The New York Herald Newspaper, October 6, 1866, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD. | JAMES GORDON SENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFICE N, W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STB, 279 "RNOON AND BVENING, AMUSEMENTS THIS AF!’ ZeeAtas FRANCAIS, Fourteonth sireot, near Sixth ari Ue. —ELiZaBaTM, QUERY OF ENGLAND. RROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway. near Broome wuce.—Uxnar IV. Matinee at Lg o'Clock, NEW YORK THRATRE, Broxaway opposite New York ‘Hotel.—Auexicaw Ormpa—Tue Dovron ov ALWANTAKA, GERMAN R THALIA THEATRE, No. 514 Brosdway.— Deu Vexscowenpaa, Suny STAD? Sane TER. as 45 and 47 Bowery.— LONUEKRBAUM UND Berti y ga ge ‘wisTan—Opke Dent Winter Kinxs IRVING HALI, Teving .—MR, ANp Mus, Howanp Pave wy mem Moswat, Come avn Cuakacracistic BN- SSERTAIN MENT. nee at One o' Clock, DODWORTH’S HALL, 806 Bromtway.—Provesson Hants wu. Penvone mis Mixaouxs. Matinee at Two o'Clook. BAN FRANOISOO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway, opposite the Motropotiian Hoiel—Ix tiie Hrnroriaw Lewrurain. wets, Sunorna, D. ING AND BURLESQDES—THw BLACK Coou, anp Arnioan Let Tours. FIFTH AVENUE OPERA HOUSE, Nos. 2 and 4 West ‘Twenty-fourth street.—Buowoxrn's bo ae INSTRELSY, BALLADS, BuRLesevKs, &0.—Tus PKxskcurTeD ROMAN. KELLY & LEON'S GREAT WESTERN MINSTRELS, Brondway—Iw turin Sons, DANCrs, ECorNteicrms, ao. —Boncxsque Hreropromy. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA Lit Necro MINSTREiSY, am Young; on, Liv ‘Clock. Bowery. Como DIVERTE SMART, FI MOUMONS, CHARLEY WHITE'S COMPINATION TROUPT, at Mall, 472 Broadway—In « Vanmery or Ligur ABLE ENTERTAINMENTS, COnPS De Baum Go CHAMBERMAID, Matinee at 234 0'(! Meeianics B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brookyin.— MRE. P, Tar Taner GUARDSUEN. HOOLFY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn. —Mrmorian Muxe trixisy, BaLtaDs, BORLESQUES AND PaNromrees NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. 618 P. Leorvaes wren, tHe Oxy-Hyproges Mieco: daily, Heap axp Rigur Ann or Proust. | Op ALM. tt 10 PM, TRIPLE SHEET. THS NEW s. EUROPE. Tho news by the Atlantic eablo ie dated to Friday, October 5, the report embracing the quotations of the London Stock Exchange and Liverpool cotton market of yesterday evening, Consolx closed at 891¢ for money in London. The swarket for money was easier. The Liverpool cotton market closer easier. ‘uplands was at fourteen and five-eighths ponce, stuffs were dull and downward. The steamship Persia, trom Queenstown, Septembor 28, reached port yesterday, bringieg ovr special des- Patches with the correspondence (rom Paris, Vienna and Tendon, which we publish to-day, and interesting news- Paper details. ‘The news from the seat of war in Coucinis of much amoment. In the recent engagement between the revo- Jutionary Christians and the infidels the allied Turks and ‘Xayptians were defeated with great loss, having as many ‘@s three thousand men placed hors d+ combat. The Turk- xh Pasha in command was mato prixencr, but released afer signing terms of capitulation. ‘The agitation was spreading to the other Islands and Greece from Candia, and the Eastern question generally commanded the gorious attention in the capitals of the great powers, Maxiwilinn's throne and treasury affairs wore wholly expaired of in France and Austria. Napoleon was at Biarritz in improved health The Minister of War of France addressed n very sig- niticant letier to the colone! in command of the new Pontifical legion, intimating that the Pope was to be wrovected in Rome asin the days previous to the ex- Pistia of the convention erin. THE CITY. ‘The American Board of Missions of the Protestant Episcopal Church met again yesterday and contivaed their deliberations. Considerabie discussion took pisce ‘with regard to the mission ‘n Greece. The Rishop of Colorado read an important paper on the condition of re. igion in that State, The business of the Board having ‘eon finished they adjourned at a late hour, Another centenary méeting was held last evening at ‘the Norfolk street Methodist Episcopal church, of which ‘Rev. Charles BK. Harris ie pastor. After ‘singing and prayer Rev. Wm. P. Corbitt, Rev. John Falkner and others delivered addresses touching on the history and future career of Methodism in America. ‘The German beer retailers and Innkeepers ret yester- ‘day in the Bowery to take some action in reference to the ensuing election, with « view of ensuring a repeal of the Excise and Sunday law. A committee was ap- pointed to prepare an address, which is to he pub- Middling Bread- Iishod Mies Anpa E. Dickinson delivered a political lecture entitled “The Rejected Stove,” in Brooklyn, last even- ing. She said, if the President dare attempt to restrain the irrosistible march of loyal men, be should be crashed under their advancing fee'. ‘A merchant of this city proposes that if the Seventh rocument should be sent to the exbibition in Paris next year, the commerrial men of the eiiy ought to contribate to ‘lefray the expenses of the trip, and he beads the list ‘with $10,000. Only three cages of cholera wero reported yesterday in the city, and only two burial permite tor cholera dead were isxued. ‘The jury in the Allaire will ewecame into Court yes- torday morning and answered all the taeues as to the fegai execution of the instrament in favor of the execu- tric They. were unable to agree, however, on the issue as to undue influence, when they were dissharged by the Conrt, A now trial will probably be applied for, Judge “athertand has denied the motion fora mandamus wmpel the Board of Supervisors of Richmond county ive funds for the payment of a» police force for that district, ‘The motion was made on the part of the Police Commissioners, the