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RECONSTRUCTION. He Fails to Make Friends of the Rich- mond Press, &e. VIRGINIA. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. Ricuxonp, Va., April 23, 1867. Senator Wilson leaves here to-morrow morning for Norfolk, where ne makes bis next speech. His mission to the South finds Little favor with the Richmond news- papers or people, ‘ The Richmond Times of this morning speaks of him asa “red-handed political missionary, seeking to con- vert a people whom he has robbed of every right, and trying, with coarse and awkward blandishments, to woo them from the memory of their griefs.”” It declares the object of the radical campaign in Virginia to be the arraying of the black against the white race, and de- < scribes Mr, Wilsoi peech last evening as common- Place and affording no indications of talent. ‘The Bzaminer characterizes the republican party as “thie party’ of blood,” and says that every Southern man:who' Yotes with it endorses the murder of Mrs, ‘The Whig feebly denica that it is to be bought up as. ‘the orzan of the new party, but is silent as to Senator Wilson’s mission. ‘The Enquirer taunts the Whig with having yesterday fiung itself into the bosom of the radical party, regards that step as profoundly humiliating and fatal, and coun- gels the taisses faire policy until relief comes through a change in Northern sentiment, é The general feeling among the white pepulation seems to be, however, to take an active part in the regis- tration of voters and the election of delegates to the State convention, and to modify the constitution and laws 80 as to meet the requirements of Congress. Their argument is, thas the ime will be carried out whether they are willing or not, and that inactivity on rt ld give the entire political control to the that the white voting ulation has ie blacks, and the me, d The war of races will thus be inaugurated, politi- jeally if not eanguinarily. foting tel to-day, tho ‘aponiae of « Ladies fancy in opening of a Bazaar for a monument at Holl 2 Richmond, in honor of the Conf Senacor Wilson, who is still in Richmond, is staying ‘with General Brown, of the Freedmen’s Bureau. To-day Visited the battle ground of Fair Oaks, known there |as Seven Pines. He is much pleased with the people hereabouts. A number of influential citizens yjled upon him. He leaves for Norfolk in the morning. What they Say of Senator Wils South. [From the Richmond Whig, April 22. As a citizen of the United States, he ( Wilson) is free to come and go at pleasure, and to speak when and where ke may choose. He isa leading Republican, and is re- puted to be less radical and more kindly disposed towards ‘he Southern people than many of his party. He could , /40 us much harm—he may do us much good. tardies Lynchburg Virginian, April 22.) Mr. Senator Wilson, whove bowels yearn towards his happy brethren of the South, both white and colored, set out upon his illuminating tour. He will prob- ly be here in aday or two, and we hope that he wiil i the brethren what he told us in February, 1861, ile seated upona sofa mn the United States Senate, to it: that, “af no common ground of compromise can be ound, I am in favor of a peaceable separation of the yections and —s war under any circumstances,” We wero for the Union then, as we ever had been; while Mr Wilson, Mr. Greeley and other blatant advocates of olored suffrage and equal rights would have separated es the South and left the negroes in bondage, | SOUTH CAROLINA. Order of General Sickles. CuaR.Eron, 8. C., April 23, 1867. General Sickles has issued an order reorganizing the ub-districts in his department and providing additional egulations for the same, He forbids the sale or gift of ‘iquors to United States soldiers, sailors or marines. Among the provisions of the order is the following: — \.Post commanders will exercise a supervision over all aagistrates, sherifis, deputy sheriffs and police within neir commands, and will, whenever necessary for the reservation of order and the efficient discharge of their uties, assume command of the police force. vernor Pickens en the Suffering Situation. The following is an extract from a private letter ived by a gentleman in Jackson, Miss., {rom Gover- Pickens, of South Carolina:— ‘You know the desolation of our: has ruined us 1, and we are in great poverty. God knows whether will be enabled to gather this year’s crop, and the licy of the government forbids all enterprise, and utterly out of our reach to raise any money a. any terms gg balay erm af of our lan for support and ready means, at, of course, no one will purchase with the open ireat of universal confiscation jing Over our heads, nd want and Sarre eee thousands of our le, &e. te, Down ally bave acted as well as any le would have done ader the circumstances. I ly think that most men ho own land are struggling now to do all they can do rt the support of their er faithful slaves. 