The New York Herald Newspaper, July 12, 1865, Page 4

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ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY. Advertisements for the Werxiy Heaatp must be handed in before ten o'clock every Wednesday evening. Its cir. culation among the enter mechanics, farmers, merchants, manufacturers and genilemen throughout the country 's increasing very rapidly. Advertisements in- eerted in the Weekiy Henarn wil! thus be seen by a largo portion of” the active and States. otic people of the United THE SITUATION. President Johnson, accompanied by the members of his Cabinet and other gentlemen of distinction, yester- ‘day visited Admiral Dahlgren, on board his flagship, the Pawnee, lying in the Potomac, below Washington, and ‘was received with all the customary official honors. Wo publish this morning the official order, heretofore alluded to in the Hrratp, for mustering out of service all the remaining volunteer troops recently belonging to the Army of the Potomac, Mr. Johnson, the Provisional Governor of Georgia, ad- dressed a large aswsmblage of the people of Savannah on the Ist inst., for the purpose of laying before them the policy and plans of the national government for restor- ing their Stato to its proper place in the Union and the duties in this work with which ho has been charged. He admonished them > recognize and look squarely in the face the gvcat changes and facts which had been educed by the war, and totake the oath prescribed by the President with oarnestness and sincerity, renew their allegiance, and go to work manfully and with a will to rehabilitate their Commonwealth once more in the great sisterhood of the Union. Ho called their attention particularly to the fact that, whether they liked it or not, slavery in their State was gone, and could not be restored. Our Virginia despatches published this morning will be found very interesting. The difficnitios between the planters and freedmen continue to give both the civiland military authorities much trouble. Many of the planterr, it is gaid, aro desirous of getting rid of tho regroos altogether, and supplying their places with white laborers from the North and Europe. The committee of Richmond men who visited President Johnson to en- deavor to induce him to rescind the twenty thousand dollars exception in his amnesty proclamation have re- turned without meeting with any suce ‘The old Virginia State banks are now in process of liquidation, and it is thought that holders of their notes will not realize over twenty cents on the dollar. Henry A Wise has made application to the military authorities for a restoration of his former estates near Norfolk, with rather a poor proapect of suc- ceeding. Some of the Virginians propose to again put up Wise as a candidate for Governor. There is great destitution among the inhabitants of Spottsylvania county, and it has been proposed to send agents to this city, Philadelphia and Baltimore to rolicit aid for them. There is trouble in Tennessee regarding the State Franchiso law, and it is being violently attacked In public speoches by certain candidates for office, Gov- ernor Brownlow has accordingly issued a proclamation informing the people that it is the supreme law of the Btate, denouncing its opposers as rebels, and directing the civil authorities to arrest them, as being persons who are endeavoring to excite sedition, Emerson Ethe- widgo, formerly momber of Congress from Tennessee, Thas beon placed under arrest by the military comman- Aant at Columbus, Kontucky, on charge of being one of those deliverers of incondiary harangues in the former Btato ‘Bbw vvvel ex Governor Loteher, of Virginia, lately con- NEW YORK HMRALD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1665. released on parole. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. ‘The United States ship Ino, in command of Acting Master William Martin, arrived here yesterday from Key ‘Weat, Fla. The international trade convention, composed of re- presentatives of the boards of trade and commercial as- Sociations of various cities of the Northern, Eastern and Western States and of the British provinces, assembled in Detroit yesterday. There were present about six han- dred delegates. An organization was effected, and other business of a preliminary character was transacted. Gen. Hiram Wulbridge, of this city, was selected as President, and Vice Presidents for each of the States and provinces were chdsen. The convention will be in session again to-day. One of the matters which will receive the par- ticalar attention of the members is the Canadian Reci- procity treaty. Mesars. Brown, Devoe and Knapp yesterday had an in- terview with the Mayor, and responded to the charges re- garding the filthy conditfon of our streets and their neglect to comply with thei arrangements for cleaning thom. Thoy say that they have been seriously interfered with in thair operations, at the instigation of interested parties, and that in some