The New York Herald Newspaper, November 23, 1865, Page 5

WASHINGTON. Return of General Grant to the National Capital. Whe Ram Stonewall at Beau- fort, 8. C. Bitter Feeling Against the British Government for Discharging the Shenandoah Pirates. @he Enlistment of Prussians by Massachusetts. &. &e. &. ‘Wasmnaton, Nov. 22, 1865. PETVEN OF GENERAL GRANT—HIS OFFICIAL RE- PORT OF MILITARY OPERATIONS. General Grant and staff arrived safely in Washington @his morning. His official report of military operations ‘@ince his promotion to the lieutenant generalcy was sent Wo tho War Department several weeks ago, and has never een returned for corrections or alterations, ag stated in @ertain quarters, It will probably accompany the Secre- ftary’s report to the President, and be published simul- feaneously with that forthcoming document, of which it 1 to some extent an appendage. WHE RAM STONEWALL EN ROUTE TO WASHINGTON. * The Navy Department is informed that the Stonewall ‘Bras at Beaufort on Sunday en route to this city. The ‘fough weather has probably prevented her leaving that ~ until to-day, in which case her arrival may be looked for on Sunday or Monday. HE SHENANDOAH—HOSTILE FEELING TOWARDS ENGLAND. The feeling here against England for allowing tho “Officers and crew of the Shenandoah to go scot free is ne of open and undisguised hostility. The arguments of the Hxgaup are considered incontrovertible, and all gree that her crew must be given up to our authorities ‘under the Extradition treaty. No doubt is entertained ‘of our ability to prove from her own logbook that she os many prizos after being informed of the close of the rar, PERSONAL. Dr. Powell, State agent for North Carolina, will leave AVashington for Raloigh to-morrow, taking with him an Amportant communication from the Secretary of State to Governor Holden. Contract Surgeon Mary E. Walker, having failed to con- ‘vince the President and Secretary of War of the propriety of giving her a major’s commission in the regular army, thas accepted the next best thing. The President has di- ected that she be presented with the usual medal of fhonor for meritorious and faithful services on many fields, and her friends will ask Congress for a testimonial ‘of more intrinsic value. . John F. Farnsworth, of Illinois, Thaddeus Stevens, of Pennsylvania, and Goneral Hagardon are stopping at the National. PREPARING FOR THE MEETING OF CONGRESS. ‘The finishing touches are being put upon the interior Appointments of the Capitol. Both of the chambers of the House and Senate are completely and elaborately Prepared for the session, and it is noticeable that the doaks madevacant during the past four years by the ab- @ence of Southern members, and which were removed @uring that time from the floors of both Houses, are again supplied. LOBBY MEMBERS ON HAND. Members of the third House of Congress are beginning to show themselves here, in anticipation of the opening of the seasion. Numbers of them have token desirable ‘mansions in aristocratic localities, at frightful rents, the ‘enhanced expense being warranted by certain indications that lobby pickings will be unusually unctious this “winter. THE POSTMASTER GENERAL'S REPORT. ‘The forthcoming report of Postmaster General Denni- gon, although very short, will be the most satisfactory document that has emanated from that department since ‘the organization of the government. During the last fiscal year the department was not only self-sustaining, ‘but it has accumulated three-fourths of a million of dol- Jars. The exhibit will, however, be brought down to November 16, and will throw much light upon its pre- ‘ent and prospective workings in the Southern States. Mr. Dennison has closed contracts on exceedingly favo- fable terma for transporting the mails for the next four years over tho main leading routes of the South, and does not, asa rule, intend to pay rates or establish routes at the expense of the North, He begins de novo on the principle of compelling the system to be nearly or Quite self-sustaining there, as it always has been here. ‘Mr. Dennison has carefully written his own report, in- @tead of merely placing his autograph at the foot of the consolidated reports of his subordinate officials, as was the custom with many of his predecessors. PUBLIC DOCUMENTS PRINTED. ‘The officials in the Congressional document rooms state that all the executive and miscellaneous documents Pelonging to the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-cighth Con- greases have beon sent in from the public printing offices. There is said to be a marked improvement in the general {typography and binding lately turned out by the public — together with increased despatch in filling ‘THE ENLISTMENT OF PRUSSIANS DURING THE WAR BY MASSACHUSETTS TO BE INVESTIGATED. A military commission is said to be ordered for the in. ‘voutigation of tenga subjects by the Btate of during the war, with power to sit 4n this city and in Boston, to accommodate the Prussian ‘Minister and the officials of Massachusetta respectively. It is understood that the Prussian government has de- ‘manded some explanation from ours, and that the former ‘expects to establish the fact that fraud and compulsion ‘were practiced on emigrants in many instances, The commission will be composed of Major Generals Hitch- ‘cock, Mott and Seth Williams. NO PUBLIO RBORPTION AT THE WHITE HOUSE. Owing to the press of private business no pablic recep- tion was accorded the patient waiters at the White House ‘to-day. Several persons were received by previous ap- ointment, Mr. Witte, of Pennsylvania, Mr. Clingman, of Tennessee, and Mrs. C. C. Clay, whose husband is con- Mined at Fortress Monroo, wero reported among the num. ‘Dor. The latter has also seen Secretary Stanton on her husband's behalf, but derived little encouragement or wonsolation from that gentleman. She still hopes to ob- ‘tain his release on parole, or, at the worst, to be permit- ted to visit him or share his confinement. THE SOUTHWESTERN RAILROAD OF GEORGIA. The Superintendent of the Southwestern Railroad, @unning from Macon, Ga, to Eufaula and Butler, is in ‘dhe city prossing the payment of its claims for trans- ‘Portation on government account since the close of the ‘war. About thirty thousand dollars wili be awarded the sroad, which, {t 1s hoped, will enable the management to Put the entire line in the same repair it was before se- -ocesion. WANT OF POST OFFICES IN GRORGIA. ‘Within