The New York Herald Newspaper, November 14, 1866, Page 4

= NEW YURK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1866. NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFPICE N. W. COBNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, Volume XXXI.. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, near Broome WAY THEATRE, Broad BB04p' way, .— Bara W YORK THEATRE, Broadway, opposite New Hod-Gaurrrem Gaunt, om Suaovan. = THEATBE FRANCAIS, Fourteenth street. near Sixth avenue.—Apaiamwe Lecovvaise. AM THALIA a eg dour Avr heisny—Loorsnnseroman=Sirren 7 Bas N ST. Bor a a ‘ADT THEATRE, Nos. 45 and 47 Bowery. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brookylo.— Sea or Ics, STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth atreet.—Sxcoxd Porvtas Conoxar. * DODWORTH'S WALL. 806 Broadway.—Paornsson Hasrs wit Paavoum mms Minactes 585 Broadway, opposite ‘Marrs, SivainG, Dancing inp Buniesqves—SuaDow Pan- ‘TOM LER. nd 4 West HOUSE, Nos. Lt RE apwontie MinstRets.—STMOPtAn . Bautaps, Buresques, ac. A TRIP 70 THE & LEON'S MINSTREL: nite the New York Hotel.—In raxiz Son taorims, &c.—EXxcunsion AROUND THB 7% Broadway, oppo- Daxoes, Bocex. ‘ORLD. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Cowrs fooavisu—| Minsrauisy Batcer Divanrissemesc, setttue Ban's Varznins. Matinee ab 23¢ o'Clook, CHARLEY WHITB’S COMBINATION TROUPE, at Meech: ’ Hall, 472 Broadway—In a Vaniery or Licne Meo LACGRssLs ERYERTAINNRITES, on Battat. 20 Fumace Cizaxs ix Wasaineton. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Ermroriax Mix- sreacsy, Batiaps, BURLESQUES AND Pawtournes. SBAVER'S OPERA HOUSE, Willlamsburg.—Ermorian Munpraxsy, Comic Pawromuuns, £0. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. — Leoroass witu tas Oxt-Hrpaogss Micaoscore | twice ¢ : aes a? Rioat Agu or Prosst. Open from § DERBY GALLERY, 625 Broadway.—Exnisirion oF THE Great Piorvge “Hegozs or tux Rervs.ic.” Now York, Wednesday, Nevember 14, 1866. Our news report from Europe is dated to the evening of Monday, November 12. Maximilian is again mentioned asa candidate for the crown of Poland. Russia has abolished her naval stations at Kertch and ‘Taganrog. Ten persons on board the bark Elizabeth Jenkins, from London for Boston, were lost by « collision between the bark and the ship Agra; bound for New York from Lon- don. The London money market was more active yester- day, and full rates wore had for discount and loan. Five-twenties quotations are not given. Cotton declined in Liverpool yesterday. Breadstuffs firm at a slight advance, THE CITY. Tho Legislative Committee appointed at the last seasion to inquire into the condition of the wharves and piers of ‘New York and Brooklyn met yesterday at the City Hall. Various committecs appointed by the commercial asso- Clations of the city were present and offered their re- ports, Mr. G. F, Noyes, of the Citizens’ Committee, tendered the use of a steamtug to the Legislative Com- mittee for the purpose of taking a view of the wharves and piers from the river, which they will do to-day. ‘The committee will meet again on Thursday. During the week ending November 10 there were 391 deaths in this city, including 68 in the public institu- Brooklyn was 157, exclusive of the county institutions. Ata meeting of the carpenters of the city, at which three trade societies were represented last evening, in ‘Thirty-third street, resolutions were adopted to maintain 8 full hour for dinner, the four o'clock rule on Saturday, to oppose the lighting up system in winter and to agitate the eight hour system of labor until that reform is achieved, Spirited addresses were delivered on the occasion. Mrs. Daniel T. Murphy, the wife of a merchant in Ful- ton street, and reputed to be worth $600,000, instituted moult for divorce on the 7th of August, 1865, on the ground of cruel and inhuman treatment, On the Ist of September last Murphy left the olty, and one of his Clorks, named Gross, now claims to have purchased the house in which Mrs. Murphy is living from her husband. A.suit was instituted by Mrs, Murphy, charging Gross ‘with collusion with her husband for the purpose of de- frauding her of her rights, and depriving her of a home; and alleges that there was no roal sale of the Property transected. An injunction was granted last October, restraming Gross from selling or mortgaging such property, and a motion is now made before Judge Sutherland, of the Supreme Court—Chambers, to dis- solve such injunction. The court’s decision was re- served. ‘The trial of Jeremiah O'Brien, indicted for the murder of Kate Smith, in Prince street, was commenced yester- day in the General Sessions, aud will be contin1ed to- day. A motion was made before Judge Daly, of the Court ot Common Pleas, yesterday, to restrain Mr. P. Cuff froin interfering with the management of a distiltery in Forty- fifth atreet, The dofendaut claims he is a partner in the concern, and that the plaintif, Charles Dougherty, has, on the