The New York Herald Newspaper, June 20, 1865, Page 4

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The writteu arguments of the counsel for four of the Persons charged with implication in the assassination of President Lincoln were read before the Washington court | martial yesterday. ‘The argument of Hon. Reverdy Johnson, connsel for Mrs. Surratt, was confined almost exclusively to an effort to show that a military court could ave no jurisdiction in such cases, but that the ac- evsed could only be legitimately tried in the civil courts. He announced that it was not his purpose to make any review of the evidence, but stated that it was unrvasonable to suppose that a woman of Mrs. Surratt’s | charactor could have been engaged in so wicked a plot, and intimated that the testimony of the principal wit- nesses acatnst her ind:cated thut they were much more likely to have beon cognizant of the conspiracy than | she was, Mr. Stone, the counsel for Harold, while admitting that his client had aided in the ekcape of Booth, con- tended that there was nothing in the evidence to show that he was in any way engaged in the assassination. For the prisoners Arnold and O'Loughlin, Mr. Cox, their counsel, maintained that they were not in any way engaged in the conspiracy, and demanded their ac- quittal. THE SITUATION. Tho withdrawal of belligerent rights from the rebels by the British government, of which the réaders of the Heraiv were informed yest*rday morning, has been officially announced to our government, In reporting { hho fact to tho Secretary of the Navy, Secretary Seward mforms him that, as the twenty-four hour rulo has not Jocn rescinded by England, the customary courtesies are hot to ve paid by our vessels to those of the British havy. ° Governor Holden has issued his first proclamation to the people of North Carolina, He informs them that convention to alter or amend tha Siate constitution, to provide for the election of a Governor and a Legistature, and to put the clvi! machinery in full operation, will be hold at as early a period a2 practicable, Undoubted loy- alty to the national government will be required of all | delegates: in this convention, and of all persons who vote for them. Those desiring to vote will be required to take the vath of allegiance, and to prove their guod will Ww the national government. Magis'rates, whose duty, ‘among other things, it shall be to administer the onth of Qliegianoe, und other civil officers, to act temporarily, will shortly be appointed by him for the various districts throughout the State. The Governor appeals to the people to renew with cheerfulness their usual pursuits aod their interest in the prosperity of the State gad nation, reminding them that all of welfare and hap- piness that they have or that they can hope for, for thomasolvos or their children, is indiwoiubly bound up NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1865. which Paraguay and Uruguay were ailied against Bras. | Our Position urope=The Unwilling Witnesses to Our Success. the latter named contest the Argentine govern- paseo privileges to the ‘Sonaiten fleet in the The United States has forced from her only Parana river, but refused to allow the Paraguayan troops | enon, tes in Europe the final recognition of her to cross ih yrs for tho asd irs lending greatnen, 4nd power, and has compelled those ‘ close of that struggle, by way retaliation, a Paraguayan fleet, without a declaration of enemies td pat the biting Sia, they pene war having been made, attacked and captured two | with such eageF And malignant haste. Argentine vessels, Immodiately preparations for war on | the significance of the withdrawal by England both sides commonced, Braail and Uruguay taking part | ang France of those privileges that in a spirit with the Argentine Confederation. At the date of latest they extended to rebel accounts hostilities wer? still progressing, Paraguay hav- pa penititig, 49. ing #o far achieved considerable success. ‘Notwithstanding previous reports to the contrary, it} The three West*r? Powers had great stakes appears, from the intelligence brought by the steamship } gt issue in the lm‘e war, and great games to James Adger, which arrived hore yesterday from Cape | make by the destr wetion of this republic. Haytien, that the rebellion in the republic of Haytt France wanted to buila UP & supplemental em- Against the government of President Geffrard still con- faced on the 1th iust, The government forces had tho | Pire in Mexico; Englam' wanted to open, rebels closely besieged in the town of Cape Haytion, and | the Southern States a ride market for her it was thought that the latter must soon succumb. It | manufactures, and Spain, who,°¢ Minister impu- was reported that the rebel leader threatened to burn the dently declared our war to be In? opportunity, town if compelled to abandon it! “a that had Toe Aldermen were in session yesterday afteracon: a | Wanted to revive that colonial rea | | resolution was adopted instructing the committee having | Once been to her the source of such .'