The New-York Tribune Newspaper, September 25, 1866, Page 4

Amnsemeiits. g CARSUM'S AMEE .!A“}|\L DAY AXD © VENINU=FOOTPRINTS IN THE SNOW-OLD POLRS AT HOM 1 a full compaay. HUNUBLD 0 THIS EVE i Kate ERRACE GARDF TS WYTHING A, ORCHESTRAL GARDEN ¢ RT. Programae vasks oning, Nisety- vk core WINTER i ¥ TS EVENING-THE D) ¥ FAMILY — VILLAGE UKY —GRAND MATINEL EVERY WEDNESDAY NIBLO'S GARDEN, NING-THF BLAGK C(ROOK—Orest Purisienne Grand Matinde at 1 o'elock IS B Boile Trou, e ALY, Me. Jobn Oilbert, Mr. v, Mr. George Holland, Mis u Sefton, md WALLI BH I8 15\ . NING-TH Fredale * wan, My $itietice Heoriques, BRUADWAY NINO-MERRY WIVE 12 us altall. H GENTLEMAN~ ark Suith, bz, Lowis tners. TROUPE. Mr. Kob- 2 o'clock. Dusiness Nolices. U. 8. BURGEON-GENERAL. Bumerous sitempts were made to impose varlous qnackeries for Wospltal use upon the Surgeon-General, doring the war, and venders #f Touics were many and importuuste, but the ouly one which met Bis ascoplance was RoMAINE'S CuinEay Birras. Their success in turiug Fever and Agoe, and power/ul Touc and Restorative virtues, ewbitmed spevior judgment. Hes Circular around bottle for testi- conials frou 8. A. Surgeous, and persons of the highest zespecta- d by Dewg “ Brows's Exoscuiss Taocuss,” haviag proved their efficacy by & tokt of wmay yoars. The Troches are bichly resommeaded preseribed oy physicians sud surgeons fn the srmy. Thoss exposed to sudden whaages should aiways be supplied with the Troches as they give prompt relic”. e “MARTEA WASHINGTON HAIR RESTORER,” the bt in use ; two articles combined inove; a perfeet Hair Drewiug sl by 6l deugzios. Cmamiss N. CRITTENTON, KLAND'S AGUX REMEDY is & certamn 004 the test of yeors in the Vallers of Missiselppi and issousi, e versign setmedy in Ll thove nfocted dairicte Bold by all Droggists. S BROOND-HAND SAFES i1 lar, bers, of our own flmh«-‘ make, taken fu exchinge 1of 0ur new patent ALUX and T Prasrs: RYIN & Co LS, Putent soared. Vory olegaut. 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CITY NEWS, At a moeting of the Board of Councilmen yesterday, it was resolved that the Mayor should be authorized to offer reward of $1,00 to discover the misereant who set fire to the tenement house on Avenue A on Sunday last. It was also resolved that a soldier's monument be erected in Greonwood Cemetery at a cost not exceeding $15,000. On Saturday last, at Richmond, Va., the Directors of the National Express aud Transportation Company, of which Gen. Joseph E. Johuston is President, o an assignment to Messrs. Kelly & Blair of sll its property and effects for the benefit of creditors and others. To-day, at Jetome Park, Fordham, the Scptember meet- ing of the Amencan Jockey Club takes place. A brilliant attendance is anticipated. ~Gen. Grant is a member of the Club, snd will be ent with his fnmilfi; Should the weathor prove unfavorable, and the races postponed in consequence, & BlHl half-mast will be rnised on Kyerson's | stables, corner of Thirteenth-st. and University-piace, in- dicating the fact. Tho Fenians held a pic-nic yesterday at Jones Wood. About 3,000 persons wero présent, and addrosses wers | delivered by Mr. Stephens and Col. Burke. Mr. Stephens r«-lrmud his determination to do battle this year on Irish 50 THE P! Gov. Wells of New: 8 he indorses the Presideat's policy. Wendell Phillips bas declined the nomination of the workingmen for Congress. e gives as his reason thut under the present circumstances he can serve his cause better out of Congress than in it. Iu the XXth Congressional District of this State, the Hon. Addison H. Latlin has been nominated by the Repub- licans. Mr. 8olon D. Hungerford is the Democratic nom- ind In 1864 the Republican majority was 3,637, which is likely to be wereased in the approaching electton, To-night the Union Republicans of Hoboken hold a meeting at Washington Hall for the purpose of organizing for the ensuiny mnlplign. The Hon. William Windom bas been renominated for Congross hB the Republicans of the Ist Minunesota Con- gressionai District. ‘The Rebols in Texas have nominated Col. A. N. Branch to reprosent themn from the I11ld Congressional District. J. W. Henderson, also & Copperhead, 1s the nominee in the Houston District . Hon, Elijab Hise has been nominated for Con, hy the Rebel Democracy of the I11d Kentucky Distriet. He is to fill the vacancy eaused by the death of Mr. Grider, John W. Bromley and John H. Clemente, both of whom were connected with the Navy-Yard at Portsmouth, have been removed for attending the Southera Loyali Con- veation at Phuladelphia. At the corner of Fulton and Classon-aves., Brooklyn, ex-Gov. Noble, ohn Winsl 1 sxwell of New-Orleans, aud W. Gleason will a s the Seventh Ward Republican Associ . The meeiing will take place this evening at 8 o'clock. The Sixth Ward Union Republican Association of Brooklyn beld a meeting last evening, which more resem- bled s immense mass meeting than that of a single ward | association. It was an enthusiastic and spirited affai Speeches were made by ex-Gov. Noble, the Hon. A. N. Cole, the Hon. Horace Greeley and others. STOCKS AND MARKETS. - at 143} and closed at 144 The mport of #pecie at port for the weel ding Sept. 21 amounted to $1,523477. At the Second ¥ the _merket was firm ou New-York Central and Read; The North Western shares m :ook Island 'rn‘:llf Cumberiand was ':;“‘u:'d | sonituoos 8 il ind ¥ ge amdants can be | bad at 45 per cent. There 18 o large amount of comimercial rates re steads. aper nfl-r{-l st the discount Louses, t names pass at 5 por cent, and good Gen. Custer, who rode in a railroad car with the President from Washington to Springfield, has been appointed Brevet Major-General in the Regular army. | His usefulness in that brilliant raid has been spee rewarded, Republican-Union primary elections were held last evening in all the Assembly Districts of the City. A ticket beaded *‘auti-Raymond” was chosen by a de- cided majority in the Ninth District, though we hear | _ < Duplicates, & A Lewis. !jo; 160 Chatham-ot. NY. FCOND-NAND SEWING-MACHINES FOR SALE #beap; in perfect order, as good w1 €W, and warauted for one year. . Yiadd 3 ”hro.la’ly B'IMWA'. VNl!va«._ Couxrort axp CURE POR THE RUPTURED. eh‘:fl"fi: 71!!