contrary, interfered with the proper management Of the establishment, Decision reserved. In the divorce suit of Stoddard vs, Stoddard, Judge Jones has rendered a decision granting the wife Give dol- Jara per week v8 alimony. In the case of Charles Lockwood against the New York Central Ratiroad, herotofore reported in the ‘Hamat, a verdict for plaintiff way rendered yesterday, giving him the full amount clained, which 1s $25,000. Francis Bunzor, who was stabbed at the tenoment house No. 285 East Houston streot by George Weikler, by reason of jealousy, died subsequontly at Bellevue Hospital, and Weiklor haa beon arrested. Joba Clary and George Waters, two boys who were burned, among others, in the receat explosion of pow- dor, which they bad thrown on a bonfire, died a fow days ago, and several otber boys are thought to be in a hope. less condition. The steamship Columbia, Captain Slocum, will sail for Havana direct at three I’. M. to-day, from pier No. 4 North river. The mails will close at the Tost Office at half-past one o'clock. The steamship Granada, of Leary's line, will sai! at three P. M. to-day for Charleston, from pier 14 East river, She will connect with tho steamer Dictator for the Florida ports. The redaction in the price of gold within the past tow days has bad the effect of greatly disturbing commercial values, though the Influence exerted by the changes in gold have in some cases been counteracted by other influences. This is particularly the case with corn, which, under favorable European news, has been main- tained ata high figure in face of enormous supplies at the West Cotton has been greatly depressed by the cable news, and prices yesterday declined materially on tho recelpt of Liverpool quotations of middlings at 1444. On ‘Change flour was dull and unchanged. Wheat was more active and firmer, Corn was in im- Proved demandand higher, Oats were dali and heavy. Pork was trregular aud nominal. Beef was steady. Jani was unchanged) Whiskey was steady and firm Freights were very datl but steady, MISCELLANEOUS. Judge Barto! Las rendered a decision in the Baltimore Police Commussioners habeas corpus case, in whieh he sustains the action of Coversor Swann in removing the old Commissioners and ap, Commissioners were there and were loudly applauded + their office, During the day t for the surrender of the police directing the police of tho « emanating from the old Boa: day afternoon. They then notified Mayor « ting new ones, The two barged from custody entering napman to aitend a moeting of the Board, bat he did not 0, and no answer had been received from the old ¢ ni cwionere in regard to the surrender of tho property new Commissioners do not propose to make any removals in 1 fesse SADC te anal aga, Joha A. Biagham, of Ohio, it is said in Washington, is | Curiens E@ecte of the Electrical Condition of Preparing articles of impeachment against the Presi- deat, in which he will charge him with complicity in the agsaasination of President Lincoln. ‘The vessels of the South Atlantic aud Gulf Squadrons ‘are stationed at present as follows:—The Atrilia, Flag Commodore Winslow's flagship; the Tahoma, Agawam and Paul Jones, at Pensacola; the Nebraska at New Or- leans, the Chocura at Key West, the Lenape at Port Royal, the Chicopee at Charleston, and the Conaught at Beaufort. The health among officers and crew was gene- rey express train west on the Buffalo and Erie Railroad ran off the track yesterday near Wesleyville, and five persons were killed and @fty wounded. The accident was occasioned by the carelessness of workmen who were repairing the track. ‘The single scull rowing match, between Gilbert Ward, of Cornwall, and William Stevens, of Poughkeepsie, for 9300, which was to have come off yesterday, was un- avoidably postponed om account of the roughness of the water. The race will come off on the first fair day. The 29th instant has been appointed a day of Thanks- giving by Governor Burnside, of Rhode Island. The message of Governer Patton, of Alabama, has been published, He makes various objections to the constitutional amendment, being opposed to its ratifica- tion om the ground that i: embodies principles dangerous to the liberties of the people with North and South. ‘The steamer Henry Von Phul plying between Now Or- Jeans and St. Louie was burned recently above Donald- sonville, La, and two lives wore lost, She had on board at the time thirty-five hundred bales of cotton. Aman named Neelson, from New York, was shot and instantly kitted in a barroom fight in Balttmore by a man nee age an The South on the Result of the Late Northern Elections. In looking over the Southern newspapers we are able to form a pretty correct idea of what the politicians of that unrestored section of the country think of the result of the North- ern elections. We say the politicians—we mean the old secession editors and leaders, as distinct from the majority of the people. Judging from the light before us we have reason to