The New York Herald Newspaper, June 5, 1867, Page 6

* e 6 NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY | A splendid coat’ miny had been discovered in San Christebal, ‘fhe Executive had been authorized to con- | tract with immigrants who aro willing to colonize in the | tetand. The literary societies of the University of Vircin'a have passed resolations congratulating Jeff Davis on his release and invuing him to atéend thoir final cele- bravon, Governor Wells, although ro:noved by Gen. Sheridan, still retains’ possession of his office, and is preparing & BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, protest against the # tion of the Gouoral, which he will ppt SB ig lay before the a ritios at Washington, The Tax Collector, City Troasurer and the members of the City Council of Mobile were removed from office by Genoral Pope yesterday. New appointees were im- mediately inducted tuto office, The Mayor aad Commis- sioners of Fayottevilic, N.C., wore also romoved from office by General Sickles reerey, and their places supplied by others, The Paterson, N. J., races opened yesterday with t wo contests, one tor the Undorwood gift of $300, which was won in two heata by Virgil, the black Vandal colt; and the othor, the Jersoy Derby, for which thirty-three en- tries were made, but only four started, was won by Mr. Morris* colt Monday, ‘The annual examination of students commenced at West Point yesterday, General Grant arrived, unex- pectedly, during the day, ‘A fashionable wedd ng took place im Toronto yeater- day, at which Jef Davis, Jubal Early, J, M. Mason and ievlise ‘ othor Southern celobrities attended, SATE SERENE, Peet hy SUI ee George M. Patchen and General Batler trotted at BOW RY THEATRE, Bowory.—Lagarpace—Tur Vistox | Poughkoopsie yesterday, in mile hoata, best throo in five. ere Buller was the winner, after a clogo contest, the best time boing 2:38 Gottleib Williams was hanged in Philadelphia yestor- day for the murder of Mrs, Miller, ap aged lady, in Sep- tomber last. Ho appeared somewhat nervous on tho \ LD. BENNETT, NEW YORK Hie JAMES GORDON PROPRIETOR JAMES GORDON BENNETT, JR,, MANAGER. DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, + cents percopy. Annual subscription price, @4&. JOB PRINTING of every desoription, atio yping ond Engraving, neatly and promptly executed at Stereo. Ae lovecat rates, volume XXXIT Ne. 156 ANUSEMBNT2 1dio APIERNOON AND EVENING, BROADWAY YHBATR: sveet.—East Lyxag, on 1 Broadway. Broremunr. near Broome WORRELL SISTERS’ NEW YORK THMATRE, oppo. site New York Hotel. Tue Siyme--Avanoin, tus Woxpan ro Same. ACADEMY OF MUSIO, Irving place. Tie Imrretan frourr Ov Jaranuse Annists in Tuwix Woxperron Fears. Matinee at Two o'Ciock. STRINWAY HALL, Fourteoath street and P ane —Geanp Mostcat Fustivar—Harpy’ ems CeeaTion. Matinee at Two o'Olock SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 586 B: Soore Sewer, anaes caeect Bonersas MieeTAiN- | goaifold. Ho was lame, aod his crutch boing removed, Trove ov 1A® GOLD Hu: S—IMPRELAL « * PROUPS. he was compeiled to balauce.himeelf on one foot as best ¥ & LYONS MINGTR he could until the drop fell, Now York Hoty! —Ly raw A mass convention of the impartial suffrage republi- Sinai zemrcte cans of New Jersey was held yostorday at Trenton. The attendance was small, James M. Scovel, Major Halstod and others address-d the me ing The Indian war along tho Piatto is #9 far confined en- tirely to dostltory skirmishes and atiacks on stage coaches and trains for plunder, A pursuit follows, and Zand 4 West NSTRELS, — ho, Tas *S OPERA TOUSE no Minerretsy, Bory ENT, &C.— THe Waite Cxoox \jo'clock. | Perhaps one or two Indians are killed, Beyond this the warfare of the savagos is decidediy tame and unioter- BUTLER AMERTOAD the Se 472 Rroatway.— estin Hauer. Farce, PANrow , Exmzoriax, | Uns uct AND BENTINENTAL V Judge King, of Missouri, uns been impoached and found gailt: BROADWAY, OPERA HOUSE; 000 ron tway.—Micrm rr axe Ms Bunuasquas, & Tho Canadians on th> Eastern border have persuaded themselves that there are Fenians around who will make a demonsiration about tho middie of the month, Tho authorities, however, know ail abont tt, thoy say, and are arranging with the authorities at Washington for concerted action in case anything turns up One of tho witnosses in the lato Newmarket murder trial has bocn arrested and examined on a charge of complicity in the crime, Her hame is Mary Gilroy, and several damaging facts hitherto unknown have come to HOULEY'S OPERA HO! arivrsy. Datnape axp Bu De Tae JAPANESE B, Brooklyn. —Friroeray Mf usgues. —THe CeRaerc FL Tuy Twenty. ROR 0 Scares, X, Union Mali. corner es way, at 8—Movis, PULGRIM'S GRAS —Sixry MAGN Matinee Wednesday and Salarday ai 2%, 9 NEW YORE MUSEUM OF ANATOW Heap ayn Trerr Ars or Pronger: Twrva—Wowpens my NaTurAt Hisvory, 8 Rroadway.