The New York Herald Newspaper, May 13, 1867, Page 4

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Advertisers will please bear in mind that in order to have their advertisements properly classi- fied they should be sent in before half-past eight o’clock in the evening. EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yester- day, May 12. The Luxemburg Peace treaty, drafted in the London Congress, has been ratified by the different governments represented. Prussia is to evacuate the fortress of Lux- emberg within a month from tho date of the treaty. The French Cabinet has made “satisfactory” expiana- tions to Pruasia rolative to Napoleon's recent warlike preparations, United States five-twenties wore at 775; in Frankfort yesterday, Our mail adviers, by steamships at thie port, embrace ‘& special correspondence from Paris, wif newspaper re- ports in detail of our cable despatches to the evemng of the 80th of April, and a continuation of the risumé pub- lished in the Henan yesterday morning, Our Paris correspondent igclines to the opinion that the offorts of the diplomatists in the London Conference Will offect, at the most, only a postponement of war bo tweon France and Germany. The Correspondence Havas, @ lithographed oficial exponent of the views of the French government, contains « pungent and most acri- mouious indictment against Prussia in setting forth the Emperor's reasons for preparing for war. The relative forces and probable allied supports of France and Prussia, in the event of war, are set forth im interesting articles, and the progress of the negotiations for a peace adjustment, commencing with Queen Vic- toria’s letters to the King of Prussia, reported, The brother of the Tycoon o was received by Napoleon and Eagene at the Tuileries with great cere- mony andj marks of imperial aitention. The young man, who, with others of his countrymen, is w remain in Paris to study, made an address complimentary to the Emperor aud France. MISCELLANEOUS. Jott Davis was visited by his numerous friends at bis rooms in the Spottswood Hotel at Richmond yesterday, His counsel held a conference with him during the day. Horace Greely, Augustus Schell and General Jackman are in the city, tor the purpose of going his bail. Noth- ing but conjectures cam be given as 10 the probable mode of procedure in the court to-day. Richmond was the scene of another riot on Saturday night. The negroos attempted to rescue a drunken negro from the police, and for that purpose used clubs, bricks and pistols. Four policemen were badly beaten, A company of soldiers was finally called out and arrested eighteen of the rioters. During yesterday mounted sol- diors patrotied the streets, and policemoa guarded the churches im view of threats that the negroes would force their way in among the white people. An incendiary speaker was arrested and held in $3,000 bail, Judge Underwood and Horace Greeley addressed the congre- gation at the African church advising moderation. Judge Underwood said that General Schofield had deter- mined in case of another riot to sweep the streets with srapeshot, Senator Wilson arrived in Montgomery, Ala, on Friday, On his trip from Atlanta he addressed several white audiences, when he was severely catech'sed about certain customs in the North, but was able to make suitable replies to all questions On Saturday he ad- dreased an audience of the usual mixed character, He was introduced by General Swayne, and in the course of his speech made no reference whatever to coniiscation. He was replied to by prominent lawyer, named Clan ton, formerly a rebel general, who urged in argument that the negro did not owe his freedom to the republican party; that President Lincoln had promised the rebel- lious Suath two years after the commencement of the war that their slaves would be undistarbed if they would return to the Union. After the speeches, General Swayne called for the sense of the colored people as to who were for the repubiican party, and the response was @ unanimous afirmative. Judge Kelty, of Pennsylvania, addressed the people of New Orleans on the political status of the South on Sat- urday evening. His audience was the largest mass Meeting of citizens known in that city for some time, merous political clubs were present with banners, ‘raneparencies and devicea The platform was appro- Priately decorated, and many of the prominent citizens And lovely Indies of the city occupied seats upon it Resolutions of a strong republican character were adopted after the meeting. The remarks of the Judge ‘were frequently greeted with prolonged applause, Rev. Dr. Cheever last evening preached the closing discourse {p the Church of Puritan, Union square, the building having passed out of the hands of the pastor and bis congregation. Buhop Potter adminis- tered the rites of confirmation in the French chureh, in ‘Twenty-second street, where the congregation of St. Stephen's Episcopal church are now