The New York Herald Newspaper, June 10, 1866, Page 4

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Plans and specifications can be seen at the dffice of John Kellum, architect, 179 Broadway, New York. THB NEWS. THE FENIANS. ‘The grand Fenlan demonstration against Canada from the Vermont border has failed completely, and General Spear’s command has returned to United States soil, on the way home. The provisions, arms, Ac., that had been promised had not reached them, their numbers were decreasing hourly by desertion and they finally determined to give up the further prosecution of the war for the present. The men were completely demor- alized and they carried considerable plunder away from Canada, Whiskey was freety used among thom and ‘Mt is said they abused and imsaulted women and children. On their roturn to St. Albans they commenced showing # defiant spirit towards the United States authorities and grossly insulted one or two army officers in charge Of troops at that place, ‘The retreat bas also commenced from Buffalo, and it 4a expected that the entire force in that city will be on thoir way home by Monday. Genoral Spear anc his staff surrendered themselves to Colonel Livingston. General Meade has issued an order to the Fenians to disband, offering to furnish transportation to all the Fe- nians who would go quietly to their homes, those above the rank of field officers being required to give satisfac- tory bonds, If the order 1s not promptly obeyed a suf- ficient force of troups will be emyloyed to compel obedience. General Sweouy's bail bas beon reduced to five thou- sand dollars. Recruiting for the Fenians in the city yesterday was not co brisk a usual. It appeared that a greater num- ber of men had already been enrolled than could be rent off, owing to the money not coming in as fast as required. About one thourand recruits Jett during the day. Mr. Roberts was visited at the jail by ® gentieman to whom he stated that the movement would still prove a success He exprossed his indignation against the government oM- cials, but stated hig desire was to comply with tho re. quirements of the constitution, which he holds has not been compromised by any action of the Fenians. EUROPE. The steamship Allemania, from Southampton May 20, arrived at this port late last evening. She brings news from Europe throo days later The Moniteur of May 26 confirms the despatch of the ‘English, French aud Russian cabinets of the notes for Aho assembly of a conference in Paris at the earliest pos- Biblo dato, Austria has eecepted the invitation to attend the con- ference. Prussia has agreed to attend on condition that fhe stipulations of the conference should not be bind- ing, and that its duration should be as short as possible, italy accepts, but wili not suspend her armaments he engages to make no attack during the conference. Tt was ramored in Tricste that a forced loan was about to be raised. ‘The aspect of the war question remains unchanged. The cholera haa entirely disappeared from Liverpool. The panic im the money market, which was fast re- @overing, has suffered a relapses in consequence of the suspension of the Consolidated Bank of London (limited), ‘Tho Times, in speaking of the failure, says:—<The dis. jstor was incurred by one of the most extraordinary errors ever committed by business men tutrusted with ‘the property of others.’ { Frankfort advices state that while all other stocks are dull American bonds are still well supported. English funds wore firm. Consols closed at 873% 8%. French rentes 64f. 55e. United States five-tweuties recovered et CONGRESS. ‘The Senate was not in session yesterday. The Speaker of the House presented to that body tho Toport of the Secretary of the Treasury in relation to the m.leage and salaries of members of Congress. The total Amount of mileage and salary paid to Sonators was $423, 56: (o members of the House, $1,464.160, The largest & ‘at of mileage patd to one iadividual was to the member from Oregon, $12,531. The smallest amount was paid to the member from Marytand, $64. Notice was given that the Senate amendments to the recon- struction resolution will be calied up for action on Wed- nesday. THE CITY. The Special Committee of the Bogrd of Aldermen, ap- pointed in February last to inspect plans and proposi- tions for the erection of a bridge oror Broadway at the corner of Fulton street, have, it 1s understood, deter- mined upon one which will be reported to the Board to- morrow. It isto cover the entire width of Fulton streot, having stairways on the four corners, and is to be capa- ble Of sustaining one hundred tons weight, ‘The Board of Health yesterday, heard two or three complaints on tho subject of water closets, and one of the complainants stated that if he lost his tenants in consequence of the nuisance he should hold the Board responsible. No business of any public importance other than this camo before the Board, ‘Affairs at Seguine’s Point remain in stalu quo. We give two diagrams and fall descriptions of the locality to-day. Three new cases of cholera are reported on board the Falcon. The strike of the ship carpenters, caulkers and joiners has not yet been brought to a termination, At a mooting of the ship carpenters yesterday a letter was road stating that a committee of the strikers had been appointed