The New York Herald Newspaper, November 22, 1865, Page 4

4 - NEW YORK HERALD, WEUNESVAY, NUVEMBKK 22, . 1865. NEW YORK HERALD. ore ecenapienaneet JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. @vrion N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. TERMS cash in advance, Money sent by mail will be ‘et the risk ofthe sender. None but bank bills current in Dew York taken. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day im the year, Foun cents per copy. Annual subscription price, $14. THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Five ents per copy. Annual subscription price: ebecses ed Any largor number addreased to names of subscri 1 50 cach. An extra copy will be sent to every club ftom. Twenty copies to one address, one yoar, #35, ‘and any larger number at same price, An oxtra copy ‘will be sent to clubs of twenty. 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HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn. —Eri:orian Min- StRKLsY—BALLADS, BouLEsQues AND PANTOMIMEs. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— Open from i) A.M. till 10 P.M STEREOSCOPTICON SCHOOL OF ART—Corner of Grand and Crosby streets. DODWORTH HALL, {NOs BY Mus. Prose. BROADWAY AT! ‘reu's Guan Scenic It Broadway.—Drawatic Rav. ay.—Nicova Mus. Half-past Two. Now York, Wednesday, November 22, 1865. NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION. Receipts of Saics 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 90,548 ew Yor Heraty ‘Times, Tribune, World and Sun THE NEWS. EUROPE. @ho Cunard steamship China arrived at Halifax yester- @ay with three days later news from Europe. ‘The Moravian, the first steamship of the new Guion Hine, which left Liverpool the day before the Etna, arrived @t this port yesterday. As was anticipated, the Shenandoah had been given up €o the United states Consul, and is now probably on her sway to Now York. Waddell and his pirate crew had Doon set at liberty, the British government being of wpinion that there were no grounds on which they could bo detained. Further correspondence on the Alabama difficulty bad passed between Earl Russell and Minister Adams. Ina speoch delivered at the Lord Mayor's banquot on tho 9th of November Earl Russell thanked God for the @nd of the American war, and trusted the republic would 60 on and prosper, Considerable reductions were contemplated in the Italian army United States five-twenties remained unchanged .o the London money market at 6334 a 64. MISCELLANEOUS. General Grant took his departure from the metropolis fm the six o'clock train for Wasbington last ¢ ing. ‘Pho rain storm prevented the intended public ovation to tho distinguished soldier. During the forenoon the Goneral, in company with Colonel Hillyer, visited the Post Office, Mr. Bailing’s studio and other places of Anteroat in the city. ‘The heavy rain storm, ander the influence of a strong northeast wind, which set in on Monday night fo this Gity and vicinity, continued throughout the greater part of yostorday, causing a great rise of the water in the Day snd the North and East rivers. Along South, West @nd Washington streets and the streets leading to the North river the basements were submerged, the occu pants being driven out and large quantities of valuable property being either completely destroyed or seriously @amaged. In many of the cellars tho wator attained a Gopth of four feet, and the tide is said to bave been Digher than for eighteen years previous. The river fronts of the surrounding cities experienced similar in- undations We have not yet learned of any great Gamage to the shipping in this vicinity, though many ves @ols lying at the piors were considerably chafed, and @ome Anal! raf bad their deckloads washed away. There wore no arrivals from een last evening, and several ves- Pols which wore to have sailed anchored in thebay. The Wind blow down somo trees, fences and portions of Bhimnoys, but did not inflict any very heavy damago. Accounts reach us of the prevalence of the storm as far bast ax Boston and as (ar south as Fortress Monroe. ‘Tho election for members of Congress takeg place in Bouth Carolina to-day. The Governor General of Canada, “having had under Consideration the possibility that raids” of Fenians may ovour during the winter, bas issued orders calling out for frontier service, for as long a period as may be neces- @ary, one company of volunteers from each of the towns Of Queb-c, Montreal, Hamilton, London, Port Hope and ‘Woodstock, and directing all officers of volunteer corps throughout the province to complete their numbers and hold thomsecives in readiness for marching and actual Service at a moment's notice. The volanteers will re. @oive seven dollars and a half a month, or twenty-five cents aday. The Montreal people were alarmed on Sun day last by @ hoax to the effect that an armed force of Fenians had paraded the streets of a Vermont village @loge to the Canadian line. Tho receipts of the national Treasury from all sources or the quarter ending on the 30th of September last Were $40,801,005, and the expenditures for the same timo wore $374,835,916. General Sickles has assumed command in South Caro- Bins a8 successor to General Gillmore. Ttis said that Goneral Howard, Commissioner of the Froedmon's urean, is engaged in preparing a report, to bo submitted to Congroas by the Secretary of War, of his #ocent tour of inspection through the South. The Gen- eral, It is undorstood, believes that the continuation of he bureau for the present is urgently demanded by the jon of affairs in the