The New York Herald Newspaper, September 20, 1868, Page 3

NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1868—I'RIPLE SHEET. HELL GATE. The Remova! of Frying Pan Reef and Pet Roek—Character of the Work to be Done. "A new interest is about to be awakened concerning Heil Gate by the effort to remove, in part at least, the serious obstructions which have so long rendered ‘hat commercial avenue to New York so detrimental to ite complete prosperity. During the last session of Congress an appropriation of $85,000 was author- ived as a preliminary step to this much needed im- provement, and to-morrow the bids for the con- ‘wacts will be opened in this city by General New- ton, under whose auspices as the government en- gineer the work has been placed. Notwithstanding the meagre sum of money appropriated for this purpose, the fact that no payments are to be made until the work is completed and the rocks on Frying Pan Reef or Pot Rock are reduced #80 a8 to admit of a depth of twenty-six {feet over them at mean low water, it is expected that there Will be considerable competition for the job, It is very generally conceded by intelligent contraotors that there is no money to be made out of this special operation; but the hope is indulged that when @ practical and satisfactory demonstration is made upon these dangerous obstractions Congress will see the necegsity of following up the work by larger and more liberal appropriations. Hence the struggle among submarine engineers to secure the first con- tract. Without indicating any definite plan, General Newton has wisely lefteach bidder to submit his own ideas of the most feasible system of conducting the work, and, doubtless, upon the acceptance of what is deemed the most practicable plan will de- pend the award, rather than upon the price per cubiy yard. We may expect, therefore, to see on Monday a variety of novel and ingenious de- vices for removing rocks under water, In determining upon the removal of Frying Pan Reef iirst, any one at all familiar with the Hell Gate passage will perceive that it lies immediately in the channel between Ward’s Island and Astoria, and is the most dangerous rock in the whole group of obstructions. Next in importance 1s Pot Rock, cele- brated for the number of disasters which it has occa- sioned. It is calculated that by the removal of these hidden dangers many of the complicated currents or remolinos Will be obviated, and the strength of the tide made to correspond with the line of greatest depth in the channel. The amount of rock on Frying Pan 1s estimated by General Newton to be 1,365 cubic yards, distributed in three separate clusters over a suriace of 1,222 square yards, thus rendering it necessary to work over three different points. Tne estimated cubic contents of Pot Rock to be removed are 576 cubic yards, over an area of 1.302 square yards, ‘The great dif- ficulty to overcome is the extraordinary strength of the current, which sweeps at the rate of 7.83 miles per hour through this part of Hell Gate, making it almost impossible to maintain any apparatus for eins in a fixed position. Then to this must be ‘@dded the constant danger of a collision from passing vessels. For this there is no indemnity, and no yemedy for the contractor but in the rule that the ‘hardest must fend off.’” «The prominent dangers in Hell Gate are comprised between the Bread and Cheese and Negro Point, and ‘ere found in a length which 1s iess than two thou- Band yards, Yet in this space more harm is suffered id more risk incurred than in all the rest of the avigable waters on this side of New York from the tern entrance of the Sound to the city, a distance of 128 statute miles, If we observe the divided courses of the ebb cur- rents we shail perceive that a little to the west of Pot Rock the stream separates into three distinct Drauches, one of which passes through the east- ern, one through the middie and one through the main ship channel. ‘rhese three branches Feunite on the south and west of Mill and Flood Tocks, and, further on, the main stream is again di- vided into two other branches, passing on each side of Blackwell's Island. To navigate a vessel through these intricate passages, in which the water runs with such speed upon the rocky shores and islands @nd whirls in a thousand dizzying eddies, requires, even with the superior help of steam, a cool head and @ steady hand; but in a sailing vessel, without a commanding breeze, no amount of professional skill or self-possession can guard against certain dangers. The expedient must be to sensibly diminish the umber and velocity of these eddies by diverting the tidal current. * Another point which it may be well to note in con- nection with these biasting operations is that the plane of low water td which all measurements of vertical ha will be referred will be the plane of the shore line of Ward’s Island, and not, as hereto- fore, in Pot Cove. Such, in briel, are the conditions and data upon which the estimates are to be based, ud our hope is that the award will be made only to Tesponsible parties, combining ample means with bas: experience and energy of purpose. ust one hundred years ago the Chamber of Com- merce was organized in the city of New York by a considerable number of merchants, whose object ‘was ‘‘to promote and encourgge commerce, adjust disputes relative to trade and navigation, support industry and recommend such laws and establish uch regulations as might be found for the benefit of trade in general.” This preliminary organization ‘was goon joined by all the leading mercantile men of the city, and for upwards of three-quarters of a cen- tury it exercised a potential influence upon the con- stantly increasing commerce of New York. But since the era of ocean steamships and white-winged clippers, the glory of that ancient institution has de- parted, and although it possesses a forinidable list of honored names upon its roll of membership, it has Jong ceased to exercise any visible iniuenee in the community. Years ago the New York merchant deemed it essential to his status to belong to the Chamber of Commerce, but then the claim to ad- mission was based upon a standard of mercantile integrity, high personal honor and rare intelligence. ‘The spirit of speculation engendered by the acquisi- tion of California and the sudden development of mew sources of trade inthe Pacitic and Indian oceans created a younger, more vigorous and less scrupu- Jous clase of traders, who, appreciating the import- ance of being recognized as New York merchants, came clamorous for admission within the ancient mnmercial temple. Yielding to timid counsels, and actuated by the fear that its prestige might be lost in the revolution of trade, the stringent barriers that so long made it an able and dignified body, were ied the ae = oe merce, opening wide its doors to the besiegers, 11 tly Cecaahe what we find it to-day—a heipiess and apathetic organization—a museum of marine fossils and mercantile petrefactions. This 1s the reason why Hell Gate has remained so long unim- roved. It is, therefore, idle to expect i substan- ta result from such — In fact, all that has been done towards the removal of the dangerous Tocks and obstructions in that narrow passage has been brought about by the vigorous appeals of the daily press and the energetic action of a few public spied individuals. It cannot be gainsaid that if ell Gate had constituted one of the commercial avenues to any seaport in Europe, its dangers would have been removed half a century ago—if not by ae at least by the local Boards of Trade. ‘he merchants of New York cannot say that they have had no assistance from the United States authorities; the truth is, the government has had no asstatance in the way of concert of action from the merchants; and yet the record shows that since 1848 accurate and carefully Fepeated surveys of the Hell Gate passage