The New York Herald Newspaper, May 28, 1867, Page 3

Secret Circular Summbning Irishmen to Arms. Arms and Mupitions Hidden Near St. Albans, Ordnance end Commissary Stores Gathered Along the Border. &e. SPECIAL TELEGRAMS 70 THE HERALD. ‘Tke Brotherbood Summoned to Arms for the Regeneration of Ireland. Troy, May 26, 1867. A eecret Fenian circular bas beon issued summoning Whe faithful to arms, saying that another blow is soon to ‘ee struck for Irieh regeneration. The circular bas. been “distributed with the-groatost privacy, with accompany- te. ae. Pwe, vo deny its existence. all Text of the Se (ireular—Fifty Thou- sand Men Ready Take the Field—Active Preparations in Canada, &e. * ‘Troy, May 27, 1867, Abe country. Secret tnatractions accompanied its circu- ation, to the effect that should its text become public in any way to promptly deny its authenticity :— Heapquarrirs or Tae Ine Reevvric, summoned to the |, and its camp fires amarch to the defence of our princi sro symbol, animated by ui ur of Irish regemeration is at hand. Should they fail, auspicious resulh. Let eve Erin propare to strike for bi By order of devotee of the sunburst of country and God. THE PRESIDENT, Commander-in-Chief. ‘The preparations in Canada to resist the forthcoming attack are, I learn to-day, extensive, but equally quiet and effective. The Princo of Wales Rifles, the Montreal ‘Light Infantry, the Royal Guides, Canadian Chassevrs, Welland Battery, Montreal field battery of volunteer artiliery, the Hochellagas Montreal garrison artillery, ‘Wee Royai Engineors, the Victoria Rifles and troop of eavalry, constitute a portion of the active volunteer and ether militia force under orders, Tho excitement, though subdued compared with that ef last year, is nevertheless both great and deep. Among the Fenians throughout the country, from ‘tide water to Chicago, I learn that the deepest grief pre- ‘waile at the announcement of Earl Derby of the fate awaiting the patriot Colonel Burke, His execution will, ibtedly, J am.assured, precipitate the Aght. Arrest of a Suspected Fenian Spy in Canada— He is Reported Attempting to Sketch the Defonces of the City, &c. MorragaL, May 27, 1867. ‘A muepicious stranger was arrested in Grifintown on Banday fora Fenian spy. After investigation he was Gisebarged, but is under surveillance, It is understood ‘works and of the defences of the city. ‘The Buffale Fenians. ‘ Burvra.o, May 37, 1867, ‘There 19 no truth in the report of Fenian activity here Sor iamediate invasion of Canada Everything 1 quiet im Fenian cirdes, SPECIAL CORRESPONBENCE OF THE WERALD. Mewors of a Feninn Raid—Large Qu: ‘Armes Conceated Near Agente Suspected te be in Town, &e. ¢ ‘St. Avpane, Vt, May 24, 1867. The rumors which have been prevailing pere during past few weeks in reference to # Fenian raid on |Capada at an carly date are rapidly growing more definite to the probable success of the movement and thi yy in which st operations are to be eonducted. «No ene seeins inclined to doubt that the Fenians arg really jim earnest, or to believe that they are simply endeavor- tog to croate a “ecare,’’ The sensation made by these Jexpectations, however, is not #0 great as might be an- sicipaied. The recout history of St. Albans has been 80 protitic of incidents of this character that its inhabitants leave come to regard them as ordinary and perfectly oral occurrences, The first signs that an incursion over the border was jeontempiated was made evident about mx weeks ago. Five men, wavelling apparently in company, with & Jmumber of cuspicious looking packages, came op here ley the Boston cars, and pat up at the Tremont House. They represented themselves to be pediers, and stated lsigaments of dry goods; but a pumber of circumstances eonnected with their stay in this ity are entirel ~ ast extremely inconsistent wi In the first place, instead ry ste oy confirmed by the statement of by the latter they say besides ot the one other, neither the ie detectives and ‘erage ob tele: a js to be made, the gallant ~ FO opens over the with green banners emerald furnish themselves with mus- of war i ve de of the boundary line, and reguiar miltary srkept there watil the ‘enormocs, expen field, sod kept @ un! oxy ich the } of security is thas purchaeed, is eg weatued: ‘They will then be disbanded, s0d ng th the i in the “live; they ere certainly not staying at in peg ‘tablabed thet wey rendents, cause, and will proving iself x workhy and li tan Brotherhood at Buftn Arsenal With Arm Munitions—inarae tes of stereo Piaced Alang the Ker- rtainty of An Invasion-The Onna- oe Preparing. &e. \porvase, May 