The New York Herald Newspaper, June 25, 1865, Page 4

OPPIO MN. W. CORNER OF FULTON AMD MASSAU STS =a Now York, Sunday, June 25, 1865. eee THE SITUATION. The South Carolina delegation now in Washington were admitted to an audience yesterday by Preai- dent Jobnson, and received from him at length bis viows in regard to the re-cstablishment of their Btate in its proper position in the Union. The Prosi- dont maintained that no State could go out of the Unton, and that therefore none had gone out, and that the question to be dealt with was restoration, not reconstruction. He wished them also clearly to understand that slavery was at an ond in this country, told them that there was little hope of Bouth Carolina belog allowed represéntation in Congress ‘until sho had ofgcially recognized this fact, and informed thom that they must have a convention, probibit slavery by an amcudment to their State constitution, and adopt tho anti-slavery amendment to the constitution of the United States. The gentlemen of the deloga- tion oxpreased their perfect willingness to comply with all these conditions, and to cordially co-operate in the now order of things, and do all in thelr power for the elevation of the negro. All they asked in return was that the President would ap- point @ Governor for their State, and thus start them in the course of a restoration of civil govern- ment, order and industry, The President replied that he was not then prepared to name a Govornor for them, but that he would bring the matter before the Cabinet mocting on next Tuesday, hoping that it would result in the realization of their desires. An order has been issued at Nashville by General Thomas giviug notice to all citizens of Southern States in his military division who were sent north of the Ohio riverto reimain during the war that they may now re- turn to thelr homes, releasing deserters from tho rebel army from their obligations to report once a month to the nearest provost marshal, and annulling the regulation requiring citizens travelling on the railroads and rivers to be furnished with military passes. ‘A vory interesting inside history of the famous Hamp- ton Roads peace conference, purporting to have beon furnished in gubstance by the ex-rebel Vico President, Aloxander H. Stephens, who it will be remembered was no of the rebel peace commissioners, recently made its @ppearance in the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle and Sentinel, end is republished in this morning’s Hzraxp. Advices from Panama state that !t had beon learned there that the rebel pirate Shenandoah had sailed wost- ward.trom Adelaide, Aastralia, it was thought for tho Mauritius, General Grant gave a reception yesterday in Philadel- phia to the mombers of the Union League Club and their families. . Conforonces have recently been held and treaties en- tered into betweon officers of the government and the Choctaws and various othor Ind‘an tribes of the Far West ‘who took part with the rebels, in which the red men agree to cease hostilities against the United States, and to retura peaceably and quietly to their homes. They propose to send to Washington a delegation of five from each tribe, to ronew their loyalty to the national govern- mont. One of the HaxaLp correspondents who has recently mado a trip through Southern and Western North Caro- lina furnishes some important information regarding the valuable gold, copper and iron deposits of that State, whioh are in quantities amply sufficient to largely recom- pense tho skill and ljabor necessary to bring them to the surface. Many of the North Carolina planters aro very desirous of the sottloment im their midst of good Northorn farmers, now that, by the emancipation of tho slaves, thore will necessarily be changes in tho agricultural system. The negroes ia many portions of th» State are again at work on the plantations as indus- t-iously as before the acquirement of their freedom. Tho steamers Baltimore, Watch, Teazor, Resolute, Zots, Mystic, Western World and Bat, all lately belong- ing to the Potomac Flotilla, were sold by the government in Wasbington yesterday, realizing 8 total, exclusive of tho Wastern World, the price ef which is not given, of only a titi over ninety-five thousand dollars. The Ono Handred and Stxth New York and Tenth Ver- mont infantry regiments, the Third Massachusetts heavy artiticry and detachmonts of the Sixty-ninth New York infantry and the Fifth New York artiflery arrived in the city yostorday. The Thisteonth New Hampshire infantry left for home yesterday. EUROPEAN NEWS. * The City of Boston arrived at this port yesteraay, after ® rapid passage, with three days later news from Europe. Her advices are of considerablo interest. In the British House of Lords on the 12th inst., Earl Derby pointed out that the government had withdrawn Delligorent rights from the rebels before the United Btates had entirely raised the blockade of tho Southern ports, thas acting in opposition to the principle which the Foreign Secretary himself had Jad down, Karl Russell replied that when the letter referred to was written the war was practically ¢losed, and be bad the assurance of Mr. Adame, the American Minister in London, that the United States government were ready t abandon the right of searching noutral vessels, President Johnaen’'s preclama‘ion against pirates was also discusse!. Earl Derby considered the threat it con- tained was illegal, and urged that some protest should be made against it by the British govornment. Earl Rus- @cl! gaid the procian.ation was certa nly somewhat st\rt- Jing, but Sir F. Bruce, the British Minister at Washing ton, thought it was only held in terrorem over the per. fons to whom it referred. According fo the London Times, M. Eloin, Maximilian's Special envoy, has been to Vienna to get the Austrin Kmporor to rostore to the Archduke his right of succes gion to the Austrian throne, which he forfoited when be et out for Mexico, M. Eloin’s mission was successful. In the French port of Cherbourg active preparations wore making for the immediate despatch of sev ral transport vessels, Their destination was not publisiy .