The New York Herald Newspaper, September 16, 1874, Page 7

‘wimply the culmination of the feeling of resistance | to ee jogg Whicu had been growing 10 intensity lor i the lasiiwo years. ‘Ihe people had already struck at some of ‘the branches of this government of usurpers, and now they proposed ty sinke at its | head. The movement was indorsed by the ma. jority o1 the white people of Louisiana, and if they ‘were not interiered with they would certainly | succeed in overthrowing Kellogg. Their plan was | to lorce Kellogg and his confederates out of their offices, and install Enery and the others who | were elected in 1872 McWnery, if the uprising Bucceeded, would undoubtedly call a session of | the Legislature (as returned by the Mcknery | Board), whicn would confirm bim in his position, | a Kellogg not elected tn 18720"? General Sheridan replied he was no more en- titled to the office than was Mayor Havemeyer. ‘This was a determined effort ol the people to get | rid of these miserable usurpers, and it Was not in- | possible that if they were pushed toextremes by | the excesses of Kellogg's bands more bloodshed | must ensue. There was no lear that the negroes would take @great part in this bioody strife, as | they were timid and not so generally provided | with arms. The insurrection would undoubteuly | sweep the State, and nothing but iederal bayonets | could sustain Governor Keilogg, People had waited patiently for help from Congress, dnd now tney had concluded that their own strong arms | must work ous tlieir salvation, Whe Speaker of the lature, who is now in the city, thought that this uprising | was a great outrage, as it only endangered the | commerce and prosperity of the State. He had | expected it, although it would have seemed improbable that McEnery’s followers would thus dare to array themselves against the authority of the federal government. Of course they were doomed to defeat, for they could only vanquish Kellogg by overthrowing the authority of the President. He characterized the insurrection as ap effort of the politicians to capture lucrative offices. The outs wanted to become the ins—that was all, The people, as a body, took no interest in these miserabie fights for plunder. The present State government had greatly re- duced the expenses of the State, the State bonds were now at par, which was something un- beard of in the history of Louistana, and there had been a reduction Oi taxes irom 2234 to 1434 mills. ‘Three-fourths of the State dept had been paid oi, | and Louisiana had within two years been put upon i @ cush basis. Were these not great results for any State government to accomplish? Louisiana bad never had a better government than 1 had eu- yoyed for the last two years. ne Speaker declared that Kellogg had a majority of 25,000 mm the State, He could undoubtedly main- | tain himself alone by calling out the miltia, but | bs would involve much bioodshec, and it was a re prudent and humane course to appeal at | Kellogg Legis- once to the United States government. By | ‘his course he avoided the great destruc. tion of property incident to a civil | war and let the laborers, who were now picking cotton, remain at their work, Every laborer who | ‘Was at tnis time taken from the cotton plantations ‘Was equivalent to a loss of $200, and it was tnere- | fore of the greatest importance that the picking | season should not be spoiled by a caliing out the militia, Had he called out the miittia on Mon. | day the streets would now be running with blood, | aad it was to his humanity and forethought that many people owed their lives and homes. ‘the supporters of Keliogg were the great producer: the growers of cotton and sugar, while the adh rents of McEnery beionged to the most shijtiess Classes of the population. Hon. George C, Benham’s View. Hon. George C. Benham, a prominent member of | - the Legislature of Louisiana, whois now in the City, gave it as his opinion that the record of the } Kellogg government was unimpeachable; that the people, upon the whole, were satisfied with tt, and that those who had now taken up arms against 11 were instigated by political loafers and bummers of the worst sort. He did not think, as the despatch from New Orleans stated, that tne | meeting 10 Canal street nad been called py the solid business men, fie knew that two weeks ugo, when the President's letter was received in New Orleans, ail the respectable business men rejoiced over it. Me did not think that the disturbances Would extend over the State, as the majority of the people approved of Governor Kellogg’s adinin- istration and would hail with joy the imtervention Of the federal troops. The negrocs would not take | Pood in the armed conflict to any very great ex- tent. Governor Kellogg had done nis best to avofd ail bloodshed, There never had been a man at the head of the State government who had workea are for the est interests of the peopie of Lou- nana, Words with Attorney General Field. Colonel Field, the present Attorney General of Louisiana, who ts now at the St. Nicholas Hotel, 13 probably one of the most highiy respected men of the South. His political carcer extends over a pe- riod of more than thirty years. He said that he had anticipated tins violent outbreak, knowing the elements of strife and disturbance in New Or- leans. There could be no doubt of the result. General Grant was bound to sustain the existing | government, which. had been recognized by the federal authority as representing the will of the | People of Louisiana, He apprehended consid- | erable violence and bloodshed uniess the in- | tervention of the federal troops should take place | fmmediately. Tne good, sober men of the com- | munity, even if they were adherents of McEnery, | disapproved of all this violence, but they were un- | able to control the actions of those who were determined to overthrow Kellogg and to instal NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1874.—QUADRUPLE SHEET. that was that what tt ought not to do the govern- ment would be quite certain to do, such riots were unavoidable the negro had Position of social equality wilh the white man. Mr. O'Conor declared that the North had no right to crush the South as it bad dope, but disclaimed individually any responsibiity for the terrible con- | dition of affairs in the South, “1 have done nothing to bring it about,” he declared in a tone of seli-congratulation, General Roger A. Pryor’s Views. Among the persons visited yesterday by HERALD Tepresentatives was General Roger A. Pryor, for- merly member of Congress, ex-general in the Con- federate army and now a lawyer practising in this city, General Pryor was found busily engaged in his inner office, No. 22 Pine street, but courteously | gave the reporter & jew m ments’ time for the purpose of inquiring his views as to the Louisiana situation. He said in substance:— ‘The coup @état in New Orleans is so startling that I can Lardly comprehead the position. projoundly pained, however, to learn that the people ot New Orleans have attempted by revolu- tion and war to mght the wrongs under whico undoubtedty they have Icng suffered. Lregard the Kellogg government as notaing out a usurpation, It wus, however, acknowledged by the general government, and they have got to support it or Stuitily themselves, The McEnery ticket was cer- tainly elected (wo years ago, and the patience with which the Louisians peopie have borne their trials under the usurpation o1 the Kellogg faction had won for the Southerners the sympathy of the whole Northern people; yet now that they have resorted to violence. 