The New York Herald Newspaper, June 18, 1865, Page 4

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We do not return rejected communications. Gee aie eee ee Volume XxX. AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Suven Castixs or tun ‘Passions—Unuocer Foaartr. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tax Psat or Savor. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Love; ox, tam Coun- ees ann tux Sxxr. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tu axe Guanps- an—Tuw Vacrant—Youns Amxnica, ’ OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—My Maw Tou—Siusr- ano Beaute in tas Woop. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Tux Inon Masx. ‘BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Tusz Hippsx Hann BARNUM’S MUSEUM, Hroadway.—A Living Autt- @aton—Far Womax—Gianress, Davcurxr oF tH Reci- ‘est—Junwy Lin, Open Day and Evening. BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, way.—Ermiorian Sonas, Graeets or Naw Yorx. 472, Broad- Mechanics’ Hal 3, BuRLusa 40.—Tue It, Dances, bi ues, WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 514 Brosdway.—Ermtortax Bones, Dances, £0.—Guernnakina, Tum Patace or Soar. HELLER’S HALL, 586 Broadway.—San Francisco Min- orasts—Cross One Joupan. 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These pro- clamations, which are in tenor and terms similar to those maming Provisional Governors for North Carolina and Mississippi, appoint Andrew J. Hamilton Governor of Texas and Johnson Governor of Georgia, and direct them to take moasures for calling conventions in their respective States to alter or amend their constitutions and for the complete restovation of civil authority throughout their limits, Directions are ‘lo given to the various national heads of departments to proceed to putin force in the States of Texas and Georgia the jaws with the execution of which they aro charged THE SITUATION. Secretary Soward, in an official despatch to the Secre- ‘tary of the Navy, gives the information that the govern- ment of France has removed all restrictions heretofore Ampoted by it on the naval vessels of the United States 4n French ports. Secretary Seward also officially announces that the Fronch government has formally rescinded its order @rnnting to our Southern rebels belligerent rights. Franoe is thus the second of the European Powers to take this formal action in regard to its concessions to the dosurgenta, Holland having boen the first. The work of releasing tho rebels from confinement in Northern prisons, on taking the oath of allegiance, is Progressing rapidly. Yesterday about twelvo hundred Of these men, mostly belonging to South Carolina, Louisi- ana and Alabama, recently confined on Hart's Island ‘aud in Fort Delaware, arrived at the Battery barracks, on route to their Southern homes. rebels were liberated from Fort Warren, Boston harbor, ou Thursday last, and thirty-three on Friday. The Virginia politicians, since, notwithstanding all their offorts in an opposite direction, they find that thoir State is still in the Union and will be compelled t remain in it, are wide awake to thcir interosts in the reconstructing order of things, and are bestirring thomsolves in the matter of preparation for Alling tho various offices under the national and State govern. ments, The claims of candidates to represent the vari- ous districts in Congress are already being placed before James Sixty-one additional the people, many of whom are fearful that thoy will not ‘bo able to have representatives present at tho noxt ses- ion, owing to tho slow manner in which, as they com- plain, tho work of reconstruction is proceeding, Govornor Fenton has addressed a circular to the va- rious county and district war committees through- out the State, suggesting that, in the approach- @ng eolebration of the Fourth of July, particu- Bar welcome be given aud honor shown to the re @urned soldiers. The Governor saya ho thinks 1 more @uitable to make this quiet recommondation than to fissu0 a proclamation on the subject, so that the recognt- tion of the services of these battle scarred veterans may be spontancoun in each locality. Tho One Hundred and Kightoenth New York and Ninth ‘Vormont regiments arrived in this early city yesterday Morning, and left for their homes in the afternoon. The First New Hampebire heavy artillery arrived last even Fog, and remained at the Battery barracks during the might, r MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Advices from the repyblic of Hayti to the 27th ultimo Foprevent that the robeijion against the government of President Geffrard wos «till in progress. Successes on both videe are reported. The rebels had seized three ad- s@iiionsl towns, At the lowe of Plaisonee they were at- Ge wed, detonated aud co.ted, Gedrard bad \swuod — roo famations offering pardons to all except the leaders, and in consequence # number of soldiers who had engaged in the rebellion had returned to thetr allegiance. Martial law had been declared in the rebellious sections of the By a correspondent who telegraphs from a station on the Overland route one hundred miles west of Denver, Colorado Territory, we are informed that apprehensions are extensively entertained that the Indian treubles