The New York Herald Newspaper, May 1, 1866, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Volume XXXI. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, near Broome vstreet,—MAZErPA, st. Nicholas WOOD'S THEATRE, Broadway, opposite the Hotel.—lus Exves: AN THE Goon FoR Norul GEORGE CHRISTY'S—Oup Scioon oF | MiNstReLsY, Barwaps, Musicat Guns. &c.. Fifth avenue Opera House, ‘Nos. 2 and 4 West Iwenty-fourta street. THe SKELETON Wirnmss, RAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, Mecropoiitan Hotel Erase ay SINGING Tar DyinG Briann. x R'S OPERA HOUSE. 201 Bowery —Sinae ares Ore ag crac Paley Uoiorat NTS’ MINS’ 3, Meenantes' Hall, 472 Broal- weer NTE Comicauities, BURLESQUE, &C—Les Misti ALES. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Erarortan Mine SSTRELSY—BALLADS, BURLESQUES AND PANTOMLES. BROOKLYN ATHEN £UM.—Rosert Heiter, Tae GREAT ConsvRon, GERMANIA ASSEMBLY ROOMS, 293 Bowery.—Inisy NatiONAL Fair. NEW YORK MUSEUM pen trom 10a. M. till 10 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF I third street and Fourth avenue Works by Living Antisrs. DR ANATOMY, 618 Brondway.— GN, Corner of Twenty- EXHIBITION OF ORIGINAL New York, Tuesday, May 1, 1866. NEW 3s. EUROPE. The steamship Hibernian, from Londonderry, April 20, passed Father Point yesterday evening on her voyage to Quebec, Her news is two days later, | ‘The German question presented a much more peaceful aspect, and looked brighter for Austria, Count Bismark had tendered his resignation frequently, it is stated, to tho King of Prussia, but it had not been accepted. ‘The Reform bill was still under debate in the British House of Commons. ? The Czar of Russia acted with great presence of mind at the moment the attempt was made on his life, The would-be regicide was a landholder displeased with the emancipation decree, 4 A London mercantile house had suspended with £150,000 liabilities, anda Liverpool banking company was in difficulties. Consols closed in London April 20 at 8674 2 87. United States five-twenties, 6914. The Liverpool cotton market was firmer on tho 20th of April. Breadstuffss were quiet and steady, Provisions dull. CONGRESS. The Reconstruction report was presented yesterday in Doth houses. In the Senate the bills and joint resolutions accompanying the report were ordered to be printed, The bill for the bridging of (he Mississippi was passed. Mr. Trumbull offered an amendment to the Post Ollice Appro- priation bill, providing that no person appointed by the President to and exercising an office to which confirma- tion by the S nae is required shall receive compensa tion until confirmed, unless he has been appointed during the recess of the Senate to fill a vacancy occasioned by death, resignation or expiration of term. Dur- iag the discussion on this amendment Mr. Davis took oc- casion to repeat what ho had said before in relation to the recognition by the President of a Congress formed by the miuority of the present one and the excluded Senators from the south, The Senate adjourned without taking action on the bill or cmendment. In the Houso the Committee on Appropriations re- ported a bill making appropriations to the amount of $11,584,500 for the use of the Freedmen’s Bureau for the year commencing January 1, 1866, whica was made the special order for to-day. Mr. Stevens offered a substitute for bis bill of December 20, to enforce the contiecation of the property of the enemy, which was ordered to be printed. It provides for the confix ation of all public lands in the eleven S.utes that were in rebellion and their distr.bution among the freedmen; also for tho seizure by the Presi- dent of all the property of the belligerent enemy deemed forfei ed by the act of July, 1862, aad for the repeal of that portion of the act of Juiy which provides that no proceedings under it shall work a forfeiture of the real estate beyond life, The River and Hardor Improvement bill passed. A joint resolution declaring the constitu- tional relations of the Siate of Tennessee restored to practical relations with the United States was referred to the Judi iary Committee, The controversy Detwoen Messrs, Conkling and Blaine was kept up in a series of personal explanations. A Jotter from General Fry was read, corroborating the as- sertions made by sir. Blaine in regard to Mr. Conkling’s difficulties with the Provost Marzhal’s Bureau. A reso- lution was adopted appoint’: ga committee to investigate the statemen‘s of Mr. Co: kling against General Fry, and also to examine the statement mads against Mr, Conk- Ling. c THE CITY. No fresh casos of cholera have been received on board tho hospital ship Falcon since the last report, Foor deaths took place on Sunday, and Dr, Bissell reports that the condition of those remaining in the hospital has much improved, The Health Officer, Dr. Swinburne, catis the attention of pilots and masters of vessels to the fact that it 18a vi matter overboard in tatio: of law to throw any refuse le of sandy Hook. A delevat on o* citizens held a confereney with the Sarstary Committee of the Board of Health yesterday afternoon for the purpose of explaining, and, if possiie, suggesting aremedy for the escape of the foul odors which arise from the various gas works in this city. No decision was reached. A committeo of tive was yesterday appointed by the Board of Aldermen to co perate with the committee from Councilinen in adopting tacasures for the proper celebration of the comiyg Fourth of July, A resolution apthorizing the Comptroller to issue “market stock’ to the amount of $75,000 wis, after some de to the Committe on Law, Having directed the removal of a qvantity of nitroglycerine stored up town the Board adjourned to Thursday next, The Board of Councilmen met yesterday and trans- acted considerable routine business, but the most of the papers were devoid f public t.terest, A resolution was adopted directing the Fire Marshal to remove the nitro- glycerine which is stored at the corner of 116th street and Th'rd a A lengthy debate arose in reference to the reconstruction of the Finance Committee of the Board oceasioned by the resignation of Messrs, Keenan and Kellogg at the last meeting, Mr. Pullman asserted that the change war brought about in order that Mr. Kellogg might be ousted. A new committec, composed of