The New-York Tribune Newspaper, June 8, 1866, Page 4

Pr——R v OFERA Opers, THE, DOCTOR | N a. Mrs. Mozatt, NEW FRENCE IS EVENING, ath the B OF ALCANTARA - Miss Rickin Messin. Sequin, Feakes, Ketob 1 THEATER sk € FATER ) LATE TO MEND Fisver, Mark Smith WALLACK'S 1 wt 8 IT IS N} THIS EVENING [ i, Hrows g 3 ) et am, Wukion, Pope. s loe Burke, Miss Madelive Heur Mis in Wi w Ban L0'S GARDEN. 'Ii€ AND THE BUTTER THIS FVENING FLY. DUCHALUMPAN. The Ravals, Gabriel, Francols, Autoine Young Awer.ca, Siznorits Pepits, Mous, Van | . {oung Amer- Sea on the Thiee Flying Trapese. The Martin Brothers iu Classi- | eal Groupings. OURSE. 3 TROTTIN nd. hfor $15,00 NI THIS AFTERNOON OLYMPIC THEATER | “'|||:.‘ EVENING, st 8=OUR MUIUAL FRIEND, Mre Jobu | JIARDEN | WINTER ( PLAYING WITH FIRE: Mr. John k 1cast, e Miss Mary Carr ) (. Burnett v W, S, Andrews, BROADWAY Tik Fith w THIS EVENING PETTICOATS ; Miss Leien IEATER H_SFY—THE PET OF THE eru, M. ). A. Herue | WOOD'S THEA E INVIFIEL THIS EVEN! THE LINE v Troupe in Hlys FON'S OLD BOWERY THEATER. THIS EVENING, ot 8=THE INVISIHLE PRINCE; Miss Fauny Heuiog, Me. G. L Fox. To conclude with s Farce. BARNUM'S THIS AFTEINOON ot 2 TOM'S CARIN=ir. 0. Lk i W adson, H.'E. Jol 5. ONE HUNDKED 110U THIS EVENING, » AL ACTS, FARCES, BURLESQUES, DA DUETS, ete.~Tohlow GODDESS OF 1 {¥ AND NAVY=A SWEET ervus LIQUOR DEALER FACE AT 1UE ADEMY OF DE VING, extibit NATIONAL TO-DAY and TS BV LIVING AKTISTS 1 O R TR T T Luoinees Notices. BurserT's STANDARD COOKING EXTRACTS are Al £ of the WORKS OF earefully prepared from fruite sod spices of the beat quality, and chal petition. Tholr universal suo d wpon thelr merit is made to the principsl Purvey lenge eo Referen , Confectioners aud Ho. tels in the United States. here. nE HAT TrAV turer of grut'eme: No. 212 Brosdway, er e store dovoted to the bat tiade in thi ate for Summer wear is the best st in the city. Kwox ore st No. 513 Broadway for the sccomodstion of up- the same superior quality of goods that For sale by choice Druggiste and Grocers » nurivaled manufac- ished in bis old loeality, s o ir patrons to live | hem the | “HyoieNic WiNg "—IMPORTED ! K Macnisg, with ¢ r, with etraight, wel cLivaTes, while thoss per b Two Homsws, makes 350 br defined edges. and the b wade by the dry p ) SHINGLES PER HoUR are made by the Macnixk with only ox morsk powee; snd will make or ONETHIND MOKE SNINGLES than A. Requa, Ueneral 3,000 ipare ¥ les o Samsotx s ¢ ALiAvA TONIE, the vitie by th do w it. For sale by wi ARREST NATURE'S DECAY WITH th to the aged. [t relfeves the feebler apectal complainte. | dyspep Tvous dises the fiuest alterative tonte and luvigorant the vegetablo kisgdowm bas juced. Depot, No. 23 1 “Hyerexte Wi Corpts BRowNE's CHLORODYNE.—The seell communicated to the College of Py port that he hid received information to ¢ only temedy of auy servi Decembec 31, 104 Huxuy Sk, Special Agent, No ARVIN'S NEW PATENT ALUM AND DRY PLasTER mn PLaTe Savzs. Highly or ud Also » large swortuent of Bankers' snd avmn Manvix & Co. 268 Bdway, and FINEST GENTLEMEN Fiw) Hovw €1 Broka Chestnut ot., Phils. u the world ! ave., opposite Cooper Tnstitute, wnd No. €2 Latayetie-pluce. Howe's CotToN PICKER | day 10 the field cleaver th 1 by b fiows Mantracionive Courany, No. 3 Cedar-st ks 600 to K00 pounds % S Tag Ustos Berrox-Hone Macmiyg—Sold exclo- | sively by the SIxGER MANTZACTIRING COXPANY. No. 438 Hrosdway The great ¢! TATIC Rumrny liew b0 (e un One dose (* lorty & ldom Talia to 1estore “Hyeiexie Wise"—IMPORTED! SANATIVE PILLs secure perfect diges- dyaniing the fanctions of the stomach, liver and purities of the iid in actien and e ertain in effe \E R ves dandr Avtor Hoowe, No. 430 Lrosdway. Also » large assoitment of THE ARM AND LEG, by B. FRANK Paryeg, LL. D.— The “best” ree to soldicrs, and low to officers and civi 1609 Ches'nutat.. PLis N.Y.; 19 Ureen ot., Bostou. Avoid frandulent iriter ons of TrUsSES, ELASTIC STOCKINGS, ex308Y Baxo- Ao, ScpponTERs. AC.—Manan & Co.'s Radical Cure Trus Oflice only #t No. 2 Vesewat. Liady sttendant. Cartes Vignette, $3 per dozen; Du Allnegstives regivrered KA Lrwis, No. 16 Pequot Machine Co., Mystic River, Conn., manufac- tore the most \,m"""d !flnm- E-, weaving Tapes, Bindinze Webbings. PAixLess Diarenes is the usually 3» svmptom of Asiatic Ch C. ud the di fu Thi love by th o Traveling Agents wonld find a profitable and rapid peliue speciaity in * NAEULYS's COMPOUND CANPOR TROCHKS. / WiLLcox & Giess SEWING MACHINE. “Jtageam s atronger and less lisble to 1ip in use or wear, than the e 1t SuBpes Report " at the * ldand Park Trial Send for the plicat © goes 10 of Maus NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, JUNE B, 1866., | NewDork flz;i-iufiribun i FRIDAY, JUNE &, 1866, To Advertiserss We will thank our advertising customers to hand in their Advertisements at as carly en hour s possible. If reccived after 9 'clock they canuot be classitied under their yroper hesds, e e N . S H K NEWS OF THE DAY e GENERAL NEWS, Tho latest reports stato thet everthing i quiet at New Quarantine, the authorities remaining in undisturbed Sossession. Laborers are at work on the building, and ast night supplics were sent down to the police. There Was great excitement on Staten Island, and impromptu meetings bavo been held, ut one of which a Vigi Committes was appointed for the purpose of pr w erection of hespital buildings on the island by every i Of the §100,000 recently ure for building a Quaraitine $5,000 were drawn yesterday to uses of engincering, surveying pay the preliminary ex preparing plaus. « Fenian fiasco is now supposed tobe complete. Gen. Lynch s 83id to have ordered his troops to return o their | hoanes from Buffulo, and it is