think that these pernicious men do not express the sentiments of the mass of their ruined and suffering countrymen whom they led into rebellion and who now long for restoration and peace. Doubtless these danger- ous men, from the force of habit and an irre- pressible ambition to figure in public affairs, have got control of a portion of the press, and have in a measure reassumed their réle of political managers; but the people have lost faith in them and must soon ley them aside for more patriotic and safer leaders. Stili, as they are doing great mischief at present, we feel it to be a duty to warn the Southern people against the dangers they incur by tolerating such dangerous blind guides. The elections in the Nort& have aroused the old rebellious spirit of this class of mef. True they do not talk in the defiant tone of former times, as they did previous to and in the early period of the war, but they are sullen and denunciatory. They continue to instil the poison of resistance and hatred to the North. They do not seem to comprehend the position of the South or the issue involved in the question of restoration as decided by the elec- tions, and they mislead the people. They say the radicals have triumphed in the elections, that this shows the North has become imbued with the Jacobin spirit of proscription and per- secution and that they have no hope except in the uncertain success of the conservative party, meaning the old democratic party. Such is the burden of their bitter complaints and gloomy forebodings. They talltoo, as glibly and seriously of their constitutional rights and of preserving the constitution as if they had never made war on the constitution and placed themselves be- yond the pale of ite operation, or as if the-con- stitution was only made to protect those who rebel against it. Now let us test these assumptions by a little common sense. We hardly expeot to convince the old narrow-minded and hair-splitting Southern politicians, the men who brought on the rebellion, but we may the mass of the peo- ple and the sensible young men of the South. The material interests and future welfare of themselves and their country may open the minds of these latter to the truth. First, then, the elections” are not a triamph for the radicals—that is, for the Jacobins of the Thad Stevens and Ben Butler faction. Tho great body of Northern citizens have no sympathy with them. They are looked upon as firebrands and refolutionista. Nor is it true that the people of the North wish to proscribe and persecute the Southern people. There may be some bitterness remaining from the war here ag there is in the South; that is natural, but it exists only to a limited extent. It will not operate to prevent early restoration, unless the South should be so im prudent as to intensify this feeling by continu- ing to foment sectional hostility. All that the North wants isa guarantee for the future peace and harmony of the country. It wants the suffrage question based on 9 substantial foun- dation of justice and sound aged without compelling the several States to give up their privilege of regulating it. That is the objeet of the constitutional amendment basing repro- sentation on the actual vote of each State. The North is determined to avoid any trouble in the future about the national and rebel debts, and therefore demands a constitutional guar- antee for the payment of one and the repudia- tion of the other. It does not want, and by the elections has declared that it will not have, the old rebel leaders, who violated their oaths to the United States, back again in the political arena until they are purged of their offence. The desire is to make “treason odious,” so that the fute of these men may act as a warning in the future; and it is considered highly impoli- tic to admit them to political power for the present, because they might resume their old réle of agitators, The whole object of the con- Stitutional amendment is to secure permanent peace and harmony. A certain class of politi- cians may desire to use this question to per- petuate their power, but the mass of the people only wish, as they have declared in the elec- tions, to place the country beyond the chance of future trouble. We denounce, therefore, the hostile and im- politic language of the old rebel press and leaders, as being full of mischiof—mischief to the South more than to the North, and we call upon the Southern people to repudiate such dangerous guides and agitators. The consti- tutional amendment offers (he lest torms the South will be able to get, and i! ought to be accepted frankly and promptly, ‘bat will bring specdy restoration. Resistance will be useless, and, probably, would be ruinous. The South bas to depend not upon its aseumod rights, but upon the magnanimity of the North. | By taking the course we recommend its troubles will be ended; by following that of the old, etupid, avotlonal leaders who brought on the rolollign, iis fate may he