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Chicago tribune. DAILY, TEI-WEEKLY AND WEEKLY, OFFICE, No. 31 LABK There are three editions of the issued. Ist. morning, lor clrcnlaiton by carriers, newsmen and the malls.

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Dnt additions may be made at any tune, at cloh rates, attik the clnb bas been railed, provided a mil year's subscription made. ydrier to erdartoa tbe address ol Tota-parert chanced, to prevent delaf. be sore and what edition yon Triweekly or MfO, clvc your present and future addresi. ITAddress -CHICAGO Chlcaco, lIU WEDNESDAY, MAY 0, 16C6. THE RIND OF UNSON WE FOUGHT FOR.

The Johnson party have on argument always ready, capable of a thousand transformations in its mode ol statement, os it is set forth by the President himself, or by Doolittle, or the New York World, or A. H. Stephens, or the Richmond papers, hut involving the one idea. It is this: Tfcfc South attempted to destroy the Union and failed. The Government fought to save the Union and succeeded.

Hence the Union still exists unimpaired, and the Southern States have the some rights as the Northern. The South accepts the result of the contest, and although not conceding that she bad not the right, admits that she had not the power to destroy the Union. She is now willing therefore to resume her equal place In the Union, and the loyal States arc guilty of usurpation in dictating the terms on which the seceded States shall enjoy their equal rights and liberties. To withhold them from their seats In Congress is inconsistent with the entire theory ou which the attempt to dissolve the Union was Let ns apply the same mode of argument to a similar ease. E.

Payne attempted to assassinate Mr. Seward and failed. Mr, family -fought lo save Mr. succeeded, after sustaining severe Injuries and much loss of blood. Hence Mr.

Seward still exists unimpaired, and Payne has the same rights as a citizen as Mr. Seward. Mr. Payne accepts the result of the contest, and although not conceding that he had not the right to assassinate Mr. Seward, be admits that be had not the power.

He is now willing therefore to resume ms equal place as a citizen, and any attempt by the community to deprive him of his full rights and liberties as a citizen, or to decide tbc terms on which he shall enjoy them, is an unlawful usurpation. It admits that he bad the right to destroy and that Mr. Seward has been destroyed. It is inconsistent with the entire theory on which the attempt lo assassinate Mr. Seward Wi.sre&l>tcU.” Wc arc not aware that Payne's counsel Lad the impudence to plead that Lis failure to accomplish the full measure of the crime he Lad intended, restored him Immediately to all the rights he possessed before the 1 crime uas attempted.

Nor do we think he would have beneflUed by a plea that be was guilty of no crime, but that he was engaged in a laudable and patriotic clfort to strike down a tyrant whose excreted a baneful despotism over Southern rebels and Northern When by the Union mean the American Nation in Us integrity as a national power, haring one Federal Government, In and through which it acts towards foreign powers, and enforces the supreme allegiance its various States, Territories, Districts, and minor organizations, then it is true that the South attempted to destroy it; that we, the Republican Union party of the North, composed of Republicans and War Democrats only, fought to preserve it, and we succeeded, and It now exists and owes no thanks for Us existence to those Southern rebels or Northern Copperheads, with whom the President has gone astray. In this sense the whole people of the United States, as well rebels as Union men, are now in the Union, whether they live in territory over which a State Government ex-, ists, os In the loyal States, or in territory over which a Territorial Government exists, as in Utah, or a territory over which the Federal Government alone exists, as in the District of Columbia, or in territory over which military Provisional Governments exist, as in tbc seceded Slates. They arc all alike in and under that American Union and nationality which the Union party of the North bj Its fearful agony and bloody sweat has preserved, and which by all that is sacred It now Intends to rule by th, double power of the rights of a majority and the rights of conquerors. But If by the Union is meant the old Union of freedom with slavery, either political or social, then we affirm that the North did not fight for it, but against it, to abolish it, and that it shall never be restored. If by the Union Is meant the ment of 'the right of eleven States of the South to deprive any of their own citizens of their God given and Inalienable rights as citizens of the United Slates, then we affirm that the only people who fought for that principle were under the other flag, sud not under ours.

That was precisely the right for which the Stales seceded, for which they fought, and, fighting, lost Irrevocably. Therefore thepresent Union Is no Union In which any State the right to enslave its citizens, either socially or politically. They cannot enslave them personally by selling them ou the block, nor cn mow by legislating for them without their consent, contrary to the principles ol the Declaration nf Independence, and of every hill of rights of cverv State in the land. And if finally by the Union is meant the rights of yuoai State Governments, all ol which were conceived and begotten by a President's proclamation and bora by martial law. no one of whose Constitutions derives anv lawinl paternity from the ancient Constitutions of the seceded Slates, or was.

adopted in conformity therewith, or has been ratified hr the votes of the people of those States, and aU of which exclude from one to two- Ihirds of their people from citizenship, and are therefore not republican In form, and are in fad sources of untold danger, and all of which are opposed to cordial union, progress, free dom and the enfranchisement of the working classes, and are, except in the ease of Tennessee, controlled by traitors and rebels we say that so far from Laving fought four years ol fearful war in behalf of this Utter of nameless bastards, they, at the time of the war Lad not yet been their father Andrew Johnson, and their mother, the Southern aristocracy. Lad not even exchanged the courtesies of a lormal introduction. We fought lor no Union with these seven-month bantlings, still in their swaddling bauds, and mulixic and puking In their But if they live, and escape safely the perils of infancy, and in due cut their eye teeth and their wisdom ti-etb, we may then admit then Into the Ann from which the States whose names they bear retired In' di-gust and committed suicide. The Union we fought for during the first two years of the war, and failed to restore, was a Union with slave Stales. TheCoosU-; tullons and slavery of Slates were abolished, and new Constitutions, with freedom have been substituted.

The Union we fought for daring the last two years of the war, and. succeeded In creating, was a Union with free States. It does not rest on'concillalion, but open military force. We shall not fashion it to suit the disloyal minority, bat tbc loyal majority. If anybody Is to be conciliated, we, the loyal people, whose rights liave been invaded, need concUiation.

Bat no conciliation Is needed. Let right and justice be done, and leave the dissatisfied to learn that this course Is more Duly divine, and for their ultimate goad, than to yield to evil In order to conciliate it. TiXING The General Government has enacted a law by which State bants arc. taxed ten per cent on thdr circulation alter the first of July next and therefore it has taxed them out of existence. We advocated the passage of this law, satisfied that li was the only way to make room for the National banting system.

The experience of the past three years, as well os a careful study of the principles of finance, have doubtless satisfied the country that our National Is a improvement on our State bant system. Heretofore 1 you could scarcely beyond the limits of a county, certainly not of a Stale, without finding your funds and at a discount; now a ol Bank'bill Is good all oyer Ibe Union. Thus at least, our National system seems to combine all tho advantages of the old United States Bank without any of those radical defects which consigned It to oblivion, under the TCtoea of the Indomitable Andrew Jackson. But, while the General Government have taxed the State Banks out of existence, some of the States have commenced ly office for the National Banks. The Government taxes them five per cent on all dividends, end if the income of the stockholder be over $5,000, It taxes him five per cent more.

This is about the rate of taxation on the general business ol the country. Under recent decisions the states, counties and cities can tax' them for municipal purposes, all of which will make a burthen which, Ills of them win be able to bear. Some of the National Pf" Va of New Tork have already been the exorbitant imposed upon them. I Of coarse It is too soon to decide with ccr- I taioly what policy they will be likely to adopt; but capital will not be permitted to remain where it does not yield some return to the holders. If, for any reason, banking is likely to become permanently unprofitable, the capital now employed in it will seek other departments of business.

A year or two more, during which the lax gatherer will pay his inevitable visits to onr banks, will determine whether onr people will have to do wittont them, or so adjust tfaclr taxes, if they' are found to absorb all profits, as to allow the banker a reasonable per ccntagc for the use of his money. Being based, on Government bonds, they have heretofore escaped taxation for municipal purposes; bnt now that they must pay them, time alone can determine whether they can liveornot. If they cannot, bankers will certainly be tbc first to find it out. That should be taxed a reasonablo-nmount for municipal purposes no one, a not even bankers will deny. Tbc point of adjustment, experience will bo able in doe time to determine.

THE ItIEUIPHIS MASSACRE. We trust that every one of our readers perused the circumstantial narrative of our special correspondent at Memphis, relating; what there transpired under his own eye In connection with the rebel anti-negro riot in that infernal hot bed of treason. In right brutality, and wanton, unprovoked diabolism, it makes the atrocities ot tbc great New York anti-negro riots seem honorable, and the massacre of Fort Pillow an Innocent affair. In the New York riots the rioters were maddened by tear of the draft, and cowardice and cruelty arc bnt different stages of the same beastly passion. But at Memphis the rioters had nothing to tear or to gain, save to gratify their thirst for innocent blood.

The massacre of Fort Pillow followed after an obstinate contest, and may be set down simply to tbc sudden passion and insane perfidy of men who were unfit for soldiers, but only for murderers. But at Memphis there was no strife, bnt in the midst of peace the ex-rebels by careful and studied preparations, dlsarmcd.thc blacks, so as to make the attack safe, and then set upon them absolutely without any quarrel what- ever. In the course of this riot but three white persons were killed, and not one of these by negroes. One ol the murderers on being taken before a magistrate excused himself for killing a whltcman on the ground that he supposed from hU bine clothing that the deceased was a Yankee soldier, and the apology being regarded as sulllcleat he was discharged. Nothing can more clearly show the harmless part cnaeted by the colored people than that not a single white person In was hurt by them during the whole three or four days of riot.

On the contrary, tbc leading rebel citizens of the first families of to have murdered twenty-four negroes, while the police slaughtered nineteen more, including three women and two iniaiit children, and the firemen and others, besides burning down every negro church and schoolhouse In the city, ami a vast number of tenements, slaughtered enough negroes lo make the total of colored men, women and children killed, pearly seventy. The Hot seems to have been began by three policemen hiring a white vagrant lo pick a quarrel with a colored hoy ol ten years of age. This succeeding, they rushed in and shot the colored boy. Some colored soldiers present, without violence, begged them not lo shoot so small a and thereupon they killed four ol the colored soldiers. Immediately, as if by a concerted of ex-rebels, armed to the teeth, a muck over the city, killing every negro they met, while the police and firemen turned out, not to quell the mob and preserve the peace and the property of citizens, but to set fire to negro churches, schoolhouscs and dwellings.

In one Instance, from pure fiendishness, a poor old negro of seventy years, ignorant even of the existence of the riot, for pleading that he had never done no Injury to no was knocked down, his mouth wrenched open with a knife and his tongue cut out by the roots. This, our special correspondent writes that he saw. A little girl ol five years of age, for the offence of 44 bursting Into whenjasked by these devils to point out her hiding place, has her eyes cut out, and is thrown thus mangled into the flames of their burning cabin and roasted alive. All the barbarities committed by savages upon their victims, pale before the coldblooded and mean cruelty of these white men of Memphis. TVc insist that in view of these facts Congress institute a rigid Investigation Into the massacre, ami callits authors to a strict account.

It is one of the inevitable effects of restoring the power, even of a single city, to the hands of rebels. Had'Uie colored men of Memphis been voters, not one of them would have been banned without incurring the vengeance of the law. The ballot that descends as still As snowflake falls upon the sod. Uni cxtcnics a Irecuum's will. As lightning does the will of Uod, would have Insured protection alike for white and black, if extended alike to both.

The State of Tennessee Is, to-tfey, as much as any territory under the guardianship of the Federal Government. The Executive branch of the Government is responsible for having organized the State Government as It is, and Congress Is a responsible for not reorganizing it so as to make what it ought to be, in order to protect -the lives of all Us citizens. The Federal Government is responsible for such outrages as that at Memphis, and the others which will follow if this be not promptly Investigated and its authors broogbt to justice. reputation in the war was that of a man who understood well not to and that he should turn up at Memphis, when he could do so much less harm anywhere else, passes comprehension. Wc hope Congress will thoroughly investigate this Memphis massacre, which, with the similar affair at Norfolk, may bo counted as first frnils my SCOVEL.