have been ade by Professor Bache and his skilful assistants, thermore, that in 1856 @ complete plan of oper- ations for the improvement of the channel was de- vised and promulgated by an advisory council, con- sisting of the ablest engineers in the country. The Fecommendations of this board, of which the late General Totten was chairman, have stood the test of the severest criticism both here and in Europe, and no engineers have yet been found bold enough to assail their eminent practicability or ventured to suggest a more enduring and economical piso. Why, then, has the work been postponed to this late day? ‘What has become of the American Society of Civil ‘ineers who weave their cobwebs under the eaves of the Chamber of Commerce building, which seems to serve as a sort of flytrap for these professional spiders? Why have they not seized upon this subject and given development to the admirabie plans of General Totten? Is it because they have no preciation of anything except what they originate themselves? Fortunately for New York, the work of remo’ those harbor obstructions is beyond the reach of the decayed members of any society. It is not dimicult to foreshadow some of the conse- quences which a thorough opening of the Hell Gate Ge are bound to secure, A series of long con- inued hydrographic observations of the channel b; way of Sandy Hook shows that the maximum dept! has been obtained, and that no system of harbor im- rovements can be devised whereby that depth can inc and permanently maintained. This necessarily prescribes the limits of draught to all ves- gels entering or departing from New York by that avenue of communication, and, as the capacity of steamers — incfease they must either be denied admission to the port or another and deeper channel must be provided. The solution of the problem is, therefore, found in clear- ing out the rocks in Hell Gate, distance between New York and ‘will not be less than one hundred and twenty over the route Py, way of Sandy Hook. Admitting that a period of ten years will elapse before all these rationg can be completed, it cannot fail to make jow York the Eastern terminus of the great system of continental ratiways. The passage by way of Sandy Hook will then be limited to vessels trading from the Southern ports and the Tropics. The objec- tions toa moderately low bridge across the Lust river will be ina great measure removed. Magnifi- cent suspension bridges will span the Hudson at the Palisades. The Harlem river, with its projected canal, will be called into requisition; all up town property will quadruple in value, and it may he salely predicted that the ends of Manhattan Isiand, ina commercial sense, Will be completely reversed. ENTENNIAN CELEBRATION AT fINDCE, H. H. On the 16th inst. the town of Rindge, Cheshire county, N. H., heid its centennial celebratic A speaker's stand was erected on the green, where, after the parades, an oration was delivered by Mr. Amasa Norcross. ' The dinner was given in a teut where Mr, Samuel Burnham delivered the centennial poem. The exercises of the day closed with a social Teunion la the Town Hall. e Fitchburg Cornet Band was present. shi and KINGS COUNTY POLITICS. Prespects of the Campaign—The Places to Bo Filled and Whe are in Quest of Them—A Review of the Political Situation, As the days grow shorter and the nights longer and cooler, warning those who love the comforts of home and a ruddy fireside to prepare for the enjoy- ment of social and domestic happiness, they furnish to the eager hunters after place, “public pap,” ad- ditional weight in restless thought, watchfulness and anxiety in looking about for the right keynote in the great political machine whereon to play their points successfully in the campaign which may be said to have now fairly opened in Kings county. ‘There is little or no material difference between the local issues at stake here this fall than were pre- sented last year. Both party leaders harp upon the questions of national moment in discuss- ing principles in their wigwams and halls; but there is, to the closer observer, a selfish and less disinterested object af stake—one affecting interests nearer home—“when the thing is sifted, as it were.” In a word, both party manipu- lators seek to study their respective welfare im that little matter of securing office through the ballot or by appointnrent in the event of the election of their chosen national ticket. As an instance of this latter assertion may be mentioned a little circumstance whispered in certain quarters of a prominent divine, who recently resigned a living of $3,000 per annum in this city, giving as his reason for leaving the pulpit the advice of his physcian against oral exer- cise, but who has since entered upon the duties of the political campaign as a standard bearer for Grant and Colfax. A respectable consularship is said to be in prospective for the orator alluded to, should events transpire as foreshadowed by the Maine and Vermont elections, The latter republican- victories have not, however, detracted from the prospects of the democrats in Kings county in carrying this, thelr stronghold, by from 18,000 to 20,000 majority, though they were 4s unlooked for as they were unwelcome. The city is pretty in the matter of ward clubs. Indeed, Sey- mour and Blair organizations are too nu- merous to suit the idea of expediency among many really sincere democrats, who recognize the fact that the multiplicity of individual interests rep- resented in these clubs are not so readily harmon- ized, create factions, divide the strength of candi- dates, cause dissensions in the ranks, weaken the front at the polls, and are highly susceptible of un- dermining the local ticket in such wards, and ulti- mately lead to the success of their party opponent, The Grant and Colfax men are working hard to make @ show of holding their own; and all their meetings thus far—and they have been numerous-- have been well attended and enthusiastic. The Boys in Blue are in the fleld and clamorous for their leader. Opposed to them is the Conservative Soldiers and Sailors’ Association, who are pledged to lend their vote and influence against radical misrule and any further endorsement of such a line of policy as rescribed in the reconstruction acts of Congress. ‘rhe latter organization lay claim to a membership of seven thousand, and have petitioned the Demo- cratic General Committee of the county to remember the claims of one of their number—General Kozlay— in making the nominations. Hugh McLaughlin, who was beaten in the race for Registrar by Charlie Schurig, a soldier, last year, informed the friends of the General, and very sensibly so too, that the Gene- ral Committee could only lend their individual aid to such a proposition, not having jurisdiction over the nominations. This is decidedly non-committal on the part of that controlling power, and leaves no earthly hope, as faras political foresight goes, for the chances of the nations’ brave defenders, &¢. CONGRESS. For this goal there are numerous aspirants, though the race lies between a few favored ones only, The present representatives in Congress, it is generally accorded, have fuiled to give satisfaction to their constituency during the late exciting ses- sion, and a change in the representation of the Sec- ond and Third districts is desired this year. One great cause of opposition to renomination of either Mr. Barnes or Mr. Robinson is the fact that they have noe ome that amount of federal patronage which been looked for by their supporters. In the Second district the most prominent names spoken of in leading democratic circles are Mr. John G. Schoonmaker and Thomas Kinsella, Mr. Litch- field is also mentioned as @ likely candidate for the nomination, In the third district, represented by William E. Robinson, Walter 8. Livingston, a lawyer and an active member of the Democratic General Commit- tee, is said to be first on the slate to succeed the pre- sent incumbent. Captain John C. Thompson 1s the strongest aspirant yet named in cep en te Liv- ingston in that district. The republican nominee for the Second district will be either Silas B. Dutcher, of the Fighth ward, one ofthe leading men in the Re- ublican General Committee of Kings county, or james A. Van Brunt. But the nomination of that Used there is merely nominal, though it may ata ture time lend weight in the matter of federal ap- pointments, The republicans in the Third district, where their foothold is stronger, will in all probability put in nomination the name of one of their best t men, that of Samuel Booth, ex-Mayor, who enjoys the confidence aud respect of thousands of his political opponents. thoroughly organized ASSEMBLY. First District.