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1 ef all kinds, and I hope time will never come ‘when it will not be practised. What I gather from the @peech of my ho, ge onorable friend is this—that the weal and principal question witt re; to the order and manner of proceeding on these bills will be determined coven the second reading ef the bill and the com- ty r mind, hardly ng in saying that I will to-night propose to read bill for the redistribution of scala a second time on (Hear, hear.) I will the Franchise bili till that Ighall have felt not justified in the but that I even could not, with propriety or decency, ave taken any other course, knowing as I did, and us all my colleagues did, that honorable gentlemen were wishing to learn the nature of our proposals with regard fo redistribution, I could not possibly form my own Judgment as to the course they desired us to pursue with vo and I could not at the present time them give inal indication of what they desired ‘ing that part of the question. If, however, the t honorable gentleman thinks that’ because I inti- mated that desire of learning the wishes of ble, gentiemen, and showed delerence to the House in re- Spect to this question, it may be inferred that the govern- ment has altered its mind and abated something of its determination in regard to the main issues involved in the measure, I hope a very short time will be suilicient fo undeceive him. (Hear, hear:) The American Navy. & MEW ENGLISH ESTIMATE OF THE UNITED STATES From the London Army aid Navy Gazette, May 5 0 lon Army and Navy fay 5. “The man who would send « ship's com: ? mis pa em board a monitor ought to be tried for wilful murder ‘when they go down in her.”’ {Such was the pinion of @ very inguished officer her Majesty's navy, ex- before a number of professional people, of whom majority with him, not many months ago. Bueb, indeed, may be raid to have been, in general terms, the result of ie opinion held respecting the menitors and their sea: iness by the great mass of ‘those who thought at all about the matter, The leading Siics” controversy on tho turror prscipig; have afwaye ‘ontroversy on the turret principle, have always held that it was © problem whether mouiters could make @ea voyages, or were fitfor aught but harbor defence. Whatever may be said about the claims of Americans to eriginality in the matter of turrets and iron-clads, there ean be no doubdt at all that the: built a seagoing monitor, ‘one, too, of the most character, A ‘weasel which has navigated the Atlantic at the entrance fo the Gulf of Mexi which has coasted the eastern shores of South erica in spring time, and, ly, bas gone round the Horn in rough weather fm the’ worst period of the yoar, and got her work to the perfect satisfaction of her officers and op @ seagoing craft of the most complete adaptation ve business of seagoing in any part of the globe. Bat when we knew that this vessel, though only fifteen fmches above the water level, carries the guns in ‘the world, and throws 480 1b. shot with a 601b. charge of Powder, we must admit #he is at least worthy of con- siderable attention from any maritime people, and de- the serious thoughts of any government inter. emerged ested in me] rape the Americans bossa oo @ war ‘most practical character. ve rifled ordnance; we say they did so becaate’ they eeuld not make them, but the Amvricans aver that large @ast-iron smooth bore guns are preferable to our built up erdoance, and assert that we cannot make and therefore , them, Now, in all this they may be wrong, there can be no question that they Nap demon- @trated the possibility of putting the heaviest guns in ‘the world on board a floating carriage which can take ‘as to the possibility of building a sea- There will be no laurels now for Captain Coles, or the Naval Constructor, or any one else, demonstration of that which ‘has been proved already. At least, we suppose so, Tho whole story can- mot be a myth. e The Exodus from Wates. ALLEGED UNFAVORABLE REPORTS FROM THE WELSH From 'the London ‘Times, Nay 1 m the lon Times, May 7. Last year a vast number of colliers and Saitek ‘with their wives and families, emigrated from the mining Matrict of South Wales to America—in fact, the exodus ‘Was 80 great that it was with difficulty many of the works could be kept fully and regularly going. At the Segening of the present spring a similar movement | on the district; and in consequence of the numbers ‘that broke up their homes for the purpose of emigrating World fears began to be entertained that the ogg ee ier iron Legge and me berthed: more es- peciall tter, wou! again seriously Interiered ‘with. Several letters, however, have lately been received from those who went out last year, giving a most de- plorable picture of the state of things in the United and warning those at home to stay where they are well off. This has had the effect of materially checking the emigration movement, and most of those who were making preparation; to take their departure have changed their minds and have determined to remain in the country, being at last convinced that a moderate rate of wages and rezular employment are to be proferred to the uncertain result of emigration to the States, monitor, Bt ki The Euro) Steamships. SAILING OF THE CUBA FOR BOSTON, Hauvax, May 22, 1866, ‘The Caba sailed at half-past ten o'clock last night for Boston, where she will be due on Wednesday morning. THE OUTWARD MAILS BY THE CHINA. Bowtox, May 22, 1866. ‘The mails per the steamship Ching, for Liverpool via lalifax, will close at twelve o'clock noon to-morrow, (Wednesday), but sho wil not sail until about two o'clock: Action Against Alleged Libel, COMMON PLEAS—TRIAL TERM. Before Judge Brady. Brugh Minnick vs. Moses S. Beach.