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wétned in the murder of Prosident Lincoln. Davis, however, has since been held in con- finement at Fortress Monroe, in view of his trial for that other and larger capital ‘offence of high treason, or, as the constitution defines it, “treason against the United States.” :Last year the President, after consulting Chief * Justice Chase upon the subject, concluded to turn the matter over to Congress, the Chief Justice being opposed to holding a court in Virginia while the State, only partially recon- structed, had still to be held under the supremacy of martial law. Davis, accordingly, has been held in prison -ever since, and is still held, awaiting the action of Congress upon his case. It is expected that ‘efore the end of the present week the House committee on the subject will arrive at some ‘conclusion. What this conclusion will be is, -ef course, a matter of conjecture. If the com- mittee decide in favor of a trial for treason, the trial will come before Chief Justice Chase anda jury in Virginia, and the overt act of ‘treason will probably be located at the first Bull Run, where Davis was present to share in the closing dispositions of the battle on the rebel side and in the honors of that first and ‘only decisive rebel victory of all the war. But if the committee decide in favor of a military court and the charge of complicity in the horrible work of Booth and his confederate murderers, the trial will probably take place in Washington. In any event the prisoner is entitled toa fair and speedy trial, and if the House committee cannot satisfactorily to them- selves agree upon the offence, the court, and the time and place, they ought so to report, and then, if the House can come to no definite pro- ceeding, they ought to deliver the prisoner over to be dealt with according to the Presi- dent’s discretion. Tue Boarp or Heatru any THE CHoLers— While a deadly pestilence is afloat on the lower bay and hot weather of June temperature has set in upon us in the middle of April, it is not ) raising a premature cry of alarm to say that i the public health is in peril. There is no ne- cessity for a panic, but there is imperative need of precaution. We look to the Board of Health, as the guardians of life in this crisis, todo their duty fully and speedily. So far they have been comparatively active in clean- ing up ; but there is still a vast amount of work to be done. It is not sufficient to clean the streets merely. Those hotbeds of cholera, the ‘bone-boiling establishments, glue factories and rag cellars, should be all cleared out of the city without a moment’s delay. Pleas have been putin by the owners of some of these concerns ‘ that their business will be ruined if their opera- ‘tions are suspended. What if they are? In- dividual interests must give way before dan- gers such as those which threaten us now. One fatal case of Asiatic cholera in the Five Points, half a dozen deaths from this disease scattered through the different wards of the city, would be more damaging to the commercial interests of the city at large than the suspension of a thousand bone-boiling and other offensive con- cerns. The Board of Health should look at the matter in this light. Ifthe cholera should unhappily break out here the business of the metropolis will come to a stand-still. Strangers will keep sway from the city end residents will fly from it as from & pest house. Now is the time, therefore, to consider the measures to prevent its ap- proach, and they should be carried out with- out any regard to private interests. There is of the lower wards. It is skulking about the piers and wharves and dumping grounds and in wait in nooks and corners of the va- cant lots up town. To all these places the B of Health should direct particular at- tion, and instantly too. In a week it may e too late if this warm weather continues. e old adage has lost none of its force with e, that “an ounce of prevention is better na pound of cure.” We would urge stren- ously, then, upon the Health Commissioners e paramount importance of hurrying up the they have undertaken. They cannot be diligent nor too prompt. If we should be icted with pestilence this summer the pub- ¢ will hold them to a fearful responsibility. hey have all the powers that any board can jemand. Indeed, they are supreme in their tion, and untrammelled by the opera- of any branch of the city government. herefore the sanitary condition of New York, these critical times, is entirely in their and we trust that they feel the full eight of the onerous duties imposed upon Street Ope: VENT OF THE HAND ORGANISTS—TOW THEY LIVE—THEIR MONKEYS AND THEIN TRICKS— THRIR TRACHERS—PROPITS, ETC. The soason for organ grinders has been inaugurated within the past few days by the advent of s little arm weather. A number of the profession lately made noir debut upon the streets for the season from Havana, 4 have taken up their old quarters in Baxter street, once will horeafter emanate the hurdy-gurdy, the onkeys and the inevitable whistle accompaniment, ith the tamborine women and tho hand-organ men. be manner in which these true Bohemians exist is not ithout intorest. They have regular boardiag houses for ueir monkeys, where the cost of living for each anitmal from one dollar to one dolla? and fifty cents per week. yore specimens of animated pature are said to receive heir education in Paris, which accounts for their polite. Italians are their teachers. It is said the price 4 for schooling ranges from seventy-fve to one hun rod and fifty dollars, according to the accomplisnments aght, the highest rate being for those who are im 0 the mysteries of tumbling—grand and —the fring of pistols and