The New York Herald Newspaper, May 14, 1866, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. No. 134 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVEN(NG. BROADWAY street, —Mazirra, RATRE, Broadway, copostie the St. Nicholas ee THEATRE, Broadway, near Broome LLVES—-CROSSING THE CHRISTY’S—O1p, Scmoo. oF MinstRetsy, ‘&v.. Fifth Avenue Opera Hous, and 4 West Iwenty-fourta street.—Psrer Pixs, Maw Anour Towx TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSR, 201 Bowery.—Sim imu, DascinG, BURLKSQUES, &O—TuR OUTCAST OF Kile Laayer ANC ISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway, 0) ite el. Kratgrian SINGING, DaxCINGy Sem = ayo His Stari NTS' MINSTRELS, Mechantes’ Hall, 472. Brovt Bi eonaan Comicatrries, Buntxsqoes, &0.—Tux Leannxd avs ORARA. HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Eratorian Mixe BTRuLSy—BaLaps, BURLESQUES AND PaNrouiMes, NEW YORK MUSEUM RAN 'Y, 618 Broadway.— Open from 10 A.M. till un be i TRYING HALL, Irving place.—Tuxovonx Tuoxas! Grand Concent, SOMERVILLE ART GAL Wa. Braproxp's Pictuns, BERas.’ Y, 815, Broadway.—MR, “SeaueRs Ckusuep uy Ice- ‘New York, "Monday, May 14, 1866. TO ADVERTISERS. Advertisements to insure a proper classification should be brought in before hall-past eight o'clock tn the evening. THES wows. ~ EUROPE. val of the steamships Germania and City of yesterday we news from Europe tothe jay, four days later. Mr. wdstone informed the English House of Com- mons that Earl Russell did not consider the small ma- jority by which the Reform bill was voted a second read- Jng as a defeat of his ministry, that the Cabinet would not n, but, on the contrary, that he (the Chancelior of the Exchequer) would immediately introduce a new measure for the “énfranchisement of the people,” in which his plan for the redistribution of seats in the would be embodied, Mr. Brigit, M.P., fully en- By tae arr’ Paris at thi dorses the action of the government, and prophecies iis triamph in Parliament, ‘The North American fisheries and confederation ques- tious were mentioned in the House of Commons, but with no particalar result, were of a very conflicting character to the 2d of it the the tendency of tho diplomacy, as between Austria and Prussia and Italy, was, some roundabout writing, certainly in the direction of war, Heavy irmaments, milltary and naval, undertaken bo! Austria and Italy, aud on the 8d of May, situation continy ng, and that the war ns were be! ished forward vigorously. ‘The Italian fleet had sailed from Genoa, but its destina- tion w ot known. Fr remained excited, but pro- fessed un absolute neutrs nd England, as expressed by the Loudon Times, denounced the Gorman war as strenuously as ever. ian was murdered in the streets of Dublin ipt made to murder another member of the ne night it was said by Fenians, of the Fenian invasion of Campobello was reccived in England. It was gonerally ridiculed, bat evidottiy attr considerable attention. A serious financial panic enced on the London Stock Exchange April 30, extended to the Paris Bourse, pin both cities ina form more or leas se- BiThe reports from force the ‘The new day afternoon in the Mercor street Presbyterian church. Eloquent addresses were delivered by the Rev. Messrs, Smith, Hodge and Gallagher, in favor of a umon of all donomimational churches, to set out basil the work of universal ovangelization. A sermon was preached last night by the Rey. Peter Stryker on manly courage, at tho Thirty-fourth street, Dutch Reformed church. A sermon was preached by Rey, Thresham Grogg last night in 100 West Twenty-fourth street, in which he sald the Irish people will all be converted to reformed Chris- tianity this year. Judge Barnard has given his decision in the applica- tion made by trustves to sell the estate of Zeno Burn- ham, the mock auctioneer, now in State Prison. All ac- tion in the matter is suspended until after argument in the case before the general term. A little servant in Brooklyn was burned so badly yos- terday by the ignition of kerosene oil that her recovery is doubiful. Jef. Davis received the notice of the indictment against bim with indifference, His ma‘n point of defence will be based on the prerogatives granted every citizen to sustain the official action of his respective State. Henry A. Wise delivered a lecture to the people of Alexandria, Va, yesterday, in aid of an orphan asylum. In the course of his address he said that he had nover taken the test oath or oath of allegiance, and that he never would; that no power could drive him out of Old Virginia, that the country was utterly ruined, and that holders of greenbacks would find themselves out of depth before long. He said also that Confederate currency was now worthiess, Mr, Sauls- bury, of Delaware, after the ex-Goyernor was through, arose and regaled his hearers with his opinion of the radical faction in Congross. It is probable that the investigation of Goneral Stecd- man in South Carolina will disclose a state of affairs among the agents of the Freedmen’s Bureau there, simi- Jar to that discovered in Virginia and North Carolina, Our despatches from Washington stato that private in- formation is received to the efect that General Ely, the Commissioner for that State, 1s engaged in the working of five plantations on his own account, and furnishing his iaborers with government rations. By way of England we have news from South America dated at Buenos Ayres March 27 and Rio Janiero