The New York Herald Newspaper, November 4, 1866, Page 4

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JOB PRINTING of every description, also Stereotyp- ing and Fngraving, neatly and promptly executed at the oweat rates. ad - 308 Volume XXXI — AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING, BROADWAY THEATRE, Bromiway, near Broome street,—King Lean NEW YORE THEATRE. Brosaway opposite New York Hotel.—vip Pauw's Bisrtoay—Peaprra. GERMAN STADT THEATRE, Nos, 45 and 47 Bowery.— OriELio. GERMAN THALIA THEATRE, No. 514 Broadway.— Sie Hat Jun Heng Enroecat—Der Macunak Zurn Lin- xkN—EtN Kiginea SCAWINDEL. DODWORTH’S HALL, 808 Broadway. —Proresson Harra Wit. Pemroum fis MiKACLas. ‘ STEINWAY HALL, place. Bateman Con I t Fourteenth strost, near Irving Ss. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 535 Brondway, opnostte the Metropoll:an Hotel—In rain Eruoriax BNTRaTALN- MENTS, SINGING, DANCING AND BUNLESQUES—ANIMATED P'uO- TOGRAFUS. FIFTH AVENUE OPGRA HOUSE, Nos. 2 and 4 West Srranty-tonrth stroot,—I3 ‘pwoRta@’s MinaTheU3.—TuloPLAN MINSTRELSY BALLADS, BURLESQIES, &0. St. Gxonus aNd tux Dragon. ELLY & LEON'S GREAT WESTERN MINSTRELS, Broadway—Ia tamm Sowas, Dances, Eccuntaictins, @c,—Tux LONG ap Suont Sta! TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUS®, 201 Bowery.—Comro VocauisM—-Neoro MinstReusy Baar Divexsissemenr, &.—lug Fouest Frexp, CHARLEY WHITE'S COMBINATION TROUPE, at Mechantes' Hall, Broadway—In a Vaniery or Ligie and LacGHABL® ENTRRTAINMENTS, CORPS De Bauurr, 40, Nicopuava, on Bunty Ativan. THEATRE COMIQUE, corner of Third avenue ys So first streeti—A Variery' or Como ano Axusina RNTRR- ‘TALNMENTS--Tam TOODLES. MRS, F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brookylu.— AvRuNe’s SzoRET. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brookiva.—FEirmorias Mar Srkeisy, Battaps, Buncesques ay Pantomimms. SEAVER'S OPERA HOUSE, Williamsburg.—Ermiornan Minsrreisy, Batuans, BURKLESQUeS AND PaNTOMiMES. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. 618 RBroadway.— Maig Wetp axe Miaut Aum OF Paoust Opens from s 200k wt 10 ite STUDI Mars guar, (THIS) EVENING.—Graxp Sacagp Conceat faving Haut, Irving place, BUILDING, 51 West Tenth street.—Mosizr's TATUARY. 8! ar New Yerk, Sunday, November 4, 1866. EUROPE. By the Atlantic cable wo havo « news and markets feport daied yesterday evening, November 3. Tho Russian army and navy are to be raised to a war Blandard, Russia is said to have perfected a treaty of alliance with Prussia. Count de Montholon, Fronch Minister {ao Washington, {a ordered to Lisbon. Queen Isabelia of Spain will, {t is thought, anticipate the revolutionists by a coup d'état. Austria is to convoke the Hungarian Diet, The Italian press comdemns the late Papal allocution referring to the national cause. Count Risacoli is about to resign his position in tho Cabinet of Victor Emanuel. Tho British government ts to encourage a Nicaraugun transit route, perhaps that recommended by Capiain Pim, R..N., to Napoleon. Consols for monoy were at 80% !n London yester- Gay ; United States flve-twenties, 63g. The Liverpool cotton market was active yostorday, with middling uplands at 15'¢4. Breadsufy were easier and unchanged. THE CITY. The whole number of votes registered in this city at the close of the Registry Board last night was one hun- dred and twenty-five thousand one hundred and stxty- two, bong six hundred and fifty-four more than the nombor in 18¢4. The number registered in Brooklyn up Friday reaches forty-seven thousand three hundred and seventy-six. A radical congressional ratification mooting was held 1n the Clty Hail Park yesterday, at which General Hiram Walbridge presidod. A largo crowd collected, Grawn together mainly by the fact that General Batler was advertised to speak. A large proportion of tho crowd consisted of democrats, who greeted the appear. fnce of Butler with hisses, and by a continued uproar of hisses for bim and choors for their favorite candidates almost drowned his voice, A lure police force was on the ground howover, and prevented an actual outbreak, although at one time a serious disturbance was ap) hended, As soon as Butler ceased speaking the inter- ruptions ceased, and Horace Greeley, Governor Curtin, Major Hagarty, and others addressed the moeting. A small republican mass mooting was held Inst even- Ing at Abingdon square, to ratify the Assembly and Con- gressional nominations of tho Sixth distriet. Remarks were made by Mr, Horace Greoley, Charles 8, Spencer, Judge Paschal of Texas, and others, A democratic ratification moeting was held at the cor- gor of Thirty-fourth street and Park avenuo last night. Bamuel G Courtney delivered an address, and resolu. tions embodying the sentiments of the party favoring the democratic nominations were adopted. Justice Gilbert, of the Special term of the Kings County Supreme Court, decided in the case of ‘Augustus Wheeler, vs. the registers of election yesterday, that said Wheeler has a right to vote. Ho was a rebel officer fn the late war, but has beon a citizen of this State fora yoar past. ‘The stock market opened firm yesterday, became fe- verish, and closed strong. Gold was strong and closed nt 14835. The merchandise markets were generally dull yeater3 Gay, the fractional advance in the gold premium