The New York Herald Newspaper, November 14, 1865, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. orricR AMUSEMENTS THIS EVEN{ BROADWAY THEATRE. Broadway. —Ss™. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway, opposite seeropaiiion Hotel.—Bruroriax Sinaixu, Daxcina, &¢.—~ ux Finse BOARD OF Brokers. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. 201 Bowery.—Sixo- mu, Danoina, Borixsguas, &c.—Manierts ZANYRSITA ON tux Tigat Rore—Magic Pius. Brooklyn.—Eraortax Mux- HOOLBY'S OPERA HOUSE, Baas, BURLESQUES AND PANTOMIMES. artes — Bi RW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Open toon iba. M, tlk P.M iad STEREOSCOPTICON SCHOOL OF ART—Coraer of @raad aud Crosby streets. Now York, Tuesday, November 14, 1865. —=== = NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION. ee Recoipts of Saics of the New York Daily Newspapers. OFFICIAL. Year Ending Name of Paper. May 1, 1865. Hekau... $1,095,000 ‘Timea... 368,150 TribUNG......eecereessesescerssececees 262,000 Evening Post. 169,427 100,000 151,079 BRBOON css oncnces tne 90,548 New Your Heranp....... se eeee+2$1,095,000 Fimes, Tribune, World and Sun combined..” 871,329 THE NEWS. SOUTH CAROLINA REDEEMED. South Carolina, according to the only inference which we can deaw from a somewhat opaque Columbia tele- gram, bas signalized herself, and given a striking illus tration of the wondrous moral revolutions and muta tions resultant from our late war, by being the lirst of the Staies lately in rebellion to accede to that cardinal pre requisite of President Johnson's to the re:toration of Union fellowship contained in the adoption of the Amendment to the national constitution abolishing and forever prohibiting slavery throughout the country. The despatch alluded to announces that the constitutional am: Jment was yesterday ratified in both houses of the South Carolina Legislature with very little opposi- toa, South Carona has thus very sensibly and grace- faily, without unnecessary delay, taken a step which will enable her to be represented in the next Congress, and the avoidance of which would most assuredly have closed the doors of the national Capitol against her, since it will be remembered that the President has here- tofore officially informed her Provisional Governor, a8 well as the North Carolina delegates who visited him on Jast Friday, that the adoption by their Legislatures of the slavery prohibition amendment was a necessary pre- thanary to the admiseion of the Southern States to their former position in the Union Sy Uns action of the Palmetto Sta dered the making portion of the supreme law of the repnblic, and the ren je are now ren- secure of this amendment a dering of our great and glorions country, from its centre {4 utmost limits, most emphatically and without the “the laud of the free.” There are now altogether thirty-seven States in the Union, the rati- feation by the Legislatures of three-fourths, or twenty- shadow of a proviso, eight, of which is necessary to make the amendment a part of the national constitution. dar rejected; but one at least of the latter—New Jersey— In twenty-five Legis- res «thas now been adopted, and in three has been ‘was secured by the late election for its ratification this winter, and it will also pass in the Legislatures of Cali- fornia and Oregon at their next sessions. These will coonplote the requisite number of twenty-eight. The following is a list of the States which have adopied (he amendment, with the date of adoption :— State, Time. Stove. Tims Tiinoia..... Indiana... Feb, 18, 1865. Rhode (stand. Nevada N-w Yor! Louisiana Marzland . Missouri. Moasaachussetts Wisconsin. Pannsy val Vermont. Feb. New Hampshire. ..June 30. Minnesota... Feb, 8. South Carolina, v. 13, Virg .. Feb. % The Legislatures of the following States have rejected mn 8. New Jersey ......March 1, EUROPE. ‘The seamehip City of Washington, at this port, and the Belgian, at Father Point, bring five days later news form Europe. ‘he ministerial modifications consequent on the death of Lord Palmerston were about completed, the only post remaining unfilled being the Chancellorship of the Dughy of Lancaster, rendered vacant by Lord Clarendon accept- img tho office of Foreign secretary, vice Earl Russell, promoted to the Premiership. There seemed a strong ity that a liberal reform bill would be one of the rat measures introduced by the new Cabinet Anew feature had been imparted to the Fenian stir Py the commencement of leval proceedings against Poveremcs: for their seizure of the Fenian news. paper aice. The evacuation of Rome by the French troops had commenced. In the }ondon money market on the 3d instant United Biates Ove-twenties closed at 61\ 264. American cot ton was td a (4d. lower in Liverpool. MISCELLANEOUS. fo Louisiana General Canby, by a recent order, hay re Hoquished to the ity authorities of New Orleans contro! of all sanitary regulations, which has been exercised by the military since 1862, and to the State the manage ment of the levees; Bas withdrawn the provost mar abals from # majority of the parishes, and has stopped the issuing of charity rations to persons not connected ith the army, The Assistant Commissioner of the ‘veodmen's Burean for the State has left the amount of wage’ to be paid the freedmen next yearto be fixed by the tan of demand and supply. Governor Wells has called aap tit! apssion of the Legislature for the 23d Anat, to elect United States Senators The now constitution of gorgia gonstructed by the State Convention was adopted av Whole in that body ‘on the Oth inst. As adopted the State “ebt contracted to Bid the rebellion was not repudiated; but, “4 9 Fesult of ‘the recent plain expressions of President Johns 8 OD this NEW YORK HEKALD, T which he has published, that thore bas been, 4% Fo- ported, any negro insurrections or attompts at tho same in Barnwell district, in