worshipping. , The ‘ipnual sermon before the graduating low class of Columbia College was preached at Calvary church, by Rev. BE. A. Washburn. Notwithstanding theofficial predictions regarding riots and public demonstrations against the peace of the city, yesterday was the quietest Sunday and one of the most beautiful known is this vicinity for many yearn. The Ex cise law was very generally observed, although the fight of beer drinkers to Westchester and Hoboken was greater tham weual, There were forty-sit arrests made in the city for violation of the law. A portion of BuGhle Bay te sill blocked with ico and several vessels are ice bound, their crews suffering se- verely for want of provisions, Some of them have been living for several days on one biscuit to the man or boiled corn, Two men escaped from tho vessels by crossing the ice, and on giving mformation regarding the suffering condition of the crews, tugs and provisions were sent them, The Governor General of Canada and his family are expected to arrive soon from England. Presidential Candidates. Parties, Sections and Factions—What is the Prospect t What is the prospect for the next Presi- dency? What parties, questions and candi- dares will divide the popular vote—who are in training—what ticket and platform are most likely to prevail, and what section or party will control the balance of power? As matters now stand it is difficult to tell whether the ten outside Southern States will participate in the contest; but if admitted by Congress in sea- son to participate, their votes, we may assume, will be cast as a unit for the ticket most favorable to the South. The present dividing lines be'ween the republican and democratic parties will not hold. They are divided upon dead issues, and they must be reorganized upon the new and living issues of the day. In this reconstruction we may have three or four new parties and candidates, and a regular scrub race, as in 1824, when Jackson, Adams, Crawford and Cliy were the competitors, or we may have a powerful leading ticket and a scattering of the opposition forces, as in 1836, when Martin Van Buren ran as the anointed successor of Jackson, and when the opposition elements were divided between Harrison, Webster, Whiie and Mangum. Among the newspaper tickeis already pro- posed are these:—The Tennessee ticket of General George H. Thomas and General John A. Logan; the Indiana ticket of Speaker Colfax and General Ben Butler; the Ohio ticket of Chief Justice Chase and John Minor Botts, of Virginia; the New York Hzraup experimental sectional reconciliation ticket of Genvral Grant and General Lee, which is rallying the South to Grant; the New York experimental Seward ticket of General Grant and Admiral Farragut, and the Maine radical ticket of Wendell Phillips and Isaac Newton, of Philadelphia—a ‘steamboat man, like George Law, if we are not mistaken. There have also been some scattering newspaper shots in favor of Hon. Ben Wade, President of the Senate ; Charles Sumner, George Peabody, Robert C. Winthrep, Generals Sherman, Sheridan, Meade and other military chieftains ; and for Horatio Seymour, George H. Pendleton, Clement L. Vallandigham, and other democrats of copper- head antecedents and associations. General Grant leads the field, and following him in popularity in the order named, of our military heroes, are Thomas, Sheridan and Logan. General Sherman’s splendid career and abilities as a soldier have been neutralized by bis mistakes as a politician. He will, there- fore, lose nothing from his voyage to the Holy Land. He may, in fact, be considered out of the race, like General McClellan, and may re- main abroad as long as he pleases, without troubling himself about the White House. We presume that it will be somewhat difficult to find a truly distinguished subordinate general under Grant in the late war who will consent to ran against him, if for no other reasons, be- cause it would be labor in vain. Poor Pierce, a second or third rate volunteer General in Mexico, not only in 1852, ran against his Commander-in-Chief, General Scott, but de- feated him as badly as Scott defeated Santa Anna. ft was really, however, W. H. Seward and his abolition radicalism of that day on the slavery question that elected Pierce ; for then, in trath, Cotion, throned upon slavery, was king. Thanks to poor Pierce, as the champion of slavery, things are bravely altered now; and powerful, indeed, must be the political platform of the soldier or civilian who will enter the field for the Presidential succession with any show of a respectable fight against the popularity of General Grant. Yet the extreme republican radical faction, from Stevens, Sumner and Butler, down to their humblest followers, are as hostile to Grant to-day ss is Wendell Phillips. Their schemes of Southern confiscation, and for placing the white race of the South under po- litical subjection to the blacks, are not en- dorsed by General