exert- Ing no marked Improvemont in pricea, while the demand for most kinds of produce was extremely limited. Cot- ton was Inactive. Groceries in fair demand and steady. Naval stores dull. Petroleum dull and easier, Freights quiet, Dry goods quiet. On ‘Change breads tuffe wero generally Jn buyer's favor, under a limited demand, and Provisions, though without decided change—if we ox- oopt pork, which declined docidediy—were quiet aod pi MISCELLANEOUS. Yesterday was an exciting day in Baltimore. An oral Gomand, and afterwards ® written one, was made by the new Commissioners for possession of the offices and property held by the old Board. Both demands wore refused, The State Attorney for tho city made an ap- plication to Judge Bond for # bench warrant to arrest the new Commissioners, edducing testimony to show that the peace of the oily was likely to be broken. Judge Bond issued the warrant The Commissioners were arrested and brought before bia. He required them to give bail in the sum of $26,000 cach to keap the pegs: The new Sheriff was asteated Cor consemus of court and required to aive ball NEW: YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1866." Fulton streets—drays, omnibuses, trucks, carts | Tus Vores ros Reawrer.—The large number im the same amount, All parties refused to give bail, al- though it waa readily offered for them, and were con- sequently committed to Jail. This proceeding occasioned some excitement, but no serious disturbance. Applica- tion was made to another judge for a writ of habeas corpus, The application will be considered on Monday. Goneral Canby was in the city all day, ready to proclaim martial law if an emergency should arise rendering it necessary, He had interviews with both parties, Gov- ernof Swann, after an interview with General Canby, started for Wasbington, where he bad an interview with the Prosident, Our despatch from Washington states that no troops have been sent to Baltimore. Unusaal quiet prevailed in that city last night, Rev. Dr. Lumsden, an Episcopalian clergyman, who was arrested with the Fenians near Fort Erie, was tried ‘at Toronto yestorday and acquitted, It was proven in evidence that he had intervened for the protection of the inhabitants, in one instance having demanded pay for his services from ® Canadian farmer, and an attempt was made to prove that he had been ordored away from camp by Goneral O'Neil as « British spy. Testimony wont to show that he was addicted to liquor, and had been requested to resign his position asa minister by the Bishop of New York on that account, Jeff Davis’ parole, which permitted him the limits of the fort during the day time, has been extended, so that he ts permitted the same privilege during the night. Goneral Grant has written a letter to Mayor Booth, of Brooklyn, acknowledging the receipt of the ‘gold modal, counterpart of bronze presented to the voteran soldiers of Kings county on the 25th inst.”’ A similar letter ‘has also been received by the Mayor from Admiral Farragut. The British North Amorican Bank Agency, at 24 Pine atreet, was robbed of $5,000 in five-twenty bonds yester- day, the thieves escaping with their booty. The feast of St, Charles will be celebrated- with grand fSiolemnity at St. Mary’s church, Hoboken, to-morrow. High Mass will be celebrated at half-past ten o'clock, at which the Consuls of France, Spain and Italy will attend as well as the officers of the French fleet now in our harbor, Hiram Patterson, Mr. Wright and Mr. Clements, all radicals, have been olected to Congress from Tennessee, over conservatives. Superintendent Beaumont and his chief detective, Pratt, of the Memphis police, were arrested on Friday for malfeasance in offlcd, Investigation has sottied beyend doubt that gold is to be found near Great Falls, on the Potomac. The Almshouse in Falmouth, Me., was destroyed by fire yesterday, and three of the inmates were burned to death, The Mexican Muddle Clearing Up. The latest silly announcement from tho other side of the Atlantic in regard to the French government and Mexico comes by Atlantic telograph. That announcement refers to ad- vice given by the Emperor to Carlotta, and would imply that the Mexican difficulty is still far from settled; but our readers already know that even if there over were any basis in fact for that paragraph it must have bean so long ago that the statement can scarcely be offered as a piece of nows at present. Mexican affairs have gone far beyond any mere advice given, in either good or bad taste, from one to another of the parties to the Imperial scheme. They aro in the way of settlement by treaty directly between France and the United States, and the primary condition—the starting point of the treaty—is the retirement from the country of Maximilian and the whole machinery of his government, French troops and all. This is a consummation that has beon secured by the rightly toned, direct, courteous and firm foreign policy of the President. Ono of the important results that this treaty will secure to the world of civilization and commerce will be the cession to the United States of a large piece of territory in Northern Mexloo. We believe that the tract contem- plated includes all the country lying on the Gulf of California, and the whole of the upper country lying