The New York Herald Newspaper, September 19, 1872, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, —_>+—_—— All business or news letters and telegraphic Cespatches must be addressed New Your HEnatp. Rejected communications will not be ro- turned. RUSEMENTS TH THs EVENING, BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twonty:t wonty-third stroot. corner Sixth evenue.—Tux Beiis; on, Tux Pousa J: BOWFRY THRATER Bowery.—Tug Sencrant's Wep- ping—Tur Deatu Taar. WoOD's MUSEUM. Broadway, comer Thirtieth st— Cnow-Cnow. Atierncon and Byoning, OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway, between Houstonand Bleecker ste. —One UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Broadway, between Thir- tecnth and Fourtecnth streets.—AaNas. WALLACK'S street. —LxI0N j THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth on, fue MAN at THR WOEKL. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street— Dismonvs. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth av.—Rot Canorre, UNION LEAGUE THEATRE, Madison ay. and 20th st— Pruxcu Couzpy—ON DEMANDE UN GouvERNOUK. THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway. —Annan-na- Buoaux. ATHENAUM, 85 Broadway.—Necro Min. ETRELSY, AC. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st., Qhav.—Nearo Minsrextsy, Eccentnicity, &c. S§T. JAMES THEATRE, cornor of 25th st. and Broad way.—San Francisco MINSTRELS IN Fance, 40. corner TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Granp Vanisty Extertarnment, &c. 72 BROADWAY, EMERSON'’S MINSTRELS.—Gaanp Ermiortan Eccuntricities, JAMES ROBINSON'S CHAMPION CIRCUS, corner of Madison ayeuue and Forty-fith stroct. AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR, Third av., between 08d and Gth streets, CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Gaanp Concent. DR. KAUN'S MUSEUM, No. 745 Broadway.—Arr ann Bctence. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— baat axp ART. InsTRUNENTAL ‘TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Thursday, Sept. 19, 1872, THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. QUEEN VICTORIA'S RECEPTION OF MR. STAN- LEY, THE COMMANDER OF THE HERALD SEARCH CORPS—CABLE TELEGRAMS FROM EUROPE AND ASIA—CUBAN NEWS— SEVENTH PaGE. GREELEY “GOERS WEST: TRIUMPHAL PROG- RESS; NEW JERSEY AND PENNSYLVANIA SHAKING HANDS ACROSS THE WHITE HAT—CHARLES O'CONOR DECLINES THE STRAIGHT-OUT NOMINATION—JUDGE BED- FORD RATIFIED FOR CITY JUDGE—THE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN—SEVENTH PAGE. FORRESTER: REMARKABLE EVIDENCE AGAINST THE PRISONER; CLEARING AWAY THE NATHAN MYSTERY—THE JERSEY MUR- DERS—SIOUX CHIEFS INTERVIEWING SECRETARY DELANO: WHAT THEY DE- MAND—Tuinp Pace. DION BOUCICAULT INTERVIEWED—PAULINE LUCCA—THE PATTI-MARIO CONCERTS— THEODORE THOMAS’ CONCERTS TO CLOSE—THE PRESIDENT AT LONG BRANCH—ART—YACHTING—TuiRD Pace. SRICKET: FIRST DAY OF THE GREAT MATCH— THE SECOND DAY OF THE AUTUMN TROT. TING MEETING AT PROSPECT PARK—RAC- ING A? LEXINGTON, KY.—SHIPPING—Tenta Pace. EDITORIAL LEADER: “THE DISGRACEFUL MOVEMENTS IN WALL STREET—SHOULD THEY NOT BE PREVENTED ?'—Sixtu Page. fHE WALL STREET EXCHANGES: AN EXCITING DAY; THE “CORNERS” BROKEN; SECRE- TARY BOUTWELL INTERFERES; TWO FAILURES—THE DETAILS OF TIE “COR- NERS" OF THE CLIQUES—FourtTa Pace. WARD'S ISLAND TRAGEDIES; A SICK- ENING STORY; CORONER'S INQUEST AND VERDICT AGAINST FARRELL—EXAMINA- TION INTO THE INGERSOLL BAIL BONDS— THE COURTS—FirtH PAGE. DEPARTURE OF MORMONS—PASS HIM AROUND— EIGuTH Pace, THE Tae Brvuraurrms or Keepers m Lunatic Asytums will receive a healthy check through the commendable action of the Coroner's jury yesterday in the case of Horatio Seymour and John Ornell, inmates of the Ward’s Island Asylum, done foully to death by inhuman treatment. A verdict against Farrell, the keeper, for directly causing the death of the first unfortunate, was found, and one de- claring him to have accelerated the death of the second. Sympathy is sometimes aroused by brutality in the treatment of even the worst criminals; but these helpless victims of mania have a claim on the sym- pathy of all Their very inability often to make coherent complaint is cause enough for this, and we sincerely hope that if the crimes alleged can be fastened bo- fore a criminal jury on the present prisoner he will meet the full measure of punishment provided by law. Bounp ror a Lanp or Equatiry.—Eight hundred and eighty French Communists, con- victed of various outrages against life and property, were embarked at Brest yesterday in penal deportation to the convict settlement in New Caledonia. Captain Cook found the island inhabited by a population of the Papuan negro race when he discovered it, in 1774. If any of their descendants remain they will, no doubt, fraternize agreeably with the would-be reformers of society and public morals in exile from France. Custom Hovsz Rerornm anp War Horrons ex Cupa.