The New York Herald Newspaper, March 11, 1867, Page 8

SS NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 1], 1867. A in his whole experience he never met with opposition | ties ‘A bill of thie kind afoting Jersey City hes ecfnale WASHINGTON. | S2ccS SPSS | THe remans om new vont. RELIGIOUS SERVICES. Sa cca he ae eames | Ue eee oe eceet tl aa iWe g periods of time the simultaneons oy th ; ——_ Stewartville. tion home of our whole corps d’arméei® the | Continued Excitement im the C*ty—A Deputa- ‘The Cathelfe Churches. jucational Work at the South. ‘Tax Auiece Muacmner or Mes, Kars.—It having Fae eS spring of the present year: These Me0tlerch mes! om | tion to wait em President 5 nsen—Ofior of ‘The Catholic Church, deeming the sufferings and sor- Gaia the rain, the attendance at the Union meet- | been proved that the man Snyder, arrested for the murs troops will bave left Mexico. Far from to tree | Irish Americam Omicers—Colone! Roberts £0 | rows of our Saviour, which are speciaily commemorated | ing ‘igst evening, held on behalf of Christian education | ger of Mra, Kays, waa not at Stewarteville on the day of THE NEW RECONSTRUCTION LAW | tssett trom engagements which, @ has ‘contracted on its | ald rs a in Treland—Meetinas of Centres | airing the season of Lent, as calling for more than ordi- | 1% pa hag oa eat “~ are ane See cet of the Rupere fasten their . The expectation of further news from Ireland con- | TF oenien bewnd — a wnt winged was but small. After the customary religious exercises | charge, but immediately serene: Se A 2S ‘ meegee iar ew ‘The Arrest and IlivFewatmens of am Amedions | tinved to keep the Foulans of this city 00 the ui vine Te cones oe Sonties aaeadnee eae oem os — ie Sane Ree podbean rot | Mfore, bat detectives are engaged in ferreting it OU Citizen 1m Great Britate. || yeaicriay, when, as on the preceding ay, tho prescribes rules for her children by which the entire re, Now York, and Mr. J. 4, Vassar, proebanstcanl Thomas, Sheridan, Sickles, Schofield and Ord or Hancock to be the Commanders of the Military Districts, The Execute the Law. he Biection in Louisiana Prohib- ited by General Sheridan. ‘Eatpressions of Amity from France to the Ulitod Ctates, kee &e. Wasnisetox, Mareb 10, 1807. The Reconstruction Law—The Military Com- manders. Ihave just received information which confirms my Gespatch of four days ago relative to the five generals who will bo appointed by the President, The whole Dusiness was decided to-day, and Generals Thomas, Kickles, Sheridan, Schofield and Ord or Hanenn\ as be the men, Their name= ~= ve Officially announced .- sickles will continue in his present of North and South Carolina, Sheridan will have Louisiana and Texas, Thomas will have Mississippi nd Arkangas,and Hancock or (rd Georgia, Alabama and Florida, Should Hancock get the latter, Ord will be given a regular military command over Kentucky and Tennessee. The programme as to military instructions to the new commanders will be changed siightly from ‘what was originally contemplated. Tho President will only issue very general instructions, leaving details to be fixed at a meeting of the commanders. This has been occasioned by the fact that the different districts require Gifferent treatment, and therefore a very large discretion must be left to the commanders. Gen- @rals Sickles and Schofleld were closeted with the President and General Grant for a long time this after. noon, discussing the best plan of proceeding. Scho- field’s appointment is said to have been hastened by a petition sent privately to the President from the General Assembly of Virginia praying for his continuance in command. It is given out that the President has made up his mind to enforce the Reconstruction act faithfully, and ‘will not offer obstructions or cause delays of any kind to its operation, Thue this much talked of matter has been finally settled. * Ould and Crump have returned to Virginia. Before leaving here they were advised by the President not to call apy convention, but to leave that duty to the military commander. This will defeat the vill inthe House of Assembly to-morrow. Senator Wilson’s bill supplementary to the ‘‘act to Provide for the more efficient government of the rebel Btates,”’ proposes to facilitate restoration by providing fora registration of legal voters in each of the military Gistricts, through the commanding General, for the con- ucting of elections, the calling of constitutional conven- tions, and for other purposes, preliminary to the admis- sion of the Southern Senators and Representatives into Congress. Yesterday the Senate Judiciary Committee, to which the bil was referred, agreed to report back the same, with a recommendation that it do pass. The House Committee on the Judiciary also held a mesting on the same day, and approved of the measure with a few amendments, ‘Therefore it may be concluded that ‘the bili will soon pass Congress and become a law. it meets the concurrence of leading Southern men now in Washington as absolutely necessary to carry out the in- tent of the Reconstruction act, The State Elections in Louisiana Prohibited by General Sheridan. Information reached here to-day to the effect that a Special meeting of the Louisiana Senate took place last night, at which the resolution passed by the Hous? aus- pending the election was called vp and considered. The Yeas and nays were called on it; but, requiring a two- thirds vote, it failed to pass. Genoral Sheridan, on Jearning the facts, issued a general order declaring that no election should take place on the 11th inst. It is hoped that this timeiy interference will prevent the ap- prebended difficulty. The Question of Adjournment. A Senate caucus of ten republicans has been called for toumorrow morning, which, it is thought, will determine the much mooted question of adjournment and the con- sequent policy on the Presidential impeachment. Many of the Sonators express themselves as firmly opposed to any adjourninent that will carry the session into the summer months, or encourage the expectation that impeach- tment proceedings were to be commenced in earnest. Bbould this be the resnit of the caucus action—as is most Probable it will be—there will be a determined effort on the part of some of the members of the Houss to pre- ‘Vent its being carried into effect. A prominent member was heard to remark yesterday to a Senator that the House would go for the adjournment to next fall should the Senate suggest such action, A remark of Sen. ator Wilson this ing at the Congressional temperance meeting indicated such an understanding. He said he hoped that they would have one more oppor- tunity to meet again, though it was impossible to eay how soon the adjournment would take place, There are a large number of nominations that the Senate will be able easily to dispose of this week, after swhich it 1s thought it will be impossibie to hold them lower. The mew business introduced is of an unimportant ehuracter, end, os aSenator towlay remarked, was merely in the way of a memorandum and to give it a priority of ord Adverse Reports of the Senate Committee ot Appoiutments to Foreign Missions. The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, it is said, ‘Made an adverse report on the President's no:mination of H. 8. Sanford, now Minister resident at Brassels, to be an Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plonipoten- tiary, and aiso made an adverse report om the nomina- tion of ex-Senator Cowan, to be t to Vienna, Cordial Feel Between France and the United States—Letior from General Dix. Minkster Dix has aditressed the following letter to Beoretary Seward — Legation io Pal Sin—I enclose a translation of t wee Userao Scares, | Fob. 19, 1867. parts of w a by ‘Gatif, reinting vo the United States and Mexico. 