—. Wasnincton ano Ant. Mi. Lectures Daiuy. Open from 8 A.B till i light on her examination. —— = | The Congressional excursion party were three hundred ’ miles out from Omaha on tho plains yesterday, ex- TRIP L E ‘8 HEE T., | ctintog tho construction of the road and shooting a deer from the car windows, The President held a reception in the hall of the North Carolina House of Commons in Raleigh yesterday. The ceremonies tn connection with the dedication of his father’s monument commenc'd at noon. Dr. L. D. Swain delivered the address, in the course of which ho read tho original obituary notice which appeared in a Rateigh paper in 1812, on the occasion of Mr. Johnson's death, and im which the editor acknowlodges to baviug been saved from doath by his boldness and humanity, The ceremonies were Anally closed by a benediction. The Now York State Constitutional Convention as- sembled in Albany yesterday, William A, Wheeler was elocted presiding officer, and on being escorted to the chair he made a very eloquent address, in which he sketched briefly the work con‘ided to the Convention. ‘The remainder of the officers were then appointed, Mr. James Brooks took exception to the partizan character of the appointees, He was followed by Mr. Greeley, who said that the republican party was charged with revising the constivution, and that the Consols closed in London at 94%, ex dividend. democratic party would no doubt oppose all amend- twouties were at 73 in London and 77% in Paris, ments. Further party disqussion ensued, and was ‘Tho Liverpool cotton market closed very firm, with | taken up by other membors, when it was arrested by middling uplands at 11%4. Broadstuits easier, vis- | the President, In the afternoon the members drew for tons unchanged. seats and the Convention was adjourned until this morn- Our European files by tho Cuba reached this city from | ing at eleven o'clock, Boston about midnight, bringing interesting details of A mixed Convention of republicans assembied in our cabie dospatches to the 25th of May. Montgomery, Ala, yesterday. The offices wore vory Two thousand seven hundred and Aifiy emigrants left | impartially distributed among the two harmonious races. Queenstown harbor for the United States during the | Judge Smith, a white man, being elected President, and wook onded May 25. the d arkies receiving baif the remaining offices. Gen. THE CITY. Swayne, Gov, Patton, and others, were present. A Tue Roard of Councilmen was to have mot yesterday | motion to invite Judge Busteed to = seat on the plat- at noon, but a quorum not belng present, the President | form was violently opposed by the negroes and on ita doclared the Board adjourned till Thursday, at two | being renewed in the afternoon session, the Macom o'clock. connty delegation seceded. Whercupon the Convention The (rst meeting of the Board of Andit took place | adjourned. yestorday, but as two of its mombers were absent, an adjourament was had till Wednesday next, when the mode of procedure will be announced. Dr. Harrie, in b's weokly statement of the publ c health, says that there was one death from cholera in one of the filthy localities of tne city last week. A mooting of the citizen: Twontieth and Twenty- second wards took place last evening in National Hall, Forty-fourth street, to deviso means for preventing the use of steam carson Elevonth avenue, Measures wore taken to carry out the objects of the mecting. The course of the yacht Regatta, on the 13th inst., will be from Owl's Head, to and around the light ship and return. Application was made for alimony and connse! fees, bfore the Supreme Court Chamoers yerterday, im the cage of Angusta Frederica Bull vs Heorvy Bull. The action (s instiinted for limited divorce, on the ground of alleged crue! and inhuman treatmeut. The Court rasarved its decision. The injuncvon in the suit of Sarah 0. Hatch va. Clara M, Patgnet, an action in the Supreme Court, Special Term, Drought to set aside the will in favor of defendant, of Mra, Robert Hogan, deceased, been dissolved by Judge Rarnard. The injunction restrained (be defendant from collecting the rents of the property. The motion for a recoiver was also denied An action has been instituted in the Marine Court by thirty of the crew of the alleged privates R, Cayler altas Rayo, for wages claimed to be due thew amounting to $500 cach, * ‘The Bogart divorce case was con fore Judge Cardozo, of the Court on Special Term. Two witnesses for the defence were exam. | ined, but no additional facts of interest were elicited. The case was then summed up fu the de“ence only, the plaintiff baving abandoned her suit on Monday, The Court ruled that the plaintiff could aot discontinue her action without consent of the Court, Decision reserved. A motion was made in the Common Plege Chambers for alimony and counsel fees in the case of Theodore Stuyvesant va, Catherine L. Stuyvesant, and action Drought by plaintiff? on the ground of alleged adultery by the defendant, Voluminous a‘idavits were read in Opposition to the motion. Decision reserved. The stuck market was heavy yesterday. at 137, There was no improvement in the general aspect of commercial matters yesterday, business deing dull in nearly every department, while the strong downward tendency of most commodities was as marked as ever, while, as a gencral thing, prices were lower. The Merchants still manifested a disinclivation to operate beyond their immediate wants, and the volume of June 5. 