The New York Herald Newspaper, May 31, 1866, Page 4

YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, {OR N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. No. 15% olume XXXiI.... 1 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, near Broome {RECAPS i aatnae Becrieas, moons SERaren, Broadway, opposite the St. Nicholas Buves—Pas pe Fascination. wee Riv taiad THEATRE, Fourteenth street.~Docton SAN ypawereoo MINGTBRI A 585 Broadway, serge jetropolitan Hi. —Bruworiax Sivaine, Danouva, ALA Marker, “ GEORGE CRRIBTY’ SOs Sosoou of Minstnetsr ALLans, Musicat Gens. do. oe hin 9 Avenue Overa House los. 2 and @ West fourtn street.—Wso KILLED Povicemant | —SING- Your Bur sony PAsnone OPERA Roum. ‘201 Bowery. ALES Dancing, BUBLESQUES, Taz New ‘ | BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechanlos’ Pryor a} Broad. ay. Naako COmIcALITuR8, ‘Buniesquns, ‘ae Leanngp HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Ermorian Mine ¥—BauLans, Bi Dunes 4ND Panromiaas. IRVING HALL, Irving place.—Buiwp Tou's Fanewatt RRFORMANOES. 4 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN, corner of Twenty- Puird streot and Fourth avenue.—Aar Exupiti0y. eo tangy d LzORe rarity Ox ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— rom W) A. M. till ig HALL, Harlem.—Lxorure sy Hox. james T. Buapy—'Sonas or [RkLanp."’ , New York, Thursday, May 31, 1866. Tr = 5 w 3B w 3. CONGRESS. In tho Senate yesterday the act to continue the _— Bureau was received from the House and forrod to the Military Committee. The Reconstruction fesolutions were called up, but no action had been taken pn thom when a message was received from the Prosi- dent announcing the death of General Scott. A concur- Fent resolution was offered constituting the Military Tommittees of both houses a joint committee to report ‘what steps Congress should take to show its apprecia- jon of the public services of the deceased. The con- Bideration of the Reconstruction bill was then resumed. ‘Some discussion ensued on the substitute for the third Section and the Senate adjourned. «In the House the consideration of the Reconstruction Dill to restore the States to thelr rights was resumed. ‘Mr. Bromwell addressed the House and the bill was post- poned until Monday. The message announcing the loath of Genoral Scott was recsived while the House was Pliscussing the bill for the Pay of Army Officers and all business was suspended except to concur in the Senate Fesolution requiring the Military Committees to report on tho bost method of manifesting their appreciation of the ‘Porvices of the late Lieutenant General, THE CITY. Tho steamer Union at the Lower Quarantine, with Cholera on board, was joined yesterday by the steamship Peruvian, from Liverpool, with seven hundred and fifty- wight passengers, of which number twenty-eight were ick with the pestilence. Thirty-five deaths had occur- fred during the voyage, and many of those who were re- ‘Moved upon their arrival at this port on board of the hos- pilal ship wore in a dying condition. The sick from the ‘Wnion and Peruvian swells the number of patients now 4n the cholera hospital to sixty-two. The cases from the Virginia, one hundred and twonty-cight in all, are all Convalescent and were removed from the Faleon to the Baratoga to make room for the late arrivals. The steer- ago passengers from the Virginia who had not been at- tacked with tho discage came up to the city yesterday Bitornoon. A meoting was held last night in Cooper Institute, Mr. John Slosson presiding, to sustain the enforcoment of the now Excise law, Resolutions in support of the ob- Jec. of the meeting wero adopted and speeches delivered By sevoral speakers. ' The Now York City and County Liquor Dealers’ So- Gioty met in Bloocker street last night, when a resolution ‘was adopted declaring that nono of those who take out licenses shall bo considered members of the society. It ‘was also rezolved to attend in a body the German dem- ® stration in opposition to the Sunday law at Union @auare on Monday. ‘A mooting of the ship caulkers was held yestorday at 98 Exst Broadway. Several speeches were made and Petters read showing the present condition of the strike ® xh in this city and in Boston, which the operatives fegard as most satisfactory, The utmost enthusiasm provatled, the meeting being one of the largest that has taken place at the East Broadway committee rooms guring the progress of the strike, An application was yesterday made in the Supreme Court, Chambers, before Judge Barnard, for a writ of alternative mandamus in the case of a party who had ‘Deen rofused a license from the Board of Excise, to com- pel tho latter to grant the necessary Heense. Judge Barnard denied the application on the ground that the Board of Excise had discrotionary powers which could Bot be reviewed by the courts, Judge Clorke, of the Supreme Conrt, sitting recently in Bpecial torm, has ordered ip tho case of James Connell against Anne F, Willivms, that the plaintiff be committed for subornation of porjury, and a witnoss named Danks for perjary. United States Commissioner Osborn yesterday issued fan attachment against the American ship Thornton for ‘wages due