The New York Herald Newspaper, October 21, 1866, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. @rriog N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. Volume XXXI. AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. THRATRE FRANCAIS, Fourteenth street. near Sixth Svenue.—Macasra. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, mires. —F aNcuon. NEW YORK THEATRE. Brosaway speontin New York Hotel.—Tue Cup o tux Reaiaent—Rum-t1-P00-212., near Broome GERMAN THALIA THEATRE, No. 514 Broadway.— Dee Burcric 1x pak Kucun—Bet Dem Gasuaterns—Pex. ONAL ACTEN, IRVING HALL, Irving place.—Mg. amp Mas. Howarp Pave ta their amusing entertainment, DODWORTA’S HALL, 806 Broadway.—Prorzsson Uancz wit. Prrroxm mis Mimacies. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway, the Metropolitan Hotel—Ix tame Ermiortan E pers Singing, Dancina Buriesques- apes O% PHANTOM ILLUSIONS. FIFTH AVENUE OPERA HOUSE, Nos. 2 and 4 West Twonty-fourth street, —-Bopwortit's MINSTRELS, ~ETiOPLAN Muvstaxisy. Battaps, BuRLESQuES, &C. GEORGE AND THK GON. KELLY & LEON’S GREAT WESTERN MINSTRELS, ~™ bi RE. way—IN THEIR Sonas, Dascrs, Eccentsicrias, 4c.—Dopaina ror 4 Wire. . TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowerr.—Coutc Vooatism—Nxcro Minstreisy Bacter DivertisseMtxt, &c.—Couumsia’s Jackets oF BLuE. CHARLEY WHITE'S COMBINATION TROUPE, at Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broalway~Iy a Vagigry ot Ligne aro Lavasasce Exrentainaeyrs, Cours px Battet, &0, Fux HirrotizarRon. HOOLFY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—EraioriaN Mine arratsy, BaLLaps, BuRLEsuns AND PaNTOMIMes CLINTON HALL—Tuinp Anycat Concert or Lirrum Exity Pexsixi. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. 618 Broadway.— Lxcrones wr tar Oxy-Hyproces Microscore | twice ony Hxap ano Ricur Anw or PRoast, Open from § 4. Mtl 10 P.M. SUNDAY (THIS) EV! an Inving Haut, Irving —Guanp Sacurp Concent SUNDAY (THIS) EVENING—Granp Sacrep Concert or ame Anion Vocat SOCIFTY 4T GERMANIA Assemucy Rooms, 291 and 28; Bowery. > 1866. New York,"Sunday, October 21 [HH Nows. EUROPE. fy ‘he AUantic cable we have advices from London sod Liverpool dated yesterday evening, October 20. the general news was quite unimportant. Vongols closed at 8934 for money ia London. Biates five-twenties 69, In the Liverpool cotton market middling uplands was wt fifteen and one-fourth pence. The steamship Peruvian, at Father Point yesterday, furnishes velegraphic details of our cable despatches to the 12th of October. A letter {rom Rome, published ina French journal, tontains « statement to the effect that the Empress of Mexico surprised the Pope by her appearance at the Vatican, and the urgency of her request that he would sanction all the acts of Maximilian with reference to religious affairs in the empire, {t is added that his Holi- ‘ness refusing to do so the Empress insisted on remaining tm the palace until her petition was granted, and that the did stay there to an hour when the presente of Strangers, particularly of ladics, is inconvenient in the establishment, The writer adds, however, that he “‘cen- aot guarantee the authentioity’’ of the “story.” MISCELLANEOUS. Governor Swann’s action in the Baltimore police diff- culty is anxiously awaited, and the greatest excitement provaits in that city. Tho “Boysin Biue’’ have organized 4a large force, and threaten to prevent the removal of the Commissioners or lay the city in ashes, The Mayor and city authorities are said to sympathize with the “Boys in Blue.” Governor Swann visited Washington yesterday, and, it is stated, had an interview with the President. A rumor was current in Baltimore last night thet the Governor would not remove the Commissioners. They are to appear before him on Monday. The steamship Ocean Queen, from Aspinwall on the {2th inst., arrived at this port yosterday, bringing dates from Valparaiso to the 17th of september, and from Cal- lao to the 28th. Considerable excitement had been created in Chile by the news received from Spain to the effect that a land force of twelve thousand men was to accompany the next Spanish squadron to the Pacific, for the purpose of occupying either the Chincha ‘Tslands or the island of Chiloe, It was generally belioved that the latter would be the main point of the Spanish attack, and the government was strongly urged to for- tify and man the defencible places in the Archipelago. Groat activity was manifested in strengthening the de- fences of Valparaiso and Callao especially. It was ra- ‘morod in Valparaieo that Bolivia had made an offensive and defensive alHance with Paraguay. The tax on foreigners was enforced in Peru, but the privilege of voting was extended to them in return. Among the many beneficial results of the alliance between the Pacific republics is a treaty securing free trade between them; also one securing postal facilities and tho extension of telegraphic communications, The Argentine govern- ment was anxious to arrange with Chile for the con- struction of a telegraph line across the Andes, between the cities of Buenos Ayres and Santiago. By a report to the Navy Department of Lieutenant Commander Gibson, of the steamer Tahoma, we learn of a terrific cyclone off the coast, between Cape Hatteras ‘nnd Bermuda, on the Sd and 4th inst, The Tahoma sus- tained serious injury, The centre of the storm, how- ever, had passed over the island of New Providewce on the Ist inst, More than half the town of Nassau was left mruins Houses were unroofed, blown to picces, or torn from their foundations, and even large solid stone buildings were shattered. The shipping was nearly all destroyed. The general wreck in