The New-York Tribune Newspaper, May 29, 1866, Page 4

e ——— Amnsements. T WALLACK'S THEATER. K TOO LATE TO MEND! K kinson arrott, | IE MOUNTEBANK; | n, Messrs. Buruett, Ralion, Blalsdell, ells, Miss Everett, Mrs. Chianfrou. ooty 18, M | W. A, Dourid rews: Miss Blauche Gray, 3 Gratian, M AMiss De L Roe. BROADWAY THE NG -SATAN IN PARI 3. A, Herme, THIS TV JENNY LIND: Miss Helow Wasior STATUE BRIDE— . Madame Strebinge: Wi ENINO, THE E NATION TINS ¥\ PAS DY, FAS nd full compaay The Worreil Sist: THIS EVENIN FLOVR. FOX THIS KYENTLO e B R BARNUY TIHIS AFTERNOON TOM'S CABI ROCKS; THE vo leed, Nolse MINSTRE BALLAD AL ACTS. FARCES, i, SOLOS, DUETS, ete.—MYSTERIES {0TEL—WHO KILLED THE PULICE AL Awav. N OF NEW PICIURES by Mr. T. C. by Mr. for the THIS U BCHOOL ™ - TO-DAY, froe exkivicion ot Walls. . was THIS EVE Vocalists wnd TOPAY ot 1 Juginess Notices. BRILLIANCY OF COMPLEXION is desirable in a lady; and for the praservstion of it BURNETE's KALLISTOX fs guaranteed to be a mos poweriul ausilisry. Inflammation from susburn, and the drynows cansed by e wind and air, are remedicd by its spplication. 1t softens {1 skiu, aud Is sdmirably adapted for geutlomen's use after shaving. Sold by Iroggidn Lyox's [xszor PowpER, for exterminating Roaches, Auts and \ coo reservivg fars and clothing from Motbs. The alual s geaive I E. Lyox. Al others are fmitations 00 othet fnssc Powder but LYoxs. Sold by all druggiats, aad Jarge proportion of the men's knapuacks Twocnes, being generally used by them for Colds, Ko Buewn s Brosonias TRocuss” should be used upon the fret apponssuce of a Gold or Couglh, which by negiect msy ermiuate 1 wome ineurabic 1o og Disee 8,500, —'ar NATION Two Homset %ot 150 bricks per hour, with etright, well dofined edgr Dricks will stand ALL OLIMATES, While those wade by tha dry precng mechines oll CRONBLE 70 PLECSS on b fug BXPOSED T0 Fiosi A frgra, Geversl Agent, contaived a ( ox 3,000 & (ix6LEs rrR HOUR are made by the Suwons Macuixs witls only oNE ORs® Powes; snd ut of timber ONETHIRD MORE SHINGLES thau adway, New -York. 4w taking the place of all othes Horse Liniments o use it scknowledse 1t to be the best kuown oota, sprains, bruises, and in many cases ittor crack. &e. Se. & box. Sold by ail . cts Of this F.mbrecation ere in ‘snd be convinced. For sl ok Row, H. T. litixsoLp, 31, vy, vole s.ent, No. 116 Werren-s AN AFFAvIT.—* I, Isaac L. Dusenberry, of Witliamsburgh, N. Y., bei duiy sworn, sol st December, | Was 40 severaly atflicted with sable to move for three weeks: and that sfter reo doses of METCALFE'S GREAT RErvMATIC bicd to walk without assistance, snd sUmption, BroxcuiTis, ASTHMA and CATARRN, can be seen profes siomally at his roorms, No. 113 Ninthest.. s few doors west of Brosdway, N Y, every Thorviay and Friday. C. C. T. —DIARRHEA AND CHOLERAIC EVIDESCES safely contiollnd by NukDLESS Coxpotxp CAMPHOR TROCHES, sn .ofl"uh-l ewody. Ma 'y by C. H. NeeoLs, Twelfth 30 Raco, Philadcipt i+, 80 co THR ARM Cheatnnt ot fraudulent tm of Cmgoxtc DyspepsiA, PiLes, kmYoUs DEBILITY arc al curable by Nutu: B miers cireuias, one stamp. Won. R. SgooNp-HAND SAFES in large numbers, of our own | wnd othery’ make, taken fo exchange for our new palent ALv and DRy PLastes Saves. For sale low. ‘Marvin & Co , 265 Broadway, sud 721 Chestnut-st., Phita. A HousgnoLp Carp.—Not only all the fashions in l‘.‘fl:‘-fim may be found elsewhere, but & great diversity of styles, whi be found bete else, are couprised in the immen lrwax:'-w‘:': i oles, 418 Curin'e, No. m'lx..a-.'y', 5y, CEPAR CAMPHOR for Motha. droggiste everywhere. Hammi & CHAPMAX, Borton. WinLcox & Gipps SEWING MACHINE. © Teg unam 1 loss lisbie to rip in use cx wear, than the Lock-#titch.” s l’od"nlfl ' dsland Park Trial. ‘Lu'f!f&. Report” d samples of Wotk ;vmfil‘:lnl both stit b el chtreo O it i GrovER & BAxEr's HigHesT PREMIUM ELASTIO Brrron Sxwine Machixes, for family use. No. 435 Brosdway. InpROVED LOCK-STiTCH MACHINES for Tailors ind anufactarers. Omoven & Baxam Sgwixe Macuixs Coxraxy, o. 495 Brosdway. passlca s RIS AL WaegLgr & Wizsox's Lock-Stitcn SEWING Yaomine end Borroxaoue Macuixz. No. 625 Brosdway. FLORENCE LOCK-STITCH SEWING-MACHINES— Best o the weeld FLORENCE SRWING-MACHINE COMPANT, No. 505 Broadway. Tar improved Elllxfln Hook Lockstiteh Sewing- Machioes.—A. H. Sveixs, No. 637 Brosdway. Agents wanted. - - Howg SswixG MAcHINE CoMPANY.—ELIAS HOWE, Y., Prosident, No. 699 Brosdway. Agente wanted. Tug Usiox Burron-Hork Macmixe—Sold exclu- by the Sixaxn Maxvr: ACTURING CoMPANY. No. 458 Brosdway. River, fac- wunnm Cm,lflsfic ';e;.f:::. m“tln:n)x;‘: . A. A.—Dr. LANGWORTHY'S new PREMIUM TRUSS, waslost in use; no back pressure; makes o final cure. HELMBOLD'S, 0. 504 . Trysses, ELASTIO G8, SUSPENSORY BaxD- voms, STOCKIN wu—lnunco.'uw Cure Tru Office 2 Vesey-st. Lady sttendant. MOTT's CHEMICAL Powave nstomvrrly‘ bair, B8 N g v U Dysexesia Tasuprs—For Indigestion, Heartburn, by 8. 0. WeLLING, and s0ld by all_Draggiste. artes tte, dozen; Dupli , $2. 8. M. PerrexoiLy & Co., NEWSPAPER ADVERTIS- 56 Aogsts, No. 37 Park-row, New-York (established in 1849), are #gonts for The Tribune, and ll tbe pewspapers fn the Usited States aud British Proviuces. \ Court 0P GENERAL Sessioxs.