1867, ae TO ADVERTISERS. Advertisers will please bear in mind that in order to have their advertisements properly classi- fied tey should be sent in before balf-past eight o'clock in the evening. [2 NEw 3s. FUROPE. Tho Czar of Russia and Napolvon fave, it is said, ageeed upon ® plan for tho adjustmont of the Cretan difontiy, They will recommond ita adoption by the other great Powers, and then urge it upon the Sultan by their united influence, King William of Prussia and Connt Bismarck loft Berlin tor Paris yesterday. The State Constitutional Convention—What is Required of It. The proceedings of the State Constitutional Convention will probably be directed to two important points. If the members of the Con- vention comprehend the duty expected of them in revising the constitution, they will observe that their attention must be directed chiefly to providing for an efficient government for the State and a good municipal government for New York city. In devising a plan for the Siate government it should be borne in mind that all the State officers and county officers, including sheriffs, for their legal term of service, ought to bb the appointees of the State Executive. To insure an upright judiciary, from the want of which, under the elective system, fhe course of justice, like that of true love, “never did run smooth,” but was cor:upt and turbulent from its lowest depths to its surface, all judges should be appointed by the Governor, and secured in their places for life or during good behavior. This would not necessarily exclude from office the men already occupying the bench by the votes of the people, who fulfil their duties faithfaily. They could be appointed and their services retained under the new sys- tem, while the venal, the vacillating, and those easily controlled by party bias, could be set aside. It is not stretching a point too far to say that the progress of crime has hardly been aided more by the inherent proclivity to vice in human nature than by the misplaced or purchased clemency of weak or partisan judges. The man who wears the ermine and holds the balance of justice should know no party in the exercise of his judicial fanctions ; should be exposed to no temptation to curry favor in the shape of votes for a re-election. Probably the greatest difficulty with which the Convention will have to grapple may be the municipal government of this city, and in providing for this the ssterday be- Gold closed pened Na-taapry again very small. The panic | question may arise as to how far the voters of a 5 die tums erty Seater’ ot Se q ell as the city may be day, flout again declining ibe. a 26e. per bb, Wheat | 100 State ae w y may be permitted to participate in its new creation. At present we bave in fact no government atal|. Our affairs are managed subject to the indefinite rule of chance, under a sysiem guaranteeing no security to the governed and involving no re- sponsibility in the rulers. The municipal system of New York is somewhat like that of London, as described by the English presse—a government by parishes, preserving only that last night, General Cole gave himseif op ant tied | form of unity and home government which is tos Sent See oon ig No pon | embodied in the police department, We are Our Havana letter is dated May 20. A royal order ' of all the old charters, with their strange va- had been roceived valuing slaves at $400 oF less, which | riety of amendments and supplementary con- ts about the expense of a Chinese Coolie for eight years. | ditions for better or worse, made to suit the be a te ti pene great | times in which they were tacked on, but wholly 1 | unsuited to the present age, size and require- 0008 to be commenced, would probably be daished covets of Ro meegel 6 ina, ans tiaa ® radical change ig our municival system is Gufing June, Exchange was in fair demand. was duit and nominal, corn déelined 2c. a 4¢, while oats advanced 1c. 2c, Pork and beet were dull and lower, while beef rermined stoady, Cotton was firm, Naval mores were heavy. Votfoleum was unchanged. Whiskey was steady and (reighis dull and heavy. Wool remained unchanged. MISCELLANEOUS, Me. L. By. Hiscock, a member of the Stare Agsembiy | end the State Constitutional Convention, was shot and | killed by General G, W. Cole, of Syracuse, at Albany (rr Aston from St. Domingo are to the 18th of May, neeled, and that no patebwork will answer the purposs, We must start from the beg nning. What is requived is a board of dire tors— oall them Aldermen, if you will—ccnstituted liko the directors of @ raiirond, As te la ter supervise tho affairs of the road, sce after the rolling sto-k, employ competent enginvers to take care of ii, r-gulate the tariff of travel, and watch closely the economy of expeniliture, 80 our directors, numbering, say about twenty, should run the municipal machine with econo- my, and care for the interests of the commu- nity. They should look after the condition of the streo‘s, keep ti sewers im healthy order, regulate the intermural travel so as to insure comfort on our railroad and stage Ines, and exercise & vigilant control generally over sub ordinate officials, with power to investigate charzes of malfeasance. The Mayor, acting as president of this board of directors, should have the power to appoint all the officers, down to the very lowes:, without any interference of the board, and should be held responsible for their good conduct. But now there may arise some d.ffieaty about the metho of ap- pointing (he Mayor. It may