Senator Scovel, of ISew Jersey, has issued a circular, containing his remarks before the Board of Directors of the Union League of Philadelphia, concerning his course in the Xcw Jersey Legislature. Mr. Scovel was "summoned to appear the 'League, of which he Is a member, to answer the charge of uniting with the enemies of the Republican parly to defeat the election of a Republican Senator of the United States. Mr. ScoveVs address is a bombastic doenment of considerable length, accompanied by a deal breast-thumping, and many appeals to the rectitude of his Intentions.

He says ol himself that he Is a gentleman and not a IDs address does not prove it. The only thing it does prove is that bo (Scovel) has gone over to the Copperheads. Thegravamcn of the charge against him has been that he took upon himself the responsibility of defeating the election of a United States Senator, for the reason that the Republican nominee was opposed to Andrew policy and especially to veto of the Civil Rights Bill. This charge Mr. Scovel has heretofore denied, saying that he would have voted for any straight for that office, leaving It to be Inferred that the nominee of the party lo the Legislature was not a straight Republican.

In his address to the Union League, Mr. Scovcl at last pleads guilty, by expressing bis admiration of Andrew 22d of February speech, and saying: I believe the President- Is pure and patriotic In purpose and That Is enough 1 If Mr. Sco vcl had said this In the first place, 1m would have saved the public avast deal of perplexity about the motives and means employed to defeat the election in New Jersey, and spared himseU no little equivocation. If he had only possessed the courage to avow himself a member of the 'DooUttle-Cowan- Ttavmond (action, the thing would have been 1 understood at once, and Instead of cudgeling their brains to find out which side he was on, people would have been speculating on the price he got. IX WHEAT.

In the produce trade tbc great topic of conversation at the present time, la tbc sudden and unlocked for advance in Spring which baa appreciated in value beyond the hopes of the most sanguine of tho and prices now being realized arc such as tbe most knowing speculator on tbc Board never for a moment dreamed of. On Saturday tbe market for No. 1 Spring Wheat in the regular bouses closed steady at $157 and at sundown last evening, the same article sold for sl.73>£,an advance of forty-eigbt No. 3 Spring to North Side houses, whjcb on Saturday sold at realized $1.30 last appreciation of within tbe same time. Tho demand.

Is largely speculative, occasioned to a great extent by the influx of Indiana and Ohio operators. who being possessed of large capital, are able avast amount of grain and manipulate It to any extent they may sec necessary. Heretofore this delegation has been quite successful both here and in Milwaukee. Notwithstanding this speculative demand is so great, tbe unlooked-for advance in prices Is partially occasioned by tbe great and unusual mining demand from the Soutb and Southeast. Large quantities of grain are dally shipped to points in Southern Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and some parcels have also been taken for Baltimore account.

When Uda will stop, no i ynwn knOWCth. J. D- Matthews, one of the Congressmen elect from Georgia, to for bis failure to petimg admission to Contrress went to get married. The Atlanta la- the BadlMlswooM not hear his eloquence, one ol Lexington's fair daughters dii, and by way of compensation for Bi lost to Washington, gave him one luve tn mirtct day. At JOHN BDOWN AND JEFF.

DWIS. Wo bare already referred to the anomaly exhibited by the nation In allowin' the hanging ol John Brojm by cx-Govcrnor Wise of Virginia, and in winking at the procrastination In bringing Jeff. Davis before a tribunal where he can be convicted and punished. Considering the haste displayed in sending John Brown to Iho gallows, and the present anxiety exhibited in saving Jeff. Davis from the same fate, the reflection forces itself upon tbo.mlnd that an unlawful attempt on behalf of freedom is deemed more culpable than an imlawfhl attempt on behalf of slavery.

To let Davis go unhanged, while John Brown was left to perish, would proclaim to all future generations that -America punishes only attempts against slavery, and that even he upon whose conscience rests the'murder of (as the representative man of the rebellion) the blood of this great 'and cruel war, is allowed to go unwhipped by Justice. Such an intention may lurk in the heart of 3D. Johnson, who sympathized with John hangmen as be seems to sympathize with Jefferson defenders, bnt it is repudiated by the American people. SOUTHERN LITERATURE. Some time since we took occasion to say that slavery had not only smothered the press and the pulpit, and strangled the free schools of the South, but that it had cdtbe South from having a literature ofany respectability.

Some toper scrvicablc Copperhead papers came forward with a gratuitous denial, and named a long catalogue of nobodlcs whom they claimed as Southern cddingaslnglc name of any repute whatever to those we had mentioned. Intelligent Southern men feet keenly the troth of onr statement. Witness the following from the Mobile Register of May 4th, the ullra-secesh paper of that city. Speaking of the failure of the Sooth to sustain magazines and lectures It candidly says: sit is not owing to Uic poverty of our people that these fallens have occurred. Theatres, roejorore, halls, and every species of mere amusement, have never been more successful.

We fear it must he admitted, without evasion or excuse, that we are cot on Intellectual or a literary people. Wc do not intend to moralize upon tbc subject. It would do ro pood. People arc not to be troliid into either morality, good taste, or intellectual refinement. These things arc to be attained only by slow and patient effort- It is well, however, and may give ua a wholesome lesson, to comoare sometimes onr actual achievements with our brave VERY ttOVB GRAPES, The Richmond Whig of May 2d, says: There it nothing hoi dlehonor to be acquired by anv association with such men as Stevens, Wade, Forney, and their whole mean-spirited crew: nrwi we think that it Is better for the South to remain where it is (barrios: martial law and the sttspcnrioo of the habecs corpus .) than to have Us representatives sitting under the same roof and ihnmn dlsasieeablc contact wltp rtnch men.

Until the South can send representatives who have something of that sympathy with the working classes, that desire for political and personal liberty for all men however poor, ignorant or humble, which animate the breasts of Stunner, Stevens, Wade, Forney and the Republicans who elect tbcm to olhee, wc agree with the Whig that the representatives of the ghostly memories and phantom pretensions of the abolished institution of slavery bad better slay at home. But wc hope for the time when the South by the vote of Its whole people, without distinction of color, will elect representatives who will not Imd It disagreeable to come In contact with men whose sole oilicnsncss consists hi a belief in the doctrine that all men are created politically that Governments can derive no Just powers except from the consent of a majority of the governed, and that taxation without representation Is tyranny, whether in the Federal or in the seceded State Governments- The latest argument for the proposed bounty on the exportation of cotton cloth is that it is a very small four million dollars per annum. Tbc answer is that four million dollars, or four cents, Is as good la the hands of tbc rightful owners as anywhere Mr. Morrill assures us that the principal to he derived from paying the bounty will accrue to the and South. This is a mistake.

The principal benefit will accrue to the Chinese, Hottentots and Patagonians, whose shirts will be cheapened by the amount of the tax levied upon the people ol the United States lo pay the 41 as Uis called. Bui why should Mr. Morrill confine these benefits to a single article of export? The West is not so selfish that it cannot afford to share the advantages of export bounties with other sections of the country. If the YTcst to take the share of the profits growing out of on export bounty on sheeting, It is certainly fair that the should have the benefit ol an export bounty on corn. By multiplying these benefits sufficiently tbc whole country might get rich in a way not pointed out lu any volume of political economy extant, and wholly unknown iu the statesmen of former periods of the Republic.

THE OPERA. Cnspioo, not being thoroughly ready for performance, Max Slrakosch, very wisely, preferred on of an evening rather than to aanoance a vubstiinte, and derange aud'ence and tickets at the same time. Tbc iatcrimin the same connec- tion affords ns the opportunity of reviewing whal has been done before ire tit down to the mailed town of The troupe is wonderfully one, with a great deal of excellence crowded Into a email space. Tbo piinctpal artists arc artists in the best sense of the term. Gluon has a fine stage presence.

Is cu fait in stage bust nets, and has a rich', full, heavy and sympathetic voice. Strakoacb eo well 'known and has eo lone been a favorite bore, bavin? accompanied the first opera troupe that ever appeared on oar boards, that It is superfluous to analyze her vocal or dramatic abilities. Oaolssa first appeared In Chicago two years since with Grover's German troupe, and was then a sprightly vivacious, painstaking soubrette, working bard to achieve a reparation. The intervening lime has been well spent, and she now appears in Italian opera, bv no a finished but showing that she has made a Jong step forward toward that consummation, the has youth, a good figure and face, in addition to good voice nod appreciation of dramatic requirements, to aid her In her studies. Beilmi first made his appearance here a year since, and was then, as he is now, one of the best arista that has ever been here.

Marro is a young singer, with a voice of unusual richness and strength, which be uses admirably. Masslmiliani's voice Is one of remarkable power, and excellent quality, while Errani, lacking in power, la nevertheless heavy (br a tenor di nod Is especially remarkable for his use of the chest register. Every one knows Suslni, and few care to dispute his position as a leading artist. Tbo secondary parts are well taken, the usually very efficient, and (be orchestra well balanced. The operas thus tar presented have been Lncrezia.

Trovalore, Faust and Ihe Bal Masque. Tne performance of Lucrcra was thoroughly Mils factory. That of Trovatore was tne beat ever given here. Facet passed off very smoothly with some exception-, fetich as weakness in choral effects and occasional deficiencies tn the principal parts. The latenesa of the hour at which the Bal Masque concluded on Monday evening prevented ns from noting in detail yesterday morning.

Regarding thU opera as one of the weakest in the whole repertoire, still In the hands of this troupe it was made a comparative 1 success. rendition was a supeth one. and was Illustrated with some magnificent vocal eAbets. Clearness and nicely of execution, of phrasing and marked dramatic shading were especially developed. Caoisss.

charmingly as she looked in the attire, was equally charming In her rendition, and nohiy earned her encore of the taper tomtit. Masslmlbanl for the most part threw bimsclfinto his character with great fervor, and delivered many ol his passages with electric force. Marta did the best thing ot the evening with romanza. It was suns with rare feeling and sympathy, and was worthy a more decided encore even Hum attained. To us, It was the gem of the evening.

ben we cbnsldcr the shocking fiasco perpetrated by Gran's troupe last winter this Identical opera, the comparison la refreshing; and It surely is a sign of no ordinary significance that a troupe can take a naturally weak and unpopular operaan opera that so strongly marks the decadence of the composer's render it acceptable. This evening, the popular composition ol the Ricci brothers. Crispino ela Oman, wIQ be given for the first time In Chicago. The music la light, brilliant and dashing, bat fall of finely worked up concerted effects, and dramatically opens wide field for humor and an excellent opportunity for such artists as Bellini, Susinl, Erranl. Marra and to display Ibclr i ecullarty excellent talents In this direction, ihe renewals have been numerous and thorough, and Judging from these rehearsals we have no hesitation In Baying that Crisploo prove ft decided Illinois i rK.ns.

A man by the name of Murphy committed filicide in Pern, la-t shooting blm-elf in the heart with a pUtol. The shortened circumstances ot hit family, and the dependency occasioned thereby, the only rcaeoa given for act. 2 Robert Blackwell, the oldcit ddren ofVandalla, having resided there since 1820, died at bis residence, in that place, on Monday last, aged seventyeight yean. Mr. Blackwell, when the State capital at Vandalia, was, for yean, State rnntcr, and was afterwards in tbo mercantile boilnets.

The Alton Teltgreph tells a stance cat etory. eaya that a abort distance above Hardin, JCalboon County, on the Illinois River, lives a lady, who, like a crest many of her sex, rejoices in the ofa cat. Kot long ago; the eat. being of the feminine pcrroaslon, gave birth to fonr kittens. The not having any spclal fondness for this species of the animal kingdom, threw them into the rtver and drowned them beyond the hope of rtatucUaiion.

The next morning, on visiting the place of their nativity, what was her astonishment to find that their places had been filled by which the old cat bad probably purloined from Iheirncst. They were taking their lacteal nonxuhmcnt from their adopted mother, inst as they.woula have done if they bad been bom Linens. The dead body cf was found in the river on Monday last, ncaf the raihfisd hndge at Pekin. proved to be the body of young Sciper, who fell from Peoria bridge come fire weeks previous, lie wa? a young man, aged aboutSi, and of good charaster. Adelaide A.

