The New York Herald Newspaper, November 15, 1865, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. eee JAMES GORDON BEN NETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. DFFION N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU BTS. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Sax. mLEsQuEs, kc.—Magintta us Tose Rorz—Macio Fivre. Matinee at 24 o'Clock. ‘ yore UM OF AN, 2 ay rons! 7 JATOMY, 618 Broadway. WP, M. PTICON SCH of sreanoeco! (0OL OF ART—Copner “COOPER IN! Tex. oS FRSTITUTS, Aster Place.—Lacruas os ' HALL Lecrons ‘Tanras- ance sr Wise tases fi 'Honmox. = Blow Verk, Wednesday, November 15, 1865. Receipts ef Sdics of the New York Daily Newspapers. OFFICIAL. Year Ending May 1, 1865. + $1,095,000 368,150 252,000 169,427 100,000 151,079 seeeeetecccscnees — 90,548 -$1,095,000 871,229 Name of Paper, Bravo. Wimes, Tribune, World and Sun combined.. THE NEWS. The many friends and acquaintances of Hon. Preston King, Collector of Customs in this city, wore yesterday stonished and saddened by the news of his death, @tatements from different parties placing it beyond a ‘doubt that Mr. King, while laboring under temporary mental aberration, had committed suicide by jumping {into the North river from the deck of the Hoboken ferry Doat Paterson. In 1836 Mr. King was confined for a year 4n an asylum forthe insane, and it is supposed that too Close attention to his multifarious duties had resulted in a@ return of the disease. Mr. King had been ailing for gome time past, and about ten days ago it was observed that his conduct was so peculiar that his friends deemed it advisable to select one of their number to keep him company. On Sunday night, therefore, the deceased ‘and a relative retired to the Collector's sleeping apart- ment in the Astor House. At three o'clock on Monday morninz, while his roommate was still slumbering, Mr. King rose, dressed himself and left the house, subse- quently returning. At about half-past seven o'clock Mr. King again quitted the hotel. According to the statement of the ferry master at the Christopher street ferry a man, whose deacrip- tion seemed that of the Collector, was seen to alight from a car and go on board the ferryboat Paterson, which left the pier a few minutes later. When the ves- Sel had reached the middle 0: the stream the unknown individual placed his hat on the deck and jumped over- board. The alarm was at once given and the engine re- versed; but all search for the remains of the deceased Proved unavailing. The bat remaining on deck was identified by friends and relatives as having belonged to the Collector, and the statement of two children, who had seen the man jump into the water, and that of a deck hand, which corroborated the statement of the ferry master, established the sad truth that the unfortu- mate man who had committed suicide was no other than Mr. King. The deceased was sixty years of age. No successor to Mr. King as head of the Custom House in this city has yet been appointed, although many names are mentioned in connection with the now vacant office, President Johnson yesterday appointed Major General John A. Logan, of Illinois, late commander of the Army of Tennessee, Minister to the republic of Mexico, and Colonel William A. Browning, of Tennessee, Secretary of Logation. There was a great rush of visitors at the Metropolitan Hotel yesterday to see Lieutenant General Grant, and hho was overwhelmed with invitations to visit almost numberless places and institutions. Among those who called upon the General were a number of persons of prominent civil and military positions. During the day the drove down Broadway, and was grected with much enthusiasm, The Canadians, as will be seen by our Toronto and Montreal despatches, are still ina state of great trepi- dation over the apprehended Fenian invasion, and pro- porty holders generally, and especially persons inter- ested in banks, remembering St. Albans, feel very insecure. The arrest in Toronto last week, already alluded to in the Hrratp, of two men said to be implicated in a huge bank robbing conspiracy, was mado by the papers of that city the means of additionally alarm- ing tho inhabitants, and the excitement, which was at first confined to tho towns, is now spreading through the rural districts, Both regular and volunteer troops have doen ordered to the frontier, and steps are being taken for perfecting the organization of the militia generally. Rumors were circulated is this city and other parts of the country yesterday that difficulties had oc- curred between the Canadian military and our authori- ‘ties on the Maine border, and that United States troops had been ordered thither; but these stories appear to have had little ifany foundation, as up toa late hour Jast night there was nothing known of the reported affair at the War Department, ‘The near approach of the time for the termination of Canadian Reciprocity treaty has set the provincials work at looking around for sources whence to repay for the loss of trado with this country which y are about to suffer, and a commission to negotiate treaties with Brazil, Mexico and other ‘Dountries is, it is said, to be soon appointed. ‘The Florida State Convention, which assombled on the 26th of October, passed on the third day of its session, by @ unanimous vote, an ordinance declaring the seces- sion ordiaance annulled. There was considerable dis- cussion over propositions to pronounce it, instead, null and void, and to declare, as did the North Carolina Con- vention, that it always had been null and void; but the majority would not accede to either of tho latter forms of wording, It beingjeontended by the advocates of the