26, 1967. Whatever you hear to the contrary opon one thing can depend—we are on the eve of witnessing other border Keare, 140 notray st willbe a generat the Roberts men into Canada, steb as thas Rao: Wid 18 Jd arian thas perere shay NEP fing instructions tbat, should its verbatim contents trans- ‘The following ie the text.of the Fenian secret circu- |, Jar diztributed om Saturday last to the Order throughout May 28, 1867. ‘The army organized and equipped in the interest of Anweb tiberty a the world will soon be again ‘on the border ‘will re-iliumine the cause of Ineh nationality, and warn ‘its enemies that the arrogance of British power must and aba! be stricken down, Fifty thousand armed patriois will unfurling their jug hope that the yes another fifty thousand will march’ on the British enemy, lreland’s common foe, aud still fight for the 'ahas he was attempting to take aplan of the water enned by ovr friemde across the take will witness certain thas will seriously disturb their slumbers, ané give their volunteers and regulars plenty of em- ployment in protecting thelr homes from the incursions of England's cnemies, Having made these assertions it ia proper that I should state the circumstances that lead to those conclusions :— First of all I have positive knowledge that within » fow days all the stores, arms, uniforms, &c., that fora year past have been accumulating at the Broadway headquarters, have been shipped away Or disposed of in some way. Secondly, all the Fenian senators and cen- ith thy four are now organizers, wil ree OF ees, A colored minimer, described by the Columbus (Ga. ) Sun as “honest and sensivle,"’ writes to that paper from Glennville, Ala., May 17, giving some practical advice his colored fellow citizens, as well as some others of dif- ferent complexion. He says:—‘Let our Northern friends who seem to take euch an interest in our politi- cal welfare save the nee they are spending for elec- tioneering purposes to build schools and pay competent Weachera to educate our pa np for adu oung can at: daily; Tnechante ‘2 the * @ laborer in the nian ‘the ser- ii i t with ircles: its for Tutt prove thelr iptellect, If t) ‘will do this, then they tthe nd v cr ‘a bonefit pA Rah a pated ‘with nonsense, taking them ready business to the towns and cities, making General w them, Letting tam. 40 eles (ormar an and, nnessee, mistresses, they are their enemice, a heap b- Ce other things that aro not gospel truths,” The New Orleans Crescent, May 22, passes from the consideration of the subject of reconstruction to that of “Reaction and the party of the future.” It discourses generally of the smasbing up of old parties and the for- mation of new ones under the reactive principle, It ob- serves :—‘‘in due time the principle of reaction will be- gin to operate with so much force th: relations of the existing parties towards it can no longer remain in doubt. And it will assuredly sweep from its path any party which shall —— its progress, and leave bebind. a prey to swift iviom, any party which sball refuse to adhere to it. Judying (rom the results of other great reactions of history, we may not expect {t to accord with the views, either of heen it v their plans in such @ manner as to m: authorities Of there is no doubt, there is wa) ae passionately re- eree ution, or of those who would pursue a revolutionary idea until they should ‘plunge into the dreary wilds of s0- cial chaos, it must conflict vile — via | pected to stand still and petrify in ite ancient intrench- ments, and the other to be knocked te pieces by butting against the irresistible car of reaction.” The New Orleans Bee, May 22, referring to’ the Mobile Tow, says:—‘' The radicals have now precisely what they wanted—another riot in the South ; and the entire North ‘sees but one thing—the freeaom of speech interrupted in 4 i 3 u E Es Ft yee eee Or entent, Sad 10 eiieily sad meni yineperins. tor whatever emergency arise. detectives may here are the qui vive, and no doubt have com- munieated niuch ‘valuable information to their su Despite the ing cry that goes up from every part of the South condemning such lawlers acts, the entire people are condemned without a trial, and ‘upon the innocent and most peaceable must the heaviest punishment fall.”” Per contra, the New Orleans Republican says in regard to this same affair: “However much of martyrdom there may be in store for the disciples of political berty im the United States of America and m the nineteenth century, there will also be a terrible and speedy reckon- ing for those through whom these offence: come, The