of Jast season on the Plains will soon be resumed. The Sioux and Cheyennes are gathering on the North Platte river, and are committing depredations. Several travellers have been killed. Attacks were made on some of the stations about the 1st of June, and considerable stock vwas driven off. ' Im the United States Circuit Court yesterday, before Judge Shipman, John Nolan pleaded guilty to passing counterfeit fifty dollar greenbacks in various parts of the city, and was sentenced to the State Prison for one year, Charles Cavendish, convicted of passing three counter- feit fifty dollar bogus greenbacks upon a housekeeper from whom he had rented a room, was sentenced to five years hard labor in the State Prison. Ellen Morton, con- victed of [passing counterfelt fifty cont currency notes, ‘was sent to the State Prison for three years. Albort Brun- dage pleaded guilty to alike offence, and was sentenced to two years imprisonment in the State Prison. In the case of Charles Walters, now under sentence of death for the murder of his mistress, an application was made before Judge Ingraham yesterday for a writ of error staying the execution until the next term of the Supreme Court general term. The counsel for the pri- soner claims that when Walter’s case was sent back by the Court of Appeals, he should have been resentenced by the Court of Oyer and Terminer, instead of the Court of General Sessions, The judge took the papers, and will probably render a decision to-morrow or next day. Walter's execution ts fixed for Friday next, Herman Ruzade received judgment in his favor for two hundred and fifty-five dollars yesterday in the Marine Court, before Judge McCarthy, ina suit against John Miller for alleged assault and robbery in the lager beer saloon of the latter about the middle of last month. A meeting of the committee of the Board of Aldermen appointed to consider the subject of erecting monuments to Robert Fulton, the first applier of steam to navigation, and Professor Morse, of telegraph celebrity, was to have been hold yesterday in tho City Hall; but for want of a quorum it was adjourned till Tuesday next, Yesterday was the anniversary of tho battle of Bunker Hill, It was celebrated with considerable spirit at differ- ent places in Massachusetts. In Boston the principal Dusiness houses were closed, and a number of associa- tions marched in procession through the streets. The members of Company H, of the Ninth regiment, New York State National Guard, celebrated the thirty. fourth anniversary of their organization last night by an elegant and bounteous supper ot 654 Broadway. Speeches and songs of course entered into the pro- ceedings. Daniel M. Porter, a lawyer of this city, whose office is at No. 4 Wall street, has recently been arraigned before one of our police magistrates and required to give twenty thousand dollars bail to answer a charge of having, by fale pretences, qbtained twenty thousand dollars from Mr. Henry D. Stover, of 164 Wost Twenty-second streot. During last summer Mr. Stover was confined in Fort Lafayette, and he alleges that Porter visited him there and ropresented that for the above sum his release could be obtained; that the moncy was advanced, and that soon after he was liberated, but that he subsequently Icarned that his liberation was at the instance of the ‘Navy Departmont, which had no knowledge of Porter's transactions, and that the twenty thousand dollars, or ‘any part of it, had had nothing to do in procuring the result. An examination of the case is sot down for the ‘26th inst, The following commitments for trial were made by the police magistrates yesterday:—Thomas Norton and ‘Thomas Harrington, hack drivers, on charge of having, ‘Beveral days ago, robbed a ono-legged soldier, named David Curtin, who had just arrived ty the city, of two hundred and fifty dollars, John P. Thompson, a Cana- dian, sharged with stealing one hundred and eighty dol- lara from James B, Glover, a soldier stopping at the Now England Rooms, Broadway. Hugh O’Brien and Peter McCannon, on charge of committing a brutal outrage on Elion Slattery, of No, 333 West Twenty-third street, on the 4th ult., while the three were out together in a small boat on the North river, and George Williamson and John Prickett, alloged hotel thteves, on charge of attempted robbery at the Putnam County Hotel, in Fourth avenue, A man named Patrick Cavanagh died yesterday from the effect of stabs alleged to have been inflicted on him on last Tuesday evening by John Drake, living at 206 Wost Twenty-eighth street, during a quarrel between the two at the residence of the letter. Drake is in custody. Policeman Gustavus Webber, who, on tho night of the 3d Inst., at his residence, 119 Columbia street, killed Albert Ainslee by shooting him, and subsequently shot himself, died yesterday at Bellevue Hospital ‘from the effects of his wound. ‘The two rear cars of the passenger train on the New York Central Raflroad which left Albany at seven o’clock yesterday morning became detached when near Oneida Station, and tumbled down an embankment, No person was killed; but a number were severely injured, though none of them, it is thought, fatally. The stock market was on the whole firm yesterday; but it closed heavy. Government