Grant; and he must, therefore, if possible, be cast aside. The most formidable candidate named for this purpose is Chief Justice Chase, who is strong because he is backed by the national banks and all their affiliations of his financial system. But all this powerfdl electioncering machinery may be upset by the ultra radieal leaders, if they pursue their peculiar game of Southern reconstruction too far. There is reason to ap- preiend that they will so far succeed in their efforts to array the black race of the South against the white race as to embarrass and delay the work of reconstruction, and 80 bring about a political reaction in the North which will enable the congervative republicans, under the lead of such men as Fessenden, Banks, Bingham, ‘Blaine and others, to unite the Central States, the great West and the South, under the conservative banner of Grant. This will be easy. of accomplishment with a platform embracing a thorough overhauling and cutting down of our present oppressive national bank, credit and taxation system, in- ternal and external ; for in these things we have the issues which are to control the next Presi- dential contest and to give shape to the domi- nant party of the fature. The session of Congress which will be opened next December wil! determine in its measures of legislation the reconstruction of parties, and, excepting General Grant, the availability of this or that candidate for the succession. Presi- dent Johnson appears to be dropped as com- pletely as was John Tyler in his experiments of political recons‘ruction ; and of Mr. Seward it need only be said that his political career will end, at the farthest, with the present ad- ministration. From sowing the wind he has reaped the whirlwind, and it has left him among the wrecks and ruins which mark its path. With hundreds of others assisting in its crea- tion, North and South, in being drawn into its vortex, he has been destroyed. The coming harvest, on both sides, will be reaped by those who sought to avert the storm, with those who battled with it and aided in shaping ite course to a lasting peace. If we have no session of Congress in July, there will probably be at NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 1%, 1867. the blunders of republican volunteer missiona- ries among the Southern blacks, and the blun- ders of our five Southern military district com- manders, Failing in this, we may look for a rupture in Congress which will of itself work the reorganization of parties for the succession. In any event, we shall most likely have to wait till December for a decisive troubling of the waters, The News from Mexico. The Austrian adventurer, Maximilian, is making @ bold stand for his empire, In our correspondence of yesterday it is reported that he headed a dashing sortie against the besieg- ers and for a time threatened to overthrow them. Corona and Treviilo, however, restored the fortunes of the day and recaged impe- rialism. It appears that the liberals are threatened with much trouble in their rear, the revolt of the Laguneros in southwest Coahuila, forcing the removal of General Ortega from Saltillo to Monterey, being now followed by an upr'sing of the famous bandits of Tamaulipas, who keep this province in a constant broil, and from its proximity to the United States make our people believe that it isa good exponent of Mexico, when really it is to that country what onr border is to the United States—the safety valve for all the cutthroats of the land. The Custom Houses of Tampico and Mata- moros have always furnished a rich bait for men like Canales, Cortina and Gomez, who, regardless of political principles, have from time to time seized and held these money cen- tres, draining them of their wealth, Gomez is now about to try his hand at the plundering game. He will doubtless be aided by Canales, who was, at last accounts, near by, at the Valle Gel Maiz, with six hundred of his choicest cut- throats. His aid wili last until the division of the spoils is to be decided. All these troubles in the rear and flank of the liberal army at Querétaro weaken them very much, and, though simply local revolts, having no object in view except plunder, are of the greatest aid to Maximilian. The who'le difficulty springs from lack of a strong hand to crush out such risings and from the fact that under the miserable gencralship of Escobedo the siege of Querétaro drags along so slowly. It is time that Escobedo was removed and some one like Porfirio Diaz placed in com- mand, if republicanism is to be re-established in Mexico; otherwise we shall never have the pleasure of treating Maximilian to a New York reception. Our Legislative and Corporation Corrup- tions—A New Constitution the Remedy. The party journals bave had a great deal to say abput the corruption of the last Legisla ture, and if we are to credit their charges and counter charges, a majority of the members who were at Albany the past winter