The New York Herald Newspaper, May 27, 1865, Page 4

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BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechanies’ Hall, 472 Broad ‘way. —Eruiorian Sones, Daxcus, BonLssques, &¢.—Stpaets or New Yous. WOOD'S MINSTBBL HA‘.!, 514 Brovdway.—Ermorus Dances, £0.—Gasevevciva, Tus Pacace or Soar. HOOLEY'S MINSPREL: aul 201 Bowery.—Sonas, ances, KURLEAQUES, BC saoss Oven, HELLER'S HALL, 985 Broudwsy. on ‘R wey. —Hax Francisco Mix- ima 4 Pune: HIPPOTHEATROD = —_ Fourteen street. —Ec Pap al AND AcRO.aTIC Bare! januamts—Tae Buizth AMBRICAN THBATRS, No 414 Broadway.—Matinee gt Two—Bacrets, Paxtomuas, uoermsques, &c.—Jarr. Daves ww Perticoars. HOPE CHAPBL, 720 Broadwe: ecorticon. Tus Ausaican Steazo- VANNUCHI'S MUSEUM, 60) Broadway.—Moving Wax ‘Figoens or Passipent Linvots. &c. NEW YORK MUGEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Ofer trom Dk uw HPS pei New York, Saturday, een — THE TRIAL. Yesterday's proceedings in the trial of the assassina ton conspirators were equally as inter-sting as those of Preceding days, andthe courtroom was aga'morewded ‘by curious auditors of both sexca. Witnesses for both the pfesccution and the dofence were cxamined, For the defence Rev. Fathors Lanaban and Young, Roman Catholic priesta, and others, testified that Mra. Burratt had the reputation of being a Christian woman, and hat they could not remember ever having heard ber @xpress disloyal sentiments Mr. Maulsby, brother-in-law of O'Laughlin, testified that the latter and Booth were schoolfellows, and that whom O'Laugblin bearned the officers were m search of him he did not endeavor to escape, but gave himself up voluntarily. Maulsby said O'Laughlin was ia the rebel army between 1861 and 1862. The defence also produced several witnesses for the Purpose of discrediting pre ious testimony prejudicial to Dr. Mudd introduced by the government, For the presecut on, Will am Chamberlain, at one time e@clork ia the rebe! War Department, testified that he was well acquainted with the handwriting of John A. Campbell, formerly rebel Assistant Secretary of War, and Colonel Harrison, the private secretary of Jefferson Davis, and that he identified their endorsements on the communication to Davis of one Lieutenant Alston, which ‘was introduced in court on last Monday. In this com- munication Alston offers himeeif to Davis for secret ser- ‘vice, to “rid the country of its deadliest enemies,” Henry Finegas testified to having hoard a conversa - tion between George N. Sanders and William Cleary, om the 16th of February Jast, ia St. Lawrence Hall, Montreal, in which, while speaking of the then approaching in- guguration of President Lincoln, Sanders saldjthat “Ifthe boys have only Juck Lincoln will not trouble them much longer."’ Sanders said that Booth was the boss of the job. Additional witnesses were: introduced to show the Hendih treatment which impritoned national sokliers Teosived from their rebol keepers. Charles Sweeney, who was @ prisoper at Riehmond and Andersonville, testified that General Howell Cobb said on one occasion ‘that the graveyard at the latter place was large enough hold all the men in tho stockwle, and that they intended to starve them to death. Cobb also said that if the rebels caught President Lincoln they would hang bin. Detective John 8. Young, of this aity, was examined relative to the confession of Robert Cobd Keanedy, who ‘wae hung in Now York barbor im March last, and the confession was read, It relates to tho plot for burning this olty, and was published in the Herato several weeks ago. May 27, 1865. THE SITUATION. In yesterday's Heaato the fact was stated that the Grand Jury of the District of Columbia had indicted Jeff. ‘Davis for treason. A similar bill has also been found by th» same body against John C. Breckinridge, The Dis tr ot Attorney of Washingios yesterday made these an- tio’ cements in court, and aed for the issuance of a devo warrant for Breckinriige’s arrost, and for the } rupee steps to be taken to bring Davis up for trial, The ov actupon which these indictments are founded ts t..¢ rebel raid fato the District of Columbia in July, 1864. 1c pe te from New Orleans stato that Colonel Sprague, ©. @ cal Pope's staff, who bas recently returned from e ronce with General Kirby Smith, was unsuccess. dulin lis negotiations, The Lee and Johoston termes wore offered to Smith for the surrender of his Trans sostppi army; but, though it ts satd he was disposed to accept them and give up further contest, nothing decieive could be accompi!: Led, owing to the rebel Gens. Parsons and Shelby demanding amnesty for themeclves. If they are not granted this they propose to join Maximilian, ‘Tho rebel Trans- Mississippi troops are reported to be de- @erting rapidly. A number of cotton Jaden boats are up Red river, waiting permission to come out into the Mis- Biseippl 4 Nght Wook ple) On jhe Jin inatamh ia Zeanesoee account loca!ing it near the old Palo Alto battie Held, and another at Boco del