between that gulf and the United States boundary line—in fact the whole coun- try between Texas and the Pacific. This isa country susceptible of a grand development in tho hands of a free and energetic people. It is said to be even greater than the State of California in mineral resources, while it con- tains elements of wealth in other directions that may perhaps belittle its mineral riches. There are some other sources of development for the country that we hope will be properly looked aftor in the treaty. These are the so- called jobs that have become familiar to the public, Though “jobs” are reprehensible enough when they attempt to influence legisla- tion to the prejudice of the general interest for the benefit of the few, yet in another view these schemes often cover and contain grand plans of enterprise that are national in their importance. We hope that, tried by a fair test In this view, some recent jobs will have a fair hearing and fair treatment in the treaty. There have been recently before the public, for in- stance, two schemes for Mexican railroads—one by Oriazaba, and the other by Jalapa. Either independently of these or in connection with them there is Mr. Clarence Seward’s Mexican express job; there is Ben Butler and Sam Barlow’s big Sonora job, for which money has been paid in advance ; and there is the great national job of the Tehuantepec route that, while it offers at present only a short cut to Califor- nia, may also, one of these days, compel Europe to communicate with Asia by way of the United States. Schemes like these, though called jobs by the public and dismissed from thought, involve the introduction of capital and energy into a country that will much need such assistance before there can be any hope of iis permanent regeneration. If we must indicate a way for the development of Mexico, that is the one most in consonance with the spirit of our people and most likely to be crowned with success from its adaptation to the circum- stances of the time. The fact of most immediate importance to Mexico that must be arranged by the contract- ing Powers is as to the steps by which a regu- lar government can be most rapidly and legi- timately erected. The bane of Mexico has been the pronunciamiento of this or that rival leader, distracting the country by making it doubtful where rightful authority lay and to whom alle- giance was due. For every President there has been an anti-President, and every Dic- tator has had such opposition as to make his title ridiculous. The same game is even now in progress, Juarez, who holds over as locum tenens, for want of a claimant with a better right, is disputed by Ortega, who, as a patriot, does not assist to heal the distractions of his country, but only adds bis little might to make them greater. The solution for such a case is an election for President and Congress. It is intimated that we are to hold an army of obser- vation on the Rio Grande. Doubtless the moral effect of the presence of such 4 force will enable the better elements of the population to assert themselves and make @ legitimate choice by election, thus giving the long-distracted nation the benefit of « fair start, Certainly arrango- ments to that end should be very definitely and distinctly made in the troaty. Maron Horruay’s Brooxaps Roxyers.—The oars of the Dry Dogk line at their Broadway orosslog. ‘Tho Balttmere Police Commissioners Trouble. Our full despatches from Baltimore, pub- lished this morning, give the history of yester- day’s proceedings in that city. The old Police Commissioners who have been removed by the Governor have set the Executive at defiance and continue to hold on to their office, arreat- ing and imprisoning all who attempt to exer- cise any authority under the commission of the new Board. The new Commissioners were themselves arrested on a bench warrant issued by Judge Bond, on the application of the State Attorney for Baltimore city, and refusing to give twenty-five thousand dollars bail, were locked up in jail, where it appears probable they will spend the Sabbath. The Sheriff, who had commenced to swear in a posse for the preservation of the peace at the bidding of the new Commissioners, was also arrested by order of the same Judge and sent to jail to keep the Commissioners company. The charge against the Commissioners was an attempt to incite an insurrection. Atnight the streets were quiet, and no greater damage was done during the day than a few knock-downs and several arrests. Judge Bond, who has thus summarily dis- posed for the present of the new Commission- ers and the Sheriff, appears to be a radical Politician. Ho was a member of the Philadel- phia Radical Southerners’ Convention, and is no doubt of the Jack Hamilton and Forney school. Thus the matter will rost until Monday, when a writ of habeas corpus will be issued by another Judge and the attempt made to liberate the Commissioners, At present it seems ps if the old Commissioners had the best chance of holding on to office until after Tuesday’s elec- tion, unless military interference should turn the scales against them. There seems but little chance of any serious riot, as the old Com- missioners have signified their intention not to resist the military ; and as a strong body of troops will be present at the