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Advortisements for the Waxxty Heratp must be handed im beforo ten o'clock every Wednesday evening. Its cir- culation among the enterprising mochanics, farmors, merchants, manufacturers and gentlemen throughout the country i increasing very rapidly. Advertisements in- ported in the Waxxty Herazp will thus be seen by a large pony of the active and energetic peopie of the United ‘TO ADVERTISERS. ‘To inwre the proper classification of advertisements ey must be brought in before nalf-pagt eight o'clock im tho ovoning. THES NwWEWs. CONGRESS. In tho Senate yesterday the bill to revive the grade of oral was received from the, House, and referred to Dro Military Committee. On motion and after consider. able debate the amendment to the Post Office Appropri ation bill, which was intended to restrict the President's appointing power was reconsidered by a vote of 21 to 18, but pending further action upon the matter the Senate adjourned. In the House a resolution wns passed instructing the Judiciary Commitice to report a bill providing that the @lective franchise shal! never hereafter be denied in any @f the Territories on account of color, and that no Terri- tory shall become a State if its constitution shall sanc- Gon wich devial. A bill naming May and Noveraber as tho time for holding United States Circuit Courts ia Richmond, Virginian, was passed. It also authorizes the adjournment of the session now at Norfolk to Rich mond. A resolution to discharge the Reconstruction Committce was tabled. A joint resolution exempting ornde petroleum from tax was passed. The Internal Revenuo Tax bill, as presented by the Committee on Ways and Means, was then taken under con- sideration, Mr. Morrill and Mr. Raymond addressed the House in favor of i. Mr. Morrill stated that the bill will reduce taxation the present year seventy-five millions of dollars, The House then Proceodel to its consideration by sections, the first being that imposing five cents per pount on cotton, and soon alter adjourned, EUROPE. Tho steamship China, from Queenste April 29, or. to Boston. Her news is t'vo day The steamships City of Washington and Propontis were hoard from. The City of Washington had been disabled at sou and the Propon's took her passengers to Liver. pool, The Cty of Warbington was under sail, having lost bor propeiler and rudder. ‘Tho Kaglsh Reform bill passed the second reading in the House of Commons by a majority of five. There was @ very exciting scone at the decision. The vote and Very stnail majority were regarded as a censure in ; indeed a defeat, It was thongut measure would pass in the House of Tt waa rmored that Karl Russell would tender his resignation, but not advise @ dissolution of Parlia mont [¢ was understood to bo arranged, should the Conservatives come ino power, that Lord Derby will be eal a member of the Cabloet, without offices, Mr. Disraeli Going to the House of Loris, and Lord Stanley axsum ng the principal pow in the ministry, Mr Bright delivers @4 & very able spred in support of the will, Gormany was abil vastly oxcited. The accounts are Gonflicting, bat tend {n the direction of an atjastmont Loria, derwoon Ansitia and Prussia aud a war between Austria | and aly The London Times regards tho radical war against Pre wident Johnson fn Congross as lik:ly to eventuate ina crisis dangerous to the covernment of the Union. Tho hoaxing of the London Tim into the publication Of forgot Anglo-German despatches was a stupendous affair Of the kind, carried out with boldness Lo a success, for purposes of speculation on the Stock Ewhange. Russian reports, which are of a very interesting character, of the recent attempt on the life of the Czar, have reached us and are printed. Letters from Japan state that th» tron clad vesse! built 10 Amorica for the Tycoon is a failure. The Japanese en. ginoer who purchased hor committed sutcide The Liverpool cotton market was dull, with prices ightly declined, April 2°. Breadstaff dull. Provisions flat Consols closed in London, April 28, at $6), 4 86%, for mouoy. THE CITY. Thore wore two handred and fifty applications for | CAnw fied yesterday at the office of the Inspector of Ex- Gis “Notions wore ievied to the liquor dealers of Richmond, Kings snd Qreens counties, appointing @ Gay for the consideration of applications for fesase before the Boord of Excise, Saperintend- out Keonwly has issued “an order modifying the aw ‘a rotation to restaurants, by which there places (DP ttwitted Wo furnish thetr customers with Lauor while NEW YOR partaking of a meal, but liquor must not be.sold at tho bar, A large number of rejected applicanta for ticonse were heard by the committee yesterday morn‘ng, but few of whom wero favorably considered. Thirty-two ar- Tests for a violation of the law wer made in this city, and nineteen in Brooklyn. The Board of Supervisors met yesterday and disposed of a vast amount of routine business, The Corporation Counsel’s salary was fixed at $2,000 a year, and the Com- missioners of Charities and Correction at $5,000 a year each. Coroner Collin’s death was announced, and the Board agreed to attend his funeral in a body. Ata meeting of the Board of Aldermen yesterday & resolution