The New York Herald Newspaper, March 6, 1866, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFICE N. W. CORNER UF FULTON AND NASSAU 87s. No. 65 Volume XXX AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, street. ~Tue Vicriws—Fortr LUCY RUSHTON'S V YORK THEATRE, Nos. 723 and 730 Broadway.—Kino’s Garpener—Ginaupa. WOOD'S THZATRE, Broadway, opposite the St. Nicholas Hotel. ATONEMENT; Of, Tax Cutty Steauue. TON STOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery —Sina- ina DancinG, Buriesquss, &0.—Tux Carruge or Fort Doneison. GEORGE CHRISTY'S—Oup Scuoon oF MinstRetsy, Batiaps, Mosicat Ges. &c., Fifth Avenue Ope a ‘Nos, 2 and 4 West Twenty-fourth street.—Tux Frouic. SAN FRANCIS! Broadway, near Broome Winks. TRELS, 535 Broadway, opposite PAN SINGING, DANcINa, &£0.— R. Metropolitan Hotel Innocence axp Ei BRYANTS' MINSTREL3, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Rroxd- way.—Day Bovant's New Stor Srenin—Nedao Cowroatt- Tus, BURLESQUES, &C.—Tux HaNp-a-Lonz BuoTuERs. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Erurorian Mix- STRELSY—BALLADS, BURLESQUES AND PANTOMIMES. 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The leading feature of the Congressional proceedings yesterday was th atat in both the Senate and the House of conditions for the adm’ ssion of the southern representati Senator Wilson introduced a series of resolutions, which were referred to the Reconstruction Committee, ding for their admiesion when- ever the Legislatures of thoir States shall place the freedmen on a periest equality with the white inhabitants in regard to all civil rights; grant the privi- lego of voting to negroes who have served in the national army, who pay taxes, and who can read, and totally: ig- noring all preteusions for payment of any claim for eman cipation of slaves or any debt incurred to assist the re bel- lion, The Reconstruction Committee reported to the House another secies, applicable only to the Siate of Tennessee, but which do not, as anticipatory Washington despatches of last Saturday night stated, provide for the immediate occupation of their seats in Congress by the members from that State, Thes» resolutions agree that Ton- nossee shall be “declared to be one of the Uni- ted States” when her Legislature shall have rati- fled certain stipulated conditions, including the enforce- ment of the provision of her new constitution excluding rebels for a term of years from voting or holding office and the fgnorement of all rebel debts and claims for slaves emancipated. These resolutions, which were accompanied by a minority report urging the right of the Tepnessce representatives to immediate admission, and memorials and documentary testimony regarding affairs in that State, were read-twice and recom- mitted. A set of resolutions on reconstraction similar in purport to those presented by Mr. Wilson in the Senate were introduced in the House by Mr. Ashley, ‘and Jaid over for two weeks, In addition to prescribing the same admission conditions as those of Mr. Wilson, thoy state that until these are complied with no State governments organized either under authority of the + President or by action of the people shall be recognized by Congress, In the Senate petitions were presented for a protective tariff, an equalization of soldiers’ bounties, an increase of the compensation of assistant interna) reyenue asses- fors and for abolition of color distinctions, A bill to restrict the day’s labor of government employes to eight hours was introduced and referred. Resolutions were adopted calling on the President for information relative to the alleged kidnapping in this coun- try and sale in Cuba of American freedmen, end ordering the payment of fifteen thousand doliars to Miss Clara Barton for expenses incurred in searching for missing soldiers, the latter unanimously. The bill providing for the erection of a new Post Office building m this city was reported, with slight amend. ments, from the Postal Committee, and recommiited. Tho Dill to extend the time for the withdrawal of goods from bonded warehouses was discussed for some time, and then the consideration of the proposed Topresentation constitutional amendment, already adopted by the House, was resumed. After Mr, Pomo- roy and others had spoken om it, without being voted on, the matter was Arain laid over till to-day, A bill making a grant of lund tothe Winnebago Indians in Nebrarka was passed. After giving some attention to the bill to reimburse Missouri for war expenditures, the Senate went into executive session, and then adjourned. In the House of Representatives a preamble aud reao- lution giving the guarantee of our government for the Payment of the fifty million dollars loan of the Mexican republic now on the market were, after considerable ob- jection, introduced and reverred to the Foregn Affairs Commitiee. A com:nunication from Governor Worth, enclosing resolutions of the North Carolina Legislature, accepting that ies portion of lands donated by Congress for educational purposes in 1862; was pro- sented; but the House, by one hundred nays against thirty-seven yeas, refused to receive it. A report from the