1 know is is my case, and it is what adds greatly to my pres- it embarrassment and cramped means, NORTH CAROLINA, Colored Commissioner in North Carolina. mouth (N. C.) correspondence of the Norfolk Jour- nal. ‘There was an election for town officers here on Satur. y. The negroes had found out that they would be lowed to vote, and it being Saturday, which to them ‘a weekly holiday, they came into town from five miles und the country ‘to take advantage of the occasion. of = Ps ga named ALABAMA. The Negroes’ New Masters. ve Spieined, to the negroes ch out t it be ex e ~~ Of cotton that they raise master. gs FE] i | E ait riya elt: GENFRAL jwanters District oF te se _ Complaints of hardahtp in the needless appren incensant OTT ie enjoined upon i iS ie D va appiioation, to revise the action taken 24, and asa rule, to revoke indentures made within past two years of minors who were capable of wolf. sport. othe attontion of magistrates is called to the repeal the last Legislature of the ‘Vagrant Law,” approv d ember 15, 1865, and published with the Code, At- pts which are still Le ga od it into execution will eafter be the subject cognizance, L ‘The use of ioaia ‘ot ae ‘a mode of legal ishment, being found to involve serious abuses, will SSS except in connection with enitentiary. y command of Major General WAGER SWAYNE. TEXAS. Letter from Governor Throckmorton. overnor Throckmorton, of Texas, has addressed a 'f to Colonel Ashbel Smith, at Houston, in which he 7 prompt action in accepting the terms proposed we promise ourselves a reloase from the terrible sas- 4, 80 injurious to every interest of the country, in sb we have been involved since the sur-ander. By -action we leave the goveroment to controlled by the military as long as it pléase Congress to permit it, with the ainty im the future that it will be super- sd or abolished, By such a policy we invite further criptions and discriminating legislation, we itterly powerless and unable to avord that be imposed. the terme SENATOR WILSON'S SOUTHERN TOUR. | wats “NEW YORK ‘HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1867.-TRIPLE SHEET. masses of the nation in restoring the government to ite purity and once more it she pride and glory of every American heart, w! found, in ‘whatever clime or section. ‘He further eays:— joel en hiine confidence that the peo} Che id will not falte: prove 1 however €xaited or humble bis should feel that his country of him and service, and, that his services ‘be more potent for good now than at any.future. Every one who entitled should r vote at the proper time, and appointees of Executi will be made by the Governor, as heretofore. Vacancies occurring which are filled ordinari): elegtion will be reported by the Executive department of the ~tate without delay to these headquarters for the iy by wie ne ts ized to be by the ypointments herein authori: mado Chiot Eeveusive of the State will be duly notified to these headquarters, for the advisement of the Military By command of Brevet Major General Griffin, A. H. M. TAYLOR, Second Lieutenant Seventeenth U. 8. Intantry, i A. A. A. General, ‘The Bowle County Rebellion. [From the Galveston Bulletin, April 17. During the depth of winter, the wife ot Captain Tem- ple, formerly of the army, died at Now Orleans, in con- sequence, it is alleged, of exposure resulting from the persecutions of her secessionist neighbors in Bowie county, Texas, Governor Throckmorton wrote to the Chief Justice of that county, and the result is the pubii- in the Gazette, or three columns of affidavits, certificates and other documents. disputing every point made in the statement of Captain Temple. The case is ne of unlimited accusation on the one side, and total denial on the other. Captain Temple represemts society as being in a wrotched staie—The Governor's corres- dent produced affidavits which give the whole zon the color of roses, THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. Motion in the Criminal Court of Washington fer the Speedy Trial of Jobn H. Surrait. Wasuixatox, April 23, 1867. Messrs, Bradley, sen., and R. f. Merrick, appeared in the Criminal Court this afternoon, for the purpose of baving a day set for the trial of their client, John H. Surratt, indicted for the murder of Abraham Lincoln, late President, &c. They filed the following motion:— To Taz HoxoraBLe 1HE JupGE oF THE Criminal Court op Tas District or CoLuMBIA. John H. Surratt, by his counsel, respectfully showeth, That, in the month of Octover last, he was arrested in Egypt, and placed on board an armed vessel of the United States, and from that time forth was kept in close confinement heavily troned; allowed only for a brief time occasionally to breathe the fresh air, wholly excluded from all intercourse with any human being but those who were employed to administer to his ab- solute needs; without change of external raiment, ob- liged to wear the very dress in which he was arrested, aud thus kept in prison until the month of February, when he was transferred to the jailin the city of Wash- ington, in which jail he bas been ever since, and still is confinea, He has no compluint to make of the severity of bis confinement on board ship, where he was treated with as much lenity as the officer in command deemed consistent with his duty, and here he was not subjected to any indignity or personal jury; and since his transfer to his present prison he has been allowed such indulgence as could properly be deemed possible towards one charged with an oilence so heinous in its character as that alleged against him. Shortly after his imprisonment he was, at his own de- mand, at the December term of this it into Court and then arraigned on the indictment which had been found against him before he reached the Uniied States, It is obvious to this honorable Court that the offeace with which he stands charged, constituting as it does part of the history of this country, has undergone the most searching investigation that tbe power of this government, quickened by the unusual feeling of indig- nation and horror of its people could make; that all the facts and ciscumstances of that momentous event, in all their ramifications, and as to all the persons connected therewith, were with the utmost diligence, stimulated’ by the strength of human motives, ambition, hate and love of money, brought out recently aiter the occurrence and in the posses- sion of the government; that the prisoucr himself has been tracked from country to country, from nation to mation, through three continents, to secure his arrest, and the executive department of the government has brought from