The New York Herald Newspaper, July 9, 1865, Page 4

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The rolatives and friends of the assassins executed on Friday last made application to Genoral Hartranft for the bodies, which request he was obliged to decline, but re- forred the petitioners to the Secretary of War, with what effect is unknown. No order has yet boen received for the removal of the living conspirators to the peni- tentiary whore they are to be confined. THE SITUATION. An ordor Las been issued by the Secretary of War, com- ‘manding all oMcers and enlisted men on detached ser- vice, and absent from duty, to immediately return to their respective commands. Interesting Southern news is given by our Richmond, Lynobburg, Norfolk and Fortress Monroe correspondents. ‘Tho most important item is, that on account of the riotous Conduct prevailing for some time past in the city of Norfolk, Virginia, it has been found necessary to re- establish martial Iaw there. The rebel report of the wiv of the United States property taken by the Confe- + erate Authoritics at the Portsmouth and Gosport Navy “Yards atta Tom the armory at Harper's Ferry is grven in our Richmond é."espondence, together with statements reapeoting an omigratioe *cheme to Equador, South Ame- rica, now on foot in Richmond mul some facts respecting the doplarabte condition of many famflics there. Gueritlaism is still prevalent in the Southwest. The town of Franklin, Louisiana, was recently sacked by a \ party of these freebooters, and five United States Trea- Laury agents, who wént into the interior of the country in Search of rebel cotton, are supposed to have been mur dered by them. ‘The old story of the rebel proposition to destroy the Croton dam is again brought to our attention by a letter, dated in March last and published in a Toronto paper, from ono J, Watson Wallace to the notorious rebel Canadian agent, Jake Thompson. counts the great damage that would accrue to New York by tho destrotion of the dam, and the fonsibloness of the undertaking. The Toronto editor al legos that tho said Wallace 1s no other than Sanford Con over, the witness In the assassination trial at Washing ¢on, and that the letter is a contradiction of his testi- mony before the militery tribunal. ‘Tho Unionists of Charleston are petitioning that their ection, rosin, and turpentine—which they had purebased under rebel rule, and bid in the hope that, at the Pesto- vation of tho Union, something might be saved to pur- chase the necessaries of life, but which was seizéd by the United States authorities ot the time of the capture of the olty—may boroturned to them, that their families may be saved from utter destitution. ‘The colored citizens of Vicksburg held a mass mecting ‘on the 19th ult., and passed resolutions in favor of enfran- chising the negroes of the State of Mississippi. jMbe fifty dollars State bounty to New York returned soldier entitled to it by reason of having enlisted betwoon Jaly 17 and September 6, 1362, in certain regi ‘monts, in now being paid by the Paymaster General at Albany and the Acting Assistamt Paymaster General at Now York. Owing Wo the Ifberation of prisoners and the dis charge of the army, the number of applications — month of Juno was greater Sinoe the war began thirty-four invalid moth The payments to pensioners ' cies to rank among the fine arty of for pensions im the than ever before. thousand pensions have been poldiors, and fifty thousand ere and minor obildreo issued to to widows, Money sent by mail will be atthe risk of the sender. Nove but bank bills current in An extra copy will be sent to every club the past year havo amounted to nino millions of doltars, and it is stated that when all pensions arising from tho war shail have been granted tho annual exponso will be about thirteen millions of dollars. , ‘The steam corvette Madawaska, of threo thousand two hundred and eighty-one tons (old measurement), and pierced to carry seventeon guns, was successfully launch. ed from the Brooklyn Navy Yard yesterday. Our Toronto (Canada) correspondent states that the no- torious Larry McDonald, the alleged originator of tho plot to destroy this city by fre, has boow admitted to bail in the ridiculous sum of four thousand dollars, He, to- gether with Cleary, Young and Blackburn, are to be tried on the 9th of October. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. | The Canadian confederation question is considered settled. If the Hudson’s Bay Company accedo to nogo- tiutions about to be commenced, the territory they hold cortain rights in will be added to the provinces. The bases of the agreement between Canada and the mother country aro: that Canada undertakes to keep the militia on its present footing and to erect permanent works of defence at Montreal and all important points westward, and, in return, England undertakeato fortify Quebec, to provide all the armamonts necessary to the defence of the province, to provide a flotilla for the defence of the lakes, and.to raise money for tho province to complote its share of the agreement at the lowest rate of interest, and to accept provincial debentures as security for the moncy 80 raised. ‘The strike among the street sweepers and cartmen atill continues. Another enthusiastic meeting was held yes- terday by those men at 76 Prince street, in which re- ports were received from the various wards, showing that very little work is being done by the contractors, Subscriptions to sustain the strike and assistance from the Workingmen’s Union were announced. A special meeting of the Board of Aldermen was —Georce Cneistr’s Mix- roadway.