The New York Herald Newspaper, December 5, 1865, Page 4

4 RT 1S NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. —= = OUR PRIVATE MILES O'REILLY—HIS TICKET. YOR MAYHOR, MIS THER MARSHALL O’ROBERTS i(F'rom the Lakes o’ Killarney). FOR CORPORASHION COUNSRL, MISTHER RICHARD O GORMAN (From Dalighattie, Near Dublin). = a i AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Sau- aN Broadway, opposit® aetopaltion Hotst-—erarorianSnetna, Daxcita, 20-— sTrauas Avs oe Native Autists. i HOUSE, 201 Bowery. —Stno- oo Dintiea, Boaeanenes 80 ¥ewian’s DREAM; OB, * emer ; ¢ Grand and Crosby ee oe, A Grakm’s, Mixsraaca oF ALL NATIONS SSepmmvniont on, tar’ Downrati or Hound. : GEORGE CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS.—Tax Otp Scuoor , B. ps. Musical. Gems, &0., at the Sreces Opera House, Nos. 2 and ¢ West Twenty-fourth at, t "NEW NATIONAL CIRCUS, 37 and 30 Bowe —EQuas- 0 Feats, &C.— ‘uum. Ma- HOPE CHAPEL, 720 Broadway.—Pnoresson Wiseuan's Evasincs or Mystery aNd Vis10NS. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Erarorian Mix. sreeter—Batiaps, Buxcksques amp Pantomimes. NEW YORK MUSEUM Of ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— Open from 10 A.M. tilL10 P.M December 5, 1865. “Now York, Tuesday pe OUR PRIVATE MILES O'REILLY—HIS TICKET. FOR MAYHOR, MISTHER MARSHALL O’ROBERTS (From the Lakes o? Killarney). FOR CORPORASHION COUNSEL, MISTHER RICHARD O’GORMAN (From Dalighattie, Near Dublin). THE NEWS. CONGRESS. The first session of the Thirty-ninth Congress com- monced in Washington yesterday. There were present at the time of assembiing forty members in the Senate and one hundred and seventy-five in the House of Rep- resentatives, being all but nine of those on the roll of the formor body, and all but eighteen of those on that of the Matter. The rol! lists include the names of no members from tho States which took part in the rebellion. There was but little delay in the organization, Mr. Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana, being chosen Speaker of the House ‘on tho first ballot. The Prosidont’s message, however, ‘was not sent in, but will no doubt be delivered to-day, and wo shall probably be able to lay it before our readers dn an afternoon edition of the Herat, The Sonate was called to order at twelve o'clock by ‘Vice President Foster, The credentials of Messrs. Luke P. Poland, of Vermont, and John P. Stockton, of New Jorsey, being presented and accopted, these new Senators ‘wero sworn in. A protest of members of the New Jersey Togisinture against the admission of Mr. Stockton was Presented and ordered to lie on the table for the present. Bills were then introduced by Wr. Sumner, and ordered to bo printed, to enforce the constitutional amendment Rboltshing slavery; to allow negroes to vote in the Dis- trict of Columbia; to require juries to be partly com- posed of persons of African descent in sections where a portion of the population is composed of negroes, im cases in which negroes aro parties to the suits, and prosoribing to be taken by persons in the laicly ro- Doliiows States an oath to maintain their republican form of government, to support the national Union and Government, to discountenance all efforts to repudiate the national debt, and to oppose any distinction of per- wonal rights on account of color, Mr. Sumner algo in trodnced joint resolutions declaratory of the adoption of the anti-slavery ameudment to the constitution, propos. fing an amendment to base representation in Congress on tthe number of voters instead of on population, and sug- goative of the duty of Congress in respect to loyal citi- wens of the Southern States. Other bills were introduced to regulate the judiciary system and to maintain the freedom of the negroes in the South. Bills to reimburse ‘Missouri for calling out her militia and to constrict a bridge across tho Mississippi river at St, Louis were no- ‘iced. No other business was transacted. 4 In the House of Representatives tho members were eatied to order at twelve o'clock by Mr. McI"herson, Clerk Of the iast Congress, who proceeded to read the roll. ‘When tho State of Tennessee waa reached Mr. Maynard, @ected a Representative from that State, expressed a do- ‘@'ro to make @ remark ; but, as his name was not on the fist, the Clerk declined to recognize bim. On the con- olusion of the reading an animated debate took place in Fegerd to the exciasion of the Southern members, Mr. Brooks, of New York, denouncing it, and Mozsrs. Btovens, of Pennsylvania, and Washburne and Wentworth, ©” Minois, speaking in vindication of it. Finally, the motious of democratic members on the subject being auled out of order, the election of Speaker was proceeded with, Mr. Colfax receiving one hundred and thirty-nine votes, ngninet thirty-five cast for Mr. James Brooka, of Now York. Mr. Colfax was then conducted to the