The New York Herald Newspaper, December 1, 1865, Page 4

-4 NEW YORK HERALD. ene a ance JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N, W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. eee TERMS cash in advance. Money sent by mail will be atthe risk ofthe sender. None but bank bills current in Mew York taken. ‘THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price, $14. ‘THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Five conta per copy. Annual subscription price: Any larger number addressed to names of subscribers @2 50 cach. An oxtra copy will Be sent to every club often. Twenty copies to one address, one year, $35, and any larger number at same price, An extra copy will be sent to clubs of twenty. There rates make the Wasaty Henatp the cheapest publication in the cunry. 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Prosident Johnson has issued a proclamation declaring tho restoration of all the privileges of the writ of habeas Corpus throughout the country, excepting in the twelve States of Virginin, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Loutsiana, Arkansas and Toxas, the District of Colambia and tho Territories of New Mexico and Arizona, The euspension was instituted by President Lincoln, in cer- tain oases, in his proclamation issued on the 15th of Mr. Romero, the Moxican Minister in Washington, has, Teceived official confirinstion not only of the aceonnis af the imperial evacuation of the State of ‘ennounesd in oer issu of yesterday, but of the statement published in the Huns November 21, to the effect that the imperi- iia wore withdrawing from the Northern States of ‘that all of them had left Sinaloa with the exception of about four handred atill at the seaport town of Mazatlan, These and other recent movements of Maximilian’s forces seem to lend an air of probability to the late report that his troop were all to be withdrawn from their outpost positions and principally concen- trated at four main interior points of the country. Provisional Governor Parsons and Mr. George 8. Hour. ton have boon elected United States Sonators by the Alabama Logisiature. ‘The number of Fenians enrolled and now drilling in Canada is stated In our Toronto correspondence to be noarly eighty-two thousand, of whom nearly one-half ere @aid to be already armed. It is also announced that Clubs designed to agitate in favor of the annexation of the provinces to the United States are being organized all over Lower Canada. The Board of Aldermen hold a session yesterday after. noon, after ® recess of four months, and transacted a large amount of genoral routine business, A petition from (ho Sislors of py, asking fora plot of ground on which to orect a building more suitable to their pur- pones, was presented and roferred to the Commities on Finance. ‘Tho Board of Councilmen hoid a short sossion yestor. day and passed on some routine papers. A resolution ‘wae adopted authorizing the proprietor of the New You« Henauo to construct such extension of the existing ‘vauita around the premises 218 and 220 Broadway as hall be required for the new buildings of the Hrann euiablishmont on payment therefor at the rate ostab- Jishod by ordiaaace, the same to be done under the direc. thon of the Croton Aqueduct Board. Five thousand dollars wore donated t the Society for Juvenile Delinquents, and certain lots of ground on Bovonty .seventh stroot and Fourth aveaue wore given pon which to orect a Ger ‘man hospital A resolution was adopted directing the Btrest Commissioner to hotify the owners of rails now Jaid in Greenwich and Washington streets to cause them to bo removed forthwith Tho Atrong divorce suit was continued yesterday, and the testimony of Mra Benjamin Strong was concluded. ‘Two lettors referring to the alleged confess! nd anid to have.been written by Mrs, Strong, wero read, On her croas-examination the witness deposed more fully concerning the interview o: 4 statomont at the St, Julian Hotel, and as to tho ov r Mra, Poter Strong. She olro 1 ‘a8 to going to chutch and as to holding pray in which Peter, Rdwerd an’ Mary participated. Testi mony was taken aa to the eervice of the habeas corpus on Mrs, Strong and Le subsequent proceodings in refer- ence thereto. During the reading of two letters of the ‘wife the husband shed tears in court Tho suit of James Packer for divores from his wife, farah Jano BR. Pac was commenced in tho Su- Promo Court in Brooklyn yesterday. It is instituted on the ground of allogod marital infdolity 01 tho part of the tm the Supreme Court, O’Brien claims that he was duly elected to the occupied by Mr, John Houghtalin, Judge Barnard yos- terday granted @ peremptory mandamus to compel the defendants to investigate the complainant's claim to the seat. ‘A somewhat curious case came up im the Suprome Court yesterday, before Judge Smith. It was one in which Owen McGowan sued Chas, H. Hyne for defama- tion of charactor. The alleged defamation was that the dofendant in January last called the plaintiff's liar; said he stole money from his till; stated that a fortune teller had told