The New York Herald Newspaper, May 3, 1865, Page 4

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SALLE DIABOLIQUE, 586 Broadway. — ‘ nF cre Ez, ig mines Renner Hewusn's HIPPOTHEATRON, Fourteenth _ street. —Equestatax, Gramastic anp Ackosatio Entearai: weETs—O’ DONOUGH US. AMERICAN THEATRE, No. 444 Broadway.—Ba.ers, Pirrowinss, Boaiasquas, &c-SerTus axd BRow™a. IRVING HALL.—6r, Atsan’s Bassam anv Paowznaps ‘Ooncuars. YORK MUSBU: iF ANATOMY, Brosdway.— Open from 1a. Mt IOP M. bua —————— , Mew York, Wednesday, May 3, 1865. == DAILY CIRCULATION OF THE NEW YORK HERALD. -134,640 -137,280 145,680 -135,720 -138,720 -139.200 138,640 Monday, April 24.. Tuesday, April 25. ‘Wednesday, April 26. Thareday, April 27. Friday, April 28.. Saturday, April 29. Average per day. ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY. Advertisements for the Wexxty Hunatp must be handed im before ten o'clock every Wednesday evening. Its cir- culation among the enterprising mechanics, farmers, merchants, manufacturers and gentlemen throughout the ‘country is increasing very rapidly. Advertisements in- gerted in the Wauxty Hunaxp will thus be seen by a large potent the active gud energetic people of the United THE SITUATION, Both from St. Loufifand New Orleans we have the an- ouncement that negotiations for the surrender of all the rebel forces of the Trans-Mississippt Department, commanded by General Kirby Smith, were recently in progress on the Mississippi river, near the mouth of Red river. The termsare said to be the same as those ao- corded to Lee by Grant, Ws have not yot learned of the conclusion of these negotiations, Our Mobile despatch states that a rebel officer had gerived at General Candy's headquarters, authorized by General Dick Taylor to arrange terms for the surrender of ‘hie force. A Memphis despatch says that Taylor had ‘entered into an agreement for an armistice with Gencral Dana, on the sme terms as those agreed to by Sherman snd Sebnston. Very interesting particulars of the destruction of the rebel ram Webb, below New Orleans, on the 2th ult, sre contained in the despatch of one of our New Orleans correepondents, We are now given the reason which those om board of her had for abandoning her in the hhasty manner in which they did, From New Orleans she ‘was chased ty the government steamer Hellyhock, and when some distance below that city the steamer Richmond was discovered coming up; so that ‘all chance for her escape was cut off, and phe was run aground and fired, and her off- ore and crew escaped. She was commanded by ‘Captain Reed ,of Tacony piratical notoriety. Of those ou board of her only one man and a boy were captured. ‘The Webb left Shroveport, La., on the Red river, on the 6th of April, with a cargo of cotton, turpentine and ‘rosin, with which it was designed to run her down the Mississippi to the Gulf, and escape to Havana, as her officers were satisfied that the rebel confederacy was at ‘en ond, and they were desirous of saving from the rcins ‘what little they could. | A Washington despatch of yesterday gives a brief ac- sqount received by the Navy Department of the destruc- ‘fon on Roanoke river, a short distance above Newbern, fon the 11h of inst month, of a rebel ram. The fpartioulars of this affair were given in one of our ewbern es, published in the Hera of the 15th ultimo, Tho ram was built at Hall- Yax, N. C., ana was started down the river with the design of committing great devastation among the ational vessels a the vicinity of Plymouth and on the North Carolina waters generally; but before reaching there she ran on one of the rebel torpedoes, and was blown up. It te reported from New Orleans that Stephen R. Mallory, of Florida, who held in Jeff, Davis’ now ox- Sploded Cabinet the position of Secretary of that always ythical establishment, the rebel navy, surrendored imeelf on the 20th ult., at Pensacola, to Captain Gibson, ‘of the national navy. General Wright, with the Sixth corps, of the Army of tho Potomee, arrived at Danville, Va, from Burkesville Punction, on last Thursday, having made the march of lover one hundred miles in four days, On the route and at ‘Danvitio he captured « large amount of valuable property, jading much railroad running stock and the machinery jen from the government works at Harper's Ferry by rebela. Rebel officers, when they learned that the corps was moving on Danville, urgently impor. Genoral Meade to stop ita march, on the strength lof General Sherman's armistice with Joe Johnston. The only comfort they got from General Meade was that he ‘stop General Wright when directed to do co by his pertor officer, General Grant. It is oxpected that the ixth corps will remain at Danville for some time, Gonerli Sheridan, with his cavalry, got as far as Abbo- Wille, Va, near the junction of Staunton and Dan rivers, ‘on his way to Danville; but when the news of the rebel ‘Genoral Johnston's surrender was received he was or. ‘dered to return to Petersburg. ‘The necessary preparations for the resumption of travel on the Richmond and Danville and