instances their workmen have been atoned and sevorely inju.od;\but, notwithstanding all the difficulties which they have bad to encounter, they prom- ise that withina week they wil! he able to have the streets ‘um a proper conc tion of cleanliness, and to keep them #0 thereafter. Police Superitendont Kennedy yesterday issued an order instructing tho members of the police foree throughout the city to: make regular inspections of the street cleaning, and to render daily reports of any omissions of the contractors to com- ply with the stipulated terms, Tho police are also informed that itis their duty to prevent any inter- ference with the work of the contractors by disorderly assemblages of persons. The Cartmons’ and Laborers’ Association held another meeting yesterday, and again gave oxpression to their opposition to the present stroet cleaning arrangements, and their determination not to engage in the employment of the contractors for the wages offered. ‘A decree of condemnation and sale was ordered in the Unitod States District Court yesterday, Judge Betts pre- siding, against fifty barrels of distilled spirits marked N, for violation of tho Internal Reventte act. ‘There was a largo calendar of cases disposed of yes- terday in the Court of General Sessions, before Judge Russel, the prisoners having been convicted of various offences, District Attorney Hall made some intcresting romarks relative to the proportion of crime committed upon and by soldiers discharged from the army, which he estimates at ten per cent. The Surrogate yesterday decided to admit to probate the will of Poter Vredenburgh, deceasod. The property of the decedent amounts to about seventy thousand dol- lars, and‘over one hundred of t's heirs and next of kin were summoned to attend the probate. Testimony was taken in tho matter of the guardianship of the Roth children, and the matter further postponed until Thurs- day. Additional testimony was also taken ia the ango- vine admmustration case. ‘A Halifax correspondent of the Toronto Leader atates that on the 24th of June Dr. Topper, the leader of tho Nova Scotian government, and his colleague, Attorney General Henry, left for England, in company with Mosers, Smith and Allen, of Now Brunswick. The pur- poses of the Nova Scotian delegation are not known, but the New Brunswick delegates have no other object in view than that of presenting to the Imperial governmeat the objections of that province to the Queboc scheme of union, The same correspondent asserts that Licutenant Governor Dundas, of Princo Edward Island, has been granted by the British Colonial Minister leave of abscne for an indefirite period, and will not return to the Is- land. Tho Governor of Prince Edward Istand, like the Governor of New Brunswick, who baa boen recently promoted to Hong Kong, objected to tho confederation scheme. There was another governmont sale of cotton yestor- day at 111 Broadway, when about twenty-five hundred bales were disposed of, at a slight advance over last month’s prices, the attendance being largo and the bid ding animated. Good middling North Carolina and Or- leans brought from 63%<c. to 553¢c. per pound. The following commitments were made in the city police courts yesterday: Jes and Anna Wison, keepers of an alleged disreputable house at 398 Canal street, charged with defrauding Patrick Lee, a dis charged soldier, living at 333 West Forty-second street, of money and property valued about two hundred dotlars, while he was stopping in said place; Michaol O'Farrell, charged with throwing Caro line Geiger down stairs at 313 Kighth street, and | severely injuring her; William Soulé and James Gra- ham, on charge of attacking on the stroct, early yesterday morning, a soldier named John Ryan, of 50 Oliver street, and stealing from him four hundred doliars; and John Allen, a butcher, 02 compiaint of violently as- saniting and attempting to rob Mr. and Mrs. William Boyd, in Charlton street, near Hudson, at an early hour yesferday morning, while they were on their way to market, One of our Niagara Falls corgespondonts, in speaking of the crowds now at that fashionable watering place, alludes to a marked change which is apparent since the suppression of the rebellion, Heretofore each summer during the continuance of the war the most prominent individuals at the hotels on the Canada side were noisy, swaggering secessionists. This summer thero are none of these ‘ndividuals to be seen. Everybody professes to be the strongest kind of a Unionist, and the Canadians themselves took part in the celebration of our great na- tional anniversary. A convention of the State adjutant genorals of the various Northern States, for the purpose of promoting uniformity and eMiciency of the militia system through- out the country, assembled in Boston yesterday. A com- mittee was appointed to memorialize Camgress on the subject of a general militia law. The convention will moet again to-day. Considerable excitement and alarm was caused last evening this side