The Sun (New York) Newspaper, October 20, 1868, Page 2

OO AMUSEMENTS. — WALLACK ®—The Honeymoon. Elegant scenery, ep: | potntments,&e, A splendid cast. RIBLO'S GARDEN—King Lear. at t o'clock P.M. BOWERY THRATRE—The Crimson Seid, Matinée on Saturday at? P.M. TARATRE FRANCAIS Oct. M—Geneviove de Bratant. WOOD'S MUSEUM—Ixion, the Man at the Wheel, aud A popntar farce every other afternoon. PIRES MUSIC HALL, M4 st, corner Mth MacKroy's Masieal, Pictorial, and National F tatnment. A Tour through Ireland. PIKES OPERA TOUBE, Oct. 14—Hateman's Opera Boufle—La Grande Ducheave de Gerolste!n. EW YORK CIRCUS, 14th #1, opposite Arwlemy of Morto—Star Riders and Aciedata, Matinies Wed: nestays and Saturdays, at 24 P.M. BUNOPKAN CIRCUS, Mth et and Broniway, Grand inplay. A Iiving Hom loose tn the street pane TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1805, tw Teo Latet The Cincinnati Kaguirer, the leading Democratic journal {n the West, states that on Friday last a distinguished and highly esteemed citizen of Cincinnati telegraphed to Chief Justice Case urging him to accept the Democratic nomination for the Presi- dency in place of Gov, SkyMoun if it should be tendered to him ; and that the Chief Jus- Lice replied substantially that he would con- pent to run as an independent candidate if | the presint Democratic ‘were withdrawn. There can be no question that the Demo standard-bearers eratic party would be a great deal better off with the Chief Justice as its nominee for the Presidency, and with some sound and dis treet Wer Demoernt like Gen. Hancock in | the second place on the ticket. If such nom inations had beon mado in July, with a gen- uine progressive platform, embodying the true principles of Democracy, the awful disns tors which have so nearly destroyed the par- ty woald not have occurred ; or, at any rate, their effect would have been greatly mitiga- ted. It is true that Mr. Joun Quincy Apa, the Democratic candidate for Govern. or of Massachusetts, docs not think that Judge Case could have beaten Gen. GRANT at any rate; but however this ht be, the party would have come out of such a contest full of life and power, and with the Dest chance of success hervafter, instead of emerging in a state of hopeless debility or irreparnble dissolution. In view of facts like theee, it is not sur- prising that the shrewdest leaders of the Democracy should have conceived the idea ‘of reversing now, a fortnight before tho election, the fatal action of the Tammany Convention, by putting CuAsn and Hancock Into the places which should have been allotted to them in July. Not that they expect in this way to prevent the election of Gen. Grant, Nothing ean now prevent that. But they think, and not without rea bon, that they may thus save the sick and Buffering party, and start it on the only vourse of treatment by which it can ever regain either health or office. ‘The difficulty, however, les deeper than the candidates. Itis in the platform. The answer of the Chief Justice to his Cincin- nati friend shows that he is aware of this. Me would bo willing to ran, if Semoun and Bram ehould be withdrawn, as an indo- pendent candidate, not a# the candidate of the Democratic party. That would not do. An independent candidate, even if success fal, would not help the Democracy at all. If Judge Cuase is to be substituted for Gov. Seymovn, and Gen, Hancock for Gen, Bain, it can only be done upon a platform which shall recognize the Reconstruction laws os valid, and on the whole as wise. That is tho view which Judge Cuasm takes of them, ‘Mr. Jonx Quincy ADAMS seems to be of the same oploion, and the Progressive Democrate everywhere incline to that view of the caso, Even the World argued a little while ago that theee laws were substantially unchange able, and that to butt agninet them was folly, Goy. Seymoun and Gen. Brain have both declared themselves ready to withdraw, ‘This is patriotic on their part, and ought to give them anew hold on tho affections of the Democracy ; but unless thore is authority somewhere to change tle platform and make it accord with common senso and the peace of the country, the withdrawal of candidates who have become unpopulgy, and the substitution for them even of such great names as Cuase and Hancocx, would be uscless, We fear that there is no such au- thority, and that accordingly the Democracy will have to go on to their doom, which will be sealed a fortnight from tod One cannot contemplate without emotions of sadness the termination of a party which bas passed through 60 long and 60 glorious o carcer as the Democracy; but there is conso: lation in the fact that the man who is to be elected President is one of the most genuine Democratic character, He never voted any Dut a Democratic ticket; and it is not too much to say that in his election trae Demo- cratic principles will be honored and imain- tained. —— Rebeldom on the Rampage. The Southern rebels, unmindful of the fact that they owe their lives and the reten- tion of what little property their own suicidal folly hasleft them to the unparalleled cleme ty of their conquerors, seem bent on proving to the world that they are undeserving of their good fortune, and that they ought to have been treated with @ emall portion, at Least, of that rigor which, in every civilized country but ours, is thought to be the desert Not content with murdering of treason. private citizens, whose loyalty and patriot ism rebuke their own erimes, and whose nring to order ‘willingness to assist in rest the chane that suceeded the downfall o the Confederacy hes provoked their hatred, they have grown bold enough to begin ag those acta of piracy which have given t« Besores and Brae such infamous notori ety, Arteamer, loaded with arms and au munition destined for the Government of th Btate of Arkansas, has becn selzed on th and wi any attempt at concealing th od in it, those eng achicvcment. Matines on Raturday great highway of the Mississippi river by a Band of desperadocs, and her lading de- | from Old Hickory down Btroyed. ‘The outrage was committed openly, No doubt it sd among the unrepentant rebels of the ne!gbborhood as a praiseworthy Joyal inhabitante of Arkansas againet their enemies, or to enforce the laws which inter- fore with the sovereign will and pleasure of the rebel population, It is a bold defiance to the National Government, too; for it threatens a similar