the Papal dominions and from Evg land all the witnesses beyond the jurisdiction of the United States whose testimony would be needed by the prosecution at the trial, and piaced them under the con- trol of the District Attorney. In this conuection we again refer your Hbnor to the report ef the Judiciary Commitice, adverted to im the argument of this motion some days since, and which contains the full correspon- dence of the Secretary 0! State with foreign governments on this subject. It thus appears, and the fact is placed beyond doubt by official record, that the prosecution has had the fullest notice and the amplest means to prepare for the trial of this cause at this second term of the court, the prisoner’s arraignment, and can no reasonable ground upon which to ite further postponement. Immediately after his arraignment, the prisoner began to propare for his de- fence, and from time to time his counsel have notified the District Attorney and his assistant of the progress of that preparation, and the uncertainty of being able to there one particular witness alone prevented their Exing a for the trial. More than two weeks ago they informed them that they had discovered where that wit- ness was, and that they would be ready for trial in two week's time. Nearly a week ago they moved ip this honorable Court to have a day set down for the trial of the cause, and it was resisted, and ® motion thereupon made by the Prosecuting Attorney, that the cause be continued. The meansof the prisoner have been utterly exhausted in secking the evidence to establish beyond all doubt bis Sige? innocence of the cbarges pre- ferred against him. To show to all the world that is free from any stain of guilt or complicity im, or connivance at or even a suspicion of the terribie tragedy with which the prosecution seeks to convict him, he is now ready. He challenges the inquiry, and in the name of justice, humanity and the due ad- ministration of justice to all, whatever their condition in life, by the Jaw of the land, and under the bill of rights, the charter of our liberties, he demands a speedy ‘8 trial at this term of the court—and that he shail not, if map. ‘The counsel for the prisoner therefore comes into court, and prays your honor to overrule the motion of the District Attorney for the farther continuance of the cause, and asks that you will some day at the present term of the court for the thereof. - JOSEPH H. BRADLEY, 3 ES z & Biss § ask I shall be ready. ; Mr. Meamicn—I think it is scarcely right for him to decline to say when he will be ready. Mr. CanmunGToR-—I do not feel under any obligations to 1ell him wheo I be ready, Mr —l it the I do not see that fe anything for us but to announce in open court, if it be Houor, that we ihe coun i and the of the e counsel withdrew, usual business court was resumed. . IMPOSING FUNERAL OF BISHOP TIMON AT BUFFALO. Ror: X. ¥,, 23, 1867, faneral of the Inte. Bisi wok grocd sn) tapteing. The. Wemmenel, Sap Sean NS and various ) to the. belot ‘hols cousioted et NATIONAL AFFAIRS. Lecture by Wendell Phillips at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Mr. Wendell Phillipg delivered alecture last evening in the Brooklyn Academy of Music before a large audience—the subject, “National Affairs.” In the course of his remarks the lecturer strayed over a wide field of disconnected topics, failing to confine himself, with his usual accuracy and point, to the treatment of the subject he had selected for the occasion. He, how- ever, was as customary very severe on President John- son, whom he denounced as « traitor, and delivered an invective against General Grant, whom he charged in complicity wich the President, as guilty of the blood shed in New Orleans during the riots last sum- mer. General Grant, he said was spoken of as the candidate of that party who would first make their nominations for the next Presidency; but he would warn the republican party against nominating # man who had neither ideas nor principles, and whose brains and whose heart were outside of his body, Attwenty minutes past eight the President of the Brooklyn Fraternity Association, under whose auspices the lecture was given, introduced Mr. Phillips to the au- dience, and who, on presenting himself, was received with hearty applause. ‘MR. PHILLIPS’ LECTURE, Mr. Phillips then proceeded with his subject, speaking substantially as follows:— Laptes anp GevTLemex—I have great pleasure instand- {ug upon this platform of lectures, placing, as I the highest possible value upon this system of a> paper tn my bas akon 4 deep a toot the loyal me men used to to win busy uien back doubtless that was the original intent of the lyceum. ‘When Horace Mann and his comrades forty years ago, in Massachusetts, originated this system of literature it was intended as a supplement to the academy Within the last ten years, however, it has deepened iis purpose and lened its character, It has undertaken to teach not science, but some of the great chapters ot civil duty. It has undertaken to deal fearlessly with the great lems that divide the nation into angry partion, Ie has done more than any other instrumentai- ity to prepare the North for its great struggle of the last five years, itis the freest platiorm in the land, looking on it, not as ang transcient fashion, but as a permanent addition to the educational machinery of the States, and one that I am quite confident our children will never dispense with. You live in a land where thought is only granted of law, while statutes are nothing unless there Circulates through them the fresh warm biood of a con- Poop pet opinion. You live ia a land where the great joari are wore truly the government than that ma- chine at Washington—tor that only shows how.the wind blows and then to follow