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

NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1506.’ . ‘ < NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT) OPFION N. W. CORNEB OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS te AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tas Littis Barsroor. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Love. Broadway.—Oviver Twist. ‘WALLACK'S THEA’ NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Mazerra—Skxcx- ton Wirxess—Two Ports. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Jxssiz Brow: .DWAY THEATRE. Broadway.—Tux Pionsux Pa- Wuere Tamun’s 4 Witt Tuses's 4 War. BARNUM’S MUSEU! Wowan—Giantess. ‘Tux Druwxanp. Open Day and | European BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 473 Broad. way.—Eenioriax Sonos, Danoss, Buavusques, &¢0.—Tax Bteeets or Naw Youx. WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 514 Broadway.—Eraiorian CouLea: as. Danoxs, 40.—Tas ContRapanD BRLLIOUS STUDENTS. HBLLER'S HALL, 585 Broadway.—Sax Francisco Mix- rruce—Ermiorian SINGING, Dancing, &0.—U. 5. G. Smanrier's Mrn- SAM freuis—Pantox Coxcxat—Cansivas ov Fux—Ricuanp HOOLEY'S HALL, 201 Bowery.—s. AMERICAN THEATRE, No. 414 Broadway.—Raccxrs, RLESQUES, &C.—Tux Scowt oF TH Potomac. STUYVESANT INSTITUTE, 659 Broadway.—Tax Itauiaw Magionurts AND Miniatuxe Taearee. NEW YORK MUSEUM Open from 10 A. M. till 10 O¥ ANATOMY, 618 Brosdway.— PM New York, Wednesday, June 28, 1865. ERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY. Advertisements for the Wrsacty Heraup must be handed tn before ten o'clock every Wednesday evening culation anong the enter; merchants, manufacturers country is increasing very ra serted iu the Wrextr Henoun v portion of the active and eaergetic people of the United sing mechanics, farmers, lomen throughout she Advertisements in- 1 thus be seen by a large THE ASSASSINATION. In the military court at Washingten yester taking of testimony in the assassination case was con cluded by the examination of four or Ave witnes-es for the proavcution, the defeuce having finished the exami nation of (heir witnesses last wee": Mr. D. H. Bingham, of Alaboma, who was driven out of the State by the rebels for his Union sentiments, has prepared a stulement to be presented to the President protesting againat the appointment of sfr. Parsons as Provisional Governor. Sanford Conover, alias J. W. Wallace, the newspaper correspondent, was again before the court, and stated that aficr giving his previous evidence he returned to Montrea!, and there again met Tucker, Sanders and oth:r Tucker was very furious in his denun- for them would come. When the rebels learned that Conover had tostified before the court in Washington he says that they forced him, by loaded pistols pointed at his head, to sign the affidavit denying bis identy which Conover's testimony in those respects was partly corroborated by another wit- eas named Auser, Two printers from Selma, handwriting of G. W. author of the advortise Depaich, several mont eho, it is alleged, was the nt publhed in the Selma oiler ng 4 reward of one million delars for | of President Lincoln, Vieo President Johnson and Seer Seward. This Gale was recently arrested in Alabama ad brocght North, and is now in custody. On the conclusion of this nony Assistant Judge Advocate Bingham read an cla’ and extended argu- mont in reply to that of the Hon. riy Johnson, and tn support of the jurisdiction an adjournment till on* o'ele THE SITUATION. The President’s health was somewhat Improved yos terday, though he was still too indisposed to rereive visitors of to attend to much business. Consequently the Cabimet meeting which was to have been held to discuss South Carolina affairs was postponed. Our Charleston and Columbia despatches brought by the steamship Granada, which arrived here yesterday, from the former place on the 24th inst,, contain very totoresting accounts of tho present condition of affairs and of recent events in South Carolina. The private effects and papers of Jeff. Davis and Beauregard, recently cap- tured in Florida bad arrived in Charleston and been transmitted thence for Washington, Among them isa doepatch from General Beauregard toa member of the rebel Congress, dated at Charleston on the 13th of Octo- ber, 1862, inquiring whether the bill for the “erecution of abolition prisoners’ a’ternoon took place. (meaning national soldiers) meetings were being held in various parts of South Carolina. The cap- torod rebel ex-Secrotary of the Treasury, Trenholm, had beon committed A dimeuity re cently occurred in Charleston between the white and | 2; but it was soon suppressed both sides were wounded One of the Tin anp correspon tent 8 trip acro#s South Carolina in the track of Sherman's marob, and he describes the havoc and de most complete, The route of the » marked by burned chimneys country pretty well cleaned of Tho white people in the int admitting that they are conquered for the present, still maintain and give expreesion to their sere s008, and entertain an Intense hatred for the Yankees and the negroes. that they will be better off considerate cotton still seattered throughout the State; | but the greater part of the crop has been destroyed. | The colored poople of Columbia and raised money for the » twithetandiny this, the planters say have held incetings we of colobrating the Fourth of July by giving adinuerto the national sol diers stationed there. anna advices to the 24th inet, are supplied by the arrival here yesterday of the steamships America and Affairs in Georgia Business was gradually work of repairing the railroads to th ‘vannah was boing rapidly prosecuted, The steamer Lees- burg, woh three hundred bales of cotton and other freight