The New York Herald Newspaper, May 28, 1865, Page 4

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BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, chanics’ Fall, 472 Broad. Sac Brmoras Sonos, Dances, Buuaaqons, &¢.—Stanats or New Yous. WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 514 Brosdway.—Brmortan Bowes, Dances, £0.—Gazensaxiva, Tas Parace or Soar. “HELLER'S HALL, 585 Broadway —San Faancisco Min- @rnnis—Tus Wine Seusn HIPPOTHEATRON, Fourtoenth atreet.—Equrstnian, Gyunastio anv Acaosatic Ententaixaanie—Tus Euinia or Lira. AMERICAN THEATRE, Pantomimes, BuRiKsgces, ac. No. 44 Broadway. —Batters, ‘uz Goon For NOTHING. HOPE CHAPEL, 720 Brosdway.—Tux American Srsaeo- GON. VANNUCHI'S MUSEUM, 600 Fiovass ov Parsipent Lincoun, & NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Open from 10 A. M. till 10 P. M. — New York, Sunday, May 28, I865. = a : THE TRIAL. In tho trial of the assassination conspirators yesterday the first evidence taken was that of additional witnesses for the prosecution. The following is the substance of the facts elicited :— George F. Edmonds, of Burlington, Vermoat, who was counsel for the government of the United States in the examination ofthe St. Albans raiders in Cabada, tes- tilled LtoJacob Thompson, Cloment C. Clay anti George NN. Sandeps bo'ng in Attendance as defonders of the raid- ors, and identi‘led the paper produeod in the Canadian gourt, sighed by the tebel Secretary of War, authyeizing Loatennat Young, the leader of tho taiders,.akd his Party to qamgy on eprédations along our Norther bor- “Ger. In this document Young was directed to report to Phompaon and Clay fer tustructions. ' ‘Tho prisoner Atzerott was identified by Colonel Nevins, #f Gonosee, N. ¥., as the man who, on the afternoon of ho 12th of April, in tho Kirkwood House, Washington, (inquired for and waa directed by bim to the room of Vice Prosidont Johnson. Bome others of Dr. Mudd’s formor slaves tectided re- farding bis absence from home at different times shortly Prior to the assassinution, and as to where he went on those occasions, and also relative to Booth’s and Harold's Broadway.—Movine Wax c. ‘wiait to the Doctor's house, and the latter's associations with and assistance to the revels. Several witnosses wore called by the defence and ex- pmined with the design of impeaching tho vorapity or gome of those who have testified against Dr. Mudd, and © cndeavor to show that the Doctor had not given aid and comfort to the rebels. Hehad, however, they stated, ” provided food and shelter for some of the citizens in 1861, who had become alarmed lest they should be ar- Pested at tho time that General Sickles was in that region Of country. ] Mr. Ford, the proprietor of the theatre in which Presi- Gent Lincoln was assassinated, who had been confined in the Old Capitol Prion since shortly after the tragedy, and Joba 3. Clark, brother-in-law of Booth, were yoster- Gay yoconditionally released, by order of the Secretary of War. THE SITUATION. “The highly important inteltigence of the collapse of the {ast organized remnant of the rebellion is givon us in Georetary Stanton’s bulletin. General Canby, in a Geapatch dated at Now Orleans on Friday last, states that Grrangoments have been completed for the surroader of all the rebel forces of General Kirby Smith's Trans-Mis- Gasippl Department. Tho stipulations include the men ad me/értel of Doth the rebol army and navy. Our New Orleans despatch contains further details of tho fight at Boco Cliico, Texas, on the 12th inst., an- Gouaced in yesterday's Hxnato, which, though bute trifling affair in iteolf will probably hereafter be remem. bored, now that the rebellion is onded by the surrender of Kirby Smith, as the last engagement in the desperate tour yoars struggle. The battlo was between a few hun- red mon on each side, Colonel Barrett. commanding the Onionists and General Slaughter the rebels. The tational loss was Seventy-two in killed, wounded and Captured, Colgnel Barrett being compelled to retreat, owing to Génoral Gjaughter boing reinforced. It is re- ported that cho rébeis put to death all the Union piaoners. , Tho President has directed Beoretary Stanton to Issue ‘an ordor that in all cases of sentences by military tribu- vals of imprisonment during the war, the sentence bo fomitted and the prisoners discharged from custody. This order will, doubtless, be carried into offect with des- @atch. This is significant as an official announcement of the termination of the rebollion. It ts stated that no pardons will be granted to rebels anleas thoy sonounce afl right, title and interest in slave property forever. am A sailboat containing