1 very mucn fear that sympathy may be diverted trom them, When men undertake to override the law all con- Servative Influence is arrayed against them, J sin- cerely trust the situation may be somewhat exag- gerated, but it excites the most puiniul alarms in my breast. Colonel Dunlap, of Kentucky, who is a graduate of West Point, afterwards en- tered the Coniederate service, and more recently served in Egypt, where he was created a Bey by the Vicerory, said to @ reporter, “that the time had now come in Louisiana to have it settled whether we had not white men enough to admin- ister the government. Ido not believe there is a particle of war spirif in une South; 1 believe all the animosities growing out of ihe late war have died out; but I think there is @uetermination to yield no longer to negro rule.” Judge J. M. Lea, of Nashville, Tenn., Who is sojourning at the Westminster Hotel, refused to see a HERALD re- porter, so his valuable reflections are lost to a lamenting public, Judge Bowen, ot Arkansas, said, “I think the whole trouble grows out of the Confederate spirit still alive in the South. That will have to be subdued before you can have peace, 1 fougiit them for four years, and I believe they are as ready ior war in the South to-day as they ever were, ii the government was not too strong for them. I have leit the South forever. New York is good euongh ior me, and I can get more fun in speculating in Wall street than in eucountering Arkansas bullets and bowie knives, 1 pass!’ Colonel William M. Sutton, of Virginia, expressed to a reporter his regrets that things seemed likely to have such a@ bloody culmination; but could not see how it could be otherwise, since the Kellogg usurpation made lie in Louisiana al- most unendurabie, Mr. L. P. Bayne, a Banker, whose interests are largely identified with the South, concurred in the above views. He said he had hoped that, according to the suggestion of the New YORK HERALD, o grand reconstruction peace convention nid have taken pla men of the South conid have met the North eye to eye and a but the 1oreing on the people ‘of Louisiana a government never elected by them had unhappily brought about a eatastr estimated, men of the A Letter trom a Friend of the Penn Party. NEW URLEANS, Sept, 11, 1874, To THE Eprrok OF THE HERALD;— / The white people of the South are led to believe, from the tenor of the articles in your paper, that you have a nearer and more correct insight into the condition of affairs in our unhappy State than any other Northern or Western paper which dares to make known the true condition of affairs, 1 | Speak not as a politician, nor as one who can pos- sibly have any other motive in view than that of the peace and prosperity of our State and tne pro- tection of our lives and property. lam a mer- chant here, controlling a large business and repre- | Senting large capital and property, which [ find every day wasting away trom depreciation in the values of property und the drawing on my capital to pay the ruinons taxes that are forced upon us by a government that was not elected, even by the ignorant negroes of the State, but thrust and forced upon us by the national government, and maintained solely by the strong power of its bayonets, This was brought about through President Grant, who we do not think is inten- tionally & wrong designing man, but one who has beer imposed upon, deceived, blas-ed and deluded by the designing, unscrupulous ana corrupt in @ country where | been forcea into an anomalous | lam) ‘There the | whe whose evil results could scarcely be | t the natural result will be repndiation, Then have | you considered the consequent effect that the | Dudiation of the debts of five or six Sourhern States will have upon the national credit abroad ¢ | Why should it not with justice be said that the sume people who repudiated their own State debts will vote to repudiate the national debt, in which they have no more, if as much, interest asim that | of their state? Is it not to be feared that the de- pression wich has been kept upon us wiil soon revert to yourselves y We cannot huld the igno- rant negro responsible for ali these things; for his iguorance ts taken advantage of by (hese designe ing politicians and carpet-vagyers, ava, he is nothing but a tool in ther j hands for his own injury and ours. | We have no disposition nor intention to make War upon the begro himself. That woula be folly upon our part. There 18 no labor go weil adapted to till our soli as thatol the nezro, Then, Uf we are to live with him, if our interests are in common, and in order to gain the desired ead, Should there not be perfect peace and harmony existing between us? Ali this ¢an ve accom. plished if we can only get rid of the men who are misleading mm, who are destroying him. destroy. ing us and yourselves, Our business industries are languisiing, our property is worthless, our bonds are on the verge of repudiation, and who 18 responsible for all this? The Sheriff of this parish has to-day under seizure for high taxes, on exag- gerated assessments, upwards of 7,000 pieces of Droperty, and as soon as the courts open In November will have as much more. A great deal | of property in the State cannot be ren‘ed tor half the amount of the taxes that are levied on them, | So, you see the last act, confiscation, js upon us. | | Respectiuily, HF. SEIXAS. | FORMER STATE REBELLIONS, The Dorr Trouble in Rhode Island—Riot | of ’66 in New Orleans and What Led to It—The Emeute in 1873—Piattorm of the White Man’s Party—Chief Justice Taney on the President’s Powers. The collision between the adherents of Kellogg | | and Mcknery in Louisiana makes the third ine | Stance In the history of the United States where rival claimants for the ofice of Governor have | Sought to establish their pretensions by force. The Brooks-Baxter contest in Arkansas is of re- cent occurrence, and all the circumstances of | | that case must be fresh in the memory of the | | puvlic. Dorr’s rebellion in Rhode Island is of older date, and as the questions at issne in that memorable dispute were passed upon by the highest tribunal in the country, particularly | the point as to the authority of the | President to determine when an insur. rection exists in ® State, and also to judge as to which of two contending parties was to be recognized as Governor, some particu. lars of the difMlculty will no doubt oe read now | with interest, Among the complaints made by | the white people or conservatives of Louisiana is \ that troops have been sent into their State and placed atthe disposal of United States’ Marshal Packard, who is Chairman of the Republican State | Central Committee, and the District Attorney, who is said to be the pillar of the repuolican party in Louistana, and that this action on the part of the general government will canse the wanton and | arbitrary arrest of poiltical adversaries by the | hundred under orders issued by United States Commissioners working in party traces. The con- Mict in Rhode Island, tt will be seen, was precipt- | tated by despatching regular troops to put down | the government attempted to be established by Dorr. It will also be observed that the executive and legislative authorities of Connecticuc and New | Hampshire took ground in favor of the suffrage movement as soon as President Tyler determined to Send troops in aid of the charter autnorities, | ‘The course of New York was very decided indeed, | and two regiments of militia offered their services | | to Dorr to restst federal interference in the contro- versy. It seemed as if it should have been con- sidered a strictly domestic matter until, several years