The New York Herald Newspaper, June 17, 1865, Page 4

=\ | f ) 4 NEW YORK HERALD, ee ‘JUNE > ws NEW YORK HERALD. ~ JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS eee ‘TERMB cash in advance. Money sent by mail will be ‘atthe risk of the sender. Nove but bank bills current in New York taken. THE DAILY HERALD Fovs cents per copy. Annual ‘ Postage five cents per copy for three months, Avy larger number addressed to names of subscribers $150 cach. An extra copy will be sent to every club often. Twenty copies, to one address, one year, $25, ‘and any larger number at same price. An extra copy will be sent to clubs of twenty. These rates make the ‘Wanxiy Hea the cheapest publication in the country. ‘The Evrorgan Eprriow, every Wednesday, at Six cents per copy, $4 per annum to any part of Great Britain, or 96 to any part of the Continent, both to include postage. The Cauiworma Eprnox, onthe Ist and 16th of each ‘month, at Srx cents per copy, or $3 per annum. 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Country subscribers to the New Youx Henatp aro re- quested to remit their subscriptions, whenever practi- cable, by Post Office Orders.” It is the safest mode of transmitting money by mail. ’ Advortisoments should be sent to the office before nine o'clock in tho evening. THE TRIAL. Tho only development of importance in the assassina- tion conspiracy trial yesterday was in relation to a draft for twonty-five thousand dojlars, purporting to have ‘boon drawn on the Montreal branch of the Ontario Bank, dn August, 1964, in favor of Mr. Benjamin Wood, pro- prictor of the Daily News, of this city. Mr. D. L. East- wood, assistant manager of said bank, testified that Jacob Thompson, the rebel agent, kept his dopos'ts 4a that institution; that these moneys accrued from the mogotiation of bills of exchange drawn by the rebol Socrotary of the Treasury on the rebel agents in Liver- pool; that Thompson gave an order for twenty-five thousand dollars of these deposits to be paid to Wood; that a requisition to this amount was forwarded by tho Outario Bank to the cashier of the City Bank, New, York, aud that the witness understood that the money was paid in this city on Mr, Wood's order. Mr, Eastwood iso teslifled that the assassin Booth had dealt with the Ontario Bank. Judge Abraham D. Russel and Mr. George Wilkes, of this city, wore both examined by the court in regard to Mr. Benjamin Wood's eudorsement on the twenty-five thousand dollars draft referred to, ‘They testified that they wore well acquainted with Mr. Wood's handwriting, and that they identified the signature as his, Owing to the illness of one of the members of the court, the opening of theargament by counsel for the efonce, whigh was to have@ommenced yesterday, was postponed, and an adjournment till next Monday took place, It is roported from Washington that an order has been tssacd for the arrest of Mr, Den jaro Weed. THE SIU ATION. ‘The steamships George Cromwell and Evening Star, which arrived here yesterday from New Orleans on the 10th inst., brought us important despatches from espondents in the Qulf Department. They ‘osting accounts of the incidents preceding, ationding and following the occupation of Browns- ‘tila, Texas, on the Slat ult. by the national troops under wal Drown, The rebel troops, previous to evacuating tho place, mutinied, pillaged the town and made prisoners of some of their oMcers until their de- smunds for tho payment of their back dues were com- plied with. The rebels left the day previous to General Brown’s arrival, not waiting to be paroled or to comply in any manner with the terms of General Kirby Smith's gurrondor. Large numbers of them moved across the Rio Grande into Mexico, taking with them their arms. ‘Thoir artillery they sold to the Mexican imperialists at Matamoros. It is said that the last of the rebels were riven from Brownsville by Mexican residents, who or- @ nized a home guard for the preservation of order soon after the evacuation commenced. After taking posses. sion of Brownsville General Brown wrote a letter to '@enoral Mejia, tho imperialist commander at Matamoros, ‘aasucing him that neutrality would be observed by the }Amorioan forces in regard to the contest in Mexico be. gone to Mexico. The latter carried with him a conside- rable amount of money. On the 2d instant the rebel Generals Kirby Smith and Magruder were received on board the United States steamor Fort Jackson, Captain Sands, off Galveston, when {he articles of surrender of all the rebel Trans-Missis- sippi forces were signed by General Smith. The mext morning the rebel officers wero conveyed, back to Galveston, and on the Sth instant Captain and other officers proceeded up to the town, landed, received its surrender from the Mayor, and once more unfurled the national flag over the public buildings, in the presence of a large but undemonstrative and orderly assemblage of the people. ‘The rebel Governor of Texas has issued a call for the Legislature to meot in Austin in August, and also