Speaker's chair, returned his thanks for being choven to preside over the House, and took the oath of office. A resolution was adopted declaring temporarily elected Mesers. Edward McPherson, of Pounsylvania, as Clerk; WN. G. Ordway as Sergeant-at-Arms, Ira Goodenow as eopor and Josiah Gwin aa Postmastor, The Preal- it and Fenate were then informed that the House was brganized. Mr. Stevens then introduced a joint resola- tion, which, after a suspension of the rules, was adopted by a vote of one hundred and thirty-three to thirty-six, to the effect that a joint committee of nine mombers Pf the House and six of the Senate be appointed to in- squire and report whether sny of the lately ineurrection- @ry States are now entitled to be represented in Con- grees, and that until said report shall have been made no smomber from any of said States shall be admitted into wither house, Notice was given of bills to revive the of goneral in the army, to amend the constitution epportioning Congressional representation according fo the number of voters and to allow negroes to vote in the Disteict of Cotambia, The House thon adjourned til! Qo deg. ‘MIGCELLANEOUS. ‘The antialarery amendment to the national constita- Aion wes on Haturtay last ratified by the Alabama Log. latare ‘by on overwhelming vote,” as aEneuneed in « Pelogram rece! ved by Secretary Seward from Provisional Governor Parsona, Alabama is the (wénty-seventh Btats, and the third one of those recently in rebellion, Po adopt tho amendment. Tho approval of only one foro Stato is requirod to make it a part of the supremo taw of the republic 4 Our city election for Mayor, Corporation Counsel, pight Aldermen, twenty four Counciimen and School Pommissioners and Trustees will tako place to-day. For Mayor there still remain before the people the four can- wy Messrs. Marsha)! 0, Roberts, Charles Godfrey jwather, John T. Hoffran and John Hecker—and the frontont will no doubt be « very animated one. The polls brill open at nino minutes past seven o'clock In the Joorning and close at thirty-three minutes past four clock in the eventing. A full list of the polling places Jhroughout the city was published in yosterday’s Hamann, ) A latve and enthusiastic meeting of merchants to ratify he nominations of Messrs. Marshall 0. Roberts for Mayor fod Murray Hoffinan for Corporation Counsel was hold youterday afternoon al the intersection of Wall and Broad stroots. Speeches wore made by Genorals Wal- tendon, M. H. Smith aad others The members of the Virginia Logisiawre meombied im Richmond and received the message of Governor Pierpoint. The Gover nor announces tho State debt as forty-one millions of dollars, against twenty-two milhons of available assets, and suggosts taxes and « sale of the public interest in railroads to meet the deficiency. He believes that Very little legisiation in regard to tho freedmen is re quired, but thinks that they should be allowed to tes. tify in courts and be tried and punished im the same mannor as white mea. It was reported in Richmond yesterday that General Butler will assume command of tho Department of Vir ginia on the 8th of next month. Mr. William A. Graham was yosterday elected to the United States Senate, for the long term, by tho Lagisla- ture of North Carolina, Tho Legislature of Louisiana on the 2d inst. adopted by acclamation # resolution declaring slavery forever abolished, announcing that there is neither open nor secret opposition to the national government im the State, and endorsing President Johnson's reconstruction policy. Provisional Governor Hamilton, of Texas, has author- ted the organization of special police forces in the several counties to assist in the preservation of order, and thas issued an address to the freedmen. The planters {of the State have.to « considerable extong, it is anid, abandoned planting, owing to the difficulty of inducing | the megroea to work with regularity, Many of the |, Texas, our Austin correspondont states, aro vory anxious that-she presont vacancy on the. beach of the Supremc Court of the United States should be filled by « geatie- man belonging to their State, and the most prominent |} among those mentioned for the position are Govornor Hamilton and Judge Paschal. Late news from the republic of Honduras announces the termination of the insurrection in the department of Olancho. The Congress of the republic will hereafter consist only of the House of Representatives, it having been decided to abolish the Senate, on the ground of that body being superfluous in a country so essentially democratic as Honduras, Much attention is being given to the subject of capital punishment. From the republic of Guatemala advices to the 2d of November mention the reception from the Pope by his “beloved son, the illustrious and honorable’ Varon Vicente Cerno, the new President, of an autograph