to the crew of that veasel on her late trip from Liverpool to this port. Testimony was taken at the ox- amination in the case which showed that the ship's arti- cles had by mistake been changed or wilfully tampered with, reducing the rate at which the crew, as thoy ‘al 'eged, shipped from four pounds to two pounds ten shil- lings a month, It was for payment of the larger sum that the atta hment against the ship was issued. The malo pupils of the Art Department of the Cooper Union beld their annual reception last evening. The at- tondaiwe of invited guests was very large and the exhi- Dition gf drawings and paintings gave great satisfaction, although tho works displayed were somewhat loss crodit- able tothe authors than those previously on view at the recoptipn of the lady pupils of the institution. Early yesterday morning a fire occurred on Ninth ave- nue, @amaging a livery stable and destroying tho stock ¢f food, coaches, harness, &c, The loss is about $ About the same time a fire also occurred at No Carmine street, committing damage to the amount of $1,500, The North American Lloyd steamship Atlantic, Captain Hoyer, will sail at twelve M. to-day, from pior 46 North river, for Cowes and Bremen. The mails for England ‘®ud Germany will close at the Post Office at half-past ten aM The stock market was strong yesterday. Governments wore firm, Gold closed at 1385. Thor was not much activity in business places yester- Gay, yot a fair trade was done tn most articles of mer- cbandise, both foreign and domestic, The markets were @ nerally steady, but prices were still somowhat Irregu- lar, The cotton market was dull and ansettied, withs downward tendency. Groceries wero dull and heavy. Oa ‘Chango flour was Oriner and act, Wheat firm But quiet, Corn opened firmer, but closed lower, Oats ‘wore firmor, but quie. Pork was heavy and irregular. Beof steady. Lard uiia. Whiskey more active. Freights ‘and petroleum were dull and quite nominal, MISCILLANEOUS, The mourning for the death of Gonoral Bcott was flmoet universal thronghout the country yesterday, Tho flags. on all the public Lutldings and a great many on private buildings in this clty wore at Lalf-mast, and @l! the vogsels in the harbor, native and foreign, displayed thoir bunting tn the same way. The municija! Boarts Pased resolations recommending the Closing of all places of business on Friday, the day set apart for tho 4 coral, and the display of flags on all public butldings at 1 mnt, Most of the, dnd § city cloned early. ‘oo First division of fational Guard have been Yovited to attend the funeral at Wost Point. Jouoral Grant has issued orders sonouncing to the B ov tho doath of the tate Lieutenant Gonéfil. The ‘OL.cers of the army are required to wear crape on the ort and sword Lilt for six months as a badge of moura- jug, and at Overy military post guns will be fired at in- rvala of thirty minutes and tho fags kept at half-mast, dotall of oMicers from the headquarters abont Wash- (o made to altend the funora!, and notice | giron that Goneral Grant himself and staff wil! be among the town, Demerara, on the 8th of May. Tho rainy ecason had fairly set in. Male and female ficid hands wore being imported from Barbados to the plantations. Sherman it is stated that the national debt redeemable in 1867 is $784,041,420. The balance of unpaid claims to States for war expenses is $12,293,187, Ten millions a year required to pay the guaranteed bonds of the Pacific Raiiroad, The claims on file for military and naval pay and bounty amount to $18,000,000. taken tho fleld, Fenians by train loads have been arriving at Buffalo, Cleveland and other cities along the border confronting Canada, and the» movement has assumed a threatening attitude, A British consular agent at Buffalo telegraphed yesterday to the manager of the Great Western Railway requesting him to atop all trains going from the Suspension Bridge. He also telegraphed to the military authorities at Toronto, Tho Canadian voluntoers it 1s expected will again be called to arms. charge from custody by writ of habeas corpus of a man imprisoned by order of a military commission is pub- lished to-day. The decision involves the validity of con- viction and sentence by court martial in cases not prop- erly within the cognizance of the martial law. proceedings yesterday. A roport was rocelved from the special committee in reference to the repeal of certain acts concerning the rights of persona of color. Tho re- port recommends the unrestricted admission of negro testimony in the courts in cases whore negroes aro par- ties to suits, their free migration, their right to bear arms, and the making of the law to punish negroes with death for an attempt at rape on white women applicable also to white men. nual meeting in Boston yesterday. Mr. Wendell Phillips offered a rosolation favoring negro suffrage as the only essential in reconstruction, proposing epecial thanks to Sumner, and hoping for the defeat of the republicans, Mr. Foster introduced a resolution that the day was not far distant when our colored citizens will be justified in assuming the defence of their rights, and passive sub- mission shall cease to be a virtue. Louisville