The New York Herald Newspaper, June 7, 1867, Page 5

y P - The War of the Radicals Against General Grant, Views of the People and the Press. ‘ &a, &, ' & —_si— the New York Independent (radical) 20,) story of Judge Cai 's interview np Moy 20) Graat te an guleqendinare one, The Judge is a well Known Eepaplican, politici of Washington, holdin, radical views. His favorite candidate for the nex! acy is Ben Wade—who is one of the dest of @ar public men, whether a presidential! candidate or not, The of the Judge in calling upon the General was what? It was to ascertain, first, whether General Grant ‘Would be a candidate, and, sccond, if so, with which Ee, be would act, Now, wo havo upon no favor- an good yet, for the next Presidency, Any one of a dozen men whom we could vdme would satisfy us thor- goghly. Moreover, why should we be troubling ourselves with selecting a man this summer who is not to be Bominated till next? ‘Nevertheless, it is always a safe practice to determine who shall not be a Presidential eaudiiate. We therefore announce in advance our in- exible opposition to any and every men for the next Presidency to whom party menngert have to putany @ack miserablo interrogatory as, ‘Sir, to waich party do yeu belong?” The republican party wanisa republican @endidate. A party with principles wants a candidate with convictions, A party.whose policy is open and avewed demands a candidate whose opinions are definite md known A party with s moral mission disdains a @andidate of doubtful taith, Weknow nothinz as to the @athenticity of the story of Judge Carttor’s inter view with General Grant The statement, how- ever, i originates, with the Gincinnati Journal whose éditor, as we happe ‘grading journalism by labing sedeatia to degrading journalism by publishing seneation py Containing more mischief than truth, But we rofer to the story not for its own intrinsic tmpor- tance, but solely for the moral which it points, ‘hat moral is, let the republican party beware of seeking a Presidential candidate in any man in whom tt bas not Jeng ago found an open and unequivocal advocate of ite — and aims. Suppose General Grant, before opening of the campaign in the Wilderness, had Deen waited upon by Judgo Cartter, with the question, “General, under which tiag do you propose to fight?” The question would have been an insult; for it would Rave implied a doubt as to whether General Grant ‘was 8 loyalist or a rebel. So a question fe any proposed Presidential candidate, “Sir, frem which party will you accept a nomination?” is sou, an insult; for 1t implies that the man to whom ® ts addressed may be ready to join either the political @rtends or the political enemies of his country. We are ‘Bot to be understood as reflecting upon General Grant. If ther he orany other man chooses to be without political epinions, this js a free country, and such idiosyncrasies @re abundantly permitted. What we insist upon is, not that General Grant shall nave political opinions, but that the next republican Presidential candidate shall have ech opinions. There are many ways in which aman may honorably serve his country without holding or without ¢ ressing- positive and well defined political Views. Grant has honorably served it in one of hese ways; that is, by leading its armies. But it is not possible that a man shal; honorably serve his country as @ Presidential candidate and at the same time be destitute of strong, well grounded and openly Known political conviction, his country has eaflered for three years under a President who has been ‘@ curso to it. This man was the deliberate choice of the vepablican party. That party might bave chosen whom- geever it would, picking the finest apace from among & ‘ousand able and honest men. Its blunder in choosing Androw Johuson was that it did not ee to ask whether had settled political convictions, or if he had, wnether thee bi Xe] harmony with the settled political convic- tons of the party that committed its banner to his hands, Andrew Johnson did not cheat the by ; the republican party cheated itself, Now God our instituting any comparison, direct or implied, ‘Between President Johnson and Goneval Grant. Tre. axe. aH < five z mtegrity and cheat iteclf, betray The next administrator of the federal ought to dea man with whom the love of al passion <whom the fae manr He ugh tobe & en rTeLEEIT 8 @f upbuilding freedo: rayer of the government, the nation {8 now en- toa President whose soul ia competent to compre- the large [erie of the yet unfinished work, whose heart is full of geal for its accomplishment, and ‘Whose band has bad experience in the practical work of ship. kn God’s name, jet us have a great man the next President. {From the Chicago Journal (republican) Jane 4. ‘The Independent having formally swang loose poy its @qongregaiional moorings leads off in its iast issue with @ editorial on the next Presidency, taking the @f policy that its neighbor the Triune doos, Couples dclng thelr host, oe rather, thelr worst to pre- lea, doing their oF, r, their worst, to pm owire festasensba dk Mr. Lincoln. They are iw i 1 Grant, Neither comes board against him, but it requires jai discernment to see that when either journal whether It be the columbiad of squib of @ paragraph, the real de- is to oppose the nomination of Grant for the next oy. In the light of their former effort at @dent breaking there would seem to be but little pros- that this “flank movement” upon the General Produce the desired eflect. When the Baltimore Convention met there was hardly the vestige of any op- position to the renomination of President Lincoin, and even the few whowere then opposed to it were afier- wards heartily ashamed of their course, and most of them were giad that they were defeated. Wo have no for the next Presidency. wait for time and events to devolop for the place, At the same time we must ‘net the tly preooncerted effort of gealous politicians to prejudice the public waind against General Grant. Tho ostensible occasion of fe Independen’s articio is that the Washington corre. wpondent of the Cincinnatl Commercial—a notorioualy ‘amrefiabie source of information—reports that Judge Oarter, o Washi politician, ha@ the impudence to @ay to General Grant, “Sir, to which party do ?” To ask such a question was an insult, cand his renegade friends were try- tag to defeat Governor Geary in Pennsylvania and clect General Grant took @ bold stand for the former, and it is to him more than to any other one man that is mdebted for ection, When Congress had suffrage to the nogroes of the Johnson to sign it. The lat- ter refused to,do tt, and in bis veto message intimated nly that if it should become a law qi jens of constitationality might come in to prevent its execu- Grant, as the General of the United States set about to enforce it tn spirit and in let- Military