of New Rochelle, on board of the Now Haven Railroad train, due in this city at five o'clock, by some soldiers and sailors attacking a negro who was soated in one of tho cars and endeavoring to eject him. During the struggle the negro drew a pistol and shot a soldier in the arm. The nogro, after being roughly handled by his assailants, was given in charge of the authorities of Westchester county. ‘The stock market was weak yesterday morning, but closed strong. Gold was steady, and closed in the room at 140, and at night at 13934. There was but little change in the commercial sitna- tion yesterday as compared with the previous day, though there were a good many changes in values of do- mestic produce, Foreign goods were generally’ quiet but unchan Groceries wore steady. Cotton was firm. Petroleum was heavy. On 'Change flour was 10c, a 150. higher, Wheat was 2c. a 10c. higher. Corn was 2c. higher. Onts were dull and heavy. Pork was 60c. better, Lard was firm. Whiskey was dull and heavy. Forp’s Tuatre—It was announced that Ford’s theatre in Washington, the house in which President Lincoln was murdered, would be opened to the public on Monday night, and that the drama of the Octoroon would be played there. The announcement had a con- siderable effect upon the Washington peopie. All of that portion of the Washington public that was shocked and horrified by the murder of the President considered this proposed re- opening an indecorous act, not to say an out- rage—a violation of the public sense of pro- priety. They regarded with unpleasant sensa- tions the possibility that the place in which the great martyr had spoken his last conscious words should echo with the coarse laugh and ribald jeer of men not too far removed from sympathy with the great crime, and they felt that an indelicate use was to be made of the very fact that the President had been slain there, for the benefit of the owners of the house, It was an attempt to coin the blood of the great man. People in Washington as well a8 elsewhere felt that that theatre was a deodand ; that it was morally, if not in fact, involved in the crime committed in it, just as a murderer’s weapon, which from time immemorial has been forfeited to the law. The War Department forbade the performance and closed the theatre, and in doing so it only acted up to the popular thought; and though we shall on this subject hear many copperhead howls, the act will re- | colve the full approval of the people | Question—Dangers of Another ‘Irropressible Conflict.” A sanguinary four years’ civil war, without ® parallel in the magnitude of the opposing armed forces and in the work of destruction, demoralization and disorganization inflicted upon the weaker party, has left the late rebel- lious States in the most chaotic and deplorable condition that could be well imagined, socially and politically. Their late imperious slave- holding aristocracy, with their oppressive insti- tution of African slavery, lie prostrate in the dust ; the shackles have fallen from their four millions of slaves; the great barrier which divided the lords of the soil from “the poor whites” is levelled to the earth ; but the differ- ences and the prejudices of caste and race of two hundred years of assiduous cultivation are barriers to the reconstruction of Southern so- olety which still exist and threaten us a world of trouble. The Southern whites, rich and poor, accept the abolition of slavery as the penalty of an unsuccessful effort to set up by force of arms an independent pro-slavery confederacy on the ruins of the Union. Recognizing their late struggle as one of death to slavery or the Union, they recognize the death of slavery with their dofeat, But they cannot yet under- stand that emancipation brings the negro with- in tho pale of political rights or equality be- fore the law with the white man. The lessons of slavery from the mists of tradition, passing from generation to generation, until they had established the divinity of the institution with all its atrocities, are lessons which cannot be eradicated by bayonets or by proclamations. The fallacy of the teachings of slavery can be proved only by time and a little experience in the opposite direction. President Johnson is wisely acting upon this theory. A prisoner immured for a long time in a dark dungeon, if suddenly brought into the full blaze of the sun, can at first see nothing from the excess of light which blinds him. This is the idea upon which Andrew Johnson has established his line of action in the restoration of the rebel States upon the basis of emancipation. His policy is to bring the people of both races con- corned to the new political and social system required of them by gradual approaches. From his long experience in the late land of slavery, from his close observations of its pernicious effects, and from his intimate knowledge of all its lines of demarcation between whites and blacks, slaveholders and poor whites, he tho- roughly comprehends the difficulties