champions of civil rights are not Fated this battle in theSouth wholly unsu; Whatever may be the character of Avdrew Johnson, whatever may be his desires, the American people are determined not to lose the fruits of the war.” The New Orleans Picayune, May 22, is alarmed at the immense extent of fraudulent registration by transient blacks, It says:—“The few whites who have thus falsely registered can easily be watched, but these cout try freedmen who have come here and swindled the registry have, no doubt, trensferred their certificates to many « long haired Puritan, to be hawked about on election day with men hired tu vote on them.'” The New Orleans Tribune (colored), May 22, throws out the following suggestion, which must be particularly acceptable to the white natives:—‘« Really it seems to us that it is high time that the lion and the tamb sbould Pp the middle of June. the 2d of June, the anniversary of the battle of Ridgeway, \t is more than probable a demonstration will be made at this point for the pur- pose of disturbing the Canadians and covering up subse- quent movements of the invaders, At Fort Erie, opposite this city, there is a small force of Canadian sna serve ag a lookout party. On Monday ev the Seventh Fenian re-iment of this city are to have a ball, the proceeds of which are to go he clothing the ununiformed members of the am solemnly ‘assured by @ member of the I. R. A. here that a Fenian vessel sailed from New York in April with stand of arms and ordnance for Ireland, but for the trath of which I do not vouch. Upon all the other statements made above you can im- plicitly rely, Meeting at Omnha—Speeches of Prominent irishmen—A Mass Meeting to be held in Towa moxt July, dc. Ousna, Nebraska, May 22, 1867. A large and enthusiastic audience assembled in this city this evening, to near Captain W. H. Grace, of Dubuque, Towa, General O’Brien and other stirring speeches in behalf of the Fenian Brotherhood. The eloquent speaker launched into a fervid and somewhat lyrical description Financial Prospect :”—We-thiak {¢ may now with abso- lute certainty be predicted that the yoar 1867, like every year ending with the figure 7 since 1817, will be the era of a financial and commercial crash, far greater than any of its predecessors, and that the radical party will its ruins, Let those . wield Sunday afternoon in the steamer Francisco de Asis, of the navy, for Santa Martha; his visit is connected in some way with theaffair of the R. R, Cuyler. This un- expected event not only corroborates the report received by the way of New Orleans about the growing difficultics OP Uitesesen crecta 7 Ma tolaen: bes, aieo (aad o panis! jevas de Tolosa, but have assumed a serious character. now has transpired in the case of the Ame- said. “They who do least now will to us not very long since, ‘ pave eles tetera hereafter."’ Says the Jackson (Miss.) Clarion, May 22, of a colored clergyman, who bas just delivered a public address ia Ubat place:—Bishop Campbe!) 1s identified, ecclesiasti- cally with the Atrican M. E, Church, South, and his spir- fen | itual jurisdiction extends to some States and rican Ocean Home, since my last of the 18th inst, Territories. It was our good foriane to bim in Business is more avimated. West Jackson on S evening Jast, a more elo- ‘The money market remains as stringent as it bas been | quent and thoroughiy for some time past, ‘He had but little to say on other matters, but ood a ote scope way of advice to his — ren it new relations, 1 us with the RAILROAD ACCIDENT. belief thas he was not only » wise and but a safe and prudent counsetior.”” In a letter to certain colored citizens of Montgomery, Ala., Hon, A. C. Felder says he is heartily in favor of adopting the Military Reconstruction bil! because it gives them equal political rights with the white map. Cries the Raleigh (N. C.) Standard, May 15, talking of confiscation :—‘“Though it should sweep the very South ern earth clean asa church floor, wo say stand by the wernment of the United States with ballot and bullet thas hour, as aif of us ougbt to have done im the SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. Many ef the Members of Strakesch’s Opera Troupe Injured. Cas wart, May 27, 1867. Max Strakosch’s opera troupe, which left Chicago for Cincinnati on a special train yesterday morning at eight @’elock, via the Chicago and Great Eastern Railroad, met with a severe accident near Logansport, which dis- abled a number of the company. The train, consisting of an engine and three coaches, struck on a broken rail, and the three coaches wero thrown down an embankment. Madame Parepa escaped ee, bas bo ou bhed a severe a fe shoulder, which wil prevent his singing for a Rosa was strack in face, and has a nose pro- digiously swollen, ‘a female chorister, had her coilar bone broken. illiani got 8 severe cut on Trovatore w-night. 