Govornors the most radical without ch district, with no prospect of removal. The iron ‘will aud steady purpose before whieh Richmond fetl and Lee became a prisoner of war have kept Sheridan in @ominend and secured the execution of the Muitary Re- @onstruction act, aod for any Washington banger.on to bave Mroniery to inquire of the man who has done r, to which party do you belong?” is cov- ind the fevow beea shown tue door he Bat itis said at there must be something wrong about Generai Grants politica, or he would come for Bie share of copperhead and rebel abuse. It most be admitted that be has most remarkably ewaped censure. Wendell Phillips has monopolized this Dusiness almost exclusively. But before drawing the fuference that General Grant is a political otpher, it would be well to remember that asa military man he eecaped censure most remarkably, The copperheads and Febeis bave poured the vials of their wrath upoa all the ether prominent Union geverals, but they have spared the head of the army. This is a ver, table fact, and Pertinent in this connection, Will oue pretend to Gay that he was epecialiy spared by the enemies of the erament because he was tainted with rebel sympa jes? Everybody knows and admits that he went into the war with his whole goul, and that to Lim more. than to any other man isthe Uniiod States indebted for itr Geliverance from secession, It a very rare toing that @ man can have such mérvelious ive power as General Grant has without onll- forte personal enmity and opposition; but tue face that he can carry his points against opposition that wonld crush ordinary men, and yet avoid exciting ual anitnosity, is no argument against bis fitness the Presidency. He led the armies of the nation to victory, and bas nover ghal's of tho vanquished. tion of the Miliary Reconstruct target for the angry one on in the execa- 5k ul E i is ont ig 1 {From y Evéning Journal (republican), May 27, We iclined (© the opinion that there is at lena the story of a conversation Grant and Judge Carter, in which the General said that it he was made a candidate for Presi- dent by the party which supporied the government during the war he should not feel at liverty to refuse such & nomination, ‘The minds of men have long been turning to General Grant ia this connection. His eminent services, his un- bending patriotism and bis wise conduct since the war have created. pular and wide spread desire to honor him with th the nation’s gift Perbaps he desires th udable ambition, ‘Tho General whose military genius preserved the Union may ‘woll wish to occupy the seat first filled by the General wpe mibtary gonius and patriotism mado the Union possible, It ta, of course, impossible to foresee what combina- tions may grow out of the reconstruction movements now in progress, or how these will jaffect the section of the next Republican National Convention. To-day, General Grant is the strongest man in the United States ‘who coufd be named for the Presidency. There are those who seem to fear the “conservatism” of the Genoral. We have no such apprehensions. He is “radical” up to the utmost point of doctrine main- tained by the republican party, He favors the terms of the Military bill and manhood suifrage—making no se- cret.of his opinions to any who choose to address him on the subject, ‘There is one significant point of the reported conversa- tion, The General took pains to say that be would not feel at liberty to decline a nomination tendered him by the party which supported the government during the war; leaving it to be inferred by implication that he would not accept the democratic nomination. Some of the shrowder and more thoughtful leaders of that party have been hoping that they might secure the prestize of his military name to lift it from its slough of despond. They will find it necessary to dismiss that hope. As a matter of course, in the arrangement of political if the nominee for President should again be taken from the West, the candidate for Vice President cannot hkewise be conceded to that section, and will not probably be demanded by it [From the same, May 30.) The announcement that General Grant has said he will not dectine a nomination for the Presidency, if tendered him by the party which sustained the government during the war, bas mado a decided fluttering. And, as was to have been expected, it brings down upon him the condemnation of those whe can see no patriotism and no wisdom except in a support of the most ultra measures of revenge towards the South. A correspond- ent of the New York Tritunc, writinw from Washington, wonders whether Grant will not go to Tennessee to defeat Brownlow, as he went to Maryland last fail to elact Swann, When General Grant went to Maryland, he was acting as 8 military man, under the orders of his commander-in- chief; and instead of using thefelightest influence upon the lection, bis eiforts were confined entirely to the prevention of a civil outbri which soemed almost certain to result from the conflicts between the Goverpor and the Baltimore Commissioners. The new York Independ-nt, Custom House, denounces the idea that Grant can be tl candidate of the republican party. It considers Politica altogether too ‘‘diluted,’’ and preters some ‘‘out- spoken and decided” man, like old Ben, Wade, of Ohio. The magnificent services of Grant for the nation, bis long career of military successes, his uniform ana un- wavering patriotism, amount to nothing with these apostles of hatred, so long as he is su; not to favor “confiscation and pnnishment.”’ If the political senti- ments of General Grant are ‘‘diluted,” 90 are those of the great majority of Northern republicans. He is in favor of the most vigorous and uncompromising enforce- ment of the military law. He insisted upon the selection of department commanders who would carry out that law to the letter. He does not conéeal his endorsement of eas of the day he is in perfoct sympathy with the republican 1, and stands on its jared form, ‘That he does" go CP Ca Political to new ideas, that have no parr in fte declared A A280 melee ee pn wich mateention at General Grant. But the soldiers who fought and won glory under bim, and the people whose institutions he did eo much to save, will not fear to trust either his fag roy or his judgment, The time has not yet come predict with any degree ly who be next candidate for Presidency. ‘But if that choice shall fall po any oegeentn pr por tote his country will have reason to regret the {From the 31. The Poughkeepsie soaps thet ihe a Bon. ina Journal is out afecler in favor of eral . our columns it would have found that we have uniformly sustatied the samo position as a my tioned whether Grant Would onthe a boutine. tion, or whether Political sitnation would be such that it might with propriety be tendered to him. But the pati majority of the je. Eagle is read: to “award all due honor to Sentra Grant for his’ bere ices during the rebellion,” but it dissents from the conclusion that there is yee or = wide. spread desire to honor him the first ip the nation’s gift.’ Perhaps we bave misread while the Eagle has interpreted correctly, the bearings of popularsentiment. But unless we are greatly mis- taken, the knowledge that the General desires or will accept a nomination will at once and effectually dispose of ali competition for that honor, Undoubtedly there are those who would oppose the popular wi!! in this or anything else. But an unerring instinct points to the General as the best man 1m the country to combine and harmonize its conflicting elements an uccessful jesue its process of reconstruction, The record of glory which began at Fort Donelson, which embraced tm its successive developments the splendid achievements of tue Wescern campaign, unobscured by & blunder or a disaster, and which culminated in the salvation of the Potomac army from ita long night of gloom, the capture of the revel confederacy and the sur- render of its grand army, never before vanquished, has not been forgotton by a grateful people. There is no stain avon the escutcheon of this triumphant chief, He has always beon patriotic as brave and modest as great. That with the contests of faction which have succeeded our military successes, he has taken part with neither, neither, is in iiself @ high comp! ment to his wisdom and good judgment. No one who hag taken the pains to inquire has any reason to doubt what are the views of eral Grant upon the great questions of the day, or that these are in entire accord ‘with the republican party, of which, so faras he has acted irf politics at all, he has been a consistent mem- ber, But he bas neverattempted to obtrade bis opinions upon the public or to force himeelf prominently upon tho attention of the people as others in his position might have done, In other words, he is not a self- secking demagogua The Kagie says ‘the people are largely in favor of placing the government in the charge of one of the @atesmen of the coun! m proference to any military man.’? We ciaim for Genoral Grant that he is not only a soldier but # statesman as weil. His career has shown bim to be familiar with, and able to compre- hend broad questions of political philosophy. No one can converse with him and not discover that he has thought much and deeply upon the science of govern- mont, Atatime when military and civil policy were necessarily interblended, it was his genius which toa largo degree shaped the measutes of the Administration. More than this; General Grant has shown himself a re markable jndg, of men. His abilities in this respect have seldom been sui He never made a mistake work ont toa in choosing a sui inate commander. It was this intaition gave us successful generais for the army, instead of biunderers, The imporiance of this particu- lar capacity in the Executive department, cannot be ovorestimated, Doos not history teach that great gene- rals have also been Cais. Are not the qualt- ties required to control and direct an army, to those demauded in the counciis of the cabi! We need not go back to ancient hisiory, and summons its Cesare and Alexanders, Recent periods furnish us mant- told ‘examples, Was not our own Washington successful in the ecbamber as upon the ul gion succeed in the Ministry, at army? Have Frederick the Great and Napoleon le(t their most enduring marke as warriors or a8 political rulers? Where is the “‘abiest statesman” who shail occupy the position suggested tne Bagle. Time hasbeen when each party would have turned instinctively to some chosen apostle, and fixed upon him as the standard bearer of its campaign, But iti notso now, When wo — the fleid of national jition, we confers ourselves unable to select from ite irge array of active, nolay and scheming pnblic men, the one who stands apart from all others, 80 prominent, 80 distinctive, so peculiar, that the choice ef his fellow. citizens will necessarily fall upoa him. There is but one man in the United States of whom the people in general are prepared to say that he should be elevated to the Presidency., The Eagle complains of General Grant that “his jations are and have been with the conservatives mainly ever sinco the clore of t! that bis antecedents are democratic; Perionce bas abundantly proved, enough for wus, that men from that so seldom prove worthy of trust that dealing with them is running too much risk.” our contemporary is entirely mistaken, The ‘associa. tions’ of Genoral Grant, both before and since the war, have been with those are loyal to the government, ‘and upon whom resis Go taint of sympathy with treason. He has never spoken @ word respecting national politics which did not prove bim a thorough patriot, le has never been a partisan, and therefore never a “democrat,"’ in the sense in which that term is understood. His first ‘vote at a federal election was cast for Abraham Lincoin, in 1860, and he bas since upheid, by sword and pen, the principles then represented in his ballot, Wedo not as- sume to pronounce judgment i H A i may be preserved. No doubt that General Grant will not allow his the democracy ; for since they do not dare to take bim themsetves they hope to keep him ‘on the fence until the danger to be apprehended from his influence has passed They have tried to worm out of him some statement of potiticai opinions. that couid be used to their own advantage and they have tried in vain, Can they make any man of sense believe that they would not jump at the chance to place Grant’s name at the head of their Presidential ticket, i onty he would pander to the base passions of the mob upon’ which alone they depend for success? Is it not patent that they are desperately struggling for suecess at any price—any price to be paid in burdens upon the people, diagryce to the country and emolument to themselves + And is it not equally plain that if Grant would consent to see this price paid, they would put him at the head oftheir column. But finding the soldier wil! stoop to their dishonest practices, they say ‘We want a states- man, and Grant is none.”” ould by any chance elect until for excitement. That here ® statesman acting with their party, wo have no wish to deny. But that a statesman wor- thy of the nams—once placed by them at the head of this government—would execute their weak, cruel, aclfish scheme we believe to be utterly impossibie, Early in the history of the republican party one of their foremost men said toa gentleman who resided in this State up to the time of hig death:—‘‘We mean to take advantage of the tide of radicalism to secure the power, and then we intend to work back on to good old Whig ground,”’ Undoubtedly the gentleman did “intend to work back on to good old