yesterday. tions were passed endorsing President Johnson's course in very qualified terms. Mr. R. R. Bolling was nomi- nated as their candidate for Clerk of the Court of Appeals. for Liverpool, with 3,978 bales of cotton on board, part of Moses Fox, of New Orleans, under the will of McDonough, tho millionaire, has been decided, against him by the Supreme Court of Louisiana. yesterday. number. The Secretary of the Navy also issues ordess for the observance of the customary mourning ceremo- nies on the occasion of the funeral. Our Havana correspondence is dated May 26. Cortifi- cates of freedom have been given to the emancipados by some of the planters tately, on condition that they contract for a term of years at nominal wages. A great many of the freedmen accept the condition. General- Duloe was serenaded on the 2ist, when a magnificent cross of Carios IIL, ornamented with diamonds, was Presented to him by the Cubana The usual prepara - tions are made for the reception of the now Captain General, Five Spanish mon-of-war left the harbor hur. riedly and mysteriously on the 23d, on a mission as yet unkpown. News from tho Woat Indies of the 15th comes by way of Havana on the 26th, Governor Eyre was about re- turning to England. Two cases of cholera had appeared in Kingston, but wore not fatal. A riot had broken out in Trinidad, but it was quelied by the military, Disas- trous conflagrations had occurred in Barbadoes. The re- volutionary movement was progressing in the southern provinces of St. Domingo. The President, unable to subdue the insurgents, had determined to leave the island. We have advices trom British Guiana dated at George - In a letter from the Secretary of the Tresury to Senator The Sweeny wing of the Fenian army appears to have The decision of Judge Nelson, at Albany, onthe dis- The North Carolina State Convention continued its The New England Anti-Slavery Society hold ita an- ‘The Kentucky Union State Convention assembled in It-was poorly attended. Resolu- Tho ship Hudson sailed from Charleston on Tucaday, Aciaim of three hundred thousand doliars, on the The Massachusetts Legislature adjourned sine die The elections in New Brunswick still continue in favor of the confederationista, Twelvo candidates of that party have already been elected. The week within which Mr. Thad Stevens was to get young and do something desperate is fast passing away and he has not yet taken any decided action. The radical plan of re- construction which he has so ably embodied in ® concise, emphatic bill, has not been brought toa vote. On Tuesday the Senate by a unani- mous vote rejected that feature of the plan of the Committee of Fifteen which disfranchised all rebels until 1870 and which Mr. Stevens declared to be the most vital poriion of the measure. Instead of this third section Senator Howard offered an amendment disqualifying all the rebel officials from holding any office in this country, elvil or military, until Congress by a two-thirds vote removes the disability. Other amendments were introduced providing that all negroes shall be considered citizens of the United States and of the several States; that the rebel debt shall not be paid and that our national debt shall remain inviolate. Be- sides this, Senator Sumner proposed a long bill in favor of negro suffrage. In the House the bill reported by the Reconstruction Committee was debated. Yesterday’s proceedings were equally indecisive and finally the subject was postponed until next Monday. Thus valuable time is being wasted, and in making speeches upon and suggesting amendments to the plan of the Committtee of Fifteen the very compact and comprebensive scheme of Mr. Stevens is altogether overlooked. All the bills, plans, resolutions, constitu- tional amendments and reconstruction schemes of the other radicals, from Sumner down, amount to nothing when compared with the measure which Mr. Stevens has proposed. That includes negro citizenship, negro equality, negro suffrage, the disfranchisement of rebels, the exclusion of rebel officials from office under the United States and everything else that the most determined radical can desire. It opens the doors of Congress to negro representatives and provides for a negro President. It makes the negro superior to the Southern white man and fixes the gtatus of the Southern States beyond the possibility of a doubt Instead of tamely adopting part of President Johnson’s plan and adding to It « tew obnoxious features the scheme of Mr. Stevens is radical from begin- ning to end. It is as simple as it is complete, It requires no tedious debate, no submission to the legislatures of the States. A vote of Congress will be sufficient for its adop- tion. When it is once passed the honorable members can go home in perfect safety, for its provisions are so sternly stringent that nobody can alter them. Why, then, should not the plan be adopted and Congress adjourn’ The summer is close at hand, the cholera is threat- ening and Washington is very dangerous during the dogdays, We have no doubt that when the cholera breaks out it will rage most vio- Jently at the national capital. The malaria of the Potomac marshes, upon which a great