1 premion of moch'good feeling ia respect to the fr and the unconditioun! abandonment of the latter ar a true ioe choc eons sete Bare existe here ou subjects, The paragraph referred to will be found ou 303 and 308 of the “exposé,”’ which T will you in the despateh bag on Friday, It 1a Wo bulky for the mail” I am, very respectfully, your obouient eorvant, JOMN A. DIX. To Hon. Wittsam H. Sewanp, Secretary of Siate. asiation Tn the United States tho work of constitutional recon- #truction continues. France sincerely app.auds the wou- erful activity with which that at pation is repairing ‘the calamities o' civil wae. In the condition of the reia- tions which exist beiweon the daferent countries of tne awlobe, the sufferiugs which ape uced at one point are necessarily feit af all others. ‘e have experienced the shook of the events which distracted the Union, and We are profiting by the revival! of its industrial and commercial energies, No subject of disagreement exists . this momeyt beiweon t wo co ntries, Op the con- vary, everyCuing is iting Wore and mote to mer, ‘mg them nearer to each other their policy. ba Majesty has receiy 4, on a vecent oocanten, aaeurance of sentiments of friend. Waip,which were @xpresved to him in th: Gad which cme cue bawe of the Lolted States, Perfectly with @ar feelin We take pleasure in uiguriog favorably" as to the Cutare relations of the two goverumen's in Fespect to ie Auferent auvatious on which their inter €@ may be heed not recu 1, time to the. hah caused 8 to era th Vexped. r Tedrene for griey ices Of every description, od for the er Brad. sugered for many ee nod Generous sentiment waich will ~ indoos to render ber interventi r 4 oF be Ted to emernteevention useful w Wer refuse to unite im an stiempt at rogi Thee: In three detachments —tiw 1866) in Novembe.. Teed a me to our own prev made in the fulness Of our liberty of anything which had more ci coald only iomaateniasn. ourselves, of 2 of thing cry SE | i i HS E i g 3 é The resolution introduced in the House ican citizens in Great Britain, was prompted by the case of Michael © Brien, who was arrested in Liverpool on September 21, handcuffed, searched and compelled to wear prison clothes, placed in solitary confinement, resident Disposed to Faithfully | grossty insuked in many ways, and treated as a convict, without having any trial, O’Brien bas sent a statement of his sufferings to Mr. Robinson, enclosing a letter to Charles Francis Adams, our Minister at the Court of St, James, and the answer of the latter. In O'Brien's ap- peal to Mr, Adams he says I asked permission to communicate with the United States Consul, and in reply was told by Superintendent Keogh that he would take damned good care I would not. After being searched once more I was put into a cell in the main Bridewell, I took off my coat, placed it under my bead, and tried to ee on & bench, there be- ing noother accommodation. I was compelled to get up several times, and was brought ont to b: gazed at by men, and by women also, and asked many questions, Next day I was brought before a magistrate, when I was ‘secused of the iliegal possession of government arms and other combustible material. I was remanded for seven days, notwithstanding my nesent Fe st for immediate trial. My attorney, Mr. Cobb, told me if I claimed American protectioy it would injure my case; but I told him I would claim it at all O’Brien goas an ta—ayploim other wrongs and suffer- ings, and then continues:— Iwas next taken to Kirkdale Jail, handcuffed; the handcuffs cut my wrists; I was ordered to undress and get intoa bath, which lid. When I got out of the ath prison clothes were given me, and I was ordered to put them op. My clothes were taken away, and I was put intoacoll. Next day I was brought into a cold room and ordered to take off my ciothes; my weight and height were taken and my body examined, and the marks on it and a description of my general appearance written in abook. I was then ordered to put on the prison clothes again, and was conducted to a cell. I haa to scrub the floor, tables, &c., twice every week with a scrubbing brash and dry them afterwards with a cloth, From the 10th of October until the day of my trial, December 17, I was in solitary confinement about twenty- three hours of the twenty-four. When being conveyed from the jail to the Court Honse on Friday, December 14, I was chained to a burglar, and, returning to jail the same day, I was chained to a murderer. On Monday, the 17th of December, I was chained to a robber. After two trials O’Brien was finally acquitted, and he made a formal demand through Mr. Adams for remune- ration for his imprisonment and outrageous treatment. Mr. Adams’ answer to the demand is as follows:— Lecation or THe UsiTep ad Loxpox, Dec. 27, 1866. S12—I have to acknowledge the reception of -your let- ter of the 25th inst. and enclosures relating to the case of Michael O’Brien, The treatment received by him at the hands of the authorities has certainly been harsh, but I do not feel as if it were proper for me to take any cow plaint of this kind as the basis of a formal claim for Teparation on the British government, unless the matter has been previously submitted and received tho full consideration of the government at home. Hence it may be well for Mr. O’Brien to send his papers through you to Washington, if he likes, with such report as you Uink fit to make, “It is always well to bearin mind that there may be parties behind him desirous to make use of the case for purposes other than those that appear on the surface I think I bave seen some traces of th's Dubdtin ulready. 