treatment to the arms and ammunition of the United States troops whenever they shall be sent into Arkansas to maintain the national authority. If there wore a doubt left in any sane man’s mind of the nature of the feelings which animate a large portion of the Southern people, it must ; | be dispelled now. ‘The rebellion is etill smouldering, and only awaits a fitting oppor- tunity to burst out into a flame which would enwrap the whole country, if it could. Much, if not all of this prolongation of « contest which, according to every rule of comimion sense, should have been ended three years ago, is due to the unpatriotic course which many influential public men havo taken. Instead of codiperating In the perm: nent restoration of peace, according to true Democratic principles, they have persistently maintained an attitude of friendship for the rebels, and hostility to the restoration of tho national power. ‘To crown their folly, they have nominated as candidate for Viee-Presi- dent a man previously pledged to forcibly undo what little has been nccomplished to- ward rebuilding the ruins left by the re- Dellion, and to once more put the di loyal clement of the South in the ascendancy. If language means anything, Mr. Blair's Innguage means that if he and Mr, Seymour succeed at the approaching election, some of the most important results of the victories of our arma shall be swept away, and everything of which their treason ins now deprived them be piven back to the rebel. There can be no question that the | hope of such o result lies at the bottom of | these outrages at the South, of which we have, | unhappily, to chronicle so many, and that it keeps alive the passions which burned so fiercely during the war i | oe Respectfully Declined. The Editor of Tie Sun begs to acknow- lodge the receipt of a kind and flattering note from Mr. Jomx 8. McKinniy, of Mas. poth, Queens county, Long Island, requesting him in the most complimentary manner to consent to run for the office of Licutenant- Governor of New York upon tho same ticket with Mr. McKintry, who is the Constitu tional Union candidate for Governor. We are sorry to say wo are not in a situa. tlon to accept the proffered honor, and to enter upon the canvass for the high office in question. In the first place, there are two very clever gentlemen already in nomination for that office, Mr. A. C. Bracit and Mr. A. B. Counrut., Both of them are fine-looking men, Mr, Bractt wears a beautiful mous tache, and Mr, Connent, though emooth- shaven, is admirably qualified to preside over the Senate. We do not wish to complicate the election by coming in to deprive both of these gentlemen of a prize to which one of them will be fairly entitled after the election. In the second place, we cherish « profound respect for the Constitutional Union party. ‘The Constitution and the Union ought to have the ardent devotion of every patriot. But we fear that this new party bas ‘Deen started too Inte to have much effect in this election, We have no doubt that Mr. McKIN.ey isn giant of political power, We know that he 1s 8 Solon of political wisdom. But it hardly seems practicable for him to get elected this year, Tho people are ab- sorbed by the struggle betweon the Republi- cans and Democrats. Thoy have paid a good deal of attention to it. They Lave been to hear Mr. Horwman and Mr, Guiswonp sponk, and they admire them both. ‘They think Guiswoup is very smart and Horr. MAN very cloquent and impressive. But McKrisiey they haven't heard yet. About him they don’t think at all, Nor will they at present. They aro bound to sce tho con- test between HovraAN and Griswovp, the Democrats and the Republicans, falrly fought out and finished. After that McKiviey and tho Constitutional Union party can have a chance, In the third place, we don't want to be Licutenant-Governor, We have much bet- ter offlce now, The view offered from the windows of old Tammany Hall—an edifice replete with sound Democratic principles— isa greatdeal finerthan that from the second ttory of the State House at Albany. If it wore a question of the Presidency, we might be tempted, But Lieutenant-Governor, with asalary of $1,5000 year! No, Smt! ‘The proposal of the Constitutional Union party is, therefore, respectfully declined for these reasons, We trust they will be re- colved as satisfactory, and more conclusive than the anawer of a great American states man in July last, when in the anguish of | his heart he exclaimed; “ Your candidate I cannot be! ‘The Blair arty. The Briar party is not likely to he re duced, except by death, to less than three in number. There is the old man, and there MonToommny, and there ie Frank, Jun If there were another, there would then be ‘These four, And ho uisre, Asit is, there are these throe, and no more, Thore may be another in fact, but if there is, he is of no account in politics, and 60 cannot be counted here. But fow os there are of the Brarns, there fro just about three too many for any onc party to carry. ‘The old man would strength ena party, If he were alone; but you might ‘as well Lave your tea all molasses as to have three BLamns in one party, We do not mean that they make a party too sweet, but they - | make it too much Brain. ‘The Biams are unselfish: every-or them cares as much for either of the otheis f| ashe doce for himself. Montgomery re gards with some degroe of favor any man who has ever done anything for “my broth >| er Frank.” As for “my father,” Montgom ery considers him the yreatest and most sue. ceusful politiclan ance the days of Jefferson of © | He believes that his father has furnished the e | Drains for all the Democratic Presidents— that is, for all who have shown any brains— ‘The best of this joke is, that it is moro 1 true, But e | while the old gentleman hus contributed brains go liberally to Democratic Adminis trations, when he came to supply his own sons he did not overdo the matter at all However, they know enough to keep out of Tho purpose of this plratical exploit is | the fire, and, from present appearances, proba pvidontly to erlpplo the Btate Government | bly enough to keep out of oifice Leroafter, tm any efforts if may make to protect the; ‘The Democracy seem to be in great tribu- THE lation, just now, to get Frank Blair off from the Democratic ticket, We recommend to them to try Helmbold’s fluid extracts, and see if they will not extract