's internal injuries. Nearty ail of ‘A Miesissippi exchange says it “excites curious sensa- tions to see s radical paper in the South A walrus, a seal or a white bear would scarcely appear more out of place in that hot climate.” The Vicksburg Herald has heard it ramored for sev- eral days that General Ord designs removing the Coun- cilmen of that city. General Ord is now absent in ar- kausas The following may be regarded asa singular confes- valet ined severe tue choristers and orchestra received slight injuries. sion for s usually smart paper like the Atlante New A fresh train relieved the wrecked troupe and brought | Era:—“If the Era this morning \s lees spicy than usual them here at half-past five this morning. it t@ because we recetved but {on sane esterday, TWE PRESBYTERIAN GENERAL ASSEMBLY AT ABCHESTER. we bare of ‘The New Orleans Bee of the 234, indignant at the re- pons in the Northern papers of the riots in that cy and Mobile, closes ite remarks in regard to the latter as fol- pointed, pe neta goed igen yee {he mens inlet es eh eed een ed hats seis wba" an ik ibe cron eds reapoe ‘The Assembly recommended the observance of the | SBy, Kind, of used one; that on the apot not a ol~ week beginning with the first Sabbath in January ase | fed man wee hurt ins Apr: Feed week of spec! for. tbe conversion of the world, | thousand persons; that in thes large crowd nome bus ‘The observance of a day of special prayer for colleges bo age were a ry om bay) and ‘The Aatombig will protably adjourn to-day. aan Gare. 5 comenny carers Sa? Supuas Go MEETING OF THE AMERICAN BAPTIST SOCIETY AT cmcase. | “Gotta "x. ‘Gregory, Commissioner ee aes Cmcaco, May 27, 1867. ‘men’s Bureau of Maryland and Delaware, addressed the The American Baptist Publication Soeiety continued | colored peopie in Cambridge, Md., on the 20th inst. He ite reguiar anniversary meeting this forencon. After | endeavored to impress upon the colored people the ne- ‘prayer and address by the President, the Treasurer's re- | cessity of themselves. None should think Poros en. Toe epon townh eag ot tee | Somecmeoas vary ase Nee Bevolent ee Pa ae i ae the schools, She said she was three years of ee eaiisce, srartaes fi Sn Ag eg ey Se ae a “And she fd same tine, ‘$147,416, The’ report was sccepted and Nearn to read it Bor fo iH The Fg oy drunken race. power | thea and party biskey, ‘mae will comtioue anti! Thursday. om, the onored ‘nen when be fom t's ellen, A larger number of Fore prenent than 8 ong Becbecratic politiciass were even now ‘that previous ann:versary, bet four and five the votes of the colored ouih We beaks tor veing in attendance, 8 pint of whiskey, He hearers if {t could be THE ANNIVERSARIES IN BOSTON ini ey cn”) ho, General aid had naaed — with pain several colored hag Soe | Bostow, May 27, 1867. pe yy nee ‘The anniversaries commenced last evening and wil! would an ae ‘ continue during the week. pny wT, Tut fRhoee of Nortucrn virth. He caked cnc of The fifty-eighth annual meeting of the Massachusetts | those reverend gentlemen en San ee Jong he bad been there. replied about Bible Society was held to-day, and the old board of “and during all that time you have been preach- officers were re-elected, ineluding Hon, $, 8. Whalley, fo pine ar aan en “T bad President; Rev. Dr. Blayden, Corresponding Secretary; | to do it; my bread upon it,” ‘wanted to Rev. Dr. , Recording “Seoreury ; OH. Parton, Know of his audience how. much sush presching was Treasurer, and T.’ R. Marvim, Auditor, worth by the square yard. For himself, before he Ee reat a Gen ee would thus degrade himself he would dig potatoes with $40,087. Sion aa ee ee ne past | his teeth for a livelinood. year vy the Society was 60,260. Of these were 2 ARE Bibles, 25,970 Testaments, and Testaments and Pasims, Won tm TEXAS. a nder ‘cmalier — tures. beth rie The Collection of Confederate Taxes Stopped by a Milkary Order—Negre Witnesses in- Me abs Burros aia ein s . for their serv ion. Hen, Henry Wilson presided, FIRE IN LUOLOW STREET. About «im o'clock Inet might @ fire broke out on the fourth floor of the rear building No, 48 Lud- jow street, im the cabinet ehop of William Unger, The flames were soon extingnished by the fire- on. Damage to stock adout $600 Inaured for $1,000 seike Wiitameburg City and $500 if toe Rxchangs In- Nesan gu trase from oneal Grin ortladng the clic: vrance Companies, Tbe first, second third floors are cooapion by Jacob Varan!, cabinet maker, Damaged by water About $900, insured for ba in the New Amavordam, Cowmonwealth and st, * br aboet ‘ NEWYORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1867.