The New York Herald Newspaper, February 21, 1867, Page 6

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Nive of the Fenians recently captured in Dublin have been summarily tried, convicted and sentenced to severe Puatsbment. ‘ ‘The war estimates of England are to be larcely fucreased, The wife of the Prince of Wales has boop delivered-of a@daughter. Saxony returns all her mem bers for the North German Parliament es anti-Prussian im politics, The liberals are in a majority all over Ger- many, Progele has ordered the purchase of steamer: of American model for quick service. Consots closed at 90% for money in London; a decline. United Btateg Ove-tweuties wore at 7454. The Liverpooi Cotton market wasquiet with middling uplands at 14d. Breadstu if remained qu Jet. Lord Monck, Gavernor General of Canada, was enter- tained at a complimentary banquet in Portsmouth, Kng- land, immediately after his arrival in that couvtry. Soverat of the North American delegates were present. ‘The speeches, of which we publish a report, contain some very important sentences relative to the Con- federation project and the future importance of British North Amorioa, @ territory, which, we are told, may be- come “the home of the English race” after “momentous changes ia Western Europe.” CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday after the reporis of commit- (es and the disposa! of several bills of minor impor- tance, the Reconstruction bil! was taken up, the pending nnn ice of Baucat tho auspicea of the Society for the Advancement of Selence ‘and Art, of this city. His subject was ‘The Land Aal- ‘The hall wae cldsety modt to bw late friend, the deceased Superintendent Bach, of the Coast Survey. # lecture was delivered inst evening by James T. Brady, at the Reformed Dutch church in Twenty-first streot, hear Sixth avenue, upon the subject of “Our People.” Owing to the stato of the weather there was but a small attendance, The remains.of Professor Bache passed through this ittee of citizens, Commerce and The sxpeusililad tof the government of Now. York county during the year 1867, secording to the lato Comptroller's estimate, will foot ap $8,202,138. A flores seoeeemmapmnennes ip Deel, ee terday moming, about two 0’: x, continued at in. torvals throughout theday, The city railroads were ‘again blockaded and the wore almost Impassabie . The board for testing: ener again yesterday and triod sovernl gune, with varied results, Under the head of “Onme in New York ana Brook- lyn,” « tall exposition of the Various social clubs of the lower ctams is given. will be otf . has ciaiaaie dheappeared with; tt ts sald, a of $20,000 or $90, 0°° 'p his acooumta,” Tho cage of Be Puy Against Burford af, to Yemerday the case for thecplalniif wus closed andthe TS aca cere eae agent at ‘ mbexzied $500,000, ‘property’ ' of the United'States, Commissioner Betts; examine certaia papers imseference to the matter. William Sohwarts, picid Dy amare who the he mast be positively proved, although the Decision reserved. wwfiie! trial of ‘Charles B, Manual for killing Henry Seblesser in Thompson street was conctuded yesterday sim the General Sessions. After an able shatge by Judge Ruesel, the jury doliberated half an hour and returned A verdict of guilty of murder in, the. first degree. ‘The stock market was depressed yesterday morning, ‘but afterwards became firm. Gold closed at 137%. ‘The markets generaily wore quiet; but values, as a general thing, were essentially unaltered. Coffee was quiet, but firm, - Cotton was dutl'and heavy. On Change four was quiet, but. a shade firmer, Wheat was dul! and unchanged. Corn dectined: 1¢., with scarcely any demand.” Pork was steady, while beef aud lard wore in fair demand, at former prices. Freights were dell. Whiskey was nominally unchanged: Naval stores ruled firm, Petrotoutn was steady. MISCELLANEOUS. Our Southern letters are dated at Richmond, ’Charles- ton and Macon. Some” excitement existed in West Vir- ginia on account of the murder of two members of the “Red String Association,” a radical organmation ‘for electionsering purposes. In South Carolina the great destitution among the people 13 believed to be mainiy due to the disorganization of the labor'system. A case, Vesting the validity of powers of attorney hold during the war, on whioh property was sold for confederate money, ia pending in the United States Court at Charies- ton, Mrac;Caroline Carson, daughter of the late James L. Pettigrew, and sow residing in New York, being the Plaintiff. Governor Orr has beon severely denounced for the sentiments he expressed at the Chamber of Com- merce banquet and im his address to the freedmen re- cently, He gaid that $40,000,000 of property had been banished from Charleston