be urged that the old favorite plan of election by popular vote should not be dep.rted from, or it may be sug- gested that, as a large amount of prop:rty in the city is ownel by people residiig in the State, but not within tho city limits, ‘he voters of the Stats sioull have a voice ii his elec- tion ; or eguin, it may be pressed, as a better measure than either of the foregoing, that the Mayor should bo appointed by the Governor, These are questions which the Convention will have to decide, anl we trust that they will mect thom with grave consideration. No doubt many members of the Convention are parti- sans, occupying leading positions In both par- ties, and may be influenced in forwarding the views of their own sile; but they siouli dis- ecard all such narrow ildew, They should re- member that the constitution about to be framed is not intended merely for the govern- ment of the presant generation, butis to go down from ago to age, altered, as the Sta‘eand its greit metropolis progros4, by such amen?- ments as may be absolutely necossary; and it should be formed upon such a bas? as to leave its fundamental principles open to a3 liitle liability to change as possible. We repeat that the two most important points claiming the at- tention of t:¢ Convention are embraced in the remodelling of the Stat> government and start- ing de nouveau in the construction of a govern- ment for the city of New York. In accomplish- ing these enis the gnilemen engaged in the tusk will have no ght work upon their hands. ic ES 3 et Governor Perry on Reconstruction. It is reported that Governor Perry, of South Carolina, is opposed to the present me‘hod of reconstruction, under the plea that (he South will be better governed for the next ten years by her military Governors than she will by any black representatives who may be. elected to the legislative halls. We are disposed to give Governor Perry credit for much good sense for this idea. A good military Governor who has been well educated. is, from his position, bis antecedents and his earnest attempts to steer clear of all political parties, far better suited to control the disturbed elements of the South for a few years than the fattest and the sleekest nigger that may represent a sixth part of our enormous national debt—such Governors, for instance, as General Sickles, General Pope or General Sheridan. If proof were wanted of this, the prompt action of the latter General in removing the Board of Levée Commissioners of Louisiana, who were about to appropriate the patronage of four millions of dollars to voting purposes, rather than benefit the sufferers from tho overflow of the Mississippi, is a marked instance of the value ot military government in the transit which the South is making from the old to the new condition of things and the bringing of order out of chaos. The one great fault of the South was its rejection of the constitutional amendment which was first offered to them. In this they could have shaped the suffrage question as best pleased them. Now a radical faction imposes apon them a worse measure, to which they find themselves forced to submit. This great fault is not 80 much due to the Southern people themselves, who came out of the war pre pared to accept any reasonable measures that the conquering party chose to impose, but rather to the Brookses, the Woods, the Val- landighams and the Seymours, who, represent- ing thomselves as the exponents of a powerful party, advised the Southern people to a course that has retarded the progress of the country and been a curse to those who have accepted the advice of mon who were really nothiog but the galvanized emblems of a copper- head graveyard. The sound sense of the South taught it that to the victor belong the spoils; but the lingering and rabid copper headism of the North totally misled this fvel- ing, and, turning it back, with the flattering hope that by political management much that the sword had lost might be regained, caused the present retarding of s healthy reconstrac- tion and the burying of animosities to which the radicalism of both sides appears to pander. The copperhead press, catching at the smallest straws upon the political sea, strives to main- tain itself by still holding out false hopes to the Southern people, while many of the petty sheets of the South, catching at what they think are the echoes of a powerful faction, stir dis- content in the hearis of the ignorant and retard the work of a solution of our national troubles. If the Southern people will analyze the position calmly they will find that those whom they have called their best friends have in reality been their worst ensimics, and many whom they have deemed enemies are their best friends. It is worth the consideration of the South, that their position, as Governor Perry stales, may really be better unter the present form of governmont than under that of the thick-lipped, flat-nosed, woolly-headed and corpulent nigger representatives, who may soon be as proud in tracing back their descent from Congo or Soudan as any of the whites of the South now are Of running back to Eng- land for proofs of pure blood. ‘The Centre of thé Centre of Nows. We have frequently demonstrated that New York was rapidly becoming the centre of the