The New York Herald Newspaper, September 26, 1874, Page 3

THE SOUTH.| Review of the Situation in New Oricans. POSITION OF THE WHITE LEAGUERS. Governor Smith, of Georgia, on the Civil Bights Bill. RECONSTRUCTION AND {TS RESULTS, | A Radical Gubernatorial Candidate on Radical Rule. ANDY JOHNSON’S VIEWS. Fifty Years of Experience to Precede Aceonnt- ability by the Negro. NEW ORLEANS. A Caim Review of the White Leaguers’ Triumph—Failure of the Militia and Metropolitan Police=Lee’s Veterans Armed Again. New ORLEANS, Sept. 21, 1874, Upon reaching New Orleans a few days prior to ‘the ontbreak it became evident to the HERALD NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDA ing. From the first they were convinced the ted- alg vernment would reinstate them, altnough At must be aaturtted @ ma‘ority of the prominent State oilcers remained Within "he Custom Louse Wott! alter tne military authorities had taken pos- Session, There is no donb! whatever that the prime cause of the movement was exireme , poverty in the people and an atier lick of hope | for the future prosperity of the State, Mer. | chants assure tne ‘wiiter that at no | time since 1832 has the commercil status o} New Orieans been at so low anebv, men here i no! paid expenses joy many | , and, in addition, thousands of unemployed | have been absolutely without the daiy uecessaries, I heard 0; one refined lady who | starved to veath, Assistance, it is trae, reached | her at the last, but at thal time she had becowe so | reduced that ho restoralives ayalied, and she ac- | toully expired for want Oo! proper nourishment. 1 Although viewed trom u philosophical stand- | point, a situation 80 dire is bit the iega'imate re- | suit of years Of spollation and political scheming, in which society Was disorganized and men oi all Classes, beguiied by the s-dden wealth of sleek | Vilains, abandoned legiimare avocations; al- | } though Louisiawa Lo-day is paying in troularion the draite whieh Jolly and debauchery drew upon her | future, tue people will never ve convinced that | Kellogg is not responsi ile ior the whois of it, Lhe | idea seems burned, 80 to speak, into their very natnres, and two be a8 inseparable as any owner or ganic aitribute, It would be dimcult to convince | the men Who appeared upon the streets that | Monday aiternvon that they were not tylting for their homes, jor the sustenance o: their wives and | ebildyen and ior everything which makes lie dear, | No fair minded med wits ao insight into the dis- tress which everywhere prevals could judge and coudemn this aesperate people by their desperate | act, That it has placed tiem In a jalse position | before the nation seems now fully realized, but | that it was with malice alorethougat a aeliverate act ol treason against the national goverrment 18 | very doubniul. On the other hand, it must be stated that while he has the reputation of being a weak and tncky man, and while he has un- aoubtedly deceived many, Keliogy is nota per- gon who would ruthiessiy despoil any pe pie. Ithink to-day he would sacrine? ten of the vest years of mis lie had be never entered into the gubernatorial contest. It is undoubtedly true that certain memoers of the Supreme Beneh would dis. | grace the ermine 01 @ police magistrate; that wrougs were committed and spoliations perpe. trated at the very outset to secure their favorav Juagment on the Louisiana case. It is also true that a majority of those iustramentalin the estab- hishment of the Keliogg government were raveu- | | Ous in their demanas. | TUE LEGISLATURE, tofore rich find sueir means gradually vanishing merchants have month @orrespoudent that there existed in the city an armed political body, im its organization as per- fect as any heretolore formed in the country, Vninitiated and dependent for intormation solely upon intelligent gentlemen, be nevertheless rea- soned from tnduction that a majority of the mem- bers of the Watte League were veterans of the recent War, that it embraced ex-soldiers of both @rmies, and that the drilling reported to be going on in club rooms and in reured portions of the | erty way but the exercises of raw recruits, mostly young wen who during the “late unplesantness” ‘Were of too tender years to acquire bhe art of war, At was then claimed toat the organization was for ‘the purpose of securing @ fair registration and election, ava that the Leagne if necessary would use joree to mduct the officers of wiat- ever party elected in November to the pla ® Majority of voles bad accorded them, 8 Every Plan Of action was kept a profound secret, Ihave | weason to believe that a majority of the members, | ‘dy direct purchase or through the subscriptions of thier colleagues, had supplied themselves With shotguns and ammunition of the best manu | facturers, and that several batteries of fed artil- @ery had been placed im the country. Not until Sunday morning, September 13, when 8 published call for @ mass meeting appeared in the papers, and the streets were flea with post. | rs urging merchants to close their establisnments Gnd assemble on Canal street the following day, Was the veil of secrecy luted, Even then it was only kvown that the menibers of the White League ‘Were to assemble ab their rendezvous on the lol. Jowing morning. Subsequent events developed the jact that perfect concert of act.on prevaiie: Delween the Jeaders of the mass meeting, Lieut ent Governor Penn and General Ogden, the com. Mander of the citizen soldiwry, simultancously with the publication of Penn's proclamation—it ap- peared votu in the evening papers and in post the commissions of General Ogden and the officers commanding under wim were issued, and neither event took place autt) the committee wo had re- quested Governor Kellogg to resign had reported, FAILURE OF TRE POLICK. fee! convinced that the Metropolitan Police, upon Whom devolved the task of ascertaining the m@ vements of the White Leaguers, faved utterly in that duty. They claim to bave had spies at Dearly every meeting held, to know the form Of initiation, and to have penetrated the inuer council Tuts is manifestly tiapossibie, as the rapid end simultaneous movement which occurred be- tween hali-past three ana four o'clock on the Bfternogn of September id a&stomsbed thou. wands, and surely none more than the Police, Since the confict I bave ascertained ‘that the plan of attack was far more formidable and admirably conceived than many would imagine. The short resistance of the Metropoit- tans Was quite as great # surprie to the White Leaguers as to themselves. were engaged, while, it 1 siatements of gentiemen tion, a second command, equally efficient, was secreted in buildings, and a further reserve of 2,300 men were stationed on Julia Street, seven squares from the scene of the con- Mict, In addition to these & corps of non-comba ants, composed of boys under twenty years ol age and men over forty-tive, were provided with arms and remained at their homes, Six cannon were Manufucturea in the city. So perfect 1s thelr sys- tem of detection said tw have been that f am assured nothing transpired at the Executive office Which was not at once reported, and that many of the “spies” who called upon the repub- Hcan authoritics were sent there, it Is asserted, too, that many of the Leigian rifes shipped to the city just previous to the ourhreak were forware trom New York tor the purpose of tp ding the Metropolitans, Xnd It seems @ act that the latter expericnced no dificulty in ascertaining the exact moniwnt their arrival Was expected and the mod of conveyance. it was known on urday mo tng, September 14, tuat arms wore expected by Fail that nyt, and the distribution Wied oC- curred on St. Joseph Street Was an mMeacusane ‘oversight On the part Of Lue police. THE WITH LAGU r The must inserutavl In my judgment, is the am of to credit the koown = reputa- ire affair, ure Upou the part of th hite’ League to asce he position tu whica they woud stand beior NETAL CoVErnME J hear it Was at one tiaie proposed to send a com Mites directly to the President, and it ts said the eXpense of tie mission prevenied that s u Jaen. Certainly, if thé siasements t the era 0} momentary triun are to t Upon, HO WOVeMent Offensive to the federal gov erninent or to the American people Was ior an ihe Biaut contemplated. Ven alter the appearance of the President's proclamation Aciung Governor Penn did not, apparently, at least, Getect its ap. lication to iim, and the Cetails of the interview etween Governor Mo aud General Emory, telegraphed to the Hakan, created consteruation in ali fusion circles, Verhups jor the first ume in mation, a community with a snow seemed ignorant of the law. The cord in which Geaeral Brooke was receive MTIVas, the pUNnCUNO aod periect courte Where mantiested to tae United states Guuerm, could not have Deen & Wholesale decepuen. 