The New York Herald Newspaper, May 10, 1866, Page 6

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By tho steamship New York, Captain Horner, which ar- rived at this port yesterday from Aspinwall, we have late nows from the seat of war on the South Pacific, embraced im our Pacific squadron, Valparaiso and Panama corres. pondenc:. ‘The Spaniards had received an addition to their squad- Ton in the Pacific of one screw frigate of sixty guns, two Cervetios and one transport, the latter vessel bringing large supplios of. clothing and ordnance stores. There Wore also in this new squadron fifteen hundred marine tnfantry, for duty on shoro, if the opportunity for land- fing occurs. No action had taken place against other Points on tho coast of Chile, nor was it supposed there would be until after tho arrival of the two Pern- vian fron-clads, Huascar and —‘Independencia, n tne coast, whon there will probably be a decisive @ontest for naval supremacy. If the Spaniard is vic- torious the other places on the coast of Chile, Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador thatean be reached will have their Share of shot and sholl. Tho English residents of Santiago had confirmed the re- solutions of those of Valparaiso against the conduct of the British Chargé and Admiral in not preventing the bom- bardment of Valparaiso, and consequent destruction of their property. The French residents had put in a claim for the amount of loss they hail sustained. Tho estimate of the value of property destroyed in Valparaiso is givon, placing the amount ut ten and a half mil- Mons of dollars, but this fs thought to be much below the mark, The report of the Spanish Admiral Nuiez, who con- ducted tho bombardment, to the Spamish Min’stor at ‘Washington, states that Commodore Roda @fforts for a peaceable settlement of the difficulties were thwarted by Chile, commen » action as right, and Said that moderation and dignity were on the side of Spain; and the English Admiral Denman said that the insult offered by the Chilexus in proposing a naval com- bat was a sufficiont justification for the bombardment, ‘He says also that the Ch government opposed the Femoval of foreigners’ prop In Peru matters aro as us The arrival of the Chalaco, at Callao, from Panama, Is announced, with the five rifled gung for tie government of Chile that ‘Wore ombarked at tho latter port at the time that the ‘Uncle Sam was refused a clearance for San Antonio, with Provisions, on the ground of neutrality. General Mosquera had arrived in the Colombian man- Of-war steamer Colombia, in Colombia, from England, @% route to Bogota, to be inaugurated as President of the Fopublic, Rumors wore in circulation, believed to be well founded, that a strong effort would be made to re- mere the seat of government from Bogota to Panama. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday the great feature of the day ‘was the introduction by Mr. Henderson, of Missouri, of te Dill to regulate appointments and removals by the Prealaez\t, Which is intended as a substitute for the sec. sdion on the Same Subject apponsdod to the Post Office Ap- \Propriation bill. Thy pew pill provides that the President cannot remove any officer ap. by consent of +h Senate aycopt mein- ‘Bem of his Cadim 4) Where the appointment is made by We P sidont or heads of departments alone, not re- quiring the consent of the & , the removal may be effected by the appointing ofl: The joint resolution appointing the Mayor of New York and other persous a Committeo to select a site fora Post OMce in this city was passed. The Senate then f ded to the conside- ration of the Post Office Appropriation bill, pending which it adjourned. ‘The House continued their consideration of the report on reconstraction. Several members spoke on the sub- Ject, and Mr. Stevens gave notice that he would call for ‘ation of advertisements half-past eight o'clock ‘a vote on the joint resolution this afternoon. The even- ing session was consumed in discussing the Revenue Tax Dill, and several verbal amendments were made EUROPE. Our spocial Buropean correspondence and files by the China, dated wo the 28th of April, reached this city from Boston yesterday morning. ‘The Reform bill debate was brought to a close in the Bnglish House of Commons by the delivery of a remark- fable specch by Mr. Disraeli, lealer of the opposition, fand an eloquent and logical reply by Mr. Glad- stone, on the part of the cabinet. Mr. Disraeli charged the cabinet with secking to “ reconstruct’? the government on the ‘American principle,” and made a tolling bit by asserting that Mr. Gladstone played fast and loose with the subject of recognition of the lato Amorican confederacy for party purposes, “oreating confusion in the world’ by the idea Mr, Gladstone warned the tories and aristocrats u at the ciltimate triumph of the people was céfiain, and cai. tioned them to beware of the vast silent social force marshalled against them. ‘Alarming reports bad reached Madrid from the United States steamer Kearsarge, off Lisbon. It said that seven ‘of her officers had died of African fever, as well as @ nambor of the crew. No names are given. Our Madrid correspomient states that Spain is fully Prepared for another revolution, which will have for its ‘object a complete change of the