Southern States ‘Tho United States naval squadron under command of iral Goldsborough i pursuing its progress through combined., 871,229 ropean waters. After leaving Cherbourg, where a entents cordiale was established with the officers tho Russian feet, the vessels sailed successively for the Brost, L’Orient and Rochefort. Adm ral Golds Worough had transferred bie flag to the Frolic, and the jo wont direct to Lisvon, where she arrived about the 20th of October. ‘The officers of tho equadron tn- Spected the navy yards and objects of curiosity at the Ports mentioned. Great activity prevailed in naval con- struction, and the tron-clad fleet of the French Emperor was receiving large accessions. Our special corres- pondence from the squadroa furnishes interesting par- ticulars of the cruise. ‘The returns of the State election in Colorado show that Mr. Gilpin has bon chosen Governor, Mr. Chilltcott for Gongress, and that all the other repablican candidates have been elected. Colorado has not yet been admitted ‘as a State, but will be at the approaching session of Con- gress, and in anticipation of that event she has hor State government machinery and her Congressional represont- ative roady for action. ‘Tho absurdity of the recent imperial report that Presi- dent Juarez had removed his capital from E! Paso to the insignificant little town of Piedras Nogras, on the Mext- can side of the Rio Grande, is shown in our Washington correspondence, which also cites, asa precedent suffl- cient to justify the interference of our government in be- half of Juarez, the armed assistance givon by Russia to Austria at the time when the lattor was about to have wrested from her a concession of the independence of Hungary. A party of capitalists who have roceived & grant from Maximilian for telegraphic construction ex$ pect to have communication established over their line between this city and the Mexican capital by the let of next July. The circumstances attending the British embroitment in the Haytien & tionary quarrel, the attack of the English war Bull Dog pn the rebel feet and bet- teries at Cape en on the 23d uit., and the subsequent blowing up of that vessel by her commander after ele } got aground, stalls of which were given in our issue of the 17th igst., are further described in Jamaica newspaper oxtracta which we publish this morning. The ‘British claim that, the vessel which gave rise to all the trouble, and which the rebel Haytiens were chasing with the idea that she belonged to President Gefirard's navy and bad én board that functionary himself, was really a Jamaica packet, and that therefore, of course, the commander of the Bull Dog was justified in prevent- ing her capture by the rebels. ‘The prize fight tor the championship of America and two thousand dollars, between the pugilists James Elliott and William M. Davis, for the taking place of which yesterday, near Esperance, Schoharie county, N. Y., about thirty miles from Albany, on the line of tho Susquehanna Railroad, arrangementshad been made, was prevented by the Albany police seizing the special train chartered to convey the interested parties to the place selected for the encounter. A large number of men were assembled in the railroad station, anxious to obtain transportation to the fleld of combat; but they were all doomed to disappointment. It is expected that the fight will take place at some other locality in a fow days, unless the principals shall fall into the clutches of the law officers. E Both branches of the Washington City Council have taken measures for holding an election to determine the wishes of the people of the capital in regard to allowing the negro residents to vote, in case any measures having that object in view shall be introduced in Congross. Many of the Washington property holders are desirous of dispensing with their city government entirely, and haying the control of their municipal affairs vested in a commission appointed by the President, as formorly. In the Supreme Court, circuit, yesterday Judge E. Darwin 8: remarked that in the country the jurors are paid twelve shillings a day, while here they only get one shilling for a case, no matter how long it may con- tinue, This suggestion, coupled with that of Judge Balcom at the last term, to have an act of the Legisla- ture passed imposing a penalty of one hundred or five hundred dollars for non-attendance of jurors, if acted upon, would wonderfully improve our jury system. The whole duty would not then, as 1t does now, devolve upon the storekeeper, the mechanic and the laborer, who fear the fine of twenty-five dollars, Judge Clerke, of the Supreme Court, had before him yesterday at chambers a case involving the question whether the Supreme Court can review the proceedings of the Court of Common Pleas. The matter was brought up on the petition of George Carey, who was ordered by the Court of Common Pleas to be committed for con- tempt, to have all the proceedings on which the commit- ment was made submitted to the adjudication of the Su- preme Court. The Judge heard the arguments, but re- served his decision. The libel suit of Sweeny against Brooks was post- poned yesterday until next term by Judge Daly, of the Court of Common Pleas. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday Margaret Butler was convicted of petty larceny, being charged with stealing forty dollars from Edwin Bonney, and was sent to the Penitentiary for six months. John Foley, indicted for stealing a box of screws from Henry J. Wright on the 12th of October, pleaded guilty to an at- tompt at grand larceny, and he was remanded for sen- tence. There were a number of unimportant cases dis- posed of, the majority of them resulting in verdicts of acquittal, At the Tammany Hall Convention yesterday, Mr. Isaac Bell presiding, Mr. John T. Hoffman was unanimously nominated candidate for Mayor and Mr. Richard O'Gor- man for Corporation Counsel. ‘The Convention of the Mozart democracy last evening unanimously nominated John Hecker for Mayor and Richard O'Gorman for Counsel to the Corporation. A meeting to institute measures for supplying the urgent wants of the destitute people of the South, without distinction of color, was held last night at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, under the auspices of the American Union Commission, the American Freedmen’s Aid Commission and the American Missionary Association. Speeches were made by General Fisk, Messrs. A. A. Low and McKim and Rev. Messrs. Beecher, Storrs and Bellows, and a committee of one hundred influential citizens was appointed to receive donations of money and goods. ‘The sixty-first anniversary of the founding of the New York Historical Society was celebrated last evening. The President, Mr. Frederick DoPeyater, delivered an address upon the moral and intellectual influence of libraries upon human progress, ‘A meeting of the pewholders of St. George's Episcopal church, in Sixteenth street, destroyed by fire on Tuesday of last week, was held on Monday last, at which an in- teresting statement of facts connected with the history and present financial condition of the religious associa- tion to which it belonged, was submitted by Dr. Tyng, the pastor. It was then resoived to build another edifice similar to the one destroyed, and on the spot where it stood, at acost of one hundred and twenty thousand dollars, exelusive of bells, clock and organ, and the pew- holders agreed that while temporarily worshipping in other places they will continue to pay their old pew rents, Besides this, they subscribed fifty-two thousand dollars on the spot towards the erection of the new structure. Colonel Lloyd Aspinwall, of the Twenty-second regi- ment of the National Guard, has determined on the yearly presentation of silver medals to the most merito- rious among the privates of his command. The first bestowal of these tokens took place at Palace Garden last evening, when eight members became recipients. There was present to witness the ceremonies a large namber of spectators, among whom were Generals Bar- low, Sandford, Duryea and other military gentlemen. The United States mail steamship Fung Shuey, of the Cromwell line, commanded by Captain Hildreth, will sail to-day at throo P. M. for New Orleans direct, from pier No. 9 North river. The mails will close at the Post Office at half-past one o'clock. In consequence of the storm the departure of the steamship Creole for New Orleans is postponed till to-morrow, the 234 inst., at three o'clock P. M. Coat thieves bave become quite numerous in the courte, The other day Judge Sutherland's coat was taken off the very bench, and scarcely a day passes without some similar theft occurring. A coroner's inquest was held yesterday over the re- mains of the Chinaman John Avvee, who died on Monday night from the effects, as alleged, of etab wounds inflicted by another Chinaman named John Abbott, during a quarrel between the two over ome money matters at 381 Pearl street. Abbott was committed to the Tombs. An inquest was also held in the case of James Nalley, who lived at 730 Second avenue, and who died yesterday, his death being the result, according to the verdict of the jury, of being struck in the abdomen with a stone by James Farley, on Sunday evening, during # diMoulty in front of 266 First avenue. Faricy was committed ‘The captain of the city Sanitary Police, in ‘rs state. ment of the operations of his force for the prevention of cholera for the week ending on Saturday last, reports that notices were served for removal of nutsances, clean- ing and repairing in four hundred and thirty-one different cases, and that two hundred and cighty-three nuisances were abated, in accordance with notices previously given. ‘Two correspondents submit to us in their communica. tons arguments to sustain dircet!y opposite views in rogard to keeping at Quarantine the well passengers of tho Atalanta, one maintaining that their detention és crue! ‘end unnecessary, and the other urging that the con- venience of these comparatively few individua's should not bs for a moment taken into account where the health of b undreds of thousands is vitally concerned. According to the report of the City Iu=poctor for the wook ending on the 20th inst., the total of deaths iv to city from various Causes reached 40, of why from acute diseases, 174 from chronic de wad 3T from external causes, or those not depending upon oli- mate or season. Tho natives of tho United States were 282, of Germany 49, and of Ireland 64. Tho deaths at Public institutions were 62, The mortality of the week, compared with the corresponding week of last year, ghows an increase of 26. There were no cases of cholera. Senator John Sherman, of Ohio, accompanied by & umber of leading New York, Philadelphia and Boston capitalists, yesterday visited the Pennsylvania coal re- gions and made an inspection of tho collieries. In the evening the party were serenaded at Mount Carbon, and @peoches were made by Mr. Sherman and others. Tho stock market was dull but steady yesterday morn- ing, and strong im the afternoon. Governments were heavy. Gold