—Patrick Burns, who has served two terms in the State Assembly from this district, is again desirous of devoting 100 days of the 365 to the interests of the citizens of the First, Second and Firth wards, comprising the district, Hugh Clark and J, McNamara will contest this honor with Pat- rick Rurns, Second District.—Fred Massey, clerk in the District Attorney’s office, and H. J. Cullen, a youthful mem- ber of the legal profession, would fain accept the nomination in the Second district, which comprises the Third, Fourth and Eleventh wards, Colonel W. H. Hemstreet will be the republican nominee here; but the second is 80 heavily democratic that it 1s a — matter of form to name a republican candi- jate. Third District.—Patrick Keady 1s the most favored in certain circles for the nomination here, Kead: has been twice a member from the Sixth aud Twellt! wards, which comprise this district. Fourth pistrict.—Francis A. Mallison is nndoubt- edly the most prominent person spoken of in the Fourth district—comprising the Eighth, Tenth, and Twenty-first wards—for Assembly. He was a mem- ber of the last Legislature. The others who would accept the nomination are Stephen Haynes, Jarvis Whitman and W. Tucker. Fifth District.—Alderman Finehout is the demo- cratic candidate, and & Mr. Alaban the republican for legislative honorg in the Fifth—which includes the Seventh and Twehtieth wards, Sixth District.—Jacob Worth, blican, and John Rubar, democrat, are again in the fleld for the of the voters of the Sixteenth and Nine- teenth wards. Seventh District.—Sam Maddox, republican, and Daniel Smith, democrat, will be the probable nomi- nees of their 2 alte parties in the Thirteenth and irant in the Fourteenth wai Bighth District.—The foremost Seventeenth and Eighteenth wards for the democratic favor is D. C. Tower, and for radical honors Colonel Austen aspires. Ninth Distnict.—The Ninth ward and county towns comprising this district canvass strongly the claims of John C. Jacobs as an experienced and oe re resentative, and the chances of success are dec! idedly in his favor, despite the opposition of the “ring,’’ whose displeasure he incu: Albany last winter. COMPTROLLER, The office of Ki aig’ being the most lucrative on the city ticket, the salary attached to which is $5,000 a year, is of course the most sought after. The present incumbent is Mr. Thomas Faron, who will not seek @ renomination, but waives his claims thereto in favor of his brother, Deputy Comptrol- ler Levi Faron. Alderman James O’Brien, of the Sixth ward, is the strongest contestant by all odd be aa! whom he will have to contest interests at the nominating Convention. The Alderman stands well with his party and is working hard to accom- plish his success, Others have been named for the ition, but their prospects are comparatively weak. ‘he republicans have not as yet named any one to fill out their ticket in this quarter, and whether or no it {a @ mere formality which cannot realize anything for the person #0 honored other thay an empty recognition of their appreciation. COLLECTOR OP TAXES AND ASSESSMENTS. Collector of Taxes is an office to which is attached @ salary of $5,000 a year, and is ceniee nt filled by Mr. Isaac Badeau. The re number of influential appointees at present attached to this important bureau of the city Ricans who are more or less indebted to that official for their present positions, is the best security imaginable for the renomination of Mr. Badeau this year, and hence he is talked of as being the foremost in the race. A competitor of no mean pretensions is had, however, in the person of ex-Street Commissioner Charley Tinney, who is uged forward by a host of political heavy weights as wor- thy the place, There ig no republican aspirant yet named, AUDITOR. Fo the office of City Auditor is attached a salary of $5,000 a year, Which is now drawn by the deserving and efficient gentleman who was nominated by the republicans and elected by the combined votes of his admirers in both parties, Major James McLeer, a one-armed veteran of the Fourteenth Brooklyn regi- ment, He wiil receive the endorsement of his arty this fall again; but his chances ving returned are not promising, in of the fact that other influential men are in quest of the office. General Kozlay, President of the Conser- vative Soldiers and Sailors’ Club of Kings county, is urged by the soldiers for the democratic nomination, while tlie cause of a Mr. Martin, foreman of Engine Company No. 5, is advocated by the young men of the democ who will bring strong interest to bear upon the delegates, whoever they may be, at the City Convention. The other aspirants are Dennis 0’ Keette, Alderman of the Tweifth ward, and James Lynch, who formerly held the office of Auditor. CITY TREASURER. The salary attached to this office is $3,000 a year. for view Judge Morse, the present incumbent, will probably be contin in office should he desire it. Other- Wise either William C. Rushmore, President of the Atlantic Bank. or Suvervieor KM. Jounson. of the Fourth ward, will be the nominee of the democratic convention, COUNTY TREASURER. Thomas Gardiner, ex-Senator, will be likely to be retained in his present position as County Treasurer. = emolument is the same as that of the former office, heey ee POLICE JUSTICE. The term of Justice James Cornwell's office, Worth $2,500 a year, — in January, much sought after. He will, if ible, secure his renomination, The other lea aspirants are Daniel Ferry, Sergeant of the Fort PI a deserving and weil qualified man; Andrew Walsh, clerk in Justice Buckley’s court; Chariey Wylie, of the Street Commussioner’s Department, and Sergeant Haggerty, of the Forty-third precinct. __ JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. Justice John Delmar, who was elected by a la! en last year to fill an unexpired term of the ice of Justice of the Peace in the Second district, Will be re-elected in November, there being no oppo- sition thereto, The salary is the same that of Police Justice, In New Brooklyn Justice fiyneh, a painted by the Legislature, at a salary of $500, will he returned for the full term, it 1s thought. The oftice, in a pecuniary sense, is too small to admit of any competition whatever. : DISTRICT ATTORNEY. Ex-Judge George G. Reynolds has been spoken of as a candidate who would certainly strengthen the republican ticket, and if nominated would receive a great many democratic votes for the responsible position of District Attorney of Kings county, an ottice for which he is so thoroughly qualified. Colonel Robert Johnstone, an able ate of the legal profession in this ¢owity, is like! ecelye the democratic nomination. . Samuel Morris, the incumbent, is in the fleld again for re-election, but finds it rather uphill work, he having incurred the opposition of the Liquor Dealers’ Association, who have pledged themselves to exert their intluence against his re-election. egg corongr. “"* By the death of Coroner Slatterly, which occurreds ashort while ago, a vacancy was createdin this office, which was filled by the appointment of Mr. Flavin, a republican, by