April 9. The Paraguayans had, it was said, crossed the Parana at Candelaria, driven back the allied outposts, and were advancing against the Brazilian army under Baron Alegre, The city of Buenos Ayres was visited by a most te; stormon the 19h of March, The Babia sugar market was dull. Trade was brisk in Buenos Ayres but rather unsettled in Rio, A Santiago, Chile, correspondent of the London Times States that the Usted States were shut out as a market for the purchase of yess2ls and armament for the Spanish American republics, im the war with Spain, by the nou- tral professions of the Cabinet in Washington, the ac- tivity of the consular agents of Spain, and the “mis- nagement’? of a private agent of Chile sent to New York. ‘The “business of Santa Anna in this country is not known, Senor Romero, the Minister of Mexico at Washington, has received no communication in regard to his mission, and there is no reason to believe that it is of a diplomat’e or official charactor, Mr. Romero, the Mexican Minister at Washington, has furaished Mr, Seward with another instalment of docn- ments, showing up the barbarous policy of the imperial- ists in Mexico, and charging them with the assassination ‘of Major Genoral Arteaga, A fire broke out yesterday morning in a carpenter shop in rear of No, 63 East twenty-ninth street, and destroyed the shop aud a stable, damaging portions of the adjoin- ing buildings. It ts supposed to have been the work of an incendiary. Tho loss is about $2,200, The bodies of two unknown men were found drowned near Fort Hamilton yesterday. Four buildings were destroyed by firo in Elmira on Saturday. The loss is estimated at $18,000, ue works of the Marine Dock Company and the eamer Jeanie Deans were destroyed by fire in St. Louis on Saturday night. It was the work of an incendiary. Loss $120,000, Fou” stores on Broad sircet in Bangor, Me., were do- stroyed by firo yesterday. ‘Tho loss is estimated at $25,000 or $80,000. The rece'yts {rom customs at the four principal ports of the Un'ted Plates in the week ending diay 4 were as latest The panic in London was greater than any experienced during the past nine years, Ttal an stock fell five per cent, and American securities were included in a general decline of foreign. There was a vory heavy outiow of gold from the Bank of Eng and to the Continent. don on the 3d of May at 86%; a money, United States five-twentios 63 a 6844. The Bank of England advanced its rate of interest to Joven per cent on the 3d of May. A panic prevailed in the money markets of India, and Jills gencrally unzaleable. erpgol cotton market was firmeron the 2d of May, with prices advanced one-fourth of a penny, but pn the § ant the market was easier, with a declin Jng tendency, in cons quence of the advance in the rate vf interest by the Bank of England, Bi fs were and steady, Provisions dull and downward. MISCELLANEOUS, ‘The now Excio law was generally enforced in the city yest rday, aud nearly all the liquor saloons propor were kept hermetically closed. Th aurants and eating houses, however, were open, and drove a thriving trade in dinners, bre. sand suppers, a proper adjunct of which was generaily a glass of rum, a gin cocktail, brandy smash or Catawba cobbler. Thore were, also, the same extended excursions to the rural districts of We er noticed tho preceding Sunday, where of the Excive Board do not extend. Ovor fi ty Chousand persons from the city visited Jersey. Grog and lager were freely drank until the storm came on, when tho visitors wore nearly all canght im the rain, There were a fow fights with no serious results. The arrests for infringements of the law wore eighty-six, eight of whom were females; forty seven for keeping “ny, twenty-one for intoxication, eighteen for rly conduct, One death from cholera, that of Hugh Hanratty, of ou he r Monaghan, Iroldud, oue of the employes on board the hospitat ship Fateon, eccurred sterday at the Lower Quarantine, There are now forty-nine cases on board, The Chitean ympanied by Ruperto Vergara, visited st day, The committe of investi- gation mot at headquarters at two o'clock PM. Aci being made for the com Oe moe A long programme has been drawn ¥p, aud the circles in the Manhattan district are to meet Dus ng. Kelly will be grand marshal. Ste- Juens repudiates ostentation, and will drive to the Jound accomyantod unly by the reception committee. Joe Mayor, Boards of Aldermen and Councilmen are in- atteud. ala? the inte John J. Davies, Grand Master * fof Soathera Mow York, was celebrated yester- of the organization over which he had presid- ligions ceremonies took place at St, John's lyn, and thoze peculiar to ‘tion at Greenwood Cemotery, was intorred, v. Dr Cheever delivered a sermon reh of the Puritans, n square, on the 4, an Guilt and Peril of Withholding it,” taking for his text the tenth verse of the second chapter of Have we not all one father; hath not one ust Why do we deal treacherously, every m: st his brother, by pro- faning the covenant of our fathers? The Rov. H. Stephen Tyng, Jr., proached yostorday at the Madison avenue Presbyterian church, on the occa. gion of the anniversary of the Young Men's Christian Association. In the course of his remarks the reverend gentleman gave somo siatistics of the evil Influences of this city which conspire to entrap the youth into the whirlpool of sin. Ho suggested that the Association Should establish a fraternity room in every ward in the city, which should be supplied with gymnasiums, bowl- ing alleys, facilities for chess, dominoes, &c., with Which to attract young men who might otherwise be drawn to the haunts of vice. ‘The Rov, Mr. Omley preached yesterday morning in tho Baptist church on Macdougal street. He dwelt mainly upon the subject of trae religion, and said that & food life was the best religion after all, and holiness the most convincing sermon. The Jovn stroot Methodist Fplscopal Church was Crowded yosterday to hear the Rev. Dr, Hildreth dis- @ourse on the “Divinity of Christ.’’ In the chapel of the Church of the Holy Trinity, in Madison avenuo, yesterday, the Rev. Mr. Dymond ad. Greased a largo congregation. In the afternoon Sanday @xarcises school were conducted, and devotional exercises ‘were continued in the evening Dommber The atthe ¢ “flight of Suifrage from G Un 4 conferouce of the Christian Union was held yoster, fullows:—New York, $2,253,000; Boston, $290,451 33; Philadelphia, $103,559 48; Baltimore, $60,266 24. Total receipts, $2,707,277 05. The Debate on the Post Oflice Appropri- ation Hillk—The Radical Case Against the President, The Senate on Friday voted down Mr. Trumbuil’s amendment to the Post Office Appropriation bill. This amendment was an extreme radical measure. It proposed to de- prive the President ofa power recognized as ex- clusively his since the foundation of the govern- and it proposed to do this, expressly and unbiushingly, for a party purpose. It hasbeen said that the Senate of the United States was no longer a national body, but simply a party organization—a republican caucus. And Mr. Trumbull asked the Senate to acknowledge and declare that fact by a formal vote. His amend- ment was that no person appointed to office by the President should receive pay until con- firmed by the Senate—a proposition based on the knowledge that the quarrel of Congress with the President was not one of principle, but of parly merely, and on the consequent fear that it would be influenced greatly by the party spoils, the fear that radical doctrine would lose many sdherents and the President make many supporters, if he should use the appointing power freely upon the adjourn. ment of the Senate. It was an appeal to the Senate to legislate the radical faction into con- tinued power. Mr. Trumbull virtually said to the Senate, We, the republicans, have a majority here and can vote what we please. We bave also great strength with the country, but we must all acknowledge that the power of ment, NEW YORK HERALD, it is for tho radical orators to make any clear, reasonable or respectable allegation against the reconstruction policy of the President. Here, in debate, con- tinued through several days, they havo ex- hausted ingenuity in the attempt to do this, and signally failed. What is the radical bill against the President? It is made up of three points, Mr. Johnson’s policy is not the policy of Mr. Lincoln; Mr. Johnson is false to the re- publican party; Mr. Johnson will not hang traitors, and Mr. Johnson has usurped the pre- rogative of Congress. Is it any sound allega- tion against the President that his policy is not identical with the policy ofa President to whom was never presented the that make Mr. Johnson’s labor difficult? Even the authority of the Senate cannot make such non- sense pass current with the people. What is there in the charge that Mr. Johnson will not hang traitors? Nothing but a cry on which to excite against the President the unreasoning hate of those wild fanatics who wish to erect party malice and sectional revenge into a State Policy. One Senator, with declamation as extravagant as it was contemptible, assailed the President for not hanging Jeff Davis with- out trial “in o hollow square of the army.” It is admitted that Southern traitors are the pro- periy of the Supreme Court, and while Con- gress complains that the President has usurped the prerogative of Congress is it not incon- sistent in finding fuult with him for not usurp- ing the prerogative of the Judiciary? Is ita good allegation against the President that he will not hang traitors when we all know that itis the Supreme Court that is to blame, and that the President has nothing whatever to do with it? With Congress thus assailing the President because he does not usurp the prerogative of a co-ordinate branch of the government, it is re- markable to find 1t so jealous of its own pre- rogative and charging the President with that very usurpation against itself to which it urges him as against the Supreme Court. The Presi- dent, says Senator Howard, has usurped the prerogative of Congress because he has made peace, and the argument is that he has no power .to make war—therefore no power to make peace. But he has power to make war, and, moreover, just such a wer as we have gone through. It is his duty, and therefore he has the power, to make war for the defence ot the nation with Congress not in session, and hav- ing that clear authority for war he has an equal one for peace. The armies made peace and he recognized it while Congress was not in ses- sion, and adopted necessary measures to rees- tablish the supremacy of law. The warrant for war or peace is the constitution and the laws, and the President must execute them as he finds them. Ifthey are not sufficient for the case it is the business of Congress to muke new ones. It was the first imperative duty of Con- gress to prescribe the method of reconstruction