Tailor, a girl aged eight years, was drowned to the canal at Mcrria on Thursday last. Her body as not found until the following Sunday afternoon. Some suspicion rested upon her step, father, Jacob Gregg, but no evidence was produced which implicated him. The Secretary of the DeEalb County Agricultural and Ueehaneal Society, has given notice that another trial of reapers and mowers will be bold in that county doting the coming harvest season. It will be conducted under the auspices of the above Society, and alively competition will undoubtedly take place, mPigww (m-m I Wo, prtaa to choice FBOM WASHINGTON.

Hopeful Indications from the South. The of the Policy of the al Oar Special Wasbzhotoh. May 5,1868. nOrEPPL INDICATIONS. From Mississippi more frequently, and from other States occasionally, we hear of conicssiona that are not without significance.

For two or three months post earnest requests have been arriving, one after the other, at General upon intimations that the fractions of the Bureau would be narrowed, or that the number hi Us agencies' would be diminished. have planters, recently slaveholders and rebels, who arc now endeavoring to their fortunes upon the only basis left them, end are not too dull to discover that without the aid of the Bureau, audits efficient aid, too, they cannot manage the free negro. More recently from of it Ifrom Western Tennessee, and from all parts of Mississippi, as previously from Arkansas and Alabama, these petitions have come in lorccr numbers than before, in most instances inlonually and Indirectly, but with all the more significance. From many localities the agents of the Bureau have been withdrawn; and the troops were withdrawn because the army is being reduced by the muster out of an hundred and twenty thousand colored troops, who are mustered out In deference to fib-rcconstructcd Southern prejudices. In a few instances I judge they might be counted upon the fingers of two or three hands.

The negroes and their employers hare gotten on amicably enough, sensibly attending to the industrial interests in band, and leaving politics and the standing army to Congress. But In most Instances, the official reports show that the opportunity to resume the oppressive methods of other years proved 100 strong a temptation to the ex-masters, as the prescience of such an evil Impending warned many of the and sent them bfl by droves In the wake of the retiring regiments. Sober second thought 'has sent the masters 1 after them to the nearest military commander, who was entreated to restore the troops, that with them might be regained the only available instruments of industry and means ofwcaltb. It Is but a step or two farther to the deduction of those general universally applicable, and so widely understood at the North, by observance of which the prudent employer is able to win, with the warmest esteem, the most profitable service from his kindly treated and generously paid How long it will take the planters to get over this additional step or two, wc cannot with accuracy conjecture; but wc may safely prophesy that whenever they do arrive at a clear apprehension of the real Indivisibility of Ini crests between the employer and the employed, they will have learned the one lesson which God has endeavored to teach at the point, since it could be taught In no other way. MOKE LIGHT.

It Is always pleasant to observe the sure progress ofthe irresistible, and to watch the i gmeclul submission of its vanquished. Recent official reports received at the office ol the Commission, confirm and 1 amplify the published accounts of the new idta which is agitating the progressive rebel brain. So long os there was a ghost of a chance for the success of infatuate attempts i to suppress the incendiary educational raovc- I ment, among the negroes, which the Yankee Invaders with fiendish intent had set on foot. I opposition only was the order of the day. "5 1 but foxes, alight in the I have already gone too far; and the more sagacious are lain to "confess that a I general conflagration is a foregone 1 So the popular Sjnthcm movement in favor 1 of negro education Is fairly Inaugurated, and ii the schemes of the shrewder managers ore I approved, the South will quite distance the North within a twelve-month, both in zeal I and in liberality.

In an hundred districts the 1 question Is being vigorously agitated, and so far as I hear, tlie new reform everywhere gains ground. If it be necessary the as on the prairie, to light one fire as the best defence against another, let us not delay until even this defence falls us. It Is quite too late to make any protest against negro schools. Tlie only question left us is 1 this: Shall wc submit to the infinite degradation of dallv association with Yankee emlssa-1 rles who ore by no means content with teaching the alphabet and the processes of arithmetic, but instil the vilest virus ofPnrltanlsm with every breath their pupils draw; or shall we, since the negroesmust be taught, be wise I enough to take them at once under our own i tuition, and complete as best we mav, the remnant of that Christian culture which can onlj attain Its noblest measure among slaves, bnt may fiudsomc partial growth even among freedmen? t4 1 This movement, springing although It does i in part from impulses not to be envied, ana not to be counted on for endurance in the lal bor proposed, is intimately connected with I impulses far better, and with a latent capaci-1 ty lor true generosity which is sure to unfold os the work goes on; and I do not hesitate to predict that, between the Normal colored schools, which arc already turning out good teachers by the score, on the one band; and the various motives o( interest and benevolence already stirred among the white citizens of the Southern States, on the other "band; the grand work of popular education, inaugurated by the American Missionary Association, and prosecuted with the aid of the Comtnissionsand Ol all the permanent national benevolent grander work than which was never at no distant day be quite taken out or the hands of those who now prosecute It with the aid of Northern free will oflerings. ArrnorniATioya.

Geo. Howard is greatly encouraged by the temper of the House as shown in its rocnl to bis estimates almost without debate. The item for sites and buildings for schools, is not two hundred thousand dollars, os graphed by the agent of the Associated Press, but two millions. If Ibis Hem pusses the Senate and the man of vetoes, and the General can be let alone until the money is invested according to his present plan, it will prove the best Investment of like amount the Concress ever authorized. There are intimations, of course, that the President will veto the entire appropriationnearly eleven 1 cannot promise that he will not.

But I think I can promise that If he docs, the bill will most assuredly be passed over bis head. Chicago. FROM BOSTON. ofFlnc by of iriottcm Sartorial Experiment In Voting Lady Oar Own Boston, May 5,1560. A few weeks ago that high critical authority, the New York Evening Tost, sneered at Boston os the rubbish receptacle of the art world, and as never exhibiting a picture worth looking at.

This taunt, coming from such a source, not only stung deeply, but produced very practical results; and now there is no American city which can show half so many flue and noteworthy pictures as Boston has on public exhibition. The Allston Club Association, made np of the very best of our resident artists, takes the lead in the enterprise to redeem the good name of the city, and has gathered a room In the Studio Building, the most brilliant collection paintings to be seen in Amenta. The leading and largest picture in the collection ol a hundred Is La by Gustave Courbet, perhaps the leading artist of pjiris, and who is destined. In the opinion of many of the best critics, to become the founder of a great school of painting. The composition ol the picture is.

simple, representing the close of a hunt; the scene, a forest of tall, straight pines; the gome, a noble buck, slashed fa the bannch with the knife, slung up to the nearest tree, two superb hounds filling up the foreground; the hnntcr, a portrait of the artiTt himself, leaning lazily against a treetrunk In the shade; and a servant in livery winding his born to call the friends who were not the death. These arc tne simple details of the picture, but no language of mine can convey an Idea of the strength, fidelity, boldness, harmony, richness and depth of the work In drawing and color. The catalogue of this admirable collection Includes more great names than I have space for In the limits of a letter. About two. thirds ot the paintings arc by modem French artists, the remainder by Americans and mcm- Ibers of the club.

Some of the finest of the latter class arc a sheep-posture, by Troyoo; two wonderful portraits of horses, by Rosa Booheer: cattle by and landscapes bv Lambmet. In the latter arc the works of Hunt in portraiture and landscape: Eastman, Johnson In Ideal faces; Lafarge In and Ames and Tedder and Grey and BTcknell. At another gallery, that of Messta. Childs Jenks, the public Is fascinated with a novelty, In one of William A. unique pictures, Dance of Is an elaborated into a poem, and put upon canvass with marvellous skill.

The ocars are represented simply ns bears, bat with subtle Ingenuity nil the expressions and i traits of humanity ore thrown Into their faces and forms. The figures lu the painting are innumerable; in the foreground are thirty orlhdrcabouts, everyone ofwhlchisastudy. Here a portly bear Is distributing thp grapes and liquid refreshments, 1 with an air of serene and cordial hospitalityj here a group are fumlshicg the music, with drum, cymbals, viol and vior lln, with all the rest and energy Imaginable here a couple of bruins arc discussing the tod- 1 dents of the dance, and telling stories oyer their juleps; hero a quartette of couples are dancing a cotillion, simpering, ogling and enjoying themselves hugely; while, in a comer, one 5 overpowered with the exercise, and the stimulants, and is taking a snooze, others may easily be pointed out who are to greater or less degree the worse for Uqnor; here and there a hear is I comfortably watching the scene from the crotch of a tree, and as tar as the eye can see the forest Is filled with bears, imitating a human plc-sie with delicious aud Indescribable caricature- This picture Is owned in Boston, and no engraving could reproduce its exccUcucc; but I wish It might bo exhibited to every city the Union before It is consigned to the seclusion of a private gal(jthcr pictures there are to the same room, with this, the by DeHaas, and The Horae of the by Hammer, which I have told you about in previous letters. The latter has Just been sold to a Boston gentleman for $5,000. At the gallery of the oldest exhibitors In this city, Mersrs.

Williams Everett, is a large'collection of French pictures to be sold by auction next week. The collection include wirka by Lambtoct, Edouard, Frere, Coutoarrer. Fecms, and many others, but has no especially large noteworthy ramgle painting. POLITICAL. Kext week Thursday Massachusetts to speak through Faneuil Hall her word on the affairs.

A. grand meeting Is jectcd, at which. Governor Bullock will preside, and which-will jrivf a hearty meet to the course of Congress as opposed to that of the President. It is tffo early yet to announce the speakers Invitations have sent to'a number of distinguished gentlemen abroad) Including Senator Yates of Illinois. Tonga novices.

After on nuusually dull season thus far, we are having, a remarkably brilliant closing month, lus notable especially for the appearance of novices. On Tuesday night last the Boston Theatre was secured by an ambitious young man whose life has been spent in the uncongenial employment of a journeymen tailor, but who thought be felt a'destiny for nobler things. He has used ids leisure for several months in study, and his spore evenings in paying for the -tuition of professional cloculioi feta, opportunity announced to an astonished public his intention of appearing in 41 Richard The experiment must have cost him nearly a thousand dollars, and perhaps more than that. The tickets were mostly given away of course, so that the house was filled with the friends. The first -acts he 'gave with a spiritless commonplace maimer, without one spark of talent, and his injudicious friends applauded to the echo and called him repeatedly before tbe curtain.

But in the closing acts, where even tolerable mediocrity could not help becoming ridiculous, his inefficiency was bis awkwardness so apparent, bis wbole performance so abominable, that hla especial friends could not applaud, while tbe rest of the audience guyed him nmncrcl- Jolly. His 111 success made him nervous, and he floundered through the final scenes, forgetting cues and lines alike, In a manner at once pltlahlc and laughable. Every one of the city those which generally flatter with Indiscriminate sugar tragedian, an acrobat and a model plain terms of the wolul failure, and the young fancied histrionic career will probably never cheer again. The very next evening at the same theatre, occurred another debuf ol a different character. A young girl of the middle class, years ago, in amateur entertainments, that she had a decided talent for the stage- A passion for the fascinating profession sprang up, In spite of the efforts of parents to divert her thoughts.

Practice in private theatricals, winter after winter, developed the powers; and now she has made the final decision to adopt the dramatic profession, with the reluctantly, given consent of her lather. She is engaged for the next season at the Boston Theatre, under the management of Edwlu Booth; and made her first public appearance this week for the benefit of the leading man there. She was wonderfully successful, being pretty, graceful, sell-possessed, with a good voice, and every indication of a genuine genius for the stage. She Is only twenty years old, snd her namefor your readers may hear it again sometime, is Susie C. Cluer.

On Monday night of next week another young lady will take her first step In the same difficult path, at the Museum. This Is Miss Ellen Eastman, who also has had a passion for tlie stage for several years, who is received in the highest circles and endorsed by the creme de hi creme of Boston aristocracy, and the literary circles of Cambridge, who has studied elocution for xniny months and practised as a reader, and who made her initial experiment incognM, simply as voung recently at Cleveland, Ohio, llcr success there was very gratifying; she essays here the same the role in tragedy, so seldom plajcd now, of VARIOUS MATTERS. I have Riven so much space to these debuts, that I will sum up in a paragraph the other theatrical Intelligence. John E. Owens la playing at the Boston Theatre, and delighting Immense audiences.

