The New York Herald Newspaper, December 31, 1865, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OPPICE N. W. CONNER OF FULTON AND Nassau sts. | Charleston, on Wednesday ~~ NEW YORK HERALD went to pieces, causing the loss ef forty soula Captain ‘Wonderfal Changes of « Year. A collision occurred at sea, @ little way north of last, between the steamers + New York, and tne Virgo, | Publish this morni from Savannah for TERMS cash’ inadvance. Money sent by rail wit! be | {om New York for Savannah, in which the former was most remarkable and momontow military atthe risk ofthe sender. ‘THE DAILY HERALD, published every day im the year, | the present winter visited us yesterday. It commenced Foor conta per copy. Annual subscription price, G14. | Sbout eight o'clock im: THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, as Five “ eente per copy. Annual subscription price:— 150 cach. An extra copy will be sent toevery club the prevalence of Ge same snow storm as far ef ten. 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Receipts of Sales of the New York Datly Newspapers. OFTICIAL. Year Ending None of Paper May 1, 1365. RArvavp.. + eeee- $1,095,000 Times. 368,150 Tribune 252,000 E 169,427 World 100,000 Sun 14},078, Express 90,548 sts YORK HERALD. 345, TReccese eee $1,095,000 imes, Tribune, % mes, Tritune. orld and Sun combined.. 871,899 ¢ ~~ THE NEWS. He-morrow occure again the happy New Year Day, and allthe {idications are that in our metropolis and the \rbon surroundings it will be observed with the usual social zest and hilarity, The great New York characteristic of the orcasion, the time honored Knick- erbocker custom of making. calls, has lost nono of its enjoy ability, and will no doubt again, as heretofore on each p currence of the day, be entered into with a spirit eqoal, In its peculiar way, to that which marks the cele- br: on of our national anniv: :ary. aval on the approach of mew year, we present morming the Hranp’s condensed record of the cou of the old one, containing » most valuable and int resting mass of information, and forming a ser- viceable \ndex to the suce on of great and important evente which have signatize elves months oy now on the point of belong nuinbere | with the past. e have her e notices of the closing campaigns of the rebel! oo, neluding Sherman's marc’ (hrough ree Tinas ond Grant's brilliant operations before Péters- burg; the aseassination of the President and the trial and execution of the consp'rstors; the finel extinction of stavery in the United States, the names of the distin. guished dead, losses throughout the country by fires and railroad and s‘cambont catastrophes, lists of all the State and Territorial Governors, criminal statistics of our city Jew courts, together with an accurate synopais of the othee ianumerable matters which now take thelr placos in tho history of eiviteen hundyed fd sixty-five. In our Parle and Berlig Q0Frspondence and the fayecty from Engib® and continental journals pub- cimhed in this ierning’s Heninp are contained interest- ang details of the latest Europ-an news, comprising @ atoment of the presert status of the Mexican question, Marttmg rumors to the effect that the Queen of Spain boing slowly polsoned by her physician and that a revo. | Howard were lution is impending in her kingdom, a full account of the coicbration of Thankseiving Day by the Americans in Berlin, and a number of other affuirs of @ political, social, ‘artistic, literary and miscellancous cherarter. Vora Cruz ie as the destination for which Mecrotary Seward in about to sail; but the object of his trip is not stated. He was t» have loft Washington yesterday on board the naval | cently entered the District Court room at Jefferson, | in their sincerity, and he treats them accord- steamer Do foto, but was prevented by tho unfavorable | Texas, and rescued by foros two Treasury agonts, indicted | ingiy, Thus Andrew Johnson, who came into weather, Zetuiutions were adopted om tho 21et inst. by the | Mr. Henry Winter Davie, of Maryland, died tn Balti. Indiana Logisiature, unanimously mm tho Senate, and with but one megative vote in the Howse, declaring It to be tho duty of the United States to protest against the: ‘usurpation of political control of tinent by Kuropean princes or acatnet the Mexican Savasion. ‘A Washington despatch announces that the people of Worth Carolina bave ratified almost unanimously the fd nances of their convention prohibiting slavery and None but bank bills current in ig | the articles were identified by their owners, Brown and anounced in our Washington telegrams | Steamehip Morning Star arrived ut New Oricans on the any Of this con- {| wut was not a member of the present ong. kes, and especially badly damaged Both vessels arrived et Savannah on pe full inauguntion of the achievements, and the most throughout the day, and, though the temperature was | combinations, foreigo and