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TOMY. 618 Broadway... up ano, Riowr Au tas Wasuinaron Fraz—Wonsane "tx ‘Narwass Hamonty AnD Ane. LSorwass Darcy. ‘Open trom 0 4-07 Mh oP Now York, Monday, June 17, 1867. win ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yes- terday evening, June 16. ‘Tne King of Egypt arrived in Paris yesterday and en- Joyed a most enthusiastic reception. The Shah of Per- aia is detained at home by affairs of state, and forced, it fs said, to decline Napoleon’s invitation: The royal cabinet o fHungary is preparing to emancipate the Jews. A fresh batch of Fenian “traitors” have been con- vieted in Ireland. Five-twenties were at 78 io Frankfort. MISCELLANEOUS. Our Mexico City correspondent, writing under date of May 25, gives a doleful account of the situation im the capital A famine was threatening the poor inside the ‘walls, and it was only due to the judicious measures of the obief of the municipality that a panic bad not swept the populace into disorder and riot, The imposi- tion and collection of taxes continued unremittingly, being carried on im the most tyrannical and exacting manner. Our special correspondence from the West makes further exposures of the rotten system parsued by the national banks in that section of the country. Millions of government deposits are placed at the mercy of these banks, which are in the hands of unscrupulous directors, who are given to the most reckless extravagance in speculating with the funds thus obtained. The deposits im many instances are insufficiently secured. The numerous murder trials which are creating sensa- tions throughout the country seem to be particularly prone to develop new features, unusual in cases of the kind. The trial of William Skidmore for the murder of William B. Carr, in Brooklyn, which is set down for to- day, offers no exception to this rule. Two lawyers had been assigned him as counsel by the Court but up to the Present time he has refused to consult with them and has availed himself of the services of another gentleman, who would have been assigned him by the Court if he had asked it. These three gentlemen, it is probable, will appear in court as counsel for the prisoner to-day, when & novel argument may ensue. A little boy and girl, aged respectively seveo and three years, children of a Mr. Archer, of New York, fell from the cupola ofa hotel at Bay Ridge to the ground floor youterday, while the nurse, it is alleged, was en- gaged elsewhere gossiping with her friends. The lives Of both the children are in a dangerous condition. The Louisiana Republican Convention adjourned sine die yesterday, after adopting a platform which a little surpasses anything of the kind yet in its radicalism. Among the rights demanded for the colored race isan ‘equal share in the offices appointed and in the nomina- tions for those elected. A republican mass meeting, with the usual preponder. ‘ance of negroes in the audience, was held st Norfolk on Thursday evening. The principal orators on the occasion were General Pierce, C. W. Bently and Charles K. Potter. Kev, G. W. Woodruff pastor of the Seventh street Methodist Eptecopal charch, delivered a sermon yester- Gay on bad books and bad newspapers. Large numbers ot people vacated the city yesterday, partly on account of the Excise law, but mainly to get a breath of fresh alr. Aparty of roughs assaulted and probably fatally In- Jured a man tn Baltimore yesterday during an altercation regarding the late prize fight, / The steamer Nyauea, laden with corn for the poor, ‘was sank on the Alabama river on Friday evening. The New Orleans policemen recently discharged by Mayor Heath have taken steps to obtain redress through the law. Notwithstanding rumors to the contrary, Collyer and Aaron, the pugilists, are both alive. The later is tending bar in Baltimore, and the former is on a visit to bis mother at Fortress Monroe. ‘The steamer Secret exploded ber air pumps near Dal- housie, Canada, on Tharsday. No lives were lost. Dion, the biiliardist, has won the championship of Canada, ‘The raft Nonpareil was spoken at sea, one bundred and seventy miles east by south from Sandy Hook, on Friday. Afull jury of negroes was empanelled in Navasota, ‘Texas, yesterday. Ex-Governor Brown, of Georgia, recently made speech at Milledgevitie in which he eaid that if the State should refuse to vote to hold a convention, Congress ‘Would @isfianchise all those who voted against It, Another Opinion—Recenstraction Defeated by Legal Quibbles—How Not te Do It. We give to-day the opinion of Attorney General Stanbery on the powers and duties of the military commanders under the Recon- struction act, and with it a summary of the opinion hitherto published on points of the act regarding the qualifications of voters. Mr. Stanbery examines the law elaborately to show that the power given to the commanders of districts is merely a “police power.” He can see that “the act clearly enough forbids” com- manders to remove governors or judges and appoint their successors; but unfortunately he neglects to show how or where the act clearly forbids this, which is the more to be regretted as this was the precise point it was desired should be made plain both to the commanders and to the public. He finds that the existing civil government of a