The New York Herald Newspaper, November 14, 1867, Page 3

THE MAYORALTY. Great Wood Meeting at the Cooper Institute. The Candidate Accepts the. People’s Nomination and Defines His Position, Economical Rascality Versus Expensive Honesty. City Reform---How to Do It and Wirao’s to Do it. Nomination of William A. Darliag by the Radical Republicans, Mast night Mr. Fernando Wood, by invitation of a Jarge number of prom:nent citizens, addressed a mass meeting at the Cooper Institute in acceptance of the people’s nomination for the Mayoralty. The large bal! @f the building has several times been crowded during the present political campaign. It was fairly packed ‘when Schuyler Colfax shouted his hoarse rhodomontade abross the Continent; it was crowded when Sunset Cox Jet. off his Chinese firecrackers; but it was tull to repletion last night, Hydraulic pressure bald scarcely bave compressed a dozen more imto the meeting. Every entrance was blocked ‘p, and the guardian § policemen whose suavity eagacity and unimpeachable integrity are generally so eoespicuous bad almost an excuse for the incivility they manifested towards those who would insist on trying to foree an entrance into the hall, The orator of the eyen- mg Was received with an overwhelming burst of ap- plause. His naive acceptance of the role ot “ the mag- ‘widcent rascal with a white mustache,” and his equally ingiorious claim that a bad mau at eight mil- Rone ms year was better for the city than ® good man at twenty-one millions were not ‘the least effective portions of his address, which, de- Isvered in his customary persuasive style, told exceed- ‘ingly well with this friendly gathering of the unterri- fed. No interruption occurred, though it was evident ‘that there were not a few republicans and lammanyites present, drawn there by curiosity to hear the pro- gramme of the great exponent of city poiitics. The ‘mee ing seemed to repeesent pretty nearly all classes of the voting population, who all seemed to have joined in the hearty cheers and plaudits which frequently inter- Fepied the speaker, The meeting was called to order by the appointment @f Charles A, Secor as presiding officer, who read the favitation to Mr, Wood, and which was as follows:— New Yorx, Nov, 6, 1367 Hon, po Wood: é Feaxan: Dgar Sin—The undersigned, merchants and others of ‘this city, respecttully beg to represent to you that, io ‘thair judgment, there are considerations of an import. ant ter which requiro you to ‘or of ‘tis city. Since yours administration of that Te- encroachments have becn made upon our muni- ts, Many of the privileges accorded by the juli os of the Country have been taken away from ‘Us, amd the expenses of the city have been materially tncreased, without giving any additional protection for der these circumstances we think ‘vhat if once more vo that position the Pewor would be gtver to you by which (togethor with your conceded ability. evergy and firmoese) the people ‘weald get rid of the oppres: under which they how Yabér, and a's0 bave an im goveronent, at much Yeas cost, From these cons derations we offer you our ‘and hope you will consent to become = candi- for Mayor at ihe eloction to be held next December, ‘The invitation was numerousiy signed, if Hl * g E j Fmow Crrzzwe—i accept the nomination thus ten- dered. me. Coming as it does from gentiemen having large interests 10 the good government of the city, and political affinities, it has tome a higher the solicited action of a packed convention of I am therefore willing to become date, because the stake that youall have unity is the best evidence of the interest Fe feel in the result of the coming election. Besides, we 5 g 5 e3 dent mea, who will generous): independent course of action elected office of Mayor, I wouid pot, indeed, ac- cept the position sf obtained p any other manner, or an- @er other and ‘accord to I be T never have been ia the: twammels which politicians extort and impove upon ali @andidates of an organization or party. 1 accept, there- your nomination, in the hope that, if elected, I may do something for a people and for a city that have @one s0 much forme. That I may reform the abuses press so heavily upon the citizens of New 3 that T may bring order out of this chas; may make this city in its municipal government, Jocal regulations, as perfect. preat and powerful te supreme in hercommercial grandeur, (Cheers.) vbat I may make the city of New York pre-emi- io all that tends to make & city great—pre eminent other cities in the world, cheering.) may do som: 1g to relieve its overburdened the werht of taxation which bears so upon all classe», more especially the working im this community. (Great cheering.) That we show to the world that not only the State and city people of New York are capable of governing them- ‘selves —icheers)—tbat tne of New York aro of sufficient tutellizence—are sui tly carefal of their own interosis—sufficien'ly capable of performing all the daties of good cicizens clothed with the supreme power ef making their own laws and electing their own rulers, {Great cheering) That they may exercise the samo and rights that are accorded under the in- ‘Situtions of our country to the citizens of every other portion of the republic, (Cheers) Foremost, af wo hw 4s trade and commerce— foremost in aria, in seience, c:wMzation and wealth, the centre of ex.hange, com- wanding by our industry, our'capital and our resources ‘& position second to city In the world, I desire people of Europe to kuow that, great and powerful as ‘wo are in ail the elements of natural gr fled to be our own tasters, to clect our own 4 to adopt our own form of government, (Cheera.) It must be our purpose, therefore, to retorm ‘the nbuses which prevail among us—to take advantage ef the great naturel resources which Providence has given to New York—to make it more than what London or Paris is to-day, Now, my friends, what do we find m New York? What kind of a government have wo here? What constitutes a government? The duties of goverament are very simple. Government is simply a concentration of officia |power, ized by a commanity for its protection of lite, Nberty, order and proporty. That 1s all governments are made tor. Aod ever since mankind bi in communities they have been obliged to make govern- ments for the protection of each other and to constitute ®& power which ail tne members of that community recognize nnd