1 return the depositions. I bave the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant, CHARLES FRANCIS. To Tuomas H. Dupuy, Esq., U, S. Consul, Liver;ool, It is expected that the matter will come up in the House to-morrow, and may lead to some diplomatic dif- fic ties, Some members are by no means satisfied with Mr, Adanis’ manner of dealing with this and similar cases, Arrival of the New Spanish Minister. Senor F. Goney, the new Spanish Minister, and Senor Suarer, Secretary of Legation, arrived at Wiltard’s to- day from New York. Senor Goney is an experienced diplomatist, having spent a number of years in the diplo- matic service ag minister at different periods to eove- ral of the South American countries, aud has had in his charge the affairs. of the State Departinent of Spait It waz, doubtless, owing to his prominence as a statesman and bis acquaintance with the governments of South America that he has been selected to represent the gov- ernment of Spain in this country on the eve of the ex- Pected approaching mecting of pleninotontiaries in this Peru, Chile, Bolivia and Ecuadore, Senor Gabril Garcia, who has represented the Spanish government in this country tor tem years, w:1] sal! for home in a few days. The Congressional Temperance Society. The Congressional anti-bibulous association reassm- bled this evening in tho Hall of Representatives, Senator Wilson presiding. The hall was moderately flied, though the weather was very unfavorable, The pro- ceedings were opened by a prayer by Rev. Mr. Tarner, of Hartford, Connecticut, after which Senator Wilson said he was glad to seo so many cold waier faces to- gether on such an inclement night, and introduced Mr. Price, of Iowa, who devoted the greater portion of bis address to the pernicious influence exercised by theatres and drinking salouns. He thought that if it had not been the Sabbath night, and the entertainment offered was a theatrical display instead of a temperance meeting, he would not say that the audience befere him would be there; but he was sure the house would be filled, He hoped to sec the cause thoy wore advocating spread from the hails of Congress to the remotect parts of the nation. ¢ The President read a letter from 8. J. 8, Bowen, Poet Office of Washington, stating that of vinety-three elorks of the Post Office eighty five had signed the temperance pledge. Mr. Drew, of the Freedmen’s Bureau, spoke of the Tapid progress made by the temperance cause in Wash- ington. He said that every person in the Freedmen's Bureau bad signed the pledge, from the Commissioner to the sentinel before the door. Mosers. Pile, of Missouri, and Washburne, of Indiana, each spoke for abont ten minutes, None of those who addressed the meeting had any provious notice that they Wwouk! be called upon, and yet each of them spoke as effectively as though he had beou a long time training in tho.cause, The Paris Exposition. The Commissioners of the Uaited Siates to tho Paris Exposition of 1867 are required by paragraph three, chapter one, of the act which has recently passed both houses of Congress i meet at Paris as early as possible defore the opening of the Exhibition, whieh takes place on the Ist of April. Several of thes: gentlemen are now in 1 Wris or other parts of Europe, while others have not yet left the United States, The importance of the duties devolving upon them renders it necessary that they should now proceed to Paris without delay, The sixsh paragraph of the same section provides that ‘no (om- missioner shai! act as agent for the show or sale of any article at the Exhibition, or be iateresied, directly er in- directly, in any prolits from any such article’, Accord. fg to the regulations issued by the Secrotary of Stato on tho 20ih of August, 1838, under the authority of the act approved January 15, 1866, the Commissionors will make a veport presenting a bret general survey of the exhidi- tion aud a similar report upon the character and condi- ton of the American exhibition, “They will also make Special reports apon inventions and upo@ tho various products displayed which aro moss gdvanced M tho scionoes, in the atts and im industry, giving @ practical description of the methods and processes connected with such products. Similar reporis wilt be made upon mineral and agricultural products of importance, and Upon raw materials and manufactures of great genoral use or displaying romarkable skill and merit; upon im. plements, machines and tools; on metallurgy and the ‘extractive arts in general; on the products of chemistry and the preparations of food and clothing, and om any other subject connected with the Exhibition and relat- ing to the material, moral aad intellectual well-being of the nation. MEXICO. S eapemaneaee Besteged—Max on His Way to Vora Craz. &c. New Onceays, March 2, 1967, The city of Mexico is besieged by a large force, under Porfirio Dias, estimated at 15,000, ‘Maximilian, with Miramon, Marquez and ox-Governor ‘Vidwarrt, isin the Del botweon the city of Mexico and Vera Crum, His force consiste of 2,600 infantry and 1,500 cavalry, If defeated, Maximilian will try to hola Orizaba, If unable to-do #0 he Wilt ondeavor to hold the castle of San at Vera Cruz. The mt hold the at Vera Cruz, The Capi General Tabera was badly defea: Uberals at Toluca op the 7th of Jast month, Tolees ory strategic point. Pacis tile een es bes fom Maximilian was in eres | city to adjust the difficulties existing between Svan and | quarters in Chathaga street were the centre of attraction tor erowds of sympathizers, who thronged the building from early morning until late at night, anxious to learn later intelligence of the progress of events in Ireland, and to proffer their support in money and services to the cause for which the patriots in that country now risk their lives, A large amount of business of a cheer. ing kind was transacted, and money—the sinews of war, continued to flow into the exchequer during the day— the;collections of societies and eubscriptions of private indlviduala, Early in the afternoon a deputation, consisting of General McIver, late commander of the Insh brigade, Coionel Burke, Colonel Hagen and other officers of dis- tinction, from'the Association of Irish American officers, all of whom served in the late war, waited on the Execu- tive at Chatham street, and tendered their services to further by every means the success of the revolution how inaugurated. This magnanimous offer was, of course, glad- ly accepted, and the action of these officers 1s particularly Significant, a8 many of them have upto the present been yery prominent in the Roberts branch of tho organiza- tion, A comuittee, consisting of General Gleeson, and a well known gentleman of this city, and another from Philadelphia, are now 1. Washington for the purpose of presenting 10 the President md government the claims of the Irish to be recognized as velligerents, The result of the antici pated interview is losked for with great anxiety, and the probability of Mr. Johason redeeming his Saux pas \n the Canadian invasion by a tore hberal and American course of action is canvassed very strongly, the majority evidently being of opinion that he will not be as ready to assist England in the present emergency as in the affair of last June. Meetings of many of the circles were