to confer with the bosses for a settlement by mutual concession and compromise, A meeting of ship joiners was also held last evening, at which the chairman said the bosses were about to enter into a compromise in consequence of a large num- ber of caulkers having been put to work on the eight hour system at Hunter's Point, and the caulkers were, they said, going to work on the ship Isaac Webb on Monday next, al eight hours per day. Seme subscriptions in aid of the strike were banded in. A meeting of bricklayers’ laborers was held Inat night at Demilt Hall, favoring the eight hour system on Satur- days and unanimously adopted resolutions imposing a fine of two dollars and fifiy cents per day or expulsion from their Union on those who work for master masons who do not grant their demand. Superintendent Kennedy has issued an order to the police in relation to the carrying of concealed weapons, in accordance with the provisions of an act passed at the last session of the Legislature, instructing them to arrest as “felons every person other than a public officer who may be found in possession of any weapon known as slungshot, billy, sandclub, metal knuckles, sword cane, air-gun, dirk or dagger, and take him before a proper magistrate for disposal under the act referred to.” General Dulce, late Captain General of Cuba, arrived at this port yesterday upon the frigate of war Donna Isabel !a Catolica, He will probably come ashore to-day and depart for Washington to see Secretary Seward to- morrow, He was received with the proper salute from the American ships of war. Hon. J. Stanton Gould and Colonel P. B. Johnston, of the New York State Agricultural Society, have published a circular to the effect that the rinderpest is now prova- lent among the cows in the stables of New York and Brooklyn. Paul Falk, proprictor of the Lion Brewery and Park, obtained an injunction yesterday restraining the Board of Health, Excise Commissioners and Metropolitan Police from preventing him from keeping open and disposing of lager beer at his place to-day. The ground upon which it was granted by Jv rdozo is that Mr. Falk’s license under the old law does not expire until next July, and therefore that no law can deprive him of his vested Yesterdey tho case of alleged cruelty by officers on board the American ship Thornteg upon the seamen came up for final disposal before @ommissioner Ozborn. Mr. Edwin James, on behalf of the-mate and boatswain, contended that the charge of cruel and unusual punish- ment was not established. Commissioner Osborn, while deprecating all assaults on the high seas by officera of ships, did not think the charges sufficiently proved and dismissed the case. The examimation of Lonts Colin, charged with em- bezzling money to tho amount of forty thousand dollars from the banking house of Duncan, Sherman & (o., was postponed by Justice Dowling yesterday until Wedues- day noxt, Mrs, Dr. Mary Walker, formerly an assistant surgeon in the Army of the Cumberland, was arrested yesterday for disororderly conduct in appearing on the streeta in partially male attire, She was required to give bail in three hundred dollars to keep the peace. The evidence in the alleged Chester slander case was closed yesterday in Brooklyn, and the jury rendered a verdict of ono hundred dollars for the plaintiff. A little girl named Catharine Walker was knocked down and run over on Flushing avenue, near Franklin, Brooklyn, yesterday, by a wagon and team driven by two young men named Smith and Flack. Ex-Alderman Hudson was knocked dewn almost immed ately after- wards by the same team and seriously injured. The drivers were arrosted and sent to jaii to awalt the result of the injuries, ‘The steamship Baltic, commanded by Captain A. G. Jones, belonging to the North American Lloyd's line, arrived here on Friday evoning Iast, at six P. M., from her first trip to Bremen, having left Cowes at a late hour on the 26th ult. She yesterday landed one thousand and forty-four passengers and will start oa her second voyage on Thursday next, the 14th instant. ‘The stock market was dull but firm yesterday. Gold closed at 129° a 13974. ‘There was Dut little change in the complexion of com- mercial affairs yestorday. There was but tittle disposi- tion to transact business, the lower prices of gold, as compared with a few days ago, unsettling values, Cotton closed dull and heavy, while sugar was leas active and scarcely 80 Orm. Coffee dull and nominal, Freights were quiet but firmer. On 'Change flour was quiet, and com- mon and inferior grades were 10c. a 15c. lower. Wheat was 1c, a 20, lower for common grades, while cora de- clined t¢., with atair business done at the reduction. Oats were oxceedingly quiet, and 2c, 0 Se, lower, Pork was more active and firmer. Beef was steady, while lard ruled dul! and heavy, Whiskey was without decided change. MISCELLANEOUS. Our correspondence from Panama is to June 1, from the United States flect on the south coast of South America to May 14, and from Lima to May 2%. Quiet prevailed in the South Pacific, The Spanish fleet had not been heard from sinco the defeat at Callao, but it was believed (hat it was on the way to Montevideo. The Chilean iron-clads, Huescar and Independencia, had not been heard from, and as th re behind time, con- siderable anxiety is expreased at their