_2;51 Foors. No 1,130 Breadway. No Roprons n»rlllahu CURE FOR THE RUPTURED.—Away wpbles wailed free. Dr. E. B, FooTE, 8. —Cure {or nlot masied free. Address or call upen Dr. E. B wdway. ‘! out pain or inconvenienca. Worst cases s HR1anoLD, No. 540 Brosdway. TTHE GReaT CALIFORNIA WiNE DEror! Gunses & Co., No. 80 C -3t Now-York. THE LATE CATASTROPHE IN AVE. A. —— LETTER FROM CORONER GO' ~REWARDS TO BE D P0R THE APPREMENSION OF THE INCEN- OFPERE! DIARY. Yesterday Coroner William E. Gover addressed to Mayor Hoflmas the follow ing letter: Comoxgi's OFFICE, No. 4 Centre st. } e York Sept. 24, 1860, Fox. Si: T desire to respectfully aequaint you with the clreumetances of Lhe lamentable corflagration vccurning on the moroing of the ¥7d fost. ot the corner of Avenue A aud Whirteenth-st.. nod by which I deeply regret to stato that a (5. conieting of five persons. were burned to death, wnd mber of others also so severcly injured that their Bivow are desy aired of. Upon & eximination of the ises and the place where originated, there is not the sliebtest deubt in my mind but that the occarrence was the work of an incendiary, ex- Mbiting & terrilie and fearful examplo of the reckicss depravity - ..Ihnls‘l"l our community. the vicw, Bir, of stimuldting exertions to the discovery of the heartleas wretch or wretches who, Ju the dend hour of the night. would apply the torch 1o o densely-filed tenement wnd aestroy the aged and the yonng. 1 would desire that you might offer & suitable reward for tho detoction and ronviction of soch persoas that they may be brougbt to speedy ice wnd receive the roward due toso infamous a crime. 1th groat respoot, 1 am yours truly, 'W. C. Goven, Coroner. The Hon. Jous T. Hoffwan, Mayor. R e e 1y, Councilman Mackay or be requested to offer n re- hension of the incendiary, This by the Board of Fire that » nephew of the unfortunate Mr. Rote- obarge of the remains of the unfortanate fam:ly them soitable burial. The policy ou their furni- Kutgers Company will defray the expense ¥ —— APPEAL TO THE BENEVOLENT. bis daily and bis sudden Lelpless unless -nn.l.n‘ e of friend r..:: : to aid & dese o’ It ufim-.r-n:' be trausmi: u'.'fi'u:'m ous H. Wuire, No, 169 Brosdwa.y ~The Ontario Agricultural Fair ol 8 Sept, 25 and last thiee days, Wil be'n show of trout. Those take Bolics, that Radical men voted the opposition ticket, and therefore assnme that the district is better agreed than ever in giving a more unmistgkable direction to its will and vote. The results in other districts look well. e Mr. Johnson, during his late tour, frequently in- quired of puzeled crowds why Chief-Justice Chase did not try Jeff. Davis? As the President is apparently igunorant of the affairs of the Goverament, we refer him to our special dispatches from Washington,which explain that the postponement of the trial is a legal necessity, and that Judge Chase is ready to call & special session and proceed with it as soon as possible. | The Rebellion has been renewed in Texas, and no | one can be surprised who has watched the lawlessness | of that State, and seen the hatred of the Union showr in its lowest form by the persecution of loyal whites and blacks, in its highest by contempt of the test oath, | and the election of Rebels to Congress. Isrecalls | 1861 when we read of United States troops attacked | ' by Texas State mi The matter has import: other than as an indication of the spirit of the Re and Gen. Sheridan has gone to the relief of our troops. THE For months, the advocates of “My Policy ' en- joyed whatever advantage might accrue from their own Jloud, ineessant, écarcely disputed vociferations that theirs was the ouly plan before the country for restoring the States lately in revolt to their proper relations with their steadfastly loyal sisters and the Union. As Lounis Napoleon, after his bloody usurpa- tion, compelled France to choose between the Empire and chaos, o Johnsonism virtually said to the Ameri- Qireetly, immediately, give the Blacks such complete guarantees against ountrage and oppression &3 natural justice and their conduct in our late struggk fairly entitle them to claim. But it secures thew all the civil rights of citizens in every State, placiag them under the safeguard, not of a repealable act of Con- gress, like the Civil Rights bill, but of a Canstitu- tional Amendment; and it sets the law of grasitation ot work in favorof their ultimate, and not distant, recoguition in every State as members equally with Whites of the body politic. Aund the tenlency to this will be strongest just where it is most wefal and most needed. Thus, New-York, with btt 49,005 colored inhabitants, or New-Jersey with 25,33, or Ohio with 36,673, may deny the Right of Suffrage to her Blacks without a vital subtraction from her rela- tive weight in the Union; but South Carolina, with 412,320 Blacks to 201,333 Whites, must chooje be- tween having 5 Representatives in Congress with 7 Electoral Votes, and bui 2 Representatives with 4 Electoral Votes, as she concedes or refuses Enfran- chisement to her Colored people. At first, we pre- sume, she will sallenly prefer to bite off har own nose; but this cannot endure, Her interest ia some pending measure, her anxiety for the success of some Presidential candidate—nay, the ludicrous absurdity of her refusal to accept and exercise the power to which she is entitled, and which perpetually solicits her acceptance—must inevitably work a cure of her madness in time, The less we of the Noith seem to care about it, the shorter will bo her tarry in that labyrinth of impotence and self-stultification. “But