—This action was brought against the proprietor of the Sun for the publi- tation of the following Twerrrnest Wi Yesterday Sergeant of the Twenty-first precinet, arrested Hugh Minnick wh 0 ik given ax Johnson, both of one nam hin were Menthe an thieves who’ toe mesma bine Gravelled with the Twenty-first ward gang. Judge Kelly com. Mitted the prisoners in default of $2,000 bail. ‘The plaintiff laid his damages at $3,000. The publi- ation was admitted by the defendant, but excused. On the trial the plaintiff himsclt Was placed on the stand and testified to the facts and to bis damages, On the @rom-examination it apneared that he had been arrested the time of the report and held to bail, but did not See what for; ho had not to his knowledge been ever Qed on that charge, unless it was while he was in Ire. land; he been there since the suit commenced; had received any offers of retraction from the to uses; did not know when was commenced ; never had any interviews them at the Sun building; Mahan at tho engine house i to tentify to his character, Ed employed htm as a for honesty and industry was connected wi and his in. ~ No. 12; he used an | = y IpiF ij it iH My ut Hi a Pay te 335°8 vu re fe i siti i i i | : ; i The locomotive attached eepnie passen- ‘train, which left thin ty fer New foe half-past Sons Sets Sensis py And hi ton mien before the avi tent rm wes found to be broken in two con end his ett tere terrible Ly the “head, wae | to where medical attendance 7 NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1866.—TRIPLE SHEET. FREEDMEN'S BUREAU. General Steedman Among the Sea Islands, Heartless Oppressions by New Eng- land Speculators, The Landed Negroes Destitute and Starving. Arrival of the Commissioners at Savannah. MEETING OF THE’ CITIZENS. 4 Oolored Conference on the Situation. &e, &e. ae, Our Sea Islands Correspo e. Porr Royat, 8. C., May 17, 1866. Leaving battered old Sumter on the left we crossed the Ashby river on Sunday afternoon last in the steamship St. Helena, and passed through the Stono river into the strangely narrow and serpentine channels, which afford to the Sea Islands their communication with the outer world. Slimy alligators crawled along the bayous, and regarded with the most supreme indifference the balf- dozen pistol balls we now and then showered upon them. In the swampy brakes we occasionally heard the noise of the rattlesnake. Indeed, snakes of all descriptions abound on the islands, and one planter told me that on his farm, which had been two years uncultivated, he had turned up at least five thousand during the last five months, Tho natives, however, give them the charactor, as well as the alligators, of being harmless to man, if not molested, and accordingly leave them severely alone, The waters aro as full of strange productions as the land. One lady of the party threw ina fish line in the modest hope of securing a whiting and caught a fine young shark, which was safely hauled on board. Tho negroes themselves are the strangest production of all. Tn dress and appearance they are a caricature of the cari- cature negro of George Christy's troupe, and their din. lect i# an unintelligible patois, in which traces of the French accent of tbe original Huguenot settlers are ap- parent, ‘THR SEA ISLANDS are fifteen or twenty in number, and range in extent from two’ thousand acres to one hun- dred thousand. A large proportion of thix area, though it includes somo of the finest cot- ton growing land in the world, is still undeveloped. Some of the old planters were strangely ignorant of the value of their possessions. One man I heard of on ‘the main land, who has recently sold, for a dollar an acre, toa Northern company, fifty thousand acres of magnificent timber land which he had held idle for forty years, The company have constructed a railway to the river, are erecting sawrills, and will met at least two million dollars By their bargain, CONDITION OF AFFAIRS, Generals Steedman and Fullerton, in pursuing the in- vestigation, with the officers of the Freedmen’s Burean, which they are conducting with #0 much impartiality, industry and ability, have visited Wadmalaw, Edisto, Jehossie, Port Royal and Hilton Head islands. They have personally inspected the condition of the freedmen teach of those points, and I believe have found a far more favorable state of affairs than they had been led to ‘expect. They discovered abundant evidences that in the past the freedmen had been grossly robbed and ill treated, and that some men must have made a large amount of money in this cruel and dishonest manner; but the tracks have been pretty well covered up, and under the present administration of brevet Major General Scott, Assistant Commissioner of the Freedmen’s Bureau for the State, and his subordinates, Major Cornelius «and Lieutenants Everson and Power, matters are progressing as satisfactorily as could be expected in a community recently in a state approaching almost to chaos. General Scott in fact is discharging his onerous duties honestly and faithfully, and has summa. rity disposed of every agent of the Bureau against whom any charge of peculation or frand was established. GENERAL STERMAN'S ORDERS, The exceptional condition of the Sea Islands is attri- butable to the orders which General Sherman issued after his occupation of Savannah, in January, 1865, set- ting apart the islands from Charleston south for thirty miles back from the sea for the settlement of negroes made free by acts of war and by the emancipation pro- clamation. This was dono for a double purpose, mainly to get rid of tho great incubus of contrabands, who were following bis army and eating up hie commiseary, but in part also to punish the people of the State where the rebellion was conceived and cradled. In pureaance of this order General 0. 0. Howard, Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau, directed that allotments shouid be made in the Sea Islands to all freedmen who applied for thom, and Brigadier General Saxton entered upon this duty. From the beginning the terms of General Sher- man’s order were disregarded. Sherman required that there should be an accurate measurement of the aliot- ment and an actual settlement. Hundreds of orders were inued to negroes who never in- tended to settle and never have settied on the islands, but have pasged over their orders, though non- transforable, to other persons. The méarurement of the allotments also was never properly carried out, ast mentioned in a previous letter, rome of the “forty acres” were found to be only three anda half and some four hundred and fifty acres in extent. Thus early in the his tory of the echemo frands and rascalities of every de- scription were perpetrated, and were continued down to the end of Genoral Saxton's iqore and inefficient admin- istration. As to how far the subordinate agents of the Boreau were