seven while mon anda eolored Servant was discovered and captered off Cape Sablo, Florida, on the 17th inst., by « detachment of the Second Florida national cavalry, who had been in search of tho party along the coast for some days. As the baggage of the white captives contained considerable rebel money, rebel documents and some gold, and as they appeared to bo very intelligent mon, and acknowledged having re- contly beon tu Richmond, they are supposed to be per- sons who have held positions of @ importance tn the confederacyy and who were endeavor. Ang to make their enough to Ha ‘The names thoy gave fre Frank P. Anderson, Richard 8. MoCullock, Frederick Mobi, Hoary W. McCormick, Julius C, Pratt, Thomas A. Harrie and Isaac A. Homer.. Either those are fictitious or the individdals are unimportant citizens, as the rebel @rmy and mavy registers for 1364 contain no such gsmes pf officers, aor were any such persons membersof the Inst obel State Legislatures of Congress, Men of little promi- (Dorcg'ia rebel aBbire can, bary v9 reno for thug ab 8 4 that the captured persons were eb en Mme prominent among the rebel leaders, ‘The graceful scquiescence of a large number of think- ing people of the South im thelr restoration to national authority, and thelr desire fore return of social ender, civil government and peaceful industry, ere shows im the despatches of our correspondonts giving accounts of Union meetings held recently at various places in Alabama, Missteaippl, Loulsiena and Florida ‘Ate meoting of citizens held in the capital of Alabama on the Lith instant @ petition was prepared to be for- warded to the President, praying bim either to permit the “| rebel Governor to call the Logisiature together or to ap- point @ military Governor, for the relief of the people General Diok Taylor, in the official order to bis army an- nouncing its surrender, speaks in high torms of General Candy's conduct during the negotiations, and charsetertses the terms granted by him as most fair and generous, Taylor tolls his men that if any of them fail to observe the stipulations of surrender they wil! deserve the wororeat punishment, : Thecity of Charleston is now raplity ressiring am ac! ‘ersten to ita population da paroled rebel soldiers and foreaee reeidente;whe fied from tt at the approach of the national forces. The majority of them-are in e condition of utter poverty. Governor Magrath, who recently ie eved such an imperious and impadent order ab the Stag capital for the enrotmont of the South Caretina troops under his direction, has suddenly taken alarm and Ged, probably on fearning that some of Kilpatrick's cavalry were searching for him. Hoe left Columbia incognito, going, it is thought, In the direction of Aikes, The re- lief committee's registry books in Charleston contains the names of about Afteen thousand persons wht have been regularly drawing weekly rations of rice since the occupation of that city by the national forces. Thirteon of the bodies of those drowned on board the Monitor Patapeco, gunk by a rebel torpedo in Charleston harbor in January last, have been recovered. Admiral Godon, with bis squadron dest'ued for the Brazilian waters, arrived at Charleston, 3. C., en rowle, on the 20th inst. The late capital of the rebellion was again,for the fifth time, on Wodneaday last, treated to the spectacle of an army of victorious national troops marching home- ward through ite streets. The Sixth corpa on that day passed through Richmond on its way frem Danville to Washington. The troops presented a Gne appearance, and were reviewed by General Halleck and etaff. Their movement through the city occupied about Ove hours, MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. From Matamoros, Mexico, now become a point of much fmterest, owing to the struggle for supremacy in progress in its vicinity between the republican and {mperial forces, we have received our despatches to the 15th inst, giving most interesting details of events there and along the Mexican border. When General Nogrete, with @ considerable force of republicans, appeared bo- fore Matamoros, after important successes in the interior, all was excitement and alarm; but General Mejia, the imperial commander, though having but samall body of troops under him, resolved to defend tia position, and made every prepuration. some skirmish. ing took place; but suddenly, in the night, Negroto, for @ome unexplained reason, marched his army away, it was said, to Monterey. On the'15th inst. quiet had ro. turned to the town, and, Majin having receiged reinforce- ments, he was confident of holding it if again attacked. ‘The republicans were said te be very fincly