Chico Pase—betwecn a detachment of national troops under Colone! Barrett aud the rebels ‘under Goneral Slaughter, in which the latter were at Grst driven twenty miles towards Brownsville, Texas. The rebels, howover, received reinforcements, and Colonel Barrett was compelled to retreat to Brazos, losing seventy-two men in killed, wounded and missing. The rebels fired into a French steamer which was moving up the Rio Grande, during the contest, and drove ber back dowa the river, Governor Pierpont left Washington on Thureday for Richmond, toassume contro! of affairs there aa Executive of the State of Virginia, From Washington we are informed that the action of the Captain General of Cubs in accepting the eurrender of the rebel ram Stonewall ia considered to be in con- formity with amity towards the United States, and that it meets the approval of our government. Lieutenant Commander Thornton, of the navy, with threo vessels, recently made a very successful expedition up the Roanoke river to Halifax, N. C., lately the loca- tion of an embryo rebel navy yard, whore he captured several vessels with valuable cargoes, The Roanoke river has been cleared of obstructions, and a number of pieces of artillery sunk im it by the rebels have been raised. A large quantity of rebel government cotton is stored along the Roanoke river, and will be captured by the national forces. @ he Fifth army corps had « grand torchlight procession on Thursday night at their camp ground in the vicinity of Washington, in honor of the termination of the war, andas a demonstration of the joy of the men over the prospect of their speedy retura to thelr peaceful homes, ‘The scene presented was a atirring one, Thousands of torches illuminated the night, the bands were all out and discoursed their most inspiriting music, and the soldiers, as they marched along, made the country for miles ‘around ring with their shouts, Five United States naval steamers arrived at this port yesterday from the South, vis:—The Governor Bucking- ham, Tacony, Wyandotte and Commodore Hull, from Fortress Monroe, and the Mattabesett, from Wilmington, N.C. " MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The argument in the Crotoa Aqueduct injunction case, which was to have been heard yesterday before Judge Suthorland, in the Supreme Court, at chambers, was dis- penged” with, thé counsel on each side agreeing to send the matter to the special term for trial, where the case has been set down for the first Monday in June. It wil be interesting to know the result of the controversy, as it Involves @ very nice point, namely: whether the Board of Aldermen have the right to remove heads of departments from office, or whether the powor is vested in the Governor. ‘The trial of Isanc Henderson, Iate Navy Agent in this city, and one of the proprietors of the Evening Post, was resumed yesterday before Judge Nelson anda jury. Tho Pprevieus interest manifested in the proceedings was evinced yesterday !n very crowded court, probably more from the legal ability employed in the prosecution and dofence than from any special interest felt in the case itself, or in the result, as it might affect the party on |. trial. It was soon elicited from the principal witness that his negotiations with the defendant wore not of a charactor to make him amenable to the charge. On this poiat the Judge charged the jury, and, though comment- ing on the dishonest practice which prevailed among the emptoyes of the government receiving large salaries for ill requited services, they still made their offices a source of dishonest profit. The Judge, in conclusion, sald that ‘the cage had not been made out, and directed the jury to return @ verdict accordingly, which they did. The will of the late Dr. Valentine Mott has been ad- mitted to probate. The only bequest contained in it of ‘any public interest is that concerning bis museum, which ia given to the Foustecnth street college, on certain con- ditions. The whole value of the estate is estimated at four hundred thousand dollars, and with the above ex- ception it is entirely distributed among the retatives of the testator. ‘The health of General Wondeld Scott ts go improved as to enable him to ride and walk in moderation. The old hero vised the Surrogate’s officeon Wednesday last, with reference to the estate of his late wife, who died some Wme ago in Italy. It appearing that a testamentary paper had been executed by the deceased lady, which is Stull at Rome, the Surrogate informed the General that it Inust be sent for, in order to obtain probate here, or in Baltimore, where the personal assets are, The Excise Commissioners met yesterday and granted nine Mceases, on the usual conditions, The Iaman line steamship Olty of Boston, Captain Kennedy, one of the latestand finest additions te this line, will sail to-day at noon, from Pier 44, North river, for Queenstown and Liverpool. The steamer Sazonia, Captain Meier, for Southampton and Hamburg, will also sail at noon today. The mails for both vessels will close at the Post Office at half. past ten A. M. The building Noa 36 and 37 Sixth ‘street, recently pur- chased and fitted op as a synagegue by the Jewieh con- gregation Communante Israclite Francaise, was yesterday consecrated to the purposes of worship by the customary impreseive ceremenies of the Hebrews on such occasions, and by appropriate religious services. The investigation of an extraordinary case of alleged attempt at extortion was commenced yesterday at tho Tombs Police Court, before Justice Dowling. Tho charge is to the ficet that a Swede, named Errick Nasson, repre- seating himself as captain and half owner of the ship Victoria MelWille, new lying in thle port, bad concocted a plan whereby Mr. A. 