the past day or two three hundred and cighty- ‘five petitions have arrived at the Post Office Department from various interior points in Goorgia praying for the gstablishment of post offices in those localities, THR TRIAL OF COMMODORE CRAVEN. , Tho evidence for the defence in the case of Commo. @ore Craven closed to-day with the testimony of Com- modore Hailey, who testified to the efficiency and bravery wf tho accused. The counsel for Commodore Craven qill present a written defence on Saturday. COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. William Rabo, a claim agent; Barthold Dresser, late @lork in the Second Auditor's office, and Harmon Goss- @an, who were confederated for the purpose of defraud. ‘dug the government, by the abstraction of papers in the anes of deooased and discharged soldiers, have been @ommittod for trial in default of the aggregate of thirty- Ave thousand dollars bail fer their appearance. The @ocond Auditor testified that, had the abstraction of the Pevers not been discovered fora fow months, @ million @ doliars might have been thus fraudulently collected from the government. The parties involved in the ‘Creudulont transactions have mado written confessions ‘OF their guilt, (POR TRIAL OF PRITIT, THE ALEXANDRIA JAILER. ‘The evidence in the Pettit case, before the Burnham Court martial at Alexandria, closed to-day, and the argu- ments aro to be heard on Friday. Contrary to the ex Porctations of many Alexandrians, the charges against ‘this oMoor, for outrageous troatmont of prisoucrs under his charge, have not been fully substantiated vy evi- dence. Officers of high rank have come forward and flatly contradicted many of the terrible stories upon which the charges were based, and the sentiment of the court appears to be in favar of their dismissal, THE CROPS OF THE NORTHERN STATES. The following table has been procured from the De- partment of Agriculture :— 1865. 148,552,829 19,543,905 11,391,286 225) 252) 295 427,853 18,331,019 101}032}095 1,228, 501,282 18,116,751 28,638,740 197,468,229 183,816,953 ‘The wheat crop is very deficient in quality, The August Teport estimated the deficiency in quality and quantity at 26,241,698 bushels. The above table places the de- crease in quantity alone ab 12,172,944 bushels. The quality of the corn crop never was surpassed. That of the other crops is believed to be anaverage. The number Of bushels in 1865 exceeds these of 1864 by 216,071,411. SALE OF GOVERNMENT CATTLE. About five hundred head of cattle were sold by Com- Missary Bell at the Alexandria corral to-day. Good beeves brought from three to four cents per pound, and fat cows and working oxen higher prices. Though the Prices were somewhat lower than former trapsactions, the sale was considered a success. RESTITUTION AND PRAISEWORTHY BEQUEST. Two interesting letters were received at the Treasury Department to-day. One, signed ‘A Catholic Clergy- man,” contained forty dollars, which the hoMler’s con- ‘science had impelled him to restore through this instru- mentality. The other contained the intelligence that an elderly well to do farmer of Indiana, lately deceased, had bequeathed a one thousand dollar ten-forty bond to the United States Treasury as s small contribution to- wards the extinguishment of the national debt. Such striking rebukes to the ‘‘mammon of unrighteousness” are as refreshing as the dews of Hermon, THE PARIS EXHIBITION. It appears from the official correspondence that Presi- dent Johnson takes great interest in the coming Paris Universal Exposition for 1867, and that this fact was communicated to the French Councillor of State and Special Commissioner. Minister Bigelow was instructed by Secretary Seward to ask for am extension of time within which the Commissioner of the United States will be required to present his plan to the 3ist of January next. To this the Imperial Commission assented; and ina note to Minister Bigelow the Councillor of State says:—“I am glad to renew to you the assurance of the very lively interest which I attach personally to secing at last, for the first time, your great nation represented at an universal exposition. I add that I am in this only the interproter of the desires of the Emperor and of tho Imperial Commission.” EXAMINING SURGEONS OF THE PENSION BUREAU. Doctors H. S. Balcomb, of Manitowoc, Wisconsin; R. A. Drake, of Condersport, Pa.; Goo. W. Eastman, of Plattsville, Wisconsin, and Saml. Jones, of Waverley, Ohio, were to-day appointed examining surgeons to the Pension Bureau. Total. 1,018,429,871 Hay, tons.. Theatrical, LIEUTENANT GENERAL GRANT AND MR. HACKETT, THE SHAKSPERIAN COMEDIAN. At Cairo, IIL, in October, 1863, when General Grant had arrived there from New Orleans, where he had been crippled by his horse falling with him at a review, onthe 4th of September previous, he chanced to find Mr. Hackett, and expressed his regret that in all his visits East, West and South it had never been his fortune to be in any one of them during one of Mr. Hackett’s profes- sional engagements, and to have had an opportunity to witness his Falstaff; and that, should he keep to his de- termination not to appear before the public after that season, he could hardly hope ever to see Mr. Hackett, except as a private individual. Mr. Hackett, however, assured General Grant then, and again through Proal- dent Lincoln, after he became Lieutenant General, of his readiness, whenever circumstances might permit the General to see it, to perform that character for his special gratification. Accordingly, the Lieutenant General, in the railway car, on the 13th instant, having ascertained just prior to starting from Washington hitherward that Mr. Hackett was at his residence in this city, directed a telegram to be sent to Mr. Hackett intimating an evening “when he would like vory much to seo Mr. Hackett in Falstaff.’” This telogram, however, Colonel Badeau, the private secretary of General Grant, says was handed by him, at Baltimore, for transmission through the railroad telegraph, but has never reached this city. Conse- quently Mr. Hackett, who had called next day at the Metropolitan, and, not finding Genoral Grant within, had merely left his card, knew nothing of the telegram, and was, after all, only seen by General Grant ‘‘as a private individual,” and while en passant among the crowd, ac- companied by his lady, and tendering his respects at the public reception on Monday evenin, Thus, through the