was introduc:d and referred, prohibiting the building of areas, stoops and steps projecting more than eighteen inches beyond the house-line of all structures on Nassau streot, between Spruce and Wall streets, and directing the removal of all areas, stoops and steps at present projecting beyond the stated limit. A special meeting of the Board will be held this day. The Board of Councilmen met yesterday, and acted upon some routine papers. A resolution was presented directing a stand of colors to be procured for the First and Third regiments of cavalry, the First regiment of artillery, and the First and Ninety-fifth regiments of infantry; which was referred to the Committee on National Affairs. An ordinance to license the drivers of cattle was also reforred. The Board adjourned to meet this afternoon for the parpose of receiving the tax levy from the Board of Aldermen. The rumor whieh prevailed yosterday, to the effect that an unknown maa, from Albany, had died of the cholera at Bellevue Hospital, proves on investigation to have been without foundation, the person in question having die@'from hernia, The health authorities are of the opinion that there is no appearance of that epidemio yet inthis city, | The organization known as the West Side Association, which comprises a large number of lot owners in the region north of Fifty-ninth street and west of Eighth avenue, met at the Everett Rooms,“corner of Thirty- fourth street and Broadway, last evening to consider the act of the tast session of the Legislature relative to the extension of the provisions of the Boulevard an@ Washington Heizhts bill to all the highland district west of the Park. The Secretary. Mr. Ruggles, read the law which summarily places under the jurisdiction of the Park Commiss oncrs the work of laying out the dis- trict in question by a general revision or reconstruction of the streets and their grades. W. R. Martin gave an interesting detail of the topography of the region and the general objects to be gained in placing this beautiful territory in charge of the Park Board. Other speeches were made, and unqualified sat's‘action expressed with respect to the resuits to be anticipated, as well as from the magnificent werk already laid out, the grand Boulo- vard drive. The thirty-eighth anniversary of the American Sea- men’s Friend Society took place at Irving Hall last even ing. An abstract of the annual report wus read by one of the secretaries, Addresses were delivered by Revs. J.N. Andrews, W. H. H. Murray and A, E. Kittredge. Several hymns were sung, and the Odell organ used for an introductory voluntary. The thirtieth anniversary of the Union Theological Seminary was celebrated last evening in the Mercor street Presbyterian church. Short addresses were de- livered by several members of the graduating class, after which diplomas were conferred on a class numbering thirty-two membera. ‘Tho opening exercises of the German American School Society took place yesterday afternoon, at the new school building, 244 and 246 East Fifty-second street. Another motion was made yesterday before Judge Bar- nard in tho Supreme Court, Chambers, to postpone tho trial of the Madame Jumel will caso, Afidavits wero read on both sides, and the argument on the motion set down for to-day. Judge Clerke, of the Supreme Court, has granted the application made by the Corporation Counsel to open a judement for thirty-seven thousand dollars given in the case of George Law against the city for work allegod to have ben performed in the Battery enlargement. A case was up for argument yesterday before the general term of the Superior Court, in which one of the parties asked relief on the ground that an Italian marble factory was in operation next door to her, and was a ‘nuisance in so much as that it shook her premises, and prevented her from renting them in as advantageous a manner as she otherwise would, The business at the trial terms of the Superior and Common Pleas Courts had to be suspended yest.rday owing to the absonce of jurors, several of whom wero fined $25 each by the presiding Judges. The May term of the Court of Oyer and Termincr was opened yesterday morning by Judge Ingraham. Tho Grand Jury having beon sworn, the Judge bricfy ad- dressed thom, and said he was happy to observe that no cases displaying any very malicious circumstances would come before them. Mr. A. O. Hall, District Attor- noy, appeared, amd fixed for hearing some criminal cages, when the Court adjourned till this morning. The May term of the General Sessions commenced yes- terday, Judge Russel presiding, and Assistant District Attorney Gunning Bedford, Jr., prosecuting the cases. The calender is large and the prison crowded, but the prosecution being in the control of these gentlemen, the prisoners will be disposed of a3 rapidly as ia consistent with a-proper administration of justice. The Grand Jury were discharged till next Monday in consequence of the grand inquest @aving been empaneiled in the Oyer and Terminer. John Berrian was tried and con- wicted of stealing a e@lock worth one hundred dollars from Phebe Marriott, sent to the State Prison for five years. Mary Jave McRonald, a domestic, pleaded guilty (to stealing one thousand dollars