for an election to choose delegates to a State convention. Generals Sheridan and Canby were both still in New Orleans on the 10th inst. The former was busily on- gaged in the organization and forwarding of his forces designod for the occupation of Texas, The infantry of General Weitzel’s corps had arrived at Mobile, where orders had been received from General Sheridan for them to commence moving towards Texas. Genoral Custer’s cavalry wero already en rouge thither, and the Thirteenth corps, under General Gordon Granger, as well as @ por- tion of the Seventh corps, under General Stecle, were expected to start for that region in a few days. Tho President's amnesty proclamation created much excitement in New Orleans. The classes ‘excepted from pardon were more numerous than had beon expected. Large numbers of paroled rebels, officers as well as sol- diers, have recently arrived in -New Orleans and settled ~down to the quiet routine of private life, Generals Beau- regard and Dick Taylor have been for some time residing in the vicinity of the city, awaiting the proceedings of governmont inthoir cases, Chief Justice Chase was still in Now Orleans on the 10th inst. The business of the city was rapidly roviving. The late rebel Governor Allen, of Louisiana, has issued 8 farowell addross to the people of that State, acknowledg- ing tho inexorable logic of events, the failure of the re- bellion, and that he no longer assumes to be their Execu- tive, and counselling them to submit gracefully to the national authorities. The Alabama State archives, removed by the rebels to Augusta, Ga., on the advance of General Wilson’s cavalry, wero recently recovered, and arrived at Mobile on the 4th inst., on their way to be returned to the Capitol at Montgomery. The stolen archives of the State of Mis- sissippi had also been secured, and were en reule to the State capital. The late rebel Governor Moore, of Ala- bama, bas been arrested and sent North under guard. Union meetings are being held in different parts of Ala- bama, and national banks are to be immediately estab- lished in Mobile and Montgomery. In Mobile, as woll as’ the other Southern cities, President Johnson’s amnesty proclamation excited much interest and discussion. For the past few days the work of embarking the cav- alry portion of General Weitzel’s Twenty-fifth arnfy coprs on board steam transports has’ been proceeding as rapidly as possible at Fortress Monnoe. Tho infantry Portion of the corps arrived at their rendezvous in Mo- bile bay several days ago, and havo been already ordered thence to Texas, We have received a communication from General Hinks, chief mustering officer at Harrisburg, Pa., enclos- ing a carefully prepared statement of the mortality among the Union soldiers at the Andersonville rebel prizon during the year ending with February last, furnished by private Joseph T. Swiers, of Company E, Fifth Pounsyl- vania reservos, who was a prisoner at that place. The number who died there during those twelve months is given as twelve thousand seven hondred and ninety men. ‘The delegation of colored men from Richmond yester- day had an interview with President Johnson, and read to him their statement of the grievances which they say tho colored people of Virginia are now suffering, owing to the collisions between the givil and military authorities, The President in reply told them that while the freedmen were in their pre- sent transition state there were many things which we might desire to have altered, but which must be sub- mitted to temporarily, and assured them that whatever he could do to mitigate their condition he would most choerfully perform. In conclusion he referred them to Major General Howard, Superintendent of the Freedman's Bureau, before whom they proceeded to lay a statement of their case. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. A fight is reported to have taken place near Matamoros on the 2d inst. between a force of Mexican republicans under Cortina and the imperialists under Lopez, in which the latter were defeated and driven across to the Texas side of the Rio Grande. Our Washington despatehes state that the republican General Negrete now occupies the States of Tamaulipas, Coahuila and New Leon, and that fis recent retreat from Matomoros was owing to his having learned that heavy imperial reinforcements were ‘on the way to that place. ‘The Inman line sicamehip City of Washington, Captain 8. G. Brooke, will sail at noon to-day for Queenstown and Liverpool, from pier 44 North river. The mails for this steamer will close at the Post Office at hulf-past ten A, M. Before Judge Betts yesterday, in the United States District Court, a final decree of confiscation was entered in the case of the buildings and lots Nos, 22 and 24 Liberty street, in this city, valued at fifty thousand dollars, on the ground that the late owner, James Bolton, was a rebel, engaged as a surgeon in the rebel army. In the United States Circuit Court yesterday, before Judge Shipman, Charles Cavendish