probable fate. The speech of Colonel Prado, the Dictator, at Lima, on the 13th of May, in reference to the Callao victory, is given in fall. He roviewed briefly the history of the existing war and alluded with pride to the brave action of tho Peruvians at Callao, Grand Marshal Castilla, who had beon in exile by order of Pezet for fifteen montha, returned to Peru on the 7th of May. Agrand banquet was given by the Dictator to the diplomatic corps and others, at which General A. P. Hovey and Admiral Pearson were present The utmost cordiality is manifested toward the United States, Our Paris fashions letter (May 24), which we publish this morning, contains matter of a very agreeable, re- freshing and interesting charactor—particularly for the Indics—as usual. Wo havo files from Bermuda dated to the 224 of May. Tho news is quite local and entirely unimportant. Our Vienna correspondent, writing on the 23d of May, says:—The bankers inform me that there bave been large sales of American bonds here during the past week, one firm having disposed of more than s hundred thousand dollars at prices varying from sixty-six to sixty-eight conts on the dollar, You can sco what a margin this teaves for profit at present prices im America; but your market will, not unlikely, be well stocked shortly with these securities returning from Europe, where the policy of overybody is, in anticipation of war, to sell out every- thing and realize hard cash to hoard. Despatches from San Francisco state that two of the mutineers on the ship Seminole were before the courts. ‘Tho Indians in Idaho had attacked a party of fifty China- men near Owhizeo, killing forty-nine of them, right In sight of « fort, Two buildings were burned in Chicago yesterday, in- volving « logs of one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, Deane’s woollen millg and Monarch & Co.'s dying es- tablishmenta, in Philadelphia, Were destroyed by fire yesterday, involving a loss of two hundred thousand dol- Jars, A court martial has been convened at Washington for tho trial of Colonel Whittlesey, late Superintendent of the Freedmen’s Bureau in North Carolina, Edward Tong, he negro who murdered Mr, Whitehust during the celebration of the Civil Rights bill in Norfolk, has been sentenced to eighteen years’ imprisonment. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNE 10, 1866. out, and immodiately the Congressmen do- | The Bankers and Brokers and the Gov~- Reeonstruction=The Senate’ Amend.’ mont—he Committee of Fifteen. The report of the Committee of Fitteen on Reconstruction and the constitutional amead- ment of that committee as amended and passed by the Senate have been submitted to our readers. Asin all probability the amend- ment in this shape will be concurred in by the required two-thirds of the House and sub: to the State Legislatures for their ratification, it may properly be here reproduced in view of the important object of fixing it upon the pub- lic mind. The amendment as it has passed the Senate—33 to 11—a vote in its favor of exactly three-fourths of the whole vote cast—decrees substantially:— Secrion 1, That all persons born or naturalized {n the United States and subject to their jurisdiction are citi- zens thereof and of the State wherein they reside, and are guaranteed the equal protection of the laws, [This is the Civil Rights bill over again.) Sxc. 2. That all the peoplo of the several States shall ‘be counted for representation in Congress (excluding In- dians not taxed); but that wherever the right of suffraze is denied or abridged, except for rebellion or other crime, the enumeration for Congress shall be correspondingly reduced. [In other words, if you exclude the negro from the ballot box you shall not count him in number- ing your people for Congress.) Sxcnon 3 decrees that no person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having pre- viously taken an oath a3 a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States or as a member of any State Legislaturo, or as an executive or Judicial officer of any State, to support the constitution of the United Statce, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given ald or comfort te the enemies thereof; but Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each house, removo such disability. [This 1s the Senate's substitute for Thad Stevens’ sine qua non—tbe disfran- chisement of all rebels ti!! the 4th of July, 1870.) Sxction 4 affirms tho binding obligations of the national debt, pensions, bounties, &c.; and prohibits the payment or recognition of all rebel debts by the United States, or any State, and of any claim for compensation for loss of slaves, by emancipation or otherwise. Such is the trunk of the reconstruction plan of the Committee of Fifteen, as modified by the Senate. It has two branches in the shape of two bills, which provide for the readmission into Congress of any of the late rebel States, with their ratification of said amendment, and the shaping of their local laws accordingly; and’ that, having so met the terms of Congress, they shall be credited for ten years with their share of the national debt, A3 mere pendents to this aforesaid amendment, we presume these bills will be passed. Here, then, we have the scheme of reconstruction upon which Congress, with the President’s policy set up against