the wake of the re- volving storm is described as dreadful, Colonel John W. Forney was honored with a serenade tn Washington last evening. | In acknowledgment of the complimont he made a speech, in which he pitched into the Presidont in bis usual style, accusing him of foment- ing asecond rebellion, and “following the lead of his Minsteious predecessor, Je Davis, in 1960." At the coa- clusion of the speoch three cheers were given for For. noy, and then three equally vociferous for the Presitent, apon which wag in the crowd called fora “ division." Several other speeches were mate. Aa urgent appeal has been issued by the Executive Committee appointed by the citizens of Quebec for aid for tho sufferers by the late calamitous fire in that city. the people of Lower Canada are again panic stricken over a tomor that the Fenians are congrogating In the vicinity of St. Albans and Maiono. You re of the Fenian prisoners wore arraigned yoa- terday the Court of Queon’s Bench at Toronto, ‘Tuslr telal is to proceed om Wednesday. The United States Consul at Toronto last evening received a telo- gram from Secretary Seward instructing him to engage coanse! for all American citizens at the expense of the United States government. During the Jatter part of last week Captain Jourdan, aasisted by a number of detectives, effected the arrest of several notorious burglars who are suspected of being the parties engaged in June Inst in the daring robbery of the national bank at Bowdoinkam, Maine. Itwill be Tocoliested that these desperadoes gagged and bound Mr, Batterfeld, the cashier, and his wife and son, and that thoy foreed (he former to proceed im his night clothes to the bank and open its vaults, from which they took Treasury notes, bonds, ae, to the amount of $75,000, ‘The prisoners made a dp eperate resiatance, but were over- powored by the officers, and are now on thelr way to Maine, whither they have been sent upon the requisition of Governor Conp, The last of the volunteer couris martial has adjourned tine die Thivcourt hae beeo in session during the past two montha,in Nashville, Tenn., and was presided over by Brevet Brigadier General Sualley. The last case Dofore It, was that of Thompson Taylor, which wae dia- missed by nolle prowequi. The court was adjourned by ordet/ of Major General Thomas. ‘The full official vote of the Penn: Jeetion, from very county but one, gives ary 17,706 majority. “The total vote reaches nearly 690,000. A despatch from New Orleans states (hat General Sheridan has informed the Governor of Toras that Gen- oral Heintzeiman has authority to concentrate the whole cavaley force under bis command at such pointe on ihe troatter as may beet answer for protection. A large fire waa reported to be raging ia New Or: bt slave hour leet migbh 2. gs ion HNN dee ret Court of Comenon Plone. was United ne NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1866. busily engaged yesterday in examining applicants for | of God it depends on the Italian people naturalization. It is expected that the number natural- ined during this sitting of the court will exceed that of any previous similar period, The case of Wm. M. Newman against George H. God- dard was again up yesterday in Chambers of the Su- Preme Court before Judge Clerke on a continuance of the argument to vacate the ordor of arrest. It will be Temembered that plaintiff sues defeadant to recover $100,000, the alleged value of certain goods which had been seized by the latter in 1862, as one of the vigilance committee in Camden, Arkansas. After hearing the argument of counse!, Judge Clerke took the papers and reserved his decision. Felix Grodenski died yesterday at the City Hospital, from the effects of burns received by the explosion of a kerosene oil lamp on the 6th inst. Lehman Kauffman died yesterday from injuries re- ceived on Friday night by being thrown from @ wagon at the corner of Sixth street and Avenue A, Catharine Waters, an Irish woman, aged fifty years, fell down a flight of Stairs at 93 Park street yesterday, and was killed, Deputy Health officer Bissell, in charge of the Hos- pital Ship in the Lower Bay, reports that during the twenty-four hours ending last evening, there was bat one death and one admission on the ship. The stock market was strong yesterday morning, and closed steady. Gold closed at 146%, Trade was fairly active in some departments yester- day, but on the whole, business was moderate, and prices were rendered somewhat nominal by the fall in gold. The breadstuffs market was excited, and prices advanced under the advices from Liverpool, Cotton was again lower. Coffve continued quict. Sugar was easier. On 'Change, flour was quite active, and lic. a 25c, higher. Wheat advanced 3c. a 5c,, and corn So, a 40, Oats were moderately active, and 1c. higher. Pork was excited and firmer. Beef was unchanged, while lard was dull and heavy. Freights were dull and nominal, Whiskey was quict. The Capital of Italy. Shall the capital of Italy be Florence or Rome? This is among the last questions, and by no means the least of them, which recent changes in Europe have left for solution. It is not to be solved by arms, and the interest concentrated upon it in Rome extends far be- yond Florence and Paris. It is, in fact, of world- wide interest and importance, involving as it probably may, at least for a time, the temporal sovereignty of ihe head of the Church. Shall the Papal See rest upon a throne upheld, as it has been tor seventeen years past, by foreign bayonets, or shall it henceforth stand on Peter’s rock? Is the hour approaching for a separa- tion between Church and State, which shall free the Pope from entangling