The New York Herald Newspaper, June 10, 1867, Page 4

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Lingexs, Hxty MAGNIFICENT id Saturday at 24 o'clock. 01 ms IN Natorat Hissory, Nt Open irom 8 4. 3. till 10?. M. New York, Monday, June 10, 1867. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. Advertisers will please bear in mind that in order to have their advertisements property classi- fied they should be sent in before halé-past eight o'clock in the evening. THES Naws. EUROPE. By special telegrams through the Atlantic cable dated in Pesth, Paris, Berlin, St. Petersburg and Warsaw on the 8tu of June, we have very interesting reports of the important events transpiring in the Old World. ‘The coronation of the Emperor and Empress of Austria aa King and Queen of Hangary was conducted with the ‘tmost magnificence, and sue ceremonial witnessed by ‘an enthusiastic multitude, ‘The Czar Alexander assured the Cabinet Ministers of France that the recent event in the attempt on bis life, but Lended tg sirengthen the bonds which unite him to Napoleon ahd France, in consequence of the friendly fooling elicited toward him, Napoleon will, it is said, visit the King of Prussia in Berlin ia September. ‘The (Crown Prince of Prussia remained at the Tuileries, ‘The nobles and people of St, Petersburg and Warsaw testified the greatest joy al cape of the Czar from the atiompt on his life, and a deputation of Russian nobles was to proceed from Waréaw to Paris to con- gratulate him. Our European files bv the steamship City of Paris, dmed to the 30th of May, contain very interesting de- tails of our cable telegrams to that day. MISCELLANEOUS. In the trial of Surratt, which is fixed for to-day, the government are prepared to render testimony which will disclose the whole career of the prisoner from the time of his tirst implication in the conspiracy up to the time of his affest, entirely destroying all evidence of the devence towards proving an alibl, The confession ot Payne, which was made the night before his execution, will be submitted. The authorities are determined to probe the whole matter on account of the threats and hiuts made by the prisoner's counsel as to the implica- tion of high officiala iu the conspiracy. The trial may possibly be postponed for a day or two om account of ‘an informality in the selection of jurors; but if soit will be occasioned by the defence, and uot by the prose- cution. Charies Lampkin, the individual who made such a foarful leap frov a Hudson River Rajiroad train some days ago, and was supposed to have met instant death in cons0, is at present alive and well in Stockport, Ho says that ho lad $3,000 in money with bim, but thors were thieves on the train who wanted to kill and rob him, and he thoaghs st less risk te jump overboard than remain with thom, The Moxican Minister at Washington has received a Jemer (rom Juarez announcing the capture of Querdtaro god the surreuder of Maximilian and bis generals, A number of political man: it is said, are at present in Washington trying ts the question of accepting the pn Presiaency. It ie further said jntimated that he does pot desire to becom t that he would like for toe nomination to be io General Sherman, The report of the receiver of the First } rieans shows the assets of thi £ which $1,000,009 are considered doubiful habilities, iecluding the circulation and ‘ed by the directors as makers and endorse bills, amount to $2,040,000, Quite a heavy gaie of wind visited this part of the country on Saturday night, making havoc among signs, sand housetops. A fall of rain ensued, which til noow yesterday, and tho weather throughout 4 wintry, The number of peopte out of doors was smail, and the congregations at the various churches were proportionately small, eonard W. Bacon delivered a sermon last even- Ninth Street Congregationalist churehY Brooklyn, E D,on “Lessons for Lawgivers from the Hisoock 7 ” The Rev, Mr. Smith preached at tho Park theatre in Brooklyn im the evening, the ser- vices being the first of a series to be held in the various thoaires, in imitation of the theatre services in Loudon. Our Southern letters this morning refer to matters in South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Arkansas. The Excise law was religiously observed yesterday, the dismal weather probably aiding the authorities in enforcing its observance. Two arrests were made in this city and nine ia Brooklyn for violations of its pro- ‘visions. A radical candidate for the Louisiana State Convention, living in Natchitoches parish, was recentiy murdered by three brothers, who were politically opposed to him. ‘The Sherif’s posse, in attempting to arrest the mur- derers, wore attacked and the Sheriff wounded, Edward Ross and hif young son were found murdered in their beds on their farm near st. Louis on Saturday morning. A German boy employed by Ross is supposed to have murdered them. General Griffin, In command at Galveston, Texas, bas removed the city police and appointed a new force, several membors of which are colored men, Mr. Joba Antrim, of St Louis, bas fallen heir to a fortune in Ireland of £3,600,000 sterling, part of the ‘e@state of the late Earl of Antrim. Tho Cabinet i said to be about equally divided on the