Secretary of the Navy, Biving & sintement of exp:nses of his di partment for arvertieng and printing, and from other government officers on other subjects, wore presented. Tho Army Appropriation bill was Considered for some time in Committes of the Whole, ‘and finally passed. Among its appropriations are ten million seven hundred thousand dollars for pay of the army. The Military Academy Appropriation bill was also under consideration, but was not finaily acted on. Reso lutions were adopted requesting information from the President regarting persons pardoned by him, calling on the Secretary of the Treas- ury for statement of the total amount of mony Bow in the national Treasury, and directing the Commit- tee on Pensions to report what further legislation ts necessary to prevent tho benefits of pensions being transferred to brokers. A resolution prohibiting the placing of the likenesses of living persons on the na- tional bilis and fractional currency was introdyced and Feforred to the Banking Committee. One or two other resolutions and a few bills of less importance were intro- duced. THE LEGISLATURE. In the Btate Senate yesterday notice was given of a Dill to incorporate the Thifty-fourth street Metropolitan Market, The bili to provide for the completion of the ‘Champlain Canal was ordcred to a third reading. A series Of resolutions were offered and referred to the select Committes affirming perfect liberty of all people of the Union, without distinction of color, denying the dogma Bhat States can dio or seoede, in favor of the admission pf Representatives and Senators from all the States when. ‘@ver it aball appear that they are unmistakably loyal, {and declaring their trust in the fidelity of the President and the action of Congress. | 4 There was not great deal of business of any kind slone in the Assembly, and what was transacted was only ff circumscribed interest, The annual report of the Medical Soctety and a response of the Court of ppeals Clerk to a r-rolution of inquiry relative to funds lin the care of his office were presented. Several bilis of Mluor importance were ordered to third reading. THE CITY. 1 ¢ Ab & meeting of the Board of Aldermen j@flernoon & communication was recelved from the City (Inspector informing that body of the suspension of his ‘department, and requesting that he might be allowed to gretain the use of the rooms occupied by the department jmatil the books could be closed and proper instruction Biven the Health Commission. The subject was Inid jover. A resolution was « instructing the Commit- toe on Lande and Teport on the expediene} of making tho City Hall Park an open paved plaza, and the ‘Committee on Lamps and Gan were directed to inquire fmto the complaints mate against the gas furnished by the Metropolitan Guslight Company. The Board e4- Soarned to Monday next. The Boord of Couneiimen met yesterday, when an PA ‘ling devate took place uvow the resolutions adopted te NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1866.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. by the Board of Aldermen endorsing President Johnson's veto of tho Fresdmen’s Bureau bill. Tho substitute offered last week by Mr. White, unqualifiedly endorsing Congress and condemning President Johnson, was voted down by a largo majority; but the Board failed to concur in the adoption of the resolutions from the other Board by a tic vote, the President having cast his vote agaist their adoption. ‘The mandamus issued by the Supreme Court to the Board of Supervisors, commanding them to exhibit all the books, records, &c., m their possession rolative to the new Court House, has been admitted as peremptory without contest, 3 At a mecting of the Supervisors yesterday the man- damus above alluded to was received and ordered on file. An ordinance making appropriations on county account for tho year 1866, amounting to a total of $6,891,024, was presented from the Committee on Annual Taxes and lad over. No other matters of interest camo -vefore the Board. The Board of Fire Insuranco Underwriters yesterday presented policies of Jife insurance to all the members of the Metropolitan Fire Department, Each policy lasts for one year, and secures one thousand dollars to the family -| in case of death while on duty, and five dollars per week in case of dissbling accident, The presontation yester- day was an interesting occasion. The second meeting of the Board of Metropolitan Health Commissioners was held yesterday afternoon at Police Headquarters, Mr. Schultz, the President, o-cu- pying the chair, and Colonel Clark acting as secretary. ‘The session was a secret one, and the only business of importance tradsacted was the appointment of Colonel E. Clark as Secretary; Dr. Dalton, Sanitary Superinten- dent; Dr. Harris, Registrar of Records, and Colonel George Bliss, Jr., Attorney. The officers’ salarios are as follows:—Generai Superintendent, $4,000; Assistant Su- perintendent for Brooklyn, $2,500; Secretary, $2,000; Sanitary Inspector, $1,200; Registrar of Records, $2,500, In the morning the books and papers of the department were delivered up by Mr. Boole, the late City Inspector, to Mr. Schultz, Dr. Harris