—William O'Neil, tonvicted of grand larceny, was remanded for sentence; Geo. Stunter pleaded guilty of an attempt at grand larceny and was peatenced to State Prison for two years; Samuel Moalton to ilty of an attempt at grand larceny, Pouitentiary six iy e Sty of attempt at .xud'l.. it Kane pleaded -::{ py’fid. o Gourt tiga agloarugd for the ferm, A; Brick ;(u'mxu. with only | Liverpool May 16, brought 1,051 passongers. vy sawiog shingle machine. A. Ruqua, Genera! | A WONDERFT L, DISCOVERT. —DALLEY'S GALVANIC | NewDork DailpCribune. TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1566, To Co No notios can betaken of Ancuymous Communioations. Whateverls intended for insertion must be euth ated by the name aud ad dress of (he writer—not necessarily fo publication. but as agusr- anty for bis good faith. Al business letters for this oflice shoula be addressed to ' The Tuis unk,” New-York. We canot uadertake to rsturn rejected Commnniostions. NEWS OF THE DAY. ——— TFOREIGN NEWS. Acocordiug to accounts from Imperial sources roceived aiSau Francisco, the Liberals attacked the garrison at Hermosillo on the 4th inst. and eaptured and pillaged the wwn, The Liberal forces are reported to have committed groat outrages and to have murdered 38 foreigners and 500 who lielped to defond the city. lmperial forces u tly arrived, killed 200 of the Liberals, and drove thereat out of the town . The Imperialists defeated the Liberal Gen. Corona at Sinalos, driving him 35 miles, Kkilling 189 of his men and cepturing a large amount of amwmunition. GENERAL NEWS, James Tughes, chargod with irregularitics in the matter of bounty-hrokerage, was before the United States Com- mission erday. One_chiargo, out of 50 against him, was examined quiw cursorily, and the result was, that the P-.wmr was heid further to answer iu $56,000 bail, which, heing unable to procure, ho went to prison. s At the meeting of the Aldermen yesterday, a proposition was submitted, looking to tho erection of the now Post- Oifico on tho southerly end of tho City-Hall Park, and a comuuittes was utpmnlw to confer with the Commis- sioners of the Siuking Fund respecting o tendor of the property for the purposo indicated. The Second Brigade gnmdml and went to East Now- estorday. 'This lig:do is composed of the Ist Ar- tillery, 3d, 5ib, 6th, 12th, Bith and 9th Iufautry. Col. Borger is the Acting General of this brigado. In the case of Dr. Claus, convicted of mansiaughtor in the third degree for killing Carson, counsel have ob- tained a writ of error with a stay of proceedings until a pew conviction shall be had at the General Torm. Tho Brooklyn City Government have received a potition requesting that the running of street cars on Sunday may be probibited. An ordinance, prepared to mect the wishes of the prohibitionists, was sent in with the petition. In the matter of shooting on board a Hoboken ferry- boat Sunday evening, the partios were before tho Tombs Court, and the aggressive party was held for a futuro ap- poarance in $500 bonds. Lamorande, the all defaulting cashior of the Bank of France, was beforo Unitod States Commissioner Botts yosterday on a question of extradition, The case wes put ovor till to-day. Coroner Gamble yesterday commenced an fnquest on the bodies of the two firemen who were killed at the burn- ing of the Academy of Music. The inquest was adjourned until to-day. Thomas Murphy, aged 19, IurinF no oceupation, and Veiug suspected of complicity in the Forty-third-et. rob- bery cass, was arrested ou Sunday last aud held for ex- amination. Scovel, it is said, will run for Congress as an independ- ent candidate in the First District of New-Jersey; the Democrats of that district making uo vomination. The 9th Regiment celobrated the anniversary of its first departure for tho war by & %v;ndo yesterday afternoon, ac- companied by Dodwortl's fine band Prof-ssor Alonzo Tripp, who for Goveul yoars has lec- tured promiuently in Lycoum cofirscs, principally on European thomes, announces 4 new lecture on Lafayotte. Gov. Fenton left Albauy on Saturday last for his home in Jamestown, Chatauqua County, and, it is understood, will be absent until about the th of June. There will be & German mass meoting in Union-square on Monday aflernoon next to protest against the euforce- t of tho now Excise and Sunday law. xcise recoipts up to last evening were $605,000. There are Vaguo rumors a the exocution of the new law, Sundry persons who violated the Excise law woro before the Police Courts of the city yesierday, and for the wost part wers held for trial, each in $300. The fuueral of the Rev. Dr. Pise willjoccur in the Church of 8t. Charles Borromeo, Brooklyn, to-day (Tues- day) at 10 o'clock a. m. The steamship Scotland, at this port yesterday, from A steamboat was burned on the U Missouri, four days since, at a loss of §25,000. Gold is )mnll{‘lo firm, and closed yesterday at Governwent stocks are all strong and higher. Fo 1862 thore was o special demand at 1022102} firm at 102) @1024, with fow offoring. Money is easier, and on call is quoted 6@7 per cent. In commercisi paper lttie doing. CONGRESS. SENATE. MAY 28.—A Committoe was appointed to investigate the condition of the National Banks. The joint resolution to facilitate communication between the several States | t was ealled up, and an amendment that Cougress m auy time amend or repeal it was rejocted. After an L tive Session the Senaie adjourned. HOUSE. Resolutions were “""l{'““l calling for informaiion as to maps under the treaty of Washington; directing the Secre- tary of the Treasury to inform the House coneerning gold- s by him since the Ist inst.; dispensing with evening s until further orders; calling for inform © nmfllhe Freedmen's Bureau; directing s )] uqui to doubling pensions, and as to putting surviving soldicrs of 1812 on the pe n list; directing a bill to be re- ported entitling Provost-Marshals, &c., to peusious; colling for reports ou the Mvm{xhh nots; di- | recting an inquiry #8 to repealing all laws authorizing brevet rank; directing an inquiry as to sbolishivg all District Courts but one in each State not | entitled to wore than seven members in Co: irect- ing an inquiry as to establishing a national military force in lieu of a standing ermy; and ealling for information as to cotton in possession of the military authorities. Mr. Stevens introduced & new reconstruction bill, which was referred to the Committee of the Whole. Resolutions for the adwission of the Tennessee members were referred to the Committee on Reconstruction. A resolution directing