1 ail MLEDLs ANG PULPOSeS, #0 aT 4s the opinion of the peopie Went, tuis Was a fight between kK logy and the populace, With Which the jederai government was in Lo Way Concern Like most emotivoal people, in the hour of Uy tuwph the citizens of New Orleans were guilty of # ew ex- travagances, The general suspension of business, the crowds upon the streets Iu holiday ature, © Opeving of the churches aud the outbursts of en ‘tousiasm ought, in the eritical jadgient of an andifferent spectator, have seemed a trite theatrical. it can be stated, however, that ‘there = were very lew excesses, = aad strenuous efforts were =m to preven: violence. Guards were stationed ot the residences Of ail of the ‘edorul officials and prow pent republicans, and au endeavor, Which was emiventiy successtul, was made to siteld all from | imsuit. Dramatic as provedt event aud panto- Mumic a8 Were the rapid changes, they were Dot Without some humorous pirases, A day alter the Installawon of Penn the pudic were surprised at the appearance on the street. of crowds vf robust, prosperous looking Men, Clad iu tue must owlre garments, Many of them were five years out of fashion, and some Of the couts worn Would lave been Me ted as a gratuitous tsalt by even a ragman. hese persons proved to be metavers of the Me ropolitan Police, who, Laving worn anilorms for yeurs, Were driven into cockiolia abd garrela for cast olf clothing when (ic Bavy vive Wos ov .onger desirabie. NOTWITHSTANDING THE COMPLETE ThICMNI | of the adherents of acting Guversor Penn ido pot think the jear of the republican OMe wis as reat agit has been represeuted, ine telegram | the Presijent calling (oF troops nuder secoou | of the lourth articie of (he constitution was | not written uatil afier the Metropoutine bac been Griven wack, and was delivered at the Wesrern | ‘Union office woile the vondicy was StLi orogress. | the history of ube of justice Only the corps d'étite 4 Hen, 80 to speak, was &@ band of ravenous wolves, and | only the severest use of the party whip kept them | ip anything jake subjection, Peculations to the | | extent o1 vaose p rpetrated during the adminis. | | tration of Warmotn were impossibie, for neither | | the mouey nor t.e credit were here 10 steal, That | | wrongs Were committed ts obv ous from the act that 5. B. Packard and Benjamin F, Fleaders, Wi0 certainly possess the braiis of the repupdlicad | party here, were, at the avjournment ot the Leg- islature sine die, mOSt Anxious to co-operate with | the decent peopie of ali races to restore to the state the semblance of prosper ty, and to | the party some of the elements o! respectability | | which veloags toitin the North, Most uniertu- | nately for the people such a programme was not | developed in time, the dividing line was drawn, | aud upon ene side stood carpe '-baggers,miscreants and honest republicans, wile on the otier was every one opposed to them. A remarkabie feature of the conflict ig the .act that ior the first time in | his political bistorvy the negro was severely let alone. He appeared as militia, to the numver of | three hundred sous, at the State House; but not ascratch was made upon his giossy skin and not a wisp of bis kinky hur was touched, But one | pegro | have heard of was iniured, and he was with the Metropoutan Police during the fight. SOUTH CAROLINA. ee eee | Snarp Dissection of Radicalism by the ) New Gubernatorial Candidate—Confes- | sion, Contrition and Promises. i CoLumBta, Sept, 20, 1874, ‘The nomination of Danie! H, Chamberlain for | Governor and Richard Gleave (colored) tor Licu- | tenant Governor, and the publication of a platiorm — of pledges, bas ended the first of the series of po- Urical spasms with which South Carolina 1s shortly to be aficted, For iv is by uo means assured that the conservatives of the State will not now select some intelligent repaviican who was leit out m the cold, and, appealing to the con- stituents of the Strong minority, who did not vote for the radical candidates, endeavor to divide the | to party and thus secure the victory of real reform nelore the people. It will be observed from the {Mowing mil and verbatim statement that Mr. Chauiperiain handles without gloves several of his jate compeers in the Legislature and else- where and puts tumself tairly upon records He is | a comparatively young man, bald-teaded, keen- | | eyed and smooth-mannered, and, by jong odds, | the most inteliectaal republican in South Caro- tina, lng this morn‘ng at bis law office 1 found in ita composite mixture of whites and blacks, but he kindly accorded the interview which follows:— ' THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ANALYZED. | “General, I shall be gtaa to have you give the | HeRsLD an analysis from your point of view of the radica) party as it at preseut exists in South Caro- lina, and also to state what, in your judgment, will ve the effect of your nominatton and elecuon.”? | “Lem tree to answer both propositions, sor this is a tume that demanda tne utmost trankoess. | fhe republican party of Sonth Carolia to-cay is composed of men having @ great variety of character and interests, greater than I have | ever Known in any State or time, and these inter- ests confict with and are wholly hostile to each | other. First, taere 8 an clement which wouid, if they could, continne the present condition of | things. They are men having uo pubite repata- | ton, Who are governed solely by a desire to pro- | | Vide lor themselves at the pubitc expense. Se i there i# aclaas who are not coutrotled pri- — marly by mere convictions, but are thoroughly | impressed, a8 a Matter of party necessity, that we | have got to make a complete change in the lead- ers. Tne third division is better and stronger, be- | cause tl ts Uruly Aaxious for the republican party wo give the State a good government that will bowla up material prosperity and do full and com- | plete JUSTICE TO BOTH RACES, it ts this division of the party which has dic- tated the nomination Of @ tian Whom tt believes | (0 be devermined, a8 @ matter of poittical neces. sity and of moral right, to do his very best to eect reform, From the analysis of the situation which | Thave thus given one can see that a fierce strogyic must ensue between these elements to secure their | oWn purposes, But itis not yet clear, as it would ve in Massachusetts or New York, that the better lucentions of the party will altorether prevail; but i have faith in the final resuit, for 1 beneve I can at this time pat my hand opon the men | » will stand by mo In ail my efforts to secure an honest government, and who will be able | sabstauuiaily to contro! the administration vor the next two years, Or at least prevent such legis): OR a8 We Have suffered trom during the past iour | years. To be more specific on this point, 1 beheve | i shall be supported by the Treasurer, Comptrouer | General and Attorney General. THR GRBAT UNCERTAINTY | ts with reference to the constitution of the Gen- | erai Assembly, and there, perhaps, we must make our tight. ‘The entire weakness of tue republican | party here ts that it t not composed of the best MULLY OF trelngence Of the State; nence we can only accomplisa @ measurable success, My judg: | Ment, however, 18 that We shail have # preponder- ance of honesty and 4 much larger measure of anll- | ity (han ever betore. | “Allow me to inquire,” I asked, “whether you | exnect any reinforcements trom tue general gov- | ernment?” | “[ do, certainty. Ihave the personal assnrance, | through every possible channel, that if 1 am the man Whom te pational aumoistration have sup. posea me to be, and if L enter upon a course of | weneral aod honest reiorm, I stall be supported ia | every possivte Way. I have also been assured that | ‘here if nO One thing more necessary to the re- puolican party than to effect a thorough reform | aero, 1 do not expect my success Lo be complete, — | THE PRRSENT POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CONDITION _ | of south Carolina is the result of two centuries of | slavery, and you cannot expect an instant elova- | {ion Of those Who had been chattels to the position | of masters of (he State without shaking the moral world, Therei no precedent m history for it, | and if one supposes that such achange in | absolute Control 8 going Wo result in immediate | peace or varmony he has more faith than 1 have. The process of rebuilding this government must | ve Very gradual Lf im the next two years I can even ‘turn the Hite’ I sbali tee! that I have done wore than any otger for the state.” What Go you mean by turuing the tide, Gen- erair’ “I mean fir ming the corruption, putting an end to baa i jon and the general jobbery and robbery we bave had ior jast tour-years, securing al bohest expenditure of the Dublic iunds, Feducihg expenses, reducing taxation, and, by paying invereston toe honest debt of the State, aliracting to me she honest support o! citizens who own the property and possess the education. CINE THE COLORED PROPLE FIFTY YEARS, apd then call them to account; but tosay thal we | suould, under Lhe ciretmstances, look ior a good condition Of Things at the egd of only nine years | has always beeo Wo me Aa UMbeasonanie expecta ‘Dat are your wlows on the subject of the edi- torial suggestions e! the Naw Youk HRALD con- ceruing @ Focoustruction convention wach shall bring the diverse @ements of the two sections together “| am as liberal in my views on that subject as aby Wau iu the countay. nothing Would more | accord With my sytmapacites & produce the resull suggested.” “Way then demand the presence of troops in thie snd otwer States 1” “Because the two rec re standing very mack | slooi irom each other. On the one baud the white people wave LOt yet fally learned the lesson of Doltieal toleraken, aud om the other band & Colored people have pet lear@ed moderation in | tucur langmage Bud Bovlons. 16 | men on either side to provoke tron | even ihe wise men of the South flatter | must | and when he died | was not wanted, and into which | without the before mentioned privy | dren | aavely elauned by ‘bad | rights"? ones. audextended until po regard tor legal rights will be felt by Umlividuals of either race; reverence tor law will conet and Violen eeripban will increase feariali quate (ovieaeribe we evil con 2 | sue alin Lat it no! consequence ts | theroughl LUGE Ut Ls WBNS M8 ELE OWES O18 dOreR Hoteneadet | both recs, and thos | byreal abroad the geveras impress on thet ope of the parties is about dO sume hoirivie ting, dow, THE BEST PREVENTIVE OF OVTURRAK from such Causes is the presence of federal troops. Take, jor a0 tlustration, the recent Kiege Sprig atur. 1 spess irom the :eport ot the Juiee ‘ there to preserve (he peace. The trouble origi- hated concerning & oUsIBess my verween a Wille aad 4 coloured man, The latter indulged ut What his peope would do to | protect him in bis nights, The wilte men ately revurnied tae challenge, saying that people Would also stand oy him. The oext step was areport thot ine negroes Were Assemuitug. The inends of the we man, bebeving a conics about to ensue, sent to Augusta for some of the young men to come “ Woh they aid. When the Judge onet the Station he found about three no dred armed meu picketing the railroads aod taking peopie irom the cars, Fortunately no one was burt, Out vou cau well see that with such infammehe temper On both sides It 18 necessary there shall be a cone trolling physical power in the persous of the officers and men oO te jederal army, Netther Tace, in my judgment, entertarns auy FeriOUs re~ solves to hurt the otner, Lf #ee aronnd me no cause for alarm, and vo sources of diMeulty thas May not be speedily averted by the Wise préseace | of the federal ‘orces,? “Do you think that the Civil Rights bill is likely to prove a source of dissension f | “L have heard it said (hatits tendency will be to consolidate the whites against it, That may or May not be so. It will Unquestionably waite se cvlored peo: le more solidiy than ever if it should pass. but the Loforcement bili of south Carolina 13 sufficiently effective, and except 4% 4 sentiment | the colvred people may Weil be sutisfed with wat they have,” ‘the conversation was here terminated by the entrance of negroes, Who came eviuen ly to get instrvetions as file leaders in the ap,reaching | campaign, i GEORGIA, — Speech of Governor Smith, of Georgia A Review of Reconstruction—Disas- trous Effects of the Civil Rights Bill. | MARIETTA, Sept, 20, 1874. Governor Smith, of this State, delivered an ad- dress on the political situation throughout the country, at this place, yesterday, which was ls tened to by an immense crowd composed of both white and black citizens, After alluding to the local contest and the geverally peaceiul condition of affairs througnout the State, he proceeded to a review of reconstruction and the relations of the two races throughout the South, He said:~ A REVIEW OF RECONSTRUCTION, When slavery was abolished and the slave himself in- | vested with ihe same civil mghis his master enjoyed, theniselves that our people had found the iewest depths ot their troubles, aid that thenceforth the negro wou.d bea very Quiet anu harmiess inhabitant of the country, Kut how | Attic did hey know 01 tne feruily of resource possessed by Northe:t “ph lanthropists” No sooner had all the clvii rights of free men been conterred upon the colored people than those who hat consituted themselves | thelr special cuardians and protectors determined to invest them with all the highest rights and privileges of citizenship. ‘The negro wax made an elector and declared capable of holding oiflees. His ignorance and utter waut of capacity to understand the nature of free government were Dot con- sidered obstacles in the way ot his elevation. Having no just conception of hberty he was made a freedman. leriurant of all the wutkes and obligations which the rigits ot citizensiup imposed, he was, nevertheless, made a citi With no just apprehension of the duies und, re-pousibilities which attend the ballot, he was made an elector. In what was claimed to be a govern- ment by the people, tn which not only the permancucy of governinent but the preservation of order and the supremacy of law depended entirely upon the intelli gence and virtue of the citizen, hundreds of thousands | having no just.concepiion of the nature of | erly ignorant of laws which, quired t0 obe, and with no other notion of | liberty than thut it conferred the privilege of Lying in | lateness, were CONVERTED FROM SLATES INTO CITIZENS, trusted with the controlling power ot the ballot, and deciared capale of making and adimmistering the laws. Without iutending to indulge in’ harsh eriticisin 1 will venture to say that the annals of mankind do not tur- nisi a more striking instance of recklessness and folly. Enlightened pos'erity, 18 passing upon this act, will pounce it the greaiest erie ever committed agai elyilizacion and good government, But, iellow chiizens, itis not my intention to. Indulge in denunciation. The folly, to characterize it by no harsher term, has been committed, and we are boutid to recognize facis as they exist and to make the inost of them, Upon us—the white people of the South—will chiefly rest the burden