ought to occupy cells in the State Prison, without the hope of an Executive pardon. But the crimi- nations and recriminations of the organs of these State plunderers, which are only a repeti- tion of the old story of the compliments that once passed between the pot and the kettle, excite but little attention. The people have grown so accustomed to hear of legislative ve- nality that they pay no heed to new develop- ments. The evil has been growing in its pro- portions year after year, under the benign influence of the lax constitution of 1846, and has progressed, pari passu, with corruption here in the city government, until honesty among officials, either at Albany or New York, is as little looked for as it would be among the denizens of the devs and cribs of the Five Points. The manner in which tho taxpayers of New York have for years been robbed by the several municipal “rings,” has passed into aproverb, The Court House job, the corpora- tion printing, the street cleaning, and in fact all works undertaken by the city authorities, have long been notoriously made the means of plundering the people. The only difference between the present time and a few years since is that now the charges of malfeasance hereto- fore hinted at are openly and boldly made. It has recently been publicly stated that a Mayor of the city and members of the Common Council were paid twenty-one thousand dollars for leasing a building on Nassau street at a high rent for city purposes. Not long since, in a law suit in which the city was interested, the pleadings charged that forty thousand dollars had been received by another Mayor of New York and the Board of Aldermen in considera- tion for a street cleaning contract. Corruption has grown so bold and defiant of late that no effort is any longer made to cover it with a cloak of honesty, and no fears seem to be enter- tained of its consequences. This recklessness has been mainly brought about by the advancement of a set of grogshop politicians and ward bullies to office within the past ten years, who have had no characters to lose, and who, secure in their influence over an elective judiciary, have been indifferent to public indignation. These men have filled the boards of the Common Council and have held control of most of the city departments. They have been just the sort of negotiators to treat with our State Legislature, and year after year they have been sent up to Albany as the rep- resentatives of the corporation, to bay up mem- bers at so much a head, either to secure or de- feat legislation. It is notorious that the old Street Department, under Boole, with its hygi- enic guard, was kept running and robbing ses- sion after seasion by bribing and corrupt- ing the Legislature. Nor is this rascality confined to the corporation of the city of New York and its several municipal “rings.” A new source of legislative profit has sprung up with the political commissions that bave more recently been created and placed in authority over some of our city de- partments, The scheming politicians and lobby speculators who have controlled these bodies have not been far behind the city corporation in attempts to bribe our representatives at Albany into extending their powers and in- creasing the profits of their offices. The two sets of corruptionists together have contrived to raise our local taxation to over twenty mil- lions of dollars, to sapport their dishonest ex- penditures at the State capital. Nor is this all. No sooner has the Legislatare adjourned than the city is flooded with new schemes of plander devised by the corporation robbers. At this moment there are eggs in the process of incu- bation in the nest of the Common Council millions of property; there are jobs for paving and for other so-called “improvements” that would yield a handsome pension to the members of the rings for some time to come, and there is @ proposition to take hold of the puBlic markets, and, by new ordinances, to head off the proposed reforms con‘emplated by the city Comptroller and reiain the markeis as s source of profit and plunder in the hands of the Common Council. The people are well aware of all these noto- tiousfacts. They are no news to the readers of the Henap; for we have been engaged in exposing them for the past quarier of a cen- tury. A majority of the voters of tho city, knowing how they are robbed and wronged, would gladly unite to put a stop to this open corruption. Several remedies have been pro- posed, but they are only tinkerings at reform. What the people need is a stable, strong and compact city government, having one execu- tive head, responsible directly to the electors of the city and held answerable to them for the capacity, efficiency and, honesty of every subordinate department of the municipal gov- ernment, This would at once remove the moat prolific source of legislative corruption—the corporation rings and the political commis sions of New York. Then, witha