Southern State “is not set aside’—not repealed or modified even— but is “recognized by the act;” and finds, moreover, that the act does “not authorize the military authority to change” the said gov- ernment. Mr. Stanbery takes occasion to give light as to the purpose of the act. “Congress,” he assures us, “only required that the Southern governments should bé changed in one par- ticular—the elective franchise—and the sole purpose of the act was to effect that change by the agency of the people.” Here we have the true Executive view. The Reconstruction act is an election law, and the soldiers are only to attend the polls and preserve order. The States are already reconstructed ; the people are clothed with all their ancient rights. Consistently with this view, this long opinion carefully keeps out of sight—makes not the least reference to the remarkable fact that there has been a great war in this country, and does not once observe or note that the law it pretends to expound might have been made with reference to the condition in which a part of the nation was left by that war. If the country will look at the law through Mr. Stanbery’s spectacles it may accept his interpretation. But the country will look at the act as a whole, and not refuse to see the most important points. It will not so glar- ingly defy the rule that “in giving con- straction to single clauses we must look to the context and the whole law.” The law for the reconstruction of the rebel- lious States says :—“It is necessary that peace and good order should be enforced in said States until loyal and republican State govern- ments can be legally established ;” and in order that peace and good order might be thus “enforced ” it gave those States up to military rule. It made them—the whole people and property, the whole State machinery of gov- ernment and justice—“subject to the military authority of the United States,” and declared that the military authority so made paramount should be represented by a brigadier general for each district. It further declared that in- terference with the military authority thus set up, thongh such interference were made “under color of State authority,” would be merely a mischievous distraction of the public mind, and should have no legal force. Upon the ample power thus given to the military commander but one restriction was made—his penalties and punishments must stop short only of death: He was not permitted of his own power to také “ Before life could be taken the approval: the President must be given; but the President’s approval was not made necessary to any other penalty, Nor in thus absolutely, completely and “distinctly making the commander a supreme power in his district was any reference to higher author- ity contemplated in any case, save where a capital penalty might be decreed. Sach is the Reconstruction law—the law laid down by the conquerors to the conquered as the sum and result of four years of war. Only im- pudent effrontery, acting as the ally of rebel- lion, could pretend to mistake its purpose. It left in existence, out of regard to order, the formal machinery of government that existed in the rebellious States—all the civil organiza- tions that are necessary to the discharge of legal obligations as between man and man— organizations without which the ordinary pro- ceases of trade could not be carried on. It “recognized” them, as the Attorney General has it. It left these in existence to save society from stagnation and from its disorderly elements. It did not destroy them at once, but it provided a way in which they should be extinguished and superseded; for it had no faith that they would honestly accept the conqueror’s will. Having no such faith, believing that the civil authori- ties of the Southern States were rebellious at heart, and compelled to leave them in exis- tence for a time, it made provision that during that time they should do no great harm. It placed near them a superior power. This power was to be practically dormant so long as the civil governments did not offend, and was to be supreme if occasion should require, Society might go on; governors, judges and others might discharge their functions, and so long as they adhered strictly to their duties, acting im good faith for the civil interests of society, without attempting to control the political future, they were to be left alone; but the moment they stepped aside from that line and abused their positions by attempts to excite the passions of the people, to cheat the conqueror of the legitimate results of his triumph, to stop or prevent the opera- tions of the law that provided for the formation of a new government, just so soon the military commander was to exercise his power and rebuke or remove the factious functionary. And Congress, to show clearly that it had more confidence in the army that had saved the nation than in those State governments that had opposed it, made the country’s defenders, and not its foes, the judges of the occasions when interference should be necessary. No man disposed to accept and act upon this law in good faith can see in it any other than the clear intent and purpose thus set forth. But we do not say that any lawyer may not argue around it, or that legal acuteness, exer- cised tor the specific purpose, may not