Messre, Ke ch, Koster and Watts, was appointed. The Aldermanic Committee on Lamps and Gas were to have held a meeting day in reference to the exorbitant price of gas, t ed for want of a quorum, At a mecting of the Street Cleaning Commission held at the Mayor's office yerterday a resolution was passed authorizing the payment of the contractors’ sem\- monthiy dues, Ata special mecting of the Exempt Firemon’s Asso- ciation last evening, at Firemen’s Hall, Mercer street, the now charter granted by the Legislature to the associa. tion was read. A resoluiion to hold a general meeting on the first Tuesday in J ine was adopted. The festival of the Aposties Philip and James will be celebrated to-day in the Catholic and Episcopal churehos The month of May being dedicated in the Catholi Church to the blessed Virgin, appropriate services wilt be commenced this evening in the Catholic churches, nad continue every evening during the month. Last night tho students of the Free Academy, by a midnight procession and funera! pageant, with speeches and songs, mourned the death of their former Alma Mater, and celebrated the birth of the College of the € ty of New York, the Free Academy bearing that title on and after this date, The ceremonies were quite in teresting, and were participated in by @ large assem- Diage. ‘The facts in & curious case of alleged seduction and Dreach of promise leaked out yesterday in the Supreme Court, Chambers, before Judge Clerke, on return being ‘made to a writ of habeas corpus, sued out to obtain pos. fession of a child, The parties in the euit are Mr. Jo feph H. Barnes, a merchant of this city, and Miss Ellen Lawler, a prepossessing young lady of twenty, The lady ues the gertioman for alleged seduction and breach of promise, the child in question being claimed as the off wpring oo both. Mr, Barnes is alleged to have lately mar. ried ane =< t yonng lady, so that affairs are rather com- ne, plicated. Uu (he habeas corpus matter evidence is now | being taken as to who is entatled to the custody of the child. ¥ ‘Tho ease of Albart Karte ith baving counter- feit money in bis possession, was concluded yesterday before Commissioner Osborn, and it was proved that the prisoner had $71 50 in counterfeit fifty cent stamps in his possession when he wasarrested. He was committed in default of $1,000 bail. Ia the case of John Piggott, which was up agam yes- torday before Commissioner Betts, in whieh the defend- ant was charged with an attempt to pass spurious fifty cent stamps ona conductor of the Third Avenue Rail- Toad, a further postponement was had till this morning, after the examination of other witnesses, The Madison avenue bond robbery case was under investigation again yesterday, The evidence was mainly corroborative of what had previously been testified to by the informer Morrison, and went to implicate the pri- soners Clark and Dennis as having been concerned in the robbery. Twenty dollar bills on the First National Bank of Port: land, Conn., were being circulated yesterday in the city. ‘There is no such bank. Afire :ccurred in the building No. 55 Mercer street yesterday forenoon. Loss $3,300. The Ropewalk Laborers in the EMffén District of Brooklyn have struck for a shorter working period. ‘The stock market was dull and somewhat unsettled yesterday till late in the afternoon, when it became firm, and closed with an upward tendency. Govern- ments were quiet, Gold weakened, and closed at 12644. The favorable advices per last steamer from Europe were counterbalanced by a decline in gold yesterday, and trade was extremely dull again, while prices were allat sea, The demand for groceries was*very moderate, but prices were without special alteration, Cotton was dull but unchanged. Petroleum was firm. On ’Change flour was inactive and drooping. Wheat lower. Corn dull and drooping. Oats dull. Pork lower. Lard dull and heavy. Whiskey dull and nominal at previous figures, MISCELLANEOUS. Another body of Fenians retired from Eastport yester- day in good order, Asmail force of them, refusing to withdraw, are still operating along the border. The Eng- lish steamers Cordelia and Rosario had arrived at East- port, and the steamship Ottawa at Halifax with troops and ordnance stores, General Meade, who has been ill, is rapidly recovering. It was suid that the Engish war vessels lying off Eastport are sinking torpedoes for un- suspecting Fenians to run upon in their future raids. A committee from the Fenian Circles in Philadelphia was appointed on Sunday to wait on Colonel O'Mahony and inquire about the distribution of the funds intrusted to bis bands. The Governor has signed the bill for the increase of salary to the Metropolitan Police. Our correspondent at Fortress Monroe says that Jeff. Davis is very anxiou$ for his trial to come off. His health has perceptibly failed since his incarceration, and it is roported that he cannot live the summer through in. prison. art or fire occurred in New Maven yesterday morn- ing, originating in one of the buildings belonging to the New Haven Clock Company, ‘which destroyed all of the company’s buildings, seven in number, and eleven dwel- ling houses, The loss is estimated at $200,000. Two hundred workmen are thrown out of employment, and twenty families rendered houseless. A fire occurred in Leavenworth, Kansas, on Saturday, destroying eight or ton buildings on Shawnee street and damaging property to the amount of $25,000 or $30,000. The Kentucky Democratic State Convention meets at Louisville to-day. ‘The Jersey City rioters who were arrested on Sunday night and reported themselves to be residents of New York and members of the Junior Franklin Base Bali Club were committed to the county jail yesterday by Recorder Martindale, of Jersey City. A German baker, named Fredericks, stabbed two mem- bers of fire company No 6 in Jers¢y City yesterday, and was very near being mobbed by the firemen for it. The police question in Jorsey City is stil! unsettled§ The new force goes into operation to-day, but as they are refused the use of the city prison and the police station they are compelled to fit up a temporary tenement for those purposes, An alleged fraud in discounting bilis for a firm in Easton has been discovered, by which the Cambridge Valley Bank, and other banks in Wgshington and