obey, (Cheers.) That is the government that has been esiablisued among ua Over | city like tins we require to have’ a stroag government. always been the advocate of and a Strong government; so far as the power js concerned, it shu! be clothed with suflicient energy to carry out the*laws, under tbe theory of such a government as ours, where the peopie themselves make the laws and where the Legisiatare is simply the embodiment and impersonation of the popu- Jer voice, (Cheers) In such a the law ts the reflection of the esegtt See Es ote “2 [ it moaey just as it itrespoomble and unaccouata- Die to any superior power, and cach discharges its da- es ly of the other aad i of any sothority, (Great cheering.) Now thie ts ization; this is official anarchy, te speak. ‘fhis is no government avail, Itis very of government, and from this condition of things have spruog many of the evils wader which wo now groan. (Cheers) Now, I would concentrave the power of amunicipal government, and I would make that power responsible to the verance and jadustry, ‘@haracter, of dis- Apterested purposes, one will to make every sacri- fico in order to protect ihe on privi aad inter- ests of the people w vo bim with their au as their chosen | ) man is fit to be Mayor of i York who Pe a Mt Msg MO fence of ch The Mayor of New York shou! net caly (t hoers.) feed the proveat wants of the comm: . Wut algo, in a ehanging aod coastructive period like Should foresee aod aspire to meet its com: ‘There are periods when aspirations alter the ture are as important af supplylag present Jn to accomplizh these high purposes that f in a commanding official positics belief that the returning reason the neovssa will ity power carry them out to @ practical ies me counnder the necessity of some monts, the stupendous sums now wi industry for the poor privilege of ving under a bad city government is here presented in addition; — AMOUNT OF THE TAX LEVY FOR THIRTEEN YEAGS, ++Mayor Wood, .. Mayor Opdyke. ..Mayor Gunther, 16,950,767 83 21'900,080 70} «-Mayor Hoffman, igures do not lie? These have been carofully taken from official sources and tell their own story. Comment is unnecessary; they speak for themselves. Look at the present outlays and compare them with these under my administration, Now, fellow citizens, Jook to the expenses of the Police Department under Mayor Wood for the two years that 1 had absolute control, They never exceeded $825,000 a year—that is, the whole expenses of the Police Depariment, including the pay, of the police, the expenses of the station houses— in fact, every expenditure connected with the man- agement of the Police Department when I was Mayor never exceeded $825,000 (Cheers) Now what Is the contrast betwren the past and present? Ac- cording to the tax yd thig year, the expenses the police of New York is two and a quarter millions. (Loud crieg of “Oh!ob!”? and bisses irom ail of the hall.) Weill, now, { is a question for you to solve, whether you prefer this very bad man, with bis eight hundred and twenty-five thousand doilars, or this very virtuous, pure and respectable man under whom the polico expenses have increased to two and Jhons, (beers aad cries of “We prefer you. euber your lives areany more secure now— », BO; not $0 good’’)—your property better ("*No,” and cheers)—fewer crimes, more or less morders. Why, we scarcely pick up a newspaper bal 3 are not atiracted by ac- public executions. I will veniure to say there is not a man in this room who keeps a house who has not had the respects of a borglar paid to bim within ayear.. For myself, that is my experience within the last three nights (cheers and laughter)—ono of theso thieves, 1 suppose, that were brought from Philadelphia by Tam- many Hall to stuff the ballot boxes (great cheers and laughter), and who, not satistied with cheating poor old Judgo Mike Connolly of his election, but was ready to rob his house afterwards (continued chgers and laughter). And this 1s the reform tie Legisiature at Tammany Hull would give us. But to return to the figures, If it shall be said thi Mayor is without power over the ex- penses of the city, and therefore not responsible for this enormous increase, I refer to the twenty-second section of the city charter, which provides that no money shail be drawn from the treasury of the city excopt upon a warrant couutersigned by the Mayor, That ofllcer can widbhold his signature to the warrant, and thus pre- vent »mproper expenditure, He is thus authorized to prevent corruption or extravagance. Indeed, it is made by duty to do 80, Not one doliar appropriated can be fore, is responsible. (Appianse,), In 1860, 1 refused to countersign a warrant because it was, ia my opinion, an improper expenditure, Tag person in whose favor it jas drawo lied to the Supreme for @ writ of . ioe i niga, Ties often "nandamas to compel me (0 the geheral term, which granted the writ; T ap: jecided that the Mayor could not be compelled by Mandamus to countersign a Warrant, Thus it wag finally settled that the Mayor is left with fail authority in the promises. As be is tho highest officer of the city, the presumption is that he is the most eathoritative. Although some other powers may have been taken away from him, he is teft by law with tne most important of all Germs pow. era, Vi2:—that to prevent fraud apon the laxpayers, Therefore, the Mayor having this authority, te person- for this remarkable increage of outlay, and caanot escape by the convenient protext of want of power. What maser vetoes or messages or jng weak protests Lordy nd while tae same officer gives his signature by which money is drawn from the chy treasury. is hypocrisy in any official to pretend to reform, white he thas consents to corruption By attaching bis signature to warrants for mon sey Glaimed he makes himself a to the frat ‘Who has ever heard of the present ror withholding bis si from the thouzands drawn for improper ox Lani! Sgr g incumvency? may respectable man, but if the old rule should be applied to his case, which is to & man by the company I fear he cani escape from some of the Oith which surrounds him. He certaini; shall not be allowed to hide himeelf ander tho exterior, Being at present in the presenting bimself as a candidate for ro- @lection, it is right to discuss what claims he pos- sesses ora rei powor. He asks the people of New York for an it of big Mayorality term; and it 1 not indelicate or