--From Havana, under date of the | 16th instant, comes news of the efforts which | are being made by the new Intendente to purge the Custom House of Cuba of dishonest officials, and secure a more efficient collection of the import trade duties. Ho expects that by an adherence to this course he will increase the Spanish revenue from the island from five to six millions yearly. Two surgeons—one American, the other German—were captured by the commander of the Matanzas battalion when on duty in an insurgent hospital ina mountain district. They were immediately | executed—a fresh proof of Spanish ferocity | when excited by the clash of war and stimu. | NHW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1872.—TRIPLE SHHikT. whe Disgraceful Movements in Wall Street—Should They Wot Be Pre- vented? Wall street has experienced another of those financial and stcck disturbances that come at intervals through the gambling propensity and grasping cupidity of a few prominent stock and gold gamblers, Sometimes it is one set of operators or combination and some- times anothcr, and not unfrequently some of the same individuals participate in many of the stock and gold cornering schemes that aro developed at different times. With these latter it isan incurable propensity. The faro table is not more fascinating to the inveterate gamester than is making a corner in Wall street to such men, This timo the ‘operators’? mamed conspicuously aro Daniel Drew, Henry N. Smith and Jay Gould. There may be other partici- pators more in the shade, Some of these at least have been engaged before in like prac- tices, as will be remembered, and no doubt will try again tho same financial juggiery whenever another opportunity occurs. Both the facts and the process of this latest corner- ing scheme are knowa to all the professional Wall street gamblers, and our merchants and the business community generally understand them by painful experience. The public at large, however, is not so well informed, and therefore we shall briefly notice what has been already fully explained in the financial articles of this paper. In a few words, then, the ducks and geese, lame or otherwise, and the speculators gener- ally had beon operating very extensively and beyond their actual moans in an extremity in stocks and gold, and there was a gonoral disposition to what is called an active market. In view of this state of things the shrewd speculators we have named, and their allies, perhaps, saw thero was an opportunity of trip- ping up the host of small fry and over-confi- dent operators, and bought up Erie stock, money and gold, so that those who had sales to deliver were cornered. But tho singular circumstance of the wholo financial difficulty was that there were triple corners operating one against the other, and all at the samo time creating a stringency and embarrassment. Drew had bought Erio and made a corner in that, and when ho wanted the monoy to carry out his object he found that Gould and Smith had made a corner both in tho money and gold market, which compelled him to pay dearly with one hand for the operations ho had made with the other. The German gold brokers and bankers, who had a largo demand for gold and were short of it, were placed in a like dilemma. Hence the em- barrassment to those who had engagements to fulfil in Erie stock and the consequent effect upon other stocks on one hand, and the tightening of the money market and extra- ordinary high rate of intorost on the other. It was said that Drew, Gould and Smith were endeavoring to make an arrangement among themselves both to protect their interests and to control the financial situation. But the purchase of three millions of bonds by the Secretary of the Treasury has given some ease and checked to some extent their speculations. In case of prolonged difficulty Mr. Boutwell might go further and sell gold, though noth- ing is known yet of such a purpose. It is said the cornering cliques aro still actively at work to control the stock and money market. There appears to be less fear of their power, however, asthe market was easier at tho close of the business yesterday. That three or four men with an entire capi- tal of five to ten millions merely should be eble to seriously disturb the money and stock market, and raise the rate of interest to five- eighths per cent a day, or two hundred and twenty-five per cent per annum, is an anomaly that must astound most people. To the un- initiated and ordinary observer of financial transactions this must appear inexplicable. In this vast commercial and financial