The New York Herald Newspaper, September 4, 1866, Page 3

SOLDIERS AND SAILORS. Grand Mass Meeting at Union Square. The Boys in Blue and the Jolly Tars for the Union. Enthusiastic Endorsement of the Phila- delphia Union Convention. “RALLY ROUND THE FLAG, BOYS.” PATRIOTIC RESOLUTIONS. Speeches by Generals Hillyer and Spinola, Col. Cleveland, Mr. Lombard and Others. &o. &o. &e. ‘Last evening a mass meeting of the soldiers and sailors of the war was held at Union square, Sky rockets and the booming of a minute gun, flower pots, a large bon @re and a brass band published the affair, and by eight o’clook P. M. an enthusiastic and numerous audience Assembied around the principal stand facing on Broad- way. It wag spacious, covered with a large American flag, and many emall ones were flung to the breeze. Tho following are some of the more sententious mottoes dis- played :— On a blue shield, surmounting all, was the name “Andrew Jobnson."” OLE LOPE LERELELE PEDDLE LE PLEEL ELE DE DETELELDLE TE May we live in perpetual peace and harmony with that Ianhood, however mistaken the caure, > enemy Ww drew forth such Lereniean deeds of v OLE LOLE LETT TELE LE LOTTE TE EE AE aeveccarcerorecessorserereresesecorereseserestes re) The Ginger of Providence ix uner: ing. and will guide 3 us safely turough. ANDREW JOHNSON ONILILLELL IEEE ELLE SESE DEDEDELEDELEDEDEDETELE TE LEG rererereeess® ODO EEROLE OE LOEEIO TE LODILOEE ETE DE LELE LTE tt Ga Soldiers and nuilore! Keunlon of the thirty-six Unit-§ “United, we stand; divided, we fall.” OCICS LE RLLI SEE LESELELELEDEIELE DOLD IE SELE LEG) There were two smaller stands, facing the opposite sides of the square, and which were well atteuded, The enthusiasm was characteristic of the meeting. A notice. able feature was the presence of a delegation of the Montezuma Society. At precisely eight o'clock the meeting was called to order by General Ward, who nom- fnated as President General 8. G. Hillyer (applause), who epoke as follows :— SPEECH OF CENKRAL & G, HILLYER, General Hillyer spoke as follows:— Sotprens ayy Sawors or New York, Survivons ov THR ‘Wan—For this distinguished mark of your contidenc: end consideration I thank you. I am most profoundly mensible of the honor of presiding over those who have laid aside the irresistible logic of successful arms, and ‘appeal to the calm reason, the sober judgment, the en- lightened conscience, and the christianized humanity of their countrymen. On the 14th day of this month there egsembled in the city of Philadelphia a body of repre- ee bt eames eke ot i the wwar-how beat cure wounds of this Te. @tore peace and fraternity to thove brethren who had been 80 long alienated ; but, most of ali, how they could (bent subserve that object for which the war was waged the armies of the United States—the preser of the Union and the maintenance of the federal (Cheers.) At was my good fortune to be ‘at that convention, and a more honest, earnest, patriotic and magnauimous body of men never Defore assembied on this continent. (Appiaure) That @envention has finished its work. Its address and decia- ration of principle are submitted to the country for its verdict ; and we, fellow-eoldiers and sailors, are assembied here to-night to pass our judgment upon it. Icame Pack from that convention with the abiding confidence that the battles of this rebellion bad not been fought in vain, that the wearivers ot protracted marches, that the @ufferings of bunger and thirst and exposure, that the agony of disease and wounds and death, from whieh you never shrank, were but light afflictions, which bad work. ed out forthe nation ‘a far more exceeding and eterna: weight of glory.’ (Renewed cheers.) Unity of pur y, fraternity, common devotion to a @ommon flag, inspired ihe thought and action of every member of that asKembi That convention asembled to determine an appeal from the polit to the people—from passion and prejndice to reason and conscience. That appeal wax made at the savgestion of the President of the United States (applause), whose , and wisdom, aod patriotism, and devetion to nciple and unswerving Ndelity Lo the constitution, had ‘enabled him to withstand the storms of fanaticism and @nive back the vandal hordes who Would have destroyed the beautiful structure of constitutional liberty tor which your comrades died, and for which you suffered. T thank God that appeal was not in vain. From Maine (0 Mississippi, (rom the North, from the South, from the East, from the West, trum the Atlantic io the Vacific, from the Inkes and rivers and the gulf, from highland and Jowland, came back the echo— “We'll rally round the flag, boys, We'll raily once again, ‘Thirty six stars again threw their rays into one grand focus. where might be seen in letters of living huht— “Union and liberty, now and forever, ove aud jusepara ble.” (Applause). It is agad commentary on the weakness and wickedness @f buman nature, that bo vouner Lad the disuuion party Of the South jad down ics arme when all seemed bright and deantifui and bi when the morning stars sang together at the birth of creation; when you had turned ww longing eyes and hurred steps to hom: aud the ones eae that a clond should arise upon the Northern sky. Tbat «loud ot first was oo larger than @ man’s hand, but driven by the tempest of passion, It in- Oreased and rose nad spread itself until ice shadow feli on every household in the land. When you came Lome With the tidings of peace, you were tod “there te no and when you exhibited the trophies of your victories and pointed to that old flag flowing ever the ‘of every Southern State, you were answered with @rardonie laugh tat ing for & whien had crmed Ww exist, you were ing for @are which were ‘biotted out for ever, your Union was a