-TRIPLE | SHEET, SOUTHERN POLITICAL MATTERS. JUDCE BELLEY'S SOUTHERN CAMPAIGN. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. duadge Kelley's Speeches iu North © If the South Rejects the Military Bill Ascation and Restricted Suffrage with Fol- low, Saniepury, N. C., May 27, 1867. Judge Kelley delivered one of his sound and practi- cal addresses to ® pretty full meeting at the City Hall to-day at half past three o'clock. The majority present were white people. Judge Kelley said that he was glad to meet the audi- ence principally because the newspapers had wid them that he came tothe South on a mission of strife; to create discord among ¢he races and between the wo sections of the county, He had no sych mission, It would be madness for apy one to come here alone and unprotected as he had dove, among twelve millions ef people ‘o whom he was unknown, if he designed to excite strife or hurt their tenderest susceptibilities, He came to prociaim that the South had advantages which entitled her to enjoy in common the prospori!y of the emtire now united country. In politics Roeimpiy said that the whole gospel of the radical republican party was contained im two ideas—the unity the country and the largest liberty to every citizen compatible with the common good, He bad been asked whether the Sherman bill was a final measpre. To this he would answer that the South itself spould decide that, As to confiscation, of which in bis speech, there was not a republi in Sener who wanted a confiscation bill ; bus it the Mattary ‘Dill was: ted, a8 ‘the Constitutional Amendment he wo that a restricted might not men of large wealth portion of their vast es- them to believe he corp introduced the er in @ fow earnest words. ‘the speec] a 3 ee gna local applications from ‘Indging from the cordial reception which the Judge pressed ac- FLORIDA. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE WERALD. Prxsacoza, Fla., May 20, 1867. Quite a brutal outrage was committed by three white men upon a negro man st Milton, a town about thirty miles above here, gome time since. The negro was tortured cruelly by them in various wavs, and the produced an abortion on Mra Kila Dalbello, of ‘No. 258 West Thirty-seventh street, Mrs. Dalbello hes been separated from her husband some few weeks past, ‘and being some four monthe advanced in pregnancy, rt is allegs have an tion will be continued to-day. Anscxp Dawoxsst Dowestic.—Mary Ann Smith alias Mary Murray was arrested last nicht, charged with rob- bing her employer, Mrs. Eliza Rogers, of No. 388 Wash- ington street. Itis charged that Mary Anu was in the habit of biring out as @ servant and leaving the house in which she was engaged at the earliest opportunity, taking with her anything movable that she could con- veniently carry off. Avsacii wits 4 Harcurt.—Ann Maxwell and Serab Wolahan, residing at No. 65 Greenwich strect, became engaged in a quarrel yesterday afternoon, in the course of which Miss Woiahan seized a hatchet and struck Mrs, Maxweil on the head, inflicting an ugly and very dan- ‘tan wound, The injured woman was conveyed to eliovne Hospital and her astailant was locked up im the Twenty-seveuth precinct station house. AcapEnts,—William Lowden, twelve years of age, was rap over by a car of the second avenue line, while cross- ing the svenue near 119th street, His ieg was badiy fractured. He was taken home by some persons who saw the occurrence, WASHINGTON. The Sentences of the Fenians, Burke and McCafferty, Commuted, Emancipation Not Yet Decreed in Brazil. INTERESTING NEWS FROM THE SOUTH. ke, de, ke. Wasusxcrox, May 27, 1867, ‘The Sentences of the Fenians, Burke and Mc- Cafferty, C ed. ‘The Secretary of State has ‘ed a despatch from Tendon announcing that the capital sentences of the Venian leaders, Burke and McCafferty, have been com- muted to imprisonment for life, Letter ef « i Brazilian Minister—He Has No The following is the translation of & letter from the Counsellor De Azambuja, late Minister of Bravil, w the Secretary of State:— Naw Yorn, May 20, 1867, Your Ex —I regretted leaving Washington without havi a later conference with your Excel- Yeney in to the with which the illustrious relation President of the United States deigned to answer my address on ay cee om the 17th inst., when I had the honor of ering to him the letter