the Petersburg ind Lynchburg railroads are rapidly progressing, im ® short time trains will once more be Fonming through to Washington, vin Richmond, from Lynchburg and Danville, after an interruption of jot years, On all the re'lroads centering at Richmond, peneepting the York River Koad, train are now running Tor eome distance out of that olty, On the Vircinia Central Railroad trains go as far as forty-five miles from the city. ‘The train conveying the remains of President Lincoln Jeft Chicago about half-past nine o'clock last nizht, and wil! be due in Springfield about eight o’clock thie morn- ing. The funeral will take place at Springfield to morrow. General Grant arrived im Burlington, N. J., yesterday. It ts expected that he will to-day, in company with his wife, take posseasion of tho realdence tn Philadelphia Presented to him by the people of that city. ‘The court martial detailed to try the case of Benjamin @, Harris, late member of Congress from Maryland, charged with disloyal conduct aad language, convened in ‘Washington yesterday. On the conclusion of his trial it {a understood that this court will proceed with the cases of those supposed to be concerned in the great Washing- ton assassination plot. EUROPEAN NEWS. ‘The steamship Scotia, from Queenstown on the 28d of April (Sunday), reached this port yesterday. Her nows is two days later. ‘The report of the surrender of General Lee had been received in England. The fact was not, however, pub- lished when the Scotia sailed. The Asia, which left Boston on the 12th of April, the second day after the fact of the surrender appeared in the Hsrato, and which took over the news, arrived out on Saturday, the 22d ultimo, If the Asta even reached Liverpool on that day ft was too late for the announcement previous to the departure of the Scotia. The news of the surrender was very generally looked for in England, as advices from New York, dated to the 8th of April, had beon received there. ‘We are assured that Napoleon, on hearing of the fall of Richmond, proposed to England to form an Anglo-French alliance for the joint defence or Canada and Mexico, should either bo attacked by the United States. It is said that the proposition was Instantly rejected by Earl Cow- loy, British Minister im Paris, acting under instructions from the Cab‘net in London, American securities were in active demand in England and Germany. Five-twenties were quoted in London at (6634 66% on the 224 of April, and at 69 in Frankfort at the date of the latest advices from that city, after the reception of the news of the fall of Richmond, ‘The news of the fall of Richmond produced the ‘wild- est excitement’ in Berlim Our special correspondent states that “extras” of she city journals containing the intelligence were published and freely sold. United States bonds advanced until they reached 70 on the 17th ultimo, closing at 69. The rebei cause was regarded as lost, except by the London Index, the London Pos and the London Herald, the organs of the rebels, the aristocrats and foreign pro- slavery men of England. Mr. James E. Harvey, United States Minister at Lis- bon, shows, im a letter published in the London Times, that the Portuguese authorities acted very hastily, if not with malice, in firing into the United States steamers ‘Niagara and Sacramento. The case of Windsor, the alleged defaulting cashier of the Mercantile Bank of New York, was to be heard in the Court of Queen's Bench, London, on the 27th of April. The reports of the triumphs of the Union arms, pre vious to the fall of Richmond, exercised a marked influ- ence on commercial affairs in India. A Calcutta letter of the 22d of March says:—Business in cotton and piece goods has been quite suspended; the successes of the foderal arma, and the expectations of an carly settle- mént of the troubles in the United States having stag- natea the English markets, and the consequent action has been felt upon our own. Consols closed in London, April 22, at 90% 091 for money. The Liverpool cotton market was buoyant, with a very active demand, on the 22d ultimo, Prices advanced and American descriptions were over one-half of a penny higher. Breadstuffs and provisions were without change, with a quiet market. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Important reports from Mexico are contained in our ‘New Orleans despatches brought by the steamship Gutd- ing Star, which arrived here yesterday, and in our Ha- vana advices. According to these accounts the cause of the republic is again looking hopeful. Cortina, with a force of republicans, had oc- cupied Baltillo, capturing the imperial garrison there, and had marched on to Matamoros, to which town he was laying slege. A party of his men had madeoadash into the town. Purnandiro, in the State of Michoacan, had also surrendered to the re- publican, and the imperialists had been routed at Piedras Nigras, At Huahapla the republicans are said to have been defeated. It was decided yesterday by Judge Barnard, in the case of Barili versus Hay, that in applying for an order