—Stitt WATERS Bowery.—Hauiet—Inisu The letter re- | called yesterday for two P. M., to request his Honor the Mayor to convene the Board of Health. At the hour stated there not being a quorum, the Board adjourned. The following cases were before the Police Justices yesterday :—Edward Costollo and James Davis were ar- rested for entering the premises of Mr. A, W. Lowerre, 198 West Thirteenth street, with the intention of carry- ing off property valued at five thousand dollars, which was already packed and ready for removal at the time of their arrest. The carriage repository, 684 Broadway, was entered some tame during Friday night, and several sets of harness packed in sacks ready for removal. An officer, perceiving that the front door had been forced open, procured assistance and entered the building, and, upon searching, discovered a man, giving his name as ‘Thomas Butler, in one of the rooms of the house, who, upon being conveyed before a justice was committed for trial without bail. Patrick Furey was committed for having, in company with several others, knocked down and robbed of three hundred dollars Mr. Daniel Crowley, residing at 95 Tenth avenue. Peter Daily, a discharged soldicr, complained that he had been brutally beaten and then robbed, in a Mercer street saloon, by three men, who were arrosted and locked up for trial. John A. Weir, for- merly bookkeeper and cashier in the employ of Messrs. Prime, Stone, Halleck & Hall, was arrested for taking, {t is alleged, on the 2d of May last, nearly one thousand dol- lars belonging to his employers. Martin McGrath, a resident of Yonkers, complained that he had lost his money while sleeping at a house in Howard street on the 29th ult., and suspecting Patrick Welsh and Leonard Vock of knowing something about the missing funds, they were arrested and committed for trial. Michael Mul- hearn was arrested and held in five hundred dollars bail for recklessly riding a horse over August Koerner, there- by severely injuring him. The stock market was firm yesterday. Gold was strong but inactive, and closed on the street at 14034. . Commercial affairs remained in stgtu quo on Saturday, and there was scarcely any change ig prices. Most goods were in moderate demand, but the moyement in groce- ries, cotton; &c., continued, and full prices were ob- tained, On ‘Change vearly everything was unchanged. Pork was a trifle off, but in other things there was no notable change. York on the The rebel journals of New York have lately been as industrious, earnest and violent in defending the Washington assassination con- spirators as they were, down to General Lee's surrender, in upholding the cause of the rebel- lion. On Friday Inst, after a protracted trial before @ military court appointed under the authority of the President of the United States, four of those assassination conspirators, having been condemned to death, were executed. Their execution is instantly seized upon by the most reckless of these aforesaid rebel journals and denounced as “an outrage upon republi- canism,” a “violation of the forms of justice,” and as “the records of the degradation and impotence of our judicial system sealed in blood.” This act is further denounced as with- out palliation, and “without justification upon any plea that even despotism uses in trampling upon liberty;” for had not Mr. Reverdy John- son, of counsel for Mrs. Surratt, shown by his argument in her defence that this military court was as clearly an unconstitutional usurpa- tion as the coercion of a sovereign State? What, then, remains to be done to rectify this alleged “violation of the forms of justice!” The rebel organ in question calls upon its followers to “organize, subscribe and resolve, before the manes of your fathers of the days of the Revo- lution, that, in the name of God and Liberty, you will prosecute David Hunter, Joseph Holt, John A. Bingham and all their associates for the crime of murder,” and, if necessary to the vindication of justice, this prosecution must be pursued “to the execution of the sentence on those tools of lawless power even unto death.” - Singularly enough, however, this is te be done in order to “sustain the Executive” in teaching a lesson in history which cannot be otherwise taught. logic; for, if we are not mistaken, upon the shoulders of the Executive, Andrew Jobnson, President of the United States, falls the chief