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FROM BOSTON.
Meeting of the New England Abolition
EnpEafU

BOSTON, May 30.-The New England Anti-SlaTery
Society. with Garrison and Quincy left out. and
Wendell Phillips its chief helper. held its annual
meeting to-day in the Melodeon. A letter was read
from prominent Salem member. which declared
that the South was not yet fit to be reconstructed
coupled the names of johnson and JEFF Davis to-
gether and predicted that if Johnson's policy was
adopted We would drift again into a whirlpool Of
discOrd and outer darkness. if not civil war. Mr.
Phillips proposed and sustained, in n powerful
speech, series of resolutions. embracing the fol-
lowing propositions:
First-No settlement of national affairs except on
the basis Of absolute and impartial Justice Second
The only essential clement of reconstruction is suf
trage for the negroevery other matter being unim-
portant and secondary. Third-The President on
this point has wfully and deliberately betrayed the
North, and his Cabinet severaily sus tain him. And
as Congress has surrendered the point in ISSUE our
only hope rests on the ISSUE The Fourth returns
special thanks to Senator Sumner. Fifth-If Com
sress admits each State as it ratifes the proposed
Constitutional amendment its plan is not only a
surrender. but still. an unworthy trick to mis-
lead the nation.
Mr. Phillips said that Mr.. johnson believes in the
South, and his Cabinet is with him. and Congress has
surrendered the only essential element Of recon-
struction. Mr.. Phillips hoped that the Senate
amendment of tho reconstruction plan would meet
with ignominious defeat, and that Massachusetts
would reject it. lie would welcome every Demo
cratic and Copperhead vote to help its defeat. He
would go Il step further, and said: II hope the Re-
publican party if it to the polls next fall on this
basis will be defeated. If this is the only thing the
party has to offer it deserves defeat" .i -,st.-
The Republican party to-day seeks only to save its
life. God grant that it may lose it. Social equality
follows irresstably political equality and equality
of manhood without dstinction of color is the last
lesson Of tho war. The nation has one salvation
and one only, and that is to ignore race. The Re-
publicans go to the people in deceit and hypocrisy.
with their faces masked and their convictions hid
hope to God theyw be defeated. want another
serenade, not only to uncover the hidden sentiments
Of the Cabinet. but to-smoke out the United States
Senate, that We may how many of them range
by the side of Sumner. Ben. Wade, Judge Kelly and
Thad. Stevens.
Meeting OF Ship OwneFs-The Strike OF
the JOiners and CauIkers.
BOSTON May ga large meeting Of ship owners
and business men WAS seld to-day in the Board CT
Trade rooms in reference to the strike of the work
ingmen. The meeting was presided over by Mr
Ropes. ...-.-.-.
Speeches wore made by William Ropes and W, H.
Webb.
George B. Upton presented tho following preamble
and resolutions: :zss-- ..,..----.- ... ..---
Whereas, Representations are made to, the mor-
cnantS and snip owners of this port that the shin
Archer is now lying in dock at East Boston, where
she has remained for week. and that th joiners
and caukers who usually do the work upon the yes
seis under similar circumstances. decline to work
upon this ship; therefore, .. 3. F
Resotped, That refusal to work under such circum-
stances where no dctaton has been attempted as to
the number Of hours which shall constitute days
work. and no dispute as to the price which shall be
paid per day for labor is, in the opinion of this
meeting proceeding which cannot and ought not
to be sustained. asld one which circumstance can
} justify or approve;
labor between the employer and employed are mu-
tuai. and any combination upon one side or the
other which, through coercion, shall attempt to in
therefore to be avoided. =.
RssoIued. gphatin there is not an immediate
return To the ordinary and usual course of labor
upon the ship archer, we, the merchants aud ship
owners, In this meeting assembled, recommend to
owners OF docks and railways e close the and
action be had at the adjourned meeting or this body
to be called by the chairman.
The resolutions were unanimously adopted, and
the meeting adjourned to reassomble in 10 days.
From Fort Monroe.
Fort MONROE. VA. May 29.-The following ves-
sells passed up Chesapeake Bay on the following
dates: For Baltimore, May 28. bark Eiindora, 10
days from Mayaguez. sugar; May 9th, snip Grey
Eagle, Sc days from Rio, coffee; brig Wild Wave 80
days from Wales. railroad iron; brig Z. P. Swett
days from Cardenas sugar; May Goth, brig Venus 56
daps from Messina fruit; bark AnSio, 6l days from
Liverpool, general cargo. ,i, ....- n...
The Fire Department of Norfolk paraded yester-
day afternoon in full force through the principal
thoroughfares, and made q very excellent appear
At four o'clock the hour designated, tho four
companies comprising the department, with their
apparatuses-one steam engine, one hook and ladder
truck and two hand engines-met on Main street and
formed line Of procession headed by the fine brass
band of the 5th U. s. Artillery. ''-tf
The steamer Ella knight was spoken on Monday
morning. at two O'Clock. bound to Wilmington, N.
C. Sunday afternoon she exchanged signals with the
steamer North Point. 20 miles north of Hatteras,
bound to Havana. r.....s....
The weather to-day became very unsettled, chilly.
and the wind blowing squaly from the northwest
From New Orleans.
5 NEW ORLEANS, May 26.-In the Supreme Court to-
day. Durant and Hunt, always Union men, argued
the validity of Confederate notes the ssue of bel
lgerents. Judge Campbell, Confederate Assistant
Secretary of War. and Morse, Confederate Judge.
argued against them. The Supreme Court decided
against Moses Fox, claimant Of 00,OOO under the
rule of John McDonough. The defendants are the
cities of Baltimore and New Orleans. Judge IIyarns
disscnted. The majority say the proof of the hand
writing is undecsive; the testimony of Nathan Case
incredible, and other circumstances suspicious The
plaintiff counsel. Pierre Soule, is disappointed.
Another crevasse one hundred feet wide, has broke
through below the city, and the Opelousas Railroad
is threatened. - --e----
The Louisiana country papers give sad accounts of
the floods and distress. Provisions are constantly
for warded. a. = - .
The corn. cane and cotton in tgege parishes is de-
stroyed. %
The work of closing the Bouiigney creyasse is pro-
crossing, but the floods are high.
General Baird succeeded Gen. Candy to-day.
Arrived. steamer St. Louis. from Boston,