for tho examination of a witness de bene ese it was not ab- solutely necessary to show that the witnoss was about to leave the city, or would be unable to attend on the trial, as bas been the practice formerly, but that the matter rested solely in the discretion of the Court. There was nota quorum of grand jurors yesterday in the Court of General Sessions, and those gentlemen who answered to their names were discharged tili this morn- ing, when Judge Rusgol will charge tho Grand Jury. As there was not a sufficient number of petty jurors in at- tendance to go on with the trial of causos, an additional panel was ordered, returnable at eleven o'clock this morning. The Charles Hopper will case has been finally decided in the Supreme Court, It will be remembered that Sur- Togate Tucker devicd probate to the paper presented as Mr. Hopper's will, on the ground of the mental inoom- petoney of the decedent. The doviseos appealed to the Supreme Court, which has affirmed the decree of the Surrogate. The property accordingly goes to Mr. Hop- pr's widow and heirs-at-law. The Supreme Court has also aMrmed the decision of the Surrogate sustaining the will pf Mary Ann Corrigan, deceased, which had been appealed from by the two surviving brothers of Miss Corrigan. On Monday night, while the ship Neptune, ready to a'l for a foreign port, was lying in the harbor, a fight took place among a number of hor crew, who were in- toxicated, and during its continuance two of them, named William Price and Thomas Mulligan, received dangerous stabs. The Neptune was boarded by a detach. ment of the First precinct police, and the belligerent sallors arrested and brought ashore, The wounded men wore taken to the New York Hospital. A fine steamer, called the Susquehanna, intended to run onthe Pavonia ferry, from the foot of Chambers stroet, North river, was launched yesterday aftornoon at the fvot of Twelfth street, East river, in the presence of a large assemblage. A prize fight took place in a barn near the cornor of Gates and Reod avenues, Brooklyn, on last Monday night, between James Gillen, of New York, and Dennis Freel, of the Wallabout, Brooklyn, in which the latter was de. clared the winner, after a contest of about one hour's duration. Francis Higgins and James Ratigan then en- tered the ring, but wore disturbed by the Forty-ninth precinct police, and the parties took to flight, Higgins and Gillen wero arrested, and, on being brought before Justice Cornwell, were held fora hearing. The others A prize fight took place in Philadelphia on last Mon- day morning betwoon two men named James Frawley and John Turner, for five hundred dollars a side. It lasted for ono hour and twenty minutes, and both were ‘foverely pounded. Frawley was declared the victor. Neither of the contestants nor any of the spectators wore arrested. An elderly man with a number of allases, but whose Teal name is supposed to bo Hale, and who, it is alleged, bas during several years past boon engaged in numerous sw.ndling transactions in various parts of the country, and has spent aconsiderable portion of his life in dif- ferent prisons, was arrested in Trenton, N. J., on last Saturday evening, and taken to Philadelphia to be tried on the latest charge against him, that of obtaining from & merchant of that city, under false pretences, @ lot of sewing machines, Tho paying teller of the Commercial Bank a delphia disappeared oh fost Monday, and on (nvastion- {ing hip gpooynte it was discovered that there was a doficit in thoni amounting to somewhere in the neighbor- hood of two hundred thousand dollars. Horse thieves, highwaymen, and other desperadoes have become 60 numerous in portions of Oregon that vigilance committees for their punishment have boen formed. A nuber of the 6 bave been hung, aud many more of therm are under surve lance, ‘The stock market was heawy yesterday till late in the afternoon, when it improved. Government seouritics wore firm. Gold opened at 141% and closed at 14134. ‘The depression in the gold market begot a correspond- was quiet Cotton was more le. 420. higher, On 'Change the flour market was quiet and 100. a 150. lower, Wheat was dull and heavy, while oats experienced a further decline. Corn was scarce and firm. The pork market opened qj} end heavy, but closed Grm and ac Bhof was steady, while lard was scarcely so firm. Whiskey was dull and nominal. Freights were inactive. The market for beef cattle was heavy this week, and prices wore about lo. lower. Tho range was from 10, to 22c., but most of every week. Milch cows varied from $40 to $60 a $100 each, Veals were steady, at from Go. to 00. # 120; bobs $20 $8cach. Sheep and lambs were in good de- mand, at from $6 60 to $128 $14. Hogs sold at from 0c, to 110. The total receipts were 4,243 beeves, 130 cows, 8,618 veals, 8,129 sheep and lambs, and 6,187 hogs. President Johnsom and His Policy—The Demands of «@ Great Revolution. In the speeches which have been delivered by President Johnson to various visiting com- mittees he has, with an émphasis which cannot be mistaken, defined