Snra- toga counties, have suffered to the amount of sixty thousand dollars, Advices from New Zealand via San Francisco state that the natives at Opitiki are murdering all the Euro: peans they can capture, . The flood in the Mississippi continues, Southwestern Louisiana is overflowed, and all efforts to stop the crevasses prove unavailing. Judge Darrell, of the United States Cirenit Court at New Orleans, b»fore whom General Canby was recently arraigned for contempt, has closed his court. The Cadiz Bank robbers were overtaken yesterday afternoon, one of them wounded and three captured. One escaped. One hundred and fifty thousand dollars were recovered, The Reconstruction Game of Congress— A Revolution in the Government, The reconstruction scheme of the joint com- mittee of Congress is at length before the country. Itisa very ingenious contrivance. At the first glance, though rigid in some of its stipulations, it appears not only reasonable, but magnanimous in others, and is altogether a much milder system of treatment for Southern restoration than any one could have dreamed of,evena month ago, as likely to emanate from the radical “ Central Directory” of Wash- ington. It is somewhat remarkable that the commit- tee do not reject the work of reconstruction done by the President, as involving a series of measures of usurpation unlawful and void. It is really surprising that they admit the va- lidity of all his acts and the statesmanship of all instructions in reference to the reorganization of the excluded States, But so it is, From his initial Virginia and North Carolina proclamations of May last down to this day, all the proceedings of the Execn- tive looking to the reclamation of the States delivered from the rebellion are approved and accepted by Congress. The processes by which he secured the ratification of the great consti- tutional amendment abolishing and interdict- ing slavery are considered as satisfactorily set- tling that question. His exceptions of leading rebels in his amnesty proclamation, and his in- structions to his provisional governors in regard to the debts of the rebellion, are interwoven in this Congressional plan. His views, too, of the exclusive authority of the States over the suf- frage question are accepted; and, above all, the status of the late insurgent States, as defined his annual message, is recognized as correct, to wit—that the rebellion impaired their functions (as States, but did not destroy them. Of course this decision of the joint committee involves the rejection of the Stevens and Sumner theory, that the States wrested from the insurgent govern- ment of Jeff Davis by force of arms are in the condition of unorganized territories con- quered from a foreign power. From the teachings of common sense, the successful working of President Johnson's policy, and the pressure of public opinion, this radical Congress has been constrained to reject the Jacobin absurdities of Stevens and to re- cognize the wisdom and validity of the views and moasuros of reconstruction adopted by the administration, So far, then, we have a capitu- lation of the radicals to the Exoontive. Alter five months of exhausting researches and lobor this joint committee of Congress find that they can do nothing better than follow in tue wake of Andrew Johnson, as the only hope of aitain- ing their ultimate designa, Here, howover, we reach their point of departure. The Prosident holds that loyal members elected from the excluded States, as already reconstructed, ought to be admitted into Con- his NEW YORK HERALD, gress; but Congress pleads the necessity of further securities for the tuture, for the national debt and the rights of the Southern blacks. The addition of twenty-two Southern Senators and eighty Representatives to Congress from States warm from the late rebellion may give those men the power, with the aid of Northern copperheads, to.ruin the country. This is the plea for an indefinite term of Southern proba- tion, and hence it is proposed, in the shape of a constitutional amendment, that “until the 4th of July, 1870, all persons who voluntarily ad- hered to the late insurrection, giving it aid and comfort, shall be excluded from the right to vote for members of Congress” and Presiden- tial electors, and that negroes shall be counted for representation in the ratio of the number admitted to the right of suffrage. Here we get at the milk in the cocoanut. In the course of the late rebellion, excepting & few straggling resolute Union men here and there, the whole white population of the revolt- ing States was implicated in it, Such, then, is to be their exclusion from our federal elections till 1870, Then, again, their black population is to be counted according to the suffrage granted them by the States concerned. This strikes off one-half the members of Congress to which the excluded States would otherwise be entitled. The amendment embracing these terms is to be ratified by three-fourths of the Legisla- tures ofall the States, and the Southern States are to shape their local laws to meet it, and then they may come into Congress, if their members elect are duly qualified in other re- spects. Now, let us assume that this scheme will pass by two-thirds of the present Congress, and that, whether ratified or not, it serves the purpose of securing to the party in power the next Presi- dent and the Congress elected with him, what then? Why, then, in all probability, on some pretence or other, the excluded States will still be kept out, until reduced to the condition of Ireland under England, or Poland under Rus- sia, The disfranchisement of a whole people, to begin with, inevitably loads to their indefi- nite exclusion from political power. This Con- gressional scheme of reconstruction, therefore, looks to a revolution in the government, be- ginning with the exercise of ‘despotic powers over the South; but where is it to end? “Trea. son is a crime and traitors ought to be pun- ished;” but we cannot outlaw the people of eleven States of the Union without endanger- ing the liberties of the other twenty-five. Let us watch and see how this question is treated in Congress, for there are in it the elements of a revolution. Tar New Excise Law.