myth, your fiaga flaunting be, your war Gry and battie wong the babbling of fools, Soldiers and sailors of the war, you pat down that Southern rebellion By force of arma, and jt devolves on you to di Bhis Northera nat the Union. (A Voice “We will dom, ) This x tpault to the thag—th on—they were bot Both nurtured by appeals to tl dices of mankind. ed that the constitution was claim that © North. The leaders of ¢ Bouthern states could go out of the Cuion; the of the radical pany ciaim that the St of the Union, and they l Btates did go out rig! Jad to keep Bouthern rebel fathers ehould be Ww dictated by them; t that this Cnion shall be r dictated by them. Thy ivade he ret that it was necessary to uestroy this Union their righte and the neg tea ot ty claim that it i# necessary lo pe the rights of th ‘ fal mob in the eity ot Boston, eral authority, was cited by cutive Of tho spirit « spirit of tt Intetlipene temptin venge and fr have been recone ied. whou yor ey know not ihe heart or hone Ofna widier (Vowes—"That sso!) Mr. vr Tribune this morving, Says (hat military | deney tot ven bilities of & . and bisres for Greetey.) We know that war bas its Tights ne well ws ile shadows, that valor ie not the | Virtue that it developes, that love and charity end mar. | Ranimily and all the Clrutian virtues bave t| fraition in the soldier's life (Oh They cannot | Understand Why Grant and Shermay, and Sheridan and | Meade, aud Farragat ond Porter, and every man moet | Mustrieus in the history of this war, is ready to extend Din hand to the disarmed erring Southern broth bid him come back aga « father's ho in live aga'h in peace and (Applause. ) ithe mation i* sale so ftand by the President of to restore the Union, « defend the rights of the the usurpation of amy Cor anes with the policy of th Thank ormy and onvy jong as the os and the peop'e agal manized in aw yn of our fathers rs) ‘A Vowr—What of Grant? Followed with cheers, General Hraven—A gentieman asks ime what of Grant? What feeble human voice would be beard in ie praises amid the rattle of mugketry aod (he roar of ery with which his name lms peew thundered down | by ae from almost a hnodred vic s battle fletae, (Kinthasiaat: eors for Genern few daily beanty in bis life; there is a grar acter, coupled with an bonest aod modew manner, which has given bin & piace heart that no man ever bel! before #6," and applause)-—antii Uwe partial eyer of hie coun- trymen pny — Around him bangs #ich a perpeton! «pelt Whateer be Coes, non ae did @ What could puch a midier be other than the embod: | ment of magnanimity? low could such a man feel Ought but Chnetian charity? How could such « elizen Voioes n you pee that enemy whose jowever mistaken the cause, had drawn forth such eulean deeds of valor, he meant what he sald. voice—“That’s so.”") One of the first, if not the very first application made by a prominent Southern man the President of the United States, was made by ral Kobert E. Lee, late Commander-in-Chief of the Con- federate forees, abd on the back of that upplication is an endorsement—a warm, earnest, eloquent endorse. ment—asking and urgi that that should be granted; and that endorsement is by US Grant, Lieutenant General Commanding Armies of the United States, (Cheers.) When the President had pre- pared his first letter to the Provisional Governor of ‘orth Carolina, betore he seat it or published it be sub- mitted it to General Grant for bis opinion and crit cem, and General Grant endorsed ev word and syllable of that ietter, That letter was the keynote —— [At this juncture the booming of the cannon extin- guished tie candles on the reporters’ table, which wore hastily supplied, after which General Hillyer recommenced _ Ale speech.) That letter was the keynote to the subsequent policy of the Presi- dent. In whe difficulty between Congress and the President upon the veto of the Freedmen’s Bi reau bill General Grant stood by the President. gress adjourned, and the representatives of the people assembled at Philadelphia and sent a committee to con- gratulate the President on their endorsement of bis policy, and while that committee were im the perforin ance of their mission Genera! Grant stood at the right hand of the President. Soldiers and sailors of New York, survivors of the war, I submifto you to-night, will you stand by the President of the United States? (Loud responses—‘* Yes, we will.) Will you stand by tbe com- mander-in-chief of your armies? (Volces—*We will. ") Will you sand by the Admiral of the navy? (Voeiferous cries of ‘‘we will,’) Will you stand by the consttation of your fathers’ (‘Yes, yes!’') Will you stand by that Union whieh has passed throuch the rebaptiem of blood only {0 come out regenerated and gloritied ? (**Yes 1") Will you stand by the flag, the old fag, the red, white and bine flag, with its thirty-six stars of equal magnitude and brilhancy, with plenty of room for more, but nota single siar to spare? (Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, what is the further. will of the meeting? Major Vax House read the list of Vice l’resideuts and Secretarics, TRE RESOLUTIONS, The following resolutions were read and unanimously adopted :— RESOLUTIONS. We, the sol aa and satlors of New York, in mass conven- growing out of & work which w itour py a hut the peace and navional untty wht fallen comrades jought for, ach d and cem ed an blood upon he battle field, should be secured uniropaived and un- trammeed with unconstitutional and despotic eondiuons, to the whole couutay, uo adopt the following articles of polsion] belief — First—We hereby ratify and reassert the declaration of Piinctaiee and address to the people adopted by the National Jnion Convention, dat Philo nthe 14th alt, Second—All fi party