him a0, and that he called him a thief on this ground, and demanded his money back. The plaintiff claimed to be wholly innocent of the said allegations made against him by the defendant. The Court decided that the charge was not sustained by the plaintiff. The investigation of the charges against Mr. William C. Barney, Benthan Fabian and Captain Reginald Chaun- cey, of attempting to defraud the internal revenue, was continued yesterday, and the examination of Mossra. Mooks and Warren was concluded. There aro other wit- nesses for the prosecution to be examined to-day. ‘The will of the Iate Madame Jumol, widow of Aaron Burr, has been offered for probate. The will was mado in 1863, when the tostatrix. was, ninety years oll, The catate disposed of by this will is estimated at the large sum of one million dollars, though some valuations fail short of that amount. The property ‘is distributed) in five thougand dpllar shares"among the institutions for the deaf and dumb and the tlind asylums, the Historical Sooiety, the orphan and other benevolent institutions, ‘and the pastor of the deveased, ‘tho Rev. Mr. Smith, of Fort Washington; and the societies, with Mr. Smith, are made residuary’ legatees, which, if the estate is worth one million dollars, would give each of them forty thou- sand do!lars, The sum of soventy thousand dollars is also given to Mr, Smith’s church. The will is contested by Nelson Chase and others, who allege that they are tho hoirs at law to the estate; but they have offered to com- promise with the societies and Mr, Smith for the sum of five thousand dollars h, and to pay the counse! repre- senting thom ten por cent if, they accept the compromise on behaif of their clients, Mr. Chase has made pre- parations to bring suit against all the legatecs named in the will if they reject his proposition. ‘The result of the proposal is unknown. Surrogate Tucker's court calender for December only contains fiftee Notice is given to all parties in- toresied in these to be ready for trial on Monday next, as the Surrogate de:igns to have a clean docket by New Year's Day. The Commoncemont of the trial of Gonzales and Pel- alvador, charged with the murder of Mr. yosterday set down by Judgo Lott to take the $th of January next, in tho Brooklyn Court orminer, 10 ratify the nomination of the Tammany tos for Mayor and Corporation Counsel— 7, Hofiman and Richard O’Gorman—took in the Cooper Institute. Addresses Hoffman and Messrs. James T. Buren, f radicals to denounce the recon- ont Johnson was held last even- 's church, The draft of a memorial opposition to the President’s plan of ‘on waa read, and a committee to revise appointed. Addresses in consonance it of this document ‘were delivered, after ilar mecting for next Phurstay evening was licer, alias ing in Dr. Choo to Cor Sout! out between two and three o'clock yester- day morning in the tenement house No. 113 Mott street, which was partially destroyed. The flames spread #0 rapidly as to cnt off the egress of the teaants excepting by the w.ndows and roof, One of them, named Thomas Brown, was brrned to death, and anothor, a Mra, Alex- ander, “an old*woman, received serious, if not fatal, injuries from tho fire and by falling from a window. Nearly all thgoccupants lost all their little stocks of household wi tty. ‘The cause of the fire is being made the subject of official investigation. Extensive preparations for the skatfng season have al- ready been made at different localities in and around tho city, and especially in the Park, There, in addition to the’ old ponds, two new ones are to be opened to the public, houses for the accommodation of skaters and spectators are being erected, and the arrangements for Qooding and keeping the ice in proper condition have all been perfected. ae ae Thore was another auction sale of surplus government versols at the Brooklyn Navy Yard yesterday. Twenty- five altogether wore disposed of, of which all butshreo were steamers. The attendance was large, the bidding was animated, and the prices realized were considered very fair, The steamer Grand Gulf brought oighty-six thousand dollars, and the total result of the sale was over four hundred and forty thousand dollars. Tho Empire sidewheel line steamship San Salvador, Captain J. Atkins, will sail to-morrow, 2d instant, at three P. M., for Savannah direct, from pier 51 North river, foot of Christopher street. Thereafter the steam- ships of the Empire line will sail from pier 29 North river, foot of Warren street. ‘Tho steamers Turcarora, Vanderbilt and Powhatan and the Monitor Monadnock, of our new naval fleet for the Pa- cific, left St. Thomas, West Indies, where they touched on their way, on the 18th and 20th of November. ‘The government has recently made considerable re- ductions in the number of workmen at different naval stations, and the turn of the Brooklyn Navy Yard came yesterday, wien over one thonsand men were discharged, on account of their servicos being no longer, necessary. It ts ramored that a still further reduction of the forve at Unis establishment will shortly take place. William