™ tea charge of the Fourth of July celebration to confer with | wealth. Every one had a direct, immedi ® Governor Fenton and request him, by proclamation, to | centive, and all had general stimulus in the make the 8d of July also a legal holiday, 6 that op- savtastint eikisas aiaee Niescstea eantaner seateeniios dread with which a monarchical government of tho national anniversary. A resolution appropriat- | Bust always look upon the success of a govern- ing ten thousand dollars for the celebration was | ment constituted as ours is, on principles which presented and laid over. A communication being | assume that the people are the real sovereign feowryou rruia tire coy troller culling attention to the | power of every State. It was therefore only fact that the advertising expenses Bremu;. <xceeded ra according to their nature to hurry to the assist- appropriation therefor, and suggesting that no fuith@r yy, a abilities for this purpose ‘be incurted until proper pro- | HB 'orw=stever should promise our overthrow. vision shall have beon made, a resolution was adopted | Hence all hasfened to recognize the bellige- inquiring of hjm if this exhaustion of the advertising | rent character of the insurrection, and England fund would prevent the proceedings of the Board being | gaye it the comfort of that immense system of printed in the designated newspapers, A resolution was “ also adopted permitting the City Gas Company to lay ita | Plorkade running that enabled. it to keep si mains for fifty years from the date of its organization. | ®Fmies on foot, France gave it less material The Board of Councilmen met yesterday and trans- | and immediate assistance, Spain none at all; SP acted a large amount of routine business A resolution | but the selfish and malignant purpose of every to procure a stand of colors for the Eleventh regiment | one.in the recopniti te was referred to an appropriate committee, ‘The Board e aa t - a anally, be hea concurred with the Aldermen in requesting Governor Ae Oe ee eee eee on Fonton to make Monday, the 8d of July, a legal holiday, | that recognized the rebels as belligerents? and also in tne adoption of a resolution granting permis- | They were the flourish of the ags’ heels ir the sion to the Cicy Gas Company to lay mains for fifty years | face of the sick lion. Giving some little without any restriction as to the price of gas. Acom- munication from Comptroller Brennan reported that the strength to the South, they were much more | batance in the treasury up to the 17th instant was significant as announcements to Europe, on tlie $1,279,645 85, The Comptroller's report regarding the | authority of those governments, that the repub- excess of advertising expenses over the appropriation | lic of the United States was no longer the great Power whose wishes it was necessary to respect. The indecent haste with which France rushed to Mexico, and with which impotent therefor was also received. The case of Theodore Seydel, charged with forgery in Spain seized her “opportunity” in St. Domingo and Peru, as wellas the daily homilies over | street. Chemnitz, Saxony, und:r investigation before United States Commissioner Newton, was cuneluded yesterday. The Commissioner, after hearing extended arguments of counsel on both sides, decided to grantthe claim of the Saxon Consul General and grant his certiticate for the ex- | yg in the London papers, showed it to be a tradition of Seydel ion ii Ths aed aha’ SF sAas TalgrAGKt ts Beal onts tholar foregone conclusion in Europe that our doom plication of the counsel of the murderer Walters was d- | Wa8 sealed. The very recognitions of bellige- livered yesterday. ‘The decision is adverse to the appti- | rent rights were based on the assumption that cation, and tue prisoner will therefore bo executed on | the rebellion was of such a character that to put Friday next. The principal point advanced by the coun- | j¢ down was simply impossible. France, by the sol for the accused in asking for a writ of orror was that | rq edition, showed the ex: fn fh the Court of General Seasfons had no jurisdiction in re. | “extean expedition, showed the extent of her sentencing of the accused after the case had been arguea | fith im the belief that we could not atthe general term. The Judge, in rendering hisde- | put down the rebellion, and Spain cision, said that the alleged error panes in the direction | showed her faith in the same belief i the Court of Appeals, followed by the Supreme Cot * in ordering the Sessions to sentence the prisoners ae by her conduct in Peru and'St. Domingo. All and in the General Sessions so sentencing the prisoner todea:h. In conclusion he said:—‘My opinton 1s that there is no error in the proceeding and that the applica- tion should be denied. ”” The Strong divorce case was again up yesterday in the Superior Court, before Judge Robertson. A doctor's ceriideate was putin setting forth the continued illness of one of the counsel for the defendant, Pluintiff’s counsel, under the circumstances, moved for an adjourn- ment till the November term, which was granted. Ther: was a large culeidar of prisoners disposed of yesterday in the Court of General Sessions. John A. Canter, a noted forger, who has spent seventeen years in the State Prison, was convicted of forgery in the second degree, Counterfeit bills and postal currency, repre- senting several thousand dollara, were found in his pos- session, and on searching his house in Fifty-fourth street presses and all the matorials for counterfeiting were discovered, Recorder Hoffman sentenced him to the State Prison for ten years. George Morton was con- victed of grand larceny in stealing jewelry and clothing from Mr. James McDermott, at a Chatham street hotel, under somewhat poculiar circumstauces, He was sent to the State Prison for five years. The case of the alleged will of the late Moses W. 8. Jackson was on trial in the Surrogate’s Court yesterday. Testimony was heard, and the Surrogate reserved his de- cision, The old draft machinery and funiture of the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Congressional