that State, Further military measures have been adopted by the Canadian government to moet the apprehended Fenian invasion. Our Toronto despatch states that it has finally beon decided to place a volunteer force on the frontier; that two battalions have already been directed to hold themselves in readiness to march, and [that in consequence of some recently received information the armory guards have been doubled. Secretary Seward yesterday had a long inter- view with the President, which has given rise to a re- port that the British government has made demands on ours relative to the Fenian movement, and that the Brit- ish Minister has asked Mr, Seward to defiue his position on the subject. Our government, in order to preserve its neutrality in the present contest in Mexico, will allow no armed par- ties to pass our frontier to go into that country, nor any shipments of arms to either of the belligerent parties, but of course will not interfere with the carrying of arms for their personal protection by persons going thither. It is announced in our Washington despatches that the Hon. Preaton King has resigned the position of Collector of Customs in this city, The name of Mr, King’s sue- cessor has not yet been made public. In our Paris correspondence published yesterday was announced the fact, important to our enterprising countrymen, that the managors of the French Universal Exhibition. to open at Paris in 1867 had consented to extend the time for American exhibitors to make their entries, from ‘the 31st of last month to the Sist of January next, and this morning we publish some interest- ing despatches relative to the matter, forwarded by our Minister in France, Mr. Bigelow, to Secretary Seward. Lieutenant General Grant, with his family and staff, arrived in this city last evening, and took rooms at the Metropolitan Hotel. The Board of Councilmen held a brief session yeater- day for the transaction of some routine business. A communication was received from the Comptroller, to which was appended an ordinance providing for addi- tional appropriations for the present year, the sums hav- ing been specified by the Board of Supervisors at a late meeting. The paper was laid over. A report of the Committee on Railroads in favor of removing the tracks in Washington and Greenwich streets was also laid over. The Mayor sent in a communication announcing the forthcoming review of the Metropolitan Police, after the reception of which the Board adjourned till Thursday, The Fire Commissioners held a meeting yesterday afternoon, The Chief Engineer recommended that a list of the fire signal stations be printed and hung up in each engine house. J. D. Coster resigned as Assistant Engi- ueer of the Department. The Police Commissioners sont 1m a communication tendering the compliment of a salute to the Fire Department on the occasion of the intended parade of the police force on Thursday next, which was accepted, B, V. Mackay was appointed District Engi- neer, It was directed that proposals to build twenty tenders, after the Rochester pattern, be advertised for. ‘The Board adjourned to moet on Friday next, at three o'clock. An enthusiastic meeting was held at the Cooper Insti- tute last evening, under the auspices of the American Union Commission, organized to aid in the restoration of the Union upon the basis ef “freedom, industry, edu- cation and Christian morality.’’ Senator Morgen pre- sided, and addresses were delivered by Governor Par- sous, of Alabama; Rev. Dr. Thompson, President of the Commission; Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, Major General Meade and General Fiske. Letters were also read from Secretary Seward, General Grant and General Sherman, expressing their entire sympathy with the object of the Commission. Wo have to repeat the announcement that there have been no new cases of cholera in the Lower Bay, Resi- dent Physician Sayre writes a communication in reply to the remonstrance of the Atalanta’s cabin passengers against being detained on that vessel, in which he says he has done all in bis power for their relief, and that he is not responsible for the griev- ances under which they labor. Tho captain of the city Sanitary Police yesterday transmitted to the Police Com- missioners a statement of his operations to avert the vis itation of the cholera. He says hie force has been vigi- lantly at work, and that notices were served during the past week for the cleaning of nearly four hundred places in a filthy condition in different parts of the city. The War Department im Washington has appointed a commission of three surgeons to confer with our city authorities in relation to the erec- tion of a cholera quarantine hospital at Sandy Hook. The divorce case of Gabriella Sneltzer vs. Alexander Sacltzor, formerly wife and husband, which first made its appearance im the courts in August, 1864, was again up yesterday ina new form before Judge Ingraham, of the Supreme Court, In September, 1864, a divorce from her husband was granted Mrs. Saeltzer on her allega. tions of his inconstancy; but she now prays to have the jndgment of divorce set aside, on the ground that she was induced to make application for it through misrepresentations of her lawyer, who, she says, led her to believe that the proceedings were not instituted in earnest or for the purpose of procuring a separation, but morely with the object of endeavoring, by yielding to the husband's solicitations for a divorce, to cure bim of alleged insanity. Mr. Saeltzer, who is now married to another wife, utterly denies these charges and represen tations of the plaintiff, and opposes ber application for annulment of the divorce decree, The Judge, after re- viewing ail the circumstances of the case, denied the motion to set aside the judgment Judge Clerke, of the Supreme Conrt, yesterday ren dered his decision in the