dancing. ‘The profession of organ grinding has become so profit- that the ranks of the profession are constantly re- wing accessions, and the competition in routes has ymenced to run high, alm ost equalling that of the renting business, But as a general thing the sical people do not interfere with each other. Too por to own their instruments, in & majority of instances, Poasiderable money Js fealized by those who are enabi keep a number to hire ont to operators. The price is erally two of three dollars per week, and the muric ho would ron away with his organ would be branded worthy the association from one end of the coun- to the other, The earnings of an industrious orman rare usually from eight to twelve dollare per and some tain even more than this Much de- the organ, the tunes it grinds out and the oachy of the jet, In some cases children cted in the violin and sent out to play upon ti (a, thus aiding the parents in turning an honest ny ‘Their diet being consisting of maccaron! and nita, they pay i Fast for their daily-board, and the side of @ plank serves them Ee asa cone saving the expense of beds trouble of waglring and airing the clothing ofa b They frequentiy well-to-do in this word's them. They seldom take citizenship, do not ell ; NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 22, 1866.—TRIPLE SHEET. THE CAPITAL. The Ways and Means Committee Hard at Work on the Revenue Bill. Their Report Looked for Early This Week. The House of Representatives in “Or- namental” Session. Debates on the President’s Reconstruction Policy, the Status of the Sonthera States, the Trial of Joff. Davis, &c. &c. &c. Wasuinaton, April 21, 1866. THS NSW REVENUE BILL, ‘The Ways and Means Committee had a long session over the Revenue bill to-day, and accomplished a great deal of work upon it, Members of the committee hint that it will be ready to report early in the coming week VISITORS AT THE WHITE HOUSE. ‘The throng of visitors at the President’s mansion to- day was greater than any that has asseanblod for months past. A delegation of Indians from the Chippewas of Min- nesota called to have a conference with the President this afternoon, but owing o the pressure of other im- portant matters the interview was postponed by the Ex- ecutive, Mr. Scoville, of Delaware, was among the visitors at the White House to day. PERSONAL, A delegation of twelve Boston gentlemen, headed by Mayor Lincoln, are in the city on the ostensible mis- sion of inspecting one or two model school buildings for the purpose of transplanting all excellencies w enrich their own institutions, Colonel Cooper, Congressman elect from Tennessee, is temporarily designated as the President's acting private secretary. He comes with an enviable reputation for the legal and business ability necessary to fill the position with credit to himself and satisfaction to all with whom his new duties bring him in contact. RECEIPTS FROM INTERNAL REVENUE. The receipts from internal revenue for the week end- ing to-day were three million three hundred and ninety thousand and and fifty-nine dollars, PARDONS. The numbers of special cases of pardon by the Presi- dent to-day is as follows:—Thirteen persons from Ala- bama, four from Mississippi and one from Louisiana, under the first and thirteenth exceptions; also eight persons from Kentacky, under the twelfth exception of the proclamation of amnesty. HOME FOR THE ORPHANS OF SOLDIERS AND SAILORS. Extensive preparations ar) being made for a fair in this city in aid of the National Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphan Home for the friendiess orphans of soldiers and sailors in every State and Territory of the Union. Mra. Licutenant General Grant is President, and Mrs. Major General W. T. Sherman Vice-President. All contributions to this be- nevolent object should be addressed to the National Sol- diets’ and Sailors’ Orphan Home, Washington, D. C, SPEECHES IN THE HOUSE. Something like eighteen columns of Globe proof shoets ‘Were read to a yawning house this afternoon by a few of the honorable contributors to that publication. Since the triumph of the Civil Righte bill over the veto the radical readers have taken a flendish pleasure in giving their productions entire, and with more oral rotundity than they employed ,in times when it wouldn't do to talk quite so loud. PATENTS FOR MEXICAN RANCHES IN CALIFORNIA. The patents issued up to the present time for Spanish and Mexican ranches in California, the titles of which have been finally confirmed by the courts, embrace up- wards of $3,328,700. BXAMINING SURGEONS OF THE PENSION BURBAU. pucwrs games Williamson, of Portamouth, Va; Eze- kiel M. Bartlett, of Missouri; George W. Wright, of Canton, Hil. ; George Cowan, of Danville, Ky., and Gilbert E. Waters, of Burtonville, Mich., have been appointed examining surgeons of the Pension Bureau, THIETY-NINTH CONGRESS First Session. HOUSE OF REPRESENTA’ Wasiunatox, April 21, 2866. DEBATES ON THE PRESIDENT’S MERKAGE, RECONSERUCTION, THR NKGRO, BTC. ‘The proceedings of this day's session were, by order, confined to general debate on the President's Annual Message. Mr. Nicnonsom, (dem.) of Del., was the first speaker. He took strong grounds aga nst the constitutional amend- ment in regard to representation, He contended that the effect of it would be to destroy the federal character of the government, to prodace consolidation and to subject the people to the worst kind of derpot.ism—that of constitutional majorities. There was no propriety in it, The States themselves were the best Judges as to what concerned their internal order and well-being. The very object sought to be accomplished by the constitutvonal amendment—that of put. the level with the white were entirely