news of the world, and that the New Yors Henatp was the heart of thatcentre. We have a fresh instance of the truth of this allegation in the fact that the description of the great Derby day last month, which appears in the English turf paper, the Sportsman, on the 290 of May, was published in the columns of tha HERALD On the very same day! Mexico and Maximilian. The wors: thing Maxim:lian ever did was to kill his captives. This pirt of his poliey the liberal government bas imitated, and it is thought that it proposes to carry its imitation to the last extrsme. In this it seems to have de‘enders, The latest of these ts Mr. Romero, whose views as to what should be done with s Maximilian have ben given to the public. They amount substantially to this:—Mexico ought to kill Miximilian in order to show that she dare do it, for if sha spired his life the world would suppose she was move! to it by fear; she ought to kill him lest he should establish a Mexican government at Miramar, to plague the souls of Mexican patriots in the fature. If Mexico should take the life of her quondam Emp:ror on these grounds sh» will prove her- self weaker than any one thought her; for she will show that the act was not the consequence of excitement or revonze, not a thing done in the hurry of a violent nature, but coo!ly de- termined upon as a piece of puerile bravado, or influ*nced by the cowardly fear of a shadow. If Mexico is not above tho fear of Maximilian, pretending come tim to be her Emperor, she is feeble indeed; if she has only tho courage to kill lest she should be suspected of sparing for the want of it, the worl! must p‘y ior. Butin the fact that the news of the late tuler’s fate comes so slowly, and in the strange would-be justifications we have hal, there seems room to doubt whether the liberal pur- pose was so bloo‘y after all. There is, indeed, some indication that Max may get safely to Miramar yet. Much of this Mexican argument sounds quite like the tone of the French press for some months before the French retirement. There was atime when Napoleon was quite solicitous the world should understand he did not leave Mexico on account of the attitude of the United States. He might go, of course, if it suited him ; if he had accomplished bis pur- pose ; if tue interest of France required ; but never in obedience to the demand of a foreign Power. So with the liberals—they may spare Max, but they want the world to understand that the credit is their own. They do not in- tend that the United States shall come between them and the glory of one piece of magna- nimity. They refuse, therefore, our request for Max’s life, and then will spare him on their own account. We hope this is the real posi- tion; and if it be we can willingly concede the point that Mexico desires to make. If this, however, is not the real state of the case, we hope the suggestion that Maximilian has some wealthy relatives in Europe, and that he could be ransomed ata very fine figure, will not be overlooked at the liberal headqu:rtere. Woman Suffrage. The debate which took place some nights ago in the Britis House of Commons on the subject of female suffrage, and in which Jobn Stuart Mill, the philosophic M. P. for West- minster, appeared as the champion of the fair sex, has imparted fresh interest to the question on both sides of the Atlantic, To those who cannot see it in the light of a joke or a mean- ingless compliment which it was difficult for chivalrous gentlemen to withhold, the fact that seventy-three of the members of that staid assembly voted in favor of Mr. Mill’s amend- ment naturally enough appears as a ground of encouragement and hope. It is certainly not the least striking characteristic of this age of fearless logic that a question of this sort should have acquired so much prominence. Nor are we at all surprised that, encouraged by so much philosophy (for Mr. Mill was backed up by a learned Cambridge professor in the per- son of Mr. Faucett) and by so much chivalry, the Lucy Stones and the Mrs. Cady Stantons and the other male and female advocates of equal rights, should, with more dogged deter- mination than ever, renew their efforts here. After all, however, we are not satisfied that woman suffrage has been in any material degree advanced by this recent exhibition in the British House of Commons. It is certainly something to have had the cause cham- pioned by so distinguished a man as Jobn Stuart Mill. Great names, however, we have sometimes noticed, are to a cause more injurious than helpful. There are not a few in England who think that the cause of the people in this present reform movement might have been more. effectually served had Mr. Mill been less enthusiastic in its advocacy. Nor will it at all surprise us to learn, cautious and self-possessed as he was in this, his latest effort, that the cause of the advocates of equal rights has been as much damaged as promoted by Mr. Mill’s assistance. The truth is, Mr. Mill is in many respects an overrated man. He is no politician, nor can he be called a great philosopher. His vision is clear, rather than comprehensive. His intellect is keen and vigorous, rather than broad and massive. He is great only as a logician. Grant him hie premises, and he will truthfally and fearlessly