centro there are transactions to overs hundred mil- lions a day, banks with a capital of eighty millions and controlling three hundred mil- lions of money, with near a hundred millions lying in the Sub-Treasury in this city, and yet a clique of three or four men commanding six or seven millions only can make money or stock scarce, send the rate of interest up enormously, disturb values and em- barrass the whole business community. There is nothing logical or reasonable in this, and, however long such o financial state of affairs may havo existed, it is abnormal and contrary to good sense. There is something radically wrong that must be susceptible of oa remedy. Laws are made against gambling houses, if they are not always executed as they should be, and this gambling in Wall street with the most vital interests of the country ought to be and can be suppressed. The officers of the law may not, in certain locali- ties, be vigilant enough in breaking up faro banks or other similar establishments, on account of certain local influences and be- cause the victims are limited and voluntary; but the whole mercantile and business com- munity would be interested in restraining the gold and stock gamblers if there were a law for that purpose. It is well to remark here that much depends upon the standard of morality in this respect fixed by the government primarily and by the public secondarily. A few years ago gambling houses were almost as common as grogshops in Washington, but the government suppressed them, and the federal capital has undergone a healthy change. In such countries as some of the South American Republics, where gambling is allowed and fashionable, the priests even en- gage in it publicly. Such a spectacle would not be tolerated in the United States, All de- pends upon the standard of morality estab- lished by government, and consequently ad- mittedfby the public. Our Wall street men deem it legitimate to plunder each other and the merchants, to victimize the people and to paralyze trade for the purpose of gain. Men who claim to be pions and are pillars of our churches will deliberately plot to deceive the ignorant and to overreach the un- wary in order to make moncy, The jolly fellows of the stock and gold boards and on the curbstones of Wall and Broad streets will misrepresent and cheat as readily as the gamester with loaded dice, and then go home contented that they have only been trading in the recognized way. The same men may pay all their bills punctually, have a sort of pride in being considered honorable, and never fail to pay their pew rents or sub- lated by the passion which frequently results | scriptions to their preacher, but are demoral- from bafiled power. ized when dealing in stocks or gold, Custom and the standard of morality in Wall street harden their and give them a dif- ferent character in business from that which they have elsewhere. Tho evil is growing yearly, and has been greatly augmented by the war. It has assumed @ national importance and affects the whole community. Black Friday and Fisk's opera- tions then were but phases of this general de- moralization. The events in Wall street within the last day or two wore only a recurrence of the gambling in the stock and money mar- kets on that and other occasions, The consequences are always the same. Business suffers; everything is unsettled fora time; a ruinous rate of interest demoralizes exchange and prevents exports. A bale of cotton could not be sold during the height of the present financial disturbance. Just as the Fall trado was opening in the most promising manner everything received a check. Values to the amount of hundreds of millions are affected through the cunning and unscrupulous man- agement of six or seven millions in the hands of a Wall street clique of three or four men. Such a monstrous anomaly, evil and really financial absurdity ought to be removed some way or othor by the government. Gambling at the faro bank is not a whit more immoral and by no means as disastrous in its. consequences to the community as the disgraceful move- ments in Wall street to which we have referred. Aremedy is imperatively nooded ond ought not to be postponed. Hither the federal or State government, or both, ought to act at once in the interest of trade, the community generally and for the sake of the public morals. Tho British Press on the Claims Decision. The tory or opposition press of England will not be pacified by the decision of the Geneva arbitrators on the Alabama claims. It may be seen by the telegram we published yesterday that these intensely British organs, which op- pose tho existing government, denounce in the strongest terms the award to the United States of the insignificant sum