of educating and elevating the negro race in our midst. It is true that, except the negro himselt, we were, the greatest Sufferers by hig emancipation; aud, in like manner, we are the xreatest sufferers ‘by reason ot tis investiture of civil and political privileges ani power. But we evercheless deem It our duty to act as the next friends to this uniortunate race. ‘They had our kindliest teel- ings and our protection when they were slaves, and we perform the attce of friends and protectors to them still. But,my friends, itseems that we are destined to meet with thé thost disheariening diMcuities in all attempts to ameliorate the condition of our colored people. in the periormance ot this great Work We are met atevery point by hostile Lafluences, which we tiud it dificult, if hot impossible, to counteract, 1 do not charge thatit has been the purpose of the administration at Washing- ton to excite hostility in the minds of the negroes against the white people of the South; no, 1 cannot lieve that yet. But I do repeat, no more'than is well known to you and to me, that-ali lil teeling which exists between the two races in the south ig the direct logical consequence of the teachings of the radical party. The prejudices engendered in the minds of the negroes azainst the Southern whites generall. render {t next to imposs'bie for us to obtain their conf- deuce. Almost entirely dependent, as they are, upon their white neighbors, not oniy for moral and imtellec- iual culture, but also tor he means of supplying their physical wants, still, as a general thing, they are much more easily influenced by the most wor hiess carpet-b adventurer than by those upon whom they are depen- centtor their daily bread. If mischiet makers, North and South, would Jet us alone the two races could work ou: their destinies together, and the colored people, atter 4 while, might be brought to a knowledge of the 1act that aftér ail the white men of the South are their truest iriends. Never until ney know and have learned to act upon this great truth will there be any great improve- ment of their mental or moral condkion, 1 have stated, fellow citizens, that the subject of the negro’s rights will probably never cease to be st ‘A DISTURBING ELEMENT in our national politics The reasonableness of the opinion will hardly be questioned by retlecting persons hen the emancipated wlave was invested with the samme rights as his master it did really seem that ail agi- tation In his special behalf ought then to have ccased. But the exciting question Involved in the present can- vase, and which will in eflect be passed upon at the fall elections, 18 conclusive evidence that the subject of the negro’s rights can always ve turned to effective ac- count by political agitator: In accordauce with the taste and wishes of both the | | White and, the colored people of the couth, since the | convention of this kind all interests could be con- emancipation of the latter, the natural and ‘social dis- finctions existing between the races have been kept up. While the white man has cheeriully accorded equal rights to the colored man, and has felt a com- mendable interest. tor nis’ weifare, he has not proposed to, make the “negro nis duily life. ‘This feeling is tuily reciprocated by the colored people. Thev do not desire to mix socially with the whites, For reasons very apparent they vreier the society of their own +. This preierence 15 altogether Teasovable, and has its origin m natural distincuons be- tween the two races. But it has been pretended tat the negro did not associate with the White man because the lutier denied to bim equal rights betore ihe law. In travelting on the railway the colored man never occu- pied the saine coach as ‘the white man. ‘the negro did Not stop at the same hotel or sit beside the white man at the theatre, Mis children did not attend schools or mix with the children of fis white neighbors, it S$ not his High privilege to “enjoy” the cemetery in which the white man Was buried. Seeing these tacts the Northern ‘‘philanthro- pists” became alarmed at the ominous signs of inequality between the two races. Grave appiebensious were felt | and expressed that the biood and treasure whieh had been expended in achieving freedom tor. the negro would, alter all, prove to be a useless saerifies. determined that the “man and brother” shotld have the privilege of torcing himself Into places wuere b . Indeod, he had no d sire to Ko. ile shonld nave the right to sit by the whi man in the coach even against hisown wil.” He shouk enjoy the privilege of sending his children to the white School, notwithstanding be preferred and intended 10 send them to the schoot o| his own race: ard, while pre- | ferring burial sn lus own cemetery, he should accept te luxury of tecling that he might “enjoy” burial in & while cemetery, if he should so d re, atter his death. Now, it seemed’ manifest to the “philanthropist” that ¥ treedom would patoxysm or concern tor the | hy bea wort SS BUI, and ha rights of the “man and brow THE CIVIL RIGHTS DIL was prepared and introduced into Congress. Ise a nuaber ol colored people in the audience now hetore me. You are sitting emong the white people hastening to my speech, and that, too, without Lhe aid of Congres: sional legislation to give you the right, Lam giagto see You, and am pleased to have the privilege of nddresstug | ¥ou'on this orcasion, sociating with the white people as oiten ax you your selves desire e do so?) Ifyou do not go into the railroad | ear occupl the white people is Ik not because ye prefer the car set apart for your own people! It ¥ Children do not co to the white kehools is tt not be You have your own schools which you preter! Do yo Want the whites and their children to bave the priv lege of forcing thelr company upon you and your chi T see, my colored da, that vou understand me, and that you give unmistakable Indications that | your opinion agrees with my own on this subject, (Many of the colored people present gave uninisiaaable indi- cations that they approved the sentiments utvered by Governor Sm Fellow citizens, the “Civil Rights dill,” as it is called, tsa usion. It in reality’ gives mo right to the colored man which our iaws deny to him, The white | and the colored citizen stand equal before the law. there is any advantage to cithor it is certainly in favor of the colored mun. That portion ot the common school fund raised from taxation is gathered aimost entirely from the white people. As a general rule It is uniorti- nately the ease that the colored taxpayer owns fo prop erty out of which nix taxes can be collected. The poll | tax is devoted to common school education by our con. | stitution, [ do not speak from official evidence, but judging from the best information accessible, | do not esitate to say that tive-sixths of this tax which comes into the Treasury are collected trom white taxpayers, Nevertheluss, as has heen already stated, tue colored etuldren are entitled to the benef of thig fund egually with the white children, But it may be asked 1 the provistons of this bill would give the colored people no new rights, necessary to Piace (hem upon an equality with the white people, why object to its being passed into a law? As T have already staled, my friends, the provisions of this bill are mis- ehievous and if it should become a law it will, wheter #0 intended or not, work IRKKPARARLE INJURY TO BOTH RACKS. will consider its Bad moo, both viack and white, Passage aso invitation to force their company where | 11 not be agreeable, for the purpose of raising issue and creating disturbance, Mischiel makers and bree rs of strife will be on the alort w detect violations of the law with a view to making caves in the courts and | Creating Leart-burnings between the races, Bvery place and every priviege set apart or given by custom and tacit conreat to either race will be invaded or offen. men in search of their “equal Ali our Common schools will be broken up wt Hatred between the races will be engendered bloodshed and crime of every do- Language 19 nade: wences which will en- immediately upon the passage of this bill, Xe thought that Lam asensacionalisk tam ainved with the spirit and temper of yadging jrom that knowJedge. 