if the laws were not sufficient. Has it done so? Ts it not absurd to assaid the President for act- ing on existing laws when Congress has failed to furnish any other course? Another charge is that the — Presi- dent is false to the republican party This is a thing that any man onght to be ashamed to say in his place in the Senate, To recognize party lines, ties and programmes as govorning influences in the sphere of public duty is a crime against the people. Party may decide, according as it is strongost, which of two men shall represent a certain district In the United States Senate; but, that question once decided, party stops. The main chosen does not represent a party. He represenis the whole people of his district, and he scanda- lously abuses his position if he holds the inter- esis of those people as subordinate to party claims, This is the fundamental moral law of public station, The highest honor that could be paid to any President would be to say that he recognized no party when the public inter- est was at slake—that he was the President of the people without liaitation, especially such contemptible limitation as that of party. This last and greatest of the radical charges against the President is the keynote of the whols radical war. The course of ihe President, as itis directed to secure the good of the whole couniry, is likely to disappoint the mad ambition of that party. This charge exhibits the gigantic falsity upon which Congress siands. What is the meaning of all the bitterness aud imprecation of Stevens ?—of the insulting invective of the whole session? It is, we are told, that the President bas abandoned the principles of the republican party. We are told this, though nothing is more notorious than that it is the President who has not abandoned those prin- ciplh »8. It is hardly possible to ve so intelleetu- ally blind as not to see that it is the party that has abandoned its own principles—been guilty of that very political crime with which it now charges the President; and it makes war on | the spoils is so great and of our principles so little that a large number of our adherents in office will go dead against us rather than lose their plages. Let us therefore pass this measure to prevent the President from using the appointing power for our ruin. The Senate refused to entertain the proposi- tion—to descend into the unclean scramble of the spoil hunters—by a vote of 23 to 16. It was ashamed to declare to the country that there is so little principle in its war against the President that the spoils may decide the issue in his favor. This expression of the Senatorial sense of shame will show the radicals that they must moderate their rancor. It will show them the point they cannot pass in their waron the President ; and if Mr. Trumbull’s proposi- tion was intended as fecler to see how im- peachment would be taken, it will indicate thatthe time for that threatened measure has gone by. The tide has turned. There is reason to suppose that this was one of its purposes. The debate never once touched upon the power of the Senate to restrict a Pres- identjal prerogative, nor- on the propricty, dignity, or good policy of that body in declar- ing ® want of confidence in the Executive, though these were the legitimate points of dis- cussion on the measure; but the debate was made to take a wide range of examination into the course of the President, and especially to parade and rehearse what are deemed the strong points of the radical propaganda. If, after this rehearsal, this preliminary showing of the radical case, the Senate would have given a vote against the President, impeach- ment might have been the next step; but the moderation of the Senate has warned off that measure. This debate was made the vehicle of all that can be said against the President and may be regarded as the present radical platform. It is wonderful bow dificult the President because he has not gone with the party in its summer. The President stands to- day on the great platform of the war—that the Union is imperishable ; that no State can leave itthe great national platform of the Ameri- can people—the platform on which the repub- lican party came into power; and Congress denounces him before the country, declaring that he has abandoned the principles of the Union party, when it is only that a portion of the party has abandoned him. Thus Con- gress stands on a great falschood, and hence the weakness and pititul character of all the declarations it is able to make against the President’s policy. Hence the impregnable strength of the President's position before the people. He stands on the great platform of the nation. It is the radical faction that has abandoned that platiorm and now asaails it with the same purpose with which the South carried on the war—to secure the supremacy of a faction in the government. Tar Trrat or Jerr Davis.