subject of General Sherdan’s removals in New Orleans, fand {t is supposed che question will be taken under con- Gideration at ise next meeting. The Presidency and General Graut—Popular Action and the Unconditional Surrender of the Politicinns the Great Necessities, Our citizens should immediately by a grand, universal, resolute expres ion, put General Grant before the couniry as their choles for President He is the man whose name should stand against the world with the American people, Tried in the terrible ordeal of a war that would bave carried to irretrievable ruin any government but our own, the nation was sified through and through for its best men ; and to the last trial this man alone stood so well all tesis that his qualities and achievements have needed no other assertion or defence than the perusal of those great chapters of our history in which his name is the dominant word. Rising from abso- lute obscurity, from the unchronicied ranks of the masses, from the sympathy and fellowehip of the sterling common people—stepping from beside his wagon-load of wood on the Missouri roads to the first place in the marshalled genius and prowe's of the greatost people of the age— neither the wondrous figures of fable nor tue remarkable characters of history supply ade- quate parallels to his career. Beside his story the stories of Thoseus, Horatius and Cincinnatus become tame and pueriie ; Casar’s battles and victories were small to his, He carried the country successfully through a contest more tremendous than that which destroyed the power and empire of the firsts Napoleon. Nor did patriotsm and modesty show with more splendor and purity in the carcer of Washing- ton than they will shine in the history of the soldier who, having done so much, has given the most indubitable evidence that it was all done for the country—that the glory of his actions was never stained by a thought of advantage to himself at the expense of freedom. Shall we so far wrong ourselves, do violence to our hislory and swindle posterity as to put any other man than this at the head of the nation? We cannot answer for what will happenif the people wait for the par'y pettifog- gers or show any willingness to dance atiend- ance on ringleaders, lobbymea, jobbers, and other vermin of our politica! system. Conven- tions should not be given time to open their mouths on this great topic, either on the one hand to scandalize the nation by opposition in favor of some other candidate, or to come between the people and their great leader, to cheat them of the chance of honoring him, and to galvanize the convention system into a new life by the credit of this act. Conventions are the packed juries of our history. Standing be- fore the world with the pretence of hearing and trying impartially the great issues of the time, it is notorious that their verdict is always made up in advance; and we have had too much evidence that itis as a rule atrociously and shamefully wrong. | Shall we suffer Grant’s chance to take his natural place at the head of the nation to stand upon the action of a packed jury—a dcliberately prepared cheat? Shall we suffer the one grand opportunity to pacify tie nation by giving ita head who can command the respect of all sections to be disgracefully traded away in the barter of small offices? If we would not, the people must ignore the poli- ticians and move of themselves ; and the move- ment should begin with the people of this clty, the national metropolis, ihe vital starting point of the great actions of the country, whether for defence in war or development in peace. No one can positively say how the South stands on the Presidency. It is so full of the imperative necessities of social reconstruction that it has no disposition or time for discus- sions of less obvious interest to itself, however important, and will hence follow in the course that may be distinctly marked as the will of the This is, perhaps, Southern white vote. Undoubtedly the negro is in the hands of the party that has made him the most extravagant promises and that must not be trusted with the dostiny of the nation. We must not stand to be swayed by any indications drawn from the possible control of the nigger vote. That is the only opposition that can ive raised in the South to a bold expression of the Northern people, made in the interests of peace, harmony and honest reconstruction. Grant is the one ian whose clection will give North and South confidence and faith in the future, and will insure to the country that permanent tran- quillity which is now the real want. He is the man for the occasion. the logical énd of the war, will destroy fac- tion, will gather around the goverawent all mass of the Northern people. the condition of the His elevation will be the elements of our national strenzth, aad, by invigorating our foreiga policy with sometuing of the spirit that put down the rebellion, will enable us to take our proper position as one of the leading Powers of the earth. Let the people, directed by the substantial men of the city, take steps to initiate this great movement for the nomination of General Grant. Now is the time. Let New York declare her will, and the country will eclo the utterance with onc mag- nificent