armed and equipped. Where thepggot their matériel from was not known. Matamoros and other Moxican towns on the Rio Grande have severely felt the collapse of the rcvellion, During its existence they prospered muazingty, aud their merchants and business mon wero rapldly acqutring wealth, owing to the profits of the Viockade running trade. Now that the demand for the contraband goods is at an end, thes® towns have sunk to their former insignificant business proportions, Mr. ‘Wood, tho American Consul in Matamoros, confines Dimvell to the duties of acommercial agont, and is not iniervered with by the imperial authorities. It is understood that Judge Clerke diments from the opinion delivered in the Suprome Court on Thursday last by Judge Ingraham, deciding the Paid Fire Depart- ment law unconstitutional, while Judge Barnard, Judge Ingraham's other agsoctate, coincides therein. The coa- troversy has yet to be carried, for Anat decision, to the of Appeals, which meets on tho 13th of next moath. Inthe meantime the new Commissioners will continue to hold their regular meetings, and, in case this tribuaal should prouounce the act in question valid, will have everything relating to their organization in readiness to enable them to proceed with the duties de- volved upon them. It is said that they have already se- cured the necessary number of men to work the depart- ment, some of the present volunteer organizations hav- ing signified their willingness to do duty under the now ayatem. In the United States District Court yesterday, before Judge Benedict, a case was concluded which occupied the court and jury two days, It was a suit for forfeiture brought by the Collector of Customs against an importer for under valuation in an invoice of human hair. The article invoiced was represented as unmanufactured hair, and as of the valuation of twenty shillings sterling per pound. The United States appenisers appraised the article at thirty ghillings sterling per pound, as washed and cleaned hair, and it was cpoa this the claim for for- foiture waa based, The claimant, by witnesses, showed that the proper valuation of the articlo was set forth ia the Invoice; that he had tmported other lots of hair at thefame rate, and that they had passed the Castom Hoase without objection. The jury gve a verdict for the claimant, The Excise Commissioners granted three licenses at thejr meeting yesterday. The police authorities have Feceived instructions to present the names of sovoral prominent liquor dealers who have not taken out licenses: to the Grand Jury for indictment, with a view of det- Ditely settling the quostion of the constitationality of the Excise law. A Ore broke out betweon twelve and one o'clock yea terday afternoon in the extensive Ove story chair manu- factory, Nos. 196, 188 and 190 avenue ©, and, owing to the combuatible character of the stock it contained, the entire establishment was in a very short time enveloped in flames. Many of those in the building narrowly ogenped suffocation and burning to death. Ap it was, some of them were seriously injured by jumping from upper windows. The adjoining buildings on cach side and on the opposite side of the street amd the Atlantic Foundry, in the rear, were all more or less injured by the failing walls or the fire, How the fire originated is not known. The entire losses are between forty-five and fifty thousand dollars, principally ineured. The body of a supposed murdered man, thought to have been an Italian, was discoverod yesterday after- noon ina wood on Long Island, about a mile from the Bath and Coney Island Railroad depot There was o pistol shot wound to the body, which was lying face downward, and the bead had been nearly severed from the trunk by a cut on the back of the meck, The oame of the supposed murdered man has uot been ascertained, nor havo the murderers yet been arrested ; but the police have a clue to ‘hem, and are on their track. Tho following wero among the cases receiving the at- tention of the police authorities yesterday :—Mary Mo- Cord, of 341 East Bixteenth street, and Jane McCord, of 186 East Seventeenth street, were committed for ex amination, in default of Ove bundred doliare ball each, Charged with having been for somo. wing money to which they were not entitled tor the re- lief of families of volunteers. Breanan was arrested, charged with being a fugitive from justice from Woetchester county, where be was indicted bythe Grand Jury for having been engaged im gteailag iron, in Novembor last, in thie harbor, from # vessel belonging to the Syracase Iron Company, sitasted in Wostchostor county. He wes somt back there, Thomas Murphy was comenitted for