Governor Fenton. This ap- pointment holds good till the next election only, when a democrat will be returned. Dr. Cornelius Murphy, an intelligent man and able physician, is spoken of in well informed circies as likely to be the choice of the Convention. Thomas Farrell, of the Fifth ward, is also mentioned with this position. The republicans will, in the meantime, pay Mr. Flavin the compliment of their endorsement, 9... SUPERINTENDENT OF THE POOR, | “SSS A Superintendent of the Poor, for the Eastern Dis- trict, in place of Mr. Montgomery, the outgoing in- cumbent, will be voted for in November, Conspicu- ous among the aspirants for this vacancy in the Board of Brooklyn “Bumbles” are Supervisor Du- gan, of the Fifteenth ward, and ex Alderman Keihl, of the Sixteenth. For the county towns Mr. Fergu- son, itis believed, will be renominated, The salary is about $2,000 per year. ALDERMEN, , ‘There are eleven Aldermen, one in each of the even numbered wards, to be chosen at the coming election, and the candidates are already vegetating ag thick a8 mushrooms, and squabbling over their prospects, claims and respective antecedents. It 1s, hereiore, useless to attempt to enumerate the would-be City Fathers. Their name ts Legion. SUPERVISORS will be voted for in the odd numbered wards. Both boards are democratic, and are likely to remain so for the present. MISCELLANEOUS POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE, os lrote Pennsylvania Congressional Nominations. ‘The Congressional nominations in Pennsylvania are now completed, with the single exception of the democratic nomination in the Ninth district. They are as follows:— Dist. Republican, 1—Benj. L. Berry 2—Chas O’Neill..... 3—Leonard Myers. 4—W. D. Kelley. 5—Caleb N. Taylor. 6—J. R. Breitenback, 7—Wash, Townsend. 8—Henry S. Eckert. 9—0. J. Dickey. 10—H. L, Cake. 11—Daniel Kalbfus. 12—Theodore Strong. 18—Ulysses Mercur. 14—Johbn B. Racker. 15—Samuel Small. 16—Jonn Cessna. 1i—D, J. Morrell 18—W. H. Armstrong... 19—Glenni W. Scofield 20—C, W. Gilfillan. 21—John Covode. 22—James 8. Negley. 23—Darwin Pheips. Z. Mitchell. 24—J. B. Donley avid Crawford, Congressional Nominations. At the Democratic Convention held in Watertown, Wis., on Thursday, John Winans, of Janesville, was nominated for Congress from the Third distric! At the Democratic Convention held at Schenectady, N. Y., yesterday, John H. etre of Saratoga, was i a for Congress from the Eighteenth dis- ic Democratic. Samuel J. Randall. hos. B, Florence. -John Moffett. James B. Nicholson, Joun B, Reading. John D. Sti R. E. Monaghan. Lawrence Getz, No nomination. James J, Connor. D. M. Van Auden, G. W. Woodward, Victor E. Piolet. Joseph F, Knipe, R. J. Haldeman, A. W. Kimmell. J. P. Linton, L. A. Mackey. Rasselas Brown. R. M. De France, Henry D. Foster, . Andrew Burtt. Political Notes. The New Orleans Picayune produces the following touching lines appropriate to the present elec tioneer- ing times:— THE TORCHLIGHT PROCESSION, In the dark, with a child on her bosom, A woman is walking the floor; Moaning, while hushing her darling, Oh, God! what it is to be poor. In the dark, with a chiid on her bosom, In the dark of a comfortless room; Not even a candle’s dull ray to soothe The terrible ache of the gloom. Down the street throngs a joyous procession, With thousands of lamps all alight; And the glare of whispering rockets ~ Ascending the shadows of night. Ou enough for the multitude’s marching, And music, and banners, and flowers; While the biue of the zenith is blazing With grand pyrotechnica! showers. All alone with her poor little burden, A woman with hungering eyes Soothes with lips that are pallid with fasting Her famishing baby’s cries; She catches the echoes of loud huzzas, “Great God!’ she sighs under her breath, “While opulence squanders so much away, Must my litile one starve to death 1” Hark! the tramp of the marehers comes nearer— ‘Transparencies gleam past her door; “Our Cause,” “Our Kind” and “Our Country” she reads, But never one mottoed “Our Poor)? And she looks at the flickering torches And counts the magnificent flags; Then turns with a gasp to her darkness again And her scant and unseemly rags. Like a river of light the procession Flows away down the stony street, And the star-studded gates of the midnight Close on the retreating feet. The music dies out in the dim afar— All ia silence and peace and rest, Save a maniac mother pacing the floor, A little cold corpse on her breast. In reply to the inquiry, ‘“‘Where’s Ben Wade 9’ the Dayton Ledger says:—‘‘A coarse, ignorant, pro- fane and hard drinking man by the name of Wade mysteriously disappeared some months ago. He was last seey in Chicago about the time of the Con- vention."” = A call has been issued for a convention of colored voters in Georgia, to be held in Macon, on the first Tuesday in October, It will be gn interesting gath- ering. ont The Springfeld Repubdlican thus refers to the Con- gressional districts in Massachusetts :— Messrs. Dawes, Banks, Boutwell, Hooper, Twichell and Ames will be renominated without opposition. Mr. Washburn also is pretty sure of the nomination, and go, we fear, is General Butier. Mr. Buftinton is likely to be nominated in the First district, though the friends of William T. Davis do not give up hope. In the Worcester district the choice lies between air . Bird and Mr. G. F. Hoar. There is some talk of run- ning Mr. Dana = oy Butler in the Essex district, but that excellent proposal is rather late in the campaign, and it is rather doubtful if Mr. Dana will consent to stand, The Convention is called at Salem on the 28th inst. CITY POLITICS, Banner Raising in the Twenty-Second Ward. A meeting, numbering three thousand, was held last evening at the corner of Forty-second strect and Tenth avenue, under the auspic® of the Seven- teenth Assembly District Democratic Association, Alexander Ward President, General W. 8. Hiliyer presiding. Andrew Jackson Rogers spoke at great length, exhorting his hearers to vote for the candidate with @ policy—Horatio Seymour. He referred to the re- construction policy, and in his usual style denounced Jongress and its m ures. He Wanted his opinions on the bond question to be known, which were ment in greenbacks, equality of taxation. Speeches were made by Thomas J. Creamer, Judge Conn ', Alexander Ward, Draddy and otuers, after which the meeting adjourned, RUNAWAY ACCIDENTS.—About eight o'clock ast evening, while William Benson, of No, 206 West Twelfth street, and Conrad Bassermann were driv- ing down Fifth avenue ina light wagon, when near the corner of Fifty-eighth street the horse took fright, aud becoming unmanageable upset the wagon, throwing Mr. Benson and Mr, Bassermaun out, causing them some severe injuries. About ten minntes later a pair of horses attached to a chaise belonging to C. H. Sweet, of No. 229 Broadway, in the latter of Which were Mr. Sweet and his wife, took fright at the corner of Fifth and Seventh avenues, and dashed down the avenue at a frightfal speed, to the intense horror of Mra. Sweet and the great peril of both, but were stopped at the corner, of Fifty-eighth street, the place where the =e accident occurred, before any injury wae ne ” * ay | | the first man with a view of showing iim the door; | with properties belonging to the stage, leaving a THE BROADWAY THEATRE SHOOTING CASE. Testimony of the [Boy Chamberlain, One of the Persons Shot, and ef Mr. Jacks, the Actor—Mild Maunered Deputy Sheriffu—A Rusty Musket and What Came of It—A Seared Lady and What Came of Her. ‘The magisterial inquisition in the case of the re- cent shooting affuir at the Broadway theatre, where- in Deputy Sheriffs Moore, Hickey and Leary are the defendants, was resumed at eleven o'clock A. M. yesterday by Judge Shandley, at the Essex Market Police Court, As at the prior sessions, the examination was conducted by the counsel for the accused, the District