implicated im those frauds there are no ‘means of judging, a* Genera! Saxton on resigning charee of affairs took with him every book and serap of paper relating to the business of the Bureau. STRAIGHTENING MATTERS CY. For some tite past the Bureau and militery aathori ties here have been engaged in setting matters straight; and though in South Carolina these rival powers pull to. gether likea balky team, yet in a desultory, accidental way they bave each done @ good deal of good. A thorough in- ‘Sestigation of the land certificates issued under Sherman # order has been ordered, aad a large proportion of there certificates, for reasons above given, have been decided to be valuelews All the plantations on which there are no valid certificates have been returned to their former owners, and thove on which there are only a few have been returned, rubject to the certifidates, There ‘will still remain, ag far ax has been ascertained, about two hundred certificates deemed valid, encumbering about twenty plantations on Wadmalaw, F:listo, Johns and James isiends. These twenty plantation« will also be restored in ® short time, subject of course to the land certificates upon them being respected. Of the original settiors, few except these two bandred remain om the islands; the rest have moved back into Georgia, whence they came SUMNER OF FRERDMEN, Tt is ertimated that there aro now about 25,000 freed men on the Sa Islands, namely: from three to four thousand on Edisto, fifteen hundred om Wadmalaw, two thoneand on Johns, two thousand on James, four thou- sand on Port Royal, five thonsand on St. Helena, and the ‘valance on the staailer islands. THR CONDITION i not prosperous. The experiment of making the negro & planter on his own account hae failed ae signally wa hundred other experiments with the negro have failed. Thore who had land orders last year, and were in « posl- tion to grow twenty or thirty acres of cotton for them- selves bave this year not @ cent to bless themselves with, and have been living on charity all the winter A planter on Edisto Island aarured me that every morning from « hundred to s hundred and fifty former owners of these certificates—(‘‘tifities’ the negroes generally call them, bot one darkey called them ‘‘stiffnenes”)—come to him begging for food or work. In the first place they one only. In fact, the experience of the Sea Irlands is that the freedmen, treated, make excellent Jaborers, and will nae ade on shares, but fail as ‘mnasters, Ono of thé most prominent vestiges of slavery is tho Old World system of farming that here is, The land, instead of being turned up with the piongh, Js laboriously “listed” with the hoe, To pre} ploughs, but under we old regimd an o y Frc k slow-coach mote re roku yao yd ms ndance of labor 6 spring and summer months fora auperabu! which in the fall, when cotton picking commenced, was no @ superabundance, There was a recognized axiom among the planters that one man could only or as much cotton as one man could plant with the hoe. jh would plant six times as much as ick, the surplus cotton would spoil in the fields for ‘of labor. It never seems to have occurred to them to keep a surplusage of labor on hand for the icking season by employing the negroes in the interim in cultivating corn or — and in felling the thou- sands of acres of timber lying close to water carriage and yet unused, or in arrest the much needed work of rai or irrigation. chivalry of South Carolina wore a gentlemanly, easy-going set, who cultivated their ae as their fathers had done before them, one- alf one year and one-half the next, ao as to give the land a rest, and who troubled themselves little with modern notions about a rotation of crops or the economy of labor. Almost the only plough I have seen in the Sea Islands has been introduced since the war by a free negro named Bram, who has made money by hotel keep- Ing in Charleston and at the North, and is now cultivating several plantations on Edisto Isiand with conziderable wccers, NEW IDRA2. With the snbstitution of free for slave labor the plant. ers of South Carotina have awakened to the conselousneas that a now order of things has been inangurated, ‘they begin to see that the vast tracts of fert le land now lying waste or in timber must be made available; that the old fogy system of farming which their fathers followed and which slavery rendered almost necessary has passed away. They did not quite understand this early in the year when they made their contracts with the negroes, and made there contracts as stringent as possible; bat thoy are gradually coming to understand it now, an are disposed to treat their laborers much more liberaily than at first, soas to have them all together ne: ar in order to begin work in earnest, They are even talking of introducing manufactures, I heard one leading plan- ter in Charleston speak with shame of the fact that not half a dozen mills were turned by the magoificent water power of South Carolina, second to none in the country, and be looked ferward hopefully to the time when the Palmetto State should rival Massachusetts as a manufac- turing ‘community. I hardly share bis anticipations, sult have hopes that much may be done even for South se Hy 9 ‘the newborn energy of her sons. They will have little aid from the Northern men who have eflected a lodgment among them. The aim of there gentry, with a fow slig! i make as much money a6 time and then abandon intry to its fate, In nine cases out of ten where we have come across a plantation poorly cultivated, the negroes hardly worked and wis- erably fed, that plantation has been leased for a year or two by a man from Massachusetts. NORTHERN OPPRESSION, We met with a marked case of this kind on Wadmalaw Island. Driving over @ plantation we halted at tore, round which a group of forty or fifty squalid negroes" were gathered, receiving their day’ wages. There were no contracts On this farm, The hands wero engaged from day to day at fifty centsa “task.” The storekeever was paying them when we came up, and was giving them, not money, but tickets for provisions. He explained that ho often had no money wherewith to pay them, so he gave them their earnings in goods, We inquired the pricen at which the stores were sold. We found that corn, which sells in Charleston market at