alliances, nay, from almost servile dependence upon Euro- pean princes, prevent the possibility of con- flict between the general interests of the Church and the private interests of his crown, and enable bim to devote his undivided energies to the spiritual elevation of mankind? This would seem to be the case. Even among high dignitaries at Rome the non possumus atti- tude so braveJy maintained by his Holiness is beginning to appear questionable, if not perilous. The London journalists declare the situation to be “honeycombed with perils,” and degeribe English ex-ministers as hurrying to Rothe with the eagerness of old fox hunters, to be “in at the dea:h” of the temporal power of the Pope. From across the Atlantic we can look at the sitnétion more coolly and perhaps see it more distinctly. To us, free from all prejudices, it does not seem so slarming. We remember that the greatest conquests of Catholicism were made ata time when the Pope was not a ruler. And we have witnessed in our own vast coun- try, where there is no official union between Church and State, the rapid and prodigious strides of Catholicism towards prosperity and spiritual power. We cannot feel that it is presumptuous to express our conviction that those worthy doctors are mistaken, from Dr. Brann to the Archbishop of Westminster, who denounce as “either bigots or infidels, or vain and frothy theorizers, or corrupt politicians, or Machiavellian statesmen, or restless dema- gogues,” the men of our time, who, as Dr. Brann phrases it, “have even laid sacrilegious hands on the crown of the sovereign Pontiff.” Dr. Brann, in his “Curious Questions,” just published at Newark, in New Jersey, says :— “It seems to us as if modern paganism were impersonated in the spirit of opposition to the temporal power of the Pope; for this op- position is essentially unchristian. It aims at the destruction of civil government, the rights of justice, the law of God and of man.” But we’ cannot agree with him that “all justice-loving men admit this.” A more enlightened view is presented by an equally sincere and fervent Catholic in the Catholic World for this month. He believes that whatever temporal changes or inconveniences the Church in her external relations may have to endure, in consequence of recent changes in Europe, they are accidental, and by no means involve her destruction or impair her power or integrity as the Church of God or divinely instituted organ of the spiritual order. “It is the prerogative of God,” this writer states, “to overrule evil for good, and the Church, though immovable in her founda- tion, inflexible in her principles and unchang- ing in her doctrines, has a wonderful capacity of adapting herself to all stages of civilization and to all the changes in States and empires that may take place; she is confined within no national boundaries and wedded to no particu- lar form of civil government; she can subsist and carry on her work under Russian auto- eracy or American democracy, with the untu- tored savage and the most highly cultivated European, and is equally at her ease with the high and the low, the learned and the un- learned, the rich and the poor, the bond and the free.” He agrees with the Heratp that present appearances indicate that the Church throughout the world will be thrown back, as she was in the beginning, on hor internal re- sources as a spiritual kingdom; that she will cease to be the official Church of any nation, at least for a time, if not forever, and that she will not henceforth govern or protect her chil- dren as civil communities, States or empires through their civil rulers, but simply as Catho- lies, individual members of her communion, through her own spiritual ministry, her bishops and prelates alone, without any official relation with the State. She can even then exercise her fall spiritual authority over her own mem- bers, as the independent kingdom of God on earth, free from all entangling alliances with the shifting politics of nations. The same writer thinks that the anti-papal party may prove strong enough to deprive the Holy Father of his temporal sovereignty and make Rome the capital of the new kingdom of Italy; that, he adds, is undoubtedly laid down in the programme, and is only 4 natural, a logioal result of Napoleon's campaign of 1859 against Austria; and Napoleon holds that the logic of events must be submitted to. All the States, semi-Catholio and anti-Catholig, this | #ilter thinks will abandon the Papal throne to the logic of events, “Under the wrovidence whether the Holy Father shall retain bis tem- poral sovereignty or not; and what they will do nobody can say. They are capable of doing anything hostile to the Pope one moment, and the next of falling on their knees before him, and, with tears in their eyes, begging his abso- lution.” Victor Emanuel, in his speech at the opening of the new Parliament a year ago, said, “Time and the force of events.will solve the questions pending between Italy and the Papacy. We must remain faithful to the con- vention of September, which France will com- pletely carry out within the appointed time. Henceforth it will be easy to wait.” He will now have to wait but « few weeks before the appointed time shall arrive. And up to this moment all the signs indicate that Napoleon will adhere to his secret convention with Italy and withdraw all the French troops from Rome. But we are not so sure that either Napoleon or Victor Emanuel will deem that the logic of events inexorably requires the transfer of the capital of Italy to Rome. Napoleon can hardly help seeing that the Gordian knot may be cut and this last troublesome question be