find in it places large enough for many small men to creep through. Richelieu could condemn a man upon any three lines he had ever written, and no doubt the right sort of lawyer can nullify and defeat the most distinct and positive statute that ever declared the will of a ruling power. It,indeed, requires only very moderate ability to make quibbles of any sort. Is the Reconstruction law to be acted upon in this spirit? Are legal arguments to deprive it of ite vitality? Does the President, under pre- tence of telling the commanders how to exe- cute the law, intend to tell them only how to NEW. YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1867. defeat {tt Evidently that is just where we stand. This is the evident purpose now, and it is clear that we are on the eve of new troubles. Above all, it is clear that recon- straction cannot go forward until we have another Executive. How long shall that be? This is now the great question for the country to consider. We have the President’s platform in the two opinions—we know what to expect from him—and we ought to determine at once what shall be done. The Mageetic Telegraph—Its Astonishing Progress and Influence. ‘The success in laying and operating through the Atlantic telegraph cable has had a sur- prising effect in stimulating telegraphic enter- prises all over the world. Even the most ex- elusive and distant countries have felt the quickening influence. Countries that a few years ago wore jealously sealed up from the rest of the world now desire to be put in com- munication with all nations through the mys- terious agency of the magnetio telegraph. Distance by land or under the broadest and deepest oceans, however great, is no longer considered an obstacle; and there is no longer-any doubt that within the course of a few years every continent and importantisland of the globe will be united by telegraphs. . Hitherto the-use of the magnetic telegraph has been confined chiefly to America and Eu- rope. With the exception of the line to India by the way of the Persian Gulf and Egypt, those few in the British possessions of Asia and Australia, and the Russian lines piercing the confines of Eastern Asia, it has been confined to the populous centres of Europe and Ame- rica. Nearly three-fourths of the human family, embracing five or six hundred millions, in China, India, Japan and other parts of Asia, had no knowledge of its use. But these times of darkness and exclusiveness are passing away. An American company has already ob- tained permission from the Emperor of China to lay submarine lines along the coast, con- necting all the great seaports from Tientsin, the port of Pekin, to Canton. Yes, a chartered company of this State and great metro- polis of New York, “The East India Telegraph Company,” is about to open the vast and pop- ulous Chinese empire to an immensely en- larged commerce and a higher civilization through the magnetic telegraph. The policy of excluding foreigners and our Western civil- ization is being abandoned by the Chinese, and we have no doubt the government of that vast empire will soon permit telegraph lines to be established in the interior. The Chinese are a shrewd and active people in matters of busi- ness, and as soon as they realize the advan- tages of the telegraph which will be laid along the coast they will want it carried into the in- terior. The Emperor will not fail to see the facilities it will afford in communicating his edicts and governing his extensive empire, and the merchants will comprehend its value for business purposes. Efforts that promise to be successful are now being made by the American company referred to for this impor- tant concession. It is evident, too, from the liberality lately shown by the Japanese government, that Ja- pan also will soon be opened to telegraphic enterprise. Then we shall have cables under the Pacific flashing intelligence of the markets and events in Asia as we now have from Eu- rope. We have no doubt that a cable could be laid direct from the western shores of our country to Japan under the Pacific; but there is no question of this being practicable by making some of the intermediate islands tele- graph stations, One island was lately discov- ered on the route of the mail steamships from San Francisco, and the probability is there are many others. At any rate, it would be easy enough by the way of our new possessions and the Aleutian Islands. We may confidently expect to have within a few years telegraphic communication both to and in the interior of Japan and China. We have news now by the Pacific Steamship line from Japan in twenty days and from China in twenty-four. This is making extraordinary progress, when we con- sider that a short time ago it required several months to get news from that part of the world; but the telegraph will annihilate space and bring us within hourly communication. A few years ago the great movement of the age was in steamship enterprise. That move- ment still goes on, and acts both as a pioneer and auxiliary of the telegraph; but the great- est at present is in telegraphic enterprises. There are several projects to lay other Atlantic cables besides the two already laid. It will not be long betore New York will be con- nected directly, or from some point near the city, with not only