Board having been authorized by the Jaat Legistature to raise the money. The Judge dolivers an opinion in the case whch is printed im another colamn, The fine steamship City of Parie, Captain Kennedy, of the Loman line, will sail at noon to-day for Queenstown ‘and Liverpool from pior No. 45, North river, The mails ‘Will close at the Post Office at half-past ten A. M. The steamship Britannia, Captain Laird, of the Anchor fine, wil! sail from pier No, 29, North river, at twelve M. to-tay for Glasgow, calling at Londonderry to land pas- Boner, Ae, (oo Hamburg-American toamebip Company's steamer Haronia, Captain Moier, will leave for Southamption and Hamburg on Sunday (to-morrow) morning, at ten © clock. The maiis will clove at the Post Office at three YM to-day. The favorite steamship George Washington, Captain FE, . belonging to the Cromwell tine, will sail at ‘three PM. today for New Orleans direct, from pier No. @, North river, The sloamebip Alabama, Captain Limeburner, of the Supire Lino, will sail at three P, M. to-day for Savan- ‘nab, from pler No. 19 North river. fhe popular sidewhee! steamstip Quaker City, of Ar- thar Leary's line, sails today for Charieston at three P. ‘M, from pier 14 Fast river, foot of Wall streei, The ele- q@ant steamship Granada follows on Tataday next, Oth fstant MISCELLANEOUS, Secretary Seward has sullered @ relaper and ie again Rick but was improved last evening. How wom, Praderick ‘W. Sowand, has been appointed secretary of State ad Sricrim, ‘The official statement of the Public Debt to the Ist of October is published. It shows the total debt to be $2, 701,560,709, and the cash in the Trewse-y to be $1a8,- 913,767, ioaving the amonnt of the devi lens the cash op hand $2,578,536,941. Compared with the statement to ‘ghe let of September, this shows @ decrease in the debe of twenty-two millions and a third. The amount of coin bas increased nearly ten millions, and the amount of ourrouny has decreased (our and a third miliious ‘The Camadian vorunteers have commenced disbanting, ‘Woo olvil service corps having been disbeaded at Oriaws says:—" The public prints inform me that our posed amondment to the constitution of the om Thursday, The war ahip Niger had arrived at Mon- treal, and thre Officéra of Engineers wore at Ottawa, it is beliévea, Tor the purpose of fortifyiug the city, M. 0, Cameron, a member of Parliament, hadibeen retained, it is understood, in behalf of the jan prisoners, who are to be tried at the approaching assizes. A list of those in jai? at Toronto is furnished this morning, Charles O’Conor visited Jeff Davis at Fortress Monroe yesterday. Ho, in connection with the others of Davis’ retained counsel, publish a statement of the facts at- tending the recent failure of the Richmond court to con- vene according to adjournment. Interesting particulars regarding the Davis family m Canada are published this morning from a Canadian paper. Thore were largo and enthusiastic demonstrations of both the Geary and Clymer adherents in Philadelphia last evening. Tho republicans held forth in front of the Union League House, and the demoorats in front of In- dependence Hall. Governor Curtin, Hannibal Hamlin Qnd others addressed the meeting of radicals, and a large torchlight procession was gotten up under their auspices, Heister Clymer, Judge Pargons and Colonel Page were the principal speakers at the democratic meeting. A fight occurred between @ portion of the adherents of the two parties, which resulted in the wounding @f aeveral of the police and one or two of the participants. Ata republican mass meeting at Carlisto, Pa, yeater- day, Captain Learey, a supporter of Clymer, made some remark obnoxious to the participants, and one of thom, @ momber of a defegation from Gettysburg, shot him in the meck. The whole delegation was arrested, The ‘wound, it is believed, will not prove mortal. ‘The liberal Genoral Diaz, who was reported killed in battle some time ago, ia, it appears, still living, and at last accounts was at tho head of two thousand troops on the way to Orizaba. George W. Paschal, of Texas, a Union man, who op- posed the heresy of secession and all its consequences, ‘writes a communication, which we publish In the Hrrarw th's morning, and in which he ably argucs the question of the constitutional amendment, favoring its adoption, Faller, tho teller of the Hartford National Bank, who was charged with the robbery of $20,000 worth of bonds belonging to Royal Wilcox, a merchant of that city, was arreated by the latter on a clvil suit yesterday and re- leased on $20,000 bonds. He was again arrested during the day on a criminal auit brought by the bank, and placed under $20,000 bonds to appear in the Police Court to-day. The compromise between the interested parties that was expected yesterday has failod. The inquest in tho case of Robert Walker, who was found murdered on the Centreville race course on Mon- day, was resumed yesterday. Witnesses were exam- ined who testified that they saw two mon running away from the spot where the body was aficrwards discov- ered, The affair is very mysterious, and the authorities of Queen's county have not exercised even the cus- tomary onergy in unravelling it. The inquest was ad- journed until the 13th inst. The Vermont Legisiature will convene at Montpelier on the 11th inst, Dexter and Patchen trotted for $1,000, best three heats in five, ia harness, at the Horse Fair in Kalamazoo, Michigan, yesterday, and Dexter won in three straight heats, making a mile in 2:2134—tho best time he has ever made in harness, A brother of Charles Dickens, the English novelist, died in Chicago yesterday. The cholera is increasing in Washington, several cases were reported there yesterday, and one proved fatal. There were oigh: deaths from the disease in Memphis yesterday. and four in Nashville, In the billiard match betwoon Dion and McDevitt, at Montreal, Canada, for the championship of America and the Provinces, Dion won at twelve o'clock last night by two hundred and twenty-six points. x ‘The authorities in the Island of Curacoa, West Indies, on the 3d ult. declared 8 quarantine of forty days upon vessols from any part of the Unitod States. The Constitutional Amendment in the South. We have before us, in a Mississippi paper, a letter from the late Provisional Governor Sharkey, now one of the United States Senators elect from said State, as reconstructed, in the the absence of Congress, under the conditions imposed by Present Johnson. In this letter, dated Washington city, September 17, and ad- dressed to Governor Humphreys, the writer Legislature is to be convened in extra session on the 15th of October,” and that “the pro- United States as a fourteenth article may pos President General Slocum’s The govern- ment of the State will be provisional only until the civil authorities shall be restored with the approval of Congress.” Again, on the 12th of September, in a despatch to Pro- visional Governor Marvin, of Florida, the President says, through the Secretary of State, “It must be distinctly understood that the restoration to which your proclamation refers will be subject to the decision of Congress,” This settles the question, for Congress is the law-making power of the United States, Moreover, as this Thirty-ninth Congress atands officially recognized by the President as the Congress of the United States, its sovereign authority over this matter of Southern restora- tion is placed beyond dispute. The case lies in a nutshell. The lately rebellious States, de jure, have never been out of the Union; but, de facto, they were carried out by their rebel- lion, are out now (excepting Tennessee), and will remain out till reinstated on tho terms imposed by Congress, Tennessee has been reinstated on the terms laid down by Congress in the constitutional amendment before the country. President Johnson has thought fit to appeal from Con- gress to the people against this amendment. Here, as events have shown, he committed an unfortunate mistake. We hope, however, that he will be guided by the verdict of the people in the approaching elections. We have no deubt as to what that verdict will be. Falling in with the overwhelming public sentiment of the North, he may still recover his lost ground in a hint to the Mississippi Legislature to lead off for this constitutional amendment. A hint from President Johnson will suffice throughout the South against all the exploded State sove- reignty theories of such unreconstructed South- ern followers of Rhett, Mason and Slidell as Mr. Sharkey. Otherwise, the best opportunity and the best terms for restoration that the ex- cluded States can ever obtain will be lost, and with them will be lost the opportunity offered the administration for securing the balance of power in Congress and in the reconstruction of parties for the future. Restoration, power and prosperity are offered with this amendment, while from its rejection delays, agitations and the perils of utter ruin and confusion await the excluded States. The Influence of the United States Upon Ku- rope. It is only lately that the great moral influ- ence of this country upon Europe has been reeognized by people in general. Statesmen and philosophers have seen and in some cases have acknowledged it, but now it is observed in a remarkable manner throughout the whole continent. We had an instance of this recently in the appeal of the Greek Christians under the Turkish dominion to the great transatlantic republic. But itis not these people, ina re- mote and isolated part of Europe, who have felt the moral influence of the United States so much as it is those of the populous States of Western Europe. The principles of universal suffrage and of the unification and solidarity of nations were born here. These principles, which underlaid the late war in Europe and which have produced an extraordinary revolu- tion there, were spread across the Atlantic by the successful operation of our institutions, and particularly through their successtul ope- ration in preserving the government under the most gigantic rebellion known in ‘history. The war of independence, with the true ideas of republican liberty diffused by that event, sibly be submitted to the Legislature for its adoption or rejection.” Mr. Sharkey then pro- ceeds to give his opinions on the amendment, involving a number of objections, of which the first will serve our present purpose. the amendment was recommended by two- thirds of the Congress of the United States,” that “the constitutional House of Representa- tives consists of members chosen by the people was one of the chief causes of the great revolu- tion in France. Gradually, and almost imper- ceptibly for a time, these ideas spread over the world, ti at last our mighty struggle for na- tional life startled mankind by its magnitude and excited universal admiration of our gov- ernment. Cesarism, ander great military con- querors and revolutionists, and especially under the Bonapartes, has endeavored to. sub- juzate, mould and control public sentiment for dynastic or imperial enda. It has been com- He says:—“ In the first place, I donot believe of the several States, and the Senate con- sists of two Senators from each State,” and that “it is very clear that a body not so composed— or, in other words, whore a considerable num- ber of States are excladed from representation in both branches—is not the Congress of the United States.” Now, we have to de- clare it as our deliberate opinion that a more revolutionary proposition than this