Whig ground,” but his states. manship was short-sighted when be thought he could controt the revolution of which he meant to take advantage, He should have learned from the teach- ings of history that revolutions are never “worked back’? on to any conservative ground, and that the leaders who try the experiment are cruahed in the at- tempt, Sturdy, open, unyielding opposition from the start can alone break the violence, and in time beat down the troubled sea of popular excitements. Even the radical statesmen know this; and while they may “take advantage of”? the mob to get the ‘power, scat them firmly in position and thoy will rally the whole strength of conservatism to keep them there. The re- pubiicans then don’t want a statesman, They wouldn't know what to do with him. But they make this cry for a stateaman an excuse for rejecting Grant, What they do, in their hearts, went is a red republican—one of the Brownlow-Stevens school—ferocions, bloodthirsty, un- scrupulous—and that is the true reason why they pass the gallant soldier by on the other side. [From the Mobile Register, democratic. ] If the friends of constitutional government, including couservative democrats and moderate republicans, act with ordinary prudence, it is certain that the next President elected by the people will not be a radical. The radicals are themselves so conscious of this fact that strange as it may appear, they are building their pes of success upon the vote of the excluded Southern States. It is for this that the Radical Man- ing Committee at Washington is turning its principal @iectionsering batteries upon the South, 1s flooding it with documents which nobody reads,’ and sending Wilson of Massachusetts down as the avant courier of other apostles to convert heathen Southerners, white and black, into Christian (Paritan) radicals, The radical difficulty is, tbat the party holds in its bosom eight or nine ‘ambitious partisans, each one of ‘whom ia too big for apything but the Presidency. Four of them aro from the West, to wit:—Chase, Stanton, Colfax and Wade; and Massachusetts offers Wilson and the immortal Dr. B, #. Butler. The next oan be picked Up) pass, hile e} man of them has his right eye on the Presidency, the left is on General Grant to such a degree that they have two years azo out of the good the republican party. power forever to defeat arepublican " and if it were otherwise, General Grant would be a very short-sighted politician to accept such a nomina- tion.. For, if he should, the extreme radicala would be sure to run anotl date with the view of throw- But the democrats and conservati a> hye hand, and me Lip! rae pee ae a jidate can carry through on popu! pe ee cant and ip woul candidate of the radicals, do teieude of reason and free- dom, by whatever name cailed, have only to unite on him to rout snd finish the pestilent party thet hes deluged this land eadly * [From the Atlanta (Ga.) New Era, republican.) ‘This distinguished soldier is being Aone 4 spoken of in conmetion with the next » and® ‘we pee no co- it he track at the right ti Ba unde if put upon the track at the ime and under proper ‘The General’s magaanimous conduct towards at the time of gent reason why the General should not auspices, the illustrious Lee and his brave Pind the surrender, has won for him golden ‘warm friends in all the States. There are un ten factsin connection with General Grant which, w! opinions and known, may add even more lastre to his present national Missouri Courier (radical) transferred Standard. ident of the fame. [From the North from the Anti-Slavery General Grant, when urged to become National Temperance Society, said he fully sympathised with the cause, but ‘did not think he was the right mao for it.” —Bxhange, If the above 1a true, the General is to be commended for his honest confession. It is a fact well known in the private circle surrounding bim in Washi that he still continues the immoderate use of spirituous liquor, He may not get into that condition known as ‘gutter frequently is m a semi-obliviows state ” but be that is painful to bebold, especially in view of the possi- bility of his ultimately becoming a candidate next Presidency. 0S se ee task for a writer to feel cor to allude to jg an absolute duty which no prestige or military reaown can or should overwhelm. Not long ago a gentleman belonging to the editorial fraternity in & Soutbern city called on General Grant at his home in Washington. wing a little matter of business with him (not office seeking, however), he wanted to find a sober man to talk with, as his business required a clear head to decide upon it, The General had just come from the dinner table, accompanied by three or four other gentlemen. Going to the mantel piece, where his cigar case stood, he took it down and came with a balf jer towards the company, saying in maudlin tones, ‘‘Have a cigar, ntiemen?’’ The hospitality was pleasant enough; t the staggering gait, the balf-closed eyelids, the flushed face, the husky voice, were anything but agree. able to contemplate, The editor, seeing how his host stood, excused Limself without making known his busi- ness, retired, intending to cail again whea there would be some probability of meeting General Grant under General Grant has his good “points,” and bas been very serviceabie to the country in helping to put down the reboili With a bulldog pertinacity lenges the admiration of the world, while the memory of it draws tears of blood almost from the ores amenen and mothers, who gave up their fons to tered in sostaining ium be accomplished mighty results. He deserves wet! of his country; but his country deserves equally well of him, He has no right to bring a disgrace upon himself, his family, or the nation, by drunken- nes, His “sympathy” with a cause does not amount to be ge ‘80 long as his conduct is in practical opposition to his professions. Now, ii be would be as honest to- ‘ward himself as he was reported to be to the National Tom perance Society, and abstain from strong drink, be could very easily become right man for it drank, Jehu! If oral Grant 8 consistent temperance mano—and that fron will of bis could keep him in tho traces after having pledged himself to temptrance—a religious man—not necessarily a church member—t progressive man who believed no distinction of race, but on the score of simple humanity acted as if he comprete thas all black or white, are equal the constitution of ted States, what an enthusiasm be would excite, and how, with the majesty of ten thousand political Niagaras, he would ride into the White House at Washington, borne wpon a popular will whose fury of delight no “army with banners’? could withstand and no “‘policy"’ 0 As be now appears before the public no political orgunization dares to advocate him as @ probable candidate until its oppos part; takes