was found guilty of passing counterfeits on the government currency. Henry Clime, William Bartlett and Thomas W. Johnson severally pleaded guilty to a like offence. In each case sentence was deferred till this morning. Inthe Marine Court yesterday, before Judge Alker, Joun and Charles Johnston, copartners, sued James F. Allen to recover one lundred deliars, the value of goods he defendant denied the ough he bad been mar. ried to the woman who ved the goods, he sub- sequently diseovered that she bad another husband liv- ing at the time that this marriage ceremony was per- formed, and had institated pre nes tor a divores, and that therefore the woman was not legally his wife, ‘The Judge ruled out this plea, on the ground that no cong decided this second marriage invalid, and the jufy returned a verdict for the plaintiffs, In the Court of General Sessions yesterday Henry Wil- son, a noted burglar, was sentenced to the State Prison for seven years, he having pleaded guilty to breaking into the dwelling house of Mr. Honry F. Vail, of the Bank of Commerce. Charles Williams, alias Adams, a skilful pickpocket, was sent to Sing Sing for five years, There were a number of prigoners disposed of charged with robbery and burglary. Tho wilis of the tollowing persons have been admitted to probate during this week by Surrogate Tucker:— Martha Slater, Joseph Gardner, Mary Matilda Quintard, Caroline M. Stanard end William Linden, ‘The thirty-third anniversary of the Eucleian Society of the New York University took place last evening at the hall of the vociety, in the University building. The ex- ercises were very intorestin, consisted of singing ond addresses by the graduates and under graduates. The Commencement oxercises of the University will be held on Thursday evening next. ‘Tho inquest in the case of Michael Coogan, alleged to have been killéd by his step-son, Michael Gorman, on Thursday night, at 99 Cannon street, was held at the Eleventh precinct station house last night, and resulted in an acquittal ef the prisoner. It was shown that he acted purely in self-defence. Spencer Pettis, one of the men indicted some months ago by tho Grand Jury of the Court of General Sessions, tween the republicans and imperialists, Tt is said that ‘the robel Gonoral Magruder as well as Kirby Smith has on charge of being concerned in the forgery, in Novem- ber last, of a check for twenty-five thousand dollars on the Bank of Commerce, of this city, but who bad since me wees and committed to the Tombe for trial. progress of # disturbance therein, were surprised by the sudder entrance of a detachment of the Fourteenth pre- cinct poliee, who took into custody the proprietor, Ed- ward Chamberlain, ‘ten other males and twenty-four females found in the place, and conveyed thom to the ‘station house. Subsequently Chamberlain was required to give bail to answer the charge of keeping a disorderly house, the other mon and boys were discharged with a reprimand, and the girls were commftted to the Tombs for further examination. ‘The following additional cases were disposed of by the police magistrates yesterday:-John Cunningham, & street cleaner, of No. 1 Congress place, was required to give bail to answer a charge of attempting to incite the men in his employ to commit an assauit on Mr. John A. Brown, one of the new contractors for cleaning our streeta, Commitments were made in the cases of Martha Doremus, a domestic, fifteen years of age, on charge of stealing # two hundred dollar diamond ring from her employer, Mr. Zabriskie, of No. 25 Chariton street ; James: Miller, twenty years of age, charged with attempting to steal a note for five hundred dollars from a safe at 203 Greenwich street; James Van Horen, on charge of steal- ing ixty dollars worth of cigars from the eating saloon 123 Beekman street; Bridget Perry, of 71 Market street, charged with stealing seven hundred dollars in gold from Lawrence Ridland, a sailor, while he was asleep in her house; George Baker, on charge of having run away with acarriage and pair of horses belonging to Mr. Androw A. Rappolyea, of New Brunswick, N. J.; Hagh Hughos and John Gerst on charge of robbing two discharged soldiers named Henry A. Schouts and John MoConley; Charlies Edwards, charged with breaking into a hat store at 162 Chatham street, early yesterday morning, and stealing therefrom about four hundred dollars worth of goods. bodies of the three women crowned on last Sun- Fae by tho upsetting of @ boat at the foot of Pike street, East river, were Bubsequently recovered at the foot of Rutgers street, and an inquest in the case was hold yesterday, which showed the catastrophe 0 have been entirely accidental. The Coroner's investigation of the circumstances at- tending the murdor of the Italian, Antonio Diodati, on the 27th ult.,.in the woods near the Brooklyn city line, was concluded yesterday. Agreat deal of testimony has been taken in this casdé; but in all of ft there has been nothing to indicate who committed the murderous deed, and the jury's