The New York Herald Newspaper, April 24, 1863, Page 4

| ty-first streets to the North river bulkhead N EW YORK HERA LD. | hg “’ report was submitted against amending the constitution so as to permit soldiers to vote by proxy. A resolution of thanks to the President of the Senate—Lieutenant Governor Jonos—was | unanimously adopted. JARs CONDON HEVVETT, MTOR AND PROPRUELOR | OFPH® Ww. © hates OF WeLFON ano NateAe ST | ~The Assembly passed @ number of bills. Among | them was the Hudson and Harlem Rivers Canal Volusme 2A¥ Ne. 18% | Company incorporation bill. The Annual ‘ax bill, which had previously passed, was, by request of the Mouse, returned by the Governor, when the vuhen clause requiring county treasurers to deliver up all 7 | moneys in their possession ata certain time was etricken out, and the bill again passea. The con- | ference comunittee’s report on the New York City some Bowstem | vax Levy was presented, concurred in, andthe bill passed. The Senate Gold bill did not pass. It ia theaght that the Assembly will not pass any bill wy | preventing the loaning of par on gold. A confe- A. FF 4--} 2. ants ~ hw » } renee committee has the matter in hand. The | Mititia and Public Defence bills were passed. Tho ano MAIPEN—Son00LMAstER—Fi vine Dutommss. } investigation before a police justice relative to . | alleged legislative corruptions was continued yes- Bi ny Re ng og ty gy | | terday; but, asthe proceedings were conducted ¥ —DAne Crorp—Youna Ammaica, Alveravem amd | in private, little is known of what transpired. BRYANTS’ MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. way, Ata meeting of the Board of Councilmen yes- terday, a message was received from the Mayor, giving his réusons for signing the resolutions al- lowing the Harlem Railroad Company to run their present, the message was not read. The Mayor pei States that, in s similar bill, now before the State HOPN CHAPEL, 720 Broadway—MacBvor's Hissam- | Legislature, the interests of the city are totally gs -steuninmgasindi gan: ~ 8 disregarded, while the Corporation grant will af- PAMBRIOAN, THEATRE, Yo G4 Broadway. —Baiszts, | ford » large annual revenue to the city. je Ait CANINES GF Wout, 0 ils About seven o’clock last evening, injunctions Open daiiv from 10.4. M. i119P. B. “= | were served on the foremen of the Broadway rail- ornsa OnE, road commenced by the Harlem Company, and the eons ‘3. Buguvsquns, &c. Brookiyn.—Brasora® | work was therefore suspended. = 0 A petition, signed by the Mayor and most of our influential citizens, isto be presented to Governor Seymour, urging upon him the justice of vetoing the Broadway Railroad bill now before the Legis- é lature. It sete forth that the project will injure The Richmond papers of Wednesday, in thelr | 4. aos teautiful thoroughfare of the city, with- despatches from Port Hudson, confirm the news, | out bestowing any benefit on our already over bur- already announced in these columns, of the attack | thened and heavily taxed citizens, and that it is upon the Queen of the West at Grand Lake by | intended solely to benefit a few favorites of the our gunboats, and the capture of her officers and Legislature. We give the petition in another ‘ column. crew. The Queen, it appears, got aground and Ata special meeting of the Su isora yester- was blown up by a shell from the Calhoun. The | day, the following resolution was unanimously Diana, which was assailed about the same time in | sdopted:—‘‘ Resolved, that the following resolu- the Atchafalaya river by the Union gunboat Clifton, babar aie bedleeabines June 3, ab cosy r omp! ler be authorized an ot to was parsed by the rebels. A despatch from pay to the order of the Commissioners for build- Berwick Bay on the 15th says that there | ing the new City Hall the sum of $40,000, from the was then a Union force beyond Franklin, | moneys raised under the act passed April 9, 1862, Louisiana. and still advancing. The Richmond | © be expended for the prosecution of the work of a 7 ‘ting the new Court House authorized to be Whig atates thata squad of Union cavalry, esti Yate * itructed Boar. mated at fifteen hundred, were advancing on Pon- bre edict cherry on Se dy aoe a Supervisors under the act of April 10, 1861, be, totec, Miasiasippi, on the 19th. Their advance | and the same is hereby, rescinded and repealed.” guard reported there that night, and as the rebels apd Board soon ried adjourned. i convention of the managers of the New York ian *oreniat thems, an engagement | Codteal, Rite, Pempivanie, and North and South Shore lines of railroad, was held at the St. Nicho- The latest from Charleston is to the 18th.