Attorney, Mr. A. Oakey Hall, for some unexplained reason, still failing to putin an appearance. Only two witnesses were ex- amined yesterday, the boy Chamberlain, who on the night the shooting took place was employed as gas- lighter on the stage, and who, it will be remem- bered, was shot in the arm and through the body, and Mr. Jacks, the actor—the examinatien of the lat- ter, however, not being completed when the court adjourned. The boy Chamberlain, who after being shot was not expected to survive, has fully recov- ered. The following is the additional testimony taken :— James L. Chamberlain, of No, 101 Seventh avenue, being duly sworn, deposed as foYows—On the 25th of August, 1863, ! was working on the stage of the Broadway theatre, xing a row of lights between the set waters, when I heard a rushing noise as of poomte hurrying on to the stage; I paid no attention to it at the time; I went across the stage and lit my “set water” lights; I came back and saw Steve Wil- son standing in the second entrance above me; I then heard a pistol shot; I paid no attention to it; I then heard two more shots in quick succession; I came from behind the “set water” and saw Wilson bleed- ing from the leg; I saw a crowd of men in the same entrance; 1 saw one of the party with a pistol in his hand; Wilson was about ten or fifteen feet away from the crowd and had a small piece of profile board in his hand; he then went down through the prompter’s box from the stage and came up on the other side; L then crossed from the middle of the stage toward the back door; somebody called my name; I turned to see who the person was; I then heard some one say, “You + Vi blow your brains out of your head: I turned around quick; before I could speak or get fairly around [ felt the ball go through me; I looked around and saw the stoutest man of the party have Steve Wilson across the rail and he had a pistol pointed at me; I then was carried out of the theatre by one of the actors to the City Hospital. By the Judge—Do you identify the stout man who shot you? A. I recognize that man (pointing ont Deputy Sheriff Moore) as the one who had Mr, Wilson on the railing and pointed the pistol at me. Q. Do you identify any other man? A. T identify that man (pointing out Deputy Sheriif Hickey) as the one who came towards Mr. Wilson with a pistol in his hand; he had on light clothes; it was he who shot Wilson in the leg. Cross-examined by counsel for the defence—I did not hear Mr. Wilson’s testimony the other day; I did not read the accounts in the papers; I saw the head- ings but did not Tead them. Q. Why did you not read the accounts? A. T did not think it proper to do so; I did not read anything; I saw the papers lying in the office of the theatre last Tuesday night; I did not take it in my hands; it was lying on the shelf at the box ofiice; the head- ing was exposed. Q. What was the heading? A, I don’t recollect; I think tt was the examination of the deputy sheriffs before Justice Shandley at the Police Court; Lam not certain; it was in middling sized letters over the report; that was all I saw; I don’t know what space there was between the headings and the report, pro- bably half an inch or an inch; [don’t think it was on the first page; am not certain; the title of the paper was at the top; Iam positive that the title of the paper was at the head of the page on which I saw the heading of the report. Q. What colored clothes did Mr. Moore wear? A. I did not notice his clothing; Tonly saw his hat; he had on a round hat; I could not say whether it was a black or brown hat. Q. If he had on light clothes such as he has now do you not think you would have noticed them? A. I do not think I would. Q. How do you remember him so well if you did not notice his clothes? A. I looked particularly at his face and remember him from his looks; I think he had Wilson by the coat collar when he had him over the railing. Q. Has not Mr. Wilson taken off his whiskers since that night? A, I can’t say. Q. Did he not have on side whiskers? A. I can’t say; I only saw his front face, and that about a minute or a minute and a half; that is alll saw of him that night; [next saw him here last Tuesday morning; I saw him at the court; I saw him first down stairs. Q. How was Mr. Hickey dressed? A. In dark clothes; he had on a walking coat, same as he has on now, but it may have been darker; his pants were dark; can’t say about his vest; he had on a tall white hat; I saw him after he had shot Wilson and while he was talking to the stage manager, alvo- gether three or four minutes. fi a Did you see Hickey shoot Wilson? A. No, sir, I did not. Q. Had he whiskers that night? A. No, only a mustache; I saw five or six other men, but did not see their features; I only heard the shot that struck me as Lwent down the back stairs; | was slot in the right arm and abdomen. Q. Do you know who shot A. I can’t say positively; I was shot in the right arm and through the body. Q. Did you see the man that shot you? A. No; my attention was drawn in another direction, Q. Did you see Mr. Moore fire the shot that grazed the front of Mr. Wilson’s head? A. No. Q. Would you have seen that shot? A, No; my at- tention was drawn another way by somebody cailing my name; don’t know who it was that called me, Q. Did you hear anything about sheriffs or oMcers that night? A. No; not until after I was shot; I then heard Mr. Hickey say that he was a Deputy Sheriff; he said so to an officer in front of the thea- tre; don’t Know the policeman’s name; Mr. Cowan was then looking at my wound; I was then three feet from the crowd, back of the stage; I was taken out through the ‘auditorium, under the stage, into Broadway; I walked up the stairs after 1 was shot; when I heard Mr, gee 8 make the remark I was about five feet from the stage, near the entrance; I did not see any drunken man on the stage that night; { heard nothing about an order for the arrest of Mr. Harkins; I neither heard anything about a crowd eee expected from the New York theatre to break up the play. Q. Who did you suppose the five or six men were you saw come in the theatre? A. I thought they were ‘a crowd who came to break the play up. Q. What made you think so’ A. Because they were ringing up for the third or fourth act, and T heard the revolvers fired, Q. Why did you suppose they wanted to break up the play? A. Ll saw two carpenters running aad [| supposed they intended to put us all out of the thea- tre; 1 don’t Know as any special orders were given that night not to let strangers in the back door, Q. Did you hear any shots before the one that took effect on Mr. Wilson? A. Yes, I heard one or two. Q. Where were they fired? A. On the stage, in the second or third entrance; did not see who fired them: I saw Mr. the stage manager, during the affray; was standing by the set-water giving me orders; don’t know whether he was there during all the affray; did not hear these men call Mr, Wilson a son of a. b—h; did not hear Mr. Wilson say he would like to blow these men's faces off with his pistol in his hand, or that he would to fix them; heard George Wilson say that Mr, F e made the remark to Mr. Cohe: e said it after Steve Wilson was sho don't know why he made the remark; they were on the opposite side of the stage; he was hot rejoicin; over it; Mr. H ins playea up to the time of the af- fray; saw Mr. Harkins about ten minutes before the affray; he was on the stage giving directions to the carpenters: he had on his costume. q. Can you tell positively, of your own knowledge, who shot Mr. Wilson? A. No, sit. John H. Jack, sworn—I reside at No, 180 Bleecker street; 1am an actor, employed at the Broadway theatre; on Monday evening, 24th of August, I was cast in ‘Foul Play;'? just before the curtain was to rise on the second act I approached the back door for the purpose o' getting some air and rest, not Soe engages in the second act, when the