his position in reference to treason and traitors. “Treason,” he says, “4g the highest of all crimes, and traitors must be pr ” To the masses of the South in- volved in the rebellion he will be lenient; but to their traitorous leaders he will administer justice. Loyal men, if numbering only five thousand in a State, will, he has broadly inti- mated, be charged with the business of recon- struction, to the exclusion of traitors, and upon the fundamental idea that the slaveholding aristocracy have destroyed themselves with their institution of slavery. The work of re- construction is thus to rest upon the basis of the abolition of slavery as a fact accomplished. No man, for instance, will hereafter be tole- rated as a slavebolder in South Carolina, and Bo man will therein be recognized as a slave. Here we have the initial landmarks of s bold, decisive policy, recognizing the demands of a great revolution. This is good; for this tre- mendous war has wrought in four years the revolutionary changes which would probably have required a hundred years of peace and Presidential compromises. The Southern insti- tution of slavery is prostrated beyond re- covery; and with it the domineering slave- holding aristocracy of the Southern States and their political power as tho champions of slavery are gone—forever gone. President Johnson thus regards the political situation of the South, and his views have given universal satisfaction throughout the loyal States. Ot his policy, thus broadly foreshadowed, we shall soon know something more in the de- velopment of its practical details. We pre- sume that President Johnson has no desire for any very extensive hanging of leading traitors; but that he will be satiefied with the vindica- tion of the majesty of the law and the ends of justice in a few exemplary cases of the halter. We cannot doubt, however, that he expects, from a few wholesome examples, a general clearing out of dyed-in-the-wool rebels, and that those who have merely been dipped in the dye pot of secession shall have a good scouring of loyal sand and soap, to rub the rebel butternut color out of them, though it may take the hide off. If we are to consider the people of the South as a conquered foreign people, we may put them through a regular apprenticeship; but if we are to accept them as a portion of our own people, relieved of a savage, usurping despotism, and restored to their rightful allegiance, then we should pursue a different course of treatment. We believe that the simplest means that can be adopted in the reorganization of the rebel- lious States will be tho best. A military gov- ernor in every State where necessary, with an armed force at his command, sufficient to put down guerillas and bushwhackers, and to main- tain order, will do for beginning. He may make the arrangements and appoint the time for the clection of s convention to form a new State constitution, and to provide for the elec- tion of a civil governor, State legislature, mem- bers of Congress, &c., without any further con- dition precedent than this: that the candidates for the convention and these other offices shali be genuine loyal men. If the masses of the people concerned choose to support such men, their votes will be equal to an oath of loyalty; and if they refuse to support such men let them remain out in the cold till they get sufficiently chilled and hungry to come into the house and to the family table. Let them take their own time in coming to supper. We can stand it as long as they can; and besides, we can rely upon the repentance of men who have been cured of their folly upon empty stomachs and cool reflection. But there fs another matter upon which Pre- sident Johnson seems to be hesitating, and where he need not hesitate at all. We refer to the question of negro suffrage. The exclusion of free negroes from the right of suffrage is a necessity of negro slavery, but where slavery does not exist there is no such necessity. Give the emancipated negroes of the rebel States, then, in the reconstruction of those States, the right to vote along with the whites. There need be no fear that this concession will lead to negro social equality. Nogrocs vote in New York, and yet in New York there is no ap- proach to negro social equality. Society will take care of itself in this matter, as it does in everything else affecting its peace and harmony. On the other hand, the concession of negro suffrage in the reconstruction of the insurgent States will effectually spike the last gun of Northern abolitionists, and will expel or neu- tralize the fire-eating political elements of the South for all time to come. Indeed, nothing half so effective could be employed as negro suffrage to weed out the intractable secessionists from the Southern States, Put them to that test of loyalty, and there will be no nocessity for notices to quit or oaths of allegiance; but, best of all, the politi- cal, agitation of the negro question, in every shape and form, will be ended, North and South. Let President Johnson consider this