The New-York Tribune Newspaper, June 7, 1866, Page 4

_‘_'-——-—————“_WT_-—'—————_-‘ Ne QAmngements. \T"H—(!['I:R; THIS EY DF AL W FRENCH TH NING, at @, th I Comic Opers, THE AKA: 'Miss Rickings, Miss kes, Ketelum, € Mozart, " WALLACK'S THEATER at 8, IT IS NE T VER TOO LATE TO MI bert, Chas. Fisher, Mark § Ringeold, Browne, V Ward, Barrett, on, ki FPope, line Henriques, Misy NIBLO'S GARDEN. G M , at 8. SECRE RRIAGE, or WHOSE r. JOCKO, THE BRA N APE." The R 1, Francois, Autoine, Young America, Signorita Pepita, amme, ¥ Amrica on the Three Flying Trapezs. The Martine:ti Brothers us the Taree Gladiators. THEATE OLYMPIC “l'll‘;\' EVENING, at 8-OUR MUTUAL FRIEND; Mes. Jobu 20 ER ( PLAY ire. € urnett, W BROADWAY THEA TS EVENINO-THE FRENCH SI PETTICOATS ; Mins lelon Western, ' NG WITR FIRE: Mr. John Wolcout, jr., Miss Mary Carr, Andre: Wi 5 EVENING a 8, A ¥ e TER. Y~THE PET OF THE J. A. Herne, ER. 2 PRINCE — CROSSING d full company. The Nicoio Perpendicular Ladders, etc. FOX'S OLD THIS EVENINC Herdiog, Mr. G. L. P\ ROWFRY THEATER. HE INVISIBLE PR! b N Vamison, Misses unie Cleaver, Kehoe, Tsdaway, Daiy. W. L. Juwison, H 'E. Job B iridaman, Auderson, Wilion. ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND CU OSITlES MINSTRELS. LADS, COMICAL ACTS, 1. UET: D NAVY=A 2 LIQUOR DEALER. OF DESIGN, uibitlon of the WORKS OF TO-DAY an WIVING ART rosdway. URES by Mr. T. C. ¥, No NEW PATERSON RACES, TO-DAY. the HURDLE aud other on the Paterson Conrse. T S PRI Y TSRS WY ERSSS & ¢ NI NN S e Dusiness Notices. BurNeTT's FLORIMEL closely resembles the odor o o rare and delicate bonguet of flowers, sud in this respect stande wnrivaled. A few drops will leave its pe.uliar and delightful fragrance apon the h..mu-f for many bours. Buanerr's Coroaxa is equal to the b st imported. It fs pat upin 4 neat and elegant style, and wins for iscii & favorite piace on the Jrewning table. It latrinsic merits really justify the high repuiation 2 wiich it is held.—| Pr For asle by all dro; idence Journal. Lyon's Insect Powpeg, for exterminating Roaches, fare and elotbiag from Mothe. The . Lyox. Al others are imitations. Kake no other Insect Powder but Ivox's. Sold by ail drugsists, and Yy Bauxes & Co., No. 21 Pari row. 1S . 2 Kxox HaTts, 2i2 BroApw. N. Y. Knox Hats, 212 Broavway, N. Y. Knox Hats, 533 Exoavwar, N. Y. ral splendid styles. Tho taste dls- s trade to #0 high a figre that the o i bis business. played by bis artists b largeat buildicg in the city would fail t There is something so peculiarly chars the Hatter, that auy oue who has or 100m g0 barelieaded as to wea more than any other class in the com- jentle tonde, their v ual sedentary lives and the con- muscles, exposes them ‘relaxation of the vita! forces. N prX's CALISAYA TONIC. which, moreoy ent unfavorable 1« s called to the sale Rapoange o Seutudele, comprising porlion of the I'ex (arms, the o de by E. I |_rnm"x54»’: o' ne location [ and commands a fine view nding country. The pro " perty Wi Parties wishing to siten ud this Conveyances will be in w No. 3 Pinewt. (3 Livg INSURANCE COMPA. undertake to pay a W to the Leirs of their vox. Wiy should ot people are their own life and heaith 1 A single bottle of MARSVKN 8 ARKINATIVE ~YAUP is worlli mors than & premium for $10,000. Jepot. No. 487 Hroudway. : 23,500.—Tue NATIONAL BICK MACHINE, with only Two Howses, makes 3500 bricks pec hour, with straight, well- deiined edges. and tue bricks will stand ALL CLINATES, while those made by the dry pressing wchizes all CRUXBLY TO PIECES 08 be- dug BIPOSED TO F10ST. A. Ruqua, Genersl Acent, No. 141 Broadway, N. Y. 3,000 SnixoLes PER Hovr are made by the EMPIRE Fuisose Macuixe with only ONE ROTSE POWER] and will make out of the same smount of timber ONETUIRD MOKE SHINGLES than wachine. A. Riqua, General SEASONABLE ANNOUNCEMENTS. Philadephis. EoLrss Coxporsp CAwrEOR Note.— ' Prevention s with ruddy linqn': ustaral pesch-bloom of & CLEAR COMPLEXION, spa b # bevest th ‘irow healthy digestise organs. Towesure @xterusl vesuty you st eradicate i impuriiies of the dlood by L e !‘I"‘,y‘-,‘,‘ by MLDY—D GEorG1A PINE.—We are prepared to furnish every Aesoripion of the sbove, sawn of hewn, for domestic use and for ehip- meat, promplly snd on the most favorsble terms. Bravrofp & Rexick. No. Tl Brosdway, K. Y. CHOLERA! 178 CAUSE AND CURE.—This pamphlet lould be iu the hands of auing fnformation valgable 2o all. A copy will be forw: free. on receipt of a three coat postage stamp o1 stam e _ Addreas T. W. Ma SR0oND-FLAND SAFES in large numbers, of our own ‘othery’ wake, taken in exchungs for our new patent ALUM and rl Prasyen Savss. Forsale low. A viy & Co. 263 Brosdway, and 721 Chestnut st Phia. ¥ Tug SINGER SEWING-MACHINE, With improvements god iachmests o avecy specisity, tucludiog Buttén-Lole Machines. B Gl nrondway: Morr's CuexicAL PoMape Restores Gray Hair, &eepe it glowy aud from falling oot ; removes dandruff’ finest dress- wed. M{dkylvum. 0. 10 Astor House, and all druggists. IsrorTED Boots and GAtTERs of Gans best Paris make st Honrs, No. 430 Broadway. Alwo s large assortment of Shoes for Samuner wear. T ARM Axn.hw. by B. FRANK PALMER, LL. D.— The “bast” free diers, and low to officers and civilians. 160 Chestnut-st., Phils; A-‘-ul.. N.Y.; 19 Greeu st., Boston. Avoid in Datente TRUSSES, ELASTIC STOCKINGS, SUSPENSORY BaXD- AGws, Stepontens, ke —~Mansw & Co.'s Radical Cure Trus Oflice only ot No. 2 Vesev-st. Lady o tendant, C Vignetf 3 artes Vignette, $3 per : : Duplicates, $2. dopeni Dabticaion 3% v ¥ - L8 ~ Pequot Machine Co., Mystic River, Conn., manufac- tare the most improved Looms for weaviug Tapes, Bindings, Webbings. WiLLeoX & GIBBS SEWING MACHINE. 140 seam is atd less lisble to “};&‘: use or wear, than the B e e ayten o Worksantining tot¥kindn of . " and e w o the v glece of g0008 No. 502 Brosdw, Froraxce LOCK-STITCH BEWING-MACHINES—DBest 1n the word. FLORENCE SEWING MACHINE COMPANY, No. 505 Brosdwsy. Gerover & Baker's Hiomest PREMIUM ELASTIC w8, for fami'y use. No. 493 Broadway. Vi K-S71TCH MAcHINES for Tailors and lfc?v:n&:cm & Baxer Sswixe Macuixs Couraxy, 4% Brosdway. WarpLEr & WiLsox's Lock-STitcn SEWING Lumn and BorroNmoLk M. No. 625 Broadway. improved Hook Lockstiteh Bewing- uzu-;--A. H. mi“l o. 531 Brosdway. Agents wasted. . Howg Skwixa Macuixe Coxpany.—ELias HOWE, r.. Prosidect. No. 899 Broadway. _Agents wanted. 