royal dynasty. General Prim is spoken of as being engaged in the movement, ‘and a son of Victor Emanuel is named as likely to suc- coed Queen Inabetia. The first contingent of Austrian volunteers for Maxi- milian’s army in Mexico was to sail from Trieste for Vera Cruz in the last days of April. Head Centre Btephons (s said to have bad an interview with Gonoral Prim, No mention is made of his sailing on the Napoleon IIL for America. THE CITY. Up to yesterday two thousand licenses were granted by the Board of Excise, for which forty-nine thousand five hundred dollars were received by the treasurer. Many of tho dealors to whom licenses have been granted fnogioot to call for thom, ant they will be notified that they have to do 60 within seven days or their NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1866.~TRIPLE SHEET. TT Le eee the coast of California, an account of which reached us | once for the necessary work of putting down licenses will be forfeited. The examination at the Jefferson Market Police Court of parties arrested for selling liquor or Sunday last, which was to take place yesterday, was postponed until this afternoon, in order to give the counsel for the Commissioners of the Board of Excise an oppprtunity to be board. An interesting decision by Justice Dowling, who discharged certain unlicensed liquor dealers whom the police had arrested for violation of the closing and Sunday section of the law, claiming that the section only related to such parties as had obtained license, will be found else- where, But four new cases of cholera occurred at the Lower Quarantine on Tuesday, aud no additional deaths are re- ported, The number now sick on board of the hospital ship is fifty-one, sixty-five of those who were conva- lescent having been removed to the Saratoga, where they are progressing as well as can be expected. ‘The strike of the ship carpenters, ship joiners and ship caulkers, who have demanded from the bosses that eight hours shall constitute a day’s labor, still continues. The shipbuilders declare that they will not yield to this de- mand, and that before they take back the men they must quit their trade organizations and give up their badges. This the workmen say they will not do. There bas been some disturbance on the part of the strikers, but it has mot resulted in any very serious breach of the peace, They held a mass meeting last evening in Clinton Hall, for the purpose of expressing their determination to hold by the demand they have made. Speeches were delivered and resolu- tions adopted, after which the meeting adjourned. ‘The members of the Ione Yacht Club held their frst regatta this season yesterday, The boats Ione, Flirt, Lurline and Uncle Ben sailed a distance of twenty miles up the Hudson river, the Inter boat coming in about four minutes ahead of the Ione. The American Anti-Slavery Society held their annual business meeting yesterday, and after a prolonged sea- sion, in which women’s rights and other issues were dis- cussed adopted the resolutions published in the Huranp with.scarcely any alteration or amendment, ‘The com- mittees and officers for the ensuing year wore an- nounced, and the meeting adjourned, Wendell Phillips was re-clected President ‘The forty-first anniversary of the American Tract So- ciety was celebrated yesterday m the Reformed Dutch church, corner of Iwenty-ninth street and Fifth avenue. The secretary's report shows the society to be in a highly fourishing condition, Remarks were made by Bishop Mclivaine, of Ohio, President of the society, and othor clergymen, Tho National Temperance Union celebrated their first anniversary yesterday atthe Central Presbyterian church and the Cooper Institute. The officcrs for the ensuing year were elected, the reports of the various committees and officers read and addresses. made by Major General Howard and Rev. H. W. Beechor, The tenh anniversary of the schools and churches of the Universalist denomination was celebrated yesterday in the Rev Mr. Leo's church, on Bleecker street, The exercises consisted of singing by the children, prayer, and addresses by Mr. Lee and other reverend gentlemen. The second day’s examination of the pupils of the Five Points House of Industry took place yesterday afternoon. Tho Rev. Mr. Mingon, Superintendent of Missions, ad- dressed the children and audience. ‘| The American Female Guardian Society and Home for tho Friendless met again yesterday at the Home Chapel, in Twenty-ninth street, There were two sessions, The morning session was devoted to business—the reading of reports, &c. The afternoon se-sion, “the Indies’ mect- ing,” was very interesting, the proceedings consisting of exercises by the children, of whom there were about two hundred and fifty present. 