part of Washington is built, is eminently con- duolve to this dreadful disease. The irregu- ler, not to say dissipated, lives which many Congrétencn lead while absent from their homes Mersaca the probability that they will be the cholera’s frst viotimg Bating and drinking at onusual hours, deprived of the. "atural iy inbaling malaria at every breath and dweining in houses located upon a swamp, the majority of the patriots who make our laws for three thousand dollars 9 yenr, mileage and pickings, ful risk when the passage of the bill offered by Mr. Thad Stevens will end their labors and release them at once? If Mr. Stevens will bring his bill before the House, move the previous question and lash the honorable members up to the work by one of his vigorous invectives, there can be no question that his plan will be adopted by a decided majority. The radicals will vote for it because it fully expresses their views. ‘The conservative republicans, under Mr. Raymond, will vote for it rather than “break up tho party,” however much they may wriggle and squirm when the previous question is demand- ed. As for the democrats, under Jack Rodgers in the House and James Brooks as outsidd operator, they may be relied upon to assiet Mr. Stevens if any of the republicans should attempt to dodge the issue. The radical leader has tried these tools before and knows just how to use them, They will enable him to pass this bill just as they enabled him to pass the Nogro Suffrage bill and the famous’ third seo- tion which disfranchises the South. Under these circumstances, if the plan which he has originated be not speedily adopted by Con- gress, Mr. Stevens will have only himself to blame. Why does he hesitate? tend to keep Congress in soasion all summer at the risk of disease and death? influences which have been working upon the Senators getting frightened at that “howl of in- dignation raised all over the country” to which Mr. Ashley so eloquently rofers? Has the Pennsylvania Satan experienced a change of heart at this late hour? Will he allow his bill to be quietly smothered in committee and humbly accept some less complete proposition ? Has he, too, become one of the “recreants”’ and “apostates” whom he has ao bitterly denounocd ? Those who are asking these questions do not understand Mr. Thad Stevens. fanatical and too much in earnest to change his coat and relinquish his pot projects in this style. He is determined to shut up the rebels in “a hell guarded by bayonets” and to admit the negroes to the paradise of suffrage and office, and although he may delay he will not falter. him, and a great deal may be accomplished in three days by so able, so unscrupulous and 60 energetic a radical. his knees may not give way nor his backbone bend. It is best for the people that the issue between the President and the radicals should be distinctly placed before them, so that they may have no difficulty in deciding how to vote. The plan of Mr. Stevens makes the issue clearly and unmistakably, and we therefore exhort the Congressmen to adopt it and ad- journ. If they do so we will insure them against any danger from cholera at the capital for many years to come. Does he in- Are the same also weakening him? Is he He is too Three days of his week still remain to We sincerely hope that The Excise and Lottery Legislation, It is now very evident that the rural legisla- tors at Albany have failed to accomplish the object intended by the passage of the stringent Excise law for the Metropolitan district. This, however, is no more than might have been ex- pected. The attempt to control the appetite of mankind by legislative enactments will always meet with a failure and oftentimes increase the very evil which those framing the law intended to control and abolish. Tho ap- petite may be regulated, but it cannot be..con- trolled or abolished by the passage of laws. The very fact that a law is placed on our statute books prohibiting the sale of beer, wines and other articles of beverage, after a certain hour and on a certain day, arouses the determination of a large class to drink far more than before on those ocoasions. This is human nature the world over. If the liquors cannot be obtained in the usual way on the day prohibited then other modes will be re- sorted to. It is very plain that this is the case with our present Excise law. were seen around the streets in a atate of intoxication on last Sunday than usual, and More men this was the case at an early hour in the morning. Those who did not wish to cross the ferry into New Jersey or visit Westchester county to get thelr Sunday dram laid in their supply by the bottle or demijohn on Saturday night, and instead of taking one or two drinks on Sunday morning sucked at thoir bottles until exhausted, drink- ing ten times as much as before. The result of this was an unusual number of noisy and drunken men in the streets during the day. The same result followed the passage of the Maine liquor law several years since. While it may have reduced the amount of liquor drank at the counters of the grogshops it in- creased the amount used privately. These facts go to prove that tho appetite, above all other things, cannot