in money from Hette Hutton on the 14th of April, and was sent to the State Prison for two years and six months. The case of the United States va Otto Bastenbinder, who is charsed in epnnection with the recent explosion of vitro-glycerine, was on ayan for hearing yesterday before Commissioner Betta. The evidence of one wit- ness having been taken, aa to the nature of the oil and the mode of packing it, the inquiry was agatn adjourned till this: morning. A lot of counterfeiting implements were seized on Sunday in the cable house foot of Fifty-dfth street, North river, Hannah Morpuy, a girl of fifteen years of age, died “yesterday from the effect of barns received on Friday last while emptying live aches froma coal scuttle. The stock market was dull yesterday. Governments were firm. Gold closed at 1 There was more tone in tue market generally yester- day, and though business was not active by any means, the general aspect of com ia) affairs was much more promising than it was a we ago, and, except in the event of violent changes in gold, the sales of merchan- dise, fore'gn and domestic, promise to exceed those of Jast week, buyers from out of town evincing more disposition to purchase on the basis of gold at its present valuation, and city purchasers evincing more aX ¢ coniidence. Petroleum was firm, Cotton was dul nominal under the China's news On ‘Change there was decided buoyancy in ilour and wheat, the former ad- vancing 2ie and the later le. ae, Pork was irregular, Lard was active aud deodedly higher, MISCELLANEOUS, Despatches from North Carolina reveat farther acts of malfeasance on the part of the agents of the Freedmon’s Burean in thas State, Colonel Whittlesey, the Commis- sioner for the State, and several of his subordinates, with the assistance of some Massachusetts philanthropists, it it alleged, have been discovered running plantations oa private account, and working delinquent of disorderly rkies on them for punishment. Several arrests have ee made, and more will be, it is reported. The President yesterday signed the West India Tele- bill, the bill relating to the Pay Department of 4 the bill retarning thanks to the sailors mon who aided in crashing the rebellion. *, the murderer of the Deering family, tm Phila- delphia, hae made a fall confession tn which he adsatts that he bad no accomplice, and that he committed all the murders wich his own hand. He mardered the boy Carey first, and the sight of his blood produced im him, he says, such a strong thirst for it that he determined to murder the rest of the family. For that | Darpose he inveigied (hem one by one into the barn, and despatched them. He statod that he would have con- | fessed rouner, but that he feared th | mob The only money that be obtained by the commis- } sion of th 1 amounted to fourteen doliars, A caverate in Fortress Monroe has been assigned for engeance of tho the use of Mrs Davis during ber visit, She intends mak: ing ab spplication for the parole of her husband to the Himits of the . Of aeCo) of bis continued weaknasa, whiod she believes is a want of exercise, There | are no positive indications of his apeedy trial, | Seeretary MeOulloeh, who visited Fortress Montoe on | Saturday, was closeted with Jeff Davis om Sunday last, | The nature of the interview is unknown. | A breach in the Krie canal, mear Adams’ Basin, o¢ curred yesterday moraine, bat 1} ® BY 4 serious Gus nd it will be repaired immediately, ao that loaded boats will be ablo to pass it to-day. General Sheridan bas iasued an order releasing the Now Orteans banks from military control, The Ashuelot, Augustaaud Miantonomah sailed yostor- day from the Brookiyn Navy Yard for Eastport, Forty-three sealors have arrived at Halifax with good fares, The Keystone Oil Works, at Pittsburg, with four hun- barreis of rofned oil, were consumed by fire yester- day. ‘hirtoon buildings on tho Ohio lovee at Cairo, Iil., wore burned yesterday, involving a loss of $100,000. ‘Tho screw press mill of the Hazzard Powder Company at Enfield, Conn., exploded yesterday afternoon, kill- ing four workmen, their bodies being literally torn to Pieces. The wood adjoining caught on fire, and two acres were burned. y The floods in the Mississippi are Teceding, and planters in Louisiana are beginning to put in cotton again. 4 Court of Inquiry has been ordered at Washington to investigate the official action of Colonel Paulding, Ad- ditional Paymaster, regarding the failure of the Mer- chants’ National Bank. The court was called at Colonel Paulding’s request, Congress and Its Scheme of Reconstrue- tion—Forney’s Flutterings. In the House of Representatives, on Monday last, the scheme of Southern reconstruction and restoration reported from the joint committee of fifleen, was made the special order for this day, to-morrow and the next day. If the com- mittee are ready, therefore, the discussion upon their constitutional amendment and the two supplemental bills will be opened this morn- ing. It is probable, however, that the com- mittee will not be ready, and that there will accordingly be another postponement. Moan- time the Chevalier Forney’s glorification of the committee, which we transfer to these columns as a curiosity in its way, is a manifesto