8. M. Perrexciit & Co., NEWSPAPER ADVERTIS- (wa Agawre, No. 37 Park-row, New-York (established fn 1849). are peena for Te Tribune, sad wil the newspepors o the Uslied States Jod British Provinces. M | The Friends of Progress have just held their annnal Jooeting ot Waterloo, in tis State, There was present an wuusually large attondatce, and tle proceedings were of an charscter. A resolution was adopted, demandiog immed iate enfrauchisement of the blacks of the South by ‘pet of Congress, Upon the discussion of this, Fred. Dovglass {made ons of bhis most powerful appeals for the official recogni- 4ion of the right of bis race. ATTEMPTED EsCAPE 0F A CONVICT.—On Tuesday Joha Matthews, a convict, made bis escape from Black- ell's Tsland by means of aboat. As he landed at the foot of ixty-eight-st,, E. R, be was seen by Officer Blackburnif the ‘Bineteenth Precinet, Who is detailed at Jone Wood. The willoer at once gave chase to the thief, and after a long run , Gume up with and eaptored bim. On Wednesday moruiug the ém a8 tikeu to the island and transferred to the cure of wPork DailnTribune, THURSDAY, JUNE 7. 1566 The Trivune in Lon for Libraries. 17 enriette e of THE TRIBUNE NEWS OF THE DAY. e FOREIGN NEWS, The steamship Africa, from Livarpool May l;m er Queenstown May 27, arrived at Halifax yesterday dates are two days later. ‘Austria has not yet given her consent to a European Congress, which is sid o be dependent ou Ler participa- tion. An outbreak of hostilities was still apeedil; expected Mr. Gladstone declared in the House of Commons that the English Government had little hope of being able to rosorve peace. Kossuth is ssid to be ineiting revolution 10 Hungary. s The report that the Danubian Prineipalities had been oceupied by Turkish and Russian troops is contradicted. The Congress st Paris, on the contrary, is said to be op- posed to au_occupation of the Dachies. The Porte bud protestod against the inauguration of Prince Chales. GENERAL NEWS Seguine's Point was seized by the Metropolitan Health authoritios at an early hour yesterduy morning, and ar- rangements were at once begun for fiiting up accommoda- tions for the occupants of the ships at 8".\mu|!ur'. No hostile demonstrations of any socount were reported up 1o the latest advicos. The Metropolitan Fire Commissioners met yesterday but no businessof importance was done beyond the pass- age of a vote to purchace 10 new fire engines of the first cluss, also a resolution to keep the water constantly at the steam point, In Brooklyn, a car on the, Brooklyn Central and maica Railroad rau over a boy nine years of age and killed him. A corouer’s jury has exouerated the driver aud the road from all blawe. Yesterday was the second day of the Patorson races. There was & very largo attendance, and _the time on cach of the throe races was very good indeed. Much jnterest and excitement prevailed during the progress of the rucing. By the cholera report for Juno 6 there appears to have been 8 new onses, 9 deaths, 1 returned to the ship whence he came, 19 convalosconts transferred to the Saratoga, aud the whole number remaining under treatment was 67, The caso of Surrand Lamirand, the alleged absconding French cashicr, was again before Commissioner Betts yes- :]\'nl.ny, but was not disposed of, and weut over until Fri- ay. ‘The General Synod of the Duteh Chureh of the United States bogan its yearly sesston 1u the Kev. Peler Stryker's Chburch, Thirty-fourth-st., near Eightu-ave. The session will occupy eight days. There was & mooting of the C. 8. Spencer Club of the Ninth Ward last night, at which the Hon. H. 1. Raymond and *“the man at the other end of tue avonue” were well castigated. Gon. Aspinwall’s Brigade (the Fourth) paraded yester- day, and were reviewed by Mayor Hoffman in City Hall | Park. The appeaance of the tioops was bighly creditable, Dr. Audrews's fiyingship bas been heard from, the | apparatus haviog landed at Oyster Bay, L. L, about 28 wiles hence. The machine was in theair ubout an hour. ‘There was & meeting of Freemasons last night in the Cooper lnstitute to consider the subject of s stublishing some extensive henovolent institution for the Drler. The New-Hampshire Legislature met yesterday and chose Dunie! Bamard, President of the Senate, aud Austin T. Pike, Speaker of the House. The Grand Jury of Mercer Counfy, New-Je commenced the work of dealing with Loegislat: tion by indicting several Lobby members. _ August Trabant was yesterday found guilty of selling liquor withaut license it Brooklyn. ‘The Board of Education met yesterday, but their doings were not of special importance. ‘The Maryland Unconditional Union Convention met in | Baltimore yesterday. with a large attendance. The trial of Jeff. Davis will occur in October, unless the case is disposed of in some cther way bbfore thut time. The Eleventh Brigado will parade to-day and proceed to East New-York for ficld practice. Gold is lower under the English news, and closed yester- duy at 1493, after welling as bigh as 195%. Tie stesmer Aleppo takes 1,850,000 in specie, and_the City of Cork $175,00. The China, from Boston, takes 81,630,000, ment stocks were firm for the gold-bearing issue el on the 7.0, Money is in good supply at 6a7 per cent, | grelghu are lower. In Exchsuge uothing oi cousequence oing. ¥, have o corrup- CONGRESS. SENATE. JUNE 5.—Mr. Johnson presented the credentiols of Mr. Wilkinson Call, Seaator elect from Florida. Mr. Chandler | offered a resolution authorizing the Secretary of the l TreaSury to adjust the accounts and pay the saluties and compoensation of the officers and employes in Department who have been engaged in ¢ revenue within the late Rebe! States. A joiut resolution for the relief of Paul 8. Forbes, builder of the iron-clad Idaho, was sd. The bull for reorgaiizat. of the clerieal force of the Interior Department was passed. Tho Senato then continucd the discussion of Mr. Doolittle's | amendwent to the Reconstruction bill, and afier hes for and egainst, tho amendment was rejected. Mr. Willismson moved another awenduwent to the second section, which wus rejected. 