The New York herald., 1865-06-13


er who complained that said Martin and another man
violently assaulted him and robbed him OF his watch and
chain while passing through New Bowey late on Sun
day night The prisoner the time Of the
assault but the confederate escaped with the plumber
John Wilson and John c. Quinn were arrested on Sun
day night and committed for examination charged with
having stolen sixty-two dollars from Lewis Auger
salar attached to the gunboat Glaucus while they were
all in porter house in Oliver street.
The village OF Dyersburg Tennessee was almost COM
pleely destroyed by fire the 10th .ult block OF
eight fine buildings principally occupied dry goods
stores burned with their contents.
According TO the City Inspectors report there were
4i0 deaths in the city during the week ending June 12-
increase Of l6 compared with the mortality OF the
week previous, and 81 less than occurred during the
corresponding week last year OF the deaths which
Cured during the past week. 207 resulted from acute
diseases III from chronic diseases and 80 from external
causes There $50 natives Of the United States
90 OF Ireland Of England, 80 Of Germany, of Scot
land, and the balance of various foreign countries
The stock market strong and active yesterday.
Governments were lower. Gold was buoyan and after
selling up 141 closed at 14o, In the evening the last
sale at 142x.
The rise gold rendered the merchandise markets
turn hrmer yesterday, and it was unfrequently the
chandse steady though higher demanded
in cases. Groceries rather better, especially
sugars Coffee nrYner under the foreign Pc
troleum heavy for crude and firm for refined. On
Change flour and wheat were without decided change.
Corn lower and oats higher. Butter lard and
whiskey were steady.
Reorga MIA tion or Parties-Pr0posed For
| nation Of q National Citizen Soldiers
Party.
| The war has made sad havoc of our old poll
tical parties. The broken fragments of the old
pro-slavery democratic party, like the wrecks
Of I" the invincible Armada" have gone to the
bottom, or lie scattered, high and dry, along
the surf line Of the coast, from Maine to Texas
The late anti-slavery republican party, hav-
ing fulfilled its mission in the abolition OF
slavery and being left without leader and
without any fixed purpose, is all adrift, and at
the mercy of the winds and waves. The stock
in trade Of both these exploded parties was
sectional agitation of the slavery question
| Through this pernicious agitation they involved
the country in this late terrible convulsion of
civil war; but, with the return of peace, we find
their vocation gone with the destruction Of
slavery, and that new organization of parties
must inevitably follow.
| What is the prospect? We see already that
the radical wing of the republican camp is
moving for a reorganization upon the basis of
negro suffrage while some of the bewildered
copperhead leaders are smelling around the
White House kitchen, and others are blindly
cropping among the ruins of their Chicago plat
form and their exploded Southern fabric Of
State rights. The shoddy republicans mean
while, taking time by the forelock, have de-
clared their adhesion to candy Johnson;" but
beyond the spoils there is neither principle
nor bond of cohesion among them The
simple truth is that from the disorganized ma
terials of the late republican and democratic
parties the parties for the next Presidency,
principles, measures and men, have still to be
formed, appointed and brought into the field.
The government, the constitution, the whole
structure of our political institutions, national
and local, are in transition state. We can
no more 90 back to the old condition of
things of 1860 than TO the old confedera-
ton of the last century. We must 60 on with
the course Of events. The revolutionary
changes effected by this war Of four years have
advanced us a century in the "manifcst des-
tiny" of this mighty nation. We must shape
our action accordingly We must act for
the country as we find it after the war, and not
for the country as it was before the war; for
the deluge has swept all those old things away.
In this view of the subjcct, in casting about for
the best materials from which to organize
patriotic, intelligent, compact and reliable
national party for the work of reconstruction
which is before us. we have come to the con-
clusion that in our citizen soldiers and sailors,
who have saved the country, we have the
very materials desired to re-estabGsh the coun-
try, and on a solid national foundation.
From the rebel bombardment of Fort Sumter
in April, 1861, to this day, including three
months, six months and nine months men, one,
two and three years men, volunteers, con-
scripts, regulars, irrcgulars and militia,
we have had probably not less than
two millions Of loyal soldiers in the
field, and two hundred thousand sailors,
salt and fresh water. Of this force the casual
ties Of the war have carried Of, we will say,
three hundred and fifty thousand men; 80 that,
including those still in the field, we have now
over million and half of loyal soldiers and
sailors-intelligent experienced, patriotic men;
the blood and muscle, the bone and sinew Of
the country; the men who, with their strong
arms and stout hearts, have carried us safely
through such tempest of food and fire a.
the world elsewhere has never known; and
these men, we say, are the proper materials
from which to build q substantial, patriotic
and cohesive and enduring national party.
From national political party, formed Of
such materials, in all just wise and expe-
dient measures, the administration of President
johnson will. be sure Of cordial support;
against such party the intractable rebel ele-
ments Of the South will be powerless for any
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