non a snag in the Savannah river, Ofieen m les ‘qusta, on the 2ist inst, and sank, Two lives A fow of the members of the Sixty-fifth New vioned in Savannah, mutined on being the colored soldiers; but the rresied, and nothing serious Port au Prince. interior from Sa- Davis was prevalent at ‘oul aggug the giizong. ‘A Bichmond newspaper states that the rebel guerilla feader Mosby has been paroled, and is now residing at his home in Charlottesville, Va. ‘The paroled Missouri rebel soldiers are rapidly purcing themselves of treason. Upto the 24th inst, about five thousand of them had taken the cath of allegiance at the office of the Provost Marshal in St. Louis. ‘Three-fourths of the workmen employed in the Phila- dolphia Navy Yard are to be discharged, owing to the termination of the war having rendered their services no POWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Ksncars oF Sr. Joux— | tongor necessary, and the work of dismissal bas already commenced. ‘The Tenth Now York artillery, Colone! Piper, number- ing one thousand men; the Third Now Yori light artille- ry, Colonel Kennedy, three hundred and fifty men; three hundred and eighty-seven men of the Fifth Now York artillery; four hundred mon of the First Massachusetts cavalry, under Major Hopkins, and sixty men of the Se- ‘venth Ohio cavalry, arrived in the city yesterday. EUROPEAN NEWS. ay—Two Living Windiaaen ‘The steamship Cuba reached this port yesterday with advices to the 18th instant, two days later than those telegraphed from the Damascus. A Paris paper states that the insult offered to the Ameri- can flag at Honolulu by Lord Ohas. Beresford, a midship- man in the British navy, was net considered fully atoned for by the prompt reparation which the offender was compelled to makeon the spot, Further satisfaction had been sought from the British government, and an apology had been forwarded to Washington, The projected visit of the French iron-clad feet to England had been postponed until August, in cousequence of dome repairs being required. These repairs were prob- ably rendered necessary by a serious collision which oo- curred just before the French Emperor set out from Al- geria between two vossels of the fleet, The Toulon experiments with a new infernal machine were referred to in the French Chambers on the 15th, and destructive powers of a very high order were claimod for the inyention, but were partially discredited by the Ministerof Marine, Electricity is said to be the principal agency employed. ‘The object of the Spanish plot recently discovered at Valentia is as-erted to have been the overthrow of the Bourbon dynasty in Spain and the union of Spain with The name of General Prim, now in France, is Portugal. mixed up with the schemo. of Prus: proaches. United States securities still tend upward in Kurope. on the 17th. British consols 90 a 9034. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. damage. exterminating the Indians, some different arrangoment can be made, was reco:ved from the Compirollor, sonding in the eati- Fire Deparument for the years 1365 and 1866. The osti- for the parchase of engines and Hose, and keeping them in repair; the purchase and expense of horses, paymont of chiof and assistant engineers, pay ment of drivers, cost of qaslight and contingent expeagea, The paper was referred to the Comui om Anuusl Taxes. Joba Stewart, proprietor of a flour mill in Markford, Wisconsin, brought a sait yesterday in the Supreme Court, before Judge Clerke, to recover from the Phenix Insurance Company, of this city, two thousand dollars, the amount of a ri-k taken on bis establishment, which was subsequently desiroyed by fire. Tho defence set up was that the plaint®, at the time of insuring, had made false representations, and this claim the Judge main- tained, ond therefore dismissed the comp!a.nt, In the Court of General Seasioas yesterday, Edward Friel, cons feted of receiving stolen goods, was fined two hundred and fifty dollars, the Recorder stating that the defendant had made full restitution to the firm from whom the goods were stolen by the (hives on whose testimony a verdict of guilty was rendered. John Troy, who pleaded guilty tea init and battery, was fined fifty dollars, John Keene, a pickpocket, pleaded guilty to an attempt at grand larceny, in stealing a gold watch worth one hundred dollars, from Thomas Dougherty, on a Third avenue car, which recovered at the time. He was sent to the State Prison for two years and five months, Nathan Wass was convicted of rand larceny, he having entered a fustonable boarding house in Kast Fourteenth street a few days since and stolen gentlemen’s wearing apparel, He was sentenced to the Stato Prixon for three years, Ann Huuter, conv: of stealing one hundred and soventy dollars from James Hagan, was sent to the Peni- tentiary for three months, Tho petty jury, before being discharged, were complimented by the Court for their punctual and faithful attendance, There were one hun- dred and fifty cases disposed of during the term. Forty- eight persons were sent to the State Prison. The Rev. H. H. Garnett, a colored minister, delivered an address last evening in the Cooper Institute, in favor of giving the nogro the ballot. The twentieth annual commencement of Packer Fo- male Collegiate Insitute, Brooklyn, took place last even- ing. The exercises were of an interesting and creditable charactor. A meeting of the German pianoforte makers was held last night at Turn Hall, for the purpose of effecting an organization and regulating the rate of pay. There are about two thoneand pianoforte makers in the city, mostly Germans. Of these about three hundred have joined tho association. 