domestic, operating mild, and there was a consequent thawing process going oa, in such heavy volume did the scond that hy nights depth of three Baltimore and as far east as Boston. southward, it commenced im Baltimore Coming at six o'clock in | @xperience of any ‘The closing session of the Board of Aldermon for the greets tm flan, = upon ogg lost in stock 4 : speculations, Subsequent peer te. J pehhscy gaged in the avocations of peace, aud the ment committee was ‘appointed to investigate the | formidable navies, whose thunders echoed a the dying year Sherman’s army, from its triumphal march, late hour in the afternoon. Thé Board of Councilmen held their closing aeasion yesterday. Mr. Swoony, the Clerk of the Board, re. Down through the State of Georgia, signed his office, whereupon the Board elected ex-Coun- Down to the shining sea, cilman Hagerty to 1 that position. A resolution was | Was reating at Savannah; Thomas was ad- adopted renee Peres to bo i age refi a ministering the final blow of dissolution to the veyances throug! lway an e ing thor- "i ougbfares, which was afterwards reconsiderod and re- pease .f cere a ing ferred to the Committes on Railroads. A similar dispo- northern border of Alabame, was prepar- sition was made of « reeolution granting permission to | {9 his column of thirteen thousand mounted the High Bridge Railroad Company to operate their road | Men for a raid through Alabama and Georgia, upon certain streets in Harlem and on the Bloomingdale | destined to be more destructiv: ) Toad. Appropriations in addition to those provided for | senals, factories, foundries, reg ee aha tn previous ordinances were made to enable the Comp- | i004, J : P troller to meet the expenses of the present year. After | P’ han even the grand circuit of Sherman; the usual complimentary resolutions, the Board ad- | Grierson, on the same business, was moving journed sine die, down into Mississippi; Stoneman was pushing Pring 8 iv be ~_—_ an rt thas from East Tennessee across the mountains for is position of Recorder, was performed by him a ; ji sestatiay aii Oba ee Gaeceel rien ea North Carolina; Cunby was closing his lines sisted of pronouncing upon award B, Ketchum, the | *TUnd the doomed city of Mobile; the rebels Wall stroct forger, the sentence of imprisonment in the | 8t Fort Fisher, having repulsed General But- State Prison for four years and six months. Previous to | ler with an observation, were awaiting the ar- ba hada wie Papen mee rosea ner pen coun- | rival of his suecessor; Sheridan was equipping read a lengthy affidavit upon @ motion for a further “iS i postponement of the sentence, which was overruled by sy Aion nenod epic ar sis cocoa tho Recorder. It was claimed that several millions of | M8 decisive expedition to the James river by dollars were'involved in the litigations growing out of | Way of the Shenandoah Valley; while Grant, at his extensive forgeries, aud that Ketchum's testimony | Petersburg and Richmond, the vigilant master was of the greatest importance in settling these ac- | of all these combinations, was holding, as in a counts: Afler the regular business of the court was | vise th, * Solan’ Me ", pe vise, the last reliable army of Jeff. Davis, his vee wy cad ongieegiber Cabinet, his Congress and himself, and Jadge Russel made some appropriate remarks upon the retirement from the bench of tho Recortler to entes upon | Patiently preparing for the final blow which his duties as Mayor. A collation was prepared in the | was to scatter them all to the winds. or ay asic aber Anon ops gobo the hier At the same time, while we of the North had : n40) "5 : ebk Shas haviekiet sin Oban of ret ret whom | become sangnine ofa crowning success, we \ Up to threo o'clock this morning the jury in the | Were uncertain as to the duration and chances Strong divorce case had not arrived at an xgreement, | 8nd accidents of the war. Our latest received se had a a ay ~ thirty-qgight hours in de- | opinions from the London Times «were not.con- Aberation. judge left them last night at midnight, fommed. , ‘with Instructions {6 be sent for in case they areod upon meting, They _ ia me that = erinan’é @ verdict before morning, At last accounts they stood movement “dowa ‘through Georgia” was “to ten to two, but on which side they were thus arranged | ©Xtricate his army from an untenable position did not transpire. by a rapid march to the sea and the aid of the gene Leonard, of the Supreme Court, yesterday de- | federal fleet,” and that his trip would be-as cl case of Robert Martin, who was brought before . , 4 profitless as Xenophon’s retreat from Persia. the Court on a writ of habeas corpus. Martin wax con fined in Fort Tafayette'on charge of belng arcbel spy The rebel cotton loan in London was still a and connected with the rebel plot to destroy this city by | Cash article, and Lord Palmerston and Louis fire, A lengthy opinio& was given by tho