a dollar and thirty cents a bushel, and is worth in Wadmalaw Island, with transportation added, certainly lesa than a dollar and fifty cents, was being doled out to them at three dollars a bushel. Twenty-five cents was charged for a package containing twenty-two biscuits, such as inight be bought in New York three for a cent, and everything elve war in like proportion. Should there be anything still due to tho negroes, after they had purchased the necessary meal and bacon, there were beads and cheap jewelry—sure to attract the negro’s eye—displayed in the store to absorb the bal ance of his earnings. Thus, while they were ay parently paid fair wages for thelr work, more than haif their earnings were every day taken back from them in the shape of profit on the goods in which they were paid in lieu of money. General Steedman asked who leased the plantation. He was told Mr. Underwood, of Beston. ‘This Mr. Underwood does not reside on the plantation. It ts managed by his storekecper (also a Northerner), assistance of a rosident, to whom five hundred ear is part for his advice, The poor creatnres employed on the farm gathered round General Steed- man in a body and bitterly complained that their day's work barely snfliced to provide for them more than their day's provisions, It was evident that as things are go- ing on when winter comes they will be left peunitess and starving. On Edicto Island we came across © similar case, in which another Northerner was invol Some negroes commenced the cultivation of an unoceupied plantation. Tn March last up came a New York Dutchman and told them he had leased the farin, anil they must contract with him. They replied, reasonahiy enough, that if he desired to coniract with them he ought to have done so in January, before they hod commenced to lay down their crops, The ian went away, and the freedmen resumed their work and toiled early and Iate for their own benefit, at they supposed, A day or two since, when they were hoeing thelr cotton and when any ceseation of labor would destroy all their prospects, up came this same Dutchman, bringing with bim six or seven negro soldiers, and ‘compelled the freedmen, at the point of the bayonet, to sign « contract to give him one-third of their cotton ‘and pay him an exorbitant rent ey lived. The contract signe the Dutchman went away, leaving them no copy of 2 document, and giving them no proof that the pl aatatio had ¢y, eh Testored to its former owner or that he bed fendi FOR THR PCTORE. Notwithstanding al! these drawbeoks, I eee good reason for hopeful anticipations for the future. I do not base these hopes upon the growing feeling of kind which here, as in every other place we have Visited, prevails between the planters and the freed men, but upon the laws of suppl 1 demay now for the first time allowed fail p market of the South, unhampered by the domestic in. stitution. The negro is no longer a hama: le of voluntary movement, as he beginning to bee this fact, and to os in South Carolina he con will be better treated) The bere derstand that if move elsewhere, vast, fertile and virgin valley of the Mixssip; any wan of energy cau take a plantation, and paying his Jaborers thirty dollars a month than a > Carolina planter can do, even though he pay bis will be a better sheet anch philanthropy of the North the wholesome competition thus estabtished necessity benefit all concerned, both employer ved. It is in this respect that the Freedmea s Boreas, however well administered, by fostering a feeling on the part of the blacks, and crystallizing thi in unmanageable numbers round particular spots, does incalculable injury to both planters and freedmen, and retards the settlement of the labor question of the South on the only sound basis for labor, North or South, namely the great and immu table laws of supply and der Correspondence. Savawwan, Ga, May 19, 1466. With the Sea Iniands Generals Steedman and Failer- ton closed their investigation #0 far an South Carolina is concerned, and are now inquiring into matters in the State of Georgia, over which department General Steed. man himself has wilitary command, The Commianion- ore are pursuing the same course here which they bave followed sleewhere. They invite the opinions of al! classes, Unionists, secessionists, officers of the military and of the Bureau, poor whites and blacks, and refuse access to 00 one who comes before them wilh information to give, I have seen it stated that in Virginia General Steedman refused to listen to any Union men not prejadiced against the Burean. This is part of the syetem of murrepresentation (not to use @ stronger term) which the radical press of the North have persistently pursued with regard to their pet instifution, and by which pubic opinion has been too long misled, but will be so no longer. So far from the commiarioners refustug to bear Union men, they have gone out of their way to (golicit and obtain their opinions, and at Kir) mond, Norfolk, Lynchburg and elsewhere large delega- tious of Union men had lengthy interviews with them. At Richmond one of the most prominent Unionists (Mr Warner, I think) stated publicly that Generals Steedmae and Fullerton were the first impartial commissioners they had had among them, not even excepting Cari sebure. At Newbern, Norfolk and elsewhere the commissioners hare beid large meetings of freedmen, in order to elicit their viows aa well as those of their employers. In fact itis imporsible to imagine an inquiry conducted with creator impartiality of © more sincere and apparent de wire to eteit troth than this investigation has been MEETING OF crruesn. Last evening s large number of the beading citizens of Savannah met at the Pulaski Hoos, where General ‘Steedman is staying (and whieh, with the Mille House at Charleston, te one of the few hotels in the South conduct- ed with something like Northern enterprise and success), to confer with the government commisrioners. The feel- Our Savanni get the labor we require? White labor will not do; Coolie labor will not do, We must bave them. f mention these things to show you that it is our interest as well ag our inclination to cultivate the kindest relations with the black race. I have no personal knowledge of the Bureaa. I can only speak of what I hear the negroes say. ¥ opie knoe thee in