associations and distinct on armonious action of the couvent! e foregoing article“and the crisis that in now npon us demands that, iquoring all former schisms and diviaious, all patriotle men, and partiealar. iy the veterans of the late war, should Unite in earnest, vordiat organized *upport of the constitutional rights and privileges enunciated vy that convention. Third—The sole purpose of the Inte war was to preserve the Union intact, and assert the supremacy of the constitu: tion and the laws, and it baving been brought to a auccessful terminat . there is no right or legal power in the ern ment to suspend for an insiant the operation of the civil thority, or withhold constitntional rights fromm any eltizen the Union, or of either of the several States, in conse- quence thereof. Vourth—The usurpations and despotic attempts of the pres- ent Congress to reduce the now free and sovereign States, lately in rebellion, ito (he condition of conquered provinces, meets with our unqualified condemnati and we believe, im the. lan of the address adopted: at Philadelphta, that “the ten millions of Americans who live in the South would be unworiby citizens of @ free country, degenerate sons Of as heroic ancestry, unfit ever to become the guar- diane of the righta and. liberties bequeathed to us by the fathers and founders of the republic, if they could accept With, unevinplaining submisalveness the humiliation thus songht to be Imposed upon them.” {th—The people of the whole country are now, as before the war, one, with but one political destiny. ‘The Union has heen proved, strengthened and ranctified by its bloody bap- tism; and no ith malice toward none, and charity for all,” hand in band and shoulder to shoulder with our Routh- ern brethren, we pledge ourselves to ignore all sectional Gifforences, and with singlenens [purpove asser< and main. i eayertoneent of pe! ition! rights and jast ad. ministration of the laws, under the constitution, throughout ‘our common country. Sixth—In Andrew Johnson we reeoguize a Chief Magis: trate worthy the nation, and pledge him our hearty chopern- Hon and support in bis efforts to restore peace, eqnality and unity to the whole country upon a constitu basin. Seventh—We contially *ympaiuize in all efforts for the spread of constitutional liberty throughout the world, and expecially in the asp rations of the Irie people for thetr na- ignal independence. aceishth—We are in favor of a rigid adherence to the Monroe ripe. Ninth—We believe that a permanent and effective organi- zation of the solders und sailorw of the Inte war, 18 esmen tial present (heir views and give them the wi vilege, in right of our servies swept away by ferred to in 2 wy that end sailors of the adopted at Pull the J0th instant, for the purpe some plan of general organize Af deemeu desirable, through: ‘attend the Cleveland Convent of one delegate aud one Id in this city on Monday, ‘of devising and adopun; 1 throughout tf “ f instant alternaie from Assembly district in the State, Fenti—-Wher this meeting adjourn, it adjoura to join the ratification meeting to ve held in this, pluce on the {sth day of September, the anniversarsory of the day when ‘ie Con- suitution of the Uniied States wan slgoed by GeorgeWaxting- ton. Among the letters received by the Committee of Arrangements were the following — LATTEM FHON SECRETARY SEWARD. Deranreest of Stare. WASHINGTON, August 27, 1846, Grstiawys—1 Very moch regret thet xbsolate engage meni will render it impossible for me to meet the soldiers and sailors of the Lite war in New ¥ prox. T trust that the patriotic Inbors of thy rans who will then be assem died #4 fective 1a Kecuring peace and \ now an their gallant wer * wore effectual in prevent F armed rebellion. Tam, WA. H. SEWAKD, of your invita Hers sod seit a € purpose of testifyi wal of smal poliey of Not being @ pubiie speaker, I welt of the opportunity whiel your kind in- me. (1 beg. however, to aveure the commitive ng of my heart is with them, an ion fOr the character he national policy he hax #0 ir obedien! servant, Surgeon United states Navy. LETTER FROM WASHINGTON HUNT. ist 31, 1866. New Youn, Ay Grxttewny:—Having jut reached Wty, after along ur fetter Luritin, And serions tl the eoun the soldiers an 4 © Johnson.” ty that every fer | with them enurey of Andrew the proposed m late war, to be b ieasure to comply with vour req € health forbide the effort, It i gratifying 1 Main body of brave and patriotic Inen army. after ba the vietory ‘able peace by thelr courage and con- ave ®tl fartufai to the Union and the enn. confidence and aff immeainte in Ube wat itis wet to be the federal & nh soidier Ut re important of their be Union whol nt of all Uhewe rights » was originally A tril * Novus HUST, York want 2 CROOK KON, COND STREET, ) ir obedient servant, OWN HENDRICKSON, General Volunteers . PRNNINETO a proceeditige are tn wietione of a tery large sailors, to whom i the reheliion magnanvenity m of these a wafier hem. In the exeen. ove Seapolitan commander. or tate ution of t to applaud bie fusgnaninity when, at the moment of Bia most gicrious victory and with hie latent | breath, he ordered isis longboais to be lowered for the reaeue of bia bhavtered and Best assured, gentionen, rie patrotiem, and that time The and Christian regnss £0 people. Seconded by the eminent road, - the bead of bia Onbinet aod that of the etn a. are,immesauratly indemed, sustained vy Grant Farragut. {howe grand representatives of the (wo great arms Of @Mr national aefence an. regoelag ia the vi ane lo all, Rema’ conedautiy can "ease wl Cand ‘ to the constitution and the Union Heeriagge. of Waasint, ther tam wien over ane may magnanimous of public occasion of public prosperity and felicity is, not the