Conway, the old sailor who, on the secession: of Florida in 1861, refused, at the dictation of an officer “who had turned traitor to his country, to haat dows the national flag at the Pens#tola Navy Yard, died yosterday at the Brooklyn Naval Asylum, aged about sixty-three years. Mr. J. A. Van Ambnurgh, the celebrated showman and wild beast tamer, died iu Philadelphia on Monday dust. One of the cars of tho through train for Richmond which left Washington at half-past eight o'clock om ‘Wednesday evening was thrown from the track near War- renton Junction, by which accident a brakeman and two soldiers wero instantly killed, an « lady and twenty-cight soldiers wore badly injured. The soldiers all belonged to the Ninoty-sixth New York regiment. It is said that ex-United States Senator and ex-rebel Robert Toombs, of Georgia, having managed to elude the government officers some time ago in search of him, has, after keeping himself in concealment for some months, sailed for Europe from New Orleans. Since the nogro insu} in Jomaica the Britiah an- thorltlos have expelled the ex-Emperor Soulouque, of Hayti, his family, Primo Minister and other followers from there, whore they had beon refugees since being driven out of their own country. Soulouque and his party propose to make tho little Danish West India isiand of St, Thomas, which is also the refuge of Santa Anna, of Mexico, thoir future place of abode. Goneral Kilpatrick last evening addressed a largo audi- ence in Tremont Temple, Boston, on “The Future Party of the Country.”” A steam boiler in the Penn Treaty Iron Works, Phila- delphia, exploded yesterday, instantly killing one man, injuring several and destroying considerable property. The steck market was firm and prices were higher yes- terday. Gold was dull, and closed at 14834. Business was generally quiet yesterday, and the trans- actions were light, save in a few exceptional cascs, in doth foreign and domestic goods. Petroleum was active and firmer for cruda, but stendy for refined. Cotton was inore active, but prices were ® shade lower, Groceries were quiet. On 'Change (flour was decidedly tower. ‘Wheat was lower. Corn was quite steady. Onte wore lower, Rye, &c., were without importantcbange, Pork was somewhat firmer, Beef was unchanged. Lard was firmer. Butter was uncettied. Choese was inactive and nominal, Whiskey was dulland heavy. | Rerorren Escare or Toomns.—It is reported that that ferocious and implacable fire-eater of Georgia, Genoral Robert Toombs, in search of whom certain officers were industriously en- gaged, has eluded his pursuers, and escaped to foreign parts, This is about the best dispo- sition that could be made of him. When wanted again in this country we dare say he will be sent for. He will probably turn up next as one of Maximilian’s emigration agonts in Mexico; but we would admonish all whom it may concern that this boisterous Georgian is 8 verv intractable customer. Jamaica Insurrection. ties committed by the negro ingurrectionists in Jamaica should not be lost upon those intemper- ate radicals in our own country who are endea- voring to elevate tho negro beyond the sphere the Creator intended him to occupy. They should serve to them as a terrible warning of what may occur here, and what bloody ecenes may be enacted in our midst, especially in tho Southern portion of the country, if they persist in their designs; and to what a fearful account- ability they will bo held if they refuse to listen to the counsels of reason and learn nothing from present occurrences, In the case of the Jamaica butcherles we perceive that the “brown man,” Gordon, pos- sessed of an intelligence beyond the ordinary standard of the black man or negro, and en- tortaining a degreo of ferocity and vindictive- ness only found in the latter race when in their most savage state, was the leader of the assas- sins, and had been Glevated to a responsible official position by tho.votes. of the inhabitants of Jamaica, where negro, suffrage, or pegro: equality, is logally recogniged. _ Restless and ambitious, he inflamed the minds of, his ignor- ant followers, just aa Wendell Phillips, Oheever,, Garrison end othér negro ‘agitators axe doing at this day in our country, aud awakened the revengeful passions of the ignorant blacks to an extent that knew no bounds. The blood curdles as the record of the barbarities com- mitted is read. We see here—what the bistory of St. Domingo and attempted slave insurrec- tions in other portions of this continent have already shown—another instance of the utter incapacity of the negro race for self-govern- ment, Their normal and nataral condition is that of dependents. In the South the great mass of them are more helpless and improvi- dent than the merest children. As a race, ifan effort is made to elevate them, to bestew upon them the rights and privileges of white men, they return to their natural instincts of barbar- ism or utter helplessness, and become a burden and a pest in whatever community they may reside in any number. It is true there are ex- ceptions to this rule; but we refer to the