the Priuting Committee to report an eight-hour bill for Governuent employés was rjected. Bills were introdueed to amend the National Currency Act in respect to taxing bank shares; aud coneerning-disbursing ofticers of the United States, A report was presented from the Banking Committee adverse to exempting State banks from the ten per cent tax on eurrency out-tm:dm[’;l.lulyl vext. The Louse weut into Committee, comple! the consic of the tax bill, and reported buck the bill and amen After voting nquruleli' on & number of amendmen Touse passed the bill, 111 to 11, Messages were rec from the President concerning the Freedun B and the mal steamship service fotween tho U, and Brazil. Adjourned. The quarterly Treasury statement (up to March 31) will be found in our Washington columu. The seventh page of to-day’s TRIBUNE cousists wholly of reading matter, including correspondence and local articles of much interest, A public meeting, called by the most influential of the colored people of this city, is to be held at the M. E. Church, in Sullivan-st., near Bleecker, this evening, to take action upon the subject of Impartial Suffrage. The House yesterday completed the consideration of the Tax bill in Committee of the Whole, and the bill and amendments were reported back. Scparate votes were then had on a number of amendments, The section authorizing gas companies to add the tax to their customers’ bills was struck out. An amend- ment transferring the appointment of a special Com- missioner frem the Secretary of the Treasury to the President was rejected, 46 to 73. A proviso that the income lists shall be open to inspection, but not fur- nished nor allowed to be copied for publication, was rejected, 55 to 66. An amendment prohibiting the removal of any revenue officer without the consent of the Senate, unless for malfeasance in office, during the recess of Congress, was also rejected, 57 to 66. The previous question was then seconded, Mr. Morrill congratulating the House on leaving the measure in good shape, and the Dill was passed—Yeas. 111; Nays, 11 — HMONORING THE DEAD. The Daily News justifies the outrage at Augusta, Georgia, whereby Unionists were foreibly prevented from strewing flowers over the graves of our dead soldiers—alleging that . es who got up the movement had every oppor- tunity to decorate the dead, and lo"!onm to their memory; and if they 80, it was simply because that was not their object. ir hearts were set, not ur- honoring the dead Federalists, bul upon ceriding and ineulting the living Confederates. Their object, scarce, disguised, was simpl travesty the previous ceremonies b; & moek procession of & rabble of negroes. The strewiug of flowers was s mere pretext, aud, if accomplished, would have been & mere incident.” —Now, it would be very easy to retort this line of argnment, and say that the concerted progession and | persistent disloyalty; but we can do better. We ad- | surviving Confederates tohonor the graves of their dead ut an organized attempt to oppose | NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1860. flower-strewing over the graves of dead Rebels on the 26th ult. was a*‘mere pretext” for the exhibition of nit—nay, we assert and maintain—the right of the | kindred and compatriots. We will not inguire into their impulses and motives. If an act is right in it- self, its motive may be presumed a good one. We insist that rule shall work both ways. The Unionists had as good & right to honor the graves of their soldiers as the Rebels had. If the latter had all the gentry and chivalry, while we had only ** poor creatures” and *niggers,” tbat may bave beeu our misfortune, but did not affect our right. And those gravos shall be honored; those who do mot care to participate having full liberty to stay away. We shall seo what are the rights of the loyal in the prem- ises, aud how they aro to be upheld and enjoyed. p it WHITHER DRIFTING? The N. Y. Times closes an_elaborate manifesto on “The Political Future” as follows: “The Executive Department of the Government adopts one line of policy. lndufifllnn of the Upion party in Congress uts forth anotber. Mr. Stovens, and those who act with him, sist on * protecting a preserved Government’ by treatiug the States lately in rebellion as conquered provinces or as ferri- torios—by ennflunllnf their property, denying them repre- sentation, disfranchising their , imposing upon them universal negro suffrage, and so crushing their evergics and depriving them of political power as 1o render resistance fereaftor hopeless. Does The (Buffalo) Erpress beliove that the Union party, continuing its activity ou such basis as this, can continue its successest Withsuch a platform, and with it '.nonnnno to ocenpy its sphere in the “*The idea I3 proj us. _No sagacions politician can for moment deem it possible. If the Uwion party had been guided by prudence, woderation,aud magnanimity—if its lead- ers i Congress had boen men who sought to unita, b and enlarge its active vse ess, instead of pushis opiuions and promoting fectious designs—they would have rotained the hearty sympathy and cobperation of the Presi- dent, commanded tho assent of the t mass of the people, Janted the germs of a strong Unlon party in every Southern tate, destroyed forever all possibility of incre sectional divis- jous, and made the Union party the strongest, most pel and most beneficent political organization this country has everseen. As it is, they have nearly wrecked it. By skillful v wise forbearance and deferonce to clashing con- Yiotions, something of this may yet ba saved, But without these, there is but one alternative—either such & moditication of existing parties as shall meot tne new emergoncles of tho hour, or & sweeping (riumph of tho Democratic party in 1863, And'tho choice must be made very #000.” Remarks by The Tribune. Following closely on- the heels