ease of Greenleaf versus Mum: ford, It will bo remembered that during the excitement over the alleged frauds of Ketchum, Jenkins end others, Mr. Mumford was arrested and commitied to the Tombs on charge of attempt to defraud his creditors by giving them checks at a time when he had no money in bank to ineet the same, but wae liberated, owing to lask of proof of fraudulent intent, The suit now in question was brought by Mr. Greenleal to recover, as a creditor of Mr, Mumford, fifty-three thousand dollars deposited by the latter in the Nassau Bank, and subsequently transferred by him toa Mr. Oakley The Jndge granted the order for an attachment on the funds in question prayed for by Mr. Greenleaf, ‘The Ketchum freuds were up again in court yesterday, an argument being had before Judge Clorke in the case of the assignees of Ketchum versus Charles K, Graham, which was a suit to recover an alleged loan of one hun dred thousand dollars from defendant. In answer de- fendant claimed he had deposited eighty thousand dol- Jars in gold checks for the loan, and the motion yester day was to compel the plaintiffs to “make discovery,” to which the latter object, on the ground that no soch checks were ever deposited with them, The motion was, however, granted. The application of Mr. Moses Taylor to continue an in- junction restraining Mr. Brookman from proceeding with the construction of a pier at the foot of Ninetecuth street, East river, was yesterday denied by Judge Clerke. A contested election of wardens of the French Protest- ant Church du St, Esprit is shortly to come before the Supreme Court, circuit, in this city. Certain members of the congregation claim to have been duly elected church wardens, while other gentlemen hold the positions and positively refuse to relinquish them. [n anticipation of the commencement of the legal contest yesterday, the court room was crowded with Frenchmen, principally attendants of this place of worship, but the case was not reached The “hee Abraham Berky was for some time pastor of 4 German Protestant church in thie city, and gon ceasing to be such continued to reside in the parsonage attached thereto, and refused to leave, though the con- gregution thereof were very desirous he should do #0, and took ineasures to eject him, as an off¥et to which he procured an injunction restraining them, Their right to eject was yesterday argued before Judge Cardozo, of the Common Pleas Court, at chambers; but the decision hos not yet been rendered . ‘The case of the Mechanics’ Ranking Association versus the Mariposa Company, being an appeal of the former from @ recent decision refusing an order to compel the latter to pay damages for declining to make a transfer of certain shares of its stock, was yesterday argued in the general term of the Superior Court. The decision was subject, a repudiation ordinance was adopted on the fh | reserved. Jowing day by a vote of one bundred and thirty-three to 4 one hundred and seventeen, ae announced in (et Thurs day's Hanan. Major General Howard, Cormissioner of the Freed Whon's Bareau, who is now making an officinl tour of the | ¢ h, was in Jackson, Missieippi, on Satorday lore he addressed a large assemblage of n din. Pousing their minds of the impression that the govern on intends to distribute land among them, and telling em that their freedom implies only their right to be du‘lastrious and to enjoy the fruits of their labor. Gen»ral Beecher, commanding the Second Sub District (@f South Carvlina, ompbatioally denies, ia a statement In the Court of Genoral Sessions yesterday Judge Russel delivered an elaborate decision in the case of fron.” MeCrendy, charged with keeping a house of All * Fourteenth street, overruling the preliminary fame in *? objection of {Ue Prosecution that the court had no juris diction in the moW#er, And deciding that the jurisdiction val Sessions commenced at the time of the Court of Gene.” *" that the Special Sessions’ Wed the recognizance to appear and answer at the General seni Fe argnment onthe morite of the charge against Mr. MoCready was set down There we're no leet than twenty ity of the vy. James for Saturday next five cases disposed of yesterday, the maj Hudiciuents being charees for yeeaud te Clarkson pleaded guilty to stealing nincty-sevon dollars’ worth of clothing from Carotine 5. Wise, of Kim street, On the Lith of October, Gorge Dupont admitted tbat he stole forty-four dollars’ worth of gum arabic from C. B. Finch, of Fulton street, om the Ist of October. John McNamee pleaded guilly (0 an indictment charging bim with stabbing John Dogherty with a knife on the 224 of September, Those prisoners wore sent to the Stato Prison for two years. Carl Mills, charged with stenting two diamonds, worth one hundred and thirty dollars, from Louis Barnemann, admitted his guilt, George Sorend was arraigned, chaned with stealing a cashmere shawl, worth eighty dollars, from A. T. Stewart's storo, on the 10th of October. George Clark, who was indicted for stealing three hundred dollars’ worth of clothing from John Tarbell, pleaded guilty. The sentence passed on each of these prisoners was two years and six months in the State Prison, Wm. Foster was convicted of stealing forty dollars’ worth of clothing from Philip Weber on the 2d of October, and was sent to the State Prison for three years, The tral of the alleged wills of Mra. Aon M. Forman was resumed before Surrogate Tucker yesterday, and further testimony was taken with respect to the state of mind of the deceased lady, Mr. Forman, her husband, being on the stand. Much progress is being made In the work of raising the ram Merrimac, sunk by the robols near Craney Island on their evacuation of Norfolk. Portions of the ma- chinery of this once formidable vessel have already been taken out, and the hull has been raised clear of the bot- tom, and now hangs suspended