Judge on'the | Napoleon were still believers in the statistics Aifferont points of law governing the case, and it was | and promises of Mason and Slidell. And why Leos? arcu: eure be handod over to the civil | not, when even so Inte as February, persnaded Mr. John B, askin, who was appointed by Judge Bar- through the representations of old Mr. Blair, nard, in February, 1904, referee to hear and adjudicate the lamented i’resident Lincoln and the Secre- upon the claims tigainst the city government of Charles | tary of State went down to Hampton Roads on a peace conference, to come back with the conviction that Grant was their only peace maker. A quiet conference with Jeff. Davis to- day, in his prison at Fortress Monroe, on that Devlin, for work done on the New Bowery, Fourth ave- Ngo ®ind Fifty-necond, Fifty-seventh, Seventy-ninth and Hampton Roads mission, would, doubtless, be very interesting. Within two months from Delancey streeta, has recently rendered his decision, denying all the demands of the plaintiff, on the ground that the Common Council never authorized or made ap- propriations for the services tu question. Robert Mitchell, the mate of the schooner John Boyn- ton, while the latter was anchored off Riker’s Island, | iat disappointment the lamented Lincoln, in : o ‘ ta aH Ie ses ion ee i snore am the Executive mansion of Davis, at Richmond, the time, and, something calling his attention to the for. | 20 doubt mused upon the folly of poor Jef. ward part of the vessel, he went there. In the mcan- | and its congequences to himself and his intract- timo the vosse! was boarded by a river thief, who came } able followers. from shore go nolstiessty se to sltenct mo notice. The The terrible events at Washington on the rogue immediately entered the cabin, where the captain and pilot were asleep, His movements awoke the former, | Nght of the 14th of April cast the responsi- who had pistol immediately presented at his head by | bilities of the government into the hands of the thief, and was threatened with instant death should | Andrew Johnson. “Iollowing in the footsteps he make any alarm. Tho captain, heedless of the threat, | of his illustrious predecessor,” the achieve- cried fhe hhoip, when the thief fred. ‘The fren, ments of his administration in the reconstruc- came to the rescue, when a second shot was fired the thief, the ball plegcing the mate's heart, kitting him in- | tive labors of pegce are almost as remarkable stantly. The murdere: immediately after ron out of the | in their great results as the crowning successes cabin, jamped over tt of the vessel into his boat, | of Lincoln in the prosecution of the war. Thus “rr ber ere ahena enpeate bi py to | the emancipation proclamations of Lincoln, re- et jus cl e the republic of Chile, sailed from this city for Awpinwall garded by him on first as “the Pope’s bull yesterday, on board the steamship Henry Chauncey, on | @gainst the comet,” have, through the faithful his way to the seat of the legation in Santiago. policy of Johnson, become part and parcel of Tho activity oma 8 a gat on . ot mons — the supreme Inw of the land. How astonish- ie Reese © spe padre , end | ing the contrast which is now presented in the edu G aad area epitbereharmt period condition, militury, political and social, of the ‘The interest becomes intensified asthe time approaches | late insurgent States, and their condition at for the grand opening of the campaign in earnost with | the beginning of this closing year! Was thero poker -rageoytig hee Tuesday ext, of the | dver such a revolution in the vicissitudes of oon oe re Wot. wo young mon tamed Catin Brown ani Thonaa | 7 S0eE pope Was shew over ers Howard wore discovered | $W0 o'clock yesterday speedy, spon! and transition I mendes cobesotag kee hom the rear of No, 68 | 88 this, from war to peace, from hostility to Lexington avenue, and were arrested, In their posses | submission, and from a civil war, in any other sion was found property belonging in the said premises, | ountry? Was these ever before @ rebellious and on searching their lodging place, No. 16 Monre® | neonte more thoroughly punished than those of aa eet corkon barclaree vas oust. "some ot | the South, or x rebellious people who, in laying down their arms, have rendered a more cordial committed for examination. submission to the consequences of their folly? The steamship Kvoning Star, These questions explain at once the South- this port yesterday from New Orleans, did not sail from | orn noticy of President Johnson and its won- derful success. He knows that the people of the rebel States have had the war spirit 24th inst. whipped out of thom, he believes that they ANow Orloans despatch etates that the military re- | have been sufficiently punished, be has faith the latter place until the evening of the 98th inst, end will therefore not be due here until Tuesday next, The jeorplaccenare finale” power