oosasion ore A fo your note, wi thanks er sour dient servaat, “"* SHomens ¥Ary reper ly gat LETTER FROM DISTRICT ATTORNEY COURTNEY. New York, 1, 1866. Your invitation to address the Soldiers’ sect ing at Union square on Mi tn received. Spat an runeting wil tepriie mstctthe'plegente ot nddreasing. the rive me of e ire of foldiers nd sallore on the iniportaat and. all-absorbing questions of the time—the restoration of thecountry, and the best policy to secure that result. Belleving that the adontion © of the policy of President Johnson will result in co restoration, and produce hai ind an. ane poanttys trust the f al elr meeting a) that the countey thelr voce. and. their vat Testoring peace a BE thelr arms were {n ej SAMU, SPRECH OF CRNERAL SPINOLA, General Srrvora was next introduced, and sal there were no men better calculated at this crisis to assembie iu counsel to decide upon their duty than the soldiers and sajiors of the war, Five years azo be meta oe assemblage gathered as on this night to #up- port the Executive, Hai they failed in their duty the scene before him to-night would not have deen, Ex- tremists both North and gouth plunged the country in war. The conservatives were generally safe, and they assembled together for the purpose of endorsing the course of Andrew Jotinson. ‘The corner stone of the issues before the country is based upon the right of the negro to be allowed to go to the ballot box with your- xelves. Those who favor negro suilrage are the radi- cals; those who oppore are the conservatives, who always represent the faithful masaes, (Applause.) If the ‘impending amendment to the constitution is adopted, then no man who ever held office in the South during the war can be elegible to office or vote, The speaker had fousht for the maintenance of the Union, and the sword had triumphed, He did not now think of waging individual war, the war had ceased, and the sooner good feeling is established the better. (Cheers) Non? but a coward wonld persecute his foe after he hat him down, Grant did pot do it when Lee surrendered, All we ask is respect. to the constitation and laws. (Voice—"'The ngger shan't come iv.'”) The negro shenuld come in, provided he stood on the same basis of equality as it ix inthis State. Nebody would object to it, because tuere would not be A negro Voter in the South, probably in the West, in twenty years, What Thad Stevens wants is political ‘power, ard the running of the government (our years longer, (Vowe—‘an't No, the tailor of Tennesse in all probability s were then given for Andrew Johnson, PRS OF COLONEL YERKINS CLEVELAND, Colonei Perkins Cleveland, of Connecticut, was the next spenker. In the course of some lengthened re- marks he said he was glad to congratulate the soldiers and sailors as the rigbt and left arms of the republic. They bad their great leaders, Grant and Farragut, Whom they cherished. Did they believe in Grant and Farra- gut? 1Yes.) Then they believed in the great eause for which they had fought by jand and sea. If they be- Heved in Grunt and Frraagut they believed in the great beads of the republic now travelling with them through the country for the purpose of arousing the peo- ple to a sense of ibe danger that was upon them. If they believed in those men they be- lieved in Andrew Johnson, (Cheers,) Andrew Jonnson was the man of the day. He was the natural head of the republic. He was the natural leader of the constitutional party. The principles he advocated would not pass away, but would be transmitied to their children and to their children’s child They met there that night because the republic was in danger. He created some amusement by describing Congress as the broken leg of the republic, aud it behooved them to splinter up that leg, or get a new one if needs be. In 1861 that square was surrounded with the devotees of the Union. The republic was then in danger. On what platform did they then rely? Mr. Stevens told them in the House of ntatives—and he (the speaker) could quote his words, as he had them in his pocket—that any man in the civil or mili- tary service of the United States, who should even talk of settling the question on any other basis than the Union of the States and the they were, should be adjudged guiity of « ished accordingly. According to that, old Thad, Stevens, by his own record, was the great criminal in the United States. (Cheers) Andrew Jounson said that the war was for the defence of the Union and the constitution, That was the platform of the country, It was the piat- form of whigs, democrats and republicans, and now, after the enemy bad surrendered—atter Lee had eurren: dered to Grant and Farragut captured Mobile, what did they Gnd? Men lke Charies Sumner and ‘Thaddeus Stevens trying to keep the States apart. But they had shown the cloven foot by the admission of Tennessee. General Butler said that the men who fought this war oe. were the men to decide the basis of settloment, here was General Butler? You remember Fort Fisher. (Laughter.) Where else was he? He was at New Orieans. but Andrew Jackson was there before him. The contrast wasstriking. General Butler was in New Orleans after Farragut captured it, The speaker eaid that the radicals had given up the case by the admission of Tennessee, and, at some rs] | apra lo discuss the negro ques- tion. He concit y declaring that Andrew Johnson had divested himeelf of ali anitnosities with the view o° es the country, and expressing a hope that at the polls they would show that they had sound pies, which rhey would hand down to their children and the F children’s children, to be cherished and enjoyed. (Cheers). REMARKS OF CHUM. FOLLYER, Mr, Gives M, Hinnven, of Mississippi, havingfbeen in troduced to the meeting, spoke at great