later, the Supreme Court of the United States laid down the law on the subject. THE DORR REBLLION. In the years 1841 and 1842 political agitation ex- isted in Rhode Island. The government at that | time was based upon a charter granted by Charles | UL. in 1663 and, the apportionment of representa- tion in the Legislature was greatly at variance | With the distribution of population, | franchise was limited to the holders of a certain amount of real estate and to their eldest sons. \ About one-third only of the citizens were voters. Associations were formed in nearly all the towns | of the State with the object of difusing tntorma- tion among the peuple upon the question of form- ing a written republican constitution and extend- ing the right of suffrage, At the head of this move- | ment was Taomas W. Dorr, who had served five | terms in the Legisiature. On the 5th of May, 1841, | & mass convention of the male inhabitants of the | State, consisting of 4,000 and upwards, of the age of twenty-one years and upward, met ‘at Newport and adjourned to meet at | Providence on the 5th of July following, at | Which place and time the Convention reassem- | bled, consisting of 6,000 persons, and concluded to | calla State Convention to frame a new constitu- | day | executive, legislative and The elective | “carpet-baggers’’ inthis State. He has turned a | deaf ear to ali except to the men who misrepre- | sent our State. | 1 was one of the Committee of Two Hunarea | tion, Which was to be submitted for ratification to the popular vote. Accordingly delegates assem. | bled in October, 1841, at Providence, and drafted a | Z constitution, which received 14,000 votes, a clear | who went to Washington winter before last to lay | majority of the citizens of the State. The consti- | before the President and Congress a true repre: | tation thus indorsed was sent to Governor King, | sentation of the condition of aifairs in onr State. | and by him communicated to the Generai Assem- This committee was composed of the first and | pry, and by them laid on the table, The exlsting Joremost men of our city, representing its capital, ; McEnery. They had complained of many wrongs, but these they could have redressed by a peacea- | ble election next November (for Senators, Asscm- , bivmen, kc.) However, knowing, as they did, that the republicans, ina fair election, had’a ma- Jority of 25,000, their plan was to seize the govern- ment, overawe the republican voters anc prevent colo! republicans irom voting, and, in fact, to capture the offices, $0 a8 to be able to manipulate , the election. | Pre doepatcnes with a requisition for him. Goy- ernor Hubbard peremptorily refused to deliver him up, and staced that ne would, “in a letter to Samue! W. King, acting Governor o! Rhode Igland,”’ assign reasons ior his action, The grand juries o} Rhode Island found indictments for treason against Dorr, wio soon returned to the State, He was tried and sentenced to imprigou~ ment for life. He was pardoned in 1847 and in 1853 the Legislature restored to him his civil ngats and ordered Che recoru of his sentence to be expunged, A convention Was called in 1842 under tue enarter government and a liberal constitution framed, | which was duly ratified, and Dorr lived to see bis party in legal possession of the government of bis | hative State, Tne whole quesiivn was brought up before | THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT in 1848, if a@ppeured that when separation from England took place Rhode isl.nd did not, like the otver States, adopt a new coustitation, but conunued the form of goyerument estabusued by the chirter Of Charles I. in 168; waking only such asterations, by acts ol the Legisiature, a8 Were necessary to adapt it to their condition and rights ag an mdependent State. In uma lorm of govern- ment no Mode Of ploceeding Was poiutea oUt by which amendments might be made. It author- ized the Legislature to preserive tie qualifications of voters, and in the exercise of this power the right of sufrage was contined to ireebolders | unwl the adopitun of the constitution of 1843 re - lerred to in the preceding paragraph, In passing on the question as to whether an exizency had arisen upon which the federal government was bound to interiere Cmef Justice Taney said :—' there 18 an armed conflict, like the one of which we are speaking, it is a case of domestic violence, and one of the parues must be in insurrection | against the lawiul government. And the ’rest- dent must, of necessity, decide Which is tie ernment party, aod which is unawinily arrayed againat it, before he can periorm the duty imposed upon him by act of Congress, Alter the President has acted and galled out the miutia is a court of the United States authorized to iaquire whether | nis decision was right? Could the Court, while | the parties were actually contending in arms for | the possession of the government, call witnesses | before it to inquire which party represented a m | jority of the people? If the judicial power ex. \ Tends Ko far the guarantee contained in the con- | stitution is A GUARANTEE OF ANARCHY | and not oforder. 1t 1s said that this power in the | President 8 dangerous to liberty, and may de | abused, All power may be abused af placed in | unworthy lands; cut it would ve dificult, we | think, to point out any other hands in which this | power would be more sale and at the same time | equally effectual, When citizens of the same State | are In arms against each other and the constituted autoorities unable to execute the laws the ipter- | position oO} the United States must be Lite or | 1f 18 of little Value. ‘The ordinary course of pro- ceeding in courts of justice would be utteriy unfit | tor the crisis; and tie elevated office of the Presi- | States, aud the high responsibility ne could not fail to feel When acting in a e Of 80 much mo- Ment, appear to Jurnish as strong Salegnards against a Willul abuse of power as human prudence and joresight coud well provide. At ail events it 1s conferred on him by the constitution and laws, and inust therefore be respected and eniorced In its: Judicial tribunals.” RIOT IN 1860. The and sanguinary riot that took luce in New Orleans in 1868 13 recalled vo mind by the events of Mon- last. The question was one of race, as on the present occasion. The colored people were dissatistied with the constivutton tramed by the Convention heid in 1864, and proposed to revive it for the purpose of admitting to the rignt of suffrage all the negroes, and to disirauchise ail the white population who had taken part with the South ayainst the North during the war, Gover- nor Wells issued a cail lor the Couvenuion to re assemdie, aud this action on his part proauced the greatest excitement. of 1864 @ State organization was effected, and judicial departments formed in accordance with it, Elections were held under it, and two sessions of the Legisiature, composed of representatives from every parish, had met and enacted laws then tn torce, Meet. ings were held and speeches made that gave good grounds for apprehending trouble, It was weil formidab'e tion, would hever iisten to te proposed si and hence it was necessary tor the radi part to revive, if possible, the old one. ‘The leaaers of the negroes, as deleyates, proceeded to assemble confict, ib which FORTY MEN WERE KILLED and 160 wounded. President Johuson, on hearing ol the riot, sent insiructions to cali upon Geueral Baird “(o sustain the muitary pressing all egal or uniawinl assemblages who usurp or assume to exercise auy power or au- thority without sent of the people of the state.’