and Inspector Carpenter, who visited his office for that purpose, A decision of importance and interest to our citizens generally was rendered yesterday in the Court of Com- mon Pleas by Judge Daly. He decided, in the case of George W. Black against the Sixth Avenue Railroad Com- pany, that the six cent rate of fare is illegal. The Judge slated that tho city railroad companies are authorized in adding to the five cents, which is their legal farc, the one-eighth of a cent internal revenue tax, but. not the other seven-eighths, and that if they cannot devise means for mak- ing the fract‘onal change they must lose the one-eighth. Aeorrespondent sends us a communication stating that a conductor ejected him from an Eighth avenue car on last Friday night because he objected to paying six cents fare, Susanna Abrams was put upon her trial in the United States Circuit Court, before Judge Shipman and a jury, yeeterday, on the charge of having been concerned in the counterfeiting of fourteen thousand dollars in fractional currency, and was acquitted. ‘The March term of the Court of General Sessions com- menced yesterday, Judge Russel presiding. The Grand jury were empanelied, and a brief charge upon the usual topics was delivered to them. Henry Dumont, who pleaded guilty last week to an attempt at burglary, ‘was sentenced to the State Prison for two years and six moaths. James Hughes, who stole three coats, pleaded guilty to petty larceny, and was sent to the Pen'tentiary for six months, Tho three thousand dollars alleged bond-etealing caso of Sonneborn against Lawrence came up yesterday in the Tombs Police Court, before Justice Dowling, but was postponed, at the request of counsel, till next Thursday morning. The stock market was active but irregular yesterday, and closed firm. Gold was excited, and, after selling up to 124%, closed at-132%. The “big drop" of gold yesterday unsettled the mar- kets for everything In the line of merchandise at whole. sale, and prices of most kinds experionced a further decline, The cotton market ruled dull and heavy. Groceries were drooping. Petroleum was heavy. On ‘Change flour was unchanged. Wheat was steady. Corn was easier, Oats were quiet Pork and lard were lower. Whiskey was steady. MISCELLANEOUS. ‘The Penusylvaile Domocratic State Convention assem- Died yesterday at Harrisburg. The proceedings were of of & most onthusiastic character. Speeches were made and resolutions adopted thoroughly endorsing the policy of the President on the subject of reconstruction. On ‘the fourth ballot Hoister Clymer, of Reading, was nomi- nated as candidate for Governor at the ensuing State election, General Meade was dot a candidate for the nomination, as had been stated. The Fenian excitement still continues throughout the country, and money is pouring into headquarters daily, One thousand dollars wero yesterday subseribed by the Father Mathew Society alone, and the contributions from the ordinary sources are daily more than doubled. A grand demonstration was held at Tammany Hall Inst evening, at which a numbor of the Irish bonds were dis- posed of, Addresses were delivered by the Head Centre, the Rey, Mr. Shephard and Mr. Doran B, Kilhan. In all direct'ons great accessions are being made to both the ranks and the finances, From Canada we learn that the recont meeting of the Governors of Now Brunswick and Canada has already Dorne practical results. Tho Canadian Parliamefit is to assemble in Ottawa on the 20th inst., and the New Brunswick Legislaturo will meet in that province on Thursday next. In both bodies the confederation ques- tion ts to b» introduced, and every effort will be made to carry the schemo through without further delay. The name determined on for the confederation ia said to bo “The United Provinces of British North America,” and it is thought probable that tho present Governor Gencral of Canada, Lord Monck, will be the first ruler, Theso fpeculations are, of course, based upon the assumption that confederation will be adopted—a result which does not as yet sem anything like certain. A report of the spreches of the members of the Canadian Cabinet at the recent ministerial banquet in Cornwall, heretofore briefly alluded to in our columns, appears in this morning's Henatp with the letters of our Cornwall and St. John correspondents. Late West India news of interest was received by tho steamsh'p Crusader, which arrived have ye.terday. In Jamaica the royal commias:on wor still engaged in the investigation of affairs connected with the late revolt. Some soldiers in Lncea recently created a riot in conse- quence of the arrest of one of their companions who had severely flogged @ woman in the strects, They were finally overpowered by the police. The cholera has greatly decreased in Guadeloupe, and has not appeared on any of the neighboring islands. In Hayti the government finances aro in an un- eatisfactory condition, Two young English noblemen, son8 of the Dake of Argyle and Earl of Belfer, bad ar- rived there and been presented to President Geffrari. After stopping at other West India points they will visit this city and make a tour through the United States. In