distinct, The ony way the two races could live in harmony together was by a recognition of the truth of the inferiority of the » race. The forcible exclusion of representatives from the Southern States wae another reason why the amendment should not pass, because it could not pass if all the States entitied to representation were roy ened He was followed by Mr. Pannam, (rep) of Me, who took directiy an ‘opposite view of the question of recon- struction. je considered it of litte importance whether the late rebe! States were regarded as dead, aecording to the views of some mombers of Congress, or as havin had their functions suspended, according to the views a e President. The grea! fact remai io either case, bat it was the daty of Congress to provide for the estab- lishment of State governments which should correspond with the spirtt of those provisions of the constitution requiring Congress to guarantee to the States a republi can form of government. This was what ( had been attempting to do for the last five years, with bat partial saccoss. It was the duty of Congress to see, not only that new states to be admitted had «ach a form of govern mo: t, but to guarantee it to the old ones also. If there were not loyal mew enough in the South to fill the of. fives, some of the federal heroes of the war should be ae oe and told to take part in the administration the government of States which they had saved by their vaior. In those States the rebels were now in the ascendoncy ; loyalty was the exception and distoyaity whom devotved now the duty of deciding ¢ rebel States were in a condition to be ‘ongress ’ Not on the Executive. no much jas delegated to him. Not on the House of Rep. tives wor the Senate, acting independently of each other; but on the law making power of the govern- ment. It was the duty of Congress to take the whole subject into consideration, aa it was now doing, and to decide what guarantee should be required to secure equal and exact justice to all citizens, and went the recurrence of another revellion. This stoald be se. cured by such constitntional amendments as could not fall to accomplish the object, and on the ratification of snob amendments by the late rebel Stator asa pledge of sheir sincerity and loyalty, he would allow them to be represented in Congress on equal footings with the other Stator, The guarantees he should require were, Gret, that leading, intelligent traitors—conecious traitors, aa the President called them—should be deprived of all po- Hitieal rights, at least for the present, and until they #hall have broaght forth fruits meet for repentance, of until the loyal sentiment of the States has become so strong as to render them powerless for evil; second, that all the nights of citizenship, includin, that of suffrage, shail be given to all loy citizens, ierempective of race or color; third, that the of Confederate and State debts contracted Hlion should be probibited, and also the payment by the nation, or by States, for emancipated slaves; fourth, that the doctrine of secession shail be re- pudiated and branded with everlasting infamy. He noted from the Nashville h of President Jobneon, Mivered, he said, before bis head had become giddy with power, and before Southern rebels and Northern heads had led bim captive at theit will, and he called upon the President to co-operate with Congress in eins effect to the doctrines enu: tod in that speech. tom members did not desire to e any confliet with vote, at the government from the loyal cullzens, given to of Pp, next addressed the House on the question . He did pot agrees With the doctrines enunciated on that suuject by bis colleague (Mr. Stevens), or by hie other Cw 4 Williamey, or by the able gentioman from Ohio Kee iialergen For bimwett, be held (at uo would never consent, by hie of the country should be taken who bad saved it by their blood, and should traitors ‘Mr. Minum, (rep. ¥ if could force a State out of the Unidn, The Southern the still Bi ie [hi eres | epee ze: ta z 2 H 23 5 $ 2 a Hal te alt H i: i Ha 4 Z23E E rf inted: ES imes deserved, still e the devotion and people that they would never allow tate the terms on which should resume their rela- tions to the Gane the hich thi ‘was to Iny down the terms on which they were fo be recurved back. While he denied that any State remain remained for the last four years, in the Union, to be sure, because they had not the power to get out of it; but in the Union, divested of all their its of repre- sentation in Congress, until the masses of the loyal peo- ple of the country had so hedged them in with guaran- tees and safeguards that they could be safely entrusted with that right. He believed that the country was on the eve of a revolution as portentous to the next genera- tion as the recent rebellion bad been to this The very men who had go on the war of rebellion were striving to get back to the places thoy had %0 ignominionsly deserted, in orter that they might control the government whieh they had so impiously striven to overthrow. He believed that Prosident had made a great and sad, and, he feared, fatal, mistake in the indiscriminate manger in which he had granted pardons, It was no wonder that the red- handed traitors were such friends to the President's policy, because they saw that that policy was to give them back all their rights and place them in possession of the government as fully a8 before they went into the rebellion, The President policy bad done more to make treason respected and traitors heroes than the establishment of an independent Confederate government could have done. Ifthe President's policy were carried out it would not only put the eleven rebel States in the hands of rebels, but the time