distrieta, in this city, were sold at public auction yesterday forenoon, at 174 Hudson The attendance was large and the bidding quite brisk. Two dratt wheels were sold, and brought nine dollars and nine dollaps and # half respectively. The distinguished Mexican general and statesman, Manuel Doblado, died yesterday at his resideneo in this city, aged about fifty-three years, The thirty mile ocean race from Sandy Hook, fora stake of ono thousand dollars, betweon the yachts Josephine and Magic, of the New York Yacht Club, came off yesterday, and resulted in the latter being declared the winner. The annual regatta of the Hoboken Yacht Club took place yesterday. The yachts started from the anchorage off the Flysian Fields, Only six were entered for the race, and the Corneha and Carrie were the victors. The peculiar colleginte coremonial known as the “Burial of the Ancient” was performed by the studentg of Columbia College last night in an appropriate serio- comic manner. ‘The annual exhibition of the Romah Catholic Orphan this showed how very sick they thought we were. England also indicated her faith by those millions that the British government en- couraged its subjects to lend, and by the millions lost in the blockade business. Taking their own capacity to put, down rebel- lion a8 a proper measure, they belicved it absurd to suppose that we could put down ours. And now these governments are, by inevi- table facts, compelled to announce to their people that we have done what they declared was impossible. They are compelled to re- cognize and to say that what they could not have hoped to do has been actually done by @ government based on popular rights. They are in substance thus convicted out of their own mouths of the admission that we are stronger than they are, as well as that popular government is the strongest, tho most vital, the most able to resist inter- nal convulsion and to carry on war; consequently, that it is the best form of government on the earth. Will this an- nouncement be without its effect on the mind ef the European people, already fermenting on these great points? The withdrawal of their declarations by France and England—the swallowing their words—and the hasty retirement of Spain from her attempts om this continent, are the recogni- tions of the immense power that we have shown in this war. They are extorted by those exhi- bitions of our power, and by nothing else. England’s recognition is even extorted against & great preasure from the tory party—desirous te keep that recognition back for fear of its effect on the people. Let us not deceive our- selves with the nonsensical delusion that these recognitions come from any friendly spirit towards us. No; they are a necessary part of the reconstruction that has been forced by the power of our arms, We forced the reconstruc- Asylum for Boys took place yesterday afternoon at the asylum, in Fifth avenue. Archbishop McClosky pre- with the Union. , in announcing to them that they are now free, he informs that it rests with thomselyes to prove whether this freedom is a blessing of an injury, and counsels them to cultivate habits of order and industry. The Legislature of Virginia, in accordance with tho proclamation of Governor Pierpoiut, assembled in extra session in Richmond yesterday. A Cairo despatch announces that over seven thou- fand four hundred surrendered rebels of Jeff. Thompson's army have arrived at that place from down the Mississippi river. extraordinary change from the usual experience with surrendered rebel armics. After the capitulation of Lee, Johnston and other rebel generals, when the time for paroling their troops arrived it was found that their num- Ders had greatly decreased. But a short time ago, when Jeff. made his surrender to a national officer, his force consisted of barely @ corporai’s guard, and now suddenly Appear over seven thousand of his men awaiting parole. The colored peopl’ This statement indicates an sided, and other distinguished clergymen were present. The attendance was large, and the exercises throughout were of a very interesting character. tion of the Union, and wo just as distinctly forced this reeognition of our power abroad, that now reconstructs the family of nations with the United States at the head, acknow- A nimber of German singing societies yesterday marched in proceasion to Jones’ Woods, where a muscal festival was held, continuing throughout the day. ‘The German veterans of the Eighth, Twentieth and Twenty-ninth regiments of New York volunterrs had a a procession and a festival at Hamilton Park yesterday, | tion from the Provisional Governor of North Soveral thousand persons participated in the festivities, | Carolina, eutting out the necessary work for A coroner's inquest was held yesterday in the case of | the reorganization of the State as a loyal Patrick Cavanagh, who, as alleged, died from the effet | member of the Union. He announces that as of stabs inflicted on him, on the night of the 13th Inst., by John Drake, at the latter's residence, 206 West Twen. | 8000 98 practicable there will be a day ap- ty-cighth strect. On the conclusion of the inquest Drake | Pointed for the election of a State convention, ‘was committed to await the action of the Grand Jury. the duties of which convention, when assem- At the meeting of the Brooklyn Common Council last | bled, shall be to frame a new State constitu- evening a communication was received from the Mayor tion, to be ratified by the popular vote, and vetoing the ordinance providing for the renaming and renumbering of the streets of that city. to provide for an election by the people of ‘The dead bodies of @ girl aged fourteen, named Isa- | ® Governor, State officers and Legislature un- bella Joyce, and her brother Joln, aged twelve, who had | der this new constitution. In the next place been missing from ther home in Boston since the 12th | the Legislature, elected as thus provided, shall Inst., wore found ina wood in the suburbs of Roxbury, | ohoose two United States Senators,.and then ledged as the first of military and naval Powers. Norra Caronrna—Goverxor Horpen’s Proo- LaMatTion.