acclamation. The Morals of Syra ‘The Effect of Cone ventions, The city of Syracuse ly in need of so- cial and moral reconstru@tion. All the baths of iis Sicilian namesake in its palmiest days, and all the waters of the fountaia of Areihusa would be insufficient to wash its reputation clean. Salt will not save it. It is the Chicago of New York, and has become as notorious as that city of tamily difficulties for the laxity of its morals. In the tragic event of last week in Albany all the actors are Syracuseans. The lady in the case is a Syracuse lady. The victim and the assassin, or avenger, or whatever the popular seatiment may cal! him, were both Syracuse men. Similar affairs, although not always with so tragic result, are by no means uncommon in Syracuse, and pradent travellers are learning to avoid the Central City as they would a plague spot. But there is some excuse for this, Syracuse is unfortunate in having been for a number of years the theatre of nearly all the conventions, religious, political and miscellaneous, which bave been held in the State of New York. Democratic conventions, whig conventions, republican conventions, radical conventions, total absti- nence, temperance, spiritual, free soil, free love, Jerry rescue, woman’s rights, bran bread, and Fourier conventioas, with scores of others, have assembled there year after year and have left their trace in the social life of the place. Under such influences how can a people hope to escape contamination, and how can a city, even though eatirely made of salt, expect to preserve @ good odor? NEW YORK: HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1867. ‘Tho Convention of Revision—The Duty of the Delegates, Six hundred thousand people voted in this State last fail on the question of the amen iment of their constitution, and of this number a ma- jority of one hundred thousand declared in favor of a revision and alteration of the organio law. This is a very large vote to be cast upon any ques‘ion not involving personal or political interest, or the disposition of an office embracing patronage or emolumont. It satisfactorily disproves the assertions of those who maintain that the people of the Slate take no interest in the Convention now in ses- sion at Albany, and are indifferent what the actiomef that body may be. The truth is that the citizons of Now York have made up their m:nds to put a stop to the corruption now no- toriously prevailing in every department of the government, both in the State and the metropolis, and they look to the Albany Con- vention to enable them to do so by a thorough reform of the organic law. The people are beginning to understand that it is not the wealthier classes or the taxpayers alone who suffer from the evils of bad govern- ment. While the money uselessly and cor- ruptly expended by dishonest officials to enrich their supporters, bribe legislatures and secure themselves in power swells the tax list, and is collected directly from the owners of property, much of it comes eventually out of the pocke's of mechanics, clerks and laborers, in the shape of increased rents and high prices for all the necessaries of life. It may be assessed in the first place upon lands and stocks and bank shares and other possessions of the rich ; but a due proportion of it is paid in the end by the labor of the country, and increases the pov- erty and sufferings of the poor. Every min in the efly and Siate, high or low, wealthy or needy, has a direct interost in putting a stop to the organized anarchy and corruption which the politicians of twenty years ago forced upon us under the name of’ a State constitution. The duty of the Convention of Revision is very plain, easily performed and not to be evaded. There are certain nolorious evils in our present system of government which must be removed. The Executive of the State is little more than a mere figurehead, his powers under the “decentralization” policy having been almost all tiken from him for the purpose of making every peity office elective. The judges depend upon party organizations and active politicians for their positions, and are occupied as much in iaying up political capital to insure re-election after the expira‘ion of their short terms of office as in discharging their official duties. The city of Now York is without any responsible government, and is crucified be- tween thieving commissioners on one side and a thieving Corporation on the other. The State Legislature is a cattle market, where every animal bas its price and can be bought and sold by any jobber who may happen to come along with enough money in his pocket, All this is the fault of the present constitution, and all this needs to be, and can be, remedied. That is the work the people have confided to the hands of the Convention, and that is the work they expect it to accomplish. If we were appointing a general manager and superintendent of a bank, a railroad, or any large manufacturing business, we should give him such entire power and control over all bis subordinates as would enable him instantly to stop any malpractices or corruption, and should hold him responsible for the good man- agement of the concern. The Governor of the State, and the chief Executive of a municipal- ity