-Me. 175 known The reported succeas of the Canadian negotiations in ‘England is confirmed by the London Jost, The terms are tho same as those previously mentioned in the Hrnaww An international naval review of an extraordinary ‘character is said to be in prospect. The French Emperor has invited the Knglish armor-plated mavy to visit France, and the French iron-ciads have also been asked do putin an @ppearance in British waters, The com- dined naval forces of the two nations will be reviewed off Plymouth by the Prince of Wales, and off Cherbourg by the Emperor Napoleon. United States five-twenties on the 15th inst. were quo- ted in London at 68 @ 68%4—an advance of 15 per cont on previous quotations. British consuls 90%. MISCELLANEOUS NEWs. The steamship Ocean Queen, from Aspinwall on the ‘17th inst., arrived here yesterday. By this arrival we shave intelligence of tho total loss of the steamship Goiden Rule, belonging to the Calffornia line via Nicaragua. The Golden Rule left this city for Groytown ov the 224 of May, with over five hun trod passengers and a crew of one hundred, and on the 30th alt. struck on Roncador reef, two hundred and Afly wilce from Aspinwall, soon began to fll with water, Bnd became a total wreck on the Oth of June, An unin- Hhabitod, desert island of twelve acres was discovered Within ® short distance of tho reef, and to this, a thq wight of the Sit of May, all tho pas- om Panstoa for California on the same steamship America. While the pas- ceded im rescuing about half of the vessel’s baggage and stores, and managed to live very comfortably. ‘Tho news from South and Central America by the ‘Ocean Queen is interosting. The now Panama Railroad contract has not been ratified by the Senate of Co- lombia, as previously reported. General Daniel B. Sickles, having concluded his mission at Bogota, the capital of that republic, had arrived at Panama and taken passage for New York on board the gunboat Huntsville, the arrival of which here is hourly expgcted. When the news of the capture of Richmond by our troops reached Bogota there was the wildest rejoicing among the people. President Murillo ordered a military band to proceed to the residence of the United States Minister to serenade him, and directed a salute of twenty- ‘one guns to be fired. ‘Tho diMoulties between Chile and the Spaniards had not yet resulted in hostilities ; but fears were still entertained that they would ultimately do so, The revolution continued in Peru, and the revolutionists were making considerable headway. It was re- reported that they had retaken Tacna, and were moving in force gainst Arica A difficulty had occurred between the Peruvian government and the United States Minister, owing to the latter affording refuge and hospitality to a proscribed ex-Vice President; but the matter was subsequently arranged in @ man- ner satisfactory to both sides. A plot to blow up with a torpedo a Spanish 1ron-clad in Callao harbor, in which several prominent Peruvians were implicated, had been discovered and foiled. The rebellion in the re- public of San Salvador has been completely suppressed, Our despatches by the steamship Fung Shuey, which arrived here yesterday from New Orleans on the 17th inst., contain the substance of the opposite statements of the republican and imperial Mexicans regard- ing General Nogrete’s late appearance before Mata- moros and his sudden retreat therefrom. Ne- grete gives as his principal reason for not con- tinuing his attempt to capture the town that Mejia, the imporial commander, was receiving important assistance from the American rebels on the Texas side ofthe Rio Grande, Mejia claims that the principal credit for holding the place is dae to his own skill and energy, of course. There is no mention of any change in the condition of affairs around Matamoros since the date of previous accounts. It is said that there are many American officers in the armies of the Mexican republi- cans. The steamship Mexico arrived here yesterday, from Havana on the 16th inst. Advices two days later than those by this arrival were given im our despatches Drought by the steamship Eagle, and published in last ‘Thursday's Heraxp. The funeral of the late Mrs. Seward, wife of tho Secre- tary of State, took place in Auburn yesterday, and was attended by an immense concourse of people. As & mark of respect for the deceased and her distinguished husband, all the business places in the town were closed. The now Fire Commissioners yesterday made applica- tion to Comptroller Brennan for the delivery to them of. the Fire Department property-of the city, and received from that official a written order granting them permis- sion to take possession of ‘all such property over which he has any authority or control. The Commissioners are very busy in‘ organizing their force and getting every- thing in readiness for patting the new system in opera- tion. Their meetings will for the presont be beld in Firemen’s Hall, ‘Mercer street, In the United States District Court in Boston Judge Loring has decided that certain floating cotton, amount- ing to about seventy bales, picked up off Wilmington, N C., by the steamer Vicksburg, and which was claimed by the officers of that vessel as property derelict, is a prize to the government. 