the British Islands, but with France and other European countries, Russia has a line from Europe across the con- tinent of Asia to the mouth of the Amoor river, and we have on the Pacific side comma- nication as far as Simpson’s river, in British America. Between these points a connection will be made ere long, according to the project of Mr. P. McD. Collins, though the work has been temporarily suspended. A cable will soon be laid connecting Cuba with the United States. There are projects also for connecting all the States of Central and South America with this country. Besides these enterprises there are many others projected, all showing what a stimulus has been given lately to this new and great civilizing movement. The poet’s dream of a magician putting a girdle of intelligence round the earth will soon be more than realized. The magical power of electrici- ty in the hands of science will not only send intelligence round the globe in a few minutes, but will diffuse it over the whole face of the earth, This country and this great me- tropolis, from geographical position, must be- come the centre and radius of the intellectual and commercial movements thus stimulated and carried on through the magnetic telegraph. Danger of Fireworks in the City. By a lucky chance the explosion of fire” works in Maiden lane on Saturday did no in- stant destruction to human life, nor to any great extent to property. This, however, is no reason why fireworks should be permitted to be stored in large quantities in crowded parts of the city. It is not long since a similar accident resulted much more disastrously in almost the same vicinity. We believe there is a law or an ordinance against wholesale dealing in explosive material with- in the city limits. If ¢o it should be vigorously enforced. While we cannot forego our Fourth of July detonating enjoyments, there is no teason why people should be blown to pieces by an awkwasd gitoke of © bammer on the cover of @ box of torpedoes. There is plenty of room around the suburbs tor fireworks dealers to store their stock of goods, and they should not be allowed to keep them in thickly populated business portions of the city, like Maiden lane, John street or Broadway. If the unfortunate man so badly wounded on Saturday should perish the owners of the store ought to be held responsible for negli- gence or violation of the law. A Uniform Menetary System for all Com- morcial Nations. It is said that the French government has in- vited the European Powers to an international conference on affairs, which it is probable will be held in Paris or Brussels this month, and that England, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium, Portugal and Spain are reported to have promised co-operation. We do not know what the specific purpose or plan of the French government is, whether it is to make a uniform monetary system for the commercial nations of the world or for any less comprehensive object; but it is a good movement, and in the end may lead to that uniformity which is so desira- ble. There are difficulties in the way, undoubt- edly, and particularly with Haugland, where there is a strong prejudice in favor of the old pound sterling system, and where they make a good deal out of foreign nations in the way of exchange based upon that system, Still there is reason to hope England may yield to the enlightened progress and necessity of the age, as she is reported to be a party to the pro- posed international conference. The United States government is not mentioned as one of the parties, but we can hardly suppose it was not invited or would neglect being repre- sented. In fact, our position as one of the first commercial nations, and as destined to be within a short time the very first, entitles and calls upon us to take a prominent part in such @ conference, The present is a most favorable time for the purpose, and Paris just now is the place to hold the conference. The whole world is repre- sented there more fully than ever before. Tke Great Exhibition, with the congregation of sovereigns and statesmen there, and the liber- alizing tendency of all that, make the present time most propitious to establish a uniform monetary system for all nations, If the Empe- ror Napoleon should be the instrument of accomplishing this, he will add greatly to his renown. History would give him greater honor for this than for anything he could do in the way of military achievements. France has already accomplished a great deal in simpli- fying, both upon scientific and common sense principles, the system of weights and measures. The metrical system which she has established is undoubtedly the best, and should be uni- versally adopted. Lot her government now take the initiative in Europe for the adoption of our simple and beautiful decimal system of money. Now is the time to sweep away the old incongruous aad diversified denominations of money, In place of the pound sterling, with its subdivisions of shillings and pence, of the franc, of the guilder, of the doubloon, and of all the numerous denominations and values of money, let the simple decimal system be universally adopted by international agree- ment. It would be of immense advantage to the general commerce of the world. In the course of a few years the people of every