securities were steady. Gold operfhd at 1453{, and closed on the street at half- past five P. M. at 145. At night it declined, and closed at 144%. ‘The advance in gold exerted no influence on the mer- chandise markets yesterday, which were dull, as usual on Saturdays, and but little business was transacted. Foreign goods wore particularly quict, and prices were nominally unchanged. Cotton and petroleum were steady. Grocenes were in moderate request, but firm. On 'Change flour and grain were dull and heavy. Pork was G0c. a 150. off, Whiskey was 1c, lower, and dull at that. ‘he Empire in Mezico—What Nextt The letter of our correspondent in the City of Mexico, printed elsewhere, gives us some of the important features of the present condition ofthe land of the Montezumas. It is the pic- ture of attempted imperialism. There is a splendid and extravagant gaiety; there are court balls, to which membors of distinguished families are invited, and where the Empress is seen, magnificent with lace and diamonds; there are great marriages, festivals and so on. There is every possible tendency towards the reproduction on this continent of the bewilder- ing brilliancy of European courts. There is, then, evidently a very tangible em- pire in Mexico, so far as the acts of the Emperor and the disposition of bis court can make one. It is, moreover, a French empire--French in origin, French in conduct, French instyle. It was founded in French manwuvre and chicanery, and, while it is sustained by French bayonets, pursues a plan to consolidate and perpetuate itself that is purely French in idea. There is nothing German in the empire, except that through the brilliant haze and gold-powdered sunshine of all this French imperial- ism we see bere and there a sadly bewildered German Duke, trying to find a safo course between the Pope on one hand and the people on the other, and stepping hesitatingly between the church hierarchy and the lower priesthood, with the indecisive step of a royal Ravel on a not very tight rope. The present situation of the empire that we thus see in Mexico is just this:—It was founded while the great republic of the United States was in trouble, with the perfect consciousness and understanding that it could not have been founded at ony other time ; and thus founded, it was expected that it would be able to make itself popular with the people and so be stoong in their support before the United States should get out of trouble and come to the rescue of the sister republic. It was felt that if it should gain the confidence of the Mexican people the United States could not touch it, even when it should have leisure. The only question was, was there time to gain the hearts of the Mexi- can people before our war was ever? The means employed, we see in the pictures of our correspondent—an appoal to the popular taste for splendor; the balls, the vals, the dazzling parapheroalia of cotrts, used so lavishly to seduce the Spanish-Indian fancy of the people away from that grand ideal of republican simplicity, that is eo cold and so severely simple. But this French idea of dancing and dazzling & people into the love of the empire is not yet entirely successful, and the allotted time is up. ‘The Mexican liberals are fighting yet, and our war is over. What, then, will be the next de- velopment of this Mexican muddlet The United States now comes on the scene as an actively interested participant in this great national drama, What will become of Maximilian and his French empire? That is yet to be seen. But while we await the result, there is a significant fact worthy to be kept in view. The other day the United States authorities in Texas received the surrender of the soldiers there of the late rebellion; but when they came to receive the men and the arms, to perfect the parole, there were several thousands of men and muskets missing. What became of them? It is whis- pered that.these missing rebels, disgusted alike with the late confederacy and the United States, have sought homes in a new country, and were seen crossing the Rio Grande. They took their knapsacks’as necessary parts of the trampers’ equipage, and their muskets to kill game; but, in case of emergency, they will be convenient for other uses. Alarming Increase Counterfeiting in this Country. . The increase in counterfeiting government treasury and bank bills in the United States within a few years, particularly since the re- bellion commenced, has been so great as to de- mand more than ordinary efforts to suppress it, and to discover and punish offenders, Each de} nomination of the first issue of the government fractional currency was counterfeited. The fifty, twenty-five and ten ‘cents of the first issue of postal currency was also counterfeited, as well as the more handsomaly executed fifty cents of the last issue. The five, twenty, fifty and one hun- dred dollar greenback notes have been so per- fectly counterfeited and so generally circulated as to almost defy detection, even among ex- perts. Bank officers have been known to re- ceive the counterfeited greenback as the genu- ine, and reject the genuine as the counterfeit note. A one hundred dollar legal tender coun- terfeit bill lately wont the rounds of several of the most learned