doorkeeper, Mr. Costi- gan, spoke to me; he was leaning against the door of the property room which was open; he ap- peared exhausted and suffering from pain; he said “Mr. Jack, that man hit me and knocked me down and hurt me; | inquired what man: he answerea, “That man that went in with those men just now; i asked What men and where did they go; he said in there, pointing toward the stage; that moment some five or six men came rushing up stairs from the neigh- borhood of the dressing rooms, which are beneath the stage; they appeared excited, and from what the old man (the back doorkeeper) had toid me about being knocked down I concluded that they were in- from the street; I said to them, “Gentlemen, ve no buisness here: one voice exclaimed is Harkins’ another “Where is Mr. Har+ ited, “No matter where Mr, Harkins is, here and must leave; one of ‘By God, we have business here and ou? kins? you have tio them answere will let you know it; I replied, “You have no busi- ness and you must get out, if you have buisness it can be attended to here,” and TI proceeded to an an- te-room Where strangers are adinitted — for the transaction of business; one said “We have got business here, and by God no ot can put us out,’ or words to that effect: lanswered “I guess yes” and placed my hands upon they immediately reached for me, as T supposed, to strike me; the space was very much encumpered passage between the bannisters surrounding the patchway leading down stairs and these proper for one Man to pass, consequently they could not reach me either to catch or strike me; fearing per- sonal violence from their hands [ exclaimed “Oh, that's your game, is it?’ and retreated to the pro- erty room, about three stepa from where I had neen; I went there to get hold of something for self defence if necessary; the only thing I found was an old musket, Which I picked out from some half dozen that were racked against the wall; | raised the butt of the musket, intending to make a club of it, when Mr. Moore pushed to the front of the other intruders, and, drawing a pistol, pointed it at e, asking, “What in the hell is the matter with him’ meaning me, a Clearly shown by his poimting th ol at «me; feeling that 1 was in & serious position 1 put tha = muaket back in the piace I took it from with wy left hand; and waving my right hand to Mr. Moore said, ‘None of that for me, gentlemen; none of that for me;.’ One replied, “By G—d, or by J—s, Pillet him know I’m deputy sherriff;” this remark tor the first time led me to suppose that they were officers and had some duty to perform in connection with “Foul Play; I immediat said, “Gentlemen, if you are officers and have a duty to perform here, stiow your authority and execute {t like men and no one will interfere with you; this moment my atten- tion was to Mr, Moore by seeing a female clinging to his neck; she proved to ke Mrs. Deror- rest, the wife of the property man, Who Was waiting for her husband; Mr. Moore asked him, “What do you want? she said, “Don’t do that; he asked, ‘What?’ “Why, don’t shoot that——" he pushed her off gently and 1 told her to go in there, meaning the property room, and there would be no shooting; they now rushed fowngtirongs the left hand passage of the stage on the north side, between the wall and flats; the pas- sage way being very narrow, they had some ditticulty in getting through; when they got beyond the first flat it brought them to the fourth entrance leading to the stage; for a moment I lost sight of them, and supposed they went towards the stage by that en- trance; they overturned some set pieces just ar- ranged for the piece, and this brought a collision be- tween them and some of the attaches of the theatre; at that moment I heard a shot tired. The examination was here adjourned till ten A. M. ‘on the 29th inst. EASTERN TEXAS AND NORTHERN LOUISIANA. Home Truths Plainly Told—Critical Condie tion of Things—The Patience of the. People Giving Way—Carpet-Baggers and Radicals Shot Down and Hunted Out of the Country— Twenty Thousand Troops Required to Up- hold Negro Supremacy and Carpet-Bag Tax- ation—Prominent Radicals Acknowledging the Nature of the Crisis=“Stop Here or Ex- terminate, Which ¢? MARSHAL, Eastern Texas, Sept. 12, 1868, Atour through Northern Louisiana and Eastern Texas suggests various considerations which cannot be too seriously or too temperately set forth, To pass them by lightly would be to ignore one of the most striking peculiarities in the present aspect of affairs in the South. To state them broadly without qualification or explanation would convey a most erroneous impression of the condition of the country. The facts must be taken as they stand, and the said facts most undoubtedly are that lawlessness and the class of diaturbances which the radical press term without distinction rebel outrages are lamentably on the increase throughout the whole of this section of the country. It is no use disguising the truth nor attempting to gloss it over. Excuses are readily enough found for every deed of violence. ‘This man was a notorious horse thief; that man had marpied a negro wench and outraged the whole community by thrusting her forward among white people; Mrs. Smith had had a difficulty five years ago with somebody's wife's uncle’s cousin and the family feud that resulted was the only cause of his being killed; John Jones had been inciting the negroes to armed violence and had endangered the public peace in the most atrocious manner—all admirabile explanations in their way, but when re- peated over and over again to account for hundreds of “difficulties” in which, somehow or other, the man killed is in nine cases out of ten a radical carpet- bagger, @ loyal league negro or a renegade South- erner, these explanations begin to lose consistency and probability. It is better to meet the case fairiy and squarely and confess the truth at once. The patience of the Southern people of this section is about worn out. Like boiling water the ebullition starts from the bottom and affects the lower strata of society first. Any one who travels with his ears and eyes open meets the indications of it atevery step. He needn't seek them; they thrust themselves upon him, not in menaced violence or studied insult to the traveller. 1. G. might journey from one end of the country to the other, and unless he preached fire and sword to the negroes or squatted to run for Congress it is very doubtful whether he would be molested. 0, 0. Howard has just travelled in safety through most of the Southern territory. But the conversation of the people in stages, cars and steamboats, the sullen moodiness of the groups around the barrooms and , the damnable iteration with which the terms “seulawags” and “carpet-baggers’’ strike upon one’s ear, comparable only to the number of times a mancan notch the word “dollars” in crossing Wall street ferry, convince the least observant traveller that the barometer South is veering rapidly from “cloudy” to “stormy.” The overland journey from Monroe to Shreveport—that weary, stifling stage ride of forty hours without rest or sleep—is varied by dialogues such as the following, which I give, nothing extenuating and naught setting down in malice:— ‘Travelling Texan—Country’s very unhealthy about here. (Neighborhood of Franklin parish, La.) Good many deaths lately. Unsuspecting Female—Is that so? was a good deal of chilis and fever, but didn’t think it was as bad as that. Travelling Texan—Tain’t altogether that ma’am. There’s @ new disease ‘bout here—attacks foreigners chiefly, Anybody who’s unacclimated’s most sure to get it. In Tact, anybody from the North who don’t carry much baggage ‘long with him has got tu try change of air or he'll die sure. Unsuspecting Female—Oh ! Travelling Texan shifts his six-shooters into an easier position, raises the leather curtain, expec- torates and relapses into silence, On the road to Marshall the trouble