—We publish to-day a proclama- Tho initiatory steps have been taken for the establish- mont of civil courts throughout Northern Arkansas, aud tt in ould that the people of the State are rapidly becom- Ang orderly and peaceable. John Mitche', formerly one of the editors of the Mass., on Sunday last, Numerous stabs were found on the bodies of both, sind before her murder the girthad | there shall be an election by the people of been brutally outraged. ‘The perpetrator or perpetrators the members of the federal House: of Repre- of the fiendish crime have not yet been arrested. sentatives, under such arrangements of districts A planing mill, together with a large amount of lum- | ag the Legislature may have provided. In the ber, was burned at Chicago on the morning of the 16th meantime the Governor will appoint justices of no insurance. According to the City Inspector's report there were Richmond Enquirer, and lately of the New York Datly News, who was recontly taken into custody in this city ‘by government officers, arrived in Hampton Roads, 00 | | 1 ronge of $4 as compared with the mortality of the board the steamer Henry Burden, on Saturday last, and | week previous, and 60 less than occurred during the ‘was soon after committed to one of the casemates in | corresponding week last year. Of the deaths which oo- Fortress Monroe. curred during the past week, 202 resulted from acute bol Goneral * diseases, 147 from chronic diseases, and 27 from external Means eg ee ee causes, &e, There wero 282 nativos of the United States, 876 doaths in the city during the week ending June 19— | loyalty, inst. Loss twenty thousand dollars, on which there was the peace, to administer not only justice in the several counties, but the oath of which every white citizen en titled to vote is required to take in ad- vance; and no person who is not known to be well affected towards the government shall be permitted to take the oath, or participate in any way in this work ¢f reorganization. The Moore, of Alabama, and man named Gayley, charged | 64 of Ireland, 8 of England, 18 of Germany, 6 of Scot-\| Governor puts in an earnest call upon the with baving offered reward of one million dollars for the murder of President Lincoln, arrived at Fortress Jand, and the balance of various foreign countries. The stock market was heavy yesterday. Government securities were firmer, The gold market was somewhat white population of the State to recognize with cheerfulness their restoration to the blessings ‘Monroe from New Orleans on Sunday last, under guard, panicky, and, after opening at 142%, closed on the street of the Union, and their release from the most About one hundred and sixty thousand troops have foft Washington and vicinity within the last eighteon Gays. There romain about thirty thousand yet to leave, MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Avery interesting and satisfactory account of the at 140%. Tho night closing quotation was 140, oppressive Gespotism which the world has ever ‘There was a heavier feeling in commercial places yes- witnessed, and he closes with a touching appeal terday, and prices, as general thing, favored the pur | +> the egnancipated blacks to go to work like chasers, This was especially the case with domestic h produce, Cotton was heavy and rather lower, Petro. | Honest, industrious men, and show that they leum was firmer, Groceries wore steady. On ’Change | truly appreciate the blessings of freedom which origin and progress of the war at prevent being waged by | four was dull, having fallen 100, @ 200. Wheat was | they ‘have acquired, and not to be impatient in the republic of Paraguay on the one side and the empire | quill, boavy, and 1c. a 20. lower, Corn was 86.0 40, of t tray.| oud the Argentine and Uruguayan republics om 2 ot given by one of the Hamat correspondents rus) Aves, Tt ia a result of the recent war ia regard to political privileges for which they are Flower. Oats sold 2c. lower, Pork opened firm at $24, aot yot prepared. but went down to $27 623, Lard waa about Ko, lower. ay way ata 4 \ Such are the gubstantive features of Mr. Bol, den’s initial proclamation in the task of the reorganization of North Carolina ander the new order of things. He begins bis work like a man of business, and from his intimate and thorough acquaintance with the people of the State we bave no doubt he will secure thorongbly loyal men to aid bim, and that North Carolina will be quietly and neatly reinstated in her proper place ag » faithful and devoted member of the Union. The Argument of Senator Reverdy John- son Against the Constitutionality of the Assa: ation Conspiracy Trial. We have received a full report of the argu- ment of Senator Reverdy Jobnson, of Mary- land, one of the counsel for Mrs. Surratt, against the constiiutionality of the military commission assembled to try the assassination conspirators, The report would fill a page of the Hyrawp. We do not consider it sufficiently interesting to publish in full at this time. Of the