responsibility for this military court, this mili- tary trial and this military condemnation and excention of those treasonable conspirators hanged on Friday. We cannot understand this curious President Johnson cannot be separated from the court in the convenient fashion suggested by this aforesaid rebel journal. He stands be- tween the court and its accusers, and they can- not reach the court without first impeaching him. And, with all the ferocity of the rebel journal in qaestion, it exbibits a very sneaking sort of cowardice in denouncing the President as a murderer over the shoulders of his military subordinates in the discharge of a duty under his orders, All this fuss and fury against these subordinates will amount to nothing but a waste of ammunition while the Executive is to be sustained. That saving clause reduces all this rant and roaring to idle and unmeaning gib- ish. wept the infamous expedient of pretending to “gustain the Executive” while denouncing his faithfal agents as murderers, is only another of those monstrosities which may be numbered among the offspring of the now defunct institution of American slavery. The dread- fai developments of the war have done away with the boasted divinity of that institution, and have shown it to be what Jonn Wesley declared it a hundred years ago, “the sam of all villanies,” enlarging impu- dent usurpations, treacheries. doublo-dealing NEW _YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JULY 9, 1860. training, The hideous demoralizations of society, moral, religious and political, thus pro- duced from this pernicious institution of slavery, have been disclosed in vivid colors in the trial of those assassination conspirators gone to their final account, Thus we find. the son of a clergymen of one Christian Church, and a mere boy in years, transformed into a model of criminal hardihood, coolness and de- fiance; and the daughter of another Christian Church, admired for her Christian virtues, as- suming the management of a conspiracy aiming at the overthrow of the government and a general reign of anarchy, blood and terror, through a catalogue of carofully contrived es- sassinations, There is nothing else in history that can be compared with the demoralizations and crimes resulting from slavery; there is nothing to be compared with them in the realms of fiction, save in Milton’s “Paradiso Lost” and Dante’s “ Inferno.” Such are the developments of our late terrible war culmi- nating in the awful spectacle at Wabhington on Friday last. From these disclosures we rejoice that the end of the war has brought us the end of this evil institution of slavery, and has opened wide tho way toa general purification of morals, politics, religion, parties and churches, North and South, Meantime, we suspopt that all these rebel sym- pathizing outcries sgainst the late military court at Washington ‘were and are designed to relieve Jeff. Davis other heads'of the rebel- lion from the terrors’ of the law. The fate of Mrs. Surratt warns them that Andrew Johnson is not the man to be swerved from justice where treason is involved ; although, considering the responsibility of the North, the treason of levy- ing war, &c., resulting from slavery, may find some palliation where the treason of deliberate murder has found no loophole of escape. Social Condition of the South—Paroled Rebel Soldiers and the Original Seces- sionists. We have on several occasions stated that a day of fearful retribution would come upon the leaders in the Southern rebellion—that the time would come when the men who had been forced into the secession movement and com- pelled to endure the hardships which followed the rebellion would make it so unpleasant for the leaders that they would find it too hot for them to remain in the South. It has for a long time been our belief that the most severe pun- ishment that could be inflicted upon the leaders would be to leave them to the tender mercies of the people of the South. Our predictions are being more than verified. It was but a short time since that the question of the gov- ernment being able to find a jury in the Dis- trict of Columbia to try Jeff. Davis was dis- cussed, many of the newspapers declaring that it would be impossible to obtain “a jury there which would convict him. A delegation of South Carolinians which happened at that time to be in Washington manifested great surprise at this view of the subject, and immediately in- formed a government official that if they would place Jeff. Davis em trial in their State there would be no trouble in finding a jury to con- vict him, and that it would not be necessary to challenge a single juryman. In addition to this, numerous appeals have been made to the administration by prominent Southerners for protection against the outrages of their own people. All accounts agree that the original secession schemers are meeting with a rough treatment from the hands of the returned rebel soldiers, the like of which was never before known. We publish this morning an extract from a private letter written by a surgeon in the Six- teenth army corps, now stationed near Selma, Alabama, which is apropos to this point. He describes the social condition of that section when the Union forces took possession; how they found the rich and the leaders all at home and the medium class conscripted into the Southern army. From this scene he passes to another view, when the paroled soldiers of General Lee’s and Johnston’s armies returned there, and adds: “These prisoners of war affiliated or fraternized at once with our (Union) troops.” It was really an era of good feeling, based on mutual respect. But, on the other hand, they came back breathing vengeance against the ‘bomb-proofs.’