letter congratulating him on his elevation to office, and also of ‘one of similar purport from the Queen of Spain. Tho Prosident, in a message to Congress, urges certain changes in the constitution. ‘The President of the Senate of the republic of Costa Rica, Don Joaquin Bernardo Caixo, died recently in San Jose, the capital. A collision occurred yesterday evening betwoen an Adams oxpress freight car, of tho Harlem Railroad, and city railroad car No. 53, of the Third Avenue Railroad, in the Bowery, opposite Fifth street, by which one passen. gor in the city car was instantly killed, a number of others severely injured and tho car broken into frag- monts, The freight oxpross car was running up town to join the train at Forty-second street, and the city car coming down towards the Astor House. They met at a point called the “forks,”” where the Third avenue road crosses the Harlem road in the Bowery, and where the fatal accident took place. The excitement in tho noigh- borhood was very intense. Coroner Collin will hold an inquest on tho body of the man who was killed to-day. A heavy fog sat upon the watera of this vicinity with the greatest pertinacity during the whole of yesterday ‘and the carly part of the evening, giving much inconve- nience to those who had occasion to cross the ferries, as well as to passengers on the Sound steamers. None of tho latter vessels left their berths at the picrs until a late hour last night, when the fog had generally dispersed. With the exception of a slight collision between the ferryboat George Law and a steam tug, by which nobody was burt, no accident occurred during the fog. Judge Barnard announced in the Supreme Court yos: terday that after the present term he would not receive the cortificates of medical gentlemen in excuse for the non attendance of jarors unless verified by amdavit. ‘There were no new developments in the Strong divorce trial yesterday. The greater portion of the day was occu- pied with the discussion of a motion mado by dofendant’s counsel for a dismissal of the complaint, on the ground that plaintiff had not made out acase. The motion was supported by a lengthy series ot arguments; but the Judge refused to grant a non-suit, After the roceas, counsel opened the case for the defondant, but had not concluded his address at the adjournment of the court. ‘An action was brought in the Marine Court yesterday, before Judge Hoarne and a jury, by Margaret Bolkhart against Joveph Phosmair, for five hundred dollars dam- ages for bodily injury inflicted upon her by the defend- ant's wife, in a pugilistic manner. The defence set up that the assault was justified by the plaintiff assuming to punish defendant's child. The jury rendered a verdict in favor of defendant. In the Superior Court, part first, all the cases on the calendar have been adjourned till Monday next. The December term of the Court of Goneral Sessions commenced yesterday. Judge Russel presided; but the Recorder will no doubt preside during the month, The Grand Jury were empanelled, Mr. George D. H. Gillespie having been selected as foreman. The City Judge de- livored a brief charge upon the usual topics. The pancl of the petty jury was called, and a number of gontlemon were excused from service. After the transaction of some unimportant business, tho court adjourned till Friday. Surrogate Tucker has received official information from the Surrogate of St. Lawrence county taat letters of administration have there been granted upon the estate of the Hon. Preston King. It would thus seem that the doath of the late Collector of this port, concerning which some doubt hnd been expressed in certain quarters, has been judicially determined te have taken place. The Surrogate yesterday took up the trial of the alleged wit! of Robert Diederichs. Mr. Diederichs cemmitted sui- cide last spring. This will, made a month or tro before his death, 1 contested by relatives, on the ground of insanity. The estate amounts to eighty thousand dol- lars. ‘AB examination by the potice eutherities yesterday sulted in indicating strongly chat Chartes Comby, alias Mercier, brought on here from Carlisle, Va., on suspicion of having been concerned in the murder of Mr. Otero, in Brooklyn, is entirely innocent of: the crime, and it is supposed that he will be released and seat back to bis regiment to-day. A new Investigation was commenced yesterday in the Jefferson Market Police Court in regard to the death of Daniel Claffy, by being stabbed on tho 19th of September last, at tho Lion Browery, during a fight. The fret in- vostigation, soon after the occurrence, failed to fx the commission of the crime on any one; but, suspicion bav- Ing since rested on Charles Reath, alias Reed, a barkeeper in the brewery, the case was yesterday reopened, when the evidence of several witnesses was taken. The er- ‘amination is not