1 eive lt | | Serenaton manilested by their race, | thou d take place | ow | lea | always associate in | the white | Ttwas ) Have you not tho privilege of as: | #8 my opinion that neither race will or can submit to fe cects ov his Oil, if it is passed and carried into as jaw. Kui nother evil consequence which will fol. sow upon basace of this law to which I should dicvoet your abention. Pride of race may not always be fearonabie : Dut it is, nevertheless, a natural feeling. | It ne upon the possible con at his chit wayenter into the marnaxe fe ation With an individual belonging to the colored oe. So the Detter intormed among the colored people Would regurt wich fesiings of deepest repnynance any eb relauon between their children and the offsprini at the au. Ltake pleasure in saving to the col- n this oveasion that [have wa ched with | gfeot iMberest the growing feeling of opposition to mis- Co.ored though od made them, and they do nm coved the blood of anoter race in thelr veins. That | wm rieht, my colored friends; abide firmly by the natural Abtinetions o your race. A very slight examination of the a@ruttot the Civil Nights dill will be suthcient to oa iey us Chat ite author framed its provisions with & view to the ultimate amalgamation of the two races in the Souih. The evident object of the bil is to bring aboot -@ tal equaity,even at the expense ot force. if | neoessary. I coniembiaies the education of the children b races together in the same seho tn a speech ed in the senate by Mr. Boutwell upon this bill, ostunce, that even i it w shown to | evhe children of each race equal ools, such an are was by edu. | two ra ther, that all ste would be lost. That the chilaren woud bit of recarding each other as equals. It was u senator said. im substauce, in @ speech de ivered by Man in North Carolina, in the last Presiden thal ew that the people of the North would never “shake ds with people ot the South across te ¥ chasm,” until they should become uss milated to Northern their modes of thought; and , In his jUdgment, the contest between the people of the two sections must continue wot this assinilation 1 do not give his exact ianguace; but iam sure that Ide hin no injustice, because when Tread his remarks, at the Cine, they thade a deep im- | Fession upon my memory, 1 do hot charge that Mr, twell is in iavor of aus MATION OF THE RACES; but I do believe that his views and policy, If they could be carried out, would certainly result im the consumma- tien of that uliainy. This man, let it be remembered, was the colieague of Charles -uipner, and js a represen: tative man ainong his people, Twas informed by the tron, Hiram P. Beil that a colored member of Congress, who gave his opinion of the effect which the Civil Rights bill, H passed into a law, would have upon the negro race, sai, in subs ance, that be had no doubt that if ihe policy of educaung together the cniidren of the races ¥ ere adopted and persevered in, it woud soon to imermarriage between them; afd that, in the course of three or tour erations. the white race bsord the colored, And that tie Hegro Would (hus ppear row the southern otates this man way represented as favor ng the passage of the bil which | would produce the results he described. Ihave reterred | to these two cases to show, on the one hand, what the | they are, they are wit of representative mt New rngland uv sor the eftect of this bill, itshould become a law, and, on the | other hand, t w what an inielligent colord man | from Mississippi thinks upon the same subject. Bidlemen's of these nen serve also to iliustrate the licy sought to be esiatlised by the advocates of the , SEPTEMBER 26, 1874.—-TRIPLE SHEET. crime and in the enforcement of the law without delay and the punishment of offenders, and tuereby giving the jederal government no excuse nor pretence Jor entering the Sta’es ior the en- forcement of law omitted to be done by she States. The State should sod ougnt to exercise @ll [ts functions without reservation, and to move within its proper sphere. Wut it it fail or refuse to execute the law and to preserve its. dimtinctive and idividua character, as a te WICK Che sysiem, then toe citizens suonid have protection from sume source, [ very deeply re- gree the scenes that nave recently transpired in the Sonthern States, and especialy Uiose i Teu- nessee. CORRESPONDENT—Do you think th discussion of | | the Civil Rights bil bas Deen productive of tuese | race dimMculties ? } Mr. JouNsoN—I look upon the recent attempt by Congress to pass the Civil Rignts vill and its ayita- tion at this time as beimg pecuharly up ortuvate in disturbing the quiet and peace of the waole country and reviving & spirit animating the peo- ple during the late civil war, This feviing lad Suo- | sided and the negroes Were receiving the benelt of our school system, Which was and is educaung all the children in the State, both white and black. Unger this state of tings ail seemed content, Yue school system has given general satistaction, CORRKSPONDENT—L! Passed, Would not the Civil Riguts bill be inoperative? Mr. JOHNSON—I Jee! satisfied that the oil! can never be put into practical operation in cis or any other State. The eftect of such a plan as con- | tained in the Civil Rights bill would fot only irrevocably destroy the scuool system in this State | but in others, and would work an irrepuravie | damage to the whole country, | iif he intery close In a conversation Cotonel 1 one of the oldest | bewspaper men in Tennessee, he said he bad been forcibly strack with the originality of the ideas | Suzgested in the leading editorials of the HERALD | relative to the calling o! a national peace con tion to bea) all the diMcuiues Witu waich the | country 18 now beset. AN AMENDED CONSIIIUTION. The Address of L. B. Prince Before the | Liberal Club, The Liberal Ciub held a regular meeting last evening at Plimpton Hali—W. L. Ormsby, Jr., in the chair and D, T, Gardner Secretary. ‘Lhe regu- lar lecture of the evening was by L. Bradiord Prince, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee in the New York Assembiy, whose suoject wus | The Pending Amendments to the Constitution of the State of New York.” bil,'dnd the motives which imperied them to support It Then, you white men and black men who near me to- day, do You favor either directly or indirectly any pol- Acy UF Measure Which looks to mixcegenation as A possi. | bie result? I know you de not. But. you ask, how can | such ah Mtamous project be defeated? It is a measure | of the radies! party and can only be defeated by driving | that party from power, [tis on’y thus that you can ob- | tain relief trom the burdens which oppress you, and im. | \ | | munity from (he still greater evils which threaien, But ia thar reliet to be sought by a resort to force: No. We cannot vain anything we desire by fores. We hear of some who, in the exuberance of their patriotism, seem eady to do battie against the iederal govern ment in vudleation of the rights of their section. [is to be regretted that persons who are so anxious to en- gave in fightdid not give their country the benetit of | thear services during the late war. It is also to be re- #retted that these sons of Mars cannot now indulge their Passion for war without invol ing people. But enough of — this. derstand very well that these gentlemen are not really in earnest. At no time have ever known the peopie of Georgia more quiet and peace- able than they are now, At no time has there veen a stronger disposition gi mote their industrial Interests, develop their resources, protect the rxhts of persons and of property and en- force the laws, than prevails in our beloved State at the present tine, Through the ballot box alone should we seek to drive THE RADICAL PARTY FROM POWER and restore an honest administration of public