evidence against Mrs. Surratt Mr. Johnson has very little to say, contenting himself with the remark, to which all well informed wit- ny 88¢8 are liable, that they seem to know more abon.,* the conspiracy than Mrs. Surratt herself. Of this \.”0™#n Mr. Johnson speaks in the bigh- est terms, being her counsel, and is warm in bis pratae* of her pure, Christian cha- acter. weet no. effort, Rowever, to reconcile shis chantoter with the evidence against hot; but be asks vhe Coutl to diskclieve the government witnesses b8sause Mra, Surratt is such a good woman. We hardly think that such a plea will suffice to secure her acquittal. Mr. Johnson’s argument against the constitu- tionality of the commission appears to us to be presented at the wrong tims. Ifhe proposed to deny the jurisdiction of the court over such offences and such offenders he should have pie- sented his argument before the trial began, or, at the latest, before any witnesses were cxam- ined for the defence. To ® common sense mind Mr. Joiinson seems to have admitted’ the con- stitutionality of the court by appearing in it during the trial, cross-examining the gevern- ment witnesses and producing testimony in favor of his client. It will be remembered that when one of the commission objected to his presence in court Mr. Johnson insisted upon j. being heard as counsel. If the court had no jurisdiction he might then have retorted that he hed as much right to be there as the com- missioners, thus raising the point of uncon- stitutionality and seizing an opportunity to press his argument with greater force then it ean possibly have at present, when the evi- donce is all in and the prisoners, with one or two exceptions, are already practically con yicted. By his delay Mr. Johnson has given his argument the appearance of a lame effort to rescue his client from what he knows to be. a certain verdict of guilty, Divested of all verbiage and of the count- Tess authorities and illustrations by which it is supported, Mr. Johnson’s argument is sim- ply this: that the present military commission is- unconstitutional because: it eenflicts with the fifth amendment of the constiiution, which provides that “no person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except tm cases aris- ing in the land or naval forces, or in the militia when in active service, in time of war or public danger.” Senator Johnson argued precisely this same point against military tribunals before the Senate, during a debate upon the night of 34 of March last, a: fewhours before Mr. Lincoln’s reinangu- ration: Several of the radical Senators then sup- ported himg but the majority were-agwinst him. If, then, the military commission: shell decide tbat it is ¢onstitutionally convened and has jurisdiction over the prisoners at the bar, it will be sustained by no less a body than the Senate of the United States. The President of course sustains it, since it waa assembled by: his order. When we consider that the victim of the assas- sination was. the Commander-in-Chief of our army and navy; that the a&sassination oceurred in a city thea under martial law, and encom- passed by forts and sentinels; that the assas- sins are proven to be the agents of a conspi- racy of which Jeff. Davis was the liead; that these agents were the representatives and in- struments of an armed rebeilicn, in whose service and for whose iaterest they acted, aud that blank rabel commissions had actualty been provided: for some of them, we see that the Judge Advoeate General will. have no difficulty in showing that their case is fally covered by the constitutional amendment which Mr. Reverdy Johnson quotes. The people, who are, after-all,.the supreme arbilers, are al satisfied, not only of the guilt of most of othe cused, but of the constitutionality ofa tribunal which has. proven more efficacious than any civil court could possibly be in tracing: all the ramifications of a gigantic conspiracy, and in sweeping aside all those quibbles by which such pettifoggers as Sanders aad ‘Company al- ways endeavor to defeat the ends of justice. Tar Crors—From all parts of the- country we receive: encouraging accounts respecting the crops.. Despite the immense Grain upon the labor of the country, made necessary by the war, a greater breadth of soil than,usual in the Northern States has been devoted to agri- culture, In-the Southern States the total over. throw ofa system of labor inaugurated many generations.ago of course causes much em- barrassment, and very little of the great staples—cotton, sugar and: tobaceo—have been planted; but considerable wheat has been harvested in many portioas, and the corn crop, which is large, looks finely. In West Virginia, Maryland and New Jersey the. wheat harvest has already commenced, and a wonderful yield is promised the reaper. Probably the largest | hay crop.ever gathered will reward the farm- ers of the Eastern States. Fruit promises an enormous yield, and vegetables are everything in appearance that could be desired. It seems that to the blessings of peace so lately vouch- safed us is now to be added the boon of a bountiful harvest Governor Pierrot axp His Leoistatore.