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NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE; THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1866. here aud there an officer may not have proved inca- | contract between such a person and 4 colored servant Testimony of the eflicacy of MARSDEN'S 8 - ‘axans) had com forming _the extreme right of | Vi Ampsements. & ": = Ynfi.x.n?wnwhn‘mvfl ¥ cavelry, * * % ANATIVE p 9 e e B L) pable or faithless; it is whether on the whole the | shall be approved for two years, Among tho cases I.hnlo w‘m Seith EVENTNG, S It 1B o TO6 LATE 70 MEND: : :Y o b I‘l‘"“"’:‘:m"‘\"l":“’."'"' Bureau is not honestly and successfully administered | when the State may take colored children from their | This seems to settle the question of the time .when ;;'::: T n e ; " Ringootd, Wiiain 1_ A Macklnaés 1 ,,,‘,fl,':,:iw,',',,;,‘,,..‘.“,.; watf] 1 knew thele victess. for the benefit of the blacks. And on that question | parents in order to ““apprentice ™ them, we find one, Longstreet joined Jackson, and that Longm'eet dldlnot ?;h&_fl%zu&l!fi."'; Booote o she Vard. | A Phyaicisn: "Tuis Medicise will evolutionie ocr practce. wo bave uo fear of the public verdict. when the parents do not teach their children babits of | front’Gen. Porter at any ume;. but Stuart's cavalsy, | mention a som ay hm.‘,"m&nn“‘l‘ The paople all say Mansokx's SANATIVA PILLY are (ho beat known Sy - industry and honesty. There would be, of course, | *further on,” bad held him, with 15,000 fresh troops, m‘%" "'"“:m for S GARDEN. 4 Yearw . B AmE s} A large meeting assembled last evening in Cooper | not the least difficulty under this law to ““apprentice ” | in idleness and inaction, although within souad of the | pro “m should s VBELPHEGOR, THE MOUNTEBANK | DaLLEY'S GaLvANIC HORSE-SALVE cures the worst | Institute, to express the public fecling in favor of sus- | the whole of the young gencration of the coltred | musketry at Groveton, all the afternoon of the 20th. | Probery ’“’z“::‘ under my anbne P Cldatna. cunes of Galla, Soxatehes. Sweliings, Pricks, Cutr, Spreine and Braises. | (000 (he enforcement of the Excise law. It was | people. E Swoeping away Stuart's two regiments of caval by all Druggists at 80 cents York. Howg's Corrox Picker—Picks 600 to 800 pounds per day in the Geld, cleanee than by band. Southern Agents wanted. Howe MANGFACTURING Co., No. 31 Cedar-st. Every borse owner sho: abor.” Depot No. 49 C ke would have fallen on the flank of Longstreet, and, by a vigoro s blow, ko could easily have routed his exhansted columns and enabled Pope to have gignals | ized his battle on Friday by tha rout of Jackson's ermy, and probably its capture. But Mr. Swinton should know that these questions. of time about Longstreet's forces, or the forces in frout " of Porter, bave no bearing whatever on the finding of OLYMPIC THE ' - ol .2 e s THIS, EVENING, st 8—-DAVID CO! There is only one more law—in the Mississippi Con. stitution—to which we will call special attention. It provides that all freedmen * who are found unlaw- tully assembling themselves together,” and all white persons “‘so assembling with freedmen,” shall be deemed vagrants, How long, we would like to know, will it take the courts of Mississippi to expel, under the provision of this act, every teacher of a colored such a voice as will be heeded. A report will be found in another column. AY THEATER. E CORSICAN BROTHEES; Mise Helen We have again to chronicle the arrival of a ship with cholera. The Peruvian reached this harbor yesterday from Liverpool, apd reports 35 deaths dur- ing her passage, and 28 cases on board. Two deaths from cholera are also reported in the city. The pre- Fraxg Minier & i Shhiv iiba- Co.—Harnoss Oil, Blacking and full cowpany. W THIS EVENING, THE PAS DE FASCINATION Poiab, Oil Blucking, and Leather Preservation and Waterproof Oil = Blacking. 7?;#!4:\" 18 and !fl( - 8. M. PerreNciuk & Co., NEWSPAPER ADVERTIS- THIS EVE: < English Cowic Opers of THE DOCTOR sy Yok (establisbed {n 1849, % b e s ; 3 ::fl. S The r:m;: “m'ifi"hfl:l",.,." (n mlm. l,::ul\d Sty | COULIODS that Lave heretofore proved effectual are | school from the State? the Court. Gen. Porter was tried for disobedience of THIS EVENI Y0 FRY THRATER 4 Buitish Provinces. again employed, and there will be, we presume, no | An abstract of these laws should be in the hands of | Pope's . 'er in not attacking Jackson's right and rear SR BRI e Py ThoneE FARE VeoNEN; ROBERT, more alarm nor danger than before. every voter of the Union party, Whero its views | on Friday, the 20th. He was found guilty of thatdis- | yugties Nolson of the Supreme Court has 1 are not yet fully harmonized asto the kind of Freod- | obedience, and on that finding was condemned I, ohiarged on & Wit fof Lbeas corpus, James Ege BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM. NewDork Daily Tribune. Yosterday's debate in the Senate on the Reconstruce at 2, and THIS EVENING st 7§ UNCLE d 3 men's Bureau the country needs, if the Actof Eman- [ however, he had proved, to tho satisfaction of tho | 4 ganeh Carolinian, convicted before a milit v S e n:,:"‘ tion Amendment secms to show that the Republican | oip.ion s to o inforced, an acquaintance with those | Court, all that Mr. Swinton now elaims to havo dis- | 1iogion of felonionsly shooting a nogro boy '.Zg 0: p :';'Ii'uuahm:‘m?fll‘ THUF!Q[)AY. MAY 31, 1866, majority has made up its mind to adhere substantially Southern laws will soon effect it. covered iu this *unconscious testimouy given by the tember, snd thereupon sentenced {a the Albany P A to the measure as modified by the amendments of Mr. Confedorate Generals,” his guilt would have been Howard. A number of propositions from the other gpeyore 2 gl greatly aggravated by such proof; and the probability SWINTON’S ARMY OF