? The soldiers (rebel) were openly defiant to what they themselves called the damned old secesh, robbing them of mules, cattle, provisions, &c.” It is further stated that several of the wealthy secessionists have been hung. This is no overdrawn picture, but coincides with numerous accounts that we have received. Nor is all this the work of what is termed guerilla warfare, but the natural vengeance of men who have been forced against their will to take up arms against the Union. What is true in Alabama is also true of other sections. All of the Southern States, with two or three exceptions, were taken into seces- sion in direct opposition to the wishes of a majority of the people. Those who were in- strumental in plunging the States into the rebel- lion managed to keep out of the armies, while those who opposed were forced in; and now that the whole movement has collapsed the original secessionists find their deeds returning to them with a fearful import. A day of reck- oning has come more bitter and severe than. they ever imagined could visit them. The greatest mercy that the government can show the Southern leaders is to arrest them and place them beyond the reach of the Southern masses, ‘The radical politicians and fanatical editors are raising 9 great noise on the necessity of conterring the right of the elective franchise upon the negroes to prevent the secession leaders again securing the ascendancy in the South. Events which we are daily recording are forcibly proving that the masses of the whites are capable of managing that, and will attend to it effectually, assisted as they are by the restrictions of the President Johnson am- nesty proclamation. Universal negro suffrage, from the very nature of the social condition of the South, would, in our opinion, be the very thing which would enable the leaders to regain their political supremacy. The negroes have been the property of the secession leaders, and now that they have obtained their freedom they look to the same men, their old masters, for employment. If, then, they are allowed to vote indiscriminately, retaining as they do, their old prejudices against the poorer and medium classes, backed, as all this will be, by the adroit arguments of the wealthy that these poor whites entered the Southern armies and fought against the freedom of the blacks, is it the old political lead Tho Religtous Rev New Heaven and @ Now Earth. In periods that vary from @ hundred to a thousand years the life of overy great idea seems to run out Often the forms remain—the cation to the conditions of human life that gave the ideas their power, and which was their vilality, passes away, and what is left, whether it is an institution or a system, is not of more and eytems change equally by this rule. Several the Christian religion ; and though it has never religion which seems adapted to so many di- verse states of society, it has effected wonderful changes in ita development, end given it at every stage of change the impulse of new life. The Jewish religion had become a formula of empty observances when Christianity made its first “appearance. The gréat spirit of the Jewish religion had utterly passed away from the people whom it had made-great, and whom that one idea had resoned from the oblivion laws, that were no longor vital, and endeav- it originated in, it spread as Greek Christianity in the division between the Eastern Church and Rome, a new and different idea becomes the main one, and the old is practically super- seded and passes away. Rome in turn extends over the Western world a civilizing influence where before she extended 8 conquering one, nd hos the complete dominion of men’s minds. Her vitality also passes away—there is nothing left but forms and ceremonies,.and her supremacy goes down before a schism more adapted to the enlightenment and earnestness of Europe. In each of these phases there ig an actual change. The religion of the nation or tle age becomes essentially and practically different from what it was before; and it is a change that corresponds with changes in the life of the people and with consequent mental develop- ment. Greek Christianity differs from the first development, just as the Greek did from the Jew. It was Grecian through and through, free and bold, full of mystic