would not be long before rebels would have complete control of the government in all ite dopartments, It was no wonder that every rebel, from Jen. Davis down to every subaltern, including bush- whackers, jayhawkers and guerillas, was an earnest and devoted admirer of the President's policy. It cial ag the policy for them, because it was the only one tl could live by, and the one which they professed throug! their papers to be ready to die by, Ho desired to ace a constitutional amendment adopted prohibiting Con; from repudiating any part of the federal debt, and om assuming or paying any part of the Confederate debt; for although there was no fear of sych a thing for the ypre- sent or the next Congress, there was no knowing what might be done if the rebel States were admitted to repre- sentation in Congress. Mr. Sviti, (rep.) of Ky., was the next to address the House. He proposed, he said, to discuss the present con- dition of ‘he States and of the country, and the proposi- tions of the President and of Congress. He held that the secession ordinances were null and void, and that all the acts passed by Congress during the four years of war were based uy the ground that these rebel States were not out of the Union and could not get out of the Union. It did not follow because the rebel States were admitted to the right of representation in Congress disloyal Repro- sentatives should be allowed to take seats in either House, That had never been asked by the President or by any other loyal man. What could Congress do con- trary to what had beendone? The policy inaugurated by the late Prosident Lincoln had been carried out by Presi- dont Johnson, and under it the Southern States had formed their organizations. How was that policy to be changed, or what change was there to be made in it? Mr. Scuormxp, (rep.) of Pa., asked if it made any dif- ference whether a man who liad been engaged in the re beltion was admitted as a Representative or a man who had not been in the rebellion, but who would vote exactly as ex-rebel would vote. Mr, Syure replied that he did not see how that wages cond ever be avoided. There was nothing in the consti- tation or laws by which it could be done, Itdid not follow that his own district or the district of his very send a Represen- ‘Surra admitted the difference in the two propor tions; but he did not see why States in which the condi- tions’ did not exist should not be admitted to repreventa- tion. Mr. Bourwett. asked whether the gentleman from Ken- tueky would confine the elective franctise in Missiestpps, for example, to loyal white men, exctuding distoyal white men. Mr. Surra replied that he would. Mr. Bovrwent then asked whether the gentleman ex pected that tae nine-tenths disloyal people would permit the other tenth to set ap and continue a government from which they would be excluded, Mr, Surrm referred, in reply, to the position which had been enunciated and maintained by U m Majorities and advocated by the Speaker of the House, that the loyal men of each State were to be recognized as constituting the State. Met Bocrwe but he asked t one-tenth of a loyal nine-tenthe. Mr. Sarit replied that it was for Congress to solve that problem. Why did not Congress fix itand let the loyal tenth be represented in Congress? id not ask what the Speaker had said practical question, whether the loyal t# would be allowed to govern the ds Mr Raxpats, (dem.) of Pa, asked Mr. Boutwell whether the rights of the loyal one ith of @ State were to be impaired by the disloyal nine-tenths, and whether that loyal tenth sentation? ing taxed, wax pot entitled to repre- Mr Boutwers, replied that the right of represe stion, whether in the Senate or in te House, was a r lit ap pertaining to the States ax States, and that it« ld be exorcised by the people only through an existin. and recognized State organization. The State organizations in these eleven States, whi had once existed im har. mony with the organization of the national government, had, by some event or series of events, consnd to oxist ae a matter of fact, because they were not represented in Congress. That was the evidence that they had ceased to exist. When, or why, or how, it was not important to inquire, Now, before the right of representation could be again exemised in any of these States there must be a previous recoguition of such right. Tn the inquiry as to the right of a State to be represented ite conatitation must be looked inte, and it mast be ascer tained whether there it such an existing loyal State ax would reasonably jemity the expectation that the repre sentatives from that State woold be loyal. There was ho right in the one-tenth of the people of # State, even h loyal, to be represented fn Congress, It was the Fight of people of the whole State, when they de- monstrated asa whole their loyalty to the goverument, to be represented as the le of & State, remarked that that doctrine overtorned Mr. Lineota from beginning to end aving resumed the floor, drifted to the questio contiet between the President and Congress. He asked way, if the Presifent had no power to do what he had done, Congress bad not undone it, and done something that would be better, What was Congres going & do in ite place? State governments must exist, and there must be the same sort of machinery to carry them on, But it was said the Southern States must repo hate the rebel dedt. had been done. It was said that they met ratify the constitutional amendment aboliebiug slavery. had been done ale Then it that they must eleet loyal men to Congress. Congress know that it had not been done im every instance? Who had trind that question? The Committee on Elections, which was the Proper authority on that subject, had