wrong of the to scan closely the on which his eres What has or Hoffman done for Now York within the last two yeare? In my jadgment he is guilty of both the sin of omission and of He has done nothing for the city, but everything for himseif and the friends who share with bim in the manage- ment of a corrupt, partisan, political organization. What pubic improvements has he suggested or en- couraged ? What is his evidence of capacity for the high office he now filly, and seeks to fill for another term? Can bis defenders name a single advantage the city bas derived from his two years’ admiuistratiou ? They cannot, On the contrary, what he has atrempied to do has been badly dome. He has evinced no energy and displayed no interest tn the dofence of the invaded and downtrodden rights of the municipality. He has made not the slightest effort to reduce the enormous load of taxation pow bearing so heavily and oppressively upon all classes of the people, He has exhibited no en- liberal or elevated comprenension of the future growth and power of thia mighty metropolis. He has utterly and completely failed ia meeting the responsi. bilities of bis high office, and in representing the tntelli- aspirations of th Personally niary advantage {rom his position, yet his eyes been hermeticatly ciosed while his immediate as- sociates of the ring amassed their hundreds of thousands of doliars through, his favor, influence and connivance. (Cheers.) For himself and for Tammany Hati he had hing—for New York, nothing. (Renewed Tam in error; he thas done something. the city expenses from eighteen mil- hons in 1866 to tweaty-vne and » half millions in 1867. of “That's ") Give him Mice, and it will DtleRs CONG able this increase in addition, Some way “Hoffman is am honest man.” Woll pose that he is? It is very evident from fig- ures he is @ very expensive one, and that such honesty is a very expensive laxury, (Great laoghtor and be aging Is costs the people a great dea! to sup- port him in his honesty. It must be that the toc expend.ture under his admintration is in consequence of the many supporters be has to divide with. Now, i believe that even my enemies concede that while I was Mayor of tho city of New York I was my own master, and discharg'd my daves aniufluenced by my surround- joes, Many plain minded men think that, after atl, it would be beiter to bave @ man like myself at the belin of aflaira, at an expense of seven or eight millions a year, than a “good” man like Hoffman at an expense of twenty-one and ahait millions, (Renewed iaughter and be He eares talk of pt = in teenie —— ani ¢ great pretences to virtue and respectability. But T have lived long enough—(great cheers and laughter) — te jades men by their acts These gentiomen who make pretensions to superior Virtae—these sanctified gentlemen—(continned cheers)—-who never do anyth ng wrong, beware of them. As Jobo Van Buren once said, Tam very much afraid of mea who never do anything wrong. (laughter) John T. Hoffman comes within this category. He isa very rospectabie gentleman. He Dever doce anything wrong. (laughter.) But he has not maintained the high character and dignity of Chief Magistrate of this city. He had dedcended to be a stump orator, an active political Fee jo the campaign just closed, stooping from the digaity of his high position aod orator at the corners ot street crs ii if i £ i has jaitiated & system of virtual the ie of New Yi Ree ‘reneea the cha wap’ otras iF it in the box. — (Histes cries nd then, finally, in the canvassing Itself, we havo grout ee 'Sosen ord man, Judge (Rt yg ed u inolly, the candidate for “Sherift-ood ‘cheersy--triude’ ‘that would consign the perpetrators of them their aod to the for the balance ot ber “antural fives chee) i AY : a ual pro) foreign ware, im one respect, at least. They allay loca! asperities and particas auimosities Their successful advocates aud promoters, like victorious generals, receive, they deserve to receive, the universal aod enduring applause and gratitude of the community. To asceruin what material improvements are wanted is necessarily the first step to take, To look at the city ag it is, next to reflect upon what it is likely to be in the immediate future—a grand plan and purpose must precede and control details; and the first inquiry is, What is or ought to be the great pian and parpose of thisciiy? The answer must be, that it sball be the metropolis of the country, aud, in reacbui this, it must become the commanding commere:al an financial centre of the civilized world. All great nations baye, through history, had one, apd but one, national capital, exerting its power and influence over all other localities, Snch a capital is a necessary feature in the material fabric of a nation, This is seea in England and in France, the only two homogeneous aod weil kuit nationalities of Europe, If we are to have a great and united country, the Union must be cemented and regulated from one great centre or national heart, How much grander thew than Rome, in the days of its spl dor, or than Paris or London, if these precedent be repeated. here, must bacome the metropolis of this western continent, To reach this attainment is now a developing aspiration of the citizens, aad my dream by day and by night. The perception of the future may now be confined to a few, but should I be elected to the chief magistracy of the city, it ny to lift the curtain, and hold up to th approaching events, and thus, by pr gibation the picture, stimulate the agencies that are to to produce them. Now, what are the material agencies to oring about this magnificent result, and what must be the condition of the city when it occupies this proud position? First, we must have periect appliances for receiving and distributing foreign commerce. This is essential and indispensable, As early as 1857, 1m a mes- sage to the Common Council, I urged the ereccion of stone piers and wharves, and an improved system of harbor improvement. Although tea years have passed since thea, this recommendation of mine, as Mayor at Uhat time, has never been carried out, This city is now utterly destitute of decent accommodation for its im- mense foreign commerce, The Atlantic docks of Brooklyn, and the Long docks, and their projected improvements in New Jersey, are accessories to the power and weaith of the city. These docks have sprung from the absence of facilities for loading and