was inactive, and closed at 146%. Notwithstanding the storm, a fair business was done yesterday in both foreign and domestic produce, and as a goneral thing the market for foreign goods was protty steady. Domestic produce, however, was irregular. Groceries were dull and mostly nominal. Cotton was steady. Petroleum was excited and higher, Oa 'Change flour.was dull and lower. Wheat and corn were also a shade in buyer's favor, Pork wep inactive and a trifle Jower, closing heary. Lard was. dull, ‘but unchanged’ 1" westiog will go'.over till the, next Butter and cheoge wore inackive. Whiskey was dull and voThe market for beef, cattio was dull and beavy this week, and, with large recéipta and unfavorable weather, prices declined 30.10. per pound. The sales wére generally at 100, 417%¢c.; but there were a few sales at 18%ec., and some few at 190. for the very best. Cows were steady, and prices varied all tho way from $40 to $125. Veals were steady at 100. a 1éc. Shoepand lambs were dull aad lower, and, under the influence of heavy receipts, prices ranged from $2 50 to $8. Hogs wore dull and 1c. lower, prices ranging from llc. to 12%c. The total receipts were 6,072 beeves, 77 cows, 632 veals, 20,167 shoep and lambs and 22,965 hogs. Ex-Speaker Colfax Political situ- ation. The speech of the Speaker of the last House of Representatives, Mr. Colfax, at Washington, on Saturday evening, has much meaning in it, and gives us a pretty good idea of what is going to take place with regard to the great political question of the day—the restoration of the Southern States. Mr. Colfax is evidently a candidate again for the position of Speaker, and his remarks may be regarded as a sort of initiatory platform on which he has placed himself to secure the votes of his colleagues. He has put himself upon a very accommo- dating platform—one that is motlerate and con- servative in one point of view and radical in another. He praises President Johnson’s re- construction policy, and speaks of hailing “the day when all the States shall revolve in their appropriate orbits around the central government, and when we shall behold them distinct as the billows, but one as the sea.” He seems to comprehend that the policy of the President is to bring the Southern States back to their original status as soon as possible, and thus close up the rebellion in the shortest period practicable. Knowing the power and firmness of Mr. Johnson, and not knowing exactly what will be the strength and action of Congress in the case, he casts an anchor to windward on that side; but, seeing that the radical element in Con- gress will be a powerful one, and that he may need the vote of that faction to reach the Speaker’s chair, he intimates that it will be necessary to put the late rebellious States under a longer term of probation before admitting their members to Congress. He would require other and additional conditions than those laid | down by the President, such as clear and dis- tinct vote of the people of those States directly upon what the North demands as the price of their restoration, and “that the Declaration of Independence must be recognized as the law of the land, and every man, alien and native, white and black, be protected in the inalienable and God-given rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Thus the cautious ex- Speaker casts an anchor on the other side also, in the uncertainty as to how the political cur- rents may run or from which quarter the strength of the storm may show itself. Although the tone of Mr. Colfax’s remarks is moderate, conservative and non-committal, he inclines a good deal toward the views of the extreme republicans. Still, as he declares, he does not bind himself “to any inflexible, unalterable policy ;” and he, with the majority of the republican members of Congress, may find it best to accept in the main the Presi- dent’s programme. But what does he mean by recognizing “the Declaration of Indepen- dence as the law of the land?” The Declaration of Independence is but the enunciation of abstract dogmas. They are beautiful in theory, and admirable in practice wherever they can be applied; but they are not and cannot be a law. The very men who framed the Declaration, and subscribed to it that all men were created equal, were slave- holders. There is no law, and cannot be any in the case, but the law of the constitution, and that adapts the principle to the exigencies of society. Nature itself limits the application of this dogma. Men are, and always will be, very unequal. Inno society can it be applied in the broadest sense. Even under this, the most liberal government in the world, where politi- cal equality is recognized, there are many limi-: tations to the exercise of abstract political rights among our white citizens. A man must be of a certain age, reside ina certain place for a fixed period; must bewin the country a certain number of years, and, in some cases, must pay taxes or own property, before he can vote; and women do not vote at all. There are reasons for these limitations, notwithstanding the recognized abstract dogma of all men be- ing created equal. In quoting the Declaration of Independence, therefore, in favor of the negroes, and in saying we must recognize it as a law, Mr. Colfax cannot mean, we suppose, anything else than that only the largest liberty and political privileges shall be extended to these people which the safety and well-being of the community will warrant. Mr. Colfax does not enter upon the question of negro suffrage directly. He evidently