and dan- gers of the task before him, and has wisely resolved to move carefully and cautiously. He knows that the experiment of negro suffrage directly upon the heels of negro emancipation would, throughout the South, make the existing confusion only more confounded. Hence in the outset, leaving the emancipated blacks to the important duty, first devolving upon them, of secking employment and wages, he chooses from the white population of South Carolina, for examplo, the citizens most likely to roor- ganize the State ona loyal and liberal plat- form in.reference to whites and blacks, being particularly stringent only in his exclusions of the late rebellious slaveholding aristocracy. Under this policy, we believe, the rebel States may be quietly and in due time brought step by step even to the admission of the emanci- pated black to the ballot box. But the radical reformers of the North, and especially their “wise men of the East,” who know nothing of the difficulties existing in reference to the po- litical blending of whites and blacks in the South, domand the immediate conceasion of suf- frage to the blacks as the only alternative for their own protection and tho safety of the gov- ernment. We would admonish these blind leaders of the blind that this road loads to an “iyrepressible conflict” of the 7 to the black race. Our ears startling reports and rumors of scenes 0! lence and revenge between Southern whi and blacks. At Norfolk, it appears, mobs of “poor whites,” wilh the c nig! down with the nig!” have already ro- sulted in scenes of disorder and bloodshed. In South Carolina, beyond our military lines, if we may believe the half that is reported, come of the disbanded chivalry have in the woods been pretty actively engaged in the work of negro extermination. In other quar- ters, we are told, the negroes refuse to work, and in wandering bands de- clare they will enjoy their freedom. Yet again, in other places, it appears, their late owners are driving them away from their old homes to shift for themselves, the planter having more of them upon his hands than he wants, now that they coase to be a marketable commodity. In a word, the issue of the war in the South, as a struggle between whites and blacks, slaves and slaveholders, is well calcu- lated to excite bonstful rejoicings from the one side and bitterness and persecutions from the other. Under this condition of things, throw in the firebrand of negro suffrage, and we shall have in all probability a collision be- tween the two races in the South—a wild and furious war of extermination, which will require another call upon the armies of the Union to reduce to law and order. In this view of the subject the policy of President Johnson is the policy of wisdom, safety and peace. He knows the elements and the dangers with which he has to deal; he knows them from the stern experience of a long and active pub- lic career in the South, and he is guided by the lights of this experience. Screw Sreamens.—We give elsewhere a com- munication from one fully familiar with the subject, proposing certain experiments to find out a more improved construction for screw propellers. 1t is alloged that, great as is the superiority of the scrow as a motive power for men-of-war, there is one defect in the propel- ler built men-of-war that, under some circam- stances, will quite nullify the other advantages of that class of ships. This is their great ten- dency to roll. They are said to roll so heavily in certain sens that their guns must be altoge- ther unmanageable. This is a matter of #0 much moment that it unquestionably calls for the full attention of the Navy Department, and the proper experimental investigation should be instituted without delay. Our government is always too slow in this direction, while England and France are at all times engaged in inquiries for improving the efficiency of their ships. Curcematen.—In the News of yesterday Bon Wood asserts that the pross is bribed. Has he any referonce to that $25,000 ohock sent to him by Jake Thompson. the manager of the r | ce 8 ne et een meat Et ete Oia eae ay yg ge NTN HERALD. fined in the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, has been | The Negro “ my Canada assassination fund, or to that $30,000} Tus Artawrio Tatacrara.