4n examination of the students of the first year of the Columbia College Law School wa: commenced at the institute yesterday, in Lafayette place, and will be con- tinued for some days. Sixty-one students were examined on municipal laws and the laws of contracts, The ex- amination was conducted by Professor Dwight in the presence of acommittee of trustees anda number of members of the bar and the Alumni of the school, Judge Barbour, of the Superior Court, imposed a fine of twenty-five dollars each ona batch of jurors yester- day for non-attendance, and said he would continue to fine daily until the amount in the case of each delinquent reached one hundred dollars. In the United States Commissioners’ Court yesterday, before Commissioner Osborn, the testimony of an ex- stewardess of the Brilish steamer Montezuina was taken in a suit commenced against the steamer to recover wages alleged to be due, and which tho captain refuses te 0 pay. In the case of Valentine Betts vs. Rufina Botts, where the husband sued fora divorcee on the ground of adul- tery, Judge Brady yesterday rendered a decision in favor of the plaintiff, annulling the marriage. The Forman will case was on again before the Surro- gate yesterday. The cross-examination of Mr. Forman was concluded without anything very new or interesting having been elicited, The case will be resumed again at eleven o'clock this morning. No new cases will be called for trial before the 21st inst. The argument im the Madame Jumel will case, on a motion of defendants to postpone the trial, was con cluded before Judge Barnard, jin the Supreme Court, Chambers, yoetorday, Ex-Judge Pierrepont and Mr. Charles O’Conor argued in opposition to the.motion, and Mr, Stoughton wound up the discussion in support of the postponement, City Judge Russel sentenced a large number of prison- ers, who pleaded guilty yesterday, in the Goncral ses- sions, to burglary and lareeny, to the State Prison for a term of years. A fire broke ont yesterday morning in 173 and 175 Grand steeet, which destroyed property to the amount of $3,500, The flames were speedily extinguished. Frederick Garnott, aged six years, was found drowned in a cellar yesterday afternoon, near the residence of his parents, 362 West Fifty-second street. Tho body of an unknown boy, apparently about eight years of age, was found yesterday in the lime kiln at ‘242 East Eighteenth street. Bight boarding house keepers and runners were ar- rested undey the new lay reer, for boarding a newly rived feaiol in the Lower Bay, As they were ignorant of the law in this instance they were released. ‘Two burglars in Williamsburg yesterday entered the house of Mr. O'Brien and stole a sewing machine. ‘The strike of the ropewalk laborers in Williamsbarg has ceased, and most of them have returned to work at the old hours. Three young men wero arrested yesterday in Brooklyn on charges of arson, Implements for incendiary pur- poses wore found on one of them, and another confessed to the crime. ‘The stock market was strong yesterday and prices ad- vanced. Governments were firm. Gold rose to 129% and closed at 128%. There was more activity in commercial circles yester- day, and the merchandise markets reflected the firmer tone of the gold market—all kinds of merchandise bring ing fully as high, if not higher prices, On ‘Change the markets wore excited and quite generally higher. Bread. stuffs were excited, and flour advanced 25e, a 506. ; wheat 100, a 1S¢., with an active demand. Corn and oats were a shade firmer. Pork was higher, Lard heavy. In the sugar market there was firmness but not activity. Cotton was steady. Petroleum firm. Dry goods dull, Freights quiet. Coffee dull, bat unchanged MISCELLANEOUS. 'A dolegation of the Methodist Episcopal Conference, now im session in Washington cy, called yesterday upon the President, who, after thanking them for the good wishes they expressed for him, said that a great deal of misapprehension existed in some quarters in reforence to the state of the South. Irregularities there are taken up and grouped together #0 as to make the im- pression that they illustrate the condition of the whole conntry. He concluded by saying tha; the happiness and prosperity of the Seuth se well ag the North lay To the constitution and the enforcement of the laws. It ia believed that the Grand Jury of Norfolk will bring in trae bilis against Jeff Davie and the leading generals and civil officers of the late rebellion. The Military Commission to investigate the cause of the Norfolk riots on the occasion of the negro'celebra- tion of the passage of the Civil Rights bill, has assembled at that city. Our Havana advices are dated the 1st inst. The United States steamer Swatara had arrived from Jamaica and re- ports that the cholera in Guadaloupe had decreased to sixty cases per day, and was mostly confined to negroes. Upwards of a hundred coolies had revolted near Car- denas, Cuba. The arrival of ships laden with them wae very frequent, ant obstruction was offered to the trade at all, The amphitheatre for bull fights, at Puorto Principe, fell in on the 30th ult,, wounding and matilat- ing many of the spectators, More rows and duets be- tween natives and Spaniards are recorded. A circular calling upon the native sons of Cuba to take up arms against the power of Spain was seized by the police. ‘The particulars of the wreck of the Labouchors, off by telegraph a few days ago, are published in another column this morning. ‘The owner of the schooner Sarah Bernice, which ves- ‘sel was seized for violating the revenue laws at Eastport a few weeks ago, has given bonds and recovered his ‘Veasel. ‘The recent reports of outrages on Gentiles in Utah are peremptorily denied by Brigham Young, who, in answer to a communication from General Sherman in relation to them, sends the certificates of Gentile