held throughout the city last evening, at which those present pledged themselves to aid by cvery means, with men avd money, those now fighting for the freedom of their native land. Action was also taken to render the mass meeting on Wednesday next an imposing and saccoasful demonsira- tion, A meeting was held at three o’clock at the Apollo rooms, No, 76 Prince street, at which forty ceuteas, representing circles in England, Ireland and Scotland, were present, A committee of twelve was appointed to wait on Colonel Roberts to ascertain his views on tho present state of alfairs in Ireland. That gentleman's secretary being present, stated that he (Colonel Roberts) was prepared to aid the men in the gap by all the means in their power, The same committee was also instructed to wait upon the Directory of 1848 and sulicit their co- operation and support. fhe meeting then adjourned, to meet again on Tuesday night. ‘As many as eight separate meetings will be held in the city this evening to take steps towards supporting the cause, and it is expected, from the evergy which now marks the conduct of the promoters, that before the end of the week measures will b> taken to insure | immediate assistance to the men now fighting in Ireland. A mass meeting, called for the saine purpose, will assemble at (he Catholic Institute, Jersey City, this evening, at which it expected many prominent citi- { zens will be present and deliver addresses on the present insurrection and the best means to be adopted to aid the insurgent forces. Mr. Doody, of Boston, and cent and delegates from, Philadelphia, Chicago and other cities, reported last evening at headquarters, and imme- diately set to work towards perfecting the business of the organization, which, at the present moment, is any- thing but asinecure, Many of the temperance societies and other orvanizations, hitherto unconnected with the | Fenian Brotherhood, bave promised to assembied in force at the mass mocting on Wednesday evening. | Cextran Orrice FEMAN OT gr 19 CuaTHam Strest, N. ¥., March 16, 1867. Fetiow Count2yMrn AND BROTHERS IN THE CAUSR— The time has now arrived when all true Iricamen should be up and doing. Internal dissensions, arising from a difference of opinion on vitat points, have thinned ov ranks and impaired the confidence of our peopl but now the battle cry has sounded; our brothers | } are in the fleld, united against a common foe. Shall | we remain divided and not support them? Irish- mon of America, think of the promises you have made, of the prisons filled with patriots, of our soldiers without arms, of the misery and wretched- ness which must ensue if our brothers are subdued. ‘Think of the glory and success which must attend prompt and decisive action, the shame and disgrace of defeat, the result of our inactivity and want of co-operation. It is our duty as treomen, as citizens of this republic, who enjoy the bless.ngs of freedom, to extend our sympathy and sapport to any oppressed ‘nationality etroggling for indopendence, but particularly to our brothers who are Appeal to the Irish People. Lenten season ia made one of remembrance of the Re- deemer’s passion and of penitence for their transgres- sions during the wious year. Not alone in the cburches are the services indicative of the feelings of the faithful, but in their own family circles the litanies are Tecited and the mysteries in the life of our Saviour are read and commented and meditated upon, and in various other ways are the passion and death of Christ held up to inspire with hope and to iucive to renewed exertions to merit His favor. Mf The first four Sundays in Lent, however, are not reckoned as belonging wholly to the penitential season, and the services are, therefore, not generally different from those of other Sundays throughout the year, ex- cept that the purple vestments are worn, appropriate prayers are inserted in the mass and the sermons are, Course, appropriate to the season. In this country, un- fetepiateomiigion is generally mado @ secondary mattr, and many poople have not time enough of their own to devote to religious matters, 80 tbat certain even- ings during each week bave been set aside in the varions churches for the especial services appropriate to Lent, ‘These services consist of the recitation of the ltanies and mysteries, singing of hymns, a sermon and vhe benediction of the roly Sacrament. Yesterday the Catholic churches throughout this city were largely attended and in each church a sermon on the gospel of the day (Mat, iv., 1—12) was delivered by the officiating clergyman, Sermon by the Rev. George W. Bacon on “Society in its Different Gradew.” An interesting discourse was delivered yesterday after- noon by the Rev. George W. Bacon at the Protestant Episcopal Church of St. John the Baptist, Murray Hill. ‘The subject chosen as the theme of his remarks was “Society in its Different Grades.” Owing to the unpro- pitious state of the weather a rather small congregation ‘was in attendance. ‘The speaker took his text from the third chapter of Colossians, 25th verse, “There is no respect of persons,” and said that the Scriptures are very emphatic upon this question of respect of persons, Far back in Chronicies wé read there is no respect of persons with God, and again the same principle is enunciated in the Book of Proverbs; but through all these passages there is nothing that militates against grades in society. These grades in society exist, and are allowed, and there is no such Utopia on earth as Sir Thomas More has pictured, where all the feelings and sentiments are blended together so that all are equal, There is no book so calm in its teachings as tho Bible; one cannot read in our catechism our duty toward our neighbor without understanding it. universal law that there is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon and another glory of the staré. Amonz men there are grades of state and station, as ta England, and there ure grades of brain power. Tako the brain of a Cuvier and the brain of an idiot, and one will weigh three times as much as the other. The teacher finds that there are grades of brain power; for he cannot take two pup/ls and instruct them for a certain time and say they have each profited as well by nis instruction, There are grades of military power and strencth, and this waa more particularly 80 in the earlier days, ' Homer is full of it. So also are there grades in wealth, and this more particularly so among commercial circles, again, 1 this city there are c.rcles where a proficiency in theo!