the President, will go before the people in the coming full elections, It is a scheme pretiy ingeniously contrived for popular support in the North, although in ita essential features it is simply a reproduction and a repetition of the policy of the President. Next, we have the report of the Committee of Fifteen, detailing their reasons for these aforesaid measures and the considerations which urge their adoption. It is thus argned that the rebel States forfeited all their rights by the rebellion; that their reconstruction doings under President Johnson’s management have been loose, slipshod, outrageous and are utterly preposterous and contemptible; that rampant disloyalty and bitterness against the United States and Union white men and negroes still prevail in those States; that they are not yet in the proper shape or frame of mind for restoration to Congress; that they are only anxious to get in to seize the government and that they must be kept out until we shall have exacted from them ample safeguards and securities for the future. Tennossee is an ox- ception; but as for the rest, they aro under the ban of anathema maranatha. The salient point, however, of this report is in its charges and specifications of usurpation on the part of the President. We cannot un- derstandy however, in what particular he has played the usurper. The powers which he has exercised he found guaranteed in the consti- tution and in the laws of Congress for the sup- pression of the rebellion. But after denounc- ing his measures the committee and the two houses of Congress adopt them. His work becomes their plan. They only propose to so it over again and in another form. The oniy real and positive disagreement between the President and Congress upon this business of reconstruction has been upon the question of negro suffrage. He would not undertake to en- force it upon the South, and so Congress under- took the job. And what is the result? After six months of investigations, deliberations, dis- cussions and abuse of the President, the radi- cals of Congress—even Sumner himself—give up the fight. They surrender their ultimatum of negro suffrage and adopt the President's suggestion of representation in Congress, rogu- lated by the restrictions upon suffrage, leaving the right to the States to regulate the fran- chise. The committee present a ghastly picture of Southern disloyalty and bitterness, We have no doubt that those Southern fire-eatera, corre- sponding with the Wendell Phillips and Thad- deus Stevens school of the North, have done much mischief and seriously embarrassed the President. They have been a dead weight upon him and have given his radical opponents in this Congress the power which they hold of carrying their measures over his head. What ever, therefore, may be the unwelcome conse- quences to the Southern States, those people may charge them upon their senseless fire- eaters, who have returned to their old folly of playing into the hands of the Northern radical faction. Tus Evrorgan News.—From the news which we published yesterday it seems that the danger of war in Europe is by no means over, although Italy, Prussia and Austria he- sitate to strike the first blow. Mr. Glad- stone recently stated in the British Parlta- ment that the English government had no sanguine hopes of peace. The hesitancy of the combatants is, however, very natural. Should a war break out in Europe no one can say when, how or where it will end. The re- publican sentiment of the people, stimulated by our success in suppressing the rebellion, will at once assert itself, and before the end of & single campaign the war may be accom- panied with 9 series of revolutions that will overturn the European thrones and make even that of England tremble. It is for this reason that all are so anxious for peace and a con- gress. A Nicw Disyer Party.—According to our Washington correspondence, Count Resuguricr, one of Maxtmilian’s staff officers, was invited to meet Senator Nye, Speaker Colfax and other members of Congress at dinner. went off very nicely until the fact of the Connt’s connection with Maximilian leaked nounoed the Mexican empire in the strongest possible terms, and the trap set to catch them altogether failed. Count Resugurier has come too late. Santa Anna will take charge of Mex- ico to the perfect satisfaction of Congress and the people. Financial Blundering. The facts which have been brought out rela- tive to the sales of gold by the government, and the reasoning of the Secretary of the Treasury and his subordinate, Mr. Van Dyck, on the subject, present as remarkable an ex- ample of financial blundering as we bave ever known. The whole proceeding and the logic of Mr. McCulloch in ‘his report to Congress show that a man whose ides» are limited to banking business merely, ® stock opera- tions, however good # banker or stock operator he may be, may know little of the question of finance in a national or statesmanlike point of view and may commit the greatest mis- takes, With regard to the sale of thirty-five millions and upwards of gold in the month of May, by order of the Secretary, let us look at the motive or policy and the consequences, Mr. McCul- loch says:—“ My instructions, given at various times to Mr. Van Dyck, have been to make no sales except for the purpose of supplying the