—As the time ap- check given to him the other day by Comptrol- | proaches for the laying of the Atlantic cable AOPARIESONOOL ORT, ler Brennan for hiding the Corporation ad- | the second rate journals of this city are becom- | The Roports of Sickness im Wilming- vertisements in the obscure columns of his | ing frightened at the high tariff of charges ton rar tenge 4 a = port e We pa care hak Price Dead re a ee N. C., July 7, 1868, pany. We N ,N.C., A ae ee presen apr bh pany may charge. If there be news from | The Wilmington Herald says that the reports of sick- The people of this city have not yet grown Burope of interest to the people of the United nore 1p es ay ory poner emcees ‘The general accustomed to being plundered. We complain | States the Hznatp must have it, no matter | heslth b of the highwaymen who knock us down and rob us in the streets, and we complain just as loudly of the municipal highwaymen who garrote us with the tax levy and empty our pockets at the collector’s office. For years we have suf- fered from these outrages, and no one has answered our cries for assistance, So-called reformers have offered us relief, but we have always found them the hungriest and greediest rogues of all. Associations, formed ostensibly to aid us, havo turned out to be mere “rings” for increasing the tax levies and raising the price of gas. We have appealed to the Logis- lature, but the Legislature is controlled by the lobby, and the lobby leaders are our greatest thieves, From Governor Seymour we could expect no help. He was surrounded by a lot of rascals who wanted to pull other people's hands out of the city treasury so that they could put their own in; and those of his politi- cal siaff in this city who could not get a chance to steal the people’s money were very glad to take, some of Jake Thompson’s assassination funds. From Governor Fenton, however, we have a right to hope for better things, and we can now show him good reasons for taking prompt action upon our municipal affairs. . Governor Fenton is a radical republican. His wing of the party is about to make a most determined effort to carry the State at the next election. It is a matter of life and death to them that the radicals should win. But we can tell them in advance that they cannot carry the State against President Johnson upon the negro suffrage question. If they try that they will be thoroughly beaten. Only recently the people of this State voted plumply by a rous- ing majority against negro suffrage, and they have not changed their opinions, As for President Johnson, he is now quite as pop- ular as President Lincoln ever was, and can poll an almost unanimous vote in favor of his policy. The only hope of the radicals, there- fore, is to make one of General Grant’s flank movements. They cannot resort to their old trick of buying up the ultra copperheads to make a noise, and then slip in between the copperheads and the conservatives. That trick has been played too often. The copperheads, just at present, had rather go with President Johnson than against him on the negro suffrage question, little as they like his summary deal- ings with traitors. It is in vain, too, for the radicals to offer the copperheads universal pardon in exchange for universal suffrage. President Johnson holds that matter in his own hands, and can either outbid the radicals or break thom down. Governor Fenton’s wing of the party has only one chance, and, that is to raise a new local issue. Let him make that issue upon our municipal abuses, and the people of the whole city and of the whole State will be with him. To neg- lect this opportunity for a brilliant flank move- ment, and risk a direct attack upon the Presi- dent and his policy, will be fatal. The first blow being half the battle, Gover- nor Fenton sbould strike quickly. He has a is never surpassed either in the acouracy, com- pleteness or quickness of its news. We under- stand that there is some trouble in England about admitting American correspondents on board the Great Eastern, the steamer which is to lay the cable. The managers want to secure @ monopoly for such fellows as Bull Run Ras- sell, blundering Woods, garralous Sala and other hangers-on of the London press. But ia spite’ of this the Herat. will have a full, graphic and accurate account of the whole affair, and we will match it against any of the reports of the London press. During our career as a journalist we have done more to stimulate such enterprises as that of the Atlantic telegraph than any other person that can be mentioned. We were the first to supersede the mail by fast expresses for the transmission of news, and as soon as the tele- graph was invented we availed ourselves largely of its facilities. The Heratp has paid more money to the telegraph, and has conse- quently done more to extend its lines, than any other paper in the world. The telegraph ex- penditures of the London Times for a year would not pay our bills for a single day. We advocated the Atlantic telegraph when every- body else laughed at it, and to our encourage- ment it will owe much of its success, if it be asuccess. Under these circumstances we feel deeply interested in the undertaking, and we intend not only to report the laying of the cable, but to use the line liberally, at any price the company may fix, 60 soon as it is in working order. Reticion ann Murper—Tue Prous News.