the republic of St. Domingo President Baez was still meet- ing with much diMculty, owing to revotutionary ma- Beuvrings, in the work of establishing his government. ‘One of the Valparaiso newspapers states that instruc. tions to prevent the bombardment of that city, if it shall be attempted by the Spaniards, have been given by the English government to its Minister in Chile. The <udden trade depression experienced in Ecuador consequence of that republic, as announced in our issue of yesterday, having Joined Chile and Peru in the war against Spain, is noticed in the letter of our Guayaquil correspondent, The Spaniards were the largest cus- tomers for cocoa, ® principal staple product of the country; but the shipment of the article to Spain will now be interrupted. A final decision against the owners has been fendered by the Ecuadorian Supreme Court in the case of the American steamer Washington, which was some time ago, while engaged in trade on one of the rivers of the republic, cap. tured by outlaws and converted into @ river pirate, On the vessel being subsequontiy seized by the ‘Washington on one night recently, while lying at her wharf, caught fire and was burned to the water's edge. ‘The observations and reflections of a ‘Gentile’ among the Mormon saints are presented in a quaint and enter. taining manner our Balt Lake City correspondent. ‘The ttbubles and ef the. trip seross the = Joy of the traveller, after © desert life of m haste to dispose of their groonbacka at a sacrifice como | Phe Course of Congress—Its Ruinous | Jamin C. Howard is the President, and Mrs, timo during the rebellion, in consequence of Brigham Young receiving a revelation to the effect that the United States government would go to smash, The mass of the Mormons are natives of Europe, who are said to take no pride in the United States, but rather regard it as @ foreign country; but a ‘Gentile’ element is fast accumulating among them, and a fear of its still more rapid increase is supposed to be one of Brigham’s reasons for keoping secret tho precise location of certain extensive deposits of gold and other precious metals which are well understood to exist in Utah, . Another of General Butler’s seizures while in com- mand at New Orleans has recently been in lit:gation, and been decf%ded against the General, Shortly beforo the occupation of the city by the national troops the municipal authorities made Mr. Pilie, the City Surveyor, @ present of four thousand dollars, which the General compelled the reciptent to restore to the city treasury. Mr. Pilio has lately sued the city for the amount, and oe Judge's decision was that it should be returned to The Danger to t Republicans—The Fate of Sectional Parties. The republican party, in the plenitude of its power, is in danger of going to pieces, After carrying the country safely through the most formidable and perilous rebellion in the history of any nation, this powerful party is suddenly brought face to face with an administration of its own chooring on the comparatively simple ques- tion of the restoration of the Union. The asso- ciate of President Lincoln on the republican ticket of 1864, representing the principles upon which this ticket was elected, and pursuing the policy inaugurated by the lamented Lincoln, is pronounced faithless to his high trust+ by a ruling faction in Congress because he rejects the new platform of reconstruction which they have set up. The conflizt thus brought about between Congress and the Executive brings the republican party to the alternative of a change of front ora mutiny in the camp and the speedy overthrow of its adhering forces by a new orgunization. : In a conflict between the broad, compreben- sive national policy of President Johnson and the narrow, fanatical, sectional ideas of Thad- deus Stevens it is manifest that Stevens and his faction must go down. The battles of the loyal North against the rebellious South have been fought out to the ultimatum of Southern submission. The war is over. Peace has re- turned. The late rebellious States, complying with the terms demanded of them as the prac- tical and legal consequences of their rebellion, are awaiting their readmission into Congress. In all other respects, excepting the existing Freedmen’s Bureau, the Commander-in-Chief of the army and navy and the Chief Magistrate of the Union has remstated them as loyal mem- bers thereof. He holds, too, tht so far as they can produce loyal representatives, duly elected, said States are entitled to a readmis- sion into both houses of Congress, and in ali this we have abundant evidence that the Presi- dent is sustained by the public opinion of the States which have put down the rebellion by the bayonet. Mr. Thaddeus Stevens and his rotainers, how- ever, reject the President’s work and his argu- ments, and demand a course of treatment towards the excluded Stai.s as against a sec- tion disarmed but still rebellious, professing submission but still disloyal, and not to be trusted short of new conditions for the security of the black race and the national Treasury. In a word, the programme of Stevens is simply the government of the South as a