the South won't accept your propositio,” sail The World and its eehoes, * Very well; we ean wait,” was the natural response: * If sha cheoses to stay where she ix,iwe can stand it as long as she ean.” And, so long as the Rebel eclement now dominant at the South could trust in the omnipotence of John- sonism, there was no sign of relenting on its part. Tennossee, being under loyal rule, promptly ratified the Constitutional Amendment; but no State wherein the Rebels have sway even considered the propriety of doing so. Mayor Monroe and his Thugs evidently planned their coup d'état at New-Orleans as o demen- stration against the policy of Congress ad in favor of My Policy.” They did not even pretind that their victims were guilty of any more heinous offcnse than that of secking to secure the Right of Suffrage to Blacks. And the Legislature of Texas—Rebel to the core—has been guilty of the foolish impertinence of returning the Coustitutional Amendment to the State Department, instead of retaining it among its ar- chives after its rejection. We trust Gov. Seward, or whoever may succeed him, will take good care that Texas shall send for it when she discovers that she wants it. Since the Maine Election, it is very widely dis- covered that the Amendment is not so very bad after all. The Herald at once wore ship and advised the South to aceept it, assuring her that delays were dangerous, and that, if .she refused this, she would certainly do worse. And now, leading Southern jour- nals are roviewing the Amendment, and finding it not half so bad as they formerly represented it. ‘The Convention of Southern Loyalists at Philadelphia pro- nonnced it inadequate for the protection of Southern Unionists, but accepted it; and the Unionists of North Carolina have made it their pintform for the impending election, Even The Times now eays of it: There is not the slightest difforence of opinion, 0 far as v are aware, 1o tbe Usion 1iitie anywhere i oual Amaead- uion vote in by every Unlon journal throughout point upon which ‘differences do pre oy of making its adoption a coudition pre- of Representatives from the Southern Members of . Upon this, Union awong thewsclves, (until sfier eo-fourths of all the Others, like Mr. Bloebam of (o, ipsisted thst, ver any Soutbern State sbouid ratify the Amendme: ould theroupon be admitted to representation. l,h } xl(r,&ld'mllllil of Mnnriwlllb.n L .lm' Peunsylvan naed to Con, ul n uun:- vnd l‘hm’: adonted, and otuers still did not Aeem it within the Coustitutional puwer o 1mpose 1ts sdoption es & condition of sduission 1o the funda- wental nght ation. “In point of fact, the adoption or rejection of the Amend- 1o, o8 the law now stands, with b mwent bas pothing whatever to do, the ndmission or rejection of Me A bill providing for their ndm tion, was rejected by the House; te should ratify the Amendment to- A edged itseif in auy way thereupos to aduit their Repre- sentatives in Congress. “The two questions are entirely sepa- rate and distioet, and eack must be deterwised upon 18 own merits.” —The Times here ignores the platform of the recent Union State Convention at Syracuse, which expressly declares that any State which ratifics and in good faith conforms to the Constitutional Amendment sbatl thereupon be admitted to representation in Congress, as Tennessee has been. It ignores also, the late Ad- dress of the Union National Committee. In view of these and kindred manifestations, the disagreement of certain members of Congress, several months ago, ikes us as of little moment. We still hope to see puth come forward and offer to solve all remain- difficulties by accepting the broader, simpler plat- form—Universal Amuesty, Impartial Suffrage. If she does that, we shall v that she be hearti] dially met on that ground. But, in any other con- tingency, we stand by the Constit utional Amendment and look to see it ratified and most if not all the Southern States restorcd to representation, very soon alter, if not immediately upon, the conve of the XLth Congress. Wesubmit, therefore, for the sixthor eighth time, the Constitational Amendment adopted by Congress and now awaiting ratification by the States, and ask every It s as voter to consider and pass judgment upon it. follows: ¢ Jouws REsoLuTioN proposing an umendment to the Consttution o - s f Representatives of the embled (two-thirds of both to the jorisdict A of the State wherein they No State shall make or enl 1y law which shall sridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall sny State deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due f law, nor dény 1o auy per- its Jarisdiction the equalprotection of the laws. Representatives shall be apportioned among tho ates according to their re # numbers, CoUnting e wholo number of persous m each State, exeluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the chowce of Electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Rapresontatives in Congress, the exeoutive aud Judicial officers of a State, or the members of th slature hereof, 18 denied to any of the male inbabitants of such State, twenty-one years of age and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in on or ofber crime, the basis of representation theiein shail be reduced in proportion which the number of such male citizons whall Dear to the whole number of male citiseus tweniy- oue vears of age in such State. 