Treasury with currengy, or for meeting the necessaty demands of commerce or preventing successful combinations either to impair the national credit or to produce serious fluciua- tions in prices.” The first reason given “for supplying the Treasury with currency” would be proper enough and the object quite within the sphere of the Seoretary’s duties, if the Treasury Department needed currency more than gold; but we confess we cannot see how and when the Treasury could be placed in such @ condition. We cannot even imagine under what circumstances the Treasury need want currency. It might want money, that is to say its coffers might under cer- tain though very improbable circumstances be empty; but so long as it has any means there need be no difficulty about having currency. Treasury notes, bonds or author- ized loans will always bring currency, and if ever by possibility there should be a temporary need of it a small amount of gold would answer the purpose. The other reason given for the sale of this enormous amount of gold is the true one, namely, “for meeting ne- ceasary demands of commerce or preventing successful combinations either to impair the national credit or to produce serious fluctua- tions ia prices.” As to selling gold to prevent the national credit being impaired, that isa very vague idea, thrown in to cover up the folly of the transaction. The sale of thirty-five millions of gold or the withholding it from sale will not affect the national credit; that stands upon a firmer foundation. Indeed, if the na- tional credit could be affected at all bysuch an amount of gold it would be better preserved by having the gold in the Treasury than by parting with It. The truth is Mr. McCulloch went into the market as any Wall street specu- lator would go, to influence the price of gold in order to prevent “serious fluctuations or suc- cessful combinations,” and, as he thought, to meet the “necessary demands of commerce.” Now, the first question that arises is, by what “euthority does the Secretary of the Treasury transform himself or the government into a bull or 8 bear, a3 the case may be, to regulate the private transactions of the gold operators, stock jobbers and merchants of the country? He seems to forget that he is nota banker now and that he has no right to use the money of the government upon his own judgment in any such transactions, Bulling or bearing gold or stocks is not the business of the Treasury Department, even if the Seoretary were a match for all the cunning and deep laid schemes of the gold and stock gamblers, But what has been the result of his Wall street operation? Did he keep the price of gold down? It went up after the sale day by day till it reached fifteen per cent higher than when he sold. It is said that gold would have gone higher than this if the government had not entered the market and sold when it did sell. We doubt this. On the contrary it is reason- able to suppose the sale and consequent expor- tation of the precious metal was mainly the cause of the rise. So long as it is known that there is a large amount of gold in the Treasury and in the country its relative value will be diminished. But suppose it had gone up tem- porarily, who would have been injured ? The transactions of our internal commerce are not paid forin gold nor regulated by it, and neither the goverament nor the people at large would have suffered in any perceptible degree. It would soon have come down again anid the temporary rise might have had the good effect of checking excessive importations. The only parties benefited have been the banks, governments and people of Europe. The gold Mr. McCulloch sold at a loss to the nation of some five millions of dollars, as ap- pears from the rise afterward, has been, doubt- less, of immense benefit to Europe. The greater part has been exported, and it will save those old countries which are over- whelmed with debt and difficulties from great evils. There is no necessity, however, for us to study their interests ox attempt to prop up their decayed and falling systems of commerce and government by an improper use of the vast resources of this virgin country. Still we do not say it was necessary for us to have this gold, for it ia not necessary as money, and is an article of commerce, just as cotton, an article which we produce to the amount of fitty millions a year or upwards; bit we say that it should not be sent away when it can be used against us and that the Secretary of the Treasury has no right to speculate with it on the gold market. Let the natural laws of trade operate im regulating this matter. If gold goes up it will act like a high tariff in checking excessive importations, and the re- action will follow in due time. By letting the value of specie and currency regulate itself through the operation of natural causes we hall find before long that our eight or nine hondred millions of circulation will not be too much for the country and that a healthy and gradual approximation to a specie stand- ard will be the result. Exp or rae P. R.