verdict was to this effect. All those arrosted on suspicion have*beon discharged. A portion of the Michigan State Prison at Jackson was dostroyed by fireon Thursday night, entailing a loss of over one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. A late number of the Kingston (Jamaica) Journal says that the smallpox is raging with dreadful mortality in the parish of St. Thomas in the East. A severe drought also was prevailing in Jamaica, which will seriously injure the sugar crop. The American brigantine Rolerson, Captain Seott, from Boston for Mobile, put into Bermuda on the 2d inst., having been struck by a cyclone and severely injured on the 28th ult. No lives were lost, The stock market was rather hoavy, and tower quots- tions were current yesterday; but at the closo it was firm.” Gold sold down to 142%, but cloded, at balf-past five P. M., at 144 a 144%. Tho closing price at night was 144%. ‘The fall in gold unsettled the markets for merchandise yesterday, and where an advance was established on ‘Thursday, asa result of the advance im gold, it wis lost yesterday by the fall in gold. Trade was docidodly dull, but there were exceptions to the general rule. Groce- ries, cotton, petroleum, &c., wore less active and not 0 firm, On ’Change everything was about the samo as on ‘Thuraday, except corn and fard, which were a trifle higher. Abolition and Secession Still Dangerous— The Remedy. The elements of a fierce hostility to the ad- ministration of Andrew Johnson are actively fermenting. We see them in various manifesta- tions, among Northern abolitionists and South- ern secessionists. The war is at an end; the rebellion has been put down; but the malign influences of abolition and secession, which rushed the two sections into the war, are still alive, and still possess the wpirit and the power for mischief. The dangers which surround the administration and menace the country are apparent to all observers; but the remedy is within the hands of the people, and it becomes their duty now to apply the remedy, and to save the country from its disorganizing politi- cians, in the same spirit of patriotism which has subjugated half a million traitors in arms. The Southern secessionists and their allies in the field of war have been vanquished; but in the field of politics they are marshalling for another fight. The Northern abolitionists have secured their great ultimatum—the abolition of slavery; but they are still bent upon using the poor negro as a football of political agitation and discord. Four years of ter- rible war have practically done away with the old ideas, hobbies, platforms and elec- tioneering clap-trap of the old parties; buteven this flery ordeal has not cured the old political party leaders and party haeks, North and South, of their vicious habits or their corrupting and demoralizing propensities. Henry Clay and the conservative men sround him, in the Con- gress of 1850, effected a compromise on the slavery question which was satisfactory to the country. The people, North and South, in 1852, endorsed this compromise with an unmis- takable emphasis in the election of “poor Pierce.” But the Southern secessionists and their Northern followers, including poor Pierce, regardless of the popular voice, undertook to upset it, in that fatal Kansas-Nebraska bill. Here was the opportunity for a Northern aboli- tion reaction, which was seized upon with such avidity as to give us in the Kansas border ruffian conflict the opening skirmish of the late rebellion. With this taste of blood from Kansas the Southern secessionists and their Northern allies went to the Charleston Convention ravenous for more. They deliberately broke up the de- mocratic party, and cleared the track for the election of Abraham Lincoln on a platform excluding slavery from the Territories. “Only this and nothing more.” Upon the ‘miserable | excuse of this election the Southern secessionists declared their “ rights” sacrificed in the Union, and proceeded to set up their Southern confede- racy and to arm themselves for war, President Buchanan gave them a free rein, instead of haul- ing them up on the spot. On coming into office Mr. Lincoln found himself in a position full of the greatest difficulties and dangers. He had to combat the rash councils of his abo- lition advisers, as well as the rebellious move- ments of the secessionists. His duty was clear— to maintain the sovereign authority of the United States; but had he followed the early instructions of the abolition radicals he would have had the North in a state of civil war as well as thé South. He had to fight against the two extremes of the secession and abolition factions, He fought them both, and by his fol- lowing in the wake of a ripening public opinion, step by step, in regard to slavery, the loyal masses of the loyal States carried him, with the army and navy, triumphantly through the struggle, emancipation and all. Such was the course, and such the experience of President Lincoln in putting down the re- bellion. The