question, as he does every other growing out of this rebellion, as one of the grent political cbanges decreed by a searching, aweeping political revolution; and let him ¢ pursue his pro- gramme ‘With bis characteristic boldness and energy, and the country will carry him through. Nay, more, let hiin reorganize, under the sovereign authority of the Union, the rebollions States on the platforin suggested, an? bring «3 quietly back again to the promised land of specie payments, and bis claios against all competitors for the Presidential eucceseion will be as irresistible as wore the ma and popu- larity of the lnmenied patriot, Abraham Lincoln. Louis Napoteen is sorely beset with fears and anxieties arising out of the i turn which affairs have taken in this country. It is stated that as soon ashe heard of the ‘fall of sador at Parls—Lord Gowley—an alliance of fensive and defensive with England against the United States; that in case this country should make an attack on Canada, France “shculd assist England with all her land and sea forces,” and that in the event of this government “openly or covertly attacking the Emperor Maximilian, or in anywise endangering his throne,” Eng- land should, in conjunction with France, defend the Austrian Emperor of Mexico in the same manner, and on the same conditions as they sustained the Sultan of Turkey against the aggression of Russia, It is also stated that upon this proposition being made, Lord Cowley promptly rejected it, by instructions from his government. Some of the London journals denounce the idea with remarkable emphasis. The Advertiser, which, it is known, represents a very large body of the masses of the English people, and which msy possibly on this occasion have received a hint from high quarters—and, therefore, probably speaks, as it were, semi-officially—says that on the reassembling of Parliament “the idea will be denounced in the strongest language which Parliamentary notions of propriety will allow.” It is manifest from the expression of public feeling elicited by the suggestion of an alliance with France to make common cause against the United States, that it finds no favor with the peo- ple of England. They do not forget how Louis Napoleon treated them in the matter of the Crimean war. , The French Emperor has been sedulously endeavoring for some years past to cajole England into alliances; but, having been so severely bitten in the war against Russia in the Crimea, Jobn Bull is not to be tempted into forming such a relationship again. France at- tempted to draw England into the Italian war, but she declined. When the Mexican enter- prize was undertaken, proposals were made to England to join that scheme, and the govern- ment apparently accepted the alliance for a time, but subsequentiy backed out, leaving Napoleon to combat the Monroe doctrine alone. When the rebellion broke out Louis Napoleon, afraid to move alone in our ~affairs, also made overtures to England to unite with him in re- cognizing the South, or in offering their joint services in mediation; but the British govern- ment was too wily to be caught in that trap, and it respectfully declined; preferring to carry out its own dubious neutrality. In every way Napoleon has been trying to inveigle Eng- land into an alliance which would place her indirectly in hostility to this country, and now he makes the plain, outspoken proposition to construct @ treaty to make common cause against us. The success of our simple republican institu- tions, crowned as jf is by the sappression of the rebellion, and the magnificent attitude which the country now assumes, no doubtadmonishes Napoleon that the strength of our republican principles is the weakness of the modern Ceesar- ism over which he wields so feeble a sceptre. The recent debates in the French Assembly, the boldness with which the victories of this government over the armies of the rebellion were rejoiced in by the opposition members, and the nervousness displayed by the leaders of the Bonaparte ‘Cabinet upon the discussion of the policy of France towards the United States, all prove what uneasy suggestions the success of our arms has created in the mind of the Emperor. It is in this crisis that he pro- poses an alliance with England against this country; to preserve Canada for England, and Mexico for Maximilian. But Palmerston and Russell know too well the tempor of the Bri- tish peop ey know that it is the interest of England, now more than ever, to remain on good terms with this country; to become an ally rather than a foe. It is no part of our policy to attack Canada; nor have we any desire to do go, If the Cana- dians wish to p bese themselves from the Bri- tish crown that is their own affair; they are welcome to accomplish their sims, without either aid or obstruction from us. Neither do we thrist for the annexation of Mexico, and, as far as our government is concerned, we pre- sume that there is no present intention to in- terfere with the rapidly declining fortunes of Maximilian. We cannot answer, of course, for the action of any voluntary exiles who may seek the other side of the Rio Grande; nor do we suppose that the government will trouble itself much about them; for it has enough to do in the reconstruction of the South, without bothering about Mexico, at least for the pre- sent. Therefore the fears—whether real or as- sumed—of Louis Napoleon as to any design upon Canada or Mexico are groundless, There is no alliance offensive and defensive against this country required, as the statesmen of Eng- land know full well, and hence they have re- fused to fall into the trap set for them by the wily French Emperor. Maiory, THe Reset SECRETARY OF THE Navy.