him. If anything will do it, @uids will, Fluids have done a qrood deal for Frank Blair, and who knows that they will not undo him? And that sooms to be what the party desire. We should like to soe the color of the y which Helmbold gave to the Blair We suppose it was in green backs: were they invisible green ? We have, on general prinelples, recom- mended the disbandment of the Democratic SUN, party, and the support of Grant. There is napecial reason why wo think the organize. tion should be kept up. it will serve to hold the Blairs, and to keep them ont of the Re- publican party ; and powerful as that party in, we fear it would soon bo etruck with death if the Blairs should join it. We do not know what will become of the Blairs after the election. They might go with Andy Johnson to Boutwell’s Hole in the Heavens; but we think they would do Detter to do as tho geese do whon a» place becomes too hot for them—they fly North. The Blairs might go to Alaska, The Ameri- can people will never derive as much benefit from it Sf appropriated to any other pur- poss, Frank might indulge his taste for dispersing Stato governments up there with- out doing: much misch’ The good wis! of the party would accompany them; that is the place for fur, and everybody wishes the Blairs further, Sad Wo sympathize with our colaborer of the World in his effort to get Frank Blair to de- cline, Ho may borrow comfort from the reflection that the greater includes the less, and the whole party is rapidly going into a decline, — It is decided that Gronor Francis Tra’ ia not coming home to rua for Congress in the Fifth District, He can't got out of bis British He hns offered to pay the debt on which be is beld, although it has been paid once before; but that is not enough. Something more is needed to net him free, A liberator bi there is no one to liberate him, We ure sur- prised and grieved at this, With so many pow- erful and devoted friends as he bas, we felt no doubt that he would get home in season to make f great fight for Congressional honors, But it is nt to be, Adverse destiny intervenes. We are sorry for it, We were ready to welcome Mr. Train to the political arena, and to advocate his election with all our might, What a cheering straggle it would have been, with the starry ban- nerin our right hand and the green flag of Erin in our loft, and the gallant and thrilling Trai going into the foe as Suruivan charged the rebela at Five Forks! So fade the fondest illusions of the human heart, But all interest does not depart from the canvass in the Fifth District with the absence of Tuarx, Joun Monaisay is atill running there, with his pockets stuffed with the greenbacks ho won on Pennsylvania, ‘The Irish, too, still hare © first-rate candidate in Hoxace Guaexey, the fast friend of the Inboring man everywhere, the champion of Irish independence agaiust the banded despots of the world, The votes that would have been given to Tram bad now better be turned over to Guenter, He is himself asort of Feniun, of Irish descent, and haa ever been faithful to the land of his forefathers, This win- ter he will weer an overcoat of Irish friexe. He is supported by Sxoponass of Maryland, one of the ablest philanthropists and most entertaining public speakers im the world, His chance of beating Monwisey does not seem very brilliant ono erficial vie but as the Democratic Union are going to ruu Geo, Netaon Tarton in order to divide the Democratic vote, the Irish citizens will give Mr. G and enthusiastic support, we have election, At any rate, now that Bir, Tuan is no longer in the field, we shall do what we can to secure it, dungeon, {My Attantte Telegraph Last Nigh.) Wonders will never cease, An instan tancous flash of news across tho ocean telegraph permits us to announce another important de: fection from the Democratic party. Tho br and chivalrous Groraw Fuancis Taatw recognizes the situation, Me sees tho handwriting. With a prescience worthy of his reputation ho divines the result, and, —sagaciously conjures bis Fenian and other frieuds to vote for Gen, Guant, Te says that the Democratic party is friendly to England, wnd he naturally depre- cates any support in that dircetion, Mr. Train's advice will be gravely considered by the voters of the Fifth Dist That it is Louest end sincere no one will doudt, — The Board of Supervisors yesterday passed the Coroners’ foes for the quarter ending Sept ber 99, 1868, amounting to $14, divided among the four gentlemen filling this Lightly important county oflice, makes & bai little income for each of them, They are cheap at the price, ‘Ybis sum, a eee The deep strategy of the World in labor. ing to show that, though Srruoge io an accom. plished gentleman, he develops wo strength, and the shoulders of duce its legitinnte any that Buain is a dead weight o the party, is be, to p effect in the iuterior, We learn from A that proposals are opeoly made by the Demoe! to trade off Seruoun for Horruan—that is, Dem crats offer to vote for Guant if Republicans will vote for Horruax, They ere trying to work out this problem through the Germans, Tho Ke. publicans are wide awake to ¢bis plot, and hodging’”’ by attempting to toke the Irish from Torruax, and carry them over to Guiswoup, Tho politicians at the State capital ere prover- bially keen at bargains of this sort, und it will be well for their brothren elsewhere to keep a sharp eye upon them, aes The National Independent Club have nominated Jom Savacu to represent the Ninth District in the House of Representatives of the United States, It is @ good nomination, Mr Savaau is aman of genius and a sincere patriot, Ilo is an Irishman and Head Contre of the Fenians, He will make a distinguished meiuber of Con gress. Now let tho Democrats of that district nominste tim, and he will b elected. Ir T''rd District the Democrats have drown ovcr Wittta Entomna Ronixson in order to nominate Gen, H.W, Stocem as their candi- date for Congress, This is a political blunder, Gen, Stocum is avery respectable man, but his nomination under the circumstances canuot fail toulienate the Irish yotersin other places be- sides the Third District, Mr. pecially dear to all Irish © i Tonixson is es- and should e been renomipated and redlected, if for no other reasov, because it is now especially the duty of the Democratic leaders to couciliate the Fenian clement, It in difficult to understand the policy ich fies in th {common sense, as the Denweracy of the Third District have thus sending the drish champion adrift petit beatles —Mr. Geo, W. Childs, publish delphia Ledger, Was prevented a las and Landsome- f the Phila. ly enclosed lot In the Woodland Cemetery, Twenty- seventh Ward, to the Typographical Soclety of Phila- delphin, ‘The dedicatory services took place on Sat- wrday last } fri TUESDAY, POLITICAL, —_——— —The Boston Fost remarks that “the Demo- crate enjoy one advantage from the present election returns—It conte them nothing for powder.” Tho Mobile Tribune says: “If we are suo- cessful inthe approaching contest, we shall gain all that we have lost in the ‘Jost cause.’ —Texas papers strongly urge « division of the State, The subject will bea prominent feature of the adjourned meeting of the Constiuttonal Conven- tion In December, A meeting of the citizens of Philadelphia who feel an interest In maintaining the purity of the Lallot-box will be held this evening, to give ex: pression to the general indignation at the (raude and violenee practised at the late election, —The Manchester (N. 11.) Union Democrat ways that the prevalence of intemperance in that Btate ts Jamentable, and that the election of Seymour and Biair is necessary for {ta suppression. We have not yet heard that reason assigned In New York. —The Itiehmond Enquirer 8 that none of the Southern delegates to the New York Convention exorcised any real force in framing the Demooratio platform, witch, to eny the least, is somewhat unjust to Gen, Wade Hampton. —A morning contemporary annonnces that Mr. Seymour, tn these troublous times, “ts in good health, goes fishing when the skies are Mvorable, eate his threo equare meals a day, and fe not in the least flustered by the panic in the Manhattan Clob, bnt cool as a watermeton.”* —The @atlopoles (Ohio) Journal anys vate letter received fom a Kentuckian by ® g man says buying Con- fedorate bonds at ten cents on the dollar, In anticlpa- tion of the election of Seymour and Blair, in which event they bolleve the bonds will be at par, or at lonst of a value approaching par. fiThe Southera papers, now that the smoke of the political contest tn Tenneylvants, Ohio, and Tn tluma beglas to WA, discover that the Demoeratiy effort in those States was merely a reconnolesance in force, and that the real battle will take place lo veraber, With every prorpect of a successful issue, vertheless, they will probably not bet much ow the comtng election, and will spend lesa, —Horatio is reported to have perpetrated the following Joke ince the late elections; An old d, © War Democrnt, met the Governor, who ap- peared to be In a serious and thoughttul mood, when the former exclaimed, “Checr up, Governor Will come out all right; Grant isa good Demoer #0 the Lest thing you ean all do Js to fall in with the in Blue.” “Itetrikes me we are due enough eplied Horatio, ns be strode off with « melancholy air, —Mr. J. Q Adams has been telling some o1 in South Carolina that the Fouthern people ore loyal ns any people tu the North; that negroes and White mon are well disposed to ench other, and the former peaceable in all cases except when influenced or excited by earpet-baggors ; that If the people of the North could see the South as he had seen it,re- construction would soon go to the wall ; that the ne- w rules the South despotically, &e. “ O wise how much more elder art thou than thy he Governor of North Carolina has issued Proclamation announcing his intention to defend the constitationallty of the reconstructed State Govern: ments, if uasalle’, and also to punish all who ry pereon wh 7 race of aifuent an lately free, At times happen in «!l communities and startle them With thelr drendfulneas, took place s few days eluco at the saw-mill of E. I) Hows, on Ohio levee, Cairo, Iil., and wiieh resulted in the sudden death of Win, ay el ‘The facta aro briefly as 4 another man were bi: timber it slipped from the other mai Auiuck Butner lu the breast with euch for kuock bim backward upon two etrcular sawa, one above the other, and which were rucning @t the rate 01 40) revolutions @ minute, Bis body was instantly eut in twain,tna slanting direction, reacliug from the le shoulder, from whteb St severed the arm, down to the navel. Tle right foot wae severed from the leg. The upper p-rtion of his body fell inte « pit in which the sawdurt was generally eau Ko aud. don was the aceident that Persone in the vicinity of the saw could. hardly reallze the fact that the who had stood before thera but a few seconde bef: with Tile and war 8 corpac, His body eparatet and bi before them. Death was so sudden that he was not even beard to ulter a groan, aaanhaaRatasnhaa A Lies at Lerge. Considerable alarm was caused a fow days finee at Nottingham, Kogland, by the escape o Hon from Mr. Whittington eric, which ts ex- hibiting tn the Sneinton Bercee” during the literally eawed OCTOBER Zu, Goose-far holidays, Lt appears that earty in the af- ternoea Metanl, the African Hon-unter, was para- ding a full-grown puma er Bouth American lion, which Is considered harmless, on the stage outelde the estalishinent, when (he aulmal eaught sight of a dog held by a lad Im thecrowd. Breaking away from Mean, it aprang off the stage on the dog aud killed it almovt instantly. ‘The people fled tn all @irections, and the pomo, seeing anocber dog at a short distance of, {ab it and. dceapateled it as quickly as it nie the first, Metaui here supeerited in se the auimal, which wae led back W the mena gerie with the dead dog tn {ts mouth, Some dim- culty was experi opening the animal's jaws dog Strange to say, the lad who og firet killed escaped wuburt, wor did any recetve other perso Anulversary of St, Luke? gent Female nna 1 this institution, whtetr ts locate 4, took piace ni 4 o'clock yest Parlors of the Home were Billed wl ur by ai atidience composed of the tamutes OF tabertng 34, and mber of a hundred x ard of L © presen eat, w . We., Preavient; the Kev, Isaac iuitie, Vice. dent; Mr. Preaes Pott, Secreta: Mr, A.B. McDonald, Treasurer, and a Hoard of twenty-one Managera. A Board of Lady Man- agers was also elected to, eupervise the ine terval economy of the Instituiion, with the following rat Mra, Houry A, Smytie, Vresidew John. Priestie esident} Kemble, Seoretary; NM. WwW. M. E. Bieee! portotthe 'T r showed o dot §1,8i7.00, exclusive of the building i tiou