810 3. No person shall be & Sonator or Representativein Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or bold can people, * Choose between *My Policy ' and anarchy, with a prospect of another Civil War!” And the timid, the luxurious, the mercantile, the money- making, were thus strongly attracted toward the Johnson programme, not as better than another, but as the only plan that even seemed to promise a speedy restoration, in vitality and essence, of the Union. At length, the rival plan of Congress was reported, matured and passed by the required two-thirds of either House. How was it opposed? What objec- tions were urged againgt it?, Nobody could plausibly stigmatize it as harsh or ! ¥ vindictive. It proposed no confiscation, no disfran- chisement. It did not even require the Enfranchise- ment of the loyal Blacks, as we think it should have auy oftice, eivii or military, under the United States or under auy State, who, baving previously taken an oath, as & member of ‘Congress, or_as an oflicer of the United St on o048 member of ay State Legislature, or as an_executive or judi- cial ofticer of nny State, 1o sapport the Coustitution of the United States, shall buve engaged in insurrsction or rebellion agalust tbe same, or given aid and comfort o the enemics thereof. But Congress may, by & vote of two-thirds of each Honuse, remove such disability. Skc. 4. The idity of the public debt of the United States, sutborized by law, iveluding debts incurred for payment of pensions aud bousties for services in suppressing insurrection rebellion, shall uot be questioned. K.n neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obliga- tion inourred in aid of izsurrcetion or rebellion agaiust the United States, or any clahn for the loss or emancipation ot "E ave; but ull such debts, obligatious or claims, shall be legal and void. rrvu to euforoe, by appro- is article. 5, The Congreas shall ha: The Postmaster at Amsterdsm, Montgomery priate legielation, the provisio done. It did not, thercfore, ‘embody the peculiar | County, N. Y., whose three sons, son-in-law and vlews of Mr. Stevens, Mr. Sumner, nor any othcr | brother-in-law fought in the Union army during the “extremist.” On this point, it proposed oneobviously | whole Rebellion, has been removed from office and just rule, alike for North and South: *'If you see fit | an unconditional Breckinridge Democratic appointed. to exclude Blacks, or any other race or caste, from In Portsmouth two men havo been dismissed from the your lists of legal voters, you shall not count them as | Navy-Yard for attending the Southern Loyalists’ @ basis of political power.” The fairness of this rule | Convention. 80 Mr. Johnson swings round his is 50 manifest that no argument is needed to commend | circle, rewards loyalty and makes troason odious. it to every candid mind. To state it correctly and lucidly is to secure general assent to its propriety, Te-day the Soldiers and Sailors meet at Pitts- “But then you leave the loyal Blacks without | burgh in a Grand National Conventios, which adequate protection for their rights.” Most certainly, the plan of Congress is open to challenge from this side if from either. It does ot will truly express the convictious of the Uhion army, and have no ordivary influe vpon the pation, Many of the bravest and best soldiers \ NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1866. who fought during the war will be present. Their reception in Pittsburgh will be worthy of the cause they aim to serve, and it is estimated that from 5,000 to 10,000 delegatos will be present. y P — THE NEW WAR CLOUD IN EASTERN EUROPE. While the final solution of the German question has been adjourned by the Peace ot Prague, the Eastern question has suddenly assumed a threatening aspect. The Christian subjects of the Tarkish Government, who in European Turkey number more than 12,000,000 against only 4,000,000 of Mohammedans, again begin - to raise the standard of revolt. The island of Caudia, which in a total population of more than 150,000 inhabitants numbers less than 50,000 Turks, while the others are Greek Christians, has risen against Turkish rule and transferred its allegiance from Turkey to the Kingdom of Greece. The Greeks in the old province of Epirus, which constitutes the northern frontier of Greece, have also attempted au insurrection with the same object in view. The new Hospodar of the Danubian Principalities, Prince Charles of Hohen- zollem, has compelled the Turkish Government to recognize him, and barely conceals the preparations he is making for severing the last tie that unites the Principalities with the Turks. It is better understood than ever, among all the semi-dependent and the subjected Christian tribes of the Porte, that the weakness of the Government of Constantinople is constantly increasing, and all look forward with hope to the seasonable moment when one powerful blow will end the Turkish dominion in Europe and restrict the rule of the Moslems to Western Asia. The Christian element in European Turkey is con- stuntly increasing in numbers and power; while the Mohammedan element is decreasing at a corresponding rate. If Turkey were left alone by her powerful neigh- bors, the moment would soon arrive when the Christian races would conquer that ascendancy in European Tur- key which belongs to their superiority in nunibers and civilization. But, unfortunately, these races widely differ from each other, There .are in Turkey about 4,000,000 Roumanians, 3,000,000 Servians, 3,000,000 Bulgarians, 2,000,000 Greeks, about equally divided between Europe and Asia, 1,000,000 of Albani- ans, all of whom are mot enough homogeneous to establish, on the ruins of the Turkish rule, a harmonious Christian Empire. This want of harmony aud of strength naturally invites the Great Powers of Europe, especially Russia, to interest themselves in the impending ruin of the Turkish Empire, in order to turn it to their own advantage. The facilities of Raussia, in this respect, are so much superior to those of any other European Power that the efforts of the others have been mostly confined to eombinations for counteracting the schemes of Russia. Twelve years ago this opposition of the Western Powers to the Russiau policy in the East led to the Crimean war. Now Russia is again charged with a design of plan- ning an aggressive policy in the East, and so great is the