affairs. By preserving the union ot our party—tho party of the country and of good government—and allowing no divisions to weaken our strength, we can succeed. We should strive, nls, to secure the co operation of good men everywhere. We have atready had the most favor- able indicauons, Honest nen who have acted with the oppons party, disgusted at its corrupuon, are begin- ning to leave its ranks. He closed with an earnest appeal to his hearers to support the conservative ticket, the success of whieh would indicate the opposition of public sentiment to the passage of the ovnoxious law. ANDREW JOHNSON’S IDEAS. ‘The Proposed National Convention—Re- sults of the Reconstruction Policy— What Is Now Required, GALLATIN, Tenn., Sept. 18, 1874. I arrived at this place at an early hour this moraing with a view of interviewing the only living eX-President on the subject of the situation throughout the South. I sound the venerable statesman at the Sindle House, and upon being ushered into his presence was greeted with tho exclamation, “Why, what brings you here 1?” “I came,” I said, “to interview you upon a subject much discussed in the New York HeRaLp, and in which the people of the whole nation are most vitally interested. I suppose the leading editoriais in the HERALD suggesting the propriety of calling @ national peace convention have not escaped your eye ?”” Mr. JoHNSON—I take the HERALD and read it regularly when Iam at home, I have only read the editorials of the 7th, 8th and 9th inst. CoORRESPONDENT—What is your opinion of them? Mr. Jounson—They are excellent, sr—well di- gested editorials and worthy of commendation. I highly approve of their tone, spirit and sugges- tions, Things are all out of joint; screws are loose and badly in need of adjustment. The HERALD points out the way that this may ve done, CORRESVONDENT—Are you in favor of convening all the States in convention as being the best means of adjusting differences ¥ Mr. JonNSoN—Lam. It will be the best means of adjusting the dificulties between them, It wil! bring about national harmony ahd good feel- ing between the people of the United States. Ina We all | sidered and the wrongs aud grievances of the dif- ferent sections heard, | ment by which general satisfaction could be given to all the people, CORRESPONDENT— What about the reconstruction Policies in general ¢ Mr, JouNSON—In general, I simply desire to re- fer yon to the reconstruction policy, as adopted in 1865. It grew substantially from the ideas Mr, Lincoln had entertained, and which were consum- | Mated, as set forth in my Message, submitted to Congress in December, 1865, showing that ali the | States had been reconstrucied, Legislatures re- stored, Governors elected, and all the iaws of the United States extended to and tn full operation in | all the State: All had been done that could ve done by the Executive when the Message was sub- | mitted, ‘The reconstructed Slates nad elected their Representatives and Senators, who were in readiness to present themseives and quailty as the constitution required. Under the constitution the | two houses are made the sule judges of the elec- tion and qualification of their members. Congress ppointed its Conimittee of Thirteeu, aud tuen commenced the work ot PULLING THE STATES TO PIECES. Then followed the ‘reconsiruction,” which re- suited 80 disastrously to the whole ‘nation, and now seems to demand the remedy suggested by | the HERALD, of convening all the States in general council lor waking such amendments and aiter: tions a8 the necessity of the country seems to re- quire. CORRESPONDENT—What amendments or altera- tions Would you have made in the constitution tor the good of the country ¥ Mr. JouNson—Theré are various amendments that shoulda be made to the constitution Which L i believe Would be an improvement upon our sys- tem, and would make the government of tne | United States conform more to the popular will than it now does, CORRESPONDED ! of the F —Wonld you limit the occupancy esidential caalr to one term ¢ Mr, JOUNSON—I Would suggest the election of a President for one term only, and his election lirectly by the people. I would also suggest the | election of United States Senators by the people | instead of by the Legislatures. This would remove a great deal of the corruption that is now pra tised by intriguing politictaus ana interested per- {| sons in securing these elections beiore the Legis- } | latures. CORRESPONDENT—Would you make any changes in the system of the federai Court ? Mr, JOHNSON—I Would change the tenare of office of the tederal Court to eighieen yoars, divide the members tnto Classes as in the United state: Senate, the terms of one class to expire every si. tecn years, untll the gystem is finally put in com- plete operation. CORKESPONDENT—What would you do in regard to a two-thirds Congress ? not under constitutional restrictions, 8 the most ernment, There shonid be sone corrective in the exercise of its arbitrary power, For instance, a bili vetoed by the President of the United States, upon constitutional grounds, instead of being originated to the supreme Conrt of the United States for their decision, and if they decided that the Execotive wags right in his veto the bill shoald be ho law; if the House should de found to be correct Why, as @ matter of course, the bill | should become a law, CORRKSVONDENT—What wouid you do to prevent the centralization of powery Mr. JOHNSON—I Wou.d take such restrictions as would have @ tendency to ¢heck the centraliza- tion of power at the federal head, CORRESPONDENT—I desire your opinion regarding the recent outrages in tins State Mr. JONSON (very emphatioaliy)—[ am decided In my Opinion as to the duty of the States In ex- ercising Jheir {uncuoas 1) suDNressina rot and | ag will Ve siown by the following Deures:—Cavua | Hand quiet | un- | } nthe part ot the peovle to pro- | I know of no better move- | Mr. JOHNSON—I think @ two-thirds Congress, | dangerous and tyrannical department of the gov- | passed, or rather repassed by a majority 01 two- | thirds, should be reserred by tue body in which 16 | The speaker began by referring to the impor- tance of the coming election, He declared that if | tie proposed amendments to the state constitu. | tion are carried this fali they will continue in effect for maay years, It is not the work of a day, but of three years, to change the constitution of this State, These amendments are directed ugainst corruption in the Legislature, in pubile office and at the polls, ‘there are thirteen separate ttems w be voted for at the coming election, | They will be all printed on one slip of paper and each vote will be expected to vote “yes” or “no” to each one of them, That some amendments are needed 1s evident. Our present constitution was framed in 1846, | True, that 18 not thirty years ago; but that 1s equal to more than 300 years in the history of our rapidly growing country, The constitution of Pennsylvania is probably the best in the country. It puts the great monopolies entirely under the | control of the State, This is what we need in, | this State. Tbe speaker then took up and discussed the Dropozed amendments separately, dwelling at some length upon the most important sectious, | are opened 3 and Seneca—income, $17,882 58; expenditu $64,546 23, Chemung—Income, $4,120 41; ex! oa ditures, $118,984 95. Chenango—Income, $5,690 67; expenditures, $333,747 60, Biack Kiver—Income, $10,838 86; expenditures, $119,479 35. Genesee Val- ley—Income, $18,823 46: expenditures, $229,613 30; Croo) Lake—Income, $270 24; expenditures, $15,705 25, NO MORE STATE AID TO MONOPOLIES, Another tuportant article (eigucn) pronibits alt State appropriations or bonding of Lowns for pri- ‘ate ends, Tie statistics collected ou the subject of coubty and town bonding by the Constitutional Commission revealed au amount of indeptedness Waich amazed even toose Lest informed. One city (Poughkeepsie) Was fouud to be bonded tor $1 per cent of its eatire assessed valu- ation; Oswego for zl per cent; Brooklyn, Bingbamton, aud Utica for 15 co 18's percent In the” eounties Where town ponding {oF Tall | rouds had been prevalent the aggregates Of indebteducss were starting, Thasin Olster 16 reached 44 id per cent of the whole valuation; in Chenango. 