the first step, The republicans are waitin, the democrats ditto, From between thet both will the General have the good sense to slip, and not allow his name and character to be merciessly handled as they surely will be in the dirty straggle of politics? Is it not enough for bim now to re good reputation he bas, rather t! ighty poor specimen military m: that; to say nothing of other disqualif- cations that now make leading radicals for the present chary of their praises ‘We hope so, and then we shall have an open field for some civilian who has made caterwanship fetime study, and whose ‘sympathies’ and 7 political rec. ord will be aguffictent guarantee that Northern, ideas of freedom and Northern em shall be the ruling sen- timents in these United States of America, “the iand of the free and the home of the brave.” [From the Richmond Whig, conservative. } ‘While General Grant is associated in the minds of all with the downfall and bumiliation of the South, he is a suas and connected with some of moss generous struggle. His noble ‘an6 mealy conduct toward eos Chat in blood, broken ernment, and substituted everywhere the strayed guidance. has Ey, mrclasbennd thaw wenkeied the Wecee.of dha: pep for the 0 private habits of a public servant; yet it spectful attention due alike to bis eminent rank and his personal worth. Great as is the part now borze by Gen- eral American afairs, the probability is that he is destined tS pay * vot move august part, It is im- portant to the that the great influence and the good will of such ® man shall be conciliated and not re- He showed that he appreciated us; let us, in all yw that we appreciate him. NICARAGUA, peruneneet. ne Ceserd 5g inde ep Homage,” &c. ‘Tne steamship Nevada, Captain Jerry W. Smith, from Greytown, May 31, with passengers and merchandise, to North American Steamship Company, arrived at Quaran- tine, at seven o'clock on Thursday morning, making the trip from Greytown to New York in six days and forty minutes—the quickest passage ever made, Largest day’s run, 385 miles. The obliging pursor of the Ne- will please accept our thanks for the prompt de- livery of valuable papera, The Porvenir, of Rivas, May 15, gives our Secretary of State Seward the following cut in Speaking of the claims of Nicaragua against tke United States:— We see by our exchanges that the United States papers: bave taken notice of our claims, All of thei give the nows, but without any comments on it, This is in no way discouraging for Nicaragua. The silence observed ia but @ silent acknowledgment. We do not pre- tend to know the amouct to be claimed, much less the sum which ought justly to be paid to Nicaraguans and foreigners, who are sufferers by Walker's filibuster raids. We know that the government of Nicaragua has paid to its citzens and foreigners the damages done by Walker to the amount of $5,000,000 in American gold. All those claims were most’ scrupulously examined, and the most etrict comp- trotlers were appointed by the Nicaraguan government a0 as to avoid fraud We know that to substantiate our claims we need only to take Mr. Seward's correspondence with England on the Alabama question, and to change merely two words, The changes are—put Nicaragua in place of the United States, and place, inst-ad of the England, simply Unied ‘States, and our claim is morally recognized by the latter. Could Mr. Seward contradict his own arguments? Wo believe he cannot do it; in fact, we recognize now that Nicaragoa has the stronzest defender of her just claims in the United States government. In regard to the Grey town bombardment tho public is sufficiently posted, had {t not been for the rebellion this claim would been paid in 1861. When this paper mentioned the appointment of ex-Presi¢ent Martinez as Ministor to England we were only indicating the many advantages which might be obtained by the said mission, As far as the official appointment is concerned, the mission has for tia only object the final incorporation of Mos- quitis into Nicaragua, CIRCUIT COURT AT RALEIGH, N. C. Remarks of Chief Justice Chase—Rensons for the Deiny in Opening the Courts. Ratxiau, June 6, 1867. At the opening of the United States Circuit Court this morning, at the State Senate Chamber, a large number of” distinguished members fof the bar were pres- ent, Before proceeding to business, Chief Justice Chase mate the following remarks to practitioners:— GexTLEMEN ov THE Bar—Before proceeding to the regular business, I think (t- proper to address a few ob- servations to you. For more than four years the courts of the Union were excluded from North Carolina b¥ the rebellion. When active hostilities closed, in 1865, na- tional military authority took the place of all ordinary civil jurisdiction, or controlled ite exercise. All courts, whether State or nati were subordinated to miliiary supremacy, and actod, when they acted at all, undor such limitations and {n cases as the commanding general, under the direction of the President, poses = an to prescribe, Their process might be disregard their ju ents and decrees set aside by military orders. Under circ the Justices of the ‘umstances Supreme Court allotted to the circuits, which include the insurgent States, abstained from joining the district judges in holding the Circuit Courts, Their attendance ‘wag unnecessary, for the district judges were fully au- acinet by Jen fo hold ioe Gireatt ¢ Courts withons the jasticepf the Supreme art, an exercise complet Jurisdiction in the trial of criminal and almost all ‘civil cases, and their attendance was unnecessary for another —. The pailiery, tribunals at hocstdie at existing circumstances, were competent the exercise of all jurisdiction, criminal and civil which belongs, under ordinary clreumstances, to civil courte, was 7, by which a new ‘Under this act the Justices of assigned to circuit allotted to hold, national courts in the cir- Tam . therefore, to join my brother, the Judge, in holding the Cireuit Coart for this dis- perk trict. It is the first Cireuft Court beld in any district within the insurgent States at which a Justice of the Bo; Court could be present without disregard of superior daties at the seat of government or usurpation of jurisdiction. The associate Justices allotted to the other Southern circuits will join in holding the courts at the regular terms ved by law, and thus the national civil juriediction will be fully restored throughout the Union, It is trae that military authority is still exer- cised within these Se aca but men ge ft 1m consequence P] local Hse a ‘and in supervision er control of all tribunals, whether State or national. BD sey ietenie es Congress, and only to prev legal ce to persons and property, and to facilitate the restoration of every Btate to equal rights and benefita inthe Union, This ‘military authority does not extend In