excitement which these reports have produced in Austria and France, that for a time even the German question is pushed into the background by the East- erh. The press of both Paris and Vienna confidently as- gert that Prusdin and Russia bave come toa full understanding about the situation of those two great gomplieations. Prussia is not to be interfe red with by Russia in the reorganization of Central Eurape, snd Russia is to have the sympathy of Prussia in her settlement of the Eastern question. However much or little trath there may be in these reports, it is cer- tain that Germany no longer monopolizes the atten. tion of the European Governments, bus- ehat tho Jooks of all are turned to the East, there awaiting some startling developments. The formation of new anti- Russan alliances is cagerly canvassed. Bome speak of France and Austris united to this end with England and Ttaly. Others are of opinion that Louis Napoleon, accepting the leadership of Prussia in Germany as an accomplished fact, would rather try to gain Prussia as an ally, in union with England and Italy. At all events, it secms that one of the most probable results of the recent movements will be a closer connection between the German and the Eastern que Austria and Tarkey are the two most decayed pires of Europe. Misgovernment on the one hand, and the divergent tendencies of conflieting nationali- ties on the other, have undermined the existence of both. The collapse of either would at any time haston the collapse of the other; but according to present appearances they may yet be buried in a common ruin, — PENNSYLFANIA. The debatable ground in Pennsylvania, so far as respects Congress, will doubtless be in the following districts, which, baving the smallest majorities, may be fairly regarded as in doubt: .. Philadelphia and Bucks (Thager's) 278 Unlon majority, X. Schuylkill County, &e. (Strouse’s), 475 Democratic ma- X1L Luzerne, &c. (Dennison’s), 515 Democratic majority. XIV. Danphin, &e. (Millor's), 527 Union majority, XVL Adaws and Bedford (Koonta's), 63 Union mojority. XXL Fayette Districs (Dawson's), 125 Demoeratic ma- Jority. Out of these five districts, the Republicans have three majorities, the weakest of all being that of Gen. Koontz, The Vth Distriot, which is composed of the 224, 23 and 25th Wards of Philadelphia, and Bucks County, is now represented by M. Ru sell Thayer, who - bas de ined a renomination, This District now puts forward Col. Caleb N. Taylor, who received the nomination in conven- tion over Col. Barton H. Jenks and Gen. Ely. Col. Taylor is a farmer of wealth, education aud popular- ity, and announces himself a radical opponent of the President, and an advocate of liberty to all men. The Democrats have nominated Henry P. Ross, a veteran Copperhead, who believes the South right and the North wrong, and who was accordingly de- feated by Russell Thayer in 1864, The District was formetly Democratic, but the establishment of maau- factories, owned by popular Republicans—Col. Jenks, prineipally—has, no doubt, aided to securo a Republi- can majority. The contest in thiz district will be fought on the squarest issue, and a victory on the Union side will be a strong test of the unpopularity of the Presi- dent's policy. The Xth District, composed of Lebanon and Sehuyl- kill Counties, is now represented by [Myer Strouse, an intense Copperbead, but an intellectual cipher in Congress. He has beeu dismissed by bis constituents to make way for Dr.C.D. Gloninger, a German physician, His opponent on the Union side is Gen. H. L. Cake, an intolligent soldier, who owns both property and laurels, and will make a good fight. In 1560, part of Northumberland and the whole of Schaylkill County constitnted the XIth District, and elected the Hon. Jas. H. Campbell, our present Minister to Sweden, by the small majority of 349, Since the reapportions ment, Lebanon and Schuylkill, which now comprise the Xth District, have §iren a diminishing Demoeratic majority. In 1862, Strousebeat Campbell by 721 votes; but his last maj was only 475, Gen. Hartranft, the Union candidate in 1365 for State Auditor, carried the Distriet by a majority of 3i2, This year itis doubtfal whether the Democratic majority in Schuyl- kil County will exceed 1,100, while Lebanon County promisos 1,600 for Cake—sufficient to elect him it he gets it. . Tho XIIth District embraces Euzerne and Susque- hanna Counties, in North Pennsylvania, and is repre- sented by Charles Deanison, a Democrat. Susque- banna is an agricultural county, largely Republican, and, with Bradford and Tioga, formerly made up the XIVth District, which in 1860 elected th A. Grow. 1 t, isa co beavily Democratic. Hon. Galusha - | who violate thew. ror of Scranton, an early Republican, and s man of ability and character, has been selected by the Union- ists to overcome the 515 majority of Dennison, a re- sult by no means impossible. In 1862, Dennison de- feated Grow in this District by 1,761 majority; but in 1864 Judge Winthrop W. Ketcham—a popular Re- pablican, named once or twice for United States Senator aod Governor—made & |ho\:ngh canyass, and lessened Dennison’s majority to 515 votes. Gon. Hartranft, the Union can didate for State Auditor, carried the District in 1865 by 530 majority So there is hope for a Radical vic- tory in October. The XIVth District includes Dauphin, Juniata, Northumberland, Snyder and Union Counties. The fluctuating politics of Harrisburg, the capital of the State, and the center of Dauphin County, make or unmake this District, which was lost four years agoby the Republicans—their candidate, Patterson, running far below the Union State ticket majority of 201, but regained by the present representative, Geo. T. Miller, who carried it by 527 majority, the State ticket re- ceiving 1,219 majority. In 1365, Gen. Hartranft car- ried the District by the extraordinary majority of 2,033, Mr. Miller