— The Provisional Governor of Old Virginia, Governor Pierpoint, having called around him his little provisional Legislature, it assembled yesterday in Richmond. It is a small affair, elected from half a dozen counties, more or Jess, and under a constitution framed by a few loyalists at Alexandria, while the old State was practically under the rebel rule of Extra Billy Smiih, under the wing of Jeff. Davis at Rich- mond, and while Mosby and his guerillas were in fall blast. The best thing that Governor Pierpoint can do, we think, is to set aside this Legislature for want of a ayorum. gnd orqoeed to his business of reorganization on the plan‘of Governor Holden, of North Carolina, by pro- viding for the election of a State convention to form a new constitution, &. Something of this sort, we presume, too, will bedone. “Rome was not built in a day.” Tue Liperatep Buacks AND THE New Frex Lasor System In THE SourH.—We have all sor‘s of reports of the confusion, demoralization, idleness and destitution among the whites and blacks of the late rebellious States in conse- quence of the abolition of slavery. Thus from one quarter we hear that the planters have met and agreed upon a scale of wagos for their liborated slaves so low that they flatly refuse to accept it; in another quarter we are told the planters are dismissing their blacks to go about their business, said planters being utterly disgusted with the astonishing results of their experiment for a Simon Pure slaveholding confederacy. In one place we are told the be- wildered blacks are wandering idly about the country, and that lawless white desporadoes are hunting them down, while in other places the destitute white families of former masters are supphed by the charity of their faithful blacks, Truly are the unfortunate peovle <: the Souur-or te Gommant 1326 Geutting the bitter cup of rebellion to the very dregs, We are not surprised, howevey, that, with the sudden and astounding collapse of their Southern con- federacy and their cherished institution of slavery, they should be puzzlod to make it out whether they are standing on their heels or their heads, They must have a Iittle time to look about them in order to realize their true situation, There are two fixed facts, however, which we would impress upon all concerned to consider at once. The first applies to the late Southern slaveholders, and it is this—that they have lost their slaves. The second ap- plies to the late slaves of the Sonth, and is simply this—that they have lost their masters and must shift for them- selves ; no work, no bread. There is still a third proposition, which is as true as that the sun rises amd gets, viz:—that unless whites and blacks shall speedily agree to assist each other in the exchanges of wages: und labor there will be much suffering: and not a little starvation among both races, The whites, owning lands, factories or vesse’s, must be: willing, on fair terms, to engage their late’ slaves as free luberera, and the latter mus¥ be willing to work for a little where they cannot do better. Nothing but hard wogk can repair the terrible damages inflicted upoa the Sonth-by the rebel- lion; and whites and blacks, from the simple instinct of self preservation, should at once go to work together, with a generous disposition on both aides, in view of the coming winter. tere enenreenmnet Ft ,to establish towns and cities, cult | vate the virg. ‘2 Soll and dig out the gold and ° silver. They .'T@ Men, too, educated to me chanical labor in, “!most every branch, and are in fact cut out exp, "°*ly by habit and inclins- tion for colonists. If, . they can be in- duced to turn their atten,‘ion to our new Terri- tories, under judicious ma, 24gement and fair dealing, it is just the occupaa ton for them. I¢ will insure them homes and Aprtunes, and ag the same time relieve the Eastern States of a laboring force which may at the prevent time prove superabundant, and develop the re? sources of the Pacific slopes more effectually in five years than could be done by ordinary emigration in half a century. Our Local Summer Resorts, Now that the heat of summer Js fairly upon us, people are eagerly availing themselves of the adventages of all the delightful haunts around the city, where they may enjoy, even if it wore but for ono dayjin tho week, “the poor man’s holiday,” asit is called, the quiet luxury of nature. All the modos of conveyance to the numerous country retreats around the city were overcharged with travellers.on Sunday. Conoy Island, Staten Island, the green spots about Brooklyn, Harlem, and the »'* of all attractions, that intermural ~~ on had their full quota of vt" qaradise, the Park, Tnoe omernas swore, a8 indecd they have al- " p-ey at@noon. ‘There are few largo cities which have so many delightful summer resorts within easy distance as New York, where the same variety of enjoy- ment {6 et command. A new feature in our suburbam pleasures we obscrve has just been introduced im the vicinity of the Park, which might, in fact Be called an adjunct of that metropolitan instt tution, It is Falk’s Belvidere, ot Lion Park, 110th street, where the finest classic music, and the most popular also, is given on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons by Theodore Thomas and his admirable orchestra. The Beividere ia located on a hill. which commands the highest points of the Park. It ives @ splendidly picturesque view towards the East river and its numerous talands, at the same time showing @ great part of the most frequented drives of the Park, Not!ingcan be more delgbilul than to «it in the cap cious concert room, which 1s open et ail sides, com- manding this superb landscape, and inviting © cry coat breeze that blows over its elevated site, and cn) LBS same time the oxeclent music which Theodore Thomas rovides, The concer's are free to the public. ‘The hotel Pprovidea with everything necessary for the wants of Visitors; a good cuisine, private dining rooms, a concert hal, seating 1,000 people: elegant