The New York Herald Newspaper, November 18, 1866, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR 2708 BW. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STH. THE NAILY HORALD, pr blished every day im feyear, Founcenty per copy, Annual subscription price, $14. JOB PRINTING of every cewription, also Stereotyp- ing and Engramng, neatly and promplly executed at the west rates + AMUSBMEN MORROW EVENING. moan ey op ATR Broadway, near Broome NEW YORK THEATRE, Broad 8 ‘-Guipeiea Chavsr, Om Jeausiene rene New Tork THRATRE VRANCAIS, Fourteonty street Sixt ateuue. Esau. ss mer wad QERMAN STADY THEATRE, Nos, 4) and 47 Bowery.— um Vamuuim “Uimson—le Cauca, ‘ODER pu: Wasssn UND @RRMAN THALIA THRATES, No. 51¢ Broadway. iw Vorsimun = Siieum = Exe.uenz—Dis Scawalin--Dim To.eerMaLen. DODWORTH'S HALL, 806 Broadway. —-Provesson Tans wos Pemromm mig Minacuxs.—Tux Mysraav. pe FRANOISCO MINSTRELS, 535 Broadway, opposite oe Motropolitwa Hoiel—In rain Bruioriay B¥remratse SINGING, Dancixa axp BoxuKsquss—MeixoRiO ‘gers, Snowsbys OB FaLiine sraus. Litas! 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SGRANIITION OF THe Guxat Proruxe “Hxioxs ov tux RervBuic. SUNDAY (THIS) EVENING—Granp Sacrzp Concert at Sveinway JTALt, Fourteenth street, EUROPE. Our news report by the cable is datod to Saturday, No- vomber 17, at noon. Lord Cranworth is likely to be appointed presitent of 4 commission charged to inquire into the working of eho noulrality Jaws and also report on the Alabama elnims. General Dix'# family bas arrivod in Paris. _pConsols wore quoted at 00%, for money, at noon yes. terday in London. United tates five- twenties were at Wm In the Liverpool cotton market yesterday, at noon, middling uplaud was at fourteen pence. MISCELLANEOUS. Woxican advices via New Orleans state that Max. milian offered to abdicate in favor of young Yturbide but Bazaine objected, and Maximilian declines to abdis cate in favor of any one else. Despatches reccived at Washington are to the effect that Custelneau intends or- ganizing @ provisional government, compos’d of Lares, ono of the imporial Ministers, and Tejada, Juarez’s Min ister of Foreign Affairs. Rumor says that this combina- tion is favorably received by the United States, but the tumor has, it ts believed, no fonndation in fact. It i stated tn Washington that President Johnson and Chiol Justice Chase have coalesced, and havo had pro- tongod conferences. The chiefs of departments have apnounoed that no m! removals will take place for political opinions, and it a said that the Precident will ‘not insist on the retantion of any appointee to offlce who ‘may be obnoxious to the Senata © General Dix bas recetved hie final instructions from tho department at Washington, and will sail for France in the steamer on the 24th, ‘The Board of Aldermen met yesterday. Street Com- missioner Cornell tendered hie resignation at the moeting, stating, as @ reason ‘therefor, that he considered the appointment by Governor Fenton of dames RK. Whiting as a commissioner to examine into the charges made against him as unfair, Whiting being Dia bitter political opponent. Hig resignation was ac- opted, and Isaac Bell nominated by Mayor Hoffman as ‘his guccessor. Tho Board then adjourned until Monday, al two o'clock P. M., when the Somination will probably be considered, ‘Tho brig Flying Send, from Malaga for New York, went ashore on Friday at Rockaway beach, and one man was loat, the rest of the crew and passengers being saved. ‘The bark Rhinehard, from Bremen, was discovered within Give tuadred yards of the broakers off Hemp- atesd, J. 1, at aochor, with ber masts ent away ‘and her spars afloat, Ovor threo hundred pas- wengors were aboard, and az the gale of Friday aight ros® to the magnitude of « hurricane, their lives ‘were ia imminent danger. Through tho oxertions of eho captain the vessel outrode-the storm, and was finaliy Drought to the city ty the steanier Chamberlain. The steamer Featloat, mm CHiarleston for Boston, was wrecked off the const of North Carolina, and the steam- uhip Adole, from Charleston for Baltimore, was disabled south of Hatteras, and was towed into Fortress Monroe. Wo publish on another paga a fall account of the con- dition and appearance of the wharves and plers of this city, from which it will be seen that of ono hundred and thirty-one piers on North and Egat rivets, not more than Torty three are in really good condition. ‘The Senate Committee hold their last meeting at the Gity Hall, Brooklyn, yesterday, and reeeived statements from diferent parties regarding the condition of the piers and wharves of that city. It is probable thar they wil! cocommend the appointment of a commission by the Lorisiature to take charge of the subject. Frauds to the amount of one and @ balf million dotiare ar alleged to have beam recently discovered among the liquor distitiere in Brooklyn. They made wn of a movel deride, being nothing ies than compounding tarpentine WHh alebohol end passe ing it upon the inspectors as Qurning fluid, which is crompt from tax, It was an @any matter to extract the turpeotine after the inspector had passed upon the arti ole, and thua throw their aloohol upon the market clear of doty, In twanty days tho profite of thia business reachod $400,000, The parties Dave been arrested and proceedings have beoa commenced againat them before orm «sioner Newton. ‘ Acrand reception to Gyros