—Ever since the shabby treatment of the American champion, Heenan, in England, the prize ring there has been fall- ing into disrepute, At the recent match for the championship two men, Mace dnd Goss, stool up for an hour without hitting each other and then agreed to call the thing draw, That will ond tho P. R. in Baglund. ormment Tax. Anumber of the Wall street bankers are atill directing their efforts to evade the payment of their government tax under the provisions of the Internal Revenue law. Three or four dif- Yerent cases were argued a few days since be- fore Judge Nelson, in the United States Circuit Court, on application for an injunction restrain- ing the internal revenue collector from en- forcing the law. Nearly a week has elapsed since the cases were argued, but the Judge still withholds his decision. The Wall street bankers in the meantime are making a common cause, not only refusing to pay the tax on their own transactions, but also refusing to pay to the government the amount of tax collected of their customers for that purpose. A joint fund is also being raised, and it is reported that from thirty to fifty thousand dollars have been subscribed to # general fund to be used in some way to secure exemption from the rev- enue tax. It is understood that there is due the government from the bankers and brokers about one and a half million of dollars, and if they can retain that amount by the expendi- ture of fifty thousand dollars it will be a profit- able speculation for them. Another very re- markable fact connected with this is that they aro using the money which they collected from their customers on the plea that they were obliged to pay itto the government in the shape of a tax to secure an injunction against paying it into the United States revenue. This is one of the clearest cases of obtaining money under false pretences on record. Yet we sup- pose that many of the bankers resorting to these dodges are church members, who go into the sanctuary with long faces, stand up and thank the Almighty that they are not like the publicans who pay taxes. The query is, what is to be done with this large fund now being raised to secure an exemp- tion from the revenue tax? Isit intended to pur- chase a judge or the revenue officers, or is the business of defending parties who are trying to evade their government tax becoming so dis- reputable that no lawyer will undertake it without an enormously large fee, sufficient to overcome the scruples of his conscience in thus working against the interest of the government? It is reported that some of the most prominent lawyers whom the bankers and brokers have heretofore depended upon te argue their cases have declared that they will have nothing more to do with cases of that kind. They declare that the principles in- volved in the just and equal enforcement of the law are too great for them to be lending their influence to assist its evasion. The result of the litigation now pending is of far more import- ance than generally supposed. Every honest taxpayer has a deep interest in the decision; for upon that decision rests the question whether he, after paying his tax, is to be pro- teoted by the legal tribunals and the govern- ment, If the courts decide that the bankers and brokers shall not pay their revenue tax then the door is open for every business inter- est to combine and secure an injunction against the enforcoment of the Revenue law. The tax is just as binding upon the bankers and brokers as on any other class, and if one escapes by litigation the other interests can also, and the result will be that those per- sons who cannot subscribe sufficient to fee their lawyers will have to pay the entire tax. Thus the burden will fall upon the middle classes, and those best able tu bear it will go scot free. Let it be once understood that all that is necessary to evade the payment of the government tax is to apply for an injunction in a court and raise a large fund to fee some- body and the government will very soon find itself minus of the great bulk of its revenue. In no instance is the tax morally and legally more binding than upon the banker and broker, who charges the government tax to his customer on every transaction. If they are not required to pay the tax under such circum- stances then we would like to know who is liable under the law. Preament Jonson aNp THE Fentans.—One of the radical papers of this city directly, and another, by insinuation and a mock defence of his actions, are endeavoring to injure President Johnson with our Irish citizens, and are con- demning him for having done his duty in en- forcing the neutrality laws of the country. This was Mr. Johnson’s plain duty, and he is to be commended for so promptly doing it. To be truly neutral he should now insist that England should make reparation for her failure to en- force her neutrality laws, and showd immedl- ately demand prompt restitution for damages sustained by our commerce through the rav- ages of the Alabama and Shenandoah pirates and St. Albans raiders. Arrival at This Port of General Dulce, Late © im General of Cuba. ‘The Spanish steam frigate-of-war Dona Isabel la Ca- tolica arrived at this port and anchored off tic Battery at about half-past four o'clock yesterday afternoon. She sailed from Havanaon the 2d inst. w bring to this port the late Governor Genoral of the island of Cuba, General Dulce D, Pomingo, of the Spanish army, and his aid-de- camp, Don Juan Munoz y de Vargas. ‘As aoon as the frigate was signalled from Sandy Hook numerous persons, consisting of the chief Spanish resi- dente