John Brougham Is to make, on Monday, his first appearance here in sis years, celebrating the Inauguration of a new management at the Howard Athenamm; Miss Lucille Western, a young lady of very great talent. Is playlng-sensational parts at the Continental; and next week we are to have the first of a series of French performances by a detachment of the company Imported by Julgnct, which Is awaiting the completion of his new theatre in New York. PERSONAL, I leam that Mr. James Parton Is engaged In writing a biography '6l Voltaire, which will be published by a leading Boston house. APPOINTMENT IN UERRINOTOWN.

The postmastership ol the neighboring city of Taunton has just been awarded to a Breckinridge Democrat, a supporter of who received the endorsement of seven hundred citizens of the town, while the Republican candidate was endorsed by three Imes os many names of men who voted Mr. Johnson into office. Whether the Senate will confirm the appointment remains to ho seen. EQUALIZATION OP BOUNTIES. The question as to equalizing the bounties still ogltatcs the legislature and the press.

The question has hecn raised whether the soldiers holding scats in the legislature, who would receive money under the bill, are entitled to vote upon Its passage. The Speaker dcaidcd that they could not, and his opinion has been sustained by the House. This reduces the majority for the bill in that body to twenty-five, and In the Senate it will probably be defeated. Rbterb. MBS.

JEFF. DAYIS. Her Visits to Her Inter. view. Monroe Coircspondeaco Nen Mrs.

Jeff. Davis arrived hero this morning. Her youngest child, a sprightly girl twenty months old, a colored man servant, ing the stalwart form and fierce moustache of a Russian grenadier, four trunks of ly large proportions, and a travelling basket of the largest patent, bore her company. Upon landing she went to the Hygela Hotel, adjacent to the wharf, and without stopping to change her travelling dress, or even remove her bonnet, breaklaslcd and then sent a message inside the fort, announcing her arrival, and the permission from President Johnson she bore with her to visit her husband. Meanj time the news of her presence at the hotel I spread rapidly, and a retinue of anxious persons soon gathered to get a look at tier.

"Willi admirable impcrturbalUly, not to soy an agreeable equanimity of temper, the result, to some extent, of past similar submitted the painful necessity of being gazed at. Time, that old and stem teacher of wisdom, and unerring revclator ol the tonUablliilcs of earthly dynasties and hopes, has very sensibly changed her from the naughty and defiant woman she was a year ago. Her tone Is more subdued, her manners more quiet and reserved, and she does not seek to shine as rcsplendcntly In flashing diamonds and costly laces. She bos a much older look of a woman who has long borne the burden of grief and waged war with conflicting troubles and But a poor student of physiognomy is he who docs not still read In that face and penetrative glance of those eyes a power of will and determination as strong and pertinacious as llle itself. At half-past 8 Lieut.

Fessenden, Fitlh United Slates artillery, waited upon her to escort her Inside the tort. Her child accompanied them. She was taken to General headquarters, who received her with every politeness and consideration due her position. Under other circumstances she might have striven more sedulously, perhaps, to evoke the most iavorablc impression possible upon the custodian of her husband, out her great anxiety was to proceed at once to her place of confinement and sec him. She wanted to see how had borne bis imprisonment, whether he was sick or well and learn all about him.

She was not long kept in anxiety Mr. Davis had been apprised ol her coming. Within fifteen minutes from the time of her admission to the fort she was with him In Carroll Hall. Lieutenant Fessenden still bore her company. She remained with Mr.

Davis all day, and took her dinner with him. An officer has been con-tantly in the same room. The meeting was a tender and affecting one, as such meetings must naturally be after such a protracted seperation, and we let the curtain drop over their talks of the past, their realizations of the present, and hopes tor the ftiture. She confesses finding Mr. Davis in belter health than she had expected; but still avers that he is much feebler tbaa when brought here.

She is every way satisfied with the treatment ho has received, and acknowledges that everything, save hla restoration to liberty, has been done for him that could be- To I)r. Cooper, his medical aliendant and adviser, she Is specially thankful, and elves the unqualified credit of keeping him as well and cheerful as he Is. Itis not known yet whether she will stay at Dr. during hersojoura here or at the Hygela Hotel. Ills also not known yet how long she will remain here.

Mrs. Davis left Montreal on Monday at 8 p. m. She has travelled night and day to get here. MESSAGE EBim THE PBESIBEST.

Tfliolc Number of Return of Forfeited Held and Ucolored to tlio Bureau. The Speaker of the House, on Friday last, presented a message from the President of the United Stales, in answer to a resolution reoucsling the names of the persons worth more than to whom special pardons have been Issued, and a statement ot the amount ot property which has been seized as belonging to toe enemies ol the Government, or as abandoned propertv, and returned to those -who claimed to he the original Accompanyjng the message was a communication from the Secretary of Stale, who poits to the President that of the cases of pardon passed upon by the Attorney General, there still remains la the State Department 707 cases which, not yet having been finally disposed ot hare been stricken from the accompanying list. The mey General, in a communication to the President, says It docs not appear from the records of his office how much property, real, personal and mixed, has been seized and forfeited to the United Slates under the act of property; nor do they, show any property taken from officers of the United Slates and returned to the enemies of the Government; nor Is there anything in that office in regard to abandoned property. The list of pardons granted under the amnesty proclamation of the Resident under the thirteenth exreptlon is Georgia, 1,288: North Carolina, 452; Texas, 260; New Mexico, Louislani 142; Alabama, South Carolina, 60S; Missouri, 10; Kaatuefcy, 13: Florida, S3; West Virginia, 48, communication from the Secretary of the Treasury says, as to how much property, real, personal and mixed, which lias been eSdMforfclted to the United Staiw, has been returned to those who claimed to be the original owners, there Is no Department on the subject aatmdcratoodfrom thegeneral and vague terms ot the resolution. It is presumed the act winded toistbat of Jnlv 17.1862, the execution of which, as he understands, was committed by the President to the Attorney General, end, so far as he Is advised, thp Treasury Department has undertaken, la any case, the enforcement of of to" Mu.

placed by any action of the the I request or ior the btnefltol returning I The Secretary of 'War, in his commtmiealion I to the President) encloses several reports. I Among them, one from the Adjutant Goner- I Office, saying there are no records in pertaining to the restoration of property) as dcflnedjn the resolution 01 inquiry. Qoar-I Meigs says the railroads 1 captured and held as a military necessity hero been returned to the companies under Executive orders of the Bth of August and the 14th of October, 1865, and those in the Atlantic States under orders of the War all on condition of reorganizing' and electing loyal boards of directors and giving bonds satisfactory to the Government that they would, within a reasonable time, pay afair valuation for the Government property turned over to said companies and sold to them on credit. General DeJafield, Chief of the Encer Department, says that the department as caused no property to be adzed under the act of 1862, as property, and none has been taken from the officers of the Corps of Engineers and returned to the enemies of the Government claimed to he the original owners. The Department has, however, taken possession of large tracts of lands and fixtures In both rebel and loyal States as a military necessity and occupied the same with temporary works, which, ceasing to be cd or used for offensive and defensive pur- poses, have been dismantled and the movable parts sold on account of the United Slates, except in cases where the loyal owners, agree to receive the usual buildings as a discharge ol all claims on their part against the United States for use, damage, In which case their property was returned to them on this understanding.

The Chief of Ordnance says the records of his office show only one case where captured property received by the Department has been returned to any one. This was machinery captured at Macou, which has been returned to the former owners on the application of Brigadier-General J. D. Webster recommended by Lieutenant-General Grant. General Howard, of the Freedmen'a Bureau, gives a list of the properly seized under the act of July 17,1865, and subsequently restored to former owners.

The greater portion of the property of this character is situated in Virginia, and was formally set apart for the use of refugees and freedmen by a circular. It became apparent, however, that much of it bad been Improperly seized, and to avoid injustice action under the circular was temporarily suspended. Part of this properly uad been merely libelled. Against part tbc proceedings had reached a decree of condemnation and sale. Very Ultic, however, was actually sold.

On September 12, 1865, circular one. series ol 1865, was issued to govern the action of the Bureau respecting property. This circular, originally ciraflcu by the commissioner, was submitted to the President, who materially amended It, and it as promulgated os received from him. With respect to property seized under the act of July 17, 1862. this circular declares that It shall be regarded os confiscated only after an actual sale has taken place, aud directs Assistant Commissioners of the Bnrcau to restore It when it apnears satisfactorily that it has not been confiscated.

Such propertv has, therefore, been restored upon proof that proceedings against It had been dismissed in the United Slates courts. The records of the office do not show whether parties to whom such property has been restored were connected with the army of the so-called Confederate States, or whether they gave aid and comfort to the rebellion. General Howard says the estate of Allen in South Carolina, was restored by order of Major General Sickles, commanding the department. Three estates were surrendered for the reason that they were nst actually abandoned. Or the remainder, some were given because very few ireedmen were resident upon them, and those could be more advantageously located elsewhere- The others were restored atler mutually eatlslaclory agreements had been entered into between the freedmen and the former owners.

of these pieces of property were embraced In General Sherman's field order No. 15. And the authority for the action taken by the Bureau in respect to them was derived from the InslructioDs.of the in General Orders No. 145, from the War Department, bearing date October 2, 1865. The property held under the act of July ISG2, and the abandoned property actually allotted to resident Ireedmen, comprising but a small portion of tbc entire amount which tbc Bureau has held In Us possession.

In August, 1865, an application was received from B. B. Lake, of Tennessee, a foreign soldier of the rebel army, who had received a special pardon. His property was clearly abandoned, and his application was not granted. An'appeal was made to the President, and on the IClh of August, was received at the Bureau with the following endorsement: Executive Office, Aug.

16,1883. Respectfully returned to the Commissioner's Bnrcau. B. Fox. The records of this office show that B.

D. Lake was specialty pardoned by the President eo the gJtb and was thereby restored to ail rivals of property except as to slam. Notwithstanding this. It Is understood that the possession of his property la withheld from htm. I nave therefore to direct that Gen.

Fuke, Assistant Commissioner at Nashville, be instructed by tbc Chid Commissioner of the Bnrean ofFreedmcn, to relinquish possession oftbe propertv ot Mr. Lake, held hy atm as' Assistant Coromlseioncr, and that the same be immediately restored to Mr. lake. The same action 1 pill be held In similar cases. Axtmrw Joivsson, Prca of the U.

9. In complying trith these definite instructions, the Bureau has been compelled to part with the greater portion of the property under Us control, except In the very low cases where the property has been actually sold nndcr the act of July 10, 1862; and in that portion ol South Carolina and Georgia embraced in the provisions of Gen. Sherman's field order, No. 15, its tenure of property has been tco uncertain to justify allotments to freedmen. In addition to the property filezed under tbc act of 1562, and abandoned property allotted to freedmen, four hundred thousand acres of abandoned lauds not allotted to freedmen have been restored to former owners.

Property seized under the act and restored by the Bureau, 14.432 abandoned property allotted to freedmen and restored by the Bureau, acres; abandoned property not allotted to freedmen, restored by the Bureau, 400.000 acres. Total 430,101 acres. The message and accompanying deenmeats were laid on the tabic and ordered to be printed. FESIAMSM. An Inaanliy of Arrival of ITluNtcrlnz of the Clans Roberts on Trial at Union from all the Country Circles In the City.

The affairs of the branch of the Fenian Brotherhood are becoming more and more deranged. The circles are discontented, and openly demand an explanation: the subalterns are in a slate ot mutiny; the sinews of war arc withheld; the prophecies relative to the arrival of Stephens have not been fulfilled, and, grea est of all evils, It is rumored that the great cblcttaln, who was to lead the Irish Republican Army from New York to Dublin, and dictate terms to the Queen of England from the halls of Buckingham Palace, is in a state ol mind bordering on Insanity. The Union square headquarters are almost deserted, and theofficials at that establishment are thing but courteous or polite. The fact Is, 1 expects to be disturbed In the ocenpation ot the mansion, and has made preparations for a vigorous defence. Killian Is re.