scene of the trouble by Monday morning, the first indica- tion of a serious outbreak would no doubt be the signal for the proclamation of martial law. It seems clear that the old Commissioners are in the wrong in holding forcible possession of the offices from which they have been removed by the Governor, and Judge Bond should have caused their arrest in place of their successors. The action of the Governor is final, and the old Commissioners have no authority now to per- form an official act. If they have any rights in the case they must eeek to secure them through the courts. If Governor Fenton should re- move Street Commissioner Cornell on the charges made against him, and he should continue to hold on to his office by force and find a Judge willing to arrest and imprison the Governor’s appointee, the people of New York would scarcely regard his action as legal or proper. It is to be hoped that the trouble may pass over without loss of life or serious difficulty ; but it seems a hardship that Messrs. Valliant and Young, after having re- ceived appointments to good fat offices by the Governor of their State, should find themselves spending the first Sunday of their official life within the walls of a jail. Brarnrving THe Fenians.—It is exceedingly amusing to watch the attempts which both parties are now making to blarney the Fenians of this State. Every candidate is willing to swear that he is a Fenian or that his father was, Resolutions endorsing the Fenians are passed at all the political meetings, Letters approving of the Fonians are addressed to the President by Mayor Hoffman. Circulars stat- ing the sympathy of Governor Fenton with the Fenians are largely circulated. Every nominee who has a Mac or an O to his name parades it in large letters. Papers which have hitherto preferred the negroes to the Irish now desert Sambo and appeal to Patrick. A stranger landing at New York to-day would almost imagine that this was a purely Hiber- nian election and that this metropolis was the capital of the Green Isle. Instead of being blarneyed by the elec- tioneering buncombe now 80 prevalent, we hopo that the Fenians will bring their new-found friends to a simple, practical test. The latest proclamation of President Roberts affords just the op- portunity desired. He boldly informa the world that there are two Trish patriots in prison at Toronto, and he calls for volunteers io rescue these martyrs from the death to which they have been condemned. Now, who are willing to go? Are the hundreds of candidates in this State ready to face the music? They talk a great deal about their Fenianism and their devotion to “the cause” and their sym- pathy with the “men in the gap;” but will they prove their sincerity by shouldering Fenian muskets and freeing the mon in the jail? Let every Fenian voter see to it that these questions are answered before the votes are polled. If a candidate will put his name down on President Roberts’ rolls asa volun- teer, pledging himeelf to fight when called upon, then he deserves the Fenian vote ; but if he declines to stand this perfectly fair test, he is only “a good enough Fenlan till after election,” and should be treated accordingly. Ixsencrtos Aoarst rar Ween xp Horr- MAN Rartroap Jov.—An injunction has been granted against the Dry Dock Railroad Com- pany, restraining them from ranning their cars on the track laid on Broadway between Ann and Fulton streets As the Mayor winked at the job and neglected to prevent the outrage, some private individuals took the matter in hand and obtained the injanction. Ae the Mayor will not protect the citizens against the railroad jobbers, the cltizens must protect themee lv es. Tre Reowwrration or Vorers.—The registra- tion of voters closed last night, and the lisis show that ono hundred and twenty-five thousand names have been registered, being only one thousand more than were registered In 1864. This settles the Baron von Hoffman’s business. He may as well retire from the fleld and allow Governor Fenton to walk over the course. The majority for McClellan and Seymour in 1864, with all their popularity, was only thirty- seven thousand. The Baron von Hoffinas, with his “ring” reputation, will not get 60 many by several thousand. He may be counted out of the fight, The registration has settled the question. Cretury to Axmats.—Mr. Borgh thinks that laying @ turtle on bis back, with the sun in his eyes and strings through his flippers, te cruelty to the animal. But look at the rail- Joad crossing on Broadway, between Ann ead and cars and horses, all mixed up together, with the drivers lashing and hammering their poor horses and swearing at each other viciously. Here, indeed, is cruelty to animals and a clear case for Mr. Bergh’s interference, especially as Mayor Hoffman is too busy with the election interests of the “ring” to enforce the law against this illegal railway obstruc- tion. Tae Pors’s Atocurioy.