divcharging ships in the city. Tho State and municipal authorities have divided tue power and tones, over the piers and whar and instead of being improved they are in @ worse coa- dition, if possible, than when I made my recommenda- tioa, I donot know of a single permanent dock or pier improvement in the corporate limits, and the construc- tiva of permanent piers and wharves is a necessity. An American who has seen the harbor improvements of Liverpool, London, or indeed of any considerable Engriab port, must look at ours with bamiliation, Na- ture tas dono evervihing for our harbor—man, nothing. Docks, piers and wharves have been in process of con- struction in Liverpoo! for thirty-five years, and great a3 has been the expenditure in the past, and indeficite ia extent as theso docks appear, there was expended over two and one-half millions of dollars ($2,575,425) for new works in the vear ending last Jane, These dock improve- ments at Liverpool, as well as in London, have cost over fifty millions ot doltars in each city, They have not added a penny to the taxes of these cities, On the contrary, they aretn London taxable property, So it should be here, Commerce reailily pays for the facilities which such improvement affords to it. Itis not the ebarges on a vessel entering a port that restrams trade so much as the expense atrending the want of facilities for loading and unloading cargoes, Delay costs more than reasonable charges for the facilities for doing the busivess of com- Me bot) Charges at Liverpool are, I believe, some three times as much as they are neminally hei rit aes is a cheaper port for sh ips to enter than ti y uestion readily presents itself, whether thé watora of this city are not the of the State, ta that the Legiaiaiure of the has here. tofore assumed and exorcised su power over them, Now, without admitting tpis right on the part of the Legistature, in my judgmoat it would not be pee | ose the Cy constract these improvements, and to give their use tate com, harbor removing every im it and affords: ihe most Iupraved taal for the transaction of as unrestricted and ontrammeled trade. But the delays internal commere: this city a8 wofully defle'ent im railroad facilities: | Convayancs by y, a sieam is a necessary means to reach the count great indrod and forty-four thousand per- 3 combined had If all: the raiiroad: pet meee he douc to adorn the national capital?’ was the inquiry of the Romans before awarding bon rs to her filustrious citi. zeus, The Emperor of France is raising endarmg and —— monuments of hi Teguiate and grade streets and avenues without avy reference what ver to padhe or private nesesssity, It 1s a cominon thing to lay down a new pavement before the s*wer or gas maine are laid, and in a short while these pavements are tora up for the pa of doing this work, aud tho pavement is afterw: relaid iu a more burried and in & less pervect manner, Ail of thess improvements are paid for by @ tax levied on the surrounding . and the system thus gomg on affects very matoriaily the value of real esiate thus unduly bur- dened. and retards to 4 great extent the pro- grese improveinent of the city. The present sysvem Of street improvement ie wretched'y managed. Every - thing is Begiected, while beavy assessments and taxes are constantly levied, making things tar worse than they were. Indeed, the whole government of the city could not be more recklessly or extravagantly aod inefficiently carried on, Everythiog appertaining to it is most miserably managed. If 4 merchact or any busines’ man should adopt a similar methed of coaduct- ing his private affairs, be would soou become a bank- rupt, however wealthy he wicht be, or howerer large his capital, The system adopted to obtain piace and to enn ta power —_ wo ~ the only be i u ly nized. The only requisite or qualifica- tion Momentos of an official for place is how he can contribute toward the mainte- nance @ad continuance of the party; how adroit be may be io manipulating nominating conven tions; Row many votes he can control, and whe! he is true to the and of the olty treasury, The oi mn hands of the Tami Hall draw from the ined the figures, and Nor x all ite income, ms twos Opens mano Tneats and anor sources I can, by directing this experience to the good move all the uafounded = + Fa wary, I once more (great cheering), and, as you stand by me now, #0 belp me God, I shall never desert ~ Compre and long continued Gusestaa, oxni4 w ir. Wood concluded and retired from the platform.) The meeting then adjourned with three times and a tiger for Feraaudo Wood, the next Mayor, RADICAL REPUBLICAN MAYORALTY VENTION, H CON- Nomination of William A, Darling. The radical republican delegates elected from the varoius Assembly districts in this city to nominate a candidate for the Moyoralty met in convention at the radical headquarters, corner of Twenty-second street and Broadway, last evening, and organized by electing Gen- eral Jobn Cochrane as chairman and Captain McLeod and Jobn Donnagh as secretaries, ‘The credentials of delegates were presented, when it was found that there were contesting delegations from the Elghth and Twenty-first districts, After some de- bate it was agreed that five minutes’ time should be allowed a speaker from each of tne contesting dolega- Hons from the Eighth district to present the claims theroof, aud that a vote should then be taken. When the speakers had closed, Mr, Charies 8. Spencer Moved that ihe deiegation whose election was vouched for by the regular republican association of the district be admitied to seats, ‘The motion was carried—ayes 92; noes 35. ‘Pho cass of the Twenty-first district was similarly dis~ posed of. Colonel James Fairmax callod for the reading of a resolution adopted by the Centrai Republican Comuittee, bearing on the nomination for the Mayoralty. The resolution was not accessibie; but Mr. Charles S ir explained Liat the comiiitee had recommended the nomination of some republican of known iutegrity, who subserived fully to the principles laid down in tae Platiorn adopted at the Syracuse Conveotion, He Wwored that resolution, Now, in tue bour of defeat, it ‘was inore than ever imperative on the republicaa party to siand togetuer and preserve its organization ipiact. Notwithstanding tue party bad been dofeated inthe Siate elections, he believed it would yet be triumphant im the coming President al contest, T'bere were