The New York Herald Newspaper, November 19, 1865, Page 4

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The report of the defeat of the force of the re- Publican general Figueroa, near Tehuacan, by a handful of imperial cavalry, is declared false from republican sources. Contirmation of our previous reports regarding the capture and subsequent execution, conformably to Maximilian’s decree of the 3d of October, of the republi ean General Arteaga and several of his chief ofi- vers, has been received via San Francisco. In re. taliation, General Alvarex has proclaimed that every im- Perial general officer falling into his hands shall be sum- marily shot, and Genoral Riva Palacios has likewise order- od all the prisoners held by him to be put to death without dolay. The moderate line of policy pursued by President Johnson towards the South has mduced many of the Yodel refugees in Mexico to return tothe United States. Jn Northern Mexico the republicans hold considerable Sorritory, with large and well armed forces. ‘The colony Pstablishod by the Missouri rebel, General Suirling Price, Dias collapsed. So Vigrestan, Major General Logan, our newly-appointed minister to Bue republic of Mexico, is reported by a Western paper to have recently stated that he would pt the appoint. ment, provided the government would order twenty thousand armed men to accompany him. Tho Mississippi Legislature agroed to adjourn over from yesterday till the 6th of February next, Our Jackson correspondence states that though the mombers have transacted consid ¢ business, much more that was before them has not been disposed of, The lower house hhas rejected by a decided vove the proposition to adiuit hogro testimony against white men in thio courts. Both houses have adopted a memorial to the President pray- ing the removal of the national troops, It was reported in the State that the Freedmen's Bureau was shortly to be broken up; but General Howard, the commissioner, is Toprosented as stating in Vicksburg, during his recent visit to that place, that he had not found the condition of affairs in the South such as to warrant the bureau's ¢| discontinuance. I's breaking up, our correspondent thinks, though desirable in some respects, would be un- fortunate at the present time in Mississippi, as well for s0- ‘City generally as for the freemen. He says that the ne- toes are still too mach disposed to congregate in the towns, bit doos not believe that there is any foundation for the stories that they are arming and meditate ah insurrec- ‘tion, They erem to have a suspicion that the eflorts made to induce them to remain with their former mas- tors may be put forth with the view of ultimately again Feducing them to a state of slavery. A Jackson paper makes a proposition to raise a fund of half a million dollars, by the contributions exclusively of soldiers who Served in the rebel army, to purchase Jeff, Davis a, re- Bence in some foreign country—after he is pardoned and liberated. Each private soldier is to give one dollar, and thoss who wero commissioned officers will be allowod to contribute at their discretion, Some intoresting and important disclosures relative to British complicity in the final departure from Liverpool of the Anglo-rebel pirate Alabama, inolnding % narrative of the last two days stay of that vessel in BYjglish waters, bppears on the eighth page of this mory‘ing’s HARALD. Additional reports ot the procee/ ngs of the Florida, Tonvention, as well as accounts % wadrosses by Generhl Howard, Commissioner of the”. reodmon's Bureau, to the Floridians, are contained ¥ , our Tallahassee despatches. There were animated & enssions in the Convention over cho ordinance for UW” repudiation of the State rebel debt aud regarding 2 © munication sent in by ex-Governor Brown, urging that all the issues presented be mot in a -Airect MAD" ,er, and that the end of slavery and the right 10f the V.ogroes to all crvil priviteges and protection and the beuefits of the courts be recognized. The repudiation ‘df tho rebel debt and the proposition to grant the freedmen the privilege to testify in court both en- countered much opposition, and it waa though that the Jattor, at least, would not be acceded to by the major ty, though General Howard, in his specch to the members of the Covention, informed them that the President con: Sidored it a right which must be conferred. Tho Ger Algo, while in Tallahassee, addressed a large assemblage Of negroes, disabusing their minds, as he has those of their brothren in other parts of the South, of the Impres- sion that government intends to bestow land upon them ft Christmas, and urging thom to be industrious and NEW YORK. HERALD, SUNDAY,‘NOVEMBEK 19, 1865, ‘until sccurttgagar tba future has been amply guaranteed. | General Logan’s Appointment to Mexico | him, for some forty thousand dollars, on long The tone of admission. Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, ox-general of rebel cavalry and late a candidate for Governor, being, as he says, about to leave the State for an uncertain period, has issued an address to his fellow.citizens, thanking them, though he was not elected, for the votes they gave him, and presenting his ideas of what he conceives to be their duty under presont circumstances, Althouf&i he does not, he states, fully concur in all the measures of the State Convention, he thinks it the duty of South Carolinians to abide by them, as they are part of the terms agreed upon with tho President, whose course towards the people of the South is commended as wise and gen- erous, and Southerners are counselled, as sensible men, to endeavor to construct at least a raft from the wreck of the Southern confederacy. “Above all,” he says, “let ug stand by our State,”? ‘Here is our country.” Prfsident Johnson, as a reward to two Blackfeet In- dians who rescued two white women from the savages, has directed to be presented to each of the rescuers a silver medal, one hundred and fifty dollars in money and an official document, with his signature, narrating the circumstances of their noble conduct. : General Grant yesterday forenoon visited the residence of a friend living on Long Island, where he remained for ashort time. In the afternoon he received a number of calls, and inthe evening attended a private entertain- ment, The arrangements for the grand reception to be given to the General to-morrow evening at the Fifth Avenue Hotel are noarly completed, and it will no doubt ‘be the most brilliant affair of the kind that the metropo- lis has ever witnessed. Fifteen hundred or two thousand tickets of invitation have been issued, and the assem- blage will comprise the most distinguished officers of the army and navy, as well as prominent elvilians, and will be graced by the attendance of a largo number of New York’s fairest daughters. There was a large and enthusiastic meeting of Orange- men in Toronto, Canada, on last Thursday evening, to give expression to the feelings of the Order in regarc to the anticipated Fenian movements, It was called by ho District Master, and every lodge in the district was re) re- sented, A preamble and resolutions of a spirited and belligerent character wero adopted, declaring that the stories relative to the apprehended Feniah raid are founded on the known designs of that brotherhood, chal- lenging them to come on ff they dare, calling on all Orangemen to enrol and arm thomselves to defend the government and repel the invaders, and commending the military and police precautions taken by the provincial authorities and individuals as timely and necessary, A Toronto paper, in reviewing the present condition of affairs there, says:—‘We are perfectly prepared for any- thing that may occur.” Another interesting article on our municipal politics, showing the complicated condition of parties and the plans and mancuverings of the politicians for accom- plishing their designs at the charter clection on the 5th of next month, is given in our issue of to-day. Somo very curious features are presented in this campaign, leading republicans being engaged in a schemo to secure tho principal offices for democrats, while’ prominent democrats are playing into the hands of the republicans. In the United States Cirenit Court yesterday, before Judge Shipman, Henry Munroe, Joseph Higgins, Charles Thomas, Wm, Clark, Soth ©, Haley, Thomas McKinney and Henry Harnngton, having peviously pleaded guilty to passing counterfeit national currency, were sentenced to imprisonment each for ono year, ‘An appeal was heard in the General Term of the Supo- rior Court yesterday in the case of Mr. Barlow, a broker, who claims that Messrs, Holyoke, Vanderbilt and Mur- ray interfored with his business by inducing the master of a schooner to take his custom away from the plaintiff, A long argument took place; but no decision was ren- dered. i At a mecting of the Health Commissioners yesterday one hundred thousand cépies of Resident Physician Sayro’s paper on the nature, means of prevention and Pfoper treatment of cholera, published in Saturday's Hrrary, were ordered to be printed for distribution, A mecting of the friends and admirers of the late William Viricent Wallace, the musical composer, was held yesterday afternoon in Irving Hall, at which it was resolved, #8 a means of testifying respect for his memory, to give a concert atthe Academy of Music, on the 14th of next month, for the purpose of raising funds to erect a monument over his remains in Kensal Green, London, A number of prominent musical artists have alroady volunteered their services. It was also resolyed to ap- point agents in all the principal cities of this country to take subscriptions for the bonofit of the widow and chil- dren of deceased. A public meeting was held last evening at No. 492 Grand street, under the avspices of the Manhattan Island Joiners’ Un‘on, for the purpose of advocating the eight hours system. Speeches were made during th vening Sy several gentleiion, “adit He Bi The old American line of steamships between this port and Havre, which was suspended during the war, owing to the liability of the vessels to capture by rebel pirates, has been re-established, and the Arago and Fulton aro gain placed on the route. The firat trip of the renewed ice will be made by the Arago, which will leave here turday next for Havre, touching at Falmouth on the way. ‘The following were among the cases disposed of by the police justices yesterday :—Benjamin F. Clardy, a paroled rebel prisoner, belonging in Halifax county, Va, was committed for trial on charge of stealing two hundred dollars and a gold watch from Mr. Robert Jewol!, of sixth avenae, in whose house the prisoner was residing. Two lads, aged sixteon and fourteen, named Robert H. Pinkerton and John McKee, were detained for examina- Uon on charge of forging three checks on the employer of the former, a Warren street merchant, the money drawn on which they spent in Park drives, fine suppers and othér luxuries, Jaoob Benzeitg, a youth of eighteen, was committed on charge of appropriating to his own use five hundred dollars entrasted to him by his employer, = German doctor in Broadway, to deposit in bank. Dr. Adelbert Hoepke was required to give fifteen hundred dollars bail to answer a charge of having severely stabbed in the neck Mr, Ferdinand W. Brenner, during a quarrel