— The Daily News is getting pious. That organ of the aasassins and conspirators which received twenty-five thousand dollars of Jake Thomp- sen’s rebel money, and for that price made the most strenuous endeavors to break down every barrier of law, to corrupt public morality and destroy all respect for the ordinary ties of society—that very organ now prates piety. It parades its “solemn duty to the Almighty God” and “solemn duty to public morality.” Up and down its columns it rages in impotent, frothy fury against all who respect the law of the land, and thon it lisps between the par- oxysms a little sentence about its “solemn duty to public morality.” It does its little all to confuse the perceptions of the people and make the worse appear the better reason; it reverses the natural positions, holds up the vilest criminals to public admiration, represents them as injured innocents, and reprobates and reviles as murderers the men who tried those wretches for their crimes. Then it pauses to mention its “solemn duty to Almighty God.” Payne was the ficnd of the late conspiracy, second only to Booth, He attempted to kill Seward—to murder in his bed a feeble old man—and he was ready to kill half a dozen others that he found in his way. But we are assured on the very best authority that he “had been from infancy brought up under re- ligious influence.” At twelve yeara of age he “became a member of the church.” In conver - sation on the day before he was hanged he “referred to the pleasant seasons once enjoyed by him in the church and the Sabbath school;” and if he had lived to come out of prison he would have lectured the unmurdering public upon its solemn duty to the Almighty God, and its solemn duty to public morality. The cases are exactly alike. In each there is a inion in the same life of the most atrocious: acts and the most moral sentiments, and it is from the same class of persons that we always hear a great ery abont religion and a great hurrah against the irreligion of others, Political I The delegates of the Radi cently assembled in Indianapolis, Indiana, have issued a circular giving an explanation of taeir views on the chief questions in which tho radical Germans wish to co- operate in tho efforts of their progressive American fullow-citizens, Tho first articte is in favor of the uncon- dittonal recogn'tion of the nogro to the full rights of citizenship; tho second calls for a chango in the present system of executive power, by uniting it with the legis. lative, and exercising it through acommittee of the House of Representatives; the third is in favor of the Monroe doctrine; the fourth is opposed to any religous testa like the oath on the Bible, opening of legislative assemblies with praycr, &c. ; and the fifth and last states ‘that the re isa ing necessity to provide for the la- La grag comb dinning The Paid Fire Department. ‘The Fire Commissioners met yesterday morning, But transacted no business of importance. The following lottor will explain itaolf:— proposition before him to remove the Mayor, Street Commissioner, Comptroller, City Inspec- tor, Corporation Counsel and the Croton Board, and he saould dispose of them all without any more delay. The Comptroller defiantly demands an it. investigation—let him have S'reet Commissioner says that be removed—show him his City Inspector claims to have uchod by the legislative committee— n him or acquit him. The Corporation Sounsel offers to throw open his office for exa- v 1on—let us see what is in it, The Croton Board is disorderly and incflicient—reform it altogether, The Mayor is a copperhead of the worst dye, and his head should be at once chopped off by the Governor’ to cleanse this loyal city from the disgrace he inflicts upon it. Turn them all out, root and branch, and the people will celebrate the day of the event as if it were another Fourth of July. No matier whom we get in their places we cannot have a worse set than we have now. The whole Siate will rally around the Governor upon this issue aa it rallied to aid the republican party in the fight against Fernando Wood. The horrors of our municipal misrule and the honesty and courage of the man who ends them will supply political capital for half a dozen campaigns at least. Never had a Govornor a more glorious opportunity, and never wasa Governor 4o importuned to do right and serve himself and his party at the same time. It will not do, however, to indulge in half measures. Some of these heads of departments may be personally unobjectionable, but they are all so linked together that they must stand or fall in company. One department hinges on to another, and one man is often stowed away in a dozen different nests. There, for instance, is Mr. Deputy Tweed, who hides himseif behind Cornell in the Street Commission, so that nobody can get at him, but who is the knot which holds this municipal string of onions. Tweed is the President of the The ‘ nnob Com — Ste tam directed by the Board to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 30th ult., trans- mitting a copy of resolutions adopted by your company tender as may be desired. ‘ i 1 Americus Club of corporation officials atte ear receives with plea re tate manifentation, on ‘ tat int n to contin and contract dummies; the joint owner with | the Hart ot you coney of duty. It is the design of Judge Barnard of the Transcript, and his asso- } the Board to relieve, at an oariy day, such of the mem- bers of the volunteor force as may desire to retire from ciate in the management of the judiciary; the | tne service; and it is hoped that, in the brief interval Chairmain of Tammany Hall; the Chairman of | which must clapso to onablo them to complete tits the Board of Supervisors; the partner of Farley or privileges ‘will be allowed to. detract from the well martes thee teas ctat ness ity in the ju uty. . GILDERSLEVE, Secretary. RI on the Record. 