Platonism; and the Greek Church was like Greece, every part at war with every other part, and the Bishops quarreling without stint on the littlest possi- ble point. Christianity in Rome took the form and development of Roman life. One Bishop was recognized as superior to all the rest, and became identified with the position of the Pontifer Maximus of heathen Rome; and as the world became more spiritual and less war- like, this head of a humble sect rose to dispute places even with the emperor. Grecian church- men disputed on the immortality of the soul, ond Roman churchmen on questions of supre- macy and power. The Christianity of the Reformation differed from that of Rome widely and viially, and in virtue of the same spirit and character in the people that destroyed the Roman empire. The change is clear from Jew to Christian, from the Eastern to the Roman Christian, and from the Roman Christian to the Protestant. And there is now quite as great and distinct a change dawning on men’s minds, that threatens.to wonderfully modify the long domi- nant Protestant Christianity. We are throwing off the trammels of old ideas. It is the change that is sure to ensue as natural religion gets fair play against what is called revealed reli- gion. It is the change that goes with educa- tion—that acccompanies the telegraph, the printing press and the public schools. It is the great spirit of civilization that tends to melio- rate the condition of man in all respects, physi- cal, mental, moral. It is civilization itself, let- ting in the light on all those places that priest- craft has kept dark and peoplod with terrors Modern civilization will turnish a better incen- tive to virtue than this long used fear of hell, and one more in consonance with the spirit of this age; and it will also. furnish a system of religion that will unite all men in a common observance, so that nine-tenths of the civilized portion of the human race shall not stand hoot- ing at the religion of the rest. It looks at the earth with open eyes, and by the aid of science sees it very differently from what the ancient saw it; and, looking further, it will interpret to men 2 heaven quite as different and quite as new. There will be a great struggle on this point, as there has been everywhere else in the his- tory ofhuman progress and enfranchisement; but humanity and civilization will prevail. The authors of “Essays aad Reviews” may lose their high places in the English Church for bold utterance, and priestcraft will stigmatize many others less learned; but men will bear this with the high consciousness that every stigma thus gotten is an honor earned in the cause of the human race. Such a new view of heaven as is consistent with our new know- ledge of earth ia the inevitable future, and that which belongs io the past cannot prevent its growth and grandeur. With the light of mo- dern science to guide, men must look at the powers of nature intelligently, and not super- stitiously and wonderingly as the Ancient World did. There are no more Jupiters in the thunder, and the bolts of Jove are treated of in chemistries, and not in the creeds or codes of religion. And a change like this in charac- ter, but greater in degree, is what must now revolutionize the religious world. A New Dovor.—Last winter the Legislature of Massachusetts passed a law fining every landlord who refused to allow his colored boarders to sit at table with his white guests the sum of fifty dollars, It is said that several negroes have been making small fortunes in Boston by taking advantage of this law. They put up at certain hotels, demand places at the public table, and when they are refused they falsehoods, savage cruelties and tortures to the grade of aristocratic accomplishments, and ele- vating incendiary and assassination conspira- a politician’s remind the landlords of the penalty and offer to compromise for five or ten dollars. Talk about black mail! black mypiling by the blacks, not easily to be divined that universal negto suffrage will surely result in placing the old political leaders again in power throughout the South? Waulditnos.be much better. to gllow OC RE eR ‘matters to take their own course and the logical and practicel restoration policy of President Johnson to work out its mission in the hands of the poorer and medium classes who have euffered so severcly by the deeds of ion of the Age—A mere exuvie; but the significance, the appli- consequence than a eerpent’s slough. Nations times this rule bas operated in the history of destroyed the grandly vital, central idea of that that hos drowned so many tribes and nitions., Tho Christian religion arose in a perception of that truth and in the attempt to awaken the peo- ple to it, It scorned the usages, the rites, the ored to instil into the people the sincere spirit that all those rites and usages originated in. This was the Hebrew Christianity—an at- tempt to purify the Hebrew Church and drive the money changers from the tem- ple. Society was ready for this attempt