by two enormous chains. Jeff. Davis is reported as having recently given in very. brief terms'his opinion.of Fenianism and the execution of Wirz, ‘Of tho former he said “It's a bubble,” and of the latter that ‘The government need not have’ goue far to hang many worse men,"? A man named Robert Lawn, keeping a grocery and liquor store on the first floor of No, 311 Monroe street, in the upper part of which live twenty-five or thirty families, was yesterday committed for further examinn- tion in the Essex Market Police Court on charge of hav- ing ignited a fre found burning in the rear of his pro- mises early on Sunday evening, the object of the accused it ig supposed being to defrand the insurance companies. Fortunately the fire wax discovered and extinguished when little damage had been done. According to the City Inspector's report there were 408 deaths in the city during the past weok—being a de- crease of § as compared with the mortality of the week previous, and 9 less than occurred during the corre- sponding week last year. ‘The recapitulation table gives the following result:—Acute diseases, 215; chronic diseases, 171; external causes, &c., 22. There were 263 natives of the United States, 96 of Ireland, 30 of Germany, 12 of England, 4 of Scotland, and the balance of various foreign countries, ‘The stock market was weak yesterday morning, but it closed strong. Governments were heavy. Gold was firm, closing at 147 a 14734. ‘There was not much change in commercial matters yeaterday as compared with last week, though if any- thing the markets were rather firmer, in sympathy with gold. Foreign goods were quiet. Domestic produce was irregular. Groceries were steady, Cotton was dull. Petroleum was firmer. On 'Change flour was steady, with a fair demand. Wheat and corn were higher, Pork opened active and higher, but closed dull and irregular. Boof was steady. Lard was dull, but unchanged. Whis- key was firm. The Meeting of the New Congress—Posl- tion of President Johnson. As the appointed time for the assembling of the new Congress draws nigh, the organization of the House of Representatives, and the exact recommendations of the President upon our foreign and domestic affairs, become the.lead- ing questions of the day. In regard to the or- ganization of the House, we think that, except- ing Texas, all the Southern States, in fulfilment of the President’s programme, will be present to claim their seats and a place on the-pre- liminary roll of the Clerk. {t also appears to us that his only course will be to admit those members, if they come before him with certifi- cates of their election in pursuance of the laws of their respective States as loyal States of the Union. But, as it is understood that the House Clerk has determined against the admission of those Southern members, it will most probably devolve upon the House itself to decide the question of their eligibility. If they present themselves, however, with a declaration of the nullity of secession, and with the repudiation of the debts and obligations of the rebellion, as null and void, and with a legislative ratifi- cation of the great constitutional amendment by their respective States, as South Carolina has done, (hey cannot be rejected. Believing that in prompt compliance with the late instructions of the President the Southern States concerned will finish up their necessary work in season for the meeting of Congress, we count upon their admission with- out difficulty. To a full bouse, then, embracing all the States of the Union, the President's message will probably be submitted. In any event, we may approximate the official expo- sition of his policy before Congress from the lights before us in his proclamations, speeches, despatches and published conversations during the last six months, and from the additional lights of public opinion, as manifested in all the late elections, First, in regard to our foreign relations, we anticipate no warlike propositions from the message. Accepting the recent Auburn speech of Mr. Seward as by authority, we entertain no doubt that President Johnson will adhere firmly to the Monroe doctrine; but we pre- sume that he will judiciously leave the ques- tion of its enforcement to the deliberations of the two houses, holding bimself in readiness to maintain the doctrine meantime to the last resources of diplomacy. From the Adams- Russell correspondence we can have but one opinion of the views of the administration in reference to our claims against England. Mr. Adams will be sustained in the message. From the President’s welcome to the new Minister from Brazil we anticipate the recommendation of more liberal and closer relations of friend- ship with the independent States of South America, in view of the common interests of all the nations of the Western hemisphere, against aggressive European coalitions. On the all-important subject of our national finances, eurrency, debis, &., we look for the suggestion ot such measures of legislation as will be wisely calculated, in the curtailment of our paper issues, to avoid the perils of a too rapid and violent reduction. If we have gone to the topmost point of inflation consistent with safety, our descent must be cautions, for in go- ing down too rapidly we may suffer a damaging crash and revulsion. A thousand millions of national paper currency absorbed in the chan- nels of trade cannot be suddenly withdrawn without a violent collapse. We expect, there- fore, that President Johnson will steer between the rock and the whirlpool as the only course of safety for the ship. His statement of the work of restoration in the South, in pursuance of his adopted pro- gramme, we predict will be clear and conclu- sive, and especially in regard to his policy of aon-intervéntion in the matter of negro suffrage. His long experience among the Southern peo- ple, and his