January last my old negroes, as well as those of m: neighbors, were willing and anxfous to contract wit me, but there came an agent of the Bureau among them and said, ‘Don’t contract yet, The government will provide for you; Congress. ts going to give you land, and is taking steps for that pur now.’ eo result 48 that instead of each of ua having our four or five hun- dred acres of rice planted, we none of ua bave more than from fifty to a hundred or at most a hundred and fifty, It is interference such as this that divides us, aud produces the only antagonism that oxista The Freedmon’s Bureau in my opinion has done more to pri vent a cordial, kindly feeling of mutual dependence and confidence growing up between blacks and whites than any other agency, aud nothing could be more happy for the State of Georgia and for the people, white and black, ‘than to be left to regulate our own affairs,’ CONVENTION OF COLORED CHURCHRA, There Is « convention of the colored churches of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, im sesmon here, presided over by Bishop Payne, of the African Methodist Episcopal church, @ Southern born mulatto, The Rey. W. Winn, one of the leading clergymen of Savannah, has given to General Steedman the most favorable account of their deliberations, stating that the kindliest feeling prevails and that they have passed reso- lutions airing that if they were left alone they could get along with fie people of the South with the utmost jony, and condemning in strong terms the radical action of some of the Northern churches, NEWS FROM CENTRAL AMERICA. Organization of the “National Jury” in Nicaragua-The New Colombian Cabi- not—Tangible Results of General Mos- quera’s Visit to Europe—The Liberal Party Still Divided—Arrival of the Scientific Commissioner of the Smith- sonian Institute in G temala, de. NICARAGUA, The Intest dates aro to the 28th of March, On the &th the “National Jury’? was organized at Managua, the capital, in virtue of article sevem of the constitution. Tho Legislature had ratified the commercial treaty cou- eluded with Honduras, and the President declared its having passed as alaw of the republic, Congress closed the sittings on the 16th, and the extraordinary session was to commence on the 19th, GUATEMALA. Dates are to the 28d of Marci, ‘The exports in Feb- Tuary, from the Vacifle ports, amounted in value to $89,083, Dr. Berondet had arrived at Flores, sent ont on a scientific mission to Guatemala by the Smithsonian In- stitute, He was to go direct to Peten, where he ts to re. main till next pear—probably ull Jano—having much scientific matter for his investigation, including physi- cal geography, natural history and archeology, The eulire republic was wt peace. NEW GRANADA. News from the capital was received at Aspinwall to the Sist of March. The first Designado, Senor Jose M. Lajas Garrido, had taken charge of the ‘Executive, The Car thagena papers state that the cabinet had been formed as follows :—Cerbeleon Pinzon, Secretary for the In- wrior and Foreign Relations; Prospero Pereira Gamtn, Finance and Public Works; General Acevedo, War and Navy. No election had yet been made for the Treasury. General Mosquera had concluded a commercial treaty and @ postal arrangement with England, while there in February; he had als» come to an understanding with the Holy see, maintaining the separation of church and state, ‘The seasions continned occupied with the opening of the s. Martha road and the opening of an inter-oveanic canal The Senate refused to make a fedoral district of Bo- The two factions of the liberal party were still com bating each other through their respective organs—tho Tiempo and the Union. The former makes a most severe attack on the past administration of Dr. Murillo, while the other defends it, and especially so their conduct towards the allied governments of Chile and Peru, and the Peru vian Minister, Colonel Freire, whom he refused wo recognize. The General Transatiantic Company has been exempted from the payment of all tonnage dues in any of the ports of the republic. General Mosinera was expected tn Cart and after making a short stay thero was to start for Aspin- wall, where he would probably arrive on the 3d of April; a guard of honor of one hundred and fifty men was to accompany him, under the command of Geueral Lopes, ST, DOMINGO AND HAYTI. Defeat of the Haytiens by the Domint- cans—President Baez, of St. Domingo. Orders All Prisoners of War and Con- spirators to be Executed—Another Rev- olution in Haytt. OUR HAVANA CORRESPONDENCE. Havana, May 16, 1806 Ry the arrival of the steamer Mocternina and the mail from St. Jago de Cuba I am enabled to transmit the fol lowing news :-— #7. rowrco. A Sonnish smack which arrived at St. Jago on the Sth inst., from Puerto Plata, has brought more cheering ac- counts from said port, where there wero eevon veisels at anchor, The market was gradually improving. President Hace was parsing sentence of death on all prisoners of war and conspirators (uat were captured by his men. The Haytions had boon defeated by the troops of Maer. In the course of the last month a strang: 4 novel incident occurred in the capital, which will amuse your readers, Tt appears that ata tall lately given there the Governor of the city entered the enloon on horseback, and just when an enemy of his fired « revolver at him, the horse, rateing up his hew! eived the co falling dead im the middl von. The ans was Daried next day with a military band and honors. MAYTE By the same conveyance we learn that another revoln- tion had been plotted, President Geifrard bad no cont dence in bis t *. A story was afloat about a sailor belonging to a British mer, who was badly treated by some natives jeffrard bad given him money and offered inderunity to the Britith Consul to husk up the gocurrence and a) oid 2 bombardment Sale of Corpor The sale Of real estate, the property of the Corpor of the city of New York, wa resumed yesterday by Mees, E. H. Ludlow & Co. in the Exebange ealesroom on Broadway. The attendance was not quite so nume- rows as on the previous day, but the desire to imvest capital in real estate bad not undergone any abatement, The competition was active and exciting and the vaiue realized for each lot might be regarded as a fancy rate of purchase, A few lols