by which my augant ht proper to bring to a close m tulsion to the United Sater. only to communi- cate to your Excellency that I bave not received any omcial notice thas the imperial government has decreed the emancipation of slaves in the em- pire, as published by the press of this coun- try, im a telegram received through the subma. rine cable; and this I do in this way, and from mere scruple about my position, not doubting but that this measure tg already resolved upon by my country, in principle at least, to go into effect, as to the manner of execution, with the concurrence of the Legis- lative Chambers. I take the liberty to make these sim- ple remarks to meet the want of the telegraphic news above allided to not being corroborated, and 086, having reference to the important and recent political action of my country, I keep solely in view those facts which have come te my knowledge through official channels, But aside from this, the congratulations of the President will not fail to be received with especial pleagure by his Majesty the Emperor, whose rations are #0 duly in this count of this occasion to retterate to your Pression of my highest esteem aud cor 4 JOAQUIN MARIA NOSCENTE> DE AZAMBUJA. His Excellency Wnitam H. Sewanp, Secretary of state, Departure of fer New Attoruey General Stanvery and his family left this city to-day for New York, where he expecta to rewain a few days. Secretary Browning at His Post. Hon. 0. H. Browning, Secretary of tne Interior, ap- peared at his office to-day for the first time since his ill- ness, He was too feeble to do more than attend to some matters of pressing importance, On the 29th the Secre- tary will leave here with his family for a visit to his home, where be w.!i remain until bis health is sufficiently restored to resume his duties, The Affairs of tthe First National Bank ef New ovieana. ‘The receiver app. . vy the Comptroller of the Car- Tency to settle up ti: «. «irsof the First National Bank of New Orleans bas {1.0 possession of the property of ‘he bank. From present indications it 1s thought that the government wil! not be s loser to any great @mount, if at all, by the financial difficulties at New Orleans. Attempt te Acsnscinate a Freedmen’s Bureau . Agent in Virginia. known to ebsagsinate the agent of the Freedmen’s Bu. Teau at Tazewell Court House, Virginia, by a abot in the window of ahouse. The citizens held an indignation meeting to disavow all participation in the act and to denounce the would-be assassin, Interview Between Geueral Mcl.aws and General Pope. The rebel General McLaws, of Angusta, Ga., recently had an interview with General Pope. Both .were at ‘West Point, and in the old army together, and were warm personal friends. The interview between them ‘was very cordial and pleasant, General Pope assured McLaws that be had no intention to annoy or oppress the people of Georgia, On the contrary, It was bis earnest desire to so discharge the complicated duties en- trusied to bis keeping as to protect the people in all their rights and person and property. Address to the Colored People of Tennessee. Joseph E, Williams, the Tennessee colored orator, has igsued.a spirited and able address to bis fellow-cittzens in that State, whieh is remarkable for its clear and forci- bie advice, The following is an extract:— Again Iearnestly warn my people of the danger of joing a party so vivient, bitter and unscrupulous as ‘the radicals of East Tennessee, Do not join a party now doing ali im thelr power to make you hate the very, people with whom you lave lived so long as members of one family. Your future destiny is so identified with them that you must rise or fail with them, You may safely trust the bonor and friendship of the Southern people, and if you join them at the ballot box in putting down rad.calisim and 10 restoring peace and prosperity to the country, the bonds of unity, peace and friendship wil be more firmiy established ever before. The Freedmen’s Schools in Alabama. ‘The monthly report of the freedmen’s echools in Alabama, for May, shows that the number of colored cbiidrea receiving instruction is seven thousand «iz bun- dred and three, an increase of eighteen buadred and ove over the number one month ago, There are one bun- dred and thirty of these schools {n operation in Alabama. lored Voters Registered in Louisiana. A New Orleans paper says the proportion of registered colored votors to white voters is so large an to become alarming. Outaide the city the proportion Je still greater. At Whe latest accounts the voters registered at Baton Rouge were thirty-six whites and three hundred and fitty colored. At Ascension, fifty-one whites and seven bun- dred and ninety-six colored, Part of the disproportion i accounted for by the fact thas every qualified cegro registered, while a large proportion of those whites not distranchised by law sulked, and refused to register “along with the niggers.”’ The Riets in Richmond. ‘The investigation of the 9th of May riots in Rich- ‘The Collection of Taxes in Texas. Major General Griffin, commanding the military dis- trict of Texas, on the 15th inst. published an order as at th pernion not whe. wary e Mareb 2, 1667, rellovee’ the usual taxes, for distribution at the Paris Exposition, are printed, and have been sent to the Department of State, ‘The report ia printed m French, German, wedish and English, Ove thousand copies of each, tor distribution, and five thousand copies in English for the use of Cou- i Reconstruction Oathe th Notth and South Caroline. Major General Sickles, commanding the Second Mili- tary district, last week ‘ssved the foliowing circular to post commanders in reference io the reconstruction oaths :— Section sixth of the act to ] Dest sotsedeaives that their nominees are olig'- ‘competent, and willing to take the prescribed oath The Western Pacific Railroad, ‘The Commistioner of the Genera! Land Office has re. ceived from the Secretary of the Interior information that the President of the United Btates has accepted the section of twenty miles of the Western Pacito Rail- commencing at the orner of Dame and San Pedro tea, Im We City Of Bun Jord. and oxiending too pyint $F ii near the eastern boundary of Alameda canon, in Alameda county, California, and has ordered the issuance of » ateat on account of said section in conformity with the at The Gulf Squadron The Gulf squadron has been consolidated with the North Atlantic squadron, Commodore Winslow trans. forring it to Rear Admiral Pajmer om the 22d inst, Ad miral Palmer arrived at Pensacola in the United States steamer De Soto on the 2ist inst ‘The President and the Sunday Schoo! Chil- dren. The celebration and May festival of the Roman Catholic Sunday schools took place to-day. At least three thousand Ove hundred children were in the line, When the procession had passed in reviow befwre the Progident two of the May Queens, their carriages balling, severally presented him with bouquets, and one of them delivered « brief speech, in which she said they bad been to-night to pray with one affectionate voice that he especialiy may receive light and strength from Heaven to direct wisely and benignly the destinies of their dear na:ive land. The compliments were appro- priately ackuowledged by the President, and the boys cheered him as they passed along in the procession. Governor Boutweill on the Stump in Vir- winia. A Leesburg, Va, paper has been authorized to an- pounce that Governor Boutwell, of Maasachuvetts, will address the citizens of that place and vicinity on Friday, Sist inst., at three P. M., and a mass moeting at Hamil ton on the following day, s 6 Homestend Settlements. The foliowing is an answer from the Commiss oner of the General Land Office in regard to certain inquiries arising in reference to Homestead settlements :— Daranraxnt ov gus INTERIOR, General Laxy Oveice, May 18, 1867, Sin—In reply to your letter relative to alleged abuses of the Homostead law in Dakota, and your inquiries aa to those who can avail themselves of the benefit of that! act, and also as to what is required under the law, b have to state— First—That any person, male or female, who is the head of a family or has arrived at the age of wenty- one years, and isa citizen of the United States or has declared his intention to become such, is entitled to make a Homestead eniry under the provisions of the act of May 20, 1862, Second—Aiter making an entry at the district oMce the party must proceed with diligence to build his house and get upon the land with his family, and commence the cultivation and improvement of the same. Third---Tne fifth section of the act makes the abandon- ment of the land, or achange of residence for more than six months at any time, a cause of forfeiture, Under this clause of the law you state that many persons claim the right to go upon the land once in every six months, remain thereon for a day optwo, and then ieave ‘again. That interpretation of the law will not be sup- ported by this office. Those parties certainly could not show in the final proof that their actual residence an@ home had been upon their Homestead entries, but, om the contrary, the evidence would indicate that, the land