1t was resolved to call a national conven- tion of the piano makers, to mect in this city next month. A meeting of the German tailors was held last night at the Bowery Garden, to take measures to prevent a re- duction of their wages. ‘The Masonic Hall m East Thirteenth street was opened last night with appropriate exercises, After the con- clusion of the ceremonies peentiar to the order there were | weoncert, a supper and da ber of ladies and gentlemen participated. In the Court of Special Seasions yesterday, before Jus- tices Dowling and , a number of persons roesived | their sentences for assault and battery, petit larceny, &c., the penaltics in the various cases ranging from two dol- | Inrs fine and one day's imprisonment, to fifty dollars dne and six months imprisonment, ‘The police, having obtained information that a large amount of counterfeit paper money was concealed tn the Carson House, No. 151 Crosby street, yesterday morning visited that place and succeeded in securing a quantity of | the spurtous stuff, rey ting nearly twenty thousand dollars. The bills were of denominations ranging from two to ton dollars, and were on various banks in this and other States, including the New York Exchange Bank, bank of Kinderhook and Bank of Fistkill, Ae no person could be found who appeared to know anything about the counterfeits, no arrests were made, ‘Twenty-four female street walkers arrested on Monday night in the region of roadway, Fifth avenue and ‘Twenty-third street, were yesterday committed for ex- arm|nation, hh Sweetzer, keeper of a lager beer saloon in the was yesterday required to give five hundred dollars ball to answer the charge of assaulting in his place a conntryman named Charles Wadele, and inflict jing on him a severe wound with a sword. At the Vermont Democratic State Convention, held at Burlington yeeterday, ©. N. Davenport was nomimated for Governor and D. ©, Linsley forLieutenant Governor, Resolutions reaffirming democratic principles and endors- ing President Johnson's reconstruction policy were adopted. A fire yosterday at Bieck Rock, N. ¥., destroyed the iron works of Pratt & Go, and the adjacent railroad bridge. The loss on the fron works i# estimated at one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The stockholders of the Buflalo and Stato Line Railroad held their annual meeting ot Buifalo yesterday and clectod directors. At @ meoting of tho directors Dean Richmond ¥ nimously elected President. Among the Jopments made by the recent investt- gation in Hamilion, Canada, instituted in consequenc charges that the Ohief of Police and one of the aldormea of that town wero the leaders of a gang of burglars, are the facts, 1t to said, (hat a lady moving in the most aris. The breach between the feudal party and the lib rals was widening, Herr Von Bismark dismissed the Prussian Parliament om the 17th with angry re- Our tive-twenties were quoted at 6934 a 69% in London Our advices from Belize, British Honduras, mention that that town was visited by an earthquake during the night of the 20th of May, which, however, did no In Yucatan Maximilian’s imperial forces are suid to be At a meeting of the new Fire Commissionors yeatorday a letter was reccived from Chief Engineer John Decker, volunteering his services to the new department until At yesterday's meeting of the Board of Supervisors a communication mates oi the Fire Commissioners of the expenses of the mat» for 1865 is six hundred thetsand dollars, and for 1866seven hundred and Afty thousand dollars, This is ing, in which a large num. | eof the'reosiver of the’ stolen goods of this band, and that hor house was used to secrete (hens. ‘The stock market was more eotive and firm yesterday morning, but im the afternoon it weakened, Gold opened firm, and roge to 149, but closed at 140% » 140%, under the Cuba's news Governments were barcly steady. Tho closing quotation for gold at night was 140%. mi receipts of animals at the live stock markets this week were as follows :—Beef cattle, 5,645; milch cows, 106; veal calves, 2,627; sheop, 18,620, and Mve hogs 14,640. The offerings of beef cattle were large, and the general quality inferior to that noted for some weeks past. We quote the market dull and weak, with but lit- to exsontial change from last week's quotations, Good to prime cattic sold at 16c. @ 17%e. per pound, feir ab 16c., common at 1dc., and poor at Llc, 218c, Cows were steady. Veal calves wore about le, per pound higher. Shoop were plenty, and sell at 6c. @ Tc., and live hogs at Oe. a 1040, per pound, live weight, Seoretary McCulloch and the Internal Revenue Departmont. In the Times of Monday appeared a defence of the Internal Revenue Department, written, as wo have every reason to believe, bya graduate of: Fort Lafayette. This department has been the subject of a great deal of popular animad- version, and we do not think that the article in the Times is calculated to do it any good. This article charges that the people of the United States, and especially of New York city, are @ set of cheats, swindlers and per- jurers. The corruption of officials i@ to us a very old story; but the Bohemian of the Times opens an entirely new view of the case when he dflates, through six mortal columns, upon the corruption of the people generally. We respectfully call the attention of Secro- tary McCulloch to the article in question. It is one which is calculated to do almost as much damage to the public credit as the circular of Mr. Jay Cooke, which we have just exposed. The whole department needs a thorough over- hauling. There are abuses here in New York which would disgrace any government on the face of the earth. Among the internal revenue detectives and other officials there are gradu- ates of the Tombs prison, who carry into their new vocation the experience which they have