THE POTOMAC AND FITZ-JOHN PORTER, e tentiary for life. The Judge says such offenses .. No noties ean betaken of Auonymous Communications. Whateverls only bo punished under the laws and judicial ; - n LD TIME'S ROCKS; THE Dave Keed, Nelss CHRIS , at 8:10, L ACTS.FARCES, \ —MYSTERIES THE POLICE THIS EVENING, BURLESQUES, OF THE FIFTILA MAN? K S, DUETS, ete. HOTEL=WHO KILLED F DESION. xhibitlon of the WORKS OF BROADWAY, ¢ PHRENOLOGICAL MUSEUM of No. » admission to th N B ABYSSINI APTIST CHURCH. WAVERLEY-PLACE. THIS EVENING. ENTERTAINMENT by the BOON ILY for the Tendu Lusiness Notices BUrNETT's FLORIMEL closely resembles the odor of & rare aud delicate bouquet of fowers, aud in this respect stands warivaled. A few dzops will leave its peculiar and delightful fragraace upon the handkerclief for many hours. Borxerr's Coroaye is equal to the beat imported. It is put upin o meat and elegant o) dresing table. o which it is 1ts Lurinsio werits really justify the high ropatation 1 Providence Journal. For sale by all draggits. Lyox's Inseer Powper, for exterminating Roaches, Ants aud Vermio, ud preserviog fuzs and clothing from Moths. The original and genulue insigned E. Lyox. Al others sre im Take no other Tnscct Powder but LYow's. Sold by all drugg by Barxes & Co.. No. 21 Park-row. VALUABLE AND RELIABLE.—* BROWN'S BRONCHIAL Trocuns " will be found invelusble to those exposed to shdden ehanges, affording orompt relief in cases of Coughs, Colds, ete. For Public Speakers sud Singers, aud those who over-tax the voice, they are useful in r easy. As there are fuiit Tug Wons A Treatise on Cholera.! whick every man should have in his possession—giving ieving an liritated Thiroat, and will render articolation ure to cbtain the genu portect trestiss ou Cholera, ity Causes, Symptoms and Cure. Address | 1 T \W. Manspey, No. 467 Brosdway, New York, inclosing a three | sent stawp o eusclope, and & copy wil be returned free. Depot. No. 437 Brosdway. Tug STar MepiciNaL PowpER Ci HANUPACTORE AND SELL THE MORINLEY PowDER, ertain cure of Ule Iy ard , Coughs, C: Throat, Caterrh ates i ¥ oue of the propri dea, Widow ¢ Office. Crittenden . 684 Broavwar, N. ¥ k'S EMBROCATION, for the ¢ Diseases. | scen the good effects OFthis Embrocation are in posses Trya and be convinced. For 2048 Banxes & Co., Purk Kow. H.T. | Brosdwey. sud M. L agent. No. 116 Wan 3,500.—TaE NATION , with only Two Housus, wakes 5500 bricks per bour, with straight, well defined edges, and the bricks will stand ALy cLiMaTES, while those made by the dry pressing machines all CROMBLE 70 PIECES 03 b Ing EXPOSED 70 FROST. > A Requa; General Agent, No. M1 Brosdway, N. Y. VY, v 3,000 Sn,NGLES PER HoUR are made by the Expire Suoex Macixs wh ©7 ONE HORsE pow; end will maks ot of the same amount of timber 0" THIRD MORE SWINOLES than can be made by any sawing shingle Masus A REQUA, Gesery Asent, No. 141 Brosdway, New-York. -~ < RECONSTRUCTION ¢ THE UN10r is the desire of very Aumerican R construction of thesyster when “run dows :‘“‘P"'.n...,,..uy of every ons. How the Contitution of the " ed Ststesmay be restored s & dsbatable question, even with »ise and good men—bot there s 5o question that the enfeebled human Jontitation mey be restored by the ue of MARDEN'S CALIATA Yome. For sale by all Drugsists. CATA vERS, FEVER and of every 'sre permauently cured by Nature's lants. o e el paixcs, Fiuubing, N. Y. Dr. DILLENDACE, author of a new work on Cox- be seen profes- sumprion, Buoxcuirs, Astaxa snd an . sionally st his rooms, No. 113 Ninth-st., & few doors west of Bioadway. K. X., every Thursdsy snd Fridsy. Tae Boarvor HRALTR areacting wisely in endeay- oring to remove the predisposiag causes of dlsessa. but in spite of ull efforts diseases of the bowels will prevail auring the summer montks. ey should urge upon sll the necessity of using MARSDEN'S CARMINA- \ivs Suave, and should supply it at public cost Lo thoke uuable to Dapot. No. 457 Brosdway. Tre Frescr Dr. D. AMAND.—Consult with him to obuain 2y cure of Parulysed Limb, Rhoumatio Aflec ohuain & ts Hn o, No. 49 Bleecker st fiom 6 o 13 m. aud 0. Bto7p. m. Tar ARM AND LEG, by * beat” soldivrs, und low to offcers wd Pamintrat, P e s 19 Oreea st fraudulant imitatious of his vatents. . . C. T. —DiARRHEA AND CHOLERAIC EVIDENCES 's Cowpousp Caxrnon TROCHES, sn “Made omly by C. I NemoLEs, Twellth NEEDLES' . METCALYE'S GREAT RHEUMATIC e e wedist, aad 1 never i 10 of the disesse. A Hommow Catn Rt o sl B S PRy W8 8 S . 1 By [ ‘Trussss, ELASTIO SUSPENSORY Baxo- ko.—Manss & Co.'s Radical Cure Truse Office A Ko Vevey.sh Lady atbendasi. Machine Co., Mystio River, Conn., manufac- ...m“:& improved O ey wasving Tepss, Bladings, Webbiogs. Srcoxp-HAND SAFES in large numbers, of our own %M-I-.ul:u’hmw our new patent ALON sod o ik Co, 268 Broadway, sud 2] Chestant st Phbia Morr's CHEMICAL POMADE rostores gray hair, § known. Ul dyes, ot mxmmflfi drossing kuows. Ue 20 Cartos Vignette dozen; Duplicates, $2. n-—h—v*-d: P o, o1 Chstbami ot . Y. WiLLoox & Greps SEwiNG MACHINE. “Yea weam 1o sud lom ible o ip I o or wear Lockatiion [ Judge's Report ™ at he L 1 ok nfi:‘:‘-& .'.’.':‘éu.rfl" o. 808 Brosdway. T 81 SEWING-MACHINE, With improvements -A-‘:eu-'_oa‘r.u every specialty, including Button Hole Meebines. No. 458 By 3 VER KER's HIGHRST PREMIUM ELASTIC wrgv': inm.' nfl:;--. 'fov family use. No. 455 Brosdway. ——mrmuv ey LOCK-STITON SAcHINES for Tailors and -‘:'.:v:"l::l"::- & Daxss Sewixg Macmixs Comraxy, 0. 496 Brosdway. — e WageLER & WILSON'S LOCK-STITCH SEWING wnd Burroxsors Macmixe No. 625 Broadway. L.D.