citizens and officers of the army corroborating his statement, The republicans of New Haven, Conn., held a caucus Jast night to nominate a United States Senator. Foster, Buckingham and O, S Ferry were in ballot, with Foster ahead, until the 7th, when the Buckingham men wont over to Ferry, and he was chosen. The choice was afterwards made unanimous. ‘The famous trotting horse Dexter was sold at auction yesterday at the Union Course, L. 1, and brought $14,000, Four other Hambletonians were sold, but the prices were very low. The verdict in the case of F, 0, J, Smith, convicted of subornation of perJury at Boston litely, has been set aside and a new trial granted on'jcondition that the de- fendant’s counsel shall consent in writing to the use in the new trial of the testimony of a witness who has since died. The Board of Chosen Frecholders in Hudson county, New Jersey, was organized yesterday. The county tax to be raised this year is $200,000, Anton Probst, the Deering murderer, is to be hung on the 8th of June next. ‘The trial of Henry G. Wheeler for alleged misappropri- ation of bounds was closed yesterday at Boston. The decision was reserved. ‘The Radicals and Their Game of Revolu- tion—The Danger to the Country. Congress is getting into deep water. On Tuesday morning last, according to appoint} ment, the reconstruction scheme of the joint committee of fifteen was taken up in the House as the special order of the day. This scheme embraces a constitutional amendment and two supplmental bills. Mr. Stevens explained that the amendment would be first considered, and that it was not the purpose of the committee to have the two bills acted on until it was seen what disposition the Sonate would make of the amendment. The proposition before the House fell far short of his wishes, but he believed that it was all that could be obtained in the present staie of public opinion. Something is due, then, even in the estima- tion of Stevens, to “the present state of pub- lic opinion.” But let us see what he is aiming at. He says that “not only Congress, but the several States are to be consulted. On a care- ful survey of the whole ground the committee did not believe that nineteen of the loyal States could be induced to ratity any preposition mote siringent {fn this. He repeated ‘nine- teen States; for he utterly repudiated and scorned the idea that any State idt actually in the Union was to be counted in the question of ratification.” This is an important feature, then, in the scheme of the committee. Three- fourths of the States now represented in Con- gress are to be deemed sufficient for the ratifi- cation of the proposed amendment; and its ratification by the other States is to be required only as a condition of their restoration to Congress. The amendment abolishing and interdicting slavery was officially declared a part of the constitu- tion by the Secretary of State, in having re- ceived a ratification by twenty-seven States, or three-fourths of all the States of the Union, in or out of Congress. Now, if Congréss shall accept a ratification by nineteen States as enough, how is the Secretary of State to be made to proclaim it as required by the consti- tution? Does not this make a case for an im- peachment of President Johnson? Assuming, however, that this idea of im- peachment, from the utter impossibility of car- rying it out, is not entertained, the question recurs, what is this joint committee aimiag at? Mr Stevens admits that the third section of the proposed constitutional amendment, which secks to disfranchise from all federal elections till the Fourth of July, 1870, all persons volun- tarily aiding the late rebellion, becomes a dead letter under the pardoning power of the President. If, therefore, under the am- nesty proclamations and special pardons already issued by the President the most of the Southern people are not affected by thia, constitutional amendment, may not the rest of them be relieved in the same way? The pro- position, however, was intended to rule out the Southern States concerned from the Presidential election of 1868; and we presume that as it has been found ineffectual, some other device will be contrived for that purpose, in an amend- ment of this third section. In fact, the object ot this radical Congress is so manifestly the continued exclusion from the government of the now excluded States, not only till 1870, but for an indefinite number of years to come, that we care not to waste any further time upon the details of this Congres- sional scheme. It is at best only a scheme for a revolutionary reconstruction of the gov- ernment under the ruling faction of this Con- gress, or for the perpetuation of their power after the fashion of the Directory of the first experimental French republic. If this is per- mitted, the next thing will be a reaction from anarchy to a despotism, as in the case of the first Napoleon; or from another commonwealth of rotindheads like that of England to the old monarehieal system; or from the fighting fac- tions of the republic to the consolidation of all the powers of the government in another Cesar. Thaddeus Stevens and his joint committee are fighting beland » masked battery, Under the cover of plausible measures of national security they seck to disguise their real de- signs. But