by tho refusal of the people to associate with Northern merchants. He also an- nounced that he was in favor of giving the negro, who could read, the right of suffrage. In Macon high hopes of successfu! business this year are entertained by the merchants, The action of Now York in reference to the relief of Southern destitution is looked to with lively emotion. Our Omaha (Nebraska) correspoadence gives a short ‘line. direct from thé Missouri river to the Kastern esa, béard. % George Kiter was shet ta a court reem ia Phitidetpbea charged with ontragung, and for then about to beurted He dieg was taken tote oastody and to prisan to await his inal for the murder. vy’ The Missiesippi steamer David White, plying between New Orleans and Loutsvilie, was biowa up near Colum. bia, Ark., on Sunday, and. thirty-cight persons are knowa to havebeen killed amd aineteen wounded. | ‘There are sixty-five passengers missing, whose names are unknown, es the books were tost, ‘The Kentucky Democratic State Oonvention to nomi- nate a candidate for Governor will be held on Friday. It is thought probable that William ©. Preston, formerly Minister to Spain, and in the tate wara rebel brigadier, will be nominated, ‘The Nebraska Legislature has ratified the conditions imposed by Congress for her admission asa Stare by a unanimous vote tu the Senate and only six dissenters ia the House. The Militia Dil! was passed in the Tenncssec Legislature yesierday. The Senate rejected thé bill te compensate Joyal owners for losses occastoned by the war. In Connecticut, yesterday, Richard D. Habbard, Earl Martia, and Wm. . Barnum were, nominated for Con. grese in the First, Third and Fourth District (reepec- tvely) Democratic Conventions. General speed &. Fry, who killed Zollicoffer, Captain Harlan, who firet raised « company in Kentucky for the Union army, the oMeers of the Freedmen’s Burcau, aad severa! prominout Untonists resident in Boyle county, Kentucky, Lave been notified by the redeis to leave there on penalty of death. General thomas bas beea apphed ‘to ior protection. The boiler of a paper mill af Milwaukee, Wis., ox- ploded tast night, killiag four persons and iajuring three others. The Sotiloment Adopted—The Issue With President Johnsen. The House of Representatives yesterday, with an amendment excluding from the work of reorganization certain leading rebels, adopted the Senate bill for the reconstruction and restoration of the ten excluded rebel States. ‘The bill as thus adopted, provides:— Firat. For the division of said ten States into five military districts, each to be under the command of a general of the army to be’ ap- pointed by the President, and for the tempo- ary re-establishment in each of said districts of mertial law for the preservation of peace ‘and order. Seeond. For the reorganization of the States concerned, in defining » new system+of suffrage upon which State conventions are to be elected to make new State constitutions, and State legislatures, &c., subject to the ap- Pproval of Congress. Universal male suffrage, whites and blacks, is the system adopted, ex- cepting such persons as have been guilty of treason or rebellion, after having taken an official oath in any eapacity to aupport and defend the constitution of the United States. In other words, in this preliminary work ot Soathern reorganiation the rebel disabling section of the pending constitutional amend- ment is applied. As the bill originally passed the Senate this restriction was omitted, under the idea, no doubt, that the loyal negro vote would counterbalance the white rebel vote in these reconstruction proceedings of the people, even in Texas. Third. This measure provides that when any one of the ten States concerned shall have framed s State constitution on the terms laid down and shall have ratified the pending con- ‘stitutional. amendment, and when this amend- ment stall bave been proclaimed part of the “federal constitution, such State shall be eligible for réadmission into full communion in the gen- eral government, all these local proceedings, meantime, being subject to the-approval of The bill farther provides that until the local clvil governments of the several States con- cerned shall be recognised and accepted by Congress they’ shall be regarded as merely provisional (including Mr. Johnson's State establishments) and subject to the will of Con- gress. P The material change in the bill made by the House is that in reference to rebel suffrage, rebels which the plaintiff, an ex-Indinn agent under the late President jit was 8 week the applica! 