length. He suid: —As it Was announced that the civil war Was at an end, and peace and tranquility restored throughout all the States, Le thought he had aright to join in thie demonstration on this ocassion with his fellow eltizens of New York. When the Wars of the Roses trminated in England, all classes rallied round thefeommon throne The Philadelphia Convention met to eave the distracted Union, That was the frst convention which for eighty years had met for the benefit of the country. and net of party. To that spirit this meeting was held, and in that spirit he had no doubt the resolutions of the convention would be as enthustustically adopted along the valley of theMise sippy), a8 they were ingthe great metropolis of t country, (Cheers) The Sough bad heen the seene of several battle elds, and the of the men of Nort! nd South commingled fs sacred dust. The time would come when the boys in bine and the boys in gray would be remembered with affection, because they fought a family qnarre! with all (he ene greatest republic of the world. (Cheers) He would n refer to the grewt cause that brought about the wa They fought to settle ideas. They fought for the id t the Union and the tlae were greater than secession, (Loud cheers) If he could bee the country united wud the old flag, which they in the Soath had ‘ae much righ te as the North, he would be glad see that the glories of the repabli - slavery bad been abolished. The constitution had been so amended as hereafter to make it impow'ble to e*tab- lish slavery again, It was said that they would amend the constitution again and again ag fast as they wanted, bot it would be utterly Gapowible again to establish slavery. (Choers.) They could not rednce a freeman to aslave, There was no pover for it under the consttta: tion of the country. The seoession question was for a long time debated. It was a question tbat could only be settled by the force of aris ‘That question bes gone to roost for ever, as far as the North was concerned. He asked the reporters to tel! their readers whether the rad. vals had ever offered an amendment denying the rebts of the “tates to secede in the South they were deter. mined to go in with the Union and have the «nae flag a» the North if you will permitthem, (Cheers) That amend ent the radicals would have put in if they were honest Massachusetts bad always belleved in the right of seces sion, and 1! Massachusetts was going (0 go In (or ee be would call on the boys in biue and the bays in io the Coton. (Cheers) The Congr laring that the pegro was white they dened the right to Inet one. ‘The Congress, in opporition to lent, aid (hese were the conditions on which {admit eleven States. President Johnson be Union was never broken—that it wi Union of State that wax not and could not be broken ‘The raiical: said that there were bot twenty-five States aud that the olber eleven were to he admitted on what fe. er plan Congress decided. The people should decide th rat the election. If the eleven were ne them to be emblazoned on the ing theory was that the eleven and that ‘they most be recon received their dignity ana their ution of the republic, ant not mt the constitution the Upton the Pro they wo Meved that th would affor no protection. Did they think they could keep the Southern Blates oat without’ a stab on th tion? (No, no) Constitutions w t, but the coustitotion lived in the hearts of shen thoy cast that constitution from ‘them inflicted a steb on the countey, He honored President for his noblonem and energy for bis courage in working for the radical professions he 26 radicals succHeded in stabbing constitation, the leet light of ed, and the #tatwe of freedom I ince We place in @hadow and ho day stor in the Kast to lighten night be Rnereuy And con! aMoD. and the Southasked them +, the memories of the pest and show that, as they had eon h, they would now eonquer revolution inthe North (Chee What coum they gain by the enecess of the radical party? Could they gain anything from a distracted republic? We thought | the war was all over with the surrender of our armies in the South. We took the oath of allegiance, and it hes (Cheers ) Chat Klatue It wasn question for (he people ne they le ed the rep not been violated in @ single instance. | He did not despair, The South were honest in their profession. Having given up slavery and recession and their property, all they hed to say wae thes they now waited for the action of the North, and if they waited in vain they hoped God would take them to some other land, where a better state of th ae prevailed. Bat. be had no doobt that in their goed feeling all would te right yet (Cheers) PRLPOATION TO THE CLEVELAND CONVENTION, The following gentlemen were named as the delegates to the Cleveland Convention.Geners! HW. Slocum, General JH. Ward, General W. & Hillyer, General K. A. Corley, General John B. MeGregor, General Jobe r Rendix, Colonel J. Creighton, JW Preeman, Major BM. MeGrath, Major George M. Ven Hoosen, pain Frederick ¢ yon, Captain J. M. oe Thomas W, Miller, privalg B. J. Gough, private J, Hart. The mecting wax brought to = clos shortly after eleven o'clock by remarks from Mr. Lombard and otber fpeakere WEWS FROW MEW ORLEANS. New Oncaces, Sept 2, 186m Genera) Baldy, Recorder of the Military Comminsion inventigating the inte riots, outin ecard thie morning Ae the acthepticity of # recent telegram the Commiasion, and adding that no repore here bece | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1866—TRIPLE SHB COMMITTEE. A Split in the Committee—The Regular Por- tion Meet at the Astor House, the Boltere at Philadelphia--The Executive Commitice for Johnson—The Funds Under Their Control made ax yet, either written or decided on, and that the statement