also reported that Gen. Sweeney did the same before he was wirested. Roberts Lus also been arrested and was contined erday under guard at the Astor House, Canada is reported to have been invaded from another place, 1,500 Fenians having crossed the border yesterday ut an_important point. An immense meeting was held last evening at Cooper Tnsti- tute and §1,000 subscribed in aid of the Irish Republie. In the General Synod of the Reformed Dutch Chureh of Vorth America yesterday se NN MiSSIOBATIos Were e a_letter of greeting from the Free Church in Scotland. The Standing Com- mittees wers appointed, aud the Synod adjourned until to-day. Not long since Elkan Herzmann, Rabbi of a Jewish zoguo in Brooklyn, was kicked out of his ehurch by wportion of his con cted to his minis- tration on sectional grounds. yesterday brought an action against thom und received §304 dama The investigation before Commissioner Osborn of the of cruelty t rd the American ghp Thornton, was resumed yesterday. After the examination of witnesses, the case was closed, the Commissioner re- serving his decision, The regular monthly meeting of the Chamber of Com- merce was held yesterdny. Resolutions were adopted ap proving of the Bankrupt law now before Congress, and urging the Representatives froum this State to securo its passage. ° A well-authenticated case of cholera occurred at No, 303 Broome.st., on Monday last. Mr. Edward Frasor was taken sick on Suuday, and dicd on the next day. Robert D. Holmes w. ed Grand Master during | the session of the M 1 3 this city yesterday. s were also redlected. Mayor Hoflman has received a letter from a Philadelphia Mrs. Catharine M. P'eat, oficring her services as in the cholera hospital ou Sta ud. Officors who have served in the late war are numerously applying to Brevet Major-Gen. Ullman for positions under N in the Volun! s of Garibaldi, in Italy. Gold closed y at 1427, after selling at 1427 and 145} during the rament stocks were all stronger, e purchase with parties desiriug short in- stocks and 1 rtpages were dealt K shures we lio small stocks Wi 3 o ro list o lower, and as little disposition to buy for an adva: side operators, After the call market was sluggish and cond Board the market con- sading, which advanced to 1098, After the cail the market was strong and prices gener- wiiy improved. Exchange wias bardly so tirm. Money was in Roud wupply 6L 6 per eout 1o brokers, and a good deal is done at 5 por cent. lu commercial paper no chauges buyers not abundant. At the tinued dull with the exception of CONGRISS, SENATE. JUNE 7.—A bill introduced by Mr. Ramsay lief of the United States 2 Mr. Sherman, from the Couns Committee, reported a bill telegraph | of the sawe for postal, mili poses. Th Senate then resumed the cousideration of the reconstruc- tion resolution. r the re- refurred. TOUSE. me the joint re ies to M A m cure homesteads 1o st ng of forest trees, was reforre Ou motion of Mr. W o dupon for_information as to the amount oxpenses i Indian expeditions. A bill intro- Ir. Windom g & 1o lowa railroad lands, was refirred. ed the i of the bill relative to the an iron-clad station. Mr. Ricc the substitut: offored b that pait requiring a rep substitutivg for it a clause avthor the Navy to accopt a title of the recommended by & mujo h ment of Mr. Rice wa on the substitute of a vote of 5 o (o, « the Seere « which shouid bo foard. The amend- vote was then taken ce, and it was rojected by The bill was then passed, Yeas, 715 o 46. A motion by Mr. Ancoua, providing for the ad- utent of Congress on the ane, was passed. ——— Mr. Le Blond indulged himself in a little plain talk erday, affording considerable amuse- evershody but Mr. Raymond. al lead of Mr. Ancona, in the House ye ment to alm The House, under the un has passed a resolat \journ on the 2%th of June. It needs the Senat meurrence, and the business of that body is in no condition to allow an adjournment at that ti A large and enthusiastic Feuian meeting was held lust evening at Cooper Inustitute, at which a oonsider- able sum was subscribed in aid of the cause, and the policy of the Government was strougly denounced. A report will be found in another column. Reconstruction was debated yesterday in the Sen- ate, but Mr. Garret Davis put in a four hours' speech as a sort of buffer to prevent a vote. When he coneluded, the Senate was too much exhausted to do anything but adjourn. Those of our readers who prefer the Homeopathie practice will read with interest the paper, which we print elsewhere, on the doctrine and treatment of cholera, prepared by Dr. Talmage, an eminent physi- cian of Brooklyn his patients, Without expressing any opinion on the merits of different schools of medicine, we think the remarkable success of the Homeopathic treatment in former epidemics éntitles it to attention. The House, to the surprise of its own members and of others, voted yesterday to go for League Island blindfold. The substitute for the Philadelphia bill sought no more than the appointment of a commission for the examination of all proposed sites for a maval station, with a view to having a report that should embody full information on this vexed question. But the House, under official and other influences, voted to dispense with iuvesti- Heport” and samples of Work coutaining borh kin stitches on the same piece oda. 3 [ goo No. Mflylnd'-y_. Fronexce LOCK-STITCH SEWING-MACHINES—Best In the world. FLORENCE SEWING MAC Coxpary, . 55 Itmad'ly.__ GROVER & BAkEr'S Hicuest PresivM Evastic Ereron SEwivg Mact INuS. for family use. No. 435 Broadway. Improven Lock-Strren Macmises for Tailors and Mangfactorers. Guoves & BAKEm Swixe Macwie COXPAXT, No. 48 Brosdway. WoEELER & WILSoN'S LOCK-STiTcH SEWING Macuixk snd Porroxmors Macuixe. No. 625 Broadway. Tae improved Eliptic Hook Lockstitch Sewing- Machioes.