same dangers from the abolition fac- tion and the secession faction are now threaten- ing President Johnson in his polftical work of reconstruction. We sea tao that the Northern — ‘tri wing, ton te Fook ey tee About three o’olock yesterday morning the tnmates of the Galeties concort saloon, 616 Broadway, during the frugality of the British people—it was not their papery tyre grea ohne the rebel capital. From the same people, es- pecially those who have shared in the sangui- wary trials of the war, we ask for the organiza- tion of a new national party, to guide and to warn the present administration in the work of Southern reconstruction, and to open the way for new ideas, a new departure, new men and new measures, new parties and platforms, adapted to the new national era Bc which we are entering. We want something more to eae the de- mands and necessities of this new historical epoch. The federal constitution as it stands is the chart of a seacoast the rocks and shoals of which have been very extensively changed by a greatearthquake. The chart, therefore, needs many corrections. We want a national conven- tion to make them. But Congress must call it, and here the call can only be made after an application fer it by two-thirds of the State legislatures, We want, therefore, a new na- tional party, which will reach both Congress and the State legislatures, the present adminis- tration and next, and supersede the old, effete parties of the day, and all their excesses of the abolition and seceasion schools. We want, in short, a new national party, and to this end we call upon the soldiers of the Union armies to lead the way. National Deb: Blessing ? Mr. Jay Cooke, of Philadelphia, has employed some literary Bohemian to write, and has in- duced the Tribune Bohemians to publish, a long article endeavoring to prove that the na- tional debt is a nationat blessing. To Mr, Cooke the debt may be a blessing since it gives him a good income from percentages on the sale of United States bonds, and it is quite natural, therefore, that he should object to having it paid off by subscription. The Bohe- mian who wrote the article may also be in favor of debts, both personal and national, and, doubtless, if his tailor, landlady and washer- woman could be consulted, we should discover that, like all other Bohemians, he had made a practical application of bis peculiar financial views. But people who pay their debts, and who are heavily taxed to pay the large annual interest upon the national debt, take quite a different view of the subject, and would be very much pleased—Mr. Jay Cooke to the contrary notwithstanding—to have the vast debt of the country removed at once. Mr. Jay Cooke and his Bohemian assure us that “it was not the industry, persistency and Our It a National coals nor their iron stone—that gave them su- premacy on the ocean and in the money mar- kets and trading exchanges of both hemis- pheres,” but it was their immense national debt. If this be true, it is astonishing how any country can prosper without an immense na- tional debt, and it is especially astonishing how this coumtry could prosper so well, until the beginning of the late civil war, without such a beneficent burden. Everybody thought that Prudhomme said a pretty bold thing when he doclared that “property is robbery;” but Mr. Jay Cooke and his Bohomian throw Prudhomme into the shade by asserting that debt is wealth, debt is success, debt is better than in- dustry, debt ia preferable to ‘ fragality, debt is a great blessing. Evidently the memory of Ben Franklin has been lost in Philadelphia. We are no longer to thrive by industry; we are to thrive by running in debt. We are no longer to save the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves; but we are to let both pence and pounds ship through our fingers, and get rich by getting in debt. The man who lived upon the interest of what he owed is no longer a mere figyre of speech. He is adopted by Mr. Jay Cooke, and his example is earnestly recommended to Uncle Sam. But we are further told that the national debt of England is “a mortgage upon every nobleman’s estate and every spinning jenny in Great Britain—upon every coal mine and every ship—upon every mug of beer held in the fist ofa workingman—a mortgage signed, sealed, acknowledged and delivered on the whole life, aye, on the death and burial of the people of all England;” and that this mortgage is “backed up by the most vigilant, distrustful and thorough system of taxation, for the en- forcement of which the whole power of the government, military and civil, is pledged.” The Bohemian, who has nothing to mortgage and pays no tax, may admire this cheerful pic- ture of the pleasant effects of a national debt upon Great Britain, and Mr. Jay Cooke, with a single eye to his little percentages, may wish to see the same system established here; but we would like to hear the opinion of the work- men, the farmers and the business men of is country upon this queer kind of a blessing. One