solved by counselling and encouraging an arrange- ment between the Pope and the King, by which the former shall remain at Rome and the latter at Florence. ‘ Florence—beautiful Florence—is admirably adapted to be the capital of modern, only of modern, Italy. In 1215 the Florentines took part in the civil war between the Guelphs and the Ghibelines, After a strug- gle of thirty-three years the Guelphs, or the papal party, were beaten and expelled from Florence by the victorious Ghibelines, Let the Guelphs, the Papal party of to-day, possess Rome and leave Florence to our mod- ern Ghibelines, and that without any quarrel. Let Florence retain its supremacy in art, with its slender and elegant Campanile, the lofty bell tower of Giotto, iis palaces and gardens and galleries of sculpture and painting, in- cluding such masterpieces as the Venus de Medici, “the statue that enchants the world,” the Knife Grinder, Niobe and her children, and the paintings of Raphael, Titian and Mchel Angelo. Let her retain her one hun- dred and seventy churches, surmounted by the Duomo, the dome of which is equalled only by that of St. Peter’s at Rome. Let the Academy Della Crusea still labor to improve the Italian language. Let science and charity work hand in hand in her numerous hospitals, Let foreigners continue to make Florence their favorite resort, rejoicing (ifever weary of her artistic attractions) in the scenery of the lovely valley which stretches away from her walls along the Arno to the surrounding Apennines. Here in this valley alone, well wooded, well cultivated, with its broad fields of the richest husbandry imaginable, there is a suf- ficient reason for making Florence the metrop- olis of akingdom. For its oll, wine, raw silk and abundant agricultural productions of all kinds can yield food and wealth to an almost innu- merable population, and the trade and manu- facwures within the city already promise to develop ‘to an unlimited extent. The silk stuffs, straw hats, artificial flowers, musical and scientific instruments, jewelry and fine porce- lain of Florence are known throughout the world of commerce. Above all, let Florence, as the capital of the new kingdom, illustrate the inestimable advantages of constitutional government, and raise up citizens not unworthy of the great names which have made her annals famous—such names as Dante, Petrarch, Boccacio, Machiavelli, Michel Angelo, Leo- nardo da Vinci, Benvenuto Cellini, Galileo, Guicciardini, Americus Vespucius, Cosmo and Lorenzo de Medici and the rest, And as for Rome, with her Seven Hills, her Temple of All the God, the Pantheon, the Coliseum, Triumphal Arches, Pillars of Trajan and Antonine, the world renowned Filavian, the Catacombs, with all its remnants of pagan antiquity, and with its medisval and modern ecclesiastical glories, the dome of St. Peter’s rising sublime over all; its galleries of art and its libraries and colleges, and all its manifold attractions, let Rome remain the chosen home of the Pope. Let it forever remain the pure, the spiritual capital of the future greater empire, or greater Church of Roman Catholic Christi- anity, freed from its follies and superstitions and founded only on trath in art, religion and philosophy. Evenif political exigencies should strip the Holy Father of all his temporal estates save Rome alone, what a treasure, what an accumulation of treasures would still remain in his possession! About summed up the question when he said that at the worst, and as a last alternative, the Pope might retain the city of Rome, his palaces and temples, his cardinals and ‘prelates, his priests and monks, his princes and footmen, and Eu- rope (he might have said the world) would contribute to feed the little colony. Peter's pence would pour in from all parts of the Christian world, enough to build chapels at every cross road in the South, that new field ot missionary effort among the millions of freedmen, to send missionaries everywhere else, and last, not least, to sustain the splendor of Rome itself as the grandest show-place on the globe. With all its relics of the past—not to forget its inexhaustible stores of relics of martyr and saint, including with the genuine articles whatever doubtful bones and rags and nails and bits of wood superstition may have gathered there—Rome would be such @ per- manent World’s Exhibition as the Paris com- missioners have not yet projected—such a museum, in fine, as a certain old showman, even Barnum, the great immortal of humbugs, in his most ambitious dreams, could not imagine outside of the Eternal City. The question is solved. Rome must continue to be the capital of Christendom, with all the associations of ancient and mediwval times, and Florence the capital of Italy, with all the promises of rious fu 5 Tae AveNpMENt VERSTS “THE Ring.”—Fenton goes for the constitutional amendment, and his election means death to our plundering cor- poration “ring.” Hoffman, the champion and standard bearer of “the ring,” is against the amendment. That is the exact iseue between Fenton and Hoffman. Which shall it be? Tune is 4 PuevGs.