gained In that congenial residence. A certain assessor has discovered that his assistants pos- sess the power—and exercise it, too—of open- ing his desk and abstracting therefrom his official returns, How easy it is to alter these returns; and how much money can be gained by this simple little transaction are evident to the most obtuse observation. It only requires an official investigation to establish the fact that the thieves and burglars who are among the attaches of the Internal Revenue Depart- ment do not neglect their opportunities of plunder, and grow rich upon the profits which they pick out of the pockets of the people. When the provisions of the Tax bill, and the numerous and sometimes conflicting opinions of Mr. Commiasioner Lewis, are considered, any one can easily understand how difficult itis for our business men to conform strictly to the laws in making their returns, Am experienced lawyer is required to draw up any merchant's return in strict accordance with all the recent decisions upon disputed points in the law. Those merchants and other men of business who | do not employ such lawyers, reader themselves liable to a visit from one of the internal reve- nue detectives, and to all the pains and penal- tiea which the detective may choose to inflict. The victim, who is first subdued by threats of a prosecution for perjury, willingly consents to pay the detective five or ten thousand dollars, over and above the legal penalty, in order to hush the matter ap; and it resis entirely wilh the detective himself whether or not he iniorms the government of the amount paid him to secure his silence. The sysiom of farming out offices, in which Fernando Wood was such a great adept, seems also to be adopted by the Internal Revenue Department; and, in short, we know of but few forms of vice to which the prison birds who figure among the assessors, collectors and detectives of the department do not resort. These criminals find « fit defender in the author of forged prociamations and the gradu- ate of Fort Lafayette, It is quite characteria- tic of their line of business that they should reply to the criticisms upon their own conduct by impeaching the honesty of the American people. The spy system is as abhorrent to the spirit of our government as the system of wholesale murder and assassination which the rebels inaugurated after the battle of Gettys- burg, and which resulted in the decease of President Lincoln. Yet, as the Times informs us, a corps of detectives has been organized for this metropolis, and we already know that some of these detectives have resorted to ter- rorism and blackmail, in order to reap a rich harvest from our ignorant or unsuspecting citi- zens. Great Britain,.a country which has a larger debt than ours, pays its intorest bya revenue tax upon five or six articles of com- merce or production. Our legislators have not had the wisdom to profit by the experience of older countries, bat persist in prying into a citizen’s cnpboard for his silver, into his pocket for his watch, and into his safe for his receipts and expenditures. No one ean deny that the | Internal Revenue Department has employed, in some instances, the right men for this sort of work. Among ita attaches it numbers those who can break into a cupboard, pick a pocket, and burst open a safe as well as any professor at Sing Sing. We doubt, however, whether the result of such operations is to make the de- partment any more popular and effective, and whether the accusations of swindling and per, jury brought against our people by such fel- lows as the Bohemian of the Times are calcu- lated to increase our internal revenue. With these remarks, we turn the whole subject over 4o Secretary McOulloch for his inspection and de cision. Tus Heavtn or Presipent Jonnson.—We are gratified to hear that President Johnson, who has been suffering several days from the ceascless rush of visitors to the White House, repenting rebels, reconstruction committees, complaining negro delegations, military officers, official agents from the South, troublesome place hunters, politicians, &o., &., ia improv- ing. He must, however, establish a rule of so many hours a day for public business, so many for visitors, and no more, and #0 many for rest and recreation, or his strength will not be equal to the task before him, Hardened to labor and loss of rest as President Johnson has become, through a long public career of the severest | trials of physical strength and endurance, time and nature will still exact their compensations, He must now husband his strength, and look to his health as one of the first duties he owes, not only to himself, but to the country. Let him fix his hours for business and his hours for relaxation, and rigidly adhere to thom, or he tooratic ciroles of the piace bas boon shown ta have beon | will break down Busgrme or Ou. Bussixs.—From the begin- ning of the excitement in regard to petroleum we have cautioned the public against being deceived by swindlers who seized the occasion to get up bogus companies. At the same time we asserted our conviction that there were several companies, conducted by honorable men, which might repay investment. In the progress of time we have geen our predictions realized—the sound companies have withstood the severest shocks that ever assailed joint stock corporations, such as the devastation created by an overwhelming flood of water and the crash and panic which inevitably follow an overwhelming flood of spurious stock upon the market, The developments which a few months ago succeeded the visit of the internal tax asseasor to the managers of certain CAROLINA DBLuGATION. ‘The President's health is somewhat improved to-day, though he is not yet well enough to attend to budiness. In consequence of his illness there was no Cabinet meet. ing to-day. South Carolina affairs to be discumed ‘at the meeting to-day; but of course the whole matter | indications are that there will bes violent contest A'S Festoration. The presence here of the delegation late 'y violent rebels from that State is regarded with much “issatisfaction by the Union men, of whom Dr. Mackey .'