of w suitable p f the Home, whieh how am referred to the loss of al of the Home fn ay ice of tue Koyal I any, and acknowledged a bequest by Lorilants eq. of $80 versary exercises eons! Moore, feribe, fauce on fund, Treasure k dresses by Ke : 1 + Gallaudet of St. Aun's, and Haskin: : Mark's parish, Wililamsburgh,’ the recitatton, by & Diind tomate, of an original pocm laudatory of the in- stitution, and some vocai music given with fine effect by a nuniber of young Lily fileuds, ——— ‘The United States Indian Commisste: This body was created last May at @ public mecting in Cooper Lostitate, for the purpose of sc- curing ju © 10 the Indians of thie country, They have rent a iuenicy ial to Congress, wot of whieks has been & ad the Indian Appropriation rman costodian of all mone; }- Jians. "Yesterday morning a meot- the Commission {n rou 2 Cooper AiCondance was present, aud Peter 1, the Rev. Dr. Washburn, and wereon the stand. The thalr croeby, and prayer offered ‘The meeting was un inter diane tn hi The Bishop wag followed by th Rev. Drs. Be d Osgosd. ater whom came Bishop Keuper 1 that the romaine of the Bix Nations, t noved to his ihorere, hhad!ad vanced ‘a juereased in numbers, and Adopted U f the whites. A resoldtion cutive Comm guest Congress to nop Whipple a hearing o1 the part of tue ssivu, after Which the weeting adjourned, Ww n FOL —A_ wonderful story wo this morn ALOUL ® Nan at Cr ieken de for biayyhewiy he 1aan (we cap'tleara ther ay last #torted off very early wife tried (0 persuade him not noistiog he would be violating the law of Goo ty Tie man remarked tat he could fo Bod “eocch & ness of Mish before Josus Christ Wiis ay hd proceeded to the Annomes#'x river, Ow ardMug ot ele sank down in the sand Up bo hie esis, whet Le wlll repualut, notw Ibistand> ing ev 4 P oxtrleate hiw by iUgwing away the said, Lois has been done, and bis boots cut bo Lrve foot, but he still remains there as in- \cloeraph agent af Clayton, gent « tio loarm the facts in the ease, and d rephied that they were ay [creates excitement le reported Necivo the stom ae furntebed by the rallroad em- payee here, at vouching for, it in any way, It als the host story,—smgnna (Va.) ines. 1865, 4 LETTER TO ANONYMOUS. —s Ihave neglected you of late, my Anonym ‘When I wrote you Inst, it was im Paul Nicholson's ‘Town and Country—that dright-haed buttery which ‘Was too good for this world, and eo gave up the ghost and went where the good papers go when they die. Tean fancy it hobnobbing in some better land, alone With the late lamented Saturday Pres, Vantty Fair, Mrs, Grundy, the old Knickerbocker Magazine, and ‘an army of other jolly old glosta of that sort. Bat you are immortal, my Anonymous. Have you been tothe theatre lately? Of eon you have; and of course you are interested in ‘war of the newspaper critics, ‘These gentlemen are giving sorts of writing now-a-days, some of It witty, some of It wise, and some of It otherwise. Good, bad, of indifferent, however, all this agitation fs certain to do some good. Agitation killed slavery, you know; agitation Is tn & falr way to provide votes for women; and who Knows but agitation may serve to get justice done the subject of American dramatic authorehip? Let's all help, Bball I tel you who ts to blame for the fuct that @ramatic authorship is not more reputable among us? First, the Managers, It Is very enay to nay, a some of our managers do, that they #tand ready to produce American plays if they are really good ones, But who is to decide ‘whether they are really good or wot! Bnire nous, Avonymous (you won't mention It), Thave not a very exalted opinion of the judgment of American managers, in this matter of genuine literary, merit, How many managers are there In this country who pores liierary culture sufficient to enable them to pass jadgment on the writings of American anthors? 1 managers are not of the literary they are of the theatrical world, Gene- rally they have led the life of actors, and no other. Those who have not, are just business men who have fone {nto theatrienl management because there is “money in it." Our publithera are of a different stamp. ‘They are generally men of literary eultare, literary (astes, lites rary Judgment, who bave gone into publishing not because there fe “money In it,” but because their tases lean that way. There is less moncy in the publishing boviness than in any other branch of trade, Everybody knows that pork ts more proftable than books. When T submit my MS. ton publisher, I have a de- cent degree of confidence in his opinion of its merits, And yet weall know thateven the publishers make intstakes sometimes, Without especial literary culture, then, how is & manager enpable of pavsing weritical opinion on my MS, play an a work of literary art? It is not as a work of liternry art that he considers it, Anonymous. It is purely as a speculation that he Jooks upon It, If he thinks It will tell on the stage— {fhe thinks {t will draw large houses—then he is ready to bring It out—If nothing better offers, Generally, romothing better, in his opinion, doce offer—in Uie shape of au Buglish play which has been successfully produced, Tt very eften happens, Lowever—I am extremely happy to say—that the manager gets bitten in this matter, Mr. Wallncle hae been singularly aufortunate with his foreign plays fora long time past, He tas juced something like half a dozen London suc- , Which have proved to be very stapid plays in and what is worre, have failed to draw good hous T have no doubt that if any of the: had been offered to ‘allack In the manuscrip as by an American writer, they would have received deserved contempt at bis hand I would not tmply, my dear friend, that Mr, Wal: lack stands slone in his attitude of offence to Amert- can dramatists, He has plenty of company. And it ls possible he may deny that he oecuples such offensive attitude, It ts not @ matter of veracity: {¢ Is m matter of opinion. About the only American dramatist who has ever suececded in pleasing him, 1 Mr. John Lester Wal- lack. “Rosedale” ts a very good play of ite kind, no oubt ; #0 is “Central Park ;" but they honily enti. tle thelr uthor to outrunk all the littérateure of Mr. Wallac Ina gentleman, personally—an artist, profeasiovally, Ihave often praised him for bis ge- my admiration for him as aman, and as an actor, #hall not make me shut my eyes to the olen. five attitude he maintaine