at Sulphur Springs was considerably discussed. Fragments only of the conversation reached me. “You say he’s got the Yankee troops surrounded?” “Yes, and he’s gev ’em till Friday to surrenc and says if they don’t he'll shoot ’em, every ¢ He’s the man todo it, too. They say there's bee: some right smart fightin’ a’ready. The citizens are all arming themscives and they’ve killed a good many radicals, * “What’ll he do if they do surrender?” hg Kill the cap’n and the soldier that fired the shot, sure.” ‘Serve ‘em d—d your way?’ was the next query, and the conversation turned off in another vein. From another part of the car:— “We've had a reconstruction marriag? up our way.” * “How's that’? sy member Mrs. R—, General R's widow? Weil, she’s married the Bureau Captain.” “Don’t say! I would’nt ha’ believed it of her of all women.’” “Nor Teither, After her husband was shot you couldn't sit and talk to her five minutes but what she had some of her venom to spit out about these cussed Yankees, and now she’s married a filthy Yank, and a radical at that.” “Keckon they'll both have to get up and git.” “Yes, and right smart, too, Tha’ve druy that other fellow out of Jefferson, He came down lust night, scared near to death.” “im glad of it, ‘here's a few more got to go yet.” “That's 80." Of the numerous Northern adventurers—embryo Congressmen, State ators and legisiators—wiio settled at Shreveport to be on hand for either Louisiana, Texas or Arkansas, as circumstances might direct, not three are left, and they are pre- paring for @ speedy departure. “it isn’t exacuy that any violence has been threatened them,” ex- plained a@ prominent citizen in the mildest imagin- able tone, ‘but the geueral sentiment of the commu- nity was such that it wasn’t safe for them to remain.” Having seen something more of the region of Gov- ernor Warmoth’s hundred and fifty political murders since I last wrote from that district tne conviction is forced upon me that if Mr. Warmotn had said two hundred and tifty, instead of one hundred and fifty, and had left out his deductions and generalities, there would have been iittle cause of complaint against him on the score of veracity. Let the truth be told, In all Northern Louisiana and Eastern Texas there is scarcely one white carpet-bagger or recently converted “Union man"—I don’t speak of original and consistent Unionists, men who fought or suffered banishment for their opinions, as ail such men had to do, but of recent converts, whose change of views is invariably accompani: by some fat oMce—in all this wide extent of country there is irene one of these men located five miles and upwards from a United States military post whose Ife is safe from hour to hour, Dreadfully shocking, no doubt. A sadly disap- pointing result of four years’ war and three years’ reconstruction. But extremely natural after all, when you come to look into the causes and condition of things staring the facts boldly in the face, not blinking them, as the partisau journals of one ‘side have done; not exaggerating them, as the partisan journals of the other side are doing; not hiding, skirking and denying them, a8 most of the Southern newspapers have Weakly tried todo. There is noth- ing here that does not follow as naturally as cause precedes effect. It t3 proximate idiocy to talk abont these things being evidences of the continued “disloyalty” of the South. Let that cobweb be cleared away first. Hos- tility to the government of the United ‘States and a desire to be longer exciuded from it cannot be found in the community atlarge. The flag which in 1864-5 the laches of Charleston and New Orleans spit upon and trampled under foot now decorates the stalis at every fancy fair and appears in innumerable forms tnevery public demonstration. Greenbacks, which | in 1865-6 Waged an unequal fight with specte as the currency of the country, more then from political than financial causes, have gained the upper hand, Specie has retired into the interior of ‘Texas, and even there is being rooted out by the national cur- rency. The privates of the United States army may be seen at every post frater- nizing With the soldiers of the ex-confederac The oiicers, aiso, if they attend to their military du. ties and leave politics alone, are respected and well received, especially if West Pointers, Right in the midst of Governor Warimoth’s murder district | have in mind ro commander who does not hesitate to say that if he were in his own State on election day he should vote for Grant, but who is universally spoken of by the citizens as a good soliter and a just geniieman. These remarks do not apply of course to the negro regiments; but there is something to be said even ou that score, On every Mississippi steamboat you may see negro deck hands dreaved fa the tattered remains of their old uniforms as United States soldiers and none the worse patd or treated on that account. They are rather preferred as being more amenable to discipline and quicker to obey the word of COMMaNG. In hriet tha neania nt tha south I heard there ell right, too—how’s crops up 3 if anything, are loyal overmuch. They are 80 fo! of the warnment thasthen are looking to get ond their oid lion’s share of it when things get settled— an excusable aspiration, but one not likely to be realized till ten million vovers at the North write themselves down tén million asses, If it is not disloyalty what then is it? The answer must be looked for in the state of the country, the habits of the people and the nature of the new order of things which has}been thrust upon them. There is no exclamation which @ travelling correspondent of the HeRacp is likely to hear oftener than this:— “Would to God that somebody would just show the people of the North the condition we are in.” The dimiculty lies not in the want of material, but in the embarrassment of riches, Take, for example, Louis- ana, where a State government has been established Whose oMcers can only accede to power by truck- ling to the negro, by arraying the whole labor sys+ tem of the country in open or disguised hostility to the landed interest and capital—who can only gain the votes of their miserable dupes by holding out promises which they neither will nor ean fuifll and by fostering bitterness of feeling and prejudice ini- mical to the public peace. You thus at starting ex- clude every man of honor and self-res} , every one Who has a solid interest at stake, from snaring in the governinent, Then come down to the resulting grievances—a black and white convention, which takes $400,000 out of the comers of a bankrupt State for framing a black and white constitution—a Leqis- lature of such a character that Lieutenant Governor Dunn, a Haytien negro, is by general accord evu- ceded to be by far the most honest, the most inte! gent, the most respectable and the best man con- nected with the whole body; an election commitice which acts on the Congressional plan of declaring every democrat’s election ileal and every radical contestant legally eiected—which ousts from the Senate the educated Jewell, returned by te white majority vote of New orleans, “and pu in his place the incendiary mulatto Pinch to threaten the city with the to the effect of these procee the country parishes, in Ca eT the people, determined upon giving (1 structed State government a fair trial, eie of thelr most conservative and best citizens to the Legislature and found them supplanted by three Northern adventurers whose very names were un- known to them, or in Wachita, where the inteili- gence of the people is ted in the Legisiature by a white pedier of chi s and a negro barber. Remember that the convention in its wisdom abolished the system of tacit mortgages, which in Louisiana formed the only safeguard of the rights of property of the widow and the fatheriess—tie State Jaws prohibiting trusteeship—and that they set up nothing in its place. Remember further