? there ig to be a convention, let ib be composed of delegates chosen irom people of the whole State, The people must first be consulted in changing the organied laws of the State. Usurpation will not be tolerated. | law and the constitution must be sustained, and thereby peace and order.’ General Sheridan at first proposea to arrest the leaders of the Conven- tion movement, but his dunes calied him to Texas, | M'ENERY SPEAKS. A large Meeting was held in New Orleans on the evening of the Ist inst, at which Governor McEnery was present and spoke. It appears that lie added, “If Lieutenant Governor Penn sigus the prociama- tion calling the citizens to arms. At all events, Mr. Mcknery said on the occasion that he was an ‘agitator. so far as Calling on the people to assume their rights. Tnis he vad done at Baton Rouge; this he was wiling to say at New Orleans, Grant, he declared, would not interfere; tuere will be no cause, 00 excuse ‘oO interiere. The people of Louisiana intended to elect their officers peaceanly, and when they were elected to put them tn peaceably If possible, lorctbly tf neces+ sary, What could the people do with their plandering officials? ‘Try them before one of their own corrupt judges? When the law cannot reach these thieves the people have a right to take the matter in hand, They had done so. The radicals themselves said these officers were stealing, and yet this 1s cailed mob violence, WHITE MAN’S PLATFORM. The following is the platiorm adopted by the white man’s party at the convention recently held at Baton Rouge :— U ‘That the defacto State government is an odious usurpa- tion, originated m iraud and tyranay, and maintaining itself merely through tederal support. ®That federal interference in State matters, except in rigid compliance with the constitution and laws of the dent, chosen as ne 1s by the people of the United | were Under the constitution | Known that a new couvention, called together to | consider the question of a change in the constttu- | heme, | in Mechanics’ Hall, aud the result was a desperate | authorities in sup | first having obiained the con. | the | whe | he must bave leit the Stace since that date, as | not seek redress with musket in hand when they have aflair chance to obtain redress at the ballot box. Kellogg's hand now covers every balot box in Loutsiana, Like the late Louis Napoleon, he Can obtain jor bis most iilegal ac’s the apparent Sanction oi the people. Even the ballot, te peaces Mul weapon of iree inen, has become wuder nis management the instrument of poiliteal tyranny, social discord and financial rum. He ougit tobe leit to the vengeance of the people whose necks are under his heel, The Rule of Lawlessnes, [From the Commercial Advertiser.) This action was evidently the resuit of pre- | p arranged plans. Men were provided with arms, | U U leaders had been chosen, proclamations were in | ¢ print and @ count of numbers had been made, | © Under these circumstances itis better that ¢ battle should be fought in New Orleans than e) Where. Lawiessness must be put down at all hazards. Its @ question wholly apart from poli- Unless a premium 1s to be put upon riviin ew York as well as tn New Orleans, the ree hized government of Louisiana must be sustained, This will be the verdict of every law-abiding | citizen. {From the Evening Mail.) It is diMeult to judge of the right and wrong of this unfortunate and already bivody contest, but | whatever tends toward a “war of races’ at the | North must be earnestly deprecated by every Brooks, of Philadelphi good citizen, Of whatever party. “White men’s lenges’? are certainly dangerous and suspiéous, au are in process Of revival. the strong arm of the nation’s authority mast avain be “stietched out to preserve the peace, | ¢ Much as we, for one, regret the necessity for th? interference of the general government with the cuncerns Of the States, Megal but Jus It 1s to be feared that i All the best friends of the Soutn and the country | Will be sorry that the people of Louisiana have gone to killing the carpetebaggers and scalawags. Few of such friends can, however, blame the Louisianians, The story of the usurpation of their government is a household knowledge. The facts of the wrongs, outrages, murders, confiscationa and massacres which that usurpation nas visited | they know not ol The administration will pe | wlad of the pretext for military interierence. It | will gloat to have a chance to disseminate grape | | and canister through the citizens. Though aii the | facts of law are against it, all the forms or law are | On its side, We regret the beginning of the up- rising, though we cannot blame those who | have risen “up. The wrongs they suer are and have been such as would have stung any other people to frenzy tong ago. Lampyposts in New York wouid be ag thick with corpses as Jersey pine trees with crows, had our people an | | experience oue-hall so bitter as the people of Lou- | Istana have, Nevertheless the people of Louisiana | Will hot win tn a contest with the authorities of | the United States, and unless they are prepared deliberately to immoiate themselyes—a not un- | likely conciusion, considering how hopeless life is | down there—their movement has not that jusud- | cation in chances which tt should have, A popula. tion has no right to commit suicide, The Government Must Interfere, {from the Evening Express.] Just now the crimes and mistakes of the past bave led to the bloodshed and dangers of the pres- | | ent, We doubt, at this crisis of affairs, if anything | Short of federai interposition can stop present an, | arcuy; and yet to stand by the Kellogg govern- | ment would only add to the present wrong. Fea- | €:@ coercion, unuer such circumstances, migat | stop further bioodshed, but it would not | ShoW respect either tur public opinion or tor | What was just, for the rights of majorities or for | | the supreme law of the land; and vo maintain the | hellogs government, with {ts intended usurpa- tions to disfranchise the people at the November ; elections, would only deepen the present feeling Aud make Worse strife certain in the future. What | is necessary is @ new election for State ofticers, | Aud the assurance of fair play at such an election. Let a man like Generaf Sherman be sent to New Orieans, and placed not only in command of the | troops, but clotoed with all the authority the Presivent can give him to pacify the people ana | Secure justice to the Whites, to the biacks and to | the whole people and State. Short of some such } ‘angement, tending to justice and meant to se- | | cure justice, DO One can Weil Bee the end ol the | present alarming strife. NEW JERSEY STATE FAIR, | | 1 | Althongh yesterday was only the second day of the great annual fair at Waverly Park, New | | Jersey, the attendance was very large. The | | large collection and superior quality of the live | | stock make this fair the best exhibition ever wit- ; nested in the State. New pens for horses and | cattle have been erected, and the stock Is stilt coming in, The President of the State Agricul- tural Society, Mr. Amos Clark, accom. panied by @& HERALD reporter, paid a | visit of inspection to nearly ali the de- | partments. The cattle were particularly deserving | ol attention, They are chiefly of the Durham and | nent among -Lee, Uliea; J. W. Keyes, Auburn; G, Syracuse ; College ; Dr. Ryder and Dr. Bol Flunrer, J. M. city; H. R. Nye, Brooklyn; Rev. Wastington Hioop-r and R District of Columbia; Rev "ad to the lear that the Ku Klux outrages | together with a number of pro: ing, which was led in suppliation by gathering. Us OC was called to ord: permanent si with prayer rangements, then reported th: Tomlinson, Ohio, and Mrs, | and adopted. 