— B. FRANK P““:k{‘m = Boston. Avoid REMEDY Five- m- euraigie. Its in every 1CH SEWING-MACHINES—Best F1orescE LoCK-ST n Ao the werld Fromsxcx Hnlu-lm,l‘:: .161::‘" e T T Tae Aliptic Hook Lockstiteh Sewi mfl“fi‘: fi.fl% B Sonadmrer. Agwiamisior. oo R T T et ng- ., and wins for iteelt & favorite plsce on the | AT LS 1O intended for insertion must be authenticated Ly the name and ad. dress of the writer—not necessarily for publication. but as 8 gusr- anty for his good fuith. Ali busioess letters for this oftice slioula be eddressed to “The Tars o, New-York. We cunuot undertake to return rejected Communloations. —_— The Tribune In London. STEVENS BROTHERS, (Amencan for Libraries. 17 Hendletta. a Covet Qe W C Y on R he saleof THE UNE. Thiey will aloo receive Sex Avcantinuante. NEWS OF THE DAY. e FOREBEIGN NEWRS., By an arrival at our port yesterday, we bave news from Havana to May 26. The small-pox continued m { Puerto Rico, and had sproad to several places. The uews from Santo Domingo continues to be contradic- tory. A report, published in the Boletin Mercantil, that Gen. Baez, unable to subdue the rebellion, would leave the couatry, i3 coutrary to the news received directly from Sau Dowingo, GENERAL NEWS. Tn the United States Circuit Court, yesterday, Judge Nelson delivered an important decision relating to con- victions by Military Commissions since the termination of hostilities in the late civil war, the case being that of James Egan of Lexington, 8. C., a prigoner in tl’.\‘o Albany Penitentiary. Egan was ordered to be discharged. Procecdings are boing taken to test the validity of the Jersey City Police law, A mandamus is to be asked of the Supreme Court eomr«-llingumnsh-r to the new Police Commissioners of all property appertaining to the Police Department of the City, aud also another to_com- el the City Treasurer to m*fi the drafts of the Police Commissioners. The Commissionera of Emigration yesterday, at_their semi-monthly meeting, considered the subject'of alleged irregularities on the part of certain railroad agents in over- charging emigrants, and taxing them for passing their luggage through Castle Garden. Thus farin 1866, 82,963 grauts have arrived, The death of Gen. Scott was yesterday noticed in several of the Courts and in the Common Council, and Gen. Sandford hias issued an order inviting officers of the First Division to attend the funeral on Friday. Numorous | delegations from other quarters will also attend the funeral | ceremoulos. The steamship Peruvian of the National line arrived at uarantine yesterday with 75 passengers, having lost uring the passaze from Europe 35 from cholera, and hav- ing ou board at the date of arrival 28 cases of tho same dl«u/nl('f. There were two deaths from cholera yesterday in this ci, At Williamshurgh, yesterday, there were highly interest- ing and successful experimonts made with a submarine ex- ploring apparatus. The explorer” was submerzed for an hour and 'a half, and traversed the bed of the river during | that time. A public exbibition oceurs in a few days. The Boston Auniversaries are proressing, and the meot- | ings arc generally very large and interosting. At the New- | ingland anti-Slavery Bociety meeting yesterday Mr. Wen- | hillips made & very powerful speceh in opposition to the proposed reconstruction policy of Congress. Excise receipts yesterday were $35,000, making in all, thus far, $660,000. " A puguacious dispenser of alcoholic beverages in Brooklyn has brought a suit against a police- man for shutting up his house for him on Sunday lust, laying his damages at $1,000. cision of the Supreme Court of Louisiaua is agaiust the plaintiif. The Committee of the Board of Aldermen give another hearing at noon, to-day, in the matter of the proposed | widening of Nassau-st. by removing the steps and stoops. Opponents of the scheme will do well to take notice. The roturn_match of the Harvard Base Ball Club end the Atl Club oceurred yesterday afternoon at Bedford J(near Brooklyn), and resulted in the victory of the Atlap- ties. The Harvard Club go to Newark to-day. Tha Motropolitan Fire Commissioners have offered a | roward of $1,000 for the couviction of the parties who fired the Academy of Music, and the same reward will be paid for six wouths iv any case of incendiarism. There wae a very large meeting in the Cooper Institute last night, for the purpose of sustaining the Excise law, There was speaking by the Hon. John Slosson, the Rey. Mr. Dunn, Mr. Horaco Greeley and others. Gov, Fenton reached his home at Jamestown, Chau- ounty, yesterday, and was very cuthusiastically received by his townsmen. He made & fow rewarks, in exvlanatioq of his official policy. There wa auction sale of Seranton coal yesterday, with an average advaace in prices from the last ‘precoding sale of about 20 cents per tun. There were about 30,000 tuns disposed of. The funeral of the lato Right Rev. Bishop Burgess of Maine, occurred at Gurdiner yesterday, and there was o very general observauce of respect to the oceasion. The Lamirande extradition case again cawe before the United States Commissioner yesterday, and after receiv- 10g evidence was adjourned until to-day. At the Fashion Course ,(-»tmduy there was o $2,000 mateh, in which *Shark” got the better of ‘“‘Lady Emma,” and won the race. Best time, 2:26}. A meeting of shipwrights yesterday resolved to adhere to their original _purpose in”tho strike, and let commer- cial invorests suffer if need be. ol George W. Ewing, one of the wealthiest and_most o B\ estors plonsers, diod at Fort. Wayno, Tndiana, on Tuesdsy. e ongressional investigation at Memphis is progress- inflzgmufmublp More than 100 wituosses have already been examined. The Hughes bounty fraud case was agein heard b 8. Commissioner Befts yesterday, and was unfinished. ‘The Massachusetts Legislature adjourned sine die yester- day, after passing the customary complimentary votes. The New School Presbyterian Assembly adjourncd eing | dig 4 St fouis on Monday night. : A Troy fire company proposes to go to the Paris Expo- tion, and take their engine with them. B esterday, and closed at 138}, i o I e s contiwun in demand at ful prices,” Th 10 408 s01d at 96. The transactions were large in all deseriy tions. - Money s steadily increasing in supply to brokers, and at 67 per cént accounts are made up With great facllity. In | oomwercial paper the dealings are modcrate, at 6@6j for best short bills. v | CONGRESS. SENATE. May 31.