The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-07-23

sioo Of railroad ccpaaiss and PROHIBITING inc enlarge
ment Of cities By amendment OF thor charter exosps
upoa certain condihonA resolution TO the euoc' shas
action be taken upon tho report OF the sauHs' oom
mittee WEDNESDAY was lad on the table, roso'u-
ton fsyorine the prohibition OF further appropriations
for the erection OF Capitol for tho period OF nvs
years was referred Committee OF the whole. ON the
report OF the Suffrage Committee Mr. CASSIDY mace
speech IN opposition 20 negro suffrage An amendments
giving tho tight to vote was lost by vote Of 70
to ST. and there being no quorum present. the 0onvea
ton adjourned.
man in Trenton recently invested dollar in what
correspondent In New York assured him were excel.
lent countsrfes the national banks They passed 40
well that determined 70 make . fortune be invested
sixty dollars with the correspondent for another
supply OF bogus bills but has not heard from him
The Inference being that lac was grossly swinded he
has placed the matter in tho hands OF the police.
Tho reported massacre Of Bishop Iamy and a party
OF ten priests near Fort Larued by the Indians, is
untrue, they having arrived at Fort Dodge two days
later than tho date Of the former despatch 1t Is said
TO be the intention Of the President to give immediate
effect to the Law laoly passed 10 establish peace With the
Indiana
Brevet Major General Csrn has made an Official re-
port Of his investigation OF the riot at franklin
In conclusion he says Is perfectly safe TO eave the
General Grant quietly shifted his quarters from Fort
Columbus 0ovcrnors Island yesterday 10 Long Branch
No display whatever was made. He was accompanied
by Generals BuiterAeid and Porter hop will be gtyen
in his honor on Thursday egcnng
Our files from bermuda dated 70 the 9th of July.
but the news Is unmportaat.
for the repose OF Maximilisn's soul was per-
formed in Mobile on Friday afternoon.
An arsenic manufacturer 10 Boston died yesterday
from the continuous infusion OF the poison into his sys
TEN during his long employment in manufacturing it,
Repubiicaa MOvements South-Oniy Ono
Course for tho SOathern People.
We published yesterday a circular from the
Republican Executive Committee Of Congress
which shows remarkable degree of zeal, ac-
tivity and success on the part of said commit
tee in behalf of the republican party in all the
ten States Of the five Southern military districts.
The committee has the names of twenty thou
sand loyal persons in the South to whom doc
uments are regularly sent. and the list is being
daily augmented The committees correspond
ence is very extensive, hundreds ofletters being
received weekly from all parts Of the South,
1t has republican organization and agents
at work in every Southern State; Union
League councils in all are being rapidly
formed. and largely increased number of in
white and cOlOred, could be put
in the field at once, if the committee only had
the funds Hence this circular, in pursuance
ola resolution of late republican Congress
sional caucus, pledging the members on their
return home to use their best personal efforts
to the work OF raising money for the use of this
committee.
We have heretofore detailed the numerous
powerful agencies and instrumentalities
through which, within few months, the re-
publicans have organized party movement in
each OF the ten unreconstructed States, which,
from all the facts disclosed, and all the signs of
the times, promises to carry everything before
it, We have in this Congressional committee
only the central directory through which all
these agencies and their operations are carried
on. But how has this vantage ground been so
rapidly and extensively gaineds 1t has been
gained by the republicans through the folly of
the great body of the Southern whites of old
democratic proclivities, in listening to and in
adopting the foolish State rights counsels OF
Northern copperhead politicians. These per-
nicious politicians had much to do in leading
the South into the path of rebellion, and during
the war and since the war their good offices as
peace makers have brought only disappoint-
ments and disasters upon themselves and their
followers.
The constitutional amendment which was
first offered by Congress as Q basis of Southern
restoration would have answered for all the
other rebel States as we'll as for Tennessee,
had they only availed themselves, like Tennes-
see, of the easy conditions thus laid down.
Unfortunately, however, under the encourage
ment Of President Johnson and the copper
head leaders and organs of the North, all the
ten remaining rebel States, from Virginia to
Texas, Indignantly and defantly secuted what
they called these usurpations by Congress
of the constitutional rights of the States
and the people. The people directly
concerned, who ought to have known
better, stupidity consented to follow those
bowling dervishes for the constitution whose
broad and dusty high road is the road to ruin.
Thus, with the indignant rejection of the first
conditions emanating from Congress by the
ten excluded States, the two houses in the
exercise Of their lawful authority, proceeded
to impose the more stringent and astonishing
terms Of their Reconstruction bill, placing
these ten incorrigible States under military
supervision and under programme of State
reorganization, embracing universal negro
suffrage-a perfectly appalling innovation and
revolution from the old bred Scott discipline.
This was a severe ordeal; but as the rightful
authority over this business belonged to Con-
sress, and as Congress had manifsstly resolved
at last that there should be no more triiing
with the refractory States wrested from the
foreign government Of JET Davis, the only
course Of sense and safety to those States was
a oracafl and nromnt nomnlianca with the