Wendell Phillips, the infallible pioneer of the radical faction, speaks without reserve and without quibbling. He despises the cant of “constitutional” measures. He hates the word. He says so. He wants universal suffrage, negro political and social equality; he wanis “liberty, equality and fraternity,” without any constitutional drawbacks. He wants negroes in the government, and he is disgusted at the shrinking of the radicals of Congress. Phillips discloses what Stevens would conceal. Phillips, fighting hie battles at his own expense, has no favors to ask of parties or State elections, Stevens, as a party leader, dependent upon popular support, is compelled te bend to public opinion. Stevens, however, though far behind with his reconstruction wagon, is still on the same road with Phillips. Hence, whatever may be the scheme of recon- struction finally agreed upon in this Congress— if they can agree upon anything—the people will be secure ouly in adhering to the simple, sate and acceptable policy of President Jobn- son, The radicals contemplate a radical revo- lution in the government. There is danger in it, disguise it as they may. If the American people desire to perpetuate the blessings of constitutional liberty they should prepare at these revolutionary radicals in the approach- ing elections for the next Congress. The Co jon of Utah—The Radical Party on the Twin Relics of Barbarism, We publish to-day some interesting corre- spondence concerning the state of affairs in Utah Territory. A party who says that he has tesided there for some time denies the accounts of frequent murders said to be committed by the Mormons. Tho siories of assassination which we published the other day attracted the attention also of General Sherman, who sent a cautionary despatch to Brigham Young on the subject. The Mormon leader answers by tele- graph that there is no foundation for the reports except that a soldier, not a Mormon, shot a man in the streets of Great Salt Lake City, and that a Mormon, whose wife had been seduced by « Gentile, shot the offender. Seve- ral citizens of Utah have also assured General Sherman that Brigham’s statement is correct. We give all these documents in another column; but they do not prove that violence and an utter disregard of the rules of Christian society and the laws of the land do not exist in Utah. Brigham Young says that the Mormon commu- nity is not responsible for these two murders; but we have not heard of a coroner’s jury fixing the responsibility upon any one, nor of the law having been vindicated in any way. The fact that the Mormon institution is permitted to exist atall within the jurisdiction of the United States is a disgrace to our form of government. The first plank laid in the platform of the republican party adopted at the Pittsburg Convention of 1856 was the destruction of what the leaders then denominated “the twin relies of barbarism”—slavery and po- lygamy. With this motto inscribed upon their banner a large portion of the people ratiied around them and formed a powerful’ and finally a dominant party. Have the pledges been re- deemed? As far as slavery is concerned the war settled that question. Slavery isno longer in existence. But the republican party seem to have forgotten the other relic of barbarism, polygamy, against which they proposed to myke war and to utterly exterminate. Every- thing still thrives in Utah. Brigham Young and his thirty-five wives are in a flourishing condition, A standing army of respectable proportions has just been fully organized in Salt Lake City with a view to resist any en- croachment upon their territory or any inter- ference with their peculiar moral or immoral code by the Gentiles, This grossest vice known in the catalogue of sins is practised in a por- tion of the American domain, under shelter of the law, and wiat have the republicans done to prevent it, after ali their promises to uproot polygamy? They admit a delegate from the Territory of Utah, a representative of one of the “twin relics of barbarism,” to a seat in Congress, while they deny the same right to representatives from the Southern States which have ratified, by the enactments of their Legislatures, the constitutional abolition of the other twin relic of barbarism, slavery. The Southern States have given evidence of their conscientious adherence to the law by abandoning, freely and cheerfully, an institu- tion which was as much a part of their system, from the time that they had existence as colo- nies or States, as the brain or the heart are part of the human system; but the Mormons of Utah Territory have made no concession. They are as audacious as ever in their adherence to poly- gamy. Whatever sins the South may have com- mitted in the receat attempt to break up the Union, it is willing to make amends for. Blood- shed, desolation, ruined homes, intolerable tax- ation, and the thousand other evils that have be- fallen the South, have wiped away the stain of slavery and made penitential offering for the crime of rebellion; but polygamy, the other relic of barbarism which the republican party pledged itself to wipe out, still boldly defics both the Christian code and the law of the land. It is certain that reports of murders and other fearful atrocities are common im Utah, and