pre- ferred waiting to see how this question will be treated by the President end Congress, This wo take as an indication that the majority of the conservative repub- licans will not be disposed to insist upon negro universal suffrage. They will probably go with President Johnson, and leave this mat- ter to the States, as it is left to the several loyal States of the North, provided the principle or dogma of civil rights be recognized in some way. And in the same manner, perhaps, some of the members from the South who may come with aclean record may be admitted after the President shows his hand and tho subject is ventilated. The republican party—tho party in power— 219 wore does not care so much about the negro after all; and it is not for his sake so much that they claim tho suffrage for him. It isa question of political power. They are afraid the votes of the Southern members and people may be usod against them, and they think the negro vole would neutralize that. ‘This, however, is a shortsighted view of the case; for it is more likely the Southerners would control the suf- frages of the negroes'than the Northerners. We are inglined to think it would be a temporary political advantage to the Southerners. Bat the consequences in the end of universal negro suffrage, or anything approaching it, would be disastrous to the South and injurious to the whole country. As the case stands with regard to the ad- mission of members of Congress from the late rebellious States, we conclude that if they all be admitted the question will be finally settled; we shall have domestic peace, and the Presi- dent's reconstruction programme will triumph. Ifa part be admitted the principle will be re- cognized; the rest will take their seats in due time; we shall have peace, and President. Johnson’s policy will thus beome successful. If they .all be excluded the ple will decide it. In this latter case there is no doubt as to what the decision would be. The people of the Northern States have refused to give universal suffrage to the negroes, and it is not likely they will insist upon the Southern- ers doing so, when such a course might be attended with so much more danger in that section. The President has the power, un- doubtedly, in closing up the rebellion, to insist upon negro suffrage, just as much as he has to prescribe any other rules while these States are under his supreme authority; but he deemed it wise to leave this matter to the States them- selves. In this he will be sustained by the people, if the question should be deferred and left to them. The South and the whole country would suffer by such a delay; but it would make Mr. Johnson very popular and strong. The result, probably, would be an overwhelm- ing defeat of those who may oppose his policy and bis triumphant re-election to the Presi- dency. The Shenandoah—The Action of the English Government. By the China we learn that the English au- thorities have for a time gotten the knotty question of the Shenandoah off their hands in a characteristic way. They have handed the ship over to the American Consul and set free the piratical captain and crew. In this the English government has once more shown its settled determination to do the least that is possible to render us the smallest measure of justice that circumstances will permit. Not even an Englishman could expect us to thank Great Britain for the surrender of this ship; for a government even more resolutely bent upon injustice to us than the English govern- ment, if there could be one, could not have re- fused it. That surrender Lord Russell could not avoid by any conceivable quibble. What he could not help doing he did, and he stopped there. More than that, he has taken the responsibility as against us of attempting to varnish downright piracy, and he places the government of Great Britain between our out- raged laws and the wretch whom the whole British press has denounced as a pirate, and whom English officers signified their readiness to assist in capturing. This is an outrage that this country cannot stand from such a source; and unless England repudiates, in the most unqualified way, this act of her pigmy Minister, it will so complicate the present disturbed re- lations of the two countries that their peaceful settlement will not be possible. If we have got to fight we had better do it right here. Doubtless the case of the Stonewall was re- lied upon by the English government as a fit precedent to govern their action in respect to the Shenandoah; but the cases are absolutely and entirely dissimilar. The Shenandoah was in the bands of the government that was to blame for her origin, and that ought to have been equally eager with us to give the world a striking evidence of its disapprobation of her acts; that ought, indeed, to have desired by its strict justice against her to purge itself of the evil it had unquestionably done to us by her origin. Her position in the hands of such a goverment alone pointe the striking difference between the case of the Shenandoah and the case of the Stonewall in the hands of Spain. But the differ- ent footing of the two ships is yet more clearly seen, when we consider that the cap- tain and crew of the Shenandoah are tainted by a series of inhuman outrages against our commerce that not only do not occur in the other case, but that have no parallel in the history of war or peace. For six montha after his pretended government had ceased to exist— for six months after even the shadow of right was gone—this pirate burned our ships. He can set up in his