gardens, a carousel, w vo'igre, wlittie dash of Barnumism, in the shape of w honse full of monkeys and a live bear. It is reuehed by the Eighth avenne cars, which stop at the gate, orcan be visited from tho Purk by « short ride through 20th street. With such delightfad resorte for summer enjoymout within reach of ow citizens, no one can complaia of imprisonment within walls: of briek or ston ‘All rownd the city, within few miles distance, there are charming spots at the command of almost every one who-ean affurd to secure cither a permauent bome or a'place of temporary @hjoyment. This jinds ns of the fact that the beautiful estate of &. Collins, im Westchester connty—Larchmont—sitaated in close prox- imity to the city, will be sold to-morrow (Wednesday) at auction, the sefe"having been postened (rom a previous nt ef bad weather: There is not a liner site er for several private’ residences in the vicinity, covered as it is by old woods, and located fo ag to? coramand some of our best scenery, and pos- soaking every facility for beshing, Beatiwg and other pleasures, The'suburbs of New Yorié. in short, aro not excelied by. thowe of any city in:the-world for-delight- fol sumrver retreats and comparatively inexpensive ea joyments. Tug Mastonwerte. Taxsrem.—Last' night the Marion- nette theaire; whieh. for many yoars hae decz an instite- | an industrial exeitement, furnishing as it does tion iu Paria; Milam; Naples and othbr cisios of Europe, originally established! by M. Seraphinj. was inaugurated for the first time imthis country athe Stuyvesant In- stitute. It is a most amusing performance, in which puppets are raade-te represent lidng ostors, vocalists and ballet dansers, and. is a most anpripriate entertain- ment for young people. Ata firat performance the in- tricate machinery cowl’ net be\ oxpectod to. work te perfection, nevertheless: the reprezc:zation last evening was, in many zespects; excellent, Tho ballet was especially good, and the antics oi” tho mintasuze harie- quins were almoct ‘ag -perfeet as nature: The dialogue and vocalism are, of course, exectited:by living artiste behind the scenes; but are so welll done in conjunction with the actions ofthe: puppets, «as to produce a very agreeable deception: This: novelty 1s cortain to-prove & success. Tuxarre Francars.—Alexandre Dui mas’ drama of Phe Girondins ow Le Chevalier de Maison j Rouge, will be gives to-morrow (Wendesday) evening, for the-bonefit of the artists of M. Juignet’s company. The piece is power- fully cast, and will be presented {i 1 the most efficient manner. It is to be hoped that the frequenters of the French theatre will mark: their sem so of the pleasure they have derived from the exertions ¢ fits artists during the past season, by giving..them a gei 10rous support om this occasion. City Intelligences». Romay CaTuouo Orruas Asvium.— -Yesterdey after noon, at four o'clock, theannualexhibid ion of the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum for boys took place at-the Asy- lum in Fifth avenue, between Viftiot h and Fifty-firss streets, in the presence of avery large and respectable audience, consisting chiefly of the peop !e of St.. John’s parish and the clergy of the: diocese. . Archbishop Me- Closky presided, and was.accompanied by the Rev, Favbers stanre, ‘MaMehows McElroy, fr¢ +m Bostun; Mo- Anneny, Moonoy and McBvoy. The exerct ses consisied of songs, Tecitations and music. by the Asytlam band, with oxamining of classes in their several studi es. The neat appearauce of the children, and the read y mannor wk whieh they carried out the parts allot :d, elicited the applause of the foamy | and spoke vlumes for the worthy sisters in charge ef the ling. At the-cencla- sion of the recitations, the Archbishop addreused the children, advising them to continue pract ising tho good lesrons which were instilled in them by their teacher, A large number of preseuts were then distributed) Mr. Michael J, O'Donnell, secretary of the Raman Gathoile Asylum, acted as master of the ceremonies, Sars pg the chiidren in their lessons, and by his gemtlemanly eourteous manner adding wuch:te the comfort of. the as- semblace present. At the conelusion of the efair. the peaple expressed themselves well satisfied with the @ant treat they had received fromthe boys of the asylum, It is folly: to be wrangling about negro equality or inferiority when both races are admonished that they mast work or starve. Never Wernovr Excrrement.—Some of our people have been laboring under the belief that the moment the war was over: all-excite- ment would:cease, and that there would be a general stagnation of interesting news. We were often askeg: Where will you get interest- ing matter to-ffill your paper? All’ such had but a faint idea of the character of the Ameri- can people and their natural disposition for constant activity. The war is over, and-we no longer record the thrilling accounts of: despe- rate and bloody battles; yet the public are ap- parently as much excited as ever. The col- lapse of the rebailion brought us to the-pelicy of reconstruction, This raised issues: and questions which were of vital interest to every citizen. Everybody watched the developments on this point with as much anxiety as -they did the progress of tlie war. Nor is it likely to lose its interest for some time to come. With this came the question of negro suffrage; ovor which the politicians are now trying to raise the wind, thus in reality arousing a sensational interest on that point. Following the discharge of the seldiers: comes the excitement of their return home and! what they are to do in the future. Then: we have the gold and‘silver fever, which is break- ing out afresh aa the result of the rich and wonderful developments made in Nevada, Idaho and Montara, promising to rival the Cali+ fornia gold fever of afew years ago. This ee a field for our hardy soldiers to reap a rich reward, bids fair to add unusuel interest, aside from the incidental agita- tion in regard t@ Mexico. The public will also find no smeif amount of stimulant in the complication of our foreign affairs. Them we will have the great chango in cammorce by A Woman Luars rncm 4 Tarp Srory WisDow wire & @anp mm Her Anms.