under s cloud of doubts and apprehen- morp, yesterday afternoon, of paoumonis, aged forty. | sions, is withthe expiring year, North and cight years, Mei\Davis represented one of the Baltimore | South, and tn both hemispheres, recognized districts in the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-cighth Congresses, | gg q statesman worthy to follow in the foot steps and to consummate the generous and ta Now Orleans on Christine Dey, during which throe conctliatory peace policy of Abraham Lincoln. policemen wero soverely wounded. About forty negroes Thus glorious and encouraging, beyond the were arrested. visions of poets or prophets, are our pros- A despatch from Augusta, Georgia, states that there | pects of reunion, harmony, peace and power Thore was some fighting between the whites and blacks edlaring null the secession ordinance. For the former } were no negto disturbances Im that vicinity on Christmas | 4+ thy ologe of the year, which, fr its begin- there wore 18,627 affirmative and and fprthe latter 19,077 votes of a of d'sapproval Governof¥enkins, of Georgia, has responded to the Beor: tary of Mate’s despatch announcing the President's recoguition of Mun in his official capacity as Rxeoutive of the State, The Governo: retwrns his thanks and ex- preacos his “Gxed Purpose toobserve and obey as well the constitution of the United States ag the constitution of the State of Georgia.” A Toronto despatch states that Mr, Forguson Blair has | was decidédiy dull, Cotton was steady. Groceries wore Recepted the position fm ths Canwdian Cabinet made vacant by the resignation of Bir. George Brown. The steamehip Constivution, Captain Greenman, wich | trifle lower. Pork waa dull ami decidedly tower, Boot talled (rom Savannah on the 284 inetant for New York, (Grack on Kage Lookout Shomis on tue morning of tao 3,696 negative votes, | Day, but that on last ‘Thursday night a party of colored pproval aga'nst 1,040 | soldiers made an attack on a house about six miles from ning, was enveloped in the clouds and dark- that place, and gompmpitied gonalderagje damage, They | nose of olvil war, wote resislod, and five of them were sériously wounded. ‘The stock market was buoyant yesterday, and closed strong. Governments were strong. Gold was dull oud lower, cloBing at 144%. Saturday was emphatically s doll day, and scarcely anything wna done of Changs, and but little ob ff. Merchandise tonded in favor of the buyer. Petroleum Tar Henan Canauns.--Tho carriers of the Henaty will present no New Year's address this year, for we decidedly disapprove of this halts begging, and hope that our subscribers Assist us in discouraging and oxterminating it. The carriers make large profits from their business, and they ought not to be allowed to Jevy this annual tax upon our readers. What- ever course other newspapers may take, the Hanitn fs determined to countenance no longer unchanged, On 'Change flour was dull, but unchanged. Whoat and corn were also doll, and the latter ruled a wae uochanged, Lard waa dull aod heavy, Whiskey wns dull and eominatly a shade tower Greenman, twelve of his orew and one passenger, named With this day closes the most eventful year W. P. Long, of Brooklyn, saved themselves on cotton | in the history of this country, and qo of the bales, most eventful in the annals of mantind. Tho of 1865, which we braces #me of the SUNDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1865. ‘26th instant, and, after remaining there forty-cight hous, | Phe First and the Lact Day of 1965—Phe a system of beggary more honored in the breach than in the observance. Undergroun@ Railroad and Other Sehemes, The near approach of the period for the as- sembling of the Legislature of this State once more awakens an interest in the railroad and other projects for this city, The rapid growth of this metropolis, and the. narrew limits be- tween the rivers, render it necessary that we should have additional facilities for transport- ing passengers. Our present city railroads are not dafficlent to meet the public necessity. During. those heuse..of the .day when our citi- zens are going to and from their business it is | ag much as a man’s Iffe is worth to attempt to get off or on the oars of any Of the principal lines, The people are packedand crowded in together, with a head stivking out here and a leg there, like eo many sheep in a cart, en roule for the butcher's stall. “The omnibuses are 9 nuisance, and belong to the past age. There is no way of correcting the great evil except by more city: railroads. There is no dis- guising the fact thatthe present moans | of cotirersnes:-aze fatally fnsdoauate tp. fhe ta. Gf fe" cltizens “whose ‘we ‘private oar. riages and roll ‘streets, to and from their places of business, to keep that class that we write, the people, who form the hi ds of thousands of our population. “While “we urge the con- struction of more lines of