—Mr, Harris, on bebalf of the Judiciary Com- mittee, asked discharge from further consideration of peti- tion of former slaves of Mr. Custis, fora portion of the Arlington estate set apart for their use. Regarding the ‘West Point bill, Mr. Anthony asked that the Senate insist on the provision disagreed to by the House, requiring & nomination of five persons, from whom selections for admission to the Academy shall be made. The Recon- struction resolves being ealled up, Mr. Doolittle moved to insert in the amendment to the first section offered by Mr. Howard a clause excluding Iudians not taxed from citizen- ship. On debate, Mr. Doolittle’s motion was lost; yeas, 10, nays 30. A messago was received from the dent on the death of Lieut.-Gen. Scott. A substitute for the tion of the House resolution on Reconstruetion t‘lt:i;ndr:::g‘ certain late Rebels from office, was read, debated, and lost. HOUSE. From the Committee on War Debta Mr. Blaine reported .bfllw‘:l.mbnm th; .:kt-‘}lfl, bfl:i:hl;q .reeomn_\;_t:ad. Wmd ] uthorizing a mil) M ‘Washington to Ne-.\smx, whil and postal road from itted, From the same Committee Mr. oo m:nr]:;):)rtod the :fll in favor of the Mahoning 1road . Gen. Stoneman’s report of the Mem- uh‘ii- riots :zmvod. Mr. Thayer opposed the bill for y of the military, the features of which Mr. Schenck delsfpd at length, Kesolutions were passed on the death of Lieut.-Gen. Soott MW peint thia marning tha voport of Gen. Whittle- sey to Gen. Howard in reply to the charges of Gens, Steadman and Fullertons It goes over the whole ground covered by those charges, and meets them with entire fairness and frankness. In connection with the reports which we printed yesterday, this statement of Gen. Whittlesey will enable the public to form an acourate judgment on the merits of the case, That there are errors in the management of the Freedmen's Burean nobody ever doubted. We bave repeatedly ‘yointed them out: But the guestion is not whether In the case of Moses Fox, who claimed §300,000 under | the will of John McDonough at New-Orlcans, the cities of Bai New-Orleaus being defendants, the de- side of the house were steadily voted down by more than a two-thirds majority, and the Scnate at 5 o'clock adjourned, leaving the resolution as agreed on in cau- cus unimpaired, and with the expectation that it will be adopted to-day. LET US CLEARLY UNDERSTAMD, The N. Y. Times closes an elaborate denunciation of Radicalism and Tng TrisvNe a8 follows: “ Whatever the Radicals in the Hor of their Connarband aliine mav s venting the (ot remainder of the court of .!rll oxis u way be looked forward to with coufidence, of the Union party in_the Ountry are not extremists, They bave nosympathy witlithe bor. rible bitterness and daring anconstitutionality that would crash the Sonthern people s alien enemies, and rob the Republic of its most valued safeguards. They hold that Grant and his cap- tains settled the question of the Rebellion, aud that the yestora- tion of the Union should be perfected as speedily as possible, They recoguize the patriotiem of the President’s eareer, the sagacity of his moasures, the righteousness of the ends at which he nims; and they have no liking for the temper or the tactics of the men who have arrayed a majority of Congross againet him, and raised up divisions from which the Union party now . The appealis to the Union party as o whole, and nst the Radical who usurp eontrol, aj threaten destruction if their pretensions be not acknowledged. The decision will be beard iu due season.” ase, with the assistance atdtn & i —We cannot understand this otherwise than as a clear intimation that The Times and those who share its counsels propose to appeal from the great majority of Congress to “the rank and file of the Union party,” and to regulate their future course by the de- cision they thus invoke. Is this so, or isit not? Suppose the Union party, through its regular Con- veutions, shall indicate a very general accord with Congress, and nominate candidates of like faith and candidates? We certainly have been led to infer that | it would not, not only from its recent editorials, but from its backing and filling with reference to the-ate contest for Governor in Connecticut, and from the drift of Gov. Seward’s last Auburn speech. The Times cannot be ignorant that its estimate of | the relative strength of what it calls the * Conserva- | tive” and the * Radical” elements in the Union | party is quite unique. Let it pass for nothing that we Radicals scout it; it is notorious that the Copperhieads | equally hoot at Thus The World says: * Two millions of Domocratic voters approve, by convietion, | of the policy of the Presidest, aud vote for no candid e own part n ber of (’.Y.un.-‘. aence, has been | ¢ newspaper b able to give the Preside we remind him that other, perbaps, consider a8 where votors ultimately deci it vo mean support of the I surance of two ask questions which the publie officant as bis, 1n a republic. public gasstions, we eonnt f: port bis publican of the Presid run soparate candidates of their ows; lo. thom. if they p vote with the Dewoornts; let them, if they piease, siay g away from the poli do wnythug | oh th no practic hief, the cou party, expect and ir " with th ™ hey wi w minority of eltuer. ntrary to usage for a winority. of | any party, 10 make pations. Lf these men keep with the Republicass, the Radicals wili select candidutos for them 10 vote for."” —1f The Times intends to oppose the Demoeratic ticket in our next State election, we should really be | glad to know on what ground of principle, what liv- | ing issue of public policy, it basesits opposition. We are daily told for what it condemns and detests the Radicals; will it bo good enough to let us know wherein and wherefor it desires to keep the Dewocrats ut of power ! 