—For a wonder the cable gives us an item of interest in the an- nouncement that the Pope is preparing to pull up stakes and quit Rome, The intimation is conveyed in an allocution recently delivered by his Holiness, in which, owing to the fact of the Italian press denouncing the document, it is to be inferred that he assails the motives and conduct of the men who have driven him to the contemplation of this step. It is a pity that the venerable head of the Church cannot yield to the inexorable logic of events without giving vent to such outpourings of bitterness, The men who are at the head of affaira in| Italy are not alone responsible for his tempo- ral destitution. They could do but little towards bringing about that result ifthe geno- ral sense of Europe, and, in fact, of the whole Christian world, had not been in favor of it. There is scarcely a Catholio who does not feel that the temporal power of the Papacy has ful- filled all the useful purposes of which it was susceptible and that its further continuance is detrimental to the best interests of religion. In announcing that he will seck the free ex- ercise of bis ministry in other landa the Holy Father evidently means that he will act upon the advice that we long ago tendered him, and that he will select the United States as the future seat of his lubors. No other country can afford -him the freedom of action and security which henceforth must be the guaran- tees of his spiritual independence. Here he will have a wide field for his exertions in the endeavor to bring within the fold the thousand and one sects into which our community is split wp. If he will on'y reclaim from their errors tho epiritualists, free lovers, nigger wor- shippers and philosophers in breeches who have produced such @ confusion of ideas and principles among us, he will amply repay us for the hospitality which we afford him. We do not expect the millennium from his presence, but in converting fanatics, controfling the un- ruly Fenian element and teaching the black population of the South the dutios and obliga- tions incident to their new condition he will be giving us something like an instalment of it. Tue Dry Doox.—The proper place for the repairs of the Tammany rump after the election. Oxe Hoxprep Miions or Gop IN THE Treasury.—There were 8 hundred millions in gold in the Treasury on the first day of the present month. This astonishing fact, show- ing the resources of the government in gold as well as in its means generally, ought to satisfy every one of our ability to resumo specie payments as soon as it may be safe to do so and our financial system becomes properly adjusted. We need not resort to any forcing process and thereby disturb too sud- denly existing values and obligations; we shall grow up within a short timo to a specie basis naturally and healthfully. We have, in fact, to-day a better, or at least as good a foundation for our currency as England has. The ordinary reserve of the Bank of England is fourteen millions sterling, or in round numbers seventy million dollars. All the cir- culation of bank notes, all the exchange busi- ness, the credit of the government and all the paper representatives of value are based upon this. Yet we have in the Treasury alone, inde- pendent of specie in the banks and in pri- vate hands, thirty million dollars more gold than the Bank of England holds. Besides this our resources are greater than those of Great Britain, while we are receiving all the time a never failing stream and increase of the precious metals from California and our other States and Territories. We are better able to pay specie, dollar for dollar, for our cur- rent paper obligations to-day than England or any other great nation in Europe. We need not reduce injudiciously the volume of currency to reach apecie paymenta, This can be done by establishing a sound financial system which will emancipate us from the control which the artificial system of Great Britain exercises over us. This willtake a little time and sound statesmanship. Should we attempt to force specie paymenis we would plunge the coun- try into bankruptcy and, with all our re- sources, place ourselves at the mercy of England. Our own people and the world will soon learn what abundant resources of the precious metals and everything else we have, and we shall most surely approximate a gold basis as rapidly as it is safe todo so. Twenty-four millions of the Treasury reserve are now being let out to pay the interest on the flve-twenty bonds. This will soon be replaced in the Treasury ‘vaults, and the amount thus spread among the community and through the channels of trade must tend to lower the premium on gold. Expose tur Trick.—The friends of General Halpine should explain to every Irish voter that the name “ Private Miles O'Reilly” is only @ fictitious signature under which Charles G. Halpine published his songs and other writings, just as the Rey. Father Francis Mahony always signed his songs and writings by the title of “Father Prout.” Every Irish voter should be cautioned against the trick by which the Tam- many-Mozart “ring” hope to make the friends of General Halpine throw away their votes by forcing on them ballots which will read “For Register, Miles O'Reilly.” Tur Axn Staest Jop.