any respect to the courts of the United States, Let us bope that hence- forth neither rebellion nor any other occasion for the as- sertion of any military authority over courts and justices will hereafter suspend the due course of judicial ad- Lm no ae by the national tribunal in any part of the Tepublic, The remainder of the time was consumed by the Court in hearing unimportant cases and motions, NEW HAMPSHIRE, Message of Governor Harriman te the Legis- lature. Conconn, N. H., June 6, 1867. Governor Harriman was inaugurated to-day, and de- livered his message to the Legislature, It is a somewhat lengthy document and devoted mainly to the discussion of State topics. The various institutions of the State are represented to be in a prosperous condition. The finan- cial condition of the State, as represented in Governor Smyth's valedictory, ie highly gratifying. The receipts of the State Treasury for the year ending June 1, 1867, J were $5,003,823, Tho disbursements for the year amoonted to $3,038,209. Cash in Mra etree Binee be 1867, $65,424 The total debt of the State on inst , was $3,747,776. The reduction in the debt the y to $254,313, The total ex iture of the State for war purpores amountado $6,462,678. There has been reimbureed to the State by the general govern- ment for war expenses, $897,122. Of national affairs Governor Harriman say*:—Since the close of the last Legisiature, the great work of restoration has with varying fortane, It has been stimulated by Con- ional enactments and retarded hi executive folly. flies halted as justice hesitated, and advanced as the right prevailed. Maiign counsel, North and South, has impeded the work. The utterances of loyalty in Con- rees and out of Congress, by the press and in the elec- Hone, have pressed it forward. Delay has been followed by action; nee by enosgy ; ancertainty by security. Tue Gordlan knot has at Iasi been cat, At Appomatox Court House more than two years ago, the head and front of the rebveliion bowed low to the terms of the conqueror, Two years of delay, indecision and crime had ‘weil nigh rot We of the fruits of that victory. The rightful authority Das at last presented ite ultimatum. The Executive cannot, the Judiciary will not, the South 4 jo ite requirements, The result is full of Promise for the early pacification of the country, THE SHOE BURGLARY IN SIXTH AVENUE. TO THE EPITOR OF THE HERALD. The communication in yesterday's Henato, signed by Cunningham & Reynolds, detailingjthe course of legal action in the case of the three boys who were indicted for entering thetr store and stealing $200 worth of goods, is calculated to make a wrong impression upon the minds of the public The alleged burglars were ail boys, one of them pot being over fifteen years of age, and the District Attorney, before admitting their plea of an atiompt at burglary, became convinced that they were the dupes of older criminals. The only evidence against them was the Noding of the property in their om The son. tence, it is true, was suspended by Ju Rassel, bat he reserves the right to sentence them at any time. Tne Judge bas a salutary hold upon them, and if they again deviate from the path of honesty, he as the power to send of them to State Prison for owe, Years at six months JUsTICR, LEGAL TROUBLES OF THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD. St. Lovrm, Jone 6, 1867, ‘The Republican hate epeciai despatch from St, Joseph: pe 70 et lee hateas su cee the Union |. Railroad, has served imei 6 Union Pactfic. Railroad, . = an odes vud ae sca ropiraions wm haa THE SOUTH. aLibini. Loyal League, &c. Mowtcowmrr, Ala., June 6,1867. Judge Busteed spoke at the Capitol last night to « small audience, Ho endorsed and eulogized the plat- form adopted by the convention yesterday, but did not refer to the charges brought against him, except to say that he would not make any defence in advance of im- Ppeachment, His speech aroused no enthusiasm, and is generally considered a failure, The Grand Council of the Loyal League, an auxiliary of the convention, is still in session, The action of the convention was matnly controlled by thewaid league, or by @ majority belonging to 1t. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. White and Black Labor on the Cotton Planta- tlons-General Howell b?s Experiments— at the Commissary Characters—A Discourse from Uncle “Poly- dore”’—Blackberries and Vegetables Com- seep Macox, Ga., Jane 2, 1867. General Howell Cobb, in addition-to his practice of the Jaw in Macon, is working, with his som, several cotton plantations in Southwestern Georgia, the richest portion of the State, All togother he has some twenty-six hun- dred acres of land under cultivation, and, excepting the corn, tire field peas and the swoet potatoos necessary for the next year’s subsistence of his hands, from the com- ing to the next corn harvest, theso lands are planted in cotton. Four of these plantations (they are all en sutle) are worked by blacks, including the late ves of the planter and his family, and one place is under the ex- Periment of white labor, native whites, mostly small farmers “left destitute by these hard times.” He is in- troducing some new experiments in the care of his laborers, Under tho old system all the slaves of the Plantation were collected together ‘‘near the big house’’ in @ village called the negro quarters. The visitor at the sbrine of Mount Vernon will bave noticed these quarters, just in the rear of the master’s houso, Gene- ral Cobb says, however, that the buddling of handreds of negroes together demoralizes thom, more or less, and ho is about trying the experiment of dividing their quarters, 90 that each squad will number only twenty persons. Each fleld hand witha family will, in addi- tion to hig house and board anda share of the crop, be apportioned a patch of five acres for his wife and children to cultivate for themselves, with such assistance as ho may be able to give them on Saturday afternoons and other intervals of leisure from the work on the planta tion. For the Sabbath a convenient chapel attached to these plantations is assigned for the exclusive use of their people. Relgion among the Southern blacks is the Great object of their existence, Their belief is simple and sincere, and the cultivation of this unquestioning faith {n the promises of the Bible-was carefully attended to by their masters in times past ; for it reconciled the alave to his position as a chattel, and to all its comsequences im the separation of his family, in view of his great re- ward in the world to come, With his emancipation the freedman still bas his bighest consolationa in the Bible, and hence the wisdom of looking to his imteresta in this regard, General Cobb, with the reputation of a kind master under the old system , is thus adopting the new relations with his hands to