0 SOUTHERN CODES FOR THE FREED. MEN. The information just communicated by the Presis dent to the House of Representatives, concerning the recent legislation of the Southern States in reference to the freedmen, will be eagerly canvassed by the friends of freedom aud of equal rights in every State of the Union. Although the new constitutions of the Southern States and the proceedings of their Leg- islatures have all been printed down in Dixie, much of the legislation of which we give an abstract on another page is new tothe North; and we hope, therefore, that the whole Union press will avail itself of the present occasion to *diffuse political knowl- edge"” of the most indispensable kind. The report now presented by the Secretary of State embraces the States of North Caroline, South Caro- liva, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas, Itis well known that all these States have yielded one point to the urgent representations of the | Washington Government, which all, or nearly all, would not have yielded of their own free will and accord—negro testimony in court. But even this one point has been ouly yiclded in cases where the rights of persons or property of persous of color are concerned. Should Yankees or individuals of gthex datested nationalities be punished for their unwelcome intrusion into 8outhern Socioty, and be so unfortunate a8 to have none but negro witnesses, they would in vain appeal to a Southern court for redress of their grievances and for protection. As regards the special laws of the several States, there appears to be a considerable difference. North Caroling, Georgia, Alabama and Texas are liberal in comparison with Florida, South Carolina and Mis- issippi, which bave some very *‘ peculiar provisions, ‘Werefer to our abstract of these provisions on another page, which will show the need of protec- tion in which the freedmen of these States stand, as well as any elaborate argument can do. It will be seen, then, that all the three States last named provide for the flogging of negroes in ocases of misdemeanor. South Carolina, is that his sentence would havo been death. If it were true that Longstreet bad joined Jackson as early 8 noon, the reasons for theattack by Fitz-John Porter were made the stronger; and there would have been | no justification for any delay or failure in doing g0, | even if the express order of Gen. Pope had nover This historian of the Army of the Potomac, in un- dertaking a work of this magnitude, bas attempted quite as much as the boldest man would dare to un- dertake, But, in his venture to reinstate Fitz-John *Ttér in public estimation, he has unfeértaken mote, | chinery of South Carolina, which never yet punisi. { as murder the killing of a Black by a White, « never will till there is a thorough revolution in & State. We do not pretend to dispute Judge Nelso law; we only say that it affords a new demonatrat d | too astute sympathies, will The Times heartily support those | | In this, he will not only fail, but he will cast suspicion on his other conclusions; for it will stamp his ook with partisan and sinister purposes; and such a his- tory of the achievements of the Army of the Poto. mac the country will repudiate and condemn, He attempts to arraign the judgment of the Court that adjudged Fitz-John Porter guilty of the charges on which he was tried, by extracts from the official accounts of the battles of Manassas on the 20th and | 30th of August, 1862, as given by Confederate com- | manders. These extracts-are of the most vague and unmeaning significance, and, so far as they bear upon the facts on which Fitz-John Porter was condemned, they have no relevancy whatever. Mr. Swinton is a critic not to know that they fur- nish in fact not even a palliation for the disobedience of orders as proved before the Court. These are the reasons and the extracts, as drawn from Mr. Swinton's book: Asthe view above taken of the action of that part of the *Becoud Bull Rup," fought on the 20th of Angost, differs in some important particalars from previous accounts, and espe- cially from the offic.al report of Gon. 1 I shall here sab- stantinte by erate official reports the truth of such points of difference ns are of moment, The guostion forcmost in in- teresthas v 1ition to the time at which Longstrest’s Corps joined Jackson. Gen. Pope 3 s that this did not take | place il **about »u cial report, p. 21), and | it is on this ground tiat that tried Porter based the Jackson's 1 thes, ns T am very | ticable for bim to have turtied the ri ) to have fallen upon his rear; that if ) ne 50 we shonld bave gained n decisive vietory over the army under Jacksgp be- i by any o1 the forces o] Longstre fore he could have been joine | | reached him. Mr. Swinton has nndeitaken too much. 