should possess just such powers and be responsible to the people for their faithful exer- cise. An efficient and honest government can- not be secured in any other manner. The Con- vention, in framing the organic law which is to last us for another twenty years, or thereabout, should restore proper power to the Governor, so that the people can hold him directly responsible for the good government of the State, and reach him readily in case he should prove unworthy of the trust. They should pro- vide for a life judiciary and retain such of the present judges as have proved their capacity and fidelity on the bench, They should give the metropolis a strong and responsible govern- ment, placing full power over all subordinate municipal departments in the hands of a mayor or chief executive, who should be elected by the people or appointed by the Governor, and held answerable for the faithful and honest administration of all the affairs of the city. They should restrict the State Legislature to the enactment of general laws, prohibiting all special acts for the reliet or benefit of any individual, corporation or locality, and leaving counties, towns and municipalities to legislate on such matters as affect only their local interests. We have some hope that the better part of the delegates will unite-to secure these neces- sary reforms, and submit a new constitution that will meet the approval of the people. There has been too much political feeling evinced on both sides up to the present time, and the apprehension has prevailed that the whole affair would end in a partisan squabble. But the action of the President of the Conven- tion in the selection of the first important commitiee leads us to anticipate a more favorable result. If he will continue to ignore the impracticable and violent politicians in making up his commitiees, and will place the business of the Convention in the hands of the ablest and most independent members of the body over which he presides, he will render the work easy of accomplishment. The dele- gates aro to reassemble in Albany to-day, and they should at once set seriously to work, complete their business with all convenient despatch, and adjourn. The commencement of their session has been marked by a tragic event calculated to impress them with a sense of the laxily of morals and reckleasnoss of law at present prevailing among the people of the State. It is to be hoped that the lesson may be productive of good and bring them to a more thorough appreciation of the importance and responsibility of the duties inteusted to their hans. The President’s Return to Washington. There was a marked difference in the recep- tion given the President on his return to Wash- ington on Saturday and that which greeted him on bis journey home from his Chicago trip. Then the general feeling was one of dissatisfaction and discouragement. His whole course from the time of his departure from the White House had been characterized by the most serious indiscretions, and even among his habitual supporlers there were found nong to applaud. That wase lesson, and 6 grave one. When the Raleigh trip was ua- deriaken there was & question in the minds of many whether ii would have the effect of pre- venting a repelilion of the same blunders. The failure of the impeachment scheme in- creased the anxiety that was felt on the sub- ject. Fortunately Mr. Johnson has bad the good sense to disxppoint these anticipations. He is therefore welcomed back with pleasure, and may accept the warmth of his reception at the various points of his homeward journey ag an indieation of the general satisfaction of the country at his course. The Department of Education, According to our Washington despatches, which were published yesierday morning, the Department of Education is now as fully organized as the limited means at the disposal of Commissioner Barnard will admit, in the absence of any appropriation by Con- gress. The Commissioner is tusily occupied in wht must be for some time the main object of the Department—the collection of sta-istics relative to the educational interesis of the different Staies of the Union. In each State education is under the control of the State government, and as the Commissioner is em powered merely to request replies to the circu- lars which he hag sent to the S:ate Governors, there will probably b2» cons.dorable delay in proaring the information necessary to the de- velopmeat of anything like a national system of education. Mcanwhie the census of the District of Columbia is about to be taken as a point of commencement for siatis.ical reporis on education throaghout the country. It is also intended to obtain the census of all the more important cities in the United States, wit. the same end in view; and the city of New York has already made an appropriation of twenty-five hundred do.lars to assist the Do- pariment in this work. Special researches hav» been instituted by the Comm‘ssioner as to the land grants made to the States in behalf of edu- catioa, and as to Normal schools. Lf nothing else can be accomplished at present than the collection of educational statistics, these will suffice, when embodied in the report which the Commissioner expec's to make to Congress in