their fixed ideas of the su- preme importance of their church, He thinks, too, that in dividing them into small squads, detached from other, many of the vices resulting from the old system, ‘equal to the blacks im the cotton culture, but that a German working on the shares would surely succeed anywhere South x of the malarious The Bureau of Freedmen, Abandoned Lands is Refugees and ‘work in Georgia, Through the courtesy of john A. Danielly, ‘| agent of the Bureau in Macon, we witn something of the distri- erament supplies of corn and bacon to the destitute and helpless peo rE. pate Sie wine Ce an end door of a rame ing known asthe Commissary two hundred and fifty destitute creatures were i ‘This assemblage was, indeed, “a sorry sight.” Th women, with few exceptions, were mere ghosts of wo- men, scantily clothed, yet there were some who had many had prol destitution all their lives, Some were smoking their pes; some were sitting on the ground, with folded | arid awaiting their turn, and others were engaged in explaining their situation to each other, ‘I,”’ said one, abaking with the ague, “wouldn't be here if I could work, furl can sew pretty fast when l’m weil, and fix up the young ladies’ linen; but I've got five litte chil- dren, and they have not bad a moutiful since yester- day.” “I, pat in another, “would work; but thero is no work to be bad. All the rich people that was are doing their own work.” Again, here wasacripple, there was one covered with an unsightly eruption, and near ber another doubled over with the infirmities of farts 4 disease and ago combined, Some were bareheaded, some were barefooted, and ali had @ starved appear- ‘ance, save two or three young girls, who looked to be reasonably weil fed. of the crowd were silent and thoughttul, and not the first sound of laughter broke from them in the space of an hour. The biacks wore more cheerful, for the negro is natu- rally light hearted. Even in their rags and bunger they Gould talk over their usual gonsip; but they, too, were a molancholy set. =: fn vod Cy ory the two races apart, 1} must not be inferred that they wore separated atthe depot. Thoy were all mixed together as if all of one color and one family, ail except avout s dozen negro gathered round a of their “ab! {rienda, here see de varieties of dia world,” What ie all dis to me. I by myself of all I know’d when I master's All gone—I_ im tong, and bress de Lord, Iam ready to tion , | yonder. Dey don’t depend crop, de corn de wheat crop, er de Freedmen’s home don’t feel hw Thank God for de Lord.” Here the old negro ages 4 diately called out, ‘Make way dar, folka, old folks and sick folks, stand to bind man come to de window titution, who thought themesives comparatively for- tunate in being able to see the misery around them, while be could onty feel his own. ‘The agent tella me that the extreme cases of destitu- tion, adult, relieved from his depot are five hundred for Bibb county (including Macon city), two hundred and Gfty for Crawtord county, and two hundred and fifty for Jones. The allowance is Afty-mx pounds of corn per month for each recipient aud a few pounds of bacon, Taking the mistimum of two dred and ofty as the average of the Joss’ adults mainly d multiptying it by one hi ber of counties im the State (io there is an agenop) the desutute of Georgia, mostly tue widows of rebel soldiers, who are fed by the government, amount in rownd numbers to thirty. thousand sogia In reaiuy whe 7 cools fifty thousand. And yet these contrivutions rom the Bureau are bat scattering drops in of Georgia, But tbe blackberries are aro begini pty bucket 1a, the poor “7 x0 gather chem, and these, with the their little garden patches, will evabie y lily to make outs jaxcrious meal on the basis Of @ quart of yaded corn made into pone, or hoe cake, enriched, for want of butter, with the far from a few ounces of bacon. This (the poor of the Buread), as we have said, though @ large item, ie still but an item in the destitution of Georgia. We shail have something further tomy on the general subject when we shall have obtained some Meceseary facts. The Political Feel Among the People— Death of Judge Lumpkin—The Crops, Ke. Avavers, Ga, June 6, 1867, A meeting of the citizens of Fulton and De Kalb counties was held at Atinnta to-day to form a conserva- tive Union party. ‘A preambie and resolutions were adopted denouncing ‘the Sherman bill as infamous and preferring military rule to organizing under its provisions, ‘The press at Atlanta have wo sympathy with the movement, and pronounce it il! timed and injudicions, she footing throughout Georgia is to submit and or. ganize ender the Military bill, The people are sick and Steaereeenie of Congtne in ove tah The ype. under his care at this ui tition will be rable, as the groat majority of tbe people are in of voting for the Convention. Joseph Lampkts; of the Supreme Court, of recently died 18 Athens. this State has commenced, and the yield promises to be 4 large. All the crops are looking finely aud promise well. SOUTH CAROLI Important Order from General Sichtes. GENERAL ORDERS NO. 34, Huapquaxrers Seconp MILITARY Puseecs } Cuarieston, 3. C, sane h 1867. I. Sheriffs, chiefs of police, city marshals, chiefs of detectives and town marshals of the several districts, counties, cities towns, and other municipal organiza tions in North Carolina and South Carolina, will at once, by letter, report to Brevet Colonel Edward W. Hinks, Unt ted States Army, Provost Marsual General of the Second Military district, Charleston, South Carolina, sotting forth in the report the name of each officer, his resi- dence, official station, duties, Post Office address, salary per annum, and the authority by whom appointed. Coroners, constables and otber officers in this military district, whose duty it is to make arrests, and who are not included im the force of any aheriif, chief of police, @ty marshal, chief of devectives oF town ma will make individual reports to the Provost Marshal Gen- eral in like manner and form as above required, IL Whenever any homicide, rape, mayhem, felonious assault, burglary, arson, robbery, or larceny—where the property stolen is of the value of $25 and more—shall be committed within apy city or town in this military district, the chief officer of: police of such city or town ‘shall at once investigate the case and report the facts to the Provost Marshal General; setting forth the nature of the crime, the name and reeidence of the party against Wwhoee person of property such crime has been com~ mitted, the time when and place where it was com- mitted, the name, description and residence of the offender, if known, and if the offender has beemarrested, stating what steps bave, been taken to secure his punisd- ment; and if not in custody, giving avy information which may be of service in socuriug