from the special trumpeter of Thaddeus Stevens, entitled to a passing notice. Forney is in raptures. He cackles as enthu- siastically over this wonderful bantling of the infallible committee of fifteen as a noisy old hen over a new laid egg. He claps bis wings and crows with the exultation of a bantam rooster; but after all his faas and flutterings he finally subsides into his proper character of a ‘dead duck.” He says that the proposed con- stitutional amendment from the committee (the main feature of which is the disfranchisement, in regard to federal affairs, of the late rebel States till the Fourth of July, 1870) “ is certain to pass Congress, and to be ratified by the Legislatures of the adhering States.” We pre- sume he means the States adhering to Congress. “When this fact,’ he continues, “becomes clear to the people, as it must in a very short time, the effect upon their material interests will be surprisingly sudden and salutary.” In short, with the passage of the amendment through Congress by the requisite two-thirds vote in each House, “opposition will retire before the overwhelming necessity and logic of the case.” Wo suspect, nevertheless, that Forney, in assuming that this Congressional scheme is certain to’ pass both houses, is assuming too much. We rather -incline to the opinion that in the “irrepressible conflict” between the peculiar philanthropic kinks and crotchets of this radical, that radical and the other, to say nothing of conservatives and copperheads, the scheme will signally fail in the House or in the Senate. But granting that by a two-thirds vote it “is certain to pase,” it only carries the issue between Congress and the President directly before the people. Forney is seriously per- plexed in this view of the subject, although he says “it is absurd to suppose that what An- drew Johnson may or may not do can ma terially affect or long retard the decision of the parties immediately interested,” because “ the Southern people will soon be convinced that the radicals, as they are called, are indeed their best friends.” But there is another little matter which seriously troubles Forney—“the extraordi- mary spectacle of the published proceed- ings of a meeting of the Cabinet, in which hia (the President’s) constitutional advisers are quoted,” and in which Secretary Stanton is represented to be in full accord with Secretary Seward and Andrew Johnson. This is where the shoe pinches. Secretary Stanton ia the Apostle Paul to the republican party of Pennsylvania. They substantially so declared him at their late Harrisburg Conven- tion, while they could afford nothing better than a roundabout and very equivocal en- dorsement of President Jonson. In a con- test, therefore, before the people between the reconstruction plan yf Congress and that of the administration, the latter, supported by Secre- tary Stanton, the Apostle Paul of the Pennsyl- vania war republicans, will carry the Keystone State October election. With the popular reaction thus inaugurated the republican party of New York, under the reviving influence of Secretary Seward, will carry the Empire State in November, and thus, without going a step further, the reconstruction scheme of Congress will fall to the ground and the President's policy and the Union party of the administra- tion will take possession of the field. . The speculative ideas of Forney, we pre- dict, will be proved, in the sequel, as fallacious as were those of the maid of the milking pail, even with the passage of this reconstraction acheme of Stevens and his committee through both houses of Congress. F rst, however, the issue in Congress must be determined, and even bere wo look for a failure or a surrender to the administration. Paymaster Pavipine axp tum Wasnineton Bank Fanure.—The developments in regard to the failure of the Merchants’ National Bank at Washington reveal a state of facts of some- what extraordinary character. It seems that the bank had been in a bad way for some time and that this fact was known to the govern- ment officials. No eftort was made to withdraw the funds on deposit there; but, on the con- trary, Paymaster Paulding was induced to in- crease the amount under the plea that such a course would save the entire government de- posits in that institution. The neglect of the officials at Washington to take the necessary steps to protect the funds of the government when they knew that the bank was insolvent is certainly somewhat singular. We see that Major Paulding bas wisely called tora court of inquiry in regard to his actious in the premises. We trust that bis request will be granted and that a searching investigation will be made into the whole affiir. If this investi- gation is made thoronglr it cannot fail to prove advantageous to the public. But what bas Comptrollér Clarke been doing all of this time? He has been placed in the charge of bureaus created by Congress to look after these national banks. Here is one organ- ied under his nose, and within a few blocks of his office, in which the government has three- Guartess of a millioa on devosit. and vet he SE ol tea A eRe RE aE ct RE SE SR A CL AE AOE Re OE AE TORE ER IRs ME AEP SE DSL AR A EE RSE nC nn enn re ES NS RAE Repmeiicre nec Fone Bnon K HERALD, TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1866.