The New York Herald Newspaper, September 15, 1866, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, NEW YORK HERALD, SATUKDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1866, was about to move away the timbers supporting the | entails a corresponding reduction in counting | The Crisis in Mexice—Intervention the Duty bridge ‘and precipitated the crowd a distance of ms eps eg gravelly bottom of the dry canal. Tho rest of the bridge toppled over upon the mass of human beings and a panic seized those who wore on the bank and a stampede ensued. Thirteen por- OFPiCE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NaSEAU srs, | #008 were killed outright, or died soon afterwards, tHE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Yorn cents per copy. Annual subscription price, $14. Nu NOTICE taken of anonymous correspondence. We de not return rejectod communications, JOB PRINTING of every description, also Stcreotyp- and eighty-aine wore injured, some seriously and others it is supposed fatally, The train with tbe Presidential party continued on its way, the excursionists deeply aifected at the deplorable occur- rence, At Altoona, Huntington, Lewiston, Miffin and elsewhere demonstrations were made, An imposing re- ception was given in Harrisburg, a dinner be- ing given to the distinguished gueste at the ing and Engraving, neatly and promptly executed at the | potton House, Secretary Seward has beon too went water, Ni AMUSEMENTS THIS APTERNOON AND EVENING. BROADWAY THEATR! Broaiway, near stree.—Tnx Dmap Heart. Bcautnee at 1g o'Clock. Broome NEW _ YORK THEATRE, Bi Hotel—Stach Stauck—A Rect Sack, GERMAN THALIA THEATRE, No, 514 Broadway.—Die Pmt, TERRACE GARDEN, siglth and 1/fty-ainth street Gaver Coscents, commel opposite Now York re LaDy AUDLEY's avenue, betweon Fifty. Taro. THOMAS’ ORCHESTRAL ats o'clock, IGYING 1. exert oF SiGNoz CO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway, opposite Davoina aNd BuRLesquns—Tux Wixe {ONY PASTOR'S OPERA VocautsM—Neano Minstri 4°.—Tae Mystenirs or Gort ST, 2 Bowery.—Cowio ALLer Diyurrissemeny, Matinee at 4¢ o'Clock. CHARLEY WH BINATION TROUPE, at Mei * Hall, 4 a Vaniery or Licht our ED Corrs px Bancer, £0, 18, ee at 24 o'Clocic, MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Svan Cowpixivion Comvany Evry EVENING. Brooklyn. —Ermrorcas Meg squrs AND PANTOMIMES, ~Tur Tancon Brorneus’ | ACROBATS T’ANTOMIMIETS, ORK UVSRUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Bradway. v vin ONe-H x Micxoscorn | twica p Fugu An cv Yuonst, Opon from 6 err y. Heap Ax A. ML UL 10 BM 15, (S66. New York, Saturday, Septembi NOTICE TO PLUMBERS. waalod proposals for the Plumbing work of the new Me Buiowe, corner of Park row and Ann street, rng bo addressed to Jams € Ne Bexwert, Nuiw YORK until noon on Saturday, 1th inst. Lp Orrick, as may bo seen at tho office of Mr. toa Collie, arc No. 179 Broadway. THES NEWS. EUROPE. ty the Atlantic cable we Lave advices fro:a Kurope Aaiod at noon yesterday, the 14th instant. Maximilian Laying commissioned General Osmont, of die Prench oxpeditionary army, as his now minister “to | revuie in France,” Napoleon refused to permit the Gererat accopt ns being apatiblo with his daties tw bis Own country.” Tho report is curroat that Nopo- wrdered Murshat Bazaine to return home. has trausforred ono-haifof the custome xico te French ageats im order to pay his France. taved hy Parts that an arrangement loted for a meeting to take place soon belw poieon and Count Bis jab troops are del pod for Canads. Ring of Pruw iy to dissolve the Chamber ~ ly royal decros, owlng to tts con haa al army bad reached Frankfort on its svjnee cof roado « speech in St. Petersburg, vbiek he that “the good faith’? prevailing be Rusain and the United States neod w: nce to other nations. d France have Joined in an “active” protest against the concession of am to the United Stetes. the London Post applauds the “moderation” 0° the United States towarda Mexico as well a3 our now-ister vention in tho Spani#h-Aunerican war, Poursia hae voted a (ranch ory hes kingdom, m ment for vl ter. 6 procecd pt a national lotte are voted the ai om of Kon place between the Pareses und ond the Torkish army bad com. sion of Lebanon, or Whe we in, the horse Lord Irom. y iu Lonion yertor- American ! opened al aa advance. Tive-twen- securi wna stoady, with prices wlay. Middling uplands wae ud lafly and verter provisions wore without change at THE CITY. pf sol iors ant iors was helt last even Barlow an of Paimer ond Ut tions expressive of the nt the apptieation © of Chrietian of the Hoa ament conirary to + Court har c¢ eday ne ri im Wve ¢ 8 of w hiro © extrbi Pow aMdarits wilt " liminary ir, was to have siies Dowling, at sof Metric Attorney Monday morning et bolf. ore reported ia the vily J permits for'victime of te fe doath is the roport in Hook i Captain Brooks, of the line, will eat frou pier No, 48 Ni o'clock to-day, for LivArsool, touching at Qasens town, The mails will close #1 (he Post Offlon at lalfepast tea ‘The Ceovawolt, Captata Vaill, of 4 Cromwell iine, taker ler deparinre from plier N North river, at three o'clock thig afternoon, for Now | Orteans direct ‘The steamship fan Saly odor. Kmpire line, sails at thy from pier No, 15 Nor r Tho steamship Granudi, Capiain Bartley, leaves pie No, 14 Rast river, thie aficrnvon, at three o'elock pre cul, for Charleston, The stock market was firm ond active ve eraments improved, Gold ooed at 