—The time and place for the trial of Jeff Davis are now defi- nitely fixed. He will be tried upon an idict ment for treason in the city of Richmond next month. Chief Justice Chase will preside, and Attorney General Speed will conduct the pro- secution, assisted by Judge Clifford, of Massa- chnsetts, and Wm. M. Evarts, of this city. defence is entrusted to Mr. Charles O’Conor. This trial will prove the most important and interesting perhaps that has ever occurred; certainly the most important on record in this country. It will develop many new and curi- ous points, of law, and, we trust, will settle finally all the questions ef State rights, the right of secession and the law of treason. It will undoubtedly be watched with absorbing attention by the whole community, North and South, , F That it will be fairly conducted, agg MONDAY, MAY 14, 1866, a true verdict rendered upon the evidence and the law in the case we have no reason to doubt, provided no difficulty arises in securing a jury. General Ben Ba « Plan of Recon- struction=—Negro Suffrage the Main Question. General Ben Butler, having failed with the Reconstruction Committee of Congress, has de- livered himself of his views and his plan of reconstruction before a public meeting in Bos- ton. We have already published his speech ; but as the pronunciamiento of one of the great guns of the radical camp, and as the plan of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher’s nominee for the next Presidency, it is entitled to some special attention. General Butler holds that, having in the con- quest of the lately rebellious States “acquired the title to all they possessed, of life, liberty, land, slaves, rights—constitutional and other- wise”—surely we may require them “to come and live with us under the divine law.” What this learned doctor of divinity regards as the “divine law” will presently appear. There are, he says, two plans of Southern reconstruc- tion before the country—the President's plan and the plan of Congress. He does not like the President’s plan, because there is too much charity in it; and he cannot admire the Con- gressional plan, because there is too little of charity in it, He says the President’s plan “would be a good one if ali the people in the South were loyal,” but that “those who have been fighting us for four years don’t love us, and don’t love the Union, and the fact that they have abolished slavery because they were forced to do it don’t make them love us any better; and the fact that they have been order- ed to repudiate the debts of their rebellion don’t create that ardor and affection among them which they should feel for the govern- ment.’ Hence the conclusion of General But- ler is that the abounding charity of the admin- istration toward those people is “love’s labor lost;” or, to shorten the argument of the General by a phrase of Scripture, “it is like casting pearls before swine,” which is pretty near the legal opinion of the amiable Thaddeus Stevens. The original law giver to the rebels of New Orleans then reviews the plan of Congress in all its details, and says that these terms “seem on the face well enough;” but that one is forced to exclaim on reading them through, “Where are the rest of them?” as one would say when his servant brings him his bread and coffee for breakfast, “Where are the eggs and bacon?” In other words, where are the blacks? “Where in this proposition do we find the protection of the rights of those men who have been faithful, and have fought side by side with us.” General Butler complains that Congress, in resorting to a bribe to the ruling classes of the South, is giving 4 premium to rebellion, is begging the question, and pointedly asks, “Why does the government hesitate to do justice to its colored citizens?” Moreover, he contends that if you let the rebels (or Southern whites) do all the voting they will have everything their own way. In fact at almost every point General Butler finds this plan of Congress unfair, unjust, fool- ish and impracticable. It is at best, he thinks, but a “cunning scheme to put off the whole question of reconstruction till after tho next Presidential election;” a view of the subject which we think every dispassionate, reason- ing man will say hits the nail upon the head. But what does Goneral Batler propose? What infailible panacea has this experienced inventor of patent medicines and Union wash- ing machines for the present disordered con- dition of things in the Southern States? lore itis. He proposes a constitutional amendment binding the United States, the States and the people to pay the national debt and to repu- diate all the debts of the reveliion. Then he should speak cut in plain English, “No com- pensation for emancipated slaves.” Thea he would put it into the consiitution that there shall be no such thing as property in man; and then that whites and blacks in the several | States shall be on the same footing of equality in regard to suffrage as in the matter of their civil rights. Then, by putiiag these proposi- tions and those of the joint committee of Con- gress all together, he thinks we would secure a magnificcat scheme of reconstruction, Negro suffrage, however, is the essential fea- ture of General Butler’s plan, and the barter- ing away of the negro’s rights upon the ground of expediency will be a severe trial to Senator Sumner and all that class of pro- gressive radicals. General Butler's views are valuable mainly from the fuct that he is an out- spoken representative of this class. What is to become of the scheme of the Commitice of Fifteen in the Senate, which is distasteful in its leading features to radicals and conservatives, we shall not undertake to say; but we are quite sure that something more satisfactory than this to New York and Pennsylvania will be required to keep Old Virginia and South Carolina out of the next Congress. The people meantime “will perceive, from the disagreements among all these radical doctors of reconstruction, that the safest and surest course is to fall in with the administration and its simple, practical, consistent and successful policy. The further we go beyond it the deeper we get into revo- lutionary expedients and innovations. Onur greatest danger now is not too little, but too much reconstruction. Tas Brrrisn Government ann tHe Cunarp Sreamers.