present wretched condition of the masses of the Southern negroes, to the newly gorged gibbets of Jamaica, to the sanguinary massacres of both Jamaica and St. Do- mingo, for evidence that our assertion can be substantiated. What must be the re- sult to the entire race if such brown men as Gordon and Fred Douglass, and such “white men with black hearts” as we have named, shall be permitted to continue the agitation of the subject of negro equality? In the first place, we shall sce the whites in the West In- dies opening a war of extermination against the blacks, and in our country we shall see every Southern plantation and roadside covered with the graves of negroes br their uncoffined corpses. They are dying so fast there now of starvation and exposure that the humane plant- ers cannot care for them or their deg d bodies. What folly itis to talk to hundreds of thou- sands of miserable beings like these about free- dom and equality, negro suffrage and all that! On the other hand, there are many thousands of the Southern blacks who have been taught to believe by the negro worshippers of the North that they are the equals of the whites in every reapect, and that fact being denied by their former masters, the natural instincts of their savage natures, or, as tho London Times ex- presses it, “the very moral of their African forefathers” burst forth and humanity sickens at the deeds of blood, pillage and massacre that ensue—all, of course, followed by sanguin- ary and merciless acts of retaliation and pun- ishment. President Johnson, in his reconstruction pol- icy, should appréach this grave matter of ne- gro equality and negro suffrage in the most careful manner. He should be cautious in be- stowing rights upon the negroes to which they are unused and, by the great mass of those in the South, never to be appreciated by them. At the same time, the Northern agitators and radicals, such as Phillips, Cheever, Greeley, Fred Douglass, Garrison, Higginson, and all the rest, should take warning by the horrible scenes which have resulted from an attempt to spread their insane doctrines of negro equality over the once fair island of Jamaica. How Misther O'Reilly Meneged tho Charter Election. Pending the State election the political par- ties called to their aid several of our distin- guished generals to help along the canvass. ‘We had General Kilpatrick and Genoral Logan holding forth in New Jersey and New York; General Cox stumping in Ohio; Generals Bar- low, and Slocum, and Patrick, and other war- worn veterans on the ticketa; but the charter election appears to be left entirely to the manage- ment of the politicians. Private Miles O’Reil- ly, who has been getting up war songs during the rebellion, enters the lists with his shillelah and his song, to make a Mayor and Corporation Counsel, just as if he was in green Tipperary, zens’ Association. Misther O'Reilly walked in among them with his shillelah in his fet, a ong in his pocket and « bundle of weekly was “up” in the rising of 48, was just the man for Corporation Counsel, and Misther O’Roberts the chap for Mayor. Another brave old Irish gentleman, Aleck Stewart, who came here worth a thousand dollars and is now worth a thousand millions, more or less, was Misther Miles’ lieutenant, and between them they made the Citizens’ Association all right. Misther O'Reilly then marched to the Tribune Associa- tion with his shillelah, bis song end his news- papers, where he found Mr. O’Greeley and his’ colleagues eating bran bread and worshipping the nigger. Private Milos was disgusted. He said it would never do to worship the nigger while the great chieftain of the sept of O’Gor- man, and that other sound Irishman, Misther O'Roberts, were to be attended to. Whether influenced by the shillelah, the song or the blar- ney of O'Reilly, the Tribune folks threw away their unbolted bread, got up off their knees and went in for the O'Gorman and the O’Roberts. The next sortie of Misther O'Reilly, with his shillelah and his song, was upon Morart Hall. Here he found Fernandy Wud in council with the Mozarters. He asked Wud what he was abont, and Fernandy said that he was trying to be the nextMayor. “Nablocklish 1” says Misther O'Reilly, twirling bis shillelab. “You'll never do for Mayor. Misther O’Roberta is our man, and the O'Gorman must be Gorpora- tion Counsel.” The reat obief of Morart was triumphantly to Tammany Hall. Hore his military experience in the Army of the Potomac stood to him. He laid siege to Tam- many, posted his men around it as our armics middle, in the trae Donnybrook style, tucked developed before a jury in this’ city. . criminal features of the Harris divorce wore sufficiently disgusting; but those of the Strong divorce case present us with an even more terrible picture of degraded human nature. The charge in the case now on trial here is that Mr. Strong’s wife was guilty of adultery with his own brother; and growing out of this accusation is another charge that Mrs. Strong connived at the murder of an unborn infant, because she was really unable to tell whether it was the child of