hundred and sixty-five millions of dollars a year are to be taken out of the pockets of the people to pay the interest upon our debt. Can we convince them that it is better to pay out this money than to keep it? Who will go to.a laboring man and tell him that he is richer be- cause be has just paid his ten, twenty or one bundred dollars in taxes? Who will assure a landowner that he is really wealthier because the government has tacked a mortgage upon every foot of bis land, and demands the yearly interest upon that mortgage in the form of a tax? Mr. Jay Cooke and his Bohemian volunteer to do this; and we wish them all the success the; deserve. Next we are informed that a national debt will be a tie to hold the States together in the Union; but our merchants and financiers will an- swer that debts, either State or personal, did not hold the Southern States in the Union, and that bayonets were much more efficacious. Perhaps Mr. Jay Cooke and his Bohemian believe that if we had possessed a national debt we should bave had no civil war, and that our national deht really saved the Union. We should like to be informed, then, why the Southern confede- racy did not sucoeed? That tad a national debt before it became a nation. If debt be such a blessing—better than industry, com- merce, wealth or manufactures—why dif it not help the rebellion? Surely the rebels carried Mr. Jay Cooke’s Boher seven-thirty note, man or woman, which wraps up the savings of labor, who would consent to its present payment or its payment ever.” The grammar of this quotation is not so clear as its meaning, which is further reinforced by a splendid sketch, descriptive of a commissioner rolling’a barrel of gold across the continentand offering to pay off the national debt without finding anybody who wift take his money. If this be true, there is an end of the matter; but let Mr. Jay Cooke open an office in this city and advertise that he will redeem the national bonds in gold at par and he will soon see how true his picture is. The article which he has hired a Bohemian to write, and persuaded the Should you entertain this favorab! out Mr. Jay Cooke's theory to the utmost. Let *. the country.” All changes are not improve- ments, however; and the creation of a countless number of new offices, to be filled by new officials, is not to be regarded with compla- eency. Already a swarm of revemue assessors and collectors have settled dowa upom the land like locusts, and make a living by prying into other folks’ business, and consume one- fourth of the taxes they collect. Mr. Jay Cooke and bis Bohemian may pray that this nuisance be perpetuated and extended;: but the majority of the petitions are upon the other side, and we hope that Providence will go with the majority, as He goes, according to Napoleon, with the heaviest artillery. But why waste all this space, allethis peper, all this ink and all this argument? Mr. Jay Cooke and his Bohemian wind up their article by declaring, not only that the national debt ought not to be paid, but that it could not be paid, “because it is not possible,” and that mo- body would take ey if we offered to continent,” says: “a holder of a pay it. “There is n Tribune to publish, may suit the revenue offi- cials, and may not be: displeasing to the paper millionaires, the stock-jobbing aristocracy, and the men who drive four;.six or ten horses in the Park and build private opera houses in the haylofts over their stables, where the perfume from below mingles with the perfumes of the toilet; people it will seem the most arrant nonsense and rubbish. Mr..Jay Cooke:is a smart broker, but he knows nothing of the: history and the philosophy of finance. The national debt of England cost that country fifteen years of debate, three commercial revuisions, the failure of nine-tenths of the tradespeople, ten or twelve riots, and an insurrection which the Duke of Wellington could scarcely quell, before British: statesmen could get back to those sound finan- cial principles which Mr. Jay Cooke now ignores and ridicules, and over the temporary suppres- sion of which in this country Mr. Jay Cooke’s Bohemian, like a burlesque Gnancial Nero, makes merry and is. glad. but to the intelligent masses of the Tue Impupence oF Orrice SEEKERS,—The cor- ruption of all political parties for the last twenty years has been so abominable, the buying and selling of offices and nominations have been so openly conducted, that the demoralization of the politicians has. to. a great extent steeped the public mind in the same slougb with them- selves. It is notorious that candidates buy their elections and then sell the offices under them. It has beeome a regular trade with office seekers and office holders of both parties. So much per eent on the income is the usual bar- gain—two per cent for.a nomination, five per cent for securing the office, and ten per cent for the privilege of robbing the government. This, we believe, is about the tariff. In such a state of affairs it is not surprising that individuals should be found to write such letters as the tol- lowing, which we have just received, and which we give verbatim el literatim:— (Confdential | vas, June 7, 1865. Baxvert:— Duar Smm—I served almost twa years in the U. 8. army as Ausistant Surgeon of the 26th Ills, Vols. Was discharged (or resigned as it’ is called) for disability, I afterwards took a position as Act. Ast. Surge in which I served near two years in en which I resigned was cont hornia, and consequently permanent. 