- ogy is the criterion; others where scientific attainments ar’ the standard of excetionco; but by fur the higher grade, in the es'imation of the masses of mankind, 13 wealth, Tt,1s the great desideratum and ite acqti- itis sometimes calls forth good traits in a Mmaa’s characier. Wealth ‘s to such an extent the chief criterion that, were a young man beginning as a physi- cian to-morrow, it would benefit him more to have in his hand a certificate from some millionaire than to have an endorsement from a Dr. Parker. Neither is the effect of the godly man’s good works seen to thove who look on and say that he works and prays, and fights his battles: with the world for bread. But his is a grade of su- periority, and his traits are those that will meot and Teceive their reward At the lowest level of all there is no refuse in infidelity; infidelity has no heht to throw upon it. It is like the Cretan labyrinth. There must bs grades. If you take this city, and divide ail its wealth among its inhabitants, in on® ‘year’s time you will tind that wealth would mark its di:tinctive lines again. Tho cauge which produces things ouce will prodace them again. Mow down the grass and all its different grades will reappear in due season, The canses that pro- year, The French revolutioniets tried to cast down fighting for their liberty, for that which God bas given | alke to all men—a right to govern themselves. ‘the bdiow is struck; the crisis is at hand; that impending streggte which for seven hundred years has hovercd over our land like a gathering storm has barst upon the nation. We shall know our friends by their assistance, and our enemies by their opposition. I appeal to you in the name of —Tappeal to you by the blood of duty ia this trying hour. Our enemy is willing to spend tailiions of money, to sacrifice thousands of lives, shed torrents of blood to subjugate or extirpate our Snail you remain tdie spectators aud” see it done ? | you make no effort to snstain the mon in the field? They are rendy to give their lives, of their blood in defence of their homes—the homes of | our foretathers. Wil you supply then with arms and iace thei on an equal footing with the foe? Remein- ir, he who sbirks bis duty now —he who holds aloof in this hour of danger— betrays lus brothers and becomes gurlty of the blood that 1s uselessly shed, Sot all differs ences aide; sot all Jeadors uside if they stand m the way of Ireland's freedom. Be united; for in union there is strength. Let harmony and concord characterize our actions, and, with the blessing of God, success will crown our efforis, Thew will Ireland, free and indo- Penden’, ‘ake lier placo among the natiens of the earth, ‘hen may her children raise their voice to heaven and thank God they have a land of their own, where no despot treads, where no tyrant rales, where mau is as | free as God made him. ANTHONY A. GRIFFIN, C. E. F. B, Rev. Mc. Smyth on Fentanism. The announcement that a discourse on Fenianism and | Fenian fightings, in connection with abuses by and in the chureh, would be delivered by the Rev. Charles B, Smyth, at 600 Broadway, brought together a lane au- drence, about one-half being Irishmen, who expected evidently to hear something in regard to that move- ment about the commeocemvnt of which there ie no | longer any reagon to doubt, but concerning the sucesss even the most ardent sympathizer with it assured. At hall-just three o'clock the Re Wr. Smyth entered the hall, attired dn a long bii gown, and after invoking in prayer aid from on higi ail present, the Presideat of the Untied Siates, metubers of Congress, Governors of States, &°., procoeded to read his text from John, eight ebapter. The reverend geotleman then announced that the subject.of his dis. Course would be “Abuses by and in the Chureh in connective with Fevianiem. In reaurd tochurel abuses, he denounced in unmeasured terms the eystem of chorches moving, arguing that if the wealth of New York—{ts moneyed aristocracy—resided up town, that was po reason why they should bring the Chureh of God with them, and thereby leave the poor and destitute of thoir congregations in darkness, He a'so deaonnoed tue manner of auctioncering off the diflerent parts of the Lord’s temple to the highest bidder, and demanded freedom in the church in all respec®, fhe reverend to | o spill the Iyet drop i | | on the worldly good. A poor tian who lives down town may pass the residence of his employer in tie upper portion of the city and feel that he is a3 nothing. That mun may have a little money accumulated, and in the particninr locality in which be lives bis neighbors will look up to him. "Both classes aro absolutely: ; and there are Jossons to bo loarued from them, Th: poor should not bate the fich, or, a8 Many do, consider the rich their only enenties. here nay be as much Emmet! and Fizgerald to come forward and do your | tyranny ina mob a3 imu Nero, Agale, the rich maa 1a | not going to heaven throuwvh his riches. On the con- trary, we are toid that the acqutsition of wealth may rove a cloud that will iss. Bacon says, “weil did the Romans call the bag. gage of an army impedimen'a.” It was necersary, but novertheless it was an impediment. Tt tas been said of a rich man that if at fiGy he possessed millions, at sixty-five his millions possessed. him, Weil shail for bi jast day all that have done well, Neither shalt.a obtain heay. through his poverty. Thore will be uo efficacy in plea that because he has suffered so deepiy, surely cannot bs rejected from heaven. It is possible fora man to enduro the greatest bardships and yet be lost, Let all remomber, especiaily those who are young, thore who are liable in this great city to de biased and swerved from the true sense of virtue and nobleness of Durpose. that there is no respect of persons with God. We are ail alike before Christ, and each one, irrespective | of worldly rank and attainment, must render his account be, before his Maker—where the only question wi blood of the “Are your sins washed away through the Lamb?” ‘The Duty of the @ Workingmen. This was the subject of a discourse delivered last i of Chareh of the Restoration, corner of Clarke street and Monroe place, Brooklyn. There was avery small con- gregation in attendance at the church, a fact owing to the inclemency of the weather. In his introductory remarks, the reverend geatlemen stated that tiero was 8 very large portion of the people who were in no way connected with the church, aud theso were the working- men—men enaged in manual labor. Therefore be folt it incombent upon the ministers to induce them to enter it, and their first duty was to se: the workingmen, It was tive that the Roman Catholic Church bad a large proportion of workingmen, bat evon there they Were not seen as such; they were rded tmerely as members of the Caiholic Ch @ the Cathehe Church, the Meth dist had the fargest number in it, and the Episcopal, Uniturian and Universulist seemed to stand at one side, though, perhaps, the Universalist Caureh had done mos than the Episcopal and Unitarian forthe workingmen, Nearly every Unitarian outside of the Chureb, however, doing somethiar for ‘The Church’ as a Chureit, even the liberal party, done its duty in seeing tie workingmen around it, duty of the Church tosards thie