delinquency of the Philadelphia and Baltimore Railroad Company’s telegraph, was the Lieu- tenant General disappointed of a pleasure which he had evidently anticipated; while Mr. Hackott was subjected unavoidably to the imputation of having wilfully omitted to fulfil a former promise, and shown a disrespectful in- difference to such a distinguishing compliment from Lieutenant General Grant. MISCELLANEOUS. “Yankee"’ Locke, the comedian, has been re-engaged for six nights at the Pittsburg, Pa., theatre. He crowds the house every night, and is » general favorite. The Misses Monk, Mossrs. Cogswell, Little, Wentworth and others sustain him admirably. Maximilian, of Mexico, has written to Paris, request- ing that tho statutes of the Théatre Frangais may be for- warded to him, with a view to applying them tothe organization of a great theatre in his capital. The Garette of the Middle Rhine, at Weisbaden, declares ‘that it will abstain from publishing articles of theatrical criticiam, as the authorities addressed it a severe ropri- mand, and even menaces, on account of a paragraph in which it allowed itself to criticise an actress of the Court Theatre. There are throo new theatres in course of construction in the city of Lyons, France, and a fourth is contem- plated. Mrs. Macready has given a series of readings before tho inmates of the insano asylum at Colney Hatch, Eng- land. The hall was crowded every evening. On the last occasion the selection given consisted of the fourth canto of The Lady of the Lake, a comic piece of oxtrava- gance entitled Auction Extraordinary; or, The Sale of Old Bachelors (received by tho audience with shouts of laughter and applause); the quarrel scene between Sir Poter and Lady Teazle, from The School for Scandal; The Doctor and his Pupil, The Magic of a Kiss Misapplied, and other poems. All these evoked signs of continued in- terest and delight. Three stanzas of The Bolls aroused the spectators to roars of delight. The Charge of Balak- lava was aleo recited and the poom of Jessie Brown. Those wore recoived with extreme attention and ap- plauso, The interest they inspired was remarkable. At the conclusion of the recitations a vote of thanks was proposed by one of the patients and carried with onthu- siasm, after which the female patients seized on the lec- turer and fairly hugged her with delight, the male pa- tients crowding round tmpatiently to shake her hand. CHARLES READE'S DEFENCE OF HIS NEW PLAY. The dramattc critic of the London Reader having found much fault with Charles Reade’s play, It is Nevor Too Late to Mend, performing at the Princess’ theatre, Mr. Reade writes to the editor in the following terms :— Sm—You have published (inadvertently I hope) two columns of intemperate abuse aimed at my drama, and m ious porronalities levelled at myself. The author of all this spite is not ashamed to sympathize with the heartless ra from whom justice and law have res. cued my creation and my property. He even oulogizes @ ruffian who, on the 4th Oc , raised @ disturbance in the Princess’ theatre, and endeavored to put down my play by clamor, but was cailed to order by the respectabie portion of the audience. Have you any senso of justice and fair play where y assailed is only an author of repute, and the nt has the ad- vantage of being an obscure scribbler? If so, you will Fire is Spears stay detence, 1 reply, ie cae sn. fone toon wane and drivel. I just beg jonest men women that your anonymous contributor, who sides with piratical thleven against tho honest inventor, and Charles Reade, and ap- plauds one Tomlins—is Tomlins, 1 our obediet servant, CHARLES READE. Suit to Ree Payment of a Bill of Exchan SUPREME COURT, CIRCUIT—PaRT II. Bofore Judge Smith. Nov. 22.—Aenry M. Ovrane we, Auguatus L. Living- tton.—In this case an action ts brought to recover $1,740 40 and intorest from April 17, 1865, on @ bill of exchange. The defence alleges that there were nota suMoioncy of revenue stamps on the bill; that the bill was accepted before the arrival of the which were not of the quantity or quality for wien the bill ‘was civen, The gase is still om Civil Rights Conterred upon Freedmen by the Legtslature—President Johnson Memortalized to Remove the Troops from the State—The President Says They Will be Withdrawn when Peace and Order Can be Maintained With- out Th Jackson, Nov. 21, 1865. The bill conferring certain civil nghta upon freedmen passed the House to-day, with a substitute for the fourth section. Freedien are allowed to testify and be wit- nesses when a party to the record, but not in cases ex- clusively between wh ite men, by a vote of 56 to 30. Governor Humphreys telegraphed on the 18th inst. to the President that the colored troops attacked and took Possession of a passenger train at Lauderdale Springs, and insulted the ladies, their officers being unable to con- trol them. He further says the Legislature wave me- morialized for the removal of the troops, and are willing to extend the right to freedmen to testify in court if the troops aro withdrawn. The President replied that the troops would be withdrawn when peace and order could be maintained without them. Measures should be adopted giving protection to all freedmen in their possessions which will entitle them to assume their constitutional Fight. There was no disposition om the part of the gov- ernment arbitrarily to dictate, but simply to advise a Policy that is beneficial. City Intelligence. Avotion Satz OF Scranton CoaL—Twenty-rive THov- SAND Tons Disposep or YesTerpay.—Twenty-five thou- sand tons of Scranton coal were sold at public auctiom yesterday, at No. 26 Exchange place, by the Delaware, Lackawana amd Western Railroad Company. The at- tendance was large, and the bidding occasionally quite brisk, particularly on the stove coal. It went off in lots of from one hundred to one thousand tons, tobe de- livered at the company’s depot at Elizabethport during the coming December, the terms being fifty cents per ton upon buying, and the balance, with six cents per ton government tax, ten days hence. The following is the scale of prices a8 compared with the sale om October 25:— Tons. Oct. 25. 7 4 Nov, 22. 6,000 lump... $1000 a $10 50 8: 873g a $9 BTI¢ 4,500 steamboat. 10 1234 10 20 § rr 9 50 10 62i,a 1087% 8 62Ka 8 87% . 10 623, a 10 75 9 37% a 9 75 . 