of the Boston bank officers, each of whom pronounced it genuine after the most rigid scrutiny, and its counterfeit charac- ter was only detected at the United States As- sistant Treasurer’s office. A few days ago Mar- shal Murray seized in Brooklyn eighteen thou- sand dollars of counterfeit United States cur- tency, consisting of fifty, twenty-five and ten cent stamps, together with ‘a large number of die, plates, prosses, 4c. The United States Circuit Court for this circuit has been occupied for several days in the disposal of cases of coun- terfeiting or of those detected in circulating ‘counterfeit notes. In one casea stripling passed three counterfeit fifty dollar notes at different times upon the same person without detection. In short, instances showing the magnitude to which this nefarious business has grown might be multiplied almost indefinitely. The question now occurs, how is all this to be remedied? The work of disturbing the cur- rency of a country in this wholesale manner is @ subject that interests everybody, and every suggestion calculated to suppress the crime should be carefully considered. That all the United States currency notes are superb speci- mens of engraving is a fact. For that matter, the engraving may be pronounced superior, as a work of art, to that of the paper circulation of any other country. But, with all this advan- tage, these notes cannot defy imitation so long as the art of photography remains in existence and is used by unscrupulous persons to coun- terfeit the notes. Many expedients have been tried, by the aid of chemistry, to introduce colors in the notes that would fail completely to respond to the process of photographing; but as yet the effort has not been 80 successful as required. As yet we hear of very few counter- feita on the national banks, being, besides the excellence of their engraving, supplied with a private government mark, and are still further to be protected, in pursuance of an order from the Comptroller of Currency, requiring all the signatures of the bank officers upon them to be made in writing. But even these precautions will not overcome the faithful limning and nearly faultless transcript of the photograph. Henee some other means must be adopted to suppress counterfeiting in this country. One plan suggests itself above all others at this time. The Bank of England has a system of its own. The paper upon which the notes of that bank are printed is of inferior quality. The printing is coarse and will not at all compare, as a specimen of art, with that of the notes of the United States Treasury or national banks. But the Bank of England has its own paper mill and manufactures its own paper. This paper has its water marks, which accompany every note, and those water marks are planned and regulated by the officers of the bank alone. Furthermore, no Bank of England note ever leaves the bank a second time. When once received it is invariably destroyed. Hence, if any one would attempt to counterfeit a Bank of England note he must first become acquainted with the secret of the water mark, and, moreover, have a paper mill of his own in which to manufacture the paper. This would prove a rather expensive business, and of course could not be carried on without prompt detection. Therefore, if the United States government would secure its currency against dangerous counterfeiting, and protect the people from the effect of a want of confidence in its notes as a circulating medium, it should adopt the simple but unfailing method of the Bank of England without delay, Swinpiina Agents.—We have received & note from a gentleman who lives somewhere in the bullrushes out West, and who in- forms us that he paid a travelling agent two dollars os a subscription to the Wsea.y Hxratp, and complains that he has seen noth- ing of the agent or the paper since. The follow- ing is the receipt that was received from the agent:— $2. New Yor Crrv, Nov. 1 200 eis payment a a eaves of New ork WeeaLy Hunan, ir. Moses §, vO. i. DELHART. This entities bearer to the numbers specified This receipt is printed in blank, but the date and the namo of the paper are written in, #0 that it can be, and doubtless has been, used for other publications. We merely wish to once more warn persons against this swindle. We have announced a great many times that we now announce it agafo. But man will have their pockets picked white they are reading the card “Beware of pickpockets/’ and we suppose somebody will be wheedled out of iis money by a swindling agent in tes minutes after he has read this paragraph. The Hon. Bon Wood and His Twenty- five Thousand. That draft from Montreal upon the City Bank of this city, last August, for twenty- five thousand dollars, paid to the Hon. Ben Wood, has been ventilated in the court en- gaged in the trial of the assassination conspira- tors at Washington, and from the crushing evidence presented the fact is clearly estab- lished that : Birds of a feather Flook together, Our theory of August last concerning that mysterious twenty-five thousand is fully and completely confirmed in a court of justice. A manager of the Montreal Ontario Bank testifies that the money was Jake Thompson’s rebel money, drawn from the rebel treasury at Rich- mond, by