said nothing apon it. In excluding those States from representation, Congress was doing & wrong, Wi ould remit in in. Jury to the government Britting into the the trial of Jefferson Davie, Mr, Smith said that the President had relieved by pardon five handred of tho leading spirite of the ion, and he asked why Cow greee bad not, by vill or resolution, called for thelr trial and execution? It was because Congress wanted to dodge the question. Mr. Senorimty asked why Mr Smith bad not intro duced such & measure. Mr. <wrrn aid he would do so if those who were so fond of blood dif not Mr. Sewormnn asked why he bad not done it some time during the last dve months? Mr. Surra replied that jt war because he had heen waiting for some of those who talked so mach about hlood to come forward and show sume of their blood- thiretin ons. Mr. Senormeyn remarked that the gentleman himerif talked more about blood than any one ciee Mr wire wont on to aay that the radieala in Con | abe | the radical ‘Were daily denouncing the Prosident because be did not do something in reference to the punishment of rebel traitors, although it belonged wae How did to © itaeif to do it Mr. rom, (dem.) of Wik, inquired whether Wr. Smith that Congress had the power paw laws by which those men could be tried and condemned, ot whether they must not be tried ander the laws exte- ing at the time the crime was committed. Mr Serre replied that, as @ matter of cours, they Mart be tried under the laws# existing at the time the by. hich they cnald 4- . ~O wi r Mr Feces temnes tortion shooter they mast pot be tried in the districts Ld be tried in Virgiote and tn al! cause the Qouria Wore re: Mr. Broomar:, (rep.) of Pa, asked what additional law was neceseary, and what er Congress had to pass & law for the trial of pete or crimes committed here. boiore, Mr. ELDerpG® suggested. as a conditional question, what the Prosident bad to do with it. ‘Mr, Sarr said he knew that Congress could not pass Fly mg facto aw, but he could understand fed well the effort that was being made by men to avoid by litt. gen non-legislation the bringing of these men to rial. ‘was because they knew it would affect the true policy adopted by President Johnson. ‘Mr. BROOMALL inquired what power Congress had in the pe: ‘SauTa retorted by asking what power the President Mr. BRoomats suggested that he had the powet to execute existing laws. Mr. Swiru said that President Johnson had pursued the policy inaugurated by President Lincoln, and that would not dare to destroy it, because Congress felt the foree and effect of that policy on the country, and knew that tho great masses of the Union people would soon rise and maintain it, and that the loaders aoa opposing it would go down and be forgotten unwept. Mr. RaxpALt, (dom.) of Pa, suggested that the Presi- dent had, on the 24 of October, 1865, addressed a letter to Chief Justice Chase on the subject, and that the Chicf Justice, on the 12th of the same month, replied, declin- ing to hold such court as had been suggested by the Prosident, and suggesting a trial by military commission. ‘Mr, Surta knew that was so, for ho had read it in the Tritnene. ‘Mr, SHELLABARGER, (rep.) of Ohio, desired to make & statement in that connection. Hoe said thi thin a few the Attorney General of the United States at to him and another gentleman, not in confidence or privately, that the position taken by the Chief Justice 3g t was proper, as the condition of the country was s' aa to make a judicial trial, under the circumstances, ght else than & 3 Mr. Sarra asked, if that were so, whether it would not becuenny Soe and © mockey, for a commission to bo institated to try these men. The position assumed by Congress to sereon the Chief Justice and other men and to the whole onus of complaint on the President was unfur and unjust, and would be sure to recoil on those who assumod it. He referred to the resolution of- fered by Mr. Stovens in 1862, declaring that it any per- son should pro] to make peace upon any other basis than the int ity and union of the United States he would bo guilty of & high crime, Ho (Mr, Smith) adopted that principle, and ho held that if it were applied now to the gentleman who offered the resolution he would be convicted of high crimes. Mr. Rrrren, (dem.) of Ky., next addressed the Honse on the question chiotly of the relative value of slave labor and free labor. contending that slave labor was more profitable toa State, and comparing the product and property statistics of Ohio and Kentucky, and of Itmois and Alabama. He subsequently admitted, how- ever, in response to Mr. Kelley, that the statistics he had cited embraced the aweseed value of t tay He appealed to Congress if it did not desire the repndiation of the federal debt to stop in ita mad career, and to ita efforts to force its peculiar views on the people of late slave Statea, They should imitate the noble example of the President, and open the doors of Congress to the representatives duly elected, Each State should be left to control its own internal affairs, subject to the consti tution and the laws of the United! States, This was the only way in which they could have a restored Union Mr. SaeianaRce, next addressed the House, Ho remarked that some weeks ago he bad introd areso- lution requesting the Judiciary Committee to inquire as to whether it was competent, ander the American consti - tution, for Congress to declare a forfeiture of citizenship by act of law, where that citizenship had been volun- tarily abandoned, by acts of disloyalty. Since that revolu- tion’ had been adopted he was glad to find that the distinguished gentleman who occupied the chair of the House had been reflecting on this great question in tne