4 Mr. Hooper reported bac amendments, a bill to | secure the sardty of public The_ameuduents were | agreed to. A m«.f.u..n,u:r-r d by Delano, instructing the Commitive on Banking to inquire into the propriety | of equalizing the rate of interest charged by the Nationil | Banks, was adopted. On motion of Mr. Hayes, a distri- bution of American Stite papers among members was ordered. The Houss then discussed the bill anthorizing | the Secretary of the Navy to pt Leaguoe Island for | Naval purposes. Mr. Raymond reported a bill providing | for contingent exponses. The Honse is onca mote discussing the League | Island and New-Loudon sites for a new naval station | adapted to iron-clads. Mr. Brandagee's description | of the advantages of the former location will be found picturesque, if not flattering. - On the seventh page of this morning's paper will be found letters from Florence and Genoa, a letter from Norfolk on the Freedmen; an account of the Stead- man tour in the vicinity of Savaunah; a reply to the | charges against the management at Castle Garden; reports from the Board of Education, and law iute gence. Mr. Fessenden has presented to the Reconstruction | Committee an elaborate report on the questions at | insue between Congress and the President, which will | be submitted to Congress when the Committee shall | have adopted it. The report is described as exceed- ingly able—as it well may be, baving the right side of the question to argue. —— The House passed yesterday a bill to secure the safe keeping of public moneys intrusted to disbursing officers of the United States. The debate showed a disposition: on the part of the House to place further restrictions upon the depagit of Government fuuds in the National Banks, and Mr. Hooper announced that a bill would shortly be reported to amend the tional Banking law for that purpose. There was a lively debate in the Senate yesterday | _.' on Reconstruction, in the course of which Mr. Doo- little was afforded an opportunity to explain his past and prescut relations with various political parties. Mr. Howe thought it evident either that his colleague had left the Republican party, or that the party had left him. The difference is not important to anybody but Mr. Doolittle, 50 long as he votes steadily with the Democrats. No vote was reached on the main question. The meeting of a European Congress is not yet fully determined upon. Austria still hesitates, and on her consent the mecting of Congress will probably be made dependent. The ‘English Government has again declared that it has but little hope that peace will be preserved. The report received by the previous European ar- rival of an occupation of the Darbian Principalities by Russian and Turkish troops, is contradicted. We are now, on the contrary, informed that the Paris con- forence has declared against a military intervention. A Boston writer, in the course of the controversy on the case of Green, the Malden murderer, had the courage or hardibood to vindicate and eulogize Ven- geauco 88 a moral attribute, There is no doubt whatever that the scaffold originally sprang from the secd of Vengeance. Our purblind ancestry, with bratal impatience, when they eould find no cure for o mora! invalid, went to work aud killed Lim. The | scaffold is & gymbol of the cruelly and quackery of the | them by his agents and subordinat ! duty of a sound public opinion to resist encroachments | npon the law not less carnestly when they proceed from | he is guilty, it is triling with the just indi NEW.YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, THUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1865, past. The time is coming when it will be deemed a8 oruel to kill men for crime or mental disease a3 now to kill them for pain or physical disease. B THE FENIANS AND THE GOVERNMENT. The President’s Proclamation seems to be intended to modify, in one respect, the order issued on Tuesday by direction of Andrew Johnson from the Attorney- General's office. We pointed out, yesterday, the ille- gal extension of power permitted by that order in its direction for the arrest of persons who ‘‘may be"” guilty of violating the neutrality laws. The President now restricts that loose mandate by exhorting all judges, marshals, and officers to employ all their «Jawful " power and authority to defeat and prevent the Fenian invasion of Canada. We presume it will be admitted that lawful power does not include the power to arrest peaceable citizens on susplition of an intent to violate the law. For this modification of his previous zeal, the President will be sure to escape rebuke. But the proclamation comes late. Fenian mectings have been held all over the country for many months One powerful branch of the organization openly avowed its purpose to attempt the liberation of Ireland vie Canada, and to that end raised money and set on fooi well-known enterprises without a whisper of oppositiot from the Government. It will not be strange if thy numerous body whose proceedingsreceived in this man ner the tacit approval of the Government should now complain that they were lured on to their destruc. tion. They will have some ground for asserting that they were encouraged to expect toleration in every act not openly hostile to the law, and they wil criticize the proclamation of yesterday a8 the lat avowal of a purpose on the part of the Government to stretch its prerogative for the suppression of a movement it hac nursed into activity. Had the Govem- ment interposed when Col. Roberts collected his followers iu public meetings, the enterprise must necessarily have been arrested at the outset, and would never have grown into a military organization, nor ever have alarmed the householders of Canada by anincursion across the border. The lives of the men who wer sacrificed in an attempt that assumed the indif- ference of the President,might have been saved had the mask of indifference been thrown off earlier or worn alittle later. Now, it need not amaze anybody if the thousands of men who, in this Fenian effort, have put at hazard their lives and fortunes, demand to know the motive of what will seem to them an unsc- countable vacillation in policy, and an unespected uncertainty of Executive purpose. Wa are far from complaining of any legitimate vigi- lance against open infraction of the neutrality law To take care that the laws be executed is the clear y of the Excentive. It is equally his duty to ab- n from any encoursgement to a violation of , and it is the st the authorities charged