her husband or of his brother. As to the facts of this awful affair we express no opinion at present, since -the trial is not yet concluded; but we call attention to these divorce cases in order to inquire as to the origin of the immorality which they reveal. The most of the theatres of this metropolis have been for a long while gradually degenerat- ing. Their management has fallen into the hands of a class of men whese characters will not bear investigation, and the plays produced by them have been impure and corrupting. It was our knowledge of these facts and our de- cided effort to reform the places of public amusement that led the theatrical managers to conspire against us. We selected one of the worst of the show-shops—an establishment which was a notorious and scandalous aui- gance—a place where the most deprayod of both sexes congregated—and we refused to permit it to be advertised in our columns, The conscience-stricken managers of some of the other theatres took the alarm at once, and openly avowed their design to break down the Herat. Their fright, theirendeavors to raise up 8 new issue, their attempt to forestall pub- lic opinion, led us to examiné into their mo- tives, and we find that they attacked this jour- nal because they feared that their vices had been discovered and were about to be exposed. Our movement towards a theatrical reform was, therefore, the cause of the difficulty which has created so much comment; but fortunately {or the community the managers have revealed their own weaknesses, ANd now we shall not rest until the reform which we havé inaugura- ted is fully completed. A London judge once declared that he could tell when Jack Sheppard was boing played at the theattes by the number of youthful cul- prits brought before him. A New York judge could know when to anticipate seduction and divorce cases by keeping the run of the plays at our theatres, There can be nodowbt in any reasonable mind that the people are demoral- ized by such representations of vice in its worst and most attractive forms as have lately dis- graced tle metropolitan stage. The object of some of the plays seems to be to teach men how to seduce women and to make popular heroines of those women who allow themselves to be seduced. Theatres when properly con- ducted refine and elevate the public taste and inculcate lessons of morality and of patriotism; but, if this be so, it is equally true that when the theatres are improperly conducted they have a precisely opposite effect. This position must be conceded, or else the theatros have no influence whatever. We complain, not of the existence of theatres in our midst, but of their disgraceful management. If some of thove connected with the theatres practice in Private the evil lessons which they teach in public; if the audiences have their moral sense 80 weakened that some of them give amateur repetitions of the vices enacted before them on the stage; if what are called our “best” theatres are transformed into assignation houses, ea pecially at matinees, tho press can no longer be honestly silent, nor should the clergy re- frain from warning the people. Broadway and the Bowery are now fairly overrun with im- moral amusements, and, as a natural conse- quence, there is more crime in the city this winter than ever before. The concert saloons are no worse than the theatres and the theatres are no better than the concert saloons. The managers bring over here their foreign notions of morality and try to vitiate the American public. The whole system needs « thorough reformation, and we shall continue to insist upon this fact, in spite of all cliques and combinations, until we see evidences of g new era in theatricals. Picrones or Tas Excuse Pror.e sy tae Lonpox Parera.—The English press has lately been seized with a fancy to depict the English people, to psint the portrait of Jobn Bull as he is seen at home in all his glory. The pictures are more remarkable for fidelity and for « strange, conree artistic effect than such pictures usually are. Generally pictures of this class, from such sources, are notable for their flowing lines; for the warmth end heartiness with which they touch tile subject. We see John Bull a4 the vety model of o burly, genial, hon- est, good natured fellow—the masterpiece of nature, in his way. This is when the pioc- ture is done for « foreign market. But the later sketches, to which we refer, are in- tended for home use, and ere of 4 different character. The London Times gives its idea of the intellectual measure of the masses of the people in the course of « discussion as to the extension of the suffrage. It urges that the aristocracy does not want it, and it answers the argument that the people may want it by this query: “Whatgan a man who works oix- teen or eighteen hours out of twenty-four, and whose idea of the boat newspaper is the one that hes the most pictures. beonuge he hes NEW YORK! 