of Gov. Seward's last Auburn speech, we can only understand the above as indicating the purpose of those who give tone to The Times to divide tho Union party if possi- ble—at all events, to destroy it. We are plainly told that it is the lack of * prudence, moderation, and magnanithity,” and the cherishing of *‘factious de- signs"” on the part of those who disagreo with Mr. Androw Johnson, that has caused alienation—that it is wholly the blame of Congress and those who feel and think as Congress acts, that has deprived them of * the hearty sympathy and cobperation " of the President. Of course, the inference is irresistible that wisdom and patriotism, * skillful pilotage and wise forbearance,” dwell with those who agree in the main with the President—that is, with the Copper- heads and Rebels, who, withont one kuown excep- tion, are enthusiastic and unqualified in their sup- port of ‘“the President’s policy.” Says The World, with unwonted truth and force: « Whence does opposition [to the President’s policy] eome? From the Republican party solely ~ Why ia it formi. enough to bock restoration, and complately progresat Only becanse the opublican majority againat i #0 large, that ifs friends in that party are powericss to move hand or foot. * & ¢ ¢ 0 belieres they will reeant ! ves that, without their recantation, the policy of ¢ will sncceed, except by Democratio votes? A dispense | the P politieian who proposes to convert the Kadicals. and with Domocratic aid, talks so wide of the actual that he cannot be listened to with patience. In th the coming Autuma, the President will appeal to the p st Congress; aud the vordiot will be sgainst him unless itizens who voted for McClellan are reduforced by yotes ity. * " The Radicals | o & majority of th an party in every Congressional | district, and “will therofore make il the nominations. It the Conservatives co 1 the party, they will be | Tound by the 1 f the majority, avd be! cloct enemies of the I next Congress.” ~1Itia the truth that The Times despai | converting t | and expects ou | to secure th all vociferons Atenth of the v cast for McC! a tithe of its v party, trausfer | elect a Copporhead Congrass, which will repeal the | Test Oath and the Civil Rights bill, admit the ex- Rebels to seats, and ¢ gn the Southern Blacks to such a futuf® as the White Southrons shall see fit to | accord thern. Such is the consummation for which The Times is assiduonsly, zealously prepari why not | say what yon meaa? You don't expect to oarry the Union party for the Johnson programme; you know that the Copporhead party are for it already, and were instinctively from the start. They only needed to know that it puts the loyal Blacks under | the feet of the ex-Rebels to give it their hearty support. Vallandigbam is for the Johnson policy by | instinet: so is Gen. Forrest; so is Capt. Semmes. There is not & Quantrell or Salisbury Gee in the land who doesn't stigmatize Thaddeus Stevens as a disunionist, and boast his own derotion to the Federal | Constitution and the President’s policy. The Times is going straight over to these worthies at its highest speed: why does it seek to hide the fact from its readers? to draw off (rom it voters en dver: aric seiden Lincoln in 1564 wou d his election, ¢zl la ke | ers away from the Republica-Uni N em to the Democratic, and you will | ELEGANT EXTBAC OM REBEL LAWS, A resolution haslately been passed by the Hous which contemplates the publication of the laws passed Ly the reconstructed Legislatures of the Rebel States, We forget the precise shape which the matter took; but we trust an effort will be made in Congress to get these codes before the people, and especially that a digest may be made of the statutes affecting the freed- men. Parts of these have slready been given to the public in this journal; but the whole ought to be pre- sented in a concise, readable, and authoritative form, that the facts in regard to the scheme of reconstruc- tion may be known. From what we have thus far seen, we believe this legislation is of a character so vindictive, so regardless of all the rights of the freed- men, and so utterly contemptnous of the spirit of the anti-Slavery amendment to the Constitution, that it will abundantly demonstrate the unfitness of the Rebel States for immediate readmission. A friend bas sent us the laws of Florida passed by ber Legislature at its session begun Dec. 15, 1865, comprised in a pamphlet of 156 pages, and published under direction of the Attorney-General. They will repay an attentive examination. We should be con- tent to take the opinion of the most conservative lawyer in New-York on their legal merits; for we do not believe o respectable lawyer can be found who would be willing to approve a code so in- famons as this. Let us begin by stating a few of its general characteristics; bearing in mind always that the negroes, by emancipation and by the amendment, were relioved from all the disabilities incident to a state of Slavery, and became entitled to equal civil rights with the Whites. 1. The negroes, mulattoes, and all colored men, are disfranchised, not allowed to vote, hold office, or sit on juries, even where their 0wn interests are involved. 