and it throve. Then extending far beyond the society and founded the Eastern Church. Again, This is the blackest kind of ee) Jay Cooke, the Financial Pillbuster. Jay Cooke, the financial filibuster of Phila- delphia, still holds to. his thoory that the na- tional debt is a national blessing. oven admit that it ia a blessing in disguise—so well disznised,'in fact, that ne ‘sensible person can recognize it, He recent"y employed a Lite rary Bohemian, Br. Sassafras Weakly:minded, to write a long article in support of his theory. ‘Those Bohemians are the most unscrupulous of bumbugs. They wi!l prove that black is white for five dollars, They will write pooms in praise of two rival candidates with tho same pen. They will abuse their friends and ‘puff their enemies at 60 many cents a line, As for the national debt, you havo only to give them enough to drink and they will make it any- thing you like, Mr, Sassafras Weaklyminded did his job, therefore, as well as he knew how. Jay Cooke found the ideas, such as they were; the dictionary eup- plied the words—the longest being preferred— and Mr. Weaklyminded did the ecribbling during a chance interval of relief from delirium tremens, Tho result was the article which we have before reviewed, and which we now find republished, with a few modifications, in pamphlet form. { It is but aimple justice to state explicitly, a approve of the ideas upon finance advocated by Jay Cooke and Sassafras Weaklyminded. They regard Jay Cooke as a clever broker, and” asnothing more. Whon he drops calculations of per centages and tries to launch out into the vast ocean of financial philosophy he is sure to be drowned. His Bohemian, instead of acting as a life preserver, actually drags him to the bottom, like a lump of lead. So far from regarding the national debt as a blessing, the President and Secretary McCulloch want to see the debt liquidated as soon as possible. Probably the Secretary will take important notice of the matter in his next report to Congress and re- commend some means for the immediate repay- ment of the pecuniary obligations which this war has forced us to incur. Perhaps a system of commutation of taxes will be suggested by the Secretary. This would be an excellent idea, and would at once place a large amount of money at the disposal of the government. The numerous subscriptions which a mere men- tion of this system in the Heratp drew forth from our wealthy men show beyond a doubt that the scheme would be very popular. But, whether or not this plan be adopted, the ad- ministration is determined that the debt shzll be paid. The statements which Jay Cooke in- sinuates to the contrary are entirely upom his own responsibility. Our financial representa- tive distinctly repudiates them. Jay Cooke bas no endorser except Sassafras Weaklyminded, and his opinion is only worth the few cents it costs, We recur to this matter so persistently be- cause we feel its importance. The article and the pamphlet of Jay Cooke and his Bohemian are extensively circulated, and have already done the credit of the government much damage. The Secretary of the Treasury needs. funds, and the idea that the national debt is to be perpetual stands in the way of subscriptions to the seven-thirty loan. The people know that debt is a burden, not a blessing, and they suspect that there must be some humbug con- cealed beneath a loan advocated upon such spurious pleas as those set forth by the finan- cial filibuster and his Sancho Panza. The fall- ing off in the number of subscriptions may thus be readily accounted for. The harm which Jay Cooke’s circular may do the national credit abroad can scarcely be calculated. Before Europeans have recovered from their astonishment at the news that we intend to pay off our debt at once, they are chilled by the apparently official information that we never intend to pay itat all. Thusour credit is shaken at the very moment that it should be strongest. The Secretary of the Treasury has a hard task before him. He must insist upon a decided reduction in the expenses of the government, As General Grant is rap- idly placing the army upon a peace footing, so Secretary Welles must cut down our navy, and every other depariment of the government must be speedily retrenched. If we need the army and navy again we can fill them up as rapidly as we did before, and with this advan- tage, that all our recruits will be veterans. But while Secretary McCulloch is thus pre- paring to discharge our liabilities and to avert, or at least lighten, the coming financial crisis, it is shameful that Jay Cooke and his Bohemian should thus hamper and cripple him. In our opinion the Secretary ought to discharge the Philadelphia filibuster. His work ean be bet~ ter done and his errors avoided by another broker and a wiser financier. Jerr. Davis anp Joun Brows—Waut 18 rae Dirrerexce ?