toward American au‘ hore. the best to be found Tiis theatre is the very piace of all oth new play would be likely to have justice done it in the style of presentation. He, therefore, ban the power, more than any other of our managers, of fostering native plays, How unfortunate American plays are,in this mat- ter of being well played, few people know, Its not to be supposed thatf playwrighta cannot ot openings in New York for thelr play: thor who bay Nncere regard for his work will hesitate Jong before committing it to the butchery of bad aet- Ing and bad scenery, peculiar to our third-rave the- atres, A class of dramatisis whose literary status ts illus trated by the flash weeklies, tn whose columns alone thelr productions can find print, ean bring out their plays in third or fourth-rate theatres, and suffer little by it, Relying for auccess on acente effect alone, tt does not to much matter that their society heroes, their gentlemen of the Aawte tolée, are represented by actors who appear tn a dress coat and black trow sere on the promensde, who 0 , to # bail in a busl- suit and colored linen, aud who say " partick- nd * wuz, Writers of @ more cultivated class, #00 who are not ed by the publishers of our first-class ma ind Who havea keen sense of the fitness of (hings, way be excused fora reluctance to present Plays in theatres of this class. ‘The direct result a, of course, that American dra- matic authorabip ts Miustratedjentety by the chigon- niere of I men who hove no reputation to protect, re quite willing to take the mc which would bare the flogers of « literary artist, at isthe way weeetour “Black Crooks,” oor © White Vewns,” our dramas of the "1808 Tconfess 1 was surprised that 1863 such speedy justice, It was quite a good in a litera. ry point of view as agreat many other plays whic have bad a run, hilled thetr producers’ Does anybody suppose thet a well-written fan American author, combining with {ts good writ: ing good effects, good scenes, an interesting story, and good dramatic construction, would not succeed Af it were to Le presented with an attention to do- tall such as was lavished on the * Black Crook "? ‘The managers of Nibio’s Garden are going to pro- duce the Inst sensation from London, Bouelcault’ “After Dark." Is will get proper treatment at thelr hands, and will bea great success, It will have « long run, crowds will throng to see {t, the erities will praise ft with loud voice, and it will afford one more of those crusbing filustrations that English drama- Usta are everything, and American drumatiste no- thing. I might Mustrate my eubjoct very pertinently, Anonymous, by the history of certain plays of my own, but you would at once pronounce me egotisti- cal, might tell you of ® lovingly created American comedy, which ts good enough for the best theatres in Philadelphia and Boston, but which secke tn vain for & New York manager who would see it properly presented, It haga fne scenic effect in it, to besure, Dut it hos also other features which recommend ft to Boston and Philadelphia, wt le I might tcl of another American play, purel {yom me more than s year ago by one of the moet popular of cur native "whieh has been re- peatedly ennounced for production in thls elty, but never yet has econ the light because it absolutely re- quires first-class actors, Actors to whom the ster tn quertion dare not truxt my play, be finds good enough to play English dramas, which are full of seusational effects, and draw crowded houses, And after all, If they ll his houses, why should he care to produce the Amertean comedy be has bought ? He is au excellent man personally, and bas a real desire to sce American plays and playwrights re- ceive justice; but as his first duty is, of course, to Oil Mis purse, why should be trouble himself with this vexed question eo long as the public rush to see him in foreign plays? ‘This brings me to the second party in this matter of Diane PPebe fact that onr dramatic authorship is not more reputable: Tu PUBLIC. Tt is an old story, you know, If that great male- factor, the Public, wil patronize Eugiish plays ; Af he teiil rush to see opéra douffe ; if bo will crowd Niblo when the ballet twinkles; if be will be such neaghty Pubic us be peretat la being, whet can one One can do the public justice. ‘The public pa- trontzes English plays, it is true; but it would patron: ine American plays just as liberally if it bad the chanee, It goes to nee “ After Dark" at Niblo's (or it will) ; but if the piece at Niblo's were.an American play, It would go ns freely to wee th: ‘The fouls of the public is, that It does not care much about this eabject in ite relation to authorship ; Mt only seeks to be amused. Bo after all the blame comes back upon the mana- fers again, In conjunction with the third party which isin fault: ‘Tue Stans. My argument fs, that the #tars and the managers are mistaken fn their views of the public taste, They have no need to rely on English dramatists, Ther has never been an American play of average merit— merit, let equal to two-thirds of the English plays we get—that did not pay handsomely. ‘When dramatic anthorship is placed on a basis tn this country Iike that {t oceaplos In France, you will find, Anonymowe, that there will be no lack of fuccesefal workers fn this field. At present, ite re- wards are far too precarious. When I write « magarine article, or a letter to yoo, Anonymous, I know positively beforehand that I shall get my pay for my work. It may be small pay, Dut it ie certain, But when I write a play,T ean never feel assured that Iam not wasting my time, and this 1n spite of the fuct that three or four of my plays have found « market, To work for eance, one should have possible profits, even to the extent of thousands, It is fair enough, in speculative enterprise, that » man should get nothing If he falls, while, on the other hand, be gets « fortune if ho 18 successful, Dut to work for smal ealary, eo to speak, and then have the salary made contingent on the event of your work pleasing a capricious fancy—that is rather bard. ‘This ts the way in which stars wre to blame for the low status of American dramatic authorship. ‘They Jook upon an anthor a# a crosture to dawdle around their doorsteps, o work for nothing, and to be grate- ful for the priviles It does not enter their heads that authorship i* my estimation, than a thow Lides