hostile. pec- tion by the sectional party to which a sectional rebellion gave possvssion of the government. The President’s plan is to do away with these sectional divisions of the rebellion, and to make tho Union war party a Union peace ag 1 that a mere sectional party under the peace establishment cannot stand is proved by all our past experience. The old federal party, which we. may say came Into possession of the government with Washington, went out with the first Adams, and was extinguished in the war of 1812, because of its degeneration into those contracted sectional New England ideas that fulm'nated from the Hartford Convention. The splendid old national whig party, built up by Henry Clay, began to decline from its Northern sectional abolition affiliations of 1844, and went down with them in 1852, never to rise again. In that canvass the old democratic party, on the national platform of Clay’s great compromise measures on the slavery question, carried all the States of the Union except Mas- sachusetts and Vermont, Kentucky and Tennes- see; and from that victory the democracy had as fair a prospect of a long reign of power as had the republicans from the election of 1864. But poor Pierce and other trading politicians of his party North, who for years had been playing the debasing réle of filunkies to the pro avery fire-eaters of the South, made the fatal mistake of the repeal of the Missouri com- promise as a burnt offering to the South for the Presidential succession. From that fatal mistake of 1854 the democratic party became @ sectional party and, as such, the slave of slavery, and started full drive on the downward road to destruction till it went over and was lost in the abyss of the late rebellion. The work of ruin that was commenced under the perfidy of poor Pierce was consummated under the whining imbecility and cowardice of poor old Buchanan. Such has been the fate of all our great political parties of the past, on their descent from a broad national policy to the foolish adventures of a sectional organiza- tion. The old Jeffergonian republican party died a more natural death. From 1800 it went on increasing in strongth till 1824, when, left without an opposition party in the field, it was broken up and disbanded in the Presidential scrub race between Jackson, Adams, Crawford and Clay. Whether the natural dissolution of the old republican party, or the violent and bloody ending of the old democratic party, or the inglorions fate of the old federal and the old whig parties is to be that of the present party in power, we cannot yet undertake to conjec- ture, The issue will be determined as wisdom or folly, a national or a sectional policy may guide the party councils henceforward. One fact we may safely conclude that if the repub- Effect on the Country. There is ruin in the ragical programme. Disasters of the most serious nature are involv- edin the present political condition of the country, and must inevitably flow from the course pursued by the dominant party, The situation is regarded too much in its purely political aspect for the people to see the effect that all this radical strife is having and is to have upon the material interests of every State in the Union. Looking at the struggle of Con- gress against the President merely on the sur- fuce, the people see only -issues on questions of constitutional right and power as relates to the negro—the position of the negro in several States—idle funcies on negro suffrage and some philosophical nonsense on equal negro rights, with much forensic bullying. It is an interest- ing and an entertaining spectacle. All this blaze over the nigger is to many as pleasing as the blaze that the Chinaman looked at while roasting his pig; and as the Chinaman forgot that the blaze which roasted his pig was at the same time burning down his own house, so it seems to be forgotten that these antics of the radicals are breaking down the founda- tions of publio confidence over a large part of the country, and are doing an injury to the vital business interests of the nation whose effects will be greater than any one would just now dare to predict. At the commencement of the present session of Congress pur future was full of promise. Every one looked forward to an immediate revival of that commercial activity in virtue of which we had grown so great in the years before the war. We had come through the tremendous contest with a strength that as- tonished the world, and we seemed determined to show to the world that we were fresh enough to fight it over again if it had been necessary, and that the many requirements of the contest, and the burdens 1t had put upon us, could not dampen the energy and ardor of our careor. We were also in a fair way to give the lie to those bad prophets who had said the States 1 will never be one ugain, Reconstruction had already made the happiest progress. Our Ex- ecutive had treated the conquered foe with a moderation that all statesmen of past times had commended for such an occasion, though none had ever put it in practice. We saw already the good effects of that magnanimous policy; for the Southern people, under its