game direction to which that resolution pointed. One of the most distinguished lawyers of the House had also introduced a set of resolutions bearing on the same idea, and expressing with more distinctness a plan for putting in appheation that power of the government. He ‘was glad, therefore, to find these and other evidences that the mind of the country was being now directed towards this important practical question as one of the means which may be resorted to for the purpose of relieving the government from those questions of terrible embar- rassment by which it was surrounded. Ho desired now to direct his remarks t that great question in the breach between the President and Congress, touching the method of restoring the States in the recent revolt to controlling power in the Union, and in the causes for that breach most men found the occasion for alarm. If, however, any faith could be placed in the most solemn utterances of Congress and of the President, then they differ, but did most precisely agree upon one, at least, of the most important decisive principles and means for the restoration of those States to power. He solemnly averred his belief that if the President and had the constitutional right to employ the means to which we alluded for the restora- tion of the States, and if they would in good faith unite 1 apply and put in fore the principle whieh both pro- fessed to hold, the work of restoration would be, if not easy, at least ultimately certain, and at once secured. That principle was that in all those States truly loyal people abould alone have power of government, either the holding or by the exercive of the elective fran- chise, and ‘that the conscious and responsible leaders of the rebellion’ should be tried, convicted and executed. If the loyal people of those States had full control of their government he #aw no reason why each of thove States should not be welcomed to-day to the embrace of the parent ——— with an acclaim te rt avo! Vike that which angels gave at Bethlehem. by the President of bis desire for the exclusion of rebels from all andl for thor condicn explictt, me and infidelity to It would be to all instincts of attribute to him purposes dingraceful to the most vulgne postieal which, in the ruler of a great generous people who had so honored and trusted him, would be utterly dis. asting and infamous, Congress had already indicated ita lief in the saine thing. It was obvious, therefore that the President and Cougress agreed that the disloyal should be sternly excluded by severe ordeals trom gov- ernment anu they bring forth fraits moet for repent- ance. He then proceeded to discuss he right of Con. gress to exclude from citizenship ail who had voluntarily Tenounend it, sustaming his position on the constitution ‘on international law, and on precedents establiehed and practised by foreign governments and foliowed by the American government in the case of persons who had been engaged in Shay's rebellion in Massachusetts Mr. Hats, (rep.) of N. Y., inquired whether, im the procedenta cited from the course of foreign governments, the persons whose rights were forfoited had not been first tried and found guilty by a court of competent juris diction, Mr. Semacananane replied that the forfeiture took of. fect by the act of the sovereign or the law-making power, without the interposition of Judicial power Mr. Hace also inquired whether, in the case of Shay 's rebellion, forfeitare of ervil rights did not apply exclo- sively to those who had been tried and convicted? Mr, SHELLARARGER replied In the negative Mr Hate wanted to know, then, how the fact that the persons had been engaged in rebellion bad been awertained? SHPELARARCER'* answer failed to throw mueli tight pint, he continued his argument ir. Hate ipterrupted bum to ask her question RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. SERVICKS TO-DAY. Bishop Pottor will officiate at the ceremony of Confir. mation at half-past ten o'clock this morning, in Chirst church, corner of Fifth avenue and Thirty-ffth street, Rev. G. L. Demarest will preach at the Universalist chureh, corner of Second avenue and Eleventh street, morning and evening. Subject of the morning discourse, “The Love of God; of the evening discourse, “The Fear of Hell," At the Church of the Resurrection, corner of Thirty- fifth street and Sixth avenue, Rev. Edward 0. Flagg Preaches at half-past ten o'clock in the morning, and Rov. Wm. H. Milburn, the blind preacher, at half-past seven in the evening, There will be services at St. Ann's free church, in Eighteenth street, near Fifth avenue, morning and oven. ing to-day, Rev, Eastburn Benjamin will preach in the morning and Roy, 8. H. Tyng, D. D., in the evening. Rey, Trosham D. Grogg, D. D., of St. Nicholas’, Dub- lin, will preach in Clinton Hall, Astor place, at half paat seven o'clock this evening. Atthe Free Will Baptist church in Seventeenth street, west of Sixth avenue, there will be services in the fore noon at the usual hour, and in the afternoon at half-past three, The pastor, Rev. J. P. Nutting, will officiate, The Young Men’s Christian Association of the Church of the Holy Apostles, cornor of Twenty eighth street and Ninth avenue, will this evening listen to a sermon by Rev. Francis Vinton, D. D., of Trinity church. Rey. D, Henry Miller, of Trenton, will preach to-day, morning and evening, at the Pilerim Baptist church, in Twenty-third street, There will be baptismal rites at the evening service. At the Church of Epiphany, 130 Stanton street, be tween Essex and Norfolk streota, the Rev. Henry L. Jones, of Fitchburg, Mass, will preach this morning. Bishop Potter will administer the rite of contirmation this evening. Sorvices at half-past ton in