'T, Stewart, tho Broadway mer- chant, was to be kidnapped and kept deprived of his free- dom until he agreed to pay to his eaptor or captors one hundred and thirty thousand dollars to release him. James Denobue, of 118 Christopher street, who states that Nason alleged plot, and, on the strength of his deposition, Nas- son has been committed for further examination. The following additional cases received the attention of the police authorities yesterday :— William Goodman and Chartes Havtin, charged with breaking into the store No, 70 Leonard strect, and steating therefrom two hundred deliara worth of cloth, wore locked up in the Tombs to await farther investigation, Ira McBride, alleged to be keeper of a gambling house in the Bowery, was required to give one thousand dollars bail to answer the complaint of baying won from Edward Wood, of 17 New Bowery, at tho game of faro, over eight hundred doMars, Jamca Meitamars, a clerk, was commited for examination on the charge of forging the name of R. W. Martinona check for four handred and fifty doflara, Daniel Wil- liam, Henry Green, Joseph Keefe, Augustus Rodinsang and Anthony Frank were all arrested on charge of pass- ing, at different places in the cy, counterfeit Ove dollar bills on the Bank of Fishkill, N. ¥. The court martial’s decision in the case of the explosion of the steamer Sultana, on the Missiestppi river, on the 27th wlt., hasbeen rendered. It will be remembered that by this catastrophe the lives of about one thousand paroled national suldiers were sacrificed. The Court’s decision is that the explosion was caused by insuMelency of water in the boilers. The Quartermaster's Department at Vicks burg and the Adjutant General of the Department of the Mississippi are alxo censured in connection with the affair. A serious accident occurred on the Richmond and City Point (Va.) Railroad, about two miles from the former place, on Sunday night last. A trestie bridge, which hed probably been undermined by a flood of water froma very heavy rain storm, then prevailing, gave way, pre- cipitating the train into the swollen stream. Two men were billed, four are missing, supposed to be drowned, and fourteen were injured, some of them seriously. A forious wind, rain and bail storm passed over por- tions of Missouri and Kansas on Wednesday evening of this week, blowing down houses and fences, uprooting trees, and doing fenmense damage. Many persons were serftiinly Injured. ‘The stock market was very dull and drooping yeeter- day. Governments were heavy. Gold was lower, and, afler opening at 198, at at Ove P. M. at 156%. The highest price attained at night was 1364. The recession in gold hada depressing infuence on trade matters yesterday, and the markets were, accord- ingly, rather lees buoyant and firm than was the case during Wednesday and Thorsday, No dectine in prices ‘Was quoted, yet the transactions showed some alight ro- “dartions, Grovariea wera o abade aasieg, aa p aenara Nkw YORK HERAGY, SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1865. | thing, Foreign goods wore quiet. Cotton was heary and declining. On 'Change the markets were nearly the nemo as Thureday, with the exception that wheat, cora and whiskey were rather higher, ‘Texas and Mexico—A New Solution of the mroe Doctrine, The Mexican difficulty and the Monroe doc- trine are destined to a speedy and effective settlement. The closing military scenes of. the rebellion, like a beautiful dissolving view, will melt away inte an Anglo-American occupation of Mexico. The ending of our troubleawill be the beginning of those of Maximilian. The exodus of the fag ends of our great Soutbern rebellion will be the occupation of their promised land over the border. The rebel trans-Mississippi generals—Kirby Smith, Sterling Price and Magruder—bave probably now within call armed forces amount- ing in the aggregate to fifty or sixty thousand men. These forces, largely composed of bor der ruffans, bushbwhackers and veteran guerillas, are among the most desperate fighters and reckless adventurers of modern times. They are headed also by desperate military and political leaders, ready for any en- terprise that will save them from “submission to the Yankee government.” The great body of the planters of Texas are possessed of