in- fluence, had accepted the result of the struggle in a spirit as generous as our own, and were doing their all to become good citizens once more, Our merchants saw, with the ready per- ception of acute traders, that this great section of the country was coming into relation with our markets once more, and an immense spring business was counted upon. Labor started well in the South, and the North, counting on the cotton crops, gave a new activity to its mills and its ships. We were going into the business of peace with all that enthusiasm with which, four years previously, we had gone into the business of war. Where are all these fair prospects now? Crushed under the ruthless heel of the radical majority in Congress. As Peace rose from her four years of prostration, the radicals forced her down again, spurned and tramplod upon | her, and yelled with frantic fury for the war to be kept up; for the continuation of a cowardly war against a people who had laid down their arms; for a war of legislation against. a people who stood at our mercy. As its first consequence, this murderous course destroyed the confidence that capital every- where felt in the early restoration of the country to its natural condition. “It demoralized Southern society more com- pletely than the war had done. It de- prived the Southern farmer of the very incentive to toil, and it paralyzed all that activity in our business that in any way had relation to the South. An immense business that counted on the rovival of the nation every- where will be without its customers by the direct consequence of the acts of Congress. Merchants will fail, factories will stop, hands will be idle and wages will go down—all as the consequence of the crazy nigger-worship- ping acts of Congress. fe Mr. Lincoln feared that when the war was over the South might refuse to send represen- tatives to Congress—might practically dissolve the Union by refusing to take part in the gov- ernment; and he judged it so important for Southern members to be in Congress that he was willing to adopt some measures to force their attendance. How different was that idea of our government from the radical idea that will not admit the members when sent! All the radical fighting with the Presi- dent is to keep out of Congress men that Mr. Lincoln thought we ought to force into Con- gress, and for this object they are willing to rain the country, to keep it in a state of anarchy, to render it impossible for labor to flourish and trade to find its natural channels. They are destroying business and breaking down the finances of the nation to secure the success of their party schemes, and they must be held responsible for it before the country. They will ruin the country rather than not rule it, and this was just the position of the former traitors, Let the people take full notice that it is this radical majority they are to hold respon- sible for all the miseries that will be the result of the injury to commerce that must ensue from the present state of the country. And let all those committees who go to the President to talk about free trade and nigger rights go to another quarter. Let them go to the radical who have forgotten the people, and tell them with what indignation and alarm the people regard their factious course, ALLEvutTion of Sovrnenn Wretcuepness.— A large number of the most respectable and influential ladies in Baltimore have organized themselves into an association for the purpose of getting up « fair or bazaar upon an exten- sive scale, for the purpose of realizing means for alleviating, so far as may be, the wretched- ness and want which the late war has entailed upon large portions of the population of the South. These ladies state that as the work which they propose to themselves is purely one , and as its scope, unhappily, be of much avail, they feel for Uberal assistance sympathize with thetr it LH i 4 1 { rf Wir John §. Gittings the Treasurer of the asso- ciation, ~~ THE FENIANS. tations Waiting on the Head Centre. The headquarters of the Fenian Brotherhood were, as usual, besieged throughout the entire of yesterday by the same anxious crowds as had formerly been in the habit of crowding up the hall and endeavoring to gain admission to the several departments of the officials. Many were disappointed, however, and wero unable to see such of the gentlemen as they wished to havea private chat with about the prospects of the Brother- hood in consequence of an order having recently been issued to admit no one who had not special bust. ness or whose mission was not of sufficient importance to excuse the intrusion. A telegram had been received from Syracuse by Colonel Downing, Secretary of Civil Affairs, relative to the tremendous excitement which the suspension of the habeas corpus had caused there, and also referring to @ petition from fifty-six Indians to b> admitted to the organization. There were also several petitions from circles which had formerly joined with the Senate to be re-admitted to the Fenian Brotherhood, and in many of those letters were grumblings of anything but a consoling character to the associates of “‘the gentleman who lost hia