the radicals in Congress have no measure to propose or they are not willing to introduce any measure to suppress the evil which they denounced at the Pittsburg Convention. But the most curious features in the conduct of the republican party in connection with slavery are the facts recently developed by the operation of the Freedmen’s Bureau. Slavery in a worse form than ever existed under the old institution has been introduced in the Southern States by the officials of this Bureau. These parties, many of them New England clergymen, who no donbt have been denouncing slavery from the pulpit for many years, are cultivating cotton plantations and compelling freedmen to work upon them under a system of treatment more inhuman than was ever known in the days of Southern slavery, which we have abolished. What is the conclusion to be drawn from all this? That the radical faction is a humbug. ‘That selfishness and avarice and fraud lie at the bottom of all their action. The people are beginning to see this and a few more develop- ments of the workings of the Freedmen’s Burean will convince them of the complete demoralization of the hypocritical faction which is throwing obstacles in the way of the reconstruction of the country. Thr Freepmen’s Bereac anv Irs Workixcs.— We published yesterday a note from General Howard, Commissioner of the Freedmen’s Bu- reau, in which he states, in reference to an article in the Hrranp on the subject of the Bureau, that certain officers he names “are men who have for years sustained the highest character for integrity.” We have nothing at all to do in this matter with any particular officer of the Freedmen’s Bureau. They all may be men of integrity, and we hope they are; for it is necessary they should possess some personal reputation in order to relieve the whole concern of its odious features, The chief officers are not to blame for the miserable workings of this enormous charity machine. The fault lies both in the charac- ter of the institution itself and in the sordid operations of subordinate officers. It is, in fact, simply an institution for the re-enslavement of the colored popula- tion of the South, and i doing more harm to them than the old institution of slavery. It encourages idleness and vice among negroes and places power in the bands of unscrupulous persons to sell the labor and the bodies of ignorant blacks to the highest bidder. The colored people themselves do not like it, A colored correspondent of @ journal in the South, owned and edited by nogroes, says of the Bureau:—“A thousand times better would it be for the colored man were it abol- ished; for, instead of being « eafequard or ee protection for the freedmen, it is only place in which freedmen’s rights are bartered away. The sooner it 1s out of the way the better.” This is the opinion of one likely to be informed of the practical workings of the system. Ac- counts of official malfeasance in the Bureau multiply with every day’s mail. At one time we hear of some swindling or oppressive oper- ation in Louisiana, next in North Carolina, again in South Carolina, Georgia and other Southern States, It is an iniquitous, expensive and alto- gether unnecessary establishment, and should be abolished. The Reconstruction Programme of the Radical Lender. Among the numerous anniversary meetings reported in our columns, those of the Anti- Slavery Society have been the most interesting. As slavery does not now exist, except under the patronage of the Freedmen’s Bureau, every- body was naturally anxious to hear what the anti-slavery people had to talk about and what they wished to abolish. We find that, ignoring the Freedmen’s Bureau and its outrages, and saying nothing ot the destruction of about one and a half millions of negroes, the society at once grapples with the question of reconstruc- tion and proposes, for the first time, to take a hand in the game of Pres‘dential polities. Of the Anti-Slavery Society Mr. Wendell Phillips is both the President and the spokesman. The other orators amount to nothing. They are mere fill-gaps and makeweights. Sumner, Chase, Kelley and General Saxton have written letters to the society; but the only use of these precious epistles is to supply the big gun, Phillips, with ammunition. Froth- ingham, Sargent, Hepworth, Morton, Pillsbury, twaddling Tilton and the black fellows who delivered addresses are onty the lesser lights who reflect the radiance of Phillips, the great luminary. It isnot too much to say that Wen- dell Phillips isthe Anti-Slavery Society. With- out him it could not survive; but for his pro- test it would have been broken up last year. that his policy may be called revolue tionary; but he does not seem to be aware of the true dangers which it dimly shrouds. With & perpetual directory sitting at Washington and compelling the South by force of arms to sub- mit to a scheme of which the majority ot the people, North and South, disapprove, we shall have taken the last step towards a military despotism, unless we are checked by another revolution, beginning at the North, which wilt sweep the radicals out of power and restore the old constitution. Against this revolution Mr. Phillips proposes to guard by frightening the Northern people with the ery of “repudiation.’