Sorted to have sinister designs on the Headentre, and his movements are closely watched by a few devoted admirers who still believe the genius of The disaffected muster In large numbers each eveuing on the sidewalk in front of the Moffat mansion, and it is asserted that some of the more discontented circles have detailed a guard of a dozen men, who are relieved at regular Intervals, to watch the headquarters. Extensive preparations have been made for the arrival or Stephens, which appears to be as far off as ever. 4 The circles have been told to hold themselves In readiness to tom out at a notice to give the President of the Irish Republic a reception befitting 1 one of his exalted position and Influence. The Fenian Fair has closed, the receipts by no means equaling the expectations ol the enthusiastic sisters. Many of the circles.

In violation of the orders from Unionsquare, have resolved to send no more money to that quarter until an Investigation shall bare been held, and the object of the late move on Canada, the cause of lls failure, and other matters thoroughly exposed. In consequence of these ana other precautionary measures the receipts have sensibly diminished, and the sale oi the bonds Has altogether Mien away. Letters of Indignation come in from all parts of the country, and the lives of the actors in the Eastport farce are in imminent danger. Killian Is generally obnoxious to the rank and file, and O'Maho. ney is regarded as half crazed.

Nothing but the Immediate arrival of Stephens and the reorganization of the Brotherhood can save It from total dismemberment. The Roberts party report favorably and promise action In a Jew weeks at farthest. Mr. B- D. Killian has been on trial before the Council of Ten for the last two days at Union Square- The proceedings are kept strictly private.

Uls stated that Killian has called O'Mahoney to which latter ret jrted io equally polite andunslalesmanlike phraseology. Killian wiil prove, It is said, mwe than a match for his judges, and it is expected that ho will batllc all attempts to prove UU. perfidy in the Eastport business. A few months ago acentleman made a pi esent of 1,000 sabres, promising 500 more In a short time. A few days ago he called at Union Square and offered 500 more, when this distinguished Head Centre replied that did not want them now." Committees from nearly all the Circles the cunnlrr are in town, and the Indignation In circles is alarmingly on the increase.

THE MEMPHIS EIOT, Appointment of a Codudlmlou Stoaemanta Order. The following is the order of General Stoneman convening a Commission of Inquiry Into the origin and results of the late riots in Memphis. The Commission commenced It? labors on Monday last: I UexFHts, Mai 5,1350. Special Ordexs-OSp. 89.

A ComnMoo. to constat bf Breret Bxfosdto G.S.misntrv, Captato J- Col fr.Sfir volunteers, anil 31. J. Wricht, BCMee.au) assemble on the afi iha upon all Iba acts conrectodVlfo the recent dtaorUers Memphis, Tenn. which began on me wSnt offoo CommisMon wD, and the (seta connected with the termination ol the no te us tae names of ihoee engaged, andfoe acts each as tar can be foe nnmbctwjd names ot Wiled and wounded, nat properiy this dettrojed, and value thereof owa, and caused the dtaturbaccer, o( the hJcaiX Spcxtanl tbit the Government be tolly and Inlbnncdnpon the whole euqecu ssss from the A copv of if a Erocerdisrp will he itmltbed these heacanarlert om lime to time the dicanatincM Quartermaster's department vffl faro lab the to Carry ont ihe provision? of the above order, i Wy annuMnii nf Stnnrman.

Poaraa. Aamlant Adjutant General. THE BOMBAKDMEST OF VALPARAISO. Highly Interesting Account by a Naval Officer' an Eye Naval and Diplomatic or tbo of the Boston S. SnuxEn Tcscanomu Valpahixso, Unh, March 29.1386.

Wc received orders on Monday, the 2ulh to prepare ship for action, as we ed serious trouble with the Spaniards. "We did as finished lastnfeht, having removed all parts liable to be broken during the fight and thrown In contusion around onr decks. These we sent to an old hulk tying half a mile away. AUonr'stanchlous, rails and spare ports of rigging, davits, were placed in the above-mentioned vessel, leaving a clear chance to work our guns. The sides corresponding with the boilers were secured with placed ontslde for a distance of thlrtv ftet, making ns quite Impregnable to shot or sheJl, aid sand bags were stowed 1 around onr steam drum to make that part sccnre.

Vfc have been lying with three ponndrof steam on tor five days; this was merely to keep the water in out boilers warm, and to Lave something to start with for good. So we were all ready and quite wUling-to stand our chances, but at one yesterday we received news from our Minister to Chill, Gen. Kilpatrick, to have fires put out and repair ship, as we are not to interfere with the Spanish Admiral. The way this possibility of our Interference commenced was this: The American residents entered a protest against the SpaniardsJto.Commodore John Rodgers, with a list of their property exposed, amounting In the aggregate to some three million dollars. Just before oar arrival, the English residents did the same to their Admiral, and ha held a consultation with the Spanish Admiral, and threatened to blow every Spanish vessel out of the water if he fired one shot on the city.

loud talk, tlut.l Finding all attempts at conciliations unavailing, our Minister, the English Consul and Admiral, with Commodore Rodgers, held a consultation to form an agreement for Joint action in case the Spaniards should attack the city. Of this they informed the Spanish Admiral, and it was then we received orders to prepare shlo for action, as did also the monitor Vanderbilt, the Powhattan, and donble-enderMohango. But somehow of other the English Admiral backed out of the agreement. I wbh to be prejudiced, but my estimation onr trans- Atfantic friend is a big Our relations with the Spanish Admiral are of a friendly character; but if It bad come to we believe that we could have whipped him alone, having a small invincible with ns, properly called the Monitor Mbnadnock. SUo could manage the Spanish Irron-clad Numancia, while the other vessels would attack the frigate.

It la true they have more guns, but none of eleven or fifteen-inch call- bre. Our metal is great deal heavier than Their guns are principally six and eight-inch, with some small rifles. In our fleet wq mount four fifteen-inch, four eleven-inch, eight oce hundred-pound Parrott rifles, besides about thirty odd eight-inch guns. The English officers told us in Rio that they never saw such heavy batteries put In for vessels destined to foreign ports, as those of our fleet. The Spanish iron-clod Unmancla Is tons bnrden, and is remarkably well built.

She Is a sister ship to the Solfcrino, belonging to France, and was a present to Spain from the French Government. She is plated with four-inch iron, and mounts twenty guns on each side. She appears to he as long as our Ironsides, and has a similar rig. She Is fifteen leet out of water, and has two turrets on herspar deck for the pilot and musketry-, and has also a hot water battery. Her sides arc square as with other vessels, with twenty square port-holes of three feet diameter, llcr bow is similar to that ol the rebel ram Stonewall; It is what I call an inverted bow, and is used as a rain.

I should like to try those seven eleven-inch cucathat can pierce the sides of our Ironsides upon her for a sport period. After half an hour of such treatment she would, I think, feel rather shaky around the ribs. bcNDAT Even isa, Apnl 1. During the bombardment yesterday, the Spanish guns mode quite a beehive of the latendente, or house, and the Custom Ilonse also. They tried hard to set these buildings on fire, but did not succeed.

About a square away from the I house stands the Hotel Union, which took fire and from this some twenty or thirty others caught and burned to the ground. The damaged buildings were principally French property, andlamglad oflt, for they linked In with the Spaniards. The railroad being quite secure was very little damaged. One shot passed through a back window of the English hotel, and passed out in front, the only damage being the breaking of two panes of glass. The amonnl of personal property destroyed was upwards of ten million dollars.

The whole city was nearly deserted during the bombardment, the firemen only remaining. These firemen number some three thousand and are divided into three divisions. They worked their engines from the time the conflagratlon commenced until It was subdued. I They are brave young fellows and deserve much credit. There arc amongst them the sous of the richest men in Chili, and they have a most complete organization, working from beginning to end by-found of the bngU One division Is dressed In white pants, ri shirt and heavy leather hat; the second division wear red pants, black shirts and brass helmet cap the third division, or relief, wear black pants and shirts and military cap with red trimmings.

Several women who remained the city during the bombardment were cut in two. The poor people would not bclievo that their city was to be attacked, even at the last moment. Onr fleet went In as soon os the ceased fire, and sent sailors ashore to help work the engines; and glad they were to get them, as the firemen were quite exhausted. our tars got hold of the brakes they worked with a will, at the same time singing onr national airs. They were in high glee.

The fire is all out now, bnt smoking badly. The other day I was ashore, when a very singular announcement met my eyes. It read I thus: splendid and commodious frigates Lcandcr and JutleJ will receive freight and passengers for any part of the world. This was intended as a slur upon the English Admiral, wjio has their utterdelestatlon. while Americans ore mucho During the whole fight our Minister.

Gen. Kilpatrick, was riding on horseback through the town, CTiconraging the firemen. The Chilians cheered him wherever he went. He is an accomplished rider, speaks good Spanish, and Is well liked. His residence Is at Santiago, the capital of Chili.

The buildings destroyed belong to the Chilian Government, and coat seven millions of dollars. They were built by a New Englander named Brown, and were situated in the Plaza, a resort resembling our Public Dentil of a Veteran Editor and Temperance the Milwaukee A despatch from Janesville announces the death, at Fort Atkinson, on Friday night, oi TLuriow Weed Brown, the well-known editor of the Wisconsin Chitf, and lecturer on terafierance Mr. Brown had been sinking slowly or the last year and a half the disease of For sis months back he had been so weak as to be unable to attend to his business and during most of the time he had been confined to his room. His demise had longbeen expected, for he had long-been considered beyond the old of human skill. His work was in the cause of temperance.

At an early ace be saw the evils of the liquor trade, and vowed to labor for Its overthrow. He travelled from one eijd ol the country to the other, speaking on the great theme at every convenient resting place, never asking compensation, but laboring bow to furnish the necessaries of life for his own and his support. He was an eloquent speaker on this theme; and wherever ho went he drew out large houses. By this means he did much good, rescuing hundreds from the toolstrom of intemperance. For a number of rears back he, together witn his slater, had published the IViscor.tin Chief, a paper devoted to the cause of temperance.

For a time It was discontinued on account of pecuniary losses to the publishers. It has always maintained a precarious existence STATE DENTAL Annual Session. The annual meeting or the State Dental Society la now being held in this city, the convention being convened at half-pa-t ten yesterday morning In the Tremonthonac parlors. The call to order was made by Dr. Hansinger, of this city.

(Vice President) in the absence of the President, Dr. Edgar Park, of St. Loots; the r-ecreury was in attendance and officiated. The number of delegatee present at the time of commencement wag rather limned, owing probably to insofficient notice The minutes of the pr.Tlons meeting ot the society were read and approved. 'ine greaterporilon of the forenoon session was occupied in amending the by-lawa of the; society, ihc names ot W.

W. Auport and J. P. were lor member-hip. and the gentlemen bung balloted lor, were duly elected- The afternoon session opened at half-past two.

Minutes ot ihemoraingieasicm read and approved. The society then proceeded to ballot for the election of officers for the enenlng year, with the following res nit: Ur. H. K. Lewis, of Quincy, was.

elected President; Or. O. Wilson. of Aurora, Vice President; Dr. G.

T. Smith, of Pnnceion, Secretary Dr. M. nherwood, of Chicago, Treasurer; Haskell, of Chicago, Librarian- Five gentlemen were elected as an Executive Committee lor the en-nlne year, as follows: ins- Jf. s.

Dean, A. K. Foltz, S. V. Jtoble and G.

U. elected President and Secretary of the society took tnelr President Lewis. thanked the delegates wesent for the honor tMnJetred to ejecting him to preside over their deliberations. He felt as if another might have been selected who would nave done better. Be felt placed, indeed, an awkward position, hat he would discharge the duties devolving upon tarn tothe best of htsaoility.