intimate knowledge of the relations in which the two races of the South stand towards each other, may be brought to bear upon the question to some purpose. Consulting the great ends of peace and harmony between the Southern whites and blacks, we anticipate from the message @ conclusive vindication of bis UESDAY, course upon this negro suffrage difloulty. Itia one of those steps in a great revolution which require a little time and a wholesome prepara- tion of the parties concerned for the change. Moreover, in leaving to the States concerned, as far as consistent with the results of their rebellion, the contro! of their local affairs, Presi- dent Johnson is vindicated by the constitution. From all the signs of the times his first mes- sage to Congress will establish him as the mas- ter of the situation, and lead to the substantial adoption of his policy, foreign and domestic, in the action of both houses, beginning with the admission of the members from the late rebel- lious States. Secession Srmrr Sovra—Neoro Worsarr Norra.—The action of the conventions and legislatures in the Southern States reveals the fact that there are atill a few persons who retain the old secession spirit and attempt to carry it out, The opposite extreme is also held and pressed with equal pertinacity by the negro worshippers of the North. African slavery is at an end in this country, and the sooner all classes in the South act upon it the better for all concerned. But those who.cx- hibit a hesitancy or unwillingness to recog- | nize this fact, and manifest an opposition to the President’s plan of ‘reorganization in the Southern States, are no worse opponents of the early reconstruction of the country than Wen- dell Phillips and that class of men, who, having secured the abolition of slavery, are now con- stantly harping about negro suffrage, and de- manding the adoption of other extreme measures, Both of these classes are enemies of the country, and would, if they could, keep as in an unsettled condition for years to come. The Southern people should, however, bear in mind that in all their technical opposition to the President’s policy, and delay in complying with the demands which he has made, they are simply standing in their own light—increasing and extending their own troubles, as well as endangering their own interests. President Johnson, in a simple and concise form, has atated what they must do to be restored to all their rights in the Union. His statements have been so plain that no person can mistake his meaning, The sooner the Southern conventions and legislatures comply with these requirements the sooner will their representatives be admitted to Congress and the organization of that body, with a restored Union, be perfected. If the Southern people are sincere in their professions they can cer- tainly do everything that President Johnson has asked them to do without any hesitancy. All such questions as negro suffrage are out of the way. It matters not how much the radicals may harp upon it. Universal negro suffrage has nothing whatever to do with the Presi- dent’s policy of readjusting the South. It forms no part of his programme, and if it did it would be repudiated in the North, as the election in Connecticut and the canvass in this State clearly prove, Let the Southern legisla- tures repudiate, and not repeal, the secession ordinances and the debt incurred in the rebel- lion, and adopt the constitutional amendment abolishing slavery, and they need have no fears but that their representatives will be ad- mitted, notwithstanding the howls of the radi- cals. American Corresponpents in Evrore—AN Excaance or Covrtrsmes.—A European corre- spondent of one of our contemporaries has just been arrested and imprisoned by the English authorities. His crimes were that be had on his person some notes or memoranda which the English officials were not able to under- stand, and that he carried a very small re- volver, For this an inoffensive traveller is seized and imprisoned in what is commonly called a free country. No more outrageous piece of despotism has been perpetrated in Russia, Austria, Turkey, or even in the realm of the wonderful Bomba, whose acts the British government is, perhaps, eager to emulate. Sup- pose we had acted during the war, or were to act now, towards the correspondents of English papers in this country just as the British gov- ernment acts towards this correspondent of an American paper. How the English papers would bellow their denunciations of that high handed outrage! What an arbitrary measure that would be! What a violation of personal liberty! Yet these English correspondents gave us good reason to arrest them, and the Ameri- can correspondent has given none. There was hardly one correspondent here during the whole war that did not villify and misrepresent our government, cause and country in the most malicious manner. Heart and soul they were against us, and wrote against us; and now they are doing their utmost by misrepresentation and falsehood to stir up a new rebellion. To apply the rule to another European Power: have we not, agcording to this Earopean method, plentiful reason to suppress the French paper here and to imprison all its editors? That sheet assails government and country with the vilest mendacity on every occasion, and if we should apply to it this European conduct towards the press we need not hesitate an hour. Thore is ample reason in its open hos- tility for the arrest of its editor, and there is also ample reason for the arrest of all the Eng- lish correspondents that are now going over this country merely in search of some new theme on which to lie aboutus. We need only act upon the English example to put the whole crew in Fort Lafayette, ‘Tar Mosictans anp THR MaNagers.