1 8tjga 11 15 WH a —_ 10 00 a 106215 887 a 9 87 —It will be perceived that there is a decided decrease in many of the qualities, and it is supposed that at the next sale tho fall will be more marked. Terats at Pouce HeADQuanrens,—There wore upwards of one hundred cases on trial before the Board of Police Commissioners yesterday, With the exception of four complaints made by citizens, all these cases related to the discipline of the force, and, as such, are of no public importance. Of the four complaints made by citizens two of the complainants did notappear. The other com- plaints were trivial. It is rather a noticeable fact that complaints by citizens against patrolmen have been growing less and less weekly—a matter which speaks well for the efficiency of the new school of instruction. Burnina or No. 33 Fire Exains Hovss.—The three atory brick building located in Fifty-oighth street, near Broadway, belonging to the city, and occupied for many yoars past by the Black Joke fire engine, No, 33, was destroyed by fire between ono and two o'clock yesterday morning. Since the organization of the paid Fire Depart- ment this house has been closed by the Fire Commission- ers, and a padlock placed on the door. There were still some articles of furniture left in the house. Some in- condiary individual, it seems, entered the building and set fire to the upper stories, and before the flames could be subdued the whole of the interior was burnedout. The Joss is estimated at about $2,000; no insurance. A young man, nam thew Donohue, during the Progress of tho fire was arrested by officer Du Boia, of the Twenty- second precinct, rosie: in his possession some of the articles of furniture en from the house, which the police allege Donohue had stolen. The Fire Marshal, it pomeon has obtained a clue to some of the parties con- cerned in firing the house. Captain Slott and the Mar- shal are investigating it. Suicpx or 4 Loxatw.—Coroner Collin held an in- quost at the Lunatic Asylum, Blackwoll’s Island, on the body of Robert Henseher, a lunatic, who committed suicide by hanging himself to the grating over the door of his room with a pocket handkerchief. on deceased was cut down life was extinct. Deceased had been a clerk, but losing his situation it troubled him so as to cause tomporary aberration of mind. His friends sent him to the asylum on tho 12th instant. Mr. Henschor was Afty-seven years of age and a native of Scotland. AtLzaxp Drata BY Taina Porson.—Ata late hour on ‘Tuesday night Patrick Corr, residing at No. 269 Seventh avenue, called.at the Twentieth precinct station house an¢ reported that John Toy, one of his boarders, had died suddenly. The attending physician refused to give a burial-certificate, as he was not satisfied as to the cause of death. The police repart that it was subsequently ascertained doceased had died from the offects of mor- phine, which he had taken for the purpose of self-de- struction. Tho Coroner was notitied to hold an inquest. ARRIVAL OF CoLonEp Troors.—The Twenty-ninth Con- necticut regiment (colored) arrived in tho city yostorday, and aftor a short stay at the Battery Barracks left for New Haven. Fires in New York. Fine ix Maxcix Strxet.—Shortly before two o'clook yesterday morning a fire was discovered in the spring hobby horse manufactory of A. Christian & Son, Nos. 87, 89 and 91 Mangin street. It originated on the second floor of the rear building (No. 89), in the work shop. The [oy arrival of the firemen prevented the spread of the lames to the lower floor. Tho damage to the stock will be about $2,000; insured for $7,500, in the St. Mark's, Merchants’, Jersey City, Norwich and Rutgers Insu- rance companies. The building is also owned by Mr. Christian, It is damaged about $800; insured for $4,000, in the Globe, People's, New England and Albany City Insurance companies. The fire is supposed to have been caused in some accidental way at present unknown. The men work in the shop until ten o'clock at night. Firw in WALL Sreegt.—About two o'clock on Tues. day morning a fire was discovered on the fourth floor of the building No, 62 Wall street, in the office of Fincke & Lapaugh, lawyers. It originated in front of the grate, and, from appearances, must have been burning « long time, a large floor joist being burned through. The fire was discovered by the janitor, John Woeber, who rosides on the top floor; and, by giving a prompt alarm, the flames were oxtinguished before the fire spread. Tho damage done to the office furniture and library of Fincke & Lapangh will bo about $300; no insurance, Tho room underneath was occupied by’ William D. Booth; office furniture and books damaged to the extent of about $250; ‘no insurance. The office furniture of James Squires, in ‘an adjoining room, was damaged about $100; insured for $1,5€0, in the Clinton Insurance Company. The other occupants of the building on the floors underneath only sustained slizht damage by water. The building belongs to the Jones estate, It is damaged to the extent of $500, and is insured. Free ix Joun StreeT.—Betwoen seven and eight o'clock last evening a fire occurred on the top floor of No, 96 Jobn street, the premises of Usal Cory, manufac- turer of tron furnaces. It seems the fire was caused by Peter Marx, who accidentally let his lamp fall into a of paint, which set the benzine on fire used in mixing the paint. Marx was badly burned on the right hand. The insurance patrol watch, under Captain Mackey, were quickly at the premises, and by the application of a fow buckets of water succeeded in extinguishing the fire. The damage was but trifling. Fing ty Peart Strext.—Between nine and ten o'clock Inst night a fire occurred in the hay loft of stables Nos, 12 and 14 Pearl street. The loft was pretty much burnt out. Loss estimated at about $500; no insurance, Stable No. 12 is occupied as a private stable Py Frederick Den- niker, and the stable No. 14 occupied by Dennis Hays. The horses were all taken out without og A The hay Joft was divided by a board partition. The fire is said to have commenced in the loft owned by Mr. Hays. How or in what mannor the fire originated is a matter not yet ascertained. Captain Warlow and a strong force of his police kept the crowd back and maintained excellent order. Fire Commissioners Brown and Abbe were also atthe fire, superintending the working of the depart. ment. Damages Claimed for Fa! Imprison- ment. SUPREME COURT—PART [1. Before Judge Moncrief. George Davis versus John Kelly, Henry Drehen and Hugh 0’ Donmell.