December next, to impress upon the national mind the vast importance of the work to be un- dertaken by the new Department of Education. The various school systems of the States can be intelligently compared, their defects discov- ered and remedied, and their best features adopted and applied in common to all, so as to harmonize them and lead the way, without undue interference with State righis, to an efficient national system. Ii is true thatthe scattered populations of certain sections of the country are not now ready for precisely those public school systems which are specially adapted to the populous towns and villages of New England. There is room for great im- provements even in the best organized of these systems. And they must be modificd in im- portant particulars to suit the actual condition of things in other localities—for instance, in the South. Some of the Southern States have no public school system whatever, and most of the others have only an imperfect and feeble one. The necessity for education is imperative throughout the South, where even the private scbools and the colleges, sustained by the wealthier classes, were broken up by the war and have been but partially revived sinc its close, and where a large class of “poor whites” is still waiting for educational advantages, which they have never enjoyed. How large this class is may be inferred from the fact that the number of whites who cannot read or write has been estimated at thirty-three thousand in Alabama, sixty-three thousand in Georgia and seventy-four thousand in Virginia. It has even been stated that the schools established within the past two years for the education of the freedmen and their children outnumber all the schools for the whites throughout the South. Everywhere, North as well as South, West as well as East, the prosperity of the American people and the perpetuity of their republican government will depend largely on their improvement or their neglect of the means of education. It is by no means impossible that certain educational qualifica- tions for the franchise will ultimately be re- quired, and this would quicken the popular appreciation of educational privileges. Radical Propag: South. When the radical politicians conceived the idea of stumping the Southern States they did not probably toresee that the advantages gained for their party by the ventilation of its principles among the enfranchised blacks might result in danger to the country. The experiment of negro suffrage is in itself a doubtful one. To place in the hands of a servile race, bringing with them from bond- age only ignorance and poverty, 60 vast a power as the negroes of the South are now vesied with, was at least a dangerous measure. It was paying too heavy a price for an exten- sion of radical power; and yet it was to this end that negro suffrage was urged by the radicals in Congress and pressed to its final passage, The condition of society in the South just now is very peculiar, very unsettled, and exposed at any moment to violent disruption, not only from a strife between the races, bus from the unbalanced siate of the political mind upon the question of reconstruction. As a general rule the Coafederate soldiers are reasonable and loyal. Many of them are enthusiastically in favor of the mild military rule as exercised by our discreet generals. They regard it as a safeguard alike against the discontented lower stratum of white society, which is still senselessly venomous towards the government in every shape, and against any turbulent disposition which may show itself among the colored people, While the latter have as yet exhibited no inclination to misapply their newly acquired rights of citizen- ship, but bear their honors meekly and ratuer philosophically, still it does not seem wise to excite in them anticipations that may lead that race to excess and provoke jealousies on the part of the white people, who are now kindly disposed to those who, from being their servanis, have become their equals before the law. Hence the danger of radical propagandism in the Southern States; and it is well that the leaders are beginning to see it in that light and to counsel the abandonment of further stump visits to that section, The political affairs of the South have no interest for us more than the securing of the negro vote for one party or another; and that can best be attended to by the Southern people themselves, without / any interforence or propagandism from Je North, In its social reconstruction and prosperity we are, however, deeply inter- ested. Negro supremacy in the goveament is not @ very palatable thing in either sovtion of the cowntry. Perhaps, indeed, it would bo even wire objectionable here than in the South, and may prove a dangerous measure at some future time, Yet such a condition of affiirs cannet be rezarded as wholly impos- sible, should the negro vote become a unit, in view of the fact that in all ihe Southern States the black voters are largely in the mejority over the whites. Therefore what pbilanthro- psis may regard as’a blessing to a certain class may become a source of danger to the country at large. If the negroes and their white friends are left to work out their own destiny they will get along