nation would realise the benefit eo sensibly that they would wonder how it was such a necessary improvement was not made before. We hope, therefore, the proposed international confer- ence will be held, and that a uniform monetary system may be adopted for the whole of the civilized world. Egypt an Independent Kingdom. Ismail Pacha visits Paris as King of Egypt. Success has crowned his efforts at last. It is well known that since 1863, when Ismail Pacha succeeded to the viceregal throne, the point now gained has been the steady object of his ambition. Neither labor nor money has been spared. The first indications of success became apparent towards the close of the last year, when the order of succession was changed by consent of the Sultan in favor of the family of the present ruler. To understand this aright it is nevessary to bear in mind that in 1841 the government of Egypt was confirmed, by con- sent of the great Powers of Europe, in the person of Mohammed Ali, and made hereditary in the then living members of his family. The law of succession was after the manner of the East and such as prevails generally through- out the Turkish empire. According to this law it was not the eldest son of the last occu- pant of the throne, but the oldest living male of the family of Mohammed Ali that succeeded to the position and honors of chief raler. Ismail Pacha was the first to set his face against this law. His sons, he saw, would sink at his death into the condition of dependent princes, while his brother, Mustapha Fazil Pacha, of late become so well known as the leader of young Turkey, would inherit bis place and power. Money and skilful diplomacy got over that difficulty; and the right of succession, by a firman of the Sultan, was accorded to the heirs male of the present viceroy in the direct line. Ismail Pacha’s am- bition, however, was not yet satisfied. Egypt must be an independent kingdom, and he must be ite independent sovereigp. Bribery and diplomacy, which had done so much in the other case, were again resorted to. Nubar Pacha, an Armenian by descent, and a Christian, one of the ablest, certainly, but also one of the most unscrupulous public servants of the Egyp- tian government, was forthwith despatched to Constantinople. His mission has been crowned with success. What the actual terms of the arrangement are we have yet to learn. Ismail Pacha, on condition that bis wishes in regard to independency were complied with, was not unwilling, we know, to continue to pay a cer tain yearly subsidy, and even in an emergency to strengthen the Sultan’s forces by contri- buting an Egyptian contingent. A few days more will put us in possession of the facts. Meanwhile we take it for granted that, as King of Egypt, Ismail Pacha is at liberty to make and unmake pachas, to remove and set up governors, and otherwise to regulate the affairs of his kingdom without consulting the feelings or interests of his former sovereign lord at Constantinople. One inevitable conse- quence of this change will be that Egypt will come tore completely thaa ever under tho influence of European ideas. It is one step more in that inevitable march of progress which will advance, not over Egypt alone, but over the whole Kast of Europe, and which will not halt until the entire continent of Asia yields to ite transforming power, Tho Practical Argument for the Assoxation ef Canada. A telegram from Quebeo in last Wednes- day’s HeRatp announced that out of seventeen hundred emigrants arriving at that port from the Old World during the past week only thirty remained in Canada, while the rest proceeded to the Western States of the Union. This is the real prac- tical argument for the annexation of Canada to the United States. The descendants of John Bull may bluster as much as they please about the glories of the British constitution; the office holders and the home government may getup schemes of confederation and send out young sprigs of royalty to rule over the do- minion; Pointe Levi may be fortified and ship loads of breech-loading rifles may be sent out from England to enable the “Queen’s Own” militia to re-enact the gallant acenes of Ridge- way and of Pigeon Hill; but nothing can avert the inevitable destiny foreshadowed by this Quebec despatch. : The contrast between the United States and Canada is too marked to admit of a doubt in the mind of the emigrant as to which to choose, It is the difference between vigor and feebleness—between a healthy prime end ® puny infancy. In the States enterprise is ever active and unsleeping, and the nation strides onward with the tread ofa giant. The people who settle upon our soil grow with the growth and prosper with the prosperity of the country. The Western States, as yet soarcely started on their career, have before them a future of wealth and power such as the most sanguine in the presont day can barely realize. The government of the United States is now one of the strongest and most stable in the world, and its free institutions secure the liberty, safety and happiness of every citizen upon its soil. The condition of Canada is that of all colonies leaning upon a distant govern- ment for support. The people have neither enterprise nor self-reliance. The country is unprogressive, and there is nothing to attract capital or labor to