'HERALD) FRIDAY,) DECEMBER 1, 1865: ‘witaesoee wore examined, whoa tat. | Negro Suffrage amd the ‘Teachings of thé | ponplussed, and private O'Reilly wont off never learned to read—what can euch a man MUSICAL. . ‘now or care about politics? Give him his bread, bacon and and you may govern The Opera in Chicago. ‘Caroado, Nov. 30, 1868. ‘Mme. Gazsaniga’s sudden indisposition necessitated a ehange from Saffo to Lucia di Lammermoor, with Noot Guidi, Musiani, Fellini and Miller. Tho audience was very large and cnthusigstic in its applause, Guidi especially, by her fino singing and dramatic rendition, excited the admiration of all. Musiani was better than ever as Edgardo, It is rarely that one hoars @ tenor whe throws so much spirit and fife into his part. Both Follint aud Milleri did admirably, and the sextet at the close of the second act was enthusiastically applauded, and it re- coived an encore, ‘To-morrow is the last night of the season, when Ze Sommambula will be given, with Miss Lucy Simons as Amina, and Lisa will be taken by the charming contralto Olgini, who hag consented to take this part in order te make tho cast more perfect and attractive. On Saturday there will be @ matines, when Lucresia Borgia will be presented, and in the evening the com- pany will leave by special train for St, Louis. get enongh bread and bacon to keop them- selves alive, and enough beer to sufficiently blunt and stupify their senses. ‘This sketoh by the London Times is a good preparation for the next, which we find in the London News. This iso picture of the masses paying their last tribute of respect to one whom they certainly regarded as one of England’s heroes—the former champion, Tom Sayres. The British public on this occasion tarned out in immense force, as if to show that if it doos not appreciate the question of suf- sfioage there is something that it does appre-’ -elate. Tt behaved at the funeral of its hero with national decorum, “Jesting, swearing and rough chaff, wishes that tho music would come, jostling and “horse play,” whiled the time. The shopkeepers in the streets through cwhioh the funeral went put up their shutters and closed their doors, “out of deference to the predatory instincts” of the people. The cortege passed on, Tom’s hearse, his pony drawn cart, ocoupied by his dog only, and « train of “tav- ern celebrities.” Then at the gate of the grave- yard, as the masses rushed to get in,"there was a hand-to-hand fight of two hours between the publie and the police, in which the public pre- vaijed, ‘nd, rushing in, held a saturnalia around .the grave, as if it were the last of Tom’s fights, instead of his funoral. This is a picture of events that happened in enlightened, civilized and happy England—a picture that for horrible brutality cannot be equalled in any other !and under the sun. Well may an English paper doubt whether the Ja- maica negroes are the most brutal persons on the earth. Englishmen are doubtless sufficient- ly familiar with scenes like that at Sagres’ fu- neral. Itisa custom with the British press, wherever it can seizo any topic in American life—wherever it can find an exceptional scene—to argue from it on tho degrading in- fluences of democratic institutions. Are we to argue, also, from their own pictures, that there is something in the British constitution 80 do- grading that it can account for scenes like this at Sayres’ funcral? If 40, England had better thodify her constitution soon, by an extension of the suffrage, or by any other means; but if it is not 60 the British press had better change its tactics, and, when tempted to dilate on what it sees against us, be satisfed to reflect on things nearer home, PO as Tum Baoapwar Treats —Tho highly ontértaining and instructive comedy called Sam is still on the boards of this establishment, and stil! holds out an undiminished fatiraction to the public. Mr. F. §. Chanfrau {snow playing tho oighth Weck of a most euccessful engagement, and is as amusing asever in tho character of Samuel Plantagenet De Briancourt Roslyn (a poer of tho United Kingdom of Great Britain and Iroland, Comman dor of the Bath, Knight of the Golden Fleece, &c., &¢., &c.), commonly called Sam. The five acta of the piece ‘will be repeated this evening. The company embraces some excellent femalo talont, and the music is fine and soleot. A Bath matinoo will bo given 4o-morrow (Satur. day). Tho matinoes at tho’ Broadway are thronged with tadios and Bern) pa a lc Oe ‘Tur New Namonat Cinove.—Tho talented and very pumerous company of oquestrians and othor peformets engaged by Mr. Montpellier at the circus, Nos, 37 and 39 Bowory, will appear this ovenjng in 4 vory diversified and most ample programme. Yoling Charles Fish, the Great somemault equestrian, wiil again astonish the audience, Indeed tho astonishment, combined with admiration, which fills the minds of the crowds whe patronize the house ia not permitted to subside from the moment of tho march of the cavaliers into tho ring until the conclusion of the performances. “Thom mutlas"* are stil! at the National. Miscollancous Musical Items. @RAU'S ARRANGEMENTS IN HAVANA, ‘The Tacon theatre in Havana has been engaged for the months of February and March by Impressario Graw for Italian Opera. Mr. D. de Vivo, acting