way of Liverpool, and part of the fund so acquired and deposited by Thompeon in said Ontario Bank. Judge Russel and George Wilkes, of this city, identify Ben Wood’s endorsement en the back ofthe bill, and thus the fact is fixed that last August the Hon. Ben Wood, at that time a member of the United States Congress, and drawing his compensation as such from the United States Treasury, at the rate of three thousand a year, was financially mixed up with a Canadign band of rebel con- spirators of the blackest description, and giving “aid and comfort to the enemy” in e publication of a daily newspaper in city, in the service of Jeff. Davis and the rebellion. This, as a case of treason, is black enough, but, to make it still blacker, other contributions of money were furnished at the same time, and have ever since been and still continue to be furnished for the support of Ben. Wood's treasonable newspaper, from the treasury of New York city, and through some corrupt agreement between the Tammany, the Mogart and Gunther factions. It has not been, and perhaps cannot be, legally proved, unless through Jake Thompson as State’s evidence, that the Hon. Ben Wood was paid this sum of twenty-five thousand dol- lars from the rebel treasury in consideration of the services of his newspaper as @ laborer in the same vineyard with Thompson and his hired Canadian gang of rebel spies, pirates, highway- men, yellow fever distributors, incendiaries and assassins; but who can doubt that Ben Wood was in correspondence with these men? What 8 flood of light, too, these developments f the Jake Thompson rebel “ detached ser- vice” fand throws upon the “Sons of Liberty” and the “ Knights of the Golden Circle,” in the West, and the July riots of 1863 in New York; and upon the sickening orgies of the Chicago “Shent-perShent” Convention, and Vatlandig- ‘ham and Company and their peace-at-any-price Chicago platform. We*can now realize the hideous character of that nest of unclean birds in which General McClellan was sacrificed as a burnt offering to Jeff. Davis. We have had some curious disclosures from Richmond bearing upon all these matters. It is said that after the battle of Gettys- burg the rebel leaders, becoming desperate and utterly reckless, resolved upon the experiment of this “detached service” business on a grand scale; that, accordingly, in the secret sessions of their Congress appropriations for that “de- tached service” were made, amounting to five millions of dollars, and that the purposes to which this money was to be applied were indi- cated in the discussion of the appropriations as embracing the blowing up and burning of United States vessels-of-war, transports, maga- zines, arsenals, &c., in the loyal States; the burning of Northern cities, and the bribing of Northwestern Governors, Legislatures and poli- ticians, including the managers of the Chicago Convention, and the purchase of Northern newspapers. The evidence bearing upon that twenty-five thousand dollars Montreal draft of Ben Wood removes all donbt in regard to where that money came from. What the President intends to do with the Hon. Ben Wood we cannot say; but we can say, in the name of the loyal citizens of New York, that henceforward it will be an outrage upon them, by our city authori- ties, if they contribute any more money from the city treasury, in any shape or form, for the support of Ben Wood's Daily News. Manionnerrs Taratre.—The enterprise which will be inaugurated to-morrow (Monday) ovening at the Stuyve- sant Institute, under tho above title, is a branoh of the celebrated Paris establishment which, for half a contury, has boen so successfully carried on by the family of the inventor, M. Seraphin. Efforts have been made hore at various times to introduce imitations of ite performances, but they have all proved failures for the want of the knowledge and experience which had brought their pup- pet actors to mimic #0 successfully the representations of the regular stage. For the firet time, therefore, our public will to-morrow night have an opportunity of judging of the excellence of their automaton performan- ces, Opera, the regular drama, negro minstrelsy and the ballet are reproduced with am acouracy of effect truly surprising. It is as if we wore viewing the regular stage through an inverted opera glass, so natural and life-hke are the expression und geaticulations of theee miniature eMgies of humanity. For childron as well as grown poople wo know no greater treat. Tarmrrr Contnce.