causes for the lave defeat. These were, in his opioion, to be found in bad legislation, in the badiy conducted com- missions that had been imposed on this city, and in the infamously administered Excise and Health lawa, of whica the people complained. fue republican party ‘stood upon principle and not on these acciden als that nad caused its delcat, He believed tt to be the duty of the party to contiaue 1p the advocacy of the principles ‘upon which it was founded, avd to nominate a candidate for the Mayoralty if he received only ten votes, Ho would recommend to the Convention a3 itg nominee the name of William A. Daring. Mr, Esreaurook moved that the Convention go into an. informal baliot, which motion was carried, An informal baliot was then taken, the roll of dole- gates boing called, avd resuited as foliaws:—For William, A. Darling, 75; Abraham Lent, 53; Marshall 0. Roberts, 6; Thomas Murpay, 3; Eliott 0. Lowdia, 2, and Martin Thatcver, James M. Thompson aad LeGrand B. Caanoa, 1 vote each, ‘On motion the Convention thea proceeded to a formal ballot, the resu't being as follows: —For William A. Dar- hing, 92; Abrabam Leut, $6; Generat John Cochrane, 1; Benjamin F. Manerre, 1, Mr, Darling baving received a majority of all the votes east, the Chair dec.arad him duly nomimated; and on motiou of Mr. Caax.es 8. SrzNcgR, the pownation was made unanimous. ‘The officers of the Convention were instructed to act a3 @ committee to notify Mr. Darling of nis nomination, wheo, on motion, the Convention adjourned, with three cheers for the candida‘e, to meet again at the call of the Chair, AMUSEMENTS. Niblo’s G: mu. When a theatrical entertainment bas drawn overflow- ing audiences night after night well into the second year of an unbroken succession of nightly periorm- ances, amd continues to fill the gangwaya, proving a richer placer to the managors tban the richest golé mines of Colorado or Montana, there is something in it which eommandsinvostigation, What is it? Loxys? We have had the model artists, in puris naturalibus, ana they failed. Is tthe dancing? There are none better here ‘as dancers, or more pleasing to the eye, than Soto, bat Soto was only a nine days’ wonder, Is it in the plot of the pieco? No; for the plotis but another modification of the universal Havel plot of a contest between the devi) and bis imps and a good fairy and her troupe for the of a pretty girl in seanty drapery. The averet of thie success ust be, then, in the spleo- did sconery tabieaux of the drama, No; bat it is due to the y gitis and the flocks of them that are brought ie bbe boautifal forms as displayed 10 their dances—to splendid sceucry, to the gorgeous tableaux, to the varied costumes, to the mecbunical eflocts, the plot bemg but the thread upoa which the ‘any. colered beads are woven. The spectacle is light, brijliant and pleasi It appeais to the vavity and the fanap and (be spect weeknees. of woman, Ghd 80. it draws like ® magnet, The Bowery Thentre. On Monday evening Miss Fanny Morgan Phelps, who bas already achieved a reputation as being one of tho best Irish comediennes in the comstry, mado her first appearance at the Old Bowery for this soason, where ber services have been judiciously secured by the enter- prising manager, Mr. Freleigh. Since that period sho bas changed her réle nearly every nizht, and last even- ing sbe appeared as Madeline or the Bolle of the Faubourg. This drama partakes of the Janet Pride order and admits of a good deal of the sensational style of acting, to which Miss Paolps does ample justice. First as the bolle, and then as the devoted wife trying jasband, she gives full force to the character of Madeline, and last evening ‘drew down the bouse” with applause several times, Io adcition to Miss Phelps Mr, Freicigh bas two other stars in his troupe in the persons of Misa Nellic Howard and Annie Gibbons, who dance jigs with such inimitable grace and Mablerie that the wery boys are fariy enchanted. Frank G.bbons’ ‘leap for Ii and perlormance os the lofty wings is anotner featare in tho Bowery playDdiil, | ern certainly always contrives to draw crowded u80%, Olympic Theatre. The Midanmmer Night's Dream passed off last night in good style, A largo audienee crowded the theatre and were apparently mach amused at the grotesque fancies of the wonderfal Shakspeare, as oxhinited in this play. The cat of characters indicates bat little talent on the part of tie mavagers, and many interesting pointe in the comedy tose their value on this account, One of the most meritorious of actors, Davidgo, ae Quine», is entirely ont of place, Mtas Stockton ac'ed her part in gual successful style, and wr. G, L. Fox was as appiauded as Pyramus, The transformation scene ia a very cheap aifair, and reves for effect upon its final change, representing female loveliness in sas- ‘peiuse, Fifth Avenuc Theatre. This ‘Little Court theatre,"’ as it calla itself, was crowded last night with admirers of Lefflingwoll’s genius for burlesque as exhibited both in his shylock (which one spectator avers “beats the original Shy- lock”) and in the tanghable extravaganza of Too Much for Good Nature, We were sorry to misa at this favo rite resort the sprightly Mrs, Sedley Browne, who bas bitherto proved one of iis chief attractions. But Miss Blanche Chapmad, a4 Gratiano, m Shylock, and-as Matiida Jane Chummy, in Falconer’s extravaganza, was applauded last evening, and Mire. Charies Howard Wat- kins will be welcomed next Monday night, Banvard’s Theatre. ‘The dancing of Morlacchi still attracts crowds to the Devil's Auction, It i the gem pootry of motion, and might reconcile the veries cynic to the ballet. Her movements are gifted with a chaste, spirifuclie charac- ter which develops ideas of beauty and poctry alone, SGhike, Blasina, Lopo and Diani are also great attrac. tions, Mies Fanny Stocqaeler ts the only feature im the drama that is above mediocrity. Miscellaneous, Butter’s American theatre has Frank Kerns, James F. Wamboid, Johnny Thompson, Mensrs, Coes, Hert and Pettingill in their favorite characters thie week. Tho ballet, with Zaccoli as the premidre, draws large houses every night, ‘The Théatre Comique brings out Hernandez, a popular pantomimist; Little Mac and Cotton & Sbarpley’s Mine atrels, with other attractions, Tony Pastor sings every might at his opera house, and presents the patriotic drama of the Yankee Boys of 1776, ‘with ballet novelties besides, ‘Tne grand religious spectacle of Pilgrim's Progress, with its transformation scene, is stil! to be seen at Buoyan Hall, Kelty & Leon's Minstrels have made a hit with the burlesque of Faust, and their pretty little house is ee, crowded. San Francisco Minstrels exbibit the inimitable Bernard and Backus, ia rome The Grand Duchess is & great L, eh YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1867.