--Yesterday morning, about five o'clock, officer Bolman, of the Twenty-eighth pracinet, while patrolling his beat, saw a woman, named Catha- rine Hessian, open a third story window of house 34D the opening of the Svez Canal. The revival of the sensation ia the scientific world is scon:to: follow the renewalof the effort ta lay the At- lantic cable. Them there is the great Hoosic tunnel, about which all Boston is shaking like an aspen leaf, expecting overy msment to.see the balance of the world go off in a perfoct blaze of glory over its completica. On. top. of all this we Lave a great commotion in the por litical world over the reorganization of parties,. and reconsiruction of the plar: to capture the spoils in the futare. ~ Instead of settling down and becoming quiet with the close of the war, the Ameri- can people. are only plunging deeper into sensation and excitementa. Their activity and energy were only started by the stern ne- cessities: of war, and now that their energies are no longer required in that direction they are being turned to other matters, and, in a characteristic style, they move with railroad and lightning speed. This is no age for drones, nor for people who sit down and wait to see what next. The world is moving on, and the Amaricam people have no disposition to be left | behind. So clear the track, and make room for the new class of sensations. A Goon Prosrzcz yor Our Sorpmas—We give a brief account in another column of an expedition now on. foot to establish a colony in the Yellowstone country, one of the rich mine- ral regions of Idaho, on, the Pacific slope. Such enterprises, if managed by the proper parties, would be very valuable just now as ® provision for our discharged soldiers. There will be some two hundred thousand of this class mustered out of service within a few weeks, and they are just the men to develop the wealth of those magnificent territories beyond the Rocky Mountains, They have be- come inured to hardship, can live on vough fare, and sleep under the sky. They have all Jearned to build railroads, and corduroy roads, out Dutch Gap canals, construct bridges and do all kigds of avajlable work such ga will be . West Houston stroct and jump to the ground with &» obiid in her arms. The officer hastened to the syvt, —_ Pores ed the womn, found she was dead. ml have been instantly killed. The child which Mra Hes sian held in her arms was dangorously injured, and i» not expected to recover. The police report that Mra Hessian is believed;to have been, suffering from,abera- tion of mind. Coroner Collin. was tohold am iaquest over her remains, A Discnancen ZoLpER Daowsen.—James Anoble, @ discharged soldier; while slecping on the desk of the barge Carrier, at yler 1, North river, at half past three o'clock yesterday morning, either fell or was pushed overboard and wae drowned. A man on the barge was suspected of throwing deceaved into the dock, but (here seemed to be no evidence to that effect agains him. The body of Anoble was not recovered. A Srraxcmn m Town.—Considerable excitement was created in Broadway yesterday afternoon hy the appear ‘ance in the stzeets of a tail, ashictic and sunburned mam, evidently frash from the wilds of the Wost, clad in rega- Jar hunter fashion, in of buckskin. He walked Riglty lated with the pobsation Mitr atte and gene ol wi on pees produced among the fashionalte pro Be Snally Gags See tie apqetien, tall eating ion] and pi to satisfy his appetite, telling the of boys apd ‘up youths at his heels not to a or he wauld ‘eat up whole, without pepper salt.” They thought best not to pumue the ogreish gentleman any further. Sr. Marr's Scuoous, Honoxax.—-A grand picnic fee the benefit of St. Mazy’s schools, Hobeken, which are a tached to the church of which the Rev. Father Carvine is Tall Ahan A noxt, at Sym’s I Spring, West Hoboken. The grounds are rea hed by the cars ‘at the Hoboken ferry, which leave overp quarter of an hour, ‘Tum Rupson River Barnst Amocunon, Sovrn, holds ® seasion to-day, at ten A. M., in the South Baptiet church, The body comprises the Baptist churches of New Xork, Brooklyn and vicinity, and its proceed ings on this occasion will be looked upon with consider abie interest, The association will probably terminate their labors to-morrow. Drowxen.—A man named Amos Griffin, whose reab dence is in Nashua, N. H., and boarding at Nautilae Hail, Tompkinsville, Staten Island, was drowned on Fri- day night last, at ton o'clock, while bathing opposite the 1. His body has not been recovered. From & Rs found in pay of his jones (his clothing being left the shore), he has a wife in Nashua, and the letter the pears gamo date of his drowning. It speaks of hie h ing, and bathingevery night. His offects healt rmmessiony of Coroner ‘Robert He Heslewood. as Tompkinsville, 8. U ‘Court of A: ae eer, June 10, 1866. Day calendar for Juno 20:—Nos 140, 131, 188 185, 138, 180, 140, 141 and 142, Judge Campbel) appeared aad took bis gest