—The inauguration of Rev. Dr, Ker- foot to the Presidency of Trinity College, Hartford, will take place on Wednesday of commencement week, June 28, at Christ church, at half-past three P.M. The an- nual commencement exercises will occur on Thursday, June 29. The annual meeting of the alumni will be held Wednesday, Jue 28, at ten o'clock. Court of Appeals. THE TAX COMMISSIONERS’ CAGE. Atnant, June 17, 1865. ‘Tho People ox el Brown and Williamson against Wood- ruff and Purser, Tax Commissionors’ case, an order to show cause why @ re-argument should not be ordered, provided notice of motion be given on the 17th inst, for Tuosday next, and the remittiturs stayed until the deci. sion of the motion. Day calendar for Monday, June 19:—Nos. 30, 116, 116, 126, 190, 181, 138, 134, 135, 138 and 130. Adjourned to mand noxt, at one o'clock. Auniversary of the Battle of Bunker min. Bostox, June 17, 1865. The banks, insurance offices and many businoss houses ars closed to-day tn commemoration of the battle of Bun- kor Hill. Numerous temperance societies and Sunday schoot children are having a merry jubilee on the Com. mon, in observance of the day. At a mooting of the Bunker Hill Momument Association hold here to-day an appropriate notree was taken of the death of President Lincoln, Edward Everett and James K. Frothingham, a member of the association. Tho old Board of OMcers wore re-clected. At Lowell the monument to the memory of Ladd and Whitney, who foll in Baltimore in the attack on the Bixth regimont, is boing dedicated to-day with imposing Coremonies, Governor Andrew delivers the oration, WASHING TON. The French Government Withdraw Zel- ligerent Rights from the Rebels, °s Restrictions Removed from Our Naval Intercourse with France. Preparations for a Grand Celebration of the Fourth of July at Gettysburg, hk, Wasmmeron, June 17, 1866. ALL RESTRICTIONS KEMOVED FROM OUR NAVAL IN- TERCOURSE WITH FRANOE—BELLIGERENT RIGHTS WITHDRAWN FROM THE REBELS BY THE IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT. The Secretary of State to-day addressed the following letter to the Secrotary of the Navy:— Dsrapmrent oF me} Wasumaton, June 17, 1866. Hon. Gipnon Weiss, Secretary of the Navy :— Sim—I havo the honor to inform you that it has been made known to this Department by the Minister of the United States residing in France that the imperial gov- ernment of that country has removed all restrictions heretofore imposed by it upon the naval intercourse with the United States. T have also the pleasure to inform you that I have learned in the same authentic manner that the imperial government of France has with- drawn from the insurgents of the United States the character of belligerents, which heretofore that govern- ment had conceded to them, and these proceedings by the government of France have been prompted by the express desire of reviving the old sympathies between the two nations whose interests and traditions constantly invite them to cultivate the most cordial relations. T beg leave to suggest the importance of communicat- ing these facts to the proper officers of the navy. T have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant, ‘WM. H. SEWARD. THE GEORGIA DELEGATION. ‘The Georgia delegation, headed by Judge Lochrane, hada final interview with President Johnson to-day, and obtained the appointment of Hon. James Johnson, of Columbus, Georgia, as the Provisional Governor of the State. Mr. Johnson was born in North Carolina, bat was raised in Georgia from boyhood; was a member of Con- gress in 1851-2, has occupied a prominent position at tho bar of the State ever since, and has been noted for persistent, though quiet, opposition to the Jeff. Davis government from its inception. During the war ho re- fused all fees and retainers from the rebel government and prominent rebel citizens, and in every way used his personal influence to discountenance and thwart the schemes of rebel leaders, His selection for this impor- tant position will, it is bolieved, be unanimously ap- proved by all loyal Georgians. It is generally understood that Hon. John Erskine, of Atlanta, who abandoned the confederacy and came North on Sherman's occupation of that place, and has since resided in Now York city, will be appointed Judge of the United States District Court for the State of Georgia. ? * Judge Loohvane will’ probably be elevated to the Dench of the State Supreme Court. His voluminous decisions against the' odious conscription and other with the straightforward manner in which their in- terests wero considored by tho President, and declare tho people of their State not only willing, but eager, to return to tholr allegiance in good faith, and do all In their power to maintain and establish federal law in Georgia, including the abolition of slavery. ‘The Savannah delegation wish it stated that they have been misrepresented by Washington correspondents. ‘They say that they have no desire to prolong the exist- ence of slavery in any portion of the Union for a day. They rccognise and rejoice at the fact that the war has finally ended that institution, and they are anxious that the States lately im robellion shall be reconstructed at as carly a day as poasible without it, Some of them express themselves as favorable to the extension of the elective franchise to the negroes as soon as they are sufficiently educated to exercise it understandingly, and believe that the Union men South will be compelled eventually to go for it as @ necessity. IRF. DAVIS’ COUNSEL. The government, in reply toa gentioman connected with the defence of Jeff. Davis, stated that no dotermina- tion had been reached:in regard to the trial; but that due notice should be given and all proper facilities afforded to his counsel. It is understood that the defence will be conducted by Charles O'Conor, of New York. Messrs. Jerome Busk and Sterne Chittenden, of New York, have been retained to assist Charles O’Conor in the defence of Jefferson Davis. THE FOURTH OF JULY AT GETTYSDURG. Preparations