—This was an action for false imprison- ment at various times, for which $10,000 are claimed as damages. The defendants set up that they were author- {zed to make the arrest under a warrant from the City Judge of Brooklyn, and moved for a dismiseal of the case on ground that no evidence had been adduced to 6 it, nor had any been brought forward to connect defendants with it. The plaintiff's counsel ued that the warrant which the dei its held at the time of the arrest identified them with the and that the Court which issued the warrant exceeded its jurisdic. tion, The case is not concluded. The match named to take place on the Capitoline Grounds yesterday has been postponed until Wednesday next, the heavy rains having rendered the nds unfit B of di for ba Foy im are sanguine and eile place yosterday afternoon, at Greenville, N. J. The match was for $600 a 100 birds each, 21 yards rise and 80 yards bounds. Jersey Boy wan beat by one the score being, Taylor, 87; Jersey Boy, 86. A match at fifty double birds, for $500 a’ side, will take place between the same partios this (Thursday) after. noon, on the grounds at Greeny llc. NEGRO EQUALITY. The Great State of South ‘ide Legislating to Keep the Negro the Inferior of the Whites. Curious Debate in the South Carolina Legislature. Bill to Punish the Whites tying Negroes. for Mar- The White Mechanics of the State Fear- ful of Competition on the Part of Negro Mechanics. State Policy Declared to be Opposed to the Opening of New Avenues of Employ- ment to the Freedmen. &e. &c. &c. Our Columbia Correspondence. Couumma, 8. C., Nov. 8, 1865. EFFORT OF THE LEGISLATURM TO PROBIWT THE CHIVALRY FROM MARRYING NBGROKS. The nogro eofe was takon up in earnest this morning for a second reading. An amendment to the eight section declares that “mar- riages between a white person and a person of color shall be illegal and yoid."” Mr. Green wanted to know what would be the conso- quence if they siould cohabit together, aa that would be an evidence of marriage according to the law of South Carolina. He thought there should be some punishment affixed where a white man marries a black woman, Mr. Warloy said it needed no other punishment than for them to know that their children would be tllogiti- mate. The amendment was carried by an overwhelming vote. : Considerable discussion was caused by an effort to introduce the word colored before the words fathor or mother, man or woman, in the several clauses of the bill, so as to make clear and definite to whom and what class the law exclusively extended, The effort failed, it being considered that the title of the bill—namely, “A bill to amend and regulate the domestic relations of per- sons of color," &¢.—waa sufficient. NEGRO MECHANICS. The most exciting discussion of the session sprang up to-day on the motion of Mr. Mulvaney, of Charleston, a representative of the mechanica of that city, to strike out in the twenty-second clause of the bill the provision requiring the master or mistross of a colored apprentice to teach him some useful trade or business. Mr. Mulvaney proposed to strike out tho above provi- sion, leaving it entirely optional with the parties taking apprentices, As he understood the intentions of the code, the object was to perfect asystem of regulated negro. labor, to prevent idleness, vagrancy and crime, and to. subserve the agricultural interests of the State. So far ag that great interest of the State was concerned, and the provisions mado to make up: any doficiency of tabor in the fieldor on the plantation, he gave it his hearty sup- port. But there was no such deficiency of artisans or mechanics, and ho considered it exceedingly impolitic on the part of the State to attempt now any sys- bg of fostering or encouragit the increase of negro mechanics in South lina To do this would leave the ids abandoned the negroes, who would rush in crowds to the ithe xo towns. Hoe knew hundreds of negroes who had lived all their lives on the plantations now in Charleston seeking an opportunity to get labor with white mechanics. The mechanics required no: interferonce or legislation for them, and State policy was against the opening of new avenues of employment to the nogro. Mr. J. 8. Richardson, of Sumter, moved to amend by requiring the master or mistress to teach their appren- tices the business of husbandry or some other domestic occupation. He thought the necessities of the country at the present time required that all negroes, now artisans and mechanics, should assist in rebuilding our waste places, and {¢ would be unjust to deprive them of the right to pursue the trades which they had alréady learned. But ho contended that it was the policy of the State to pre. vent future artisans and mechanics being made out of our negro mn. hold that it ie the business of the State to encourage and foster white mechanics. Mr. Dosier said, in considering this code they should divest themselves as far ag possible of prejudice and feeling. The proposed object of the gentleman from Charleston is simply class logialation Kt ts to logisinte against the black man. To that Tam opposed. Bosides I think that argument employed does injustice to the ability of those men whose intorost he advocates. Where is it, when tho white and black man are brought into competition, that the white does not ly distance Tt seoms to me that alla white man should ask for is irand equal chance. If be is then out- stripped he deserves to fail. ir. Mulvaney—The member from Sumter (Mr. J. 3. Richardson), in speaking of the different intorests as likely to clash, mentions that it should be the object of your fostering care to eucourage the youth of the State, who have returned from the battle field without employ- ment, without any avocation, to enter into mechanical occupations. He would remind those who speak of class legislation that the mochanic has never asked for it, But heretofore the class logislation has always been for the professions. The white mechanic does not arrogate to himself any particular superiority; but as a citizen he has the modesty to believe himsolf quite equal to any gentleman lawyer or planter in this house. Formerly it was not considered d ling to work along: side ot the black man, for then the law itself provided the distinction, 80 broad and well marked there could be ‘no collisions—no mistake. Now the black is froe, with the same opportunity to work as the whites. It will often happen that the colored man will claim to be the superior of the white, and you come