4 who said ho : oid, logistataray Se Tho business a mar val ae, ae ee | eee 8 nok mary shen one mite of loyal mea, inelndiog who Diack J ~ A fow Gays ago we" published the , tg | wt how al pnt a et nd gs. the biacks,.mnder.. this sy® | budget for 1867, showing the estima ellion, and wh a Talsing’the fof the English, metropolis, although it -costs tem, will wicld the’ balance of power, | of appropriations required to"be made for the of persecution, that there is 10 desire to ex- three times the money. ‘There ‘ta’ food for re- if not the majority atthe: polls" in every State } Support of the city goverment fos te eusteOt | Sretee say eoing: Sep SON Lana ea 0 ‘concerned, the frat resulta of this experiment, | year to be over: cleven million dollars. To- | istration and main inal ; Rian 2, raped a en Neweagpe The Case of Lord Ernest Vaue—An Ind? The demograte of ‘the’ Fourth ‘Cot igression al however, of the: dominatit class, will only ac- e Pendent Jadiciary. district of ¢ "nominated cept the situstion and face thé music they may Published yesterday, under the title of | William H Barnum, “A Peer in Court,’an account of the case of Lord Ernest Vane, who was sentenced by the the Queen's’ Bench, London, on the easily control “thelr, black yotes from the start and for many.years.to come... The bill may to become a: law this session, but if so it is morally certain’ to ‘be re-enacted by the new | raised ebove this amount. q man and Barnum the showman... The. Coagian Wile Was dae: elie, oti 8 A glance at the Comptroller's reports for se Sonny hanes mameeet rest, of unqualified negro suffrage... The best the past six or cight years shows that the 80) reputation, identified the bustoees thing that the Southern whites can do, therefore, | expenditures have been steadily increasing, interests of the district and panei e is to bow:to the fortunes of war and make} and that the creation of a number of inde- rane oot ee ee up their minds 'to the alternative of negro civil | pendent commissions, responsible to lo ex. is said that he is very desirous of ‘ ecutive head, has neither lightened the burden | of taxstion nor given us an efficient city gov- ernment. The expenses of the Metropolitan Police. haye increased from elght hundred thousand dollars to two millions and a quarter in eight years, and this year the estimates for that department reach nearly two millions seven hundred thousand dollars. The Metro- politan Fire Department swelled . its expendi- tures from four hundred thousand, dollars in 1865 to over one million in 1866, and asks for geven hundred thonsand dollars for the cur- F rent year, The Commissioners of Public Chari- ties and Corrections spent five hundred thou- sand dollars in 1863 and increased their expenditures to over one million in both 1865 and 1866. Their estimates for the present year reach within a few dollars of one million. Besides these there are the Health and Ex- cise Boards and balf a dozen other commis- sions, whose cost comes out of the pockets of the people, in one shape oranother. If with ell this outlay we bad secured a vigorous and efficient city government, whose benefits wore enjoyed by the people in. incrcased comfort and security, very few objections would be made to the-expense. But the government is , in little betier condition now than it was ten years ago. The grogshop rulers snd munici- pal rings have been deprived of some of their | power, but ‘they continue their*rascality in somewhat circumscribed limits, it is trie, but with a8 much effrontery as- before. Taxation presses more heavily than ever, upon the peo- ple, whosevonly consolation, ‘if it can be ré- garded as such, is to be found in the fact that the-expenditure of their money has been trans- ferred from one set of officeholders to another. " The city government, in its present irrespon- sidle and disorganized condition; ‘costs’ too much. It would beam unnecessarily extrava- t aystom—if it can ‘be called a, ap gral Paper pope e Nn and political equality, and to meet the issue by making the blacks allies instead of enemies. The bill, in declaring the excluded States to ' be still “rebel States” without legal govern- Menta’; in casting deide all the pét State estab- lishments set up by the President with the aid of Mr. Seward; in re-establishing mar- tial law over said States and its resirictions against rebels, and in its requirements of universal negro suffrage, together with the ratification of the’ pending constitutional amendment, may be» extremely obnoxious and unpalatable to Mr. Johnson. But,.as he must choose between the surrender of his policy and the loss of his office, we are half inclined to the opinion that his policy will’ be dropped like an old pocketbook stuffed with counter- feit money. He will have a good opportunity for a graceful surrender if hié message to the new Congress on the 5th of March, and if he is, after all, the