is a good worker in Congress, and our fignres conclusively show the strength of his chances in a second election on the safe basis of 527 present majority. The XVIth District, which takes in Adams, Bed- ford, Franklin, Fulton and Somerset Counties, gave Gen. Koontz, the Union candidate, only 68 majority in 1964, and, more than any other District in the State, may be regarded doubtful. Chambersburg and Gettysburg are in this District, but the stern ecxperience of war has not sufficed to convert its inveterate and too numerous Copperheads. The present Clerk of the House, Edward McPherson, representative of a portion of this District under a former apportionment, ran against A. H. Coffroth, the Democratic candidate in 1862, and was defeated by 537 votes, Bat Gov. Curtin in 1863 had 739 majority in the District; and in 1364 Gen. Kooutz obtained his seat in Congress over Coffroth by 63 votes. The Democrats have taken up J. McDovell Sharpe, their strongest man, to contest the ground with Gen, Koontz this year, but as the District gave Gen. Hartranft a major- ity of 956 in 1865, he is not likely to be successful on the unpopularity of the President’s platform. In the XXIst District, represented by John L. Dawson, Democrat, the Hon. John Covode is running against Hugh H. Weir. Itis composed of Fayette, Indiana, and Westmoreland counties, and contains the home of Senator Cowan, in the latter County. Gov. Curtin had & majority in the Distriet in 1363 of219; in 1564 Fuller contested the election with Dawson; and in 1565, Gen, Hartranft won a majority of 524 for the Union pacty. It is, therefore, a field that may be won, Of the Union candidate it is needless to speak. His services in Congress are well known, and he lost a gallant son in the war. He is personally popular. ©On the whole, we can count but one District where the Republican-Union ticket is likely to lose, and two or three wherein there is good promise of gain. — FINANCE AND CURRENCY. The actual current Revenue of the Federal Govern- ment is considerably over Five Hundred Millions of Dollars per annum: its *expenditures, including interest on its Public Debt and the payment of One Hundred Millions of the principal per annum, are considerably less than Four Huudred Millions. In ether words: we can pay every current charge against the Treasury this year, and yet extinguish Lore than e fiteenth part of our Public Debt. Ts it not monstrous that the six per cent. bonds of such a Treasury, payable, principal and interest, in gold, should be hawked sbout our own aud European brokers' shops at less than seventy-five cents on the dollar? Isit not frightful improvidence that these bonds are till going to Europe by millions per week, and being sold at such a sacrifice to buy silks, laces, gewgaws and fripperies, that we do not need and wight far better do without 7 And is it not a National disgrace that this country, in time of peace and while producing Gold and Silver at the rate of at least One Hundred Millions per annum, should tolerate an 1lr- redeemable Paper Currency, made up, in its lower fractions, of th nastiest shinplasters that ever dis- eased the human cuticle? How loug, O conntrymen! how long? R CURSES COMING HOME. Gov. Orr has called together the Legislature of South Carolina in extra session, and sent them a Mes- sage wherein he recommends many changes in laws, especially those affecting Blacks. He says: “ By tho thirtieth section of the ‘Act to establish Distric, Courts,” it is provided * shat in every case, civil and eriminal- in which a perzon of color is & party, or which affects the pert son or property of a person of color, persons of color shall be competent witnesses. Toe acensed in such a criminal case, d tie parties [n every such civil case, may be witnesses. and ¥ evary otber porson Who is o competent witoess, ete. ho first paragraph of this section, admitting pers color to testify in all cases where themselves or their race are direetly concerned, and excluding thew by implieation in all cases whore they are not interested, cannot be reconciled with wonnd policy of just discrimination. They are admitted in that class of cases where thoir interest, sympathy, association and focliogs would be wmost likely to pervert their consciences and inyite to false swearing, and are excluded from testifying 1a oli eases where 10 motive could exist to swear falsely, ex- cept that of « depraved beart. The distinction is illogical and indefousible, and it cannot be denied that it has ite foundation in & prejudice against the caste of the negro. If the rules of evi- dence in all the Courts were so modified as to make all persous and parties competent witnesses in their own and all other o possible danger could result from it. Many of the f tue Union, and several of the civilized couatries of 714, bmve tried the experiment, and the result proves truth aud jastice has been thereby prowoted. of every judieial” investigation s to ascertain the i, when found, to dispense justice in conformity With intelligent judees and discriminating” juries, dons wiil be fwore certainly attained by hearing , whatever may be the character or color of the s of thereto, correct fi aph of the section already qnoted, the General Assembl; reached the same conclusion; for jn all casos where 3 of color are allowed to testify, all per Sons. including parties, are declared competent witnesses, Would it not be eminently wise to adopt tue same rule in all Coarts, “ In the second and extend it to all persons ivil cases, the testimony of persons of color is often- te to elnofdete the facts and secure a jost decision. They coustitute a wajority of entire population of the S| u cossity ure ofton sole witnesses of contracts and tr ionw between white persons. Shall the parties in such cases be denied iustice, by excluding the only evidence to securs it, because of an apprehension that it may be