20 1-5 per cent: in Oswego, 16 per | Cent; iu Sulivan, 224 per cent, Tne total une | Paid AMounvissued bY Lhe Cowns, cities and yil- lages in aio oi railroads was [ound to Le §26,94 ,662, In certain towns the bonded indebtedness Was 80 large #3 to amount almost to contscation, Hk CHARITY BILLS.?? the last to sh.ch I shall call at- bits the granting of State money to private charts This i a ost imoortant amend> Went It strikes at the root of State uppropria- Uons for private purposes, and will prevent for- ever the enactment of so-caved sghariey bills’? like those which characterized the Tweed régime 1p this State, When tie principle is once admitted that the whole people can ve taxed for the support of a private istitution, (ue floodgates and thre is 80 escape irom iflfhense ¢ppropriatious, Ie A's State aid, Why should not r Another, and tention, pr the most Institution recer | Bis? Each appropriation ig (he lorerunuer of a dozen equally worthy applications, and the evil necessarily extends ttseli more aud more widely. ‘thus the “Charity bili’? jor Isd¥ amounted to $563,608, in 1870 16 Nad reached $776,150, and ons Yeur later, mi Is71, it called Jor $1,040,545, This immense appropriation of the people's money produced a reaction, and the next Lewisla- ture, elected just aller Wie Rin developnients as & reiorm body, reiw to pass voy coarity bill at all, thus setting an example watch has been fol- lowed by 1t8 successors in 1873 and 187d. THE GRAND JURY ON A PICNIC. _A Visit to the Islands of Charities and Correction—A Full Measuie of White- wash, At the invitation of the Commissioners of Chari- es and Correction the members of the Grand Jury yesterday visited tue public Institutions on Blackwell's, Raudaii's and Ward’s isiauds, As it was expected that ihe party of the Lord Mayor of Dublin would visit the institutions at the same time, the Commissioners thus conveyed covertly in their mvitation a clever litte bit of Mattery to the Grand Jurors, The Lord Mayor did not appear at the institutions, however; yet the Commission- ers were not very sorrow!ul, lor the very prepara- tions they had made in their insuitutions to please the eye of the Lord Mayor were effective to make the Grand Jurors believe that the establishments are conducted after the most periect manner, The steamer Minnebannock started at hall-past ten A. M., having on board Commissioners Laun- beer and Stern and the following jurora:—Messra, Charles P, Burdett, foreman; Isaac Hendricks, Napoleon J. Haines, Henry H. Dyer, Shepherd Knapp, Jr., Minot F. Birch, Edward P, A, Knott, Wiliam S, Corwin, Alned Petnold, Thompson BR, | F. Randolph, James H. Bird, Frane)s Hendricks, Myer Myers, Charles C. Moreau, Benjamin Albro, | Stephen D. Peters. BALARY, BUI NO “BACK PAY.’? After passing over several trifling emendations, | Mr. Prince said that the amendment which wil of legislative salary, AS you KnOW now, the ac- tai pay of $300 per session only equals ab ut $2 50 per day, the salary to $1,500 per session, The present sai- ary was fixed neariy thirty years ago, when the purchasing power of money was much greater than at present, and the cost of living, couses queotly, far less, ‘he sum then designated, | although smalier than it had been years beiwre, and lar from @ proper remuneration to | men of business or professional lie, was j yet suiletent to meet all expenses oi mod- | erate living in Albany, and ailow a small | sum to be saved ax compensation tor the time | vaken from the ordinary afairs of lie. But ine | Japse of years has entirely changed all this. The coat of living at the capital during the session has | ¢reatiy increased, while no corresponding advance | has been made in'the pay. In all salaries, excep’ Vhose of officers named in the constitution, re- | Peated advances have been made from time to ume. The clerks in the State departments, and | oMmicers and employés of tue Legislature now re- | celve salaries varying from double to five times what they were in 1846, while the compensation {or those who employ them—the State | oMcers und the Legisiature—peing fixed nder the constitution, has remained u banged. In msequence of this we have presented the singular anomaly of heads Of departments, prominent men im the ptate, elected by the people, receiving Irom $1,500 io $2,500 per year, while their depuues, who are comparatively unknown, recetve $3! makers of 5,000,000 of people iving tar less than any of their clerks, doorkeepers or any other aduit employés, noc hall so much as Clerks 01 com- mittees, hor even ¢he amount paid to messengers who are to run thetr errands, The fact that values have greatly altered since 1845 14 100 well Known vo need argument. The change came graduaily and Was as gradually coniormed to by the wor in | general; but these few constitutional saiaries have | remained as monuments of the old time value of mouey. HASTE IN LEGISLATION, The act to which I wish to call your attention ta the relief to be given to the Legisiatpre by tue throwing out of ali local bilis, ‘This is neces- sary in order to give the time tor thorough discus. sion Of important bills. There are introdnved in | the Assembly each session aoout 1,300 bills, of which over 800 are reported javorably and then | Placed on the tiles. This 18 irrespective ot Senate tis, Of Which over 509 are printed. From 1,100 to 4,200 bills in all go through the whole routine im each house during the ses- sion, of which about 1,000 pass both | jouses and are sent to the Governor for approval. ‘These bilis average three pages of the usual style of bill printing, aud require for their reading six minutes each, If the law which requires that compued with the time actually occupied in that way alone would therciore average egutecn min- utes. We find that the time actually required for (he passage of a bill through all its stages in the House, if the letter of the law were complied with, would average thirty-nine minutes. The number of days for which metiners are entitled to be paid 1s 100, Which Inchides Sundays and recess days. In practice, deducting days ou which Qo session is | | held, and counting Monuays, when only an evening meeting 1s held, as tal( days, the nuinber of days ctually employed in jegisiation ranges from flirty. five tosixty-tive, The datly sesvious—necessarily suort duriig the, tirst parto! the year and wea the committees ‘are Most HUsy—Wili Not average over fur hours. By @ {tberai caleulation, then, the angual session during the preserived 1”) days includes aboat 250 hours of actual work in the House, The obvious thas With a session of the present lengt even ievery moment were devoted to bul pas: ing, not allowing auy time Whatever for motions or resolutions, OF potd ss of order or the many mis- cellaneous matters before a vegisiatur: 1,000 bills are to go through the routipe of iegisiatiou, | but fifteen minutes can be devoted to each; that time to thelude every stage of progress—their in- troduction, first and second readings, reierenc report, consideration in Commitiee of the report from thence, third reading aud roll call on fiual passage, Either (he time must be extended, the amount of iegisiation decreased or “short cuts” provided, whieh will enable the work to be “got through” within the prescribed luntis, THE DEATH KNELL OF THE LOBDY. | Now if the control of all local matters 1 re- moved to the county Le » Board of supervisore—all these aificulties are at once ob- Viated. The mempers of that Board woud gen- erally have @ personal knowledge of the facta in- voived {f each particular case; they Would be familar with th vail to act understandingly, All persons ested could with ease appear belore them, and from their acquaintunce With the character of those thus presenting themselves there would be No possibility of