11. They are sabjected to a triple taxation. They are taxed, first, for all purposes for which the Whites arc taxed. aud to the samg extent. Secondly, they are taxed to support their own schools and school sys- tem, including the salaries of State and county super- intendents, while they are not allowed a cent from the school fund arising out of the lands given to the State by the United States for that purpose, nor isa cent raised by taxing the property of the State for their | benefit. Thirdly, the children of aged and infirm ne- groes who have been worn out in the gervice of their old masters, are compelled to support’ their parents, Although support in their old age is an honest debt which@heir former masters owe them, these chival- rous gentlemen have repudiated the debt, and by the | laws throw it upon their poor and illegitimate offspring. | IIL The Florida Legislature has put the colored | | Ninetieth-st............ people entirely at the mercy of the ‘Whites, by dis- arming them and armiog the Whites. N IV. These laws establish a system of Slavery more odious and oppressive than the old system. They pro- scribe for evory trifling offense the pillory and the lash. Toevade the constitutional ameudment which prohibits Slavery or involuntary servitude exceptas a punishment for crime, they have enlarged the cata- logue of crimes. These Florida Rebels bave placed it in their own power to force the negroes into vagran- oy, and they haye made vagrancy a crime for which the freedman may e sold into servitude for a year at 2 time. By these laws, the mere being out of employ- ment is vagrancy, although the poor man may bewill- ing aud anxions to work, could he but find employ- ment. The negroes just freed from Slavery are of course poor and destituto. They bave no lands, no houses, Do tesms or tools, or other means of setting themselves to work. If their former masters, who own all the lands, will mot employ them, they are, of course, forced into vograncy. If they are unable to pay & fine or forfeiture for any offense, mo matter how trifling, they may be sold at auction to whoeyer will take them for the shortest time, and pay fine and costs. These sales, moreover, are cumulative; that is, a man may bo sold under several different charges at the same time, and the perfod-of his servitude may reach twenty years, ormore. We aro assured that, in the interior of that State, on negro has recently been sold for four years, and others for a less time. And a sale even for that period may be practically a sale for Life. Suppose Florida readmitted in her present state, and all check upon her legislation removed, all restraint upon her vindictive passions taken off—what chance will & negro, once sold, have to regain his freedom, or control of himself? *If the present authorities,” says a thoroughly well-informed correspondent, ** feel that they aro to havo the power and full swing to carry out the law as it now stauds, I do not beliove it would be two years before half the negroes in Florida would bo sold into this kind of Slavery.” All that restrains the redstablishment of the old system is the doubt whether the policy of the President will prevail. If it should, woe to the negro at the South! Nor is vagrancy the ouly erime which makes & basis for a slave system. If & colored man violates his co® tract, ho may be punished as for vagrancy—that is, may be sold into Slavery. Whatis * violating a con- tract?” Well, for one thing, “‘wanton impudence’ is; and the planter or his Whito neighbor or crouy are to be judges whether the negro has been impudent or not. ** Disrespect to the employer or bis agent” is another crime punishable by Slavery. *Failure to perform the work assigned him " is a third cause for which the negro may be sold on the auction-block and scarrod by the lash; no matter whethor such fail- ure may proceed from illness, or from the extortion- ate demand of bis employer, or from any other cir- cumstonce. Iu either case, he may be sentouced to labor for twelve months,.or to imprisonment for the same period, or by whipping, or the pillory, orboth, at the diseretion of the Jury. The number of offeuses to which tho latter punishments are made applicable is frightful, and sufficiently shows the determination of the Florida plauters not to surrender tho lash as a means of controlling the Blacks, Formerly, the plaster flogged his slavo whenever he chose, as a matter of course, and public opinion sustained him. Now, he has not only a revengeful and malicious public opinion, but the express enactment of the statute-book. As the law now stands, the negro uflers stripes, the jail, and slavery, for simple breach act; while the master, who is the other party contract is merely liable, as in other cases, to to be recovered by the megro in a suit at aw, wherein the mdge, the jury, the law- yers, and all but the miserable Black plaintiff himsell, will be Whites. And this isonly a t of the beau- tios of Florida law as it stands to-day—of a law which rnles a State that Andrew Johnson says ought to be forthwith admitted into Congress to help to make ! Yaws for therest of the Union ! e THE WEST VIRGINIA ELECTION, The following returns havo been received from the iu West Virginia on the Constitutional | recent v Au the right of Suffrage to Rebels: Against it. Berke Olio... . Wetzal. .. SOOTHING LITERATURE. We oceasionally edify ourselves by a perusal of the Current Reports of the ** Auditor of Accounts™ in the | Controllor's Office, setting forth the amount of moneys disbursed by the Corporation for varions pur- poses during the quarter in which said accounts aro made up. Theso reports embrace items paid out by the City only—the County bureau not being included. We have before us the report of the Auditor for the quarter ending March 31, 1566, being Board of Alder- men document No. 10. We cannot avoid congratu- lating some of the lucky fellows whose names appear in this valuable treatise. Take, for instance, our Democratic friend, George H. Purser, who, our readers will recollect, once wanted to hold the purse-strings of the City, but the people said No! By this document, he appears to be in clover and onght to be content. His name first appears on page 189; but it runs throngh the next 20 pages of the book in the most delightful manner. The trifling items which the Controller paid lucky George during the quarter ending last March 31 are as follows: ‘Warrant No. 126. George II. Purser, services as Clork, opentng Oue-bundred-and fifteent from Touth: ave. to the fudson River ... Drafting and Warrant No. 129. Roow-rent aud Fuel ... ‘Warraut No. 130. Disbursements, Kevenue Stamps, Making a total of . which George pocketed on that little job. The next warrant, No. 148, which lucky George gets, is as Clork in opening Ninety For services Fifth- ave. to Harlem River . Warrant No. 130, Drafting an Warrant No. 151, Room-rent, Fuel, &e. ‘Warrant No. 152, Disbursements, Stamps, &c. Making for George ouly.... or being a saving to the City of about $400 as com- | pared with the first “*Opening.” But George makes up the loss to himself on the next ** Opening;” for, on page 195, we find the following: Warrant No. 169. George IT. Purser, servicos as clerk, open ing Sixty-third-st,, from Fifth-ave, to East & & 2) 0. 