it. And this is the greateat compli- ment that can be paid to a great people that has almost reached the goal of popular endeavor of being ruled by the brains and virtues of the community. To-day your lives, your rty, your reputation, are more depond- ant on the virtue and intel! ce of the community round you than in statutes. jay and ever, God is fling- jag before these twenty millions of governing masses a new lem of vast national moment—to be deci not asin othor lands by a thousand or so cf disciplined minds—not by a few sent to Universities and penates, but by two or three millions of voters—actually busy business men. laborers with no ieisure for instruc- tion, Theso men, finally, as the final court of appeal are to decide these great issues. Now, it is free speeob, as when Lovejoy gave up his life forit at Alton, Ill, Now, temperance the 4 foundstion of self-government Now it is slavery, as it was twenty-five years ago; now it 13 position to women; now all those great issues loom- ing on the horizon, threatening to remodel civilization and capital and iabor; vast, dificult, unpopular and hazardous questions; who shall take them and tear them open and Jet the light shine through them, so that the actual people, those people whom Lincoln’ aid so emphatically would save the government if ever it should be saved—so that they can understand and settle them inteliigently? Twenty-five years avo, when sla- very was first pronounced in the national arena, it was professional and social suicide for men to condemn it; and yet after tem years came that new test of republican intellixence and virtue—educa- tion. Whosvall sound and fathom its hated depths, welcoming martyrdom and salvation, and treading popu- larity under its feet? There are four great popular col- leges—one the normal schools tor the ge auother the press, another the puipit, the fourth is agitation, of which this is one great agent. The press exercises a large and hunorable influence on the most momentous ques- tions. But the editors cannot afford to offeud their pa- trons, and the great popular journals cannot peril parties. One half of the winter is taken up with dodging Pledges made in the fall, ani explaining away the promises they had made the last November. Take the pulpit. The idea of an American pulpit is something that treads popularity aod unpopularity un- der foot, and grapples with all sin and rebukes every sinner, But when was the American pulpit ever caugtit feariessly setting upa new crusade avainst a popular sin? When was the time and the hour when one out of every ten of the American pulpits was found facing a popular iniquity, and flinging its popularity behind it on the service of hated justice. Take the politicians. There sits the party and here sits the speaker—for what? To educate the people? O no; to elect a candidate—to carry a point—to utter so much truth and carefully con- ceal the rest, so that they will * fae party prospects. If I cannot press back liberty, if I cannot remodel the North so as to jeopard my civilization, it is gone. She appealed to builets to save her from ballots. As Toombs said, “I will yet call the roil slaves on Bunker Hill” As Momminger said, “I will put that Confeder- ‘ate flag over Faneuil Hall.” ’As Davis said substantially, “When we conquer we will remodel the North so as not to South Carolina.” Just what he was fightin; for, Just what, bad he conquered, he would have ba aright todo and done. Civil war settles what? It set- tes that the conquering idea has a right to put the con- quered idea where it can never trouble its conqueror again, (Applause.) That is what law says for two bun- dred years, and, better still, what common sense says day. Now, then, we having conquered, what our right? Why, it is to crowd Faneuil Hall down his throat. (Laughter and applause.) It 1s to take that Declaration of Independence against which the war was directed and carry it down to the gulf as the corner stone of its institutions. I am only siating these familiar principles that we may look at this subject from a standpoint common to us all. Let us agreo to begin with—the war settled something. What did it sewle? War is not a picnic, nor a masquerade, nor a frolic. War isa serious and earnest struggle, made up of lavish treasure and blood, and settles something. And the Soutn entered upon it to settle whether she stould dominate the continent. When she failed she gave us up the right of law and common sense—the right to dominate the con- Unent, to put beyond question, beyond contingency, that her civilization could trouble us again. Well, now that is the abstract. bald right of victory. Many a man has an abstract, bald legal right, which he is not justified in exercising. Aud whence do we derive the right? Whence are we justified in exercising this cold, right of victory and its extent? When thas, I think: Our civilization is the basi: ten, he never would have wasted nine braius on the other nine, (Laughter.) The very fact that God con- fers on each man normally the same qualities, is evi- dence and demonstration that He intended that man which we hold in our bands being the best, we are not only justified but bound to spread it to the extent of our right. Well, just here, exactly at this point comes in—and I may as weil illustrate it by his loved and honored agi above all others— conciliation of Mr. Beecher: “We are Well, we are. ” We are. never when he is not bound to be con- eed hour a ae ce to magnanimity. But mag- ‘and conciliation bave their law and other duties And the first duty of this hour, bought by we shall take a bond of faith and make & eg | g uu i ! i ize 3 i ? au Beg -sahe eices cat Fe they resist the Declaration of Independence, Half a dozea cannon on the wron, te Con's exege eam jons