—There are said to be some ten thousand places in this city where in- toxicating liquors are sold. Of this number it is supposed that about one-half, or at least be- tween three and four thousand, will be sup- pressed under the operations of the new Excise law. The low groggeries that exist in pesti- lential districts and help to nurse if not to en- gender epidemics will be those most affected by the new law. These places at present fur- nish a means of livelihood to perhaps twenty thousand of the moat shiftless class of our popu- lation. It becomes an interesting question, therefore, as to what will become of this large number of people when they are thrown out of their usual employment. It should also be taken into consideration by those who are working the present temperance reformation, that these places are the habitual haunts of thousands of intemperate and idle persons who will become honseless if not homeless after these dens are shat up. The politicians of the city have kept these places alive by fostering them for the votes that can be obtained there- from. They have been literally patent ma- chines from which votes are turned out to order. Where will these people go now? They cannot go to the almshouses, for there is not room enough. Nor should they be turned upon the streets to augment the army of the squalid and destitute. Our opinion is that the cily corpora- tion should give them work. Tho public im- provements already contemplated will, if im- mediately commenced, furnish employment to thonsands of able-bodied men who will be un- earthed and east adrift by the Excise law. @ them a chance to work for an honest livelihood, and the danger of precipitating a dissolu‘c class of people suddenly upon the communiiy may be avoided. The Sunday law will also throw many ile persons upon the streets and adjoin- ing country places on ‘the Sabbath. Way can- not some practical philanthropist start the pro- ject of a grand people’s church, whence the Gospel can be dispensed in a pleasing form, especially adapted to this class of persons? This may deter many from seeking immoral amusements on the Sabbath, and, perhaps, under the blessing of Providence, be the in- strument of producing a substantial good to the cily. Rowpyism ix me Svpcrss.—Every summer we are called upon to report frequent cases of rowdyism and violence in the vicinily of the metropolis, It is the custom for rufflans to go in gangs to places around the suburbs when pleasure parties assemble and make assaults upon them, in many cases inflicting serious in- juries upon unoffending persons, and in every instance interfering with the enjoyment of peaceful people, many of whom are women and children. This business has commenced earlier than usual this year, and we have already had @ foretaste of what is likely to occur as the summer advances. A ivnd of scoundrels, said to belong to the First ward of this city, made a terrible onslanght apon a number of citizens and their dwellings in Jersey City on Sunday, which appears to have been undertaken in a most wanton and unprovoked manner. Several people were severely beaten and the windows and doors of houses broken to pieces, These raids have become so common that 1t is really not safe for any party to venture into the beautiful country places which surround the city for the purpose of recreation without either’a good body guard of muscle men to protect them or a posse of police on the ground to deter the ruffians in their hostile in- tentions. It is disgraceful to this great me- tropolis that this should be true, but it is a fact, nevertheless, The season for outdoor amusements is now approaching. Picnic parties will soon be on the tapis. The hard working people of the city must have some en- joyment for themselves and their families, and they have a right to be protected from rowdy- ism. We hope, therefore, that the police au- thorities will organize some plan whereby such protection may be afforded and outrages like that which occarred in Jersoy City on Sun- day may be rendered impossible in and around Now Yorn. TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1866. France and Mexico—Who Will Pay the Freneh Debt? Baron Saillard has returned to Paris and has reported to the Emperor Napoleon the real condition of the Mexican empire. It will be remembered that the Baron was sent to Mexico about the time that Napoleon promised in the speech from the throne that he was preparing to withdraw the French troops. It was reported at the time that he carried a personal assurance to Maxamilian that France could no longer afford him the material support necessary to keep up his empire; and it is now rendered probable that he was also instructed to take especial note of the condition of the country— the state of parties and the temper of the people, with a view to giving a satisfactory answer to the one-question:—Can the recently established empire stand when the French troops come away? He now answers this question with an emphatic no—reaching and declaring the con- clusion that has been for many months the con- viction of the American people, that the empire must depart with the power that founded it, It was important that Napoleon should have a definite answer to this question. France is at present interested in Mexico to the extent of one hundred and ninety millions of dollars. This is now the most vital interest she has in the land of the Montezumas. Whatever object may originally have been at the bottom of the Mexican expedition, it has now lost its im- portance. If an empire on this side the At- lantic was part of the game of European recon- struction, it has failed to accomplish the pur- pose expected, and the vital necessity now is to save as much as possible of the money ventured on it. Does Maximilian’s government offer a possibility of ever being able to pay any por- tion of this hundred and ninety millions? Sail- lard says no. It cannot even stand alone; therefore of course it cannot pay. And there- fore Saillard’s answer settles the fate of the empire. It has been a vast, costly experiment; a tremendous failure in every point of view, and the Emperor of France will have no morg to do with it, But does any government offer a better probability to France of future repayment? | ‘The republic is the only one-that can be counted upon at all, and perhaps France can make some arrangement with that. This financial point is the real secret of Druyn de Lhuys’ de- «sire to communicate with Juarez through the United States Minister at Paris, France can afford the republic some facilities, She can ex- pedite the departure of Maximilian and sim- plify the situation in various ways, and will, too, if the republic will consent to recognize any considerable portion of the indebtedness to France. Will the republic now return on these terms? That is the whole question; and thus all the Mexican turmoil resolvesitself into dol- lars and cents and a doubtful debt at last France ostensibly went to Mexico to collect forty millions that Mexico declared herself un- able to pay, and now France would be glad to get away with a Mexican promise to pay any part of the one hundred and ninety millions she has spent in the attempt to subdue Mexico. Pusiic Execurioners.