—A. f1. Svpxe. No. 577 Broadway, Agents wauted. Howg SEWING MACHINE COMPANY.—ELIAs HOWE, 1r., President, No. 699 Brosdway. Agents wanted. 8. M. Perrexcitt & Co., NEWSPAPER ADVERTIS- e Agrxts, No. 37 Parkrow, New-York (establisked in 149). are agentafor The Tribune, and all the newspepers in the Usited States wd Britiah Proviaces. PaTrioric Smfi:nr FESTIVAL AT FLUSHING. — The ladles of Flashing, L. 1., announce s Strawberry Festiva) »t the Towsn Hall on Friday afternoon and ovening. The pro- seeds of the entertainment are for the purpose of aiding in the sompletion of & gravite motument in memory of the deccased | soldiers of that town. Persons in this city wishiog to attend ihe fustival can take the 2 o'clock p. m. either from l.zdlp or_Thirty-fourth-st.; visit the Festival, which is a0t far from the Flushin, ; and return to the city on the 5 60r 7§ p. w. tralo. Admission, 25 ceuts; ehildren, 5 cents. - Buicioe BT DROWNING.—An inquest was yesterday 1eld by Corouer Gover on the body of a seaman named Adolph Wrafle, who committed suicide on Wedlnesday night by jamp- g into the North River from the hark Astres, lying at Pig No. 49, The evidence showed that on the pight in question decenned lnmmf-u- temporary insanity, caused use of intoxicating drink, and bad ouce attempted by ’.’I“ overboard. He waa rescued, but 4 stort the ttempt, and with fatal success. wa gation, and to take League Island for better or worse. We presume the subject will reccive a full discussion in the Senate. On the second page of this morning's paper will be found literary items; on the third, aletter from Richmond ; on the sixth, a letter from Mr. Ira Steward concerning tho Eight-Hour Move- ment; on the seventh pago an article upon The Fashions, a report of the Reformed Datch Synod, a card from* Miles O'Reilly, a report of the Chamber of Commerce meeting, with a statement from Mr. Conway on Southern Affairs, Law Inutelli- gonce, letters from Thomas Ewbank on Steam Power, from Speaker Colfax on the Extra Session controver- sy, from a Florida correspondent on the working of “ My Policy” in that State; aud other matters of in- terest. — ‘We commend to the attention of all friends of Re- publican principles the address from Mazzini to American Republicans, which we give entire in another column. Wo are glad to see that the reply, which pledges to the Republicans of Europe the sympathy of the people of the United States, has received the signatures of men of all parties. Mazzini expocts from a general expression of this sympathy @ powerful influence upon public opinion in Europe, and he may certainly be supposed to be a competent judge in this matter. And if he is right, if the proclamation of our faith in republican institutions can hasten the estab- lishment of these institutions in the Old World, why should American Republicans hesitate to give to their bellion proved of no avail. The sympathy of Repub- lican America with Republican Europe, we doubt not, will be far more effective. With a display of vigor which a strong Government sometimes delights to make against a weak enemy, our Federal authorities have arrested Mr. Roberts, the Fenian President, and Gen. Sweeney, its mil leader. The term ‘‘enemy” is scarcely to be applied to these gentlemen in any other sense than a technical one. They are certainly enemies to the British rule over Ireland, and are for this reason challenged by the Administration a3 ene- mios of the United States. We suppose the Washing- ton opinion must be accepted if its quixotic theories of our duties as neutrals are also to be accepted. Undoubtedly, if America be the ap- pointed guardian of British interests in Canada, we must make war on the Fenians and their leaders. If the main object at Washington is to conciliate the good will of that Britain which during the Rebellion spurned every demand from us for fair dealing, our Forcign Office is pursuing a policy well calenlated for sach a purpose. But we do not suppose Messrs, Roberts and Sweeney are any more enemies to-day than they were a month ago, nor that the Government is now in possession of any information which had not, in substance, been communicated to it before a blow was struck. If the Fenians are guilty now, they were guilty then, and we are at aloss to know why the interposition of our Government ghould not have occurred Dbefore this enter- prise had culminated, and before that outbreak of hostilities which a word from President Johnson to those who consulted him might havo prevented. There certainly was no Fenian leader so mad as to suppose that he could conquer Canada plus the United States, nor any leader who would have put his own reputation aud the lives of his followers at risk, if ho had not believed that this ernment would confine its opposition within the rigorons limits of the law, That Messes. Roberts and Sweeney are under arrest to-day is only an evi- dence that they placed too much reliance on what they were led to suppose would be the policy of the Government. Uit TARIFFS, Forsome years past, Congress has acted on the principle of tinkering the Tariff from time to time, but never radically recasting it, until eight distinet Tariffs are now wholly or partially in operation, and none but an expert can tell how sach a section or provision of one Taziff has been qualified by such a section or a clause of one subsequently enacted; and the whole business of computing duties is an ingenious puzzle, whereby the adroit and unscrupulous proiit at the expense of the inexpericneed and simple. And now we hear