between the two in Eldridge strevt early yesterday morn- romarks was adverse to thelr immediate ing. Tho commandanta of tho Philadelphia, Boston and Portsmouth navy yards have received orders from the Secretary of the Navy to reduce the number of work- men in those establishments. It is also designed to dis- charge on the Ist of December about twenty-five hun. dred of the workmen in the Brooklyn Navy’ Yard. ‘There are nearly six thousand employed there now. The funeral of Captain J. W. Adams, of the Fourth regiment of the regular army, whose death was the re- sult of wounds and exposure in the late war, took place yesterday from his father’s residence in Brooklyn. The remains were interred in Greenwood. James McCormick died at Newburg, In this State, on the 11th inst., at the age of one hundred and fourteen years. The decensed was a native of Ireland, and came to this country in 1846, He was probably the oldest person in the United Mates, ‘The slock market waS siendy yesterday, Governments wore higher. Gold was dull, bat eteady, closing at 147. There was but little change in the complexion of com- mercial affairson Saturday, as compared with Friday, and only a small business was accomplished in either foreign or domestic produce. Cotton was firmer. Gro- cories were irregular, Petroleum was lower. On ‘Change flour was duil and lower. Wheat was also a bade lower, with a very moderate inquiry. Corn was firmer at the opening, closing heavy. Pork was dull and lower. Lard was firmer, Whiskey was nominal and weaker, Procress or Fextantsm—We perocive the Feniens have taken the spacious and handsome edifice known as the Moffat Mansion, directly at the head of Union square, as their headquar- ters. In this the Fenians entirely eclipse their endeavor to show by their conduct that they are worthy Of their freedom. An important part of the duty in ‘which General Howard has been engaged during his extenmve tour through the South relates to the perfec. tion of arrangements for restoring to the people their lands an@ other property seized by the government during the war. General Howard, Commissioncr of the Freedmen’s Bureaw, has concluded his Southern tour of inspection ‘and atrived in Washington. Hoe represents that wher- ever he bas been the loyal whites and seyrocs are ‘universally desirous of the continuance of the national troops among theta. Tho Hom, Schuyler Colfax, Speaker of the House of Ropresontataves im tho last Congress, made a public epeech in Washington inst night, in response to a sere. ‘DMo, in which he gave expression to his opinions rela- tive w (ho adiniasion of the members from the Southern Bincos. He has little faith in the professed loyalty of the South, and thinks the results of the war should not bo Eetiored ayay by @ roolmissiou of Southeru mowers adjoining neighbors (the Union League), with all their aristocratic flummery, exclusiveness and nigger-worshipping notions. There is a singular appropriateness in the Irish bli- cans selecting this edifice as their pallying point. It was the property of the late Drr Moffat, who realized a princely fortune by the sale of | his celebrated “Life Pills and Phenix Bitters.” The “Phenix” boys are a historical institution in Ireland, and their descendants, the Fenians, may ina short time be distributing “life pila” through the medium of rattling artillery among their English oppressors. Mee) Mane Crean Work or Tr.—Prosident Sobn- son has abolished the Detoctive Bureau of ihe. War Dopariment. Now let him make clean work of it and sbo'tst retary as Viewed by an Imperialistic French- man. The French organ in this city of Maxt- milian and of the late so-called “Confed- erate States of America” until they fell to pieces has been thrown into a dan- gerous excitement in consequence of the appointment of General Logan as Minister of the United States, not to the empire, but to the republic of Mexico. Our Franco-American imperialist takes Mr. Seward roundly to task for this offensive and superflous bit of diplo- macy. He has been wounding the feelings of France, without helping in the least the ex- tinct government of Juarez. Surely the Union can do much better in its present financial con- dition than go to war with any nation; and yet, unless Mr. Seward intends to follow up this appointment of General Logan by acts, it is a very ridiculous proceeding. As for General Logan, he has been exceedingly impolite and ungentlemanly in his political speeches con- cerning Maximilian, and, to make the matter worse, General Grant has lately expressed him- self in favor of the removal of his Imperial Majesty from Mexico. “What,” says our indignant French contemporary, “would the people of the United States have said if, while the secession war was in progress, Marshal Bazaine had expressed the hope of seeing the federal arms driven out of the South?” - We answer, that the people of the United States would have said that Marshal Bazaine was a very silly Fronchman. Nothing that he could gay could have aggravated the offence of his master in seizing upon Mexico while our government, with its hands full of the business ofa stupendous civil war, was compelled to remain a passive spectator of his usurpation. That, seizure, considering the time, circum- stances and possible consequences, was clearly a side movement in support of Jéff. Davis, and for the same object—the "breaking up of the obnoxious republican institutions and moral and physical power of the United States. As in the Trent affair, however, our government pocketed. the insult for the time being; but now the day approaches for reparation. This is, in short, the meaning of General Lo- gan’s appointment. But our