145. There was a torn fo the (ide of business ateies yewer @ay, occasioned by the fall of gold, and ja many article @arcely anything war done Business on the whole was fair, but transactions were quite, g°neraliy at lowe Aguren, On ‘change the chief feature was the reaction in breadstnfs, which opened quite atoady, but « unsettied and lower, Pork was unchanged. PF aveady. Lard was dul! and a shade easier, Wi wan without decided chanse Froighte were quiet | very (om. Petroleum was ‘yo # To. lower MISCELLANENUS. ‘The Presidential patty loft Pittsburg yesterday wor Jog for Harrisvurg. At Greensburg, Latrobe and eter were (he demongtrations were enthusiastic. AL ‘ee towa a large conoourse awaited the arrival of tbe pair. ta¢d Wid Doman deluge, and jurl ae ie (raw Capiain Atkins, jock to-day for Savyn wterday, Gor ge ecrose a canal had ail the ee | ‘to support the federal constitution in going * {nied to any of the male inhabitants of such | State, being twenty-one years of age and cili- unwell to fravel with the party, and was reported much worso yesterday evening. He reached Harris- 258 | burg by « special train and will remain there until his condition improves, By the arvival of the stoamor Stars and Stripes at Philadelphia we have news from Mexico to the Ist inst. ‘The crisis of the empire had evidently arrived, judging from the Ingubrious tone of the French and Mexican imperial press, as well as from the combined movement of the liberal forces for an attack on the vory seat of Maximitian’s power. The imperialists thomselves aro anxious for some competent Power to take charge of the destinies of Mexico, and look imploringly to the United Statos as thoir only salvation, Guaymas and Mazatlan are reported to have been evacuated by tho French, as Ul, Irving pluce.—Gnaxo Farewxut Cow- | iso San Luis Potosi. Marsha! Bazaine, who, at last ac- counts, was in the neighborhood of San Luis, is now reporied back in the city of Mexico. General Baron “Hoiel—Ix Tris Gtmworian Exrerraix- | Neigre is at Puebla, and is about to pacify the Gulf coast around Vera Cruz—if he can. A heavy concntra- tion of French troops was made at Orizaba for this pur- pose. The Canadians are agitated over the reports of spies and agents in their midst, who arc supposed to be in- tending something stirring. Suspicious strangers are lurking about the town of Ottowa, and seom to have an understanding with one another, ‘Four of thom in- pected the fortifications at that place recently, and then disappeared. A letter writer states that there isascheme on foot among tho Canadians to make raids in squads among the border American towns, and burn, pillage and kill in revenge for the Fen:an invasions, He further states that theso raids are to be carried on with govern- ment money, and, in caso of capture, the Fenian pri- soners will be offered in oxchange, * ‘The free ports of Sault St. Mario and Gaspé, Canada, have been abolished by proclamation, A camp is to be orgenized near Sherbrooke. Several Fenian prisoners captared at Fort Erie Lave been roloased on their own recognizances, A disturbance occurred in Now Oricans on Wednesday night between the polico and some colored soldiers, cansod by the atrest of two colored women. Quict was finally restored by the aid of Federal officers, Joseph Walters, a First Assistant Engineer in the Navy, died ia New Orleans on Thursday of yollow fever. He boloared to the tron-clad Kickapoo. . Twenty-one deaths from cholera occurred on Thursday in St. Louis, four cases appeared in Richmond yester- day, fifty at Memphis and fourtoon at Nashville, eight the people for representation in Universal euffrage and universal representa- of the United States. The early abdication of Maximilian in Mexico tion, or limited suffrage and partial representa. | is 8 fixed fact, The suppression of the rebel- tion in proportion, just as each State, from Maine to Texas, may for itself elect, is the condition of this constitutional amendment. South Carolina, for instance, has a population of 700,000—of which 300,000 are whites and 400,000 are blacks, Taking 100,000 as the number required for each member of Con- gress, she will have seven members if che grants universal suffrage; but if sho cuts off all her blacks she loses four members, and propor- tionately as the suffrage is restricted by a qual- ification of color, property or education to whites or blacks, This may seem pretty se vere upon the South, but it applica also, more or less, to every Northern State, including New York—which has s negro property quali- fication (two hundred and fifty dollars), and Massachusetts, where they have a reading and writing qualification. All the States will have modify their laws to universal soffrage under this constitutional amendment or be cut down toa greater or less extent in their numerations for Congress. This amendmont is going through. There is no other sottlement for the South, The Gov- ernors of the Southern States ought, therefore, to call their legislatures together at once and ratify this amendment, so that with the meeting of Congress in December they may bo all re- stored to both honses, In this way they can at once secure the balagce of power in Congress and put an end to any further attempt of the radicals to apply new restrictions of State ros- toration. The Southern States, too, will thus be put ina position to take their ground and shape their course to some purpose in view of the Presidential