in the Times is merely the conjectures of its PRET sis. sah basin Soiaipoone Ja elections in the in the convention of 1664, are understood to be progres#ing. Governor Wells says he will have retiable returns in the ‘Course of fifteen days, Advices from Texas evince much complaint of the re- from General Kiddoo to General Howard, of iil ment of the freedinen, The Houston Telegraph flatly pronounces them fulse, and doubts if they were Feally made as reported, The defeat of Hon, John Hancock for United States Senator foi Texas, was owing to an accusation against him in the Conservative Union caucus, by Major Langley, of Genvral Candy's staff, that “Judge Han gitie 8 Uolon refugee, the post of brigadier Jn tates Army, for the purpose of invasion of ‘Texas. ¥ . ¥ AMUSEMENTS. NATIONAL REPUBLICAN No Dediaite Action Taken, &c. The National Republican Committee, appointed at the Baltimore Convention in 1864, has been in a reguiar wrangle for some weeks past over the Philadelphia Con- servative Convention, Two or three members of the committee, without any authority vested in them for that purpose, issued a call for a meeting of the commit- tee iu Philadelphia, Their action was without authority or precedence. The rule always has been that either the chairman and the secretary of the committee or execu- Uve committee shall iswue all the calls for, meetings. The call for the meeting in Philadelphia was informal aad really @ bolt from the comm!tiee. Subsequent to tais taforme! ¢ reguiar call wan iv | Sued signed by Henry J. Raymond a# chairman, and N, D. Sperry, of Couneciioat, a secretary, for a meeting of the committee at the Astor House yesterday, bed the only authorized and regular meeting of the com- mittee, "Those who responded to (bis call met in room No. 20, at the Astor House, yesterday. Only neven of the committee wore (preseak and reported themselves, ‘This Inciuded the entire sub-committee but one, The balance either did uot respond at all to either call or eige were at Philadelphia, One of the radical morning papers announced Wat there were Keventeen present ab Philadelphia to attend the meeting of the informal call at that place, But inasm ax two of the names given in that list, were present at the mecting at the Astor House yesterday, namely, Win. C. Ciafiin, of Massachusetts, and Mr. Thrner, of Rhode Imand, the radicals tatléd to yet a majority of the commie, ana whatever they do in Philadeipita will have no binding elect upon the committee, not only trom ite waut of regularity but also that {Ui only the action of # minori ty. ‘The result, however, ix that there in @ eplit in ihe committee on the issues of the day, Thoke who mot at tue Astor House maintained (hat they held to the decrees of the Baltimore platform adopted at the convention which nominated Mr, Lincoln, while it is eappored that those who have reported at Vuiladeiphla have gone fev Thad Stevens and are worsbipping faine gods and ebony images. ‘Tho question whether the action of the Executive Com initiee was binding upon Lue General Committee wax «is cussed al some length at the Astor House gathering ‘The chairman, Mr. Raymond, weld that the Individual opinion of the members of the committee did not auiect the action of the whole commutes, and was opposed to taking any action at this Line, ‘there being uo few present, Mr. Sperry, on the other hand, preased acti They bad pearly gil of the Executive Commit and’ he believed that it was their duty to pasts expressing their views of the questions of basing Laeiraction upon the Baltimore plat then If those gentlemen who have gone ol! to Pb pina did not lke il Jee them bolt an img an The New Youk Theatre-Alterations and Decorutions—The New Company, &e. ‘The New York theatre, lately occupied by Miss Lucy Rushton and known by her name, having been leaxod by Mossrs, Mark rmith and Lewis Baker—gontleuen well and favorably known to the people of New York— active preparations have been making for somo time past for the opening of the fall season, The alterations that the building has undergone have been numerous, &nd cannot fail to relieve the. theatre of its former sombre aspect. THE EXTRKION, ‘The improvements on the front of the building have beon very extensive, embracing as they do a completo change of its exterior fronting on Broadway. A fine casing, with heavy ornamental mouldings, decorate the doorways, giving to the entrance a light and pleasing appearance. A heavy panel, with cornice and hand- some pediment, finish the fagade, Resting on the pro- jection of the main wall a large panel and heavy coraico conceal the battlement, and are carried around the face of the tower, thus forming the top of the main building. dark stone work has been covered with plaster, and the whole painted and sanded in imitation of brown. The top and sides of the tower have been similarly treated, and the namo of the theatre painted on three sides of the top. Handsome jalousies of iron and tin, painted in bright colors, have been plnced permanently over the windows of the edifice, giving it a brigut and happy appearance, THR INTERIOR Tho parquet seats have been raised sufficiently to give the audience a perfect view of the stage. The space be tween the balcony chairs has been increased, all the bar- riers and other unnecessary encumbrane»s taken away, and as only one price bas been established for the greater portion of the hoase, the audience will not be incon venlenced in any manner, bht can freely co from one partof the house tw the other. A very pretty semi- cireular lobby has been constructed, running aronnd the back of the dress circle, and materially adds to the lin- provements made for the better convenience of the patrons of the theatre, A room devoted specially