—We learn that authentic informa- tion has been received at Washington that the British government has notified the Cunard Steamship Company of the termination of their mail subsidy when the present contract expires nert year. This may be all very right and proper for the British government to do with regard to British steamships, Those steamers have thrived under the fostering care of the British government until they are able literally to run alone. They have monopolized almost the entire American carrying trade, both freight and passengers. Had our government been as liveral to the Collins line when it was started te compete with the British Cunard line we would not now be placed in the humiliating position of having nearly all our transatlantic téaffic carried on under foreign flags. We are almost in as bad a condition respecting our eean steam marine at this time as we were vith regard to sailing vessels during the re- Jellion, when British-rebel privsteers merci- basly plundered and burnt American ships. fo doubt British steamship companies can now along very well withzut government assist- But it is not 0 with us. In order to fompete fully with foreign steamships in the Buropean trade we require government aid, tot im the shape of 4 bonus or subsidy, but by liberal mail contracts. It would redound much to the honor and patriotism of Congress if at the present session a special appropria- tion should be made to encourage American enterprise. Far better would it be to use the funds in the Treasury for this purpose than in squandering them upon huge and corrupt charity institutions for the benefit of a single class in any community. Satantes or Post Orrice Cierxs.—The clerks in the Post Office: of this city complain, and very justly, of being hard worked and poorly The Postmaster states that he finds it very difficult to keep his best men at all, and the danger is that he will soon be obliged to accept a lower standard of men who will not be qualified to discharge the duties properly. The labors of an employe in our Post Office are very arduous. The duties are such as should be entrusted only to competent, reliable and experienced persons. They should be liberally paid for their services. It is but just that they should receive as liberal return for their services from the government as men of the same capacity and hours of labor could re- coive in business circles, That this is not the case now any person at all conversant with the affairs of the Post Office very well knows, The salaries of the clerks in several of the other Post Offices of the country have been recently raised, but for some reason this boon is refused here where it is more needed and the labors more arduous than at any other point. There is no other Post Office in the country where the mails received and sent out compare with those of this city. The receipts are greatly in excess of all others, Notwithstanding these facts the general government exercises a penurious spirit, neither furnishes a Post Office building fit to be seen, nor pays the men in accordance with the duties performed. There is hardly an inland town in the country that cannot boast of a better Post Office than New York. Yet here the government receives the bulk of its income from the Post Office Department. There is no trouble in raising the salaries of the clerks at other places, but every attempt at an increase here, where circumstances, the business of the office and the duties of the men require, is met with a denial by some red tape official in the General Post Office at Washington. Our entire business community is interested in this matter, for their correspondence passes through the hands of these men, and it makes a very great difference whether competent men have charge ofthe mails or not. A salary should be paid that will command good men, and we would have less trouble about letters and papers. Tue Crozer Fatrvrx.—it is unfortunate for those journals which have been trying to get up a cholera panic, that we have no cholera in the city after all. Not asingle case of the genuine disease has occurred here, and the physicians say that even those cases of 4 cholera character, which are always prevalent at this season, yield more readily to medical treatment than ever before. It is not satistactorily proved that the epidemic which raged on board ship, and has now declined, was Asiatic cholera, nor that it was contagious, The probability is that the sickness arose from the crowded state of the two steamships of the line on which the disease broke out, the bad ventilation and the unwholesome food served to the steerage pas- sengers, and not from infection introduced from eny Earopean port; so that there is no necessity for any one to run away from the cily. Country people may come here, either for business or pleasure, without any danger of catching the cholera, and the landlords of coun- try hotels and boarding houses will be disap- pointed in their anticipated extortions which they were preparing for the frightened visitors from the city. Rerorm iw 7 winararn Busivess Nexp- xp.