French imperialist contemporary further complains that our government is moving troops towards the Rio Grande, and has stopped the sale of its transports in that quarter; that the hostile bands operating against the imperialists in Matamoros are largely composed, of Americans, and that oar troops on this side the river, if they do not paste 4 ed openly assist, applaud and encourage tho ban- dits on the other side; that the French govern- ment, while submitting to such petty annoy- ances, has been exceedingly careful to avoid giving offence,” but that its good offices are no reciprocated at all, and that this state of things cannot last. Mr, Seward’s menaces will do no good, I? he wants to get Napoleon to with- draw he ought to recognize Maxim'lian, says our funny Fr@nch philosopher. In reply to this budget of complaints and ad- vico we have only to repeat that the appoint- ment of General Logan as Minister to the i Mexican republic is intended as a gentle hint | to Maximilian and his master that the days of | the Mexican empire are drawing to a close, } and that we aro sure the Emperor Napoleoy will know that his only course of safety is to retire. Brought, to tho simple issue of a wi't- drawal from Mexico as the price of peace w th the United States, we entertain no donbt that he will adopt the policy of peace. Mexico is is great mistake, Ho must admit it, and be tS Rites af peg ee ind The Ovation to General Grant in New York. Never was the adage, “Honor to whom honor is due,” more filly applied than in the recep- tion of General Grant by the citizens of this metropolis. No hero nor statesman ever ,le- served more the gratilude of a great peopie. He does not court popularity, and moves shout wherever businoss cails him in a quiet, modest and dignified, manner. His own inclination would lead him, probably, to avoid thoae pub- lic ovations which lesser men seek; bat he is not unmindful of the esteem of his fellow zens, A truly great man, be is neither hang! nor cynical. He has a genial heart, and he re- ciprocates the kind feeling which the people moxni‘est towards him, It is really charming to see thia “createst general of the age,” as General Scott called him, and as he undoubtedly 1s, moving #hout among us like some simple lieutenant, seem- ingly unconscious of his greatness. He thinks, as he modestly expresses it himself, that he has “only done his duty.” But what a duty, what aservice, has he performed for his country! We need not recount his deeds. They are fresh in the memory of all, and they will live in the pages of history to the remotest time. He closed the most stupendous war of modern times, or perhaps of any time, in leas than two years after he took command of the armies. He managed a million of mea as well as he had a regiment, because ho fully comprehended the profound principles of military science and the men he had both to handle and combat. Had he occupied the position of General-in-Chief at the commencement of the war the lives of many thousands would have been spared and 4 vast expenditure of money saved. He came up, however, in time to #eve the Union and to close the war within a brief period. General Grant in all bis traits of character isa representative man. He has the solidity of thought, energy and bearing which charac- terize the American. people, and particularly the people of the West. In his ideas and man- ners he is purely republican, and he is intensely patriotic. These qualities, in connection with his invaluable services, touch the popular heart, and give him everywhere, not a fictitions or party welcome, but o sincere and heartfelt one, The city of New York, which is the heart and centre of the country, is showing its appre- ciation of the great man. He is overwhelmed by kind attentions and invitations, and to-mor- row evening he will have a reception that @ monarch might be proud of. There is one Way, however, in which the wealthy men and citizens who are desirous of showing their regard for the General might give it a more practical and useful tarn than by a public reo be thought better, in addition to the oval We hope the General | will excuse us for making the suggestion, We rogard it as a matter of public interest, and one if which this rich city, which is benefited | so immensely by his services, ought to be the | first.to act. We bave heard that he bas pur- chased a house in Washington, where Vie pecessary for hia family to tesiie wor ty credit, Ip fact, it is, said he has not been able to make any paymwnt at first, and that the gentleman from .whom he purchased given him. credit for a term of years. It is known that General Grant was poor when he entered the service at the com- mencement of the war. His pay the first years would hardly support him and his family. He has been Lieutenant General but a short time; and even his pay as such would not enable him to do much in acquiring property. Would it not, then, be an act worthy of this wealthy city to present to him such a home as he needs at the federal capital? Such an expression of gratitude, unsought or unthought of by him, would do honor to the city, would not be felt by our millionaires, and would, we are sure, be highly appreciated. It has been said re- publics are ungrateful to their great men. Let us prove this to be untrue in our case. There is much virtue and usefulness in rewarding eminent public servants, Cause of War Against England—A Rod im Pickle for Her and France. We publish to-day some new and very im- portant disclosures relative to the complicity of British officials in the departure of the rebel corsair Alabama from British waters on her errand of piracy and devastation against