the morning and half-past seven in the evening. Seats free, Tho Rey. Jacob Knapp, the Evang@tist, will preach in the Murray Hii! Baptist church, corner of Thirty seventh street and Lexington avenue, this afternogn, at three o'clock: Preaching ia the morning, at halla ten, by Rev. Mr. Stimson, of Kpusas; in the evening, at half-past seven, by Rev. & A. Corey, D. D. The Rev. Dr. Spencer will preach at th chureb, corner of Hammond street aud Waverley place, at morning and afternoon service. At the evening sem vice Rev. E. T. Remington will officiate, “Mental and Civil Liberty va. Theological and Physical ’ is the theme of two discourses to be delivered ing and evening. at 806 Broadway, by H. P. , His A conference of the iristian Union will be held in D: Rico's chureh, corner of Ninth street and Fifth aven this evening, Rev, Dr. nilye will speak, it being bis first appearance on the platform since the affair at Dr. Armitage’s church, Dra Rice and Joho Cotton Smith will also apeak At the Christian church, in Twenty-cighth street, noar Broadway, there will be services morning and evening, at which the pastor, Urban C, Brewer, will offictate. “The Coming Karthquake’’ is the subject of a discourse to be delivered at three o'clock, in Jones’ Hall, 656 Broadway, by Bishop Snow, of Mount Zio At the Bleocker street Universalist church there will he services morning and evening by the pastor, Rev David K. Lee. Subject of tho evening discourse “Audibon and the Bird Creation as Attesting the Wisdow and Goodness of God." Rey. W. B. Sutherland will preach thie evening in the Mission Hall, No, 100 West Twenty-fourth street, near Sixth avenue. “The Truo Path to Ireland's Freedom’’ ts to be the subjoct of a discussion at Military Hall, 194 Bowery, this afternoon, in which J. O'Donnell, Esq. and other mem- bers of the Memortal Association will participate, A lecture on the “Condition and Wants of thia Coun- try’ will be delivetod at Metropoiitan Hall, 9 sixth , this evening. The Right Rev. Dr. Lynch, Bishop of Charleston, S.C, will preach in St. Bridget’s chureh, corner ¢ avenue B and Eighth streot, at the half-past ten o'clock mast The mass will be Mozart's Twelfth, with orehos- tral accompaniment In Brooklyn, at the Reformed Presbyterian church, Duffield street, near Myrtle avenue, there will be proneh- ing morning and afternoon by Rev. Obaries Is. saith. “The Life and Public Services of the Late Daniel 8. Dickinson’ ts the subject of a discourse to be delivered in the Elm place Congregational church, Brooklyn, by the Kev. Wm. Alyin Bartlett, the pastor, this eveuing. MISCKLLANBOUS. The Right Rev. Bishop Lynch will be present to-mor- row night at the concert given at Cooper Lustitate for the benetit of the orphans of Charleston, and will address the audience on the condition of the orphans under bis charge. Let all who have a heart to feel for these desti tute orphans attend. On tis occamon the members of the St. Bridget M. B. and B. Society will comply with their Easter duty, which will be an interesting cereaony. The whole number of American Foreign Missionary Societios is gixteen, having under their oe Wisklomarios, RaLIVe proschers, ote., 4,000 church taem- G00 yuypil*, and receipta te $1,000,000, in Britain (ere are twenty missionary societies, missionaries, native preachers, etc, 5,216. members, 156,000; pupils, 201,000: receipts, $3,004,000. On the eootinent of Europe there are twelve societies, of which sx aro in Germany. They have 811 missionaries, ete. 79,000 church mowers, receipts, $267,000. Total of Protestant missionary associ 58, miasionaries and native helpers, 9.415; charch members, 615,000; pupils, 245,000; receipts, $4,451,000. This ia exclusive of minor missionary eflorts, undertaken, as on various lacitic islands, by converts from among the heathen, for the benefit of other and still more degraded tribes. Doctor Livingstone recently stated in a lecture that no lems than forty mimionaries succumbed to the deadly effects of the climate of Africa before a single conversion took place In the ization of German Baptist churches began in the United States they number thirty churches, #ixty ministers and four thousand members, They have @ semi-weekly organ, which circulates two twonty five hundred copios, @ Sunday school and a mis sionary paper w? Ixmtane Reoueurr— The ighth Indiana Volur orth Carolina, on t » moldiers in the fel Teerens Howe ov ree One Hundred and Twen arrived at Indianapolis from inst, The State has now dranapolis Jowrnal, April 1 and Depa AnuIv ALE ono—Steamakip Teatonia—Mary Sondmacher and dren, HM Koheler, Cart yerina A Rowen Anam Kien Bock, Cart Wit The drift of the gentleman's argument, he said 4, | Praitag was to show that Congress might lawfally enact af mit aud niieren, 2 | yaloniner _wite forfeitare of citheenmhip a8 = penalty for having been er Alex Hertvetr, Susea Bot, Maree Gasies aed (eo engaged in rebellion against the goverament He sub er difficulty in the ton of the conti case, namo! tation, which the gentleman lad fa iti’n of penalty for any erime wh: the passage of the in the definition of an ex acto law, and wh was not thereby forbidden by the constitution ja effectually as bills of attainder were forbidden Congress might by legislation enact the penalty of feitare of cititenship for rebellion or disloyalty, mi it nat by the same rule enact any other different penalty for an offence committed before the oft Me. Shettanancnn replied that that provision of coustitation bad no application to the matter he waa dixcassing. That provision related to the punishment of crime a such, and tw the forfeiture of rights, in puniehinent of crime. What he was considering was An exercise Of national sovereignty, not in shment of