yet concluded. Reath and another of the barkeepers, named August Gunther, are in custody, awalting ite result, The New York Medical Society bold a regular mecting last evening at the Collego of Physicians and Surgeons, corner of Twenty-third street and Fourth avenue. Inte- Texting papers wore read on ‘‘Embalming in Ancient and Modern times,” ‘Medical Intelligence,” &c., after which the society adjourned to the second Monday in January nort. The Hudson River Railroad passenger station in Pough- keepsie was destroyed by a supposed incendiary fro yes. terday morning. Tho loss is not very heavy. The number of deaths in this elty during the week ending yesterday was four handred and seventeen, being thirty-seven more than ‘occerred duriag the pre. coding week, and ninetoen less than in the esrrespoad. sug week lant year, : ‘but Grm in the afternoon. Governments were etrenger. Gold cloned at 148%. ‘The merketa wore quiet yesterday, and domentic pro- doce, as general thing—and expecially breadstafeand Provisions—were lower. Ipported goods were steady. Cotton wae nominal. Groceries ditto. Petroleum was quiet, On 'Chango flour was decidedly lower. Wheat and corn were also in buyer's favor, Pork was irregular, opening. firm, but closing decidedly lower, Beef was steady. Lard was dulland nominal. Butter and checre ba quiet and unchanged. Whiskey was entirely nomi- nal. OUR PRIVATE MILES O'REILLY~HIS TICKET. FOR MAYHOR, MIS THER MARSHALL-‘O’ROBERTS (From the Lakes o' Killarney), FOR CORPORABHION COUNSEL, MISTHER RICHARD O’GORMAN (From Dalighattie, Near Dublin). The proceedings of the first day of the Phir ty-ninth Congross are before our readers. It pose of the majority to bring the President to the test of signing tt without loss of time, The bill requires the ection of both houses and the signature of the President, and then it will become « law of the land. The proposed exclusion of the Southera members, sebject to the action of the houses, could have been gained by each acting independently of the other. prepared for business, and business was imme- diately commenced by Mesara, Wilson, Sumner and Wade, ina perfect avalanche of radical bills and resolations levelled at the late rebellious States. The achedule presented by Senator Sum- nor is of itself absolutely astounding. [1 com- prehends “a bill to carry out the principles of a republican form of government in the District of Columbia (a regular overhauling, no dowbt, of the District laws making discriminations be- tween whites and blacks ; a bill preseribing an oath to maintain a republican form of govern ment in the rebel States; a bill to put in exe. cution the guarantee of a republican form of government in the constitution of the United States (this is, perhaps, a sort of territorial bill for the South); a bill to enforce the amendment of the constitutional prohibition of slavery; a series of resolutions declaratory of the duty of Congress to loyal citizens (freedmen) in the rebel States, and a series of resolutions touching the duty of Congress with reapect to guarantees of national security and national faith in the rebel States.” This bill probably involves a little seasoning of confiscation. This is Mr. Sumner’s schedule for the opening day of the Senate, and we think it enough for one day. His colleague, Mr. Wilson, with bis bill to secure the freedom of the inhabitants of the States declared in rebellion; and Mr. Wade, of Ohio, with his bill to regulate the elective tran- chise in the District of Columbia, followed in the same @irection. The question recurs, “if we have such things in the green tree what shall we have in the dry?” These proceedings in both houses clearly indicate an ultra radice! and revolutionary system of Southern recoa- struction as the policy resolved upon by the radical leaders of the republican majority of this Congress. However improbable and visionary we may have been inclined bereto- fore to consider the remorseless propositions for Southern reconstruction of such fanatical leaders as Stevens of the House and Sumner of the Senate, we are now brought face to face with the danger of their enforcement. The opening proceedings of the two houses of this Congress foreshadow the practical re- duction of the excluded Southern States to the status of Territories conquered from a foreign enemy and still in a state of revolt. Coercion! There is nothing here but coercions The radi- cal leaders of this Congress seem to be enraged at the conciliatory experiments of restoration adopted by President Johnson, and which, in preparing the minds of the Southern people for the great change which has come upon them, have been attended with such wonderful suc- cess. His patient and patriotic tabors in view of the earliest possible restoration of the South to law and order, industry, prosperity and pe- litical harmony with the