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VOL. II.

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J. H. RRXARDS, PVB~IS~R,
130 Nassau

street.,

YORK,

THURSDAY

ISSUED EVERY

CONTEiiTS.

EVENING,

TUESDAY

MAY

24, 1866.

NO.

51

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became his subordinates, that they could not have desired a better
chief, at least in respect to the clearness of his purposes and his orders.
isAbout . . 66 This characteristic precision will be well employed in training the
iYo!ms:
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T&D city of Memphis is indebted to the radical Legislature of TenThe Forty-&& Exhibition of the
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NationalAcademyof Design.. . . . 661 nessee for the gift, a most unwelcome one, no doubt, of a new metropolitan police law. Governor Brownlow is to appoint three commisOFStonswallJackson. . 862 Dool;aof the Day, _...................
sioners who are to appoint and manage the police force of Memphis
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while the city is to pay it, giving each patrolman, and there are a hundred altogether, $1,200 a year. Nashville and Chattanooga are put
under the same system. No one will say that this interference gth
local independence was not ca&cl for, and we look to find it, expensive
as it is, justified as effectually by the fntnre quiet of Nemphis as it has
Idit. SwwroN on Weduesday read a ion g, written speech to a cromd been by the past turbulence of that disorderly town. Prevention and
It was remarkably guarded in Dure are going on together. The Congressional investigating Commitwhich called on him by appointment.
expression. The process of reconstruction, so far as it has gone, was tee have reached the city am1 begun to examine Tvitnesses.
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detailed at length, and we learn that once Mr. Stanton thonght the
right of suffrage should be granted to some negroes it least, bnt on
A CO~RESPOKDEKTwho is a warrn friend 07 the newly-established
careful consideration of the practical diflicultics in the way he gave up
society for the preventibn of cr-uelty to animals, and rejoices in the rethat opinion; the civil rights bill mas passed, vetoed by the President,
:ief which that body has secnrecl for calves in
carts, writes to
then passed by a two-thirds vote ; the
Bureau bill had his
1s making a strong appea1 on behalf of green tnrtles and terrapins.
approval, but having been vetoed and not passed over the veto, it is
Be describes the sufferings of the turtles, when left exposed to the sun
not now a living question. The freedmen, the president has said, will
m the sidewalks, as very great ; but tlie utilitarianism of the age is cufind that their labor is, indeed,
South, and that the fine climate
:iously illustrated by his urging, as thi-strongest argument against this
and fertile soil of the Gulf States will attract immigration and make
aeatment of turtles, the superior&y of steaks cut from turtles fresh
their labor still more necessary. It is a relief to find Nr. Stanton, at
Tram
water over steaks cut from those which die by inches in
the end of the speech, speaking decidedly. The third section of the
;he city. There was, when the Biiderpest was at its height in England,
proposed constitutional amendme.& which he, quotes in full, he dist similar odd mixture of pity for the beasts and sorrow for the loss of
likes. He cannot see the wisdom, the justice, or, the necessity of the
;he meat . visible in most of the lamentations over the plagne.
measure; and one very strong objection to it, he thinks, is that it not
0-t
only discourages the growth of Unionism in the South, but, by constiNOTWITHSTANDINGtheir seeming indi&o&iou
to concur v&h the
tutional provision, it limits the ,power of Congress in that part of the
country for the nex%four years-a limitation which may work deplor. Eouse, the Connecticut Senate did, 011Wednsday, elect Gen. Ferry to
able results. This is an objection which we have not heard before: the U. S. Senate. The event must be regardecl as another proof of thn
progress of the State away from its anti-negro-suffrage vote of last year,
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and it is not without for&
and confirms what we saicl in our last issue.about the rapid gravitation
of the people tomarcl the point from- which politicians shrink-that,
TIIE decennial farce of bringing in a bankrupt bill which nobody namely, of applying our, theory of government $11its broadest equality
expects to see passed~at the tail of the session, is once more acting ai to all classes throughout the land. ~
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Washington. , We shall not discuss the provrsions of a measure whi$
jn three months will be forgotten. It is a national disgrace that, in s
THF: greatest fire of a season of great, fires occurrecl on Monday
commercial conntry, men nihom misfortune has overwhelmed should
night, completely destroying the Academy of Music and surrounding
have no means of extricating themselves from their difficulties ; but s
buildings. There are loud complaints of the new fire department, on
striking illustration of the general prosperity is to be found in the fact
the ground that it is managed~ by politicians, as if this was not also
that the debtors are such a small aud insignificant body that even politrue of%he old ones. The fire seems-to have been the work of an inticians do not think it worth while to attempt to relieve them.
cendiary, and some of the rumors as to- the perpetrator of the crime
are at least comical.
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X~JOI&EN.
BUTLER may still wear the title which he earned during
the var, having been appointed to the same rank in the Massachusetts
IN Texas and in Virginia, conventions have recently met and laid
State militia, under its new organization.
The field is one in which dovvn the platform of s-party which never before had an organized
he iigured before the rebellion, and in which, with his late experience, existence in the Southern States. The leaders and most of the memit cannot be doubted he will display the highest ability. Whatever be bers -of these conventions have, however, from the period of the birth
his fitness for-a military,command in active service--and about. this of the rebellion sustained an honorable notoriety under the title of Unmany dispute who agree as to his great usefulness in suppressing the
Unionists, a title which no men would have earned under
rebellion-it
is, we-believe, the testimony of distinguished officers who the circumstances who were not more than politicians, more than statesTOPICS OF.MEDAY ...................