to hal them aa brother. members of ‘the gentleman then quoted the Declaration of Independ- euce, that all men are entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, arguing that this could only be gained througa, in the first place, correcting the abuses in the management and government of our churches. As far as Fenianism was concerned, he contended that tho Irish peopie had no grievances to complain of that could not be remedied im a peaceful way by constrtutional agitaion, after the example of John Bright and tie English liberals, oy is It, he asked, that the Prote#ants of Ireland stand aloof from the Fenian movement, yet received Mr. Bright whith open arme? and ansvered that it waa because they saw in it the throatened demolition of the Protestant religion there. He then to give bis views in regard to the Foniau mevement, saying in substance that altaough he did not with to be considered & prophet, it cotild nevor be successful ao long as Protest- antsm and kingcraft marched hand in hand in com- bined opposition thereto. In conclusion, he advised the leaders of the organization in Iroland, to -throw off all allegiance to the Popo—a pate nl cere that then thoy would have the practi aympathy of the world. 19 reverend gentioman was applauded during cefaia portions of bis address, unmistal dissatiafac- tion being aiso yory frequentiy manifested. Fenian Excitement at Rridgeport. © Brivgrrort, Conn, March 10, 1967, There was considerable excitement here to night the arrival of the train from New Yort. Crowds gathored on the railroad depot piatform to heat read to them the news in regard to the Fenian insurtection in Ireland, The crowds we: inci; re = ve principally composei of Irisumen, The loved in turne, and made a cullarly Irish. Owing to the Redry tala which ing at the time the crowd was not great would nave been, a} CONNECTICUT POLITICS. to New York last night to get week. Burleigh didnot take well, showman says he Is getting one hundred thousand Aollars’ Seciatet best ean Mie ap Mr, Blanchard then went on to sperk rch as aristocra ic;‘\of the wealthy and there. tocratic classes who mwnaced it, referring to the Church of Engiond as an itlu- tration, end tnally por- tray y eet epirit which preva ‘led in the churches of even democratic America. The Spititof the body of the churches in this country inci,wed to exclusiveriess, #o that when Menem entered them they felt as if they did not belong and this » tcursed spirit of the Church of keeping aloof from these ..en was the very cause of their remaining outside of i: influence, He conceived it as lumportant that the Chur should be pa- Hont with the workingmen, just because o€*the hostility which they bear towards it, and proceeded to relate the oppression of these classes in earlier days by* the Church A8 ond Of the leading causes of this hostility, "he Cuurch be also to be patient with them because of their solfishaess, which was caused by their thinking of thelr wants increased by the many ands on their waged, It ought to be patient with them bocause of their state, caused by the lack of education, and it had tone ip ) a8 they were unabio to help themselves, In the othe ot tministers of the former aré aeicnat of the Church, and not sup) 1 ~ should go to them Institution. Organizations large cities, maintained by to educate the workingmon; and there should Tecrae and reading roome, ‘with ne &c,, where they could be vistiod by men. Biancbard referred to the work clansve i id commanded con; tion during its del Sketob a nocesonray an imp cunts sareugene, —_— Anniversary of the American Sunday School ‘The annual Sunday school missionary meeting under the auspicies of the New York Sunday School Unioa, ‘was held last night at the South Reformed Duteh church, corner of Fifth avenue and Twenty-first street. Chan+ Itis a. duced them last year will produce them again this | Adistinciion, but they failed, Difference in rank is for | evening by the Rev. Henry Blanchard, pastor of the | E. Dodge, ‘orl for twenty ears & CO ot the American Tract Society, Roaloty man cain thousand Sunday school teachers, thirty-four paid colporteurs, nine hundred schools and sixty thousand pupils during the year, at an of $20,000, The ers set forth the great destitution of the South; the eagerness of the freedmen for instruction; the impoverished condition of the whole Southern country; the pore cepemnan es ie pepe to co operate with the Christian en! and the efficacy of such common labor iu cementing the bonds of union ‘The Central Presbyterian Church. This @wurch which, since the year 1821 until a few months ago, worshipped at its edifice in Broome street, yesterday commenced to worship in the church in Fiftieth street, between Broadway and Eighth avenue, which formerly was occupied by the West Fiftieth stroet Presbyterian congregation. Tho majority of the Central Presbyterian congregation having settled in the upper part of the city, the church property in Broome street, some months ago, was sold, and the Fifteth street Presbyterian eu been sae 5. an bo 4 ation as a lace worehi hee erection of a Row chareh, The church in Fiftieth street was formally opened yesterday; when, by the Rev. James B, Dunn, the ee the dedi- catory sermon was preached bofore a full congregation, The text he selected from the 122d Psalm, and frequent allusions were made by the minister to the history of, the congregation and to the changes through which it has passed. The interior of the charch has been fitted up ina neat style, and the large organ, which until late has been used in the Broome street church, is now in uge at the new place of worship. The services were of an interesting character, PROSPECTS OF THE FREEDMEN. Lecture by Professor Howard Day, the Col- ored Orator—Present State of the South. Professor Howard Day having just returned trom a tour through the Southern States, made as the Secretary of the American and English Freedmen’s Commission, lectured last evening before the first congregation of Free Will Baptists, 74 West Seventeenth street, on the prospects of the freedmen, Owing to the dreariness of the weather the house was not very well filled, though the Professor’s discourse was listened to with a good de- gree of attention by the rather sparse acdience present. The lecture was based ina sermonic way upon the the familiar behest of the text, Luke ix., 6, from which the speaker drew the general lesson of his dis- course, applying the command of the Saviour to enforce the duty of religions people to aid in the education and elevation of the freedmen. By way of beginning, t speaker traced the wagging to and fro of civilization, sometimes making a step forward, and more seldoin backward, for the past six tvousand years, In old days, he said, meteors of philosophical theory had occasion- ally, like the anrora borealis, shot athwart the heav- ens, but their light had been fitful and fortuitous, and