with alarm that Congress is tempted to tinker again, making the winth time wherein duties have been imposed or altered until the counfusion shall bave become so0 utter as to drive plain men to despair. We need a TarifT that shall be complete in itself, making no reference to former schedules of duties, but levying and fis all the duties henceforth to be This T collecte sible, spEciric; charging so much per -pound, hundred, or tan, on every article imported All civilized however divergent other points, @ regarding Valorem duties as off fraud, and thus to be avoided to the utmost. Put all the imports into the scales, and say how much per pound shall be paid on each article, and honest im- porters will have the fair play which is now denied them—the constant t of the importing bus the least serapnlous and least respon It is possible to make clenrer, loss equivocal Tarifl than we Lave ydt had; and now is the time to enact it. It need not tuke half the time that re g the Internal Revenue act required of this Congre That act will considerably simplified and classified when why not the aswell? Do let us have an act completo in itself, and imposing such dutics as can lLer be mi preted nor — EIGHR o oG We print herewith a second article from Mr. Ira the Eight-Hour limitation. ing that lim s, on sgreed in ess in the hands of merchants ave b nact: nei Steward, commending We must not be understood as opp tion because we cannot concur in the views w with it is usually commended. A g be supported by very lame argnments. We do not believe that reducing the hours of labor to eight per day would secnre to hired laborers, any more thun to those who work in their own shops or on their own farms, a fuller recompense for their labor than they now get; and yet we think a reduction of the usual hours of daily labor desirable and ultimately practica- ble. If there be any who imagine that there would not be rich and poor, thrifty and improvident, comfortable and needy, fober men and sots, spendthrifts and mi- Hour ita- T d measu sers, millionaires and beggars, under the Eij rule, we are not in accord with them. As Mr. Steward has not seen fit to reply to our for- mer observations on this theme, we will treat his views with like deference; making our own sugges- tions independently—as follows: 1. Wages depend on capacity. The man who handles pick and spade on the Pacific Railroad (for instance) earns a certain amount, expressed with rough accuracy in his wages; an inventor or engineer who should show how to save 10,000,000 days' work in building that road would probably receive $1,000,- 000 therefor: and he would have earned this as truly as the picker and spader would have earned his $1 or &2 per day. Capacity measures carnings. The great first cause of there being o many distressed needle- women is their doing such distrossing needle-work, 1L Let two men, with their families, settle on some else upinhabited island in the far Pacific, and let them be equal in all external circumstances. A., being more energetic, thrifty, provident, will accumulate imple- ments, seeds, products, which B. in time will need; and, when he does need the he will offer A. a consideration for their sale or use; as thus: ““I need seed-corn; you can snare some; I will give you five pecks next harvest for a bushel now:" and it will be right and just for A. to sell on the offered terms. 1f B. sees fit instead to say, “*Give me a bushel (or 4 peck) of seed-corn, and I will work a day for you in planting,” it will be right for A. to accept the offer if arilf should be, so far as pos- | Ad | fering premiums on perjury and wing to a concentration | far simpler, shorter, | he sees fit. And thus A.'s first saving gives him a start which will (nnless their dispositions change) tend constantly to increase the disparity in their rela- tive possessions. II1. Rude, repulsive work is often paid less than other and more agreeable employments because it requires a lower order of capacity, and there are many who can do this who cannot do the other; while there are few who can do the more agreeable work who could not also do the more repulsive if they chose. Thus, a good watchmaker or engineer commands better wages than a good ditcher or hostler: not because he is richer, (for he may not be,) but because his work dewands a rarer faculty and a far greater devotion of time and talent to acquire a mastery of it. We lack faith, therefore—utterly, absolutely—in Mr. Steward’s conceptions of the necessary or nataral results of a reduction of the hours of Labor to eight perday. Wohold that the laborer, if he produces less than now, must receive less for his labor—not necessarily lower money wages, but a smaller allot- ment of the physical comforts of life. But this doe not prove that he will not be benefited; for he ma: often live more frugally, enjoying more leisure and op portunity for mental improvement, and be decidedly the better for it. We wish there were a hundre! friends in Europe the support they ask for? The | workers for wages who would try the experiment. sympathy of monarchical Eurove with our late Re As to reduciug forthwith the hours of labor in Goy- ernment works to eight per day, we do not see what it is designed to prove. If the wages be not also reduced, we quite comprehend that the workmen will be gratified by the change. To give more pay for loss work was never yet objected to by the receivers of the pay. But the rash and scramble for public employ- ment—already fearful—would be greatly intensified by such a change; and the tax-consumers would be afforded an additional advantage over the tax-payers, who feel that they have already the worse end of the bargain, We do not understand that it is intended to show that as much work will be doue in eight hours as now is in ten; nor to graduate the pay by the amount produced or effected; so we lack iuterest in the experiment. MANLY UFTERANCES FROM TEXAN, The loyal voters of the State of Texas have beld a Convention, nominated a full State ticket, and put forth a declaration of prineiples. 