North, excite, appa- rently, no consideration among the mejority in either house of Congress. The President's message, whieh, it is ex- pected, will be read before both houses toxtay, may result in some manifestations of a better spirit. His statement of the views and pur- poses by which he has been guided in his policy of Southern restoration may perhaps have the good effect of checking the radical leaders in their mad career. As it stands, the first day’s record of the Thirty-ninth Congress foreshadows not only a merciless rule of des- potism in the reconstruction of the excluded Southern States, but the firet chapter in a radi- cal reconstruction of the government of the United States itself, or a quick and decisive popular reaction against the party in power. Tf the republicans bave now the strength of a giant, let them remember that it is not always wise to use it asa giant. They can afford to be magnanimous, while the helpless Southern States, disarmed and impoverished, cannot afford to be intractable. QUA PRIVATE MILES O'REMLY—HIS TICKET, Fox MATHOR, MIS THER MARSHALL O'ROBERTS (Prom the Lakes o’ Killarney). FOR COMPORAGHION COUNARL, MISTHER RICHARD OC’GORMAN ° (Prom Dalighattie, Near Dublin), | Four Faces.—At Brady's door, up Broad- way, the people may get # satisfactory view of the faces of the four candidates for Mayor of this great city. They are representative faces, and are worthy the glance of a voter. In the face of the present Mayor it is easy enough to see just what we have found—a man of small, thrifty cunning, boundless conceit and narrow views. Heoker’s face is the perfect type of the Ger- man—large and bold, with plenty of good in- tentions and an eye to bustness—the head of a burly brewer, butcher or baker. Hoffman’s face shows infinitely more of trained intelleot— ‘an intellect that perceives and weighs with the nicest balance. [ts protrusive lower jaw bas something ugdeniablo that roques might fod NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1865. ; ~: PE, eee Sennen cer Or eer nee ee to be made of stubborn etuff. Roberts’ face is certainly best of all—the indication of a large mind and honorable nature; the face of a man who cannot bend to anything little; the face of e man who will make the best Mayor we have had since the days when that office was sought by the highest, and was not s bone to bo snapped up by every political mongrel. QUA PRIVATE MULES O'REILY—HIS TICKET. vom maruon, MIS THER MARSHALL O’ROBERTS (From the Lakes o’ Killarney). | POR COBFORASHION COUNSEL, ? MISTHER RICHARD O’GORMAN (From Dalighattie, Near Dublin). A Live Hewspaper. ‘There are stupid people connected with the press of the country who imagine that paper and ink constitute « newspaper. We have oat or enlarged the ‘proportions of their sheets when they bed sothing valuable to put in world, which seizes the prominent topics of the hour, and which treats all such matters in a striking and forcible manner. The poople do not went long columns of sophomorical essays or dull platitudes. The Henaip started upon the true idea of « newspaper thiriy years ago, It has revolutionized the character of the pross MIS THER MARSHALL O'ROBERTS (From the Lakes of Killarney). FOR CORFORASHION COO NHR. MISTHER RICHARD O’'GORMAN (From Duatighattic, Near Dbuttin: ‘The City Bicetion. There ts one rule which all men arho } i ] i i i i = a = i i | | : ti Tn ‘twenty years past who can tell whether the city haw euffered most trom the reformed or the reforming administrations? Let ua, theo, have something new. In repeated trials of now men it is impossible that we should not after a while, by accident if not by choice, fall upon the selection of capable men. It does not matter how or by whom men come in. What they do when elected is the important point. Good municipal government is not necessarily de- pendent upon party. It would undoubtedly be better for the general interest if the muni- cipal agents were never chosen exclusively from a single party. . The Tammany Hall ticket is made ap of mon of asingle party, and of one faction of that. Their campaign ts one of igteroooine war, gnd, if successful, the groat interests of the city, the wealth of its morchant princes, and the heavy taxes of its people will be squandered to re- ward favorites and punish opponents. We have tried that on, The Gunther faction refused to illuminate the city in honor of the national victories, and cheers in its meetings the rebel General-in-Chief, The Hocker party is a reform party without chance of election or the possi- bility of improving our government, if elected. It is useless to experiment with these parties again. The Union party gives us the only chance for something new. Though there is much that is unacceptable to many people in the State and national policy of this organiza- tion, it hae carried us through the war, and