7 THE UNIVERSALIST CONVENTION. Revcmits aM Yesterday's Proceedings—Organization, Appointment of Committees, Statistics and Financial Condition of the Dee nomination—Programme for To-day, Tue General Convention of Universalists in the United States opened its sessions yesterday morn- ing im the church of the Divine Paternity, Fisth avenue and Fort -fifth street (Dr. Chaptao’s), A prayer meeting, which lasted one hour, preceded he business meeting, About 400 delegates are , bur not half that number was present at P Opening session yesterday, and the majority of | them represenr New York city or State. Proml- are Revs, E cher, of Buifalo; C. Fe B, Stocking, Dr. pin, of this city; Dr. Asa Saxe, of Rochester, N. Y.; Rev. W. C. Biddle, of Lynn, Mass.; Dr. Sawyer, President of Tut's Divinity School, and Dr. Miner, President of Tut's Hl, Capen, of Providence, R. 1.3 Dr. eS, OL Massachusetts; Revs, C. man and EC, tser, of this J, B. Wilson and A, Gunnison, of ev. Dr. ay, of the , of Indiana, inentioymen and the deiegates present Fisher, of Canton; LJ. Fi Swe Rev, C. a Mr. Crossi¢ a few ladies, for the Universaists make no ais- inction in (heir representation ob account of sex. There was a fair attendance at the prayer meet- he Rev, A. Kk. Nye, of Brooklyn, who returued thanks for the benefits recetved in the past wnd implored the [From the Brooklyn Eagle.) divine blessing and Alter t favor upou (heir present e singing of a hymn, Mr. Nye read a scripture jesson, Rt ns XN., and Dr. Chapin then offered pray: Short r ‘&S were wade by some of the deiegates on tie prospeets of Convention and the work beiore it and the Pit gave tue Speakers to be present on SLON. THE BUSINESS SESSION r by tue Rev, Mr, sretary, and the proc ed by H Pullman, the edings opened Vv. Stas Bauey, of Read- | Upon them are even too well kndwn. Un-| ing, Pa, ‘The roll o delegates was tien called, doubtedly Kellogg, Badger, Longstreet, Du- | aiter which an election for officers by ballot took teil, Packard and the whole crew deserve to | Place. The choice of the Conyenuon fell upon be hanged, quartered and burned. But equally, | General Olney Lawrence, of Kiode Island, for undoubtedly, it 8 impolitic to begin domg so, It | President; Mr. So\omon Druilard, of Budalo, for better lor the people to have endured the | Vice President, and Revs. W, Hooper and O, | iis they have, They have flown to others which | Fluhrer. Assistant’ Secretaries. Dr. Brooks, of Phuadeiphia, chairma nof the Committee of Ar- order of services which was approved, The were then apnoiated ;— Mr. Crossley. Indiana; D, ©. D. Milde, Micaigan, On Religious Serv ces—Revs. B. G. Brooks, D. Pennsylvania; H. R. Nye, Brooklyn; £. UC. Swee! ser, New York, and A, Gunnison, Brooklyn. On Unjinished Business—Revs. J, M. Pullman, New York: vu. H. ray, District of Columbia, and for the Convention following commutt On Elections—h | Mr. J.S. Hussey, Connecticut. On Nominations—Mr, ©. E. Carpenter, Rhode Isiand, and Dr. EK. Fisher, of Canton, N. Y. The bar of the Convention was then tixed, after which the Secretary read the minutes of the last General Convention, which were slightly modified An amendment to the constitution was called up, Which provides for a change in the time of holding the General Convention trom the third Tuesaday in September to the Wednesday preceding the fourth Sunday in October, This amendment was before the last Convention, but was not acted upon. It ts designed to give more ample time and better opportunity to absentees and pleasure-see to be home and arrange their business 80 as to attend the sessions of the Convention, Tne amendment was laid on the ta A committee on obituaries was appointed, con- sisting oi Messrs. G. W. Quimby, J, W. Hanson ana E. Hathaway. STATISTICS AND FINANCES. The Treasurer's and Secretary's and trustees’ reports were presented at the afternoon session. They show that the receipts during the year amounted to $22,525, and the disbursements to $19,553. There is an indebtedness on the Con- vention of $25,700, The Murray Centennial Fund AMOUNIS CO $120,902, There are 22 Srate Conven- Uons and 74 associations in aiiliation with the General Convention. These represent 954 parishes. 638 churches and 657 ministers, 27,199 memoers, 601 Sunday schools, containing 54, pupils and oficers, 761 secular places of worship, and the value of tle Church property ts $7,84.447. The denomination sustains tour colleges and 12 literary institutions, which employ 98 proiessors and teach. ers, and the estimated vaiue of thia prop- perty 1s $2,295,000, The denomination — su; ports also. five weekly, one bi-weekly and two monthly publications and a publishing house in Loston, whose net assets umount to $37,976. The Murray Centennial Fund was started in 1869, When \t was proposed in the General Con- vention to raise $200,000, the interest of which sum should be expended to aid theological students, the erection and sustentation of ) churetes and the cisseminauon of denomtnational Hverature. The Convention scattered in the evening to listen to sermons preached by Dr. Sawyer in the Bleecker street cuurcn and by Dr. Miner in the Church of our Father, Brooklyn, and to prepare business for to-day’s sessions. The Convention Will open this morning at balf-past eight o'clock With a prayer Meeting, to continue one hour, The business session will commence at bali-past nine A. M., and at eleven A. M. Dr. Capen, of Provi- dence, Will preach the occasional sermon betore the Convention, At three o’clock @ soctal reunion will be heid im the lecture room ot Dr. Chapin’s | church and at hali-past seven P. M. a mass meet- ing will be held in the church itself, at which ad- | dresses will be delivered by Drs. Chapin, Miner, Alderney breeds. The largest Durham bull m the ; “Ryder, Bolles and Messrs. Pullman and Frothing- | collection belongs to Mr, Holcomb, of Lambert. | | ville, It 18 only three years old, and of a white | | #ud liver color. Other fine specimens have been | | sent by W.S, Taylor, of Burlington; E. T. Brown, | | of Elizabeth; Dr. Newell, of New Brunswick; E. G. | | Duvall, of Jamesburg; John H. Huyck, of Rahway, | and Caleb H. Earl. Perhaps the most symmetrical , and handsome pure Alderney bull in the collec- | am, TRE GOOD TEYIPLARS. acta glese didn Annual Sexsion of the Grand Lodge— Statistics of the Order—Reception at the Academy of Music. The tenth annual session of the Grand Lodge of government of Rhode Island treated the proceed: ings as nugatory so far as they went to establish a | new constitution; and criminal so far as they pro- posed to confer authority upon any persons to in- | terfere with the acts of the eXisting government or to exercise powers of legislation or administra- that the new constitution was the fundamental | harmony should prevail; butitis a matter of protound United Staws, cannot but be deprecated as subversive of | our repubtican instituuons, ‘ ‘That itis wise and prudent to vote against the constl- tutional amendments suggested and dosired by the Kel logg usurpation ; and, moreover, that the so-called Legis. lature, betnw itscli & part of the usurpation, has no right | Whatever to submit to the people any amehdinent to the | orgame law. That the white people of Louistana do not contemplate | Colone| Field did not believe that the meeting in Canal street was called by the gooa and sensible business men. On the contrary, the worst eie- ments of tne population were engaged in this up- rising—as far as he conld judge from this distance. He hearuly approved of