1. They declare their unfaltering devotion to a republican form of | government and hostility to all monarchists and impe- | rialists. 2. They recognize in the Constitution and the laws of the United States the supreme law of the land, and declare the union of the States the best guarantee of civil liberty to the American people. 3, They pronounce the ordinance of Secession to have been void from the beginuing, 4. They regard the obligations of the United States as a most sacred trust, and utterly and forever repudiate the Confed- erate debt. 5. They express unabated confidence in the wisdom and patriotism of the President and Con- gress. 6. They acquiesce in the abolition of Slavery and all laws to ameliorate the condition of the freed- | men. 7. They proclaim anew the liberty of speech, and, 8. They counsel toleration, end free diseussion on all the great questions now agitating the public mind. Gov. Hamilton, in response to a unanimous call, | addressed the Convention and an assemblage of citizens. He made one of those encrgetic and manly speeches that often from hislips came gratefully to the cars of loyal people during the darkest days of the Rebellion, Its language vividly calls to mind the utterances of the late Provisional Governor of Tenncssee, that thrilled the heart of the Nation and encouraged the soldiers of tho Union in 186234, and made Andrew Johnson Vice-Prosident of the United States in 1265, Gov. Hamilton's voice still | ngs in the same tone. In this speech he bricfly re- views the plots, usurpations, and coercions of the | teaitors in 1561, their subsequent tyranny end barbar- ismn, and their final defeat and overtbrow. Then, to the leaders who have taken the oath to support the | Uuited Sta d the proclamation of the President abolishing Slavery, but who cannot repress their hate for that Government, warrring continnally against its authority and its friends, he says, * Iwant to tell them they are not only traitors to that Government, Dut traitors to truth and to freedom, and will live and die s0.” The question of equality before the law is fairly pre- sented, and the position of the Union party of Texas fearlessly annc “1 am regar thus think, I w as a very good negro man, To yon who r ‘under the ald sy that the pe stitution and jaws of th Asa frie of the U nity, o surably the 'su 1 love the trush aud Lonos ned bat and my al bopes 10 bay il remaln wy ew age for Texas, and would do credit It will not fail to encourage the State who sustain this fearle els robbed, plundered, and mur- Lold lang loyal people of th patriot. How the Re dered the loyal citizens of Texas, and how they nucted laws to exempt eriminals from trial and pun- uke admir od to the leaders and cld from justice the terrible eries. Gov. Hamilton places ut before the proper tribunals, is forci stion of sufliage, On the g imself and the Union party of his State on the plat- m of one qual y for all, and black, The necessity of recognizing the full power of Con- 1 do not pretend to know how much they require of you, « Just an th ity of that Congress you wust compls tn order to obtain ad abuse Wien y 8 the mu Now wid then it iy le to say r, and others; but vou will fiud it has ref <5 over questions of reconstruction i3 thus stat but I know 1 ot yet given by the people of Texas," Gov. Hamilten maintains the right and duty of Congress to- fully protect the Union people in the South, and to reéstablish republican forms of gov- ernment in all the States. He closes his great speec! by an appeal to the loyal people to act in concert, respect and defeud the rights of all alike, and to labor for the elevation of the lowest classes of society, the shortest and most certain road to a complete and lasting reconstruci OUR FIRE DEPARIMENT, The fact that many destructive fires have recently occurred in our City is insidiously used to disparag our new Paid Fire Department, Why? We ha Lind lately seven alarms of fire in one evening: whose fault is that? We bave had destruct fires break- ing out at points where no fire can be accounted for ou any other hypothesisthan that of incendiarism,often at such hours, and under such cigeumstances, as the destruction of vast amounts of property inevitable. Is that the fault of the Fire Department ? Itis true fires are LOW very numerous—uncom- monly so—but, whatever may be attributable to the 1 honestly suppose that the fires have increased in consequence of the change. The causes of conflagrations aud the method of ex- tinguishing them are two distinet matters, Since the Department first went into operation, the sys. had many friends, and also many enemics; but its enemies have been and are more ardent in attempt- ingits overthrow than its friendsin its defense. We tell its enemies, and we speak advisedly, that they are proceeding to eriminal lengths in striving to break it down. We tell thfin that they are on a road that, in- stead of leading to the reéstablishment of the old leads but too surely to the State Prison. Does any sane man beliove that the extraordinary co- incidence of s0 many large and destructive fires that have of late aflicted this City is the result of mere accident ! We know the bitter anger felt by the old engine-boys, by the ranners, hangers-on, and thieyes, toward the new Department; we know the wishes