ordinance as it pagsed that annulling was equivalent to pronouncing null and void. A committee of five was ap. pointed to solicit of President Johnson the release of Jeff. Davis; Mr. Mallory, rebel ex-Secretary of the Navy; Mr. Yulee, ex-United States Senator, and ox-Governor Alli- son, of Florida, Our Tallahassee correspondence states ‘that harmony prevailed among the members of the Con- vention, and that they expressed themselves as acting in good faith with the national government, towards which mong the people of the State generally there is repre- sented as being far less animosity than in other fouthern States, There has also been comparatively litle difficulty between the Floridians and the soldiers ond freeamen. ‘The Georgia State Convention, which met on the 26th ©f October, adjourned aft in this morning's issue. The most important measures ‘were the abolition of slavery, the repeal (not declaring null) of tho ordinance of secession, the repudiation of tho State debt incurred to aid the rebellion, memoraliz Joe the President for the release of Jeff. Davis and other snd the naming of @ time for holding the state !cleet a Governor and members of Con. , Lowielature to-day, Uo wven iwvulvus Spalap fgr which President 20Rr PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. 201 Bowery.—Sina- )ANOING, Zanraerta On 8 OPERA HOUS! = . HOOLEY" na LA Brooiya. Remora Mur. 4 session of thirteen working «lays om last Wednesday, having made provision for egain meeting if such event should be rend red neces+ sary. We have already published from day to day the substance briefly of the Convention's proceedings, of which our Milledgeville correspondent gives a synopsis NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1865, Johnson appointed Provisional Governors all excepting Texas have held their State conventions. Four of these— viz., Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida— have declared their seceasion ordinances null, and two of them—South Carolina and Georgia—have merely re- pealed them. The entire six have abolished slavery, Richmond, Virginia, om Monday received an addition to the number of national institutions which have been gradually returning to her since the close of the war by the opening in that city of the United States District Court, with Judge Underwood presiding. The frat two days of its session were principally occupied in dis- missing cases of proceedings instituted for the confisca- tion of the property of rebels, Governor Morton’s message was delivered to the In- diana Legislature yesterday. It treats of various State matters, recommending the repeal of the statute excluding negro testimony from the courts, and approves of Preai- dent Jobnson’s reconstruction policy, advocates represen- tation in Congress in proportion to the voting population, and expresses the opinion that the public safety requires the trial of Jeff. Davis for treason and other crimes. The Board of Supervisors met yesterday and transacted a good deal of miscellaneous business, The only point of special interest to the public was the adoption of a resolu- tion providing for payment of bills for work, and material used on the new Court House, amounting to fifteen thousand one hundred and seventy-two dollars, notwithstanding the opposition of Su; Ely, who argued that the law required the to He overa wook bofore boing acted upon. Supervisor Blunt yesterday received another large in- stalment of State bonds for the payment of persons who furnished substitutes for the army, and the discharging of the liabilities in question is continued, as usual. About two hundred persons of those who furnished sub- Btitutes after the Ist of last January have not yet even presented their papers to Mr. Blunt. St, George’s Episcopal church, located at the corner of Sixteenth {street and Rutherford place, was totally destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon. The edifice was one of the finest in the city. It was builtin 1848, for the Rey. Dr. Tyng, could accommodate some two thousand persons, and was possessed of a magnificent organ, valued at ten thousand dollars. The fire which laid it in ashos ‘was caused, it is believed, by the carelessness of some tinners who were at work on the roof. The estimated loss amounts to about two hundred thousand dollars. ‘The criminal business of the United States Circuit Court was yesterday commenced before Judge Shipman. Some prisoners out on bail answered to their names when called, and when arraigned pleaded not guilty of the offences charged. The court adjourned till this morning. At noon to-day the metropolis will probably for the last time have been made resonant with the stirring clangor of the fire bells, as at that hour the radical revo- lution in alarms agreed upon by the new Fire Comwis- sioners will be inaugurated, Notices of fires will hence- forth be transmitted to the firemen and police throughout the city by means of the telegraph, according to a system fully described in last Sunday’s Heratp, Our etreets will now become strangers to the wild and exciting scenes with which they have so long been familiar on the occurrence of a fire, and intelligence of the event, instead of being announced in the startling peals from the belfries, will spread silently but rapidly through the city to those chargod with the duty of extinguishing it. George Gustaf, a Canadian, was yesterday brought up before United States Commissioner Osborn, under an extradition wrrrant, charged with causing the death of one Alex, McKonna by administering to him a quantity of prussic acid. The accused and deceased were residents of Toronto, Canada West, and after the death of the latter