deception, Again, they would have every inavcement to do what ws right and just, because they are directiy amenable to the very people interested | in the jocal Measure in guestion, Wher: in the | Legisiature, incladhig both Biancués, } 160 members have no direct inverest. whatever ta she opiuio’ | Ol the peopie of any one joculity and care little, personally, for their good wilt or ti | | wil, One other point worthy of note ix that the passage of (his amendment wili be the death | | knell of the “lobby.” The bills that “have money | tn them)” are not the general acts for te govern- | | ment of the State, but the special ctiarters and tue | | bills relating to local improvements, &c., which | | are tO be Of Corporate or individual beaeds, De- | | stroy special legisiation and you take away the vc- casion of corruption and at one biow relieve the | Legislature irom the unproper influences which | | have gathered around it. j i 4& LONGER TERM FOR THE GOVERNOR, | \ Article 4 provides for the extension of the term of office of the Governor and Lientenant | Governor to three years, and tue therease Of (weir Salaries to $10,000 snd $9,000 per annum respect sively. FRAUDS IN THE CANAL SYSTEM, The present constitauon protiots sue Legisia- tare from selling tie useless canals, They all have to be maintained, although Worse than asetess, probably meet with most opposition is the increase | The amendment proposes to increase | pO each; and | of senators and Assemblymen, Who are the iaw | ery bill shail be read three times were literally | fact is | Whole, | ocations affectéd and could not | inter. | 3 out of | | tion. | unver this arrangement will be retired, as in the ‘The first institution they visited was the Charity | Hospital, where they were received by Dr. Kitet- | on, Chief of Staff, and after an investigation iound | the hospital, and the smallpox and fever hospi- | tais in excellent order, | The party then proceeded to the almshonses, male and téwale; also Uie Hospital tor incurables | and Asyinm for the Bld, 1t happened that tue | patients of the two latter ins ttations were at | their dinner, consequently che visitors aad an op- portunity of lorming an opinion of tue iare, Whtca | they pronounced good, abundant and well cooked, | dpe Workhouse was next visited, It bad @ ciedn and healthy appearance, | The Lunatic Asyium is near the Workuouse, | and was next visited. The Grand Jury. Went through all its departments, accompanted by Mr, | A. Alluire, the Warden. The 81x puvinons were also inspected by the Grand Jury, were the clean, jiness and order mong this aiflicted class seemed to Burprise the jurymen. THE RANDALL'S ISLAND INSTITUTIONS, The boat was then directed toward Randall's | Island, Here about three hundrea young lads, drawn up in miltary form ang dressed in antterm, | received the members of the Grand Jury with | three nearly cueers, alter which came the follows | ing remarks:— | Mr. BURDETT (foreman, walking to the front)— Young soldiers, you are here happy, com- | jortable and weil taken care ol. Instead of being | like chonsands oi other boys who have no house | or home, or worse thaa all, no parents, and who | have nothing but the streets tor their beds, you | are kept clean, confortabie and weli fed and clad, You should be taankial to Almighty God and your kind benelactors, Many of you may yet rise to honorable piaces of distinction in society, Pray | to Almighty God tor His grace to guide and con. dact you. (Lond cheers irom the boys.) A youth then stepped forward and made some | appropriate remarks, | Mr, Hares (a Grand Jaror)—I snalt give, next | January, $25 to the best conduct d, most studious und attentive boy in tls institution, Mr. ARNOLD—And 1 shall give $10 for the | second best boy. | These oifers were received with three hearty cheers. ‘the founding institution and others on the island were then visited and found in good order. WARD'S ISLAND. From Randall's Island the party were conveyed | to Ward’s Islund, where they were met by Dr. | Handy, of the Inebriate asylum and Soldiers’ Retreat, which houses were inspected, while the | old veterans were drawn up in line to receive the | Grand Jury, Commissioner Laimbeer explatacd | how these institutions were worked and then ad- | dressed the old veterans. He said:— JLDIsRS—{he gentlemen wuo have come to | nd you a visit are members ol the Grand Jury of | New York. They have long siuce read how you | amperiiied your lives in the cause of liberty and of. your country, and, if cailed upon, you would, | am’ | Bure, go through similar scenes of devastation and | Dioow, [tis tor you to take care of yourselves, and | we spall endeavor to make you happy and con- ented, my orave, Old, honest veteraus!” (Great cheers) | Mr. Kurpert—Fellow citizens and soldiers— Tam proud and glad to see you so happy and | kept so well, and it 19 @ comiort for you to | know and happiness jor me to feel that there 18 & home for those Wio shed their blood in defence ot | their country. (Loud engers.) , ‘The Lunatic Asylum was next visited, where the | members of the Grand Jury were met by Mr. Lush, Warden, who took them through all the de- | partments of this capactous structure, which was | lonnd in an excelent condition, | _ The Grand Jury, baving finished the Inspection, | made the following presentment:—“We find, on | inspection, that ihe Institutions we have visited | are adinirably Kept, and in such a Way as to merit our hearty approval.”! The members of the party of inspection, before ; leaving Wara’s Island, visited about 150 prisoners, who Were at work on the island. They having | been drawn up in line, Mr, Burdett satd:— “lt is | with regret, mingied with grief, that we see you ‘while Thope you will profit your past folly, and when released trom the never be here to-day; but there Is one consolation, | there ts life there is nope.’ by Penitentiary you wail agato.” found there Ata meeting of the Board of Police, held yester- day afternoon, Sergeants Randal ana Wettte were made Yo exchange places, Patro!men Micha Dagwan, Jacob roll, Joseph McEvoy and Philip McSherry were dismissed, A proposition was | made to abolisu the Second, Third and Twenty- eighth precincts, because it was thought by the Board that the ground now covered by the force of these precincts could be louked alter by the men of the First, Fourtu, Futh, Twenty-seventh, Righth and Ninth precincts, The subdivisions ) would be m: ‘0 that the First and Fourch should take up the Second, the Ptith and twenty-seveuth | the Third, and the bighth aud Math the Twenty- hth, Fulron street to be the dividing line at ray street of the Third, and Olark- | son and Carmiue streets of the twenty-eighth. The same arrangem is to be applied to | the Mueteenth, Twenty-first, Twenty-second and | Vwenty-ninth precincts Mr. Hawiey, the Chief | Clerk, Was ordered to send in to the Board a de- taned statement for carrying this pian into Captains who Will be left without precincts | tue Second, Mr opinion ofthe Board there are several men now | mn the force occupying that rank who are anfit for the service, ‘The rule enforcing the wearing of uniforms is working Wel. and the board 1s welt sausted with the results, No chatges of drankenuess have been made against any patrolman since (t went into operation, u tact that argues powerfully for ih ASSAULT WITH{A HOB, At about eight o'clock last night Michael Gallo, aged thirty-two, residing at No. 56 Baxter street, became eugaged tn an altercation with James McKenna, of No. 409 East sixteenth street, and struck him in the forehead witn 4 large heavy hoe, inficung an ugiy butnot dangerous gash, two ue, THO wi | j The Erie, Champlain and Oswego canals must ve Ant Was promptly arrested by Uiticer Creedon, kept up, and the first pay: more than | of the Bighteearh precinct, and locked ap in the ‘a million into the treasary anausily; bat Twenty-secona street station house. Tac wounded | the small lateral canals are great excumorances, | man was conveyed ja a amibaauce to Bellevue Moapitat,