—A morning contempo- rary says:—“There is certainly no pledge on} the part of Congress to admit Southern mem) berg (from the excluded States) on thelr matin. cation of the amendment.” We say the) thers is a pledge—that the admission of tha ‘members from Tennessee into both houses, 07, the ratif cation by that State amounts ‘to @ binding pledge upon Gongress. Tb’, rule is estat Ushed, It tes law of Cod‘gress on the subiect Theatrical Censorship. The subject of retaining or abolishing the censorship exercised over the theatres of Great Britain by the Lord Chamberlain has recently been under examination by a committee of the British Parliament. The evidence there in- troduced was both amusing and instructive; but its general tendency was rather against any restrictions by the government upon the action of dramatic authors or managers. The testimony of the experienced gentlemen sum- moned before the committee illustrated many absurdities and inconsistencies on the part of the censors, which tended, in a great measure, to show the worthlessness of the system re- garded asa provision against the violation of good morals and decency on the part of play- wrightsandactors. In many cases the interven- tion of the censor was proved to be ludicrous, and the subterfuges adopted to make an im- propriety look like propriety was simply childish, How much better is the censorship of public opinion and a critical press, which, thariks to the Heraxp, is now beginning to be felt in this country, where public decency is insisted upon in the production of plays on the penalty of empty benches. Here we need no interference from the government; if an immoral drama is put upon the stage by avaricious managers the press at once communicates the facts to the public, and it recelves the most emphatic condemnation which can be expressed by the peuple staying away from the theatre where it is presented. We have seen of late some of our theatres conducted upon loose principles, purely sensational plays, and others of equivo- cal morality, and some of a pantomimic character, whose morality is not at all equivocal, put upon the stage ; but these houses are con- trolled by the low and vulgar instincts of the showman rather than those of the legitimate theatrical manager, who, in the pursuit of his profession, never loses his self-respect nor forgets the obligations he owes to society. And as an evidence of the force and value of public opinion as the most potent system of censorship, we see the theatres thus conducted abandoned by the refined and highly intelligent of the community and patronized oniy by small audiences com- posed of the prurient and the uncultured por- tion of our population, who, by and by, we trust and believe, will acquire a better taste and seek the pleasure of dramatic art where it is to be found untrammelled by the sordid minds and motives which now prevail in the management of what were once regarded as our leading theatres. We see, for example, such performances as those of Ristori and Dawison, the representa- tives of the drama in two foreign languages, and the Qpéra Comique, rendered in another foreign tongue, dgswing immense audiences, composed of the very pick and choice of our: metropolitan and ‘suburban residents With all the drawbacks which attend the full enjoy- ment of a resentation in a language understoed only by a few, the tragedies of Racine and Schiller rendered in Italian by Ristori, the works of Shakspere and Kotzebue produced in German by Dawison, and the operas of Auber and Halevy sung by the ad- mirable troupe at the French theatre, are the great attractions of the day. This is in a great measure owing to the recognition which the merits of these artists received from indepen- dent criticism, but in a measure, also, from the discrimination of the public, who are not slow to discover the difference between true art and its counterfeit presentment. . Although it may seem that a censorship under government authority would not be out of place in some of our theatres and shows, there is no necessity in this country, whatever may exist in England, for any more authorita- tive interference than that of an independent press and an enlightened public, except in cases of gross indecency, where the police authorities should interfere to suppress im- proper exhibitions. Mr. Lee anv tat Rev. Dr. Suyra.—It ap- pears from the communications which we print in another column that the public have not forgotten the sagacious comments of the Rey. Dr. Smyth upon the vices and neglect of the clergy and the value of the Hrratp asa public instructor. Neither have they over- looked the published strictures upon Dr. Smyth’s sermons by a Mr. W. H. Lee, New York merchant, who boasted, in bad grammar and worse taste, that he never read the Henan, and verified the statement in the same lines by the narrow intellect and stupid bigotry evinced therein. We publish to-day three letters upon this subject, but we have only a remark to make upon one of them. This is written by a former clerk of this Mr. Lee, New York mer- chant, who avers that not only did Mr. Lee probibit his employés from reading the Hzratp, as he says, but he absolutely forbade any one in his employment to read anything—his ambi- tion being to keep them in outer darkness with himself. This accounts for the fact, which Mr. Lee innocently admitted, that he had a great many depraved persons in his employment and was severely troubled with them. If Mr. Lee has been afflicted, as he states, by “ vicious, intemperate, dishonest, disloyal and copper- head” employés, his grievances can be ac- counted for by the fact that he insisted upon keeping them in ignorance. How much he has suffered himself by not reading the Hunan his intemperate letter to Rov. Dr. Smyth sufficiently demonstrates. If people at the head of large establishments undertake to reduce their em- ployés to the level of the most uneducatez classes In order to “keep them down” ap humiliate them, they must not com; ‘a if their business is neglected. It is ony wnedu- cated and narrow minded indivicsgr'is like Mr. Lee who adopt this course ar ‘reap the fruits of it, To intelligent, high singed men it is always a source of pride, t, he served by peo- ple whose intelligence ¥, akin to their own. -_ Bap Apvict.