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Topics of- the day.

men, more than patriots ; who were not

of singularly profound
convictions, tenacity of faith, sterg resolution, and heroic endurance.
& Englarid the Continental troubles, combined with two or -three
indulgence, through the mediuq of joint-stock companies, in
-wild speculation, has brought on a financial panic
of extraordinary
violence, overwhelming most of the great banking houses and leading
1 to a third suspension of the Bank Charter Act. Mr. Sampson, the city
editor of the London 5!%nes,has now for five years been predicting a
grand crash, which during the years 18614-3-4 he always announced
=as likely to, occw within the three months next ensuihg, and,the scene of
_ which b.e laid in New York and the adjacent country. The occr&rrence
of the long-expected catastrophe a$ hiis owr.door, in the presence ofthe
extra_ordinal$ steadiness in the Ame$can maykets, is one of the most
St&&g illustrations we have yet had of the risks and vexations to
which political and financial prophets, whose temper is not strictly controlled by thei: reason, are all, the while exposed.

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[M&y 25,. 31866

CONQRESSj

WASHINGTON,
May 23,1866.
THE passage of the bankrupt bill on Tuesday was a surprise to
nany members not only because of the previous repeated defeats of
:he measure, but because of its supposed bearing up& the-coming -fall
elections. Mr. Thaddeus Stevens had beeti good enough- to waYn
;he House long tiince that such a law miglit provk a-politi6al &athwarrant to the party which should pass it, besides that it mould discharge all rebeldom from its commercjal obligations to thdqorth, and
hf ?yesterday tried to get in a motion u to post,pone this hari-ka& until
by the ~..
narro-w
qide-~
D ecember. But thi Elouse-tho&h
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dcztermined otherwise.
A most.beneficent measure for the freedmen has Uow passed both
rouses,and awaits the
signature, It extend? the pro@iong
Fthe homestead law over the public- la@% in States late in.r$$ion,
:ducing to $5 the price to be paid--for each patent, and giting.,eighty
:res to each actual settler, without .distinction of-color. It is also proided that these lands shall be disposed ofin no other way.
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I.