trial, on charge of having, with two other mon who escaped, knooked Gown end robbed Mr. Alfred Nitvon, about three o'clock yesterday morning, on the corner of av A and Ninetoonth strocs Edward Heiser, of 360 Broome atfect, was Coromitted for oxam|- nation, charged by a soldier named Froderiok Von Schutte with having, in February teat, swindled bim out of three hundred dollars of bis bounty money. The boarding house No, 268 Rast Toeuth streot was Gatered about olabt o'clock inst evening by two Volt tempting te fy the cousiey. ™ ts more them probable giile the nataral product of the “peculisr institu tion,” and in all his sanguinary propensities guishmont of the Rebellion. Secretary Stanton officially announces Mississippi, is carrendered. country. The power of the federal govern- | Sonthern institution of slavery, struck at the ment is new supreme over the fength sad root of the rebeliion, and all the evils which breadth of the land. The old fleg again waves | produced it, But how keenly the. pro-lavery freely and proudly, from Maine to the Rio leaders and their adherents in the rebellion fels the blow and foresaw the consequences, if not Grande, and from the Atlantig to the Pacific. arrested by eome desperate undertaking, we The rebollion was virtually orushed before this | only, with the assassination of President Lin- event, and the refusal of Kirby Smith to eur- | coln, began fully to comprehend. That Joff, render was of no other importance than to | Davis <a mar + mee were confedo: lots of a rel qFOg: ise Rages Oa Seen ee Canadian spies, sama” oeer fever vaga- Burope, and compel the government to send bonds, focendlaries and assassins, is morally an fvereased force to Texas for the purpose of | proved from the evidence produced on the trial clearing that State of the few rebels concen. | of Mra.\Surratt and Company, and in the Ca- trated there, and in accomplishing this our | Dadian trial of Blackburo. All this is perfeotly troops might bave become complicated with natural, if we look to the incidents and teach- ings of that demoralizing institution of South- those of France. But now that colliston, if | orn glavory. Presidcat Lincoln, all. other forced upon us, will come properly and legiti- | means failing, resolved to slay the dragon, and mately, and when we are united and strong. | did slay it; but at the ooet of bis own life in the Tho surrender of Smith ts, therofore, of im- | 4¥ing struggles of the monster. ; Z But are not we of the loyal States, from the portance in this point of view if tm po other. very organization of the government responsl- It ia now only necessary, under this new | ple, toa great extent, for: this demoralizing aspect of affairs, for the~ administration to con- | institution of African slavery and its terrible fine itself to its policy of peaceful reconstruc ows oe rok Ltnliias wr i of that fearful it of barberiem crea tion. With tho Inst rebel army swept out of pe annie devaliped ae cooriees 4 oxlatence the Presidont oan issue his proclama- this broad and honest view of the subject, even tion of amnesty; trade can be reopened with | though Jeff. Davis and his ruling associates in all parts of the republic; the Southern States | the rebellion, if not proved guilty in other can hold their élections &d choose loyal Lege | Fespecis, shall be condemned ns traltors, may laturos and membors 40 Congress; the peoplo not something be alowetlo the evils of sidvery, can roll up their sleeves and go to work and and may it not be wise as well as generous to commute their penalty of trearon to perpetual rearrange and adapt thoiz industrial operations | exile, This, we dare say, will be thosontrolling to tho now state of things, and the nation cam 4 iden of President Johnson im his final docieion; present itself'to the world with a larger popula | for-tho dangers of another €oathern rebeliica tion antl bigner crops, ‘rebonateneicd: and re ; are gone will the aLoiition-ofslavery, generated, as the greatest military, naval and | pre Enlightened Decision of Justice Nel. commercial Power on the globe—-the richest kon and Its Effect. and freest people on carth. The remarkably able, extraordinarily en- . ‘yittened, wonderfully intelligeat, and highly Soff, Daviemfils Crimes and His Proba- { i'cresting decision of Judge Nelson, as ble Puntshment. weil as the ‘oncluslon of the jury, in Jeff. Davis, the deposed despot of the late | the trial of the pious and venerable Hender so-called Confederate States, is in a position | son, Inte Navy Agont, is attracting unusual at- not much better than was that of the Turkish | tention and comment. It bas caused @ great Sultan Bajaget, when exposed