may give us @ good municipal government. Mr. Roberts, the candidate for Mayor, is a mer- chant, a man of liberal views, benevolent and patriotio spirit, acoustomed to the management of men and the direction of great enterprises. It has beon aaid of him that he does not know how many Qouncilmen there are, and hes never handled the wires of. the City Hall. That is greatly in his favor, and ought to improve his chances. If he does not know the number of votes in the Common Cofneil he knows nothing of the value-of each, nex how. mach it coasts to engineer a corrupt Ageme to s cuccbssful conclusion. So far 60 good. When an ancient governor was taunted in similar manner by a like competition he calmly replied that it was true he did not know how to play the fiddle, but he knew what was better—how to make a small city a great em- pire. That is the skill we require. Mr. Roberts may have it, He bas given the best evidence of his ability to establish commercial connec- tions between New York and the most wealthy, prosperous and populous portions of the globe, and he may help to make our city unparalleled in its advantages—if not a grand empire, at lenst the first city of the globe. We want nothing but a succession of sensible and sound municipal governments to accomplish this great ond. Lot us, then, try it on. O'Gorman, as candidate for Corporation Counsel, may bo the right man for that place. Let us try it on. These two offices are the right arm and the brains of the government. Filled with competent and patriotic mon, they will give what we want—wise counsel and vigorous administration. O’Roberta and O’Gor- man aro the only men offered that show a chance of election, or probability, if elected, of satia- fying the just expectations of our misgoverned people. Lot us try thom, and if they fuil us turn them out. OUR PRIVATE MILES O'REILLY—HIS TICKET. rOR MAYHOR, MIS THER MARSHALL O'ROBERTS (rom the Lakes o* Killarney), FOR COBPORASIION COUNSEL, MISTHER RICHARD O’GORMAN (From Dalighattie, Near Dublin). The Afri the Operae-The Stage Carpenter the Real Hero. The African at the opera appears to have caused as much grumbling as the African in politics, Meyerbeer’s last work seems to have been declared his. best, not because it is so good as the others, but simply because he hap- pened to die before it could be performed. ‘The critics have evidently carried out the old maxim, that nothing ill should be said of the dead, to its utmost limits; but, although they try to praise Meyerbeer’s work, they cannot help finding fault with the mannor in which it has been produced in this city by, Oily Gammon's ineficient troupe. Of course such organs of the silly Managers’ Association as the Tvibune, Times and World aro in duty bound to be fulsome in their flatierios of every- thing thet any momber of the Association docs, and their prejudices are consequently entirely in favor of Oily Gammon. With a full know!l- edge of this faot, we call them upon tho stand ae witnesses of the artistle fallare of The African at the opera, and, if we can get them to tell « little truth by accident, the public will give their evidence all the more weight, since thelr evident design and disposition are to cover over evory defect with unmitigated eulo- gies of Olly Gammon and his company. To prove our own case by the testimony of the zt i ; : i = i ' I 2 H : { 2288 fete? [i i grandeur of their love§ duet.” They inflict damage upon the brillancy of the ballads.” “we find some of the chorus (tenors) shouting with a lustiness not demanded by the composer.” The, orchestra shares in the same tin; for “the numerous gentlemen who coatrol the brass too frequently overpower the more plonsing string portion.” Bergman, the con- ductor, makes “efforts to allay their ranhoeas,” but in vaio. Wo should judge fegm oll this ne that The African mast be howled, rather than sung; and thet only persons of very long and strong cars could listen to it This fact ao. counts, perhaps, for the large number of per- sons who leave the house every evening before the opera is half concluded. The Times, after calling attention to the fact that the person who plays Inex sings “somewhat coldly,” and “substitutes a cadenss of ber own in the first act”—which proceeding is very complimentary to Meyerbeer—then in- nocently reveals the real hero of The African by stating that “the scenery ts so good that the artist enjoys the pleasure of a nightly recall be fore the curtain.” The man who made the ship and the Mancanilla tree carries off all the laurels, and, as he is the stage carpenter, “the artist” comes out every night and performs « bow for him. In London the palaters and car penters are often called before the curtain during the performance of Christmas pante- mimes and other show pieces, and this compli- ment is a candid expression of the opinion of the audience