—It used to be supposed that communica- tions by telegraph would be rapid and prompt- ly delivered. That seems to be the natural idea of a telegraph or telegraphing business. Communications certainly pass with lightning speed irom station to station; they cannot be retarded by indifferent companies or lazy offi- cials in their transmission over the wires. But beyond that there is nothing done in a tele- graphic or express business-like manner. As far as our own experience goes—and we have no dowdt the press and business men generally have the same experience—we might almost as well depend upon the mail for intelligence. Latterly we have waited hours for replies to despatches that ought not to have occupied more than half an hour in coming. We have to complain especially of the telegraph be- tween this city and Washington. There is something wrong in the management. The de- spatches are either not sent promptly, or are not delivered immediately. Has the telegraph business become a monopoly, and do the com- panies believe they can treat the press and the public as they please? If so, they had better not try the patience of their customers too far. Rivalry is healthful, and it may not be long before rival telegraph companies may be started. Let the telegraph men take this bint and improve their ways. Taat Srriven Pic.—The striped pig bas be- come notorious in the history of attempts to suppress the sale of liquor. He is an animal that is put on exhibition in bar rooms and simi- lar places at times when liquor cannot be sold, and the thirsty public is invited to inspect this curious animal for six or ten cents. Each spectator is then presented with a tcddy gratis. Thus the striped pig has beeome typical of all the dodges by which men evade the laws against the sale of liquor. He seems likely to be introduced into the last crusade against ram. Superintendent Kennedy decides that the police can only interfere with dealers wher, dispensing alcoholios over the bar. There ic, g way in which ram can be sold by all lice‘ased dealers on Sunday as well as other dafs, The dealer haa ov%y to christen his bar room a restaurant, put up dozen or two of tables, with bread, cheese, chowder or aay other con- stituent part of free lunches thereon, The customer sits at the table, and to the customer thus “making a meal” the dealer can sell what liquor he chooses. flore are the words of the Superintendent's order:—“ Under no cir- cumstances, however, will the sale of liquor be Permitted at the ‘yar, but spirituous liquors, ale or beer may be furnished to any person at the meal of which he is partaking.” Ostensibly this applies onby to a restaurant, but it is obvious that all the saloons will at once become restau- rants. Onder this interpretation there ig every probability that the law will become ridiculous and a dead letter. It is useless to aitempt the evforcement of the law if such loopholes as this {nterpretation affords arg to be left open, | WASHINGTON. ‘Wasuinatom, May 13, 1866. THS PREEDMEN’S BUREAU IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Indications are that South Carolina will prove almoss as fruitful of disclosures concerning the fraudulent ope- rations of the Freedmen’s Bureau as either of the States reported upon. Private information received from that quarter states that Brigadier General Ely is running five Plantations; two of thom, he states, are on government account, for which a rental of five thousand dollars is paid, without direct authority from the government, ‘The other three farms, General Ely claims, are being worked by freedmen for their own benefit; but it has been ascertained that government rations are furnished them. General Steedman was to leave Charleston on the 18th inst. to open an Investigation among the sea islands. Some startling facts are expected. CAUCUS OF REPUBLICAN MEMBERS OF THE SENATB ON THE RECONSTRUCTION REFORT, An informal caueus, consisting of several members of the Reconstruction Committee and republicans generally of either House, met yesterday afternoon to take into consideration the probable action of the Senate on the lately reported reconstruction constitutional amond- ment. It was generally thought that the third soctiom would be stricken out and the bill returned, in which cage it was agreed that the House of Representatives would consent to the rejection of this obnoxious clause. HENRY A. WISK MAKES A SPEECH—HE WARNS HOLD- ERS OF GREENBACKS TO SELL OUT. Henry A. Wise, of Virginia, leetured last evoning im the Baptist church in Alexandria, for the benefit of the malo Orphan Asylum and Free School of that eity. The church was well filled with the leading rosidonte of the city, and the unrepentant ex-Confederate General and Governor was listened with interest an@ attention. After fully explaining the object of the meet- ing and the sad condition aud wants of the orphans he ‘went on to state the condition of the country and to edify his hearers with some of his own political views. He said the war having ended by what was called a surren- der, tho air of subjugation was now dark with ruin and putrid with the decomposing corpse of the country. The rivers of plenty were dried up and grim want stalked among the people, while crime wasrampaut. Tho coun- try was nota home, but a grave, and without the love of @ home asa foundation there could be no amor pa'ria. Tt was a grave, but to sec it ho did not look downward, for it was pot the grave