a dlanatrous ong the Atmeephore. As the earth nears the meteoric belt which surrounds the eum our atmosphere natarally becomes surcharged with electricity. Some of the curious effects which have resulted from this condition of the air have already become apparent, and others still more startling are to follow. Observant philosophers msy trace the beginning of this electrical influence in the sud- denness with which Grant wound up the rebel- lion, the excitability of the assassin Booth, the shock which Napoleon received when Maxi- tmailian’s failure became evident, and the vigor with which John Bright opened his reform cam- paign in England. Then, as we swung still closer to the meteors, men’s minds and actions were still more powerfully affected. No doubt Bismarck’s ambition was generated by elec- tricity. The recent campsign of the Prussians was conducted with lightning-like rapidity. ‘The mental disturbances resulted in attempts at assassination in Prussia, Russia end Austria. The Princess Carlotta, passing from the posi- tive electric currents of this hemisphere to the negative electric atmosphere of the Old World, behaved so strangelyithat certain doctors, igno- rant of the approach of the meteoric phenomena, pronounced her insane. The Fenians felt the afflatus and invade The republicéie wee eed Se a te oe North tremendously at the recent elections. President Jobnson and Louis Napoleon were drawn into sympathy upon the Mexican busi- ness, Maximilian, receiving his inspiration from another pole of the universal battery, in- continently abdicated. Revolutions, like fire- balls, suddenly flashed forth in Spain. A new island sprung up in the Mediterranean. The old Atlantic cable began to work. The Japa- nese Tycoon died off. All these and various other remarkable circumstances are doubtless attributable to the electrical condition of the atmosphere. The nervous temperaments of the Ame ican people are peculiarly susceptible to these mys- terious influences. At the South they have wrought up the politicians to such a pitch that the constitutional amendment is rejected. At the North precisely opposite effects are pro- duced and the amendment is unanimously ee dersed. When mastodons are discovered at Cohoes all sorts of political, religious, social and dramatic revelations are to be anticipated. Electricity gives Morrissey an impetus that- sends him to Congress. The same power elects Miles O'Reilly, smashes the Corporation “ring,” induces Brennan to politely decline a renomt- nation and clears the way for Judge Barnard as Comptroller. It operates vividly upon the religious world and nerves the Rev. Mr. Smyth in his criticisms upon the clergy. It acts posi- tively upon Manager Wheatley, drawing crowds to his demoralizing exhibition, and it acts negatively upon the other agsoci- ated managers, emptying their houses remorse- lessly. It inspires Ristori and endows her with magnetic power over her audiences, and tt places Dillon in the front rank of English tra- gedians, far beyond Forrest, the tamed Indian, and Booth, the second-hand imitator of Kean. It revives the Grecian games in théir classical purity and gives asa race course at Jerome Park free from those nuisances that infest the trotting tracks. It causes gentlemen to ride their own horses in o hurdle race -and origi- nates ench unprecedented feate as driving a team without traces to Macomb’s Dam and a four-in-hand around the Fordham course inside of three anda half minutes. It crowds the Park with thousands of brilliant equipages and im- presses upon everybody the desire for a grand Boulevard at the upper end of the island. It suggests the widening of all our thronged streets and vetocs the Mayor who vetoes pub- lic Improvements. The nearer we come to the meteoric display the more amazing are the atmospheric influences. The Indies change their fashions as often as they change their minds, and grow more extravagant and charm- ing with every transformation. Wall street is excited and bulls and bears leap and wrangle galvanically. Unless these phenomena culmi- nate with the meteoric shower, which all the world will stay awake to see, we may expect the most extraordinary events during the next year that have occurred since electricity cre- ated the globe out of the original nebulous gases, But among the most noticeable results of the electrical excitement, the ocean yacht race, which is now awaited with intense interest by the people on both sides of the Atlantic, must not be overlooked. This race, to be begun in December, will inaugurate a new era in American and English yachting. In former times our yachtsmen were satisfied to cruise about the bay or the Sound. Then they aspired to ocean matches to Cape May and return, Now, influenced by the electrical condition of the atmosphere and by that spirit of American enterprise which is itself electric, the owners of the Fleetwing, Vesta and Henrietta have arranged a race from New York to Cowes during what