suspicion was directed to the accused, who had disap- peared, but was subsequently arrested in this city. Com- missioner Osborn, on the reading of the warrant, com- mitted the accused for examination, which will be opened this morning. The argument onan injunction to restrain Governor Gilpin, of Colorado, from conveying one million one hun- dred and twenty-five thousand acres of land, situated in that inchoate State, was heard preliminarily by Judge Clerke at the Supreme Court, chambers, yesterday after- noon. The applicant is J. Richard Barrett, who sets up an agreement with the Governor to organize a land and mining company on certain conditions, one of which was that the land in question should be conveyed to the com- pany on its organization. The case of Robert Black versus the Camden and Am- boy Railroad Company was up on appeal before the gene- ral term of the Supreme Court yesterday. The plaintift claims that he sustained a loss of nearly one thousand dollars, owing to overcrowding and ill use of his cattle in transporting them on one of the boats of the company. At the special term he obtained a verdict, which is now being argued on appeal. The contested election case of the wardens of the French Protestant Church du St. Esprit, alluded to in our paper yesterday, came on for trial yesterday in the Supreme Court, circuit. Some witnesses were examined, but their testimony was of little interest, It is believed the examination to-day will be quite rich and amusing. Judge E. Darwin Smith was compelled yesterday morn- ing to make a complaint respecting the numerous cases of non-attending jurors, and declared that in future he would rigidly enforce the penalty of twenty-five dollars, Nearly twenty were fined yesterday. The case of Charles H. Carr and others against Wm. J. Kendall and others, which is one of some interest to Wall street operators, was on trial in the Superior Court yesterday, before Judge Garvin. According to the papers in the case, Carr, Taylor & Co. obtained of Kendall, Chamberlain & Co. five hundred shares of the Napoleon Oil Company, paying the then market value of two dol- lara and twenty-five cents, and returnable at threo days notice, Shortly after the stock went up to thirty-two dol- lars per share, aftor a payment of seven thousand eight hundred dollars and a demand of five thousand dollars more was made of the plaintiffs, which was refused. The plaintiffs, however, endeavored to sell, without finding purchasers, and for this reason they assert that the de- fendants conspired, by means of fictitious sales, to ran up the stock, and by means of a ‘“‘corner’’ they pocketed all the stock, by which the plaintiffs were compelled to pay the price demanded or break their contract. The action 1s now brought to recover the excess of money paid, on the ground that the increased value of the stock was produced by false representations or fraud. In the case of Levi A. Lincoln versus Abby Lincoln, which was a motion to set aside a decree of divorce, on the ground that the marriage between the parties was valid, for the reason that the prior marriage of the wife w one Reed was utterly null and void, Judge Robertson yesterday rendered a decision ordering @ referee to ascertain certain facts in the case. The referee is to take proof respecting the alleged marriage of Reed to another woman prior to his marriage with Abby Lincoln. The opera libel suite instituted by Max Marotzek against the Sunday Mercury came up for trial yesterday in the regular order of the Superior Court calendar. Judge Moncrief, who was presiding, refused to hear the case, on the ground that he had formerly been the coun- sel of one of the parties. The case consequently went off fog the term. Another military horo was admitted to the bar of New York yesterday. The name of this new lawyer is Brevet Brigadier General Martin T. McMahon, lately of the staffs of Generals Dix and Hooker. General McMahon was for- merly a member of the California bar, and was admitted here yesterday on motion of Mr. Richard O'Gorman. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday Ann Brown was convicted of stealing one hundred and sixty dollars from Thomas Cooney, on the 2ist of October, ina house of bad repute, William Campbell was also tried and acquitted of stealing a box of shoes, worth one hundred dollars, left in charge of David B, Hobart, the captain of the steamer El Cid, on tho 234 of September. Michael Fox pleaded guilty to assaulting Walter Folson, with intent to do him bodily harm, by inflicting o wound on his head with @ stone. Francis Van Glahn was charged with stealing fifty-three dollars from Samuel Ward, on the 26th of October, Those prisoners were remanded till Friday for sentence, There were a number of minor cases disposed of by the City Judge and Assistant District Attorney Bedford, who are doing all they can to relieve the City Prison, which is over- crowded at present with persons awaiting trial. A man known as Captain Reginald Chauncey, of the British East India service, was yesterday arraigned in the Tombs Police Court on acharge of being implicated with William Chase Barney and Benthan Fabian in the recent alleged attempt, noticed at different times lately in the Henatp, to defraud the government of forty thousand dollars by securing the release from the Cus- tom House, by means of forged papers, of a large amount of alcohol, which was subsequently seized on board a ves- sel at a Brooklyn pier on complaint of evasion of the in- ternal revenue, Chauncey was arrested at Ashland, Va, whither he had gone on a shooting excursion, and arrived in this city in charge of an officer yesterday. After some preliminary