as M. Grau’s agent, has just returned from Havana, having made all the necessary arrangements. M. Grau is very popular there among opera goers, is extraordinary success im America having created the greatest enthusiasm, Mr. de Vivo starts in January for the purpose of -making the | abono or subscriptions. ’ BRIGNOIA'S ENGAGEMENT AT FLORENCE. ‘Tho announcemont of Brignoli's engagement at the Pergola theatre, Fiorence—the new capital. of Italy— will be received with vory goneral satisfaction in our musical circles. It sots the seal to the verdict of the Amorican public in favor of this fino tonor, and over- whelms with mortification those who had entered into a conspiracy to crush hit. It was not to be auppo-ed that a rival 60 formidable to Mario and the Inte lamented Giugliai would be admitted into the lists with those popular gingors without encountering serious opposition from their partisans. The fact that he had received the greater portion of his musical training and croated his reputation here renderod him additiqnally ob- noxious, It was resolved not to allow anothor American educated singer, like Adolina Patti, to walk over the course and ricéive similar ovatwholming proofs of European approbation. Hence the flerceness and bitter- ness of the opposition—at tho time unaccountable to us— which the beau tenor met with on his first appear- ance abroad. He soon, however, overcame the projudices that had been created against him. The ‘swoetness and porfection of his unrivalled organ, com- bined with hig excellent method, gradually oxtorted the admiration even of his opponents, Tho press of Paris and London, which, in view of the fooling industriously fomented against him, had handled him cautiously, at last began to do him justice. Bat there was an evident reserve in their praises which was.only to be accounted for by tho underhand influences which still continued to bo excited against him. All these, however, have beam overborne aad cruahod by the engag*ment which he has recetved for the Pergola. No higher tribute could be paid by tho most musical people in th» world to the merits of an artist, who, though of thelr country and their schooi, had recoived his musical education else- ‘ -o— where. ‘The Pergola comnoncas its opstatic season just at the time when to Kation Legislature opens its alt- tings inthe now capital. In view of the interest whioh this important event excitos, and tho brilliant convo- cation that will be assembled from all . parts of ‘Itaty—we might add of the world—an artist gould mot aspire to a groater honor, than to #9 gelocted to contribute to the ntertainment of the | notabitities who wil bo Tosont. Sa ceratity ‘a3 & pab- tic, can desire no better proof of the correctness of our musical judgment than, that the countrymen of Signor Brignoli shonld call for his services on so important and memorable an occasion. TNEIPT, MADAME FLEURY URBAN, This talonted young prima donna, who came frem Now Orleans with considerable local reputation, and whe has confirmed the estimate formed of her talents among her Southern admirers by the appearances which-she has made hore in concerts, is, we understand, about te leave for Italy to perfect hers for the lyrical stage. The fine resources of her voice, and the dramatic talent which she unguestionably possesses, will, no doubt, with the training thus obtained, fulfil the expectations that are formed of her future emineuce a3 an operatic artist, a MLLR. ADELINA PATTI IN FLORENCE. Adelina Patti is in Italy for the first time. © She ap. pearod on the 11th of November at the Pagliano theatre, Florence, with unequivocal success. Considerable doubta wore entertained even by hor frionds of her ability to sustain the reputation which she gained in England and France before so critical an audience as the opera going world in Italy. Tho theatre, which is one of the largest, if not tho largest, in Italy, has been re- decorated, and the space for the audience increased. It was reopened on the occasion of Mile, Patti's débiit, with La Smnambuia, in which the character of Amina was charmingly sustained by tho young prima donna, whe fairly took a crammod house by storm, and tho critics who went, anticipating a failuro, remained to give ap- plause, Mle. Vatti is engaged to sing for ten nights, and afvor the expiration of her engagement will, ite understood, visit some of the other cities in italy, The King and Queen of Portugal have arranged te hoar Mile, Patti during her engagement in Florence. Sho is in tho hands of the Meynadiet management, which has charge of tho theatres of the old capital of Traly. Nows from New Orleans. New Ontxans, Nov. 30, 1965. ‘Tho work of rebuilding tho levees is to be commenced immediately. Tho steamer Ruby sunk about Ofty miles above the city recently. Sho was a total losa. The passengers and crew wore saved. Several passengers on the ateamor George Cromwell have arrived from Charleston, where she put in jeaking and machinery broken. General Dick Taylor has arrived here. Admiral Thatchor informs the Pensacola Obverver that twenty war vexrls of