be controlled by legisla- tion, nor drunkenness as a general rule re- duced by prohibitory laws. Our law makers commence at the wrong end in regulating this affair. Intoxication is not so much the effect of the quantity of the liquor drank as the quality. There is far more liquor drank in France in proportion than in this country, but the number of persons who are seen in a state of intoxication there bears no comparison. This arises from the fact that the people of that coun- try use the best quality of liquors, while in this country ‘the large proportion is villanously adulterated. In this fact alone is an important suggestion to those law makers who are constantly trying to reduce the amount of drunkenness by legislative enactments What should be done is to prohibit the sdulteration of liquors, Let a system of inspection be established and no liquor of any kind permit- ted to be sold that does not come up to a cer- tain standard of purity. This is the most feasi- ble and only effective way of controlling this traffic and reducing drunkenness by legisla- tion. A similar state of affairs exists in regard to the lottery policy trade. Three States in the Union, Missouri, Kentucky and Delaware, char- ter lotteries, the others prohibit them and in many instances declare the sale of tickets ille- gal and a criminal offence. But this does not provent the sale of tickets. Thepeople will buy notwithstanding the laws against the business. Tho result is that those three Statos which grant lottery chartors supply the people of all others and make an immense profit out of it. In this way the great bulk of their faxos aro paid out of the money expondod by the prople {i tas States where tho laws prohibit even the alo oft the tenets. We do not wish to be under- stood as advocating the policy of chartering lot terioa; not by any means, but only to point out will escape death only bye miracle if Congress remains in seasion beyond tho middle of June. Why should they be exposed to such a fright- law. NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY 3, sve. the folly of trying to put @ stop t the in the tickets by prohibitory {egislation: large number will purchase them, ‘ews or nv laws, and if they cannot do it in one way they will in another. Now that Congress has the question before it in the Internal Revenue law, the seotion referring to this question should be so amended as to break up the monopoly of the managers and such provisions incorpo- rated in the bill as will secure the largest pos- sible tax from this traffic. The events of the past show conclusively that four or five mil- lions of dollars will be expended for lottery tickets by a portion of our people, law or no Under these circumstances it is the duty of Congress to secure for the government the largest possible revenue from this source. The States which charter the lotteries do it for the purpose of obtaining revenue. In this light Congress should treat the subject if at all; but in doing so great care should be taken not to create a monopoly for the special benefit of a few managers. The Tax o jankers’ and Brokers’ Sales. We notice that another effort is being made by some of the Wall street bankers to evade the payment of the government tax on their sales of stocks. This movement has become periodical and as regular as the appearance of strawberries, -Last year, as Judge Nelson was returning from Washington to his summer resi- dence at Cooperstown, the bankers and brokers waited upon him and secured an order lo stay the enforcement of the collection of the reve- nue tax on their sales made on their own ac- count. The government officials were then required to appear at Cooperstown, a few months later, to show why @ permanent injunc- tion should not be granted This they did; but Judge Nelson decided in favor of the bankers and brokers and thus deprived the government of a large amount of revenue. The case was appealed to the Supreme Court at Washington, where the decision of Judge Nelson was re- versed. This decree of the court was not ren- dered until just before the adjournment of the court, and in the meantime the bankers and brokers had accomplished their object. Sev- eral of the firms had by that time gone out of the business or formed new copartnerships, while others had failed. The Department at Washington, immediately upon the decree of the Supreme Court, directed the revenue offi- cers to enforce the collection of the tax on brokers’ sales made on their own account as well as on commission. In accordance with this order the bankers and brokers were notified to make out their returns for the their own account. A majority of the brokers. readily complied with this order; the returns were being promptly made aad the revenue of the government largely increased as the result. seemed to be a prospect that Wall street specu- lation would be compelled to pay its propor- tion of the revenue tax and not be able to escape and throw the burden upon the indus- trial interests. But just at this stage Judge Nelson again turns up, journeying from Wash- ington to his summer resort at Cooperstown. No sooner is bis arrival known here than Clark, Dodge & Co. apply