to the black’s as- sistance by compelling the white to teach his apprentices useful trade. This is class legislation. If the code is for the purpose of compelling the freedmen to work there should be good cause shown why it is necessary to use compulxion, You say our fields will otherwise be desolate, the State will be thrown into a condition of barbarism, and you justify your legislation upon the broad interests of humanity. But I submit there is no neces. aity in the case of mechanics for legislation. In the city of Charleston there are more blacks asking to be received into mechanical occupations, who would be one hundred fold more useful in the fleld. By this code you prompt the negro to crowd into the city, where there is slready an abundance of white mechanics. If you want any labor of that kind they can furnish it to those who can pay thom. Again, it is said wo should encourage immigration to our State from abroad. But if you incorporate this feature you crowd out white me- chanics, and drive those already bere as well as your young men away from the State, You drive out your Most industrious and honest class of citizens and substi tute those who caro for nothing else but how they can live from day to day with as little labor as possible. One member says that the white man who is afraid to com- pete with the negro is dishonoring himself; that he drops the standard of the mechanic. As I have said, we don’t want legislation. But why does not the gentleman make provision for the negro to be apprenticed to your professions? Is there any good reason why he should not also be taught to be a doctor, or a lawyer, or a judge? The mechanic claims an equal right with any ‘of you. But we do not wish you to legislate on their in- torest. All they ask is to be [et alone. We have no ob- fue to your compelling the negro apprentice to learn asbandry. By this they are hot wanted code intends to guard ay plantations. As a representative of the mechanics of Charleston, and with the interest of the whole State at heart, I protest against the action here taken; and I tell you the mechanics will be beard in this matter, You ‘Will have to listen to them from day to day, from year to year, and from se to season, until you give them that consideration which every element of prosperity for the State demands. WHERE THR 8H (CHES. Mr. De Pass, of Kershaw, said—I concur heartily with my friend from Charleston. { ask gentlemen in this House the plain, simple question: Are they willing to let their sons sit at the workbench alongside of a big buck nigger? Gentlemen may depart from the contemplation as much as they please. What has kept many of our youths from learning me- chantoal trades? Simply because it was considered de- grading. The House has just stricken out a regulation juiring the master to give his apprentice six weeks sebooling in every year; but yet they pr to place the negro alongside the mechanic, thereby elevating him wa ition capable of taking be ns serge from our underrating him. Can gentlemen say they ever saw a ni finished piece of mechanical work executed a negro? Look at the buildings they are erecting in jumbia, area get a negro to do ing has it not always been miserably finished? I have a great re. ee for the negro in his place—that is the cotton fiel our men who are diaposed to work at the prevented by a class who are acknowledged to be their inferiors? wo allow ni to come on the floor of this House? Do we permit them to come into the Do we give them positions of honor and Is not the mechanic who puts up your house ag man who makes consider wh ether we are not exceeding our our power, We have not made and freo, They are free, not by their own notion, but from circamatances now beyond our Control It ta true, under Vue constitution We lave the NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY,’ NOVEMBER 23, 1865. right to keep them out of this hall; but ander the const: tution we have no right to block any avenue of trate, to assign them a place and say, “You shall not go beyond | that.” We have no right Lo say he shall not participate in any business. Is it even banded justice for us to le sislate this people without their participation from any avenue of trade openedto them? If the nezro cannot sit atthe bench he may stand at the desk, beside the ue publish your peecoadings and write your history. henever you undertake class legislation you are bound to do wrong. Let this thing regulate itself, Any | young man who says he would be @ mechanic, but is too proud to sit alongside the negro, docs not want work. It is not the fear of contamination with the negro. God Almighty has made the distinc tion, and it is not in the power of conquerors, not in t power of man to remove it, The negro has been de- clared by the Almighty to be the infertor of the white man, and the inferior of the white man he will be until the last trumpet sounds. No one ean say that the white ian has lowered himself because the negro works with = him. I say it is erous legislation, unequal and un: just. In dealin: this delicate question let us en- Weavor to give the negro a fair chance in a code that our sonemies cannot point out and say that have vindic- tiveness in our hearts towards this race. I feel sympathy for the negro when [ consider what are to be his suffer- ings, what he is called upon to endure during the coming winter. I believe he will continue to suffer until, driven to extremities, he disappears, as the Indian has done be- fore him. Let us, then, give him a fair chance. In the name of God, if they can live as mechanics, let them. If” needed in the agricultural department there they will go, and there they will be used. Mr. Dawkins, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said—I think the action taken upon thia section of the Dill will, in a great degree, docide its fate. The motion ‘to stnike out the provision for the education of theso people has prevailed, and if the present motion for ox- lading colored persons from being instructed in the me- chanical arts, or any other trade or business auitable for | ae also prevails, we may as well atop our legislation. vi in will we have como here, for we will not only havo planned nothing, but shown to the world that it is our purpose to keep that class in their same ignorant and degraded condition. The propositions [ submit are, have you a right fairly guaranteed in the amendment of your Constitution, fairly