—The organs of the “ring” boast that the proposed widening of Ann street through to Fulton and the ferry was defeated by the folly of Mayor Hoffman. Hence he is clearly responsible for the present Broadway obstruction from Ann street to Ful- ton, and this is but the beginning of the bhock- ade to which lower Broadway is destined to be subjected until relieved by some parallel open- ing to the water, Tue Two Prize Rrves—Tarim Usion Ticket. — The Morrissey prize ring, in which the can- didates for the prize do the fighting, and the Hoffman prize ring, for which the outsiders do the fighting while the insiders divide the spoils, The union of these two rings is the Union ticket of Tammany, and her banker ls King Pharaoh, of votes registered in the olty will insure the election of General Halpine as Register; for the naturalized voters will be sure to support “Private Miles O'Reilly,” himself an adopted citizen. They must be careful, however, to vote for him as Charles G. Halpine, and not as “ Miles O'Reilly,” » name which he uses es an author only. General Halpine is supported by such men as Richard O’Gorman, James T. Brady, Father Quinn, Andrew Carrigan and other well known friends of adopted citizens, and the Rey. Dr. John O'Reilly, of Washington square, has written bim a very handsome letter testifying to his own and bis father’s fidelity to the “ Irish cause,” and expressing the hope that he may be elected. Fernando Wood’s candi- date, John McCool, has only the Corporation “ring” at his back, and will get no other sup- port, unless it may be from a few of Fernando's old Know-Nothing friends, who used to carry sround dark lanterns looking for Papiat plots, and who never went to sleep without dreaming that the Pope of Rome was coming to capture the United States and that the Irish citizens were going to rise and cut the throats of all native born Americans. A Bmosgrs Virw—The sexton of St. Paul’s ought to invite Mayor Hoffman to a birdseye view of the Broadway obstrosiion below from the look ovt 6? the church steeple, A Nice Law Pomr.—Can a Mayor who was not elected plead tho statute of limitations in regard to the public highways and his duty to keep them open? Tavrtow Weep's “Sratistics.’—Thurlow ‘Weed, as king of the lobby, ia celebrated for his statistics on free wool and free whiskey. As he is now in the “ring,” we should like his stalistics on the latest Broadway railroad obstruction, including Mayor Hoffman's neu- trality. Waar Snatt we Do win tas “Riva?”’—Broil them on their own gridiron, eT BE FINE ARTS. Do Haas is ongaged on @ picture commemorative of tho running of the batteries of New Orleans by the federal fleet under the command of Admiral Farragut, The Ad- miral, who takes a great Interest in the work, gives the artist the benofit of his auggostiona during its progress, The picture, cons*quentiy, promises to be one of the most accurate and spirited that has been produced by any marine painter. Mr. Do Haas has also protty woll advanced to comple tion two other works of importance, one, ‘A Storm on the Coast of Rhode Istand,"’ and the other, “A View in Narragansott Bay.” Léonard, @ French artist, has latoly arrived in New York, with a collection of his paintings, Moat of them biend allegory and history, inasmuch aa Mr, Léonard, with singular zea! and disinterestedness, has dovoted his best efforts in art to the propagation of advanced politi- cal ideas. But this kind of pictorial political proparand- ism has made bim an exile from Brussels as well as from Parts. We fear that the enthusiasm with which he haa come to “the land of the free" may be chilled, when he finds how little interest our population takes in bigh Politics In the abstract, especially during the excite- ments of an election, with tts flerce partisanship and petty intrigues tn the concrete, Several of the pictures of bir. Léonard are of such great size that he bas thus far beon unable to obtain a suitablo place for oxhibiting them, One of those, “Liberty Chasing Despotism,” was in- spired by the victory of the United States of America over tho pro-slavery secos:ionists of the South, Enlarg- ing, in bis conception, both the struggle and the victory, the artist has symbolized im this war - episode, the grand comb of the future against the past, of liberty againat dospotism, of justice against iniquity, of light against darknoss. Another colossal ploturo symbolizes tho same oid conflict between right and wrong—between love, genius and brute force, on a stid more goneral ecale. This is entitled “The Combat of the Giants,” but lke the other, it atill remaina at the Custom House, Until we have bad an opportunity of seoing these productions, wo can only hope that the artist has escaped the fatal error of mistaking large for great paintings. But we can aiready judge of bis lofty aimg from two or three pictures which be bas on exhi- bition at bis studio at No. 1,155 Broadway. The princi- pal one of these is “The Invasion of Mexico," dedicated to Juarez, and symbolizing the violent aggression of cer- tain European Powers upon the republic of Mexico. Thia picture, bold in design and color, bas a special interest of actualié at the present moment. Another, “Solitude and Remorse,” sufficiently indicates that the artist ts no Napoleonist. Three othora, “A Holy Family,” “Thne Snatching Away a Love," and “A Porirait” (of the art- ist’s young daughter), show that Mr. Léonard can seo beauty in other spheres than “high politics.” But, ae we have intimated, his chief ambition leads him in the lat er direction. Aprivate exhibition of Balling's large picture, The Reroos of the Republic, took place yeaterday. The pic- ture wag painted to the order of Lonoa Howard, of