the proclamation of the ton is that sent by Josiua Hendrick, of Believiile, | New York of Independent Order of Good Templars ; Jtas two years and three montus old. In conver: vi e, atten A. M. y, in [ i | Fation with several raisers of stock, the reporter | Wa pean oe Sen ten tn ces: sipped gatas learned that the Alderney breed of cows ts most | APout 400 delegates from the district lodges were prized, because they give more milk and better | present at the opening of the exercises, of whom utier than any other. ye F ated The pigs exhibited are mostly of the Yorksnire | SY0Ut 800 had to be initiated into the Grand breed and are fine specimens, The display of | Lodge, as they had been chosen since the poultry ig unusually fine. But the collection of | last session. The proceedings: in the uuticuitural implements is without precedent. intelligence and respectability, with no other object in view than to gain protection for the common imterests of our people. But } with what results? We were not treated with President, but was unable to give an opinion as to , even ordinary courtesy and politencss, aud were EO el CAT AEL TS y a es ee told by the President, who 1a supposed to be the force In vider to “protect. the peopie inthe exer. | President of the white people ot this country as | qjse of their rights, then the Enforcement act | Well as of the negro, that he could do nothing for sinounted to nothing whatever. The White — us, that he could only carry out the orders of the | waded the entire State and mang wWoull Joie them © {uGlelrY of the country; meaning thereby that he | Was chosen Governor, and a legislature compowd | through fear and soctal ostracism. “Being pi Knew nothing nor wanted to know anything but | yyoantime Governor King appointed commission. Ea eee eee [Oe SEA Feld said, | the celebrated “midnight order” of the drunken | ers to procced to Wasnington and SacI All auneea thee Lane aon sooipininen j United States District Jndge, Durell, with which | |) PE CE of We have greatly reduced the expenses | YOU and the people of the whole country are now | tribe dectined to inter He stated, however, , of the State government, and diminished taxation | tauuiiar. | ti “It an exigency of lawless violence shail Hera. ior its admirable articles on Southern | North and West do not understand the true condi- | unter the authority of the resolutions of the Lewes. | questions. I can salely say that the oppression | tion and tencency of our affairs. They will listen | lature, already submitted, will stand ready to suc- | hgination and 1am convinced tated! tuis revola. | ODIY to those who Are opposed to us. It is very | oF the authorities of the’ State tu their enorts (0 | tion were to succeed the conditio# of the State | hard and unjust that there are no white men be- | King immeiuiely issued. a prociaination agaiust | law of the State, and proceeged, in accordance With it, to hold an election lor State officers. Dorr | ENCE | ar. President ‘would not ve improved in any way.” longing to the South who are thought honest’) treasonable enterprises, but the reform party de- | -_-- { and true enough to be believed by their brethren | clared that they would submit to no compromise | Licutenant Governor C. C. Antoine, of the North eee West. a ee will listen to that had not for Its perine idee Bead that | eaciohad! eenkicand sje. ebody wut those In iorced power and place | the uitimate source of all political and sovereign | & Louisiana, ®, young colored gentleman of ele- | snq ie. is but natural to suppose that ‘these | power tested in the sdult inaie Citizens of tre | gant appearance and who is decidedly ,good-look- men will not represent ina true light the con- State; and that they would support Dorr to the ing, When asked to state iis views, said the state eg a our aerer a by misreprs seg ee they MA The = charter pa ty ee had held an 2 an cents able, | Sain the support of those tn power in the United | election for State officers, polling 5,700 votes, of affairs in New Orleans was certainly depiorabie, States government, and thereby are enabled to | while the suffrage party claimed’ to have | and vat the disturbances lad been tanned tnto a Mame by the recent democratic victories in some continue their pursuits of robbing the people of | Uhis section of the country and ieaving them as s00n as tuelr own pockets are filled. polled 7,300, On May 3, 1842, Dorr'’s government | attempted to organtze at Providence and to seize | the reins of power. They were resisted by the | | owhich Ww | copviction that this constmaration can be attained only | by an intelligent, conservative and respousitie govern- ment. ihat the appointment made by William Pitt Kellogg ot party toois and disreputable versons as Supervisors of Registration exhibits a settled purpose to deieat by fraud the will of the people at the ballot box earnestly invite the attention of the law. abiding citizensof the Union. And, while the people of Louisiana intend to continue in that course of modera- tion and forbearance which has won approval i Staies, we exp) ut the United to have eably if The first armed contlict between the rival State goveruments, which had been some time pending, | eventuated, on the bigat of March 5, 1873, in @ | Woody struggle in the streets of New Orleans. The militia, representing the McKnery party, who are uoW once more summoned into action, | Inaugurated an endeavor the day before to capture | the civii power from the Kellogg party, who had been recognized t ige Dureil, by taking pose Session Ol the Seventh precinct station house. ‘nis Was in the nature of @ surprise and it was | successiul, On the 5th a squad of filty men | attacked the Third precinct, firing into tne windows. The fire was returned and the attack | for the moment repuised. The Lee gal atte i wits bat | ¢, * is reg) { forced by 560 men, returned to the ass of the Northern States and by the action of | “"y enclose two or three clippings from papers | legal government, which had organized at New- | two hundred police, with a piece of artillery, the President in relation to tho disturb- which wtll give you some idea ul the incendiary | port the same day. The King legislature passed | caused them to break and run. It was the | ances in Tennessee and Arkansas. He | Means that are used to misiead the poor, ignorant | special iaws deiliing the crime of treason, and | invention of the citizen militia, under the direction thought that there uch a feclin of Besroes, and tt is by just such means in the hands | authorised the declaration of martiallaw.’ ‘the | of McKnery and the itizens’ Committee of Two | ria t ° suc ling | Of unscrupulous, designing men that all our | Governor, under this authority, announced the | Hundred, to seize the buildings where the courts | “social ostracism’? among business men | troubles are brought about. The poor negroesare exisience of revellion in the State, and declared | were held, and, if saccessiul, to depose the Kel- brought to the front and made to commit some | martial law. Both sides appealed to arms, hey were compel that they Di ew York, where he ed to close their stores and | overt act, ata in self-detence came on t © whites are forced | had studied iaw Ald these outsiders—for most of them came from 5 | of : a + ee rae Geren to band togetuer to protect their property and | with Ohancelior Kent: In. this city Colonel Alex. Other States—who were the perpe ators ot (hit the lives of their wives and children. Phese actions | ander Ming, Jr., of the Thirteenth regiment of at | Fee rates Te as quite pestle rae nosperity Of | are immediately seized upon and “distorted by | tllery, and Lieutenant Colonel Abraham J, Cristo, | the State, ag quite possibly that must demo: sthese unprincipled parties to gain fresh hold upon | of the 236th regio » tendered cTats and conservatives joimed the movement in this great excitement. “As for the colored people, he fad no hesitancy i saying that they, being iot the greater part good republicans, would stand by Governor Kellogg. ‘They would wiadiy respona to those tn power and Upon the minds of the people North. These have veen the measures taken to | bring about the orde send troops into our | efort to raise here 400 additional men to be seat State, to be placed solely at the command of the | armed to Khode Island. very Inui Who as drought on all these troubles. UNITED STAT their commands military escort vo accom him back to Providenc any Ss TROOPS Dorr | logy judicature and reinstate the men élected on the McKnery ticket in place ol the deposed, While | manufacture intended for exhibiuon in the vas the attack Was going on, ONE OF THE AIDS OP GENBRAL EMORY, | commanding the federal troops at New Orleans, | #iteady the services of | rode up and ordered the crowa to disperse in the | 8eVeral interesting specimens of the Alder name of the United States government. + and Dorr also made an | was an understanding among the McEnery men | {rom the entries yesterday, that there should be no confict with , troops the order was Immediately obeyed. se streets were cleared and the usual quiet reigned, | past. The poultry intere As there | iederal thi The | a tact to | respect and ! | Was comparatively small. | Pally devoted to the reception and classification of | Perance melodies, and hstened to speeches annul about six P.M. When tt adjourned, to allow delegates to prepare for the evening reception at | the Academy of My hse Une could occupy many hours in this department alone, The horticuitural department, in charge | of Dir, P. T. Quinn, is the most attractive. Mon- | Mouth county carries off the prize for potatoes, | fruits,melons, squashes and pampkins. It furnishes | ninety varieties of potatoes, some of which—the species Known as the peerless—are of immense 8 There are 250 plates of fruit in the caliection — from this county, ‘There are | altogether from ten other counties 2,000 | | plates of fruit. Among the collection are corn- | stalks twelve feet in height. Two small brancues | ol pear trees form a great curiosity, One, which measured two feet two inches, coutamed thirty- nine large pears, though the stem was very sien- der, They were takeu irom the Seth Bovden farin | atIrvington, Newburg sends flity-8ix varieties of grapes. | Secretary Robeson will deliver the address to- | morrow. | President Grant and his staif are ex. | pected, Mr. George A. Haisey, the repubitcan can- great part of the day. Order is maintained by Cluet of Police Keron and a squad from Elizabeth, 3 : “ . | Since then, They arrested four New York pickpockets yester: | Of Managers for euerpene cork: which, rapidly reouiiding the Order, day. WESTCHESTER COUNTY FAIR, | Yesterday being the commencement of the an- nial county fair, which is being held near White | Plains, Westchester county, the number of visitors | The day was princt- jive stock, machinery, and articles of domestic | rious departments, Among the horned cattle | on the grounds are noticeable Durham, and other desirable breeds. Jud the bovine dispiay | ners and variety that 300 lor some years i also promise to be will probably exceed in num witnessed on any similar oc Gidate for Governor, was on the grounds during a | ae or | to the body of the Order, | been apathetic, years, The new Board of work, however, dence among ils old members and brought into It, | since February 1, 1874, 1,840 new ones, | re Convention were secret, but the Secretary communicated to the reporters the reporis made by Grand Worthy Chief Templar Sutton and Grand Worthy Secretary Hooker. The former recited that there are at present 692 district lodges work- ing and in good standing, being thirty-five fewer than were reported jast year, During the year the Board of Managers of the Grand Lodge has dropped from tts rolls 111 district lodges that were in arrears. Twenty-eight other lodges have surren- dered their charters, I'he losses thns incurred were | almost offset, however, by the institution of 104 new lodges, ‘The Grand Worthy Cnief ‘Templar Suggesied in tits report that the Hoard of Managers Should be empowered to revoke the charters of lodges that do not meet regularly. The report of the Grand Worthy Secretary shows that the aggregate Membgrship of the iodges has 262. On Septeuiber 1, 1873, 1 was , and it 18 now 34,672. In the first part of ‘ar the rolls bore the names ot only 82,832. praises the Board it Says, is The summer and fal! of 1873 were periods of waste a The Grand Lodge nad and had sent out no lecturers for Managers, by its positive Tailied the Order, restored conf After the orts Were read the Convention sang some tem: Ie Aca asic The Good Templars of this city gave a grand re. ception tothe Grand Lodge last evening at the rhey, | Academy of Music, and the entertainment was sing | very successful, both as regards the number and respectability of those present and the manner in which it was condue galleries were crowded fhe platiorm, hall and to thelr fullest capacity, 1 and would do ther heat to re S fe ij ud the greatest entuasiasm was evinced thr fen patos, enuorters. pepe oie noe be Gains ot Tuppeal to the white people of the United States | were now Sent to suppress the tnsurrection, Tam- | The result of the police firtng was not very serious, | Well represented. An unusually large variety of out the erening. ceany eloquent a roa We any ‘excesses of any Kind, avd siinply do their | {there ts any justice in this. United States Mur- | Hall Took an active interesc in the contest. considering the number of stots tired. One young | Mowers, iruits and vegetables, chieily trom the delivered, and the principles of total abstinence dury. in quelling nti present ttirbatics shal Packard here ts to be the commander-m-cnief who bad been originally a teder: ame | man was killed and severai Wounded, ‘The armed | Upper portion of the county, atiracts the attention | and total prohibition of che sale of liquor advo. Gnlees at be done a once ‘the peop of the United States troops in this State. This noctat im 1x An Iminense meetiig was zons retired in good order, At this time the | of the Visitor, and attests the assertion that wile | cated in the strongest terma, Would become demoralized, business wouid be- XeTY, Same man ts the President of the radical | heid in this city to protest against iede | Me ry Legisiature Was tn session in Odd Fellows | 1M Some sections of Westchester the march of | The principal speakers were the Chairman, J, come stagnant, and the most calamitous conse. | St#le Central Committee of this State, What pro- | ference. The suffrage Governor, in Hall, and a squad of heavily armed police | Metropolitan progress has pushed agricultural | N, Stear n. Wu. He Van Cott, Ro &, Sutton, MENCed ModId tenoUntediy ensde The Tomuuiz, | Wetton or rignts, then, can we. the white people, | burouctie, Headed the procession, accompanicd vy | moved vhere and arrested aly fanee sin the | pursuits “to the wali,’ the county can stil boast Fuiton, of Brooklyn, ‘and Susanna dan party had a0ne ae ye ioe vhiag wae jd jig | CXect? it has often been remarked vy many | the President of the board of Aldermen, Dorr ro- | place. Among them were Speaker Moncure and | 01 & pomological peopi The Women’s temper- Soar. Al cho git| matin