* the leader and representative, and ahy com cossions te’ hem wit! certainly lead to much trouble, PRorsst a@. ‘INST THE APPOINTMENT OF JUDGE PAB- sons 48 GOVERNOR OF ALABAMA, Mr. D. HL. Bing." ® refugee from Alabama, who was & next to Fred. Douglass. He contended that unless black mam had extended to him the use of the stood where he would exert « power that k i di il companies Boston | their the large plantation holders would that & ‘8 for his Union sentiments soem mock mining and oil is ete Poona up thelr leads which, have. been. do- Prikigtapiativen cm! Of Wie sebeliion, és sieveaned showed the swindling character of these con- strvyed by the system of slay Lie rites od aes Frage fas —— cerns, which has not been without a wholesome | inbuman conduct | ot Giiontas ashes . ae pinned ‘Pateons es pesca ty -~ effect upon outside speculators in that city. black man and woman, Tho te Froaitent of the Unies ernor, He gives tho Feeord of the men We have just had in this city the case of an | Sites solemnly pledund the. tay the Unoa. Belying | who composed the Alabams dele showing officer decamping with the funds of one oil | upon that oath, thousands of black men rushed to arms most of thom to have beem original ais’ Persistent rebels, ‘and the of the and. to the battle-feld. Ho alinded to the #67") gna to have largely assisted, persoually aaa by thelr company, arraignment officer | aificant aud cous fact that at the recont review wealth ond infl im sustatning the rbd, covers- of another upon charges of fraud. As these exposures proceed the public will. become more and more convinced of the soundness of our advice to beware of all atocks that do not bear upon their face evidences: of intrinsic value. We repeat the caution at this time, Keep ‘aloof from all those mining, oil,'coal and other bogus concerns whose resources can only be found in the effrontery of their managers. The next Legislature, we trust, will pass a law punishing with fine and imprisonment in the State Prison all the Peter Funks engaged in robbing the unwary through these mock stock companies. ‘Tae Brooxtyn Vowonrees Fmewen.—There have recently been two serious and disgraceful riots on Long Island, in which the Brooklyn firemen were participators. One occurred at Flushing, on the very day preceding the deci- sion of the Court of Appeals as to the constitu- tionality of the paid fire department commis- sion, and the other took place at Glen Cove on Monday, where the most outrageous guerilla raids were made on the property of citizens all round the vicinity, and a hotel was robbed and sacked. The Albany Legislature were mainly induced to enact the law establishing a paid fire department and abolishing the volunteer system because of the alleged rowdy character of the New York firemen and the frequent fights occurring between the different compa- nies, Brooklyn was exempt from the opera- tion of the new law because itwas presumed that her firemen were well behaved, orderly and lamb-like gentlemen, who could never be tempted into breaking the peace. Recent ment and in proscribing and persecuting Ut He suerte that the action of the President formerly controlled it, and ostracives and puts ban the real Union men of the State, who will J fiden by them. Tho protest isa very carnest one, a ‘no doubt truthfully represents the views and foolings ef many men who olaim that the President has. been de- ceived by the self-appointed delogation into making @ highly obnoxious appointment. PARDON AND APPLICATIONS YOR PARDON. ‘The business of granting pardons is unavoidably slow, ‘as the papers in each case have carefully to be examined before the result is reported to the President for hie approval. Hon. Edward Hubbard, of Virginia, is here making application for pardon under the proclamation of the President, his property exceeding the $20,000 limit of the amnosty. ‘The following aro the only pardons granted to-day by the President:—J. E. Rankin, Kentucky; A. W. Huber, W. A. Thorn, ©. E. Thorn, RG, H. Kean, A. Sands, @ 3. Farley, W. W. Willingham and W. J. D. Bell, of Vie. ginia; T. J. Motealf and Charles Estes, of Georgia; J. @. Greely, of Florida; David Block, of Arkansas, and 0. Johnson, of Kentucky. POSTAL FACILITIES IN VIRGINIA. Lieutenant Parker, special agent for the Post Office Department, informs us that it is probable a large per- tion of tho “Old Dominion”’ will soon enjoy the blessings: of federal postal facilities. A huge bundle of papers has been received by the department in relation to the Fred- erickaburg Post Office, and no less than twenty-two ap- plicants are plying the authorities with proofs of loyalty and fitness for the position, If the loyalty of a people can be inferred from the number of hungry office seek- ers, there are none but good and true mon at present: residing in tho State of Virginia. OATHS OF AMNESTY AND ALLEGIANCE SENT TO THE STATE DEPARTMENT. i Betwoen ten and twelve thousand oaths of amnesty and allegiance were sent to tho State Department to-day by Colonel Ingraham, Provost Marshal of the defences Jongth tho various schomes of reconstruction proposed. He thought the New York Hxratp’s plan was an im- provement on Lincoln and Johnson's ‘ that distinguished one was a skill far-secing, far- sighted man; he thought that the editor a litle out of the way when he prescribed tho ter member- ship in the