never entered into the head of any of the leaders of the late rebellion ; that if Mfr. Shar- key is right we have had no government of the United States during the Inst five years, nothing better than an unconstitntional Coagress or two, all the acts of which are null and void. To this extremity the ohjection of Mr. Sharkey will carry him; but he qualifies ft by saying that “when the Southern States adopted the amendment abolishing slavery the state of things was very different. They had not elected or sent mombers to the Congress which recommended that amendment. But when this amendment was proposed they had elected members who appeared at the proper time and demanded to be admitted, but were rejected. We are not, therefore,” be says, “to be told that we have recognized this as a constitutional Congress.” This does not mend the matter; for it abolishes the Thirty-ninth Congress and puts the Istely rebellious States into this very charming position: that, having gone out to join in an armed conspiracy to overthrow the government, and having heen reduced, after a four years’ war, to the alternative of laying down their arms, they are all right again, and Congress can do nothing till they are restored to their seats. This is the chop logic of Mr. Sharkey. It hos the true ring of the old State rights nullification and secession theories of South Carolina betore the deluge, and no man uttering such doctrines at this doy is fit to represent any State {n Congress, tor he does not recognise the issues that have been settled by the Inte war for the Union. It has been settled by the war that ercession is a fallacy: that State sovereigniy is a fal- lacy ; that a State bag no right to secedo; that the concerned in the late rebellion are subject to ite consequences, ineluding the aholition of slavery, the repadiation of all the debts and obligations inenrred by them in the rebellton, and to auch other conditions of restoration as the Congress adbering to the government of the United States in the war may think fit to impose, President Johnson, acting upon these fixed facts, undertook his work of Southern reconstruction. To hie Pro- visional Governor Sharkey (this eame Sharkey), of Mississippi, on the 26th of July last, the President, through Mr. Seward, addreased a | of our citizen soldiers. We hope pelled finally to adopt oar principle of universal suffrage as the basis of iis existence. All the great movements.in Europe have this founda- tion, The imperial power of Napoleon rests on it, the immense strength of Prassia is drawn from it, and the resuscitation of Italy is the result of it, Universal suffrage, bora in the United States, is fast revolutionizing the Old World. ‘ But the principle of unity and solidarity of nations of the same race and language also. had its origin and derives its strength Im a great measure from us. 'The statesmen of Ferope saw what a power- ful empire grew up here and maintained ite existence ander circumstances that would have shatiered any other nation to pieces. The Prossians, under Bismarck, particularly, saw the necessity of unity, and directed the grand movement inGermany io that end. The Iial- ians were inspired by the same idea. Both adopted the principles which successfully car- ried us through the most terrible war and de- monstrated the strength of the government. The sume result followed. Both have astqn- ished the world by their success, which must be attributed to these two ideas of universal suffrage and natioual unity. Such is the mors! power the United States is exercising over Earope. But the end is not yet. Cesar- ism, imperialism or royalty, under one form or another, may endeavor to control this movement to save itself; but universal suf- frage is only compatible with republicanism The exercise of the voice of the people in tha choice of rulers is the very essence of univer- sal suffrage. Europe cannot become Cossack, for the enlightened spirit of the age forbids it, and therefore, in the prophetic language of the first Napoleon, it will become republican. This ma} be delayed for a time by the drategy of monarebs and their ministers; but ¢ld Eu- rope is rapidly marching that way, ind the moral influence of the United States Will be the great instrument to accomplish the mighty work of modera civilization. | Gryerat, Saxprorn’s Prack.—Our dty mili- tia are very much excited over the qi to who will be appointed to the ship vaeated by the removal of that} hundred delays and veteran of a drills, Mr, Sandford. The two most ent candidates for the position are Col Rash C, Hawkins and Colonel Lloyd wall. ced Mr. Aspinwall is » young and militia officer, with nothing to re- commend him. Colonel Hawkins |has seen hard service in the field during the war, and is in every way competent for oad a tologram embracing those words :—" The | be appointes. | sees no reason to interfere with | Tas Muxican Loan.—There appears to be a great deal of excitement and anxiety in Wash- ington and elsewhere about the loan which NEW YORK HERALD, SATUKDAY, OUTOBER 6, 1866,—TRIPLE SHEET. THEATRICAL. Sefton as Jommy Twitcher. Santa Anna is trying to negotiate, for the Mr. John Sefton appeared at the Brooklyn Academy “redemption” of Mexico. We don’t think, however, that there is any necessity for inor- dinate anxiety upon this subject. Nobody need distress himself very much about it; for there is probably not a man in New York having money to lend who would invest it in & loan to any of the Mexican chiefs upon such guarantees as they can offer. They are all quarrelling among themselves, and as the spoil which they hope to acquire in Mex- ico is only prospective, not one of them can be certain as to who will get hold of it in the end. Under these circumstances it is not likely that a loan of ahundred dollars could be obtained here by any of the Mexican leaders, not to speak of half a million, which it is said Santa Anna is looking for. Not even the Shylock of our Rialto could be persuaded to advance that amount of money at shent-per- shent interest on such poor security. Tae Paterson Racss.