of a million of men, yw many Ball do you think it take to whip the Declaration of Indo; out of New York and Mas- sachuseus? I can answer for my State. I Kiow Gah it 703 Sonic sie the ite of the State in the of one hundred Bull Runs, she wou! spring to her feet after the hundredth, out, nevertheless, ‘‘All men are creaied equal!” (. ase. ) ‘And Bout after Antietam, Get ‘Ate lanta and stands sullen and sulky, crying out, “All men are not equal.” Jefterson Davis ia man of conviction, and believes his fb it is a devilish doctrine. Ab iE 3 3 B up ie FH i i fi z = i ki (Laug! ter). Oh! we are far beyond what could have been bie prior to the 4th of July, 1865, but we are not ond an actually justiflab® and proper reconstruction. It I could drop this million of Southerners believing in a lie in the Northwest it would be like a cut of ice dropped in the pure Mississip) jt would not color the current; e million before breakfast time, take these million of Southern men up to you, you carry down there education, equality, the ballot box, the inall farms and municipal institutions and ideas of the seaboard. Men talk of the East and the Weat 20) You might as well slice down the Rocky Mountains as divide us—we grow out of one root, What made tho South goof? She did not grow out of our root, What will bring her back? Graft her into our root; nothing else will. There are just three out of our present difficulties, One is to go down on your knees, beg pardon of the South for having con- quered her, and beg her to come into the saddle 4 and usasshe used to do, This is President Jobn- son's policy. The second is seize ber territory and treat her with deepotism tor the next huudred years, so that fio man shall tread ber soil that ever saw asiave. This would be sufficient; it would be effectual: bat it would be like the man who cut bis throat to cure his consump- tion, for it would kill republicanism on this continent. The third course, the one the spirit of the people is already compelling Congress to take, is to hold that Sonth with ali its discordant elements by the police power of the nation for five or seven years, until the seeds of republicanism are planted beyond the possibility of harm. ts the only common nse reconstruction. There are ten millions of doliars in, was in the South in '65. , are they no man will trust them there? I do not care what Revordy Johnson may ask or wnat the Senate atogs, that there is a State in Alabama or in Arkansas; but let avy person come from either of thos? a to your Wall street with the broad sea! of those States, and if he can borrow money on them then there are States there. ‘This [ow arn to President Jobnson’s policy. Now, Tsay Presi Johnson isa traitor. (Cheers.) HORACE GREELEY AND HENRY WILSON. But before I gofarther allow me to say one of your ;reat fearaalicte advised me to be more generous to the South. + @ advised mo to do this. Now, I wantto tell you the trath. 1 think Nature intended Mr. Greeley for ‘@ sumple bearted and honest man. But the ox is nota fox (laughter). In some unt Moment Mr. Greeley conceived the idea that he was made fora Tal- leyrand, aud be bas ever since been in favor of trading principles for immediate resuits. I am not bero at this ime to object. either to tho disgrace or the uncertainty of such a trade, but only to its ill success. ere are some men born trimmers, Mr, Senator Wileo: and he trims and trades for his own profit and that of his party ote The troubie with Greeley is, that nature never made him for a trim- mer, and when be tries to, he tries only to his own dia- grace and the ri of party. He engineered the — yond ‘on di ral Ce, paces, rg ges 3 Ing but eagacit) © people save from the same fate. part} ever talks of tact; it is only the aad he is slvays yarading’ bis principle, “Mr. Grosley? and he Ww ing inc! r. the chiramest Uf portals is always varadlag his tact! Every man can be respectable in the exercise of his talent, but that depends on what his talent happens to be. The donkey who saw the spaniel fondie his master, and in return get cuddied and petted and taken up into his master’s lap, thought he had as good a right tobe so treated; but when he went to push his attention on bis master he was kicked into the street, +! though the same donkey munchinz bis thistle on the common was a re- sometimes a romantic object. (Laughter. ) PRESIDENT JOMNNSON, I think the duty of ail American citizens in this hour is to speak plain common sense. I don’t believe in the mysteries of siatesmauship. I think that common sense, the most uncommon of all qualities, is the very need that the United States Senate needs, I do not mean when I say that Presideot Johnson is a traitor that he intends to betray the flag to the British. But I mean this; that narrow as has been his education he knows as well as you do the right of the North to Temodel this country, and he knows the necessity that the North should exercise this right. But I belive he pledged himself in black and white to use bis office to save the Southern oligarchy, and I believe he means to do so, The government bonds in the hands of the people are a safeguard to the nation, and the admission of southern represeniatives without the guaranty that justice demands would jeopardize the public credit in a manner which the loftiest assembly in world, the United States Senate could only prevent, although its record is occasionally darkened by the drankenuess of members, the wives aad daughters of some of whom, wait in the gaileries of the House to carry them home dead drunk to theit lodging after a debate and another of whom was only saved from expulsion owing to the prayers of bis wife. Every great namo of every State was stained, with perhaps one excoption, with trading in the patronage of the President. ihe