A committee of five, consisting of Doctors Alloort, sberwood, Houslmrer. Orerhotser and Cushing, appointed by the President to prepare toptea of discretion lor tbis During the aff temoon the Committee made the following report of fUbjecta for discussion: Eruption of teeth. proper method of treatment of decay Of deciduous teeth. Dnaer what drcnmetancca should deciduous teeth be extracted to secure a proper arrangement of the pamanem teeth 1 The proper treatment oi the permanent 1 What preparation ot gold Is best for filling tC Treaimcnt of exposed palps, and Oiling palp car- I ilics, and alveolar processes, Treairoem of diseased gums. Mechanical dentistry.

clinical operations will, be performed by Dr. nouunger. The report was accepted and the committee Toe following named gentlemen were elected to the nest session of the American Dent' ai Association, tone held in Boston, onthe last 1 Tuesday of Jniyncsi: Drs.A.P.Kduz»Al Wilson, U. N. Lewis, G.

T. Smith. 2f. Bren, -R; Houalnr ccrasd Ur. Ames, Communications were received from Drs.

Babcock and Burnett, of Springfield, and Dr. Van Sant, 2 ot Princeton, regretting their unavoidable aoscnce from the meeting of the society. By vote of the members present. Dr. N.

5. Dean was elected to deliver an -address at me next meeting of the society. It was also de-1 ctdea that the of the society snoold be 2 held eeml-annnatiy hereafter, and that the next rbotild be held in this city and l' I'TOomwrt'iSi two or lhre t. rwhn of I of the society be printed for tne I arts of number'. I Tbe meeting then adjourned till nine clock this morning, LAW INTELLIGENCE.

la the Several Courts Divorce Cummeuctd and Trial Calendars. Usnso statis CmruTT Eon, Thomat Dnanthond, Judae, May term of this court commenced on Mondav, bot no jury fa is been empanelled nor any btuineaa of importance taken up. Usited States Distbict Before Bon. Jhvmnondt buslncsa of any interest bos oven takes op In tins coon, tbli week. Sctesiob oust Hon.J.

M. Ultion. C. and bora J. B.

t-cry ondj. A. Jameton. AuociaU vt. Hears.

On motion of defendant, cause continued at defendant's costs. judd tVT Darlington et al. On motion of plaintifi attorney, tmt dismissed at plain coats. Koop vs. Koop.

Leave to file const in trover to decimation. Odey tf. Host. Judgment on defianlt heretofore entered for 128. Do warn Dike et al.

Trial by jury. Verdict for piainnff, and damages assessed at tlon for new trial and in arreat of Judgment by Leeur vs. Clapp et al. On motion of defendants, dismissed for want of prosecution at plaintiff's costs. Patton vs.

England Fare Marine Insurance Company. Came continued. Dentil va. Davis el al. Passed by agreement Dorns vs.

Woodruff Caose continued. Norton et al. vs. Fincher et al. continued.

Poner vs. Ogden et al. Caere continued. Pierce vs. Demlaw, et al.

Passed bv agreement. KCnnia vs. Moore, etal. Cause continued. Granger vs.

Passed by agreement. Granger vs. Gadd. Passed by agreement. Ibe call lor to-day will embrace the following entitled causes.

White vs. Starrett. 28. Myers, et al. vs.

Ashton. 24. Rock, et al, tb. Tonrg. 25.

McDonald vs. McClellan. 2fl. Wright vs. Loverin.

27. Bardfon va. Murphy, et al. 28. Wells, et vs.

Miller, et al. 29. Aldrich vs. Redlick. Gebelbaoer vs.

UIL el al. Gfltefl vs. Page, et ah In chancery. Role on alt defendants to answer inatantcr. Default and reference to matter.

McClnrg vs. Badger.Jct al. In chancery. Fifteen days given to al) defendants to answer. Henrietta W.

Lafayeitevs.NaictfsusA. Lafayette. In chancery. Bill tor divorce. Default and reference to master.

Judd vs. Darlington, et al. In chancery. On motion of solicitor, dismissed at complainant's coat. rarah Jane Bakervs.

Ezra Baker. In chancery. Default acd reference to Master. Mnnginvs.Fovlcretal. Motion to dissolve Injunction and cause continned.

Ellzcbcth Metzger vs. Peter Metzger. In chancery. Dill for divorce npon the ground of extreme aui repeated cruelty. Proof of personal service on defendant, and rule to plcaa instanter.

Default entered. Pixofr heard in open court, and decree of divorce ordered, Stephen W. Montgomery vs. Goodrich etc. Action eumpsit by attachment to recover as Indeb.cdness of S4S7 for sold and delivered.

Cbanncey B. lleartt vs. Benjamin Cooper. festlon ol judgment npoo a promissory note for dated Kewanec. May 4th, ISG6, and pavabte in tois city on demand.

John P. White vs. William Ltnton. Action of asmmpslt to recover damages laid S3OO. w.

George W.lieid. Actlonof ossnmprtt to damages laid at Pen rR. L. Hardcnbergb vs. Orrin It Clark.

Action of assnmpsu to recover damages laid at $303. L. Uardenoergh vs. John Heavens and P. W.

Hoyt. Action of by attachment to recover damages laid ats2oo upon apomissory note. Cnsccrr Co cut or Cook tielore Bon. Erattvt S. Wuhamt, Smith vs.

Stiles cl al. Leave to defendants to withdraw pleas, and them to plaintiff's atncncco declaration. Hut ct al. vs. Illinois Cental Railroad Company.

Action of trespass on the case. On trial. In the ma'tcr of the application of Emma B. Childs, guaidian oftne minor heirs of William Childs, deceased, to sell real In Submitted to court upon petition, answer, exhibits and proofs, and order of sale in pars nance ofthe prayer of the petitioner. In the matter of tiutneil'tonof Antony Von Inwagen, guardian of A.

Von Inwagen. to sell real estate. In chancery. Gnardian's report of died nod confirmed. The call ofthe calendar for to-day will embrace the follow in? causes: 323, Uammond vs.

Maitemet al. 125. Danhyvs. Hayden. 126 Conway 127.

Cone et al. vs. Smith. J2S. Conners et al.

vs. City of Chicago. 129. Tuttle et a), vs. Deans et ICO.

vs. Webb. 131. lugersol vs. Smith.

155. London et al. vs. Lumberman Insurance i Company, jsg, McCarthy vs. 339.

McCarty UO. Weller Taylor. yit Marshall Field, Milton J. Palmer and Levi Z. Letter vs.

Isaac spear. Collector ot the town of South Chicago, and hie successors. Bill In chancery to obtain an injunction restraining raid defendant liom proceeding to levy or sell, or in any way enforce the collection of a tar of $3,460 over atm above the amount of $1,730 for Scats and county taxes for the year UCS, upon the property of said complainant. Sherman 8. Jewett and Francis 11.

Root vs. Christian Diehl. Action ofassmnpslt to recover damages lad at S3OO. Patrick Tonghy and Michael Toughy vs. John Dempsey.

Appeal by deft odant. Levi if, Merrick and Charles W. Allen vs. Benjamin Cooper. Action of assumpsit to recover damages laid at S7OO.

Electa JTcGraw vs. Henry S. McGraw. Bill for divorce. Injunction Issued against defendant resiratnlnc him from disposing of certain of his propery; a writ of ne exeat restraining him trom departing from the Henry Whioplo vs.

Emily E. Whipple. Bill for divorce. Recorder 8 Court or Before lion. Eteri tan Buren.

Judge. Grand Jury In this Court, which ha- been in scs-ioo for the May since Monday, bvd returned up to last dent be- I tuecn sixty and seventy indictments. The call of the civil docket will be resumed this 1 morning. Cocnty Con Hon. James B.

business of importance was taken up in thta Court esteiday. IRE HOOPS CASE- or HoppO tlons of fton-lutercoarsc. citizens of Wheeling, this county, residents to tbe vicinity of the farm of William recently acquitted of the charge of murder, on the pronrd of insanity, arc evidently much exercised over the result, and anxious to show thdr disap- Kal of the ruling and the man. A meeting was at Danton on Monday, which was attended by the leading residents of that neighborhood, for the purpose ot tflKine some action in tbe matter, Doctor Wood was called to the caavr, and Mr. S.

Olmsted appointed Alonzo Hawk-, Stark W. Sawyer, n. Merrill. Wm. Dnotoa and Ker.

Barrett were appointed a comittve to draft resolutions expressive ot the tense ot the meeting; they reported the following: That In the recent release of Wm. Hoppabyibe Superior Conn of Cook County, before which Court he was on trial for the most outrageous nmraer of his wife, onr Judiciary his been degraded, jo-tice has been crossly insulted, and tbe ricbis and bcace of thi- community sacrificed. I Jitiolvtih That the fellow citizens of saidllopps here aswmoled. hereby withdraw from him all bomat fellowship, and inform him that bis comfort and safety require his speedy removal tom among Geo. Stroog.

moved the adoption of (he resolutions, which was nnanaulmously carried. Tbe mccMng then committee to communicate th-fr action to Wm. ilopps, and requested the publicaiioa of the same In the papers of Chi- Ca all due deference to the gentlemen who pa-sed these resolutions we would suggest that a morccxcrlkm wayol setting this ditflculy at rest uonld be to militate In tbe Coamy Court the proceedings necessary to procuring an order to place William llopps the Asylum where he namrally belongs, and where not ihty only, out the rest of rational human kind, win be snared the pam and ail tbe danger of bli presence. They have a perfect to bold Intercourse with him. or not, they deem proper, but so long as William Hopps property In Wheeling, and Is free by order of a court ol competent jurisdiction, be has as good a right to stay on that property- his neighbors to occnov their farms, lie should ouly beordered to leave his farm by the County Coon, and then for George Hammond, ol the C.

B. R. was yesterday presented with a magnificent gold watch and chain by the employes ot the general office in this city. COMMON COUNCIL. JIEFOET.i Regular Sleeting, May 7, ISO 6.

Honor the Mayor, and Aldermen Knickerbocker, Carter, Barrett, Wicker, Wilmarth, Kann, Wall work, Hatch. Moore, Frisbie. Woodard, Talcott, Holden, Bond, Russell, Frinzen, Boh, Lawson. Shackford. Woodman, andClatk.

On motion or Aid. Knickerbocker, the minutes of the meetings of April 80th. May Ist and May 4tD, were approved without being read. Aid. Bond moved that the roll of the new al he now called.

Carried. The President directed the Clerk to call the roll, omitting the name of the Alderman elect of the Filth Ward, which was accordingly done, and there were found to be present: Knickerbocker, Cox, Carter, Wicker, Barrett. Wlhnanb, Calkins, Kann, Hatch. Wallwork. Moore, Schuler.

Friable, cott, Woodard. Bixhv. Bolden. Hassell, Ackhoff, Gastfiela. Bantlcy, Aoadfoot, franxen.

Boh, rcL Sbacklord, Lawson. Clark. bollivan. Aid. Kann moved that Michael Praucan he declared toe Alderman elect (tom the Fifth Ward, and that his name be called, as such, by ibe Clerk.

Aid. Wicker offered a preamble and resolution declaring the election In the Fifth Ward to be void, and ordering a new elect Jen. Aid. Wicker moved the adoption of the preamble and reaolotion. Aid.

Knickerbocker moved to lay the motion on Ib Bidden demanded the ayes ond noes on the motion to table, and the motion prevailed by tne to te knlckerhocker. Cox. Sana Hatch, Schuler, Blxbv, Russell, Acfchoff. Gastfleld, Huntley, Franzes, Ban, Sbaekfotd, Lawson, Aid. Carter, Wicker, Barrett, WUmanh, CalKms.

Walmork, Moore, Fnshle, Bafkrtv, Woodard, H.iiden, moved for the readmit of the election reinrui of the Ward. ihe Chair declared the motion to he out of order. Aid. U'Woll appealed from the decision of the (. bat- the of the Chair was sustained.

Aid. Clark called for the previous que.hoa on Aid. motion, and demanded the ayes and docs. The call was sustained by aye? and nocs as Knickerbocker, Cox, Barrett, WUmanh, Carktns, Kann, Hatch, Moore. Schuler, Talced, Bolden, Bussell, AckboCt Gastfleld, fluntley, Proucloot.

Fracien, Bah, Engel, Law- W.ck=r, Wolhvort, Frisbie. Ratfcitr, Woodard. The question recurring on the orijrinal matiQuoi Aid. Kann. to admit M.