—On Tuvaday next the fall races at the Paterson course com- mence, Hitherto they have been fashionably attended and excellently conducted, and we presume that this meoting will be no excep- tion to the rule. The good example set at the Jerome Park races will have to be everywhere followed if this racing revival is to be perma- nent, At that course Captain Wilson, of the Metropolitan police, had his men on the ground both in uniform and in citizens’ dress. So soon as the gamblers and patent-safe operators began to ply their vocation Captain Wilson in- terfered and arrested them. He would not allow them on the course or anywhere about the ground:. The want of sucha system and such an officer has caused all the trouble at the Long Island tracks. Once let it be distinctly under- stood that blacklegs and thimble-riggers will not be permitied to infest races, and respect- able people will be willing to attend. But at some of the trotting courses the roughs and pickpockets take entire control of affairs and rob and insult every decent person, and the police are too few or too inefficient to interfere. Gamblers and roulette tables killed the Sara- toga course. The absence of any such dis- graceful demonstrations made the success of the Jerome Park races, and we hope that the Paterson races will be équally well managed. THE PLENARY COUNCIL. Arrival of Numbers of the Catholic Clergy in Baltimore, to Attend the Coming Council of the Church. Barrimorn, Oct. 5, 1866, The second Plenary Council of the Roman Catholic Church, which assemblos here on Sunday, is attracting much interest in this city. , Allthe members of the Roman Catholic Council have arrived except five bishops and one archbishop, who are expected to-morrow. The opening ceremonies will take piace on Sunday, for which great have beeu made. Archbishop McClosky will detiver the opening address on Sunday. There will be public sessions on Sut and Thursday. The closing session will take place on the 21st, THE FUNERAL OF REAR ADMIRAL GREGORY. New Havas, Conn., Oct. 5, 1866. ‘The funeral of Rear Admiral Gregory was attended to- day from Trinity church with military honors, Minute guns were fired, bells tolled and business generally sus- pended in respect to his memory. Dr. Harwood, rector of Trinity church, and Chaplain Hitchcock, United States Navy, officiated. Commodores Ringgold and Hunt, Commander Ran: Clef Engineer Danby, ex-Gover- nor Dutton, Judge Blackman, Hon. J. B. Robertson and Hon. A. L, Kidstan acted as pall bearors. The funeral Cortage was extensive and imposing. REPUDIATION IN GEORGIA. An Effort to be Made to Have the People of Georgia Relieved from the Payment of Debts Contracted During the War—The Lows of Sinves and Failure ef Crops the Causes As- signed, &c. Avausta, Ga., Oct, 5, 1966, Considerable feeling ia exhibited throughout Georgia on the subject of repudiation, It is thought an effort ‘will be made on the meeting of the Legislature in No- vember to relieve the people from the payment of ecer- tain debts contracted prior and durin: the late war. The plea urged for repudiation ia the loea of the slaves and the failure of the crops, The amount of eee re- turned in the State for 1866 is $207,000,000; In 1860, $020,322,777. Loss to the State over $466,000,000. RAILROAD CASUALTIES. Accident in West Philadelplin--The Passen- aers Escape—A Fireman Killed, &c. Prmanerraia, Oct, 5, 1866, About noon to-day an accident happened to the New York and Washington through train while passing through West Philadeiphia. The engine jumped tho track, and was turned over apon ite de. Two baggage cars immediately im the rear of the locomotive were also overturned, No ngers were hurt. Vernon Lewis, a fireman on the engine, was killed. The engineer was seriously injured. Mon were at once fet at work to ose track, aud after a short delay the train pro- Two Young Ladies Injured by an Express Train at Amsterdam, N. Y. Axaasy, Oct, 6, 1866, Last evening two young ladies, Miss Hattie Howitt and Mra. Thoresa Heath, were struck by the steamboat ex- Presa train going Kast, at the street crossing in Ameter- dam. They were standing on the track at the timo, waiting for a freight train passing West. Miss Hewett had both her feot crushed off and was otherwise seriously injured. The other lady is not badly hurt. CONGRESSIONAL NOMINATIONS IN MASSACHUSETTS. Genery Twichell Nominnted for Representa tive in the Third District—A. H. HRice, the Preseut ber, Declines to Run. Botox, Oct. 5, 1866. The Congressioval convention for the Third District Met this afternoon. Hon. A. H. Rice, the present mém- ber, was nominated by acclamation for representative, but he positively declined to serve in. The first 0 Twitchell 69, with some seatioring. At’ the second ballot Genery Twitchell, of Brookline, was nominated, he receiving 93 of the 108 votes cast. Mr. Twitchell is President of the Bostow and Worcester Railroad. POLITICAL MATTERS IN NEVADA. Bax Francisoo, Oct. 4, 1866, The Union State Convention of Nevada have nominated H. G, Blasdel for and D. RB for Con- gress, T4e Democratic Convention noan Jobn D. Winters for Governor, and H. K. Mitehell for Congress. PROPOSED VISIT OF THE SEVENTH REGIMENT TO PARIS. Among the interesting on dif in military circles ix the Proposed visit of the Seventh regiment National Guard, to the Paris Exhibition noxt spring. The proposition has taken no definite ehape, although Colonel Emmons Clark is now making estimates of the probable