for celobrating the Fourth of July at Gettysburg are progressing rapidly. General Hancock has been ordered to furnish a regiment of infantry, a battery and battalion of cavalry, and a number of horses for the use of the marshals and invited guests. Generals Meade, Haneock, Howard, Wilcox, and other distin- guished officers, will be present, The President and part of his Cabinet are expected to attend. General Howard is to be the orator of the day, General Geary Grand Mar- shal, Rev. Dr. Tyng, Chaplain, and Miles O'Roiliygthe poet. COMMISSION FOR THE REVISION OF THE [INTERNAL REVENUE SYSTEM. Snowden 8, Hayes, a prominent democratic politician of Chicago, formerly Comptroller of that city, has been appointed by the President the third member of the oom- mission to revise the internal revenue system. This com- pletes the commission, and they will proceed at once 1 organize and enter upon their investigations, RELBASKD FROM THE OLD CAPITOL PRISON. In accordance with instructions from the Seoretary of War, Archibald McFarland, George McFarland, Alexan- der McFarland, Thomas Cook, R. Archibald and Robert Prindle were released from the Old Capitol Prison this morning upon their parole to leave the United States. These mon, who are aliens, it will be remembered, were arrested here some time ago and tried by a military commission for engraving the rebel Treasury note plates. Christopher V. Hogan, who was arrested some months since on the charge of being concerned in the robbery of Major Malone, paymaster, of about $70,000, has been re. leased from the Old Capitol to be turned over to the civil authorities. Hogan, about the time of the robbery, was one of the Metropolitan detectives, and some montha after the robbery wes arrested by some of the officers of the Old Capitol in Philadelphia, THES PRESIDENT SERENADED BY RETURNING VETR- BANS. The Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth companies of unat- tached Massachusetts heavy artilery, who were mustered out yestorday and loft for their homes to-day, visited the Executive mansion this morning, headed by a band of music, and tendered President Johnson a serenade. The President appeared upon the front portico of the man- sion and, in a few romarks, acknowledged the compli- ment, thanking the troops in the name of the United States for the faithful services they had rendered, and congratulating them upon the favorable termination of the rebellion. CONSOLIDATION OF THE NORTH AND SOUTH ATLAN- ‘TIC SQUADRONS. The North and South Atlantic squadrons are to be con- solidated, and will hereafter be called the Atlantic squad- ron, and will be commanded by Acting Rear Admiral Radford. OFFICERS OF GENERAL POPR'S MILITARY DIVISION RELIEVED. Under the War Department's general order No, 106 the following general and staff oMeors tm General Pope's military division have beon relieved from duty, ordered to their reapective places af residence, and are expected to be immediately mustered out of service :—Major Gene- rals J. G. Hunt and George Sykes, United States Volun- teors; Brigadier Generals J. D. Wagner, J. M. Thayer, A. N. Duffie, ©, J. Campbell, J. Edwards and Thomas A. Davies, United States Volunteers; Major J. H. Hammond, Assistant Adjutant General; Brevet Brigadier Gene- ral Major V. Vam Antworp, Addititional Aid-de-camp; Brovet Brigadier General Major Champion Vaughan, Ad- ditional Aid-de-camp, United States Army; Captains 0. H. Garbo, Amistant Quartermaster; Robert Graham, Commissary of Subsistence, and James Stone, Commis wary of Subsistence, The work thus commenced by &., da. toga sire General Pope will doubtless be prosecuted every whorky until the minioum oumber demanded by the servic > reached. : UNITED OTATES MARSHAL OF THE DISrRICT. ‘The agnouncement e few days since that Mr Goodloe had been sppointed United States Marshal for the Dis- trict of Columbia, proves to have been premature. At- torney General Speed's obligation te recommend him ‘ras thought sufficient to secure the place; bat the claims of Mr, Webster, friend of Mr. Seward, wore also pressed. ‘Un the meantime the President exercised © wise discre- 4.3 and conferred the office, unsolicited, on Hon. David & @oeding, of Indiana, whose political views and .senti- ments ae understood to be in consonance with his ows, Judge Goo. 80g brings to the position acknowledged ability @nap raorny XO ORLESRATE THE FOURTH OF JULY IN THE GRO.wNDS OF THE WHITE HOUSE. # deputation from "be colored people of this city ‘waited upon the President ‘0-day and requested permis sion to bold a celebration of ‘the Fourth of July in the grounds attached to the Exeou tive mansion. ‘The Preat- dent stated to them that as thea® grounds were pubild Property, of which he was merely ‘he custodian, he felt that it would mot be proper to grant , Sclusive privileged in them to any class of citizens, and ,'ve therefore de- clined to grant the request, \ TOROHLIGHT PARADE pot anand THs NINTH 00) le A Drilliant affair came off last evening in th. ¥ shape of @ torchlight parade of General N. B. Laughlin’, \ division of the Ninth army corps, on the Tennallytown nr. #4, fou lowed by an elegant collation, music and dancing, : eored of general and staff officers were present, and about 4"¢ | hundred ladies