the same implacable spirit. The whole batch of them, leaders and followers, soldiers and civil- ians, are in a state of hot excitement for con- tinued war. The governmentaccording to our advices on the subject, fully comprehends the importance of an overwhelming force and a prompt movement in view of the breaking up and dispersion of these concentrating rebellious elements in Texas, and is taking its mensures accordingly. Thus it appears that General Sheridan, from our Western armies still in the field, goes out for Texas with authority to muster an invading land force of a hundred thousand men, in co- operation with a powerful fleet off Galveston and the mouth of the Rio Grande, under Admiral Thatcher from Mobile, Against the land force under Sheridan, the only alternative on his approach that can be adopted by Kirby Smith, Magruder and company, will be to disband and disperse or surrender after the fashion of Lee, Joe John- ston and Dick Taylor, or retire with their plun- der across the State of Texas, and over the Rio Grande into Mexico, and with the fixed purpose of a permanent eccupation of that country. That the rebel military and political chiefs directly concerned, and the mass of their soldiers and camp followers, will adopt and are preparing for this last alternative we have every reason to believe. Their means and facilities for this enterprise, and the induce- ments which invite them are, with the loss of Davis and his Southern confederacy, too tempting to be resisted. This is the programme which we expect to be carried out. Sheridan will advarce upon Texas from the northeast corner, by way of the Red river and Shreveport. On his approach the rebel forces will fall back. He will follow; they will continue their retreat southward, clearing the country as they ge of its stores of cotton and flour and corn, horses, mules and wagons, caitle, swine and sheep, till they reach “the River Jordan.” Then, as the advancing columns of Sheridan begin to darken the plains behind them, they will “ cross over Jordan,” army and eamp fol- lows, horses and mules, cattle, wagons and plunder; and then, taking Juarez under their protection, they will proclaim the Mexican republic on a new platform. Who, then, will there be to come forward and dispute their right and title to Mexico, backed as this South- ern Anglo-American emigration force will be by s veteran fighting army of fifty thousand men? Let this inviting, and, as it seems to us, this inevitable programme, be carried out thus far, and then let Maximilian and Napoleon attempt to put it down, and one hundred thousand Union soldiers, as emigrants, will cross over to the reacue of the republic. In short, before next Christmas we may expect a proclamation from Juarez, under the protection ot Kirby Smith, from the “halls of the Montezumas.” ’. Jerr. Davis my Irnons.—There is a sensation story published in one of the Philadelphia papers that Jeff. Davis has been put in irons; that he resisted terribly when the manacles were put on; that he first raved and then wept, and wanted the guards to shoot him. There is probably not a word of truth in the statement. If true, the act is certainly without the sanction of the President, and will not be tolerated by him. There is no need of any such mode of securing the rebel chief. All accounts show that he cannot escape from the casemate which has been prepared for his confinement. No good and strong government does an unneces- sary act. This, if true, bad as Jeff. Davis is, would come under this head. It is, therefore, fair to believe that the whole story was made up to sell, regardless of all other considera- tiens, A Virtvous Fit.—Every now and then the Common Council take a virtuous fit and pass ordinances for the suppression of concert sa- loons, hard drinking places and other pre- cincts of an unquestionable character, and give the public the impression that the Police Commissioners have to execute all their orders, whether based on sound law or otherwise. A morning sheet yesterday conveyed the infor- mation that the Police Commissioners had decided to close the concert saloons, om ac- count of the numerous robberies committed therein. A vote in the Council was probably the only foundation for the report, The mat ter of authority to close these saloons bes heretofore been tested, and it has been decided by magistrates that the power of the Commis- stoners extends only to the suppression of places where theatrical performances or con- certs are given without a license, or where dis- erderly saloons are kept. The question as to how far the jurisdiction of the Police Com- missioners extends ever the novelty known as “pretty waiter girl” ealoons has not yet been tested. The fact is there are but few “con- cert” saloons known practically as such now in existence in the city, but lager beer saloons, with young girls as atiendants, multiply with alarming rapidity, even within the per- fumed and aristocratic curbstones of the Fifth avenue, A Parisian Theresa