church for five years, for the Methodists only put their candidates for membsrehip upon a probation of six months. He proolaimed himself a radical man, and in favor of going to the root of the evil. biacks did not want any other protection than fair play. Opening of t Masonic Hall in Bast Thirteenth Street. ‘The Masonic bodies of the Ancient and Accepted rite opened their ball, 114 and 116 Kast Thirteenth, last eve- ning with appropriate exercises, Tho Lodge of Perfeo- tion, Council of the Princes of Jerusalom, Rose Croix Chapter and Consistory comprise this rite, which is under tho Sapreme Council of the Thirty-third and last degree. The opening exercises took place in the amphitheatre of the Hall. Beauty an@ fashion conjoined seemed to give the Hall, which was tastefully draped with Masonic colors and replete with the symbols of the craft, s most attractive appearance, Brothers McCionahan, Gibson, ‘Ward, Gardnor, Davis, Biggs, Satterlec, Carpenter, Draper, Barney, Jones, Ysley, Prothars and Swift formed an efficient committee of arrangements. The programme was commenced by the overlure to Roxsini’s William Tell, performed on the organ by Profes- sor Morgan. It is hardly necessary to say that this, por- haps the most difflcult of operatic overtures, wus ron- dered with vigor by this talented performer. The duct, “Wo are Fairies from the Sea," was warbled with much sweotness by two young ladies Miss Sarah Latty and Miss RK. Kustaco—whose asertion as regards their iden- tity was fully sustamed by their sylphlike appearance. Miss Mina and Mr. Gustavus Geary fully sustained their high reputation as artiets in tho a eet Mate Qual Terva,”’ from Verdi's Masnadicre.”” ing the evening there was an opportunity afforded to tho audience of comparing the powers of the two distinguished pianists, Messrs, Jaa. M. Wehli and Harry Sandorson. To give oither the pre-eminence would require the presence of a more * artial judge than ourselves; each is 4 masier of the in- th of the Potomac, that have been accumulating ia syonts Dave. Sowa. ies is Weare” Neen Hromett; “tolh deservedly received ho hearty plaudits 1 east ahd 1861, and which to this time have gud idea, and it is now evident that the law ought | of those presont. a ” been officially acted upon. Tho dolay,in transmitting them to the department excites some surprise. CONFISCATED LANDS FOR NEGRORS. Tho Freodman’s Bureau has set apart a largo qaaa- tity of confiscated and abandoned land in the South, in tracts of various sizes, and in-various lovalities, foe the especial benofit of negroes. Tess than one hum dred thousond are now subsisting on government ra tions in the State of Virginia alone. DEMAND FOR NEGRO LABOR IN MARYLAND. Great demand for negro laborexists in Maryland. The farmers there are paying fifteen dollars per month te males, and from ten to twelve to females, for fleld laber. The supply is still short, and agents have again beem sont in different directiona to make contracts and indase immigration, notwithstanding their recent expulsion from Richmond. JUDGB CATRON'S SUCCESSOR. Thore is a good deal of competition for the seat on the bench of the Sapreme Court, vacated by the death of Judge Catron. The Hon. Horace Maynard, of Tennesses, is regarded as most likely to secure the appointment final- ly. Attorney Geaeral Speed is also understood to have judicial aspirations, Among the other names mentioned are those of Edward H. Durell, of the United States Die- trict Court of New Orleans, and Charles W. Horner, alee of New Orleans. CORBOLIDATION OF THB BAST AND WEST GULP SQUADRONS. The Bast and Weat Gulf squadrons are to be consoll- dated under the command of Aoling Rear Admiral . Thatcher. In the second part of the programme the principal foa- tures wero Bishop's “diome, Sweet Home,” “iid me Discourse,” by Mise Gibson, and an “Organ Solo,” by Professor Morgaa. The first of these was sung by Miss Mina Geary, witha swoetness wnd pathos peculiarly her own. Wore it not for the programme stating that no encores would be allowed we are satisfied there would be no limit-to the demands which would have been made throughout the evening. At the conclusion of the programme the company par- tonk of a “petit aniper,”” at which the hospitable oharac- tor of the Masonic order was really brought into play. “Terpsichoro"' reigued through the night, till an early hour this morning, aud amid the whirl of the mazy dance “bright oyes looked love to eyes which spoke again.” From the nature of the opening we are satisfied the now hall will bo devoted to brotherhood and good fellowship, which form the corner stone of the Masonic wiructure. to be extended to Brooklyn, unless the deni- zens'of Long Isiand are to be subjected to the guerilla assaulis of the voluntoer firemen on every festive occasion. Monsizor Toxsox Comm AGain.—That mys- terious rebel emissary and Tribune Canadian correspondent, Conover, alias Wallace, was again before the military court at Washington yesterday, with another cock-and-bull story. We had supposed there were two or three of these exiraordinary Conovers; but it appears thero is only one—first going from Canada to Washingion to tell all that he knows of his rebel Canadian assotiates, then posting back to them to putin a counier affidavit, and then back again to Washington to make it all right once more fn ths! quarter. We would now advise the friends in the 7rilune office of this remarkable man Conover to stop him. If he should make another trip to Canada there is no telling what ex-Senator Westcott may do; for he is as terrible and bloody-minded in his wrath as Colorado Jewett, Beau Hickman, or Massa Greeley bimaclf. Sovrmenn Corrox.