—Jobn Brown, an unhappy fanatic, looking upon slavery as ® great wrong and evil, in which, of course, he was right, undertook, a few years ago, to extirpate it by force of arms, and with that intention invaded the soil of Virginia and caused the death of many citizens, in which he was quite wrong. He fell into the hands of justice, and he was hanged. Among 4 large portion of the com- munity there was little pity for him, while many, both at the North and South, rejoiced greatly over his fate. On the other hand, a number of long-haired fanatics declared his execution a murder; they made a martyr of him; composed songs about him, and sung them in the streets. Now, what is the difference between the case of old John Brown then and Jeff. Davis now? Davis committed the same offence against the laws of the country that Brown did against the laws of Virginia, only on a vastly greater scale, His rebellion was against the life of the whole Union, and his victims may be counted by hecatombs. He caused the death of millions, while John Brown caused the death of but a fow. Jeff. Davis has now fallen into the hands of justice, and the same people—such as Henry A. Wise and his friends and the rebel editors of the North are—who exulted in the justice of John Brown’s fate, are bawl- ing out against the punishment of Davis. Old Brown was the same at Charlestown that Joff. Davis isin Fortress Monroe. Thoy both committed grievous crimes, and neither, of them, in the eyes of sensible and just people, can be regarded as a martyr. The idea of hanging Jeff. Davis is denounced as a great wrong. Now, there is no wrong about it. If, by the agency of human laws, we could hang Davis and Phillips and Garrison Nogather, i would he enky just ter hey were Ho will not | apparent, and clean streots, pure atmosphere will have to be attained by, before the ratio can be reasonably expected to be reduced. from the figures furnished. hibi and song, and at a meeting yesterday an election cers took place. As President, Mr, Sixtus Ludi Treasurer, Thomas Buenchle; ech. Otto Schaible; tho leaders and fomenters of the rebellion and the causes of ‘all the crime and bloodshed that it involved. Tux Brrrisn Navy at Honowww.—We per- dive that the enobs of the British war vessel Clio, at Honolulu, have been again repeating their insults to the American Minister and flag. After making amends by an apology for hav- ing taken the eagic from the door of the Minis- ter’s office, several of the men of her Britannic Majesty’s service gathercd about the American Minister's house, singing ribald songs and using offensive language, belore the vessel sailed. ‘This conduct, contemptibte trough it may be, will be remembered when the next war breaks out between this country and England. It wit be all paid off the the oflicers and men of the british navyare only the fruit of the actions and spirit of their gov- ernment towards the United States, But the day of reckoning will come, iowever, ‘he actions of Sunator WIrson anp us Bus.—Senator Wil son has promised, nay, threatened shall we not say, to bring a biil into the next Congress provid- ing for the perfect cquality of the negroes-— unconditional suffrage, right to bold office, and all. Senator Wilson is of an exceedingly kind nature—overflowing, in truth, with the milk of human kindness. Why not, then, include inhis bill the Esquimaux, who represent the sperm “ile” interest; the Fejoes, who can seach un how to cook and cat the rebels; the Chinamen, who represent long pigtails and bad cigars, and the Indians, the original lords of the eoilt Have they all rot as much right to the bless- ings of Senator Wilson’s humanity as the blacks? And, though last, by no means least, why shoukd he not include the women in all these privileges? 4 Invormarion Wanrep.—Where is our noble author, the Count Gurowski? What bas be- come of him? Where is the new volume he promised us? His book would be just the thing to read at the watering places and by the seaside. Where is he? What is he about? Futton Srrest.—Tho portion of Fulton street side- walk which passes through one end of Fclton market te allow pedestrians to reach Fulton ferry is a burning, steaming, stunning disgrace to the community daily compelled to traverse its crowded and narrow corridora. It i4 not necessary to allude specifcally to tho wall which has been appropriated by the marketinen, for that seems to be taken as a matter 0! course, and tho publio expect it; but the small, open sewer, or gutter, across which ladies have to wade, and the streot beyond, are generally in an offensive and tilthy condition, and de- mand attention. A muddy rivulet, clogged with garbage and recking with foul ordors, is bad rag ho in any place, Dut in a posit on whore thousands of ladies and gentle~ men are passing every hour, day and night, it is more than a nuisance, and it wonld appear the duty of some ‘one to seo to ils prompt abatement. Live Oak Enaive Comraxy.