is popularly, though perhaps erroneously, regarded as the most tempestuous season of the year. ‘Ihe Commodore of the New York Yacht Clab will act aa one of the judges and await the arrival of the contestants at the Isle of Wight. The yachts are already at the sbipbuilders’, receiv- ing the repairs and alterations necessary for their long voyage. The arrival of the winning boat will be immediately telegraphed through the cable. Never has anything connected with yachting occasioned so universal an excite ment, The only point about which there seems to be any question, outside of the un- certainty as to the winner, is whether or not the owners will accompany their vessels, The public interest in regard to this matter is indi- cated by the communications, pro and con, which we have received and a few of which we have published. “A Yachtsman,” full of electric fire, argues that the owners must go upon their yachts or submit to the sneer of the British press that this race is a mere Yankee trick got ap to sell thé yachts, “A Lands man ” replies with meteoric brilliancy that the race is between the yachta, not between the owners, and that pleas of business or of family duty are sufficient to excuse the owners from going. A contemporary. places the subject in a galvanic light by hinting that a yachtaman is not expected to fall in bis own boat any more than e sports- maa is expected to ride his own horse during } araes. In our view the question is one which ery yachteman must decide for himself, It 3 very natural that there should be @ discus- | sion about it, because such ® race is a pa- tional affair, in which our national pride and Top stalloa ere eomocracd, es they were in the triumph of the America. We hope that the winner of the race will challenge best British yachts, and beat them also. fact that such an ocean contest is seriously. don- templated is a striking proof, not only of the carious electrical condition of the atmosphere, but of the marvellous progress of our yachte- men and of their superiority in enterprise to those bold Britons whd raled the wave until Americans snatched from them both the Queen's oup and old Neptune's trident. Claridcation of the Mexican Muddle. ‘The turbid stream of Mexican affairs promizes at last to run clear. Mr. Campbell and General Sherman are on their way to help Juarez and General Castelneau expedite the clarifying process; and although Marsbal Bazaine seems to hold his head as high at present as if he were the chosen and perma- nent Dictator of the Mexican people, he must bow ere -long to the inexorable logic of events. General Sherman, if necessity re- quires, can make shorter work with the secession in embryo, in anticipation of soon being recognized as the Sierra Madre republic, than he and General Grant made with the se- cession of the so-called Confederate States. Maximilian cage to the city of Mexico by French jeave, and it is not surprising that be should have taken French leave of it and of his shaky imperial throne. Whatever his plans may have been on quitting the capital, there is little doubt that be will have to go further than Orizaba, whether it be to reign as King of Poland, or, according to certain conjectural predictions, at Pesth instead of Vienna, as the successor of the Emperor of Austria. The latter, it has been thought, disgusted at bis own recent reverses, has sent for Maximilian, with a view of abdicating in his favor. Max may thus bave another and perhaps a better chance of personating royalty. He may, how- evor, be doomed in Europe to as long and tedious a pursuit of a crown as that of Coslebs in search of a wife. To begin with, he will be troubled by the embarrassment of choice, inas- much as so many thrones, more or less eli- gible, bappen to be vacant, in consequence of recent European events. Whether the head of the house of Hapsburg abdicate in his favor or noi, abdication is the order of the day among tranentlantic sovereigns, Tw9 kings, at least, and kinglets “too numerous to men- tion,” have lately retired or are about to retire from the royalty business. On the whole we must repeat our friendly advice to the ex-Emperor of Mexico, that he had better hurry home to Miramar and help the doctors soothe and heal hie wife. He at least owes her a visit in return for her zeal and perseverance in his behalf. He can wait pa- tiently at Miramar until Francis Joseph shall abdicate in his favor, or even Napoleon him- self, by way ot graciously compensating the amiable but ambitious Carlotta for all the trouble ais Mexican policy has inflicted upen her and her worthy husband. There is no telling what wild work the electrical influ- ences of meteoric showers may make with royal brains. But Maximilian has left behind him in Mex- ico a power which would probably defy all electrical influences before it would abdicate in anybody's favor, unless, indeed, it thought more could be gained in that way than in another. We allude to the company of Ameri- oan