—All the trade restrictions of the war having been removed from the late City Intelligence. Tue Genwan Piano Markee. —The German journey:men piono makers held a meeting at the Turner Hail, last night, for the purpose of effecting an organization. of the Piano Makers’ Association, which about a year ago num- bered some fifteen Lundred members, who bad organized thomscives for the parpose of regulating the price of labor, in which they wero quite sucovasful at the time. The presont movement has been inaugurated with a view of keeping up the preasnt rate of wage, whieh, at an avoragG, ix fourteen or fifvesn dollars. The new organt- gation ‘numbers alrewly three hundred members Thera are about two thousand piano makers employed im this city, whe are mostly Ger- mans, Laat night, atter enrolling additional mem- bors, measures for Calling a convention of the piano makers {rom alt parts of the Umion were discussed. ‘The convention ts to be called for the purpose of reguinting tho wages of b perten ew throughout the United States and as most of the Germar piano makers are singers, it is proposed to conven the Plano Makers’ Convention during the ninth Saengortost, fext month, when the sing THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC. rebellious States, including Arkansas, Western | {fom oll bans of te (olen om insical demonstration 1a | General Monde returned from Philadelphia this mora- Louisiana and ‘fexas, we may soon expect large | tus city. A resolution to this effect was adopted, and | tug, and is superintonding the mustering out of portions in conclusion some measures wore discussed in reference to joining the German Workingmen’s Union. Tax Tattons.—The tailors, whe are reprosentad by two different organizations, one of which is exclusively Ger- man, met last night at the Bowery Garden, to complete the reor) jon of their bodies, with a viow of pre- ventiag a reduction of the for labor, which has been repeatedly attempted, ugh not since @ recent mass meeting of the tail which was held at the Bowery Garden. Mr. Jacob Moretess, the President of the Working Tailors’ Trade Protective and Benevolent Union, oceupied the chair, and some fifty new members were admitted. Further measures were taken to ¢on- tinue the movement against # reduction of wages and to stimulate those that are not yet in the Union to join thie organization. AN Organ Guixpun Kxoonnp Our or Tows.—Last night, betwoem nine and teno’clock, an orgamgrinder named Gustavus Mectch, while: supplying. music to the public near the corner of Broadway and Fulton atreet, was un- coremoniously knocked out of tuno by a vehicle which also Knocked. him down and was near driving over him. ‘The poor man fortunately was not seriously hurt, but this does not excuse the driver for driving on h nothing had occ and for whose arrest a reward should be offered by the Mayor. Bor Mrsing.—A boy vamed John Joseph Wilson, aged ten years, and having on a suit of gray clothes and a dark straw hat, has been missing sinoo the morning of tho 18th inst, Any information concerning Lim will be thankfully received by his mother, Mrs, Mary A. Wilson, if sent to the Police Headquarters, Mulberry street of hisarmy. Within a week the world-renowned Army trivals of cotton arrivals of oot on the seaboard en route for of the Potomac will most Kkely cease te exist as an or- England. There are probably now as many as two millions of bales of cotton scattered about in holes and corners throughout the South, and those who have it to sell, and those who are seeking to buy, should assist each other in bringing it out; and, for the rolief of the South- ern people, the government, in every available way, should assist them in getting their cotton to market, and every other staple of Southern produce they may have to exchange for bread and clothing. The necessities of the suffering Southern people are urgent, and call for imme- diate relief. Thousands of those people are famishing while the means of relief are’ all around them, needing only purchasers and bread and clothing in exchange. General Grant is advertised to-appear at half a dosea dideront places:om the coming Fourth of July, He has beon steadily decliuing invitations for weoks past, and contemplates spending the day at home. OCOUPATION OF THE PUBIAC LANDS. The movement towards the occupation and settlement: of the publio lands has greatiy increased since the ond ef the rebellion became apparent. The returns just re- ceived at the Goneral Land Office show that in April last over fifty-eix thousand: acres, valued at over seventy thousand dollars, were taken up'for actual settlement under the Homestead law, at St. Cloud, Minnesota, PRE-RMPTION CLAIMS ON LANDS IN CALIFORNIA. An immense mass of testimony in support of pre-emp- tion claims on the Suscal ranch, the city lands of Bent- cia, and the United States reservation at Benicia, Califor- nia, have boen received'at the General Land Office. By act of Congress of the 34 of March, 1863, provision ia made for pre-emption rights within their limits, and as the lands are very valuable there is much contest for their possession, Tho cases are now before the depart- ment for final adjudication. JOHN MINOR BOTTS. John Minor Botts seems inclined to make frequent ap- pearances on the public stage, and continually attempts s new réle. Since abandoning the idea of becoming the great pacificator between the federal governmont and the State of Virginia, he has paid partioular attention to the distribution of the spoils, His last attempt waa to over awe the Post Oftice Department, by insisting that some Virginian was entitled to the office of Postmaster at Rich- mond, He was not 60. successful in this matter as he was in obtaining the allowance of ten thousand dollars for wood used or destroyed by the federal government. MR. CHASE'S TOUR THROUGH