—Accord- ing to the statements of their own organs the associated managers of this city are all making fortunes. That they should refuse, under these circumstances, to pay their musicians the ad- vance in wages requested by the Musicians’ Association shows an amount of hard-hearted- nese—to call it by the mildest name—which is perfectly astonishing. That the musicians are quite right and the managers quite wrong in the dispute between them the intelligent pub- lic have already decided. If the majority of the press of this city were not controlled by the associated managers this public verdict would be most emphatically expressed. In- stead of the musicians violating their contracts with the managers, at least one manager has violated his agreement with the musicians; for, after promising them an advance in wages, he broke his word at the dictation of the Managers’ Association. In asking for higher salaries the musicians are only following the example of other workingmen. They are compelled to take this course by the necessities of the times, | and should be heartily sustained. In fact, the Broadway theatre and all of the smaller ond fairer places of amusement are eid to hava conceded the advance NOVEMBER’ 14, 1865. requested without grumbling; end it is only those establishmonts—the proprictors of which profess to be making such immense amounts of money—that atill refuse to pay their poor employes. All workingmen, of evory trade and should therefore support the musicians in their just demands. Tas Fricut om Canapa.—Canada cannot sleep 0’ nights for its fears. It has lost its ap- petite for dinner, too, and no longer takes pleasure in abusing the Yankeos. It takes no pleasure in anything, and is even disgusted with her Majesty’s government. On one hand it fears the Fenians—those awful Irishmen, more than @ million strong—whom it expects to come every night and seize the country. It hes guarded its arsenals against these fellows for some time; and now, as will be seen by our despatches, it has determined to put volunteers on active service to guard against them ina more extensive way. And then it has awful fears of financial rain when it considers what this will cost, Again, it fears the French— those original Canadiana, who have not yet got used to English rule, and stand ready to hurrah for the Fenians at any moment. Another terrible fear has just been conjured up by the perusal of: the Russell-Adams correspondence. Perhaps the. United States, they say, would be worse than the Fenians even; and 60 they ex- pect immediate war between this country and Great Britain, and for the first blow to come elap dash at Canada. They have already made up their minds to surrender at discretion. We cannot actually reassure them all this will come in good time, but it will not come now. We have abundant cause of quarrel against England. We have the evidence that her gov- ernment was directly concerned in the rebel’ piracies, and the government of England re- fuses to settle the difficulty. We, therefore, can leave it in abeyance. We have other matters to attend to at present; but at the first practi- cable moment we will reopen all this, and then Canada may look out. She has run up a large score against her on this side the border, and it will all be paid. We will give her good no- tice when the day of settlement comes, ‘Tus Oprra in Curcaco.—Manager Gran is giving a magnificent season of opera, not in this city, but in Chicago. New York was once the musical metropolis of this country; but that proud position is now held by Chicago. A splendid company, composed of eminent artists, is singing to crowded houses, not in this city, but in Chicago. New operas are to be produced, with gorgeous costumes expressly imported from Paris; but the fashionables of New York are not to have the first view of these novelties, for that pleasure is reserved for the people of Chicago. We hope, however, that the supremacy of Chicago in regard to opera will be merely temporary. Manager Grau has applied for our Academy of Music, and will probably bring his troupe here in the spring and furnisb us with first class pertorm- ances, by artists who are not unknown to fame, and with a management that will not be obnox- ious to the public and that will require no libel suits to clear its reputation. We may congrat- ulate the people of Chicago upon their new Opera House, their fine company and their popular manager; but we expect that New York will resume its place at the head of musi- cal affairs in another season. Cuanok ow THE CoLtecrorsu.—We under- stand that Hon. Preston King has resigned his position as Collector of the Port of New York on account of his health. We shall prob- ably have the announcement of the appoint- ment of his successor within the next day or two. Here is an opportunity for the Loyal League Club and the Manhattan Club to test their influence at Washington, as both claim to support President Johnson and bis policy. The Opera in Chicago. LUCIA Di LAMMERMOOR GIVEN LAST NIGHT TO THE MOST ENTHUSIASTIC AUDIENCE OF THE BEASON. Curoaco, Nov. 13, 1865. ‘The most enthusiastic if not the largest andience of the season was present at the Opera House this evening. ‘The opern was Lucia di Lammermoor, with the following cast:—Lucia, Signora Noct Guidi; Edgardo, Signor Musiani; Ashton, Signor Fellini; Raymondo, Sig- nor Milleri. Noel Guidi sang deliciously, fully sustaining the reputation of 4 correct verser and good dramatic artist, which she has already acquired in Trovatore and Ernani. The mad scone was a thril- ling piece of acting, and produced a profound effect upon the audience. Musian! eang the part of Edgardo better than we have ever beard him, His voice was in splendid condition, He took the cheat note C in alto several times with perfect ease. His reception ‘was most flattoring all through, and at the close of the opera he was cailed before the curtain, The grana Quale of the second act