W. Field waa given last avoniog by “The Contury,” at their rooms, No. 42 Nast Fifloenth street. Goorge Bancroft prosided, and Tooalvod the distinguished guest im an eloquent and ap- Proprate address, which was pertinently responded to by Mr Field. Speeches wore also mado by Charles P. Kirkland, Rev, Dr Bejlows and oters An ele gant collaiion ani cheer{al secia) Intere@uree dosed the yvavow. The case of Sprague and others egeinet Raphael waa areuod yeatorday before Juwtion Monet at Special Term of the Superior Court, Tho plateviti: charged defendant with getting alow from them on steclewhicd be knew to be subject to logs diMcnities ‘The defandaut denies the charge and represen. thet the Joau way obtained for one Hudson to whom the rtock belonged, and that the frete word perfectly known to plaintive when the Jae was made, Decision reeerved Jogo Smalley and a jury in the Unived Seater Ciroait Court yesterday returned & verdict agaias Gorham J Abbott, awarding Thomas A. Jenky $25,000 in compen gation for services rendered said Abbot: as counset in a case connected with Goodyear '@ India tadbor patents The trotting fair at Baltimore wae \arynly attonded youterday, General Grant and (ie ax-redel, Genera Joe Jobastoa, being prosept and shaking bands w iy one soother, Grant took breakfast in tha morning with yoo 4 tho gadioat candidates for Jongroes at tho recent qioet on NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, General Jo@C. Davis reports to the fomumisioner of the Froedmen's Burcau that the civil authorities in Ken- tucky manifest an tndiffereuce about outrages on freed. men, and thatthe county courts are goverally prompt to use their tufluonco in {shielding the oflenders, Forty- two outrages of this sort are reported fur October, and only seven arronta have been made. Reports from St. Jago do Cuba state that ono hundred ‘8nd seven houses on that isla: d had been blown down io « hurricane on the 29th ult,, and everything on the is’and had been destrvyed. The inbabitants were in a staie of starvation. The wife of Rev. David A. Wasson, of Somerville, Mass., was brutally outraged by @ vagrant nogro on Fri- day moraing, at her own house, while tho rest of her family were absent ‘A freshot in the Hudson on Friday carried away a very largo amount of property in Lroy, Forty-four of the Fen an prisoners were dissharged yesterday, no indictments belng found against them, ‘The Canadian government has, it is reported, declined to sutify the Confederation arrangemont to pay $800,000 to Prince Edward Island, ‘The stock market was weak yesterday morning, but closed buoyant, Erie and Northwestern being especially atrong. Gold was heavy and closed at 141% & 3. Tho Unhappy Position of the South—What is the Prospect ¢ The present condition of the South, result- ing from the ravages of the- war, is truly de- plorable. The losses by the States involved in the rebellion of three or four hundred thousand of their able-bodied young white men, killed and disabled ; the emancipation throughout the South of four millions of Afri- can slaves; the widespread destruction of cities, towns, villages, railways, bridges, steam- boats, factories, foundries, mills, farm houses, fences, live steck and materials of all kinds ; the bankruptcy of banks, corporations and planters; the losses of four years from the suspension, to a vast exient, of the cotton, to- bacco, rice and sugar culture, and the short cottom crop of the present year, from the want of facilities in planting and from droughis, floods and insects, together with the general dis- organization of the whole structure of Southern society, present a chapter of misfortunes greater, perhaps, than those suifered by any other peor ple since those of the “thirty years’ war” in Germany. Millions in supplies have been and continue to be expended through the govern- ment charity establishment of the Freedmen’s Bureau for the relief of destitute whites and blacks, and yet from the Potomac to the Rio Grande hundreds and thousands of bereaved and destitute families are struggling upon the verge of famine. Such is the physical and social condition to- day of the lately insurgent States, with all the efforts urged by supreme necessity upon their people for their daily wants and the trials of the coming winter. This, indeed, is a deplora- ble state of things, and yet there is something still more to be deplored in the present unhappy po- litical attitude of those people, leaders and fol- lowers. Destitution and famine may be arrested for a geason by liberal measures of relief, but capital, labor, fnancial confidence, social har- mony and a regular system of industry adapted to the new order of things are imperatively de manded to secure subsistence and security for the future in the way of supplies for those Southern people. But while the States con- cerned remain in their present undetermined, uncertain and anomalous political position, neither the capital nor the financial confidence required to put them on the road to prosperity will advonce to their relief, Plantations lying waste, mills and factories in ruins, deficient crops and.an oxhaustive body of idle consum- ers will still be the story; and these evils, from the increasing demoralization among whites and blacks, castes and classes, employers and employed, will rather be aggravated than lightened from year to year. The leading