to the use of ladies desiring to adjust their toilet, and other equally apropos accommodations have been added, ‘The gute appearance of the inverior of the theater has been changed for the better, and what with new scenery and the other requirements of a piace of armusement of the kind, it bax ost its former dinvy avd forpidding look and has become a welcome and aecceptabic “temple o ute stand io the Position of boliers from che party. A majority of those present we vorently sna express tt mond, however, insisted upon the policy of not 100 wt this ime, but was in favor of rsome further discuxsion pro and con ee adjourned subject to the call of the euuive Committoe on two weeks noter. ‘There are some twenty thgusand dolars m tbe bare of Raymond, let of the sand of the campaign of 1664 This he announced he ehould hold util |t was, in some nuthoritative and regular way, ordered to be paid over. He ceriniuly rliowid wot pay ik ever lo aiy pairiy dump ated at w oliery’ meetug of acninwities siormally in faver of the contervative movement drated at Vhiladelptia, and tuey should #0 the drawa.” at this meewng. tn ibe ‘THE COMPANY. hands of ibe regular The names of the members the company and the and thove who refuse parts they sustain are as follows: —Mr. McKee Rankin, Teading light comedian, and an actor well known to theatre visitors; Mr. A. H. Davenport, an exeetiont comedian; Mr. a tenor, with, it ix said, an excel. lent voi q iff, and Messrs, Chapman and Ring. excellent actors in thelr lines; Mr, Perey, from the Cali fornia theatces; Mr, Humpbrey Bland and Mr Ho Ver- non, from the London theatres, and Mr. Gomemal, a he offal head set Gp @ segesmien are he sports, wud sho id theretore to beip the great conservative Johasop » party Which refused to respond to the Nave gone off to Lie informal meeting in Jy trated @ secusiOn maveent sn mot the Southors 3 re the approps hie move are Plinadetpiia tins pnen dant ean 0) bane comedian of re} Mr. Mark Stnith is too well known to need particular notice, and the same may be raid 0! Mr. Lewis Baker, hs aNd ba wed Pug IE IM Hoe this aiempt a! secon that ‘The ladies of the company comprise » pretty st | forum ar the ¢ tee -whict assembled ti Pa of actresses, Mre, Wilkins, of the Hayrmar London, is the leading old woman. Miss Aliwia Mandeville, comedienne from the California theatres ‘Misa Saidee Cole and Mre. H. Biand are among the features Mr. W. H. Gomersal 4, pert Yat Hest artress in company. She possesses @ cl ing Foiee, exquix te humor, and will undoubtedly create a sensation, Mre Harry Wa!) from San Francisco, is also one o! nent features, She ix quite a hea an excelignt actress and ehariwninye Altogether the company presenta a fa and if, as is promised, tie nctors and up to their present standard of excellence, cannot fall to become « popalar recor, The manager are energetic gentlemen and actor#of well Known ability, | N. #0 that the rhanagement promises to be thorougily ¢ifec tive, Ag the season advances the company wil be in crened by the addition of oth THE OFRNING Last SGT Geiphin, jistend « bitter straggte in ot vrodnee ike 1 New York. iil bring on a severe and Like canoer oad repuboean party erie af the Matters in Philrde vesition of Kay mond. Sporty and sen Yertapenrrss, Sept Vurroant to the enil {cued from Waxbington, the Na. Noval Union Commit wet in thle city today The fllowlng gentle ‘ernor Maren ° 1 WET present A. Parviance, the theatre re, 1M ‘Tenn » Jininobe was genecess{ul os regarded ihe performance. The couMsted oF OL Phit’e Hirthday, 9 comte denn A.W. Gard hag never before been played in vowing, Viren sical and Terpsichorean extravags The cumnuite organization by Hoth pieces were very tarly rendered. The H (r ind Eppoittier 0 matty dependent upon Mr. Lewte Baker, who, in 1, Stapieton, gastained his reputatic with credit to himself an sarivtuct Hix bluff Britoviems and honest sar with repeated rounds of yenuine than one eye was Mhed with a t le plan, bat tooehing from — the following tesate ad mere of ma om Ne Tall liation 4, That ap to wit mies, Proper rocotamenda: one maid vacar filled by appar rinanee of the forewing resuution Gov depenie , Ward, of Jersey. Was unen being entirety HOF the Counrnitien, aod Jost comitant* too ¢ ary Lo blood apille for the sentimental and a ¥ ater of far. Mr. A. EL Davenpori, ax the son of Od Sto conduevor Mr Tl ton, “eH a vareful and palnstaieng artist. He wae | miitsge rb y quite we nes aud gave entintaction D «righ The ame 4.of Mr Homporey Bland wnd the | ("tee queer aniity of ther ed Satie Cole and Alloa Mand Ty wiki an wi yper and spok ungr-wed cart wheel. His province = evidently b bind the scenes and not before the foottights ine jes under the leadership of Jotiue Kienbarg, for tve tr the orche War agreeaine and sopping tbe Raymond more 60 $s Wey members of ¥ » weroustomed to playing tral Commu Lola Montez waa not. m to Te fs expeesed that wn ae sto the country ei t puble, bat with Mr. and Mis Gomersal uv dhe sxved Uefore the final adjournmest of the commiite hot be aniuteresting, The rem t . vane * pamela BILLIARDS. mor ae Mo produce igh © oprar, 1a #0 redly hucceel in making theit nt one of the most popular and fusion of the Cham Cues The first three gamer of (he grand of the State and provincat ¢ played at the Hippotheatrun, night, before an audience of about eght Grand Towrsament Appornied sparkling comed nie style, accep Hard tournament a, ware niway Theatre. n was Again presented last night ence was very mach ploaves, | “MF MARY Of whom were ladies, The firnt reste more in the t waso pte between Mr Munket chainpton nd Me € Dion. ot ng wad effectie', mr rian of Canada. tr rly part ome ® mights, ae the act so Plankett fed bat Mr then him, « . 