justification only the impudent sub- terfuge that he did not know the war was over. He is properly compared in this respect by the British papers to a man who shuts his eyes and complains that he cannot see. He would not be- lieve American captains—they were all liars; and it was six months before he could find an Englishman, the only person who can tell the truth. In all that time he continued his out- rages, and Lord Russell tells the world that he has done no harm. The case of the Shenandoah stands alone, and its justice must be determined by a rule that the common sense of the world will recog- nize as @ natural correlative of the jus post- liminié. There are no personal rights to assert; but we must assert the right of our laws. The crimingls must be restored to the jurisdiction of the laws to which their crimea, have made them amenable, and they must be held as coming within our reach, as coming into the hands of en ally, when they are in the posses sion of a nation with which we bave an extra- dition treaty. This is the spirit of the law of postliminy, and is the natural justice of the case. England, by accepting the surrender of Waddell and the custody of his ship, has be- come responsible to us for all; and the sul render of the whole crew must be demanded under the extradition treaty, and insisted apon in the most positive terms, If Waddell and hia fellow pirates are to go free, maritime law is mere moonshine, and the whole pretence that justice isto be maintained on the high eas a ridiculous farce. peheinehteen Se) Neoro Waors amp Warre Equatrry Down Sourn.—In the supplement of a late number of the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser we find the advortisoment ot Dillard, McMinn & Co.’s “White Labor Agency” of ssid town, In this advertisement their offers to white iaborers are thus eet forth:— RATES OF HIRE OF WHITE LABOR, Mon, per year. $150 Women, per year. 100 Children of 12 or 14 years of uge, per year. 50 wept, Se at x Thoy contrac! for one year, to do the same work as the br oad live in the same Cabins, aud om the game rations; clothe themselves, and pay their own doctor's bills, ‘Time lost by sickness deducted from w: aged. ‘One in every six of Germans agree to speak English. Coat accompany a of transportation, $15 per head, to order, bu to ducted fm wage by An order will be forwarded to New York on Saturday, the 11th inst. “One hundred and fifty dollars, payable at the end of the year,” to an able-bodied white man, in the cotton field, “to do the same work as the negro, live in the same cabins and. on the same rations,” &.! This is.a step in the way of “equal rights” to whites and blacks; but at the rates proposed we guess that Dillard, McMinn & Co, will not for some time be bur- dened with surplus Germans. Startling Increase of Crime—Dangerous Tendency of the Theatres, The increase of crime in this Metropolitan Police district, particularly in regard to burg- Isties and desperate ageaults on the person, is | eufSoient to awaken the moat-serious alarm and apprehension among those who have an inte- rest in the good order and well being of society. If those in guthority refuse to afford citizens, proper protection when they have the power to do so, the people: themselves must take the matter in hand and apply an effective cor- rective. So frequent and daring are the burg- laries in one district (the Eastern or Williams- burg portion of Brooklyn) that the question among residents in the morning is not “Whose house was robbed last night?” but “Whose house was not?” The utter insufficiency in numbers of the police in this district has long been a subject of complaint, but no heed is paid by the authorities to the repeated appeals of the citizens. The secret of this may be thus briefly traced. The payment of the police in Brooklyn is a matter intrusted to the Board of Supervisors of Kings county, and although. the Legislature has authorized them to increase the force the Board refuse to vote the money, be- cause if the force be augmented the strength of their political opponents will be corre- spondingly enhanced. To this shameful cause is to be attributed the present insecurity of life and property in only one district under the Metropolitan Police system. To the same cause is also to be attributed the encourage- ment to vice and crime among the youths of our city and vicinity. K-is a notorious fact that the most daring and audacious burglars are found among a class of young men scarce- ly twenty years of age. In the absence of moral culture and example these youths, before they enter their career of crime, find their evenings’ recreation in the pits and galleries of our theatres. Most of these theatres are managed by bankrupt and broken down Eng- lishmen from the purlieus of London. Having lastly received their patronage from the classic region of St. Giles—superior in’ nastiness, vice and crime to the dens of Ann street in its palmiest days—and having finally been repu- diated by oven this class of patrons, these beg- garly fellows come to America to escape Fleet street and find somebody here foolish or igno- rant enough to give them the management of some theatre. New York has, unfortunately for the rising generation, been generally adopted by them as a convenient place to locate in—its laws and municipal regulations being more liberal than in most other Ameri- can cities, Now, then, come the sensation drama, the voluptuous ballet and the immoral comedy. The Bowery leada off with ita attractions to the youths of that locality. The managers, prone