Finucan to bis seat as Alderman oi thft Ward, Aid. Bnh demanded Tbe motion prevailed by the loUawinp vole, AM. and Calkins being creased from voting at their own request and by direction of the Chmr. Knickerbocker, cor. BamU.

ifcna. Hatch, Sehpltr. Woodstd, BusscU, Gast- Deld, iluntley, Piondfoot, Jranxcn, Boh, Engel, Sbackfcfd, IhVson, Clark, -Yoa-sald. Carter, Moore. Fnshle, Eafferty, Talcott, Blxby, Michser Pinocon toot hh CoimciL until changed by an order of a 'E'nmt Sc tie adopuon of too Homier o( inis District, having entered the Council ChamtiCAld, Clark moved that he he Invited to take a seat addressed tho rettrannall mnnberofthis Council tbor one-feurth of you tipLJiionls Oat partial.

to litj and yet itbrioes a feeling owes to say fere well, officially, to who bavesit here so minynlehu -fib mTand bare always attended to their duties MMWoSr I Macro; ttholeavothis Council Chamber, with no sfeln upon with the toil right to return to their cot tUtmnu end cotnmeuda- Knwi done, voed andtaitbral aerranisand I do, most itapectinUy and heartily Md them Honor, IBe Major, then ptmcnted Mi annual conndlaa' Oinun'-I did not inland make anj commtmlatlon to yon tonight. fOs the reason tnat cmilt all toe ncoten of this Council the taffiSceltblci nevTlt elected ctnoot ezoectto hate, hot thought by Mime mts advised, that bncf statement to general 0 tbc present condition of the aCalri of the maySaotiSenao dJeSottojon to-nlabt, on tho importanl aobclpal and Interest of nlnch if rente, the me aeo; aitenbon to tlia thattta of the dll art very Yoninji see by the of ihe teiwl Denary ents, which will be hud beiore jotu that they are far above the of any prevlona Tear, aoc i excess Is principally tor the increased police force, new engine and police rations, the eninc of the canal, the uka the new towpr and engines for the Water and the enlargement of the works for the Water Works. The large hi ere tee of popolation and property, the hitherto very email police fotce. and come- Sicnt Insecurity of out cii Irene, eeem to require at the of the different of the Citv Government have asked. If the estimates for can be reduced without inlory to the putv you willreduce them.

Bat I conletf that Ido not eee how this laiye expenditure is lobe avoided. A tax of two per cent has bUhcrto been the highest rate in the city, and I know that a lanre number or this Council hope that this rate will be the limit this year. But tt matt be borne in mind that labor and material are hich that the work to be done and the letri- tor? to be guarded are very great. With these remembered, consider every point. Do not nermit one dollar to be extended that can be but do not, by culling down the appropriations'deprive the citizens of such security, protection and convenience aa properly belong to a large, prosperous anc growing city.

The report ot the KmiS of Public Works, the Superintendent of Schools. Police Commissioners, Fire Marshal, and the Superintendent of tbe fieform be, laid before Ton WIU obtain from those reports such information as wul enable you to aet upon all tbe important matters that will be brought before you. I need not tell yon tbit the city rightfully expects from evsiy member ot me CUT Government close scrutiny, strict Integrity, and constant Industry in the great interests enlrnficd to their, care. With the assurance tiiat von will Ibiiy meet these requirements, I commend yon to tbe duties of the year. Kcsitectinliy submitted.

3. B. Bice, Mayor. His Honor the Mayor then announced the following as the Standing Committees of the Common Council for the current mnnicinal year: Holden. Wicker, X-wson.

Talcott. Carter, ShacKfonJ. Harbor and Clark, Barrett, Bixby. Fire and Woodward, Rafferty, Calblcs Knickerbocker, Rnb, Cos. Wharves sod Public Grounds BLxby, Catur.

Proadroot. ickcr. Batch. Engel, street and Carter, Knickerbocker, Darrell, WUmarib. Kaon.

Mrceis and Sbackfoid. Pratren, Kdh. Clark. streets and West Moore, Woodward. Wallwork, Frisbic.

Holden, Ackboff. Caulfield. xv barfing Fnsblc, Schuler, Wilmartb. O'Milllvan. Kami.

Gas Wilmarlh, Clnric, llaf- public Carter, Bixby, Sbacklord. Local Russell, Engel, Barrett. county Shackford, Hassell. Kamr. Lawson.

Talcott, Cox. Aid. Bishy moved that the Chair appoint a a landing Committee on Tunnels. Ald.lalcott and the motion was not entertained. VETO.

The i letk then read the following communication from Donor. the Mayor: Mayor's Ostke, Cuicago. May -Hit, To the honorable, the Board of Aldermen of the city of Chicago, in Common Council assembled: Glntleben; The action of the Connell, at the last regular mee'lng. directing a committee to obtain a palmed likeness of the Mavor. to he placed among his predece-sors, In this Chamber, was very gratifying to roc.

and 1 sincerely thank the member who proposed it in terms sokmd and nattering, and also the Conned, who approved it by their unanimous vote. l.bope yon will make allow atce for a feenne that I cannot overcome, which lapels me to withhold my signature to this kind action of the Council. 1 believe the nsace has been, confer the honor Qpou the Mayor at the end of his official term. One yrar of mine has expired; and whether the Council will be justified in so significant a mark of their approval of the Slayer's cootse, when another yeir shall have elapsed, cm only be known when the year Is past. With a sincere desiie to retain your good opinion, and the continued resolve to deserve it.

Iltunk yon all sincerely, and return the order without my signature. BespeciftiUv submitted, J. U. Kies, Mayor. Aid.

Woodard moved to reconsider the vote by which the resolution was psssed. Carr.ed. Aid. Clark moved that the resolution be laid ou the tabic for oue year. Carried.

CONSTABLES' BONDS. The Clerk then presented the following Constables' Bonds fbr approval. Bond of G. G. chllcole, Constable of First Ward.

Aid. Knickvxboekcr moved that the bond be approved. earned. Bond of S. Willard.

Constable Second Ward. Aid. Ue Wolf moved that the bond be approved. Curried. Bond of Savillc Stott, Constable oi Third Ward.

Aid. Barrett moved that the bond be opproved. earned. Bond of B. Hendricks, Constable of Fourth Ward.

Aid. WUmactb moved that the bund he approved, earned. Bond ol Casper Gebrlng, Constable of Fifth Ward. Aid. Kflpn moved that the bond be approved.

Carnal. Bond of M- Fleming. Constable of Sixth Ward. Aid. Wallwork moved that the bond be approved.

Carried. Bond of Jobs Volcke, Conetablc of Seventh Waid, Aid. Moore moved mat the bond be approved. Carried. Bond ol John Mohr.

Constable of Eighth Ward. Aid. I'n-bie moved that the bond he approved. Camed- Bond of Cyrus Keeler. Constable of Ninth Ward.

Aid. Talcott moved that the bond be approved. Carried. Bond ol Joel Snll, Constable of Tenth Ward. Aid.

Uolaen moved that tbe bond be approved. Carried. Bond of J. E. Silty, Constable of Eleventh Ward.

Aid. ullivan moved that the bond bo approved. Carried. Bond of Louis Hcrbet, Constable of Twelth Ward. Aid.

Clark moved that the bond be approved. Camed. Bond of N. Dries, Constable of Thirteenth Ward. Aid.

Boh moved that the bond he approved. Carried. Bond of Albert eroding. Constable of Fourteenth Ward. Aid.

Boh moved that the bond be approved. Carried. Bond of D. S. McLain.

Constable of Fifteenth Ward. Aid. Lawson moved that tho bond be approved. Carried. Bond of H.

Cunningham, Constable of Sixteenth Ward. Aid O'Sullivan moved that the bond be approved. Carried. mmossASU coxxcnicattoss. The Clerk read a communication from the Belief Committee of the city of Atlanta.

Georgia, asking for pecuniary or other aid, which, on motion of Aid. WtlmnrCh, was Rckrrcd to Committee on Jndtaary. Petition of Wm. P. 11.

Schrader and Geo. SobncKC. for lease of ground on which, to erect baibs on the Lake shore, at the foot of Erie street, was. on motion of Aid. Lawson, Rcfetred to Committee on Streets and Alleys, Js.

with instructions to report the earliest convenience. Carter presented a communication, accompanied by a preamble and resolution, in relation to providing ol suitable places of interment tor indieem Aid. Talcott moved to refer ft to'thc Committee on Wnarvesand Pn -be Grounds. Lamed. Petition of citizens, asking that John W.

Howe be permUicd carry on the business of an auctioneer on Market street, near southeast corner of I Randolph and Market streets, was, on motion of Aid. Devoir; Referred to Committee on Licenses. The Board of Public Works presented a report and ordinance for the vacation of Pine street, between Chicago avenue and Pearson street, and I opening the sameeighty feet treat of the present I street. Aid. Xalcott moved to adopt the reportjaud pass.

I the ordinance. a Tne thaw directed the ayes and.noes to he called. I and the motion prevailed oy the following voter I Kuickeibocker, Cox, Carter, O'Wolf, I Wicker. BarretvWilmarth, Calktos, Kann. Finn- I can.

Hatch. WaUwork. Moore. Schnier, Friable, I KaflVrtv.Talcott, Woodard, ulxbv, Holden, Hassell, Acknotr, Ganfleta, Uantley, Prondfopi, Fran- I 2tn, Rub. Engel, hbackfotd Lawson, Clark, nul- I The board of Public Works presented a detailed sta'ement lo regard to ibu Tncnel under Uje Chicfl Aid.

5-backford moved that the statement be laid over and Canted. Ihefouowing is tbe statement: OmcE or tub Board or Public Works, UIUCAGO, April To tbe Mayor and Aldermen of the city ol Chicago, In Common Conned The Board of Public respectfully call the attention of the Connell to the detailed statement renaming tunnels under Chicago River, submitted to jonr nononible body on Ibeothol laat more mature deliberation, the Board have come to the conclusion mat the tunnel propped to be constructed under the main -river, should be located at State pireet. It cap; be.bnilt at lei? ex- Deu-e and tnwmveaience at that point, and at the same time be far more convenient to the pnbhc after ita cons'rudioo. Tbe location of the heaviest business in divisions of the aty, aadthc rracvportatlon between the different railway which Is becoming greater with each succeeding year, will be accommodated to a much greater Oat property holder? the North and South Divisions have already pledged their share of the money necessary lo construct the tunnel. The tunnel having been and strongly urged by many of our most respected citizens and boldirr.who have foilowedUinr petitions with liberal offers of money to aid mdia i coDsnoctlon.

the Board.urgently recommend.the adoption ofthe ordinances reported to jour honorable body in March last, adding f2a.i«o to the amount named. Tunneling the river belngan expenroent In our dty, the board are of opinion teat one should first be constructed and tried befbre apy further sups are taken for others. faring tne past year, a tunnel was ordered to be built under the South Brunch of River at Washington street. The Board prepared Plans and specifications, and advertised for bids for doing tne work according to the plans and snedficaiions. Several bids were received, but nooeaccepted till after- the outage of an orderby the Council at its meeting of September 4th, 1863, According to the-terms or tbe above named order, ibe Board awarded the contrart to J.

It Moore, Era, for the sum of two hundred thousand douaa upon condition that the won: should commence within a certain time. That time taring expired In February last, and the Board having foSukd the requirements of the order passed oy the Council, there waa nothing left for the Board to do ln ihe SSremfhavlng to furnish the required amount for a tunnel at Washington sweet, and the citizens of other parts ot the xiiy already screed to famish lb or proportion of the funds required, the Board earnestly recommend'the me tonne! ot State street. While Works. Petition of citizens of the North Division for tbe repeal ot an ordinance for planking alley blocks, 6,7, and 12, Dels Addittloa to Chicago was, on motion of Aid. Exon, Referred to Committee on Streets and Alleys, N.

D. Petition of citizens of the South Division for a repeal of that part of tbe cow ordinance which prohibits catUe routing at large north of Thlrty-urit ireet, was, on motion of Aid. Sbackford, Referred Ito Streets Alipys S. D. Petition of citizens asking that the name of little Fort be changed to that of Lincoln was, on motion of-Aid.