had been only a place of tempor abode; behce sucky quasi settlers could have no cause for grievance it upom resentation of the facts their entries should be deciared invalid, 1m brief, the acts of the settler must be sucky as to show an intention fully to comply im good faith with the requirements of law, and make the land, what the act intends it to be, his actual residence, ‘with such improvement and cultivation of the soil as big means and strength will allow. An exception to this requirement of 1s where the entry 18 for an form In such cases the part, to build and reside the adjacent C) ft entry, but he must prove + nerd upon the original farm to which the tract adjoins, an@ also cultivation and improvement of the adjoining tract, 1 M1 respecit ul! aan ery A. WILSON, Commiseioner., CANADA. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE WERALD. The Queen’s Birthday Fete—The Fentan Scare—Canada uot in a State te Mect Milty &Thousand Enemice—T. D. McGee, a&c. } Montasat, ©. £., May 25, 1062, ‘The 24th, being the anniversary of the Queen's birth- day, was made s féte' all’ over the province, In thie city a salute of twenty-one guns was fired at noon from ‘St Helen’s Island and her Majesty's hip Wolverines’ but the weather being “Queen’s weather”—clouds, éris: sling rain and mud—the troops did net go out for the prescribed review and customary halleo for the Queen. | ‘The streete were hung with bunting, the Amencam fing appearing over the Consulate, 4A French flag only appeared on the Court House, Aga: the evil genil of Canada threaten the berder and may within thirty days be over it, The forces here, are not very well prepared to meet another raid, the volunteers bemg dissatisfied with the militia depart ‘ment, and refusing to turo out tor drill The “regi ments” would not muster over two hundred men each for any service. The regular forces are ready enough for any emer- gency, but they do not muster more than nine thousand men all told, horse, foot and artillery, the chief body being here. A body of ten thousand men entering Missiequot could maintain itself about St. Armand for some time by tearing up the track of the railroad north of the station, posting # battery across the road, and running @ line of nifle trench to the right and left up to the woods, There are eafor positions in the country, however. It woula hardly do for an invading force iike the Fenian to take up a position open to the fire of artiliery. I think filty thousand enemies could uot be readily met now by she Authorities of the province. is The news containing the reports about the Fenians at Troy has not caused excitement here, and they are not expected to make a raid. “Wolf” bas been cried so often that tue Fenian wolf will most likely come anex- pectedly, and will do @ great deal of mischief in conse- quence. Ido not think there are any Fenians in Canada, al- thongh there are many sympathizers among the Roman Catholic Irish, whom, however, any success on the part of the Fenians inight induce wo openly espouse their cause, and perhaps to join their ranks, Yesterday Mr. I, D. SicGee arrived from Boston, and was received by the supporiers uf the Ministry to this city, after which he drove home, followed by balf » dozen hacks, containing # number of his friends, to whom be made a lengthy addvess. He at one time caiied the British flag the ‘‘feion fag of Engiand,”’ and could not find bad enough language to express his hatred that country. Now be is devotedly attached to the mon, ea jormer. This election has caused disetisfaction, and will make enemies to the Ministry. Je® Davie—Life in M al—Feeling About the Fenians. Mowraat, CB, May 26, 1867, ‘We have at last, after thirty-five days of rain, one cloudless, warm morning. The street, yesterday mud- dy, are to-day painful with dust. The “ ex-President,” Davie, of the sunny South, ie Bie persona! friends have has not loft the Bouse since his arrival bere, altbough ‘occasionaily a mall mob collects round any one is the streets who isang way anlike Jefferson D. The reliable Joff Davis, wife, ehildren and s doen friends at- tended St. George’s church last night, Quite e rush wes made, and a crowd collected at the door to see him. VERDICT AGAINST THE NORTHERN CENTRAL RAILAOAB, line Price vs, the Northern Central Ratiroad war con~ cluded, ‘This was am action for damages for killing piaintifrs husband, Robert Price, om the 30m of Wars 1800, by firet crushing him between weir cars oes, near tite ory, "ind ten eosing Se Le the morning he found dead, The jury ored a verdict in favor of ine plaintifl for $16, domeaee ~