cost of such a trip; when these are the matter will come before a Meeting the geo} when the mattor will be discuss’ and finally iy ‘Cm: Colonel Charles B. Norton, of the United States this city, It in ssid he has beon by American te of both Paris and London to urge the Feventh to visit Europe; and if be raised tn this city equal tw that a for its yh OS last evening in the famous character of Jommy Twitcher, in Webster’s piay, The Golden Farmer, There was # fair audience present, The piece was excelicntly put ‘upon the stage, and Miss Johnson, Mr. Duff and Mr. Andrews supported Mr. Sefton admirably. We were not Prepared to see #o much care bestowed upon a play that ‘was only to be performed for one night, &nd Manager Tayloure and his stage director deserve a great deal of credit. It does one good to witness, once In a while, the sort Of entertainments that used to please us years ago. By looking back in this way we can appreciate the progress which the drama has made in New York. Twenty years ago Mr, Sefton and Tho Golden Farmer were the rage in this city. Out of the profits of this performance Manager Dinneford rebuilt the Bowery theatre. The Golden Farmer was the first drama that ever ran one hundred nights im America Whenever it was advertised the Frankiin or the Park was crowded. Burton used to play Hammer in it, and Miss Charlotte Cushman appeared as Elizabeth when Mr, Sefton produced it in Philadelphia. Last evening The Golden Farmer was preceded by The French Spy, with Mlle. Zoe as the bounding pantomimist, ‘This had a most dispiriting effect upon the audience, who ‘wore cool and critical, like Brooklyn audiences in gea- eral—afraid to commit themselves by laughter or ap- plause, and constantly on the watch for something that would not ‘please them, Jemmy Twitcher’s first “Vel, vot of it?” produced only a smile, which gradually deepened into a chuckle, and finally broadened into a hoarty laugh as the picco proceeded. Unlike comic dramas of the modern school, The Golden Farmer does not give Jemmy Twitcher a fair chance for his fun, His part is too sketchy. The play necds writing up to the Solon Shin- gle standard. Were that neatly and skilfully done, it would undonbtedly be extremely popular and might run its hundred nights again. ‘The character of Jemmy Twitchor is capital, and Mr. Befton performs it to the life. The mingled shrewdness and simplicity, the low cunning and the meanness of the part are faithfully portrayed. The make-up !s a com- plete disguise, as perfect in» its line as that of Mr. Owens in his great impersonation. So long as Mr. Sefton is upon the stage the audience 18 intensely amused; but the trouble is, that, as the piece is now constructed, he is not upon the stage long enough. There are intervals of tears und crimes and condemna- tions to death, during which it is impossible not to feel bored. The Toodles had the same fault, until some- body had the good sense to perceive that the people came to see Mr. Toodles, and not ranting George Acorn, and that more of Toodies and less of Acorn would attract larger houses. Let the same remedy be applied to The Golden Farmer, and Mr. Sefton, who performs with all his old tact and humor, may star with this play as suc- cessfully as ever. Thalia Theatre. Last night, Rubens in Madrid, was given at this thea- tre for the second time, and although the performance on the first occasion was such 23 to merit encourage- ment, the attendance was small, considering that the German inhabitants of this city number about two hua- dred thousand, and there are but two German theatres here. ‘The fact that they are so badly supported is any- thing but complimentary to the taste and cultivation of that part of the population, for it isa well known fact that the more refined and the more highly cultivated a people ia, the more fondness they exhibit for theatrical entertainments. Mr. Haerting improved considerably upon his Rubens of the first representation; he played more carefully, and the scene in which he is disguised as Van Ort was is whole, SBarsigdvire cata, spor yearn nicer: sary for a truthful ideal of the great scholar and finished gentleman. There wasa want of that mingled digaix and refinement whieh is bed to Rubens, and whic! ‘at once inspired respect and affection. Of Mrs. Scheller’s Ellena but little can be said. Her impersonation was fine on the first occasion ; last night she was magnificent Each word tell from ber lips with a clearness and din- tinetness which would convince any ome even who does not unde German that it is the of music and poetry, Every action was studied, yet graceful and natural, and in the scene where she recognises her lover her suppressed emotion and my at the danger of bis situation was painful to behold. There was a refinement and Anish her acting which thoroughly inter. reted the character she represented. Owing to the in- japosition of Mr. Lohmann, Mr. Klotz un his part, Velasquez, in which he played well throughout, Park Theatre, Brooklyn. Avery good audience, both in numbers and intelli. gonce, witnessed The Three Guardsmen. at this pleasant and commodious theatre last evening. The play was very fairly put upon the stage, if wo except the scenery, which was often too decrepit and dyspeptic to be effective. The last scene, however, was quite good, and induced us to desire that it had had :nore companions. D’Artagnan (Mrs, Conway) was clever and vivacious, and looked the handsome adventurer so well that no one could delude his imagination with the idea of her manti- ness, There always is, and always mus: be, an objection to the impersonation of masculine rolu by women; for their sex, disguise it as they may, is so ever-present to the mind that the character assumed is tho merest masking. Richelieu (Mr. Conway) was creditable, albeit ‘we have had such eminent artists in the part that it re. quires courage for any uncrowned actor to undertake it. The gentleman would have been more atcepta- ble with fewer of the maunerisms that cling to him over-fondly. Anne of Austria (Mra. Barrett) was uneven, baton the whole weil sustained, though the part is not suited to the lady, who has gained her numerous admirers in lighter and les» passionate im- Personations, Ponchet (Mr. Lamb) was very good, and would have been better if he had aveided the apparently unconquerable vice of low comedians, technically bat inelegantly termed gagging. Dumas wouid hardly have been gratified had he seen the offspring of his brain in the porsons of the three guardsmen. I{ awkward swag- gering and mach mouthing especially marked the mous- free ger a we have no fault to tind with them tn owe particulars, But we must be permitted to cherish the belief that the Parisian 6: of the Ia Tiunbed have been main’ Methal tas Boer fg whet ey progressive and full of dramatic situations, as our readers are aware. Was very well received by the audience, who were more good natured than critical, aad therefore the more ‘The Matinees To-lay. ‘The matindée entertainments arranged for this (Satur day) afternoon are of a very attractive character. ‘MB. AND MRS HOWARD PAUI'# MATINEE, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Paul will appear im a matinee at Irving Hall, the performances to commence at one o'clock. They will repeat all the novel and eminently succesafal musical and comic pieces of character acting, and give the songs which have been so enthusiactically applauded daring the evenings since their debut, The bill of performances for Monday evening will be changed, of which due notice will be given. WACKETE PARRWELL. MATINEE The matin‘e entertainment bill of the Broadway thea. tre is of more than usual interest to-day, announcing the last appearance bat one this season of Mr. J. H. Hackett, whon be personates Falstaff, in King Henry IV, The matinées of the Broadway accommodate highly respecta- ble audiences, for which class Manager Wood bas espe- orally catored. This evening (Saturday) will close Mr. Hackett’s highly pleasing ongagement. Miss Maggio Mitchell opens at the Broadway on Monday. Mr. Harta, the Ilinsionist, wil! repeat his extraortinary feats at a matinée to open at Dodworth Hall, Broadway, at two o'clock. Charley White's Minstrels and Combination Company will be out in fall force im @ matinee at Bryante’ (Me. chanics’) Hall, Broadway, They open at haif-past two o'elock. Tony Pastor's matinee performances commence, at his Opera House in the Bowery, at half-past two o’elock. ‘The new drama, entitled Brigham Young, of Life Among the Mormoms, an “improved version" of the Black Crook, with other good pieces and comic songs, are on the bill. Miacellancons Theatricals. Mr. and Mra Barney Williams have jast closed ther engagement at the Opera House, Pittsburg, Pa Thoir eptertainments were @roredingly snccens- fal, the artistes being welcomed t the elty by hosts of old and new frends and admirers with great thusiasm. The Connie Seogah war pérformed on the farewoll evening, on which occasion the Opera Honee Was crowded, to an extent unprecedented! im Pittsburg, with the beauty, rank and fasbion of the town and the surrounding districts, The Connie Soogah could have tun on with a furor for very many days were it not for the peremptory close of tne engagement at the period first agreed on by Mr. Williama. ‘The Chicago (IMimois) papers are in a rtate of joyous excitement in consequence of reports of an anticipated early visit of Ristori to one of the theatres of that city La Familie Benoiton, the Fast Family, is on the boards of McVieker’s theatre, Chicago. Mrs. Giadstane, & very refined American artiste, is playing at the National theatre, Cincinnati. She has appeared as the leading character in Leah, the Forsaken. ‘Miss Lacitie Western crowds Wood's theatre, Cineia- Sati, She bes just personated Lady Isabel, in Mast a wees Mise fee = me la a founged ca Dick» ‘The new museum and theatre situated on Fifth stroot, near Franklin avenue, St. Louis, was oponed on Monday- Oct. 1, with @ good stock company, embracing Ma Charles Pope, Miss Edith Page, Miss Jean ©. Walters, Miss Jano Parker, Miss H, E. Bailey, Miss Emma Stan- ley, Miss Logan Burt, Mr. H. B. Phelps, Mr. J. mR Witing, Mr. H. 8, Murdoch, and other favorites, The piece selected for the opening was Crime in the Me, tropolia, ‘Mr. Barton Hill, the American comedian, ts playing one of the most successful engagements ever attempted in Canada at Montreal, Lady Don has an immense triumph in San Francisos. Advices from that city state that she draws the largest houses, perhaps, ever witnessed in the Golden State, Migs Jean Hosmer is at the Baltimore theatre, She played Bianca, in the tragedy of Fazio, as her opening character on Monday night last, Edwin Booth and the Bateman’s are performing im Boston, ‘Veatvali is at Troy. The papers dnd fault with her company. Mrs. D. P. Bowers is at the Louisville theatre, She ts supported by Mr. J. 0, McCollom. Mr. Charles Barras is playing an engagement et the Motropolitan theatre, Buffalo, RISTORI. Hiizabeth, Queen of Enginad. For the third time Ristori enchained an audience im her impersonation of Elizabeth last night, and with ae diminution whatever of that extraordinary power which she exercises as it were by a kind of magnetism—the magnetism of genius, which we feel, yet hardly com- prehend, The story of the ‘Virgin Queen” of England is but imperfectly presented in this drama by Giacometti, We have to overlook some gross anachronisms, and must not complain because what purposes to be a historical drama is only a succes sion of