THR SOUTH. ‘Tho pleasure trip of Mr. Chase through tire Southera States at the government expense is giving rive to un- friendly criticism. Many people are at a Joas to under. stand why he should be furnished a revenue outter for tho transportation. of himself and party, at ao, alleged cost to the country of twonty-five hundred) dollars por day, when gentlemen of equal patriotism, if not of oiMoiat position, aro compelled to pay their own travelling @x- penees or remain at home. It i# not pretended, we be- lievo, that Mr. Chase is making the tour im the service of the government. In some of his published speeches he oxprossly disclaims the imputation of speaking by au- thority, ancbadvocates doctrines known to be at variance with the views of the administration. If the Attorney Gonoral wore making tho tour he might be supposed to have the ostablishmeat of United States courts at heart, but no such duty ia within the scope of Mr. Chaso’e office, and the affair is considered an imposition THE IRISH BRIGADE. The Lrieh Brigade, consisting of the sixty-third, Stxty- ninth and Bighty-eighth New York Veteran Volunteera, and the Twonty-cighth Massachusetts Veteran Votum toars, commanded by Brigadier Genoral Nugent, late colonel of the Sixty-ninth, will leave hore on Saturday or Sunday, as a brigade, only eiglsoon hundred strong, for muster out. MOVEMENTS OF GENERAL RAWLINS, Major Gonorat Rawlins and family left here for a vialt to tho Wost this morning Massacuuserrs ap THe “Nearo Suvrraae Question.—The Massachusetis radicals are clamorous for universal negro suffrage in the rebel States as essential to their reorgeniza- tion on @ loyal platform. Suppose that Presi- dent Johnson concedes this point, and shall then propose, for the satisfaction of Massachu- setts, to apply her own law of suffrage to the rebel States, how will that work? The right of suffrage in Massachusetts being restricted to male citizens over twenty years of age who can read and write, under this system in the rebel States nearly all the blacks would be excluded and about one-seventh of the whites, most of them loyal men. How will this answer the radi- cals of Faneuil Hall? We think that Brother Beecher was right in suggesting that before they ean justly undertake to instruct President Johnson upon the subject of the elective fran chise in South Carolina they must practice what they preach in Massachusetts. Kenrvoky AND Tae OoneriTuTionAL AmEND- ment.—The Union party in Kentucky are making a vigorous campaign—in view of the coming Apgust election in that State—ia favor of the amendment of the federal constitution abolishing slavery. From all appearances they will secure the Legislature and the ratification. The vote of Kentucky, however, has. ceased to bo necessary to incorporate the amendment in question into the supreme law of the land, President Johnson having notified the South Carolinians that a declaration af the abolition of slavery on the part of that State and the ratification of said constitutional amendment must precede her restoration to the federal Congress. If Kentucky, therefore, shall fail to make up her mind this season that slavery ia really dead, sho may have the fact impressed upon her as with a hot iron by the voto of South Carolina establishing the decree aa part and paroel of tho constitulion of the United Statos C. L. Daboll, Ksq., the inventor and projector of the air whistle and trumpet, saila to-day in the steamship Scotia for Liverpool. He goes to Kurope to superintend the erection of a largo rotating fog trumpet apparatus, which he has had made for the English government; algo another in Scotland, and is to return, via Halifax, N. S., and superintend the erection of a similar apparatus there. Mr. Daboll, as a.genuine American, js entitled to much credit for his perseverance in an enterprive whitch 1g all-important to navigation, and, if his life is spared, will yot be able to develope this signal more fully. The Hon. A. T. Galt, Finance Minister of Canada, and the Hon, George Brown, President of the Council, arrived yesterday in the steamship Cuba from England. Messrs. Galt and Brown formed part.of the delegation sent by Canada to England in reference to « confederation of the provinces, and to arrange matters in reference to the defence of the country. Winter Ganpes,—Miss Hosmer appeared last ovening ‘as Pauline, in the Lady of Lyons, a part that she sustains remarkably well. This lady's efforts have hitherto bean 60 unequal—she has done so well one night and 80 poorly the next; sho has even qualified her exsollences with so many faults in the same piecs, that it is tolerably high praise when we are able to sag, as wo ean now, that her good rendition of the part of Pauline was not marred by any glaring error. The play was also.well performed in the other parts, Mr. Hill's Melnotte was a very credita- blo piece of acting. Mr. Dyott's Deschapetles was admi- | rable, and tho parts of Beauseant and Glavis had a great deal better treatment than they usually get in star en- gageraonts. Buvant's Mixerents.—The original and inimitable Bry- ants will close their sexzon in about two. weeks, and than begin a tour through the country. Bannew's Moanva,—Mr, M. Leviok, avery accomplish ed actor, takes bis benefit this afternoon sad evening. wi W. Glarke will appear. The Seven-Thirty Loan. Paieapeiema, June QT, 1865. Jay Cooke roporta the subscriptions to the seven-thirty Joan to-day at $2,201,700. The wumbor of individual subscriptions for $60 and $100 was on» tuousand six ‘undrod and tom. Pane Theater. —Mr. Davidge, the popular comedian, will take his benedt at the Park theatre, Brooklyn, thie evening, supported by a talented company. Alt la Not Gold That Glitters and Jonny Lind aroon tho bull