State gov- ernment rendered powerlul by the increase of executive authority, with a Legislature re- stricted as mach as possible from special legis- lation, and with a life-appointed, fearless and independent judiciary, we might look to im- mediate, thorough reform and to a great future for the Empire State. Let the approaching Convention give us a constitution thus re- modelled and State and city governments thus reconstructed, and their work will be gladly welcomed and triumphantly supported by the electors of this city and of the Siaie. A Chance for Ashley and Butler. The question of a session of Congress in July begins to be agitated, and some anxiety is man- ifested on the part of the radical members on the subject. Of course the shape that recon- struction may take under the action of the Su- preme Court will settle the point whether a session is to be held or not, but some of the more restless spirits of Congress cannot remain satisfied doing nothing. The Ashleys and the Butlers will never be contented until they have impeached somebody. Impeachment is their ruling passion, and will be as strong wiih them in political death as in life. Their principal desire is to impeach the Presid_nt; and if be should be guilty of conduct in his official capacity calculated to interfere with and inter- rupt the work of reconstruction and the settle- ment of the ,country under the laws of Con- gress, they would find no difficulty in accom- plishing their object. But if they cannot im- peach the President, they are bound to take some other public officer. They tried their bands on Collector Smythe, of New York, last session; but he made such a plain, satisfactory statement that they were compelled to back out, and Congressman Hulburd, who took the lead in the persecution, came near being im- peached himself for his share in the affair. We have proposed several subjecis for impeach- ment ourselves—among others Chief Justice Chase ; but he very wisely followed the advice of the Heratp and prepared to discharge his duties under the laws of Congress, and so we let him go. But Ashley, Butler & Co., bave now a viry good opportunity to get up an im- peachmeat in the case of Judge Underwood. His recent charge to the grand jury at Ricb- mond shows that he is unfit to sit upon the bench and administer the laws. His incendiary appeals to the passions of the people would render it an easy matter for a Congressional committee to charge him with getting up the Richmond negro riot a day or two since. He wants to be a martyr, and Ashley and Butler are itching fora victim. We repeat, here isa good chance for an impeachment in July. We should be sorry to see itdone; for Judge Under- wood is not of sufficient importance to accom- plish any real mischief, and his judicial eccen- tricities furaish spicy matter for newspaper reading. We only offer the hint out of sympa- thy for Ashley, Butler, and their associates in and out of Congress, who, like Othello, find their occupation gone unless they can have somebody to impeach; and we hope they will give us proper credit for our charitable inien- tions. Our Foreign Trade in Foreign Bottoms. Of all the stupid and suicidal legislation ever heard of was that of our Congress in prohibiting the re-regisiration as American vessels those that passed under a foreign flag during the war for the sake of protection from rebel pirates. The vast tonnage of this country dwindled down very much, as is well known, during the war, from this cause and in this way. The gov- ernment, having the extensive Southern coast to blockade, could not afford protection to our merchant vessels at sea, A navy twice as large as ours could not have done so. What, then, were our shipowners to do? Could they see their property sacrificed and themselves ruined? It would have been unreasonable to expect this of them. To protect themselves they used what was called the whitewasb- ing process to a great extent—that is to say, they placed their property under a foreign flag, and chiefly uader the British flag. A portion of our tonnage, however, was sold outright. Still a large amount con‘inued to be owned here, though putunder a foreiga flag by the whitewashing process. When the war ended the American shipowners wanted, natu- rally enough, to have their vessels restored ander their own flag. This, strange to say, Congress would not permit, and actually passed alaw probibiting the re-registration of such vessels, And why was this done? Simply to favor a few shipbuilders of New England. It was supposed that if these American built ships of American owners, which had sought protection under a foreign flag, were forbidden registration again, an immense and profitable business would be given to the shipbuilders of the Eastern States, But the high prices of labor and materials have disappointed these expecta- tions, Our tonnage remains in the same dwarfed proportions in which the war left it. The consequence