political journals and politicians of the South say the great difficulty to the rein- statement of their States to their proper rela- tions in the general government lies in the pending constitutional amendment and its out- rageous terms of restoration. But in truth the difficulty is to be found in those old fire-eating, revolutionary and intractable lead- ing Southern politicians and journals them- selves, and nowhere else. They are back again at their old exploded notions of Southern rights and State sovereignty. They preached but a short time ago their constitu- fional right to go out of the Union and make war to deatroy it, and they are now preaching their constitutional right to come back again on their own terms, including their leaders in the rebellion, as if nothing had happened but an election riot, We must tell these strict con- structionists again that there has been a four years’ war for the life of the nation, and that the sacrifices in this war of the government and the States adhering to it include over three hundred thousand Union soldiers and sailors and the burden of a war debt of three thoa- sand millions of dollars. We must again de- clare that the men concerned in this wor against the Union were and are traitors in the eye of the law, and subject to the penalties of treason, and that in view of this important fact the terms of this constitutional amend- ment—simply looking to the necessary securi- ties to the Union for the future—are so light and generous as to be without a precedent in the records of any other nation. There is still another important hint, which will bear repeating a thousand times to the people of the excluded States. Ibis this—that the terrible disasters of war, fire, sword, devas- tation and subjugation brought upon them by their old Southern rights leaders ought to be sufficient for the casting out of those leaders now and forevermore, The constitutional amend- ment proposes to subject # ceriain class of them to a two-thirds vote of Congress, which is dealing with them very charitably, as the lead- ing traitors in this late terrible war. Next, with regard {o negro suffrage, the alternative of the suffrage to the blaeks, with representation, or exclusion from the suffrage at the price of leav- ing the negroes out of the couat for represen- tation, {s certainly a fair proposition and the best that ean be expected. But what is the prospect? Tha prospect ix, from the opinions expressed by the Governor of Mississippi, the Governor of Georgla and other unreconstructed Southern political lead- ers, to eay nothing of the rampant fire-eaters of the Texas Legislature, that the excluded States’ will remain excluded from Congress to the end of the present administration, and till after the next Presidential election; that Southern society for two or three years more, and perhaps longer, will remain disorganized and demoralized, and that Southern industry and prosperity will not be revived. Certain it is that while the States concerned remain under the guidance of their old destructive politicians their course will still beon the road to ruin. How long this state of things shall The Mxeteden ef Troy. Old Troy had its yooden horse end our Troy may now boast of its mastodon. The latter, indeed, conceals 3 danger in ils flanks, ; but it bas excited no less yonder among the modern Trojans. Our correspondent from Troy has given In the Hepa an interest ing account of the discovery at Cohoes, an ad- jacent manafaeturing village, first, of a mam- moth-like jawbone, embedded eighty feet be- low the surface of the earth, about one hun- dred feet from the bauks ef the Mohawk river, and also on Thursday last of the re- mains of a complete skeleton of « huge mastodon, eighteen feet further down in the same excavation. Distinguished fossilists from Yale and Union colleges and from the Rensse- laer Polytethnic Institute have slready ex- amined these remains, and a savant of world- wide ‘renown, Professor Agassiz, of Harvard University, is expected to examine them this week. Professor Marsh, of the Yale College scientific school, pronounces them to be the re- mains of the great North American masiodon, declaring that they correspond in every par- ticular to the descriptions of the animal in sci- entific works. Fragments of the mastodon were early dis- covered on this continent, and in 1801 a com- paratively complete skeleton was found near Newburg, in this State. It was secured by Mr. Peale, who transported it to London for ‘exhibition and afterwards brought it back to this country, exhibiting it for many years in Philadelphia. Several other specimens have since been found in Kentucky, South Carolina and other parts of the United States. One was sold by Dr. Koch for two thousand pounds to the British Museum. Another was exhibited at the old New York Lyceum. A third, with, the missing parts artificially supplied, is in the Phil- adelphia Museum. A fourth is in Baltimore. A fifth is at Harvard Universi'y, and the sixth, which belongs to Dr. Warren and is of unomaloua structure, with the feet of a camel and the body of a hippopotamus, is regarded as the skeleton of an early settler of “the Hub,” and is duly worshipped, with the great organ, among the tutelary divinities of the Bos- toniane. Butthe Trojans will now compel itto hide ile diminished head, for no specimen of the mastodon hitherto found is so