very well, even in their new condition ; but the intermeddling of political propagandists may breed mischief, and we hope that there will be no more of it. A Prive Current Divorce. Tho Chicago papers publish the particulars of a caso which came up a few daya ago in one of their courts, in which an application was made by the wife of a lieutenant in the United States army to set aside certain procoodings taken by her husband for a divorce. The evi- dence shows that the parties are from Maino, but that the husband produced the testimony of two witnesses, one from New York and the other from Long Island, to prove that he had been over a year in Chicago, and applied for the divorce on tho alleged ground of desertion. The notice of his application was published in the Western Price Current, and the wife was in ignorance of the proceedings until she received a copy of the decree of divorce a few days since, These Chicago Price Current divorce cases are becoming common, and lawyers in tuis city and Chicago are said to reap quite a harvest in managing them. If a troublesome wi‘e is to bo got rid of tue husband makes his application in an Illinois court, proves a resi- dence by false testimony, publishes the legal notices in some little local paper that no one ever heard of outside of a Western village, and frees himself from his incumbrance. ‘The first intimation the wife receives of tae proceeding is a copy of the decree of divorce, which turns her marriage certificate into waste paper. In ordinary cases we should advise wives who are thus victimized to content themselves and make sure that they are happily released from a very bad bargain. But in this particular in- stince we should be well pleased to see the War Department take a hand in the matter, and, if the facts are as stated, divorce the lieu- teaant from his commission, without even a Price Qurrent notice, as a disgrace to the army of the United States. The Co Crops. By our special correspondence we learn that the crops of Michigan and Indiana look very promising, and there will be this year a boun- tifal yield of the cereals and truit also. This ‘eppears to be the opinion generally expressed with reference to the other States of our great West, Other proofs are not wanting that the harvest will be abundant, and foremost among these is the ‘rapid decline in the price of flour and the failure of several heavy speculators in wheat and corn a! Chicago. Very much of our national prosperity depends upon the value of the new harvest; for there are heavy balances against us in the Old World which demand either our agricultural products or our gold. The more of the former we can make useful in payment the more healthy it will be for our finances, which are at present in such an em- barrassed condition. How much the nation leans upon the products of the great West is here plainly evident. This tribute to the agri- cultural power of the Mississippi Valley is not only acknowledged by the Atlantic States, but by Western Europe, which hangs almost as much upon the bounty of our valleys as we do ourselves, Therefore an unstinted yield from old Mother Earth will be thankfully received as a special gift from Providence, and will carry joy to the hearts of the poor, who depend so much upon the price of wheat and corn, which for the past season have ranged at such enormous and unwarrantable prices. Treasury Mismanagement. We have another statement from Washing- ton in regard to the purloining of ninety-nine one thousand dollar bonds from the Treasury. The frequency of these occurrences gives ground for the suspicion that the business of the Department is conducted in a very loose way. If in any private commercial establish- ment such abstractions of moncy or important securities were to take place habitually it would soon lose its credit. How is it that with such an expensive organization as the Treasury possesses a similar degree of care cannot be exercised? It is seldom that we hear of such violations of trust in govern- ment departments abroad. There must be something radically wrong in the system on which the Washington Treasury is conducted. It is time that an inquiry were instituted to find out where the fault lies. for the Union Pacific Railroad— jaht Near Moor’s Fort. Oxawa, June 9, 1867. General Sherman has issued general orders stating that the Union Pacific Raiiroad shall be well guarded in fature; that no Indians will dare to interfere with it, Ali passengers and freight must be forwarded to the end of the track, and from there will be guarded by sufficient ‘escorts specialiy provided for that purpose. A sufficient force of cavairy is already on the post. Sherman 1s sanguine that he will ciear the Platte Valicy of Indians witnin two weeks, A fight bas occurred between nine passengers and tweuty Indans within five miles of Moor's Fort, Gue ger was killed insiantiy, and Gencral Davies’ son was mortally wounded in the groin. Two Indians were Kilied and five severely wounded. Five of the passen- gers returned to Omaba this evening. Governor Steel, of Colorado, bad a “narrow esenpe, but subsequently reached Denver in safety, Protection CHANGE IN THE SUAFACE OF THE MOON, At the last eossion of the Academy of Sciences, says the Courrier