work out his conclusion. His premises, how- ever, are not always based on a sufficiently broad induction of facts. Herein lies Mr. Mill’s weakness, and it is thie which renders his guidance unsafe. It would not be difficult to vindicate the correctness of this estimate by refereaces to Mr. Mill’s writings; but we bave said enough to show we are not convinced that, because Mr. Mill has become the advo- cate of woman's rights female suffrage ie a foregone conclusion either in the United States or in England. It is something, also, io have obtained seventy-three voter in such an assem- bly; but, as we have hinted already, these votes are to be regarded as indicating a chivalrous feeling of respect for the fair sex, rather than sympathy with a hopeless cause. Oar fears, iherefore, as to the speedy advent of this new kind of power in the political man- agement of nations are not great. The ques- tion is settled for the present in England, and is little likely to be revived again by Jobn Stuart Mill or “any other man” for many years to come. On this side the question may be ad- vocatedewith greater persistency, but we ques tion whether with greater success, Lucy Stone may write letters, E. Cady Stanton may draw up petitions, Henry Ward Beecher and otber divines and philosophers may lend them the weight of their influence; bat the revolution is little likely to come at their bidding. We wish better for the sex. We wish them nobler and more congenial spheres of usefulness than the arena of politics can afford. We cannot per- suade ourselves that any good would come from sending Mrs. Cady Stanton as one of our representatives to Congress, or from seating M's Anna Dickinson in the Presidential chair ‘at Washington. We are certainly « very great people, Of.all the world we are least liable to | be startled with novelties. But to have euch JUNE 4, 1867.—TRIP!:E SHERY. things ‘x prospect would be a little too much, | from his obscurity. even for us. It will not do. Let women confine themselys3 to that sphere in which alone they are truiy useful and in which alone they are lovely. Let them reveal th irinterest in the Commonwealth by emulous endeavors to make home more and more the seat of virtue, of peace and of joy. Let their influence for good become more and more diffusive ; but lot them not, by coming into rade contact with the rougher affairs of life, rub off all or any of those graces which constitute their peculiar charm and which give to them all their power. To the members of the State Constitutional Convention we will be allowed to say, although it is unnecessary, “ In dismiss- ing the petition of your fair petitioners be as gentle ag you can.” MiNtary Administration in the South. The order issued by General Pope reversing the decision of the Post Commander at Mobile in regard to one of the local newspapers will be read with very genoral satisfaction. It negatives the impression that was gaining ground that there was a disposition on the part of our military administrators in the South to shackle the press, Thia General Pope dis- claims in the most emphatic terms. He de- clares that it is che duty of the military authori- ties to secure the utmost freedom of speech and ofthe press consistent with law, and orders that no officer or soldier in hia command shall interf-re with newspapers or speakers on any pretext. Nothing will tend moro to inspire confidence and hopefu'ness among the Southern people than acts of this kind. However harsh the Recons'ruc'ion act may appear to them, the wise and liberal interpretation given to it by the military authorities will soon reconcile them to the measure, Certainly, thus far, they have no reason to feel dissatisfied with the cho'ce of the officers appointed to enforce its provisions. In North and South Carolina Gen- eral Sickles made the first move towards reas- suring ihe population, by a general order re- lieving them from the operation of a class of State acts which bore most oppressively upon them. He alao put a stop to the working of the grain distilleries, which had raised the price of corn to a point that threatened ao famine. General Ord’s pithy recommen- dation to the negroes of Mississippi to provide for their families before at- tending political conventions did an immense amount of good. Sheridan’s prompt and decisive measures in Lou'siana squelched the reviving spirit of treason and showed the stub- born secessionists, who had managed to keep the upper hand there, that they had no mercy to expect from him. Thomas had a difficult card to play in Tennessee between the rebels and Parson Brownlow, but he has managed to keep them tolerably quiet. Schofield, in Vir- ginia, has also shown a great deal of tact, the only mistake he committed—that of suppress- ing a newspaper—having been speedily set right. Taken as a whole, the military administra- tion under the Reconstruction act has been a greater success than we had any reason to anticipate. The generals to whom it has been intrasted are governing with a great deal of intelligence, ani, although it is a new field for them, they have made but few mis- takes in it. The outcry raised by the copper- head journals against their being intrusted with so much power has proved to be a sense- less clamor. The Roman