crime, bat simply in depriving ten who, by acta of disloyaity, bad voluntarily renounced their allegiance to notice wer, committed vasly and directly the im their own government, of the right to resume thetr puitical powers. He would not have what be said pushed to any othes consequence than the conse: quenre tw which be pw his = argument, namely, that the right of citized@bip being of national donation. ef national deQnition and of national contro! wae a tnatter the deprivation of which a# » conse of a voluntary surrender of the obligations of citizenstiy was pot Wké an infiiction of panisnment for crane, bat wae amply a declaration of the sovereign power that av ey bad surrendered t political franchisor they sbould not coptinge to exercine them. He sustained hie porition also by reference to a provision In the Army Ap propflation bill of 1864, declaring that deserters trom the army forfeited ail the rights of citizenship and were for sence ever ineapable of holding any vffiee of trum or 4 promt under the United States, or of exerciring “on, W Bmerese any right of citizenship, and he asked whether deser. | “7% Csidwel BM He 0 wat a higher offence than three or four your of per ATC nme f mainet the national existence The pasenge of vach Lav e290: — Megane’ y of Me agented would stand a8 @ practcal asser Br oe xercie and applicavion of the pational ‘ peeservation for which be eontended ir. Sbellabarger epoke for an hour aod a hall, and was Letened to with marked imterent and attention At the close of bis speech Mr Huse rose and mit he imweif in the position of the gentle d tw, whe “thou cone incing, ght of diving would take the privilege of call tion of the gentleman who had argument which, for einboratenes, learning and fair new be had seldom heard equaled in the Hous, to one or two points te it, In regard wo the suygertion which he (Mr. Hale) had made, that thin was in the nature of an a2 port facto \nw be wubtmitted that it was not an anewor to say imply that that section had nothing to do with the cave TL Wan proposed asa penalty for treason and rebellion that theer men should by the leg on of Cow: t this day be deprived of certain 1 That waa fy a elm og dehnition an ex pont facto aw and nothing abmitted tb the «wv of 166 ip reference denervrs and meh of the other stauites pamed by Congres wa: propective in ita and nok retrampective of retronctive The inw im reference to deserters was Wo take ofeet if they 4id not return to thetr regiments by © day Gxed, making the prospective onita of desertion the crime to be panithed—pot the past offence He held the erime of freaeon (fan grea! dotewtation apd horror ae it was poem bie for the gentioman to do; tat be dreaded one thing more than artnet rebelion, more than treasop. and thet wan to eee the tree, honeat, y abe the gentleman from Ohio, In their seal Wo put their con demoatign og the crime of treason, override oF seek 10 orereens ian [00 can pease penrenees ae Se cence tation, He regretted that be was not to point out where the Sd nileman s ment true comatitutional groued, bat he would Dita tf the plessate of mnking that eMart at ae carty s day a be coal obtain the Some The House (Lee, at half past Gve, sdyvurted 3'W Giudden. John srntth Jackson, JY Wired ’ wy int. A Thostunn,, ¥ fottmar v | v AnKIVE Home, Mrs ie ne child Mra vee, Mew Nardin, ary. Cape Mowne art wife and thr thy nid, A Adama, ¥ B Meyer, A eK Mr Martin, J wife apd the 7 Mrs Chapen, ¢ 7 Came, * Metivire, We 37, Cheerhen it a Mek nF Hamme a Kememer Pereire Mire Mouuhewt. Mie Mine h Noten Master 60k novaroogy - it, Mowe ny far Loomis, Whe Foe OP ke a alates, Mee aleied wed wervewk Mire Cert Breeds and son, Miss M Johnatoo—all of New York; Mra Bain, Mise Bi Jennie Blain, Now York, W B Bement, ye © 8 Bement, “MA Furbark, Mra Furbark, il ia; Mra 8S © Toussaint, two children and nurse; Mrs Porael, A Eisen, F He Jas Conte, A Patrulito, New York; JH G Novia Jonae ¥ Hoffasdior, Miss Bord, Mrx J’ Coo, Ne, Mire Foote. ter Reburider son. Miss Schneider, New York; Wm Savery, Philadelphia, Dr EA Filner, Mrs Filiner, Miss Filner, St Loula: Mr Ku- vino Torrica, f Diez. Mr Joniu, Mexioo; A A Ossorio, Mra UOssorto and serv, Madrid: Mr Binswinger, M M Homburger, Leo Moser, Mr Ford, JH nson, Mr Nordmann, A Coupeux, G A Girod, maa, ra Hvron Sherman, three children and servant, New York: ult Mire Mawsip. Miss Merrill, Min, Campbell, New Mes Orth FD Meyer, PE, Houlstour and son, Ba ANP, Orlane: Mr and Me four, onl . amt; lays, Oh if BO, Bavannah ; w ‘Havana t Cuba servant, ; Hoaton . evant Mr Sats ant, Paris; nt, ‘rust penne: Fe and Mre Koeh and Nee on mid chia, Mr a Cleveland; P Mossa, MP Vester Lohse, Mias Lo! children, Mer ty ise, Ascarato, purse: Mra rs P Blanchet, B James Cassin. G Labay M. Hotfwtaedter. T Mra Hurtehine, New’ Orleans; (Mr Mr A Lary,’ Mr Gautier, Mr and Mra EE Bol Mr and Mrs Mr Eppstein and child, Mr A Webrrann. rade Peon and ehild, Mr Warker, Mr A Hobm, Michel, New Orleans: Mr E Berton, Mrand Mrs | aard, Me Fa Don Bernard and eblid, Mr 1, York, Mr F Morill, WE Maymir, Mi Z Dhak io, Mra Tapie, Mr Hernardet rw Lanoge, Mr A Penel, Mr ¥ I MrO Penel, Mr M do Marina, Mr Jaw, Mr ‘Grable Ciprio, Mr Chas Boucher. Total 217. SOvTHAMPTON AND Haxmona—Stoamehin Raxonin—Mre Ty Wickert aud family, Colonel J Maidhot, H Moyen, Mr and Mrs Thos Hullman and two children, John © Kobladat, Caml ly and wervant; Dr Seheok and family: Mrs Bnglebert, ita a Mra threo children and servant, © Valisttoe. Teafael Sai Josaph 5 4 two ebil- Sander, Master reo and servant: Mrvde Barry and fam Kolker, 8 Spiro, R Von heimer, Miaw Kolker, M Mias © Perea, Alfred Sohlesinger, WH Ritter William Marks, © PF Dreyer, Mr W. 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