proceedings he was detained to await a fur- ther examination, ‘The United States mail steamship Minnetonka, Captain Baulch, will sail from plog No, 9 North siver at theaa O'clock thia afternoon, for Now Orleans direct, Tho | The Mamagers’ Association in Very Hot mails will close at the Post Office at half-past one o'clock. The screw steamer D. H. Mount, Captain Bachus, which sailed from this port on the 20th ult. for Jackson- ville, Fla, has not been heard from since the 22d, when Water. The associated managers of this city are be- ginning to eee the folly and absurdity of their recent attempt to domineer over the inde- she was soon seven miles south of Cape Hatteras, and | Pendent press. Their progeedings have fur fears are entertained that she may have been one of the victims of the late severe gale. The bark Diadem, from Marseilles, where the cholera prevailed when ebe sailed, has arrived in our harbor and been detained at Quarantine. The Diadem had no cases Of the disease on board; but she will be held in quaran- tine during the stipulated five days, after which, it is supposed, she will be allowed to come up to thecity. No new cholera cases among the Atalanta’s passengers are reported. The vessel is still kept at the Lower Quarantine. There were two deaths on board of her on Monday; but they were both from lung diseases. The War Department surgeons appointed to make examina- tion of Sandy Hook with a view of establishing a cholera hospital there have, it is said, reported favorably on the proposition, A mooting was held last night at the Cooper Institute for the purpose of calling public attention to the claims of a colored college at Oxford, Chester county, Pennsylvania, called the Ashmun Institute. A negro missionary from Liberia dolivered an address. Acoroner’s inquest was held yesterday over the body of Petor Coughlin, a newly arrived emigrant, who fell | overboard from the pier foot of 110th street, East river. On the person of deceased was found an order from the Emigrant Commissioners for his admittance to Ward’s Island to be treated for typhus fever. The jury, in their verdict, say they suppose Coughlin came to his death while under the effects of fever delirium, and censure the Commissioners tor sending such infectious cases on their way to the island by the city railroad cars. A large fire occurred in West Buxton, Maine, yester- day, destroying | number of buildings and leaving the business portion of the village in ashes. The stock market wag firm yesterday, Governments were heavy. Gold was steady, and closed at 147, The firmness of gold exerted a corresponding influence in commercial circles yesterday, and the markets, as a general thing, were buoyant and firm, though there was no especial activity in any department. Foreign goods were steady Groceries were quiet. Cotton was rather easier. Petroloum was firm. On ’Change flour was without decided change. Wheat and corn were firmer. Pork wasa shade in seller’s favor, Beef was steady. Lard was dull, but unchanged. Whiskey was a ehade lower. Beef cattle sold readily this week at a slight advance on last week’s prices, though the range remains about the same. Prices varied from 10c, to 180, per Ib., with a few sales of choice at a higher figure. Cows were firm. Prices varied all the way from $40 to $120a $150, Veals were fairly active at from 9c. to 18c. al4e. Sheep and lambs have sold firmly at better prices, varying from $4 25 to $8 75. Hogs have sold freely at from 12c, to18%ec. The total receipts were 6,094 beeves, 82 cows, 943 veals, 26,052 sheep and lambs and 17,300 hogs. The Resurrection of Somth Saar The Constitutional Amendment. The ratification of the great constitutional amendment by the reconstructed loyal Legisla- ture of South Carolina isa feather in the cap of the Palmetto State. It is semething more than reconstruction or restoration in her case. It is a resurrection. She was dead, but she is alive again; she was buried by Sherman’s ter- rible army, but she has risen from the grave. The contriver, the instigator and the pioneer in secession and rebellion for slavery and a Southern confederacy, it is eminently proper that she should set the example to her hesi- tating confederates in the good work of estab- lishing liberty and union forevermore. This has been done by South Carolina in the ratifi- cation of the great constitutional amendment, which puts it beyond the power of any State, or any ten or twenty States, hereafter to re-, establish slavery. It appears, however, that the constitutional hair‘splitters of the South Carolina Legislature required all the argumentative powers of Presi- dent Johnson and Secretary Seward to bring them to the work. They were about to appeal to the President that they had done enough. They were anxious to be reinstated as a State in full communion. Their cities, manufactories, mills, ginhouses, barns and thousands of homes burned; their plantations devastated, their stock destroyed, their slaves set free, their banks insolvent, their millions of invest- ments in rebel securities collapsed into worthless paper—all this and much more in the way of the war’s disasters calls for immedi- ate and active exertions from the whole popu- lation and the earliest possible restoration of the State to established law and order. But still their Legislature hesitated upon this consti- tutional amendment. What was the diffieulty ? The amendment, second section, reads:—“Con- gress shall have power to enforce this article (abolition of slavery) by appropriate legisla- tion.” The difficulty with the South Caro- linians lay in “the apprehension that Congress might under this second section claim the right to