documents,” and a donation of one hundred dollars was received from bog Five’ Protec ~ gel og builder, wan! ae _— street, join emplo} of whom sub- scribed $10 each, ‘3 | se DEPUTATIONS. A deputation of the Father Mathew Society No. 5, con- sisting of James Reilly, President; Deni Lacie Treasurer; John Reilly, Marshal; Martin § 1; s Arthur Sm:th, Wm. Spearing G: and John White, Board of waited on the Head Centre with a donation of five hundred dollars to the F. B. The pre- sentation was made by Mr. Jobn Reilly in a short and spirited address, in wh'ch he pointedly referred to the necessity of prompt aid for the L R. B., and the confi. dence re| in the Executive of the F. B, The Head Centre briefly returned thanks, and remarked that, althongh many of .the members of the Father Mathew Socioty were already members of the Fenian Brother. hood, the fact of the present donation being an official act on the part of their body rendered it more especially acceptable. The delezation then left, having assured tho Head Cen- tre that he m'ght count upon the zealous and earnest co- operation of their association in the hour of Ireland’s nee Later in the day another deputation from the Father Mathew Boer No, 3 waited upon the Head Centre with a similar donation—namely $500. Colone! John O’Mahony addressed the deputation as follows:—Gentlemen—I thank you upon the part of the Fenian Brotherhood. It gives me heart and courage to see mn like the Father Mathew Society rallying round us in this crisis. I see you are dtermincd to set an example to your countrymen in patriotic devotedness in the same man- ner as you haye already set an example to thom in moral demeanor and in your endeavors to elevate the social and moral condition of our fellow countrymen throughout the world. No society has done more to gain respect for the Irish character than the Father Mathew Society. they have sustained our effort, and I may say that never any 2oubts as to their being Turemost in the gause of Ireland whenever ‘hat country required their aid. ‘This money comes in good timé, gentlemen, to the assistance of our brothers in Ireland, ‘The Prrsa:t assur-d the Head Centre that the ccn- tribution which they handed in was unanimously voied out of the funds of the Father Mathew Society; and if it had been five millions Of dollars instead of five hun- dred—were they the possessors of such a sum—it would be us willingly contrituted. The deputation thn retired, MEETING OF THE O’GORMAN CIRCLE. A public m eting of the O'Gorman Circle was held last evening at Tammany Hall. The attendance was very large, and thera was also a considerably Jarge number of the Fenian sisters bs Colonel Joux 0"! addressed the assemblage in a manty speech, whib he concluded in the following words:—We ask you to buy the bonds of the Irish re- public, so that the sinews of war may be forthcoming oon. " If you do that we will soon crase to trouble you for your ald—we shall soon cease to din the woes of Ire- into the ear of American and the true men of the Fenian Brotherhood shall sail direct for tho shores or of Ireland, and shall otther win her it leave ad to — stholding _ St " ron to. our upa i? - ou as an Caalvaleat u our bonds), We offer. iheret lives, If you buy the bonds.and assist us in our glorious work, we shall rede m them or we shail die. The Colonel thon retired amid rapturous applause. Tho Rev, Mr. Suarnarp ‘assem! Rocun-ren, March 5, 1966. The Rochester circlo of the Fenian Broth bo. night endorsed General Sweeny, and sent him five hun- dred doltars, A large number of volunteers offer thelr services at a moment's notice. Movements of the Missouri Fentans. A large and ES wy of Fe Fone very ont ic meeting ‘onians Was held at boa Hall on rw. e piaus of General Sweeny Canada wore loudly and enthusiastically ae ‘An impromptu collection was taken up, and in @ fow moments fifteen hundred and fifty doliars were handed in, Quite a number of rifies ana revolvers were also contri- buted to the cause, and fifty mon cnrolled themselves to fight for the liberty and independence of Ireland. The “Darcy MeGee Letter” a Forgery. TO THR EDITOR OF THE HERALD. Mostreat, Mi ‘and said to have a dreased by the under secretary, please say by me Board of Supervisors. MANDAMUS AGAINST THE CITY—THE COUNTY TAX LEVY, ETC. The Board of Supervisors met by special call at two o'clock yesterday afternoon, the President, Mr. Henry Smith, in the chair. A mandamus was received from the Supreme Court, commanding the Board to deliver up all the books and accounts of the new Court House Commis- sioners to the Clerk of the Bourd. Ordered on file. Tho Committees on Annual Taxes presented an ordi. nance making the following appropriations on county aceount for the year 1 38s Interest on soldiers’ bounty fund bonds Interest on soldiers’ bounty fund redemption bonds No. 2. Interest on FFSR BBES, ex Bupport ofp rieokers in ihe county jail Support of Setained witnesses castle oe ae oes THE WEST INDIES. Riot Among the Military in Jamaica. Distinguished Britishers En Route for the United States. Salnave, the Haytien Rehel, Held at St. Domingo. THE CHOLERA ABATING AT GUADALOUPE. _ hee kee Re. The steamship