perfect and com- plete as that which they have just dug up at Co- hoes. It cannot fail to revive everywhere an interest in oryctological studies, and it may serve to elucidate many problems of science which still remain unsolved. The mastodon is often but erroneously con- ‘ounded with the mammoth, of which specimens have frequently been discovered, from the mountains by which Asia is bounded to the frozon shore of the Arctic. The best fossil ivory is found abundanily in countries nearest to the Arctic circle. In Siberia whole carcasses have been hidden and preserved for ages, to reappear at length covered with flesh and skin, and even with hair, short and erisped like wool, and long like bristles, as in the case of the elephant embedded in ice near the mouth of the Lena, and whose flesh, it was said, was found in such a high state of preservation that it was eaten by dogs. But not only in Siberia, in Germany, France, and Italy as well—in fact, according to Pallas, on the banks or in the bed of almost every river in the immense plain from the Tanais to the continental angle nearest America, extinct specimens of the elephant and the rhinoceros and other animals besides, either wholly extinct or existing only in altogether different climates, have been found. The fossil hones which have been exca- vated from time to time have often occasioned fables of an extinct race of giants. Indeed, in Switzerland and on the western coast of Europe bones have lately been found which incline scientific men to believe that these fables were not entirely false, and that the earth is begin- ning to yield up remnants of a gigantic pre- Adamite race. However this may be, the bones of a gigantic kind of deer (but, thanks to St. Patrick, no snake skins) have been dis- covered In Ireland. In Scotland the remains have been found of the elk, and of a kind of ox larger than the urus. Not only the fossil remains of the pachy- dermata have been found, but also those of the carnivora, birds, crocodiles, the megatherium ot Paraguay, the megalonyx of Virginia, and those of innumerable marine animals, with hills and mountains mainly composed of shells as perfect as ever in structure and in striated beauty. These phenomena have long captivated the attention of fosallists, from Xenophanes, who four hundred years be- fore Christ deduced from them an argument for the eternity of the universe, and Herodotus, who attested the existence of fossil shells in the mountains of Egypt and of the remains of an extinct species of marine animals in the stones with which the Pyramids are built, down to the modern discoveries of quadrupeds of the lizard tribe, the icthyosaurus of reptile form, the me- galosauros, the plesiosaurus of Conybeare, and last, not least, the hydrargus, partly discovered and partly “reconstructed” by Dr. Koch. The latter was truly a wonderful creatare, for we can bear witnoss that it was only twenty-seven feet long when first dug up in Washington county, Alabama, and we remember that it miraculously grew to the fength of one hun- dred and twonty-sevon feet before it reached New York and Boston on lis way to Europe! What with metoors falling from the sky, and the mastodons and other monsters rising from the earth, (not to speak of the many old fossil politieians, South and North, who still keep up @ most dismal shaking of dry bones), it is not surprising that while most savans deom the beginning of the world vory far off, many saints believe its end is very near. But strangely as the facts of science, revealed by modern discovery, may startle our vague preconceptions of the antiquity of the earth, (particularly of that portion of it misnamed the New World), we should remember that the ap- parent discrepancies at first 90 cagerly seized upon by atheiste, between the Mosaic record and the revelations of science, are steadily di- minishing in the light of a wiser interpretation of the one and increasing knowledge of the other, Minds like those of Cardinal Wiseman, Hugh Miller and Louis Agassiz have stead- fastly adhered to their faith in the Biblical record while fearlessly pursuing their scientific investigations. Truth cannot be self-contra- dictory, however opposed nay seem the phases which it presents from different points of view. Warns tun Moxey Goes.—The Commis- sioners of Emigration have just made a present of one thousand dollars each to Thurlow Weed and Mr. Havemeyer for having settled last it is for the Southera people ta determine. } some “delicate controversy” petween thom 166 selves and tho Commissioners of Charitics aud Brennan has withdrawn, pulling down tho Correction. That’s (he way the money gost oe pulled == Both of these howrds bave well paid secretaries ‘ ‘and clerks, and Ought to be ablo to transact their own business uwiend of paying out the public money in praseats to private tndi- viduals. Prorysson Loomu—lanexant Dsrascrion anp Spuaious Sciumnce.