of the dead but of the living. The finances vere deranged, Confederate curroncy had become worthless. Here, assuming an attitude as impressive as possible, but somewhat theatrical, the speaker, significantly shaking his index finger at the audience, exclaimed in a low tone and with peculiar omphasis,;‘‘Listen! listen to me, ye traitors!” whereypom he proceeded to edify the said traitors with his views, laconically expressed, on the subject of the national currency, intimating that the last holder of the green- backs which aro now passing so readily from hand to hand must come to grief. A little further on ho re- marked that there was no power on carth which could make him move one step trom old Virginia. Ho had made no confessions and taken no test oath, and there was no power which could make him take one. He was no traitor—that he would swear before high Heaven. Ifhe were one he would deserve to be shot. He had taken no oath of allegiance, for he was not a foreigner to bo naturalized, For two centuries his forefathers had lived in the old Commonwealth of Virginia, and thoir bones rested in her soil. This war, he said, only proved the truth of the three lines of political wisdom writtem by Williem Penn, according to whom tho form of # government was but an inferior consideration; the worst form, in good hands, being almost as good as tho best, -and the beet form in bad hands being almost as bad as the wo:at. The application he intended is sufficiently obvt- ous, He claimed to bave always had the highest regar@ for the conatitution of the United Mates, and sald that when the government of the United States called upon bim to suppress imsurrection, and on the other hand bis State called upon him to repel invasion, it was simply a com- flict of sovereignties, and he was not responsible for haw acts individually in obeying the voice of his State, ‘At the conclusion of the lecture Senator Saulsbury, of Delaware, made a speech in opposition to those whom he characterized as radicals, THE COLORADO BILL TO BE VETOED. It is expected that the President will to-morrow return to the Senate tho bill for the admission of Colorado into the Union, with tis obections thereto, It is almost certain that the requi- site two-thirds vote to pass it over his voto cannot be obtained. It is known that Senators Sumner, Fes- sonden and Grimes will vote to sustain the President, ‘The first two opposed the schemo from the start upom constitational grounds, while the latter will oppose it be- cause it is said it will interfere with his pet project for @ Union Pacific line. GYMNASTIC PERFORMANCES BY THR COLORADO SENATORS. Some exhibitions of ground and lofty tumbling are likely to be soon given by the Senators elect from Colorado, Thoy were greatly surprised at their first re- jection by the Senate, and have been bargaining with the radical members of that body for their admission ever since, as their troubles are at present likely to come from another quarter. They, are reported to be endeavoring to play fast and loose with the President in the hope of inducing him to sigm the bill, They, however, deny the imputation, and say that their call upon the President was simply to prevent such facts and documents as show the population, sub- stantial wealth and permanent prosperity of eager and had no reference whatever to politics, THE NEW COLLECTOR TO BE INSTALLED AT once. | Mr. Henry A. Smythe, the new Collector for the port of New York, filed his bonds with the government yes- terday and returned to Now York this evening. He will enter at once upon the discharge of Lis duties, J. Davies, Grand Master i. O. of O. F. All that was mortal of the late John J. Davies, Gran 4’ Master I, 0. of 0. F. of the Southern District of Naw York, was yesterday consigned to the dust. The de. ceased was sixty-six years of age at the time of his ¢ math, which took place on the sth inst., from congestior , of the lungs, after an iliness of ouly one week. At th’, time of his death he occupied a position in the Cor sptrolior’s office, and was widely known and universal!’ y respected. For the last twenty-six years he bas be en connected with the Odd Fellows’ organization, b’ gying been for many years Grand Secretary, and since, August last had filled with honor to himself and ber ft to the brother- hood the responsible position of G’ and Master of South- ern New York. Resolutions of © gepect and condolence have been unanimously adop 4 by the Grand Lodge, and also by the members of tr inance the Compirolier’s ofce, wh i ce ve be tae on and presented tow #& widow and family of the yesterday and was attended by porate of Your topes ad” of four ‘ad’ mombers of the organization to which he had #0 lor ¢ pelon, Tho followin were all represented f~ the fooorad corte a0 5 Ss JOUNTY—-DISTRICT NO. 9. —o ",; Pembroke, 261; Peoific, 86; Asto- KIN e COUNTY—DISTRICT NO. 3, Wiltiam Tell, 347; Mount Ararat,§ 306: Brooklyn, * 4, ig Rms 30; Aliantio, 0; Magnolia, 168; oa. ae Montauk, 427; Frimcipte, 370) Steuben, mb fj The Woods, 24a; Pra lin, 438; Frank oa jumbia, ity’, National, } ropol 8?,; Marion, 34; Concordé, 43; Hancoe! i, Matropstien, ‘Zupire, 64; Diamond, 140; Lg A Kuickertogker, +i Olive Brat ay Sinceritie, 233; Ocean, 32a; Polar Star, 940; Now York ‘Degree Lodge, L Picton 243; : eae it many years, and stron; sha eeteeta 1S whi whieh the deceased had ree e wvor ait the codin was US 0S. 22 ee rower eww resrrewe wwe er eee 245 ant