guaranteed in the direction given. to the commission, to prepare a code for the regulation and protection of this class of our population to prevent them from entering those professions or occupations which may be most agreeable to them? What is the necessary and indispensable right of a freeman? That ho shall have a right to acquire property and to make a contrac, Yet you say he shall remain in gross ignorance ; not only that, but shall not engage in that course of business which i most likely to ad- vance his interests. Where is the objection to allow him to be taught the arts or professions? What is the position we have staked our reputation upon? It is that he is the inferior animal. If the negro has not the capacity and skill to compete with the white man where is the danger? Is the white man afraid of him—afraid he will exercise more skill or more knowledge, so as to exclude white men from profitable pursuits? If that be the case—if the white man cannot enter into competi tion with the black, put the black out of the way. It would be falsifying the position we have heretofore taken. Wherever the negro has come into competition with the white man the negro has given way. The legis- lation proposed to be adopted is tor prevent that compe tition and give him no opportunity or profession, My friend from Kershaw (Captain De Pgs), who comes froma most refined, well cultivated wn of our State, seems to be shocked at the idea of a negro sitting upon the same bench, learning a trade with hisson. Iv is that false pride which has injured us 50 much in the late war, What are the facts in regard toitY A gentleman says he is sorry his son cannot go on the same bench with the negro. I Cannot see that repug- nance myself. Has he not ploughed in the same field? Have not the son and negro ploughed and hoed to- gether? Some may not have been forced by necessity, but is it not of copatant and daily occurrence upon the plantation that a white man works with the negro? aud does any man feel degraded because he has held the handles of a plough in the same field with the negro of his father? There is not a single employment in life where physical force is required, in a mixed population, that the whites and blacks do not combine together for the accomplishment of their object. You cannot raise a house, not a single thing, where the two do not associate. If the blacks had been taken into the war with the Southern army, the same as in the Northern, the condi- tion of things might have been ditferont. It was false pride that kept them out. If it is declared to be the sense of this House that though you have made them free by the fundamental law, yet you will confine them to that em- ployment where they may not come into competition with the white man—if that is the deliberate sense of this House, let the bill go. Mr, Dozier thought the gentlemen opposed to learning the negro a trade were investing that clause with huge proportions. It did not compel the master to Icarn lis apprentice the mechanical arts or instruct him in hus- bandry. Ho thought very few negroes would bo in- structed in mechanfos. Only the tradesmen could teach thom; others wore not going to injure their own business; but he was strongly in favor of o} the door to the negro. He knew some negroes of wonderful mechanical skill. If he was not mistaken some of them have patents for inventions as useful as any proposod by white men. After some further debate of a similar character as the above a motion was made lay the amendment upon the table, Tho yeas and nays being taken resulted as follows:—Yeas, 70, nays, So the amendment was lost. The Magnolia Minstrols, performing in Chattanooga, Tenn., have added some fine talent to their troupe. The London Athenawm publishes the following quere i its last number :—“What is the meaning of the Parlia- ment act of Charles II., owing to the prohibitive clauscs in which singers and players (Herr Pauer among tho number) are withdrawing the announcements of morning concerts, auch, it is satd, being illegal? Does it extend to London alono? If not, what becomes of music in the Provinces and the vicinity—to begin with, Sydenhamt”’ Christy's Minstrels, in London, are to give extra per- tormances every Wednesday afternoon, in order to satisfy an over pressure of audiences. Samuel Lover writes from the Isle of Wight in rofer- ence to an announcement that Mr. John Collins was to sing bis (Lover's) song of “Widow Machroo,’’ with ad- ditional verses, at the Theatre Royal, Dublin. He ro- marks, “I beg to say that the verses are not mine, and I protest against my composition being disfigured by such interpolation." An opera by the King of Hanover is about to be pro- duced in his capital. ‘An opera, by Herr Dorn, Gewitler bes Sonnenschein, has succeeded at the Friedrich-Wilhelm theatre, Berlin. From London we learn of the death of Mr. Allan Irv- ing, well known as a concert singer. The Leading Operatic City of the West- ern Continent. {From the Chicago Times, Nov. 20.) When our Opera House was finished, and a successful season of operatic presentations had demonstrated the taste of the Chicago public, the Times foresaw and announced the fact that henceforth the Western Cont- nent, in musical matters, would take its cue from the Gardon City. The prevision of this statement haa been abundantly vorified. Last spring the astonishing success of Zucehi, and Kellogg, and iini, and Susini, and others, in this city, was the stepping stone to a porma- nent and lucrative fennel of these artists and artistes by the metropolitan managers of New York. ‘The credentials of these singers were sent to Chicago, and being endorsed as good by Chicago audiences they were returned to New York and the troupe at once engaged. it the present moment Chicago is engaged in looking over the credeutials and deciding upon the merits of other company. The enterprising manager knew that if the approbation of Chicago was secured his suceess in New York, St. Louis, Cincinnati, New Orleans and Ha- vana would be assured. He therefore brought his singers directly from the schools of Italy and the royal opera houses of Europe to Chicago, with a view of getting an endorsement of their merits. ‘The interest felt by New York in this oxamina- tion i« nm in the fact that one of the leading journals of that city oops a full corps of telegraphic and latter. writing correspondents to report upon its progress. Each morning do the million