with the preservation of order, than when they spring out of the enthusiasm of those who owe a perfect obedience to the letter of e statute. And it does seem to us that if the Adminis- ration cherished the intention to execute the neu- trality laws for the beuefit of Conada—of which there can be no doubt—they were as much bound to observe good faith toward the Fenians as toward the subjects of Great Britain. If Mr. Johnson intended to go beyond the or of the law, and assume & moral obligation as DMiding on him for the guardianship of the interests of Great Bri he should have felt himself still more strongly obliged to proclaim that purpose, and to confess his sense of responsibilty in time to prevent the consequences that have followed upon the | continued suppression of his poli THE TRIAL OF DAVIS, The proceedings in Judge Underwood's court b od as everybody supposed they would. The uppli 1 of Davis's connsel for an immediate trinl is re- jeeted by direction of the Government, and the court stands adjourned till the first Tuesday in Oc Meantime, it is understood that Davis will be releases either on bail or on parole, and we presume the Gov- ernment feels the pressure of public opinion so far to recognize the ati a8 e on which President Johuson ev Abrabam Lincoln, yet we are bound tos suppose that the Government have long had full knowledge of that | evidene Should it appear that testimony exists gtrong enough to justify a trial on that charge, the question must be answered why Davis, like the other couspirators, was not long ago tried by military v, and either well hanged, or acqnitted of the charge. 1If, on the other hand, there is no such evi- dence, the point to be met is, why the proclamation autho necessity of accepting the alternative of immediate trial or immediate release, A | Congressional comuittee, it is true, is investigating the | last April f charged Davis with complicity in the sssassination of | | | of the Preaident was ever issued. So in regard to the starving of prisoners, and other unmilitary crimes for which Davis is still held to answer at the bar of public opinion. Their truth or falsity ought to have been determined before now. If Davis is innocent, it is gross injustice to keep him in prison. If nation of the people to poftpone the which would prove him guilty. Judge Under- wood hints that some action of the Government is likely to intervene between this and October, which may prevent any trial at that time. But it is difficult to Lelieve that Davis is to be released on sn indefinite parole and suffered to go at large with ull the que tions at issue in his case left unsettled. The Gov- ernment will find frankness in this matter the best policy, and should avow its belief or its disbelief in the pending charges. Whether or not it is desirable to Liy Dnv{! on the general charge of treason, isa wuch less important question. WHY S0 MANY FIREs? The number of fires which broke out in this City in the first five months of the present and five preceding years, respectively, is as follows: Months, 1861, 1563, 1863, 1861, 1963, 1866, Er il 12 2 o 2 36 21 41 ey 40 Rl M n Kl 33 92 20 Kl a B 79 16 “ 15 21 17 7 Total.... 153 158 138 150 140 347 Showing more fires (not connting thirty-four fulse alarme), in the last five months than in the corre- | ing months of any twe previous years, There have been twenty-nine fires in Broadway alone in the last five months, ahout double the aver- age number in former years. §) —We submit these facts in exposition of the clamor raised by certain journals against our present Fire Department. No honest man will accuse it of having been in any manner responsible for this enormous increase in the number of fires over those of any former year; nor will any intelligent person contend that this increase is accidental. There are villalns in this city who are setting fires by bundreds: there are persons who are using their arson to raise a dishonest clumor against our Paid Fire Department. Just ow far the two classes are acting in concert remains to be seen. That they have at least common sym- pathies, if not common purposes, is abundantly mani- fest, The Fire Commissioners may Lave exceeded their gpecified powers in offering rewards for the detection of the fire-raising scoundrels; but there was noalternd. tive. They wonld gladly burn half the City if they could thus discredit and overthrow our present Fire Department. The rewards offered have already led to tho deteotion of several of the wiscreunts: and their virtuo is not yet exhausted. We believe a persfatence in the proffer will reduce henceforth the umber of fires one-half, and prevent their setting two or three while our firemen are absorbed in the extingnishment of one. When we shall have got a dozen of the villains into State Prisou, we may hope for a reasonable ex- emption from the peril of general conflagration. ———a GOING SOUTH. Notwithstanding the unsettled condition of the country, many Northern farmers went South in the oarly months of this year for the purposc of planting cotton. Many others, pursuaded that great induce- ments were offered for the production of a cotton crop, wonld have accompanied their neighbors, but found it impossible to make the necessary arrangements in time for the planting season. Others still would gladly have gone, but were restrained for want of definite knowledge as to localities most congenial to Northern settlers. Those who went, and who used reasonable judgment in selecting and stocking plantations, send us encouraging reports. The inducements to embark in the enterprise re- main about the same as at the beginning of the year. There is no immediate prospect of a material declin in the price of cotton, and there is much good land ready for the plow, lying uncultivated, awaiting capi- tal and labor to make it productive. Tho Southern planters have always been short of capital, and, as & rule, lived at least one year in advance of their in- comes. The Rebellion overtook them deeply in- debted to the merchants, and the close of the war in- volved both planter and factor in baukruptey, from which they cau be released only by the introduction of means from abroad. Most plantations not now under cultivation are destitute of everything but good soil and an abundance of timber. The requirements to convert