might awaken lively sensation in these quarters and the Police Commissioners be not required to sup- press the exhibition as unlawful. Disoracervt Pvstications—Those papers which published the recent infamous letters of Tucker and Sanders, the rebels, robbers and qonapiravors Secretary MoOulloch and His Internal Revenue Officers. We call the attention of the Secretary of the , whom we believe to be & prompt and ready bnsiness man, to the troubles caused in this city by the blundering blockheadedness of his officials in the Internal Revenue Department. It might be supposed that these men were chosen for their stupidity, and that upon examination each man was ap- pointed only upon its being found utterly im- possible to drive an idea into him, The tax collector is never @ welcome visitant, and hence if to his naturally unpleasant character he adds arrogance of manner, ignorance of bis duties and the general doltishness ofa mule, any one can see how easy it is for him to utterly disgust the people with the whole system under which he comes to them, and bow he himself will stimulate the taxpayer to strain every hair against the purposes and objects of his depart- ment, = ‘The following letter is one of several that we have received from the same source:— Uniren States Inrernau Revexce, Nixtt Coutscrion Disraicr, ‘New Yorx, May 20, 1865. Jauns Gorvow Beywerr, Esq. :— Dran Sm—I am instruoted to make out returns ac- cording to the best information in my possession for such persons as fail to make returns after die notice, from which there is no appeal, which is also liable to & penalty of fan percent. Very lly, CHARLES W. ELLIOTT, Assistant Assessor, Tenth avenue and 152d street. In addition to the notes we receive from this man, we receive notes from two others, and to these two others we pay our taxes. One is the assessor for the district in which our business establishment is located, and the other for the district that includes our residence, At these two points, when called upon, we pay promptly all proper demands made upon us. We have not, nor never had, any desire to avoid the pay- ment of our taxes—and we pay a large sum— the heaviest tax laid upon any newspaper in this country, perhaps in the world. And while we do this we desire to be exempt from the annoyance of ignorant assessors who have no business with us whatever. We suppose that this also ie the desire of every man in the com- munity, and we hope that the Secretary will look after these subordinates, and confer a benefit upon the whole country by the removal of every assessor who does not know his busi- ness and will not learn it. It is one more virtue in our proposition for the payment of the national debt that it may be the means of relieving the country of this intolerable nuisance at no distant day. We are receiving all the time the names of those who desire to take part in this grand enter- prise. As many persons desire to subscribe who cannot give twenty thousand, “but will give ten, we accept the proposition to modify the iden in that way and make it in ten thou- sand dollar shares. The following is this great roll of honor with the additions to last night. Seo letters in another columa:— THE ROLL OF HONOR. Subscribers, Amount. Cornelius Vanderbilt. $500,000 EL. A. Heiser's Sons. 20,000 H. A. Heiser’s Sons, Robert Bonner, New York Ledger. Jordan L. Mott... James Gordon SESESSSESE 3838238322 James W. Und 8, H. Alden... Robert £. Kell; George Turnbull A. Raymond. J. O Fowler. Demas Barnes George W. Caide, Pistiadel hia Ledger. eorge W. iphia George we Childs, for a banker Inger Manufacturing Com| Richard F. Carmaa. Sssysssss 333332332 Motal...seeseeuese It $1,110,008 We would suggest that the Secretary of the Treasury take this business in hand and give it an official shape in his next report. From sta- tistics in his possession he will be able to see how many men there ace in the country who can enter into this plan, and to whom, indeed, it would be, taking a period of five years toge- ther, an actual economy to doso. He may make those statistics the basis of a proposition that would render absolutely certain the success of this measure. That proposition would be that every man who subscribes to one or more shares, in proportion to his taxable wealth, Nj shall, from the very hour of his subscription, be free from all internal revenue taxes. That proposal, rightly made, would burry the matter immensely, and under its influence ag a grand commutation echeme we believe the debt would be paid at once. The Mexienn Emigra: Excitement— What It Really Means. For several weeks past public attention has been attracted by considerable noise and ex- citement concerning an imaginary scheme for emigration to Mexico. Within a very brief pe- riod thousands of over credulous people have become wild over the matter, and from day to day have been madly rushing about in search of impossible information, especially how and when they are to be paid indefinite sums of money. As usual, fn cases