Amer- ican commerce. From these developments— and as they are based upon official data fur- nished by governmental authority we must place confidence in their reliability—one hitherto controverted point is made clear— that is, the government of Great Britain is shown to be entirely responsible for the departure of the vessel in question; and, as that responsi- bility involves a perfected case of violation of neutrality, the Power that sanctioned or con- nived at it must’ be held for indemnification, even to the extremity of war. We now have a cause for war with England which we can make uso of at any time. We hold the wage of battle, which we can throw down whenever it suit® us best to do 60. . Be- sides this clear case which is made out against England on authority furnished by herself, we have also other causes of complaint which can be urged against her when we deem proper; or we can reciprocate by giving her like for like, titfor tat. “As she recognized the slave States as belligerents during the rebellion, so can we turn the tablos against her by recognizing the Fenians as belligerents ; and as she winked at the equipment ‘and departure from British waters of the Alabama as a rebel cruiser, 80 gon we Fink crabs. parla fo she waters of the St. Lawrence oF a Shenandoah as a Fenian cruiser. England has made the issue, and the United States will meet it triumphantly at the proper time. It is the samo with France, which joined hands with England in recognizing the slave States as belligerents, as regards Mexico. Be- tween the parlios fighting in Mexico the Uniled States government has recognized but one—the liberals or republicans—as the de faclo government of the country. Cur government knows nothing officially of the existence of Maximilian as Emperor of Mox- ico. Napoleon might as well, for all our govern- ment officially knows to the contrary, have sent a Parisian thief-taker across the Atlantic and placed him with his bayonets upon the impe- rial throne of the Montezumas, as to have sent the German prince who now occupies it Hence, recognizing the republican leader Juarez as the head of the legitimate govern- ment of Mexico, all the United States have to do to got quits with Napoleon for his encourage- ment of tho rebel cause and his defiance of the American doctrine of Monroe is to recognize the republicans of Mexico as belligerents within the intent and meaning held by both England and’ France. By that rule privateers can leave our ports to capture and destroy French merchant ships wherever found, under authority of letters of marque issued by the President ot Mexico. Why this has not been done already may by some be attributed to the want of pluck on the part of the liberals in Mexico. Rut this is not the case. It is cansed by the lack of pecuniary means. But even now, in a respectable quarter of the city of New York, are responsible financial partis receiving moneys in aid of the liberal cause in Mexico, which may be used either in fitting out privaizers or in any other manner calculated to attain the object in view. It may not be many weeks before we hear of Mexican priva- teers hovering near the French coast, just as we have recently heard of Fenian privateers hovering near the English coast. But it is not the policy of the United States to quarrel just at this time with any foreign Power. We'do not want to go to war now. It is our best course to keep quiet for the present. Let us devote ourselves to the labor of recon- ciling the whole country, to restoring domestic tranquillity, to adjusting financial and other important home questions, for a little while longer. Meanwhile we can ‘et England and France know that they cannot qux:rel with us nor go to war with any other Power with impunity. We hold them both by the throat. At a solitary signal, ten lines of ® proclamation from the President of the United States, or five lines of a resolution in Congress, we can, without going to war our- selves, make fhe Atlantic ocean swarm with Mexican and Fenian privateers that will sweep their commerce from its surface liko an’ East India simoom. All that we require of England and France now is to keep civil and step up to the captain’s office and settle. Otherwise we assure them that our causes of quarrel with them will keep, like a barrel of mackerel well salted, until the proper day of reckoning shall arrive. Impsriat Murpers mx Mextco.—Every Chris tian community must be shocked at the remorse- Jess character of the war now being waged in Mexico by the imperialists against the republi- cans. It is not long since Maximilian issued an edict ordering that no quarter should be shown the liberals, and that command has been put in execution. We have before reported the deeds of barbarity practised by the imperialists; but the recent assassination of the republican Gen- eral-in-Chief, Arteaga, is a crowning act in the crimson reign of Maximilian, The United States government bas been blamed by Euro- peans for its rigorous roeasures toward promi- nent reels, and intercessions on bebalf of the | principal traitor have been made by influential parties athome and abroad. What @ contrast doe the conduct of out government show when compared with that of the so-called Mexican Mimperor, Tiere is ® republican chieftain, tig @ for the Liborky of hia eannire npen Dia; boiter ain own soil against a foreign invader and usurper, assassinated by imperial order, and his follow- ers treated with degree of cruelty unexam- pled in the annals of barbarism. On the other hand, thehead of the American govern- ment is censured by his own countrymen for the numbers of pardons he has granted and the leniency he shows to those once arrayed in arms against us. In the scale of mercy it is apparent republican institutions heavily out- weigh those of imperialism. The blood of the patriot Arteaga will assuredly be avenged. Tas Cottzcrorsuir Once More.