these to use are, first of all, capital—at least 5,000, with which to procure aud support ten laborers, six mules, three plows, two wagons, and small implements in sets of balf a dozen each, for every hundred acres of laud to be cultivated. In pos- session of the money, the planter can procure all the other articles in the South, There is no scarcity of labor; enterprising merchants have shipped to every Southern city and considerable village plantation sup- plies of every kind, and droves of mules, from Texas and the West, are offered for sale in every county and parish where there is money to buy them. In the Bouthern States, as elsewhere, some sections are settled by intelligent, industrious, and law-abiding people, who would gladly welcome n from the North who come with capital and industry to cultivate the soil. Other portions of the country are settled by ignorant, self-conceited braggarts, who affect to despise honest labor, and are hostile to any and all who by precept or example run connter to their own narrow notions. It will not be difficuit to pick out the desirable communities; they are found in almost every one of the Cotton States, and will readily be distinguished by an intelligent agent who wmay be sont out to seloct a place for the formation of a settle- ment. G a, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas are settled in all their most fertile and desirable tracts by a hospitable people, In Central Alabama, from Montgomery to Gainesville, on the Tombighee of these localities where both the people River, i and the soil would be a in Louisiaua, and, if the overflow ecan be vented, on Bayous De Glaze and Tethe, and in the Red River country, from Alexandria to the Texas line, the inhabitauts would rejoice at the op- portunity to revise the prosperity of their beautiful garden-like countries by the aid of Northern capital and skill. The time for making the necessary negotiations and arrangements for the occupation of these lands is at band. The planter should be on his plantation with his laboring force and implements before the Ist of December. A good crop of cotton is almost always insured by early planting. In the alities just named, corn may be planted in February, and cotton as early as the middle of March, and should certainly be in the ground before the middle of April. There ix also much work to be done in the way of ditching, fencing, and repairing of buildings, ronds, and bridges, before the planting season begins, Trouble, expense, and labor will be saved by an early beginning. There is, perhaps, no community in the Southern States wherein the families of Northern men will be speedily welcomed into society. It is, therefore, de- sirable to form settlements; and for this purpose agente should be sent out immediately with authority to select and contruct for the lease or purchase of the required number of acres for a settlement of balf a dozen or more families, Thus the new settlers will be able to regulate their school and church affairs to their own liking, and to secure many other privileges that could not be attained by individual effort. The pre- neighbors would also serve as a defense to each other, | aud by the example of their prosperity would induce the old citizens to court their society. Bince Slavery has been abolished, it is agreed by all classes that the climate of even the lower counties of the Gulf States is not inhospitable to white labor, and that all the produets hitherto grown in the can be successfully and profitably cultivated by any race or people that will industriously apply itself to the work. MISCHIEF-MAKING IN RICHMON To say that words are things is only to repeat a rather stale saw. Every reflecting man will com- prehend what & hinderance to genuine and honest re- construction is the lingo of a reluctant aud more than half simulated loyalty. We have more of this in Southern mouths and newspapers because there are Northern men, in Congress and out of it, who set the soressonled malcontents of the late “Confederacy " a pernicions example by insisting upon the separate and indispatable individuali insurrection, who will not yield to the idea of perfect political unity only becanse that idea has ticularly asserted and held up by the Union party. Opposition has betrayed too many into a babit of representing the Confederacy independent power. Now, such an admission as this, coming from any considerable portion of the Northern people, is just the ineli which entitles ex-Rebels to | demand a yard or two; and they are not ia the least modest abont it. All they want is to keep the idea of the individuality of the late Slave States, and they have pride, passion, and prejudice to work upon in the dubious future. For instance, here is a Virginian gentleman who has been allowed personally to choer the seclusion of Jefferson Davis. Being o gallant man, the visitor, writing to The Richmond Eraminer, most altitndinously compliments Mrs, Jetferson Davis, “Her eonversation,” he informs us, **is the same that ko often charmed visitors when she, the wife of the President of A BRAVE NATION, struggling for their liberties, dispensed the courtesies and hospitalities of the Presidential mansion.” Now, we have nothing to say of Mrs. Davis's manners, We will take it for grauted that they are those of & well-bred woman; nor do we think the worse of her for clinging affectionately to her misguided Lusband in his downfall aud peril. But when you come to **a brave nation, struggling for their libertios,” we insist apon filing a special demur- rer. We totally deny that such words aro in the least appropriste. We admit the bravery, for the sake, at least, of our own military reputation; but we deny the “ nation " and the ** struggling for their liberties " in toto. 