—Profeesor Loomis, of Yale College, Las the reputation of being learned in the ways of the heavenly bodies, and, a4 a student of the stars, can hardly be ex- Dected to have a4 much knowledge of worldly affairs as falls to the lot of men of lesa tre- mendous intellect, He who gives up his tife to a pursuit like astronomy can be excused for some small lapzes In life, and the world attrib- utes it to something else than stupidity if a philosopher cannot always tell at a moment’s notice whether or no he has eaten his dinner. Thus Loomis might write himaelf down an ass in fifty letters to the daily papers and show himself as ignorant as a Vejoe of the ordinary decencies of allusion and all could be charged to his preoccupation with those lofty pursuits in connection with which his name is most widely known. But when one expressly pre- tends to kuow what is true and false beneath the moon as well as aboveit he must be judged in anofher way ; and according to his preten- sions Professor Loomis puts himself forward as other than an astronomer in his published de- claration that “the telegram in the Eimraup, purporting to have come from Greenwich is evidentiy spurious.” Here we have a new illustration of the old truth that the mere theorist-—the man who will turn all things in heaven or earth inside out and upside down to establish some stall notion of hia own— is at once the most intractable and ridiculous of human boobies, We had taken care in the matter of mews—for which the world of readers and especially the world of science, should bave been grateful to us. Aware that, in case the meteoric shower was seen here, it would be a question of great inter- est whetber or notit waa seen simultaneously in Europe, we arranged beforehand the settle- ment of the question and instructed our London correspondent to put bimself en rapport with scientific men there and telegraph us if the shower was observed. This we did in simple discharge of our function of furnishing news, and we published exclusively the facta of the observation on the ofher aide. Oiber papers are content to wait for news like this by steamer. And this is one of the rewards of our enterprise. It suils a smal) blunderer like this Loomis to have a theory—to have to argue that there was no appearance of (he shower in Europe, and so he declares at once that the news is spurious; and yet one of bis reasons for arguing that the shower could not baye oveurred in Europe is this:—If it had occurred, “It would have heen announce to us by tolegraph 1” This is the best evidence we have seen a4 to the extent and intensity of Loomis’ studies. They have damaged his intellect, We have been the sub- ject of indiscriminate abuse for many years because we have furnfhed the public with news in advance of our so-called con- temporaries, The a«bnse has originated with the publishers of other journals jealous of our success, and hus generally circulated among the unihinking multitude where men and women retail to one another what is re- failed to them. fn such an atmosphere we expect to hear just such utterances as this of Professor Loomis; but when men with some reputation in the learned world give them- selves up to such contemptible caliumuies—— when an astronomer cannot appreciate an even moderate piece of newspaper enterprise, and calls @ thing swindling merely because he does not understand it, it looks very much as if education and high position did not necessarily involve any improvement in either manners or morals. In from tua to twelve days dfter the date of our telegram we shall hear from Europe by sieamer of the observation of the moteors there, and will then be able to see whether this ignorant mar of learning will properly acknowledge that the (elegram which we alone of all American papers gave to the people was not “evidently sparions.” Porvian Sunpay Sexmoxs.—The Rev. Dr, Smyth, who bas beeu exposing with some effect a tew of the faults of the clergy, touched on Sunday last upon some of the evils committed by the various churches and charitable associations in confining their ood works and charities to persons of their own religious views ; and he quoted the efforts of two associations who have done little else than collect money in order to keepdt. Two of the many associntions of this charaster named show a balance of twenty-four thonsand dollars on hand as the result of one year’s operntions, with a little less than one-twelfth of that amount expended on charitable objects, The reverend doctor might have denounced most of these charitable associations as whole- sale «windles. More money is expended in keeping up these organizations than in aiding the poor. Certain sauctimonious looking men sad women, with long faces and an air of long suffering, go about begging donations for charitably objects and then practice the selfish precept that “charity begins at home” by expending their collections on themselves. The headquarters of thege associations are never known. Persons in need’ do net know where ‘0 apply, and the professors of ehacity take care never to give to worthy objects in Beed, unlers they belong to the same church or sect as themselves. These associations do some litle good, but the percentage of good accomplished is insignifcant compared with tbe amount of money collected. These pro- feseors of churity are nuisances who go about preying and imposing upon old aml wesk- minded women and merchants too busy to reflise them, and devote pone of their time to dispensing the sums foolishly intrusted to them, The record of want and suffering every day published In the Henatp is o terrible commentary on the conduct of these Peck- sniffs; snd we would advise our citizens to see that their donations go to responsible assocla- tions, with flxed quarters well known to all in need, and o which all persons in want shall be welcome. To-day