—TRIPLH SHEET. takes no steps to protect the government. It should bo bis duty, as the bank officer of the government, to keep close watch of these na- tional banks, and inform the Secretary of the Treasury whenever the funds deposited by the latter are in danger from loss by mismanage- ment of the bank officers. Why did he not give the warning in regard to the Merchants’ Na- tional Bank? According to all reports the fagt that it was under a cloud was known and talked about for months past. There is evidently great negligence somewhere, and it looks very much as though Comptroller Clarke is the person re sponsible for falling to notify Secretary Mc- Culloch of the shaky condition of the bank. ‘The English Reform Sill—The State of Earope. The English Reform bill went through the House of Commons by a majority of five votes. Thus it is nominally carried, but in fact it is lost; for the small vote.in its favor in the Com- mons is an unmistakable evidence that it will be beaten in the House of Lords. Its defeat in the latter house may be assumed as certain, and this defeat will involve the resignation of the present Ministry. The question of a new Minis- try will be one of great difficulty. With the country on the one hand demanding large liberty with so much of conscious firmness in its tone, and with a Parliament on the other so little disposed to meet the popular requirement, there is a difficulty apparently almost insur- mountable in the way of any newly formed Ministry. It would seem impossible to organize a Cabinet that would get on satisfactorily in circumstances of such delicacy, and it is likely that we may have several new Cabinets in rapid succession. Indeed it is possible that the change of Ministry, deperdent upon the defeat of the Reform bill, ‘may carry with it the dissolution of the present Par- liament. Then we shall see in England a remarkable gpectacle—the direct appeal to thé people ona question of larger liberty of popular rights—an appeal on a mooted change of the constitution destined to modify materi- ally the relations between the classes into which the people are divided. Such an election may induce a social convulsion, and even the disturbance of the national equilibrium must be considered as in the number of possibilities. Exactly such an election, a direct appeal to the people on the state of the nation, has not oc- curred in Europe since the Convocation of the States General in France in 1789. An appeal to the people of England to settle the question started by the Retorm bill will show the people their power and widen and deepen the movement for enfranchisement. It will be a social revolution, and if the people of England should come to sce and appreciate their strength as the people of France did theira, this revolution may be of such a aweeping character that we shall see a new England start up as the world aaw a new France, when the delegates of the people, out- raged by tho stubbornness of the aristocrats, declared that they alone were the National As- sembly. An ill-sdvised stubbornness on the part of the English aristocracy will force extreme. measures; for the movement in Eng- lund is not little or accidental, nor is it merely ® result of partisan clamor. It is the move- ment of the age—a grand consequence of the better perception by the people of their true position in the nation. The great examples of the operation of liberal institutions in other countries have not been lost upon the English people. For four years their attention has been con- centrated on the grand trial of popular institu- tions in this country. Our enemies in England have pointed out to the British people day by day all the events in a struggle that they be- lieved would prove the failure of free govern- ment, and suddenly the conclusion of the great struggle showed the contrary result, and proved above everything the greatness and the stfength of this system of government. Hence it is that the English people demand so positively that their system should come nearer to ours. Nor has the example of France been thrown away. Half the British national debt was accummulated in the at- tempt to keep the French people down; and to‘Aay there is no man in France but has a voice in the government and can, as a voter, look down upon the mooting Englishman as the slave of a political system. Every English- man is taxed tremendously yet for the money spent in the attempt to keep France in the old monarchial system—to keep her just where England is; and she could not be kept there. If France could rise against so much repression why cannot England? This is the argument of the English liberal of to-day. But the movement of the people seen in England is not confined to that country; it is European in its proportions, It is seen in the disturbed conditions of Germany, Italy, Spain, and even far down the Danube, almost at the doors of tve once absolute master of the East- ern World. It is best seen in Germany, tor in that country the people are cailed upon. The appeal to the people that seems inmminent in England is not leasso in Germany. Count Bis- mark has proposed to the Frankfort Diet to call