Sevate bad also elevated to mili rank man who, in their own lobby, had assaulted wi violence, with cowardly violence, the person of a mem- ber of the House; elevated to rank the cowardly Ken- tuckian to a rank that Bi enable him to displace the honestest General the Southwest, General sheridan, (Applause.) The Senate of the United States had ered §=that man with their en- and served his country well; so much sharper, there- fore, should have beea the Lemna i Senate. The ‘made a major . He meant Henry Wilson. No ‘matter what gvod his speeches would do at Richmond, he was recreant to the bighes duty of the American sen- ator. Mr, Phillips knew what he was saying, and knew the criticism that of rights to the ted. ‘He wanted the ath lina to have the bal- &e., ard then, he roeeeey: humb! York woul ) What, cared | lina out ‘koaves carried it 5 should provide that if that Siate did not institute a com: Bhp Nee gong should, at the expense of the \ was 4 ‘Miltary oil bave ais room and ne Guest it was dangerous to impeacl pnt; wat Did they oe Poy aa oad oye neither iv Kk? It for General oe "ies to Riebm: i i ae i fa FE ES : | -. HL 1368. ony of excitement, The the desire to open the f. the Presidential election is ended, the re; tf from the settlement of sb: the helm of the Proaidential alec ‘cides the fate of the continent for tho next fifty years claim made ‘ed away from New Orieans ight allow Prosident John- ‘that city in haman hlood; & to Baltimore in order that his streets of your city here, If he does this, he isa sol dies; if he does not do it, he is no aoluier, untess that’ you think he does not wish to do it, which no man ad- mits. When 't. J. hs them North, saying he could not trust them or bims:lf in that city use he wag a Unionist, he wrote “no soldier’ on the record of Ulysses S. Grant, Su Jackson stood in his place to-day, at the head American army, charged with keeping South, and suppose the President approachea him and said to him “General Jackson, you are charged with keeping blood from flowing on ‘the pavements of New Orleans, but I want to shed it; you are charged with keep- ing the peace, I want to break it im the service of a party, and I want to mar your soldiers’ record to carry out my design, do you not think that Jackson's answer would be more emphatic than polite? Supposing the Dake of Wellington had quelled @ rebellion in Ireland, and on his return to London he heard that a soldier in Dublin had cheered because the Queen was assassinated, do you think he would go to the highlands to lay the corner stonc of a moaumen: to Prince Albert? No, He would be in Dublin in six hours, and if there were troops enough he would so use them that there would be noth- ing but cheers for the Queen from sunrise to sunset, For the Duke was a soldier, and would not allow any man to war his soldiers’ record for personal purposes. When John Tyler betrayed not a nation, but s party, and Daniel Webster was his Secretary of state, he assembled his friends amd said: Can I not be permitted for six weeks to uphold a cabinet that I abhor, to settie the northeastern boundary, and his friends said ‘Yes,’ with a protest of public expediency for a little while, for a special point—that was ao ordinary political question. But now, when the nation is hanging over Niagara, the great soldier hides the Cabinet behind bim. “Why,” a man may say, ‘if Genoral Grant had msisted on doin, his duty he (the President) would at once have orde: him to report at St. Louis, and the President would bave mustered him out. Sup he had, and the news came to Chicago and to New York that Genora! Grant bad de- cided to do his duty, and President Johnson had mus- tered him out in consequence, why, iD one day after that fact was known, Andrew Johnson would not have friends. enough to be visible on the surface of public affairs. (Applause). If it be trae, as General Graut's friends. allege, that he wanted to do his duty and the President would not allow him, he, 80, and Congress would ed the President before December. Let General Grant telegraph to-day that he wanted to make life safe in Texas and the President will not let him, aud Ben Wade would be President in thirty days. And if what Genoral Grant’s friends said be true I hold him re. ae to-day that Andrew Johnson {fs President of the United States, I know that this to some may appear harsh criticism. I would not blight a leaf of V! 3 loyalty nor detract from her military credit. I am pot going into the past. Iam looking to the future. We Bave filled haif a million of patriot graves, We are aurroul widows and orphans, and the horrors of Andersonville have brought desola- tion to sixty thousand homes. We have a moi f¢ in the rigvt hand for this generation and the next to pay $3,000,000,000; and standing beneath those graves and responsibie for this debt, we have no right, in the name of greatness, and in the name of hero worship, and a heediess magnanimity to do anything, to Tuo the risk that these cradies will have wo fight the horrible battle over again. Ob, fathers! Ob, mothers! seo to it that you judge merciless judgment, that you exercise pitiless criticism; but trust not the beim of state to any man every drop of whose blood 1s not Indis- putabiy safe on the side of the declaration of independ- ence." (Applause.) If you do not, God forgive you for disioyalty to the dead and to the future, FRESHETS. St. Paul, Minn., Partially Overflowed—The Minnesota Valley Rullroad Damaged—The Town of Heseur Under Water. St, Pavr, Mion., April 23, 1867, A freshet in the river here yesterday overflowed the upper levee. A portion ot West St. Paul is submerged, and the Minnesota Valley Railroad is badly damaged. ‘Trains will nave to stop running for several daye. ‘The Minnesota river is overflowed