1 expect to make this city my home but at presunt it is very difficult for northern men to obtain a secure foothold hore. Tho disability for im the ficld, it is a I learn the Post Master is to be changed here and under the circumstances [ have concluded ty solicit Lage influ- enco to get it for me and to make the following tion shouid we be succossti ul, Iwill give you dred dollars on receiving thé fo pomenimtore and five hun- dred doilars at the expiration proffer this in a mervenal as Ca who are now seeking it, and feel that your services. ve hun. twelve months, I do not spirit. I think I aud as worthy woul be worth that to me if I could get the office, L will also promise faa ter to employ as clerks diaubled soldiers. pol to secure it it will bo necessary to apply at once at Washington, for several applications aré already tiled there, and all from men who have never served their coubtry an hour. If you can arrest the appointment I can send as large a petition (in names) as any already sent. My parents were beth scocth, from near Glasgow. Hoping you will'look favorably on th is I am very respily R. H. BROWN. Hon. Jas. G. Buwsurt. The unfortunate and very simple person who made this proposition evidently mistakes our line of business, and therefore sent the letter to the wrong place. It should have been directed to Thurlow Weed, tor whom it was manifestly intended, his infivence and dexterity in obtain- ing political places being well known. Trovste Amona tHe Democracy.—There ap- pears to be considerable trouble among the factions of the democracy—the Tammany, Mo- zart, Gunther and other branches of that insti- tion—in the matter of funds to carry on the coming elections. There is a good deal of bar- gain and sale to be attended to, which cannot be accomplished without money, and the po- litical traders of all the factions are rather non- pluseed as to where to get it. It is pretty well known that at the mayoralty election, » couple of years ago, considerable funds were raised from the secessionists of Baltimore and Phila- delphia for the purpose of electing secession candidates here. But there is nothing forth- coming from that quarter now. That source is dried up. Then there Jake Thompson’s Canadian “ detached service” fund of two mil- lions, But Jake Thompson and the fund have both vanished to parts unknown. It was ascer- tained that Ben Wood gat twenty-five thousand dollars from Canada about that time, and he has never explained from what source and for what purpose it was obtained. Gcorge San- ders has dwindled down into a seedy, semi-in- toxicated loafer about the barrocms of Mon- treal. But as the secesh resources in Baltimore and Philadelphia are dried up, and the “de- tached service ” fund in Canada non est inventus, what are the Tammany, Mozart and Gunther ciency” is about to be provided by aet of Par Tiament, therefore, is evidently the result of | Fenian fright. Tae Invrorment or Gevenat Lux.—There is 6 | great deal of nonsense printed in various pe- pers in relation’ to imdictments for treason against Lee, Johnston and other military lead- ere: of the rebellion, On one side there are violent denunciations of the bloodthirstincesand bad faith of such persecution as it is celled, and on the other side equally violent ex- pressions the other way. No: one need feet muely disturbed about any such indictments. * They are gotten up and engineered simply ase means'of notoriety by small politicians in Vir- ginia. They emanate from men who choose that method to make:a noise, lest the country should not be aware of their existence. Whes the: indictments have accomplished this object they will be heard of 20 more. Winter Garpen.—Miss Hosmer appeared’ last night a» Luorezia Borgia, in the tragedy of that name. The play was well mounted, and tolerably woll performed in the: minor parts. The audicnce was- large—larger than any we have seem in this establishment since the withdrawal of Hamlet, Miss Hosmer’s conception of the part of Lucrezia is. bold and liberal ome; but she fails in the attempt to present it. There is everywhere a want of fitness in the adaptation of emotion and’ manner to the situation—the Borgia is either a commomscold or she giggles: The scone of the denunciation of the duchess. was one'that was very well done; but in other parts the ‘attempt to present the character as imperiously passion- ate runs intoextravagance and rant. Music at the Park. ‘The Park Commissionors announce that should the weather prove fine, there will be: music at the Park, om the Mall, this afternoon, beginning, at four o'clock, by the Park band; under the leadership.of H. Bi Dodworth. ‘The following: is the programme :— PABT I. z = aeeee Mis ai diou et ‘La Bayad re, ; eu Hy ick March, ‘‘Ever of Thee,” 4 f vation Sooteh and Irish PART 0. 