an Assembly by direct election by the votes of the whole German people. This is, at the outset, a recognition of universal suffrage, upon the denial of which all aristocratic ays- tems stand. But what is this Assembly, thus ; to be chosen by universal suffrage, to do? | Nothing less than discuss the thorough reforma- | tion of the Federal constitution—the thorough reorganization of Germany. Here, also, is the Convocation of the States General, especially in respect to the purpose in view. This is a | broad proposition of revolution, to throw down forever all the pitiful principalities and erect in their stead one grand Germany. An Assembly representing the whole German | people will never adjourn till that is done, Politically, Germany never has been a central- ized nation, for even in the best state of the empire the kingdoms were as distinct as now; but sentimentally there is no more compact power in the world. It Is the one idea of young Germany to realize that sentiment—to write that German poem in the books of the law. Biamark’s proposal is an appeal to Ger- many to awake to that existence ele has sighed for, and nations sometimes answer these ap- peals in unexpected ways, His appeal to tie elements of national life, if carried out, will not have less effect in Germany than the simi-— lar one bad in France. France is now the only nation in Europe that is completely tranquil—the only power that rests upon the broad basis of universal suffrage—that is safe and confident in the con- sem of the people. She is auiet whilq the - the political existence of the whole mass of its ae. Gate a a political storm isin preparation all around ber. | admire President Jobnson too much for his She has gone through it all, She is that} opposition to this institution. He might have much ahead of the other nations of Europe. | had immense power avd- patronage, but re- Sho was the first to see that a nation could not | fused it rather qian sanction anything so mon- have any satisfactory development that denied | strous, The people will soon learn to appre- ciate the wisdom and patriotism of the President in this matter. The whole thing is a gigantic fraud upon the country, full of evil, and onght to be broken up as soon as possible. people and put all power in the bands of the privileged classes, She made the grand experi- ment, and the result of her example has made it necessary for the others to follow her. Hence the unquietness of Germany, of England, of Ttaly and Spain. They must go through the same ordeal, and it is a strange piece of retri- butive justice that France should at last tran- quilly look on and see them all writting in the same agony that in her own case they all helped to make more terrible. The Anniversaries—What they Mean. The opening of the summer season in “the merry month of May” brings us pleasent skies, soft airs, budding trees and flowers. Crocusses begin to bloom in the Park, and the swans to ruffle their plumage on the ponds. Brilliant equipages are sweeping along the drives. Hais of miscroscopic porportions, and mushroom hats that do not obscure the pretty faces which peep from under them like wild flowers in a pasture land, are to be seen on Broadway, as thick as the original vegetable—the child of the night dew—which thoy so olosely resemble, can be seen in the fields of a summer morning. But, slas, with these delightful precursors of the summer season, come the usual May anni- versaries, with their importations of white chokers and broad brims and hungry parsons from the country. These anniversaries have now been in existence about thirty years. Some twenty-seven years ago the Hera began to report their proceedings carefully. Before that time the managers of the celebra- tions were more or less on the rampage. They had everything their own way, and their way did not lie exactly on the straight and narrow path that leadeth to salvation. But when their proceedings were made public they were brought to their good behavior, and they have been slightly improving ever since. The societies which instituted these annual raids upon the pockets and the patience of the metropolis professed a twofold purpose. They operated at home and abroad. The home societies, such as the Anti-slavery Society, took care of the nigger, while the Bible and Tract Societies and foreign missions had a single eye to the heathen in forelgn parts. The Anti- slavery Society gave an occasional squint towards the Indians; but as there was no poli- tical capital to be made out of the poor red men, they got the smallest possible attention from the philanthropists who constitute that body. The result of the labors of the latter society in the interest of the nigger may be briefly summed up. Within the past few years fully a million and a half of that unfortunate race have been killed off by war, pestilence and starvation. The country has been com- pelled to go through a devastating war, has contracted a debt of several thousand millions of dollars, and the people have to pay an an- nual tax of over three hundred millions. These have been the fruits of the home-labors of the societies represented at the anniversaries. The best iMustration of the results of the Bible and Tract Societies