daily expressed by them for its failure. We have heard their threats, and their lond ngs as the flames have consamed one after another of our mag- rende; stem, certainly no one ¢ &ystem | that they catch the incend properly aided by (i police, they may soon detect the ringleaders in the conspiracy to burn our City, We know there are men amng us 5o bage, so far below all the instinets of manhood, tuat they would rejoice to see half the Metropolis in flames—uay, would even themselves apply the torch, and would then make merry like Nero at the burning of Rome—if in such event they were assured of the restoration of the old Voluntcer Fire Department. But they mistake the temper of our people. New-York is firm in the con- viction that the paid system is for the best interests of all concerned, and will not sbandon it for the wrong, error, and vice of the old system under which we so long aud so patiently suffered. The men who now belong to the Department have Deen selected with reference to the special work to be performed. That they are not wauting in zeal and energy, is seen at every fire—aud do we need any Detter evidence that they possess that noble, self-sac- rificing spirit at one time 5o conspicuous a character- istic of the New-York Firemen than the charred re- 5 of the two gallant men to whom the Academy fusic so lately proved a funeral pile? The Paid Fire Department as a system isa fixed fact, Nostep backward! There is now no rowdy- ism at fires—the engine-house is mo longer the resort of politicians—and most of the loafers and thieves who belonged to the Old Department are either in the poor-house or in the penitentiary. We do not see, however, why the police are not o on their posts, in keeping a close watch upon su racters, and in detecting the incendiaries among us, We would wish the Commis- sioners to understand that the management of the police is a science; and the sooner they realize it, and make themselves masters of that science, the better for themselyes and for our people, Our police cost very much, and it is their duty to be vigilant,. We s0o many beavy o more a icious ch: think it very strange that robberies should be committed almost —under their very noses—millions of dollars spirited away, and safes blown open and their contents secured—and yet that the police should bring so few criminals to justice. Why should the sufferers be unable to recover their property save by compounding afelony? This will not do. Why is it that our citi- 2ens feel 50 insccure, when they lie down at night, that they employ the services of a private watchman ? Do they feel assured that the patrolmen is upon his post doing bis duty? This is not as it should be. The Commissioners must realize that, although they may not catch the thieves, yet our people demand aries. Whatever fault there is in the Paid Fire Depart- ment is not in the system but in its manage- ment. We understand that the Fire Comm gioners are anxious and ready to receive and adopt suggestions that may improve the efficiency of the Department. We look to the Insurance Com- pauies, who have large interests at stake, to take the matter in band, and to suggest and press the proper remedics. We look also to the Citizens' Associati which took such & prominent part in inaugurating the new system, and whose able and distingaished coun- sel framed the law creating it, to extend to it its fos- tering care, and to see that it does not lack that support trom good men to which it is entitled. We know that the Association, by reason of the capacity ce of the eminent men connected with it, many valuable suggestions, and experien must be possessed of v | whick, if acted upon, would tend greatly to bring the Association would dowell notte wait for the ac- tion of the Insurance Companies, for these latter seem 0 move very eration but,if the Insurance Companies will not act promptly out of regard to their own interests, then let the Association, for the sake of the community at la for whose welfare they have always acted so promptly and effectually, take the matter in hand alone, aud remedies for whatever defects may be in agement of our Paid Fire Department. e suggest the 1 M. VOOKILESS CANE. Mr. Voorhees of Indinna, who, a3 our readers know, is not to hg in the present House of Repre- sentatives, bas been consoled for his bad luck by the Hon. Thomas B. Florence (profanely called Tom Flor- ence) who has made a speech to Mr. Voorhees, upon which we condole with Lim, and has presented to him “a cane of leather wood (value, $100 currency), ounted by a gold head, from a chaste design,” b we congratulate him. The speech of the y one fanlt. Itis just a littlo 1f Mr. Florence, on be- s (White) of Washington” bad pre- sented to Mr. Voorhees a service of silver, tea-pot, gar-basin, cream-jug,and slop-bowl, ke could not more wildly have abandoned himself to rhetorical tumefac- It affords a new illustration of the art of sink- when Mr. Florence has to come down to “‘a cane.” Thomas struggles in vain againgt pre- destinate bathos by calling the *‘caue” ¢ & staf,” and then by calling the * staff™ a ‘‘mute, yet eloquent, and beautiful token of regard,” and by affirming that it is * a chaste and artistically designed " the gift (for Thomas is apt to indulge in adjectives) of 1st, *devoted;” 2d, 3d, *‘carnest:” and4th, * fast” friendsbip. icholy conclusion of the poct, we aver that friendship ke this is somewhat more than “aname.” Friendship, manifested in this generous and auriferous wag, is by no means to be sniffed at. And Me. Voorhees, for once, appears to have been of ; for, opening his mouth, there flowed from & rushivg stream of eloquence, whereof the beginning, the