~TRIPLE SHEET. WASHINGTON. Naa ee maaan ‘Wasuincron, Nov. 13, 1567, 11:30 o’Clock P.M. } The Judiciary Committee. Pursuant to adjournment the Judiciary Commitee met at the Capitol to-day fer the purpose of considering the case of Maryland and the impeachment business Several witnoases were examined as to the republican form of goverament of Maryland, but their testamony was of no particular interest, A general consultation was held on the subject of the impeachmens testimony and reports, and the committees adjourned to meet again to-morrow, Rumored Appointment of General McClellan as Secretary of War. It is rumored that General George B. McClollan has been or will be tendered the appoiatment of Secretary of War by the President, Edward T. Woods Appointed Collector tu Place of Callicott, The President to-day appoiuied F be the Collector of Interns! Revenue for the Third Dis- trict of Now York (Brooklyn), in the place of T. GC. Caltioott, Proposed Removal of « New York Revenue Cotlector. It is ssid that the Internal Revenue Board in New York will in aday or two recommend the removal of the Collector of Internal Revenue tor the Eighth dis trict. There is alroady a number of applicants for the place. The Jeff! Davis Triat, William M. Evaris, R. 1, Dana, General Welle, coun- . 8] for the prosecution, and District Attorney Chandler, of Eastorn Virginia, had a consultation of several hours’ duration to-day with Attorney General Stanberry, with regard to the course to be pursued on the trial of Jeffer- son Davia, All these gentlemen are ready to proceed with the case on the 25th inst. It is the desire of the counsel for the defence that Chief Justice Chase shall Preside, in conjunction with Judge Underwood In this they are influenced by important legal considerations, The trial will proceed on the original indictment, There seems to be no doubt that Jefferson Davis will be present in court at the timo required by his bail bond, although it is not now known whether the trial will then immo- diately commence. Chief Justice Chase in Richmond. Chief Justice Chase arrived in Richmond this morn- ing and took rooms at the Spottswood House. Ho pre- sided to-day at the opening of the adjourned term of the United States Circuit Court, Messrs. Wall, Hoffman and Shearer, who were inaicted for perjury in registra- tion im Frederick county, were brought up and bailed in $1,000 cach to appear at the regular term of the court om the 25:h inst, Colonel Wall was formerly a member of the State Legislature, Mr. Hoffman was Alderman, and Shearer an alloged mail agent, They did not register but presented themselves to the officers for that purpose. Tho Chief Justice will remain in Richmond several days, It 1s probabie that some poli tical movement may result from his visit to Richmond. Petition of the Citizens of Botetourt County, Va., for the Suppression of Armed Negro tizeng of Botetourt county, Va, have addressed to Geberal Schofield a petition to suppress the secret meetings of armed negroes in that county, ‘They say :— It isa matior of remark throughout this section of conntry that every negro is posseesed of arms, and that of late they are in the habit of carrying these arms and displaying them in a manuer very offensive to the whites, On tho other hand, many of the whices are unarmed, and unless these Jeagues are broken up by the strong arm of power we see nothing tor it but a counter organization and a genora! arming for the protect! .o of our hom 's and women and children. The whites in all this country bave conducted and are con- pucting themeelves io @ quiet, orderly manner, under ibe mintary rule which bas beea imposed upon as, and we only ask that our late slaves be required to do tho same, Tuis for their good and pro ect on as well as tor ours, It ts with a due seuso of ihe responsibility rest- jog upon us as friends to our race and of duty to our- selves and our families that we make these statoments, General Grant Av an Economist—iew He Ree duces Expenditures in the Army. The War Department bes pubiished regulations for the rd T, Woods © | ney will appreciate your response 3 escorted the President tofthe front of the mansion, where he was greeted with repeated cheers. Colonel O'Burmss then addressed the President @ honored Chief. cougratolation ef newly promised hope for tae welfare of Our recen.!y Bitherwo unhappy country, Our conserva- ve iriends t!roughout the District of Columbia, rep~ resenling the diferent Bates of tho Union, join usm trusting «that the present with is arguments may bee harbinger of renewed future Prosperity, itanquillity and brotherly love throughout our iwod. We invoke Providence to strengthen your hands to give you courage and fortitude, and to aid you 4m the successtul performance of the grand mission it yours to perform. Splus populi lex suprema ext, SrEvCU OF THE PRESIDENT, The Parmpent then addressed the assemblage as fol lows :-— Feciow Cirmexs—It is not my intention to make an address upon this occasion, but simply to tender you my thanks for this demonstration—a demonstration approbating what your fellow citizens have declared in the recent elections in various Su of the Union they have doue, and send back greeing th anion of the States must be maiuiaiv cording to the original design of our | 1 confess 1 am gratified, but not surprised, at th sult of the recent elactions, I have always } doubting confidence in the people. They may times be misled by a lying spirit in the mou of ther 8, but pever perverted: aad in the cud they are cht. In the gloomiest hours throogh wich f have passed—and many of them, God knuwa, have been dark enough—wnen our constivien Was ftp the utmost pert, when our free iostitutions were assaiiod by a formidadie force, aud our great republic seemed to bo tottering to ite fail, and when | felt how vaim were my eiurts alone to pre- serve those institutions in their Integriiy, aud 10 save the republic {rom ruin, £ was sill hopoful—I had sult an abiding confidence in the people, and felt assured that they in their might would come to the rescue. They bave come and, thank God! thay have come, and our republic may yet be kaved. 