of the city, admirers of the General, embarked in tugboats and boats of all descriptions, and started down the bay to moot tho vessel and give a wel- come to that gentleman. Among the persons of note who were in the boata were the Spanish Vice Consul, Senor Zea, Count de Casa Romero, from Havana, and Senor Olafieta, Immediately after coming to anchor the frigate fired a salute, running up the American flag, which war responded to by @ United States vessel lying off the Battery. General Dulce is a man of good propor. tions, has an intelligent countenance,fand a deep, pene. trating eye. His manner ts very gentlemanly and po- lite, and in his conversation jerday he manifested a ion of public irs in this country, and a good knowledge of our institations, ‘The General intends to land to-morrow morning at ten o'clock, and will probably stop at the Clarendon Hotel until his departure for Rabeanen oo on Monday next, where he intends paying a v to Secretary Seward. His stay in this country will be of short dura- tion, probably not more than ten or twelve days at most. North Carolina Convention. Rawrion, N. C., Jane 9, 1866, The Convention to-day continued tho discussion of the State constitution, The election of justices of the peace, hitherto belonging to the Logislature, has been given to the people The number of justices, horetofore un- limited, waa also restricted. A motion to adjourn on Tuesday, the 12th inst., was referred to a special com- mittee, News from Fortress Monroe. Fortress Mownor, June 8, 1866, Edward Long, the negro rioter, charged with atrocious- ly murdering a Mr, Whitehurst during the negro cele- bration of the passage of the Civil Rights bill in Norfolk some time since, was found guilty in the Circuit Court of Norfolk yesterday and sentenced to eightesn years Ry Sop in the Penitentiary, ar whe le Rene aan roe hi in which was sun! one s et tions against Fort Fishes ws Memes. 0. E. Maltby & 60., Was purc at the y nuction yesterday at the Navy Yard, by the tame partion, for the sum of 818,000, , WASHINGTON. CONGRESSIONAL PAY AND MILEAGE, CROWDS OF VISITORS AT THE WHITE HOUSE. ke ke. ae Wasunctox, June 9, 1866. VISITORS AF THE WHITE HOUSER, The crowds at the White House for two days have beon unparalleled. Scores of persons with important business to the President have been wholly unable te gain an audience, to their great disappointment and loss, FINANCIAL MATTERS. Internal revenue receipts to-day were $672,104. ‘The disbursemonts at the Treasury Department for the woek were as follows Novy Deparame Interior Departme: Total.....se006 The coinage of the new five cent piece will commence next week, ENLISTMENTS IN THE BEGULAR ARMY. Enlistments in the regular army are stated to be about three thousand a month. FAIRS AND FESTIVALS. There are over twenty fairs and festivals for various charities going on im Washington at the present time. THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. First Session, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Wasnincrow, June 9, 1866. PAY AND MILEAGE OF MEMBERS OY THK LAST CONGRESS. Tho Sreaxer presented a letter from the Secretary ef the Treasury, transmitting a statement of the amount paid for salary and mileage to the members of tho thirty cighth Congress, which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations. The mileage paid to Senators was $124,103, and the salary $299,728; total, $423,896, The mileage paid to mombors of tho House was $315,054, and the salary $114,910; total, $1,464,100, Senator Conness received for mileage $11,124, and Senator McDougall $10,964; Senators Harding and Nesmith, of Oregon, received for mileage $11,936 cach; Sonators Nyo and Stewart, of Nevada, recoived for mileage $5,622 each; but this was only for one session, being at the rate of $11,244 for the Congress, The Massachusetts Senators received for mite» age $739 each. The smallest sum received for mileage was by Senator Johnson, of Maryland, $67 20; of the California members Mr. Cole received for mileage $10,388, Mr. Higby $10,548, and Mr. Shannon $10,692; the member, Mr, McBride, received for mileage $12,531; Cole, the delegate from Washington Territory, received 12,089, aud Mr, Wallaco, the delegate from Idaho, Sistses! The smallest sum received for mileage was $64, by Henry Winter Davis. RELIEF TO THE WASMINGTON ARSENAL SUFFERERS, nted a letter from the com- mandant of the Washington Arsonal, transmitting @ statement of the distribution of money among the suf- ferors by the recent explosion at the arsenal. This was laid on the table. THR RECONSTRUCTION QUFSTION. The constitutional amendment passed by the Senate esterday was reported to the House with amendments, fn which its concurrence was requested, The Srkaker also ‘The SrEAKE® announced that under the rales of the House no business was in order excopt debate, as if ie Commiitee on tho Whole, on the President's annuat message, REMOVAL OP INDIANS FROM GOVRRSMNNT MINERAL LASER Mr. Burtricn, of Dakota, addressed the House in faver of the removal of Indians from the mineral lands of the uorthwestern territories, and their permanent location om certain districts in Dakota and Montana Territories. Mr. Witsox, (rop.) of Iowa, said he was not very well informed as to the manner in which the Indian affairs of ernment had lucted, but he had beam lon, Sf