the Rev. Dr. Smyth preaches apon the model artist exhibition of Manager Wheatley and the daty of the clergy in regard to this nuisance. He may also give few binte as to the manner in which some of the ballet girls have been swindled. Tue Comrrnoutansnirp—The indepeodent democrats have nominated Police Justice Con- nolly, popularly known as “ Blatneying Mike,” for tue Comptrotigrehip, ond slage Comptroller, a ens es eee ee 5. -eettracereneiertpps tr essences eels tne arse sees insted in pe Nero ——$—$$ $$ le of the Philistines, Justice ) apd ly candidate in the fleld, As he o pry foots hs sf for the position, we presume that he will be satisfied with the compliment of the uomination and withdraw in favér of some strong and able man like J udge I Barnard. Tax Lanest News yrom Mexico, —Tho last news relative tothe movements of Maximilian ia that he wos compelled, by order of Marshal Bazaine, to abandon his design of evacuating Mexico, that the commander at Vera Cruz has heen positively forbidden by the French Mar shal to permit him to depart on board the Ans- trian frigate Dundolo, and that, in consequence of these peremptory proceedings, the Emperor has returned to the Mexican capitaf. In the main ,no doubt, these facts are true, although the additional statement that Maximilian re- turned under o threat of arrest is probably not correct. The object of Marshal Bazaine is, moat likely, to secure a formal abdication from Maximilian, tn order to settle finally the wind- up of the empire, and also io save, as far ag possible, the honor of France, which would be compromised by tbe ignominious flight of Na- poleon’s unfortunate proiégé Under presont circumstances we think that the Emperor will conform to the desires of Bazalae, and by a formal abdication of the crown leave the re- gency for a sbort time, if necessary, in the hands of the military representative of Napo- leon and close up the affairs of the imperial firm forever. It is not at all probable that any obstacle wilfbe thrown in the way of Maxi- milian’s departure either for Miramar or the throne of Poland when this formality is accom- plishod. Tus Resianacion or Sreer Comaissionex Corngit.—The appointmont of Judge Whiting to look into the affairs of the Street Commis- sioner’s office, has, It would appear, precipi- tated the resignation of Commissioner Cornell. ‘This may prove a fortunate thing to Mr. Comp- troller Brepnan or somebody elso; but it strikes us ag @ very unfortunate thing for the officiul reputation of Mr. Cornell to run from the enemy's first shot at close quarters, With such beginnings in the preparatory skirmish- ing the “ring” will bardly Lold ils awn in the battle of DonePNe: APIRoPRIATE TO ) THE ‘Sxason.—The cool pro- positions of the rebel bondholders to bring forward their case a6 a set off to the Alabama claims, and of the Maryland Legislature, emanating from the Baltimore delegation, to act as mediator between the North and South. . FINE ARTS. ‘The dispiay of eeiieteia at the Artista’ fund Erbtol- tion Is quite meagro, consisting only of the two too marble portralte: by Palmer, already noticed in tho Hexary, @ medaion tn marble by Kuntze, tustrating a sevae in the “Pilgrim's Progress,” with = few medallion Portraits in low retier, by the samo artist, Conkey, from Palmyra, has taken a studio tn New York, on East Thirteenth street. .He bas finished a stainotte group, “Fro Patria,” represeuling 4 mother who finds her son dying on a battiv field, Canis of this striking group will soon be ready for eale, ButWott has piaced ou exhibition at Tan's two capi- tal busts, the ong a marble bust of “Kyangeline,”’ which has elicited the warmest commondation from the povt Longfellow, and the other » portrait bust of “Miss Mag- gie Mitchell,” for whom i ia to be at once put in marble. Ward has completed a statuette of “Shakspere”’ for the projected Sbakspero monument, Scbuberth has o view two statuettes which he has Just received from Burope, Andromache’ and “cho,” executed by the seulptor Hassenpilug at Rome, Phat of Echo {s particularly good, Oertel, although he has taken deacvn’s orders, wilt not relinquish the pencil, whch he purposes to devote mainly, however, to subj Cognate to his new and holy catling. He ie now furnishing « geries of six illus trations of Bryant's poem, “Waiting at the Gate,” which are to.be photographed, and which will be published in time for the holidays by Weissmann aud Lapgfeldt, the successors of Seitz, At théir piace, corner of Broadway and Thirtoonth street, can be geen the photograph of Oertel’s admirable cartoon, “The Dispensation of the Law.” They have just published a splendid photograph of Murillo’s “Immaculate Conception,” from @ drawing by Forster, « German artist, ‘The five pictures which have attracted most attention this week at Knoedler # (Goupil’s) have been » Meisso- hier, revently received, representing a cavalier !mpatiently weittag ip @ royal agtechamber—painted as elaborately bat somewhat more boldly than is usual with thia artist; “Going to the Dance,"’ by Knaus, full of life and dra- matic unity; and “The Wedding Eve,’ by Dieffen- bah, beso the picture by his master, Knaus, an interesting ceremonial of German customs, and costames; @ large and very fine pelniing by Bour- gercan, “Am Italian Woman and Child,” sud a highly dniened work by Beuguiet, ‘Preparing the Beside.” Tae latter picture goas into