of this kind, a num- ber of clever sharpers have at once risen to the surface, and have begun to look about them for the epoils—that is, for chances to pilfer and swindle the ignorant and unwary. Since the beginning of the movement there have been not less thana dozen “authorized agents” ef the Mexican republic operating in this city and otber places, though who have given them their pretended authority, or what is its nature or extent, nobody has been able to learn, see- ing that the “ agents ” themselves know nothing whatever about it Their whole stock in trade consists of boldness, impudence and well matured rascality. Their pro- ceedings, as a general thing, have been very widely circulated, and they do not fail regularly to inform the public that their scheme is progressing swimmingly. One individual boldly comes out over his own signature, asserting his “authority” not only to organize emigrants, but to raise vegiments. Ho bas established a central office in the rear of a barroom in this city, and has granted “autho- rity” to other people to form branch agencies in vartous places. Every day or 60 he iseues pronunctamientos to his followers, and, as we Jearn, has already raised two regiments, and is busily recruiting for a third. What is to be the ultimate fate of the unfortunate recruits, and whether they are ever to receive one cent of money in exchange for their wonderful conf- dence, are questions which it is entirely impos- sible to resolve. The truth, simply and plainly, ts that all the fuss and excitement about recruiting for emi- gration to Mexico is sheer humbug; and it is right that the people should understand It at once. That there is plenty of room for indus- trious emigrants in that rich and extensive sounier le quite tere, bys, the orale adver turers that are now: 80 much nojse about it are the last persons to be trusted in such » matter. They will meyer help a single em!- grant to = home fm tht land or anywhere else. Their@aring pretences ave at the best but ill concealed baits to catch green emigrants and discharged soldiers, and. to swindle them out of their money by lying promises which are never to be redeemed. The men now engaged in this nefarious business are for the most part the same (or a similar class) 2@ those who car- ried on so extensive and profitable a trade during the war as bounty brokers and recruit- ing agents. Now that the rebellion is over their occupation is gone; but the Mexican ex- citement having come up in the niek of time, they have seized upon it with all possible avid- ity as another chance for feathering their nests. It is, therefore, the duty of all persons afflicted with the Mexican emigration fever—especially newly arrived emigrants and soldiers out of employment—to look out for themselves, and to avoid the sharpers that are prepared to swindle them. It is not by the efforts of such fellows as these that the Mexican question is to be settled, Whengthe proper time arrives the United States government will dispose of it without their advice or assistance. In the meanwhile all persons who are credulous enough to believe the representations of these sharpers, and to throw themselves into their power, will be swindled without doubt, and if they are victimized in the face of the warning they have received, they will richly deserve their fate. Freedom of Speech and of the Press in the South. The great Southern revolution brought about by the rebellion has not only emanci- pated the negro, bat it has given liberty of speech and freedom tothe press in all that section. For the period of thirty years and more the man south of Mason and Dixon’s line who ventured to speak, print or circulate any- thing in favor of abolition did it at the peril of his life. Nay, a hint thrown out against a stranger that he was an abolitionist was suffi- cient to bring down upon him the savage penalties of Judge Lynch. From Delaware to the Gulf of Mexico freedom of speech and of the press was by Southern opinion and mob law— hanging, scourging, jails, tar and feathers— restricted on the slavery question to the de- fence of the institution. These rules and regu- lations were at last carried to such extremities that Northern men liable to suspicion, in travel- ling South, had to go provided with a certifi- cate from some well known Southern man or supporter of “Southern rights” that he was “gound on the goose,” in order to travel with- out further molestation than the inspection of his pass, by the inevitable squad of loafers at the Southern cross-rond Post office or grocery. This, in full blast, was the condition of things throughout the slave States at the break- ing out of the rebellion. The deluge which has since rolled over those States has swept all those old things away, and buried them among the fossils of the antediluvian epoch, From Maryland to the Gulf of Mexico the negro is free, speech is free, and the press is free. William Lloyd Garrison and Henry Ward Beecher have been received as lions in