sovereigns who obtained a few years ago from Juarez a concession of vast tracts of land in Lower California. One of the principal members of this company owns steamers enough to make an entire navy for the future repablic of Sierra Madre. Another owns a sporting journal, and a third owns, or thinks he owns, almost the whole republican party in the United States. Each of these men believes that possession is nine points of the law, and none of them dream of abdicating, “though the heavens should fall.” Work for the Legislatare—Beards of Centro! and Public Werks for New York. In view of the approaching constitutional convention, when all matiers of general in- terest to the State will undergo revision, it is not likely that the next session of the Legisla- ture will be a very busy one, and members wilt have full opportunity to consider carefully the condition of our municipal government aad to devise such legislation as will protect the citizens and lay the foundation for a radi- cal reform in this much abused city. Two measures imperatively demanded for the public welfare are the creation of a Board of Control, to supervise all the financial matters of the city, and a Board of Pablic Works, to take charge of the streets and public build- ings and to exercise a general power over all matters pertaining thereto, such as rail- roads, ferries, gas works and public improve- ments. The commissions’ to be formed for these important objects should be of a charac- ter to command confidence and respect, and they should supplant the present departments and bureans, which have been prostituted by politicians to the most corrupt purposes. We have uow a Mayor and « Street Com- missioner, either of whom might very well be supposed to have some authority over the atreets and some power to protect them from unlawful obstraction and in- jury. Yet a railroad company has been permitted to tear up Broadway on the Sabbath-and to lay down a double railway track, without any authority, in the most crowded portion of that thoroughfare. With a Board of Pablic Works in existence no such ontrage could have been committed. Millions of the publie money have already been given away to jobbers in street railroad and ferry franchises, which, if properly used, might have lessened by nearly one-half the taxation of the city. This should be stopped at once, and every franchise that is of value should be die posed of or held by the Board of Pablic Works for the benefit of the taxpayers. All the city railroads should be under the control of that Board, instead of being run to enrich a ring of political speculators. The Board should por- seas the power to make such public improve- ments as may be demanded by the necessities and conducive to the interests of the city, such as the extension of the Fifth avenue thorough- fare to the Battery and similar great works. At present only such jobs are undertaken or carried through as are profitable to the railroad “ring.” The Ann street improvement, which some donkeys havo called a “Herraun job,” originated with these men, and the Heratp had nothing to do with it, and would not have been so mach benefited by it as would many other of our eltizens. It is well known that no Buble work Can At pressis be uadortaded, + 24 a4 umakagiving Day, part of the metropolis. The Board of Public Works will be just as popular in s few years as the Croton Aqueduct and Central Park Com- missioners are at the present time, and people will look back and wonder how they could so long have suffered the best interests of the city lobby combinations should be made to yield @ profit to the city. The measere should be carefully anid thoroughly considered, and it might be well for a number of our prominent citizens and heaviest taxpayers to meet to- gether and agree upon a bill to be presented to the Legislature early in the session, 6o that it may become a law at the earliest possible moment. fi The Dissolution of the Democratic Party— “Who Killed Cock Robin ¢” The Northern rump of the old national democratic party bas fought its Inst battle. It‘goes down with Hoffman, its last champion from Tammany Hall and the “ring.” From Maine to Missouri, under the “aid and comfort” of the administration, it has made a desperate fight; bat from Maine to Missouri it has been cut to pieces. The defeats of the old whig party of 1852, which carried that great party to the graveyard, wore meré trifes with the ste tetrible thrashings of the 2emoc- racy, from Maine to Missouri. Their coalition with the administration, instead of giving them strength, has only served to precipitate the inevitable catastrophe The old demo- cratic party, under the same odium as a peace party in a time of war, goes the same way as the old federal party of 1812. “Who killed cock robin?” Some would say Calhoun and the old Southern State rights, slaveholding, democratic oligarchy. Some would say Buchanan, with his wrotched, beg- garty-notion that against rebels