had resulied in tittle lasting beneiitto mon. He held that all ancteot forms of civilization had been based upon asort of sublimated seldshness, and that until the in uration of the present mode the principle of duty had ho part 1n the direction of government aud little part in the direction of social affairs and tho modification of social relations. With the rising of the Star of iiethienem had been opened a new era, and with the principle of love and duty had been made the controlling element of society. ‘The logical deduction of this was, not ouly that mea svould not hold each other in bondage, but that they hould seck by every available means to elevate, educa’e \d improve the condition of ach other, He, therefore, who became an educator of the freedmen took opop him- self the obigations of @ missionary and extended tie | noblest obedience to the command of the text. it was a religious duty for which he was pieading, aud let thov- sands fall by as-assination, be sioned to death as was-St. Stephen, or smitten with fever through pestiient mia-- mas, but let not the treedmen be forvaken. The lecturer stated that he bad just returned from a tour in ihe | South, and detailed at random his jottings of the genern! conditrou of affwrs in the states which be had visited. He bad generully foand ali oases tolerabiy hopeful | and ‘particularly among the freedmen he had not hear | one despondent vuic:. The negro, having had the man- acies stricken from his hauds, though left destitute in alle things except bis freedom, was still joyous, and pointed with lifted fingers to the dawn of his civilization now ‘Just beginning to streak with red the orient. He saw French Claims—Arrival of a War Vessel at rival be by chance,” it adds, “or otherwise we cannot relations with France and know how this unfortunat¢ country is officially treated by the French Minister and the spirit that actuates him under present circumstance Laguayra—Venezuela Unable to Pay—Piti- able Condition of the Finances. ‘The Federalista, of Carécas, in speaking of the Frencly say. Those who are well informed on the subject of our and in sight of the disasters of all kinds that threaten the republic, may be able to conjecture. The fact is thab on the Sd of has to which bas no credit, and whose specie resources, re~ duced to the revenue derived from two custom houses that have to struggle against smugglers and the decline of scarcely suffice to cover the military budget, this should and might have been lessened, it ‘bas not been. The government which owes almost year’s salary to its employés, which has not for six months settiod the accounts of the widows and orphans of the heroes of independence, becomes worse then des. rate on the entation of any claim or at the sight Thy creditor. ithout.a doubt this state of affairs has been fully appreciated by France, and hence the co Of this war vessel in the chief port of our republic. * > Some parties think that the French government will make} no trouble in gravting an extension of time. Others thin! that the clause of te agreement which cedes a certain) proportion of the customs receipts and also of the inter- Bal revenue will be put in force, OUESTIC_INTEL LIGENCE, Svierpr. -- Cora Stevens, a young lady of seven. teen, (xy -.c} herself in the Kennebec river, at Skow-| hegan, Liuive, on the 2d inst, Cnamrante Bequests.—The will of Mr. @. Sullival Warren, of Boston, bequeathes bis interest in a trust fund of $40,000 to various benevolent institutions ii Boston. On tie death of his widow the following le; cies are to be paid :—Massachusetts Bible Society, $5,000: Protestant Episcopal Society for the Promotion oi Evan. gelical Knowledge, $5,000; American Tract Society, No.. 28 Cornhill, Boston, $5,000; Massachusetts Church Mi: sionary Society, $5,000; ea and Vestry of St. Paul’s chirch, Boston, for the founding of a mission chapel for the poor, $5,000; Sf. Stephen’s Free Chapel, $5,000; Massachusetis Temperance Society, $1,000: Diocesan Board of a a nee he ag a Temperance Socicty, $2,000; Church Home nM and Destitute Children, Boston. $5,000; Freedmen’s Commission of the Protestant Episcopal Church, $6, Should there be any surplus after making the abor payments the American Bible Society, the Ameri Church Missionary Society and the Domestic and For) eign Missionary society of the Protestant Episcopa. Church, in the work of foreign missions, are equally residuary legatees. er Exorrer Huet.—Henry Cas, a Central Railroad en gine driver, was badly injured in Syracuse on the 7tt inst, While leaning outward and downward from th engine, to see under the tender, struck on the head by an engine backing up. It is thought big iju- ries will not prove fatal. | A Masr’o 1v Possx*srox.—An unknown man took session of a vacaut house near Loujsville recently, an on Wednesday last resisted the attempts of the police get entrance, so that, they were obliged to fire at him {i selt-detence, One stot took effect over his left eye, an» will prove fatal, He is described as about twonty fiv: eurs of aze, five feet six inches in height, dark c. iain, brown whiskers and goatee, short stamp band an: full white teet He had on a striped shirt, a fine pal of cloth pan‘s, and a well made pair of boots, FIRE NEAR TROY. he was Mi Ahout two o'clock this morving ‘Mr, ren’s barn on Islay Ee was discovered’ tobe on There being no water in the viciaity the engioes were no service, and the buildiog was totally: Several valuable horses, @ counts ot Cam carriag missionaries there alone, unfriended, in the midst of enemies, and enduring every form of privation rather ‘tban turp back from iabor in the cause in which they had set oat; and he bad found the whilom planters genc- raliy ranged in serried ranks of hostility against the edu- cation and olevation of the freedmen, once their slaver. Since the passage of the bill generally termed the Military Reconstruction. biil, the planters had moditied in some measure their conduct towards the freedmen, but even now it was unsafe for them to attempt any organized movement for their own elevation. In proof of this assertion the speaker read a letter from a promi- bent freedinan in New Orleans to the late convention of colored soltiers and sailors in Philadelphia, apologizing for the tailure of the froedmen jn New Orleans to send a delegation to that convention In this. letter the writer stated that it was nusafe for the colored people in (uat city to hold the necessary meeting for the election of delegates. Fieedmen were seized and arms taken from them without any process of law, and in general were subjected to the strictest scrutiny under pretence of seditious intent. It bn Png ‘to protest, as no redr ss could be legally obtairitd; and, for these reasuns, the freedmen of New Orleans werv at the mercy of their for- mor masters, and could be beaten and even murdered in the streets with impunity. The speaker stated that