election, What has been done in the case of Tennessce amounts to the adoption of a rule of admission. The way is plain, tho door is open, and in this simple act of ratifi- cation the South will be restored to its balance of power. It is the ul‘imatum of the victorious North, and the South will lose much and gain nothing by delay in its adoption. Perifons Position of Canada—The Only Practi- cal Solution of the Ditfeutty. Our neighbors on the other eide of the St. Lawrenes are alarmed, and not without roa- son, xt the continued existence of extonsive schemes for their invasion and conquest by the of the lattor proving fatal. Thero were nine deaths in Nashville on Tharsday, Immedinte Restoration of the South Under the Constitutional Amendment ef Congress, ‘The fogs and clouds in which the great ques- tion of Southern restoration have been covered up since the adjournment of Congress are ut length breaking away. We know now what io do. We have boon taught by the famous mariner Daniel Webster, after drifting about for many days in thick weather and in av un- known sea, to avail ourselves of the first glimpse of tho enn for an observation and a reckoning, in order to ascertain how far the winds and the waves have driven us from our {rue course, We thus find from the bearings of the Maine eloction that the true gourse for the Southern States and the administration is Inia down in the constitutional amendiient of Congress In other words, we are convinced oppeston | from the significant results of the Maine eiection that thia amendment will carry all the Norta- ern Stetes yet to come, and that agalnst the solid North any further resistance from the adminisiretion or the excluded Southern ot be sevarded | Sites will be a waste of time, foolish and sui- cidal to all concerned, We would therefore urge apon President Jelnson the statesmanlike policy of a truco with Congress, and an active co-operation with the fixed and predominant public opimon of (he North, in behalf of the immediate restore- tion of the South on the basis of this constitu- tional amendment. We have shown that there is nothing in it which the President has not himec!f at one time or another recommended an essential to the security of the Union. It is not the radical plan; it iy not so near, in fact, to the rebel disabling and confiscation plan of Thaddeus Stevens as the propositions pui forth from time to time by Andrew John- son. It is a compromise which the President ought to have adopted in co-operation with Congress, and which he ought now to adopt at all eveaty, because his conflict with Congress, if persisted in, will be most emphatically devided against him. It cannot be otherwise. The in- eviiable result is as clear to the searcher for the true siiaation of things ag the light of the sun through the breaking clouds. Not one of the States which voted for Lincolu and John- will fail to adopt this constitutional wmendmeut, since New Jersey, the only Northern State whose vote was against them, has led off for the North in the ratification. The policy and the duty of Prosident John- son, thevefore, are as clear as & mathematical lemonstration, and equally clear is the policy of the still exeluded Southern States, We have evrnestly advocated the President's policy; but afier the verdict of the jury tho argumont Is at i, The example of Tennessee in the rati- 1 of the amendment is now the only alter- for the other Southern States. Tennessee, in ratifying the amendment, opened the door to the admission of her members into both houses of Congress. She, by that simple act, is reconstructed and restored. Certain indi- viduals of her people who violated their oaths son ver, at | Over to the rebellion are disabled from hold- tng any federal office hereafter, until absolved | by 9 two-thirds vote of each house of Congress ; | but by that vote they can be reinstated oven in |) | Congress itself, if daly clected by their poople, Noxt in regard to the rights of suffrage to the blacks this amendment eimply provides that when in any State the right of suffrage “ is de- | zens of the United States,” or when this right | is in “ ony way abridged except for participa | tion in rebellion or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citiwens shall bear to the whele number of | male citizens above the age of twenty-one | years in sach State.” In other words, if yon wive all your males, white# and black», above the age of twenty-one years the right to vote, you shall count them all in counting your for Congress, but neither they nor the to whigh they belong shall be counte: if you deny them the right to vote, whethor he- , Suse of their particular color or because they | do not own a certain amount of property or because they cannot toad and write. An abrhily- wieut of the suffrage ou aay of (hese wounds Fenian organiz tion, They know not the day nor the hour when the border line will be crossed at various points by thousands of well disciplined voteran troops, inured to war and inspirited by an inextinguishable hate of every- thing British. And they are well aware that had it not been for the interference of our cov- ernment with the Fenian movement oa Canada, a few months since, no force that they could have pnt into the field could have prevented the victorious sweep of those Awericun Irishmen from Toronto to Quebec and the extinction of British rule on the North Amorican continent. It is therefore natural