were estimated as beneath the standard of the prices which ruled on Monday, bat npom the entire proceedings of the day the value obtained waa fully equal to the prevailing figures realized on that day. The property was disposed of in the following order — Plot in Fifty-seventh street, between Lexington and Third avenues These and the f trivint five fev > Piot on Pitty-inth Lat i skeen S335583 oF 8 E8EE88 a $3 = ooeah sn! s3223 $3 S858F s5s west coin é eaas SUPREME COURT chaunuas. Betere Judge Barnard. Mat 22 —Angeline U. Tit om, teference tm this cane in overt, ond the tral wil © morrow ) morning at ten on of Mr. a James, co nent for plainud, the that he would mt ach oon. anti the case ere Com CUBAN INDEPENDENCE. rtant Revelations Regard'ng Re- volutionary Schemes in Cuba. Plans of the South American Allies to Carry the War Home to Spain, AN INVASION OF CUBA PROPOSED, The Native Cubans Anxious to Receive the Allies. ke. ke. ‘The euccons which has attended tho allied republics of South America against their old enemy and oppressor, Spain, has inspired the West India and South American colonies of that Power with a desire to be freed from her yoke, and wo are reliably informed of very formida. ble preparations for revolt, resistance and revolution. The defeat of the Spanish feet at Callao, its probable an- nihilation should it meet the Huesear and Independen- cia, or its abandonment of tha contest should it escape thom, will still further encourage these colonies to prompt action, and the now smouldering fires of revolu- tion may break out at any moment, GROWING STRENGTH OF SOUTH PACIFIC RE Pun The alliance of the South Pacific const States has grown In strength from the moment that the Chileans raised the standard of opposition to Spanish aggression, and now numbers the formidable republics of Pera, Boll- via, Ecuador and Chile. Strong efforts have been for some time making to still further strengthen this alli ance; and Venezuela and Colombia have been invited to Join in tho work of destroying Spanish influence and power in America, The Chilean Minister to those States, Senor Matta, has been endeavoring to draw thom into this alliance; but, thoagh not successful so far, itis more than probable that he will eventually succeed. With an immense coast frontier it can be well under. stood that, in view of the threatening proximity of the once formidable Spanish fleet of Admiral Nufez, these States would be reluctant to enter into an alhance which woold call down immediate v upon ther. But the Spanish fleet is now destroyed, or at least disabled, and they have nothing to fear, but everything to hope, from an alliance with States which have proved themselves auch formidable and it may be such dangerous neighbors. Senor Matta has left Vene- aueia and gone to Colombia, and will at the capital meet with the new and enterprising President, General Mow quera, who bas just landed in his republic, fresh from Europe, with two strong and formidable iron-clad ves sels, Senor Matta will, doubtless, under tho changed as pect of affairs, meet with better success in Colombia than in Venezuela, PLAN FOR INVADING CUBA. ‘The purpose of Chile and her allies in endeavoring to draw these States into an alliance against Spain iv not merely for defence or instigated through timidity, The proposed alliance is for the purpose of offensive move: ments, inspired by hatred and revenge, and it is planned for the purpose of gaining a base for operations on the north coast of South America, in order to ald Cuba and Porto Rico in throwing off the opprosive yoke of the mother country. Either Venezuela or Colombia furniches euch a base, and if drawn into this alliance, as no doubt the latter will be, we shail soon hear of the fitting out at her main ports of formidable expeditions in- tended to operate in Spanish waters and against Spanish cole The presont alliance, it must be remembered, ix already a most formidable power, can and aw fleet of most formidable strength, and armies only sur- pawed in numbers by thove in existence during the late war in this country, armed and equipped in the best style; and with a footis Colombia or afloat on the Caribbean Sea or Atlantis an would hardly be inferior to any flotilla of force that Spain could possibly ‘muster THR CUBANS READY TO WELCOME THE ALLIES Sub an aggressive movement these allied republics seriously contemplate, and not without reason nor with out earnest invitation from the people of Cuba and Porto Rico, Revolution bar loug been rife in Cuba; it burns fe. ance With suppressed tury at (bis moment, and is, we are well anwured, on the eve of m general Preaking out. The revolutionary movement in Guba + Spain began away back in 1823, and was inaplred by thy succom of the South American colonies in’ gaining the'r independ- ence. But unfortunately in Cuba the people were not ‘Two races way be said to have existed —nalive Spaniards, commanding uearly all the wealth and holding all the power, and the native Cabans, superior only in erial and resources: thing to make it appear that it had nothing to do with polities, and only @ contemptible riot of drunken young men: but three months have elapsed since it took place, and Messrs. Rodriguez, Lopez, Guerre, Bovell, of the principals, are still in prisom, and there is @ re; that they were secretly shot. The revolutionists are working withont rest to get rid of thelr opprossory, and having, ax they have, the sym, Pally and aid of the South American republics in was With Spain, and also that of (ye people of this country, despite Mr. Seward'e oppoMtion w the Monroe doc: tring, they cannot fail, this time, in obtaining the inde. pendence which they have been ‘struggling for, and for which they made eo many sacrifices. The Approaching Departure of Captain G Dulee—A Philo-Caban News- paper to be Start im Madrid—Dis- covery of Im se Deposits of Guano in Cuba—The Tobacco 4 Petroleum 4 Commercial By the arrival of the steamer Cuba, Captain Rollins, ‘at Baltimore, on the 2lat, we have dates from Havana to the 16th inat, Our thanks are due to the parser of the Cuba for Prompt delivery of our despatches. OUR HAVANA CORRESPONDENCE. Havana, May 16, 1866. A great discovery has been made in this island, likely to prove another clement of great wealth to whoever wishes to go into the