—The “Wearing of the Green” has given way, for the time being, in Massachusetts, to another sensation, namely, the hanging of Green, the Malden murderer. Wendell Phillips, with characteristic force and violence, is out with a letter condemning Gov- ernor Bullock for sanctioning the execution of the assassin. It appears that the statute of Massachusetts in regard to capital punishment, like that of most States, expressly declares that on such trials “the degree of murder shall be decided by a jury.” In Green’s case there was no trial before a jury. He con- fessed his guilt. The judge before whom he appeared as a confessed criminal did not deem it necessary to go through the forms of a trial, and condemned him to death, The case was carried up on points of law to the highest legal authorities; the decision of con- demnation was affirmed; the late Governor declined to issue the necessary warrant for the prisoner’s execution, but the present Governor did, and the murderer was accordingly banged by the neck until he was dead. About the legal- ity of this execution we will not enter into a dis- cussion at this time, That the criminal deserved hanging, if ever a criminal did, there cannot be adoubi, But censure should not be withheld in regard to the bungling manner in which the work was performed. It was in realiiy a double execution. The mau was twice hanged, and if any Massachusetts murderer deserved the death penalty and escaped the gallows—and we be'iove there are several—ihis extra execu- tion will help towards squaring the balance. Seriously, the mangling manner in which ex.- cutions are now conducted demands attention. We pass laws to prevent cruelty to animals; why not laws to prevent cruelty to human beings, especially to those who have incurred the penalty of death? In some foreign coun- tries a regular executioner is appointed. He holds office during good bebavior, and al- though a not very popular personage in any community, he nevertheless softens the horrors of public executions by the adroit manner in which the business is performed. Here in the United States criminals are executed by sheriffs or deputy sheriff, who are not acquainted with the process; and in many cases, no doubt, un- necessary torture is inflicted in consequence of their ignorance or trepidation. Why not, then, if the death penalty is to continue in force in this country, have public executioners ap- pointed or elected in the same manner as sheriffs or constables? Their duties, it is to be hoped, will not be very onerous, but it will be some consolation to know that .f any person is to be sent into eternity according to law it may be done ina decent and not in a cruel manner, Among the passengers who will sail for Cauirofmia to- day ws Count Anasoff, who goes to join Colonel Bulkley at San Francisco, The Count will represent the Russian government with the great expedition, which will be fully under way by the 1:t of June, Hon. T. J. Thurlow, of the British Legation, and Lady Elma Thurlow, from Washington; A. M. De Lisle, of Montreal, and William Smith, of St. John, N, B., Com- missioners from British North America to the West Indies, and J. Pallaroni, of Cuba, are at the Brevoort House. The Kentucky Democratic Convention. Loviavitur, April 20, 1866, All the hotets are crowded with delegates to the Demo- cratic State Convention, which meets to-morrow, and promises to be the largest conveution ever held in the State of Kentucky. News from Texan Go vestox, April 28, 1866. The Scs0nd battalion of re, ulars bas «rived, General Heintvelman teayes to-day .or San Antonio, his fatare headquarters TL prosp: ets of the er pe are reported to be very good. » Tue laborers are geuerally Woiklug well, JEFF DAVIS. His Rumored Trial—He Wishes to be Tried, but Prefers a General Amnesty— His Health Fatling, dc. OUR FORTRESS MONBOB CORRESPOND! ; Fortress Mowron, April 28, 1866. Jott Davis, I am told, expresses the hope that the newspaper rumors that he isto be brought speedily to trial will prove true. This, of course, may be one way or the other, From the outset of his imprisonment this has been his continual clamor, and he doubtless desires to prove himself too consistent in his declarations to seem to wish otherwise now. But it isthe very decided opinion of most that his mind is largely and hopefully exercised at present upon the subject of a general am- nesty which will rid him of being brought to trial at all. In the shadowy remoteness and uncertainty of this amnesty, I think there can be no doubt, however, but ho would ‘prefer an immediate examination and de- cision ‘of his fate to being kept much longer in ‘prison, and undergoing the continuous pain: ful perplexit of bape longer deferred. Meantime, officers and others coming daily in contact with him may assert snd believe what they say, that his health has been umimpaved by his long imprisonment; but a gen- tleman, ai.. a doctor at that, who knew him ‘daring the War, ana saw nim atew days since for the first time luce his captusc assures me that he has most percepti- bly and pusntuliy mailed in health since his incarceration, He was within a few fect of bim on the parapet. His face he noticed as very much thinner, his hair is grayer, and his sep is not at all assured, Ho rested frequently in his walks, and every lineament of his face aad every movement betrayed physical energies wasted and worn to a degree giving assurance of but little