that they should mani- fest alarm at the pertinacity with which the Fonian organization persovercs in its schome for the conquest of Canada and should en‘er tain serioue apprehensions for the near future of those provinces, It is just as well, perhaps, that the people of Canada should realizo the full exteat of their danger and learn, at the same timo, how only it can be avoided. The four millions who represent the Irish race in America constitute too important an element in our political so- clety to have ‘heir views opposed and thwarted by any party or by any politician. Mr. John- son will not the second time incur the dis- pleasure of the Irish element by interposing the military arm of the government between Fenian forces an’ the British troops and inilitia of Canada, and it is but fair to assume that no executive officer of this goverument will attempt to do so, after the action taken by the House of Representatives, at Washington, on the re- port of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, sus- tainiag, by % unanimous vote, the proposed modification of our nentrality laws so that no legal obstacle shonld stand in the way of the Fenians, These are facts which the Canadians cannot afford to overlook or underrate. When- ever the Fenians are ready for the invasion of Canada on 2 grand scale, it is pretty certain that the movement will not be rendered ahor- tive by the action of our own government, nnd that the Canadians must depend upon them- selves alone, The Fenians could probrbly bring to the work au army of fifty thonsand men—most of them veierans of the federal and confederate armles—against whom the raw militia and volunteers of Canada could not stand for a week. This is the peril to which Canada is now ex- posed. Tow can she ward off the blow? It is in vain for her to look to Great Britain for ® military force to protect her. The English government end press have been proclaiming and repeating for years past that the Canadians must provide for their own defence in time of war. Besides, it is against the British rule in Canada thet the Fenians are arming, and it follows that the more the interesis of Great Britain are repre- sented in the colonies the greater are the pro- vocatives to war. If the political connecotion between England and her North American colonies were terminated to-morrow the Fo nians would not have the shadow of an excuse for invading Canada, and, we believe, would not think of sucha thing. It 's England they wish to strike, and, if they cannot reach her heart, it would gratify them to cripple her in hor extremities, The real danger to Canada arises, therefore, from her connection with Grgat Britain, and the way to escape the dan- ger is to ent the connection. Let the Canadian provinces constitute themselves into a federnl republic, on the same general principles as the United States, and in doing so they will accom- plish three very desirable results—that is, they will attain a national name and indenendence insted of the provincial nothingness to which they have hitherto been condemned; they will rid themselves at once of all cause for appre. hension from Fenian forays; and they will find in the republic of the United States a friend, protector and ally. There need be no objec- | tion to this programme on the ground that the establishment of @ Canadian reprblic would only be preliminary to its annexation to the United Statee, ‘That question may be sally | left to the distant futnre to rolvs. Brit m the | mean time the two sister Anglo Saxon yepub- | lies may move on in their career, aiding, | strengthening and enriching each other, We | invite the thinking and losdtng minds of Can- | ada to take the sadject ipto their immediate | and matare consideratiga; for in it are involved Uber prowl vty Ape Ubeit fluro gresinees Non in this country, the virtual recognition of the Mexican republic as opposed to the em- pire and the positive refusal to recognize Maximilian’s lately established paper blockade of Matamoros have hastened events in that country, and the orisis is now upon her people. The moral power of the empire has long been broken, and its material force of French and Austrian troops under General Bazaine is soon to be sorely tried. General Escobedo, the principal of the chiefs of the republic who re- main in the field, is marching upon Bazaine with five columns of troops under his best leadors, and the empire will doubtless be forced to another and a final engagement. The stake at issue is not, however, the existence of the empire or the republic. The former is practically dead and the latter is really yet to be permanently establishod. The battle will decide simply who is to be the reorganizer of Mexico—Ortega, Juarez or Escobedo. Ifa signal victory is obtained—and « great advan- tage is really not within the range of proba- bilities, though it is possible—Escobedo will loom up into a second Yturbide, to whom the people will trust the reconstruction of the country. If Escobedo should fail, Juarez fails with him, and Ortega will be looked to as the great man who is to bring order out of the chaos and darkness which is to follow Maxi- milian’s retreat, Ortega has just returned from the United States, and the people will receive him as one coming backed by the power of this republic. Our advices from the capital of Mexico allude to a desire very generally expressed by the natives of Mexico and evon the French who occupy