its soil. Its very existence and the lives of its citizens are dependent upon the actions of others ; for in the event of a war between the United States and Eng- land Canada, without any voice in the matter, would be overrun by our armies and held under the terrors of war. It is quite natural, under these circumstances, that out of seven- teen hundred emigrants arriving in Quobeo only thirty should remain in Canada, while the rest make their way to the Western States. It is natural, too, that the young men of Canada should all be annexationists, and should at the present moment be quietly working out the practical result of annexation, by shaking the British dust from their feet aud seeking their fortunes under the Stars and Stripes. Telegraphic Messages Made Public Property. In a case tried in the United States District Court at Charleston recently, Judge Bryan made an order compelling the local agent of the Western Union Telegraph Com- pany to deliver to the Court, to be used for the purpose of evidence, copies of certain despatches that had been entrusted to the wires in full faith, no doubt, of the inviolable secrecy of that means of communication. This {s an important order. It affects every public and private interest, and it must qualify seri- ously the value of the telegraph as a part of modern mercantile and social machinery. With all deference to the wisdom of a Judge who must be supposed to have weighed all the bearings of the case, we lean to the view that Jadge Bryan’s decision of this point is not good law; but if it be good law, then there is one more very stringent reason why Congress should take up the question of the telegraph and reorganize the whole system on # broad national basis. If there is one good reason why government should hold and manage the postal system of the country, there are fifty why the telegraph should be on the same footing. Such a view will be forced on the people by what must be the immediate effect of this Charleston order. Business and social seorets of every character will be brought into court on all sorts of trivial pretexts, since it is ruled that they are thus available. Judge Bryan could not see that telegrams under the letter of the definition were entitled to privilege. He remarked that the case was one that compelled him to legislate. Since he had to legislate he should have gone deeper than the letter of definitions. He should have weighed the real nature of the origin of privileged communica- tions. He would have seen that in such com- munications an exemption from the rigor of the law is made out of regard to rights more sa- ered than those that commonly require security in court; and with such a view he could harily have determine that, in a case involving per- haps merely money, he would lay before the public messages and statements that might imperil reputation, honor, perhaps life. His sole reason was that telegraphic secrecy might be the means of giving immunity to criminals ; but the same reason, based on quite as good & perbaps, can be advanced against all those privileged communications that are actu- ally respected by courts. This order needs re- vision, or we need some new law on this im- portant subject. The March of Rassia to the Southeast. The Calcutta correspondent of the London Times a few days since made some startling remarks about the rapid ac- quisition of territory by the Russians. It appears from this that they are fast advancing towards the East India borders, and threaten, before many years have passed, to overrun the whole of Hindostan and meet the United States in China. There are already amalgamated in the Russian empire more than one hundred different nations and tribes, speaking torty different languages, and, at the present rate of march, these figures will cre long be doubled. Says the correspondence to which wo refer:—“The advance of Russia towards Bokhara and Cabul is discussed with no little eagerness; they,” (the people) “wel- come the approach of Russia just as we know the mags of the people do in Central Asia.” This is a strange admission, and shows how rapidly the power of England {s declining upon the border of her great colonial strong- holds. Already it appears that Russia is stirring up discord on the northwestern fron- tier of the English East India possessions, and this is done so weil that in almost every case the people, if left to a choice of ralers, would prefer the Russian to the old crushing despot. ism which the East India Company inau- gurated, and which sncceeding rulers bave con- tinued in the conatry. Tho Russian Governors appear to assimilate with te people, attend their feasts and make them their equals, which,’ for the boterogencous Russian nationality, le element which has heretofore controlled the Indies it is almost impossible. It appears that Russia is as insatiable in her absorption of territory as the United States,, which is kept In a good humor by a cold bite that is thrown to her and is outside the line of the Russian march. Already the great shadow ls spreading over Northern China, which has of late come much under Russian influence and parted with some of its territory to feed the Russian bear. Some of the Japanese islands are also counted in the same great empire. Schamyl and his brave Circassians having