this city, and contatns life sizo portraits of twenty- seven of our Generals on horseback. Grant ts in the contre, with Sherman noxt to him. The portraits are all from life, and a noticeable feature of the exhibition was a reries of original sketches, each of them signod by tho General from whom it was mado. The picture measures about twenty feet by tweive, The artist, Mr. Baling, was a colonel in the war, but, unfortunately, boing wounded, was obliged to pit aside bis sword and resumo bis pencil. Happily tho use of moro warlike weapons had not caused hia right hand to loge its cunning. Mr. Henry W. Denby has purchased the famous cot- lection of Mr. W. P. Wright, of Weehawken. It con- talne one hundred and sixty-three pictores by leading American and foreign artists, including The Horse Fair, by Rosa Bonheur, The Diamond Tegs, by Robert Floury, a capital Troyon, and works by Gallait, Ansdell, Ver boechoven, Andreas Achenbach, Mignot, Eastman John- gon, Church, Kensett, &o. Broadway is haunted by the ghost of Washington Alls ton. At any rate, we were accosted lastevening by an insane old gentleman, with a venerable white beard, who insisted upon exchanging cards, writing bis own name distinctly “Washington Allston” on two cards, “so that we might not forget !t, Perhaps wo might or might not bave heard of it before, He no longer painted, but lived on the memory of bis beautiful art—in Bleecker street,” He soon diverged from his quiet talk about art, and asking “if we comprehended the actual concatenation of politics,” he broke forth into # raving eulogy of John Hofman, quickly collecting around him @ crowd, and wo “ame away.” Apropos of politics and art, the main attraction of Goupil’s show window isa fine portrait, by Gerhard, of Genornl Hatpine (Miles O'Reilly, “the boald soge " ooh fverbody outside of the. ring” w ph ee Register on Tuesday. at PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Postmaster General Randall end General Rousseau aro Mt the Astor House. Acting Ensign Kane, U. & N., late of the steamer Mackinaw, is at present in this city, waiting orders from the Navy De General G! 0. BA; in Cook, steamebtp Australasian ; Colonel adg a] lewport, Samuel King- man, England, and George Heriot, London, are at the Brevoort Buuve. REWS FROM THE WEST. Fire in St. Loote—Natural Curtostties from the Wilde of Dakota—Confirmation of Reporte of Indian Hostilitics on the Upper Missouri. Bt. Loum, Nov. 3, 1864, A fire inst night on Franklin avenue destroyed the WASHINGTON. wee Wasuinctos, Nov, 8, 1866, Financial Matters. The disbursements of the Treasury Department thie week on account of the War, Navy aud Interior Depart- +» $3,617. 198 oy tea + $4,668,006 was issued to the amoumt of $618,165, making the total to date, $206,354,854. The Government holds securities as follows :— The receipts from internal revenue to-day were as fol- lows:—From the sale of stamps, $73,987; from general collections, $1,340,154. Total receipts, $1,414,142 The receipts for the week ending to-day were $7,115,442 The President at the Post Office Department. At two o'clock to-day the President visited the Pest Office Department for the purpose of examining statie- tios and other matters connected with that Retronchment in the Patent 0: le Recent changes in the examination of models an@ preparation of patente have been made in the Patent Office which will result, it is expected, inasaving to the government of from forty to fifty thousand doliars a year, The specifications of models, both for the recora in the Patent Office and to accompany the letters grante@ to the patentee, which have been heretofore writen ty ‘copyista, are in future to be printed, One hundred an@ eight copyists are now employed in writing these spect- fications, most of whom are females, and by the plam proposed ten copies can be printed for the same money paid for writing two. In the matter of paper alone there will be a saving of at least four thousand dollars per annum. The printing of patent documents will be commeneed in about two weeks, Gold Actually Discovered on the Potomac, Goneral Denver and Colonel Lully, with a party of scientific gentlomon, paid a visit to-day to the farm ef Captain Wood, near Great Falls, on the Potomac, about eighteen miles from this city, for the purpose of inspect- ing the rocks in that neighborhood, which was said to contain gold. The result of thoir examination was, that tho presence of gold was established beyond a doubt, an@ rich specimens of quartz were brought away for the pur- poso of testing the quality of the ore. Statistics of the District. Ta. Gdisinpass With @ recent Tequisition of the Bureas Of Statistics of tho Treasury Déepartmént, the Assistant Assessors of Internal Revenue have made a report of the number of taxable individuals in the District of Columbia at tho present time. The report stated the number of dwelling houses in the district to be 19,022, and the entire population of the Distrit is 122,867, divided as fol- lows:—In Washington, 102,612; in Georgetown, 14,688, and in the county, 5,623, Sharp Practice of an Office Seeker. A gentleman from the Pacific coast was a short time ‘ago appointed to one of the most responsible positions within the gift of the government on that coast upon @ lotter of recommendation