'To bolster up the reputation of the first General that commanded the Army of the Potomac, and to restore Fitz-John Porter to the confidence of the people, will be an up- hill business for the self-constituted historian of the Army of the Potomde. He will find it an equally bard task to shake the confidence of the country in the Lieutenant-General who directed its operations in its crowning glorfes before Richmond and Petersburg and at Appomattox Court-House. But he has adroitly attempted these three great tasks; and the value of his book will be greatly damaged by the undertaking; for in both he will signally fail to shake the strong convictions of the public mind of the righteousness of the verdict, irrevocably sealed. Mr. Swinton has quoted from Longstreet words that fatally strike Porter, and make his condemnation more lasting than any words of the Court or wit- nesses before it. Longstreet says: The noise of battle was heard before we reached Gaines- ville The march was quickened to the extent of onr capacity. The excitement of battle seemed to give new life and strength to our Jaded men; and the head of my column soon reasbed & position fu rear of the enemy's left Sauk. That noise of battle was also heard by Fitz-Jobn Porter; and the head of his column was much nearer to Jackson's right and rear than the head of Long- strect’s column. But that “ noise of battle” did not inspire Fitz-John Porter, with his fresh troops, to a “quickened march " to go to Pope's relief, or to fall wuponvLongstreot’s * jaded troops,” whese exposed ilank passed hLis front, and whose columns he ¢ould Pop.'s Report sertion is traversed by the positive evidence of th rta of several of the gen-. ernls under Longstreet's co who show conclusively that Longsti {nnn early a8 moom, 8 elf: 4, the columns wore Longs | " advanee | 1be b ached Gain The of our co | The life and o | to o n soom reached a | rt of the ieft flank ) od | srition 1% rear of the enem Army of Northern it.. p. £) See also Hoc who s Virginia, vol 1 | about ol vur e | { &e. (L wrrival of Ls gotreat had gaken s toward Gaines | stimony will »uf 1t i ter giving bis dispositions stes that * Hoo Warrs nite o th v th st it barred bis o Porter, baving i th e feane of © fore a t 3 vioo | t - | en | thrown on th a above by th oy instinot of histuz truc con 1 v They are the only extracts given by Mr. Swinton; and of them be says: ** Having become p ed of the | Confederate official reports, and having been struck with the new light thrown on these evenuts by the conscious testimony given whove by Confedera Generals, I should bave violated my instinet of Li toric veracity to have suppressed these facts.” “'The new light,” discovered by Mr. Swinton, we cannot sce. ' What dates does he fix, what hours does he establish, by such generalities as the following, quoted from Longstreet '— [ Early on the 20tb, amns wore uoited, aud the ad. | vauee 1o join Gen. Jackson waa resamed, Where they were united, aud how far they had to march before they were united, and the hour they united, and the distance they had to march after they | had united, are not stated; and these are important and vital to the question of the hour that they reached Jackson. Mr. Swinton fails to tell us. where the columns encamped on the night of the 25th, and what have pierced at any point between Gainesville and Groveton. And in this was Fitz-Jobn Porter’s great me. The soldierly instinets that urged on the jaded troops ™ of Longstreet, when they heard the noise of battle * afar off,” did not appeal to the heart of Porter, who, nearer to the exhausted troops of Pope, strugglivg for the life of his army and the safety of the capital, yet lay.on his arms all the afternoon of the 20th, and made dalliance with Stuart’s two regiments of cavalry and one light battery in his front. The solid sentiment of loyal men still is, that Fitz-John Porter's guilt was but partially punished hy the sentence of the Court, . M. Swinton again forgets, or neglects to refer to, mscions testimony™ produced before the Court, e less had more weight in fixing the guilt of Fitz-John Porter than any testimony of the witnesses for the prosecution, however convincing aud clear that way have | But if Mr. Swinton forgets the spirit of Fitz-John Porter's telegraphic dispatches to Burn- side and McClellan, from the very fields of Pope's hardest fought battles, the country will not. Neither will the country forget the amimus of his words toGen. McDowell on the afternoon of the 20th, when that General said to bim, * Porter, you go in bere to-night, and I will go on to Groveton;” and Fitz-Join Porter replied, “1f T go in there, T shall get into a fight.” The significance of these words could not be mistaken the Court; and the country did not misinterpret In them, and in Porter's dispatches, his inten- tions were better disclosed, and the spirit that hung us o pall on the 15,000 veterans he restrained from lannching themselves upon Jackson, more unwistak- bly illustrated, than they could have been by any words of witnesses. They were the words-of his own | mouth, and the real expression of aheart sealed against suggestions*of duty, or the inspirations of the sound of battle, by personal vindictiveness and trea- son agaiust his commanding General. These were the eloquent witnesses that weighed with the Court; and their *‘unconscious testimony" has irrevocably set on Fitz-John Porter the seal of un- exampled guilt and erime, —_—— WENT VIRGINIA. The returns thus far received from the recent voting | in West Virginia on the Constitutional Amendment ring the right of suffrage to Rebels show a large in favor of the Amendment. We bave the | filllm\'il'xg: marches they made before uniting with Longstreet; and yet he must have known that one of them moved from Hopewell Gap, and that Longstreot was held by contest. Both of these Gaps were 15 miles from Jackson’s forces; and Mr. Swinton well kuows (hut troops that had made forced marches for four days, care for their wonuded, break camp, join with other columus, and march 18 miles, o that the rear is in line of battle by 12 meridian, Mr. Bwinton also knows that Fitz-John Porter's Corps was five miles from Gainesville, aud that at that place Longstreet turned down the pike to Groveton, leaving all of Fitz-John Porter's forces on the Manas- 505 Gap Railroad, exposing to an attack from that Corps his right flank during a march of six miles, where he joined the right of Jackson's line of battle resting on that