the city, that the United States authorities would interfere in the affairs of the State and secure to the republic on the retire- inont of Maximilian a quiet general election. Ortega will he accepted in some measure as an ambassador from this country; but President Jobuson should send another special messen- ger as well as hurry Mr. Campbell, our Min- ister, off to the capital, N»poleon is about to send over a special ambassador, who doubt- lez goes with instructions to Maximilian and Marshal Bazaine to gather up all the little odds and ents left of tho empire, and to con- clude some profitable arranzement with Juarez in order to save, if possible, some of the ex- penses of the expedition. The United’ States special mission should have for ils object, not the despoliation, but the reconstruction of the conniry, and to save it from the anarchy which threatens to overwhelin it whon the riya! chiefs engage in 9 quarrel as to who shall be the successor of the Emperor. President Johnson wania an opportuniiy to transfer his fight with the radicals from home to the foreign policy of his administration; and here is his oppor- tunity at hand. Let him send Phil Sheridan to Mexico with orders sueh as Sheridan would most delight in, to take the liberals in hand and give the French a parting kick, and thus, while kicking up a war abroad, give us a little peace at home, Modern Jacobins. Thore exist no durker pages in European history than those which portray the transac- ‘tions of the French Jacobins. Under the name of li‘erty, licentiousness and infidelity were fostered. A vile Perisian character was wor- shipped as the Goddess of Reason, and tho utmost license was taken, if not granted, to com mit unspeakable atrocities. Women and chil- dren fell alike before the unbridled passions of the mob. Assassinations, palace burnings and promiscuous plundering were the order of the day and night, Tho leaders of tho French Revolution provoked a storm of popular fury they conld not allay, aad in the torrent of blood that followed they were themselves ult!- mately overwhelmed. {t wos thus with the Jacobins of other days; end now a word about the Jacobins of the present day. Tho moral sense of the American people has no doubt been shocked by the displays and harangues of the party, headed bya reputed preacher of the Gospel, who are now preamba- lating the country invoking all kinds of male dictions upon the people of the South. In- stead of preaching pence and good will to all men, this preacher calls for an army from the North, to consiat of three divisions, to invade the South. “One division to consist of mus- ketry aud artillery, todo the killing, another to be armed with torches end turpentine, to do the burning. and the third to consist of sur- vyeyors, with lines and chuins, to mark off and ‘distribute the lands.” Is this the language that should be uttered by a follower of the meek and lowly Saviour? Ix this ao befitling invocation from an apostle of a Christian church? Suchan apostle! It would seem that no buman being impressed with the smallest instincts of humanity would endeavor to Inspire a great and magnenimous people, as the Northern people are, with such barbe- rous sentiments, But it is not altogether to such personages as thia preacher that these inhuman appeals are confined. We have seen the governor of a State following in the same stroin, and have found his utterances echoed by ® bellicose general of volunteers, We have already heard what certain radical members of Congress would do under the dictation of such men as Thad Stevens and Senator Chandler. All these Jacobins are in- viting the North to # fresh conquest of the South, to resubdue a people already humili- ated and impoverished, who have retarned to their fealty to the Union, acknowledged the old flag and are ready, as far as they are able, to bear their share of the burdens of a reunited country. One wants no reunion un- less the Soath be shackled haud aad foot like brutes in s bnicher’s cart Another would send the President's reconstruction policy to » very warm place and keep it there, encircled by bristling bayonets, Another cries for more blood—“Blood, blood, Iago”—and demande confiseation and devastation. Still another, with less merey than a frontier Indian sealpor, would rece the South to « condition of vassalare worse than ever cheracteriaud feudal ages, And #till another would have the government bang every rebel | in the Sovth, wipe out elt Sta lines; and make the South one waqk territory to be reshaped aa if there never existed a | Southern people. Althoug'y tripe for mischief | and bent upon arousing ‘the worst and most | malignant passions Of the people of the North, itis fortupaite these Turles do not repre- sent the greasy mase of the republican party, - Thov were.gut down at the Inet asasion of Cons ' gress by the adoption of the constitutional amendment we have before quoted, and are dangerous only for their power to mislead the people and excite their prejudices. Disfran- chisement, confiscation, devastation and death are among the mild resioratives these Jacobins would apply to the Southern people before they can regain their former constitutional position in the Union. But we apprehend the good sense of the American people will deter them from following the advice of such Jacob- ins and agitators as Parson Brownlow, Jack Hamilton, Ben Butler, Chandler and all the rest of the revolutionists of their stripe and complexion. We believe the people of the North are not prepared to accept the teachings of such men, and will refrain from joining them in the merciless march of rapine, with torch and turpentine, which they are urging against a qubdued people. Tas Sovrneey Press.