he could give the name of the writer, but did not deom it safe, and wo.ld guarantee the authenticity of the docu- ment without imperilling the life of its author. In other Portions of the State of Louisiana the same spirit pre- ; Yatled to a considerable extent, and in the routhera States, so far as he had investigated, every means was used to prevent or render abortive all efforts to educate the freedmen, not only by quondam slavebolders, but by all classes. ‘The reasons for this wore, he believed, yery ; obvious. The slavcholder was the instinctive enemy of tie edocation of the negro; the gentry were, as they bad always been, in sympathy with the slavehold:ng clase; and the lower class whites fought against the freedinen because their liberation had placed ihem in a position to | Compete in all fields of industry. He believed, however, that the political prospect of the freedmen was most hopeful. Schools were being founded in all parts of the South, and opposiiion thereto was waxing weaker and weaker day by day, It was now in contemplation to found a national schoo! in Washington, watch was to be exclusively devoted to the education of the negro; and in ail quarters be found the »culored peopie equally Teady to work or io lcarn. There was no sullenness in their bebavior, though their destivution was appalling; and on the whole the feeling of the people of the South was grow more and more favorable. The speaker, in Prog of this point, read a letter from the Rov. Jona Crosby, of Petersburg, Va (who will be remembered in connection with a controversy concerning the duty of rebel clergymen to pray or not to for the President) heartily endorsing the cause of the and eleva- ton of the freedmen; and, in conclusion, the lecturer alluded to the fact that Dr. ry had himeetf founded & school which was over by a lately confede- rate major, NiW JERSEY INTELLIGENCE. eee Hoboken. A Snockinc Srsctacir—Discovery or Tux Remarxs oF | 4 Surrosp Viorne oy tur Exevostox at rax Exe Dork — Shortly before eixht o’clock yesterday morning the re- mains of a buman body, in an almost completely de- cayed state, were discovered floating in the water at the trestle work of the Morris and Essex Rajiroad, near the depot. When taken out the body proved to be that of a seaman, as appeared by the strong leathorn belt which might De said to hold the flesh together on the trunk as woil as Che other fragments of naval habiliments, sight was pe as distressing as Late welf to the gazeof man, the flesu of tl ic both arms baving eaten away, that rest of the body being lly consuined, irt and the absence of long time in the water. boots, which alone, with the dostractive influcnces of “be watchman f- ¥ ary on discover; having ‘notio® 20 Uoroner a an faquest was ted coniirmed te freee ‘qvetinbny 6). ci th ‘was one of the ill-fated beings who per- ome ete the terrible explosion at tho oil 2 ferry t monife token 1c Revers! ago. Deceasod to appearance a n:!4dle fully six foot ia'heignt, ‘Tim New Coustr +, gn Movement making favew county of portions of b SX County, under tne mame of Washington county, mor." With much opposi- tion from mombers of both political pa"#@®% One of the reasons given for the pressure brought 1. Dear agaiast the vill authorizing te division, now penc“0f in the Laguaatare, ig tat the townships are too #fongl) united by business relations with Nowark. Mayor’ Gert: called a meeting of the citizens of Newark, to be Seid evening, for the cor Hon of the subject. Sevens Accipaxt.—On Saturday afternoon last, as = young man named Zachariab Loder, was employed in the faotory of Mr. 8. Lagowitz, reat of No, 395 Broad street, ‘bis hand cam ie contact with a circular sw ab which he Datty and it te feared ‘axaputation, will be The injuries received medical » Bergen. Bavession or tie PLaxk Road Rartroan.—A bill hae ‘deen introduced in the Senate authorizing the Newark Plank Road and Ferry Company to increase thoir capital $880,000 above that now authorized, and to alter and change the route of said railroad, soa to ran where streets and roads are mot laid out, and om lands adjoining eae NGEAWEAD TONTO, rans econ on sleighs, robes, harness, &e., were FIRE AT EAST ALBANY. ‘Anany, March 0, 1867, ‘Two tanks of crude petroleum 01) which standit on a platform caron the Hudson River in East Albany, were destroved by fire last aight other damage was dame, It is not known bow the i originated. | FIRE AT RASHVILLE. \ Nasnviie, March 10, 1857. A fire occurred this forenoon on College street, bu: ing Treschier’s manufactory of mineral water, whic! with its contents and three adjoining houses, was d stroyed. The German Methodist church was also damaged. Loss about $20,000, Me., March 10, 1867. The steamship Peruvian, Captain Ballantine; asited ' 8 quarter to twelve o'clock t-day. It was the steamship St, Dav! Patrick, which arrived here Glasgow. Maroh Edward W. Trayler, Abromaeepenoat of Me ba there to-day while crossing. iver, FLOOD IN VIRGINIA, Ricuwoyp, March 10, 1867. The new railroad bridge at Petersburg has bee washed away, BREAKING UP OF THE ICE IN THE HUDSON. ALsayy, Mareh 10, 1867. It is ratning here to-night, and the ice in the.r.ver rapidly wearing away. MAILS FOR THE PA | . The steamship Henry Chauncey, Captain Gray, wii leave this port to-day, for Aspinwall, ‘The maiis for Central Amoricd and the-South: Paci ‘will close at half-past ten o'clock this The New Yor Heraup—Edition for the Pacific—wil be ready at half-past nine o’clock in the morning. Single copies, in wrappers, ready (or mailing, six cen! MAILS FOR EUROPE, The Cunard mail steamship Asia will leave: Boston o| Wednesday for Liverpool, The mails for Europe will close in this city ata qua ter past one and half-past five o’clock on Twesday afie noon. Tas New Yorn Heratp—Edition for Eurepe—will b/ Teady at eleven o'clock on Tuesday morning. | _... MISCELLANROUS. Arwineat DIrORERS ouraindy inevery Bante: r sores 7 cllarged whtit divorce ta dbtutned. © Consal fioe. GEORGE LINCOLN, lawyer, 80 Nassau sive! Antari DIVORCES OBTAINED IN NRW ¥ ‘ates where desertion, Xe. fo pubiteity or fee in cn. pastres, M. HOWKS, & Nassan streot. NORNS, BUNIONS, INV ERT N CURRY 18} without al Dr. Weick, 68 Bowery, bank bua Coens ie a ryt ENLARGED D At, Ce bthage she Hea cured by Dr. zavllanti xc FOR 2B THE RUPTUR EN 01 T AND ry BD —SEN rn ln recip Os conte. Address Dr. E. is Broadway, N. ¥. 3 . f ou imade new withoat cee ‘or medi) ne; . id. on receipt of Heer Conn Infe for tho Married, sant, post rece) cents, TAG en Ss 1 Ale RORS 1 Y 0 A pads of ania tice Ph a 2 it Paiva, ‘Oruelty, drankenners ‘or free, ai f Ppt emmalneren al ~ ate based on corr svete oF roads now laid out, The Dill also authorises shea Ad poneet apt an active operation of ine heer having been ‘made ae the matter, tha the Inngs cre hea” ‘the is rooms, No. 82 it New i wenn DAY, from 6.4. ier Yen eit RES from the towst tometer. 88 All advice fred: os