1n the same court the sale has been ordered, on benalf of the government, of tho ox-rebel cruiser Georgia, The motion for the sale was opposed by the agent of a Liverpool firm, who claim the ownership of the vessel, Theodore Seydel, cherged with having committed forgery in Chemnitz, Saxony, and the d°mand for whose extradition, at the instance of the Saxon Vico Consul, was granted a few daysago by Unitea States Commis- sioner Newton, and subsequently endorsed by President Johnson, was yesterday placed on board the steamship Germania, which sailed from this port at noon, to be taken back to Germany for trial. In the Court of Special Sessions yesterday Justices Dowling and Ketley passed sentence on a large number, of prisoners convicted of assault and battery, larceny, pocket picking, &c., the penalties ranging from ten dol- lars fine to six months on Blackwell's Island. ‘The concert at the Park yesterday was attended by an immense number of persons, who, by frequent and hearty applause, testified thelr gratification. The art muscum will be opened to the public some time during the present week. Colonel Colyer, Superintendent of the State Soldiers’ Depot in Howard street, accompanied by a number of ladies, made an excursion about the bay yesterday and distributed to the soldiers in the various forts aud on board vessels an immense stock of fruits and other luxuries. An inquest was held yesterday in the case of the little girl Theresa Estrada, whose parents resido at 480 Broome streot, and who was killed on Friday afternoon by a shot from a pistol alleged to have been in the hand af a lad named Antonio Graviot. Tho principal part of the evi- denco indicated that the shooting was entirely accidental ; but the girl's mothor testified that sho believed it to have been intentional, and Graviot was committed to await the action of the Grand Jury. + About ten o'clock on Friday night Mr. Jacob Brady, a gentleman from Towa, was attacked in Loxington avenue, near Forty-first stroet, by three men who tobbod him of niv« hundred dollars and then made their escape. ‘The following were among the commitments by the police magistrates yesterday:—An alleged oonfidence sharper, giving Lis name as Anson B, Howard, who, as alleged, played the old “loan” game to, {the amount of ninety-five dollars, on Mr, Nelson Bacon, of Burlington, Vermont; Mrs, Davenport, keepor of an alleged disreputable housé in Greone street, and two of her boarders, named Annie Dickson and Annie Woteon, on charge of stealing, in said house, on Friday night, ono hundred and sixty-five dollars from Martin OK , living in Eleventh avenue, near Fittieth strect; Mary Clancy, charged with stealing five hundred dollars in money anda one hundred dollar gold watch from George Budelle, living in Forty-seventh streot, while the two were together in a house in Water Wi'lltam Edwards and John Roach, on charge of concealed weapons and using them in tho atreets ‘ous and threatening manner; twelve females and twenty-seven males found in the alleged disurdorly beer saloon of Nethecht and Hemmelrieht, m the Howery, and Alexander Mcleod, a discharged soldier, on charge of entering the store of Mr. Roswell D. King, in Fourth | avenue, evizing two valuable gold watches and running off with them. Potter Browing, the young man who was arrested on suspicion of having stolen three hundred and sixty dol. lars from the residence of Mra. Sarah Lewis, No. 35 Wost Thirtieth street, has been honorably dischargod from custody, there being no evidence against him, ‘The General Superiniendent of the Ohio and Missis- sippi Railroad pronounces the despatch reporting a terri. bie collision on that line on Thursday last to be false, It would seem, however, from an extract which we give from @ St, Louis paper, that the catastrophe did occur, but was wrongly located—Carlyle station, Hlinois, having boen the piace of the collision, instead of Loogootee, Indiana. Charles Carrington, convicted {n Buffalo on Thursday last of the murder of a police nd who escaped from jail on Thursday night, was recaptured yesterday morn- ing, togethér with one of his accompanying fugitive pris- Oners, about /fteen miles from that city. Diston’s straw factory, in Front street, Philadelphia, war destroyed by fire yesterday morning, entailing a lose of Afty thousand dollars, ‘Tho stock market was extremely dull bat steady yos- terday. Gold was inactive, but, on the wholo, firm, and closed on the street at 142%. At night it fell, and closed at 141, Tho commercial eftuation remained without change on Saturday, though there was rather more firmness in some dopartments of trade, The markets, as a general thing, Were quiet, and the business was moderate, especially in imporied articlés. Grocories wero steady. Cotton was firmer. Petroleum was a trifio easier. On’ ‘Chango, flour and wheat wero unchanged. Corn and oats wore Jo, #26. be\tor, Pork was lower, Lard wag dull and nominglly Unchanged, Witskoy was dull ssw YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNE 25, 1865. | West, and we dare say of the istence. This is what wo bolieve President Johnson is atriving to do, and his labors in this direction are entitled to the support of all | © honest picts ragerdless of the hue and cry of State Convention and the Hgstjn . and Vermont, and a few radical disunioniste spiracy. - In another column will be found two in- | here and there. The large number of our mili- OBSEQUIES OF MRS. SEWARD. Sympathy for Mr. Seward and the Be- ee torgetitig articles, from prominent republican | tary heroes in the Conventiqn rarkgd { polled! demagogucs In behalf of immodiste | Teeven Pomiiy, ir. 7. ~srhera papers, ia reference to the developments in the pre Anco shown for he ake er, waives nap sings 200s a Petemse jane, M. ¥., Sune 94, 1868, political field during the past week, which We | pomipaiions are Sacouroging signs. It shows to the Rio Grande. an | prseenne te me Se aoe commend to the special attention of sll whe | that the people of Obio fully appreciate their} 4 treme Too Fasr—O. #. Wynne, the together ane are watching the drift of events in this. tant period of our history. The first is an edi- torial review of ‘the Ohio Republican State Convention, taken from the Cincinnati Com mercial, republican, the other a review of the radical