middle, and the end, was th pronoun most resembling in shape *‘a stafll pronoun I We have not counted its repetitions; but itis as clear as daylight to us that Mr. D. W. Voorhees (Daniel Webster Voorheos, we half ot “*the eit tion, ing, and prepared stafl or can + sinoe Tu spite of the mel, our opinio the cane " — the ing the night with the lions. “I am " “1, therefa think.” I attribute.” fervently and devoutly thauk God"—and very handsome it is in Daniel to doit, * I can say Inever betrayed a party,” *Lentered Congress.” *I de- termined, +1have lived.” And, over and above all, to cheer the desponding, and contirm the doubt- ing, and fix the wavering, Daniel W. is good enough v, *Ihave faith in the futw: This is de: cidedly reviving and uncommonly animating. o not know that it setiles anything; but still it is pleasant to learn that Mr. Voorhees, with a vast deal to make him unhappy, aad just Kicked out of the House of Representatives, can still cheerfully chant, “Cheer np, wy lively lds, Tu spite of wind and weather.” Tom Florence must have felt decidedly better for this exbibition of Mr. Voorhees's hilarity, and have gone back to his editorial sanctum like a beery giant refreshed, nificent buildings; and we tell them that arson is one of the most severely-punished erimes known to the law, We have taken care to notice their opera- tions at some of our late fires, While our firemen Lave been promptly upon the ground, aud have com- menced operations so soon as possible; while they Liave worked far more zealously than in the haleyon days of the old system, these bad men of whom we Lave spoken have heen “irowing obstacles in the way of the officers of the law, and have been carping at new syst and striving, by ridicule and other ns, to prejudice the minds of lookers-on. Let any one who doubts our statement make it a L usiness to visit the next fire, and he will see and hear much more than we have charged. Our firemen can- rot prevent arson; but we hope they will keep -a sharp look-out on suspicious persons; aud, perhaps, if One of Mr. Voorhees's thick-coming egotisms iy worthy of particalar attention. The country, too mindful of business to need its benefactor, does not know, perhaps, that but for Mr. Voorhees's intorposi- tion, in spite of Grant, of Sherman, and of Sheridan, it would long ago have gone to hopeless and irre- parable grief. But D. W. V. knows it; and he does not permit any squeamish modesty to interfere with bis doing justice to himself; and a man with a finer talent for sounding his own horm, we never saw, never heard of, and never read of. I (Ego et mea patria)—=T (D. W. V.) entered Congress five years ago in the midst of grief and of gloomy” iverything was, to speak plainly, in a mess. Men and members were all madder than mad. **They We | swly. Better that there should be codp- | take it) does, by no mauner of ineans, think small | beer of himself; that he cousiders D. W, Voorhees as importaut a character as the old, original Daniel pass- acted,” says Voorhees “ns if the Constitution had already perished in the storm "—or ** baleful simoon.” e Ty as Mr. V. varies it. Now, under hese discouraging circumstances, what did the Indiana gentleman dot Did he betake himsell to drink? Did he run his head into the saud, like an ostrich? Did be expend aportion of his official salary in the purchose of g rope ? or loftily pink himself like Cato of Utica? Did he give up the Constitution in despair? He shall speak for himself in his own beautiful langnage: “ On the contrary, I led the sablime origin the wisdom that fraiued I, the s Ang teh e 08 pivee on soemty 1 b o S/ 1ES meions '&‘J‘.m sufficiency in tinies past for all the po of war and of peace ET e s ool B Eyou e Fa Doy doossmdod, he kot Bowse hos wot BASES —But Daniel has, we grieve to say, for the House in which he would have been particularly pleased to abide has, with signal ingratitude, cast him forth, But still he is cheerful. ** Gentlemen,"” he sayz, ad. dressing the donors of the cane, ** the Constitution is triumphing.” *I've fixed it," he might have added, “and it shall remain a fixtare forever.” It was really cruel to send such a benevolent constitu- tional™earpenter a3 this back to private life. From this sublime point of view, the cane, in spite of its gold top, seems to us a sort of mockery. Voorhees saves the country, and he is put off with a windy speech from Tom Florence and *a caue” from ** the citizeng of Washington"—Thomas B. Florence, J. D. Hoover, T. A. Folsom, and J. W. Clampitt! It's enough te make even Mr. Voorhees give up the business of zaving constitutions for the rest of his natural life. If there were yet some fragment of the Confederacy to which he might carry himself and his genius for constitu- tional diagnosis, he would not be without high Roman example for his most natural stampede. Aud, for all we can sce to the contrary in his Ocation for the Cause, he would be quite at home in South Caroling or Alabama; for his feelings toward the late Rebels are evidently considerate, and we think that we may say affectionate. **I love,” he amorously observes, “the people of the South, I hail them as American citizens, They are & brave and heroic population ay well as we.” In short, nobody can read Mr. Voor. hees's speech without receiving the impression that, in his opinion at least, the rebellious States have been damnably injured by somebody, and are more worthy of salve than of severity. He believes that it was the North which was originally guilty of * dark, premeditated crime against the Union,” aud he hauls poor John Brown from bis grave to prove it. We cer- tainly shall not attempt to refute this opinion, if it