever since boom continually mounting. His practice gradually ii and ho was soon elected a member of the Legislatre, im which capacity he served for several years. Mr. Colla. mer was remarkable for the industry with which he pursued his professional business. He has beem known to argue overy cause in Windsor and Frank- lin counties during the whole term of six weeks, passing rapidly from one court to another and arranging his pleas while ‘ fransitu. Such untiring industry, united to @ most strictly upright character, in a few years won for him s fame and popularity of which be seems have been hardly conscious; for he was #0 utterly surprised by bix appointment to the peoeeaet not Judge of the Supreme Court of VeFmont, im 1835, that it was some time before he could make up his mind to accept it; at Jast his health, which was being undermined by his close application to a counsel’s du- ties, turned the scale, and he became Judge Collamer. Ho remained on the bench of the Supreme Court until 1841, when he resigned shat position and returned to practice, He was first elected to Congress as a member of the House of Representatives in 1843. Ho was com- tinued in this dignity by re-elections until 1849, whoa he declined any further occupancy of his seat, and again roturned to private life; but not to remain tong unoccupied with public affuira, for when Genoral ‘Taylor was elected to the Presidency in forming his Cabi- net he sdected Mr. Collamer for the responsible position of Postmaster Genoral. He retained that post until July, he death of President Taylor au sequent elevation of Mr. Fillmore to the Prosi- Judge Collamer and other members of the Cabinet resi le again returned to Vermont, and was im modiately restored to his old seat on the Supreme bench, a position which he continued to fill with distinction until 1854, when he was appointed to the United States Senate for six years from the 4th of March, 1855. He was re-clected t the Senate in 1861. In person Judge Colla mer was of medium height, with a slight, scholar-like stooping of the shoulders. His peculiar and distinguish- tug trait was the possession of a logical power itely mathematica! in its operations. He received the dogree of LL.D. from Harvard University and Dartmouth College. William P. Johnson, Brother of the Pre- sident. A despatch was received yesterday morning at Wash ington announcing the death of Win. P. Johnson, Eaq., the only brother of the President of the United States, and Jate the Collector at Velasco, He died on the 6m inst. from the oifects of an accidental guoshot wound. Mr. Jobnon was a resident of Brazoria county, Texas. He was four years older than the President, When An- drew was apprenticed to the trade of a tailor his brother was about entering life as a journeyman carpenter, The two brothers were parted when very young, and until the present year the two brothers had not met since their mother’s death in 1839, During the late war Mr. Johnson was beamed tame ap loyal. He remained quietly at home with his wife and son, a lad of fifteen. He possessed several peculiarities, which were be- trayed by overy conversation jn which he @1 . He waa bitterly opposed to negro slavery, and erie acount ‘at the modern notion that a white man can’t work in the South as woll as a negro; for, said he, ‘I have laid slates ‘on & housetop in New Orleans and Baton Rouge in June, a day.”’ “e owas Vivacious and rapid in his utterance, fond of telling or hearing » good story, quick to make & be by a pithy, homely comparison; of keen insight inte character; and his conversation was filled with practical facts, collected in a lifetime of close Reenter sg ood ; had = of ee cence of a politician, his sentiments being prot all questions and unmistakable, and his batred of siavery and negroes, secession and negro equality, alike cordial, He was eminently a self-made man, and his ideas had the strength without breadth which Is peculiar tw auch charactors. AS a shrewd, clear-headed observer of Southern men and institutions through a long life- time, his views were worthy of consideration. He mate no pretensions to deing an exponent of his brother's sen- timents or policy, declaring on one occasion, after viet ing tho President, that “Andrew would not give hi definite inforuation as to what he intended to do. was short of stature, stout and muscalar; had a keen, gray eye, and a truly patriarcttial beard. He had just re- turned 10 ‘Texas when he received the wound from which he died. *s Third Opera Night ENTHUSIASM ON THE ENC! GARDEN CITY. Caicado, Nov. 10, 1965. Friday ts a8 bad an opera night here, as Tuesday ia im Now York; but still there was a very good and paying audience present this evening, to which, if we were to add the free list of the New York Academy—somothing which does not exist here -tne house would have been immense. The opora w »-nani, with Guidi as Elvira, Musiani ae Krnani, and Ueandini as Carlo. Of thease ar- tists T have already spoken; but fine young, handsome basso (Signor Milleri) made his déhit to-night as Silva, with great success. He has a full round voice, and acts and looks the character of the old Hidalgo weil. Noel Guidi and Orlandini added greatly to their laurels, Guidi displayed her dramatic talent to great effect, and sang with delightful accuracy and caw, never attempting anything that she did not ac- complish with perfect certainty. Her Ernani involamé wae charming, and was Ipudly applauded! ‘Tne finale of the third act was splendidly sung. The applanse wae vooifery The artists were called before the curtaro, ani their appearance was demanded a second time. Mneiani, though apparently @ little hoarse in the begim ning, sang admirably indeed, The extreme severity of the weather to-day has more or loss affected all the artists, but the audience overlooked | this fact in the general excellence of the performance, | and were more warm in their approbation than on any previons night. ‘The male chorus was especially good. ‘The orchestra also showed evidence of Muzto’s indefati- gable labors | To-morrow Faust will be given at a matings, when an immense bouse 1 expected, Bosebett!, Olgini, Anas- fai, Brandini and Fellini are in the cast, ‘These artists huve established themselves in Favet by their perform or OF tart might. Madame Gazcaniga’s débat is fixed for Wednesday, ia jwrwcter of Leonora, im La Arvorita. way Tavares, —The fifth of the “Sam” matinéee to-day. i extra tertaininents are & sto families residing at a distance up . wy the environs, ‘The popularity of the piece «crowds fo them, and, fatiguing though it is to ctors to give two performances on the same day, management is likely to continue them until “Sam'? ry sor county, Gra OPERATIC | je withdrown. Mp. Owens commences bis engagement | on the 8th of January. | Sieone Moaseer'’s Stor Matinee, —Onr fair readers Will be pleased to Tourn that to-day, ut two P.M, a thinbe—the sixth of the season—will be given at the dway Athenwnm, between Fourth treet and Astor 1 and appreciative audiences continu. approbation, The skill of Mr opied with life-brenth magnificent scenery the Hollated Rui the Bwiss, Savoyard and Tyrotees Alpe, 4s well as the faliam lakes and the wildest toot Norway, is not more remarkable than the taste | and comple of the mechatiteal appliances by which | the pieces are so wiarthingly made real for the moment, As 4 to be probably the last week of the entertain. ment, or friends should not lox the opportanity. ifest the warme inw acenracy Lear Dav or rie Crees IN Broownyy.—Howe's great viva ite season today in Brooklyn Two performances will be ai matinér at two PML and an evening performanc® woven o'clock—at both of which at equestrian artiste will appear, aa weil as the famous Bedouin Arabs, Crockett, Lewis, &o. Thin wil! he the only opportunity for seeing s good old-fash- ioned olrens winch the Brooklyn peopte will have for ‘uany a day, aad we expect the pavilion on tho rogmar of Dokaly aad Follog avemnos will be crowded. elrems ¢