Laason. Referred to Committee on Streets and and Clark presented a communication and ordinance far the repeal of section 3, chap. 8, of an ordinance for danse-the central ordinances of the City of Chici goTta relation to fire hmlts In the North DWlra. 'Aid. laweoa moved to refer to Committee on.

Pfre and Water. Carried. Petition of dtlzens praying for the-repeal of ordinance directing the Impounding of cattle found Ito asit relates to the district south of Twentieth street, was, on motion of Aid. Shaekford, Co mud dee on Streets and Ahe. ft.

Tha Clerk presented rendu lor of Jnoser. clerks; Ac. at the late municipalelection, wbicb. on motion of A'd- were Belerred to Committee on Finance. of A.

Eggen for fine license, on motion of AkL ttuhv Kelened 'a committee on Petition of A. Fgcrrt to bare remitted license fee second band dealer, on motion of Aid Bob, Referred to Committee on Finance. Remonstrance of gUzeaa against the laying sidewalk in Sedgwick street, between Erie and Huron streets. auiuu BULXW. Aid.

Taiwut, moved that the rexnotstranta have leave to withdraw, Petition of John C. Myers to be compensated for injorlea nslalncd bj the breaking of arm while io ibe service of the cny. was, on motion of Aid. Talcovt, Referred to Committee on Finance. Petition of Pat McKnlly forftee license, vraft cn motion' ot Aid.

Rob. Referred to Commutes on Licenses. Friiiion of B. S. Parker foe the remission of fines for violation of Health Ordinance, was, on motion of Aid.

Kann. Referred to committee on Finance. Petition of William Bramj (hr free pedier license, was, on motion of Aid Kaon. Referred to committee cn Licenses. Petition of Thomas Richmond, praying for the suppression of gift concerts, was, on motion of Aid.Shackfont.

Referred tOjCommittee on Jodlciarr. Petition ot L. Leopold lor duplicate license, was. on motion of Aid. Kann, Referred to Committee on Licenses.

Petition of citizens of ibe 2tonh Division for the repeal of ordinance prohibiting cattle running at large, within certain hums therein named, was, on motion of Aid. Harm. Referred to committee on Streets and Alleys, SJ.D. Petition of B. S.

Brede tor remission of fine, on motion of Aid. Kann, Relerrea to Committee on Finance. Proposal of Matthew Haynes to sell lot to the cliy, was. on motion of Aid. Knickerbocker, Referred to Committee on schools.

Petition of William Shinn for remi-sion ot fine. Aid. Knickerbocker moved to grant the prayer of the petitioner. Aid. demanded the and 1 and the motion prevailed by the following vote: Knickerbocker.

COX. Carter, DtfWolf, Wicker, Barrett. Wilmarlh. Kann. Finncan.

Batch. Wallwotk. fcchnler, Fnshie. ttaffem, Talcolt, Woodard. Bixby, Bolden, Hassell.

AckbolT.r Ga-tfield, Prondloot, Franzen. Boh. Engel, Sbsckfotd, Lawson, Clark, i Petition of E. M. Porlch tor redaction of personal property rax levied in 1565, was.

on motion of Aid. Holden, Refcired to the Comptroller. Petition from toe Committee ot the Chicago Medical Society concerning the regtstraMoa of deaths and births, was, on Aid Knickerbocker, Re'cticd to the Committee on Wharves and Public Proposal of the proprietors of the Chicago ing Journal do the corporation printing for the moofcpal rear 1866. was. on motion of Aid.

Rub, Committee on Printing. Proposal of the Chicago RejmUuan Company to 1 do ibe corporation nnntiasr for tne municipal year ISCG, was, on motion ot Aid. Clark, i. Referred to Committee on Printing. Aid.

Moore an orcer In relation'to street improvements. Aid. Holden moved to amend the order by making it Halsted street tram Lake street nth to the Instead of street from Bin.ee to Harmon Aid. Kamo moved as an amendment to the amendn ment that the order be made to read Daisied street ftom Lake street south to-the cut Aid. Bolden accepted the amendment ot AM.

Kann. The question being on the adoption of tbe amendment 01 Aid. Holden, as amended, was carried. Aid. Clark moved the passage of the order os amended.

Tbe mo: ton prevailed, and tbe order was passed. Tbe following is the order as pa-'Cd: Orutmi, T.tat Uie Board of Public Works be requested to report to this Council, as early practicable. ordinances for tbe fo'lowing Imnrovementj: Ordiracce lor tbe macadamizing of Halted street, from Lake street. sontb, to tbe city limit-; Ordi nance for tbe ailing, curbing and piling, with wooden block pavement. Bine Island avenue, front Harrison street to Twelfth street; also an Ordii ar.ee for tbe curbing.

filling and macadamizing tbe same: also. an Ordinance tor macadamizing Blue Inland avenue, trom Twelfth street to tnc city; limits. Aid. Moore presented an order rc'ation toa tminrl under the titer at Washington street, and moved us nastaec. Aid.

Holden moved to amend by striking oat and substituting Adorns Aid. Bnsscil moved to lay tbe amendment of Aid. Holden on the table. Carried. IDe question reenrriog on Aid.

Moore's motion to pass, tbe order was passed. Inc follow nc is tbe order, as parsed: That tbe Board of Public Works be requested to tarnish to this Council, at the next rvjnt. lar meeting, an ordinance lor a tunnel under the South Branch ot the Chicago River, at Washington street, Ala. Knickerbocker presented an order In relation to the Lour of meeting of tbe Council. Aid.

Cailcrroovcd the passage of the order. Aid. Holfen moved to lay the motion ol Aid. Carter on the table. Aid.

Kann demanded tbe ayes and noes. and tbe motion of Aid. Holden was lost, by tne following vote; D'Woll. Barrett. WUmartb.

Batch, Waliwork. Moore, Schuler. Talco't, Woodard, lilshT. Holden. Knh.Shackfbtd, Aid.

Knickerbocker, Cor. Carter, Wicker, Calkins. Kann, Finncan, Friable, Battery. Kn-seU, Ackhotl, Gaslficid. Pracdfoot, Franzen.

Kegel, Sbsckford. The question recurring on Aid. Carter's motion to pass the order. Aid. WUmanh demanded the ayes and noes, ana the vote was as tallows: Knickerbocker, Cox.

Carter, Wicker, Calkins, Kann, Finncan, Fnsbie, Rafferty. Ackboff, Gastficld, Huntley, Proodfoot, Fraozcn, Hob, KnceU Sbsckford, Barrett. Wiloartb. Hat- Waliwork, Moore, Schuler, Talcolt, Btzbv, Holden, Lawson, Clark The Chair announced that a two-thirds vote necessary, to effect a'chance in tbe rules, tireda of lion to pass the order BEroms or errr ornerns. The Board of Public Works presented a vjta wi gmt ordinance for twentv-tiro lamp posts on Clinton street, between West Washington ana Harrison streets.

A report and ordinance tor seven on Sontb Peoria street, between West Madison and West Adams streets. Also, A report and ordinance for four lamp on South Peoria street, between Jackson and West Van Bnren streets. All ol which were referred to tbe Committee on Lights. '1 be Scan! of Public Works presented a report and ordinance for repealing ordnance for tbe extension ot Dearborn street, passed Aug. 14, 1365.

Aid. Kano moved to concur In the report, and pass the ordinance. Carried. The Board of Publiic Works presented a report and ordinance for tbe extension or opening of Dearborn etitet, from Monroe street to Juckion sweet. Aid.

Lawson moved that It be laid over and published. Carried. The followin': are ibe report and ordinance: petort asd obdcjascb fob orcsxxc or To ihc Mayor and Aldermen or iheaty of Chicago, to Common. Council The Board of Public Works recommend Dearborn street be extended or opened from the present southern terminus. to the north lice of Jackson rtreel, oflhewldihol elchtyfeel: the dividing lino Del ween blocks 120 and 141, and between blocks 121 and 140.

ol School Section Addition to Chicigo, to be (be centre of said street so extended or opened, in (be manner particularly described in the accompanying plan, and in me ordinance herewith gnbmVtrd directing Ihrt tnc Improvement be made. The contemplated iroproTcmcnt Is not asked for by tbepciiilun of me the owners of a majority of the propcriv to bo arsesstd for ench improvement. herewith submit an estimate of tae expense of the iropiOTcment as recommenneti above: xstdute on excesses, Dsmaees for be taken ftiP.QCQ.ro Damages (or balldiogs Leaaenoid Interest -JiV-OO Cce.sot 4'joro Total estimate of expense fUMTj.OO In the opinion of the Board, real estate to be assessed for sal improvement, can be found i-enefitca to he extent of me damages, costs and necessary to be incurred. onncvAKCE. Jit if Ordained by the Common Council ofCit Lily of Chicago: echos 1.

That Dearborn street be, and Is hereby ordered extehdert or opened from pre-cat terminus to the norm lino of Jackson street, olihewldtaot entity feet; the dividing lines Jftween Blocks 120 and 141, and between Blocks 121 and 140 ol School Section Addition, to be the centre of said street, so extended or opened. In accordance with the plan hereunto annexed. bic. That an spptabal of the damages end, recompense dne to the owners of the real estate necessary to he taken for said improvement, be formwith made, in accordance with the provisions of the revised charter, and the same be together with the of the proceedings, upon the real estate deemed benefited. In prononion, as nearly as may be, to the benefit resulting to cacn separate lot or parcel; and that the proceeds ol atd assessment.

when collected, be applied to the payment of the damages awarded for the property appropriated and the costs of said proceedings. Respectfully submitted, J. G. Gutdele, Feed. Lctz.

O. J. Rose, Board of Public Works of the City ol Chicago. April 30th. The Board of Public Works presented a report and ordinance lor rp-macadamlzrag Sooth Market street.

fromMadteooloVan Boren street. AUo, A report and ordnance for a sidewalk on the west side of Calomel aretrae, from Twenty-: iiih street to Thirty-flrstatreet. both of which were referred to the Committee on Streets and Alleys. MrtL The Board of Public Works presented a report and ordinance for plankloe an alley rmmlnc and South throogtt B. 20, Johnston, Roberts Store's Addition, Also, A report and ordinance for a sidewalk on west side of Dayton etreetfroin Willow street to Center street.

Alec, A report and ordinance for carbine. filling. greats? and pa vine with wooden block pavement, North Water street, from Rush street tost. Clair street. All of which were referred to the Committee on and Alleys, North The Hoard of Public presented a report and ordinance a sidewalk on the, North side of Twelfth street, from Rocker street to Loomis street.

Also, A report and ordinance fora sidewalk on the East side of Canal street, from Lumber street to West Eighteenth street. A report and ordinance for a sidewalk on the East tide of North Rocher street, from Chicago avenue to iUlwansee avenue. Also. A report and ordinance lor sidewalks on bo lb sides of debnson street, from TweUlft street to Tajlor street. Also, A report and ordinance for a sidewalk on tbe sootn side of Park avenue, from Leavitt street to Oakley street.

Also! A report antferdinance for a the west side of Bojne street, from Walnnt street to Carroll street. A report ordinance fora fjde of Twenty second street, ft cm Brown Hacker street. A report and ordinance on thesoath lde of Canal Port ateoae. from street to Brown street. A renort and ordinance for sidewalk on the north fide of stUwaukee avenue, from Wood street to Western arcnne.

Also, A report and ordinance for a sidewalk the soatn side of Jackson Beaten street to itariOfield street. Also, A report and ordinance for a eldeirslk cn the north eWe of West Twelfth street, from Rocker street to jm oT wUch were referred to fits Committee oa Streelfl and D. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. STHjrcis AixBTS, 2r. P- He Committee on Streets NO andordioanreftira fletto lS AM ni to rear tie report andonll- Lommlueo onstreet.

moved that the Clerk beins traded the members cd fttmer fSmmUUes all the pipers now In Uxor possession, minces. moved that the Council do now adio AW. Holden demanded the area the motion ol Aid. Takxtt prevailed by the follow- Cox, Wicker, Barrett a gjtaagh. KannVolnucan, Fnabie, eott, riantley, Ptondfoot.

Fanscn, Euh, Engel, Lawson and rvwnjr Aoa-Ald. Knickerbocker. Carter, wolf, a.

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