be entitled to that name. Facts settle the matter the other way. History will engrave quite another record, The theory of the Government is not the theory of Mr. Voorhees, The policy of the Govern- ment is not, and cannot be without fatal conse- quences, a policy of ingenious excuse and amiable extenuation. We make no objection te gentleness, to mercy, to good nature, when the exer- cise of these does not compromise fundamental princi- ples; but, in the name of our gallant dead, we protest against any attempt to belittle the cause in bebalf of which they perished, or to dignify the cause aganst which they died contending. We regard the Rebel- lion as a crime. Mr. Voorhees would soften it down to a misdemeanor. We would insure, so far as pos- sible, the future political fidelity of those who cannot plead a good political reputation in the past. Mr. Voorhees 13 for oblivion and a sort of helter-skelter jubilee of pardon and restoration. Where his heart was during the physical contest is beyond a perad- venture—where it is now, during the moral battle, we leave the reader to determine. We give this morning in another column an ab- stract of an interesting report to the Chamber of Commerce on the present coudition and feeling of the peoploof the Southern States. The author of this report, Thomas W. Conway, was formerly Assistant- Commissioner of the Freedwen's Bureau in Louisi- ana, and has since been South on & special mission of inquiry. In both positions he bad rare opportunities for thoroughly studying the subject Le treats of. His statements are a weighty coufirmation of what all candid observers of Southern society have found tobe the state of affairs. After the close of the war, Southern planters began to call for the aid of Northern capital. Northern men were ready to fur- nish to the South all the capital that was needed to recover speedily from the effoct of the late war. But the obstinate hatred of the Southerners agaiust every- thing that comes from or is peculiar to the North bas repelled capital, continually drains the labor of the edmen, frightens off the emigrants, and thus most successfully prevents the al progress of the Southern States which otherwise might soon be made to keep pace with that of the North, Future geuerations in the South will be astonished at the folly of the leaders of Suuthern society in driv- ing off industry, skilled labor, and cap The pres- ent generation in the North, in the meau time, can- not pay too great attention to the state of things in the South. The testimony of Mr. Conway is very distinet and emphatic: + 1 know of some instances wherein men were threatened with murder i tie Southern ueighborbood with in which parties were t Stas to 8 them with diszust and cau n 1 vetarn to re- gious where they could feel that to be a loyal American eiti- zen, instead of attracting indignation, was sowething o be proud of ¥ Leading Southern statesmen like Gov. Wells and ov. Sharkey declared to Mr. Conway that the imen would not be allowed to remain in the coun- try. Mr. Conway justly remarks that from this opinion to the forcible expulsion of the negroes is but & short step, and the whole Union party will ask with him: What will become, under these circum- stances, of the freedmen if the Central Government hould withdraw its protection ? The Clereland Leader (Obio) spesks sharply of the ding, its representative in Con- 2 of undue subserviency to the Times takes up the cndgels for Mr. s the warest intercst in hiz renowi Wodo not judge bow far the Hom member may be obnoxious to or affected by the strictures of The Leader; but can he stand the avowed admiration of The Times? We apprehend that, 1d there be any rival for the Republican nomina- tion, this admiration will prove fatal to his prospects. ident, BURGLARS AND POLICEMEN—A SLIGHT CONFLICT.— At au early bour yesterday morving, Officer Hipwell of the fitth Precinct, and & private woichman, encountered supposed burglars ia To t, E. D,, and procceded to rrost them. The nuthority of the officers, bowever, waa re. sisted by the rogues, who showed tire-arms and fight. Officer [ grappled with the most powr to secure hiw, He theu drew ugitive, firiog at bim rep: er apparently took effect, f the rascal. Oficer Hipwell met with a sight uence of lis rovolver aoting baily, and re- finger of bis left band, Just preyious to this conflict, the residence of Mr. Phili South Tentisst,, was eutered and robbed Qi a gold watch asd §65 1 moucy. rac e Civren Piek-Nie.—The members of the Clurch of St. Vincent de Paul, the Rov. Fatier David Mullave, beld o grandostival at Haupt's Myctle-ave. Park yesterday. The objeot was to raise money to build a new churen ed fice. The affair was a complete sucooss, 81,250 having heen taken at the gate. A large namber of clergymen were present, aim them the Rev. Sylvester Malond of Sts. Peter and Paul Clureh, and the Kev. Father MeDonald, Tbowas 0'Bries, was Marshal of the Day, anl the arrangements uuder bis rection were most perfect and satisfactory. et e GRAND STRAWBERRY Festivan—A grand floral and strawberry fostival i in progress at the Lee.ave. Baptist o funds for the E.D. Library Association. On Wednesdas evening over $300 was taken at the different tables, aud inst evaning it was julged that doable that umoust was taken, The loadivg lndies of the district are eugaged in the festiv e —— Coroner Huntington held an inquest on the 4th fust, on two bodies which were found on Fire Island beack. The Coroner thinks there is no doubt but what they were corpses of persons who had died from cholora. He ways the Leweh: is lined with bedding, eto.. which be tbiugs belong o ha iufacted steamers Union and Peruvian