of three million two hundred and fifty thousand pounds ster- ling, or thereabouts. One journal blurts out its implacable national spite and hatred by saying that “England has been adjudged to pay tribute to a bully who repudiates his own obligations;’’ another, by stating that “the breach between the two countries has only been widened, and that if the arbitrators had awarded nothing America (meaning the United States) could but show her teeth;’’ and another asserts that “England went to Geneva for justice and reconciliation, but instead met with invectives from the American counsel and a partially adverse award, dictated rather by a desire for compromise than by equity,”’ and, in short, that ‘‘the whole proceedings in con- nection with the arbitration are entirely un- satisfactory to England,” Such are the opinions of tho British oppo- sition press of this Geneva settlement. But would any decision have satisfied Her Ma- jesty’s opposition? No, ‘They are out of power. Tho Geneva settlement is not their work. Good or bad for England, it is the work of the party in power, and Her Majesty's opposition, for their party purposes, aro bound to make the settlement as distasteful as pos- sible to the British people. That is all there is in these fierce onslaughts of the British tory press upon what they call this ‘humiliation’ of England. There is no such humiliation. On the contrary, England has been very fortu- nate in this settlement. On those indirect or consequential damages Senator Sumner’s origi- nal and startling exposition of England's lia- bilities was accepted as a fair statement of our case, and had General Grant adopted the al- ternative of adhering to this case to the ex- tremity of quashing the whole treaty he could have commanded the support of the Ameri- can people. But he preferred peace, and so earnestly desired peace with England that he made concessions in regard to the Geneva Tri- bunal which really involved a humiliation of our government. And the best that we can say of this settlement is that on the part of Mr. Secretary Fish and his agent, Mr. Ban- croft Davis, and his learned gentlemen in the law at Genova is that it has been ‘much ado about nothing.”’ Alabama The Mayoralty—The Political Reformers and Their Little Game. In addition to the Mayoralty candidates already spoken of in political circles, ramor had it that Charles O'Conor was about to be selected and triumphantly elected. This, how- ever, if ever contemplated seriously, is now blasted, withered and shrivelled by the authori- tative announcement that the gentleman in question would not serve if all Gotham cast its vote for him on a single ballot. Hence we return to the old moutons. The rival political machines that in former elections were run in the interest of the two great parties of this city have come to a com- plete deadlock. They are in this campaign, up to the present time, as completely stuck in the mud as were the artillery of tho rival com- batants in the late war, when proceeding against cach other after a severe storm. In fact, they have collided and smashed up, and the leaders are now engaged in a sort of politi- cal raiding, holding useless conventions, form- ing entangling alliances and playing at hide- and-seek combinations all over the city at clubs and other out-of-the-way places—so far as the general public are concerned—for nomi- nations far the one great prize on the city and county ticket—the Mayoralty. It would seem that the way of the reformer is almost as hard as that of the transgressor, so unprofitable are all their schemes and devices to the attainment of the object they have in view—their own self- aggrandizement. In the political world all who hold office for any length of time aro invariably declared corruptionists, enemies to the common weal, &., and reform crusade is inaugurated for their destruction. Then rush in the would-be reformers, filling the fat places, the acquisition of which had so lately aroused their zeal for the public good. This is just the political position of to-day, and it is this repetition of history which has brought chaos and confusion into the councils of the people and their leaders, Senator O’Brien controls the Apollo Hall democracy, and for his early part in the re- form movement his guerdon must be the high- est office in the gift of the people. To secure this it is said ho has allied himself with the hereditary political foes of his stanchest adherents, This causes a wavering in tho ranks, and an uncertainty as to their fidelity on the day of conflict. On the one side he is proclaimed as the supporter of Grant and Dix, and on the other this is denied—it being admitted, however, that as between Grant and Greeley he is for the