to follow their English instincts, poison the minds of our youth with such insidious and corrupting representations as Jack Sheppard, Dick Turpm, Claude Duval, the Bold Highwayman, and others of like charac- ter, all the productions of some putrid and vicious English brain. The price of admission is cheap. Ten to fifteen cents procure admission to some of the most eligible parts of the house, and if the urchin who desires to go cannot get the entrance fee legitimately he is tempted to purloin it. Here he finds his first degree in crime excused, his offence represented in the most agreeable colors, and the biggest thief, or burglar, or highwayman in the play turns out a veritable hero. Is this not enough to corrupt the minds of the youth of any community? And as these youths grow up, if their fancies and impulses are not properly guarded and directed, is it any wonder that burglaries and assassinations of police officers nightly occur? Then look at the managements on the Broad- wway side of the town. Mostly English. In one you will find the comedies of a*past age—but offensive to decency and modesty in this— represented with all the attractiveness that superior American performers can impart to them. in another you will observe lascivious tableaux that corrupt the imagination of our young men. In another, under the cloak of a moral drama, you will find a place of amuse- ment that is but little short of a house of assig- natian, in which the unwary of both sexes are tempted from the paths of rectitude. But we have not space to-day to trace from the beginning the startling increase of crime now prevailing. From the theatres and their unscrupulous managers, from the immunity sfforded to criminals by officials for corrupt political purposes, and from the disregard of the reiterated appeals of citizens for better police regulations and a stronger force, we certainly see causes why crime should be mak- ing such fearfal strides. It is fully time effective measures were taken to check it. ponder m—— ts Arenal Sronzwatt, Jacxson.—The artist in Europe engaged on the colossal equestrian statue of Stonewall Jackson, intended to be set up in the capital of the Southern confederacy, needs sum of $20,000 in gold funds to finish the work—$15,000 for present use and $6,000 after the completion of the statue, The Mobile ‘Trivune thinks that “this sum might be easily raised in New York or London,” and perhaps he is right. Suppose, however, the parties con- cerned first make a call in London upon the holders of the bonds of that aforesaid rebel cotton loan, If they fail it will then be time enough to draw upon Jake Thompson’s New ag tn nen Ganenovs ForpEaraNce.— ago.” Happy man. appears that John Van Buren ran a little behind the rest of his Stato ticket in the late election, and it is supposed that it was because some of his friends could not think of “sending him back into the same hole he crept outof twenty yoars isis, tile in A Drrrwaanos Auona Te Dootina—A reso- lution has been introduced in¢he Teamessco Logislature demanding: the punishanent of wea; | son upon Jefferson Davie and his: late raling rebel associates at Richmond. The benevoleat Greeley says, “As for poor Joff. Davis, keep him in jail, or send him to Europe, or back to his old plantation to live on the charities of his recent slaves.” What shall we do with the elephant ? Orsra ww Cu1caco.—The interest in the opera in Chicago appears to be upon the in- crease, and that prairie city bravely bolds its rank as one of the four great operatic centres of the world. There is no other operatic mana- ger in the country who can be compared to Grau, and no artists who can sing and act like those of his troupe. They will return to Ea- rope with @ reputation even greater than ever. A No Party Canpipats.—The Citizens’ As- sociation are parading their nominee for Mayor ‘ as a no party candidate; but what is the use of running a candidate who has no party? Joan Boux's/Last Conozssion ov Besonn- ent Ricats—His unconditional, release of the a Thjatstcal Intelligence. ‘The Fast Mem of tho, Olden Time is given to crowded audiences:in Wood’s Museum, Chicago, Ill. Madame Colesto is at McVicker’s theatre, Chicago, playing Zam- bara and Ernest, in the drama of Zambara, or the House on the Bridge of Notre Dame. 4% ‘The Webb Sisters are playing in the Market Girt of Paris, at the new Memphis theatre, Memphis, Tenn. ‘The manager of the Pittsburg (Pa.) theatre has pre- duced @ temperance drama, called Ten Nights in a Bar- room. Yankee Locke is-engaged in it, and appears im the character of Sample Switchell—a genuine Yankee in favor of temperance, but drinks bis rogular daily al- lowance.”” The farce of Cousin Joe followed. Mr. Barton Hill plays for six nights a re-engagement in the Pittsburg (Pa.) Opera House. He las personated his favorite charactors, Caleb Plummer and O'Donabue. Miss Annie Eberle plays Dot and Miss Josephine Settoa Tilly Slowboy. A matinee is given at the House every Saturday. ‘Mr. Murdoch closed a most successful engagement o& Piko’s Opera House, Cincinnati, on the 11th inst., enjoy- ing the best wishes of the management and of the crowds who witnessed his performances. Matilda Herom commenced a short engagement at the same house om the 13th of November, appearing in the character of | Camille. The Belle of the Season was in rehearsal. Miss Jennio Hight has personated six characters in one plece and given two songs and two dances during an evening, in Wood’s theatre, Louisville, Ky. Signor Blitz is performing (it must be real) magic im