* He claims that if the South comes back into the Union without negro representatives her Con- gressmen will immediately proceed to repu- diate the national debt. Whether or not the people are to be scared into acquiescence by this bugbear time must decide; but if they are we shall soon have a military despotism here. similar to that which succeeded the republics in Rome and France. The people, who are to judge between the policy of President Jobnson and that of the radicals, now have the facts before them and must be prepared for a verdict. What Wendel® Phillips says Congress willdo, He is the most honest, sincere and outspoken of the radicals. What he declares from the house-tops the rest whisper in secret. He shows his face, while they wear masks of expediency. But he is their leader, their St. John the Baptist; and, from Sumner and Stevens down to the most humble of the party, they will all tread reli- giously in the path which he has marked out. » Jeff Davis and the Radicals. Jeff Davis, his treatment, condition, trial an@ other matters relating to him have again been brought prominently before the public by the Secretary of the Treasury having had an intere view with him, and through the report that he will be arraigned before the United States Court of Virginia which assembled at Norfolle on the 8th inst. The radical press is very, To his speeches, therefore, we must look for the real sentiments of the radicals. What, then, does Wendell Phillips propose ? What is his theory of reconstruction? He pro- poses to give the negroes the right to vete. His theory of reconstruction is the government of the South by the war power. He “ protests against every settlement that has been pro- posed cither by Congress or the President.” He “is not content with any plan thathas been offered by an appreciable body of the nation.” He and the men whom he repre- sents want a new plan, a plan of thei? dwn, ‘and that Js “un'versal amnesty and universal suffrage.” They do not want to hang any rebels; they do not want to disfran- chise any rebels; they offer a fall and free par- don to the South on condition that all the ne- groes shall be alloweal to vote. It seems to us that ex-rebel Foote amd Senator Stewart have rather anticipated this: programme; but Phil- lips and his followers de\not choose to recog- nize Foote and Stewart, aad present their plan of reconstruction as an emirely original idea. They follow it out logfewfly> They demand “ score of negro representatives in Congrei In other words, these radiewls have quite se ously adopted the scheme of megro Congress. men which the Heraip long ago put forward as the legitimate result of their efforts to obtain negro suffrage. Here is the real aject of the plan of Wendell Phillips and Comymny. “The Senator who gocs to Washington tw take his seat will find a eolored man sitting beside him. When the committees are raised these must be white and colored men on them. Both will be found inspecting proposed’ public improvements, such as railway schemes, and then the next thing is social equality.” These are the words of Wendell Phillips. We: pre- dicted this result years ago, and it has now come to pase. How do the American: people like the radical programme ? Mr. Wendell Phillips does not allow the re- publican party to escape the responsibility of his policy. He identifies the party with the policy. President Johnson is “a traitor” be- cause “he refuses to serve the party that ele- vated him.” In other words the President is abused because he will not carry out the recon- struction scheme of negro suffrage, negro repre- sentatives and negro equality. Mr. Phillips accuses the President of intriguing for a re- nomination. “He saw what your statesman Seward saw, with the clearness of instinctive selfishness, that if the great dominant party re- mains a unit in 1868 there can be but one President, and that is Grant.” To de- feat Grant, according to Mr. Phillips, the President and Secretary Seward are trying to break up the republican’ party. Chase is also obliged to give way to Grant. “Salmon Chase in three months put the entire capital of the country into a bottomless tub and labelled it ‘National Debt,’ and in it were bound up honor, and fame, and national safety.” This is all that Chase gets for his letter praising the Anti-Slavery Society. Never was a Chiet Justice sold so cheaply. Even Wendell Phillips will have nothing to do with him when such a candidate as Grant is in reserve. Nor does Congress find any greater favor at the hands of this radical leader. Mr. Phillips thinks that the great fault of Congress is regard for precedents. He is opposed to precedents, He believes in negro suffrage pro- tected by a standing army. “The national sword must never be sheathed.” Congresa, too, is composed of cowards. “They dare not utter their opinions.” Congress discusses what is constitutional. Mr. Phillips and his followers “hate the word constitutional.” The mes sage which they send to Congress is, “If you ean safely remain in session be in session forever.” This may seem rather inconsistent, but ite meaning is plain. Let Congress remain in session and force the radi- cal programme upon the South “by the exer- cise of whatever despotism:” for “we have conquered the South, and have a right to trample it under our heels.” The real