former. Here an O’Brien gordian knot presents itself, which can only be undone by Bezonian himself declaring under which king he goes into the conflict on the State ticket—whether he is for Dix or Kernan. Other chief reformers are also in the field as candidates for the same prize, and who are laboring under somewhat similar but not s0 great difficulties as O'Brien. William A. Havemeyer, chief of the Reform Council of Seventy, is hankering after the city fleshpots. In this pursuit he is as eager as any poor office-hunter could be. Through him and Andrew H. Green, another city reformer already provided for with a fat office and now candidate for Mayor, is reflected in most un- favorable light the purity of the motives which induced them and others of their stripe to seize the chance which brought them from their political obscurity and on tho tide of re- form riding to place and power at the expense of the people, The citizens’ difficulty was their opportunity, and they have made the most of it. The complications arising from this state of things are becoming every day more apparent to the citizens, and more and moro impress. them with the fact that they are completely at the mercy of the politicians of the hour. In most cases, when once the seat of a disease is ascertained, the remedy is within the power of medical science, So in the body politic, though the evil at work may for a time be hidden or be kept concealed, it will surely show itself in time for eradication and cure, The reform movement exposed the corruptions and frauds that existed in the city government; but the reformers have not honestly, as they assumed to do, set about cleaning the Augean stable. That is still the work of the people, through honest municipal and legislative representa- tion. The chaos into which things political have been cast by partisan and selfish leaders will assuredly be soon dispelled. It cannot continue, and no doubt before the week has passed a leader will presont himself who will restore confidence to the citizens, and under whom, as their candidate for the Chief Magis- tracy, they may take a new departure in the charter election of 1872. The Theatrical Sea:on. The soason of amusement on which we have entered promises to be one of unrivalled brillianey. Managers have been put on their mettle to produce something worthy of tho great city, which wo all hope to see the centre of the art, a3 woll as of tho commercial, world. Theatre after theatre throws open its doors to display to us the result of praiseworthy efforts to make the different houses places of elegant resort. No expense has been spared in this respect, and all the theatres making any pre- tence to occupy a first class position have been turned into veritablo drawing rooms, while the movement to improve has been general and left marked effects behind. Never was there a time when the stage of New York sparkled with the same brilliancy or was clothed with such evideace of wealth and material pros- perity. Rich in texture and bright in color, the appointments of the walking ladies and gentiemen, who strut their brief hour about the stage, would make our grandfathers stare if they could revisit this sphere. Unless, indeed, the shadow-world has felt the influence of modern ideas, and the people there. are more progressive than wo give them credit for being, the poor shades would be horribly shocked by our departure from republican simplicity. But, however the past generations might have looked at the bijou theatre, which is so rapidly becoming an indispensable insti- tution, the people of the present day like it, will have it, and are ready to pay for the mag- nificence which appeals so soothingly to the senses. Indeed, taste in this matter is becoming so luxurious that we fear the public are pre- pared momentarily to sacrifice the higher re- quirements of art to the satisfaction of their craving for beautiful accessories. However, we believe the growing love for the msthetic, of which this feeling for richness of color and display of wealth is but an indication, will in time demand from the managers similar per- fection in the dramatic excellence of the works produced for public approval. In the few wecks that have elapsed since the Fall theatrical season was inaugurated the public have given proof of a growing purity of taste and a desire for something higher than the third rate sensational stuff that they were in the habit of accepting. The change in the public mind is no doubt due in great part to the severer tone of criticism adopted by the press to check a deterioration in the quality of theatrical performance that threatened to com- pletely corrupt public taste. Now that we have fairly entered on the business of the sea- son