fteelf in such a bramble bush as this, ‘There are numbericss scribblers who will write plays all thelr live body, but they are" poor ereatures,"” who will con: fer little honor on authorship, and who would serve thenwelves better by doing less siubitious work fur humbie but certain pay. Youre, self-respectfully, OLIVE LOGAN. —— Public Sel Atten The annexed table contai: ance and whole number of Achools under tie control of th for tha year ending from the eworn retur Boese, Secretary of the Bourd: ee. ago attend. ile taught in the Hoard of h Behoote, gS iy x Grammar schnole—Dore... 150 Graumar schools—Girls,. a SU 18140 885 100,71 Ps 188 Eveniag schools— Freclug schooleVeu ‘The operations Bnd coumist tate were rather limited the following at the Kx- Threestory, basement and Macdougal sy wear Cin nM 8 At Front by 118, on by 4 1b & on the westerly side, thon inch, ortherly 6 ft. 4 lech, ide rt. Zinch.; purchased by Mit Gorge Starr for 8 “Three-story Basement Jar birlek house ang Lor i7¥ Me fhd Clinton places; house 23430 (4 frout, 20 feet Feat by 1024 fl. deep 1.1. Simon for 6 AA AL, et. M 00, xl parehased by To the Bilitor of The Sun, Sim: The statement of “C.,"" in your issue of ‘the 1th Inet. that farme within two or three miles of Factoryville aud Port Richmond may be par- chased for $40 an acre and upwar: the writer meaning $2) outs, E think th hearer the aerifee und war probal instead of $300. Hover the island ludividaale may weil at snd land may go low at inattention, but 1 think island, except it be salt meadow, not than §20 salt mn is raplal; teeillita per were for agricultural Wow utly worth very. and all the land poses, Even ore for Epiphany, _The ladies’ fair to provide schools for the new olle pariah of the Epiphany waa opened yester- aflern Irving Hall, whieh was elegantiy rtistienlly decorated for the oceasion anid of the Heventh Regiment wus present, and gulivened the proceedings with oie charming Mire, ‘The hall was crowded to excess with a very velect assemblage of young ladies, demure nial and Beutlemen. “The several stands were Hanked with the American flag, but oniging to the congregation of the C maculae n had and ofven be At the entrance end of the hall was placed the stand of Mrs, Garrick, over which war te ¢ With Oulapread wings. or tsbhes Wore Placed us follows around the leave (0 ganily arranged: Second, Mrs. ryan; th Traynor; fourt®, Mred M. Atel Hulltey Sixth, dive Harrigan Seventh, ‘ eighth, Mrs, Htyau; ninth, Mrs. dames Devine; tenth Miss Kelly; clevonth, Mrs, Burtscll; twellth, Mrs. Whelan, Misa Wh ancl Mra, frosiument ta Mt Jer the charge of Sirs, was delivered by wore that churc nent OF ci uation of ebilire bout entering into cussion on controversial poluts of doctrino, bi at the Catholice should display @ land ulation with otuer sects in the work Aud the establishment of schools, of the evening were closed by sud appropriate music by the band, Relief fo Lroation oF 1 A 1803, — onnts received 1 ph provamiens 6 ae sR buehciore Bila bats te Hag aot THancan, fermen @ Cox 6 Received. v Woot Post, bill’ 0 Keodived nau Meritt, dav Browu, $000; 0 friv #10; total, $1445. es ‘ary ut Legation, Persona Hotol,...Bx-President Fillmore is at the Fitth Ave- nue Hotel. Mexcaxrite Linnany.—The aupplomentary eat. alogue Just ieeved by the Mereantile Library shows a total of 100,000 volumes la that Inst le Poor Ovv Honst.—Yesterday morning a large crowd asscmbled near the Astor Mouse to witneas the death of a worn-out borse. What possible en- Joyment cau boys and girly, well-eppesring women and men have in looking upon apoor beast, fulntly Kicking its last upon the cold pavement, with nob a wisp of straw to support ite head? Yet hundreds will stop to gaze, even men in carriages will slack up to enjoy the sight, and delicate woman, to whom a mouse Is a fearful monster, will use eyeglasses to get a close View of the dying sgonles of amere horse, We have & Cruelty to Animals Scclety. What did they do for Uiis horse? We do not arralgn them; but if they cannot remove gue aights from general view, if they cunnot keep a rabble of wicked ebildren from aduing torment to dissolution, what shall we say? «Yet = the. = first’ duty way that of the owner of the horse, He should have taken care of his disabled servant, and by prompt andihutnane removal saved the pablie from an exhi- bition that reflects discredit upon clvilization, Who is he that neglected so important a duty * n the chance of pleasing somes | Ashman | BUNBRAMS. ploaioe~anens =Mr. Noble, the painter of “John Brown,” anit other pieturos of that school, is engaged upon @ new work, Mustrating the witcheraft delusion ts New England in the seventeenth century. —King Louis of Bavaria is distinguished for s tort of sublime selfishness, if for nothing else, He employs an orehesira of seventy performers to play to him alone, no other persons being samitted. Montreal has a Judge who is so deaf that the lawyers chad each other in court with impunity, and @ “the laugh comes tn.” —It took just thirteen minu tes by the watch for Mr. Rochefort, of the Lanterne, to eatisty Mr. Dar rot's honor, by giving his antagonist three stabs with a email sword, and receiving one himself, oth parties separated entisfied t =The women of Germany are to have ® cone vention at Stuttgart this month, notto demand the ffraze, but—to discuss the best way of managing babies, Delegates will doubtless be edmitted from America, and It's to be hoped they will attend. =—The annual meeting of the Societies of the Armies of the Tennessee, Cumberland, Onto, and Georgia will be held In Chieago on the 15th and 16th of December next, The meeting of the 15th will be devoted to speeches; that of the 16th to a banquet, —The managers of the Hudson River Railroad making good progress on the grading of their d track, which has now become a necessity, In order to move the immense number of trains over the road —Tho death of the king of reatauratewrs, Pascal, proprietor of the eclebrated Maison Philippe, Rue Montorqueil, Paris, is recorded, ‘The pious hope haw een expressed by the Princes of M— that the re- ceipt tor his potage d ladiague will be found among his papers. —Mrs, Ex-President Tyler publishes a card thanking “ her generon# and distinguished counsel, Witham M. Evarst# and Judge Edwards Piercrpont, for thelr entiring devotion of time and pattence In the prosecution of her defence” in