railroad, let no the numerous schemes which will be presented to the Legislature for this purpose. We are totally opposed to the policy of farming out these valuable franchises to a set of specu- lators to enrich themselves. We contend that they should be so disposed of that the city can derive a revenue from them. It is the great inass of the people and the city that we de- sire to benefit, and not a dozen or two specu- lators. * How or when these new lines shall be built we leave for time and events to deter- mine. The object of this article is to cail attention to their necessity. Yet we cannot fail to recognize the fact, as if seems to us all who look at it in a practical way must see, that cither the underground railrond or a railroad in Broadway is impracticable. Jt is an established fact that a double track railroad in Broadway will seriously obstruct the business in thaf street, that thorough- fare in the business portion being too nar- row. for two tracks t be operated suc- ceasfally. Still greater obstacles present them- selves to the underground project, which the Times is just now advocating. To construct a road the whole length of the .city in that way would necessitate tunnelling through tock for the entire route above Fourteenth street, while a large portion of that below would have to be made water proof. We look upon this project as unfeasible, except it may be for packages and parcels, bperated on the pneu- matic principle. The idea that our business men will descend into so close and damp a re- gion, and there sit in a car long enough to ride four, five or six miles, seems to us preposterous. Still, if there are men foolish enough to invest their money in a project like thai, we have no particular objection to their having the oppor- tinity of trying it. It will keep their money in circulation and do somebody good, even if the projectors do sink every- thing that they pnt in, which would be almost certain. But that is a matter for their own consideration. We simply warn them of the inevitable failure of snch a scheme; but if they desire in face of facta to spend their money in that way, the loss or profit is their lookout. Right here we shall, no doubt, be met with the question: if a railroad in Broad- way and under Broadway are both impracti- cable, where can we build more railroads? We are aware that many of the side streets are already occupied with rails, but we believe not all. There are opportunities for few more lines, and these, io accomplish thelr purpose, should strike Broadway at their lower terminus. Then, again, there is the elevated railway, which is far more feasible and better evory way than the underground. Let them be over the side- walks, over the back yards, with bridges across the sireeia or on top of the houses, we care not how, only so they are built. It seems to us that the perfection to which engineering bas been bronght at the present time could mature some plan which would relieve the city, now that the necessity for such relief exlats. Tlie formation of the city and the substrata or foundation are such that the rules or sysie which would apply to London or any of the lending cities of Europe will not be applicable here. ‘There is an opportunity for some man of science and genins to become a public benefactor, as well as to make a name which will last as long as the city statde, The mul- titudes of professional men, artisans, clerks, and Jaboring men of this city need additional facilities of travel, not only in pur- suing their daily avocations, but in reaching the outskirts of the city, where they can breathe the pure air and invigorate their sys tems during their few holidays. Who will step forward and suggest or mature # plan to ac- complish all this? Once more we reiterate that we are not ad- vocating any special project of this or that party of speculators. “We care not who build the roads, only that they are built in a way that the city and the people will receive the benefit. We are not like the Times, urging the adoption of a special plan for selfish motives; nor like the Tribune, insisting upon the adop- tion of a certain style of docks, that some per- gon connected with that establishment may reap a fortune, We see a great necessity, and on behalf of the people insist that some ‘measure shall be adopted to relieve that ne- cossity. We trust that tho session of the Legis. lature which commences next Tuesday will not reach the day for final ¢djournment with- out some mode to meet the case, and thus confer ® lasting benefit upon the great mass of our citizens, Tam Panswent’s Messacr Asnoav.