and can survey the field without interrup- tion we can congratulate the public on the delightful prospect of the Winter amusements that stretches out before them. All corners of the earth have been ransacked for whatever is most brilliant and distinguished in the musical and dramatic world. In the number and quality of the artis(s that will appear on tho stage our city will be unrivalled even by the old capitals of Europe. The story of the wealth of the New World, and the generous appreciation of talent exhibited by the Ameri- can people, act as a loadstone whose influence draws to our shores whatever there is of genius in tho Old World. Lucca, the spoiled child of song, whoso merry notes ring with the sweetness and joyousness of a wild bird, has deserted the scones of her triumphs to win new laurels in a new world. If we may judge by the enthusiasm already dis- played in her behalf, she is destined to achieve even greater popularity thon Miss Nilsson. Her beauty and the charming espizglerie of her manners, combined with a frankness of char- acter, make her a general favorite with all who have the pleasure of her acquaintance. Way- ward, open-hearted and joyous, this wonderful little person by the magic of her talents has made for herself an unrivalled fume in Europe, and the public here are already so well dis- posed in her favor that there can be no doubt that she will achieve a magnificent success and establish securely her empire in republican hearts. The Academy of Music will shine with a brilliancy that promises to eclipse even the past notable season, when all musical New York crowded to listen to Nilsson, Parepa-Rosa, Santley, Wachtel and Capoul. Some of the artists who support Madame Lucca aro, like Miss Kellogg, well mown to the American public; others come to us with the guarantee of European reputa- tions which they will no doubt amply justify. The répertoire announced by the manager, Max Maretzek, is a good one, and will include such novelties as Gounod’s “Mireille,” Flo- tow's “Ombre,”’ and Petrella’s latest work, “The Duchess of Amalfi.” As if to crown our pleasure we are told authoritatively that the directors of the Acadomy have pledged themselves to furnish new scenery and ap- pointments, This amelioration is so sadly needed and has been called for so often by the entire press that we feel something akin to relief to know that we shall not be compelled again to gaze upon that eternal Swiss sceno which, immovable as Mont Blanco, stared the opera-goer during whole seasons. The inter- ests of music will not, however, be confided wholly to the Academy. Even now dan- gerous rivals are in the field, to com- pete for public favor. The brilliant Carlotta Patti and world-renowned Mario, marshalled by Strakosch, will make strenuous efforts to carry off the public favor, and tho results they have already achioved must give them courage to continue the fight. But even theso will not be allowed to carry off the prize unchallenged. Rubinstein, whose reputation as a pianist is world-wide, has also come to our shores with a number of talented companions. - He will also givo a series of concerts that can- not fail to attract attention. The conflicting interests of these artists and improsarii will serve to quicken their desire to do justice to the public, and wo are certain that the feeling of competition aroused will have the effect of bringing out the best qualities of the various artists. It is a race of talents, and those who enter will not fail to reach the winning point if they have the stuff in them. Tho desire to support worthily their reputation, threatened by the presence of dangerous rivals, will bea new incentive to each one to exert his best talent to obtain the public favor. Tho dramatic stage will also be illumined by such a constellation of bright stars as we have not before witnessed. Boucicault, Fech- ter and Sothern will each shed the radiance of his peculiar talent on the coming season. Wallack, Brougham, Gilbert and a host of other honorod artists will fill their accustomed places and minister to our pleasure and amusement. The highest form of the roman- tic drama will be presented by Boucicault, at Booth’s, and by Fechter, at his new theatre, “Tho Lyceum,’’ while Wallack promises a series of novelties, beginning with ‘Pygma- lion and Galatea.’’ Sothern will then take possession with his ‘American Cousin,’’ and show us a number of things that ‘‘no fellah”’ can understand, but that somehow we all admire. It is the intention, we believe, of Mr. Wallack to glide into the higher English modern comedy as the season advances, Robertson’s plays will be presented as only they can be at this house. Fifth Avenue, as the shrine of ‘millinery and temple of spoon- ing, will, of course, continue to furnish ‘the society play’? with a completeness and rich- ness of accessory that must command admira- tion. Tho Union Square Theatre, abandoning its varieties, seems resolved to enter the lists with Fifth Avenue in the matter of millincry, and, not content to rely wholly for dramatic effect on Worth’s costumes, delightful as they are, condescends to invoke some literary merit on which to hang the costumes. Spectacular burlesque has made its home for the Winter in the Grand Opera House, and certainly nothing approaching to it in completeness and richness has ever been witnessed on the American stage. Had we space at our disposal we might continue the enumeration of the programmes prepared by managers to amuse the public, but what we have already written will suffice to show the marvellous resources against ennui in which New York will be able to take refuge. There can no longer be any doubt that the coming Winter in New York will be most enjoyable, and that balls and routs will be more numerous and brilliant than ever. With such a prospect ahead we can look to the approach of hoary Winter with philosophical resignation. A Lively Campaign Opening in Ten- nessoemAndy Johnson Takes the Field. When Horace Greeley, under the captivating influence of the Cincinnati nomination, ‘sat down to rewrite the liberal platform, there was a little sprite tickling his ear like that which agi- tated the pigtail of Jerry Jarvis’ wig, as told in the ‘‘Ingoldsby Legends.”’ It whispered, tickled, eajoled and wriggled until he invoked the spirit of disorganization and wrote his sentence about the vainness of political drill masters flourishing their truncheons over freemen’s heads, “It is the only chance for your liberal movement,”’ said the sprite; but the tickling, waggling little demon never let a hint drop of how this sentence would cut both ways, and, above all, how it would work woe to the peace of Tennessee. Little did the bland philosopher know that the titil- lating devil had induced him to take the lid off Andy Johnson’s political casket, and send him forth over the land the liveliest ghost that ever kicked up a shindy by the light of the moon. Yet so it is, and Andy will shake his elf locks for some weeks at least in the Sage’s face, evon should he hide himself beneath the shadow of his Chappaqua cow, Old Spot, or call on tho mountainous pump- kins at the Institute to cover him. It took a good deal to get that unruly ghost into its coffin, and it took all Tennessee sitting on the lid, with Parson Brownlow at the top, to keep him there. Horace cried, “Scatter!” and the obstreperous Andy was out and after them with a red hot poker. Among Tennessee's misfortunes is the fact that she is noted down in Congressional white and black to furnish a Congressman at Large for the next session. The radicals mot and nominated Horace Maynard, at present of the Second district ; the liberals and democrats, to show they had fixed the bloody chasm business, put an ex-Confederate General, B. F. Cheatham, on the course for the race, when Andrew ap- peared whirling his winding sheet and de- clared himself entered as his own unalterable choice—first, lastand all the time—for the position. How this announcement by the ex- President was received may be judged by the vigor of his opponent on either side to for- tify for the coming fight They met at last, and tried their mettle upon each other. At Chattanooga the battle opened by that campaign device of a joint discussion, into which the boldest contestant is alwavs dosirous to lure his opponent, It ing the radical party ~ over its platform; but, save some allusions was rising, and he called the ‘‘ Great Commoner’’ a “General."’ He had been nominated by a Convention, and Andy had been receiving Convention nominations for forty years and had held every office in tho world. He then ‘ad- mitted he was a General himself, and wanted to know who made him one? After this he went into the grave-digging business, and wanted the dead to bury the dead. This brought Andy to his feet. He was piled up with indignation. He was nominated by ne Convention. Sometimes in the past he ‘had been; sometimes he had not. He was An- drew Johnson. Down with -a smash he came upon the Nashville Convention. He knew all about conventions, and they were now a stench in his nostrils; so wero mili tary men. This was admirable reason< ing; for tho Convention did not nominate him, but did a powdor- stained sabrvur. Next he proceeded to Statea rights, and argued that everybody had acted under a misapprehension in that regard, par- ticularly thoso he was addressing. Now he plunged backward to Buchanan's time, roving like a huge ghostly bumblebee among the