du Havre of May 21, M. Delaunay read a paper, by M. Flammarion, on the subject of a recent change in the moon's surface, A crater wel dedned and per- fectly well known to astronomers has disappeared withia a year, and its place is now marked by a lange white spot in the midale of a plain. It is the frst time that any change in the moon's surface has been noticed. ‘M. Chacomar made 4 like observation, which confirms that of M, Flammarion, Cross oF Tun Musical Frativas,—Sir, Harvicon's grand festival ctosed last night before an immense audience with the stabat Mater of Rossini; George Morgan's clever, tolling and woll orchostrated overture, John the Baptist (played for the Qrst time in America); and Men- delssohn’s violin concero, splendidly rendered by Cars Rosa, Thus the convert season whieh commenced $0 suspiciously at this ball last September was brouzht to & most brilliant Conclusion. The success which was at- tonded these co‘scerts is a favorable augury of what the next season w,1l bring forth, and a siriking poof of the Progress tado in the ructrovolia in the divine art of muse * © ~. THE STORM. Effects of the Northeast Gale—Streets [nuns dated and Awnings Blown Down. Ou Saturday night, at about the Excise hour of cur- few toll prescribed for the retirement of ail good citi- zens to their beds, the winds, whic.y had been acting im a variable and unpleasantly wintry Gebion throughout the afternoon and evening, combined im the northeast and raged furiously in the form of a gate The howling and shrieking of the storm through te streets and @anos, the clattering of bricks from shaky ¢himney tops awd the drowning torrents driven by the gale made not ondy discomfort but danger to the portion of the untor- tumies whom business, necessity or the jovial aliure- meuss of Bacchus had detained to take up their home- ward journey at this unsessonabdle hour. Po those who were awakened by the furious buffotings of the blast the effect was the reverse of pleasant To be awakened rudely frow pleasant dream:, io be made the javoluatary critit of the quality and capacity of the ebvieking north wind with its dismal accompani- ments of creaking sigobowrds, pouring torrents, and falimg awbings, 18 by no meaws assuring, especially whea the aniicipation prevaiie in the mind of the listener that each successive gust may bear him off im its rough arcs, or send his busiding olattoring about cara ut these terrors many wre forced to end turough several of the late hours of Saturday night, and even through a part of yesterday morning the winds sullenly maintased their force im fit§ul blasts that made the stoutest mansions quiver, and throwtened the demok- tion Of the paste board strvewures whiob are nyereeeem f $ to be met with in our subuiean sections. But aithoug! ‘he wind played furiously over our city and tussiod madiy with the tal? ieoples, and although tho waters of the bay were stirred into a sympathetic vege, no extra. ordinary disasters are noled in our immedtate y:cinity- The Storm in Brooklyn. ‘There are no reports of any serious damage baving been done about the city by tho severe storms which set in om Saturday night and prevailed with unceasing fury until yesterday afternooa, The streets were covered with boughs woenched from the trees by the fierce winds, and everything bore evidence of the severity of the gate. On somo of the principal streets the swnings were tora into shreds, and numerous signboaeds lay upon the sidewalks, A number of cellars were peviially filed witb water, which caused considerable annoyance, but no material damage. ‘The sirocis nad a prety: thorough cleaning—much better than the contracturs have given them forthe past year. Tiose who were unable to draw their movey from the fact that the stroeis of tueir wards were not properly cleaned wilt now be ablo to do so without difficulty. The atiendance at the churches yesterday mot was very slim, aud those who ventured forth: ap; to shake as if they had the ague. The Storm in New Jersey. The heavy fail of rain yesterday morning caused eon- siderable damage on the Hoboken flats, over ove hundre@ buildings being surrounded by water oxtending to the depth of three and four inches above the fist oor, The water rose to the depth of two fect on some portions of the flats, and many of the plank walks were covered 80 that the occupanis of the buiidings could not get out during the afternoon, Small voats were used in going from one building to another during the day, me twenty pigs in small pens, belonging to several Lrish families, were drowned, The cars had much difficulty ‘at times in running, the water reaching over their (loor- ing aud makine their movement very uncomfortabic and uncertain, The gale raged violently, but it did not ro- sult in any serious disasier. The Storm at Fortress Monroe. és Fortruss Monnox, June 9; 186Y. ‘A severe storm prevails here, with vory heavy ria and northeast wind. THE EXCISE LAW. Arrests in This City tor Violation of the Law. Henry Bower, 25 Leonard street, and Martin Stehoke, 19 Chatvam street, wore yesterday taken before Aldor~ man Moore, acting magistrate at the Tombs, charged with. violating the Excise law. Officer Couran, of the Fourth precinct, who arrested Stebake, testified that be saw