—The English papers are all delighted with the Presi- dent’s Message, and yet there is but cold com- fort for the British in its fiem and resolute tone and its declaration that henceforth all inter- course between the two governments must rest upon the basis of mutual justice. This shows what the English expected from the Prosidont, and only proves that, being con- scious that they deserved # declaration Of war, they ere gratified with being golal¥ ond con- teantnowaly disminand. ‘ slong in luxury through onir| do not realize this fact... It is not in behalf of ; for the mass of person interpret us as endorsing any one of Gas.—Wo have been overrun with communi- cations complaining of the operstions of the j Manhattan Gas Company. It seems that the company is not content with exorbitant charges, but it selects peculiar and novel modes of collecting its bills, Its splendid divi- dends seem to have made it not only avari- cious instead of liberal, but to have stimulated it to unusual and uapleasant methods of making itwelf obnoxious to gas consumers. The com- pany levy contributions upon the community as the Dey of Algiers once exacted tribute from Americans. The time has arrived when con- sumers must say, “Millions for a new company, not one cent for the old one.” The old com- pany, it is ascertained, buy an inferior quality of coal because it is cheap, and furnish an in- ferior article of gas at @ higher tariff than formerly, The plea that the Internal Revenue tax obliges them todo this will do very well 80 far ag it goes, But the Internal Revenue tax does not oblige. them to furnish an inferior. articleat higher cost te consumers. The Legis- lature, which meets on Tuesday next, has in its hands the power to’ require the company “to conform with the. provisions\of their charter, ‘or to repeal the charter altogether, ° : Tax Panrervdt, Parss—We shall publish the Naw York Hixany on the day afier New Year’s, as on every other day of the year. There is no good reason why the public should be deprived of the news for twenty-four hours after a holiday, and hereafter the Heap office will be always open for business, day or night, from ene year’s end to another. Arrange- ments have been made which deprive none of our employes of their holiduys, and so every one will be satisfied with the perpetual press. MUSICALS” —_—e—_—eeee > Pablic Rehearsal ef the Hw York Philharmonic Soclety—The Dress efam Artist by Hector Berlioz. The programme for the third concert of this admird| Society is being thoroughly rehearsed under the pain» taking and excellent conductor for the season, Mr. Berg: mann. Yesterlay afternoon the seventh public rehearss took place at the Academy of Music. The programme istics of the composer, being in general less boldly out- lined and to some degree more unnecessarily com; It is am episode in the life of a young musician unhealthy sensibilities and excitable imagination. poisons himself with opiam in an attack ef love fever; feverish brain in the shape. of. musical thoughts and images. Even the object of his love has become to him "| /ahould be termed the Dreams of an Opium Siator rather than any episode of life. It is divided into five parts, First, a tumultdous sea of passions, in Whi jealous madness, tenderness, joy and religious tion risoralternately in his mind. The second scene in- troduces° us into @ brilliant assemblage, where the dreamer ing belle is the country, with two the Ranz des Vaches. The tortured breast of the dreamer finds rest in the calm scene around him, but she appears again to agitate him by her heartlessness and decest. og Sunset, distant muttorings of thunder—solitude— ailence—conclude this part. He next dreams that he has killed the object of his love and is being led to execution for it. A funeral march, alternately betweén the sombre and majestic, with measured tramp of the guards, consti- tutes this part. The finale isa Sabbath Night’s Dream, in which the dreamer finds himeelf after execution im the midst of a crowd of frightful spirits and monstors of every kind. His beloved rejoins him, but in a shape se horrible that even the other fiends shrink from her. The syipphony concludes with the orgies of the hellish crow and the strains of the Dies Ira. The most notiveadie features in this fantaisie and diablerie of harmony are the funeral march and the flends’ dance. There is scarcely any work of the German school so wierdlike and startling as the strange nolsos, groans of agony, shouts of laughter and unearthly cries with which the spirits welcome the artist Obituary. HENRY WINTER DAVIS, OF MARYLAND. Hon. Henry Winter Davis died at Baltimore, Maryland, ‘At hal(-past two yesterday. His disease was pneumonia. Mr. Davis was born at Annapolis, Maryland, in 1817. He graduated at Hampden Sidney College. He entered public life in 1555 as a representative in Congress from Maryland, serving on the Committee of Ways and Means, In the Thirty-sizth Congross (1867 to 1859) he served on the same committee, In the Thirty-cighth Congress (1863 to i865) he was chairman of the Committee on Foreign Adairs. Any one unacqnainted with the man or his age, look- ing at Mr. Davis a month ago, would have pronounced him not over thirty