pro-consuls, to whom they were compared, were a very different class of men, and had very different responsi- bilities, Their blunders of administration could only be criticised and checked at long intervals. They were, in fact, rarely or ever brought under the influence of public opinion. With our military Governors the case is very different. They can do no act without its being immediately telegraphed all over the country, and without its bringing back promptly the criticisms of the press, Th» Roman pro-con- suls were not subjected to such checks, and therefore there is no justice in the comparison. If the same wisdom and prudence continue to be manifested by our military administrators {tis not improbable that another and more ticklish comparison will be drawn. People will begin to ask themselves whether here, at the North, it would not be better for us to live under the rule of such men than to submit to the incapacity and corruption which disgrace every department of our State and municipal governments. Santa Anon Again. There -is a silly report in circulation that about three weeks ago Santa Anna managed to slip away from Staten Island for Mexico with an expedition of six thousand men, composed of Swiss, Irish and Americans. That he him- self may have left is not improbable, but that be bas taken with him any such number of re- cruits as that stated is entirely out of the ques- tion, A thousand men, with the proper mili- tary equipments, could not leave this port with- out its becoming immediately known, and the fact that three weeks have elapsed since their reported departure, without any one hearing of it until now, at once settles the falseness of the statement. It is claimed by the ex-Dictator’s friends, to whom the report is to be traced, that the pro- gramme which he bas in view is in the highest degree advantageous tous. They go so far as to eay that it will embrace these important points : First, pacific acquisition by the United States of Mexican territory ; secondly, dis- continuance in that country of the bar- barous system of political executions; thirdly, security for the investments and claims of Americans and foreigners; fourthly, protection for the classes who have anything to lose. All this looks well on paper; but Santa Anga is net the man to carry it out. If he were once more in power he would veither remember his obligations to us nor his promises of amnesiy to bis | political opponents. Even the odium which the execution of Maximilian would bring upon the government of Juarez would help him but little. His past is not of ® character to be whitewashed by so impolitic an act. What- ever he may think or say, it is certain that he is thoroughly despised by the Mexicans. His treachery to every party has insured distrast. In seeking in his tarn to invade his country with an army of foreigners he would commit @ more unpardonable offence than Maximilian may by this time have suffered death fon 4 ame As a native Mexican he has no right to force himself into the government by such means. It he be really acceptable to his countryraen he shonld wait until the national yoieq falls him To vonturd. té enter Mexico just now. would be to run a risk which would be hardly consisient with his well known prudence. We are, therefore, inclined to believe that this rumor has been set efloat merely to teat public opSuion here in togard to his chances. Count. Bamarck asovr ro Rerms Frow Acvive Lura.—It our cable despsteh of day proves to bo correct it is the intention of the Prussian Prime Minister to retire trom ac- tive life at an early day. It is a mistake. We cannot conceive Bismarck to be inactive, To a mind like his retirement is aa injurious as it is unnatural. It will bean injury to Prngsla, it will be a greater injury to himself. YACHTING. The Entries for the Annual Regatta, June 18, 1867. The following ts the list of entries to date of yaochta intending to take partin the annual race of the Now York Yacht Club, which comes off on Thursday, the 18tls inst, The number of entries will undoubtedly be much larger before the list 1s closed, which ocours forty-oight hours precisely before the hour of starting. During thee last moments the majority of ontries are usualig: subscribed. The course will be from Owl’s Head to and around the Light Ship, and thence back to the piace of starting :— Scu00! by We. and ©. EL Stebbins, L, Lorillard, ty 5 o Bennett, Jr. nary, a Phoonix THE INDIAN WAR. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. Attack on a Coach—Two Drivers Killed— Colonel Bozman Killed—Goneral Mongher’s Volunteers Equipped tor Service, &c. Oman, Nusrasca, June 4, 1867. An altack was made on Wells, Fargo & Co.'s coach Jast Sunday. The coach left Denver on the 28th ult., and whon near Fairview station, which was lately burned, was attacked by ten Indians. Two drivers were killed, one of them namod Kilburn. An inside passenger os- caped by jumping into the Platte, All the stock was stolen. This is the latest, and the report ts confirmed by our official despatches to headquarters in this city. Dates to May 31 have been received from Virginia They do not represent the danger to tho settiements Galiatin Valley a8 positively imminent. Nobody ia known to have bece hurt ex Colonel Bosman, wee