—The pres- sure being made by the political cliques and factions for the appointment of this or that man Collector of this port must be any- thing but pleasant to the President’ and Secretary of the Treasury just at this particu- lar period. Congress will assemble in a little over two weeks, and there is a vast amount of special labor to be performed by both of those officials to be in readiness for that event, aside from the regular routine work. But the hun- gry politicians care nothing for this; they are after the spoils of office, and will press their spplications in season and out of season, when- ever and wherever they can get an oppor- tunity. The Secretary of the Treasury has wisely ordered Mr. Clinch, the deputy, to dis- charge the duties of the office for the time being; but so long as no appointment is made the politicians will continue to harass the President and Secretary with their impor- tuning. The President, however, can put astop to this clamor of the politicians and remove all difficulties arising from their vexatious de- mands by immediately appointing Mr. Clinch Collector. We have known that gentleman for thirty years, and consider him a proper man for the position. He is a New Yorker of great experience. When we first knew him he was secretary to Mr. Eckford, the famous shipbuilder, is thoroughly posted in regard to the commercial interests of this port, and a man of more than ordinary ability, aside from his great experience; which cannot be said of all who are trying to secure that appointment, President Lincoln adopted a wise course in setting. aside the claims of the politicians and selecting a business man when he ap- pointed Mr. McCulloch Secretary of the Treasury. Events have shown the wisdom of that course. Hore is an opportunity for Presi- dent Johnson to carry out-the same policy in regard to our Custom House. Let him turn a deaf car to the politicians and appoint Mr. Clinch to the position, and he will at once re- move all embarrassments in regard to the po- litical cliques as well as secure an honest ang efficient officer every way satistactory the business community. az Theatrisa: Iierttigence. SHAKSPERIAN AND DR. ‘TIO READINGS BY MRS. PROSSER. ‘This lady is eaid-to be a highly accomplished reader, some oven placing her before Fanny Kemble. She has just como to this country, and will make her déb@¢ at Dodworth Hall to-morrow night. With such talents as are claimed for her sho cannot fail to be successful in this city, where thore is much need just now of a bigh order of talent, MISCELLANEOUS. ~ Wo bave received a communication on the subject of the very manifest rudeness exhibited of late by a great many persons in New York in taking a hurried and noisy departure from places of public amusement and lecture halls just as the curtain is about to fall, or as the lecturer is winding off his last fow fine sentences. Tho letter is couched in very indignant terms, and contains a great deal of truth with regard to the conduct of theso fussy and self-inflated people who elbow, and push; and crowd out of such assemblages as if with the view of making thomselves seen and heard and conquering a notoriety. Tho writor says “the rudeness is becoming fashionable." If 80, the sooner we have a chango of fashion in that ro- spect at least the botter. Mile, Leoni, the “Italian Sytph,"” commenced an en- gagomont of six nights at Baylio’s Hall, Bridgeport, Conn., November 13, undor the management of Mr. Frank Edwards. Sho sustainod four characters in the play—the Freach Spy—before @ crowded house, Mile, Loon! is pleasing as a dansuese, actress and pantomimist, Mr, Edwards promises to take Blind Tom to Bridgeport, with a strong company and new scenery. Of the members of the theatrical profession killed by the explosion on board the steamship Yosemite, in Cali- fornia, on the 12th of Octobor, wo find that James M. Fallon was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., and was twenty- three years of age. Huling C. Major was bora in Penn- sylvania. Ho leaves a wife in Bellvile, Ilmois, Mr. Major waa @ theatrical architect. J. K. Myors was a comedian of repute. He wae born in London, England, He accompanied Matilda Heron from San Francisco to Virginia City in tho winter of 1864-65, and was subse- quently engaged by Charles Wheatleizh in the Eureka theatre, San Francisco. William D. Carnegie was known on the stage as William Stephenson. He was a native of Auckland, New Zealand, and first appeared in San Fran- cisco as a ballad singer. He was afterwards well known as an actor in California and Washoe. Mr. Carnegio was engaged to be married to a lady now residing in Boston, Masa. Mr, Harry Seymour, while lately performing in his own drama of the Fenian Chief, when ascending to the flies on a rope, fell and dislocated his shoulder, which put a sudden termination to the career of the “Fenian Chief” and to Mr. Seymour's acting. Bliss’ Opera House, Titusville, in the oil regions, was opened on the 6th of November by a dramatic company. Ingomar and The Toodles wore given, with a fine cast. Miss Kate Rynar, Mrs Jones and Sam E. Ryan were thére. .The ecrtain and sconery, by Gabriel Harrison, one of tio actors, were regarded as vory fine anda great success. Crittenden Hall, Titusville, has been leased for the winter season by the management of a dramatic and operatic compeny. Miss Jean Hosmer is a decided success in the Southern States, She is playing Bianca in Fazio, or, The Italian Wife, at the new Richmond theatre, Richmond, Va. Proreson Wiseman.