—This distinguished individual, whose occupation, like Othello’s, has been gonefor some time, surrendered himself to Captain Gibson, United States Mavy, at Pensacola, on the 20th of April. We publish a sketch of his oareer in another column. Fifteen or eighteen years ago this Mallory was the shipping news correspondent of the Hrratp at Key West. We paid him—we forget how much; but it was more than he ever received from the “Southern confederacy” for his services in the Cabinet, for we paid him in good gold and the confede- tacy gave him worthless shinplasters, Mallory left off writing us letters for awhile and then began again. Shortly after the re- opening of his correspondence we discovered that he had been elected United States Senator from Florida, This was about 1851. Upon hearing this fact we informed him that, in our opinion, bis position as Senator was incompati- ble with bie position on the Heratp as an in- | telligent and independent correspondent, and | thot, unless he resigned his Senatorship, we should be obliged to dismiss him and employ somebody else at Key West. The truth is; we have tried several Congresemen and Senators, and fiud that they make very poor journalists. They are never capable encugh nor independ- nt cnough for the requirements of this paper. The protection of the Henan being thus | withdrawn from him, Mallory went to the bad. | Congress gave him a place on the Naval Com- | mitice in consideration of the naval knowledge be had acquired as our correapondent, aud | when the rebellion broke oat Jeff. Davis made him Secretary of the rebel navy. His office has been almost a sinecure; but the ;*y has not been any larger than the work. No,y that he has surrendered himself, he will probably have to stand his trial for treason. When he is cop- victed we hope that President Jobnson will let him off as lightly as possible; for, after all, he is a good natured, innocent sort of a person, whose original sin was his ignorance of the fact that it is better to be a Humatp correspon- dent than a Senator. This was the source of all his woes. However, we cannot take him back to our employ. No man who has betrayed hg country can ever be connected with this journal. ~ Sate General Butler's Forty-second Thou- sandth Speech. That small clique of self-worshippers, the Union League Club, lately invited General But- ler to deliver his forty-second thousandth speech in their presence.. General Butler was ready, of course, and delivered the speech on the Ist inst. His subject was the reconstruc- tion of the rebel States. The speech was a tolerably fair one as political speeches go—one rather more sequential than we sometimes get at the Cooper Union, and in better English than much that is said at Tammany Hall. But yet it was essentially the speech of a pettifog- ging lawyer turned into @ small politician, and showed how utterly impossible it is for a man of Butler's calibre to rise to the dignity of the subject that Butler on this occasion attempted to treat. The points are all small—excellent ones for a small lawyer from Lowell—and points that would make a sensation at Lowell, in those courts where men are sued by their washerwomen for five dollars, where boys are fined for smashing window panes, or where a quarrelsome man is now and then mulcted in mild damages for tearing the seat out of his enemy’s breeches. On such an arena Butler’s ideas would be grand; but when he parades them before the world, and touches a great national question, they go off as se many Chi- nese crackers would in front of Fort Fisher. The important question of reconstruction will be settled in o larger way than any that General Butler is ever likely to suggest. The same idea of our national greatness that en- larges the thoughts of the people ; that thrilled in every mind from the hour that Richmond and Lee’s army were taken; that caused the South to break down all at once, and that now makes the European governments consider so un- easily their relations with us, that same simple perception and consciousness of our grandeur as anation will settle the whole business of re- construction. For that consciousness and sense of national dignity will keep the people above the small points that General Butler would have them dabble in, and so the South- ern States, in their present uncertain condition, will be left alone to the uimost possible extent. That is what is necessary. The Southern