gathering in Faneuil Hall, taken from the Boston Advertiser, also republican, It ep- pears that these meetings were held on the same day, but widely differed in sentiment, in theory and in practice, Each is clnimed by the journals from which we have quoted as representing the sentiment of the people of the locality or State in which it was held. Taking this fact as granted, the public can readily see the ourrent of events and dis- cern the issues which will be formed in the approaching political contests, One is a view of the question of reconstruction and negro suffrage from a New England services, and have more faith in the patriotism man who has sealed his love for Union with his blood than those in- triguers who would, for the eake of office, en- danger their country’s best intorests. This is the commencement of the reward which awaits our soldiers from the people of the North. It is the opening of a new era in politics, The days of the political charlatan are past. What a contrast between the two meetings at Boston and Columbus! The latter represented the sentiment of the great mass of the people, the former a small band of disunion agitators, The logical conclusion to be drawn is that the soldiers who have fought our battles, won our victories, and saved the nation, will now support the President in his reconstruction policy, even against the disunionists of the North. Fodiabisogs de py what Bag fe game he seidbondi ss Sew. the State of Vir- | The beautiful ir. ‘ permit ard were laid out mostly in accordance with the taste of giplealt: de on, ih oo Sake Senet Bis scoomplihod wit In and about these grounds she the work of reconstruction, just as if she were had pamed the happiest hours of her life, and shortly meditating upon another rebellion for State | before her spirit departed she sald to her husband, rights, has been suddenly admonished that he | “Ob, Henry, how I should ate tee ime agon and hear the biris in 0 garden is bitving By 308 A esuralys ube more." Ts obedience to thia wish the remains were re- a cir hur bg fire shi pont moved to shaded spot in the grounda, at one o'clock instant, that been sent for and notifled | today, where they wore visited by the friends of the by the proper military authority that our edito- family until a fw minutes before three, ‘i, aan rials for the past month, and more especially | sppoarance of a shower, they were return me for the last few days, are only calculated to orogeny aie casing the funeral pro- excite anger and bitterness, and that unless the |“, siaces of ‘beniness wane Meer roma tone and policy of the Times are changed it | memory of the deceased, and the streets were crowded will be suppressed,” the proprietor asks the | with mourning citizens to attend the funeral of the le kind indulgence of his readers “for the absence mented lady. ‘The beautiful service of the Episcopal Church was rea@ ofmatter pertaining to national and State publio | "114 poy. afr. Brainard, when the hymn «1 Would policy.” The particular mistake of thisSouthern | xo rive Always” and another Lymn were sung with rights editor has been, we,suspect, & rather too | touching offect. proprietor of the been lately threatening standpoint, the other from a Western. These gatherings mark an important epoch in our political history. They inaugurate two distinct lines of policy in party politics in this country, which must by the very nature of things enter into the political contest in every Northern State at the approaching fall elec- tions. The Boston gathering was a self-con- stituted affair. Those in attendance represented nobody but themselves, They were sent there by no constituencies, but assembled under a call, for the specific purpose of opposing the policy of the President in reconstructing the Sonth, more especially to inaugurate a crusade in favor of conferring the privilege of the elective franchise upon the newly emancipated slaves, On the other hand, the Ohio conven- tion was composed of representative men, elected by the people, or rather that portion of the citizens of the State who have during the last four years adhered to the Union war party, and sustained the administration through its dark and trying hours. They were regularly elected delegates, sent there in accordance with party usage, to represent the views of the people, nominate candidates for their support, and to record their views in resolutions in re- ference to the great questions of the day. Only those attended the former who were persistent advocates of a certain theory, while to the latter men were sent from all parts of a great State, to compare views and officially announce the result to the world. The latter bears the stamp of official, while the other only develops the revolutionary ‘policy of a small class of Poritanical agitators. How well these assem- blages carried. out their: respective duties we | leave for their editorial exponents to explain in the articles which we publish elsewhere. The article from the Boston paper starts out with the assertion that the principles endorsed at the Faneuil Hall meeting “repre- sented the great preponderance of New England opinion.” In addition to this we are told that the majority ef the people of that section are already moving towards “the same style of pressure which has for the last four years been so potent.” In other words, having succeeded in forcing the country to endorse and carry out their anti-slavery theories at the point of the bayonet, they now propose to bring such a pressure that will in the same manner enforce their theories of universal negro suffrage and social equality of races. This, then, was the intent and the sole object of the gathering. It was the commencement of this new crusade, the opening of the ball in this new warfare. As such itis characteristic of New England, and is in accordance with the bigotry which has exhibited itself’ there ever since