and traitors the government had no right to proteot itself ; and some again would say the “almighty nigger” and the squabbles of the party lead- ors over the spoils and plunder did the busi- ness. It will suffice, however, for the present to aay that the little Douglas did it ia his quarrel and rupture with the old Southern oli- garchy at the Charleston Convention. He there split the party in twain, and, while the Southern division went off into the rebellion, the best materials of the Northern division went over to the support of Abraham Lincoln and the republican party in the war for the Union. Thus only the Northern ramp of the once all-powerful democratic party was left in the Geld. A lucid interval on the war plat form in 1862,in which the ramp was lifted upon its legs in the Central States, was followed next year by the ory of its copperhead leaders of “peace at any price,’ and so down it went again from Maine to California. In 1864 it tried, at the Chicago shent-per-shent Convention, the trick of a Union soldier asthe bearer of ita Presidential copperhead banner of “peace at any price,” and down it went again trom Portland to San Francisco. In 1865 it tried President Jobnsoa’s Southern restoration platform, with a Union soldier as its standard bearer in one State and a copperbead leader in another, and down it went again from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. In 1866 it entered into « formal alliance, including the epoils, with the administration, and in support of the combined movement President Johnson undertook his famous pilgrimage to the tomb and the shrine of the little Douglas, and the dead Douglas in that pilgrimage gave the finishing blow to this Northern copperhead rump of the old democratic party. The rump and the President’s policy have thus gone down, under an aggregate of three hundred and seventy-five thousand majority, from Maine to Nevada, and for Congress and the constitu- tional amendment. Run down from the Wilderness to Appo- mattox Court House, like the army of Lee, nothing remains now to the routed rump of the Northern democracy but to disband, dis- perse and seek out some new organization. In this view the Chicago Times (hitherto a most obnoxious and rampant copperhead orgen) strikes out boldly for negro suffrage. Very few other journals of the demoeratic church show any signs of life. Like ships hard aground in « thick fog, or like Micawber, they are waiting for “something to turn up.” Hankering and hungry for their old Southern balance of power, they find that Congress blocks the way and holds the keys of the next Presidency, and they know not what to do, The best thing they can do is to follow the move of the Chicago Times and go a little further in urging upon the South the adoption of the constitutional amendment, including the alternative of negro suffrage, in view of the twenty odd additional members of Congress it will give the South, and thus take the lead from the republicans in this great Presidential game of reconstruction. PERSONAL_WTELLIGENCE. Among tho arrivals at the Brevoort House yesterday were Jobn A. McDonald and two other mombers of the Canadian Cabinot—Mesers. Howland and Cartier— with their private secre'ary, Colonel Barnard. They are on their way from Ottawa, Canada, to England, to confer with the British government on the subject of the con. federation of the British provinces, and wil! remain in London until they have the bill fairly under way in the Engliah Parliament. sail to-day in the Australasian, and will return to Now York in February. General A, G. Lawrence, United States Minister to Costa La ee Newport; Caprain ©. T. Adams, , and Ignatias Sargout, of Bost are also stopping at the Brevoort House, z gs It ts reported that United States Senator Doolittie, of Wisconsin, proposes to sell his property in Racine ond abandon bis residence ip that State, THANKSGIVING IN RHODE 1S! WW, 19, 1966. , November Provinence, Governor Buraside has appoiated Th WASHINGTON. The Charges to be Brought Against the President by the Radicals. ae Genoral Grant’s Opinion of the New York “ Ring” Politicians. de, in office must be vigorously applied to the federal offica, the ‘Ring’ in the November contest, and the same policy will be applied elsewhere throughout the State. General Halpine (Miles O'Reilly) arrived this morning on business connected with the departments, and has been complimented on his success in the late contest for that the good work of destroying the corrupt “Ring” of Now York city politics, commenced in November, may be completed im the charter contest of next month, adding that he would regard such purification as of interest to the entire public life of our country. Tho Report of the Secretary ef the Tronsury. Seoretary McCulloch is now devoting all his time im his forthcoming report. Portions of it have been placed in the hands of the printers at the Treasury Department. It is understood that Mr. MoCulloch will urge upon