Dead Sea fruits of that old period and declar« ing there was honey yet among the ashea within. But he came back again te Cheatham, and reminded the audience that the very man who now called him a traitor had appealed to him in person to be pardoned for doing the very thing ho was now assailed for not doing. Bad for Cheatham! Yet ha soothingly added that he was not a candidate against Cheatham ; he was Andy Johnson’s— the people’s—candidate. In his subsequent attack upon Grant he delved into Charles Sum- ner’s speech in the Senate for his comparisons, and, after a final bolaboring of gift-taking, conventions and military men, made way for the rajoinders. Maynard was facetious, charged Johnson with not supporting Grealsy, and both his opponents with being ‘“generals,’* and said Andy took presonts from negro, soldiers when he was Military Governor. Cheatham was weak, and defended the con- vention that fathered him from Andrew's packing imputation. Now arose Andy wrothily and in his soul believed that Congressmen, one-third at least, had taken bribes. Greeloy he would not defend; others thore were whose business it was; yet one Greeley hoe would not give for a thousand Grants, Tho terrible accusation of boing a General he hurled backin Maynard's teoth. Hoe had held the title, it was true, but never wore brass buttons or straps in his life, and without the buttons the accusation must fall to the ground—a vory sartorial argumont. The prospect of fun which oponed up when the Sage of Chappaqua was nominated could never have been expected to ripen in quiet Tennessee. This three-cornered fight will wake up more ghosts of old whiggery, old democracy and hunkerism generally than the breaking up of parties anywhere dise will bring to light. Andy’s blood is up, and as he will delve plentifully in fossil politics the interest in Tennessce’s campaign will be of the liveliest kind. There is so much talk of the bloody chasm everywhere else that it is very refreshing to see this old State go away back behind the sanguinary void and make the heavens howl with personalties. The sprite that tickled Philosopher Greecley’s ear in raising Andy has truly “raised Cain."’ We cannot now speculate on the success of either of the candidates, but the thought of seeing Andy Johnson and Ben Butler at wordy war on the floor of the House wakens a mysterious feeling of awe in the very vitals of our innes consciousness. ron soe The Soldicrs at Pittsburg. The scarred veterans of tho late wat assembled in force at Pittsburg to shake hands with old comrades and renew the memories of the struggle for the nation’s preservation, on the anniversary of the bloody contest of Antietam. Pennsylvania's Birmingham saluted the heroes with her most generous hospitality. Her citizens bade them a hearty welcome to the city of smoke, while her dames and maidens chanted anthems of free- dom in their honor. Flags and gay streamers floated over them and floral offerings beautified the Opera House in which they gathered. Governor Geary and Gencral Sweetzer de- livered orations of grecting, and everything conspired to make the occasion one of joy and satisfaction. General Burnside, df Rhode Island; General Hawley, of Connecticut, and General Logan, of Illinois, were among the most prominent of the speakers who ad- dressed the Convention. They and all who spoke alluded in terms of enthuslastic satisfac. tion to the civil record of President Grant, which they pronounced to be fully as glorious as his triumph over the armed enemios of the Union. In the speeches and resolutions wero expressed the utmost desire to be just and conciliating towards their Inte adversaries and the sentiment that the “bloody chasm’’ of strife was effectively closed by the magnanim- ity of General Grant on tho field of Appo- mattox. They greet as brothers and loyal Americans all who honestly accept the results of the war, and point to the peaceful progress of the nation during the last four years as the proof and pledge of the capacity, honosty and patriotism of the present administration and the republican party to conduct the nation successfully through the perils of reconstruc. tion, as it did through the trials of the war. General Hartranft, the republican nominee for Governor of Penusylvania, was heartily endorsed. Entire unanimity prevailed, and the members after a happy reunion separated yesterday with the firm resolution to go home and re-elect to the Presidency their old Com- mander-in-Chief, who conquered the rebel lion, THE METIS INVESTIGATION, Noxwion, Coun., Sept 18, 1872, The Metis Investigation Board mot at New Lon. don to-day and adjourned until to-morrow, after taking the testimony of Miss Kate Biackbara, @ passenger. Nothing new was elicited.