remaining vi- tality. This gentleman says he cannot live the summer out in prison. I will add here, that as far as this gentle- man’s observations went it was well for his own satisfac- tion, as well as that of others, he was thus careful in making them, for under a new order, just issued, he is not likely to have an opportunity to repeat them,’ This order prevents strangers from coming anywhere near him in his walks, and sentries are now sent ahead to no- tify perie who may be walking on the parapet of his coming, and compel them to go in the opposite direction, Jet? has always manifested a dislike to the propinquity and inquisitorial glances of pone ges and the proba- bility is that this order was issued from sole regard to his feelings in the matter. The Income Tax—Returns to Be Made To-day. Section 119 of the Internal Revenue Law enacts that duties on incomes shall be levied on the Ist day of May, and be paid on or before the 30th of June. The assess- ments will be made in accordance with the amended law of March 3, 1865. It specifies that taxpayers shall furnish their schedules to the Assistant Assessors in their respective districts, on or before the first day of May. The Assessors are under no obligations tg gond blank forms, but it is the business of taxpayers to obtain them from their offices, fill them up and return them within the time specified. Any noglect of tefusal to comply with the above regulation subjects the offender to a penalty of twenty-five per cont added to the amount ascertained to be due, and in case of fraud one hundred per cont ig added. AMOUNT OF TAX AND DEDUCTIONS. The income must be reckoned for the year ending Dec, 31, 1865, and the tax is flve per cent on all sums between six hundred dollars and five thonsand dollars, and ten per cent on the excess over five thousand dol- lars. The following deductions are permitted :—The sum of six hundred dollars from all incomes; all national, State, county and municipal taxes paid within the year, including the income tax paid last summer; the amount paid for rent, or the rental value of any homestead occu- pled by the tax payer or his family, in his own right or in tho right of his wife; the amount paid for usual or ordinary repaita, taking the average of the preceding five years: . By noticing and attending to the above facta taxpay- ‘ers will save themselves considerable trouble and annoy- ance, as the collectors are invested with full powers to take legal proceedings for distraint and collection. Board of Aldermen. INDEPENDENCE DAY AND ITS CELEDRATION—THE PROPOSED ENGINE HOUSE IN BURLING SLIP— ISSUE OF “MARKET STOCK'’—THE NITKO-GLYCER- INE PANIC, ETC. ‘The Board met at half-past two o'clock yesterday af- ternoon, President Brice in the chair. A resolution from the Board of Councilmen relative to the appointment of a joint committee of five members from each Board to take measures to ensure a proper celebration of the coming Fourth of July was concurred in, the Chair appointing on such committee Aldermen shannon, Norton, Coman, Ely and Gedney. The reeled veto on the subject of thé’ facilities to be aes the City Spo ial oe, ind affairs in is department, as already publisued in the Hxnatp, Tead and bended to the printer, a“ A resolution fixing the salary of the interpreter of the First District Police Court at $1,500 was laid over. A resolution from the Board of Councilmen in favor of rescinding the resoiution préviousiy adopted, authoriz ing the Fire Commissioners to erect au engine house on Burling sp, was coucurred in, A resolution fixing the salary of the messenger to the Corporation Attorney at $1,500 was adopted. Aresolution from the Board of Councilmen authoriz- ing the Compiroiler to issue stock to the amount of $75,000, to be known as “Market stock,’ was, after soine debate, referred to the Committee on Law, Aresolu‘ion from the Board of Counc Imen directing tho Fire Marshal to remove forthwith a quantity of nitro-glycerine stored in a building located on the north- east corner of 116th street and Third avenue, was con- curred in, On motion, the Roard adjourned to Thursday afternoon next, at two o'clock. An Abandoned Child Claimed. QUITE A ROMANCE CONNECTED WITH HIM. The little child about three years of age who was picked up in one of the up town streets on the evening of the 17th ult, and taken to the Lost Children’s Depart- ment at Police headquarters, as published in last Satur- day's Hewat, has been claimed by srs. Robinson, living in Naugatuck, Coun, Mrs. R., seeing a description of the lost child in the Herat, immediately sent a tele:raphic Gespatch to Mrs, Ewing, Matron of the Lost Children’s Department, requesting her to retain possession of the little boy, whom she called George, tll her arrival in the city, which would be by the first train from New Haven, Mrs. Kobinson accordingly reacted the city late on Saturday night. From her statement it appears that her husband lost his life in the service of bis coun- try; and one afiernoen, nearly threo years since, while che was in a lawyor's office in New Haven for the purpose of executing some papers which would enable her to secure the back pay aud bounty due her husband, and while thus awalting the clerk's letsure, Stra. Robinson waa accosted by a stranger, who inquired if she had any objection to take charge of a male infant till such time as he shoald be able to attend school; at the same (ime the genveman stated that he was the uardian of the little one, for whom he wished to pro- Robinson, after one or two tu vie sented to take the child in ¢ sideration of receiving six dollars per month for the ice, About twelve o'clock a night or two afterwards the pretended guardian of the little one, accom- pamed by a lady, appeared in a close carriage and, calling Mrs. Robinson from the house, gave her the Iofeut, after firet removing a shawl trom his shoulders, lest that shouid lead to hiv tdentifl- cation. The man at that time represented that the little boy's mother was dead and renewed the request that he should be kindly eared for. Mra. Robiuson puly received the board money for the child in an jirect manperas it became due, and she learned to love the babe as ‘hough it were her own. ‘At the time th> boy was left with Mrs. Robinson he was sick, and ap,earances indicated that