—Of all the papers in the South those published at Charleston, South Carolina, once the hotbed of secession, are now the most moderate. The Mobile papers, controlled by Forsyth,do not seem to be aware that the rebellion is over. The New Orleans papers are often very violent, The Richmgnd papers are as extreme as ever, and abuse “everything and everybody, especially General Grant, whom they declare to be no general and no gentleman, although we guess that they thought him a genoral when he cap- tured Richmond and a gentleman when he lot Lee off so magnanimously. It would be far better for the South if all these papers were destroyed. They aid the Northern radicals by furnishing materials to excite and inflame the feelings of our people. But the Charleston papers are all loyal, for they say nothing about politics. To build up their burned and bom- barded city, te open railroads, to repair the numerous ravages of war—this seems to be the work that the Charleston journals have chosen, and they are doing it well. We commend their example to the whole Southern press. CITY INTELLIGENCE. Tun Park Concert.—The Park Commissoners an- ounce that if the weatber is fine there will be music on thé Mall, ot the Park, this afternoon, commencing at half-past’ three o'clock, by the Park band, under the leadership of H. B. Dodworth, Gemma, Macrvpen’s Mexican Trms,—The nowspaper enterprise of General Magruder, the estublishmont of the Mexican Times, 18 to be abandoned, and tt is stated that Mr. K. B. Pendleton, of No. 31 Broadway, wit! return the subscriptions of all who are ontitled to them. A lavmy Basker.—Early on Wednesday ovenine a very weil dressed young woman, apparently about twonty, yoars of age, called at the drug store of Mr. R. K, Kinzto, No. 377 Eighth avenue, and asked permizeion to leave a covered market basket which she was carrying for afow minutes, ‘This was of course grantod, and the young woman went out. Hardly bad. ten ‘minutes lapsed after her departure bofore the druggist heard a cry as if of an infant, It came from the d'rection of the basket, A terrible suspicion seized bim, and the basket was opened onty to vorifr his worst fears, and io show him to be the pozvesor of a fine male child, hardly yet three weeks old. Tho drugyist was 9 man of family, and & new acquisition was what he neither hoped for vor expected. In luis dilomma he applied to the potice, Tho child was sent to the central departmont. No clue to the unnatural mother has been discovered. ‘Nx Hawkes Zovaves.—~This regiment, which is more properly known as the First rogimont New York Stato Nationai Guard, ts about to organizo a new company, to be known as Company D. This action has become neers sary OWlng to the Increased nuraber of applications for membership. Reeruiting officers and sergeants aro to bo found in attendance at the artuory, ia Thirteenth street, every evening. Pau. Tamovce a Harcuway.—Poter Dowhag, a labor. ing man, living at 41 Mott street, yostorday alternooe fel through an open hatchway tn the storo of Messrs, Badd & Hoyt, No, 141 Elm treet, where he wag em- Dloyed. He was taken up in an inveuslbie condition, and an examination of his ‘njuries showed that he was ae- vorety injured. The unfortunate mam wae removed to Bellevue ‘Tarot Excurston axp Moommorr Fuertva:.—Ou Mon- day next Company K, Eleventh regiment Now York State National Guard, will go on its seventh onaual tar- fot excurston, to Lrom Park, on Bighth avenue, In tho evening there will bea moontight festival, when vocal music will be furnlahed by four large singing societies, Fine weather is the only other requisite t rendor the ox- carsion @ very affair, Procuza Yoor Lacexera.—Tho officers of the Twenty. ‘sixth (City Hall) precinct have recently mado a number of arresta for violations of corporation ordinances, and yostoriay Jastice Quing, in the First District Court, fined William O'Rourke $50 for carrying on a second hand buriness without a license, Totence McGuire, & hack proprietor, bad to pay two fines of $10 exch. two of his drivers. Pot uniivensed, aud Sangwel D. Ling Ags fined $25 for driving an onlicensed special coneh. Wuorr Mison's Amocutiox.—The inclement state of the weather prevented many members from attending the meeting of the above society at Armenia Hall last night. Now ofticers were clected for the cnoujne year, and the proceodings terminated earty. Comrermox ov Prrox Lanon. —Last evening Mr. Rh. 1, Dugilale read a paper before the Arsocistion for the Ad Vancomont of Seience and Art om the subject of ©The Competition of Prison Labor.” The maiv portion of the paper was based on the opinion oxprossed in « resolution offered at the convention of workingmen rooently belt in Baltimore, in which the ground was token that the price of freo labor baa decreased in consequence of the Bgetem Of contmet Inhor observed in prisons Mr. Dug- dalo assumed that to aboliah prison labor would entail a grievance on the community far more deploratie in ite result than could be possibly inflieted by the prewnt system, and spoke of the presomt eystem aa the bert which, under the cireumstanoes, conld bo odopted. It was much better for the community