reconstruction policy of the radical leaders is now plain to the whole country. That policy is: universal amnesty im exchange for negro suffrage; negro representation and negro equality; the bargain to be forced apon the South at the point of the bayonet, under the war power, and Congress to remain in perpetual session until. the bargain is consum- mated. The name of General Grant as our next President is tacked on to this policy in order to give it a show of popularity and plausibility; but, as Grant is the candidate of the people, and not of any party or society, we may at once disconnect him from a pro- of which, in all probability, he knows nothing whatever. Mr. Phillips admits much concerned about the trial, as it has beem all along, but taking different views with ree gard to the matter at different times, At one time the radicals clamor for an immediate and denounce the President for not bringing on, though they well know that Mr. Johnson nothing to do with it, He is simply the cuss, todian of Davis, The judiciary, and the rad {cal Chief Justice especially, should put on his trial. If any legislation be necessary, before this can be done it is the duty of Cone gress to attend tg that. As the Executive Mr. Johnson has nothing to do but to keep Davis safely till he be tried end to carry out the law after “ all the responsibility for keeping fa a prisoner without a trial contrary the constitution, rests with the judiciary or Congress, or with both. At anothe: time the radicals oppose the trial, and denounce the President in advance for desiring to release Davis. The radical press of this city, which has been loudest in demanding an amnesty, now turns round with characteristic hypocrisy and says “Jeff Davis will be put through the ceremony of a mock trial at Norfolk, prepara- tory to a release.” The truth is these radi- cals care nothing about Jeff Davis or his trial, about depriving a man of the constitu- tional right of a speedy trial, his sufferings, iis death, or bis release, The only care they have in the matter is to make this case the means of assailing the President. They assail Mr. Johnson because Davis is not tried, and they nsswil him because it is reported Davis is going to be tried. Such is the in- consistency of these malignant and unscrapu- lons radical politicieas. According to the reports given of Mn-McOul- loch’s visit to Fortress Monroe and hie inter- view with Jeff Davis, the Secretary was im- presse? with the sufferiags of the prisener, and “will use his influence to have a milder form of treatment used im future.” President Johnsom has relaxed! the severity of Davis’ prison life ‘tom time to time as the fucts became known to him, and we doubt not he will listen to the: representations of Secretary McCulloch. In barbarous ages and among barbarous nations prisoners have been tortured before they were tified or proven to be guilty; but that is not the spirit of these times among civilized nations. Shall we, then, disgrace ourselves in the eyes of the world and! in history by torturing this man with anneces- sary severity and by long imprisonment before giving him a trial? No one believes severity necessary to keep him safely. Nor does any one imagine he could do any harm if even he were at large om his parole. If he has the dis- position to be troublesome again—nd we do not know that he has—he is not ao crazy as to suppose he could do anything, He is as powerless and as harmless as a sbild. It | is not from fear, consequenily, that we need be rigorous. As to the crime of trenson, if he be guilty, he is not more criminal than tem thousands of others. He was one of the agents or instraments, and by accident the chief one, in a vast rebellious movement that carried the entire population with it; and it it be necessary to select him as an example to vindicate the laws and integrity of the Union, let it be done without vindictiveness and in a manner becoming a great civilized people. We give the radicals notice that they can make nothing out of Davis’ case to damage the President or forward their political ob- jects. The responsibility rests with them, as well as the odium, of torturing this man in keeping him o prisoner and killing him slowly before he is proved guilty by @ proper tri- bunal. Tae Japanese HareKanr a Caxann.—We pub- lish in another column a communication from Captain Comstock with reference to the Japan , steamship built in New York and the reported suicide of the engineer, im consequence of the alleged deficiency of her construction. We are very glad to learn from Captain Comstock that there is no truth in the barkari story, inas~ much as there was no engineer sent with the vessel at all. We are also giad to know this work of American skill has proved en’ satisfactory to the Japanese government. Ibin ® source of great gratification to be assured that there is no fear of Captain Comstock commit. ting hari-kari. All danger of the coroner being required at the Astor House to sit on T. W. ia now removed, and the police may be with- drawn from room No. 11. The story of the suicide originated, is appears, with the London Times, and was no doubt prompted by jealousy of our success in ship- building. We are supplying all the world with steamships, and that is too much for Jobo Bull's pationgs, SS. eee