Charles- ton, where even six months ago their pre- sence would have been the signal for a hang- ing match, without judge or jury. Southern newspapers with Northern principles are springing up along every trail of the victorious armies of the Union. Cheva- lier Forney, for instance, with all his other frons in the fire, is about to establish a new political journal, of the gospel aecording to Forney, in Richmond—that city of ruins, ashes, sepulchres, human bones, doleful chivalry, bustling Yankees and swarming free negroes. On the other hand, Richmond already rejoices ia anew journal, called the Times, the stripe and calibre of which may be judged from the fact that it finds the Hon. Ben Wood a model of penetration and political wisdom, according to the antediluvian Southern platform of State rights. The press is at last free in the South, and men and women of all colors may now, down South, speak, write or print freely upon all subjects within the limits of decoram. Wendell Phillips need no longer confine his labors in behalf of negro suffrage to the North. He may go down to Richmond, Charleston or Mobile, and speak by the day, or establish a paper in support of his principles. The women’s rights women, Bloomers, spiritualists and communists of all sorts, may likewise try their reforme in the new and ample fields of the “sunny South.” The war bas certainly left its numerous widowed, fatherless and impoverished women througbout the South in a condition which appeals strongly to their strong-minded, philanthropic sisters of the North. They are free to go down in behalf of women’s rights, even to the extent of the right of suffrage. Why not? Are we not in the gulf stream of a resistless political revolu- tion which is destined to sweep sround the world? It will not be a matter to wonder at, after the wonderful events of the past four years, if within the present White House term of “Andy Jobnson” we sball find universal suffyage so far prevailing North and South as to include all women over eighteen, and all males over twenty-one years of age, of all colors—whites, Indians and negroes, mulattoes, Meetizoes and Zamboes, Chinese'and Malays. The Southern fallacy of sovereign State rights baving been superseded by the great Northern idea of “buman rights,” where is this powerful iden to stop, and who is to stop it? That is the question. Meantime we simply throw out the bint that the South is now open to human rights, and that all the various schools of our Northera re- formers are free to go down and astonish the natives with their grand discoveries in the science of buman right, including the negro’s rights, the Indian’s rights and women’s rights to the right of suffrage. Chief Justice Chase leads the way in behalf of the negroes; let Miss Anne Dickinson follow as tbe pioneer in Dixie in bebalf of the women. Foss anp Moss Anoot Tae COLLECTOR OF THIS Pont.—Collector Draper bas, it is said, re- moved one of Raymond’s friends from office in the Custom House, and thus deprived him of his fodder at the public crib, This has aroused the ire of our quadrilateral neighbor, and he has posted off to Washington, declaring that he will have Draper removed. He is assisted by such old hands aa Thurlow Weed and ald de-camps, and there is no doubt no small amount of growling and whining at the national capital. Governor Fenton has also been there, and is taking sides with Draper against Raymond and Wepd. We dave not made up our mind whether we at’ ©? Draper or not. He has, however, made @ Vey good officer, and it | would be a very easy. ™atter to got one not halt great muss about bin, ,°%4 thus President ‘About the Ca"inet. * ‘The faotious politicians throughen’$ the cona- try ore raising » great nolee and umult in reference toa change in the ame —_ busybodies, having no idea but that of \s! gem and spoils, are running back and foth to Washington, blowing their borns of bxas, Fattling their tin pans, and kicking ups terrile hubbub, thus endeavoring to show that the whole courstry demands an fmmedidte recon- struction ofthe Cabinet. While pretending to be the mouthpieces of the people, they are really and in fact looking out for fat places for themselves, and trying to secure an endorse- ment frosr President Johnson whieh will give them an air of respectability among the poli- ticians. It is probable that there will be some changes in the Cabinet along in the summer, when Secretary Seward has finished his wovk with Napoleon and secured bis withdrawal of French bayonets from Mexico. He will then have performed the great work of Iris depart- ment necessary im closing up the rebeilion, and can afford to retire and recuperate: his health. When he does resign his portfolio it is altogether probable that Mr. Adams will be recalled and appointed Mr. Seward’s successer. This is doubtless the best selection that coul® be made—infinitely better than the one-idem man, Senator Sumner. In the meantime the: public may expect a great hubbab to be kept up about the other positions, The