peo- ple have given up the confederacy out and out, and their simple desire to be part of the greatest nation on the earth will do all the rest. They will originate new communities in the simplest and most natural way—commu- nities that will in all vital respects be new, purged of all the errors of rebellion, but in- habiting the old places, recognizing the old boundaries and asking of Congress all of the old rights that are consistent with the new con- ditions, They will get them, too, for the nation will do nothing small or mean in this business; nor will it refuse the right to vote to any man whom it does not consider worth while to try for treason. Congress will let the nigger vote even, for it knows that to let him vote will do no harm; and it will not refuse that vote at the risk of building up another abolition party. That is the real theory of reconstruction, and the one that in all probability will have the favor of the President, who seems to under- stand the real nature of the case. Mr. John- son’s position as Governor of Tennessee has le him jar with the gtate of popular Bahng he ditto at BED ete He hab also an old acquaintance with the South and Southern people, and we suspect that he can manage this subject with- out General Butler’s advice. We suspect also that he can carry out the proper programme without even having Butler’s assistance as one of the military governors whom that General suggests should be “selected as much for their knowledge of civil affairs as of army regu- lations.” Corroration Fat.—We have received several lengthy communications going to prove that the office of City Chamberlain has been worth one million one hundred and four thousand dollars clear profit to its lucky holder during the past four years, or something more than forty- four times the total salary of the late President of the United States! It is rather difficult to swallow this stupendous statement; and yet the citizen by whom it is made to us appears to be clothed and in his right mind, and to havea fair knowledge of arithmetic. If the story should prove true, there will be quite a lively scramble for the office next year, and the Mayor, who is to nominate for it, and the Aldermen, who will have to confirm his nomination, will be approached by all sorts of patriots anxious to secure for themselves this “golden fleece.” We learn that the present City Chamberlain had ® law passed not many years ago confirming him in the place; butall this we can easily change at the noxt session of tho Legislature. Has tos War Been a Fattone!—We learn that it is the intention of the chairman of the National Democratic Convention, which met last autumn at Chicago, to reconvene his dis- banded forces at an early day for the purpose of considering whether that body was right or wrong in denouncing the war for the Union as “q failure.” So anxious is the patriotic chair man to determine this point that he is said to have returned from Europe for no other pur- pose than to have the thing settled—this way or the other—by a vote of the national demoo- racy in solemn council assembled. In this connection, too, we would advise such philosophers of Tammany Hall as Twoed, Purser and Sweeny, to forthwith call » pow- wow of their big and little Indians to de termine whether the ancient Wigwam was cor- rect or otherwise in its similar resolutions of last yeart The fact is, we are entering on a new era, and desire oll our distinguished poli- tical leaders and philosophers to produce their dirty linen as fast as possible, with a view toe grand general washing, such as one sees given by the maids and matrons of romantic Germany to the contents of the family bucking basket on the banks of every silver rivulet within the ‘Teutonig fatherland. CANBY. — ~ - Kirby Smith Negotiating a Surrnp er of His Rebel Army, An Armistice Arranged Betweon Dick Taylor and General Dana. Addresses to Citizens of Louisiana and Mississippi, &., ‘The steamship Guiding Star, Captain Bell, with New Orleans dates of the 26th uit., arrived yesterday aflen noon. We are indebted to Purser Field for the prompt delivery of our despatches and for files of latest papers New Orleans was still draped in mourning for Pre ident Lincoln when thesteamer left, A large mosting of citizons and soldiers was held in Lafayette square ea the Saturday preceding. Major General 8. A. Hurlbef’ ‘and Major General N. P. Banks made very impressive and interesting addresses, A second mecting was held ‘at Christ's church, where speeches were made by Mesa James 7. Brady, Christian Rosellus and Thomas J Durant. The army and oavy were also represented. At Baton Rouge, Thibodeaux, Natches, Vicksburg and all other potuts of importance 1m Louisiana, and slong the Missiasippl river, the death of the President was de nounced as a horrible crime. bicetings were held and speeches made at all these places, while badges of mourning were seen everywhere, ‘The New Orleans papers give a lengthy letter from A ©. P. Pickens, late captain of Company E, Second Louisiana cavalry, in which the