its settlement. But it appears there was a radical difference of opinion upon the all-absorbing question of ne- gro suffrage even among the Jacobin orators. One speaker “intimated that the right of suf- frage should be independent of color, but re- stricted.” Mr. Beecher assailed this theory, and even denounced the Massachusetts basis of voting, which is restricted by intelligence and a certain amount of education. But we até told that his speech approached so near the comic style of our negro minstrel performances that it was impossible to tell whether the applause came from an approval of his ideas or from his comic exhibition. However thoy may have dif- fered in minor details, the animus pervading all the speeches was the same. Opposition to the announced policy of the President was the striking feature throughout, interspersed with threats of revolution and a resort to arms unless suffrage were accorded to the negro by'the gov- ernment. Its whole character was insurrec- tionary and its tone revolutionary. It shows a determination on the part of the New England Jacobins to plunge the country into another flerce and felentless war over the negro. Turning from this gathering to the Ohio Re- publican Convention,‘an official and political representative body, which assembled at the capital of that State on the same day, we “find altogether a different result. The attendance was Jarge, comprising many of the most intelli- gent and influential men of the State. Instead of opposing the President's policy and threat- ening @ now revolution, they, as the represent- atives of the republican and dominant party of the State, emphatically endorsed Mr. John- souand his entire policy, and pledged their hearty and undivided support. The striking feature of the Convention was the large attend- ance of our military heroca, “The number of officers who had lost an arm or @ leg in the service was remarkable. There were a painful plenty of empty sleeves end of crntches. Pri- vate soldiers, colonels and brigadier generals wore sent as delegates, There was few radi- cals in attendance, bat they could make no headway. In fact, the stay-at-home and rowdy patriots had more than they could attend to in defending themselves, and no time to devoté to the emancipated slaves in the South.” They found that they bad been repudiated by their own people, and another class of men sent in their place. The heroes of the war, the men who had fought our battles, were substituted for the professional politician. The contest was between these two classes. The soldiers held their separate caucuses, and insisted upon the unequivocal endorsement of the policy of the President, his reference of the negro suffrage to the people of the respective States included, Upon this iseue they brought forward their eandidates, and the Convention endorsed them with great unanimity. This will undoubtedly prove to be the sonti- £ Johnson is just now absorbed in the great work of, the reorganization of the late rebellious abolition of slavery and loyalty to the Union. oN D OAS Mexioo—“Masrerty Inacrivrry.”—President States of the South, on the platform of the He knows that he can settle the Mexican ques- tion at any time; but he knows, too, that the elephant is getting so troublesome and costly to Louis Napoleon that “masterly inactivity” on our part will probably serve the Monroe doctrine as effectually and as quickly as any other policy. The debate in the French ber which we published yesterday very plainly signifies that Louis Napoleon must very soon abandon Mexico, unless he can geta recognition of Maximilian from President Johnson. That recognition Napoleon wiil not obtain. Presi- dent Johnson and the people of the United States, who stand at his back, are bound and resolved to give no countenance in any way to this Muropean monarchical establishment set up over Mexico. But as the question between the European usurpation and the Canning- Monroe doctrine is working ‘very satisfactorily at present, we dare say that President Johnson will adhere to the policy of “ masterly inac- tivity” yet a little longer, in order to give to Napoleon a fair opportunity to make 9 virtue of necessity, and gracefully retire with his protégé from a hostile country, the holding of which by France has depended from the beginning upon the success of Jeff. Davis and his so-called Southern confederacy. Rarm Reconsravcrion 4t Tae Norra.—The adaptability of the American people to all cir- cumstances is something remarkable ; fact which is very strongly demonstrated by present eveiits: Om the'first of May we were in the miffet of a great war. We had six or seven hundred thousand men in the field. It is not yet the first of July, but General Grant wins a victory, and affairs have almost entirely re- turned to their old channels. Our soldiers are falling in quietly to the ranks of private life. As fast as they are mustered out they become absorbed in the general body of citizens ; and with so little show or confusion that we hardly notice the transition from the soldier to the civilian, after the regiments have marched home. All those who do not find immediate employment in their former Kine of life are ac- cepting the opportunity to migrate to the mineral regions of the Pacific slope, where they will find plenty of profitable employment for their labor and experience. Several of our most prominent officers, major generals and brigadier generals, who have been mustered out of service, have resumed civil occupations of Some are going to mining, others to the practice of the law, and so on. One of them—General Rosecrans, a soldier who has conducted large armies to victory and borne the brunt of war—is directing his atten tion to the establishment of institutes for the peaceful study of technology. Another, General various kinds. Cox, has become a gubernatorial candidate in Ohio. every circumstance that may arise. Srarvation at THE Sours.