graced the occasion im General Eaughiin ©8 honor. SURVEY OF NEW MEXICO AND ARIZONA, ‘The Surveyor General of New Mexico and Arizona hag been engaged in making @ reconnoissance from Tubaq, via the Pima villages Wichenburg and Prescott, the capi tal of Arizona, to the Rio Grande, The expedition hal just terminated, the Surveyor having, on May 19, re turned to Santa Fe, from whence an early report is ex: pected at the General Land Office of interesting details tq regard to the mining region and other matters of interes! to the country. City Intelligence. AN Accrpart rnom Acips occurred in Walker atrect the other day. A small boy had been sont to a drug store fot a mixture of sulphuric and other acids, and while upom his way back to his employers, the bottle exploded, of {te contents in some other manner became free, his cloth: tng was saturated and consumed, and one foot was badly injured. Besides this, two gontlemon, Mossrs. Wala and Fogerty, who went to the lad’s assistance, had thei hands severely excoriated, and their clothing burned, ‘They succeeded, however, in stripping off the vioum'd garments, thus saving him from deeper wounds, and hé ‘was conveyed to the hospital, A benevolent gentlomag of tho vicinity presented him with a pair of pantaloons It is not known whether he has yet recovered. It peonionentte aces cus oe are Soe sold or delit virulent character, should make Present. Had the accident’ occurred upon Broadway, among {td Prmemrryy meer | Sees a a saan amount of damage that might have been done sons and dresses. In view of this fect it would be woll for druggists to exercise considerable care in these oppor oh Krein wee that they are securely confined, one transporting them are Instructed how to handle them. Tos Sraast Cieamino Comrracr.—All parties to the contract having signed It, it was yesterday sealed, and the contractors, Messrs. Brown, De Vera Knapp, ented on their duties on the 1st proximo. = Exp ov tax Drayr—Sais or Furwrrvna—Om Monday next the furniture remaining in the hands of the Provost Marshal of the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth districts, Captate tH ‘strect; and not at Burton’s old Chambers street, soported, The sale Lesage Coe Biri fe nel outros Urata tha last lion of tae reign we yng system and the attendence will um tional Guard, orolook, at the Washington Parade Groun: ‘Tox Versnans ov 1812 will assemble on the morning of Monday, the 19th of Jane, at the foot of Canal street, ‘at half-past eight o'clock, to join the first com- pany of Washington Continental Guards, Captais will occur to-morrow eh igpacdee four of the bate ‘Titus, in the celebration of the anniv: 7 follow. The of Bunker Hill A picnic excursion veterans will appear in ui Rexovat. ov 4 Station Houra—The station house of the First procinct, Captain Warlow, has been removed from 29 Broad street to 52 and 64 New street. The new teaily and convenlontiy Attod” up for Cocupancy.” Tt really a very fine station house, Tam Lapine’ Fam at Tvoxanos.—This fair will be opened on Tuesday next at Tuckahoe, four miles New Rochelle. The proceeds are to be devoted the parish, have interested themselves in the undertak. ing, 80 that it promises to be a great success. Tuckahoe ple'wil have the double adva ings of ewoying delight le ve jo advant enjoying 'ul country air and patronizing a table object. “Ratuar Warm” was the state of the atmosphere yes genorally take place in the Whit Monday, were for the most later period, im consequence of the inclement season, Consequently the various German societies are making their preparations for picaics, excursions, fae ties will participate in Aiisinaniy ace of Bloomingdale; Eu ia, Harmo- nia, of Hoboken; Hudson Maennerchor, New York tett club, Olympia, Schillerbund, sing Academie, Ub- land Bund, idungs, Verein; and a company of sbarpshooters and several militia com] The Arminia—a musical society—has its headquarters somewhere in the Ninth ward, where a wilt be formed by these organizations. ‘The Schwaebiache ae so with the assistance of other friendly societi o Colonia, New York Quartets Club and U Bund will bold a festival at the Bellevee Garden to-day. The veterans of the Eighth. ee ‘Twentieth (Tur- ner), and LA -ninth an arrangemont for a it at the Hamilton Park on , whon man societies, the Turner Bohemian benevolent society will ipate in the festivities, and an oration be delivered by Dr. Forsch od arene Freviews to ryt had festival grou ‘& procession street, and on the festival grounds several scenes od senting camp life are to be enacted. Several other: of this kind on @ smaller scale bave beon arranged, te come off in the course of the present or next weok. ‘Tun Taitons,—The German tailors, who are represented by an aasociation—the Allgemeine Schneidor Assosia- tion—held a mecting last night at their headquarters af No, 42 avenue A, to dispose of some regular business, and to discuss the wages question. The association Is com posed of about a thousand members, and the q which at present agitates this fraternity most ip tempted reduction of wages, Vor the purpose of mi } i H itu: Hil iat bill was run over bya dirt cart corner of matt pe instan! ted. and Bleventh avenue, ioe — iy ot hie ‘An inqtiest will be held ow the body to-day by