taxation. Tho | 2@Porable men from the North who know our | turned to Providence, and was received by alarge | Senator Leonard. It was ascertained afterwards pany <= eed , ance movement was characterized as “the grand. porerninent was, cberal enough tor anybody,” | Ue condition:—“Why is it that the chivalrous | mass of citizens, two or three hundred of whom | that McLnery aud about a dozen of the Legislature WHY DID HE DO IT? | est uprising of the age,” aud the advocates of the and there was, in fact, uo possible cause or pail meni Louisiana stand by aud allow themselves | were armed, and in @ proctamation dectared that | were prisoners at the Central Police station and — to be run over in this way ?) Wher. is their | manhood that they do not protect themselves | act in imotion by whate and their rights #?) “Why, if Such a condition of | against the peopie of this S afatrs were forced on the State of New York, | t Massachusetts or Ohio, the peopie would rise | a in,their might and sweep from the face of the | earth all Who attempted to force such an outrage tion for this fierce and sanguinary outbreak. fhe action of the President in promptly issuing his | roclamation was nobie in the extreme, and would | apolatided by the majority of the people of | Lonisiana. His attitude would gain the confidence of the people Of the Sourh, and tne disturbances ver direction to act | 0 government, | shall calt for that aid to oppose such force, Witch, Lam authorized to be immediately the people of Khode Island from n ay, Will | t y OY, 4 ’ e | ' a | not to interfere with the State government, Kel- pa tadeah Wonders renin ur ak ine | Upon them.’ But when we attompt just a shadow THE CITY OF NEW YORK logg and lis supporters were thus establishea in | federai government oer resistance to the | of what they would do the cry ls raised that the | and other places. The contest will then hecome | power. It warsaid that General Longstreet and ie “g | rebellion has not yet ceased, and troopa must be | nationai {our State the battle ground of Atmert- | the leading radicals were much elated at the re- Mr. Charles O'Cono: | sent to put down our peopie for attemptung to | can freedom." A writ Was now tssued for the ar- sult. General Kmory. ina letier to Governor Me- ry | shield themselves when they can get protection | rest of Dorr for treason, On May 18, 1842, «in | Knory, stated that his instructions all through (he great lawyer, was accidentally met on Broads | trom bo other source, 1t is through just sacn | armed portion of the suitrage party assembled a& | were to recognize and support Kellogg. | means ag these that our proud State has been de- | vasiated, her vest men driven irom her midst and her high credit brought down to the verge of re- | pudiation, This thing, Of all others, is most ree | volting to all honest i nd shouid it come to | that the people of the North will be the very first to accuse and hold. the white people resporsible, | when it will be the result of their own acta that | we are not perinitted to have a voice in the gov- ernment of our own alfair Let the people of the North be normed that the Negro is a nafural repudiator. Mis ignorance pre- cludes niin of five Schse of honor. Alter you have turhed over the Southern States entirely to him | Providence and attempted to se but dispersea on the approach of with a military force, They assembled again the number of several hundred at Cnepacnet, t being attacked by the State Jorces they disbanded Without resistance, and the affair was over on the 28th. Dorr took refuge tn Connecticut, anil Gov ernor Cleveland, of that State, having oMcially re- fused to surrender him upon the requisition of Governor King, the latter issued @ prociamation | | offering $1,000 reward for the apprehension of the | Jugitive. Phe Legisiature of Connecticut passed | resolutions sympatnizing with Dorr, who atter- ward proceeded to New Hampshire, A mes way, and ip @ rather desuitory conversation he expressed ls indignation that snch shamefal oc- | currences should be possibie. He said these were | among the {ruits “of an infamous republican gov- | ernment.” He asked how many people had been | killed already, and when the reporter rephed, | | the Arsenai, yovernor King “Auout flty,"’ Mr. O’Conor rejoined, “Well, Grant will kill fifiy more; he’s used to that sort of thing.” When asked as to what, in his opinion, the govern. ment ought to do, Mr, O'Conor replied that he did nut know; but be was auite sure of one tiuag, and | “a8 800 AS a soldier Of the Untted States shall be | that no one was @, in gid of the char- | building was held by Untted movement for the time squeiched the opposition | ind most cheerfuliy tendered to | rection of the President, directed ¢ dent Granv’s interierence in the domestic affairs of the Southern States has been wholly mischiey- | Joining shed, and, piacing a pisto| ons, Through his aid Kellogg has fortified his Dger | position on every side by jewal barricra, lowed to Visit them, Sixty-five other persons had been arrested, The Court House States troops. Thts | o Durell's eature, and General Sherman, by di- eneral Emor; THE METROPOLITAN PRESS. oe A Plea for Vengeance. | (From the Eventag Post.) We believe, as we have so often said, that Presi- Men da A Marriage, Death and a Burial. A wedding, with a tragic termination, occurred | temperance cuuse were appealed to not to relax | their efforts till pronibition had & place on the stat ute book. The political aspect of the temperance movement had some strong advocates, at Allowaystown, N. J., on Saturday evening | all friends of the cause were counselied” te last. It seems that a young man by the namo | yote for ho one who would “haul down the temperance flag. Susannan Evans of Kirk married a daughter of Isaac Nicholas, of Allowaystown, N, J., and the twain be pared to celebrate the marriage festivites. On | the day following (Sunday) the young man Vy finished up and addressed two letiers-~one to his | father and one to his wile, In the to his father he tnciosed a sort of memoradum or Dts accounts, debtor and creditor, with & request for their To bis wife in the second he expressed the warmest conjugal affection, and left erin the hands of tie Deity, who, he averred, Was better able to protect her than be. He aiso absolved her from ail previous vows and aavised her to @ second marriage If desirable. At avout hali-past three o'clock P. M. ne peeves into an breast, Hred aud died almst Instantly: held developed facts as above stated, On Monday | be Was taken to Salem lor interment, | and cigars, letier | talking social scandal With a selection and altogether the aitair went off very creditably. | OD ® Steamboat excursion ap the Bast River and | thence te Sandy Hook. close to tis | West Bleventh strect at eight o'clock A, My Ab inqdest | the foot of Grand street, Bast River, at naif. Late dagete an aor ae that met with hearty ap. plause, especially where it showed a cie: | of the fashlonabie day," whoee existence ts absorbed Le aS Of the day, whose fe contemplation of th atest cut in coats and the mertts oF cuoice wines ‘Tbe women who spend their time in and sipping choice wines came th for scatiing rebuke, ead the better class | of women were eloquently appealed to banisi speedy adjustment, | liquors (rom their tables ‘and Pes their “nduence over men in favor of total abstinence. The Hutchinson family entertained the audience Of Weil selected temperaace songs, To-day the delegates to the Convention will g They will leave the foot a Y ast eight, and expect to be back to tne city ia time te | meet at Irving Hail ab two P. Me