pike. Mr. Swinton, too, should have known that Gen. Stuart's cavalry, with one light bat- tery, were all the forces that were posted on the Ma-~ nassas Gap Railroad, in front of Porter, during the en- tire afternoon of the 20th, But it did not suit Mr, Swinton’s purposes to quote from Gen. Stuart’s re- ports, as that officer settles forever this question, His Chief of Stafl’ reports that Stuart was ordered ** to operate with his cavalry on the right flank, and hold the enemy in check until Longstreet could take his especially, i3 fond of this correotive, and liberally provides for immediate flogging in numerous cases, when a negro is unsble to pay a fine, however trifling. The establishment of schoolsof colored persons is made dependent upon & license, which will not be too readil, "ivon to natives of the more Northern States, orto any’ teachers having anti-Sonthern notions of the rights of the negroes. To keep up the distinction of the two races ae much as possible, the freedmen employed as farm laborers sre to be designated as *‘servants,” and their employers as ‘‘masters.” The frecdmen are forbidden to exercise any art, trade, or business except that of farm laborers, without a special license; aud this license, in every case, ig to be good for one year only. For the epecial benefit of Northern plant- ers it is enacted that when the neighbors of a planter regard his colored farm laborers as nuisances, and the judge is of the same opinion, the contracts may be dissolved snd in such case no subseaucut place.” And he should have known that Longstreet, instead of going to support or aid Stuart, who was in front of Porter on the Manassas Gap Railroad, headed his column on Groveton, and from Jackson’s right formed line of battle in the direction of Fitz-John Porter's front; but to have reached that front, that line would have extended over three miles, If Le will now refer to the October number of Blackicood's Magazine for 1865, be will find there the full report of Lieut.-Gen. J. E. B. Stuart's Chief of Staff, Thos. Van Bor and in that report he will find places, hours, and forces, fixed with & filitary precision and saccuracy that admit of no contradiction. On page 425, the details are given of the fighting in front of Jackson on the 20th, and Mr. Van Borcke says: Suding that they could not dislodgo us, did ck later than 4 o'clock in the afte : noe of Longatrect’s Corps made its a ueeriug wlong our lines, These troops ‘s right wing, as fast as they ar ision, ‘The enemy, not 5% T'u'.m loud gl their position un Ja s -mmrr susdown the lpsp D an h o the Curus Rickets in Thoroughfare Gap until after 9 at night on | the 2%th, and encamped there, after a hard-fouglt | and fought until 9 at night, do not bury their dead, | | FOR THE AMENDMENT. Maj., € (Counticn. Mars| 300 Doddridg 136 Taylor® it 4 AINST 1T, ia) | County. 311 Wetzel L Olio | Brooke * Officlal, «con. V‘.;i-l)l;;lll/l“l lll"fll! Gov. Seward having, by direction of the President, transmitted to Com. Vanderbilt the Gold Medal unanimously yated biw by Congress in acknowledg- went of his generous gift to our country, invher hour of durkest peril, of tho steamship Vanderbilt, worth $1,000,000, Mr. V. responded as follows: New YOBK, May 3, 1866, S Yonr communleation of the 13th of April, informing me that the Congress of the United States had by their resolu- tion of the 25th of January, 1864, tendered to me their thavks for the gitt of the stoamer Vanderbilt, and requested the President to cause s gold medal to be struck and forwarded to me in commemoration of the gilt, has bean placed in my hands. 1 liave wiso received the medal, together with an attested y of the resolution, in compliance with which you bave d it to be transwitted. ou inve boon ploused {0 exprous the hopo that the modal would be aceeptable to me, with your congratulations for the cousclousiess which you cor r 1 cannot fuil to cherish of havivg, by the et which its presentation commewmorates, reudered a service to my country at a critioal period in its history. Permit me, Sir, to return my uacknowledgment for this onal recoguition of the act ref to, and to express ¢ satisfaction with which I huve received this generous of remembrance, It may not be inappropriate for me to refer to the transaction whigh® gave rise to the resolve of Congress which your department has now w0 gracefully executed. Aboiit the year 1836 1 formed the design and commenced the work of a steamsbip, for the purpose of demonstrating that in. dividual entorprise could, without the ald of Governmental eneouragement, place o) ocead stoamships equal at least in magnitude, power an rud toany which hud boen constructed under fnnrnmrnt- patronageand protection in d. An expenditure of $1,000,000 prodnced the mship Vanderbilt, whioh carried the lag of our coun- Ary neross the sea in a lesser space of time than any national banner had been hitherto borne. On the L6th of March, 1862, I received at my residence 1y this city & lettor from the War Department, inquiring if would undertake to prevent the Confederate steamer Morri- wae from coming out of e barbor of Norfolk, and urging wy immediate ditention, as the danger was most {wminent, and * there was #o time to be lost.” T answered by teiegraph that T would go to Washington the next day. Oa the morvlng of the 17th of Mareb, 1 called at the War Departmont, where 1 saw for the first time Mr. Stanton, the Secretary of Waz Ho requested mo to accompany him to the Executive Man- slon, where I was lntrodu 0 Mr. Lineoln, to whow I was then porsovally n strauger. The President asked me if 1 thounght 1 could, with the aid of wy steawsb) umr do u ent the Merrimac from getting out m?pw- 5. loxg;l'«‘m‘\in’n that 1t was wy fi-_‘qu AF o gpeamar of the absolute necessity of the Civil Rights act, —_— l Among the good results