ina weasuro Goreliable? Would it rot be more in aceordance with an estublished rule, to the evidenge and weigh its valuet In the law of evidence. the character nding of a witness goes to ailect bi bility, and not his competency. Wiy not, in the caso of tae person of color, foliow this rule to its logieal conelusion ¢ In criminul cases, these considerations weigh with peculiar force. The negro is readily deceived and corrapted, and be- colnes an eusy prey to the machinations of depraved white men; and past experience toaches that he is employed to exe. oute the most disbonest puiposes, and with impudity to the brincipal, because of his exclusion as u witoss from the Courts of justice, The shrewd and cunning contiuue to put the negro forward in the commission of crime, and they go unwhipped of justice, because the law forbids that the testimony of the negro sball be beard. Does ot the exclusion of persons of color make them invalunble accessories te tLe perpetration of orime t How can socioty be protected against that large class of infamous erimes, Bow 50 prevalent in this State, unless by making the negro a competent witoess. we avail ourselves of all aceassible evidenco to couviet the offenderst And will the Taw of the State continae to offer a reward to the dishoest to further tempt aud corrupt the negro? The well-being of the State matorially depends upon the clevation of this class of our popuiation. sud if there was no other argument in behalf of their adwissibility to our Courls, the temdeney of such & measaro to elevate their moral aud intellectual character would be suflicient. “The dishonest may object to the extension of this right to all cases, because it reduces the field for bis nefarious opera- tios, but if the good and virtuous are protected, society is amply compessatod for the chavge. Men of probity and in. tegrity have no renson to apprebend any evil cousequences from the change. The discrimination of intelligent judges aud jurios will e a slield against unjust clnlrlrn mpmud by false sweariog, aud the sawe {utelligence will bring the really gullty to condign punisbiment.” —All this is sensible and a sign of progress, Only let the North and West reécho the thunders of MAINE, and the South will gradually and surely reconstruct herself on a basis of Loyalty and Liberty. The necessity of providing firc-cscapes for the pro- tection of the inhabitants of our tenement houses is very decidedly impressed by the suffocation of a family of five persons at the fire in Avenue A last Sunday. The stair-cuses were destroyed, apd the wire ladders, which the law requires, were not provided. There are plenty of similar five-traps in the' city, and it is the business of the authorities, after this térrible warn- the pd punish the persous to enforce laws ng, > RISTORI IN MARIA STUARDA. 3 Wo were not enthusiastic over Madame Risvori’s . @ébut, for the repson thst we could not be, I8 was pot the Ristori of former days; there were shortcomings, and, measuring her by the loftiest standard, we were disapppointed. That disap. pointment has now fled. Her second represontation of Medea” was all her first was nor. From beginning to cend Ristori was an inspiration, and those subscribers who gave away their tickets or allowed their boxes 0 remain, empty, lost what may pever be regained. - Ris- tori’s reception was a disgrace to sun intelli. gent community; it was such as New-York accords to a second-rate ballet-dsncer—a by no means hearty round of applause succeeded by a few hands, the last effort reminding one of the sudden and feeble revival of an aggravating shower-bath. Nevertheless, the applause of Saturday, independently of this reception, was more spon- taneous and discriminating than that of Thursday night., The sudicnce was less fashionable but more evidently more e rapport with Ristori, and to-night's brilliant assembly showed bow quickly an American audience can learn the proper ctiguette of great oceasions, Maddme Ristori has won her laurels, and henceforth will be sure of her applause, that great incentive to mimie art. To-night New-York experienced a second sensation in the tragedy of Maria Stuarda. Ever since El lived and Mary died, the world has been much exercised on the subject of the ill-fated Queen of Seots. Historians and readers of history have bothered themselves note. little to get at the real character of oue of the most in- teresting women that ever wore a crown—interesting be- cause of her beanty and her misfortusie, Whether she were weak or wicked has not yet been decided to our satis- faction, nor does the confassion of complicity in the mure der of her husband which Schiller puts into Mary's mouth, light us on the road to truth. Whatever facts may be, the world will ever detest Elizabeth for her treachery to- ward her royal prisoner, and will pardon the victim of hee vindictive jealousy. * Woman is not frail” exclaims Schiller's Elizabeth. ¢ Ezcelse, invitte alme si danno nel femmineo sesso. Non comporto parole al mio cospetto dé Jemminea fralez If ever a woman proved ber frailty it was Elizabeth, when her miserable vanity petrified her Leart, instigating her to sign the death warrant of a fallen foe. Quite ready are we to believe in thie words of the German poet's Mary, when she says, “the worst I everdid is known, and I may boast myself far better than my reputation.” But our present eoncern is not with history, nor with the liber. ties of the dramatist. Interest entirely lies with Andreo Maffei’s trauslation of Schiller, and to that alono we turn. ‘Wo cannot become enraptured with Maria Stuarda. It fails in situation. Out of five acts, three end without point, leaving the audience in a state of indifference. Coming, too, immediately after 0 welo-dramatic a trag- edy as Medea, this grest tamengss is the more apparent. The speeches, likewiso, are toolong. The play might be eut down one-third