was killed by the Blackfeet Sioux whiloen route with his command to Fort C. F, Smith. The Acting Governor of Montana, General Moagher, has raised and equipped volunteers the warpath. General Augor and ataff arrived at the ond of the track: of the Pacific Railroad on the 3d inst. THE PRESS TELEGRAM. A Mall Conch Attacked by Indinas Three Western despatches say that the mail coach on the Smoky Hilt route was fired into near Big Timber a few days ago, and again near Russell's station. The former station was attacked for three nights in succession. Generals Smith and Custer are at Fort Hayos with thirteen hundred cavalry, Three hundred men, wih their horses and outfits, are said to have deseried duriag the past three weeks. Pi are of colored infantry was em route to Fort ap x. Omaha despatch says that two hundred Pawnee scouts had an encounter with an equal number of Sctouz near the end of the Pacific Railrond a few days since, wae eres ee acoompanying the excursion- MePnefeon, will jolu General Augur ia the field. General Augur i3 understood to have sufficient pre Sind gam to the railroad route, and alt “The preety Miner, which was reported aa by the Indians, and the crew and passen; | = time since, was met below Fort Rice May 16, al “The steamer Marcella landed one hundred stand of arms and a large quantity of ammunition at Yaactea, forgthe use of Daeota Territory. ALABAMA REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. Large Delegations of Colored Men in the Convention—Strong Opposition to Judge Busteed on the Part of the Colored Dele- g@ates—Bolt of the Macon County Delega* tien, &c. iesachiiae” da. Sela: The Union republican convention, composed of dele- gates of both colors, assembled in the Representatives’ Hall at the Capitol to-day. Two hundred and fifty dele gates were in attendance, about 6ne hundred and thirty of whom were biacks, who participated equally in the deliberations. Dr. Francis W. Sykes was chosen temporary chairman, and Judge William H. Smith, of Randolph, who assisteé: in raising @ Federal regiment, was elected President; L. S Berry (colored), G, Doster and others, half white and balf black, Vice Presidente. Among the secrotaries ig phenol Jobn Pelham, of the Confederate army. Governor Patton was invited toa seat in the Couves: ut “A motion ‘was maile to invite Jain Busteed to o seat, which was strongly opposed by several colored men from Mobile, who declared him an enemy of the race and untrue to the republican x. After considerable debate the motion was withdrawa, the to withdraw their opposition. id sccept the measures o€ the republican major acce| Cony and christen their party by its eee coal and swore ot Fon ructlon of st must be entered upon in wD. o Humphreys, of Hanteville, was ee of the Committee on Platform a ncewicen, General Swayne is a member of the committee ead will draft the platform. The convention then adjourned until four o'clock this afternoon. At the afternoon session a resolution was introduced os Judge busteed to address the convention, which sed another animated discussion, pending which the Meow county baage oomeg seceded, ‘aud the Convention “to the republican was the Mobite. A Wationanieee whe oud with aflilating with rebels poitticalty. AMUSEMENTS. etetaway Hall—Masica Festival. The second night of Mr. Harrison's grand fostival at this hall showed no @iminution in the attendance, for the crowd was as dense as the most sanguino manager would wish, The programme comprised Ritter's Overs tare to Othello and the meta od Peale and the Hymo of Praise, by Mendelssohn. e the last mentioned work of one of ane most amiable of ph whose music porseases a tonderness and thought and imagery cote individ wes San deserving taming of theta praise, and to do it ample justice, overture is ure m8 work of no common orser, It di many clover foatares and intimate knowledge of or- cpenrtal effects; but we were disappointal in the Forty. eixth Paalm. Our limited space forbids us enter! an analysi« of lis composition It is weak as an entirety, and there i but ttle originality of idea or trestmenk about it, To-day a grand matinée-concert, with new arciets, will be goven, and in the ereming the Creation, The tendowey of the therme, anor last eveaing caused the fans om she stage and among the audience of the Academy of Music to be plica more vigorously than ever, and {t waa eufficient to thrr/w one into a profuse tea to te & pettionated ir ividual t ig tubs, lad bridges, &e., on the sol’ of his foot from a bamboo pole hew near a person may go Dreaking his neck wi'hout act accomplishing thas Inudable object; a froup squat corner ovoking from fupny looking struments di sounds suggest- ive of w ‘heels, saw grinding, foline disturb- ancos or other plesgant noises, and the’ descent of little All ght from ‘ais dizay ‘position beneath the dome. The reception WAich this troape has met with In America will, on their tetarn to Japan, do more towards breaking down the bar/ers of ‘exclasivenese towards Americans fo Jong dor,fpant in that country than a score of treaties, Miscellaneous, Treayire Trove, the much abased specimen of the reall'Aie drama, {9 still ronning, with poimpaired vigor, at wand ane the vivacious Worrell sisters sing, por | gy iia, Rew Font i ri ig Wer ae