0 71 ITOR OF THE HERALD. In your report of the meeting of the Board of Engi- neers and Foremen, held at Firemen’s Hall on Monday evening, July 1 reporter was in orror in stati wae OL isea weeea in favor of disbanding, ive. ingerting this you will having voted in the negatiy a ag thie 708 Personal Intelligence. Major Genoral Joo Hooker, United States Army, to- gother with Judge Stickney and Hon. (0, B. Lansing, is ainong tho visitors at the Astor House. Paul Morphy, the redoubtable chess playor, arrived from Now Orlane yesterday aad bas get up a tho New in the Common Council “ring;” the awarder of contracts in the Streot Department; the princi- pal member of the Voluntecring Committee, the Riot Claims Committee and the new Court House Committee; the lessee of temporary court house buildings, such as Ben Wood's, and Fernando Wood’s, and Henry J. Ray- mond’s; the manager of street openings, and the dictator of the Harlem Bridge and Battery enlargement concerns. Now, if @ mere deputy can be interested in such » complicated mass of affairs, how deeply must our heads of de- partments be involved! To take one of these officials away without disturbing the others will be impossible, The Governor should, therefore, cut them all down together, and make clear work of it, We have shown it to be his interest, and he cannot help knowing that it is his duty, Should he refuse 4o act he must not be at all surprised if he be held re- sponsible for the corruption ho protects. Hore is bis opportunity, Let him noglect it and he / ia loot 2 The prospect of the North Carolina wine crop this year is excellent. The Fourth of July was made a great day in North Carolina, where tt was gonorally celebrated without dis- tinction of color. Parties who bave urriv< M€e Greensboro from Yhe counties of Chatham and Moore, the centre of the bita- minous coal mipes on Deep river, N. C., report that pe- troleum has been discovered in large quantities. Miss Neely, of Mockville, N. C., shot a nogro womam through the heart on the 2d inst., while the latter was engaged in a controveray with her master. Governor Brownlow on the Frane Law—He Denounces Those as Rebels ‘Whe Oppose It, dec. Cuommati, July 11, 1860. ‘A special despatch says:—Governor Brownlow, ef ‘Tennessee, has issued a proclamation declaring the “Fram- chise law’? the supreme law ofthe State, He denounces all those as rebels who attempt to oppose its execution, and calls upon the civil authorities to arrest all persons who, under the pretence of being candidates for Congress, are advising the people to nullify the constisution and lawe, and stirring up rebellion and sedition, Arrest of Hon. Emerson Etheridge hy. the Military Authorities. Omonaratt, July 11, 1865. A special despatch from Nashville announces the arrest of Hon. Emerson Etheridge, at Columbus, Kentucky, by tho commandant of the military post in that city on the charge of aclivering incendiary speeches in Tennessee, NEWS FROM SAN SALVADOR. eee A Prussian Consul in Trouble—Passport Regulations—General Barrios. ‘The government of San Salvador has withdrawn the exequatur of Dr. Bronhard, Consul of Prussia at Sam Miguel, and forbidden him to return to the republic. Bronhard was implicated in the recent rebellion, and had already fled from the country. President Duenas has issued an{ address to the army thanking it for its prompt and efficient services in sup- Presaing the rebellion. Passport regulations will for the present bo atriotly maintained in San Salvador. ‘A Btrong public feeling exists against General Barrios. He is viewed as the chief instigator of the recent re- bellion. Shooting Affray on a Ratlroad Train. SOLDIERS ATTACK A NEGRO. Afracas occurred last evening on board of the five P. M. train from New Haven which created the utmost con- sternation among the passengers. At the New Rochelle depot a large number of soldiers and satlors, who had been paid off and diacnarged from Hart’s Island, got om board. As noarrangements had been made for thels transportation there was not a sufficiency of cars to ao- commodate them all ‘with seats, Most of the soldiers had imbibed freely of liquor, and were ripe for any rum- pus; and, on passing througl: the cars in search of seata, some of them came across ‘a Negro, who occupied a aca in’ oné cdrner of the car, This proved too much for them, and they ordered him to get up and lot white folks sit down. This the mogro refused to do, when he was seized by