by his captor, | Commotion among the politicians, and is being Tamerlane, in a portable iron cage, Davis lies | discussed with unusual interest by all who are immured in one of the casemates of Fortress | looking torward to the time when they shall Monroe, no longer an ebject of admiration to | become navy agents, Settling, as it does, an his followers or of terror to his subjects, but | important point, and putting at rest all dispute a theme of universal derision and contempt. | upon the right of certain commissions, its Feom the height of bis lawless power and im- | value is boyond estimate to the politicians. In perious pretensions he has fallen, like Lucifer, | & legal point of view it sete in the shade the never to rise again. Enclosed by stone walls | opinions of Mansfeld end Story. and iron bars, he lies undor the accusation of | In the orthodox style in vogue in the days murder, and an indictment for treason. As a | Of Honest Old Abe, this peculiar decision fellow conspirator with a league of assassins, | feminds us of several stories:—The Prince of if proved guilty, there will be no commutation | Wales, on » certain occasion, addressed @ cir- of the sentence; but if legally absolved of this | cular to all his grocerymen, informing them crime, he may, perhaps, escape the extreme | that he would not purchase his groceries of penalty of tho law asa traitor, althongh there | them if they continued to allow his servants is still another charge, which, if prosecuted, | commission apon the articles which they sold may bring him to the gallows. tohim. In othpr words, unless they stopped Davis is not on trial with Mrs. Surratt and | paying his servants commission on the articles her accomplices for the murder of President | which he ordered he wonld make his pur- Lincoln, although he is charged, together with | chases eléewhere. This system of allowing Jacob Thompson, Clement 0. Clay, George N. | commissions on articles of food is an estab- Sanders and others, as “conspiring, concert:ng | lished oustom in Paris, The universal rule and procuring” the sald murder amf the at- | there ie tor the cook to apply to the desler and tempted murder of the Secretary of State. Nor | inform bim that he has to provide so and so do we suppose that Davis will botricd asa par- | for his master, and then asks the desler’ tloipant in these crimes. Under his indictment | what commission he will allow for the privilege a8 a traitor, he will be condemned aa» traitor, | of Mling the order, Tho dexter, porhape, and whethor the doath ponalty for treason phall | repties two per cent. The cook, with an eyo to or shail not be his fortune will depend apon | the profits, assoris “that will not do; he can get the jadgmont of President Johnson. The testi- | three per cent in such o place.” Tt always mony in reference to the parties now on trial at | resulta In the cook securing his desired com- Washington will serve to show, meantime, in | mission, and there-is no way of preventing it. the eye of the Iaw whether Davis is legatly | Now this custom, which the Prince of Wales guilty or not of conspiring with them in their | audertook to break up with his grocerymen, and comprehensive schome of murdor. That he is | Which is the universal custom in Parls among morally, if not legally, guilty, we think, oannot, | oaterers for private families, has been intro- consiatently with the fearful facta against him, | @uced in this country on government contracts be doubted. by Thurlow Weed. « It was considered at first Tha} ferocious Southern conspiracy for » | 42 innovation of » questionable character, but Southern pro-slavery confederacy, of which Da- | 0am no bonger be viewod in that light since the vis waa the anointed chiof, was, from the be. | verdict of the Henderson jury and the learned ginning, assoolated with plots of arson and as- | decision of Justice Nelson. sassination. The very first blow projected for As alrendy stated, Weed, at the commenco- Southern independence was tho assassination | meat of the war, introduced the plan of charg- of President Lincoln. Nor bas any war In | ing commissions, at the rate of two per cent, on modern times, except among savage tribos, | all whom he favored with @ government con- beon marked by such cruel and syste.