was beantifully rendered and had to be Tepeated, At the fall of the curtain the artiets were called out with the greatest enthusiasm. Milleri, who made his mark so prominently a4 Silva in Ernani, sang the com- “paratively small part of Raymondo, and more strongly impressed us with the fact that his voice i# one of rare purity and freshness, Orlandini, who was cast for the part of Ashton, was unfortunately indispoced, and the part was taken at a moment's notice by Follini, who acqnitted herself with great credit. The audience to-night wae the most appreciative we have had since the season opened. Not a point was lost upon them. The applanse was hearty and genuine from beginning to end. The troaps grows immensely in favor with each performance. There is but one opinion in which the public universally share, and which the press, without exception, pronounce, and that ia, that Chicago never had an opera company «o perfect in all ite parte and so little dependent upon one or two leading artists for its attractions as the present one, There is not a singer in the entire tronpe who is not meritorions in bis or her line and piece, and while we have talent of the first quality in the leading parte we enjoy the unusual satisfaction of seeing them thoroughly sustained by artists of equal merit, They have all acquired a repu- tation in Enrope which they have fully maintained in America, and which we prophesy will be crowned with approbation in New York next spring, if Grau will be disposed to take them there The woather for the past few dayx bas moderated con- | siderably, gliding, in fact, from the rawness of # north. erh climate into a genial aammer temperature, and the effect of the change upon the voices of the artists fe agreeably manifest, The tendency to hoarse. ness observable on the first few nights has altogether disappeared, and they are now in excellent condition. From the impression which Signora Boschetti made in Marguerite, a fine impersonation of Violeta is antici- pated to-morrow night in Traviata, and we should judge from the rehearsal that these anticipations-will be fully realized, Boschetti i¢ a finished dramatic artist as well ‘as a singer of rare quality; hence we look forward with pleasure to the treat in store for us to-morrow evening. The ye for the rest of the week embraces with Madame beg) on Thureday, and Martha, as 1 with Boschett! and pis Henrietta ‘and Nancy, and Anastasi and Fellini as Lionel and Plun- kott—thie ‘being the first appearance of the latier artist. Freedmen and Insurrection. ‘TO THE EDITOR OF THR HERALD. In your report of the speochesat Dr. Cheever's church last evening you make Chaplain Fronch say, ‘Many of tho freedmen say will have to leave, and would as soon leave behind them & bonfire or @ stream of blood.’ This Jangunge was apphed, not to freedmen, but to a certain class of men who ‘intend to leave the count: ‘And, as is said by intelligent mon—quoted by Chaplal French—they would like to leave @ bonfire or a stream of blood behind them, as that would be a condemnation of the action of tho goverggnent and a justification oft alovern. Th CITY INTELLIGENCE. practi tbane trop Ae me Leorons ox Cosoes sy ras Ruv. H. B. Rioawar.—Aa excellent lecture was delivered last evening im the lecture room of St. Paul’s church, corner of Twenty.secou@ street and Fourth avenue, vy the Rev. H. B. Ridgway, hia subject beng ‘Richard Representative Man.” The proceeds of the lecture will be devoted te the Young Men’s Christian Association. Tho lecturer compared the loss land in the tows of this statesman to Repro leeelione own were of the wisest ul ion of a resolution increasing the te natn nial toate situations om @c- ir adherence to the scale of prices Axed the Union from $14 to $20 per week. This however, is only to be paid in its entirety to those cians who receive no salary from ‘any source whatever. Another meeting of the Union will be held on Monday next. Cotorep Man’s Couneciats Instrrure.—A meeting with be held at the Cooper Institute this evening, commenc- ing at eight o'clock, for the purpose of encouraging an@ setting forth the advantages of the Ashman Institute for colored men preparing for the ministry, at Oxf Chester county, Pennsylvania, Addresses are Anew! from Rev. Dra. Rice, Adams and Delancey, Generel Prong William E. Dodge, and Professor Cannell, of Liberia, Snootina Stak ANNIVERSARY.—Last evening was the anniversary of the great shooting star excitement of 1833. There were but few indications that the heavens were giving due observance of the occasion. Some per- sons who recollected the falling stars of 1833 thought they could observe more than the usual number of these phenomena last night; but the supposition was that they had been looking through the bottom of an inverted tumbler until their optics could not bo sufely depended upon. ASNOAL Meaning of THE Firemen’s Bart. Commrrrem,— This committee held their annual meeting last evening ‘at No. 1,160 Broadway, for the purpose of making the necessary arrangements for holding tlteir annual ball, im aid of the fund for the widows and orphans of decease@ firemen. His Honor Mayor Gunther presided. A com- initteo, consisting of the following gentlemen, was ap- pointed to select a suitable place for the ball:—James Miller, D, D. Conover and William D. Baker. Tho officers elected for the a year are:—C. Godfrey Gunther, President; James F. Webrman, Secretary; A. J. Dela- tour, Treasurer. The following figures, showing the net receipts of this most praiseworthy and benevolent insti- tution, will bear sufficient testimony to its good manage- ment and success:—The total proceeds for the years 1860-'61-’62 were eight thousand four hundred seventy-eight dollars, while for the yoars 1863~"64-'65, the total amount paid into this fund has been more than doubted, amounting to seventeen thousand and ten dollars, Presevtation To Carrain Rewmey, TWweTr-seconp Reamest, Nationa. Guanp.