practical, man of comnion sense we have*taken him’ tobe, he will not waste his time and labor in rehashing his ex- ploded constitutional chop ‘logic, but will fall in with the resistless current of facts and events and utterly abandon those State rights fallacies which have been fruitful of nothing but humiliations to himself and misforiunes to theSouth Measured by the slow march of public opinion in the old peace times, we have ad-| vanced @ hundred years‘on the negro question since the Dred Scott decision of 1856, which affirmed that “a negro has no. rights which a white man is bound to respect,” or since the drivelling confession of President Buchanan that he conld find no authority in the constitution. for interfering against the State right of secession. In, fact, upon the “everlasting nigger” we have pasaed through We have no doubt that Barnum’ the’ fron, would make a spbetg 2 representative in Congress. There is aced.of such men there. But he would not be'te much st home at Washington as would Barnum he showman. The latter ‘has been used ‘to ties of all kinds are bis delight.“ b invaluable in showing up John Morrissey and Ben Builer to visitors from the rural districts. He is, moreover, a fitting representative’ for the wooden nutmeg State, which will lése nothing of the character it already enjoys by “sending him to Congress. It, has been suggested by some who know Barnum the showman that he might» playa shrewd trick upon’ his opponent by passing himself off as Barnum the iron man wherever rhe could make votes by the operation. This, however, would be a dangerous. game. Bar- num once exhibited a petrified horse and rider, said to have been discovered in Demerara and brought to New York at a heavy expense. For some time the frequenters of his museum gazed with curiosity. and wonder upon the remark- able petrifaction; but one day's rascally visitor atrack it with a cane, when Qf came the'leg of the'rider and thé tail of the horse, and the dig- covery was made that it .was,.nothing. byt plaster of Paris. It would take as littie to-ex- pose the difference between Barnum the show- man and Barnum the’ mien of fron.” ve The “London Times thundered away at the craet tormentors of young Ames, who had been forced to leave his regiment, and it excited so much sympathy for him—rather spooneyish, as. after all it must be admitted he appeared to be—that a handsome subscription was raised in his bebalf by the English people, On the other hand, his chief tormentor, finding the army and Eng- land too hot to bold him, left both, with his @ebts, behind him, and sailed for thé United States on the 15th of November. In 1857 he was knowa in Chicago, under the name of Mr; Stuart, as one of the curious lot of human waifs and estrays from the Old World whom another of their number, the late Mr. Dickens, if he had possessed a tithe of his celebrated brother's talent, might have drawn to the life, and for all of whom that olty was a sort of Botany Bay. It must have been droll enough for future generals of the federal army, thon” busy in’ ‘the offices’ of the mend Wartike Preparations ja Fraice, | Among, the items .of intelligenee collected from our mail despatches and printed in yeeler- at the actual of things, the power of | ment tas it# counsel and its attorney, end their palafles; ‘feed aid costs’ reach’ an {neredible Smount. Litigation is.one of the le gonsequences of such » system.” The new Phitadetphia-Jotinson-Conventién, the true | Health Department is said ‘to ‘bave given a course for Mr. Jobnson is to sign the bill, close | liberal sum of money to one counsel to travel phe kind, the up this Southern business, aad Upon ‘the vari- | in Burope and investigate Ssnitary laws ta ps Pe he peep tir ad ous branches of the great money question pre- | the principal cities there, and to have paid gen paiae - | pare for a new departure. 4 good many thousand dollars to another Cherbourg, at Loticnt and oy Bosides ——_—_—_—__—_ counsel who discharged bis duties during theed the Volta, a doepatch boat, is (0 be | Seethors Old Fogytam—tmportant Facts | hig ghaence. The law expenses of that Board in August; the Jeanne.d’Are,. an, 4 e: from Neath Carolina. We publish to-day a jetter from Charleston embodyiag some very interesting facts in oon- nection with the return of Governor Orr from Washington. The violent animosity which the Governorecems to have excited by his efforts to and of the Exq@eo Board are reported to have reached an extravagant amount during the enlighten the popular mind at home as to the the plans for the reorganization of the real state of the case as he bid himself soon. it now under consideration, it le during his recent visit to the capitel, lament. | Satperor means to “hold the J” ablyshows how the tiasses of the Southern Whether these movements, which : people, under the direction of their old blind | mistakably warlike appearance, are to be leaders of the blind, still prefer darkaess to regarded as indicating a desire for continued light, They have returned to their snéient peace, doctors inust be allowed “to differ, game of “ follow your leaders,” notwithstand- Aldermen, Viewing them in connection with the process mg the thot that not a few of the latier during | Qouncilmen and all municipal “tings;”. but of arming which is going,om all over the the war scandalized them by contriving to keep out of the army altogether or to-shelter themselves and their immediate relatives if. bombproof positions, escaping the jaws of: death into which rushed, stimulated by their stump spevches, co many thousands Of the bravest, most impulsive eons of the South. Now they venture forth from the silence into which they shrank at the downfall of ‘the con- federaey, and the ignorant and unreflecting begin to listen to them as of yore. They play bellwether again to as many of their old flock as were not butchered by the war. Two startling facts set forth by Governor’ Orr *might’ well open tlie eyes of all in the Soath who are not wilfully blind. We allnde, first, to the fact that Richmond offers such a striking contrast to-day to Charleston. “Hardly ® vacant lot,” says Governor Orr, “marks the ravages of the fire of 1865 in Richmond, while the. burnt districts this can be accomplished more effectually by the city with » Goiind system of government under one responsible executive | § head than by swelling the number of irrespon- sible commissions. The State Constitutional ‘Convehtion will have it in its power to effecta thorough reform: It should provide for the election of three Mayors by the votors of the city, one of whom should go out of ‘office every year, bis successor’ being elested for three yeats. Th this Board of Mayors should veal the whole executive power... They should have the authority to. appoint and remove the heads of all the subordinate: and each head of a department should hold like authority over all his employés. The Board of Super- visors should be altogether, and the Boards of Aldermen snd Councilmen should | possers legislative power alone, and. the right of investigation info‘ every deperiment, from the Board of - Mayors, dowo. Under such o in Charleston, laid waste by the con syétom. as (his we have @ sound and- flagration of 1861, exhibit at the prow efficient to ent time but @ very few scattering build- the people opin ots mae ive beak ings.” It might bo said that Northern capital has rebuilt Richmond; but the Governor thinks it matters not where the capital comes from; nothing is necded but “energy, enter- prise and the right spirit among the people” to restore prosperity to Charleston as well ag to Richmond. The other startling faet is stated by Governor Orr, on reliable authority, to be that more than forty millions of dollars have been withdrawn from Charleston by the banish- ment and removal of merchants who, with their families, have been tabooed by Charles- ton society. Mayor Galllard may be applauded loudly “‘at bis end of the table” for his protest against the charge of a lack of energy on the part of the Charlestonians, who sustained an unparalleled siege, and for his not unfounded assertion that it is an acknowledged right and custom all over the world for each family to choose their own company; but until he and his friends become capable of taking the states- manlike view of the subject entortained by Governor Ort, who thinks that no community can expect to flourish under such a social evil, and that this evil ought to be cured, they will not be apt to swell the ranks of the “national party” in South Carolina, which the Governor is sanguine enough to believe will ere long rally around him. The two facts specified by him should alone suffice to awaken the Rip Van Winkles of the Paimotto Staite weelizing sense of their condition and Gloomy prospects, and to a rational desire: avetd the pitfalls which theirold fogy ore digging for them, ‘ 4nd compelled to render an account of ite atewardship every year. If the State Legisla- ture will refuse to create any more commis generally. It is sucbe mixture of stern reptoof and well-timed clemency that it will triote, mor ean any trace be found of the biding plage of “Cian Alpine’s warriors true,” who so éuddenty appeared to the eyes of the afftighted Saxon and 268 suddenly vanished. The pea dutty ‘dre still “loyal”—to their friends. Tax Lownox ‘asp New Yona Fire Depart. ae ote aren returns of the required support of the Metro- litan Fire Brigade, of the ‘sity of London," rar