that the Legislature in a two months’ session bas made na attempt to touch this or any other usuful liti confining itself to granting lottery sciienies, ¢: schemes, railroad schemes and every sy of public swindling; that while white widows and orphans are left at the merey of any legal shark who chooses to prey upon them, the Legislature is deep in consideration of a bill for admitiing negro wenches to the dress circles of the theatres. Let the Known and reputable republican oifice holders in the State be and the as numerous as the fingers of your hand, men of unknown and disreputable antec numerous as the hairs of your head, lay on tax enormously heavy that if they are followed up on third of the real estate of the country must event« ually come under the tax auctioneer’s llammer; above all, place the public school system of the State in the hands of a man more justiy odious to the people at large than even General Butler, and pa-s & law that during six months of the year the childrem of the middle class whites for whose benetit the schools were established shall be compelied to eat, study and play with the children of emancipated plantation slaves on an equal footing; shall be taught fa the same class, by the same teac.er, or ie ae yonder Why bereit of schooling altogether, and the: in the inaccessible portions of the State Governor has appointed no clvil ofice handful of United States ry is considered rigson for two or three paristies, Rhode Island—then wonder that in these districts the carpet-bag squatiers, the instruments for car! gar- woh as large as ing out all these evils, and the present embodiment of the reconstruction —lemistation of the State, who are fattening, gioul-like, on the dead prosverity of the country and are shot down, on one pretext or another, and hounded out of the country without compunction. No community at the North would have tolerated their presence one- quarter of the time that Louisiana has od thei, law, Which the Western States apply to expres¢ 8 would have been theirs before they had more than unpacked their carpel-bags. as has not yet been bi ead with a recon- ed Legislature; and It 1s very doubtful whether she ever will be. She is the only Southern State that the reconstructionists have not been reach to any extent, and she is the only State that is making large crops and is and advancing. But Texas las had a that spent $100,000 in a hundred days an journed, finding no more mon was to bi ‘And Texas has been a rich field for the little ty of littie military satraps and the contemptible exto tions of Freedmen’s Bureau agents. Tue have had a gooa deal to put up with, and they haven't put up with it. Any one who essays to rule Texas must do it with a mailed hand under a silkiglove. The country is entireiy too large for tyraunies and picayune steaiings to successfully for any length of time. ©: are growing scar The maia misc has been done by Bureau agents and ants. Brigadier General Hayden (a vet Mexican war), who now commands in Kas! under the orders of Ger I Reynolds, hi on the head, Phe chief cause of our troabvles her he says, “is that most of the post commanders have been young men who have come here not as ofle of the United States, arimy be politicians, and who forget that the war isover. Consequently if you venture a few miles away from your post in uniferin, somebody is pretty sure to take'a pop at you.” ihe General might have added as anolier consequence of this state of things that the United states commissay trains are persistently robbed by Bickersuul’s outlaw gang; that a handful of United States troops are how besteged at Sulphur Springs by the save and that the people look on With huge en) the tussle, shouting “Pitch in, B now and then by way should flag, ‘Go it less exeut Louisiana; eC pretext for a fight? ‘The citizens of Louisiana have a large e's public sympathy. Disirauchised and impo their plantations lying wast the dreary desoiation of this once are. capital driven away by c: negroes incited to 4 1 plots like that so rece (of which fuil particulars have alr @ previous letier), the people of Louisii the forbearance and resiznation of t repaid by the imposition uf fresi burd harder to bear than the last: and their ene has broken down at jast. Even now it is no: landowners nor the influential aud best class of citizens that are re to Ly neh law aad viol nor is the lawlessness gene’ it is for the yr as ra 'e: rte ven Lv in He cotizens of tfutl to thud @ upon confined to the northern portions of the Stue, wuere Governor Warm \ to ape point civil omic ouclawry and bushwhacking But the aspect of aifairs is us serious for the North as‘for the South, Where is ths thing to end’ Let me call upon the sland a witness genous, for the defence. His testimony should be unin. peached, for itis one of the brothers Kay, wuose “apostasy” (é. ¢. radicalism) is loudly condenmed by the whole South press. Says dJadse Ray, of Wachita:—“When the surrender of the Con armies took place, you heard it said that Uv was only just beginning—tiat from organtz rations in the fleid hostilities should be down to guerilia wartare in every paris, The poo- ple did not carry out that threat then. ‘Tey laid down their arms and showed a disposition to accept the situation.” Why at this late hour has the gue- rilla,project been partially put in force’ The ques- tion Is a significant one. Still more significant the query, How is it to be suppressed? If by force of arms, Northern Louistana can comfortaoly absorb ten thousand troops aid Eastern Texas as many more. Homer tiiad Blackburn, radical Congressman from Louisiana, has most unexpectedly supplied an answer. Just returned from Washington, le wri in his newspaper to thi “A careful review of ail the facts and indications convinces me that we have got to stop right here or go on CLlerinite ation, I say stop here, Hor say you?” ate war 1 ope- brought LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. RaILWay AccipENT.—An Italian woman named Mary Steigii, residing on Staten Island, wiile cross- ing Grand street yesterday afternoon was knocked down by freight car No. 86 of the New itaven Kail- road and severely injured. She was taken to Bel vue Hospital. Scppen DeaTH.—About nine o'clock last night Mrs. Clara Faul, of No. 634 Cornelia street, while re- turning to her residence through Cornelia street, and while nearly opposite her residence dropped dead—supposed to be of disease of the heart. be. cessed Was about thirty years of ag ‘The Coroner Was notified, and will bold an inquest. ARREST OF A GANG OF ALLEGED THIEVES. —Yester- day afternoon four individuals swering to the names respectively of Joseph Darham, Wiliam Bur- rows,gJaines Varham and Charles Pierce were ar- rested by the Thirteenth precinct police charged with the larceny of brass and @ press of the value of 709 from Frederick Deguer, of No, 49 Devoe street, Brooklyn. They Will be arraigued at Essex sticet Police Court this morning, Afkest OF AN ALLEGED Nororrovs Pick- rocket.—John Smith, alias John Keefe, alias “Jim- my the Greek,” residing at No, 210 Elizabeth street, was arrested last night on a charge of having picked the pocket of Peter G. Vanderhoim, of the steamer North State, now lying at pier No. 33 North river, at @ place of amuse ment in the Bowery. A man named Thowas Kerrigan, who was in company with “the Greek,” Was likewise arrested on suspicion of bavung re- ceived the contents of Vanderhofs pocket ant Passed them over to 4 third confederate, On Kerri gan's person was found $155, which he claiius to be his own and which is not identified as Vanderhomts, Both the accused were locked up in the Thicteehth ecine’ t vid Will be brought up at te on house Essex Market Police Court tis morning. The New Hampshire Medical Society was incor. porated Feb. 16, 17 The New Hampshire bibie Society organized in June, 1812; and the State sionary Society im September 130k.