—At the Twenty-second regiment Armory, Palace Garden, last evening, Captalm William W. Remmey, of Company B, was presented with a magnificent sword by the members of his com- mand. The presentation was made by Mr. Hart, President of the company, to re sponded in appropriate language. Remarks were also made by Colonel Aspinwall, of the Twenty. others. Company B now contains one hund: twelve members, and is the largest at present in the Na- tional Guard of this city. Its military efficiency and discipline are equal in every way to its numerical strength. Feet Oversoarn.—Peter Coughlin, ‘aged thirty-five years, believed to have been insane, last oveuing fel? overboard from Harlem bridge, and was drowned. The body was subsequently recovered, and a coroner notified to hold an inquest. Bop Atreuer to Destroy 4 Taxauent House oy Fine— Arrest ov THs SurroseD INCENDIART.—On fast Sunday evening, at about six o'clock, a fire occurred under very suspicious circumstances in the premises of Robt. Lawn, No. 311 Monroe street. Subsequently roundsman Browa, of the Thirteenth precinct police, arrested Mr. Lawn om suspicion of being the author of the fire. Fire Marshat Baker was telographed for, and an immediate investiga- tion was gone into by the Marshal and the police. i appears by the depositions taken before Justice - ley that the accused keeps a grocery and liquor store at the said place, the upper part of the baliding oocu- pied by some twenty-five or thirty families, Lawn’e premises extending under the first flight of stairs lead to the tenants’ a nts. Immediately under the landing—some ten feet in height from Lawn’ was a kind of box, enclosed with boards; it was in enclosed box where the fire was discovered; 20 one having access to this box except Mr. Lawn, or by his knowledge; a ladder was there, which gave easy ac- cess to it. On replacing the board which had beem knocked away by the tenants in putting out the fire « hole was found to have existed, and it was directly under this hole that the boards were burned. On the inside of the box surrounding this burning remains of burnt news- paper were found, and of a very recent date, This paper was also tound to have been saturated with kerosene oil. The belief is that a newspaper was saturated in kerosene oil, pushed through the hole into this enclosed box, and then a match jied to it. Luckily, however, the fire was discovered at a very early pakeegs ‘and put out by the exertions of the tenants. Mr. Lawn, it seems, has an in- surance of $1,600 on his stock in the Park’ Insurance Company, When it is said his stock will not amount to one-half that sum. The accused was conveyed bet Justice Shandley, at the Essex Market Police Court, was committed for examinat The Ribbon nufacturers. STRINGENT MBEASURBS OF EMPLOYERS AGAINOP STRIKERS. The manufacturers of ribbons, buttons, dress trim- mings, lace, &c¢., who lately organized themselves for the purpose of neutralizing the strike movements of their workmen, who, it is alleged, by means of associa- tion, often interfere with the business affairs of the om- ployers in an undue manner, held another meeting a& Ittner’s Hotel, in Grand street, last night. At a previous meeting a committee was Soy e to make a draft of a constitution and by-laws for the government of the association, which was submitied last night, although i iit dehions "The byrisws (provides, among ot by Mr. joss. The by-laws things, that in case of a strike of the male female operatives in any shop, it aball the duty of the firm to transmit @ of the strikers to the, president ‘of the association, that none of these strikers may obtain employment any other shop. The members of the association employ such strikers are to be ished by a fifty dollars for exch ee Besition those the aseocla- in the United tion has for its purpose Staten, ospecially the city of New York; and it is also the intention to ob- . The board of dit bik i branch of business z ‘ loy it jes on strike, Mrealdent haw to. call &. meet the association, in wae fe % a. the employer was justified in dermani of the o ves; and if the members of the association are a list of the strikers, ao that employment in any other return to honed — er em “ tives ow their em sane Pony ed ithe shop who donot belong association of the EC mga) t ployer report the a there parties the secretary has to members of the association, with the te employ these parties. Apprentices leave employers before the expiration of their term denit with aS the wae shane eo wi pernons case, Theos ‘are the main features of the by- emitted, which were adopted. Another meeting held to complet ihe organization. ‘Tue Autamn Inow Worne,—In onr review of the work: now beimg carried on in the machine shope of this city, which was published in the Herann of yesterday, we ‘omitted to mention in full a description of the work now in progress at thia establishment. The United ‘States jron-clad steamer Purftan is at the dock receiving the ‘balance of her machinery, consisting of two propeller engines of one hundred inch cylinders and four feet stroke of pistons. They have in process of completion two propeller engines for the United States steamer Madawasca, of one hundred inch cylinders and four feet stroke; one beam engine of eighty-one inch cylinder and fifteen feet stroke, for the propeller line of the North river; a beam engine of cighty-two inch cylinder and twelve foot stroke, for the Pacific trade; and two beam engines of sixty inch cylinders and eleven feot stroke, for the Richmond trade; also four mammoth boilers foe the steamer Ocean Queen, The Allaire Works are doing a large amount of general repairs, and omploy at present about eight hundred mon tun Tone.—At the Hoboken course this afternoon 9 swoopetakes will bo trotted (pr by threg eucd boreem