—Thia talonted necromancer has ongaged Hope Chapel, on Broadway, and on Thursday evening next will commence a series of his “Evenings of Mystery and Vision.” The Professor appeared ® short time since at Cooper Institute, and his.extensive repertoire of astonishing feats, as well as the skill with which they were performed, morited and received the highest commendation from all who witnossed them. Madame Wiseman assists the Professor in the experi- ment of “second sight,” by which the articles in pos- session of the audience are described with such wonder. ful accuracy as to appear almost miraculous. Coming with the hearty endorsement of ali who have attended their entertainments there can be no doubt that Profestor and Madame Wiseman will achieve @ marked success in their new establishment on Broadway. Macbeth and Comus, which had been performed at Drury Lane Theatro, London, since the opening of the soason, were withdrawn on the 27th of October. King Jobn was produced the 4th of Novembor. Mr. Sothern had very larg» audiences tn Belfast, Ire- jand. A local journal recommends (October 2%) the building of a new thoatro thore, He played Brother Sam (Dundreary’s brother,) in Liverpool, Eng., Octo ber 19. AMBRICAN MANAGERS IN CONSTANTINOPLE, A letter of very recent date from Constantinople re- cords the energy and progress of American managers of the drama inthe Turkish capital in these words:—Our theatrical season has commenced. A new French the- atro has been arranged in a bailding known as the Palais de Cristal, The lessees are Americans, and a troupe of noarly forty performers from the minor Paris theatres have beon ongaged. The pieces whick appear on the programme for the season are, as usual, of a rather broad, of shall I say equivocal, character, suited to the peculiarly low moral tons of the place ‘Tho Itatan theatre, the lessee of which is also an Ame- opened with & dramatic company af rathor a Uvan the Prom l riean, MUSICAL. Teachers of the Musical Art in New York, Music is taught in a variety of ways in our olty, and by men of every degree of capacity; but of real instruc- tors in the divine art, veritable mae#ri, there are com- paratively few. The position of the real master of music is scarcely understood by the public. His business is principally with those whom the public would suppose tobe the very persons in the community who have least need of music masters—the singers at the opera. All the credit for the successful rendering of an opera, and for the delight that the audience has taken in it, is lavishly given by the simple minded audience to the prima donna, the basso and the tenor—the only ones that the public seo; but im truth these are very oftenen- = + titled to the least of it. The singer is accepted by the public as the grand interpreter of the composer's ideas— as a wonder of musical ability beyond whom thore is nothing. How the young ladies would laugh at the ides of any one giving singing lessons to Brgnoli! They would look upon it as the same wasteful and ridiculous excess as gilding refined gold and painting the lily. This nosion of the singer is one of the humbugs and delusions of the operatic stage. Often the singer’s musical know- ledge and judgment are of a decidedly inferior order, and this is sometimes the case with singers who aro, only the vocal organs, and for the rest the grand interpretation of music that they give to the public has been learned the day before, mechanically almost, note by note—fairly hammered into them by a maestro, And their success is oftener due to the exertions and talents of the macsiro than to their own vocal organs, for without a macstre or with an inefficient one they would blunder and fail in the vast majority of instances where in reality they carry the honors of the stage with grand eclak All singers of eminence have their respective macstri, and thus the position of the maestro 1s between the composer and the singer. His business is principally with profes- sional singers; but at the same time ho is of course the most efficient teacher of vocal music when a master is required by those with whom music is studied merely ‘as the ornament and charm of private life. The macstri most worthily known here are Luciano Albites, Antonio Barill, Ettore Barili and Mariano Man- zocchi, Signor Albites is a Neapolitan. He received his musical education at the Conservatory in his native city, and went from Naples to Paris, whtre he gave lessons in music for some time, While at Paris he was engaged as maestro by Brignoli, and so came to this country. His abilities are indicated in the success of that silver- toned tenor. He was also maestro to the lamented Amodio, He has at different times instructed Madame Gazzauiga and Miss Kellogg. Miss Secor was his pupil. Signor Albites is now established in this city as a teachor of muste. Signor Antonio Barili is a Roman. He studied musié with his father at home, and received his diploma as maestro from the congregation of St, Cecilia, and as ‘maettro’ of composition from ‘the Philharmonic Socicty of his native city. He mado his débat as conductor of the opera im Algiers at twenty-two years of age, andcame to this country in 1847. He was the conductor at Palm's Chambers street Opera House, and is thus iden- tified with the first attempt to establish the opera hore. Upon tho removal of the opera to Astor place Antonio Barili bocame the victim of one of those pieces of mean- ness that are so frequent in the history of the opera. He was gaorificed to the cupidity of a manager, and a Ger- Yonn without @ tithe of Barili’s abilities