to him for an injunc- tion restraining the internal revenue collectors from collecting ‘tax upon thoir sales of stocks and other securities, whether made on their own account or on account of others, on the ground that they are doing business under a banker's license and therefore are not required to pay a tax on such transactions. Judge Nel- son forthwith granted an order staying pro- ceedings and notified the revenue officials, as in the former case, to appear at Coopertown to‘show why a permanent injunction should not be issued, and then resumed his journey to his summer residence. The brokers having thus secared another year’s exemption from tho tax are perfectly content. If upon argument tax on sales made on For once there of the case Judge Nelson grants a permanent injunction, then all that the brokers in Wall street will have to do is to throw up their licenses as brokers and take out a banker's license, and they can all escape the revenue tax. Thus it will be seen that there is an im- portant question involved in this matter—one which largely affects the revenue of the gov- ernment. We understand that there is at the present time nearly one and a half million of dollars of tax held back by bankers, on one pretext or another, which they expect to retain as their own profits, if this injunction is finally granted. This;as a matter of course, is a sum worth contending for, and with that amount back of them an extraordinary pres- sure will be made to secure a decision. The law on this subject is very plain and it was clearly the intention of its framers thatall saies of stocks should pay atax. The decision of the Supreme Court has removed every quibble on the part of the licensed brokers. But now the bankers come in with another excuse, with the evident Intention of getting rid of the pay- ment of the tax. This being the case we call upon Congress to so arrange the plirassology of the new internal revenue law, hefore it is finally passed, that there can be uo doubt as to its meaning and remove all plea or excuse for an injunction in the futare. But there is another very important phase to this question. The present law specially stipn- lates that all brokers and bankers shall pay upon all sales of stocks and bonds one twen- tieth of one per cent, and on sales of gold, silver, bullion and coin one-tenth of one per cent. Now it is the established oustom of the bankers and brekers to charge all thetr cus- tomers the government tax, in addition to their own fees. This is the universal rule. There- fore, in all sales made on commission the customer pays the tax, not the banker and broker. Thoy simply retain tho tax required by law to pay over to the government. This move of Clark, Dodge & Co. is, therefore, simply an effort on the part of the bankers to add the amount thus collected from their customers {to their own profits, If, however, now that they havo received this one-twentioth or one-tenth of one per cent, as the case may be, on the plea that they have got to pay that amount to the revenue officer, they turn around and secure an injunction on the ground that they are not liable for that tax, thon they have dofrauded their customers. If they are not required by law to pay that tax to the government, then every one of their cus tomers can recover by legal procgedings the amount thus paid. It certainly was not the in- tention of the government to levy a tax on sales of stock for the sole purpose pf increas ing the fees of the bankers, The tax was fized | npon for the purpose of obtaining a revonue. The one-twentieth and the one-tenth of one per cent, collected of the customers, does not be- long to the bankers and brokers, Sor can they legally retain it under the law upon atv other pretext whatever except to pay it over to the tax @ollector. If they are not required by the lser to pay the tax to the government, then the tax hasbeen fraudulently taken away from their customers, Wo therefore advise all of those parties who have been selling stocks and gold through Clark, Dodge & Co., or any other bankers who refuse to pay the government tax, to commence legal proceedings forthwith and bring this question toa test. Let us know to whom this money belongs. If it does not be- long to the government, then the bankers will be compelled to refund it to their customers, and they have made themselves criminally liable under the State laws for obtaining money under false pretences, Invasion oF Privars Ricnrs—A Case Unpae Tas Exon Law.