legislate for the negro after slavery was abolished.” This was the hitch, as confessed by Governor Perry to the President. But in reply Mr. Seward made it all right by saying that the ob- jectionable clause “is really restraining in its effecta, instead of enlarging the power of Con- gress.” Furthermore, says Governor Perry to his Legislature, “I am happy to find that the Secretary of State does not regard those objec- tions well founded, but considers them ‘queru- lous and unreasonable.” The Governor is happy to be assured that he is “querulous and unreasonable.” What more could be asked ? The Legislature dismisses its objections, rati- files the amendment, and asks, have you any- thing more? The Governor intimates that there is something more still to be done touch- ing the nullity of secession and those rebel debts, and that this business will next be fin- ished we have no doubt. Thus the President’s requisitions, South Carolina leading off, will, we dare say, be still fulfilled by all, or nearly all, the late rebel- Hous States, from Virginia to Texas, by the first Monday in December, the day of the meet- ing of Congress. We are satisfied, too, that if those States shall come before the two houses with s record declaring secession # nullity, and the State debts under the rebellion void, and the constitutional amendment ratified, they will be speedily admitted. All hail! New Jersey! All hail! South Carolina! Noro Scrrrace.—The radical doctrine of Regro suffrage finds no favor with the people, even where the republican has received the most positive support. the other day the doctrine received a severe rebuke in New England, Connecticut pronouncing most deci- dedly against it. Now Wisconsin has spoken, and that State, giving to the republican ticket & majority of seven thousand votes, gives at the same time its verdict against negro suffrage. ‘Thus we find an evident reign of good common sense in four States—Connecticut, Wisconsin, New Jersey and South Osrolina. The North- west and New England pronounce against nogro suffrage, while New Jersey, and South Carolina, the State of the fire-eaters, go for the constitutional amendment, and give the final quietus to slavery. So the whole country wheelg into ling f # nished food for laughter to other people, but have been very troublesome to themselves. Every newspaper not in their interest is com- plaining of stupid performances, bad orches- tras and a general demoralization of the drama. The theatre that most prided itself upon its stock company has had to adopt the star system in order to keep up its houses to something like the old standard. In private the managers are uttering curses not loud but deep against the foolish advisers who seduced them into adopting a course which has made them ridiculous, and which they heartily regret. Wedo them the justice to admit that they had no idea of the consequences when they passed the silly resolution against the press which first brought their association into conspicuou# notice ; but they now find them- selves in remarkably hot water, and are rather anxious to get out and apply a pain extractor. Still, much @#' we pity their self-imposed mis- fortunes, we do not think that they have suf- fered sufficiently for their sins, and we shall not yet pley the part of a good Samaritan, As is usually the case with persons in their condition, the foes of the managers are of their own households. Two classes of their employes are already in revolt against them, and the others are only awaiting a proper opportunity to as- sume @ hostile attitude. The musicians have struck for higher wages, and the ballet girls do not consider themselves well enough paid. The scene painters and stage carpenters are ex. hibiting symptoms of discontent. The stars are grumbling because they have been cut off from their customary amount of advertising, and complain that the people of the provinces now have no means of knowing what actors are playing in New York. The stock actors, being under contract for the season, can take no overt action at present, but are nursing their wrath for the next season. They hold, and very justly, that the idea of preventing an actor from leaving one theatre to go to another, when there is no agreement to the contrary, is at once absurd and tyrannical. In no other pro- fession or avocation would such a rule be tolerated for a moment, There are associa- tions in other professions—the Associated Press for example—but none of them have ever undertaken to hinder their employes from taking service wherever they pleased and for the high- est wages they could secure. The associated managers alone have the hardihood to attempt to reverse the laws of nature and of trade; and while we may admire the zeal and determina- tion with which they started, like Don Quix- ote, upon their novel crusade against the rest of mankind, we cannot but laugh heartily at the ill-success of their venture and at the oppo- sition from their own people that meets them at every step. We believe that the Broadway theatre.is the smallest regular dramatic establishment in the city. Its manager belongs to no association, and conducts his business in his own way. While all the other managers have doubled their prices of admission, and still refuse to lower them to the old rates, he keeps his prices at the ante-rebellion standard. How is it that this manager can afford to pay his musicians the reasonable advance in wages they desire, while the associated managers decline to do so, and prefer to inflict piano and organ music upon their audiences? We hear no boasts from the manager of the Broadway about the immense fortune he is realizing; and yet he quictly