disappeared from the line of march, the road is now quite free to the treasure house of England; and, although the attempt to revolutionize Hindos- tan in favor of Russia in 1857 was a failure, the game will be better prepared for the next effort. The sixty thousand British troops now in the East Indies will scarcely handle the next outbreak so easily as the last. Thus we marck to meet each other—the Old World towards the New, Russia towards the east, America towards the west, Both countries carry civili- sation in their track and march together towards a glorious future. : SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. The Platform Endorsed by tho Convention— An Equal Division of Offices Demanded Be- tween White and Binck. New Ontxana, June 16, 1867. The Radical Republican State Convention adjourned sine dis last might, after endorsing the following plat- form:— ‘We advocate and will enforce perfect equality under the law to all men, without distinction of race or color; ‘endorse the acts of the Thirty-ninth and Fortleth Con- eases ; will reconstruct Louisiana upon the Congressional: send to Congress only true and loyal men. Nominations for office to be made only of those whe will enforce perfect equality and the right to hold office, i tive of race or color. We will insist on perfect equality, without distinction of race or color, in the righ¢ to vote and enter the jury box, without any educational or property qualidcations being required; algo on the right to practice all professions, to buy, sell, travel and be enter- tained, and to enter into any and all civil contracts, We will advocate the granting of immediate assistance by the general rebuilding the levees. ‘e will! also advocate emigration and division of lands of ‘State as far as practicable into small that the masses of our people be enabled to become landholders. We will advocate repeal the cotton we tax ; if not granted will demand a Hae incs olaee lagietanee be “ie Ad abolished, ani on all the productive wealth of the Union; of agriculture, mines and manufactures be [ ‘cond proc! believing the distranchisement of to be the highest daty of the general government; fa- jatenance of an adequate military force im. Louisiana to see the laws enforced, and life and pro- aah tie it tt tn til i Orrawa, Jane 15, 1867. ‘The Executive Council met to-day. It is understoeg that the government will, befere the expiration of their time of office, apportion the sum set apart ior the opea- ing of the read to the Red river settlement. ‘The exchange of rifles now in possession of the volen- London. \-useyn sacs feeterenarcs invoices continues af 26 pee cont Fire ta Belleville. Bauzvinx, C. W., June 15, 1967. E. Harrison's bookstere and bindery, George Ritchie'e dry goods store, Boyce’s photograph gallery ana A. R. Dougalld’s law office were destroyed tng. Loss about $20,000. A son of Mr. Harrison wag nearly suffocated, and is still in a critical condition. REPUBLICAN MASS MEETING IN NORFOLK, VA. Fortress Moxnos, Va, June 14, 1807. Arrepublican mass meeting was held in Norfolk tast ‘evening, and owing to the fact that it was announced to be the last meeting to be held prior to the registration the house was crowded, the colored element largely pre- ponderating. Shortly before the meeting opened a large , bearing the incriptions, “Hurrah for the twenty-three who endorsed Anthony Collins, the Union soldier, who lost a leg while defending his country,’ “Equal rights to all,”” “Sustain your country,” “Unlom Repuolican Club,” was placed tpon the platform, under 2. @ stumping tour His remarks were calculated to upon his audience, being devoted to explaini: the manner whereby the race are to be improv colored ae in in the condition which their rights now de- |. In freedom, he said, it was necessary to work bondage, and that the cause of the en equally ready “Star .f - oye Geabral, Pieroe in rw aver ‘meaner of Generals Joseph E. Johnston and James Longstreet. and deemed them worthy color, Mr. jos K. Poteer then addressed the audience, after which it broke up, amid great enthusiasm. STEAMER SUNK IN THE ALABAMA RIVER. Monn, Ala, June 16, 1867. The steamer Nyausa, hence for Montgamery, sunk om the Alabama river eighty miles above this city Friday evening. The boat was valued at $25,000, and was not jnsured. cargo consisted of supplies for the poor people in the interior, among which were two thousand sacks of corn, The cargo Is wortn $26,000, and is par- (ally insured. WEW JERSEY INTELLIGENCE Bull’s Ferry, Exriosion i A Kerosene Faotony.—The kerosene factory of Wicks & Co, caught fire on Saturday after. noon, and about three hundred barrels of oll wore con. sumed, ontailing a loss of $6,000 on the tore, It appears that the oil overflowed in the a! engineer, and reaching the furnace cangh: a0 explosion and the above damage. Newark. Depicatory Axxrvensant oO St. Jays’ Rowan Catto- uc Cavrcw.—The anniversary of the dedication of St. James’ Roman Catholic chareh was cviebrated last even- ing with imposing masical services. A large chorus and orchestra rendered selections from Havda’s Imperial Mass, Mozart's Twelfth and Rossini’s “Stabat Mater.’* The oxercises wore of & very interesting nature. Orange. Annnet vor MANSLAvGHTER.—The engineer who wan on the train when Augustus Newbrenner was killed on