writer makes an earnest appeal to the citizens of his native State, and besecohes them to return to their allegiance, He recounts at length the sufferings and abuses heaped upon the peuple by the rebel authorities, asks forthe return of peace and the close of the unholy warfare, and states that the cause of Jeff. Davis is perfectly hopeless. Hon. A. Burwell, of Mississipp!, bas made « similar ep peal to the residents of bis State, and suggested the eles tion of delegates from every county to attend ® convem tion to be held in the city of Vicksburg on the first Men day of June next. Mr. Henry Thompson's Despatch, New Onzeass, April 26, 1808 MONEY FOR THE ARMY AND NAVY. Eight million dollars for tha army and two milties dollars for the navy arrived here on a transport oo Sum day last, in charge of Major Manu, Paymaster, It is new in the treasury in this city. KIRBY SMITH NROOTIATING. ‘The Mississippi steamer Southwester, which arrived af this city Inst evening, reports that the rebel Goneral Kirby Smith is negotiating terms of surrender with Pope, mand! part Pecoragees = ling the De; ent of Min rague, chief of General Pope's stad, fe tald to have loft Cairo & fow da; “the &e., &o. ago on the Lexington, and that he mct Gencral Hodge at the mouth of the Red river, bearing a flag of truce. Both steamers at last accounts wero at Hog it, & short dis tance below the mouth of the Red river. ‘The terms of surrender demauded are said to be the same as those given by General Grant to Goneral Lea Mr. J. Dawson's Despatch. Moums, Ala, April 19, 1868, WRGOTLATIONS YOR THE SURREKDER OF DICK TAYLON'S REBER any, An officer on General Richard Taylor's staff arrived Just now with a flag of truce st Genoral Canby's head quarters to make terms for the surrender of himself an@ the men under his command. Nothing is yet known of what transpired between the General and Taylor's aid-de-camp. An Armistice Granted to Dick Tayler’s Rebel Army. ‘Munrira, April 80, 1006, ‘The Dulletin’s despatch says:—It is said that the rebel General Dick Taylor sent General Hodge to notify Gem» tal Dans of the surrender of Johnston to General Shem man and to inform him of the terms of surrenden General Dana gave full credence to Dick Taylor's state ment, and arranged an armistice with Hodge, the terms of which are said to be an entire cessation of hostilities, each retaining the right to punish guerilias; trade rege lations and intercourse to continue under very liber constructions, The armistice contemplates arrange ments on the same plan as those proposed by Sherman, unless repudiated by General Dana's superior coffees, The armistice commenced on the 29th of April, and was only to be terminated after forty-eight hours’ notice, Negotiations for the Surrender of Kirby Smith’s Forces. Sr. Loum, May 2, 1908, The Democrat has a despatch from Cairo which sayatan ‘The Memphis Bulledin learns that on Sunday, the $84 of April, negotiations were progreaging afew Major oars oPt eae ee Mississippi depattment for the sutrender of Gesemd Kirby Smith's forces, re a The Republican has a despatch from Catro which sayy that General Chalmers was murdersd by some unknowg persons; but more reliable information says it wae éene by rebol soldiers. A refugee from Tompkinsville brings reports thet the rebel General Maury, late commander of Mobile, has beem superseded by General Gibson, who commanded a brigade in Spanish Fort. He says that the demoralization ameng the rebels in that vicinity was very great, The rebel gunboate Morgan and Nashville there wee almost deserted by their officers and men. Condition of Secretary Seward and his Son. THE MORNING REPORT. ‘Wasumaton, Mey 2—9 A Hon. EB. M. Srawron, Secretary of War:— ‘Stm—I have the honor to report that the Secretary Btate is feeling very well this morning. Mr. Frederick Seward’s condition is more encouraging, Very respectfully, your obediont servant, J. K. BARNES, Surgeon General, THE EVENING REPORT. Wasumotox, May 2-9 P. Hon. EB. M. Stawron, Secretary of War:— Sm—I have the honor to report that the Secretary of Btate has had an apparatus to the lower jaw to-day whic promises to answer the required purpose, ‘ Mr. Frederick Seward is quite as well as at last repesh, Dio style, and was well sung throughout. Mile, Marte Frederic! as Pamina sustained the reputation she has alrendy established as an excellent artiste, Madame Rotter was very acceptable as the Queen of Night, Habelman acted the part of Tamino with a good effect, and sang well. There was some slight standing as t the artist who was to basso part of Sarastro, Mr. Weinlich, & was announced for the part in papers, and Mr, Hermans im the other consequence was that both gentlemen wore the réle. Mr. Hermans came before the announced his willingness to sing the part, quently very good-naturediy withdrew im favor of time with an offectivences cellent illusion asa reality. It be it wo samme ‘soto who could main i Kean Og Gilt cation of tats ohiaracter. Mra, ean appeared tt \ minor The subordit ‘wore all well thore of Nemout ‘and Olivier, Sealy tema erent