thet it shonkd rocetvo an equivalent for the money expended in the imprisonment of felons than that the (elons, left in idleness, should be encouresd to resume their depredations on the community affor their rolenas froin confinement, Mr. Dugdale very clearly and forcibly supported the position he took la opposition wo the reeolutron to, In the debaie which ensued after the reading of the paper some totoresting frets comeoruing prison labor wore revealed. It was stated that a gentleman, a partner of a leading mercantile firm in this city, bad mado a handsome eum of money out of contracts wade with prison sathorities; and other easca could be cited. It wan argu it would be more profitable to the State if (ho contract aystem of labor should bo changed so that the acthorities thew wares to the ere, and thus reap the profit now made by the contract- ore This plan has been tried ai the Olicion Prison, and it has been found that, inetend of that inetitution being @ tax on the public at | the rate of $15,000 per annam, it Yielded @ revenve, under tho now syatem, of $50,000. MaxtirG of nm Vaawietee ax Poco —The United Association of Varninhers and Polishers met inst evening at No, 15 Dehancey street, for the purpose of Oonnidering apd acting wpon matinrs momedintely con- nected with the interests of the erat. The su bjont whieh mainly occupied apecideally the “is agg u meeting war providing measures to be goted by members of the society who are working in qhahiish- mente where non-society mom are sleo cmploved the object being to protect the taade avalnet the Putresion of Uhriftios incrapte oF “Dotob” — worksaen—nanally denominated ‘“‘seabs'’—by the socioty ‘men, who we contouted to earn jast sufficient to keg, them alive, and have a tandency to rednoe the of wagon below what good workmen consider 9. Phir compensation for thetr labor. Geaxp Socrery oF Usiteo Coorens—This sootety hat Aapocial moeting Inst NiGY. at Lb1 Howery, for the p me pose of receiving @ aMuniion from a rociety recently Organized in Jorsey Axty, There are at presont ve sometion within thiy junsdiction, whieh ipaludes Now York ant Hrooklyys, ‘These socictien ha Meinhersbip EXPeding twee bantrod. exc Society cog.posed of thy ordinate Pogrty, and the w principle nalegons to tle 7 fact an i There was aion, bot i fort til some things ‘ berewitls could be laid before the geveral tina in thie ¥ fiet low TWE NATIONAL CATHOLIC COUNON Many of the Archbishope and It 7 contiy arrived ia this elty, for the purp the great National Catholic Coune in Raltimore on ihe Ort Sunday advantoge of Their spare tito Pacifie const) to vivit Conidae, Meet ol Unguished gemtemen have returued to | Pleased with their tour thro the Pry y of thom will probably * ned a! Catholic chareies. <peciwily thowe (POF, tie CITY POLITICS. Preparations for the Mammoth J A mecting of the Committee of Arrangements of the! great Johnaon Union demonstration, coming of on M day next, at Union square, was held yesterday aftors| noon, at four o'clock, at the Astor House, There was m they id wore Sonstor Jas pa Dixon tively be prosent on M 5 ‘and "Jaa, Badoos ha cal er ea necticut; Pe ‘and. ox-Goveruor Price. "The Chairmen "te po A) Wome, Ne Sores aS re erence sion. 1 eogreaae would bo publi-hed in fullon Monday, stating @ a ber of clubs and their respective positions in Unio square. General Netsox Tayuon, Chairman of the Receptia Comittee, offered the following :— Resoived, That the speakers, distinguished U contrivatats and marbere of the ‘and tembors of the Committee of Arrangement be adimitied to the Maison D Committee Rooms on (he eveuing of the demonstraiton, ‘The resolution waa carried. The Cuamman further stated that there were ai ments made for six stands; if the crowd admit there would bo more, Tue main stand, fronting Broadway, would be a grand feature in stand architec ture, Besides the bands of music, there will be e choru of thirty boys to sing patrioticairs during the interiud such Pies “Star bpangied Bannor,” ‘Raliy Round Fiag,"" Michael Connolly, was on tho Police Commit: aa Mr. E. Brooks looked after the press. Thore would thirty-six vice Presidents on tho main stand, and officcrs R amparny # would represent tho moat promaa men in the city and country. A motion was carried to strike off from tho list o speakers those who failed to respond to their im tations. The Committee then adjourned to Monday eveuing| at six o'clock, at the Maxon Dore, Tho Rudical Si General Committee. Tho now Executive Committee of the radical can State Central Committee met at the Astor House yor terday morning in sccret sesstou. We learn, however, th the principal business transacted was to establish hi quarters, voliect finazces aud make other arrangements jor the opening of tho canvass, Meares were adopted jor distributing the members of the Sw ithe travelling miscogens along different routes” of irave: i the Siate, so ax to make them serviovabe as speake: thoir expenses to he defrayed by the Central Comittee] SOLDIERS? AND SAILORS’ CONVENTION. for the State Convent of Resolutions Adop' od--Addresses by General Johu Cochraw Morace Greeley, General Barlow Others. Last evening a convention of soldiers and sailors, posed to the President's poticy, was held in Clinton H Astor place, for the purpose of ratifying the Union publican State ticket and for wleoting delegates to u State Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Convention to be held Syracuse