'We have a respect for words; and it hurts our feelings to see them perverted and abused. The * Confederacy ™ never was a ** nation;” never had a breath of national existence; never was recognized by the powers of the earth as ** a nation;" never got the least standing in the family, never had a Minister, nor so much as a Vice-Consal, recoived at any court; never mal o the shadow of & treabyi Leves a . om- ceptable. On Bayon Boenf, | uth | : | aforesaid as an | | | | | | | | | | | | | | foilows: f the States lately in | | wlation, ou i pleasure X plished more than the assertion by itself of its natiopality, to which all the rest of mankind responded: * No—by no manner of means,” turning the cold shoulder diplomatically, and keeping up the theory of a friendly understanding with the authorities at Washington, The Confederacy was no more a nation than a vagrant is a householder, or a pauper the* equal in wealth with Mr. Astor. It is one thing to struggle for nationality—it is another to attain it; and the South never did attain it, nor the semblance of it, nor had the least chance of it, for they merely played at nationality in Richmond, and found it rather hard to maintain even the complement of adecent Cabi- net, although there was nothing to do except in their extemporized War Department. Does any- body ask why we object to this little game of as- sumption, feeble as it is, and harmless? ‘We answer, simply because it is not harmless, It is quite im- portant to get certain theories kicked out of this world, never to return to vex the peace and endanger the lifo of the real “*nation.” If the Slave States have been ‘“‘national” once, why not “ national” again? If they ever had the franchise, it is a fair argn- ment that they have been deprived of it by force, and are at liberty by force to regain it. To admit this is not only to write ourselyes down tyrants and usurp- ers but theoretically to give up what we have heen fighting for. Admit the ** Confederate nationality,” and there is no reason, morally, why we should not have auother Rebellion to-morrow. There is mischief in the very idea of “abrave nation struggling for their libertios.” Consider how the last words may still be used *“to fire the Southern heart.” It means: Yoy were free, and you n.lre‘slavefi you are the vie- tims of nnmerited public misfortunas; yon have suc- cumbed to a superior physical force; you are crushed, conquered, and eruelly subjugated.” ‘What will come next? What but “Be yo men and soffer this dishonor?” And so we shall have no peace, no fixedness, nothing but semi-annual fights, and chronic explosions after the Mexican manner. Do we object to allowing disappointed men the liberty of their tongues? Certainly not, while they confine themselves to mere talk—it is the brain that perverts and the heart that poisous speech, aud about the Sonthern brain and heart we cannot help fecling atrifle of anxiety. We object to everything which needlessly complicates a good, solid reconstruction, and postpones it even for an unnecessary hour. It is & great stretch of faith to believe in a man’s loyalty when he is ceaselessly talking of * Confederate nationality,” or of *“a brave nation struggling for their liberties.” If these be not the idlest words, will anybody tell us by what authority, human or divine, poor Mr. Davis i3 locked up—is to be tried—is to be put in peril of hislife? Admit the ’! « nationality,” and why isn't the unfortunate J. D. like William Tell? or Kosciusko? or Kossuth!? or Mazzini? Why is n't he a martyr from his head to his heels? Those who admire him—whether at the North, the South, or the West—want nothing else but to get him into that category, and then what a capital candidate for the Presidency will he make '—the leader of *a brave nation strugglivg for their liberties! " We certainly do not thirst for his blood—we are not for racking, banging, drawing, or quartering him—we are not for shutting him up in a dark dungeon on a hard-bread and cold-water diet; but we do think that the Rebellion was causeless and wicked; and we can- not, in the present delicate crisis, read with much cquanimity of this **brave nation struggiing for their liberties. INDUSTRIAL EXIIBITION IN BRAZIL. There is to be a National Industrial Exhib | Rio de Janeiro, the capital of the Empire of Brazil, be- ginning on the 19th of October, and ending on the 24 of December of the current year. It is designed to include samples of all the products of Brazilian | farms, and also specimens of all implements and ma- chinery, both of foreign and domestic manufacture, that are used in the cultivation of the soil or in the preparations of agricultural products for market. Ample provision is promised for the reception aud exhibition of models and for the working of full-sized machines. A special apartment is to be designated for the use of foreiguers, who will be supplied gratu- itously with power and materials to work engines and machinery of every deseription. 4 All articles sent to the Executive Committee of the Exhibition will be passed through the Custom-House ires of duty, upon the depositing of security that they shall be reéxported, or that, in case they are sold, the duty will be paid. The Brazilian authorities are espacially anxious that the labor-saving machines invented and used in the United States should be represented, hoping thereby to stimulate their own mechanics to improve their manufactures, and to induce their agriculturists to adopt and use the most cable inventions. WORKING OF THE NEW EXCISE. The following is an official exhibit of the number of arrests made by the Police of our City on the several Sundays of April and May last respectively: Under old Excise. | Under new Ercise. .o Firat Sunday in A prik First Sunday in May ... 62 cond Sunday fo April . 124 | Sacond Suaday in May o A Sunday in April . 185 | Third Sunday la May 2 Fourth Sunday ia April.. 134 | Fourth Suuday in May... 4 Total wwiiis sl Net redu 4 Sovidtos BB — Ought not Mayor Hoffman to bave considered such facts before he launched bis condemuation of the Noew Excise! e “* Stude writes us that be has a School-book published in 1561, which gives the population of two States as follows: 005,000 | Wisconsin, 305,000 Very like he will consult the United States census taken in 1860, he will find tho aggregates as 066 | Wisoonsi oo I, To-day we suspect Wisconsin S0, you see, t Mossachusetts. ... Almost two to three, has nearly or quite 1,000,000, do not serve your turn, The N. Y. Journal of Commerce says: “The hosts of negroes whe perished from exposnre and starvation number, doubtloss, hundreds of thousands, Nor has e visible among them @here is probab of the earth to-day equal populatio try amoug whou th wueh sullering a8 among the fiecdmen in Americ The Florida Times, publishedat Jacksonville, prints this as & matter of curiosity, and illustrates as fol- lows n connection with the above extract, we wonld state that the steamer Tamiend, owned aud maused by colored people. Iaft this city on lass Saturday orowded with the sufering por wn up our boautiful river, W t death Jrom sulering iu East have vet to record th Florida.” The large shipments of coal from the mining regions of Pennsylvania justify the hope that fuel will soon experience a further reduction in price. During last week the enormons aggregate of 301,647 tuns was sent to market; this was 216,359 tuns more than was brought out in the correspouding week of last year. The shipments for the current year already amount to 4,145,140 tuns, being an increase of 1,275,977 tuns over the product of last year at the same date. Texas.