is, as the official report from Washington siates, the large proportion of our foreign trade is done in foreign bottoms, This is a disgrace to a great commercial nation like the United States. It is a great loss at the eame time; for, of course, foreigners get the bulk of the profits of the carrying trade, even where there may be American ownership or part ownership in the “whitewashed” vessels: Let ue hope that when Congress shall reassem- die It will have the good sense and patriotism to repeat the law prohibiting the re-reaistra- tion of American ships. The few New England shipbuilding monopolists for whom this law appears to have been made have not been ben- efited, and if they had, the great commercial interests of the whole country overshadow all considerations of a local or class character. Let one of the first acts of Congress next ses- sion be the repeal of this stupid and ruinous law. ‘The Iron-clads Market for the World. The United States is fast becoming the market of the world for iron-clads, The ery of the cunning magician, “Lamps forsale! Who'll exchange old lamps for new?” attracted Aladdin’s mother, and induced her to barter away the wonderful source of her son’s wealth. Mr. Seward’s ery of “Iron-clads for sale! Who'll trade old territory for iron-clads ?” has proved irresistible to the crowned heads of the world, and they are running after our national auctioneer with the energy of a Toodles, anxious to secure an article which they all feel it would be just now handy to have in the house, Our great Russian American acqui- sition, which enables us to use the North Pole as a fingstaff tor the stara and stripes, is to be paid for, it is said, in iron-clads. Prussia promises to be a cash customer, as she wants all her real estate for her own use. It is re- ported that the mysterious mission of the Japanese Commissioners has for its object a Yankee “swap” of a few thousand islands for three or four iron-clads, as well as to settle up a little matter with some of our political jobbers, in which our Asiatic friends claim to have been badly victimized. Now our special cable despatch from Vienna announces that the government of Greece has contracted with the United States for the purchase of seven monitors ; but whether these are to be paid for in coin, or whether Mr. Seward has an eye upon «Tho isles of Greece—tho isles of Greece, ‘Where burning Sappho loved and sung,” does not appear. At all events we congratu- late the Secretary upon the rapid increase of bis iron-clad trade, and wish bim a fair profit and good paying customers. Butin the present muddled condition of foreign affairs we should advise him in every case to make bis terms, “Cash or territory to be paid down. No trust.” RICHMOND. Another Riot—Arrest of 2 Drunken Negro by the Police—Attempted Rescue by the Prison- er’s Colored Brethren—Pistols, Clubs and Brickbats Used-Four Policemen Badly Beaten—A Company ot Soldiers Called Out— Eighteen Negroes Arrested, &c. : Ricuwonp, May 12, 1867, Another riot occurred in the lower portion of the city last nicht, The negroes att&mpted to rescue a drunken Begro from the police, and bricks, clubs and pistols were used. Four poiicemen were bably beaten and one was severely injured. A company of soldiers who were guarding the Libby prison were called out and captured eighteen of the rioters. While this was going on another difficulty occurred in First street, but it wasquellea by the persuasion of a colored juryman. To-day mounted soldiers patrolled the streets to keep order, and squads of policemen were placed at all of the churches in view of threats of the negroes to force their way in amgng the whito peopl», A large procession of nogro societies attended a funeral to-day, accompanied by an unarmed company of colored militia, the offers of which carried swords. There was no disturbance. Fears of Another Riot—Arrest ef an Incendi- ary Spenker. Ricawoxp, Va., May 12, 1867, Jedediah K. Hayward, of Massachusetts, was arrested Jast night for using lancuage at a negro mecting on Fri- day night calculated to creaiea riot. His language was as follows:—“‘Alter Judge Underwood leaves you can hoid high carnival en what you please, I need not ad- vise you what to do, for great bodies do as they have a mind to.’ He was arrested on a warrant from the Mayor, and was released in $3,000 bail to appear to- morrow at the Mayor's court, under an act of the State. Indulging in inflammatory language is punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary, It is understood that the order of arrest was at the suggestion of General Schoficid. Harangues, whether secesh or radical, will henceforth be prohibited in Virginia, The citizens have been apprehensive of a riot all day. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. Addresses of Judge Underwood and Horace Greeley at the African Churgh—The Negroes Counselled to Refrain frou Riotous Demon. atrations. See Pmwoxn, Va., May 12, 1867. After service at the African church to-night the preacher spoke a few words of good advice to the con- grogation, urging them to refrain from all disorderly or riotous demonstrations. Hs closed by introducing Judge Underwood, who said General Schofield had told him to-day that there was a possibility of a mot being made by the negroes to-morro id that if there was he would plant cannon and sweep the streets with grape shot. He urged them to be peaceful and quiet in their de- meanor, and declared that they had gained thetr present position by good conduct, and could gain nothing by violence and insuit. He had answered for them as his frends, and bad assured the General that there would be no disturbance on their part, He introduced Mr. Horace Greeiey. Mr. Greeioy said thathe did not believe there was much fear of a riot, but if they assembled on the streets twenty at a place it would give occasion for interference with them, and if a telegram could be made that there had been a collision between the soldiers and the colored people it would go ali over the country, and burt their brothers at some place where they were not 80 well protected as they arebere, He had been spoken of as a friend of the colored people, but he was not their friend any more than he was the friend of every poopie that is oppressed—just as he had spoken for them when down-trodden, #0 at the ciose of the ‘War he bad spoken for the other side, leet they should be punished for things of which they were not gatity, ‘When the wild cry of vengeance arose after the murder of our great President, he advised them to be as modest in their triumph as they had been patient in their suffer. ing, promising that their reward would be grost and lasting. These speeches wore in wonderful contrast to the flaming harangues heard in the same place op Friday night. THE LABOR QUESTION. The Strike of the Stablemen. ‘The staiemen still continue on strike, and announce thetr intestion of holding out until they.zet the pay, $2 per day, that they demand, They have also determined to agsist those em grants who are in needy circumstances, and who may be, or have been, induced to work for the companice at the low rates, They will assemble in force this morning, at half-past seven o'clock, at the Nineteenth Ward Hotel, Fifty-third street, between Lexington and Fourth avenues, and march throngh the’ city, Visiting the different stables along the route, The jetors of stages yesterday yielded to the demands Of thelr men. ‘he Third avenue company engaged JEFFERSON DAVIS. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE”WERALD: Mr. Davis Holds = Levee at the Spettswood House—Conjectures ia Relation to the Trial Ricuwowp, Va, May 12, 1667. Mr. Davis held an informal levee at the Spottswood House to-day. He received visits from many of his friends, the majority being of the class typified by the reverend gentleman who always refers to the distine guished prisoner as ‘our President.” Later in the day ‘he was in conference with his counsel, Messrs, Charles O'Conor, Shea, Ould and J. R. Tucker, No guard is placed upon his movements, and he was the recipient during the day of several handsome boqueta, Conjectures, theories and rumors of every possible variety are afloat as to the shape the case will assume im court to-morrow, The prospective proceedings are spoken of by counsel ag if their progress were mot to be contingent upon any of the glorious uncer. tainties of the law, but were already fixed in a set prow gramme beyond possible change or mishap, Indeed we are not without intimation that the day will develop manewuvres showing how nicely lawyers can go aroun@ legal forms in cases where the point of criminality has become of secondary importance, General Burton will come into court with the prisoner personally ; but what return he will make to the writ is still uncertain—whotber he will allege the President’s order merely as his authority for holding Mr. Davia, or whether he will allege the crime of treason, and that the military arm of the government is the only one capable of exercising power in the disor- ganized condition of this part of the country, The former return will be equivalent to handing the pris- oner ovet to the civil authorities; but in the latter case it may become the duty of the court to inquire if the allezations are true, and tf the prisoner has been guilty of the crime for which he is held, This might opena question of juriadiction, and might also introduce the main Issue to trial at once, Another plausible conjeo ture, however, is to the effect that he will be imme- diately discharged by the Judgo on his being produced in court, and will be rearrested on a bench warrant to answer the indictment found against him by the Grand Jury at Norfolk. Mr. O'Conor, his counsel, has stated to his friends that he will insist on an immediate trial, Another of hig counsel states that if the trial ws nos granted a motion for bail