his detoction and arrest. sheriffs of counties in North Carolina and of districts in South Carolina, shal! investigate and make report of such offences when committed within thelr rospective counties or districts and not within the limits of apy city or town, in like naoner and form as is herein required of chiefs of police of cities and towns, When an offender, whose offence bas been reported, shall be arrested, report of the arrest will be made at once by the officer in charge to the Provost Marshal General. enumerated crimes will also be made by tho respective officers, and for the localities above designated, to-the Provost Marsha! General. Blanks will be furnished by him upon application, The {irst report to include the period from January 1 to May 31, 1867. IIL. Whenever any prisoner shall break and escape from @ penitentiary, jail or other prison in the Second Military district, the officer in charge of such peniten- tiary, jail or other prison shal! at once make report of the facts to the Provost Marshal General, settingforth in such report the date of escape, the name of each escaped prisoner, his description, age, residence, the crime for which committed, whether under sentence or awaiting trial, whether recaptured, and stating fully the manner of the escape and the circumstances under which it was effected. Reports in like form and manver will be made by all officers from whose custody prisoners may escape while being conducted to or from a prison, When - evor a prisoner sball be recaptured the fact will be at once reported to the Provost Marshal Geveral by the officer from whose custody the prisoner escaped. | Fail- ure to make prompt report of escaped prisoners as here- 1m required will incu!pate the delinquent officer as aiding ‘and abetting the escape. IV. Tho sheriffs of counties in North Carolina, and of districts in South Carolina, will at once report to the Provost Marshal Gencral the condition of the jails, prisons or workhouses under their charge, or in their Tespective districts or counties, as to capacity, conveni- ence and sccurity, and the names and residences,of the officers responsible tor the condition and care of such Jails, prisons and workhouses, V. All civil officers having charge of any jail, prison or workhouse in this military district, sl on the last day of each month, make a report to the Provost Mar- sbal General, upon blanks to be by him prescribed, and furnished upon application, “of all per- have been confined in, such jail, prison or workhouse di the month, setting forth the name of the prisoner, his description, resdi when cammitted, for what offence arrested, Consolidated monthly reports of the above ‘be paid ip the same manner as is prov! of the local provisional governments for under those laws. X, All persons im this ney Sea ae know of any threatened breach the peace, or of commission of any crime or offence, are REee to make complaint thereof at once to the Chief of the Police, or Marshal, of the city or town; or, if the erine or disorder shail be committed without the limits of ang city or town, to a magistrate or the Sheriff of the county or district; and, if prompt action shall not be taken b: the officer to whom the matter shall be reported, one persons are requested to report all the facts to the post commander and to the Provost Marshal General, XL Imprisonment for default in paymont of conta, fees or charges of court, atiorneys or public officers, shall not exceed thirty days, By command of Major General D, E. SICKLES. J. W. Crovs, Capt. 36th U.S. 1,4 D.C. and A. AAG, # PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Mr. A. R. Rangabe, the first Minister from Greece to the United States, ie = native of Constantinople, and isa most distinguished scholar in Grovk literature, both an- cient and modern, For many yearn he was Minister for Foreign Affairs for the Greek government under King Otho, and his management of that dificult branch of the government was marked by great ability and tact, Mr. Rangabe is a finished linguist, speaking the English, French and other ynages with great fuency and cor. rectness, Prior one appointinent as Minister, to this country he was Professor of Archmology in the Univer- et his course of lectures were always very ly inded, As an archmologiat Mr. fe well known throoghout Europe. jo has several works on various topics, and as = contributor to magazine literature holds the first position in his native country. In addition to his prose writings Mr. Ly ed hae published a Bamber of poems of more ti ordinary merit, o@ enriching the modern Greek language with some very valuable translations of the tragedies of Sophocles and Euripedes. He has writ. ten several which have been perf with snecess on the stage of Athens. Mr. Rangabe ts married to an’ English lady of fine accomplishments, and has weveral cl is eldest son, Cleon, we understand, accompanies him in his mission to this country, H. C. Lord, of Cincinnati; J, B. Richardson, of To- ronto, and ex-Governor William ‘of Obio, are stopping at the St, Nicholas Hotel, S. M. Howard, of Russian America, and J. W. Wheel- wright, of Boston, are stopping at the Breveort House, Commander Cushing, of the United States Navy, and Dr. Bateberor, of Salem, Mass., are stopping at the Everett Houra, }¢ W. Nicholson, of England, is stopping at the lon Hotel, Claret Captain Dickson, of England, and Dr. J. J. Woodward, of the United States Navy, are stopping at the Fifth Avenne Hotel. ‘ R. W. Morris, of Philadelphia, and ©. ©. Bancroft, of Boston, are stopping at the Hoffman House, General Harney, of the United States Army, is at pre. sent rojourning in Austin, Texas, The Galveston papers indignantly deny that Massey, the Fenian informer, was ever « colonel of « Texas regi- ment. Governor Oglesby, of Tilinoia, is sok. Hon. 0. H. Browning, Secretary of the Interior, is at his home in lilinois recruiting hia health, WESTCHESTER INTELLIGENCE. ADJOCRNMRST OF Tite CrncorT Count at W rr PLarve.— The Ciroult Court and Court of Oyer and Terminer of Westchester county, which have been in seasion since last Monday, at White Piains, adjourned yesterday alter noon, the business before the Court having been virtually conciuded. A short session will bo held this when, as announced by District Attorney John 3 Bates, the caso of Calvin M. Northup will be tap for Jodgmont: Attnvogh the calscles wecciond sens Wh of cnete, t character, there were ‘upon, eleven by the jury and Tus Gastiour Wours at Moowr Vanvox.—The entire works of the Mount Vernon Gaslight Company, at Mount Vernon, have been purchased by « well known resident of the piace, and are now in paper: ta bof nd @ plen' of sete ieee cena Cons tats ka proper ats cost of about 65,000, From ty inoonve experienced by the tn! ‘& suapension of operations for & — ‘abe enterprise will, Bo doubt, $