of Northern effort to pn mote education among the Blacks of the South, w rejoice to note the outbreak of Southern rivalry then to. The Marion Commonwealth (Alabama) contains 8 call signed by ex-Gov. Moore, Hon. J. L. M. Curry, &e., for a public meeting to encourage the freedmen ““in their wishes and efforts to acquire & common school education.” This is as it should be, Let the rivalry be stimu- lated. There will be work enough in this fleld for all who choose to enter it. *“If wo do not educate the Blacks the Yankees will,” is the Southern plea. Let nothing be said or done to weaken its force. ‘We have seen notling of late more gratifying thaa the general uprising of the people of Rhodo’ Islaud to honor the inauguration of Gen. Burnside av Gov- ornor of that gallant little State. Gen, Burnside is not a military genius, nor was his military carce¥ on the whole & successful one. So his fellow-citizons honor in him loyalty, modesty and unfaltering devotion to the flag and the cause it symbolizes. Rhode Island honors berself i this tribute to her faithfal son. - “Querist,” who wants to know if we meant to im- pugn the conduct of the Finances of our City by our exposure of Mr. George H. Purser’s gainful deal- ings with the City Treasury, isinformed that we never insinuate. We were exposing the charges of Mr. Purser, and did not mean to impute b4ame to anyy one else; .loi THE SOUTH. "lfl'. g€ Tournament—¥mmigration—Thae Memphiv Nue vestigation—Freedmen’s Celebrotion-Fare nado—From the Western Frontier, Nastiviiue, Wedoesday, May 30, 1365. A grant tournament takes place at Clarksyille to-morrowZ The Colonial and Fmmigration Society, reecntly char« tered by the Legislature, has organized with Gen, Gearge: H.Thomas as President, Gen. R. W. Johnson a8 Vice-" President, F, R. Cheathata as Sccretary, and Anson Nele: so, us Treasuror. 3 Mewpois. Wednesday, May 30, 1508, The Congressional Compittee have already examined over 100 witnesses, and are proceeding vigorously in the investigation of the rest. It will be some days-befors they complete their work. Since the burning of the calored school-houses during the riot, a building of sufficient capacity for the accommo- dation of about 500 scholars has becn erected by’ the Freedmen's Burean, under the name of the “ Phenix Bdn- eational Institute,” and it was opened to-day with_consid- ernl ceremony. Speeches were made by Gens. Fisk and Barkle, and others. Arrangements are being made here for a grand celehra- tion by the frecdufen of the Federal occupation of this eity on the 6th of June. New-OLEANS, Wednesday, May 30, 1366, A tornado swept with destruction over Jackson, Mis- sissippi, and inLured the State House, The 3d Michizgan Volunteers, 340 strong, commanded by Gen. Houfhlon, have arrived from Brazos. Gen. Sturgesta and large number of other officers, with & fow treops, wore at Brownsville. Advices of the 25th inst. from Matamoras report that robberies and murders continued in tiat vicmity, and plunder and ""T are indulged in on both sides. The the linperialists hold towns in the country most aflicted Ly these depredations. b B Tkt MISSOURI. ——— Proceedings of the Presbyterian Gemeral Ase semblies—The Louisville Presbytery Case —Final Adjournment of the New School. ST. Louts, Tuesday, May 29, 1866, In the Old School Assembly of the Preshyterian Churchk the appeal of Dr. R. J. Breckinridge was laid aside, and. the report on the Louisvilie Presbytery was taken up and debated by Dr. W. G. Breckinridge -3 Dr. Humphrey is opposition, and the Hou. H. K. Clarke in favor, but ne action was reache It is stated to-day that Dr. R.J. Breckinridge will urge his appeal no further, in_consequence of the Assembly do- ciding that the Synod of Kontucky are only respondonts thereto, thus preventing nim from” accomplishing his ob-_ jeet—intlieting punishment upon disloyal men. The New School Assewbly adjourned sine die last nighs. o —— GRORGIA. The Freedmon’s road Facilities—For Europe. AUGUSTA, Ga., Weduesday, May 30, 1868, Gens, Stoadman and Fullerton, who have besn inyeati- gating the management of the Freedmen's Burean in eorgia, will report faverably on Tillson's admivistration of afuirs. The bridges on the State road lave been repaiced, and the trains aro FuBING. The American ship Hudson cleared from Charleston day for Liverpool with 113 bales of Sea Island aud o8 of Upland cotton. The largest cargo o&the o ————— THE FENIANS. ——— pposed Feninns at Buflnte. Burraro, Wednesday, May 20, 1866, Several hundred mon arrived here at an early” hour this morning from the West, said to be Feniaus, though the; claim to be laborers en route to California. It issaid!th: they and their brother Fonians are in secret session bere _ to-day. The Arrival of Toroxto, C. W., Wednesday, May 30, 1865, | Intelligence is received from Buffalo of Feni Wov ee ments in progress, The military are on the alort, sad every proparation made for an emergoney. o —— State Sportsmen’s Association. Patsyga, N, Y., Wednesday, May 30, 1868, The State Sportsmen’s Association, now 1n session heg :l is largely attonded. Fourten clu!bd are represouted, & . sunty delegates are prescot. m?:’ri‘(‘l:‘:h{m;u: this morning, A. T. Cox of Roches ter took the first, and Fred. Deege of Syracuse the se¢ ond prize. 'The single-trap uboot ia the afternoon brough/ . out more than sixty contestauts. The ten-strikes are tof shoot 10-MOFTOW. it e e FIELD SPORTS. e Base Ball. THE GRAND MATCH AT BEDFORD YESTERDAY. — TIR CHAMPION ATLANTICS THE VICTORS. Tho first grand event of the season in bag s ball cir- olos came off yesterday afternoon at Bedford, Broo kiyn, oa the Capitoline Ball Grounds, in the presence of a Ve ry numerous nc';‘mhh‘r. the utmosd good order marking the, procoedings. "Lho folowing is & suiamary: Sl oowucusnan i L 1 Um;::j' i A 1}';!' l of GampeLisaa