inhabitants of Manhattan find fall reports of the Progrows of this Chicago trial, and they are therefore prepared to judgo what is in store for themselves in the future. A de- cision in favor of this troupe by Chicago guar. antees them a coming engagement; while a de cision against the troupe will spoil a multitude of operatic anticipations, We give New York much credit for ite enterprise in this matter; for there is probably no other city in the world that, for the sake of knowing whether acoming opera is first class, would telegraph operatic enticisms every night for a distance of more than @ thousand miles. ‘The appreciative Chicago public has not yet_made up ita mind as to the merit of these new singers. Their case will be given @ careful attention; for it ix well known that Chicago, in music, is a tribunal from which there is no appeal. Hence asty decision will not be given; but when it is made up it will be final. Just at present there is some diversity of opinion, and {t will require » further examination of a few nights to reach a unani- mous conclusion. In the meantime New York, Cincinnati, 8t. Louis, Milwaukee and Havana must have paticace, We know there is a very natural and a very intense desire to have our decision; but, nevertheless, their waiting will be re. warded, for our conclusion will be correct in proportion to the longth of time employed in reaching it. The ex amination 1#a difficult one, and only time and patience will evolve a perfect solution. The Arrest of Roberts—An Ex from the Alleged Counterfeit: TO THE EDITOR OF THR WARAL In reference to the highly colored report of the counterfeiting case in which Tam said to be so deeply involved I beg leave to make the following corrvo- tions:—A sense of duty com me to do this for the sake of injured and funocent whose good names have boen unjustly and shamefully abused. 1 nood scarcely toll the people of A dong J whore both Mr. Baoouurn, Nov. 21, 1906, 6 atl Grand Ball of the Fentan Sisterhood in ‘Baftalo Bureato, Nov. 22, 1865, ‘The Fenian Sisterhood gave @ grand ball in this oy last evening, which was largely attended The green flag of Erin and the Star#and Stripes were freely displayed in all parts of the ballroom. A splendid Irish flag was displayed over the English flag, with the British cross turned downwards aud the red of the flag concealed, On this was the folowing motto: “The Red Cross of England shall fall beneath the Eagle and the Harp.’” Charles J. Jenki Elected Governor of Georgia. 1 {From the Savannah Republican, Nov. 16.] The cloction in our city yesterday for Governor, Repre- Seutative in the United States Congress, and Senator and Representatives to the State Legislatu) off very quietly. No disorder or disturbance of any kind was manifested at the polls. But little interest was mani- fested in the contest, and the vote polled was much smaller than usual on such occasions, when party spirit ran high Our citizens seemed to have settled down to peaceful pursuits of business, and appear to have giver politics the go by ~*~ hes Governor Jenkins has been elected without the slightest opposition—no other candidate having been nominuted— and we believe he will prove to be “the right man in the Fight place,” and will make an excellent Chief Magis: trate, Mr. Jenkins has been throughout the war a oon servative secessionist, is an accomplished gentioman, and @ man of sterling integrity, who will leave nothing un- done which can conduce to the material prosperity aud advancement of our State. Bt rds. A gumorous and respectable assemblage of the ad- mirers of billiards were collected in the fine billiard hall of Mesers. Spaulding & Co., corner of Court and Butior streets, Brooklyn, last evening, the occasion being an exhibition of the beauties of the game, at the hands of Dudley Kavanagh, of this city, and other noted billiard experts. The feature of the proceedings was an inter. esting match of five hundred points, on a Kavanagh ‘& Decker table, between Dudley Kavanagh and Mr. Humphrey, the'noted amateur player. The result was, of course, the success of Kavanagh, but his adversary played a beautiful game, making the highest run of the evening and fully equalling his opponent in the skill dis played in nursing the balls, Especially was this the case in his fine run of one hundred and sixty-four. After this game w% over Messrs. Eaton and Kavanagh playod together, Tho following is the score of the principal match :— Kavanagh—13, 30, 0, 14, 89, 56, 5, 0. 15, 9. 14, 40, 2, 0, 9, 107, 18, 5, 10, 0, 2, 30, 20; total, 500, Average, 21-17. Time of game, one hour. Humphrey—0, 54, 0, 23, 2, 2, 164, 31, 42, 2, 3, 16, 4, 7, 12, 2,0, 2,0, 0,0, 13, 10; total, 392. Average, 1718 ‘The third match’ between Carme and Kavanagh will not be played, the Fronchman having paid forfeit. Supreme Court—Chambers. Before Judge Clerke. The People ex rel James Dennis vs. Malthew T. Bren nan,—This was a mandamus directing the Comptroller to pay the deputy tax commissioners who had been re. moved from office their salaries for the year the ap pointees of the Comptroller were in office.” The Comp- troller sets up that these mon did not perform the du- ties of their offices, and that the money appropriated to pay these salaries has been paid tothe men who have performed the work, To this it Is opposed that the Tights of the relators cannot be affected by any act of the defendants. The cave was argued and the decision re served. News from New Orleans. New ORnRaNs, Nov. 22, 1865. Goneral Canby has issued an order restoring the Metho dist Episcopal churches of this city to the Mothodist Episcopal Church. The Methodist Conference of Mississippi has just ad Journed. It adopted resolutions providing for the edu cation of freedmen and their wives and children. Movements of European Steamers. THE CHINA AT BOSTON. Boston, Nov. 22, 1865. ‘The steamship China arrived hore at three P.'M. The mails went South by the night train, THE CUBA OUTWARD BOUND. Bostos, Nov. 22, 1865 The steamship Cuba sailed this forenoon with Afteca ngors for Halifax and forty-two for Live she rept £2,160 in specto for Halifax and $62,000 for Lav- erpool. The Tunisian embassy were among the passengers, The Nightingale Sings the Pratses the Rose, the Eastern poets say; but our Birds of Beauty Aing the’ praises of the “NIGHT BLOOMING CEREU! PHALON'S Entrancing Perfume. Sold everywhere.— Springfield Republic. 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