-Wr, are sorry to perceive that some of the le ding political journals of the South, in viev, of the adhesion of the North to the recone ction plan of Congress, are advie- ing spy “southern people to be patient, to fold ‘halt ‘arms and do nothing but wait hopefully, We Micawber, for “something to, tarn up.” This is the worst advice that carid be given now to the people of the expiuded Southern States. Delays to them arg, ‘costly and embar- rassing in every way, and they are also fraught with the greatest dangrirs. While those States stand aloof with fo’\ded arms they are giving the field to the Northern radicals. There is no safety to tha, South, nor will there be any hance of the revival of Sonthern prosperity or the restoration of harmony fs Southern society but in the acceptance of the constitu- tional amendment of Congress. More About the Evening Star—A Thorough Investigation Required. We published yesterday a letter from one of the mechanics who was employed upon the steamship Evening Star at the placing of the machinery and boilers on board that vessel, and who has several times since overhauled or examined them. He states that the engine and boilers were both old when placed in the ves- sel, and that for the last two years they have been unfit for any service whatever. He states further that the men whose duty it was to over- haul them had condemned them, and that he, as an engineer endorsed their opinion. He then asks certain questions about the condition of the vessel in @ manner to imply that there were other serious defects. From all this, and from the fact that the Evening Star went down where there was plenty of sea room and without having struck anything to disable her, a searching investiga- tion is demanded as to her condition and sea- worthiness. Such a destruction of life as oc- curred by the sinking of this steam- ship is appalling in the extreme ;° and, although we cannot restore the oss, it ought to make us take every means to pre- vent a similar catastrophe. If any one has been guilty of sending to sea a vessel unfit to go, if the inspectors have neglected their duty, or if the laws regulating such maiters have been vio- lated, let the guilty parties be punished; let an impressive example be made to deter others from like misconduct. We demand an inves» tigation; the public and the friends of the hun- dreds of victims who were sent to an untimely death call for a searching inquiry. Steamship owners and companies must not be permitted to sacrifice human life in such a wholesale man- ner to gratify their cupidity. But, more than that, we must know how many of the numerous steamships which go to sea from our ports are fit for the service. The in- spectors should be held responsible as far as their duties go, the laws should be strictly en- forced, and if our present laws are not suf- ficiently strict or explicit, Congress and the legislatures of the States should make them so. Steamship builders and owners must be taught that they cannot sport with the lives of people in such a reckless manner. Now is the time, while this terrible disaster is fresh in the memory of the public, to appoint a commission on the whole subject of steamship construction, and to frame laws to prevent disasters at sea, so faras by human means they can be pre- vented. . Tae Unrry or Irary.—The cable despatches yesterday informed us that the cession of Venetia to Italy had been completed. The territory thus disposed of has been in dispute io Europe for many centuries and has pre- cipitated three great wars. Its retrocession to Italy gives that Power great additional strength and dignity, and the possession of Rome and the retirement of the French will complete the union o* a kingdom which even Napoleon the Great feared to see arise. Horruax 4s 4 Union Canpmate.—It appears from some of the democratic banners hung over the streets of this city that Hoffman is the Union candidate for Governor, which means, as the strikers doubtless understand it, the union of all the elements of the Corporation “ring” and all the jobbers and confederate plunderers of the city treasury, involving Cor- poration taxes to the extent of some twenty millions a year. THE NEW POST OFFICE. What is Being Done and What is to be Done. It is indicated that at last the Common Council has shown good sonse and decided in favor of selling the lower end of the City Hall Park to the government asa Site for the new post oflice. Some time has elapsed eince the joint committee of the Common Council, the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund and the commis- sioners appointed by the government came to a satisfac- tory understanding on the terms for which the city would sell this sito to the government. It was then un- derstood that the Council would take immediate action in the matter, and they should not have prs it off so long as the representatives of the city and government made a satisfactory agreement. The want proper accommo- dations at tho present Post office ix becoming every day more and more apparent, Even within the past week the Postmaster has been compelied to tear away some partitions aud make many changes in the rotunda, in the vain endeavor to procure additional room. If the inti- mation be true that the Common Council has at length de- cided at once to ratify the action of their committee on the quest: they will advance the interests both of the business and working portion of the community. The Post office authorities intend immediately 1) the matter being decided to place some five or six hundred men at work at the excavation