years of age; yet at the time of his death he was turned forty-eight. His extremely youth- ful appearance was chiefly due to his light complexion and hair, and toa well preserved, tall, manly and grace- ful figure. He had a graceful agility of carriage, and | after his execution. Throughout, the presence of the affected a cortain neatly negligent style of attire. His | lady that causes these fantasies is dfatinctly perceptible eyes were deop set, black and expressive, and his | by a short but exquisite motive, which occurs at regular intervals, Judging from yosterday’s rcheareal we may safely promise lovers of true classic “music a treat at the next concert 6f the Philharmonic Society which is rarely ea- joyed at our dreary Academy of Music, “We augur suc- cess to the mission-of the association undor, its worthy President, Mr. Scharfenberg—namely, to’ cultivate and foster a taste for the classic school of music in New York, and to relieve the ears of our too good aatured citizens, from parodied operas and asthmatic singers. In artdition to the above mentioned attractive brogramme the Society have secured the ‘services of Mr, J. T. Webli, the cele- brated pianist, for their concert on January 27. hands were small and delicate as a woman's, As a speaker Mr. Davis at one time stood very prominent among the orators fn Congress, ~He at all times ox- hibited a great deal of mental and physical activity, his “manner often bordering on restlesenesa, being noticeble for diequictude even when at his deck listening to others speaking. He wns, without being particularly con- tomplative or reflective, quite reticent, and did not pass: for one. of the ip M. . It was, perhaps, par- ticularly unfortunate for his oratorical reputation that ‘Mr. Davie was alway meiber ofthe strong party in Congresa, Tor every incivation of his mental quality and characteristigs which were betrayed in his short career Jed bis admirers to bolieve that he would have best ex- hibited his powers im opposition than in advocacy of principles, partteulatly if part of a hopeless minority driverrta bay by a” stouy, contiitent and derisive ma- jority. Hie organ of combativeness was inordinately large, and he would have preferred to fight his way, inch by inch, than (to unwarrsntably change the simile) to “walk over the course.’ Literary Notices. ‘The Story of a Frooper, with Muck of Interest Concern- ing the Campaigner on the Peninsula Not Before Written, iy the full apd vory significant title of a work from the pen of F. Colburn Adams, which has just been issued by hig publishers ia New York. WU. is a story couched in what may be callcd an official narrative shape, of scenes which occurred during the late war, prefaced by a spirited and clear-sighted analysis of the cause which mainly contributed to, and the circumstwuces which more im- mediately attended on, the initiation of that fearful etrag- gle. The war ts a melancholy theme at best, but it is one which, when treated In a dignified, impartial aud intelli- gent manner, wilt for generations to come enshle Ameri- can writers of repote to illustrate the power, grandeur and indestructibility of the republic. Mr. Adams’ book may be regarded as the pioneer of such produc. The Opera in the W: CLOSE OF THE SEASON AT LOUISVIEL AND AN EVENING PERFORMANCE YE¢ Lovwritisg Ky., Dec. 30, 1806, ‘The Louisville season of Grau's opera company closed this evening, with the greatest éclat. "We will venture te say that the public of this city were never more completely satisfied with any entertain- ment, The necessity of fulfilling other engage- ments in Cinornnati and Havana, which compels the manager to limit the season to one week, is universally regretted. Howaver, the mpsical public have no reasom to complain, They had seven different operas in six days, and all of them rendered in a manner which could hardly bs excelled. It. yrill probably be some time before such an efficient company appears again in thie city, and of thie fact the public appear to be regretfully conscious, * ‘The matinee to-day, when Martha was given, with the original cast, of Boschetti, Guidi, Lotti and Pollint, was attended by « very large audience, quite an unusual number of gentlemen being pres*nt. No exception cam be taken to the manner in which the opera was produced, nor have the artiats any reason to complain of their re- «ception. It is seldom that matince audionce displays #0 much enthusiasm as was manifested on this occasioy, tions. Attached to the staii of Major General. William B. Franklin, he war, in the discharge | 924 we may add that it was well pee. eZ of hin datics, an cyo witness of the exciting and | Poliwto.was given this evening, with Garzanizn, Me- aiani and Orlandini, The house was again well Milled with a most fashionable audience. The farewell per- formance was received with great enthusiasm. Gas- zaniga and Musiani were in splendid voice. A rapturous