at Mankato, and the town of Heseur is under water ‘The Flood in the Missouri. Leavexworti, Kansas, April 23, 1867. The great flood still contiaues in the Missvuri river, The Flood in Piatte River. Sr. Lovrs, Mo., April 23, 1867. The latest accounts from the Platte river say that the freshet has reached its height, and that the water is slowly receding. No fear of further damage to the Paci- fic Railroad is entertained, and the recent damage will be speedily repaired. The worst break is near Elkhorn sta- tion, where four hundred yards of the track has been washed away. The railroad between Omaba and Chicago has been bn a by the freshets, and the water still continues rising. The Floods in Canada—The Towns of Three Rivers and Berthier Partially Submerged. Tunes Rivers, C. E., April 23, 1867, ‘The ice in the river here moved last night, but is again «Stationary. The water bas risen toa great height, The lower portion of the town is completely inundated. The poor people are housed im the town hall. The village of hier is also inundated. The river is still rising. Much distress and alarm prevail. , WAVIGATION ON THE LAKES, The Straits of Mackinaw Open. Mrwavxes, April 23, 1867. The Straits of Mackinaw are now open to navigation, The propailer Messenger has just arrived here, being the throagh here this season. Navigation of Lake Michigan. Derrort, ‘The propeller Montgomery arrived at'gPort yin ive two o'clock this afternoon, from Chicago. Bhe is the first boat of the season from Lake Navigation Open on Lake Pepin. Sr. Lours, April 23, 1867. Lake Pepin was opened Sunday, and boats S cmeca 9 on iy have WE IN THE ST. LAWRENCE. The Ice Bridge at Quebec Still Firm—An At- tempt to be Made to Blow it Up with Gua- Powder. Quennc, C. W., April 23, 1867, ‘The first vessel from sea, this season passed Father Point yostontay. She is believed to be the Gieniffer. ‘The ice bridge opposite this cit; does not move soon an attempt wi up with gunpowder, io still firm. If it be made to blow it TAL ACCIDENTS. Fatat Fats.—Betwoen two and three o’clock yester- day afternoon John Archer, a carpenter by occupation, ‘dvelling at No, 11 Second avenue, while at work im the fourth story of the building No, 438 Canal street fell ‘through an open hatchway and fractured his skull. the unfortunate man died a few minutes lator. The body was removed to the inte residence of the deceased by the pulice, who also notified the coroner of the oocur- Fence, Row Oven ann Kituen,—Towards six o'clock yesterday afternoon David Fendestus, a ind aged eight years, was Tun over, while at the corner of Spring and Greenwich streets, by a heavily laden truck driven by ye The was almost instantly killed. Tee ity eighth precinct, arrested Gibaey, who was locked up to await the verdict of a coroner's | Jury. The body of the victim was removed to the resi. dence of his parents, at No, 805 Spring street. AMNIVAL OF THE WARVEST QUEEN AT SAN FRANCISCO, Saw Francisco, April 22, 1867, Ship Harvest Queen, from New York. arrived here om | stroyed by lire to day. e $6,000 Batarday, 3 ee THE INDIAN WAR. Hostilities Commenced on the Pan of the Cheyennes. A Station Destroyed and Three Mex Killed and Scalped. GENERAL HANCOCK ON THE WAR PATH. a Deserted Camp. aR Crry, Colorado, April 22, 1667. Lookout station, twe hundred and seventy miler east of Smoky Hill route, was destroyed by the Cheyenne Indians on Monday tast, and three of the empioyés of the United States Express Company killed and goalped. Eight of the company’s horses were stolen. General Hancock had reached Fort Zara and atttempet with the Indian scouts to find the trail of the Cheyenveg but was unsuccessful. He then surrounded their camp, bat before commencing an attack sent forward mes- wengers to propose a treaty, The camp was found deserted and most of their property abandoned. General Hancock is supposed to be now on the wal path, About one thousand Indian warriors passed Downer’s station, going North. They are probably the same In- dians who burned Lookout station, Passengers by the Smoky Hill’conch to-day report 2,000 to 3,000 Cheyennes and Sioux on the road. Sixty United States express horses have been stolen this week. The coach passed General Custer at Fort Hayes, from Hancock's command, where they had haled tor pro- visions, The Indians seen were all on the war-path, and thus far have eluded the troops. Government Train Attacked near Fert Mitch- ell, Dakota. Sr, Lous, April 23, 1867. A train loaded with government freight was recently attacked by Indians near Fort Mitchell, Dakota, and oue hundred and twenty mules driven of, The wagons were left standing on the road. OMicial Report of General Sully’s ‘Talk’? with the Ogadolas and Sioux. ‘Wasuixcron, April 23, 2867, The Commissioner of Indian Affairs bas received @ telegram from Brevet Brigadier General Alfred Sully, President of the Commission appointed to investigate the late massacre at Fort Phil Kearny, dated Califor- | nia Crossing, twenty-five miles east of Fort Sedgwick, April 20, in which he states that after great difficulty ‘they had succeeded in getting tho Ogadola and Brute \Sioax in for a talk, representing three hundred and afty Hodges, had had @ satisfactory‘arrangement with them, ‘and General <ully thinks fit can gafely be said, that they {have prevented over seven handred warriors from Joining the war party. The Commission would leave Fort Sedgwick for Laramie in three or four days, and hope to be successful in preventing many more Sioux from joining the hostile party. There has been much trouble on the road gto Laramie from hostile Sioux, which would increazo the diffieuities and expenses of the Commission. ¢ MEXICO. Max Attenipts to Escape from Queretaro— |Description af the Country Around that ‘City—Riva Palacto Closes the Do any