beliuind the defendant's bar a box coutaming @ dozen. bottles of lager beer, and hence the arrest. The acoused ‘ties wore required to give $100 bail each to answer efore the Court of Genoral Sessions. Arrests in Brooklyn. The returns received at the office of Inspector Folk from the various precincts of Brooklyn up to a late hour last night show the total number of arrests during the day to hava been nine, eight of which number were for untoxication and one for viotation of the Excise law. Patrick Mullan, who keeps a liquor store at the corner of Pearland Front streets, was arrested by the pottceof =| the Furty-second precinct, on Saturday night, for selling a4 without license, . Sarah Robinson, 78 North Second street, E. D., was yesterday afternoon arrested by an oilicer of the Forty-tifth precincto n a charge of selling 'iquor without alicense, She was locked up to answer. Sunday in Westchester. Although the weather was decidedly unpleasant yes- terday, and a heavy rain continued to fall without imter~. mission until about one o’olock, the picturesque vitlages. of Morrisania, Melrose and Mott Haven, were not with out thirsty metropolitan visitors. As usual, in- dividuals were to be found quafling the cool lager within The Sanday Law in Jersey City. ‘The following arrests were made yesterday for tion of the Exc'se law, or more properly, the Sunday Jaw:—Bernardht Wildeman, George Baus, Michael Fol- ler, Patrick Toner, Patrick Hogan and. Jacob Stoffel, alt liquor deaiers, When former arrests were made thepar- ties wore tried under what is known as the city ordi- nance, which admits of so broad an int that few convictions could be had. Itis intended now te el e the parties under the State law, which makes the simple fact of baving a bouse open for the salo of the contraband article aa punishable not only by a heavy ee extending in some cases to two years. ot sie actiet stereo eee day gave bail to appear before the Grand Jury of Hudson county. Seven arreets were wade for drunkenness and conduct, which isa large number compared with the preceding Sundays, except the last, when there were as many cases of disorder and di 08s ae before the law came into force. Proceed rom the: effect to the cause, the police were unus' yesterday, and the result was that above given. disposal of these cases by the Grand Jury will deter- mine the success or iailure of the Sunday law. The Pie weather secured for the inbabl- tants of Hoboken yesterday a day of comparative security from rowdyism. Toward evening smalt know and groups collected around the saloons near the ferry, but no disorder oceurred. were several cases dronkenness, but none so excessive that the police felt cailed upon to interfere. CITY INTELLIGENCE. Boat:x@. Festivriies,—in the early part of this week, the Atalanta Boat Club of Now York, will start from their boat house’ at the foot of Christopher street, on & visit to the Sebuy)kill Boat Clubs of Philadelphia The Atalanta crew will pull the entire distance, via the Delaware and Raritan Canal, in their fine eight-oared barge Excelsior, there wilt be a grand turnout of all the oat clubs ef New York on the occasion of the departure of the club, and the display of the start will probably be. made very beauiiful by the unusually numerous gather= ing of their favorite racing craft, Fe mm Bast Tarety-rougra Srreez.—Shortly before: twelve o'clock on Saturday night a tire was discovered. in the boot and shoe shop No, 351 East Thirty-fourth strevt, kept by Adolphus Berenz, wao also oocupied & bedroom adjoining, In which the fire commnonced, Mr, Berenz and one 0; his workmen had left the sop about fifteca minutes only before the fire was discovered. The flames were extinguished with puals of water before the firemen arrived, The damage by firo and water wili not exceed $60, The contents of th shop were but some of the boots, Falued at, about $30, wi The property is insuted for $0, The damage to the building is about €25. Finw ox Weer Tiaty-ricat a Staeet.—Betwoen one and two o'clock on Sunday nyerning a fire broke out tm the cabinet shop of Nicholas, Grebenstein, No. 322 Wee Thirty-eighth’ sirest. The fames extended to a stable adjoining, damaging both, places to the extent ot $1,500—no insurance. Th origin of the fire is unkaowa@ i present, THE CONGRESSIONAL EXCUASIONISTS. Senator Wade's Party at Leavenworth, Kansas. ‘uravenwort#, Kansas, Jane 9, 1867, Senator Wade ‘ana bis excursion party have arrived ere and wild stort West to-morrow morning. They will visit Lawrence, ‘Topeka, Junotion City, Forts Riley and ker, and, after sponding © day at the end of the ace, an Teun canward via St. Louis which oy they Wi reach the last of this we The Union Pacific Rnii id Excursioniste 1a Missouri En Route Home. Sr. Loci, Jane 9, 1867. ‘Toe Philadelphia excursion party which has been over, ‘he Union Pacific Rajiroad, Eastern Division, arrived, here to-day en route home. They will visit Pitot Knob 01 start Bast the lattor and eke week “Guose of the, party wha went Weet Per Port Harker with General Baucock will probabig, be absent two or threo weeks, DEATH OF A TURFMAA, Lovravitiz, Juno 9, 1867. ‘ Colonel John CampbeV,, a noted turfinan, formerly o& ¢ ¥ Baltimore. but latelv gf Mobile, died nore last nigh,