to advantage. Italy’s great national defoct is too much volubility, Nothing in the way of explaua- tion is ever left to the imagination, and this defect is very paturally carried om to the stage, to the great discomfort of foreign audiences. Were there such s thing in the world as a star company, the length of subordinate characters might be ea dured, but it is almost unnecessary to state thst the two acts of Maria Stuards, wherein Ristori did not appear, were not made interesting by her eompany. The Elizabeth of Antonietta Cottin was respectable —nothing more, The part itself is very good, and in the hands of Serah Felix became prominent, Ristori* hes no such sister; her brother, how- ever, made up well for Talbot aud did his little accepta- bly. Signor Glech looked far morg like bis Sovervign Victor Emanuelo than like the ambitious favorite of Elizabeth, yet appeared to somewlat better advantage than in Jason., The interesting character of Mor- timer suffered torribly in the bands of Signor Carboni—s gentleman well named, whose quali- ties as an actor consist in - squinting, frowning, and strutting. His soliloquy in scene third of act second was highly suggestive of the Bowery. Equally funny was his déath. The pas executed excited admira- tiof from the impossibility of its exccution—to other than Signor Catboni. Of Cecil, little need be said. Virginia Casati was good 1n the small part of Mary’s nurse. With all kindliness of spirit we ask why the entr 'actes are so long when no scence are to be set and no depsses are to be changed ? Moreover s it mecess sary that, prior to raising the curtain each act & vigorous conversazione should be Leld behind it. There seems to be a want of proper stage management, To-night no less than two acts were materially injured by an ill-timed descent of the curtain; one was 1o less than the third act, wherein Ristori is the groatests : o And now Ristori. Little can be said of the first act. An angel from heaven—provided angels are blessed with dramatic genius—could not do more than she did with it. There is no scope for great acting. She was every inch a queen—she was calm and colloquial. Her dignity was supreme when she exclaimed, I recognize no equals but such as wear & crown!” Her indignation upon her exit was heroic, It was in the third act that the actress showed her power. Her tenderness with Talbot, her magniticent pose when the “internal furies” took possession of her, her transition to joy when she is told that Leicester comes with the Queen, the struggle in bending her proud knee to the infuriate Elizabeth, the working up of all her pent-up passion, un. til goaded on by her tormentor, she bursts forth with her revenge upon the daughter of Anua Bolena, upon the bastard! were nothing more nor less than superb, This was indeed un ora di vendetta ¢ di trionfo ! The fifth act admits of much less action. Ristori was Maria Stuarda, and more we cannot say, Her confussion was feelingly made, she was beautiful in her grief, sho was a picture in her despair, she was still a grand woman in her short interview with the recreant Leicester. The curtain fell upon a fine tableau end & most delighted audience. It was acting. A K P DAWISON A% NARCISSE. In September, 1863, an Enzlish version of Brachvogel's tragic drama of was produced at Niblo's Gaden, under the title of * Narcisse, or the Last Days of Pompudour.” Many pens bad assisted in the work of adaptation, the last being that of Mr. Thomas B. De Walden, to whom, therefore, the piece, iz its English dress, was properly aseribed. Mr. Wheatley produced it with suitable scenery, but with an indifierent cast of the sub- ordinate parts. Mr. Danicl E. Baudmayn, who had just commeneed his carcer upon the American stage, enacted Nareisse; and to him, mainly, the pices wasindebted for its success. We distinetly remember the impressive trhthful- ness of his pietures of 4 ruined life, aud his thrilling embodi- ment of incipient maduess which at last broke all bounds and culminated in a frenzied death. Mr. Bandmann has since played the part in many cities, and has made the drama thoroughly familiar to the American public. That it will long maintain its place upon our stage cannot be doubted—since its plot is effective and simply wrought out, its story is romantic, its atmosphere is poetic, and its principal personage is both graphic and pathetic in charac- ter and experience. There are, indecd, grave defects in the piece, which make it somewhat tedious. Its dialogue, in the first aet, for example, is dull when it ought to bo witty; aad its mingled satire and thought in the fourth' act aro clumsy and superficial when they ought to be scathing and profound. Brachvogel's conception appests to have been perfect at all points; but Lis wit and bas intelleet sometimes failed him in its faltillment. Le- gead tells us that Shakespeare killed off Mercutio, in the third act of Romeo and Juliet, because he was unable to satisiy his own ideal of the brilliancy of that character Through a kindred inability, Brachvogel bas fallen sbort of his design in the wit and the wisdom of Narcisse. In the cmotional attributes of character, however, his ruined man of genius is very powerful and affecting. These re- marks apply, of course, to the German as woll as the English version of the drama—the former of which was produced at the Stadt Theater, on Saturday evening last, when Mr. - Bogumil Dawison made his second sppearsace in Amer- ica, enacting the part of Narcisse Rameav. All the de- foots which we had remarked in the English picce made themselves manifest anew—the triviality of the sketch of Pompadour; tho absolute puerility of the figures that misrepresent the brilliant Encyclopmdists; the sketehi- noss of the picture of court life i the reign of Louis XV; the dull conventiouality of the port f Cloisenl. Yet ic storv the vassionate saguish, and tue theill-