historical pictures, But they are so cleverty conceived by the author, and so faithfully rendered by the compaay, that we are content not only to accepe them, but to accord them their full value, if the play possessed no other merit than the splendid opportunities it affords for the display of Ristori’s marvellous drs matic powers, it would be a welcome contribution to the Italian stage. Ristori is of course the centre, about which all the attraction concentrates, As Elizabeth was the sun of the universe embraced within the limite of the British empire, the object of adulation, and the tyrant of the weak and the strong alike, #0. we find Ristori in the opening scenes of the play, and aa she grows in years, and follows out the varying bistory of the most eventful lifeof any sovereign that ruled im England, she changes with every vicissitude, in face, form, eostume, action, until one feols as though he had lived a life time in her presence in the few hours occu- pied by tho performance of the play. Apart from the intense sensation which Ristori cre- ates, there is no gmail pleasure derived from the excel- lence of the company. In the completion of the pice ture of the court life and habits of the time, wo canmos forget the fidelity everywhere visible and the strict ad- herence to nature maintained by the whole cast, which render the pertormance so easy and agreeable that we have never to fear a coniretemps which in ordinary stock companies so often mars the finest efforts of the best actors. To particularize, and with justice, the acting of Signor Glech in one of the most dra- matic scenes in the play, the finale of the third act, would do crodit to many an artist of distinguishes Teputation. It was a masterly effort, and deserved all the applause which was accorded to it. In enjeying the sublimity of Ristori's acting, one feels disposed to be eratefal to her supporters for doing so much justice te her genius, and contributing to the pleasure of the audience, by the conscientious discharge of their duty. It is bat just to say that so perfect a company never ap- peared on the Americau stago in support of = great artist, and never has a play been put upon the stage se complete in all its parts, so hi ly, true ip costume and perfect in the manners of the time, as this drame of Elizabeth, The audience last night was as fashionably attired, ap intellectual, and as entirely appreciative as on any pre- vious evening. An empty seat ia the house was not te be thought of, and even standing room was at a pre- mium, We suggosted before that people who do mot understand the Italian language should study the libretto in some moment of repose at home before they Ko to the theatre; we now beseech of them to do #0; for 4 more dread{ul nuisance it is impossible to conceive than the buzz which fills the entire house—like the fight of « swarm of locusts—as tho students of the play books turn over the leaves, sometimes too at the moment when the most exquisite passages occur. It te not possible to read a book and enjoy the effects pre- duced on the stage at the same time. The custom must be distressing tothe actors, and we know that it ts mont annoying toa large portion of the andience, We heje therefore that people who cannot follow the plot intell- gibiy in the original tongue will give an hours’ leisure te reading the English version before they visit the theatre, They will find such a course much more agrevab'le to themselves. We would suggest to the manage. ment that the intervals between the acts are a Uttid too long, especially when a five-act drama is on the stage, Even with a good orchestra and judicious mu- sical selections, an interval of nearly half an hour some- times become tedious, Notwithstanding that the French theatre has bees crowded every night, there are yot huodreds who have not seon Ristori in the greatest part in which she bas yet appeared. It has thus become necessary to give Etaabeth again thir evoning, which will probably be ite last presentation, as Giuditia will be produced om Monday. CHAMPION BILLIARD MATCHES. rn re The Canadian Championsbip—Dion va. MeDe- vit. ‘The Former the Winner. Mowrnmat, Oct, 6, 1968. There was considerable excitement abogt the result of the billiard match between Dion and McDevitt. Betting was a little wild at first, bat about two to one in favor of me McDevitt made the highest runs, but Dion played more equally thi beat MecDovitt’s hichest rans were 46, 163, 908; Dion's, 121, 63, 106, 258. A few minutes after midnight the game was concluded in fifty-eight rune—Dion, 1,500; Molevitt, 1,274; ma- Jority, 228. ‘The Missouri Championship -Harrigos Versua Pierce—The Latter the Victor. Sr. Lov, Oct, 5, 1866. mr billiard hago pk a Dae = A Lape nen Sheng champion cue ), came D ween 4 som of St. Joseph, champion oo and ped J. Pierce, of st. Pierce wou the game by points, THE HARTFORD BOND MYSTERY. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK RERALS. Neo Settlement Vet EffectedThe Teller of the Hartford National Rank Arrested Twice and Held to $15,000 Bnil-The Present Hebbery Suspected to be Only the Cover of Other Embezziements, &e. Hanrronn, Conn. Ook 5, 1868. When I telegraphed you last night it wae agreed among these interested that > seitlonent of the Hartford Bank robbery of $20,000 worth of bende, belonging to Loval Wilcox, should be made betwoen the friends of Charles D. Fuller, tetier of the bank, who wat and the losing party. Some new since then, and Fuller wae on A criminal suit brought by the placed under $20000 bonds to ice court to-mornw, Marshall Jewell, again arrested on a civil gyit, and ordered to find bonds in the Lt forward stir HH i Race Retween Doxtet avd Paichen at Kale~ wasee.Dester Makes his Best Time te Deraorr, Mich. Net 6, 1868.