pays better salaries to the artists in his orchestra than the associated managers are willing to do, in spite of their declarations that they are rolling in wealth. We call espe- cial attention to this astonishing contrast. Here is the manager of the Broadway, who conducts a theatre at popular prices, and yet engages good musicians at satisfactory wages, while the associated managers, who have larger establishments and charge double rates of admission, would rather torture the public ear with orchestras of hand organs and jewsharps than pay the poor musicians the half dozen dollars a week increase of wages demanded. There must certainly be some- thing rotten in the theatrical Denmark. At- tending to your own business in your own way must pay better than permitting an association to manage your business for you. If at the highest priced theatres the public find the worst and the worst paid orchestras—to say nothing of the other performances—they have a right to know the reason. When we are asked why we charge more for advertisements than some other papers, we point to the fact that our circulation exceeds that of any other four papers combined, and to the obvious in- ference that the Heratp is consequently the best and cheapest advertising medium. But the unfortunate managers have no such answer ready. Their entertainments are the dearest, but they are not the best. It is easy to see, therefore, why they should not be popularly patronized, and why the Managers’ Association is now in such very hot water. Tae Canapa Soane.--The latest news from Canada is that “the Fenian alarm con- tinues;” that a double line of sentinels, placed over the arsenals and armories, still paces up and down in the silent cities of the United Provinces, and its regular tramp breaks the Sabbath-like stillness with a dreadfully warlike sound. All the volunteers of Canada are holding themselves “in readi- ness for instant outpost duty,” and the bell- ringers stand night and day with the ropes in their hands, ready to ring an alarm. Her Ma- jesty’s Sixticth regiment has been sent “ from Montreal to Western Canada.” As it does not appear at what point the frightened Canadians expect the fearful Fenians, it fs difficult to tell what this movement of troops imports. Per- haps they expect the invasion in Western Canada and have sent the Sixtieth regiment to oppose it, But the movement may have another meaning. The greater number of the men in the regiment are Irishmen, of course. Being Irishmen, they may be Fenians, and so they may have been sent to Western Canada because the Fenians are expected at Montreal. Some of our contemporaries have concocted very wild stories of troubles on our side of the Canada border. It is anid that a demand had been made for deserters, and that there was a movement of troops towards Maine. All this Krew out of a quite unimportant fact. That fact was that a company of Hancock's corps had been ordered to Maine to relieve a com- pany of the Veteran Reserve gosted there and now to be mustered out. Our readers may be assured that the trouble on the Canada bor- der is all the other way—the fright is all on the other side of the line. No one need be alarmed on our side unless he happens to be a stockholder in some bank a little toowear the frontier, Such an institution is never quite safe from little innocent plundering excursions, gotten up by Sanders and his friends; but that is all. Every one else in Canada is too mach frightened to trouble our side of the line, and has plenty to do trying to keev out the Fenians. ecieeenenameemmninn Ove Norrugasrery Bounpasr.—The ridicn- lous reports about the movements of troops for the defence of our Northeastern boundary, how- ever they may have been started, for some stockjobbing purpose or other, have attracted public attention, and are suggestive of an in- quiry, which is: What preparations have been made in case an exigency like the one threat- ened should arise? And now that General Grant is thus fer north, would it not be wel? for him to extend his visit eastward, and over- haul our defences and” the attitude of the British on the Northeastern boundary t General Scott earned the title of the “Great Pacifica- tor” by timely visit to the Aroostook country several years ago, and saved our government from s serious imbroglio with England. General Grant may earn a similar-distinction by his personal presence at this time on this interesting portion of our Northeastern border. Tae Census AND THE Boarp oF SUPERVISORS.— The question of the census of this city was a few days since the all-engrossing one. What has become of it? The Board of Supervisors referred the matter toa very important com- mittee to examine and report. What has been done? What wards or districts have been re-examined, and what is the result? Have we been cheated out of two or three hundred thousand of our population by the State enu- merators or not? and, if so, are they to be paid for it? Where isthereport? There are strange rumors floating about in regard to its develop- ments. THE OPERA AT THE WEST. Grau’s Chicago Opera Company—The New Opera House—Immense Stren: of the Company—Personnel of the Now Artists—All Young, Fresh and Fair. OUR CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE BY MAIL. Curcaco, Nov. 10, 1865. In my telegraphic notices I was able only to sketch lightly and briefly the qualifications of Grau’s artists, now singing at Crosby’s Opera House. I propose to speak of them and their performance more fully now. But first of the Opera House itself, Externally and in- teriorly it is a structure of great beauty. It has a front of one hundred and forty by one hundred and eighty