for the cellars. The out- Jay of two millions of dollars in the erection of the build- ing would be a great benefit to the working men of this city during the ensuing winter. THE PARK. The Park perhaps never looked to better advantage than it did yesterday. The weather was charming, the foliage magnificent, tho music excellent, and the attendance a perfect jam. The visitors, especially thore who lingered on the mall, to listen to the sweet strains of Dodworth’s band, were of the best class, and nothing occurred to disturd the harmony of that lovel aoe lig children gamboled the i, whil the older more sedate visitors prome- nade and music, The rambid the lake the, the thousand and access, were well ‘onized, but the space around the music stand jaid claim to a large majerity of the visitors. ‘The programme of Mr. Dodworth op this occasion was 3 follows :-— PART I. tee Hamm . Auber Gung’l 6 Grand March from 1) T: Verdi 6. Overture, Alessandro Stradey, Flotow 7. Fest Quadrilie.........., = Carl Past & Grand selection from WAT)". Flotow © March, Falling gp’ yqq7A®* it fen Be ti vist airs 12. Avalaseho “yailop ‘wore The ww%rch from Trovatoro and the overtare to SUPd@%a wore deliciously rendered and called forth the ‘Aub usiastic applause of the audience. The solections ‘om Martha pleased the p eu the music war familiar bo them, and they con. jered it well discoursed. Fi enue Was well ae sented on the drives by the number and beauty of ite jaipages. Im fact we never saw such o large number of “torn outs,’ and as the stream of horses and car. riages: in review before the Mall, the scene was one which could not fail to strike the beholder with eur- prise—eurprise at such a magnificent diyplay of wealth and beauty, Vive le Pare: ADJOURNMENT OF THE LAST VOLUNTEER COURT MARTIAL, NAsAVILLR, Oct. 20, 1866, The General Court Martial, of which Brevet Brigadier General Shafley is president, and of which Major Gen- eral A. C. Gillem was formerly president, and which has ‘been in session in this city for the past two months, this day adjourned sine dir, having concluded the busi- ness before them. This was done by order of Major General Thomas, This was the last court of volunteer officers in the service, and its adjournment | an evidence that the trial of officers and others connected with the volunteer service has onded with the military courts, The several members of the court repair home to > to the Secretary of War for muster out of service, T'¢ Judge Advocate, Samuel J. Voris, formerly captain ':4 an Illinois regiment, now a Heutenant in the Beventh ‘in ited ‘States infantry, to General Thomas. Th 4 cage of Thompson Taylor in the United States District,Court hae been dismissed by nolle prosequi. / United States Commission i'm Oftce, Before Commissioner Rou, Henry Travis, a black boy, who bad wren employed as ser. Yant at the officers’ mess, man ee Taland, wos charged sa" ae Coma a rota, the Property of ove with the Com comm feria ut at te ean A le hugely, because we risouer officer ‘discharged fhe voy FINE ARTS. The activity in tho little art world daily increases, Nearly all the artists have now re- turned, the galleries offer fresh attractions and we hear of new exhibitions by various institutions end by prt- vate enterprise. The Artist Fund Society will open their annual exhibi- tion at the National Academy of Design on the 8th of November, The benevolent character of this associa- tion wins for it the sympathy of wealthy collectors, and many of them reserve for it their choicest gems Among these are works by Merle, Plassan, Hamon, Des- goffe and Cabanel. The productions of the inst twe artiste have never been seen in this country before the present season, A fine portrait of a Boston beauty, by Dubufo; two very fine portraits by Stuart, belonging to the Hom, George Baneroft, and the usual donations and loans by the artists of New York will grace the col- lection, For the first timo in this city a gallery will be entirely devoted to water color drawings, At Avory’s, ‘Wayside Devotion,” a charming picture, by Mr. Boughton, of Albany, representing a Brittany peasant girl, with her offering of wild flowers and # piows kiss, at the foot of a wayside crucifix, is the newest at. traction. Mr. Boughton is now in London, where this work was exhibited at the last exhibition of the Roya; Academy, eliciting encomiums from the, English press, “Near Newport,’ by Kensett; “Tie Pic@re Book," by Gray; ‘The Sentinel,” in oil and in water color drawings, by the celebrated Edward Frere; Durand’s ‘Thana- topsis”’ and Leutze’s “Lady Godiva” are among the chie® features of interest at Mr. Avery's rooms, Leutze has three new pictures on his easel, “Yours im Haste,” ‘Christmas Eve,’’ and s grand historical paint- ing, “Lady Jane Grey Urged to Accept the Crown.” Pope bas just finished “A View from Mount Mansfield,’* and is at work upon a larger picture, “Mount Washing- ton,” as seen from one of the best points of view tm Conway, that favorite summer resort of the artiets. James M. Hart bas returned from Connecticut with numerous effective studies. Whittredge is also in his studio, with good results of his trips over the Plains, Church {s in town for a few days, putting the finish. ing touches to one of his more important pictures, but he imtends to work during the winter at his home, near Hadson. H. K. Brown, at Newburg, has nearly completed hia model for the statue of Lincoln, to be erected im Brooklyn. The fine large picture of the ‘ Heroes of the Repub- lic,’ on which the artist, Mr. Balling, has been engaged for some years, will soon be exhibited. Tho chrome- lithograph, which bas been intrusted to