and forcign missions, which are supposed to aim at the conversion of the heathen abroad, can, perhaps, be found in the experience of similer organizations in England. And what is that? After laboring for’ twenty years for the conversion of the heathen im India, and raising seventeen million pounds sterling for that parpose ; after sowing broad- cast the seed of cant and the seed of gold— nicely intermixed with grasa and sweet clover seed—from Bombay to the Bramaputra, and from Madras to the Punjaub, it was discovered that six converts were made, whose convorsion was sincere and could be relied upon ; four whose orthodoxy was doubtful, and three whe had abandoned Christianity and returned te Fetishism or some other abominable form of heathenism. We are not sure that our American socictics have accomplished as much as this. We have no evidence on the subject except the romantie and often incredible reports of the forcign mussionaries, those modern Munchausens who give a quid pro quo for their salaries in the highly colored stories they send home. As far as the negro is concerned one would suppose that the duties of the Anti-Slavery Society were at anend. There is no longer slavery to oppose. After doing all the mischief they could to the poor negro, the war and its coincident events have eman- cipated what is left of him from servitude im- posed by the law and the greater misfortune of theofficious interference of the abolitionista, But the Anti-+lavery Society is to hold its an- niversary meeting neverthelesr, and Wendell Phillips is to grind out philanthropy and phi- losophy by the yard. The real purpose of these anniversaries is ta supply from the generosity of the New York people the deficiency which the niggardlinesg of the New Englanders has left in the homes of their poorly paid and half starved preachers, The New England parsons are not paid ag much as the ship joiners, who are on a strike for higher wages, and they are compelled te come annually to New York on an eleemosynary mission to keep the pot boiling in their New England homes. To this end they have raised some four or five bundred thousand dollarg since they commenced operations, but neither the negro at bome nor the beathen abroad have been benefited by their philanthropy. Tue Sexare ayo Our Geverars.—It is ime possible to perceive upon what grounds the Senate has retused to confirm the nominations of General Frank Blair as Collector of Interna} | Revenne at St. Louis, and General Daniel Sickles as Min'ster to the Hague. These genes rals served most gallantly during the recent war and certainly deserve well f their country, General Blair’s services In the Weat were of great value at a mest critical period of the ree bellion, and Geneval Sickles lost a leg by bravely exposing bimself to. the fire of the enemy at Gettysburg. Besides this brilliang record, which ix sufficient of itself to recom mend them for any position, both General Sickles and General Biair are perfeetly come | peten’. Why, then, has the Senate rejected | them? The majority of the present Senators | were elected by a party which professes the | utmont gratitude and devotion to (he heroes of | the war, and yet when these heroes are nomi- | nated the Senaic refuses to confirm them. What is the reason of this outrageous inconsistency? It is because Generals Blair and Sickles, lke all other patriotic and sensible men, support the reeonstruction poliey of the President and cannot endorse the absard and revolationary agents of the Bureau in North Carolina give us schemes of the fanataes in Congress. This is still more startling developments. This is what | their only fault in tae eyes of the radical Sena~ an appropriation of eleven millions and a half | tors; but in the eyes of the people it appears was made for by Congress the other day; and | not as a fault, tut as an additional merit, There this is not more than half what the | is no way in which the Sonate can justify ite re~ establishment will cost @ vear, We cannot | fasal to confirm these gominations, and thé onle = Revelations About the Operations of the Freedmen's Bureau. The information we published on Wednes- day from one ‘of our correspondents in the South relative to the working of the Freed- men’s Bureau and additional facts given to- day show the infamous character of that pet radical institution and fally justifies President Johnson in vetoing the bill to perpetuate and enlarge its powers, Tho statements made by our correspondent are not his individual ‘opin- | ions, but are facts obtained through official in- vestigations, and are entitled to the fullest credit as such. Generals Ste¢dman and Fuller- ton have been appointed to make these investi- gations, and looking at the high character, sa- gacity and impartiality of these gentlemen we suppose no unprejudiced person will doubt the accuracy of what they have developed and what our correspondent reports. Writing from Newbern, April 30, our corre- spondent says :-— A closer investigation of the state of affairs at New- bern has revealed @ condition worse than the bitter- est enemy of the Bureau ever ventured to insinuate. It appears almost beyond doubt that atone of the freed- men's settlements hero crueities