171, Warrant Warrant No, 172 Warrant No. Total for George..... Good for George! say w appear again, until we reach page 197. learn he had another ** streak of lucl Warrant No. 192 was presented to George for drafting and copying report opening Seventy-flest from Fourth-ave. to East River. ,200 80 rafting and copyiug report. Roomreot and fuel.o..- Disbursements . Lucky George don't Ou that, we Warrant No, 193, rent, fuel, &o 340 00 Warrant No. 194. Disbursements and 105 00 ‘Warraot No. 201, Clerical serv 500 00 Total for Seventy-first-st.. v ,145 80 When we take into consideration the fact that $1,500 was paid to other persons for clerical services on the same openings, we can with confilence exclaim, * Happy George!” Page 199 embraces but a single item for Purser George; that being Warrant No. 210, which he gobbled up for services clerk in opening $1,200 00 But the next page rescues him from seeming ill-luck, for Warrant No. 212 bim, for drafting sud copying the report Warrant 213, Room-rett and fuel .. Warrant 214, Disbursements and stamps a8 “Swag " for George on Ninetieth-st Fortunate George ! No other crumbs agpar for George until we reach paged 203, Here v.'00rge again looms up, the following items: b Yo, 4 1acky dog, for drafiin, Y (Note the exactuess of the itenis not fifteen, hand- red dollars, but fifteen hundred doilars and THiRTY- TW0 cENTS—neither more nor less, Shylock could not have made out this bill, for he is dead.) Then comes the following: Wm‘fl{ No. 4. Room-rent, fuel, &o Warrant N sbarsements and Atamps. ‘Warraut No. 242. Clerical services... Making a total for George in that matter of only $2,350 32. Lovely George! say we. " Goorge again disappears, until we reach page No. 206, Thereon, Warrant No. 253 makes George the recipient for drafting and Copying report opening Ose-bundred-and-thirty. third st. Room-rent and fuel (only). Warraut No. 255, Stamps and Disbursements Warraut No. 261, Clerical services... Total for George on One-bundred and-thirty third-sté2, 115 00 Incomparable George! Lot the kind reader follow uf to page No. 209, and we have done with honest George for the present: Warrant No. 274 covsoled Georgo for drafting and copying report opeuing Seventy-seventh-st. (very moderate at) ‘Warrant No. 275. Room-rent and fuel (o1 ‘Warrant No. 276. Disharsements (but). . ‘Warrant No, 231, Clerical services (trifl The delighted otrners of property in Seventy-seven st. only pay George. On recapitulation, we find that our George had and received from the City Treasury, for *street-open- ings" ALONE, during the last quarter,” the trifling sum of SeveNTEEN TuousaNp Eigar HUNDRED AND SixTy-THREE DoLLARS and THIRTY-TWO CENTS; and further, that it was all paid to him on the same day, to wit: the lucky 24th day of January, 1366; from all which we draw the following conclusions: First: That George is a lucky dog, because he is the only dog in the City that has been ablo to procure s0 many delicious bones to pick in such a limited space of time. Second: That he is a happy dog; for the most mis- erable cur extant ought to feel happy to have that dish of City Warrants (317,868 32) set before him, with the polite request to * go in.” Third: He is a smart dog; for he can bark at half a - and * fobs" Warrant Lek8 8sss dozen openings at the same instant; and Fourth: He is an economical and bumane dog; for ho underlets his kennel to more dogs, and at higher prices, and keeps it better wormed, than any other dog outsideof the final resting-place for all such dogs. Observe, that by separating the bones into homo- geneous lots, we find he received for the use of the kennel and warming it alone the sum of $2,665; and then for a few barks as Clerk he received $9,000; although other dogs were emploged to bark in the same service to the tune of $7,000. Herely, we seo that George is a genuine bull-dog, and never lets go of the root of all evil. Notwithstanding all the good points above enumer- ated, the tax-payers and property-owners along the line of ** the openings” declare that George is a very sad dog after all. They say that their money is filched from them—that his services are either ornamental or mythical—and that such drafts upon the City Treas- ury tend to destroy coufidence in the honesty of every man who countenances, abets, or aids such impudent, bare-faced villainies, There are some other dogs in | this book that we shall notice hereafter. P. §.—We forgot to add that this same George is a public-sptrited and progressive dog. He is the dog that wants all the ornamental features of Fifth Avenne destroyed, unless the owners shall fesl con- strained to * stand and deliver.” COLORED CLERGYMEN. We have to face all manner of music in these dis- tracted days. It may be rather mortifying to have wholesale missionary operations—conversion, not to paint it too finely, of domestic heathen—going on un- der our own civilized noses—not the Greeks (a3 John Randolph screamed), but the Potawotamies, the Talosof the Sealanders, the Patagonians, the Dabo- meys at our very front door !