Congress the necessity for the passage of & law looking towards an early resumption of specie pay- ments, The report will be quite voluminous, and will ‘be one of the most interesting ever issued from that de- si Cabinet Meeting. i ‘The Cabinet meeting to-day was somewhat protracted. All the members were present. The usual number of visitors were in attendance, including Messrs. Lowry tho pardon of Jeff Davis. No interviews were granted. Movemongy of General Sickles. Gonoral Sickles, commander of the Department of South Carolina, has been called to Washington. Tha precise import of the order is a state secret, which will require a week or more of time to divulge. Some think that General Sickles will be sent to the Rio Grande to aid General Sheridan in case force should be required to cary out the policy of President Johnson in regard to Mexico, while others contend that he has been sent to consult upon tne political situation of the South. The Goneral tof Charleston on the avening of the 12th inst, on board the steamer Cosmopolitan, for Now York, and may be expected to arrive here to-day, Our Relations With Prussia. On the meeting of Congress a resolution will be intro. duced calling for all information on the subject of the action of Prussia against American citizens, The whole Matter will be thoroughly investigated. In the opinios of many prominent gentlemen our Minister at the seat of the Prussian government has parsued en ulterior course highly reprehensible, It is undegmtood that the government is not particularly well satisfied with his conduat. Applicants for the Vacant Judgeship ia Ohie. There are a number of candidates for the vacancy im the Judgeship of the United States District Court for the Northern distriot of Ohio, occasioned by the death of Judge Wilson. Among the number of applicants are Franklin J. Dickman, F. T. Backus, Sherlock J. Andrews end others. Suit Against the Secretary ot War. ‘The case of the banker Smithson against the Secretary of War has gone through all the pleadings aed is now EA Commisstoner. Abstraction of Arms frem the Washingtos Armery. Munger's appointment was determined upon. Nallification of Military General Orders. Major General Heintzeiman, commanding the District of Texas, issued on the 5th a general order containing ‘the following lettor from the headquarters of the army: Heapqvarrans Anwmxs Usrren Sra’ Wasmneros, Oct. 17, 1606. Major General P. A. commanding Department of the Guif, New Orleans, La. :— ‘Sin—Referring to your endore ments uy) communt- cations of General J. G. Foster, commanding District of Florida, of dates ernber 18 and 20, reiative to the of the 3 proclamations, &c., I a directed by the General-in-Chief to enclose you a copy. say that ho conrtrues those ral Headquarters of the Army, pax mp ranpennlitiy, Yost oe GEORGE K. GEORGE K. LEET, Assistant Adjutant Goneral. Remuneration of Quartermaster’s Depart- meat Kmployen. At a meeting of the employés of the Quartermaster's Department held last evening the subject as to whether the military board Gow in session would sustain them ia their demand for satisfactory wages was considered. The result of the consaltation was probably encouraging, for 8 resolution was passed to serenade the President whem the result is made known. Personal. Attorney General Stanbery leaves for New York to- night to be absent a day or two. Kx-Senator Hunter Calis on the President. RM. T. Hunter, of Virginia, had an interview with the President this afternoon. He desires to have certaim property of his in Western Virginia barred from confsce- Von, but as it baa already been under previous decisions of Federal authorities there is no doubt that action wit be sustained. Few Pardons Being Granted. Very few pardons for aiding in treason against the United States have been granted by the President during the past week, although there is but Itttle falling of te the number of applications that arrive at the White House and at the office of the Attorney General. Withia the last few days the President has directed pardons to be isaued to the following named persons, one of which sought for pardon under the first exception of the am- nesty proclamation, baving held # petty office under the pretended confederacy, and the remainder applied under the $20,000 clause:—Willie Benham, of Georgia; Wii- fiam A, Pegram, of Louisiana; D. i. Reynolds, of Ar- Kansas; J.D. Eppes, of Missisipp!; W. A Hendersom and Wm. Jones and John M. Brown, of Tennessee, Naval Engagement with Pirates on the Chinn Const. A despatch from Acting Rear Admiral Bell, dated Jodde Bay, Japan, September 1, contains a description of a naval engagement With native pirates in July inst. ‘The pirates Wo seven hundred tn number, with twon- ty-two jonks aud two hundred and seventy gnaa, The Kang! leh equadron in that vicinity at the date of the de apatch mumbered forty vessols, carrying over two bun dred guns, the majority of (he vessels Helog cynboam te A We OD LHD Corin, j