was put in his place. This was done for a difference of fifty dollars. He wont from here to Mexico, where he had groat success, ‘and produced an opera of his own, entitled Un Paséo @ Saint Anita.. Ho returned here in 1861, in consequence of the disturbed condition of Mexico, He was macstro at the Academy to Morensi, Van Zandt and Geleele, His , pupifg—as Mrs, Farnham, Miss Luisa Meyer, and many others—have sung with considerable success at concerts, He is now established as a teacher in this city. r Signor Ettore Bartli is a maestro who has also had great success on the stage. Ho made his débii at pixtoon' in tho dpera of Nabucop. He has sung in the principal theatres of Romo, Venice, Naples, Florence and Palermo. It was sald in Italy that there wero but three Rigolet- toes—Varesi, Corai and Barili, Ho came to this country in 1866, and sang with Picco- lomini in the Barter, Don Pasquale and Rigoletto, In 1859 he went to Mexico, Havana and South America, and ‘on the voyage was. instructor. to Adelina Patti, He was the real instructor of that admirable singer, though Stra- koach has taken the credit of Barili’s labors and received from the Queen of Spain an order of knighthood on this account, Ettore Barili was also the instructor of Carlota Patti. He is now settled at Montgomory, Ala, where he teaches music in a large academy. tis a good sign for civilization and the South that Southern schools are able to retain such teachers. Signor Manzocchi is, like Signor Albites, Neapolitan, and received his musical education at the Congervatory ‘at Naples. He conducted opera in Italy, Spain and Hol- land, and came to this country eight or nine years ago. He bas had great success here a# a teachor of music. Adelina Patti bogan her stadies for the operatic wage with Signor Manzocchi. Madame de Wilhorst, Laura Harris and Olivia Sconcia were his pupils, He has had many brillant singers among his pupils in private life. The Opera in the West. GRAND ERNANI MATINEE YESTERDAY AT THE CHI- CAGO OPERA HOUSE BY GRAU’S TROUPE. ° Curcaao, Nov. 18, 1865. ‘The matinee ‘to-day was very largely attended. The weather was delightful, and brought out a more than usual ehare of the beauty of Chicago, The attraction at the Opera House, too, was very great, Zrnant being given with the same splendid cast which established it last week as one of the most popular operas in the manager's repertoire. It was sung to-day even better than on the proviows occasion. Noel Guidi was in superb voice, ‘and fairly astonished those who lad already formed a high opinion of her powers by the exquisite clearness: of her tones and the perfectness of ier vocalization. Her acting im the first and fourth acts was a grand dramatic effort, which was not lost upon the audience, each suc- cess being grected with increasing applause. Musiani, who never fails to meet the requirements of any past he urMlertakes, and always carries the audionee with him by his correct artistic rendition, never within ows memory sang Ernani better. His acting in the final scene of the opera produced an immense impression. He sang entire réle with great fervor, and was again again applauded. Brandini’s “Carlo Quinto” was ad- mirably sung in all the higher passages. The duo with Elvira in the third act was a most eommondeble effort. His appearance is eminently suited’to- the pert of the Emperor, for he combines, with afine figure, » dig. nifled manner end a good knowledge of draniatie effect. ‘The Silva of Milleri evinced a greater familiarity with the part which cnabled him to develop his pure basso voice to «tho = utmost advantage The infelict could hardly have been surpasse® for tenderness and pathos. The opera, upom the whole, was given to the full satisfaction of the Inege as. sembly present. The artists had no cause to complain of tho manner in which they were received; the ptandite ‘all through were spontancous and hearty. The-chorus ‘was in excollent order, and gave a grand effect to the , finale of the second and third acts. ® Next week will be one of unceasing melody. We are to have opera every night, and cach sight a fresh one, commencing on Monday with Lucresia, with Gazzanige, Musiani, Olgini and Millers; om Tuesday,, L’Blisir d’Amore, Miss Lucy Simons’ dévit, ‘aNd for which the house is. nearly bought up; tobe followed by the Ballo in Maschero, Pacinis’ great tragic work, and Saf and Somsambula for Lucy Si- mons’ second appearance. This is ,@ programme rich enough for one week; but the Chieago people, like their city, are very fast and cannot afford to wait two nights ” for a frosh sensation; soGrau is determined to graury them, as a sagacious mana-er should. The audiences are not only increasing in numbers, but they are grow- ing rapidly to a point of appreciation whieh is equally creditable to their own judgment and encouraging to the artists, They apperr to understand ‘hat am opera com- pany so perfect im ite construction eannet bo always enjoyed, and they are therefore disposed to make hay while the operati¢e sun shines. s — ‘Tre Bowsat AMPHITHRATRE.—To-morrow evoning thé establishment Iately occupied by Mr. Montpellior as an Opera House will be opened by that gentleman with a company of nerialists, equilibriumtsts and cquestrian per- formers second to none in the profession. There is no reason why the cirous proper should not become A stendard institution of the motropolis, and with the really fine company which, under the able management of Mr. Montpellier, will commence to-morrow ovening, tore ts every probability that the residents of the cvst sido will be enabled to patroniae an establishment which ‘will not be d structive to dscouow and morality. , « 7 s ‘