—A very interesting case, involving the private rights of citizens, will come up before Judge Ingraham in the Supreme Court in this city on Monday next. The numerous private clubs or associations of gentlemen in New York are more particularly concerned, and they will doubtless pay special attention to the case. It appears that the Germania Olub in Brook- lyn, which is strictly a private club, composed of highly respectable gentlemen, for the pur- pose of social intercourse and amusement, has been notified by the police that it must take out @ license, must close at twelve o’clock, and must not be open on Sunday, thus placing it on the same footing as the grogshops. It is in no sense public, Each member has a key to enter the club, the same as in a private dwelling, and no stranger is admitted excepted by invitation, The money which is paid to the steward for refreshments does not go to any individual, but directly to the funds of the club. It isa place where the members bring their families for balls or other social amusement; which gatherings, in fact, are family reunions. The principle involved in this case affects all the private clubs in this city as well as in Brooklyn. It is reported that when the gentlemen of the olub remonstrated with Mr. Acton, the Commissioner, he replied ina rough manner that all such places ought to be shut up; and he would not allow time for a case to be pre- pared to test the validity of his action. The club thereupon sued out an injunction against the police, and this brings the case before Judge Ingraham, as we have stated. Is not this an invasion of private rights? With the statement before us it seems clear that it is, This blundering Excise law is likely to do more mischief than good and ought to be overhauled as soon as we shall be fortunate enough to get a legislature that will have sufficient sense to make consistent laws. In the meantime it is to be hoped the courts may be able to protect the citizens in their private rights, Our Frenca Naturatizep Crrmens.—A con- cession has just been made to American feel- ing by France which shows how desirous of pleasing us Louis Napoleon is at present. Or- ders have been issued that French subjects who have become naturalized citizens of this coun- try will on revisiting France not be subject to conscription, provided they record fheir cer- tifteate of naturalization at the proper office in Paris, This is tho fret time that the french govornment has renounced its claims over its own subjects, We are afraid that it will be some time before the German .and other Euro- pean monarchies will be induced to follow its example. Clty Intelligenee. Fasrrvat or Conrvs Cnnusri.—To-day is celebrated ia the Catholic Church as the festival of the body of Christ—Corpus Christi—and is holy day of obligation. In Catholic countries the processions of the Holy Sacra- went and other ceremonies attendant on this festival are carried oat with all possible and in aes the ‘Sa iy an om communities the py RS the 00 congregations of Holy Redeemer aa ive Places of worship, fyi arent, cet Thi street the services are and West Sixteenth grand. Excursion to Jozs’ Woop.—An excursion, under the direction of the Transfiguration church, Mott street, Father Trainor pastor, in behalf of tho free schools at- tached to that church, proceeded yesterday to Jones’ Wood. Theso schools, for whose benefit the trip was made, have been formed with a view of bringing up and educating and children whose nts are too to for them. The number of pupils belong- 1g to the institution is about one tl pl hun- dred. it = Pa oe scholars and friends of the schools met at the church, formed a procession, and, ac- companied by music, marched in a very ap A posed to the cars, During the iorning the number of Prevent was com atasively sual but eve until about three o'clock in wheat @ crowd became quite large. by the Pee committee ‘was composed of members of the Transfigora- tion Total Abstinence Society there were few cases of drunkenness, Lenn g ia ong pad po ty formed the chief amuroments of they were entered into with much zeal. “Ihe ‘was quite successful, both socially and financially. Tromry Catrcu Prorgrty.—The valuable leases, which have been so long held by Wm. B. Astor of the property called the Trinity church estate, expire by limit- ation to-day,when the church will come into the manage- ment, The value of the numerous lots included in the leasehold is not far from six millons of dollars. There are three hundred and thirty-six lots, which were rented of the corporation in 1767, nearly one hundred years ago, the rental being quite a modcrate interest upon the then estimated price of the lands. The value of the lote has gone through any number of ad. Yancement since that date, and some of them are worth now asmrch in cash as Ppa hee cog La, metropolis. The iy. ine ciictiens onpert ity 1 igposing of ox and perhaps thefeburch could pot enter opparvunely. Tox Lats Dn. Henny G. Cox.—At the mecting of Commissioners of Emigration, held at Castle Garden yesterday afternoon, the following resolutions were adopted expressive of theif regret at the death of the late consulting physician of Ward's Island :— g {25% ote Henry 0. yD mp Tag sired, That in the death of Dr Cox vs Regions the tend its 7k ance ee ae eae (Hew ny S07, thew teonan to his aud pul fn the Salty pepers sents A New Can Kovrs.—A new car route has been made between Grand street ferry, on the Kast river, aud Cortlandt street ferry, on the North river, by of East Broadway, New fstreet, = Greenwich and Washington streets. Thirty cars, oe ha are already employed, will run on the new Tow! ‘Traxeren of A Cotormy Grammar Scnoot.