| tract The public declared this to be out- matio barbarities as those practiced by | rageous. Subcequently, when the-steamer Cata- the government, the leaders and armed forces | line mystery, with its commission, came to light, of the late rebellion. Tho evidence is morally | followed as it was by Cummings’, of the pious overwhelming against Davis and his ruling | World, commission on lincn pants and straw hats Richmond junta, that our soldiers, taken by | for the soldiers, shoddy throws in, there was « them as prisoners of war, have been delibe- | universal how! at the presumption. The pub- rately and systomationlly put to death under | tic had even the boldness to obarge these men the ornel tortures of starvation, oxposure, | with defrauding the government. All this nolse nakedness, Oith, and the poisonons exbala- | bad no effect those edacated in that science. tions of their reeking prison pens. Our | Perhaps they knew beforchand what would be colored troops falling into rebel bands have | Judge Nelson’s decision, In the due course of boon aa cooly murdered by bullet or bayo- | time George Morgan secured the agency of the net. It is upon these charges, we apprehend, | government to purchase and charter vessels. that Davis has reason to be most foarful of } Knowing full well hie rights, “a la the Paris his life. He may not be proved guilty in the | oooks,’? he increased the commission to two eye of the law aa an accomplice in the mur- | and’ one-half per cent, It ts true the public der of President Lincoln; his crime of treagen | rebelled; but that made no difference to the may be commutod on high political grounds; | eforesald Morgans his commission he would but if brought to » trial with others more di- | have, or the veaséls not be chartered nor rectly concerned in the murder of our poor sol- } purobased. Noone ge gg this line was the diers in bis prison pons, from prosont ap- | development brought “out by somo investi- ances, he can hardly oscape tho haltor, gating Commitice, Tevealing the fact that But the simple truth is that tho whole ays | tho custom had already boon established of tom of Southorn soolety, under that pernicious | obarging Ove por cent on appointmonta to soolel institution of African slavery, was} political offices, as well ns for nominations by polsoned and domoralined with the clomontg.of' conventions, The Innaaent noonle not being ' Candidate for tho Prosidonor, LL these things were done .“rough pare ere mL : eet ale sel “meiemeeee and were astounded. Bat ah ile. demaal & toeen, W tetas gO ort Waters, Sin SAM Gute, Settee ot ¢ gon » model eltizen an | Gollision Between the mma Menry pare patriot Henderson, of the , velop this new science in a po ge Madr and Gosemangh. step. ike uae Gane : higher jeasers aclence, and tho- v . paella with all its mysteriee. ‘Tw NAVAL OFFICERS PAROLED, missions were beneath his notice; nothing | Recovery of the Bodies of the Lest short of ten per cent would answer his Officers of the Patapsco, In the due course of human events this be Sel - : {a erdored to aetue wharever he qaa fad her, patriot Henderson, aad commenced legal pro- He Bomar nthe eed Be coodings against him. The whole country | On leaving thts harbor on Setentay-nightthe stenmes ‘vas searched and the ablest legut ‘talent that | Mame Henry, white Under futl spect, collided -wam the gteamer Conemaugh, lying at anobor off the harbor ia quarantine, having smallpox on board. The starboard paddie-wheet of the Emma Henry was completely smashed, so that sho will be sent North at once for re: pair, Asa substitute for this vessel Admiral Dahtgree (transferred to the command of Admiral Godon the meamor Wando, now cruising for the Stonewall. He ales transferred to the flying squadron the tron-clad Canont- ous, The Stonewall is now understood to be at Mate- mores, lore of this olty, and arrayed themselves before the able Judge who was to preside over this trial. The half dozen disciples of Blackstone prepared themselves with great oare. The points of the case as they came up were handled with masterly skill. But with all their legal lore they had notvbeen educated up to the point which the Judge before whom they were arguing had reachod. Judge Nelson, becoming tired of their want of knowledge, soon brought the trial toan end, and delivered an opinion, which, for legal acumen and enlightened views, is a perfect model, and entitles him to a rank among able jurists far in advance of Story, Mansfield or Marshall. His brilliant and logical decision settles the point beyond dispute that navy agents are entitled to ten per cent commission. Therefore the Morgans, Weeds, Cummings and all others are entitled to theirs also, and no person has a right Fo question it, This, we take it, settles this point for all time to come. Mer- chants who wish to sell goods to the govern- ment, bidders for contracts, applicants for of- fice, whether for appointment or nomination, can now proceed’ understandingly and govern themselves accordingly. As to the dear peo- ple, they oan no longer grumble, but accept the decree and the burden as coming under the head of the war times. FUE REDEL RAM COLOMELA, ‘The rebel ram Columbia left Charleston yesterday fee Hampton Roads, tn tow of the, steamer Vanderbitt, Shortly before saifiag Admiral Dahlgren placed the Columbia in charge of the following officers :— Acting Masers—Jobo G. Myors, J. B. Jouee, James M, Forsyth and Joba K. Crosby. 