his clothes, and an effort mado to jerk him out of his seat, The negre resisted the soldiers, and tried to push them ‘away, when one of the soldiers (as the reporter formed by an eye witness) struck the nogro blow in the face, whereupon the negro rose to his pulled out a pistol, and, before it could be wrested from his hand, discharged it at his antagonist, who Pree aed but the ball struck and passed through the arm of another soldier who had taken no part in the af- fair. In an instant the negro was ov, halfe dozen soldiers and sailors, who got him out on tho plat- form and endeavored to thrust him down between the two cars while the train was under full spoed, and had they succecded in their purpose the nogro would have been literally torn or cut to pieces; but the negro, bel of very powerful frame, held on to the iron railing unt the train was stopped, when he slipped off and tried to 4 Toad to Mott Haven, where two detective offi were on board, took’ charge of him and. delivered him over to the authorities of Westchester county, to answer for the alleged offence of attempted homicide. The name of the soldier who was shot is Elisha Tr, the United States gunboat Foster. He belonj Thirtoenth pene New York artillery, Thi of the Naval Brigade, under General Graham. The name of the negro who shot him was not ascertained. One of the sailors who was engaged im the affray with the ne- i gro asserted that the negro had no business on board the train, and that no negro should be allowed to sit down in any car where he was as long as a white man had to stand. The greatest alarm prevailed among the passem- gers and some ee arose, some contend- ing for the rights of the negro, and that he had not fired unul struck violently in the face; while others said they did not see any one strike the negro, and that negroes had no right to ride in the same car or vehicle with people. Coveners’ Inquests. Sap Rastroap Accipewr.—Coroner Gamble yesterday held an tnquest at the New York Hospital over the re- mains of Hannah Dolo, a girl about twelve years of age, who died from the effects of injuries received on Friday last ee run over by atrain of cars. It that deceased lived near Paterson, N. J., called upon to adit om ones wins Stes are bric ee ns i Hi] HA i : ‘ gst [ih ae , ensued of deceased is bridge tender where occurred. ‘ Fata Accipsst in Foiton Srexer.—Yesterday after- noon Arthur McGinnis, a lad eleven years of age, in the employ of Mr. King, doing business at No. 75 Fultom street, jum) qy the elevator to ride to ono of the upper Fag goer observing due caution his head wae between the hatch and elevator, and crushed im ‘@ manner that death subsequently ensued at the New York Hospital, whither he was immediately com- |. Coroner Gover held an inquest on the body, and the j rendered a verdict of accidental death. De- ceased lived with bis parents at No. 248 Wost Twenty- seventh street, whither the body was taken for inter- ion at Boston. Bosrox, July 11, 1866. A convention of tho adjutant generals of tho loyal States met to-day in the Senate Chamber of the State House, General N. B. Baker, of Towa, was chosen Pre- sident. The roll of mombers present was called as fol- lows:—Adjutant Generals 3, Hogdon, of Maine; Head, of New Hampshire; Washburne, of Vermont; Schouler, of Massachusetts; Mauran, of Rhode Island ; Morse, of Con- necticutt; Russell, of Pennsylvania; Berry, of Maryland; Pierpoint, of Wost Virginia; Lindsay, of Kentucky; Baker, of Iowa, and Anderson, of Kansas. Communications were received from tho adjutant generals of Indiana and Wisconsin, regretting their ina- bility to be present, in consequence of urgent publie business at home. A despatch from Adjutant General Bishop, of Arkansas, stated that he will reach this city to-night. A letter was read from Adjutant General Cowan, of Olio, regretting his abeence, accompanying which was a copy of the Militia law of that State, and statements in relation to ite working. Colonel Honry Lee, late of Governor Andrew's staff, im accordance with an invitation, read e.carefully prepared paper upon s militia system, showing the results of am oxamination of the views of the founders of the republie and of military non since that time, and making various recommendations growing out of the experience during the progent war. Gonoral Lindsay, of Kentackg, moved tho appoint. meat of a committes of five to mo oo the subject of a general militia law. Generals Lindsay, Washburne, Andersen, Russell aad “Berry were appointed as said committee, Gonorals Anderson, Hogdson and Pierpoint were ap- pointed a committoo relative to the appointment of the the several States as pension agente, Gonorale Schouler, Mauran and Lindsay were ap- pointed a committee to procure from the War Dopart- ment the muster rolls oF cortified copies of such rolls, te he deposited in tho adjutant gonorals’ offices of the pevoral States. ‘The Convention adiouened to Wednesday at aine A. 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