all rates are distributed from Cape Florida to the Rio Grando. ‘There ig much complaint su Texas bout collections of @irect tames on lands pressing the people. Old business men of Caivoston expect a crash in Texas next spring, thinkingAhere is too much overtrading. General Gregory, heal of the Freedman's Bureau in ‘Texas, is reported by the Toxatis as making a speech lately te the magross, wherein he condemned the Presi- dent's Cag f The Shreveport Gazette of tho 17th inst. says the cotton trade will soon close on the Red river. The prospects of woo crop and Seed by freedmen are very gloomy. ed, imnetaka and Fung Shuey, from New York. Cotton is better; 2,300 bales sold at 60c. 9 Sic. Sugar, Motnnsos, choice, $115. Gold stiff at 493¢. The Brooklyn Murder. THE TRIAT, OF THK PRISONERS TO TAKE PLACE TM : JANUARY. At the Court of Oyer and Terminor yesterday morning, Judge Lott presiding, District Attorney Morris moved So ree: emathi prdeont term be set down for the trial @f the two men beg the murder of Jose Garoia Otero. “Messrs DeWitt McCue, the counsel for the prisoner Petlicer, whose’ ‘real = Francisco Gene y Salvado, objectea, and said that it would = ae Semel 4 eg the beeen os then appointed the opening je next term onthe second Monday in Jan , for the trial. The acento be nt si Beppo = itl it reluctal as he wist roRect mattor with r that characterizod the fair, 17%. ing up the French confrere of Gonzales. It is sald xchange on Now York, %. discount. Freights on tt a testimonial will be presented to Captain’ Wi cotton—To New York, 1%. ; Liverpool, 11-16, ‘and roundsman Smith by the Spanish residents of city. A largo and finely executed picture of the cay News ™M ppi. of Gonzales, by Williamson, of Fulton street, ea COLLISION BBTW! TE MILITIA AND | Company the testimonial. TH NBGRORS. Gnewana, Miss., Nov. 30. 1865. A collision took piace here last night between a party of State militia, searching for arms among tho freedmen, and a squad of negroes assisted by some colored soldiers. Several of the militia were wounded, one severely. Alarge number of muskets, ammunition, &¢., were found and taken from the negroes. Affairs in Cincinnati. COMMEMORATION OF THE BATTLE OF FHANKLIN— SALE OF THE BURNETT HOUSE. Orwomnatt, Nov, ‘The Twenty-third Army Corps Association ing to-night in commemoration of the hattle General Strickland delivered an oration ai The Collins Overland Telegraph. Gan Francisco, Nov. 30, 1865. ‘The steamer George 8. Wright arrivod to-day, twonty- eight days from Petropotosk!, bringing Golonel Bulkley ‘and several others of the Overland Tolograph Expedi- tion. From the reports furnished, it\appoars that about fifty men have been scattered in detached parties along the Northwestern, American and Asiatic coasts, who will spend the winter exploring, surveying and locating the telegraph routes, using the steamer Reindeer as a means of transportation from place to place. Bargains will be made with the natives.to furnish telegraph poles whea- ever practicable. Next summer {t is hoped the surveys wilt be com- pleted, #0 that several thousands of natives may be em- ployed planting poles. ‘The George 8. Wright had « rough passage of twenty- nine days from Petropauloveki. Her memorandum re- ports:—First fourteen days had strong northerly winds; ‘on the 14th inst, carried away amoke stack, and from the 17th to the 10th had very heavy gales from the south- steamers for Las ‘on the way to Arizona, whore b foreanit and pee they sre nested for the proposed cumpeign aguines the ford ad Aled fe deh wih wave ‘haba Ake Prevest, ins dlecontineed requiring pass. | Moderete west wind, te tare bes ports frem this ety for Mexico. in three days. Bee 0 etter? “tt | Ald for Destitute Presbyterian Mints ee beater 7 Nov. 90, 1865, in the South. Salted, steamer Golden City for with but fow Louisvmas, Ky., Nov. 90, 1865, in treasure for Now York and have, with groat una- Oy $20,000 for Panama “Among the | _TH® Presbyterians of this olty have, 6 ot nimmity, organized the Kentucky Board of Ald for Ashley, of Novad: Tas. * F the Presbyterian pastors in the South who are in destitute circumstances resulting from the war. Tho Board consista of the Presbyterian pastors of this city, in connection with tho following officers:—William Garvin, President; L. 1. Warren, H. Sean a an Vice Presidents; James H. Bul peg od ‘They will reooive and dis- burse tho funds donated for this object. ‘A meeting of the united congregations of the Prosbytorinns in Louisville will be held in tho So cond Presbyterian church on the bat = ye the ap. proaching ’ Day, at which time, as ‘an appropriate for the restoration of peace and as as an carn of good will to offorts will bo made [Big and comfort to suffering pastors and their wives and little ones. Board Ca] o Presbyterians throughout the North and Wost Cor prompt oo operation in this Christian The Parrott Gu 70 THE BDITOR OF THE MERALD. “Parrott” gun at that post, in which thero are very great mistakes, which, as an act of simple justice, i would ask you to correct. 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