The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-05-04


noyed by the new tax law, and of them con-
verting themselves into commission merchants in order
to avoid the tax In the sugar market the business
terday was moderate at previous prices Coffee dull
and nominal Cotton dull Petroleum firm. Dry goods
declining. Freights dull. On Change -four armer
Wheat armer Corn easier Pork excited at the open
ing, dull and lower at the close Beef steady. Lard
Armer. Whiskey duh and nominal.
MISCELLANEOUS. q,
Our special correspondent in jamaica dating at Kings
ton April "a states that the commissioners instructed
investigate the and origin of the late rebellion
were busiy engaged in preparing their report Great
anxiety existed to the probable contents of this i'm
portant paper, the friends Of Governor Eyre claiming
that the testimony to premed tation, extent and afa-
ton with enemies of the colonial constitution in London
have been clearly proven to insure the honorable
acquitta of that gentleman the ground that his
all necessary for prompt suppression of the
outbreak On the other hand is said that evidence has
been given TO show that the military decentralization
widespread under his executive that shot
without any preence of trial, the surgeon of West
India regiment having ordered the execution of three
his account Tho churches and clergymen still
much agtated.
In the reconstruction testimony presented 10 the
House yesterday was the evidence of Mr.. Bedford
Brown, formerly United States Congressman from North
Carolina He says that the people of that State
anxious to be restored to full union and that the schools
for blacks arc not obnoxious in any way to them. He
believes that the Bureau might very safely be abolished
justice would be rendered the negro in all the
without its intervention.
The United States Marshal at Norfolk states that the
claims against the Washington Irving the vessel that
ran gauntlet Of batteries to escape when ibelled had
been paid by the owners previous her departure and
that he had no reason TO detan her.
Conn i'm n ms de on uasd av
for convention at Columbus for the goth of June, to
nominate candidates Secretary Of State and Judge OF
the Supreme Court
The negro riots in Memphis have, 1t is presumed
finally been suppressed About thirty schoolhouses and
dwellings occupied by them in South Memphis were
burned on Wednesday night Last night threats Of burn
ing the city made by the negro troops just mustered
out at Fort Pickering, and the Sixteenth regulars were
charged with keeping them inside the works General
Stoneman issued order forbdd.ng the assembage of
any bodies Of armed men, black white
Work has been commenced in the Boston Navy Yard
on the new steam frigate Ammonoosuc by order Of
the Navy Department and that vessel is being pushed
rapidly to completion. She is to 60 duty with tho
South Pacific squadron.
The delegates from the Texas Convention called upon
President Johnson yesterday, and passed few hours in
conversation with him. mainly business and social
matters.
convention
which convened on tho LIST inst with tho resolution
full offered on tbs OCCASION is published ia the HsRALp
this morning
The Senate of the Tennessee Legislature has passed
the Franchise bill by vote Of thirteen to II ia
now law, and by it nine enths Of the people OF
| that State will be DISTINGUISHED
| Lord Monck, the Governor General of Canada was
given grand reception by the Mayor and citizens Of
Ottawa, C. W., his recent removal to that city, in
hot III.
Mrs. JET Davis has arrived at Fortress Monroe from
Montreal for the purpose Of visiting her husband
are occurred in Fort Edward, N Y, yesterday,
| damaging property to the amount Of SOS 900.
| Lcr Mayhem, convicted Of tho murder OF Theodore
Durham, at Indian Falls, In Genesee county, Y,
the 14h Of July Iss Is be executed Batavia to-day
Awhile man was whipped at Wilmington N c.. yes
terday, for larceny, by order Of Judge Buxton.
Tho President has instructed General Candy. at New
Orleans to release the sequesrated cotton which had
been held by the military there and not to interfere in
future with the United States Court Tho court reopsncd
| immediately and the cotton turned over to the
| United States Marshal.
Tho train from Jersey city for Philadelphia yesterday
morning ran over horse and wagon NJ Hudson City,
dcmolishing tho vch clio, killing the horse and 1. il
feared, fatally inurng William Henry and boy named
| Honcyman, who were occupants OF tho wagon.
n The towboat Tigrcss exploded both boilers in the
1 Mssi-sippl, Fear memphis, on wednesday, KiLng
| persons and wounding several more.
|
| RecOnstructfo President and the
| Committee OF Fifteen.
| Congress made war on the President az one
| who bad gone against the true interests Of tie
country. Prominent men in the republican
party denounced the President as traitor, ard
the chosen phrasemonger Of that party de-
ola hot AM Tob haI ov;u In
the South the fruits of the Northern victory;
that he had shorn our triumph of all that made
il valuable. On the floor Of Congress he WAS
mathematical as an executive usurper and
dcspoI" He was charged with an intention to
destroy the constitution by substituting for its
equable distribution of political forces q
zone man power" He was habitually called,
in entire disregard Of public decorum, ''the
man at the other end of the avenue" and in
the Senate q member blasphemously thanked
God Tor the visitation of illness that kept from
their seats men who would, If present, have
voted to sustain the President.
Judging from all the obloquy thus heaped
upon the President, the country naturally
thought that he had been guilty Of some
heinous act. The people, it is true, did not
know what his crime was. So far as they
could see, the President had been engaged
only in one great labOr--that OF restoring the
Southern States to their relations with the
Union. But this the people thought was
carrying to its ultimate result the great pur-
pose for which the country had gone to war,
and therefore they thought his efforts at recon-
struction entitled only to praise, ard
TO the more praise as they were evil
IDENTIFY successful. However, trusting their
party leaders, many Of them accepted
the fact that the President had committed some
great crime, and hoped to learn what the crime
was by and by. They waited patiently. II