2; A. N. Bates and Walter Walton. inees—Acting Second Aselatant, Daniel acting thie ‘haalata ate, G 8, Odet!, Hoary Fishes oad eae tnisens Sersiin A. B Deaa. 4aing, Asststans Paymarter—3, Thomas, Je. NAVAL PRISONERS. Acting Ensign Charles H. Hanson, Mate Henry Lynoh and Acting Third Assistant Eogtacers William & Barclay and Joho Ryan, all of the steamer Jonquil, who wore captured by rebel plokets March 21, have boom paroled, are now here, and will immodiately proceed North, to await their exchange. They wore confined tag cotton-prees building at Orangeburg, were robbed of their clothing, money and other articles; wore reclothed with cast-of ents; were not allowed Caper ay compelied to sleep on the bare 8 had for daily ration one pint of with the in it, and $wo ounces of bacon, halfa pint of cow pead being added each week. A number of army officert were confined with them and treated ta the samo maa ‘ner. A of ai Nunder'tse de command of Acti no teor! file ifiam L. Churchill, pieBioe BA naval schooger Hope, have lately been Rose ed to ralee dog the bodies of those unfortunate OMcers’and men whe Monrowat Miscovarnment.—We ere inun- dated with communications calling our atten- tion to the prevailing slorming mismanage- ment of city affairs, Tho waste and profligacy | Another was tuat of Acti a J + 0, Bree i la-publio expenditgres, the Mithy pondition of | ore gals, toga tate tas pits sktols, he lamenlabis. taotidenty | Rec GS 5 near the roman of Lieutaunat Of {he sanitary force, the danger of @ fearful | Prstford,of ihe Marine corpe, Ths cheer oitiss hark epidemic the coming summer, and the shame- ‘PUR NAVAL OTRAMES lees negligence of most of the public offtcers, Pasties aiiaate carta ant lead ever; citizen to regard with deep | the eee apd <cacocs et sgpuinliiaen tateiesoataakee? Ron <a ee ere nee eee the metropolis. ‘But what is the use of no- ticing these things?. The streets are getting dirtier and filthier every day, nuisances are allowed to exist and exude their pestiferous vapors in many parts of the city, and the recklessness in expenditures and the ineff- ciency of officials become daily more and more matters of publio notoriety. Our contemporaries notice the same evils in the same strain. But it is all of no account, The taxation of the city has run up from the two or three milllove of a fow years past to fifteen millions, and there is but little doubt it will soon reach twenty millions per annum. Much mency is wasted in useless expenditures—such, for, instance, as tho publishing of unnecessary advertisements in rebel sympathizing papers, while the public roads, the public health and the general wolfare of the city aro ontirely neglected. The only portion of city affairs conducted with any degree of efficiency and creditability are those under the control of commissioners sanctioned by the Legislature— such as the Park Board, the Croton Board and the Police Board. The balance of theeity gov- ernment is most horribly mismanaged. It is aworse than that of ang other city on the face of the globe, This miserable condition of things is fostered and encouraged by the varions city political factions. Tammany, Mozart, the McKeon and the Gunther factions; are alike le for the mismanagement of our ‘affairs. The republican faction is eq! so. Tammany starts off, lead by Cornell in the Street Department, Brennan as the City Comptroller, Tweed in the Super- visors’ Department, Peter B. Sweeny and others in various other branches of the government, ell jobbing out the city business to favorites and parasites. All the other factions have their leaders or snuffling pilote doing the service on land what shark pilots do for their vo- racious followers in the sea—point out the public plunder that may be gobbled: up. We shall never sce improvement or amendment in this gross mismanagement of our city affuirs until these factions aro driven out or put down, and ® now government formed with a single executive head, with thé power and strength to contro] the factions without befng- Thirtosn that of Acting Easizn Joveph Flect Surgeon, Dr. William Johnsen, le rare TOR NAVAL EYRAMPR DOWBOAL. Acting Voluoteor Lieutenant George D. 0; |, CORRe manding the steamer Donogal, hes revigned; his resignas tion has been acorpted, and ‘Acting Master