—School No. 3 was formally transferred from the committee of the ward to the direct supervision of the Board of Edu- cation yen re was a large attendance of vis- iors. The exercises consisted ree composition, history and some sence musi¢ uncer the direction of the wee or. The teachers of this school are ; Miss Mary H. Andorson, of the nale De: parument Miso Nass y ra Mies Mary Renee ate ng 8 wore made of the Toatd of Rawostion finer, Charles B, nay, 3, Talile and Professor Day. KENTUCKY STATE CONVENTION. SPLIT AMONG THE (RIONISTS. - NEUTRALITY IN A NEW FORM. ° Endorsement of President John- son’s Course. Lovwvria, May 30, 1866, ‘The Convention of Union men of Kentucky for the en- dorsement of President Johnson and his policy, which met here to-day, was poorly attended and has not ep complished much, The eall proves to have been am et tempt to build up a party to carry out more State potigy on the strength of Mr. Jehnson’s name and truly ns tional principles, rather than to endorse his course. The purpose was to unite the various elements to defeat the rebel candidate for Clerk of the Court of Appeals; bet the result has been to atill further divide the Union mea, ‘The Unionists are very sadly divided in this State, while the rebels are united, firm and energetic. There are three factions, The McClellan Unioniste form one party, the Linooln Unionists, or radicals, form a eec- ond; either of which is weaker than the rebel party. The call for this Convention of the Lincoln and Johnses ‘men has resulted in dividing that party into two factions, See Ee sites ta aes len Ger oa ee. wate otheee ‘efforts are being made to recommend the candidate of the an a third candidate is put forward It ip vory plain that the rebels will be psec while if this party ad the Mo’lellan party’s candidate he will doubtless successful. 1 Gata the sitting oA the Convention he Union cilshed! himselt od tomanti the eulowiat rd short speech, in which he went on te glorify McClellan and fraternally embrace the returnod rebels. Crittenden is a candidate for United States Sena- election and hopes by this means te mto the good graces of the prosent nt convention is unfortunately controlled by past who have gone through the = ordeal of the rebellion without being purified, and come out with only their old ideas of now dead plead = prominent men in this convention were tho neutrall- Beck eyo and they want to be neutral now until ‘800 who ia going cA win, Mr. Johnson or e convention adjourned until eight this evening. BVENING SESSION. The Convention reassombled this evening and adopted & eeries of resolutions endorsing course in very qualified torms, making his votoes or the main cidea, after considera! that no genuine harmony tieoperitey ie the actage that the jellan democracy sh¢ ‘be recom- mended as a suitable candidate for the Lincoln-Jobnaon and the convention micomat ss _ die, It ne likely that it will be sine die indeed, for thi doubtless never be heard at the th Ponds of Bolling, the McClellan party nia this endorsoment of him will damage bis posed that this Convention repre- President Johnson in the State, Two-thirds of them were excluded from it by the terms of the Convention. This Convention was reall peo by the radical clement in tho werless and factious. Nine-tenths ort the », thus curious; are aoa tm favor of of national im; of again in pothond OT oot to be su sents the friends o! he poo oth into four aie ad a CAROLINA CONVENTION. Sixth Day's Procecdings—Report in Re- lation to the Admission of Negro Testi- Rattan, N. 0., May 30, 1866 The State Convention entered upon the sixth day of the session, The report of the Committee on Enrolled Bills was adopted. An ordinance was introduced limiting the interest to be paid on further State loans at six per A resolation was introduced that the provisions ‘and benefits of the several resolutions passed by the eession of 1866 in favor of maimed and disabled soldiers, providing them with arul- ficial limbs, be extended to all soldiers of the State, whether they were in the Confederate or federal army. The Homestead bill passed to a second reading. ‘The State Revenue bill was then taken up and a epir- {ted discussion thereon took place. The ordinances rela- tive to the payment of provisional judges of the Coarts of Oyer and Terminer tor their services, also the reaolu- General Assombly at its sad the gouty a Catbarand coun! ee, Drought op for a tapi” mue tok poner Sem a of the Convention in entering u tive character. He said they namely, to amend the cocanion 4 to system of affairs—and their action should be confined te amendments to the fe pee ig mg in very urgent casos pg He theref fore moved that the bil Convention be laid on the table; which motion prevailed. committee of five to whom was referred i a not, depart from it jes for the rapes! of the two fn act passed by the General “aasemabay oh entitled an act concerning. , that the Ge | Assembly was to allow the evidence w Sere eel ne nce of the Gases ite te is tte womeben partial jortedict tee iknow that avery extensive juriediet rer persons of color, and they 4 ae ing general whenever the punishme: snd naa I the testimony of negro hoeroes a against we Jn not al. lowed where the negro is the oase is tu Wicodsnea’'s Bateau, where ibere of tho dey was coonvted special order tu rege: presentat' i ae CONFEDERATION PROBABLY pone ae ABANDON A oR BT