feet deep, and is built of white marble and of exquisite design. The auditorium is ninety feet by eighty-six and sixty-five feet high. The stage is sixty-five feet deep. It seats comfortably over two thousand persons, and on an emergency can accommodate four or five hundred more, ‘The parquet, boxes, dress and family circles, of which the auditorium consists, are larger than those of the New York Academy. The construction of the house is similar to that of Covent Gardon theatre, London, the sweep of the boxes being so arranged that a perfect view of the stage can be had from every part. The interior decorations are in excellent taste. The seats are fur- nished with pale blue damask, and the ornamentation is of white and gold, giving a light and aerial aspect to the whole. The proscenium boxes, three on each side, are superbly furnished with draperies of rich damask and velvet, imported from Paris. The lower boxes are decorated in amber and maroon, the second tier in amber, and the upper tier in amber and blue. The ceiling 1s panelled, lightly tinted in gray and pale salmon color, and fresooed, with the portraits of the principal Italian and German composers set in the panels surrounding the dome, from which the whole auditorium is lighted with a soft but brilliant radiance, There are no lamps around the boxes, nor chandeliers, except in the recess under the second tier, Over the proscenium is avery fine fresco from Guido’s celebrated picture of Aurora. There is not a foot of space lost, every part boing available for a good seat, which adda considerably to its capacity as a paying es- tablishment. There is but litte lobby room for the accommodation of loungers, and, Allah be praised! thero are no stockholders to dilute the profits of the impres- sario, The house was built by Mr. Crosby alone, a young gentleman who, having realized a fortune of eight hun- dred thousand dollass by commercial transactions, re- Solved, to his great credit, to devote it to the advance- ment of art and tho lasting interests of Chicago. There is a vast difference, therefore, between this Opera House and all others in the country. The New York Academy has two hundred and sixty stockholders, Brooklyn Academy five hundred, that of Philadelphia five hundred, and the Boston house three hundred. The Chicago Opera House has but one, The building contains also a very fine art gallery, a concert room capable of seating seven hundred and fifty people, several large rooms for music teachers and clubs, and a host of studios and offices, all of which are occupied. Grau’s company consists of five prime donne soprani— Gazzaniga, Noel Guidi, Boschetti, Lacy Simons and Moreo Celli; two contraltos—Cash Pollini and Olga Olgini; four tenors—Musiani, Anastasi, Loth and Ta- maro; three baritones—Orlandini, Brandini and Fel- lini; three bassos—Milleri, Pollini and Colletti; basso \ffo—Sarti; conductors—Muzio and Nuno; danseuse— Mile. Antonini. It must be said for these artists that all their voices are young and fresh. There is nothing approaching toa wornout organ among them. It must also be said that there are no sticks among the male artists, They are all good actors—Anastasi, Brandini, Fellini and Orlandini especially. Good looks in lyric artists, other things being equal, though not a necessity, are always an attraction, Guidi has a captivating je presence, is exceedi Lin nen tacvembats saa dresnes’eeiningiy wail ler face, which is oriental, is a. than strictly beautiful, but a smile of inexpressible sweetness— a.smile not of the stage, but of nature—and eyes of in- tense blackness complete the picture. Boschetti bas a face not deviating much from the Greek model. ee tte fre. z Rt i E E e ‘What of the voices of some of them want is fully made op OF their freshnoss, ‘The tenor Amastasl has ni, Ho is one of the purest as well ae the most dramatic ‘bassos we have had in America, wah @ fine compass of yoive and nota harsh note in the entire register. Signor Brandini, the baritone, has a atrietly Napoleonic face, an olive complexion, and weara a Napoleonic mustache, His voice approaches a tenor, and therefore he acts bettor than he sings Mephistopheles. These artists have had much to contend with and cannot fairly be said to have developed themselves yet. First, they are but recenty, if at all, recovered from the mise- ries of astormy AMlantic voyage; next, they are suffer. ing severely fran the rawness and cold, nipping air of this northern foegion afior being 80 lately transplanted | from the balmy airs of Italy, and noxt, they have to a i i i ‘The Opera Last Night—The Largest and Most Fashionable House of the Seasom te Witness Traviate—Immense Enthu- siasm. é OUB CHICAGO OORRESPONDENOE BY TELEGRAPH. ‘Cmcado, Nov. 14, 1865. Since the oponing of the season there has‘boon no-such large’ and fashionable hous as was present this-evem- ing to witness Traviata; and: I may add that the opere. was never better put upom the American stage, nor tho spplause was almost continuous, sometimes, perhaps, a little indiscriminete, even to the extent of interrupting some of the finest passages; but we can readily pardon this: in consideration of the’ superb manner in which all the artists acquitted them- selves. Boschettt surpassed herself as Violett, 4s more perfect piece of acting than the death scene cam hardly be concaived, and we were net surprised at the tremendous outburst of applause which followed the fall: of the curtain and greeted the artists when they appeared: respondent toecall, The audience never fairly woke up toa full demonstrative appreciation of tho artista, such as they have all along deserved, watil this evening. Gradually they have been