Mr. Fabroniug, is almost completed. It displays all the skill of that well known artist, and finely reproduces Mr, Balling’a spirited representation of the heroes of the republic. Many of our artists bave gone, or are going, abroad for study, and particularly to see the gathering of art riches at the great French Exposition. William Hunt, . ©. Coleman, Vedder, Moran, Darley, Brandt, Dix, Haseltine, Wust, Inman, Owen, Ogilvie, W. T. Richards and Robbing aro already abroad. Rhinchart, the sculp- tor, sailed on Saturday, and Hennessy, Horner, Bensom and other artists expect to follow this autumn or in the course of the winter. : At Knoedler’s (Goupil’s) several uew works of the French school are on exhibition. At the private exhibition im Schauss’ Gallery on Frt- day we noticed new works by Achenbach, Milter, Troyon, Brillouin, Fichol, and particularly “A Trooper,’* by the famous Meissonier, which, for brilliancy of color- ing, fino drawing, effective light and shade, and expres- sive character, is the begt single figure by this artist we have ever geen in America, Superb as are the works of Meissonier, we cannot help rememboring the involuntary criticism of @ competent and distinguished judge—‘‘ad- mirable! bat Auman still-life after all.” in New York ‘TWE CLERGY AND THE PRESS. Rev. Dr. Smyth and Mr. Lee—Vox Popuil. TO "HE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. gratuitously given and read the Herav every morning. For my part I look upon the Henatp as one = oar Mer —ADinrrer one and could The Renan asin’ sive teshe Sea wesrigen Boi pony otic (pene who asesume to teach us ‘and moald onr actoma, never more struck with the wonderful enterprise pm de 7 nected hogy A sermon of Dr. Cheever (which I ) Cally reported your columns. Success to your great yous i AO SURNAM, 70 THE EDITOR OV THE HBRALD. I have read the letter of Mr. Wm. H. Lee to the Rev. Mr. Smyth, and his very excellent reply, and although it is quite unnecessary to add anything to what the Rev. gentieman bas so well said, yet I bog to say a word om the subject. Iwas once aclerk in the employ of Mr. Lee, and I very well remember that his objections to newspaper reading, on the part of those in his were not con! tothe Heratp. A young man reading, it matters not what, was requested to desist a8 once. Ih er mote mile Bap Sroameen We Lee to —e any one in employ ing depraved tastes ; he should rather blame himself for having denie@ them the opportunities for self-improvement. part of Mr. Lee is the more inex~ cusable because young men in jobbing houses, such the one to which he belongs, have many leisure hours certain seagons of the year, which timo employed in ing would enable them to store their minds with useful Information. J. B. TO THE EDITOR OF THY MERALD. in Litt Mesars. Geo. A. Wicks & Co, As an old merchant of over forty years’ experience in this that merchants had bottor attend to their own particular business than busy themselves with what in no wise be. longs to them. PEARL STREET, ’ TWE PENNSYLVANIA ELECTION. { PwiLaveLrnma, Oct. 2% 1866. The fail official vote for Governor in every coumy/ot the State except Pike is published, In that, it mye, we have what is given as the official majozity, It then adds:—We have examined and corrected <hm returna carefully from the tables printed in the vi county, papers, and believe that the official will not pt our i ne Cory majority in ‘the State at 17, ‘The torat fen nearly 600,000, Tyron, Oct. 20, 1868. The democracy of the Second district have nominated A. by of Tamnton, for Con, ‘The democrats of this (the Twath) district, at a conven- tion at Chester to-day, nominated Abijah W. Chapin, v, ex-Postmaster of Springfield, for The repubtican convention will be bald on TuesPay af the same and Henry 1. Dawee will, doubtess, be re-election. bomine.td for Tue PorvLan Texpexcy,—The Dover (N..H.) Garee (democratic) says the elections show that ‘public seati- ment is gradually swinging over to the constitutional groand.”’ If the paper means the constitutional amen@- ment ground it is right. Tae Tmxd Verwoxt Destaict.—Thore was no election of Congresaman in this district at the September election, owing to @ division in the radical ranks, ‘The vote stood as follows:—Portua Baxter (raical), 7,820; Romeo R. Hoyt (radical), 4,611; Waldo Brigham (deproerat), 3, with about 400 scattering. Governoy Dillingham bas jesued his proclamation for anothers ‘election on Novem- ber 6, when a plurality will efect a choice, Portus Bar ter, the present member of Con; has, however, been induced to withdraw ins favor of Worthington ©, Smith, of St. Albans, who FF shes the undivided support of the radicals, and i, therefore sure of an election. THe AMENDY gvr.—The Richmond Dispatch objects, chiefly to the, third section of the Constitutional Ameng@ ment, ®AY' 4g, “Ther ig no question which touches our honor © good faith involved in the other sections.” Ie seetr_s to us that the leaders of the rebellion, by their fr Aure to accomplish what they covenanted ta do, have absolved the masses from any special personal obliga- tions to themselves, and nothing else hyds out euch » prospect of fature advancement and peace as the exclu- sion from office of the demagogues wld have never done’ Anything but plot ruin. Pourrca, Buxpsese,—The Milwaukee Wisconsin says: —''The opposition of th® democratic party to the Constitutional Amenament Is an“act of political blindness which must smite it past recovery.” The position of the democratic party and Wie Southern States is a case of the blind leading the Wind. If persisted im, both will fait tnto-the Inst ditebvand die there, The name of this Inst ditch Is NerroFuttrace