—The all-absorbing question now pressing upon the inhabitants of the late rebellious States 1s not negro equality, negro suffrage or any other political issue, but the naked question of lifeor death. All through the war we contended that the rebel- lion would fail mainly from the shortness of its means of subsistence. The productive soil of the South may be made to support a hundred millions of people; but in drawing off from its sparse population the mass of its able-bodied and intelligent men into the business of the war, it was apparent to us from the beginning that the subsistence of the Southern armies and the Southern people would fail them in the midst of their struggle. So it has turned out. We have seon it with every step of our armies into the heart of the late so-called confederacy; we have seen it from Memphis to Vicksburg, from Vicksburg to Chattanooga, from that point to Savannah, and from Columbia to Richmond. General Grant was not long in making the dis- covery that the rebellion could be exhausted; he exhausted it, and it collapsed. Now the picture of Southern exhaustion pro- sented almost surpasses belief. The Augusta (Ga.) Transcript says, for instance, that “the system of plunder (by disbanded and hungry rebel soldiers), inaugurated in some of our Southern cities will, unless speedily arrested, bring the whole people to starvation,” and then mentions the sacking of Camden, S. C., after this fashion. “The mob began with at- tacks upon the public stores, then private stables were sacked, then the supplies gathered | at the depots for the suffering and starving poor of the city were carried off, then the wagons which brought in the charities of other cities were emptied, and even the mules were taken from them, and then the cows upon which poor widows and orphans depended for support.” Similar scenes are reported in va- rious other places, from the Osrolinas to Texas. To both races, whites and blacks, from the Potomac river to the Gulf of Mexico, the all-engrossing question is now the question of subsistence, the question of food, not only for the next winter but for the present day. It becomes, therefore, the first duty of the government, in its work of reconstruction, to save the starving masses of the Southem peo- ple alive, whites and blacks, as far as possible, and to harmonize thom in their atrueale for ex- And so with all, both soldiers and generals, the transition from the pursuits of war to those of peace becomes easy and natural, 80 great is the adaptability of our people to violent agitation from a Southern point of view of negro suffrage as an outrage which Old Vir- ginia, with “her honor untarnished and her spirit unbroken,” never will permit within her border. This is cutting it rather fat; and the silly editor, thus thrusting himself, in the midst of the ruins of the rebel capital, into this negro suffrage agitation, we presume will now under- stand that his instructions and threats upon this subject are not wanted, and that the busi- ness of providing # republican form of govern- ment for the State of Virginia has, from the failure of Jeff. Davis, devolved upon President Johnson. THe Question or Watrs anp Srrays.—The Po- lice Commissioners have issued a curious de- cree with regard to the right of property in articles picked up in the streets. It appears that a lady picked up some article of property which a policeman, observing, very rhdely attempted to take from her. She claimed her right to it, as there was no legal owner forth- coming, but the policeman took the article off to the station house. This incident furnished an opportunity for sagacious decision on the part of the Commissioners to the effect that waifs and strays, picked up on the street, or in stages, cara, or ferryboats, are the property of the Commissioners, and must be dclivered up to them. Conscientious people were generally in the habit when they found anything on 8 ferry- boat or in a cor or stage of giving it up to the officisis of these institutions, where the ‘owner would be likely to apply for it, People with- out consciénces of course had the habit of put- ting the same in their pocket; but now it appears that a pocketbook, or a parasol, cor @ handkerchief, or a cane, found without an: owner must be delivered to the property man at police headquarters, and, if not claimed, will be sold for the benefit of what we roally do not know, except it be for the benefit of the Police Commissioners. There was an old proverb that “finders should be keepers” where no rightfal owner appeared. Henceforth the Po- Vie mmissioners are to be keepers; and if there are a great many honest people in the community the property man will have plenty of work to do, to say nothing of tho handsome thing the Commissioners or the police fand will realize. All lost children are sent to the Com- The altar was olaborately adorned with wreaths, crosses, crowns and pyramids of flowers, sent by mours- ing Sint from Albany, Geneva, Rochoster, Buffalo and various other places. Governor Seward, borne down more with sorrow than by tho dreadful wounds inflicted first by accident and then by design, followed the remains into tho church ana then to the cemetery, attracting all eyes upon him an@ awakening the most profound sympathy of all. That humanity could bear up so bravely under such an scca- mulation of suffering seems truly wonderful. low Weed, James G. Seymour, reer, topher Morgan, Hollis White, David Wright, B, ¥. Hail Abijah Fitch. pee reparand clergy, with Baron Stoockl, the Russian Minister, Major General 4 jor General Buttes- Mitchell, followed. and re. Governor Geo. W. jeld and Brigadier General a Then came tho mourners, Mr. Seward sustainin himsolf sustained by Mrs. Worden (tho sister Seward) and his daughter, followed by his son, Genoral ‘W. H. Seward, and wife; his brothers, Polydore and George W, Seward; his bephew, the Rov. Augustus Seward; Mrs. Clarence A. Seward, the Hon. Mr. Pome- roy, Mr. and Mrs. Chesbro, Mrs. ‘Morgan, Miss fe Mrs. Weed, Mrs, F. Whittlesey and a number of others. The Secretary was attended by Dr. Norris, of the United States Army, who _ a his physician aad end throughout his severe trial fre mo) Teers were attended to the church and ceme- tery by ‘vhnes Kelly, Judgo Peabody, Jamos ¥. Fre:borm jel Milligan, of *Al ; Micl us . Feng! Updike’ Samuel P.’ Allen and Frederick Whittle sey, of hester; Colonel FE. B. Morgan and W. zt 8, Benedict, of Wash- Bogart, of Aurora, and Spencer ce ee ington, and many other old and family. vs famil, ap of mourners ‘at the church were to aomant 7 eciuaing Nicholas and Harriet Bogast, colored, who have been faithful and affectionate servants: than thirty yoars. rie cemetery “4 Bird perched in a tree directly over the grave, and mingled itsclear, cheerful, ringing melody | ree the solemn tones of the clergyman, as h 4 ted the body to the earth, with tha words ‘dx Jus, ashes to ash es?”’ ‘ Anniversaty Bf! of the St. desm Baptiste Society. ‘The annual festivat in honor of St. John th Baptist— the patron saint of Canada—was celebrated lost evening at'the Zewoll House, 648 Broadway. Monsieur F, Moreau prosided, and Mr. Batchelor occupied the vice’ chair. ‘Tho large dining room of the hotel was ,Clegantly deco- rated with the Stars and Stripes andthe banner of the Society, beartag tho golden inscription, “Socteté de St Jean Baptiste de Bienfaisance,” and decked with the leaves of the maple—the representative tree of ‘At half-past nino o’clock betweon fifty and sixty mem- vera, all Lower Canadians, sat down to & sumptuous repast, prepared under the direction of the epicuream and obligine proprietor of the Sewell House. The details of the banquet were admirably managed by the Com- mittee of Arrangements, consisting of Messrs. Batchelor, Boucher, Welling and Goioux. “After due just’ Se had been rendered to the edibles and imbibibles Mons. Batchelor, the Vico President, pi the first regular toast of the evoning, viz:— “Tho day we celebrate, or the anniversary of the St. John the Baptist Soclety,"” to which Mr. Guy nded with @ capt song _in lien of prose. was “The United States of America,” which was enthusiastically received, and responded to by Col Boucher in an eloquent and patriotic spesch, redundant with sound re; mabivean sentiments, which were neny applauded. This speaker instanced the universal spontaneons homage rendered to Mr. Lincoln's me in rofutation of tho 0 that republics missioners, Why not the pocketbooks and watches? FIRE DEPARTMENT MATTERS. The Commissioners to Mect in Firemen's Hall, Mercer Street=Trensfer of the Proporty of the Old Department to the Commissioners, &c. Yesterday the new Fire Commissioners were engaged in preparations neceasary to have tho property of the old department transferred to their control. Tho roorgani- gation of the department is proceoding very satisfactori- ly, and the members of the old departinent are rapidly giving their acquiescence to the now order of things. WHERE THE COMMISSIONERS WILI. MEET. Owing to the difficulty of getting any more suitable focatfom for their headquarters, tho Commissionors yes- terday deciaed to hold their meetings in Firemon's Hall, Mercer street, untti different arrangements can be made, TRANSFER OF THE fRoPERTY OF THE OLD DEPART- MENT, The Commissioners. visited thé Comptroller yosterday for the purpose of making an official application for the transfer of the hanks ne of the old department. Mr. Pinckney, on behalf of the Bonrd, prosented the follow- {ng demand to the Camptroller:— Merrorourtan Free Derart tent, New Yorn, June 24, 1865, Hon. M. T. Brexwan, Comptrolior of the City of Now York :— Sim—Pursuant to section seventeen of the act of tho Legislature entitled, “An act to create a Metro- litan Fire Department therein,’ March 1865, by which all persons having charge of any real estate or other property, then or theretofore in use by tho firement, or the department of the city of Now Yor! are required’ to deliver the samo to the keeping and custody of the Metropolitan Fire Department, I hereb: respectfully apply to you for the “ ery tous of suel Property in your charge. By order of the Board, C. €. PINCKNEY, President. Mr. Brennan thén handed the annexed order to the Commissioners. It provides for the tranfer of all the property involved: — Comprrotien's Ovvill, dyne 24, 1865. ‘To ALL Persons HAVING CHANGE oF Tux Beat Esrate any PeRsoNAL PRopeRty ov Th Crry or New YORK, Now IN DER AND OCCUPATION BY THR Finn DaPARTMENT:— Permisston i# hereby given to the Commissioners of the Metropolitan Le phe established under an act passed March 30, 1805, to take posseasion of the real estate and other property of the city now occupied or in use by thé Fire Peete; and over which i have any authority or control, MATTHEW T. BRENNAN, Compteoller. The Choctaw Indians, Fort Smirm, June 26, 1965 Ex-Governor Wade, of the Choctaw Nation, has arrived here from Doaksville, to confer with General Bussey, commanding the Distfict of thé Frontier, for tho return to their homes of all the Choctaw Indians who have ‘been engaged in the robel amy. A tomporary treaty of peace was effected with the Choctaw Indians at Doaks. villo on the 18th instant, by Colonel Mathews, of the Ninety-ninth Tlinois infantry, who was sent_as'cormis- sioner on the part of the United States. The Indians agree to cease wt once all hostilities against the United States and return to their homos and redume their former occupations. Governor Wade brings the reaolutions adopted by the Grand Council and treaty of twenty tribes wire pA ab Armastrong’s Academy on the 16th inst., in whieh they declare they will immediately cease all’ acts of hostility to tho United States and will sond a delegation of five from each tribo to Washington to negotiate bases for a permanent