the cullection of ex-Gevernor and present Senator Morgan. The picture by Knaus, and ‘hat by Hanggiet, have been purchased by Mr, Auguste Beloons. Leutze bak gone to Washington to paint several por- traite Hicks hag returned to his studio ou Astor place. Washington, & Virginian artist, has removed w New York At Leods’ new art gallery, last evening, there was an auction sale of unusual interest, comprising the recent works of Win#low Horner and Kugene Bewsons, two promising and favorite artists, who are about wo leave New York for further swudy' and improvement in Eu- vope; and several compositions of fruit, flower and figure pieces, by ©, P. Ream, We cuderstand that the collection of pictnres, Istoly the property of William P. Wright, of Weehawken, ia cloding the ceiebrated ‘' Hors: Fair,’’ by Rose Bonheur, whi shottly be exhibited in this city, and will probebly te dispersed under the hammer during the winter. Om laes Monday eveutng the Brookiyn Academy of Desige gave an iaformel opening of their roowe in Hal- y's building, opposite the City Hall. Tb® rooins wore crowded, god the eoilection of paintings, all by sembers Of the Academy rerident in Brookiyn, wasfyrently «2- tuired. A. good selection of carts from celebrated an- tiques slew attracted attention. Mr, William Hart, the President, oddroeme! the audience io explanation of the objects of the Academy, which are of ® praciics! nature, to wit: the inetraction and edacation of the resident artiste and amateute, The members already count fony, on stray iy numbers and talent muecd beyond the mark of some other Academies im their \nfancy, This instita tion {win no way a rival of the Brookiya Art Association, aod whose winter receptions are agreeable social reunions ‘The first of there receptions is to be beld on the evening of Tuesday next, at the Acaderwy of Muse. CITY POLITICS. Ter MeKrow Nomrsation von Courraouten. — The McKeon Democratic General Commiites met jart night, at the Masonic Hall, for the purpose of nominati e a \didate for the office of Comptroller, There wars full stiendance. The prominent candidates were Judge Con- nolly and Mr, Giles. An informal ballot war taken, and Colonel Bagley, who was in favor of Judge Connolly, Moved an adjournment, which wae voted down, ond a ballot wan thon takeo, when the numbers stood thus: — Mr. Giles 0 Connolly 88, Smiih Ely, Jr. 4, The in made unanimous, and the meriing nominat adjourned, THE BALTIMORE HORSE FAIR. Bautimone, Nov. 17, 1866, ‘The Lorwe fair was very largely attended today. Gou- oral Grant and General Comstock, of Gtatt's staff, and Goneral Stoneman wore present, The ox-rebel General Joe Johnston was also on the gcund, aod shook bande With Conergy Gran, WASHINGTON. Harmonious Conferences Between the President and Chief Justice Chase. Rumored Presidential Conces- sions to Congress. The Time of General Dix's Departure fow France Determined Upon. Re. ——— Wasainutox, Nov. 1%, 1606, The Time of General Dix’s Departure for France D ely Settled. Genotal John A. Dix arrived this morning and bad am interviow with the Secretary of State, and this evening he visitet the President in company with Judge C. T. Sherman, brother of the General, and consulted with the Executive upon matters rejating to the Pacific Railrom@, The period of the Generel’s departure for France is now definitely sottied. Ho has recetved final instructions, and he leaves for France by next Saturday's steamer from Now York. The vacancy in the Naval Office occa sioned some atir, Generata “locum, Gordon Granger and Graham are mentioned iv connection with the office Genera! Hiilyor is here urging the appointment of Gom Slocum. Colonel Ludiow's friend's are not inactive, No Mere Decapitation for Opinion’s Snke. ‘The chiefs of sevoral departments Lave announro® that no more removals will be made on account of politi- cal opinions. The Contérences Berween Chiof Justice Chase and the President. Tho President and Chief Justice Clase have coalesced; their recent prolonged conferences and tho departmental avowals that mo more changes will be made at presen in federal offices gubstantiate the rumor. It is further. more stated that the President will not 11 upon the retention in office of any appointee'who may be obnex- fous to the enate, The President of the Sennte to Resian, T have it on good authority that dir, Foster, President of the Senate, is to resign after the meeting of Congress, and that either Ben Wado or Yates, of Illinois, ts to be electod in bis place, Financial Matters. The internal revenue receipte to-day were $619,613, of which $52,534 was derived from euies of stamps aud $567,079 from gvncral collec'iona Me receipts for the week ending to-day wore $4,954,876, and the receipts since July are $130,124,026, The disbureementa of the Trossury this week on ae- count of the War, Navy and Interior Departments were as follows:— ae. ae ‘War Dopartment.... « $199,138 Navy Department... 608,127 Inter.or Department. 