the “ Gardiner: Tyler Which haw just been decided in her fa vor, =A woman was recently charged at the Lams Leth Police Court, Lond having k her Kittle boy,-rren years of age. The deceased, who War sitting at ten, iad been guilty of some slight ile com luet, when the mother, ina moment of passion, tirew atable knife athim, The knife catered Lis ide, and In a short time the child bled to death, | —A Spanish paper makes the remark that the revolutionists ave exchanged one Queen for two, | via. The beautiful Duchess dela Torre, of Sers rano, and the Countess de Keus, wif of Prim, ere- oles both of thom, the first a Mexican and the latter & Havanese, It a won pretty mela as bis wife t um. —The wife of a daughter of « Baltim have been notitied Ly the ma ren nies of te Kinproe Eugéale that the permission formerly granted to them & ppear at the Monday evening receptions of the Empress has beou withdrawn. Caure—Unbo- cvining dresses and unbecoming conduct at the last svirée i the Tulle are that Serr ‘¢ swollen the river castoned serious Inundations, Btrects, ridges, and even whole viliages have disappeared, many lives have been lost, and property to an Ime wae ¢ amount has been destroyed. A conference of pti entatatives from the several cantons ie to be held nt Berne to concert measures for the relief of condueted by bina ng of hymns to tunes eter, to Which the rev rend geutleman played an accompantinent on th banjo, A hymn commencing * Adam was the first man," rang to the tune of * Ladies, don’t you marry,” recolved an encore. D. D., after Mr, Birck's name, me Devil Driver, —The Portland Press tells of a boy whose dis- tended pocket caught the attention of his materual relative, who suggested an eaumluation of the eon- tents, which were found to be as follows: Atop, a & round plece of tin, a ribbon, a plece of piece of a garter, two long rags, a string, era! cotton wool wads, a jeck knife, a vote on the constitutional amendment, a Sunday-school verse, @ Klove, five marbles, a large gimict, ten horte-chest nuts—two partly manufietured—e sowing machine Prospectus, several pieces of paper, a tonpenny na! one headless nail, one shingle nail, alate pencil, piece | of wood, small wheel, tin cylinder, four nickel cents, walnut basket, aut a table bell body. —Dunan Mousseux, a French journalist, died recently in Paris, 42 years old, For acveral years past he did not do anything eto but tixements for Parislan dry goots 4 perfect genius fn this line, Tu ment whieh bogan wit the worda * We failed, we are bankrupt,” and which proved a perfect | Geld mine for the merchant tillors’ co: written by him, Hv received as much as for asingle advertisewent, He would often sy to the merchants: * You throw your mouoy to the dog the way you advertise, yle Mike to deat with witty merchants, Got up a sprightly advertisement, aud you will uttract twice as mauy customers as dy pursuing the same dull and heavy way la which Adam of a sou et up adver t improvemonts have recently been ti the process of puddling tron and fusing cast steel, w! described in the Berg: und [ittewn wig as fullows: As In Dossinering, we have alr blown into the melted iron in the furnace, but in this ea openings in the frou rakes wh! is blown through are used in stirring the tron, Instead of many smail hules in the rakes, | which are hand to keep free from stag, {tis better to | use a broud slit, or rectangular op of about halt | h broad by three o four inch In order | to prevent too great superheating, a few blow-tubes Bre used, comnected by Indiv-rubber tubes with the rehamper, The blast is tarael ov before the rake 4s up in the mass of iron, and » Pater it is takem out, By employing those rikes the thine of the ope | efetion fs reduced trom thirty or forty minutes to ton. Flying sparks at the commeucoment of the op- eration show the separation of witiea.” It ts claimed that this process reprrates the phospboras and sule | phur better than aay other. —Mark Twain tells the following story of one Of the sinall republics offSouth Amerie: * There w: War in one of these Hithe repub e one heve been describing, Tho Geneval-in-Curef asked the esident for tree bh red men; the President o1 dered the Mintsier of War to furnish thom; the forees—Jjust the number wanted—were down on the seacoast somewhere, The M of War requested the Minister of the Navy to place the navy of the republic at the disposal of the troops, #0 that they might have transportation to the seat of war. TI Minister of the Novy (an oficial who had scen little of ships and oceans aseven Mr. Secretary Welles) sent acourier to where the scliooner wat With the necessary order for the Lord High Admiral ‘The Lord High Admiral wrote beck: * Your Exeek ency: Its imposaile, You must be aware that this isa @-tou schooner, There is not room foe Uiree handred men inher” ‘The stern old salt in the ary Office wrote back: *Impossite! Nonsense, Make room, Meuve the tous overboard and bring the soldiers.’ Any way lo get (hem there, so they Kot them there, was allthis brave seu-lorse called for.” —The Pope's npostoll letter to Protestants and other *non-Catholica® bas Leen published ia England, The Church News (rituniistics expresem ite willingness to forgive the Holy Pater for elaes ing Anglicaus with Protestants in bis apestolical lete t to non-Catholics, ‘The blame of this mistake, {¢ Ys, tw KOt attributable to Mis Holiness, but to somes body in England, ‘The Kev, Dr, White, Presbyterian minister, of Islincton Chareh, Liverpool, has writer w letler to the Pope, declining His Hollacss's invitee tion to Protestan ch Cou to return to tho Rowan © h," in connection with the proposed General oll, on the ground that he ceunot do so consist ently with his subseription to the Westminster Cone fesston of Falth, Like w Indy, however, the reverend doctor couse all the pith of his letter into the postscript, which runs as follows: "1 sincerely com sratulate your Hollness on the improved tone of Your communication, Might I veuture to suggest that you would carry out the assumed spirit a litte further, 60 a8 to grant to all the inhabitants of Romo Mberty to worsisip God according to the dictates of their conscience ; wud also to exert your great infla- ence to obtain the release of those who are pining Spanish and other dungeons in Rowan Cathulic coum tries for reading the Word of Gos ie It was explained that the infttnte— wr