Hartford, Conn. ; for many persons from his audiences draw valuable gifts, and he promises “to give away’® gold hunting watchos, silver cake baskets, and so forth, The Opera in Chicago. ANOTHER DEBUT AND ANOTHER GREAT SUCCES8— APPEARANCE OF MISS LUCY SIMONS IN L’BLISU D’AMORE—A SPLENDID AND ENTHUSIASTIC HOUBB, Caroago, Nov. 21, 1865. Wo had to-night another début and another success at} the opera. Miss Lucy Simons made her first appear- ance hero to a most fashionable house as Andina, in Dont; zotti’s charming opera d’Amore. Ono can hardly imagi the village coquette represented more naively than by, the young débutante. The diffidence which might have} been expected was hardly visible. Hor acti all through was as protty a piece of gracefdl| note the audience followed her with unmistakable toter,| est and delight. Although it was only the third time ever sang 1p opera, there were evidences of the genu artist both in her singing and acting. Hor costume got up with exquisite taste, from her gold slippers to tasty headdress, and she looked exceedingly fascin Her voice is something extraordinary in its compass delicate in its texture, extending from the lower C to natural above the line, which she took thi absolute oase and confidence in the taran’ in the second act and written expressly for her by Mt This composition is by no means a simple one. It ts of vocal difficulties, trills, runs and staccato p abounding in it; yet Miss Simons sang with great and evolved very cordial applause in the duo with ro, Nemorina chiedi at aura. Her vocalization and quisite display were beautiful. Inthe finale of the act her voice rang out clear and silvery. She threw much arch coquetry and mirth into this scene that curtain foll amidst a storm of applause and a shower bouquets at the feet of the débulante, The barcarole which opens the second act really a gem of the first quality, and the with Dulcamara which followed was sung great spirit and vivacity, and was tumultuo encored. In this piece Orlandani, who was good in made his best display as the quack doctor, Nothi could exceed the drollery be threw into the scene. fun was evidently of the native order, his make-up excellent, and the by-play all through most happy. audience must have been grateful for the hearty he produced, and which were his beet applau Tamaro sang Nemorimo conscientiously. The ro . Ona furtima lacrima was given with considerable p and was most favorably received. Fellini was the 3él geant, and, having very little to do, did it well. Miss Simons has undoubtedly made a great suc ‘The audience were with her all through, and lost aot aingle point im the part, Her execution surprised one. Her interpretation of the réle was quite original, none the worse, we must say, for that, We w that she has never seen the opera played, and thi had to create an audience for herself. She 1s to be co gratulated upon tho success of her creation, for it a most winning and natural one, and proves that Mi Simons has something more than ordinary tal perhaps a good deal nearer akin to di genius, From her reception this eveniug it ts not f probable that this opera will have to be repeated dut the wook, although manager Grau takes a good deal public pressure to move him from bis standpoint, w! he has planted the motto, “No opera can be repeated. This was the eighth subscription night, To-mo will be an extra night, when Un Ballo im Maschera be given, with Moreo Celli and a splendid cast, bracing ge portion of the company. New ¥ claims the glory of having made three or four An prime donne. Chicago bas now the honor of hav! ove in Lucy Stmons. A New ra Hi for Ric vi As enterprise is now ive 7 the erection of a Sevier class Opera House nt: not be viewed as a very novel or unexpected matter. all the various departments of money-making bu: enterprise is distinguishing tteelf with bricks and tar, and it is only natural that the notion of new place of amosement should take its place im “march of mind’ which is now so cheeringly pushing the columns of local im; ment. We mentio briefly on Saturday that a preliminary meeting of © zens had been held with a view A forming a Aa chasing erocting an appropriate g of the class mon At subsequent conferences it appears that two v mirably located lots are under consitieration, project may, therefore, be considered on foot. From views of the tlemen interested, the structure will be large and strong, with a bold, but showy front, and an interior arranged elegantly, but for comfort, durability and mary’ than for er. At the same time it will be a structure o Hs act uennneet gt aly clogunes prov ana ture, shou! cient, though ite simplioty wr ly ae poke ive, and by no means fe We trent ‘out. fio eatimates present show that the building can be erected at a cost of tw five thousand dollars, and be completed by Fe There can be no doubt of the success of sucl inder ont, and k next. = Ma. Oscanvan’s Lacrones.—Since the announc that Mr, Oscanyan would leave the country noxt invitations to deliver his lectures on Turkey have p in upon him from all parts of the West and Enat. Joctured recently in Harrisburg, Pittsburg and Baltin with such marked success that he has also been inv to rovisit those cities. Commercial Banquet to be Held tn ronto, Canada. ©. W., Nov, 21, ¥ A grand commercial banquet 16 shortly to be this city, at which a large number of the loading ness moh of the United States aro expected to be sent, The topics to be discussed are the Reolprog treaty, the enlargomont of the canals and tho buil of the Huron gud Onjario Ship Qaual :