enoore greeted the grand duat in the last act. The artists were several times called before the curtain, and received a perfect ovation. ‘The company wilt leave to-morrow for Cincinnall, where they will commence a season of nine nights at® two ’matinees, on Monday, with Fous, At the conclasion of the Cincinnati season the successful tour of Grau’s new artists in the Wedtern cities will be com- pleted, 1’ Africaine, which has been in careful rehearsal for nearly two months, will be produced fn Cincinnaté with great splendor, The company will then proceed te New York, whence they will sail for Havana on the 17th of January, to commence a season of six procks, om the 25th, for which subscriptions have already been re- ceived for twenty-four respresentations, City Intelligence. New Yuan's Dinwgr vor tus Tomas Pusonum—The instructive incidents which took piace on the Peninsula, under MeClellan’s eye, which be relate, He thus comes before the Public with the wel! earned stamp of a magna partfui to guarantee the authenticity of his as- ertions. Mr. P. Colburn Adame is already favorably known to thepeopie as a writer; Lis Chronicles of the Bastile, Our World, The Ouicast, and Adventures of Major Roger Sherman Potter having him a reputation which, a: Tae Story of » Trooper proves, he did not permit to be tarpished in the camp. His work now under notice is dedicated to General Franklin, and contains, apart from ita attractive subjocts of popular in- terest, matter which will furnish food for grave raflec- tion when read by American statesmen, logielators, and soldiers of high runic, as it treats of one of the most, if not the most, eveutfut periods of the rebeltion—the time when the Army of the Potomac fought under General McClellan; « time when, to use the words of the author, that army was ‘Gaved, though at heavy cost of life, and not without some disgrace to our arme;” a time when the Army of the Potomac “had made for itself o name among the armies of the world.” Frederic A. Brady, of Ann street, New York, haw just issued the new tirst class aud very exciting novel named ‘Common Sense," written by the author ef ‘Kate Kennety,”' “Wondrous Strange,” aud other valued works of thigclase. Qurreadors are aware of the interest which the recent publication of “Kate Kennedy” produced in this country, and it is quite sufficient to sssure them that “Common Senae,” from the same pen, i* not in- ferior in plot, devcription, style or sentiment to that production. Mr. Brady has printed the book from ad- vance London proof sheets, which he had the enterprise to secure; so that it makes iteappearsuce im good time at tye welceme season of New Year. NEWS FROM NEW ORLEANS. Kegre Riot on Christmas—Arrest of Forty of the Partictpants—4 Louisiana Con- gresoman Despondent Hegarding Early Admission, dsc. m Naw On:aana, Doc, 98, 1865. ‘Three policemen were severely wounded on Christmas day by a gang of excited negrose. Some forty of the negroes wore atrested, most of whom were armed. Hon. John Ray, member of Congress from Northern Louisiana, writes on the 6th of December, from Washing ‘ton, that he is satisfied that the Preaident’s reconstrro- tion policy Will be abandoned or not be carried or at present by the admission of the Southern memibes inte Congress. \ ‘ac., for the purpose of providing the unfortunate prison- ors in the Tomba with » New Year's dinner, the contri- an inquest at No. 34 Spring street, on the body of Jobe va \secelred by the up noon of ‘Avroorranyt or CLaex of Antuana—Mr. John talin was yesterday morning appointed Clerk of to all ay eee OT tte Hough Purdy. 3. The mabey of the Board of Councilmen, his term expiring "ra Sear Cavatny axp Tame CLAIMS ror to Boots Rewaxp.—An edjournéd meeting of the members of the Sixteenth New York cavalry was held last evening, at 989 Kast Ninth street, for the purpose of setting forum 4 ‘The Damascus Outward Brand. Portiann, Me, Pec. 30, 1865. ‘The steamship Damascus, Captain Yate, for Liver- pool, sailed at half-past three o'clocs the afternoon, News from th: Pacific. San! 400, Deo. 90, 1865. despatch ved jure Portland, Oregon, eee nateeae Cocades had suoceded in reaching Columbia rivor with passengers who started overland fom the Dalles, some of whom were badly frozen, ‘me Columbia river is almost clear to Astorta."* his wife by —ens TORO ores Rllsworth, fer. il = it Newark, N. J, last gummer, will 1 be ae ot ay vontaek 15 iron of cavalry to be attached to thi Sankt caesar, wae Se i members 0! ec a herd on Saturday, January & After which the meoting odd, Crer Ixeracton’s Ruroar or Dxatus,--The total of deaths reported a#the City Inspector's oflloo during the flast week was 147, The disearcsnnd acctdonta re. sulting fatally wore :—Consumption, 0, convulsions, 195 int 16; 0% ation of the brain, 1; diphthe. yc Saeko Che, Dickpon, at be stb tne, 1; dropay, Shera Sama peice The execution short orthe 10th of January, tence.