1k was but the other dag that I officially declared that the remedy for the present unbappy condition of the country must come from the people themselves. T know what that remedy is aod how it is to be apy d at the present time. They cannot, according to the turms of the con- etitution, repeal obnoxtons laws; tuey cannot remove or control this miliary derpotism.’ The rvmedy 1s, never- theloss, in their hands, and js @ sure oue, f not con- trolled by fraud, overawed by arbitrary power, or from apathy on their part too long continued. With abiding contidence in their patriotisin, wisdom avd integrity, 1 ‘cp still bopeful that in the eod the rod of despotism will be broken, the armed heel of power lifted from the necks of the people and the principles 0 a violated constitution preserved, [ve people have spoken in @ manuer not to be misunderstood, Thaok God that they have spoken, for it is upon their itenigence and their integrity that I have always retied and siiirety. The con. stitution of the country which was imperitied had re- cently been before them for consideration, avd it has bad new life snd .vigor imparted ww original source—tho people. {1 comes with renewed strength and vigor; let it now be transiated high up in the heaveos, written in letiors of living ligut, as the symbol of tiberts, union, jusiice, magna- himity and fraternity. Good night. Tho President was cheered during tho delivery of the speech and also on its conclusion, and retired from the stand amid repeated cheers and instrumeuta!l music. Frequent calls were made fur Atworvey Qenerai Stan- bery. He was om the premises, but did not appear to make a speecd. NOTES ON NEW BOOKS. “The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century” ig the tile of a new volume by Mr. Francis Parkroan in the series of historical narratives—each complete and independent in itself, though having an organic rejation to the others—wbich should present the whole story of the early’French and Englich enterprise and rivalry in North America. In the * Pioneers of France in the New Worid’’ and in the “ History of tho Conspiracy of Pontiac’? Mr, Parkman has already given the public an carnest of the qualifications evinced by him in the present volume for the tusk which he long ago proposed to undertake. To qualify himself for it he bas not only familiarized himself with the habits of the Indian tribes, sharing their life, sleeping in their dirty lodges, studyimg their traditional and tribai lore, and seeking to penetrate the iuner workmmgs of their thought and being, but he bas spared no expense or labor government of all concerned, with # view to a more | to become acqhainted with the manuscripts and printed economical gdministiatiea of the affairs of the army documents toat could enlighten him with reference to and to 8 more uniform and systematic method of letting | the efforts of the Jesuit missionaries to Christianize contracts for supplies or services required, The follow- ing are among the provisions of the order:— All commanding officers, and especialiy those of mill- tary depariments and disincis, will see that carly eati- mates and timely contracts are made for supplies tor tue several pusts mm their respective commands, The duty and civilize the Indians, All this beghes persevered in accomplishing, in spite of discouraging ill-health, with a spirit like that which sastained his fellow Yowns- man, Prescott, and the great French bistorian, Thiers. We think that when this vulume 1s considered je cop- of advertising for proposals tor supplies, &e., should be*fyection with the other volumes in the series projected im upon the chiei quartermasters but commanding officers will the:sel nd Commssar.es; be beld respon- sible for its proper performance, or for the punishment j°as that it consists of the officer who negievts it, At every post where st 13 possible fuel and sball be procured by the javor of the troops, and the depart- ment commander shail designate the posits tor whico, m default of tais, contracts may be made, Contracts help few erty Regier ed, and «iil not be so ordered unless the stores required can be supplied at such interior posts more economicaliy | gizing the de than if -ent from other markews or {rom generat depots. No Coutract for furaisbiog supplies or trapsportauon to the army wil be considered in force antl it has received ‘Wwe app. oval of the proper depariment commander, ‘The order concludes as follows:— The ot War and Interior desires to impress upon all branches of the miluay service Wwe neveseity of greater economy in public expendisures, and of We curtailment in every departwent of the service of the present expenses, whenever the requiremenis of whe service will perm.t euch reduciion, A New Yorker Brovetted. James B. Kirker, late captain of Sixty-ninth regiment New York State National Guard, Las just received from General Grant, by order of the President, the brevet of major, for faithfal and meritorious services while con- nected with the Corcoran Legion. Gratuitous Issue of Clothing te Soldiers Who Have Had Cont is Disenses, By direction of the Secretary’ of Wara gratuitous tanae to replace sach articles of clothing as, in the opin. jon of the proper medical oilicer, should be destroyed to prevent contagion ts authorized for all soldiers having ‘contagious diseaaes, Serione Lilnces of Secretary Welles. Secrotary Wolles ts stilt seriously ill, At noon to-day there was no change for the better, aod his family aod friends are pow much alarmed atthe weakened siate into which the intermittent fever, of which ho is suf. foring, has thrown him, Ewployment of Civilians in the Avmy Order ari Tho following regulations with regard to employment of civil employés in army service, issued by command of General Grant, have been promulgated :~ Firt—The employment of civilians a any branch of the service, a8 clerka; mscuanies, iuborers, Cuards oF for any purpose for which soldiers could be detailed without manifest injury to the sorvice, is strictiy promibited; ex. cept in cases where civilian clerks are allows: of bureaus, to oblefs of the Stale Deparinata, The authority of the commanding officer shall be requisite for the employmeat of bired labor. Ho wit! cause the proper staff officer to report to him tho