peace. ‘Tho Indians appear very friendly to the United Stat and aro anxious to resume friendly relations, A Gran Council is to moot again on September 1. General Buesy has issued an order fnviting all Indians to return to their homes, and assuring them that they will not be molested by the United States authorities #o long as they keep tho temporary treaty of peace entered into, He also says he provides for tho payment of all beef cattle procured from the Indian nations for the Tinited States troops, and provides for the protection of their property. Governor Wade will be occasion vos assurance that no further trouble by the Choote Little Rock— tton, Cato, June 24, 1865. The steamor Cardinal was recently sunk a short dis- tance below Little Rock. The estimated loss is $70,000, An arrival from New Orleans, with dates to the 18th fostant, brings 1,034 bales of cotton for Cairo amd 826 bales for 8t. Louts, One hundred and fifty bales of cotton passed wp for St. Louis last night. It is thought that 1,000 bales will cover the amount of cotton in the Red river country. ‘The cotton and tobacco crops along the Mississippl are reported to be in a promising condition. Sinking of a Mo: “Canada” was the fotlowing toast, and, fa compliance with vociferous demands, Mr. Butchelor theroto in a long and interesting speech, the main poins of which was tho cortainty of Canada being annexed, as ‘a natural consequenoe, to the United States, (Mr. B.'s re~ marks were recolved with tremendous applause.) The speaker proceeded to demonstrate that the annexation of the Canadas was merely a matter of timo, and thas Grant and sherman were predestined to prove the righteousness of the caus of liberty and the inevitable application of the Monroe doctrine, North and South. “France,” Cad aot. Cee) was pitbily answered by @ member of the local French press. Immediately following came “The Press,’ coupled with the Nrw Yorx Herat, to which our representative replied at length and portineatly in the Canadian ver- nacular. Tho remaining toasts were to the memory of the late Mr. Lincoln and Mons. Franshée, a gentleman who pre- sided over the society for eleven years. These were drank in solemn silence. Later in tho ovonin, or rather early this morning, at the earn and La sd request the _mem- ber eloquent dresses in English dy "Fudge Pullen Colonel Chambers, of the Ninety- third New Pluntecrs. Torsts and songs carried tho festivities on until — o'clock. Mons. Paul Juignet, the manager of the French theatre, delighted the com- pany with moro than one lively song, roudered in bis ‘usual ploasant way. Sopa nasil Coroners’ Inquests. THE SHOOTING OCCURRENCE IN BROOME STREET. Coroner Wildey yesterday held an inquest at Bellevue Hospital over the remains of Theresa Estrada, the little git! who is alleged to have been shot at the house of her father, 480 Broome aint, on Friday afternoon, by pistol, alleged to have Boro in the hands of Antonie Groviot, as previously report’. Most of the testimony adduced seemed to indicate that she shooting was accl- dental; but Mrs, Estrada, mother oT deceased, testified to bol eving that the shooting must hav@ teen intentional. ‘Woostor Beach, Jr., M. D., made » post-Mo.fem cxam- {nation on the body, and discovered a pixtol shot wound in the forehead, Just over the eyebrow, om the left sid the bullet Penetrating, os peste. In his opinion th 4 was thé canse of death. the jury found “that the deceased came to her death by a pistol shot wound at the hands of Antonio Graviot, sine a ee tict Graviot was committed to await the ‘action of the Grand Jury, Ho says he gave the pistol te decased to play with, at her request, and she shot herself. He js sixteen years of age, a native of Gibraltar, lives at 23 Mam street, Brooklyn, hnd is a carpenter by FAtAY, ACCIDENT AT THE ALMSHOUSE. Coveney Comin Yesterday held an inquest at the female department of she Almshouse on the body of Catherine McNally, oh¢ 6f thee 4, "mates, who died from injaries i; conte’ * falling from a fourth story W' dored a verdict of avcivents | death. 0 ty-six years and six months & d and a native of Ire! ui Decision. Important TOSS cites Juno 24, 1865. is Seventy Bales of The United States 1. The Cha ‘mama TY A save Die C.tion.—This caso was heat &' oo cotton was picked trict Court, before Judge Loritig: the steamer Vick® up floating off Wilmington, N. O89 prize and the burg. Tite United States libellod’ tt ® Vicksbur? claimed ft as property demic. rty is a prize | The deciston is now given that the prowe — - tho practice to the United'States. It has heretofom'bees + and goods in New York to allow the finder to keep cotton previous #0 picked up, —e LA point has dot boon, one to this decision, judicated. 5 This decision eatabitshos therefore a vory vali ® cedent. Gr ited In the same court «notion was made by the ‘wcoll States Attorney for the sale of the re Seta tia) ¢ aed Sten of cece ee eae tn behalf 4o- way tes, of Live e claimant. é ‘ ‘The motion was allowed by tho Court atd'ttie wa‘? t the vessel ordered, on tho g that longet delaywa 0. cause such a depreciation in tie value of the vossolima affect the intereste of all the parties concerned. Goneral Gran a. ‘ Parvapmuen, 24, 1808, | General Grant gave @ reception to the membore of the Union League and their families atthe Union League * rooms to-day, The building is decorated with bunting and flags for every State. The Sattoriee hospital band ie in attendance. National Council of Congregational Charches. at Council of Congregailonal -Ghrureh The Natio D arches closed its deliberations this afternoon, and adjourned c die a to the adjournment, Friday, September 1! ‘was recommended as & ~~. of fasting and prayer by churches represented in the Counct] Rev, Messrs. Kirk Daggett, of Illinois, and Turner, of Connecticut, were inted to propara’a pastoral loiter to the churches, giving the spirit and resulta of the Gounoil.