more atrocious than those for which Wirz was hunged have been perpetrated ‘on the unoffeiding frecdmen by agents of the Bureau es'ablished for their protection. Opposite Newbern, on the other side of the river, some . two thouzand five hundred men have been settled for sped dye past, They were invited there by the mili- tary and located on little plats of ground which they were allowed to cultivate. Eight months ago Edward S. Fitz, a Massachusetts preacher, wag placed in charge of the Trent river settlement by Captain James, another New ay Pe preacher, who was then conducting the Bureau here. A system of extortion and cruelty was im- mediately inaugurated. Fifty cents a month ground rent was demanded for every plot on which the miserable little cabins were erected, Every negro who owned a boat had to pay two dollars anda half a month, or his boat was forfeited. Every darky who kept a store was taxed five dollars a month. Every one who owned a horse was taxed a similar amount. Fatlure to pay any of these exactions was punished by the imprisonment of the man or bis wife—preference being given to the wife—the confiscation of ‘ail his lite property, and in many cases the tearing down of his house. A negro who quarrelied with his wife was finéd ond hundred doilars and 6 nt to prison untilho paid it, All these extortions ‘wore practised upon a population steeped in the deapest poverty, scourged by disease and — of them wanting the common necessaries of life, and in this manner an income of at least eight hundred dollars a month was derived by the Bureau. These charges, revolting as they are, were substantiated in almost every particular upon an officia! examination. Much more was brought out of the same or worse character, which it is unnecessary to recite here, as it has. been published in the correspondence and is given in our despatch of to-day. ene- rals Steedman and Fullerton had an interview with Governor Holden and the leading citizens at Raleigh. The Governor said, “the great ob- jection to the Bureau Court was that it was a one man power. “A planter might be dragged many miles to answer some frivolous charge preferred by negro, and this charge would be disposed of before one man, who was both judge and jurors, In the past he believed the Bureau had been of advantage to both races, but its further oontinuance would serve no useful purpose.” We learn that the Bureau agents throughout most of North Carolina have been guilty of fraudulent practices in one way or another, and pretty gencrally in farming operations. We may expect within a short time some startling revelations from Commissioners Steed- man and Fullerton, not only about what is going on in North Carolina, but from Charles- ton and other places to which they are pro- ceeding. © Everywhere and from every one similar testimony as the above was given about the uselessness, tyranny, cupidity, frauds and general evil consequences of the Bu- teau. In fact, there appears to be but one opinion on the subject throughout the South, apart from the prejudiced and inter- ested opinions expressed by agents of the es- tablishment and radical emissaries. On the other band, there is abundant evidence to show that “the relations between the two races are now on the most satisfactory footing;” that the negroes are “fairly and kindly treated by the planters, and in turn seem disposed to live peaceable and industrious lives.” While, as a general rule, they spoke fairly of kindness re- ceived from their former masters, and seemed to have a just understanding of the responsi- bilities of their altered position, they had many complaints to make of the administration of the Freedmen’s Court. Adl this demonstrates the mischievous character and operation of the Bureau, and how much better it would be for both blacks and whites to leave them to settle their own affairs and adjust their new relations to each other by the operation of their own laws and the natural laws regulating labor and capital. We have over and over again, in our com- ments on the Freedmen’s Bureau bill, while that measure was before Congress and when the Pre- | sident vetoed it, pointed ont the evils which Generals Steedman and Fullerton have shown to exist and our correspondent describes, It was evident that the agents, selected for the most part from the canting preachers, schoolmasters and hypocritical fanatics of the Tribune and New England school, would both oppress and rob the poor negroes. This set have no real sym- pathy with the colored people; they do not understand them, have never before been in | contact with them, and now that they are placed in authority over them they use their power mercilessly to make money. The Southern people, who have been brought up with the , negroes, ployed with them when children together, and have an interest in their wel- fare, naturaily bave sympathy for them; bat these canting, pretending philanthyppists, like Fitz, the Massachusetts preacher and agent of the Bureau, have none. The cases of this man and the other New England preacher, James, | are not isolated or uncommon. From every quarter we hear of similar ones. This morn- ing these intelligent commissioners who bave uncovered the infamous practices of the