1 therefor to give Joma a a) hn bead erg b it hax never had before. pal the & oy 4 ’ wri re the plece 18 withdraws Line | of the player . Brawn tre anid Wittens i, un heing nit 5 alien Oper French Theotre 4Mr. 5 ; was a pretty large and a decider Honah Tioman 5 a i ‘“ ut me Title a ut fed end naveniy . Piote > at clown! with a ¢ {betwen t 4, Sygnora Resehettt ne wa of Atmoricas r ¥ Noing, o¢ Mi pny gl Lione wnor Tamaro; Mankett, Cur * We : Me, Palmer » iy. reorve remarka on the atyle . ‘ : work ndered last vight une! it ropromenta | y ! rs thon ning. We would, hos the vam. | iw the grow agemen add h few more it hestra, | Smapive gaia } ae the 4 au ening of the which F . w ' he arches, | thee tra better then the mbit | oF . ¢ of I Martdere, A ha ; a ; art Av tc many beautif ' . Thereday 1! Provatere will be give Dont ae I. Mar and Boseetis w# ‘ |, Maier ray evenings we mhall wave Sour ' . 5 ’ rian Hofman aed #ignor Acestae (or the firm ten { a o - two artiate rank among the hichest of their pr “ fe in Americs. Thoe before the appearance of 1 o pam arent tragedionne, Madame Pine wabty af her departure, we hall have lig Na WewS FROM THE PACING sh Opera, instead of the terrible Atriown. chp and tree, of the Taunhe wh fre ate lke ae | The Reciprocity Hetween the | wited nightmare, Sten, Mranee, t nd wed Japan, Ae. ait Ay Paneer, Sogn. %, 1868 THE PHILADELPHIA UNION CONVENTION, An exttvet from an MCicial copy of the comvmntia a of New Vork Deleantes A Grand | compteted Jone 2, becwonn the Daiied tater, Fre ans Ratifiention Meeting to be Meld on the | Holand aed Joan eco le 14th of September, &e tegen wn heer flee, two bow, twoaty-fe A meeting of Now York deiegaten to the Mhiladel- | ois. ides, one boo, eghiy Conte per one hontred phia Union Convention was held leet evening atthe | sie ouiue wit bows, perene hundred cation Maison Doree for the purpose of making arrangements | oi. i weveniy pie per hundred cattion, grate see n eatihention meting, four und meal doty (ree, ‘The enport of four and wheat Mr. Ramasi J Tilden wae called to the chair, and Movers. Hiram Ketehum and W)iham Hewlett epporntet secretaries A letter adiiremed to the delegates was tend, calling spon ther to appoint ao carly day on whieh t hold « meet ing in ratification of (he Philadelph s (elon Convention ‘This jeter war rigned by Mayor Hot eg s.o Barnard, W. H. Ampinwall, JW Alieop, James » ‘Weemore, J. -tokes, HL A. Smythe, A. Wakeman, Brensan, (. Ho Lilenthal aod pote three thoursnd that the meeting be held in (ther goggenions were mate by when twee egret ppont a comeniion of neweR (wii! who with have foul Tport duty of three bows fey conte per one bandred eattion, rage, Uwelve Crmte Comin, two bow, ¢ Duty o@ the ww. the Japannen, three Door per ine, aed on san ing ie probbiied Tea peye a and the cher gee are mv The Un ted Mater Creat Cx a oranied om appeal in babel! of the Oty i the Purtha cue. Mayor Geortal MeThowell, escorted wy Melted States hee goer on 6 tour of inepertion to the (0 mecertain the mineral remurce: of that region of the ovanery, wheel be lithe town. Crtvenvon, Tenas, Yep 9, 1006 steamer 1. W Vw from Birwrew, haw called and wth for New Vor’ om the den pores Wi had pone te Monterey We fed © war & bot forthe arms taken out on the Bvermar them het been gent Wo Tren pie rehrane rene | Special Telegramstothe New York Herald. News by the Cable to Mon- day, September 3. Count Bismarck Points Outa Prussian Difficulty, An Alliance with Austria and Russia Spoken of. in Berlin. ~ REDUCTION OF THE AUSTBIAN ARMY. ~ ee rege The Roman Question Noar Ita Solution. War Between the Russians and Cireassians. MAIL ADVICES TO AUGUST 99 Gur Berlin, Vienna, Prankfort-on-the-Maine, Paris and Malagn Correspondence. The Rights of Naturatized German- Americans {n Prussia and yal Concessions, Austrian Hopes of Restoration in Germany. Prussian Rule and Exactio in Frankfort. Ann-xation, Dynastic Extinetion and a German Empire, as Defined by Bismarck. French Feeling Toward German Situati DANGERS AND DIFFICULTIES OP TURKEY. ‘Bhe HZarkets and Marine Reports of Monday. Ke, &e. BY THE CABLE TO SEPTEMBER 3. PRUSSIA. THE WEW YORK HERALD. Oat « Ditheulty. 2, when, ot the Chamber SPECIAL TELEGIAM T Count Bemarck Potut Menu, Kept o but Wnt } of Doput » remarks t tend ‘he em. the courne of wh paid (HAL the views of the | Reecutive and those of (he Tepation, on the tuation of »ppoted to ew faire, were not sO mY bother ae ape peared at Oret sight, even on the leading question of pternal reform. The Mimater added, in coucianon, tbat the most Important taek now imposed on the ment was the conducting of the foreign policy of the raven A New Mian of Allinnee, Sept 2—P Jes that Count emarck is @ Auetria AUSTRIA. Heduction of the Army fn athance hetwenn Miro im oa Pe Voew “apt har given ortiers for the re Ihe Austrian government doetion of the army to 4 peace Cooting, end the work baw | ITALY. - 6 Qeention Nene a Sale am. \ Ve t fay | RUSSIA. | | PrCIAL TILEGTAM TO THE SEW fOnd MERALD. | cevere Mighiing with the Cirenestan yeer ‘ © wht emir rat | On the othe J | | The very totes despaichen fram the one ase 10 © effect thal the (iteamnaor are wy line t « | THE UNITED STATES MISSION. | PROM TELEGPAM TO THE MEW (ORE HERALO From Noscow te Noveored. Memcure, Raya. 1, UMen ‘The members of 6 ot Patan Miewton 4 ~. the eutrepen of the great! bave gone antroal fer { Kowne, <nt one (be greed commercial world, Re famove that in the contre of ow ya fourteenth om Preval sgeterl the gods end the great Novgorod? Whe oom ary & Korwag proverb mo he invitee eee Recretary Vor har bern competie Hone to vinit, with the other menmibers, ot which border op the Comptes Kew FRANCE. ma M. Dromye de Liwse! Hesianation r opt, 2, Whee The reetamion of M proare de Leas, he weg