DIARY.
THE lake& developments make it clear that the whole.of the Euro..
Monday, Xzy %-In the Senate, the Colorado veto messagew&S made
Count
Menspean. continent is now on the verge of a terrible war.
01e&r for May 29. The fortification appropriation bill was passe!. Dis@i$ of Col~mdorff declares, in a note, that Austria is determined to fulfil her duty to bjiabusiness occupied the rest of the day.
In the Honse,Ni. McClurg, of Xissouri, offered a~<e:esolu&niustr&ing tlie Joint
herself and to the Germanic Confederation without being drawn into c ommittee of Fifteen ,to enquire into the expediency of levying contrib@otis!upbn
further disgussions concerning the priority or extent of the respective ) t1le States lately in rebellion to defray the expenses of a standing army to keep the
military arrangements. Prussia, in the Diet, avotis that she. will PIeacein those States. Adopted-yeas, 13; nays, 25. Mr. Henderson, of Oregon, ofa resolution in-favor of executing the lams upou a sirfficient number of leading
consider the requirements of her self-preservation as more- imporfant ; fe:red
?belsto vindicate the law and warn the refractory
time to come,-Adopted:
than her Telations .to the Confederation.
Napoleon, at Auxerre, in ; [p. Defrees offered a resointidn declaring t&t Cbngresshas no coiistitutional right to
oracular words addressed to the laboring population of his empire, in fi x:the qualifications of voters in the States. Referred to the Judiciary Commit%ee,the
91. The tax bill mas dewhom
finds I the true genius of Fr?nce, but carefully prepared fol * Brousefirst refnsing to lay it on the table by yeas, !Z; napes,
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ated and amended.
the peace-loving, and grumbling 7/o,c?geo?%e,
their spokesmeu in th6: b PlinyW.-In the Senate, House bili to s&the public
the iatk reb6 State6
: tc) actual set&xe; without respect to color, iq horpesteadsof eigl$y pcres,svas&passed.
Corps LBgislatif, and Europe in general, openly expresses how much 116
belief is that France is ir L A.bill to amend the postal,law?,in sundry deyls y??,passed.
N detests the treaties of 1815.
In the House, the ail! t6
of bankruptcy &a, &&&
bount Bismark, assailed by arL ens,66; nay& b9.l A ljill providing fdr an
seeret league with Prussia and Italy.
X8sishnt Secret&y
Navy
Y
assassin-a step-son of the revolutionilt,
Carl Blind-and
thereupor 1 378spassed. TLie rest,bf the rday was spent in debatilig and amending the tax bill. 1
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serenaded by the people of.-Berlin, ex!laims, .in resl)&onse: L(We are al1
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.. THE FRjEEDi%iEi\T:
ready to
our King and fatherland,
on the street Paverneil t
t
or on the battle-fi&ld.
Clarendon, ifi the.House of Lords, laments thai
IT is rep0rted that
Clarolina will
months back:
the British Goqernmhnt CLstand alotie, and : . . can do nof&ing, ait expectations of
chief hauso is
ke&&
fail.I
the I m$anchoIy sight of more than one million qf men . . . ir 1 l. Ire to iaise provitiio& to feed the laborers en@.gecl in ho tt~o&&&g.
arms, and prepared for a con&t, 1marching towards thei? ~~spsl)ectiyc
be harvested, there
3 I f all that has been planteci aud prosp~red.coutcl
frontiers.
The financial world is shaken by a panic. An Austriar 1 Fvould be little or no deficiency, and, of courSe, no waste, as there must
iroserial decree announces $he issue of Governmental legal-tender note!3 T t_ow,be. We liave, besides, accoinits of two
toni&doesapd releasing &he National Bank from specie payments, .ang reports ar(? c me, -on the 4th,
the
village on -Po?t Royal