growing imte popular fa- vor, and the performance of each night has devel- oped more and more their power over tho public mind; but while rovatore delighted and Faw? charmed every one, and Ernani won the admiration of the critical for the magnificent singing of Guidi, the highest enthusiasm of the public was not evoked until at the performance of Traviata thw even- ing. It is impossible to say too much of the manner in which the several artists rendered the lead- ing réles. The performance was creditable alike to all. Boschetti sang from first to last deliciously and like a true artist. In the first ast the aria Sempre libero brought down a shower of applause. Apastasi, as Al- fredo, sang with his usual clearness and spirit, carrying the audience with him by the passionate expression he gave to the leading passages and his admirable acting. The aria in tho last act was perfect, and was only saved from repetition by the inappropriateness of an encore at such 8 moment. The applause, however, was universal, and the opera waa for a time interrupted by its continuance, Boschetti and Anasiasi meantime bowing their acknowledgments. The Dio Morir Si Giovano was not less affecting. Fel- lini sang Germond with great effect, and proved himself an artist of great operatic talent. The aria Di Provnsta was exceedingly well given, and led to an enthusiastic call before the curtain. Muzio deserves all credit for the proficiency of the chorus and orchestra, He has thom both in perfect training. Indeed, the male chorus and the instrumenta- tion to-night were not the least enjoyable portions of the performance. The rehearsals of La Favorita will be completed to- morrow, and Gazzaniga will make her long exp2oted débit on Thursday, Miss Lucy Simons will make her débi! on Monday evening in L'Blisir d’Amore, and will no doubt be moat agreeably welcomed. “Saw? at Tar Broapway TakaTRe.—Chanfrau has pre- duced at this theatre a sensation in “Sam’’ only equalled by that of Owens in “Solon Shingle;” and, by the way of showing the popularity of the latter, it is o Boticeable fact that the only remark that produced aay sensation the other evening at ono.of the theatres which ‘does not advertiso in the Harap" was an allusion to the veritable “‘bar’l of applo sass’’ of our old friend Solon. Chanfrau in “Sam” is the embodiment of am English fop, just as Owens, in “Solon Shingle,” us the only true delineator of the genuine Yankee. Both are high representative men in their line, and as Chaafrau has now tho boards it is proper for all to see him before they are called upon to see Owens. The Broadway the- atre is flourishing like a green bay tree under its present admirable and enterprising management. Way are tam Sax Francisco Mixerrecs Fast Max?— Answer—‘Because they can catch a greyhound.” If ‘any one doubts that this is a conundrum he should visit the aforesaid minstrels, at their hall on Broadway, opposite the Metropolitan Hotel, and hear Charles Backus propound the longest and fastest conundrum of the sea- son. But it is unnecessary to invite our population to go there; forthe place is overwhelmed with patrons every night. Charles has opened a now and lucrative business. ‘What is it?’ “Fine business—make heaps of money.” “Any partners?’ “Only a few.” “Yes, yes; but what is dat dah business wot’s makin’ you so rich and jolly?” “Why, ye eee I advertise in the Hxm- ALD; de lor’ bress de managers who don’t.” This troupe of minstrels is the best in the city, and their entire em- tortainment a specialty that never palls the publie appetite. Tony Pastor's Opera Hover, 201 Bowery, the most fashionable part of the East end, is carrying everything before it in the way of amusements in that section of the city. Tony's company are witty, gay, dashing, brilliant and talented, and the entire rdle of Ethiopian melodies is, in their hands, like molten wax, 80. easily is it moulded to suit the tastes of the public. The “Magic Flute” isa gem in its way, and entirely eclipses the humor of the Ravels in the same pantomime. Marietta Zanfretta, the accomplished tight rope dancer, is attracting crowds, Tony Pastor has in the Bowery what the “San Fran!’ boys have in Broadway, the full and eatire swing. Im porta ‘al Preparations. Boston, Nov. 14, 1968. The Portsmouth Chronicle learns that orders have bees. received to prepare the immense iron-elad Passaconaway, now lying on the stocks at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, for sea as soon as possible; also, thas the steamers. Min- nesota, Maratanza and Galena are to be fitted out for sea tmmediately. The State Election. Apaasy, Nov. 16, 1666. ‘The official canvass of the Fourth Assembly district of this county shows that Colonel Joseph M. Murphy, of the Seventh heavy artillery (Union), is elected over Crawford (democras) by one majority. M The Missouri Legisiatere. Sr. a Et as the ‘The Legislature yesterday passed a resolution for appointment of a committee to memorialize President Johnson to release all the Union soldiers now im confine- ment for offences coramitted during the rebellion, on the ground that the rebel soldiers, whose crimes wore inf. nitely greater, had been pardoned. Mesnage of the Governor of Indians. seamen; & bareau of emigration, and separate schools colored children, and for the repeal of the statute excluding testimony, Is ® though we herent Siae overpay advices tl al involved Forrnass steamer Winants, from New York, reports: hatep passed stoners 0. P. Smith and Columbia at the Island, disabled, Delaware Breakwater; also, off A inst, Was abandoned on by the French Sapa Henry. ing a leak on the 6th Tee end hor crow wore picked yp bark Cougrier de Mayaguez ang brought