Retreat—Slow Progress of Sewnrd’s Swift Envoy, &c. The following items are farnished by the border papers, and throw some additional light on the situation ‘at Querétaro:— A letter from Querétaro, of the 28th, says that the im- perialists were pushed back within one square of the plaza, the enemy being reduced to the plaza itself ; leav- {ng them the little hills de In Cruz and La pana, ir they aro cut off, because our fortifications on this are within gunshot of the last mentioned fort. It ishorrible to bebold the situation of Querétaro, aug- mented by the spectacle which the corpses of the enem: present, which they leave unburied where they fall, Tendering the atmosphere insupportable, Just think how much the inhabitants :nust suffer from this ‘Last night we aitacked tne enemy’s tine, protected by all our ariliery. and muskeiry.. We heard in the midst ot the strife the sorrowful Jamentations of the families, and on this account suspended tiring. ‘The enemy will not let uuy one come out, and when the poor, unfortunate wretches, dying of hunger, en- deavor to come to us they are sliot down by the enemy, Thus the miserable inhabitants are compelled to abaa- don their homes and go with the enemy into the Plaza. Maximilian endeavored to take flight, day. before yes- terday, with his chief officers, by the rond to Morelia, which we had eft guarded onty by a few sentinels; but the cowardly and disgraceful manner in which he under- took to leave, prevented his soldiers from following him. However, he would have left with his officers aloue; bat in this ho counted without his host; for the same day, five thousand men of Riva Pulacio’s division arrived by this road, and closed that gap against him. The Perindico Official, of Monterey, says:— Lettors received from Colonel Zepeda and others, writ- ten in San Luis Potosi, with refereuce to the news com- municated by Generals Escobedo and Trevino, confirm the statment that our forces are within, one square of the Plaza of Queretaro. It was stated that the traitor Marquez, with a cavairy force, succeeded im escaping, and took the road to the city of Mexico, It is also sar that Quiroga and Vidaurri accompanied him. But it can- not be possible that they could escape pursuit or evade the vigilance of the repubiicans who surround the city, The fights have been frequent between the besieged and besiegers. Our latest news reaches the 30th ultimo, At four o'clock in the evening a general battle was ex- pected. ‘A broad open country stretches away from Querétaro in the direction of the capital. Surrounding tne open country are volcanic peaks and mountains these mountains no force or body of men can be + vred. In thes» mountains are the liberals. 1 there fortified by nature, and could no more be disiodg: than could rabbits be dislodged from a chaparral jungle, Surrounding the city of Querétaro are several peaks oc- cupied by the imperialists. On them batteries are so planted as to rake all approaches to the city. Five miles to the west of the city is the hill LaCampana, m the cen- tre of the valley. From this peak the imperialists fire upon the liberals whenever they show themselves in the open country, North of the city is the bill of La Cruz; also occupied by the imperialists, Besides these are many other peaks or hills surrounding Querétaro, which the imperialists took possession of some time ago and fortified them before the liberais advanced upon the joe! One of these fortified hills, San Gregorto, the iberals captured on the night of the 14th ult, The advanced lines of the liberals are in the hen edge of the mountains, in half-circle surrounding Qu taro on the north, east and west at a distance from the city proper of four or five miles, Instead of the liberals having the city besieged the imperialists have laid to the mountains. The mouth opening in the rich val- ley to the south of Querstaro is solely in the possession the im ists; and though the liberals claim to have twice the force of their antagonists, they cannot bo induced to sisk a pitched battle. (The troops ordered forward by Diaz to reinforce Esco- bedo having, according to last authentic accounte, reached San Juan de Kio in the last days of March, it ie highly probable that the south side of Querétaro ie now threatened by liberals and communication with the capital cut off. —Ep. H.) ‘The steamer Blackbird, which took out Mr. White, Mr. Soward’s swift messenger to Juarez, asking him to treat Maximilian and his followers according to the laws of war, if they fell into is hands, got out of coal and had to put into She is to take the messenger to ‘Tampico, whence ho is to find his way through to the feat of war as well as be can. MURDER IN CLEVELAND. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE KERALO. Curverann, Obio, April 23, 1867, Izador Aileinger, a well known citizon of this place, ‘was found murdered in his store this morning. Ho was robbed of three hundred dollara in money. No clue to the murderers has been obiained, ARCHBISHOP SPAULOING CONVALESCENT. Bavtmone, April 23, 1867, The Catholic community where will be gratified to learn (hat Archowbop Spaulding of this diocese, Pn- mate of the Catholic church injAmerica, ls mot dead, as reported, but recovering, He expects to make his con- templated journey to early in May, TWE FUNERAL OF BISHOP TIMON. Burvavo, April 23, 1867. Wore in attendance at the fu- Timon to-day. Arohbishops Kendrick, of St, Lovie; Bishop = + te lll ee) comm, ae Rappe, veland; Williams, p Albany; Grosbriend, ‘of Burlincton; Loughila, kiyn; and Domininci, of Pittsburg. The following Sr ao nel Mec outey of New York Lynch, Toronto: Detroi 7 ry of DESTRUCTION OF A CHURCH BY FIRE. ‘Acnuws, N. ¥., April 28, 1967, “ ttre city, war dex The Methodist + a oye Pt ‘000, ineurenens