current that the chu!ch property of the empire is to be made the basil 3 I sland and nearlyall St. Hel&aville;
&thkT; (n th! 17th; w.hich swept
of extensive war loans. In Italy communes and provinces vie wit1 1 c)ver Charleston and the adjoinilii co~@k$ Not on!i the&elds suf:
ezch other in offers of free contributious for thk wants of the army . I bred, but seqeral lives were loSti
This is to be comm@ted by Lamarmora, with Generals Durando >
ABrigadierlGener& Gregory h@ jhst returqed froh &$ &tkn:dec iour
Cucchiari, Rocca, and Cialdinias corps commanders, and Garibaldi a:s c)f insp+ction in West&n Texas. The indusirial cqnditi~nbf 66%counleader of volunteers ; the Austrian army by-Ben. Benedek ; and thl 9 t sy is good add improving ; but with the re$uction pf, ,the ,Ipilitary
Prussian, by Prince Charles. The Italian Chamber of Depfit.ies ha 9 f orce.there has been a perceptible ipcrease of vioie,nce a;4 afiye,gf the
passed a bill clothing the Government mith extraordinary powers fo r (:olored people. With a favorable season. the ,cotton crop, it. is .Te-asA secre t E:erted, $11 be lagger than ever befo-re. The, health ,of the State is
the emergency ; the Prusiian Chamber &as been dissglv&
conference-of qarious minor German sovereigns has taken place il Cl i;ood. There are32 day schools for- the freedmen, 29 night schools,
Wiirtejmberg.- The understanding between Austria and the State s Ltnd 19 Sunday schools, counting 9,830 children ~ancl~$860 -adults as
lately represented in the c?n&.;ence of Augsburg is said to be perfect 5%1upils. I There
also several private ~schools:r.!&ll,.are wholly self.1:1,:,: 12 1 , :I
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and Saxony, Bavaria, and Wiii;temberg Fre rapidly mobilizing thei tsustaining.
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full
Hanover, too, seems,to arm against Prussia.. Bohemi a
-Gen. B[oward;in a circular adtionighifig tlie-&gem& &theBureau
c and Saxony, on the frontiers of which troops are being massed, are ex:- ,5 their duties, assures the& that- such as may bk acchsed of &alfea&
pected soon to become the scenes of great movements. Austria is als 0 :once shall .have the oppofunity
of -a
vindi&ati& before a;
: 1,
Ienergetically arming on -her southern borders, in Croatia, Talma& 4 :ourt-martial.
and chiefiy in Vcnetia; .the country surroundin; B
Istria, the Tgrol,
-Gens. Stee&man.aud Fullerton
ii&er&ew at- aava&ah.on
Mantua has been inundated for defence,7 -,%righte-u&l by i?fapoleoh:s 1the 19th with ?he General Conferen+ of thk lafrican gethod&&&h;
declaration of Auxerre, .Belgium, too, is reported arming, and eve.n (zotiposed of colored clergymen- fi:om &eo~gi+~ Fl$&,
an! Si&h Car+Spain to fortify her strategic positiolis iii the Balea& Isles. Swit,z;el- :Lina. Th~~ommissiodhs~depai%&d. nek-t-clay for $$&a.
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land is about to call out 15,000 men to cover her borders. In-th$ eaz:t
brisk religious ke;ivaJ. is
$, among +he,fr@&e$s kito appro&hB, ci%is, Russia arid Turke Y :iag& on
of Europe, $00, txmgs
Sass a pelegram Pan+ ~~brtress,Monrqe,.,
preparidg for intervention in&loldo-gallachia,
whose new election of a
-The. North Carolilia~P~o~ress @as hear+ (( gd~d,:ti$mgszfro&~ .the
hdspodar h&s -been reject&l by the Paris conference; and
Sl@ic crops in Granvi%, 5qnd also as to ~h_e~i+lu@r.y sf .the,freedmen.l The
- $o$ulations of Servia%nd-~Montenegrol-it is said, for a new- st:uggls : yield from the fdrm+% W$ p.erhaps be. $rger .$hasrfor~$ome years, afid
zga&st i&e Porte. the f%drn& ?r! imorymg: better and harder thati previous ti, the,war.lf