enterprise, Tallide to that val able commodity, guano, Several caves have been dix covered in the course of this year, which arc completely giutted with the article and must have been accumu- lating from time (mmemoral, It cousists of the excre- ment of bats, which swarm inwuch extraordinary bers that it is all but impossible to approach the caves General Lersundi has written to General Dulce, request. ing him to prolong his stay until the arrival of the Navas do Tolosa, aa he wishes to have woe consultation with him about ‘matters benefleial to Cuba," It is said that the Cubans are preparing great demon. strations for General Dulee’s departure, Two ste have been engaged to take hundreds of Cubans outento the Morro Castle and accompany his Exceliency as far out to wa a8 pommble, The Spaniards I presume will be mere spectators, and if any demonstrations be shown | am afraid they will bo contrary to those of the nativon I learn from an authentic and impartial source that one of the commissioners going to Spain, a very wealthy merchant, bas offered to contribute on his part one hun dred thousand dollars, and placed the same at the disposal of another of the commissieners, who belongs to the literary profession, to establia) « paper in Madrid devoted 9 Wieregts of Cuba, or fo apply the money in any Paha with tl ms wame object. he Gobernador Civil has prohibited all proprietors of cigar factories and other ent ments {rom allowing any more lectures in thelr establishments, The police has received strict orders to see there directions comphed with, The Spanish steamer Moctezuma retarned on the 11th rhe will start again on the 22d instant, to be baek here by the 14th of Jane, ax aly more at Nicaragua nor at Trujillo, no foreign bul Deing dono there. The petroleum ‘“diggins’? are going on steadily and prosperouely. ng fl ni neg are employing intel gent Americans, and they are exceedingly successful ‘The atiention of all shipowners and inasters of versett trading with Cuba is called to the fact that it has nev been the custom here to give clean bills of health after the Ist of May, and (hat however favorable the general health of the bland may be, ax ix now the case, Mf Ub appiy for kuch a document {t will coat $10 25,’ and will Prove uscloas in the United Staten, The Spanish papors contain a decree abolint extanco, or government monopoly of toh manufactured. The Dario de la Marina ni way with all taxes tobacco planters are euflering ao prolonged drough od States eteamer Wi the opi Our worthy ¢ |, Mr. Minor, intends to take passage in the steamer Kagle, to leave on Saturday, en route for Washington. The number of the Heratn cont details of the bombardment of ¥ prices—some of Uh ors generally do not off; met onles that have ¢ f 404% per cont 1634 por cent discount, and gold do, at 6'¢ premium The Territie and Destructive Storm af Rochester. A REVEL OF THE ELEMENTS WIND, RAIN, Hart, THUNDER AND LIGHTNING—APPRARANCH OF THE STOKM CLOUD GREAT DAMAGE TO PROPERTY ACCIDENT AND INCIDENTS. jie Rochester Union and Advertirer, May 21. ty aod vicinity wae visited yesterday afternoon ur numbert, and deficient in arme, mi The native Cubans have at all times been the revolting power THE VARIOUS REVOLUTIONS IN CURA. In 1823 occurred the conspiracy of Low Soles de Bolivar (sons of Bolivar), #0 called on aerount of the connection of the revolutioulste wi ym Bolivar, the liberator of Bolivia, who hold the same poiley and propowed to extend the same ald to the Cubans now vocated and proposed by the allied republics of Holivia, Chite, Keandor and Vera, It was prematurely discov ered, and the leadere wer persecuted and severely punished. In 1826 a second attempt at reveluton was detected in Puerto Principe, The same alliance w the Soath American Ptates that distingwshed the apiracy of 1823 and charact of 1860 #x o 6. Tw the mort dint ng 4 natives of Cota, her, were leaders in this affair, and be. ted, wore They are null betd tm | ace by the € ne ‘the firet martyrs of | Cuban liber The conspiracy of Fi Aquila Neera (Bisek ¥ wan likewine disrovered, and it persented and enti in 1444, in consequence of the liberal movement im Spain for the adoption of the constitution, there was tinge de Cabs, with the revolutioniats, at the be whieh was General Larenz. The Captain General Tacon dealt very severely with the liberal leaders. This oom spiracy extended to orto Keo, where compatriots of the Cubans rome in @re tu 164 ocourred the famous ommpiracy among (he native Cubaus and Diecks, which was suppressed with such « croet hand by Marshal O'Donnell, thea Captain General of Cava, now at the head of ‘the Spanish government O'Donnelt, it will be rotembered, made himes!f infa- mous by lw craeitves, and also availed himself of the high powition which he beld, and the unbounded power which be wielded, to taake a fabulous foriune by w pardont and modifying sentences, The well-kaown malatte post, Placide, wae one of the most illustrious of the victims of O'Dowgell’s erurition. Tn 1861 th fo three several altempte at revolution ail of which fuled. On the 4th of July Joaquim de Aguero, at the head of fifty of his countrymen, pro claimed the independence of the island The move ment failed, after some fighting with the regular troops, in conmequence of the failure of ober parties to set in combination. Aguero and some of his followers were captured and cxecated, others were sent to Coats, On the 26th of July, L851, Colonels Armenteras, T Hermes dea and others, attempt late to follow the Porta Prin- cipe movement, bub they wise failed, and the lead rw were executed and the rest samt to exile and to the cham gang in Afca In the same your Lopes tanded (rom the United States with Ove bundred men, bot met with neither aid nor sympathy. Boecessful revolution through Uniled Sates ad ot that time meant snoetation, and thit was not whet the eonepirater at that time deured, though it had been mate to appear «© by Lopet in tie efforty to secure ait The rrvolationiets of Cabs have in every instance been compored of natives and blacks combined, and the ant: slavery fooling har always existed among them. The ppmed to anneration Wy asiavelold | ond Lenoe (eit but little sympathy ® ith Lopes | of Soathern adventurers and with bie principal officers was « cocurted the conspiracy of La Vuelta