568 600 oenee ewe es $1,575, 163 The amount of national bank “potes issued was $978,- 966, making the total now tn circulation $297,065,059. The government holds securities as follows:— For circulating notes For deposite of pabite moneys with de nated depositor * TOtAl....cceeceeeceneee The amount of fractional currency received from the Printiag Bureau durmg the wook was $456,410; for- warded ¢o national banks and Assistant Troasurers, $477,677; redeemed, $422,634, Interview Seckors nt the White House. The bails and entercom of tie White House were Aled to-day with applicants for Preeideytia! favors, The President, however, was ablo to grant interviews to com- Parativ ly few, owing to the amount of time required in giving his attention to matters of the first importance, Soveral members of Congress, among may be mentioned Hon. 8, J. Randall, of Vounsy!vania; Hoo. A. J. Rogerm, of New Jersey, and Hon. Wm. Radford, of New York, called at the White House. Secretary McCulloch, See retary Seward, Posimaster Genera! Randall and General J. B. Stedman had audience with the President during the afternoon. Personal. The report of the recali of Count Montbolon, Ambas- sador from France, ts not confirmed. A lotter has been received here stating that Admiral vToget, of the Austrian navy, who is on a leave of absence, ie shortly to leave. Burope for a visit to this country. The Admiral {s the hero of tho battle of Lissa, the first irom clad fight of Europe. A. Anthony Gutman, who has for tho last four yeare been private secretary to the Secretary of State, resigned to-day. Ho will engage {x mercantile business in Pits burg, Pa Upon’ retiring, he received comp!!mentary letters from the Secretary and Assistant Secretary ef ‘State, avowing his capacity, fidelity and usetulness, He leaves with the profound regret of everybody who has had business connections with the department dureg his occupancy of the post of private secretary. The As- siatant Secretary will perform the duties heretofore dis charged by Mr. Gutman. ‘The statement that (ho banking house of Rittenhouse, Féwler & Co., of this city, has lost $30,000 by the break. ing up of the Johnson Executive Committee is incorrect. On the contrary the Executive Committeo have a large surplus to their oredit. Anticipated Prize Fight. ‘The pugilistic fraternity of this vicinity are on the qué vine im anticipation of the coming battle in the prize ring between Johnoy English and Sem Carr, which promises to be atronaly contested. Both have figured conspicuously as champions of light woighta The for- ‘mor not long since dofeated Bolster, after a fignt of am hour anda quarter duration. The friends of the reupee- tive aspirants for pugilistic fame represent that their principale are fully propared for the coming fray. The Freedmen in Kentucky. Brevet Major Gonoral Jeff C. Davis, Aseistaut Commis stonet of the Freedmen's Bureau for tho State of Kem tucky, in his report to the Comuttsstoner concerning the oporatione of the Bureau during the month of October, says be has been imformed that where is a large number of fresdmen at Covington, who have been driven from their homes in the neighboring countios by threats of violence. As the county authorities are making ne offorts to provide for them, measures have been adopted by the Bureau for protecting them from the rigors of the coming winter. Forty-two outrages committed upon the: froodmen have been feported, fer which only sovem arrests have been made. He states that the civil aa~ thorities manifest an {ndifference in taking cognizance af (hese crimes, and that county courts are generally prompe to interposo their authority to ehield the offenders. Internal Revenue Stamps, The Internal Revenue Commissioner has istued s cir- wular concerning a law and regulations relative to the purchase and use of internal revenue stamps, It ie stated, among other things, thatewrvangements bave been made with the American Phototype Company, of Now York, to print interna) rovenue stampe upon bank cuecks and other instruments, which may be furnished them by various partice for that purpose, Any preprieter of an article named In Sebedule C way furnish « domgm for a stamp, which, if approved, will be engraved by the government engraver at the cost of tbe proprietar. The Goverament Takes No Advantage ef the Mistake of a Creciter. An employs of the government fed Jhis account fog pay, &e., In which he had made on error against Bime self, The question srore wliether he could be paid more than be claimed. The proper accounting ofloer de cided that the true amount must be paid, whether the claim was more or les, and he added that the aecounting officers aro not roquited to do, in thetr official capacity for the benefit of the covernront, what they woukt din~ dain to do 88 private individuals for their own bene@t, via, take advantage of the mistake ofa ersditor. A Soldier Detaled as Clork in the War De~ ment Not Entitiod to Homey. Ta the cake of « soldier detailed av clerk 1a the War De- partment the proper acconn! ne odiver of the Tusasury baw decided that payment of vounty maturing atle ao de. tailed cannot be made, as extra pay wes rocaived Cow such duty. ‘Treaty With the Uve Tadians, Governor ‘Cemmings, of Colatato, bes arrived bere, snd roporta the completion of a treaty with the Uta tthe ail Public Land Sales. The Commissioners of the General Land othice has 1e- ceived returns showing that daring the month ef Octo- ber public Iands, were Gisposed of at Bast Saginaw, Michigaa, to the smount of 46,985 acres; Eanciaire, Win, 48,044 aores; Junction City, Kansas, 6,984 acreg; Davuth, Minnesota, 11,040 acros; total, 114,035 soree, ‘The greater portion of the Iand was taken for actual eatijemnent Fhe cash anlen omen uted to 619. Gh, a Bes? eerarets a! ee) aeveart wt SS*SF"eesen7 Sh: ‘ ® 4 > ’