radical’ negro-worsbippers, cotton speculators and ope- rators in suspicious trade through our lines, are raising heaven and earth to secure the assignment of Ben Butler to the War De- partment. But we apprehend that he stands no earthly chance whatever. The suspicious record of many of those advocating his claims, which have been made in their eases in sundry investigations, must certainly destroy all influ- ence which they might have with the powers that be. Secretary Stanton still remains the master of his situation at the head of the War Department. There is no prospect of his re- linquishing his hold as long as these noisy fac- tions keep up their fight upon him. But if they let him alone, it is altogether probable that he will retire of his own accord when the army is placed upon a pence basis, and the work of the War Bureau in closing the rebellion is finished. ‘We presume that some man of the stamp of Governor Brough, of Ohio, about whom there is no whisper of suspicion, will then step in and discharge the duties of that office. Those changes will necessitate others, and then will come the time for rewarding Preston King by assigning him to the duties of the Navy Department. This we know will sadly interfere with our friend Forney’s expectations and plans. He is exceedingly anxious for grandfather Welles’ old shoes, but we do not see how he is to be accommodated. What says Forney to the position of Postmaster General? The appointment of Brough to the War Department will necessitate the retirement of Governor Dennison, and make a vacancy there. It is true Greeley is very anxious for that position, and we rather favor his claims. But it will not look well to have two Cabinet officers from the same State, and Preston King being assigned as a natural right to the Navy Department, we don’t see but that Greeley will have to postpone his claims for “just once,” and make room for Forney. Under these cin cumstances we are not sure but that we will favor Forney’s appointment if he will agree te place himself upon his good behavior. The Treasury Department is in good hands and the clamor of Weed to remove Mr. McCul- loch should not be listened to. Mr. Weed has been fingering around the publio till and dabbling with old jobs about enough te be satisfied. If he takes charge of Raymond’s - Times—as is now contemplated—he will have all that he can attend to in getting that paper out of its entanglement, which has forced it to tack sail and be universally trimming between wind and water. As to the Blairs, the old man might be commissioned to conclude his peace negotiations with Jeff. Davis. Now that the old lady Davis has donned the anti- belligerent costume of a female, Blair can visit him without the convoy of # vessel-of-war. Davis being in close confinement, Blair can ne doubt obtain from him a full confession for the benefit of the world generally. We dare say that he ean become the executor of Davis’ Inst will and testament, and thus have employment sufficient to occupy his time and render all operations in the kitchen cabinet unneeeseary, Since Montgomery Blair came to New York, and fafled in his efforts to.draw into his com. binations the Tammany Hall leaders, the Mozart politicians, or the McKeon taction, and finding in all his efforts no. person to become his dupe but Alphabet Barlow, and proved his unfitness for that work, bis true position ig plainly that of secretary and prime minister te his father in administering on the will of Davis, ‘That document—providing as it will for the final disposition of the late so-called Southerm eonfederacy—will furnish plenty of hard work, especially in finding the confederacy to dis pose of. In short, the busybodies may ae well pack away their brass horns, lay up their tin pans, and save their wind for some other occasion. President Johnson evidently sees through their movements. Butit is not to be expected that they will for a moment cease their clamor. And thus the public can see that President Johnsom has plenty of work on his hands for the hot weather. Ovr Brave Souprens and Sarcon’.—Two or three hundred thousand eoldfers and sailors.are about to be restored from the destructive busl- ness of war to the productive employment of peace. Make room for them, fellow citizens, The general government and the authorities of the loyal States will doubtless adopt large and liberal measures for the benefit of our sick, wounded and disabled beroes, soldiers and sailors, and for the care of the mothers, widows and orphans of thoee who have given up their jives onthe altar of their country. We are as sured, too, that, so far as the honors and offices of the federal government are concerned, the claims of the Union soldiler and sailor will not be overlooked, but will be considered asa pre-emption title to civil preferment; and yet there will be larga numbers of men [from our fleets and armies who will be thrown upon the chances of Iuck for employment In their bebalf we would suzxest to our Spanelal men, i}