—All the furniture of Live Oak Ensine Company, situated on the premises lately occupied by the men, No, 437 Fast Houston street, was sold at public auction by Edward Pettinger on Thursday last, the company having been practically disbanded by the late assumption of their functions by the Fire Com- missioners. Maynartan Live Ixgurance Company Bon.oova,—The new and elegant structure whieh has lately beon erected for this company on Broadway, between Liberty street and Maiden lane, is oneof the fincst buildings in city, It is in tho Italian style, built of white one hundred and forty feot deep, sixty-two foet high, with sub-cellars eighteen feet in depth, and cost oe hundred thousand dollars, Morvaury ov Tue Crry ror tag Past Wus.—There were 156 deaths in the city during the past weok, of which there were of men, 18; women, 14; boys, 65; girls, 59, ‘The principal diseass were cholera infantum, 51; convulsions, 12; consumption, 10; cholera morbas, 6; debility, 8; marasmus, 9; hooping cough, 4; typhoid fever, 2; bronchitis, 2; measles, 1, &c. There must be au increase in the lists of mortalities within a ‘as the effects of the heated term become more a free use of waterand the people : weoks, Ax Association ix Orrosition To Tae Suxpar Laws.— Some years ago a number of Germans organized a pro- tective society in opposifion to the “so-called” Sunday law, the enforcement of which has been repeatedly attempted. This association has been reorganized tm consequence of the late attempts by the police authort- iting muse ties to enforce the old Sunday laws, prol of off- was elected; for Vice President, Andreas Luck Finance Committee, Joseph Hartmann, Nicholas Fischer, F. W. Felerabond. ‘Tur New Yorx Torxversix.—A portion of the New York Turnverein left the city yesterday on an excursion to Buffalo, where the Turners will be the guests of the Buffalo Turnverein. Most of the members of the dra- matic section of the Turnverein have to Buffalo, where they will give ramatic formance at the Academy of Music. jew York will remain in Buffaio for about a week, for the purpose of engaging in a varlety of social pastimes. Coroner's Inquest. Fatat Acapext at 4 Brewmay.—Coroner Gever yes- terday held an inquest at the brewery of Mosers Koehler & Brothers, First avenue, near Thirtieth street, over the to the ground floor. ties were employ in the brewery, and while on the clevator the #1 broke, a down: to the bet- tom with fearful velocity. Gendrick was almost instantly killed and Roupp so fearfully injured that he expired im ‘a fow hours afterwards. What caused the shaft to break did not appear. It was deemed sufficiently hoist three tons, whereas there was only ton weight upon it at the time of accident. ‘The jury found that the deceased “came to their deaths by the twisting or breaking the shaft that goes through the dram by which hoist rope of the elevator wound, on the 7th day of July, 1865.”” Gendriek was thirty-four years of age and @ pative of Germany. Mr. Roupp was also born in Ger- many and thirty-five years of age. Sviciox Br SuooTING.—Yesterday morning, about tem o'clock, Frederick Sifferhelth, a German, who lived at Ne, 263 Stanton strect, while in a partially deranged state of mind proceeded to the roof of the premises, and plac the muzzle of a loaded pistol in his mouth, disel it, The bullet pepetrated the brain, causing almost in- stant death, Coroner Gover was notified, and will an inquest on the body to-day. eal The Detroit Commercial Convention. Derrort, July 9, 1866. The preparations are completed for the reception of delegates to the Convention on Tuesday. Part of the Portland delegation are already here. The Convention will meet in the Board of Trade rooms on the 11th. Af tor the adjournment an excursion will take place on Lake St, Clair on the steamers Union, Windsor and Traveller. Tho Detroit committee have received assurances of the attendance by all boards of trade in the British provinces and most of the federal States, The British delegates are expected to-night, ‘The chief questions for consideration will be the route and rates of communication with the ocean, and the Re- ciprocity treaty, All the United States delegates seem to be opposed toa renewal of the Reciprocity treaty. ‘The provinces are determined to battle earnestly for @ renewal of the treaty. Supreme Court Decision in the North= western Railroad Case. Judge Davis, in the Saprome Court, gav to-day in the case of Wadsworth against the Northwest- orn Railway, refusing to grant an injanction amd re~ ceiver, requiring the company to give bonds to protect the unexchanged Galona stock in case the court should horeafter decide that holders thereof were entitled to recover the money value of the stock at the time of the consolidation, instead of taking shares of the North western Company, as provided by the articles of consolt- dation. ‘Tho decision is considered by the officers of the road aa ‘A sottlement of the question of consolidation, and reduces the suit to a litigation for the difference in value between the outstanding Galena stock and the present value of the Northwestorn stock to be issued in exchange there~ for, in accordance with the terms of consolidation, which ierwucy dog we eae Of aug dallas