circamstauees which render the same necessary, and will be held strictly reepoasidie that such necessity exists, by Mr. Parkman, the objections urged against it—such of fragments most of which are composed of sensational stortes about Iudians, Jesuits, the sbam marriages of puns, baities between the Iro- quois and the Hurons, the Algonquin, the Eries, or the “Neutrals,” the performances of lodian sorcerors and the biographies of Indian chicis, and that in eulo- jon and self-sacrilice of priest or nun Mr. Parkman writes as if he were afraid w iucur the cbarge of haviug too much sympathy with “Popery,” are wholly groundiecss Of course Mr. Parkman does not conceal that be is a Protestant; bat he conceais none the less the admiration which he shares with every candid and impartial student of the subject of sory, for the be- foic endurance and courage of tho-e members of the society of Jesus who toiled, aud, in many instances, died, not only according to their motto, *‘Ad majorem Dei gloriam’’—tor the greater glory of God—but also di- rectly for the amelioration of man and his salvation, not only from threatened wrath in the lite to come, but from barbarium im the present hfe, The most préja- diced partisans of ultramontanism on the one hand and of ultra-Protestantism on the other must admit the cas- dor and impartiality of Mr, Parkman and the picturesque beauty of his narration. Prof. G. J. Adler, one of our ripest scholars, has com- piled and condensed into ® pampnlet material enough for a volume about “Ibe Pooiry of the Arabs in Spain.” He analyzes skilfully the caaracteristics of the poetry Of that brauch of the Arab mce wuich, daring its do- minion in Spain, carried civilization to a bigher pitch than it had reached at that period In aoy Christian coun~ try in Europe, ond shows how modera Spameh poetry has presorved many of these characteristice. William Wood, instructor ja physical education, bas published a “Manual of Physical Exercises,’ compri- sing gymnastics, rowing, skatiag, feucing, ericket, cal- isthouics, wailing, swimming, sparring, base ball, with rules for training aud sanitary sagge-tions, and one bun- dred and twenty-five iilustratioas. ~~ Professor Biot has embodied his views in a ‘“Hand- book of Practical Cookery,” intended to supersede all hitherto published works on this subject of vital import- , by heads | ance, The publishers of Boston, New York snd Phiiadelpbis seem to be exhausting on mval editions of Dickens and Thackeray all the energy and enterprise which they can spare from their preparations for the appromebing gift book season. The Boston Advertise gives a detailed Third—In all caves where the commanding officer | accvunt of the publishing business in Massachusettr. authorizes the employment of civilians he will imme diately transinit copies of bin order, togetuer with @ Feport showing ita necessity, to the Depar:meat Com- mander and to the head of the prover bureaa of the War Department, Should the circtrastances not justify the order the expense will be charged to the officer who gives te Fourh—Chiefs of bureaus under the War Depart. Ment will examine critically the rolis of civil empioyés retained by their subordinates aod order an immediste reduction to the lowest limit practicable, and will also seo that steps be taken at once to execute the above orders, Fifth—-Taspectors will pay attention in their to the manner in which all orders for reduction | capital invested in tho business was $745,704. reports of expenses im the army aro being executed. Wasutxaton, Nov, 13, 1867, The Conservative Army and Navy Union having | gate, of which four and & balf millions were printed tendered to the President a congratulatory serenade, thoy invited all conservatives and democrats to join From this it appears that in the year 1864 {the date of the last Industrial statistics) thero were neariy five mil- lion volumes pabiished in Massachusetts, of which 4,930,891 were browgnt out in Suifolk county. There were forty three printing establishments in the State, of which thirty-eight were in this county, The value of the books produced, exclusive of the cost of printing aod binding them, was $1,909,257. Bookhiading alo ployed 301 men and 369 women in sixty-five binderies; the value of the stock usod was £114,615, and the Type and stereotype foundries employed 93 men and 75 women in eight different establishments, The value of the stock used was $79,200; the value of the typer, clectroty pes and stereotypes manufactured was $219,000, and the capital invested in the business was $109,500. The printing business is stil more oxtensive, In 1864 thore were 6,204,913 books printed in the ja Saffolk county and about 1,432,000 im Middlesex county, There were 196 printing establiehments in the them in the demonstration to-night, A procession was | siate; 106 newspaper and periodicale issued from them ; formed at the headquarier® of the Army and Navy 1,000 mea and 749 women were employed in them; Union, composed of delegations and associations, in- | value of the stock used was over $2,000,000, and the cluding Johneon clubs and saions ef Washington and | gross value of the products was $3,217,268, The de- Georgetown, together with a large number of soldiers mand for new booke thie fall is moderate—tess than and sailors, Vairous army flags, banners, transpe- | uses! for the Rastern trade, but good for the West, rencies, lanterns, torches, otc , were carried in (ho proces- ‘The bigh price of books, justifiable as it may be toa sion, and during the march there was a coptinuows dis: Play of rockets and other Groworks, Thore were three | ete,, materially lessens the rit eae bands of music, a broow about tour feet long and nearly = a8 broad, with a huge handle, was significantiy exbibited, It is the same that was presonted to President Lincoln, and was purchased at an auction sale. When the procession arrived at the Executive Maneion | CoPtin Jou there was a Prosidential salute and aiso a salute of bundred gama, The denze mass of spectators repeatedly called for and cheered the President. Music was layed meanwhile and fireworks exhibited. {PRE PRESIDENT DETRODUCED, A committee, consisting of Colonel James A Tait, Colonel P. H. Allabach aud Colonel James R, O' Beirne, cortaim extent om account of the increased cost of paper, i th ‘almost on: Moraries irovghast the Jand of, limited book trade, Janei The sek SR aston erate em