tbe opinion lians had been more “sis ne inst than 6il to read ex- tracts 4] 68 by two Indian chiefs before tho Hou mittee on Indian Affairs, charging all of ‘and corraptions against one Bu: sa Indian it, who t1 out to be the from who had just addressed the House. ‘Mr. Aurion, (rep.).of lowa, made a few remarks re- tho Interior and the Commissioner of Indian A>" fairs contained in the speech of Mr. Burleigh. ba Mr. Ci ( for Ohio, made sae ines . . CLARK! a ay i plana Teonestisenion, taking the Congressional view e 5 a Vay Arnwam, (rep.) of N. Y., followed on the same Mr. Bovrwnz, (rep.) of Mass., gave notice that Wed: next Goebaate ameudments would be up for by the House. ‘THR MISBIBBIPPI 1EVERA. Mr. Ganvia.p presented memorials from the boards levee Magny serps § fond be gh Fm oe and sisal in behalf Slates, sanenal aid and cesistenve fa the reconstruction of levees on the Mississippi river, which were referred the Committee on Ways and Means. The House at half-past three o'clock adjourned. : Th jew Bridge Over Broadway. On the 19th day of February last Alderman Charles E. Loew introduced a resolution in the Board of Alder- men providing for the appointment of a special commit- teo of the Board to solicit from architects and othess propositions to run a bridge over Broadway, at Futon street, in order to relieve the large amount of travel af that point and furnish a better means of protection te the lives and iimbs of the thousands who daily cross thig ing the insinuati st the President, the Seore> pkey thoroughfare, The committee have held a number of meetings and received a dozen or prope- sitions to build this bridge, at vari amounts, ranging from $15,000 to $30,000. At the last sitting of the committee they annouced that, baving a sufficient nomber of plana for this work before them, they would close their sessions, and in a short time thereafter render the result of their deliberations to the Board for their action. Of the large number of plans submitted for this bridge, it is anderstood the committee bave selected one, which they deem at once cheap, tasteful and ornamental) The jes submitting it are sanguine of giving entie satisfaction. This bi ia described as follows, the particulars baving been taken from the architeet’s Specifications :— There will be posts on each of the four corners of Fulton street and Broadway, to be made of cast irom, about fifteen inches in diamoter, with ornamental bases, each forming lamp posts. These posta will be the maim support of the bridge by lattice girders crossing Fulton streot, and are to be made of the dest wrought iron. The girdors will, tn torn, sw port three tonsion-rod girderay bap Broadway at right angles to Fulton street. There will be four flights of stairs, one at each of the four corners; to be five feot wide, with newels al posta at the bottom, and aiso fancy iron railings side, contin Hing. up and over each street. The Poe eo of the main bridge will have a slight curve to shed the rain water to the four corners of the bridge. tn Wg form is to be made of chestnut plank, caulked to make it water Gght, and will be fourteen feet wide and run the full length across Broadway, intersecting with the platforms ¢rossing Fulton street. The height from the curb of the street to the under side of the bridge wild be about sixteen feet. The bridge will be capable of sas- taining one hundred tons weight, and the greatest that would be on the bridge should it be crowded to utmost capacity will not exceed tan tons, The Board of Aldermen meet to-morrow afternoon, and the commities will submit their report to the Board at that time. The committee and Board have worked hard in — this matter forward, and spent a great deal of time to have the amount ni to be expended on this work em bodied in the tax levy. Thus far all has been . and it now beg Merwe | for the Common Council te complete what been begun. Masiea: CONCERTS FOR THIS WEEK. The Laat sacred concert will take place at Irving Hall this evening. The following artiste will appear:—Miss Kate McDonald, Miss Matilda E. Toodt, and Messrs. Mor- gan, Johnson, Castle, Campbell, Lumbard and Colby. On Monday evening the Doctor of Alcantara will be presented at the new French theatre for the last time this Beason, On Monday evening the first of Theodore Thomas’ grand orchestral concerts will come off at Terrace Gar- den, on Third avenue and Fifty-ninth street, These concerts will be givon every evening daring the summer season. The closing concert of the Mendelssohn Union will take place at Irving Hall on Thursday evening. Mr. ‘Thomas’ orchestra will assist this excellent vocal society. Wallace's Lurline and the immortal Athalie of Mendels- sohn will be given. MISCELLANROUS. " A concert troupe, consisting of Madame Gazzaniga, Signors Anastasi, Aibites and Ardavant and Mr. Henry Mollenhaver, under the direction of Mr. De Vivo, ts making a tour of New York and New England. The artists intend giving concerts during the present month in all the principal cities of those States. A grand sacred concert will be given on Sunday, June 1%, at St, Columba’s church, on Twonty-ffth street, under the direction of Mr. R. Gonzales, oat | A ata Lussan, Miss Livingston and Signor Modieri principal vocalists. A select chorus will Mrs. Gonzales apd Signor Mota will reader the orged rolection®