studied eiforts had been made to starve him to death. He eventualiy recovered, and was growing up to be a fae About the 13th of last month the gentioman who was paying the board of the lad addressed a letter to Mre. Rob.nson. requesting her to meet hun at the New Haven Railroad depot in this city on the 17(h ult., and also to bring the boy with her. Mra. R. received money to pay her travelling expenses, ant accordingly she complied with the request. On mecting the gentleman at the depot he told her he wish © the boy to see bis mother. At this declaration Mra, Robinson expressed ber surpris », a had been told that his mother was dead. she consented, however, that the boy should be permitted to see his mother, on the express condition that he should be restored to her in half an hour, The supposed gnardian then left with the ebild, but soon returned without him, avd told Mrs, Robinson tbat the child mother desired to keep him for three or four days; 1 fact, she would not part with him til then. She was advised to go home aud come down again io a few days, the guardian promising most solemuly that the boy should be permitted to go home with ber. In a day or two ir reach home Mra. Robinson went to New Haven to eev the rdian of the child, but was anable te find him, With a sad heart she r turned home and almost despaired of ever again seeing the daring boy, to whom she was devotedly attached. While suflering great mental anculsh on the subject, the New York Hur ALo of Saturday last, containing a mnute description of the lost cild, was placedsin Mrs. Kobinson’s hands, whereupon she bastened to the city, as already stated After hearing that the child had been picked up in the street and taken to the Eighteenth precinct station house, Mrs. Robinson at once discovered the base and unfecling attempt that had been made to get the ehtid beyond her reach, It is now almost ceriain that the lit- tle fellow’s mother is not in this city, and that the object of the guardian, as be called himself, was to abandon the boy in the street, have bim dle ivered over to the po lice and given in charge of the Comm sstoners of Obar ties and Correction, aud Lis identity destroyed. For the present the abandoned child remains in chatge of the Commissioners. The gentleman who has been acting as guardian 's said to be a lawyer of this city, but lives in Now Haven. Mis name did not transpire. Lake Ontario. yctos, C. W., April 90, 1966. bound from Toronto for Oswe, flour, lost her mainsail o ately’ made for South Bay ere 0} The schooner Ontar c heat and ara, when she. imm -Point. Before reaching there she lost her foresail, jib and all her standing figging. She is at anchor behind south Bay Punts, Her bull is uninjured, | The Oak jost her jb and Coresail; also at anchor there, The schooner Johu Wostey went biyh and dry on Gull ber aud was auaudoued by her grew. Se is tiaht. THE FENIANS. More Feaians Leaving Eastport—Part the Expedition Still Infesting th Border—Torpede Boats te be Used on the British War Vessels im the Harbor— More English War Vessels Arrived= Arms and Munitions for C da, d&e. Easrrort, Me., April 30, 1866, Another batch of Fenians left by the boat to-day for New York, They were all orderly. Some still remain, as also all the officers. It is said torpedos are ready for use to-night on some of the English war ships, A gang of Fenians have separated themselves from the general body and are endeavoring to keep up the excite- ment on the frontier. They expect to be supported by their different circles. The English steamers Cordelia and Rosario have arrived. General Meade has been quite unwell for 4 few days past, though not dangerously ill, as some papers report, He is now rapidly recovering. | Hauirax, April 30, 1866. @he steamship Ottawa, which left London April 1% with troops, ordnance stores and freight, has arrived at this port. She goes to St. John and Quebec. The Philadelphia Fenians Demanding Explanations. Pwavetrma, April 30, 1866. At a large meeting of officers of Fenian circles, hel@ in this city yesterday, a committee was appointed, under the chairmanship of District Centre Andrew Wynne, to proceed to New York and ascertain from Colonel O’Mahony the object of the recent movements of officers at headquarters, and obtain an explanation of the manner in which the funds are being expended. The object of the committee is to satisfy the fecling of dissatisfaction among the Fenians in this city, which is daily growing stronger. City Intelligence Tax First or May.—It is bardly necessary to inform New Yorkers that to-day is the day usually set apart to be devoted’ to the single purpose of moving. The metropolis gets up this morning from beds made in houses which have been occupied for the past twelve months, and retires to-night amid the unrest and confu- sion of the place to be called home during another Qa. To-day people will exchange homes as they trade p jack-knives, generally paying a sum, large , ag the case may be, as difference or “hoot.” And as is usual in bargains of this kind, some one will wake up to-morrow morning to find that be hag been infernally swindled. The carman’s harvest yg firgt of May, 15 also tho housekeoper's *-sewest_Ailiction, and (hep were premonitor= gymptoins in the atrects all day yéstekday ayilag Well for tho full develop. ment of the annual disease to-day. Happy, indeed, are those who have no portable property, Tor their days shall be long upon the earth and rents shall troublo them in vain. And still happier those who have land- lords with hearts in their bosoms and who will not compel them to remove or come down with an advance of fifty per cent. Unhappily, however, household gooda will accumulate, the hearts of house owners will grow cold and callous, and so long as this remains the case people will be compelled to submit to the first of May and the moving abomination. Festival oF Tu Monta or Mary.—The month of May in the Catholic Church is devoted to the espscial honor of the blessed Virgin, and is termed the moath of Mary. In the Catholic churches throughout the cily the services of the month will take place every evenng. Hymns dedicated to the blessed Virgin will be sung, pious sketches from the life of Mary will be read and exhorta- tions will be delivered by the officiating clegymen. The exercises will commence in most of the churches at five o'clock P. M., except on Sundays, when they wil! take place immediately after vespers. In addition to the ser- vices Of the month there will be the benediction of the blessed sacrament om one evening of eaca weck, gene- rally Thursday. Festiva or St. Parur ann St, James, Arosrizs.