on the 20th inst, The meeting wax cniled ordor at eight o'olock. The committes selected the lowing officers, who are to serve also ns delegates to Stato Convention :—Chairman—Ceneral John Coch Vice Presidonts—General J. K. Hamlin, Gencrat F. Locke, Colonel D. M, Evans, Colonel K. Clark, ¢ John ¥, Miner, Surgeon A. P. Williams, Genera! ©, Dayton, Lieutenant J. M. Willlams, Licutennnt M. Blako, Alexander Shaler, Ensign G. W. Perego, Ed. C. Kemboll, Chavlain Joho F. Mines, Chaplain Wi H. Boole, Brigadier General Chas. Darling, Captain F' We Cinsoret, Captain J. won, Colonel A. J. H. ganne, Captain James Bell, Lioulenant et I. ioaee pee Mee gee aires ‘onkorpy, a a ng G ain GH. MeKusght. ga ee Traries—Capiala Charles W. Nelsom, Colonel @ etlorg. Letters were received from Governor’R. RB. Ptewart L. Woodford, Robe t McAlister at presmng sympathy with the objects of the and regretting t) ele inability to attend, On assuming the chair General Cocrmane delivered lonathy address, alluding to the possibility of a new betlion, and to the overwhelming power of the Not which has begun to manifest iteelf in the elections Maino, Vermont and other States. There was a debt of one. due to the negro, The officers of late Confederate army were organized in the South, a! contemplated deeds and already have coro mitted darker than those which orivinally tated the bellion, The evidences are that the re of tre: aco reviving, and Johnson waa the reviver of rebe!l. L‘nootn conquered the rebeliion. But all freeh ovidene! of treason will be equeiched ny the freemen of the Ni General H. E. Tremare “d the following tiona, which wore adopied by the mecting ai an @: slou of tla sense and purposes :-— Passlred. That wo regard with earnest delice tbe coaaity for anonimity of sentiment and aetion inne 1 pecple in aaauring the results obtalned by suceassiul iw “SRosolved. Thai the triamph of our arms.bas determ: others, © that the union of thee Etales is perpetoal: slavery dend; that civil Nberty, with perfect becore t law, inthe right of freeman tlonal debi, whoe YY tl of Lerors, must be wnaranteed re eXpeet these conclusions to Loceme m pare the land. Thus do we bope tor « & reunited country. wocommend these considerations to of to the whole peop! e BALLON it the resolute on behalf of the war, Olfer a just, wise wr the results of our batties and restoring the Ui riily approve the action of the Convention t , and Wiil labor for ita ratifeation by the prop The foliowing resolution wae offered by Woisa4 Ou Boouxs and adopted :-— Resolved, That » committee of five be appointed tod and report a constitution fer the © gantvelion of » suld'e and Sailors’ Union of the eity of Now York, The committes appointed is cowposed of Wilt Oland Bourne, Goneral John A. Poster, Charles W. i son, John F. Miner and Colonel D. M. fvann. Horace GmasuAy Was introduced, and recoived with thoeiastie applause. He remarked that be envied ( soldier, ord that he would soouer bave had » soa of hin through the discipline of the late Untup armies in war than graduate at the best coll 1 Koved It would botter tit him for the ‘stern sod ir duties of life. Civic duties had ta be performed durid the roboilion as well ax military, He alluded to eome of + dark days during the war, nod especially wen, Ly ri ing in this city, the sympathisers with rebeis tr: the forces of Lee on the Foil ofPonusy! rebels hart succeeded there the streets of bave rua with bleod, Those rioters and comradca and Revol thiaers pow supported the policy of And Sohneay Ho hoped the contest would never end until equal rig were eocured to ail men, black or’ white. Wu. 0. Hownew offered a resolution, which wi adopted, appotating # committee of tan, with power net, for the erection of @ suitably mounmont in Cyp Hui] Cemetery over the three or foor thonmod Union diere who are there buried, Evana, General Stewart L. Woodford, . Goneral Baxow, Secr ctary of this State, next addre the neoting, saying that though the war ‘vas procs) encod it #till oxmmed, because (he South hind found aw ally in the President of the United Stater, who had mo ‘0 answer for than anyone in this generation. The n effort of the rebois would be to do away with the ¢ oath entirely, He beileved the admiasion of loyal rey sentatives even from the South imvolved the: adwiw of all representatives fram the South, and virtually pw up the content of the government to the South. Thy would be tw the pay: of our rational which would ruin the credit of coumry abroad. He was willing to take the conatity mont as tho beat thing under tho circume would oblige the oe mf rs fo grant ey negrosa and reepect their right i Tho moeting was addressed by General ©. W Ave several other speakers, after which |' sdionmy frags Paty KINGS COUNTY POLITICS. Mesto) Ofte Kixaa County Sotlgte sy Usiox Jommom Cham —A regalar Yagotip County Soldiers’ and Swtors’ Urthn Joynson Welnesday evening at beat guns? pg tr ( Lace, Vice President 8 80 Pain. A 0 potnted, consisting Of WO1pr.e1 Seicaher aud Paymaster Floas, ‘ty egemine of the afferrs of “aco at F mt. panies Ah = dation, | Capiaisy would not Dr y?,, as une: lomt thet | Dix, who vou" ha: received aery ti “400? vai Korlay moved to tay oti cho paet meeting, which war BA177q thon adjourned, We Twrcers Wann Jommon Cort ‘ican toon of the Twoifta ward y evening at MoMahon’ mbla etroet, for the f loca! Jobnaon eltbs tito 88 of k of the campegn is wee a | Tho relented president of ; Thomas