—not struggling, single supplicants, but heathens by the million calling loudly for clergymen to come and help them. Whether it |is the Southern cash or ihe Southern conscience | which has suddenly given out, wo do not take upon oursclves to decide; but very pressing demands are now made upon Northern pockets for the pur- pose of evangelizing the Southern inbabit- ants of whatever cuticular shade. As a single item, we may mention that 1,200 meeting-houses wore destroyed during the war, valued at $5,000,000, Most of these, sooner or later, the North, in one way or another, will be called npon to rebuild. The Baptists recently held a grand conven- tion in Boston; and it really seemed as if nobody could think or talk of anything but the desolate con- dition of the Southern churches, and the magnuificent field of labor which Emancipation had opened. Other denominations are not behindhand. The Methodists are making mighty preparations for a sporadic incur sion. The Episcopalians are wide-awake, if we may say so without irreverence. The Unitarians, not- withstauding their dreadful snubbing in Charleston, are still kind, forgiving,;and generous. Most of the sects interested at all are specially so in the work of education for the ministry of colored preach- ers. Ethiopia is mnot only to stretch forth her hands, but she is to be furnished with Hebrew Bibles and Greek chrestomathies and Latin versions, with bodies of divinity and treatises on pulpit elognence, and all the usual outfit of a di- vinity-school graduate. Ethiopia, held heretofore to be but dubiously human at best, under the ancieut Dban of God special and unchangeable, ito be invited to seek salvation. Ethiopiais to be forgiven her facial angleand ber disreputable shin-bone. Ethiopia, hereto- fore held to be lucky if she were permitted to rank her- self with the sheep, now and then furnishing from her black flock a simplo and untutored sheplerd, is to lave shopherds now of her own race trained sedu- lously for the work, and not wanting in any point of essential theological condition. Ethiopia really seems to be in lnck in these her latter days. slaveholders, that they took particularly good care of slaves to preach once a week to certain other slaves, a proper number of White men being by to look out for heresy and ** incendiary” appeals not having the lower regions for their special topie. But now, when | the gates of this Zion are opened, and we can go in and freely inspect the premises, we do not somehow find the beautiful temple which we were assured ex- isted for high and low alike, and alike for bond and free. It turns out to have been a sort of sacred Spanish castle, What religious apparatus the slaves had, they owed to their own provizion. If they had a bumble meeting-house, it was the work of their own hands after weary bhours of uurequited toil. They sold their chickens and their pigs to pay their pastor, if, haply, he was paid at all. If they had a White clergyman, he was always harping upon that well-known test, “Servants, be obedient to yonr masters,” If they had Bibles, they kept them as,charms; for by few or none—ly none legally—could the sacred volume be read. The Black, rich in relig ing to cling to but religious hope, with nothing to assuage his wretcheduess but religions consolation, was poiuted out as particularly happy, because he did not hang his harp upon the willows, and did find heart to sing the songs of the Lord in a strange land, though in a minor key and with tears in the most ex- ultant strains. We know what care slaveholders took of the body of & chattel—at best, the care which | a good-tempered and pradent turfman takes of the borse which be has selected to win fox binm the sweeo- e ———— - | stakes. But tho patriarchs weré always very high ano . Miglty about the caro which they tock of the scrvils wOUS. - And beliold! this care turns out § hava beon ay bogus as the other. The patsiarchal curator w8 like Young Norval's father. His only care was * to é1creass il store,” aud not *“to keey bis son at Lome; " for ko genorally sent him, upon ti first opportunity, to $h0 New-Orleans man-market, ‘Whether the new ne§ro ministers, upon completing their curriculum, will be allowed to preach s long broad and whole gospel, ex0ept by the grace of Uniog bayonets, remains to be seen. We are sorry to doubty but, with our eyes open, we aro obliged to. Onlg look at the account which we published the other day of the adventures and sufferiugs of Mr. Lewis, s Methodist and Presiding Elder of the Charlestor (8. C.) District. Ho went out to Barnwell District, and preached there to five hundred persons. He bap tized eighty-four persons, and administered the saora ment to two hundred. The next day comes to hing a erowd of Confederate rioters, and among them W, It was held to be ono of the strongost poiuts of the | the souls of their serfs: that is, that they allowed certain | | G nore Simms, jr. *‘Are you the d—d Yankes preacher who barangued the niggers here yesterday 1™ quoth Simms. ** Cut his throat,” says another benevo- lent White man. “ Make mince meat of him,” cries another, **Show me your authority for preaching the gospel, you d—d Yankee!” exclaims anothor ar dent admirer of occlesiastical order and disgipline. At this point, Mr. Lowis managed to get into a car and to oscape to Charleston; being reserved, perhaps, for future martyrdom. ‘We do not often obtrude our advice upou religions bodies; but, if there be one which bas a penny to spare and o preacher at liberty, we beseech it tosend s minister extraordinary to South Carolina, eharged with the one duty only of convertiug the heathem soul of the junior Simms to politeness and Christianity. The work is qnite as much a3 one man ought to nader- take, : WHAT'S IN A NAME? A writer for The Montgomery (Ala.) Mail says: “ When Slavery existed amon, proper for siaves to assume the purpose of their idontity. They have now become 2008, having no identity with, nor relation owners. Weo would have to -moprhu"nolr former owners' Lames, any. any other property.’ o complains that the names of the most respoct- able citizens, hitherto ** dissociated from crime,” are now dragged through the police courts, heralded in the newspapers, and spread upon the criminal records of the country, “as guilty of all the crimes contained in the decalogue, or which disgrace humanity,” and asks, when these names are " * thus published to the country without explauation, who it S e oc ool oe Tty Thus Pib Ucly disgragod Ab, there's the rub, Who will be able to say whether it is the white, yellow, or black descendan{ from the aristocratio ancestry, that has committed the crimes reported in connection with the family name1 1t it be treason, assassination, murder, highway rob- bery, torture by starvation, arson, and the like, per- haps it would be a safe rule to set it down to the whiter line of descent. But, if the offenses be of the milder catalogue, such as roceiving an education, as sembling for religious service, energetically cultivating thesoil, refusing to work without wages, eud the like, it is fair to infer they are commitied by the darker mombers of the family. It is suggestod that the Fro¢dmen's Bureau take steps to compel tae freedmen to drop the patronymic inberited from their fathers aud owners, and to adopt ** a name of their own.” Now, if the poor negro is able to live and thrive under all the odium that attaches to many of these pames, it seems to us that the Whites, who have brought them into reproach, ought to be grateful for the continuance of the copartuership. But if these squeamish ex- Rebels aro dissatisfied with their names, they need not make it a new cause for hate and violence toward the negro; let them petition the Legislatures to have them changed; for they will thus not only escape the chances of being confounded with the colored mem- bers of their family, but will also avoid the trans- mitting to their own descendants the odiuw of treason which must necessarily attach to and foillow the named of traitors. IMPORTATION OF LABOE. How one absurdity is sometimes swallowed up by another is seen in the present somewhat extensive movement for the importation of labor into the Guit States. The popular theory hitherto dogmatically promulgated by Southern leaders was, that white men could not labor in the Southern States. Cofton, sugar, rico and tobacco could be cullivated successfully *‘only by niggers;” * white men will rot like sheep on a cotton plantation;” **nothing but a nigger and a mule can stand the Southern sun”—these were the chief postulates of the economists South. More recently, Slavery being abolished, and the political atmosphere changed, old *truths” have perished. Now the *“nigger” is utterly worthless, **Cotton, sugar, rice and tobacco cannot be made by fres niggers.” The whole economy of nature has, there- fore, suddenly ehanged. The climate of the Cotton States is the most delightful in the world, perfectly healthful and most congenial to the white laborer. Thus, it would seem that truth may, through hate, force itself where experience and common sense failed to carry it. For the newspapers aad men who, a lit- tle while ago, were so persistent in their abuse of for: eigners and ** Northern mudsills,” and maintained an effective opposition against the introduction of white and intelligent labor into the Cotton States, are now the most zealous advocates of the wholosalg importa- tion of foreign laborers. & Six months ago, it was insisted that *niggers won't work, and white men cau't stand the climate.” The South was declared to be utterly ruined; sud nothing but the introduction of coolies, or the devisement of some system of freed labor would ever again enablo the planters to resume operations. These theorists have now tacked about. The truth that labor, to be valuable, must be certain, has always been a funda- mental axiom the world over; but the plauters in the South are ouly just beginning to understand that it is possible to secure the certainty of labor by other means than shackles, whipping-posts, blood-houads and lashes. Labor protected in its civil viglits by the right of suffrage is now presented to the people of the South as one of the accomplished facts of the times— as available and as practicable on the Southern plan- tation as on the Western farm or in the Eastern fac- tory. But the late Rebels must persist in their hatred of the negro; and this perverse prejudice which pos- sesses and governs the whole class that essays to represent the South, blinds them to the plain, short, practical road out of all their difficulties. If the negro proves himself an industrious laborer, he will become & permatent citizen, clothed with all the rights, privileges and immunities of citizenship; he will become an active element in the politics of tho States; a power in the land; a voter whose ballot will determine elections. This must be the logical and irresistible resnlt of successful labor by the freedmen; therefore, he must not be allowed to suc- ceed, He must bo tampered with, dofrauded of law- fal wages, forced to live on short rations, wust be ill lad, education must be denied to his children and religions instruction to bimself and family; be must fous genius, with noth- | be abused, insulted, driven from his bome, beaten and inhumanly treated, until endurance becomes imp».ai. ble, that when forced in self-protection to resistance, he may be shot. Allthis to prove that freedmen cannot be relied on to cultivatd the soil in the Cotton States., They must then be superseded by white labor and driven from the country. *They Il become extinet like the Tudians.” Socigties bave aiready been organized in the Cotton States for the importation of laborers, who may iutimo become * voters identifiod with Sontharn intarash g »