—Ia the Catholic and Episcopal churches to-d: celebrated. the festival day of the Apostles Philip and James. The festival in the Catholic Church is a double of the second class, and is not publicly observed except in the churches and places under the patronage of either of these apostles, In the Episcopal Church the epist! James i. 1, and gospel, John xiv. 1, with the collect the day, are read and appropriate pealms and hymas are sung. Srenet Inspector.—Strect Commissionot Cgsne!l bas recently appointed Supervisor James Hayes, of the Four- teenth ward, as Inspector of Street Improvements, vice Gilbert Platt, removed. . The emoluments of the office are understood to be five thousand dollars per annum, ~Fatau Ron Over Accipent.—At five o'clock P. M. yos- terday, a horse attached to a cart took fright In Mulberry street and ran down the sirost at a high bate of specd. In his flight the animal knocked down a boy named Joseph Sprouils, aged twelve years, and the vehicle passing over him, he waa instantly killed. The bod was conveyed to the residence of his parents, No. Milberry street, and a coroner notified to hold am tnquest. New ano Dancenova Cocyrrarerr.—Last svening coun- terfeit twenties on the First Nationa! Bank of Portland, Conn., were attempted >, be circulated ttroughout the city. They are woll calculated™to deat on -w ars glance, but will not stand @ close inspection, There is no such bank as the one named in Connecticut. The May Day Extortions. TO THR RDITOK OF THK HBRALD, The Henan of yesterday referred to some of the positions practised upon that unfortunate and vory lar, class of our population who are compelled to change their residences on or about the Ist of May. The cart- «men seem to have become imbued with the spirit of ex- tortion, and the people, thougn with feeble protest, aub- mit sorrowfully, under the belief that they have no re dress. If this belief be well founded it is Ligh time for the competent authorities to apply a remedy. The abuse has grown iuto too gigantic proportions to be longer tolerated, and it bears too heavily upon those who can least afford to sustain the burden. There is no good reason why we should not have equal immunity against the outrageous impositions of eartmen as of Lackmen. In the case of the latter, if a driver attempts to extort more than the rate fixed by law, or refuses to perform the duty required of him, ‘he can be arrested and punished by being deprived of his license. An ordinance is upon our statute books which regulates the charges of the cartmen; but it con- tans nothing to prevent them from refusing to perform any duty required of them until a special agreement is entered into complying with any unreasonable demand they make. The cartmen, with ex men and hack- men, are common carriers, and @ liberal seale of com- pay should bo fixed by law for tnetr protection ; ut in order that an equal protection might be assu to the community the law should compel all of them te give their services to the first applicant, at the ~~ rates, and enact an adequate penalty for refusal. We have't right, as a popular representative, to demand that our mun cipal authorities shall take immediate and vig- orous measures for the protection of the most defence- leas, yet most valuable portion of our population, avainst the cormorants who seem to conspire for the purpose of drain ng the last dollar from the pockets of those whose circumstances will not allow them to mal show of resistance, To speak more plainly, this system of ex- tortion is akin to robbery, and by ® class which sbould blush to consent to such a course, inasmuch as the ink- quitous acts are practised upon those whom they claim 4s brethren—the workingmen of the community. + TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. The eloquent and liberal minded article on “Charity and Charitable Institutions,’’ ia your paper of this morn- ing, induces me to ask your kind consideration of the enclosed appeal from an institution hitherto compara- tively unknown. For the past thirteen years the ladies who have conducted the Wilson Industrial School, No} 187 avenue A (the first school of its kind established im the United States)—ladies belonging to different denomt nations, but upited in the earnest purpose to do good— have labored in one of the most densely populated wards of our city, For a year or two they here been able | gradually to extend their work, at orst necessarily somewhat circumscribed, until now sey see so wide a flold of usefulness opening before them that they have issued this urgent appeal for aid. They wish not merely to try to evangelize the needy thousands in this district, byt aléo to sapply their physical wants—first, by teach ing them to help themselves, then uy asatsting those who are recognize in their chari- ties no claim of sect or nationality. They belong to ae varied branches of the Christian church as only to hold a n faith, that “One is our Master, even Christ, re brethren."’ They seck simply and ae ty * do good to all men. He. ArRit, 20, 1966. The Cadiz Bank Robbery. PURSUIT OF THE BURGLARS—ONE SHOT AND ON® BSCAPED—ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS RECOVERED. Wurxiixo, West Va., April 30, 1966. ‘The burglars engaged in robbing the Harrison National Bank of Cadiz, Ohio, wore overtaken about two miles | from Lagrange, Ohio, this afternoon, A sharp ¢ncoun | ter took place, in which one of the robbers was wounded and three captured. One of them succeeded in m his escape closely pursued. The amount of mor covered will probably exceed $150,000 News from the Paeific Const. San Fraycisco, April 90, 1966. | Advices from New Zealand report that the natives at Opitika were murdering all the Europeans they could capture, A company with a capital of twenty thoweand pounds had been organized to work New Zealand fax The ship R H. Tucker, Captain Clarke, arrived yeatar- day from Manila with 44,520 bags of Sugar aud 1,584 «bans 0 goilom, ! \ { | :