George we Avery has relieved him of his command. ‘THR NAVAL STEAMER CAMBRIO0R. ‘The Court of Inquiry convened to Investigate the facte connected with the recent grounding of the steamer Came bridge im Ossnbaw Sound reported that the accident wag one which could not have beem avoided by any dolag attributable solely tu the want’of a buoy on epit on whioh the vessel struck. The court Gad that commander of the Cumbridge, Acting Volunteer Liew tenant Joha F, Nickels, of New York, acquitted himecit with great credit on the occasion. This officer has elacd to the grade of Aoting Lieutenaat meander. Tet uabridee nto eeea ore eheene SYMPHONY IN BOSTON. Foarth Day of the Handel and Haydq Society Featival—Beethoven’s Ervica— Indifferent Solo Singing—Master Coker fin a Vix, de. @UB SPECIAL BOSTON CORRESPONDENOS, Boston, May 26, 1866. ‘This was grand aymphony day at Musio Hall, The performance was confined to the afternoon concert—the evening being givento the rehearsal of Mondetseoha's great oratorio of Elijah, which isto be produced to-morrow evening. The concert this afternoon was vory largely attended. People from the more distamt towns Gocked in in large bedies, as they have hitherto done at tho day performances, returning home before night. The rail- road companies have been accommodating enough to hold back the last care to Newtown, aad other placea ia the suburbs, until the night oeacerts are conctuded, Urua of to. day-comprtsed Beethoven's symphony Zrvica (No. 8), which wae the principal attraction; the overture to Buryanthe, by Weber; the overture to William ‘Tou, aod Lexpressed in my first letter, that the orchostra is toe strong for the proper rendering of the works selected; now,generally shared by musical people hero. ment of the , both of orchestra and’ ly be inconvenient at this the t it would certainty be dosirable. @ vocal of the entertainment bad little to recommend it. 3.8. sang a cavatina from Jt Giurament; but an lady has a very limited voice, and still more limited’ cution, the beauties of Mercadante: were thrown away. I cannot remark anything more: ing, Lam #0 re Fernando by Matilda Phillips. The urffortunate, apparently, in the selection tata from this locality; for, whatever may be ote conacieatious efforts to ploase, it is olear that nelther tm voice nor cultivation have proved equal to tte re- quirements of the occasion. oh Richard inidts aun. the bound to or controlled by them. parrassed an older ir the music, 1 do not kaow got mixed rae the accompan! During the summer now coming in is the time to prepare to bring before the next Legislature gach changes in our system of municipal gov- ‘vocalist became agen Bs of nmchaiance quite refreshing, de- ple Ay ely bee? wassatod 19 putting the tn ernment as will put forever a quietus upon | to ts, yg Aegan yeaa, ho’ the jobbing operators of the political factions | fost of tes. he sabeoquentiy that have so long misgoverned the city. We ask our citizens furnish us with all the infor- mation they have that may help om the work Pa ‘will then > The overs but there ts no fear thee af exposing all these factions and cliques, with | Breton wih Minor Me, *staasuon that, funloy over the view of having them ultimately started | might prove dangerous to her constitution—for annt: out of the olty. will then succeed the harmonies of the mas’ tory (}) will be substituted Re eemones, ead 4he dismal Warren bompurary.—Candidetes for tho | tones of worldly-minded parsons will supplant in the ears, but, I truant, not io the of the Citizous the sitar ‘of Handel, ‘tayn, Mendvissoha and Beotheven. Collectorship and Navy Agency of the port of New York, The candidates must give good characters from thelr former employers and pay five per cont commission to the agents, as is usual at intelligence offices. , Ton per cent is allowed to the Navy Agent upon all govern- ment business, according to the recent enlight- ened decision of Mr. Justice Nelson. For fur thor information apply to Thurlow Woed, Of the State Barber, or to Hoary J. Ra; . ex-oditor of the Times, Member of Congres and Davanr's Muerners.—Me. Charley Whito's now Gan Teaque of “The Streets of New York’ has made agrosg hit at Bryant's poputas estabiehment, When we say that the streets of New York—stores, houses an@ all ‘are sot out bodily upon the stage, and that several now, ingentous and wonderful Inventions, as yet uaknown t@ our fire department, are brought into requisition in puly ‘ting aut ‘conflagration which conclu dag the bittesqna,, ye houses are accounted for, although the comicalities of Mr. Frank Moran, Mr, Noise @eymour and tho roat of tho fine troupe doubtiony have Something @ do with thom,