—A gentleman who writes from the heart of Texas to subseribe for Tng TRIBUNE, says: “Our crops were never more promising; sud I assure you the negroes are doing better than most men anticipated. I think there will be as large a crop of cotton raised in this State as in any previous year. * We Southern Unionists are in favor of the Freedman's Burean. Without it, thers is 1 protection for the negro, “'Wo wish the continuance ot military rule. It is the die- loyal who are ranting sbout the nonadmission of Southern represcntativos into Congress; not the loyal,” Marder. CINCINNATL. Wednes June 6, 1r6, Capt. Menter, of the tank, was mortally wounded by a pistol shot arglar, wh entered his house at’ Newport, Ky., this morping, tor the wpou of robbery. Monter's son & “ward shot the {atally ) woukding Lig. RN f 01d School Gemeral Asgmbly Procecdings— Fourteenth Day—Freedman’s Report—The Olive Branch to Southern Churches—&ce, From Our Special Correspondeat. 81. Louts, June 2, 1868, ‘The Old School General Assembly is thioning oug rapidly. The day beiug very rainy and damp the gallerjes presented a beggarly account of empty benches, and the sttendance of members palpably fell off. The interest in the proceedings is the nisin cause of thess events, though to the body of the Church at large the re. maining duties of the Assembly are of great interest, ‘The Committee on Bills and Overtures presented theos reports of local interest to the Synod of Towa only, The same Committee recommendod ‘that the title to the lot in Winona, Minn,, be transferred to certain winisters, on. condition of a church edifice being orected thm'm. Reports were also presented of a list of delegates to be ap- inted to represent the Goneral Assembly in various re- igious assemblies to be held next year, The waa accepted. The vacaneies in Board of Domestic ous were also filled by reélecting the old members, The report on freedumen’s affairs was further discussed m-d:{v the chief question at issue being whether the work could be as_well performed by the fi«.m of Domestic Missions as by a separate Committee. There was quito & debate on this point, part of the Assembly contending that as & matter of economy it was better to transfer the work tothe Board. Dr, Thowasand scveral others op; this course, however, and finally the Assembiy voted to con- tinue the work in the hands of the same Committee as last year, " Dr. Schenck this morning offered the following resolu- on: Resolved, That we believe there are many ministers and members belonging to the Presbyterian Uhuroh’hl the Southern States who dlnprmv.d of the late Rehellion, and were com- rllcd by the force of circomstauces to bow down be- fore what they believed to be an irresistible mecessity, and without expressing any opinion on fhe subject of such conduct this Assembly will cherish the kindest fra. ternal regard for such brethren, and whenever they desirs to retarn o the church we will extend to tuem a gordial wel- come; aud in regard to those who yolpu the Rebellion, this flogwbjx i i toward them, nnd waeuever they the Geners Assembly of 1865 we will be pleased to receira them bari into the church, T2 resolution caused quite a commotion and formed b7 topie of debate the rest of the duy. Several were made to edge in substitutes. Mr. Dey of New-York, who said b represented the chureh which gave the sumof $00,000 é“fl’ to this Presbyterian Church, was anxious to modify the acts of 1ast year, or rather to coutioue them #0 that onr brethren, the Union men of she South, could understand them. He offered o resolution which was laid on the table, Mr. Patterson of Il said he bad no harsh feelings toward Southern Christians, and after four years service in the Army thought thero were many men in the South who could come in under Dr. Schenck's resolution. Various parlismentary motions were made, but the res- oh;tion‘ a3 relld .rm ad 5 = t was resolved to appoint a committes to write a pasto. ral letter, and ested that the sentiments of Dr, Schenck’s resolution be incorporated in the same, ‘The political caldron is boiling ove: in the interior of the State, if all accounts be true, 7'%he Glay Times speaks of a riot at the Blair speaking at Mazshall, in which pistols were used, aud one man shot in the shoulder; and aspecial to The St. Lowss Republican, dated at Warrens- burg, yesterday, says that a fight cnsued there in which aman’ by the name of Stevens was killed. Politicians st those gatherings should put ice in their hats. Betweer | and 2 o'clock this moruing the telegraph sounded the alacm of fire on the levee near O Fallon-st., which proved to be on the dismaatled steamer Bostor which, with the two other steamers, the Ida Haudy a James Raymond, were entirely destroyed. Tho fire orig. inuted on 1he Bostona, and is supposed to be the work of an incendiary; thero being no fire on the boat at the ti nor had thers heen for some considernblc length of time ‘The flames as usual on steambouts s with great n{:idlly, und soon enveloped in their embrace the twe other steamers, Ida H and James Raymond. The firemen say it was but a few moments after the alarm waa sounded before the thros boats wer: one mass of dame. METROPOLITAN FIRE DEPARTMENT. g Meeting of the Bonrd of Fire Commissioners— Communications and Their Families, A meeting of the Board of Fire Commissioners was held at Firemen's Ha'l, yesterday. Present—Commissioners Pinckney, Engs and Brown, and Mr. Gilderslesve, Secretary. Communications were received, as follows: From M. Carstens, desiring to introduce Lis Patent Fire