5. Selection from: Faust. . 6, March on: Popular Son; 7. Overture to Dor A agi! 8 Humoristen: Polka.. ee 9. Aria for cornet, comis the Laat Rose of Summer."” 10, La Violeta Mazurka. 11. Cavatina from Das Ni 12. Watering Place Galop Binale—' Annual Meeting of the Eucleian Society of the New York University. ‘The thirty-third annual meeting of this soviety, which. is composed of the graduates and under graduates of the University, was held last evening in’ the hall of the society. The attendance was quite large; and the exer- cines were very: interesting. B: H. Bayliss, Esq., the President of the-society, called the moeting to order af eight o'clock, and after a few preliminary remarks the exercises were commenced. “<Zuoleians’ Song," composed by My: George D. Baker, one of the graduates of the society, was sung by the mombers in very fine style, whieh elicited the applause of, those present. ‘The following are the first two verses: — Our Alma Mater dear, Noxt was sung Lauriger from Horace, whole company, with very fine e atler watch the President delivered a very eloquent address, in which he reviewed the past history of the ems ahowing the many pleasing reminiscences of their car! sad Be Flonces. ‘Many of the membors of the svciety tinguished themselves as soldiers in the army Un.on, while others had attained to the bo highest p a4 in thé various professions they had He closed by hoping that the society would continas to pro gress in its onward course, so that those who leave the. University, after finishing their seo course, might look back with pride to their college da; The following song, by . Burnet, one 2 of the members. of the society, was then sung, after which the orator of the oe Lowry, delivered a very fag Outhearweare filo aes We jor to to grasp the ‘oe only ‘hand, pak 1) hatl our jubilee, &e. ‘We'll not forget our college days, piihoush long years may us saver: thats fond remembrance will rematn ‘ithin our hearts fore Chorns—Within our hearts forever, Se. After Mr. Lowry conciuded his address a very dine collation was furnished, after which the graduating mem~ bd: delivered short and exceedingly humorous a@- bien iphie etniog: the exercises of the evenit raday evening commencement ex wil take rare when a number of young men who have concluded their studies will graduate and receive the usual diplomas of the institution. News from Jamaica. Jamaica dates of the 6th inst. state that the drought thore is severely felt. Many cases of hydrophodia had occurred among animals, aud the sugar crop: would: be | materjally ‘njured, The Kingston Journal says:—A frightful account haw been given us by a gontleman from St. "thomas ye East of the ravages of the smallpox in that parish, and the mortality arnong the laboring classes. In the intertor. districts, ho says, the people have been dying like rotten sheep, and all this, we are assured, is unknown to the, pervohial authorities, Even about Morat Bay those af~ flicted with smallpox have been seen exposed on the highway, there being no place provided for thelr recep. tion by the public. . The Seven-Thirty Loan. Puavetenta, June 16, 1665. The vubscriptions to-day to the seven-thirty loan, ag reported to Jay Cooke, were $2,041,800, including $100,000 from the Third National Bank, of St. Louis, $100,000 from the Third National Bank, of Cincinnati, $100,000 from the First National Bark of Cincinnati, $200,000 from the Second National Bank of Boston, $100,000 from the National Bank of the Bepublic, Boston; $100,000 from the Citizens’ Bank of Baltimore, $200,000 from Smith & Martin, New York; $100,000 from 8. T. Suit, President of the National Sank, Richmond, Va ; $200,000 fro fonal Bank of the Metropolis, Washington, D. C., and $100,000 fromthe First National Bank of In. dianapolis, The nuraber of individual subscribers amounted to 1,483. The First Maxtyrs im the American Ree bellion. DEDICATION OF & MONUMENT TO THEIR MEMORY. ‘From therBorton Advertiser, ue 16 to-morrow, of tha ‘monument, to the memory of Ladd and Whitney, the Sirs’, martyrs to" Wert in in the great ‘Amert- can rebellion, 7.he programa ote 1908 occupies: more eek 4 ¢o/,umn in the Lowell papers. YThe milit bad of rocession will consist ef the frmneus Me iment, 44 tho Spalding be hes hen gt ‘and th cortege will be composed of Dodies of Yiasons and Odd fellows, t ihe. fire and benev olen! lent apaiesles of of Lowell, and citizens, There wiil be mon civic exercises at ‘ment, rnd an ora y Governor Andrew, after which adinner will Seed’ Yo invited guests in Huntt Thal A “pect train, for the conveyance of officers rnment and members of the Logisiature, factions going to do abaut raising funds for the | the tate goxe ym th Lawell elon, mare morning, at nine o'clock. vnroaching election?