that the play and the players amount to nothing, and that those whe mamufhoture the ecenery deserve all the credit... In opera, how- ever, 8:call for, the stage carponter-very rarely to praise in the music and thesinging.. -We-ese that the case is very different in The African, as presented by Oily Gammon and his troupe. In the first place, the opera is sadly cut ; thea the artists substitute their own music for that of Meyerbeer ; the libretto is so very abeurd that the World threatens a dead author with “an invoice of straight jackets” if he ever writes another one like it; the leading people how! stentorianly ; the chorus sings in C sharp while the orchestra is playing in C; the tenors ehout with a lustiness not demanded by the com- poser; the brass trumpets completely over power the stringed instruments ; the conductor strives in vain to allay this rashness, and Oily Gammon, with a glass of lager beer in his hand, thinks that it is all very fine, and wonders why the ladies and gentlemen of the audience get up and go out, Under these circumstances who 18 there to applaud except the stage car penter, unless the boys in the gallery choose to stamp for Oily Gammon himself, and, with an eye to fun and broken English, demand “speech !” “speech!” in tones as lusty as those of te chorus, The World says that “the Man- canilla tree occupies the greater portion of the stage ;” and it might have added that the tree and the ship constitute the greater portion of the opera. But why should lovers of music go to ee an imitation tree and a painted ship upon a painted ocean? The Stuyvesant pear tree is a much greater curiosity than the Man- canilla tree in the opera,and real ships may be observed, at tho expense of a few cents, by a trip over one of the ferries or a visit to the docks. Our musical public used to go to the opera to hear good music and good singing ; but now, in default of these, Oily Gammon offers them a tree-and-a ship, and they are com- polled to applaud, not fine artists, but excellent mechanica—not great acting, but nice vtage carpentry. Alas, for the opera in this metrop- olis! Alas, for the musical status of New York! OUR PRIVATE MILES O'REILLY—HIS TICKET. FOR MAYHOR, MIS THER MARSHALL O’ROBERTS (F'rom the Lakes o’ Killarney). FOR CORPORASHION COUNSAL, MISTHER RICHARD O’GORMAN (From Dalighattie, Near Dublin). Gone Over—The political frm of Seward, Weed & Raymond to Thaddeus Stevens and the radicals. The course of the artful dodger, Raymond, in the late Congressional republican caucus, was no doubt the result of a consulta- tion and decision of the firm to this effect. It is possible that Mr. Thurlow Weed may think this the shortest cut to the New York Custom House; but it is also possible that it may prove to be the longest. OUR PRIVATE MILES O'REILLY—HIS TICKET. * FOR Maruor, MIS THER MARSHALL O’ROBERTS (From the Lakes o° Killarney). FOR COQRPORASHION COUNSEL, MISTHER RICHARD O'GORMAN (From Dalighattie, Near Dublin}. Gewmnat Sicxiea—It is probable that bed General Sickles. a short time ago reapoaded to the approaches of his frionds he would bave been this morning the leading candidate In the field for Mayor of this city. The President, however, in season interposed to secure him for a larger and more important field of opera- tions, in assigning him to the command of the Military Department of South Carolina, which embraces the States of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. Here, from his well known liberal and conservative views, his intelligence, expe- rience among and knowledge of men, and his industrious habits, General Sickles, we are sat- ised, will prove eminently useful to the gov- ernment and to the people of the States con- cerned, ta the good work of reconstruction and restoration. Blending the business qualities of the soldier and the statesman of enlarged na- tional views, we regard him in bis present po- sition as the right man in the wrong place. OUR PRIVATE MILES O'REILLY—HiS TICKET. POR mAYHOR, MIS THER MARSHALL O’ROBERTS (From the Lakes o’ Killarney). FOR CORPORASHION COUNSRE, MISTHER RICHARD O’GORMAN (From Dalighsttie, Neer Dublin). foci —snacthmatalacnrdsions oA ‘Tan New Yorn Comscromsmr—Wo under stand that the Secretary of the Treasury is ee well pleased with the efficient business-like manner in which Mr. Clinch fs conducting the affairs of the office of Collector of this Port that there will probably be no hurry in enperseding him. We think his regular appointment to the office would be a good stroke of policy, both in regard to the interests of tho Treasury and the relief of the administration from the nuisance of squabbling cliques of politicians. OUR PRIVATE MILES O'REILLY—HIS TICKET. ror MAYHOR, MIS THER MARSHALL O’ROBERTS (From the Lakes o’ Killarney). FOR CORPORABHION OOUNAKL, . MISTHER RICHARD O’GORMAN (Brom Dalighattio, Near Qublin.