will be insisted on. ‘The prigoner’s counsel, it ie believed, will announce their readiness to proceed to trial, but counsel for the Prosecution may move a postponement on account of the absence of Chief Justice Chase, and amid all these theories the general opinion 1s that no trial will take place now, and perhaps not until Juie. ‘The question of admission to bail is tolerably sure te come up, and Horace Greeley and Augustus Schell, of New York, and A, Welch and General Jackman, of Philadelphia, are here for the purpose, it is said, of giving bail for him. Judge Underwood apptars, however, to be firmly determined against the prisoner on this point, Davis will therefore remain in custody, and if not taken to Norfolk, but turned over to the civil authorities of Richmond, will no “longer occupy his pleasant apartments at the Spottswood, but will certainly be consigned to the dingy walle of the famous Libby Prison. There he may chew the cud of very bitter fancies, awaiting either the pleasure of the Court or the tedious process of finding twelve men who have not expressed an vpinion as to his guilt or inaocence. But this period must have a dofinite limit, othemwise the prisoner will have a fair appoal te General Schofield, under the general clause of the Mille tary bill, requiring him to assure every person im his rights, CITY INTELLIGENCE. ‘Tar Weatasr.—The following shows the result of four observations in this city of the range of the thermometer and barometer, the direction of the wind, and the state of the weather bars the past twenty-four hours:—« punday, May 12,7 A M., thermometer 55, barometer 31, wind N. W.; 12 M., thermometer 65, 34, wind N. W. by W.; 3 P: M. ter 30, 32, wind N. W. by. W. barometer 30, 32, wind N, W.; LJ clear, cloudy, fine; evening a littie cloudy, fine, There ‘wil be no rain in this city before 3 o'clock P, M. to-day. Rei vor tax Sours,—Tho treasurer of the Southerm Relief Commission acknowledges the = $194,648 59 to be applied for the relief of the Sout Tur Great Eastery.—The Great Eastern is reported to be again in troubled waters. Some of the inhabitants of Brest, who invested in the vessel with a view to bring traffic to tho port, have, it is said, in consideration of the lien they have upon the property, either seized or intend to lay ab embargo on her; and Lhe rumor is supposed to have some foundation in fact, coupled with the ame nouncement of the passage agents just issued on behalg of the charterers, to the effect that the leviathan will mo§ return to New York. She will, it is uvderstood, be ems ployed for the purpose of iaying the submarine cabie between this country and France, DeatH or Jexxins.—Henry B. Jenkins, the Phontz Bank defaulter, died at St. Luke’s Hospital at an cariy hour on Saturday morning. Fravps in THe Frour Trape.—The German boss bakers held a mass meeting in Essex street yesterday, when @ committee was appointed, authorized to take measures for a re-enforcement of existing State laws regulating the trade 1a flour, with aview of putting an end toa system of fraud all to be committed by dealers im figur. The German bakers form an association numberiog about six hundred members. Senovaty Ixsunsp.—A man pamed Peter Genley, thirty-six years of age, a laborer, employed on the Hud- son River Railroad, was seriously injured at Rondout om Saturday evening, while coupling some cars on that line, He was brought to this city on Saturday night and taken to St. Luke’s or is Posy officer of the foun connected therewith, as near as can be ascertained, are a3 followa:—Two marines, named James P. Malone and William Fondell, were posted as sentrics on the Cob dock guarding the “brigs’’ in which the prisoners are confined, when some petty dispute ia relation to the own- ership of a dog is alleged to have arisen between them and they “skyiarkine,’’ during which a large revolver in the hands of Fondell was ball entering the right eye and passing skull of Malone, killing him instantly, immediately taken in charge by the officers of oy —— the police authorities and the affair. ing ellen tai Heal by mate er deepest regret at the terrible result of that whch claims to have been purely acctdental on bis shooting of Malone, prisoner, it is cy unexceptionable character for quietness of . lea were unmarried. 00} ‘and sobriety. Both parti A SERIES OF BURGLARIES. During the past month there have been committed ia this city many burglaries of moro or lens extent, and in every three cases out of five the perpetrators have been juveniies, Sunday ie their general workday, and yes- torday they were busy while their seniors were quiet and orderly, Two youngsters, respectively named Jobn Flynn and Francia Donohue, the elder of the two being only ten years of age, forced an entrance into the pipe g : 3 5 z : E : : : i i $ i i § if in igi i es iil ie Hit Es Fr i 2 a i ES z ti fl : 3 § = z i z 3 A i H ist ey esi Fi Hu nt di i ; i zt i ‘ ii i rH E ! 2 E at He : § <>