Crusader, Captain Butcher, from Belize, British Honduras, February 14, Kingston, Jamaica, Feb- ruary 21, Port au Prince February 23 and Turk’s slang February 25, arrived at this port yesterday. Turk’s Island papers of the 24th state that salt isin limited demand and nominally at 80. per bushel. The steamer Talisman, from New York, bad arrived at Turk’s Island leaky, having struck @ sunken shoal and fractured one of her plates. She was repaired and again made pertectly seaworthy. Accounts from Guadaloupe state that the ravages of the cholera in that island had notably diminished. At Basse Terre, where one-fourth of the population had already been swept away by the terrible pest, the mumber of cases Was dally growing less. JAMAICA. Progress of the Inquiry—Military Riot Thanks to Governor Eyre, &c. The Commission of Inquiry into the causes of the late outbreak continued their investigation. ‘A deputation of prominent men waited on General O'Conner and expressed their thanks for his energetic measures in aid of Governor Eyre, in euppressing the late rebellion. Admiral Hope would remain on the Jamaica station as long as the Royal Commission of Investigation should sit, Ariot occurred at Lucca, on the 7th of February, om the part of some soldiers, one of whom had severely flogged a female in the strects, and was rescued from _ custody by his companions, The soldiers were finally overpowered by the police and citizens and imprisoned, and are awaiting trial, ADDRESS OF THANKS TO GOVERNOR EYRE. 8m—We, the magistrates, clergy ‘and other inhabitants of the parish of Portland, beg leave to approach Excellency with the deepest ie:lings ot grauwuas for aid afforded us at a time when the lives of ourselves and families were in most imminent danger from the ap- praa:h of the blood-stained rebels in the fnsur- rection which lately broke out in the nelghbcring parish of St. Thomas in the East. But for the timely assistan afforded us—doubtless under the direction of and merciful Sine Reo een ee at Port An- allwise tonio, on the 15th of last, of her Majesty’s ship Wolverine, with oat Excellen and the military and naval forces which accompani you, wo have evory reason to believe—and the evidence adduced at the court martial which assembled here to ners bears us out in the beliei—that the rebels rapidly come down upon us, sg 4 strength 24 they approached, and Port Antonio might have witnessc similar painful atrocities to those trated at Morant Say and its vicinity. We wou take this nics of ibe a Spee LS, the skill, ent and promjMitude on t Ing cocaine ta pee proeltendy and ‘the gallant officers who with , doth in the disposal of the very limited military ‘sod ‘naval force then at command, and also the further distribution of the increased num- Siena sages i appro] erty. We look forward with hope! gard to the chance which is about to take political constitution, and earnestly and that under the wise direction of the British our unfortunate island bey be restored prosperity, and that your Excelloncy and spared in the ment of health and to pom the of this our zanguine hope aod expec- THE GOVERNOR'S BEPLY. I rocelve with much pleasure the addresses of the clergy and other inhabitants of —— for the steps taken to jater- ion of a i a re- expressive of cept and put down wi comi at Me Bay, had in three days and a hal reached nearly to Fort Antoni in the direct line of rebelll ysieors ite approac! imminent peril whi necessity for the dence, averted ths dire calamity, and checked tension of the rebellion to the westward. it is a great gratification to me to know that, almost contem) neously with the arrest of the rebellion in the districts 3 where it broke out, the coverument wag enabled, by the arrival of additional naval and military forces, to make such arrangements for the protection of the as eff-ctually ted those further risings from taking ince which I fully believe would otherwise have ensw join with you in , the in the constl- goverment: aut largely prose the wellare ua roe government, wel perity of the colony. E TYRE ENORMOUS COST OF THE REBEL TRIALS. the Jamaica 12 and fifty prisoners at Portland to be brought down to city {oF trial ‘before. the. Special Commission, These, ber already brought down from Mo- with the rant Bay, Commission. tlens Held at St. Dominge City—Acrest of Dominte: iste, dic, Our advices from Hayti are to the 234 ult, object of serious attention on the part of the government ‘and of the people. The next budget will, it is expected, provide for # reduction in the expenditure of from three to four millions, Four guns and an anchor had been raised from the sunken vessels Valdrogue and Ville-du-Cap, and landed in safety at Caj ‘tien. These vessels, it will be re membered, pape by a Nish sloop-of-war Bull- ‘to put them in condition to te a or Janae! oO ease cacy eal be aaaty to tne steamer Californian from Liverpook, had teuched at Port au Prince on her way to Ki Ja, baving on board two young scions of British Viz, the Mi of son of the Duke of a member Lond Bel y On ine' inh ts ry Onl 3 sirreals were preted to, Prondene Sune ne Engl y res, After leaving Intend to visit New Orleans, New York. and the