purporting to have been writ- ten by a prominent United States Senator, The gentie- maa received his commission and left Lere rejoloimg. Shortly atter his departure the honorable Senator re- turned, aud heard to bis astonishment of the appoint. ment, The eontleman who bad received the appoint- mont was immodiately tolegraphed to return and ex- plain. Ho ts now in the eity, and is no doubt explaim- i i Appointment. Mr. A. U. Wyman, Chiof of the Division of National Banks in tho Treasury Department, was appointed om the 1st of November Assistant Cashior of the United States Troasury, vice Mr, Lo Roy Tuttle, prometed to Assistant Troasurer. Mr. Wyman’s successor has not yes been ppointed. Withdrawal of n Line of Steamships. One of the lines of stearnships plying between Alexam- dria and New York bas withdrawn ita boate from that route. Tho business at that point bas been very dull for some time past, Cholera Still Lingering Around Washington. Bevoral cases of cholera bave beon reported in thie city during the last two days. Mayor Wallach has taken the proper precautions in regard to the sanitary condi- tton of the city. Aaricultural Steck for Virginia. Yostorday a drove of ono thousand sheep passed along Boundary street north to the Chain Bridge, and passed into Virginia. Thoy were driven from the West, aaé will be disposed of in the State of Virginia for the per. pose of stocking the farms of those who were deprived Of their stock duriug the war of the rebellion. Important to Those Having Monetary Transe actions with the Government. The following will be of interest to those who have monetary matters with the government:—The First Au- ditor audits court and marshal accaunts; Second Auét- tor, army accounts, penrions, bounties, &c,; Third Auditor, quartermasters’ and commissary accounta, am@ all claims arising undor shore departments; Fourth Auditor, naval uccounts, prize money, &c.; Fifth Aw- itor, foreizn acedunts, ministers, consuls; Sixth Audl- tor, Post Oullce accounta. JEFF DAVIS. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Extension of the Prisoner’s Parole—Confidest Belief that Jef? Will Soon Be Released. Fortress Mownor, Nov. 3, 1868, Tho parole granted to Jeff Davis, allowing him the freedom of the fort during the day without guard or survelilance, has beon extended through the night. Taking an udvantage of this extension of freedom he hag loft his old quarters in Carroll Hall and taken up bie permanent abode in the casemates allotted his wife an@ family. Ie exprossed himself Lora | pleased and thamk- fui at this further interposition of Executive clemency. Regerd not alone for his increased a comforts, but a just consideration for his health, serte ously bere neg by his jong confinement and repeated in- torraptions of his s! at night, through frequent chai ing of uard p over him, have induced siep in hia behalf, It is confidently believed that an- other and more decisive step will be speedily takes, whieh will be none other than his final rejoase from prison, conditional only on his parole of Lonor to appear for trial whea called upon, UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT OF VIRGINIA, Meeting of the Court in Norfolk—Jadge Un- derwood’s Charge tothe Jury—Adjournment Til December Next. Fortress Mownor, Nov. 1, 1668 Ata regular term of the UnitodyStates District Court, held in Norfolk this morning, the following officers of the court were present:—John ©. Underwood, District Judge; J. N. Croft and 8, T. Barry, United States Depaty Marshals, and John P. Hodge, Deputy Clork. There was very little business transacted by the Court in com sequence of the absence of the United States Disriet Attorney, 1, H. Chandler, ‘The first case was that of M. B. Crowell & Co, va, the schooner MoKee, in aciaim for ralvage. On motion of Mr. J. DuMeld, Aseistant United States District Attorney, the court decided that the amonnt of bonds to be takem by the United States Marshal in this case be fixed a= $40,000, There were nfieen members of the Grand Jury — the usual oath was then administered to Indge Underwood then delivered the following charge to the Grand Jury, after which they adjourned to meet in Decomber next. Gavriauxs ov Tan Jonr:—My charee will be short, a8 your services will be also, This morning for considerable business that required your attention, but which will have to be postponed att future time. The District A has been sum by the Attorney General of the Taited Srates, snd unable to wait upon you to-day. You therefore be by the court, but are adjourned until the first Tuesday in December. The urusl charre will then be made. I understand there will be somo criminal, but none of a very serious or important natare, wo to, mecluding several offences Peo re Toad court te until the Sret : Row adjourned ¢ now seems a strong probability that the United Stains Crea Coan will be held on the fourth Monday of this month in Richmond—perbaps merely to nek nd thon justice Chase iven it as his opinion thas Ce Ms fr way of betting the court, over by the District Judge. and ite Court meets tn December, the first dctien' to be ettonded 00 09 the ep Judges wil be to make the assignment of Judges to the differ. pe hag the Ciroulte were altered, and one ited with the Buy a Judge Chase has ‘coon age that mond, Court,