Abajo, one of the ment * akon 8 Cube, bal, though formdsbie, it failed throagh the 0 Spanish aushorivies, bn had een excited to suspicion by the movements of Lopes, The wataber of those exiled was very great, in lading several members of (he principal femilics of the island. In 1854 ooearred the execution of Katrany for an attempt 19 introdoce arma into Cuba In i866 the conspiracy of Katnow Pinto, « wealthy and infwentias | Catsian, orcurred. This movement war in connection with the Junte Cubana of New York, rbich intended to send an etpedition commanded by Generel Quiman Pinto, it lil be remembered, was garroted *LATRRY THE C ov THRTR Far hut were defeated The mas ie fot the failore of theme me the existence of slavery in ths ininnd. The » vidarn and slave traders have always been upper! to them for perty. Ob accomnh of Chim mm oo Op was divided The ites of ation to the United Hines had very few advocates ube anti! the abobiuon of slavery in this couptey, Nev rang have torned (o thie country with ne A aewistance tut ore druidions dammed cor oaly from ther fellow emfterere bn Sam '% The intend has progremed o's foar of lowing Ube Aarad ot . fownfall o the Apanish governt: Winh thie to be effected by gradual emanc reat bulk Of the popula’ TUR WORK BRAUY IX RaneneT ‘This work bas, we have every reamn to believe beg n tn carnent beck In Cote and Pore i law renore have iaken place on (he isand . eh prove, be yond s dyabt, that the pablic sentiment i quite tre | pared and testy for revolniom nels ber jards ap4 Cubans are the order of the doy and “yey iinhed & taLement tn the efeet that sever, Cee tod | Coes tooght tatwnrn Catane ana ahs otters, toe there were seven duels in i merement & the Corer Emens har dome eres i by the moat de votive @tortn Ubal we rem rf toheve occurred in thirty yeark The morning opened bright, the sun #hone cloarly, and the air was aa balmy ay thee ot June. The general remark was how lovely the dap About three P.M. biack eloude began to obacure southern horizon, and soon the storm burst upon us. ‘Bie clouds app Awoep along over the southern portion of the ity from west to ea od by the lime they reached Lroodequoit they bad spent ther force, The wor rain, wind, bal aud lightning, The area of the storm was probably five miles rquare sod on not n than half of th was there mock bail visible. Though the storm lasted only twenty minutes the mixchiof doue was immense aud can ouly be on timed. The damage is greatest to the nursery intoresta The young bidded stock was ent 4 by the binge hail stones—some an large ax ben's egea—without merry, While the extensive giase houses were left withoat @ pane, and some of them without sashes even. Ii is probable that one bumdred tho “1 doilate would not ver the da:nage to nursery and greenhouse property ia vicinity, The destroction of glass «as se general he article cannot be replaced in this mar The storm not ouly destroyed glass but shutters and blinds, oftentines sweeping rough dwellings end making them wholly untenable Fortunately we have no low of ifs to record, though many persons were injured. Animale were besten and druid, and some of the smaller ones were slato, Birds were cut down from the trees w th th and wore boot dead inevery re Kilied by the hall, Deore the discharges of icy sleet from the clouds The south portin of the roof of the eeutre wower of Bt. Mary's Horphial was tified from ite fastenings and tumbled into the street. Large stants, louened by the Aimbers, crushed through the “ A portion of the roof of the county jail was broken through by fall ng cOlmpeye Jary * and Itnmacuteie Concer fie), Mt. Peter's (Presbyterian) and the Alexander Mtreet (Metadist) Chores were laliy od by window th son (Rowan (athe. | catved meh of tbe cr ginen bring browen The } by broken glam im these Charcher aioe will amount to © vere! hundred dollare The windows @ Ue University were broken to the ox tent of $900. Kvery house end butlding situated in a strip of land abort two miles in width, commencing at “t Mary Hospital, on the wert wide of the river, im the Kighuy ward, continwing themes actoss the Fiver in « muuthenst erly direction scroms the whole of the Hey and Twelfth wards and portions of the Foorth, Fitth, Math, Tenth and Fourveenih wards, sudered more of ieee low of ginwe Vegetation eaflered Limba an inch and even mote in Glameter were cot off #0 K done with @ kni@, the young fruit sys vn ibe tree, and early reqee ables cat dowu and Te many paces ball ny on the ground sures ia depth The towne of Greece, Gates, Brighton, Lrondequet ant Pittatord suflered inrmeneety The roof of the shoe shop at the Pewitentiary wae em Lirely taken off apd lodged tn 4 fold twenty rode from the buitdic Mererel seensle were obliged to pet in to Chastette for afeiy rome of them bad eumetdersble canvas carried any Kiwangrr & Barry Frownte neat Mount Hope re ok Of the storm 604 the wack wes badly cul to pieces Young bud@ed treet, tres of oe and two youre oid, fewer, greenhounes, all were gut own and wearily destroyed Kh Hooker & Co, Me Boardman and Willem # Little and other of the Brighion surserymen eutered largely Tin’ sibtey greeuhoanes, con@octed by Mr Fesize, on Maly irvet, Were prety muck destroyed, and the lame ue heary The lone of murnery Wtock tn so great that it mort aftert the valor of pach property for « year or more w come, ae Ainoleving the eappiy The Gne private coeservatorion om Vast avenueowers jeft without gies the extensive Manuferioring works of Weed. Forth k Co, on Piymoath avenue, were greatly dam sgrd, bat we have po estimate of the lose sustained A Mra Willints, residing in the 120th ward, wae caught by the wind while waking of the mdewelk her rewidenre and Uhruwn Gown with eu levent yh lem we break an erm. A top boegy, im which & bey wee riding i@ Snth Avemer, Was GrETWETneA And Ibe boy meverely There were peverai funerals on the way to Ure (erie at the commencement of the storm, ene were frightened end rw Joring the corn pants of + oy tell, od ek were ertet by the ayy “Wh one inet tie git bad at ot bee eth ta goes Fanat cfd ed ed Prior cuore hen the tore fe ee yak ot oe Caml Ceneieeen cm tony be Weterieel whe "3 i en oe eA Cpe ey Dt +e neem, whee joutad theen Soe fee iae ere Of ee mere ene te tiie strat pce of te ime. pt} pom bit ier state tha in 8 wemeher oad