Lighter, for use of the Department. From the Chief-Engineer, in respouse to a resolution of the Board, stating that no progress had been mads by the Croton Aqueduct Departwent in laying down vew Lydrants, siuce the application made to lhfl‘: for that purpose. “The follow ing was also trausmitied New-Yonx, May %, 1883, Evisua Kiosuax, esg., Chief-Engineer §ire Lcpariment. St you.and turough you ts the Fire Depart- ment, ¢ the saivation of wy houss, adjoining St. James Luthersn Church, Fifteenth-st., at the fire, Nothing. ssve the superliumen excttions of the firemen usder your able direction, sa my property frem the devouring element.” Very respectiully, your avedieut serant, HoBERT HU20%. No. 103 Last Fifieenthoat. From the Chief-Engincer—Submitting statemeat of the number of fires and alarms of fire for wonth of May as follows: Alarms of fire, 76, False alarms, 9. Total, =5. Numbet heretofore reporied since Jan. 1, 246; whole number to June 1, , 331, l'rufl; telegraph operstors, asking to bLave their pay in creased. From W. C. Marshall, soliciting the eoiperation of the De- partmest, in exhibiting bis appliance to buiidings to ald 1n the extinguishmont of fires. Tho following resiguati®s were scoeptad: Wm. Lopg, Eogiue Co. No. 17; Wi, Sboehan, Engine Co, No. 17; F. A, Wemmell, Engine Co. No. 13; Lafsyetie Sharp, Engine Co. 0. Commissioner. Pinckney presented the report of the Com- wittee oa Finsuce aud Telegraph, recommeading sbe adop- tion of the foilowing resoiution the tours of duty opersior 3 I from 12 midnigt to 8 8. m. ; that each watch be ki sou for one week continuously, and that the Suy & ¢ the bellringers and telegraph rom 4 p. . to 12 widnight; by the saine per- iutoudeut of Teie directed to carry the same iuto effect fortuwish. hioh was adopi the Fresident of the Board e ake e Decownty messures L.; edver o to carry into effect t ions of tie law telative 10 Lae siocage commb Tatible mufl.h.m Tho resolution was adopted. Commiss'oner PINCKyEY offered the following resolution: Resolved, That for the purpose of supplying the stes fire wugine companies (not already suppiled) with vigines of preper working ' engines which experience hiss shown te uirements of the Deyortuent, thas It #3 be ordered, simiar i il respects togggines Nos. 1, 9 uad 10 of tils city. was referred to the Cowmittee on Apparatus avd Hose. Commissioner PINCKNEY oftered the fullowing resolution: Resolved. Thet the Chiot-Eugieer be ard he is heceby dizected ty require every Swaw Fire Eugwe Compauyin this Department to keep the waier iu the bobers 01 the sieass eugies ol the sieaw point, ine Into day and night. aud thag tor the purpose of carrying U ciffset the Chairmen of the Commitien 0n Buildiugs avd S v wnd steam cols, pipes od Lo pesfor the ueces peration. -, and the Board then adjourned. Yeaterday the New-York Aeccidevtal Insurauvee Company patd_to the families of D. B. Wators, late foreman, and Peter H. Waish of Engive Compavy No.' 23, killed at tha fire of the Acadomy of Music, the amonut of their poligics, v it Charles 8. Speucer Clul Ward, A weeting of this Club was held last evening, The room was filled with young men, and large number of new members s:gued the roll. The PRESIDENT stated the objects of the Club, snd be was followed by the Hon. CHARLEs S, SpENCER, He said that he did not iotend to wuke a speecy, as te bad been talking almost incessautly all day, but that be bad o gentleman with him who came with his head under bis arm. o martyr to the rights of oplaion avd freedom of expression, who though dead yet speaketh. Hear him! Mz, Spencer fur- ther sad that be disapproved of the course of Copgressman Raymond, and that he did not believe that one in ten of the voters in the VIth Cougressional District would indorse bis wtion in Congress. He recommeaded all to read and cir- colate Tousey's tract, “ A Constituent to a Representative.” Mr. Spencer concladed in an cloguent peroration, filled with classie allusions, electrifyiag the audience, who rose up cheerod lustily Mr. ALEXANDER MCLEOD being called for, by the personal allusions of Xr. Spencer, suid: e was not the ooly martyr of this Admiuistration. Postmasters and officers in all brazches ot the Goveramont had been beheaded for opizion sake. iad just hesrd from & Congressman that the Pustmaster at Monticello, Sullivan County, who fought aed was badly wouuded 10 the late war, and who was he editor of the Repub- liean paper of that country, bad been sdperseded by a Demo- crat. ‘Uhat the politioal martyrs of this Administration whe have lived praying awl preaching the eternal prin of (ruth and liberty against the aiders and abettors of o 1o limit and circumseribe the development and progress of the cause of justice, xmmuon and equality before the law of al races of weu, and who died praylng and fighting for these priaciples will enjoy & resurrection of glory and bonor avd linal triumph, while shame aad coufusion of face witl be visited to those apostate followers of “my policy.” Mr. MeLeod thought Mr. Spencer was the best candidate for Comgress. Yot he agreed with the romarks of Mr. Spencer, that Lo w not actuated by any personal considerations, and would cheer- fully sapport the Hon. ¥. A. Conkling, Sicluir Tousey, of Russell, or gnLulu porson who would prove sound aud true to the priuciples of froedom. The weotiag thea adjourned. e e —— e FNTERPRISING JOURNALISM.— The T'imes of yesterday sworning had an account of the agrivalof the police expedi- tion at Sezuine's Poiut on Tuesday night, with exact de- tails us follow “The voyagers reached their destization at about 11 o'clock, 1 ng after the Staten Islanders had songht their pillows. ‘The Ianding was speedily made, the men spread their cots within the spacious buildings at the Poiat, night-pickots were put out, the seven cutters east anchor at the points ich had been ausigaed them, and steam engine Schultz & Co. went (o their couches to dream of the astonishment with which the Lslanders will ook upon them this morning.” ~The value of which will be understood when we state that the vessel on which the police embarked did not reach ne's Point at all that night on aceount of a fog, and that the above account is purely fictitions. So much tho more eredit to the imagination of the renorter, aud to the + onterprise” of the journal i guestic WAL s Yl