\ The | las Hotel yesterday. Resolutions were unanimous- Courier of that date describes an attack by "the | ly adopted, to the effect that the representatives Union gunboat Fiambeau upon the wreck of the ve echt ga eta reared pt i 4 " ore, , St. Keokuk, while some parties of rebels from Morris Louis, Chioagy; and connecting lines beyond those Inlaud were endeavoring to dismantle her. They | cities, be invited to attend ® meeting at the were driven away by the fire of the gunboat. | rican House; Buffalo, on the, 29th instant, for the The Mercury of the 15th states that the guns had | Purpose of considering the subject of paying all been recovered from the Keokuk. fomasleateheupal pausenger Areihs sak ASO yye- posed advance in rates upon emigrant travel. The news from Suffolk and the Nansemond | ° The billiard match between Messrs. Kavanagh river, as contained in the letters of our correspon- | and Goldthwait—carom game, fifteen hundred dents, is highly interesting, although the main | points, for one thousand dollars—was played last facts of importance have been given to our read: | MSht, at Irving Hell, and, resulted in ers before. The action of General Dix and the hi eat mcaage ok Aun Deccan visit of General Halleck are alluded to indetall. | at their mecting yesterday, trahemitted to the ‘There is nothing from General Foster's command, | Medical Beard of Bellevue Hospital s communi- at Washington, N. C. The Wilmington (N. ©.) | Cation, seking if specialities for the treatment of Jonrnat, of the 18th inst., admits, with mortifica- Peeieee nena oe fees ti em, tion, that General Hill has abandoned the siege of ber of inmates in the thefttntiaas wh yreeens ‘6 Washington, and that the expedition has turned | 6,580—a decrease of 97 fer the week. The num- out a failure. ber admitted was 1,523, and the number discharg- ‘The news from the Southwest is interesting. pose tine weeks ba iopea A despatch from Memphis via Cairo to St. Louis the murder of Sigismund AF ogg oo Kings yesterday, says the rebel batteries at Warrenton, | County Oyer and Terminer, was concluded yester- below Vicksburg, were destroyed by our gunboats, | 4ay. Counsel for the accused called the attention and that the fleet was lying off Carthage, on the of the Coart to the law in relation to the death pe- 11th. General Grant had then his headquarters nalty, and contended that in this case, wore the prisoner convicted, it would be inoperative. He there. Steamers are reported to be running from claimed that, whatever the offence, there was no Warrenton to Young’s Point. The same despatch | Punishment under the Jaw of 1861. He also raised states that five transports ran the blockade up the | * question of jurisdiction, holding that there y ; ‘was no proof whatever that the murder was com- 700 river, and are now above Haines’ Bluff. —_ | mitted in Kinga county. The Court said it was With regard to movements in the West, the in- | premature te raise these questions before the evi- formation comes from the Atlanta, Georgia, pa- | dence for the defence was taken. The defence in- pers of the 17th, that Gen. Rosecrans is receiving | timated that they had no witnesses, and requested rds from Gen. Grant, and that » great delay until this morning, which, after some further observations, was granted by the Court. battlé th Tennessee will come off within the next | In the Court of General > yesterday, be- sixty days. 7 fore Recorder Hoffman, Ellen Garrigan was tried Tho #pbels are showing themselves with some | ©D 4m indictment for arson in the third degree, activity in Missouri. They appeared, several os taney chem awe, sic wae ia biked thousaed strong, near Pilot Knob;'bat Gemeral | avenues on the 5th of March last. ‘The jury, after McNeitwas moving on them from Bloomfield, and | a short absence, rendered a verdict of not guilty, @ strong force of cavalry was advancing from | Goorge Heath pleaded guilty to an indictment for Rolla in their rear. burglary in the third degree, for stealing a quan- Admiral Wilkes appears to have turned ap in aiah hth on 23d ult. He was sentenced to the State prison for the Bahamas on the 16th inst., having left Havana | two years. on the Lith. In his despatches from the former | The excitement of the day yesterday, in Wall street, fl was on Harlem, which fluctuated actively between 59 place he makes no allusion to any arrest or parole and 72}, closing at 70%. Gold was also active in the at Havana as reported. afternoon, selling up to 151 and closing at 150. Fxohango The rebel privateers are ,prowling about the | ¥#* 0 demand at 164 at the close. Thestock market Went India islands. generally was better, and closed strong. Money was of fered at four per cent, without finding takers. The Austrian bark Constantino, Capt. Mandech, The rise in gold yesterday had the effect of increasing from Newport, Wales, which arrived at this port ps. several kinds of merchandise. Flour was yesterday morning, reporta that on March 25, reitet wea eetsspnnserca ga ‘ also, most descriptions of hog products, as well as hay, when off the Western Islands, was boarded by the | sugar, molasses and Rio coffee, at rather better prices. Confederate privateer Florida, and received from ber tt bee er in the market for cotton, the her the steward of the schooner Aldebaron, and petal cee gt Bc: grid cheese, oils, hemp, metals, wool aad whiskey were spar. two seamen of the ship Star of Peace, burned by | ingly inquired for. The freight market was depressed, her at sea. pron partly to the sharp competition of the screw The British schooner Garabaldi, from Gonaives, ot NG ge roports having seen a steamer, supposed to be the da tale te new ocr reach Alabama, cruising about Hayti on the 4th inst. | tivity of the government in connection with ‘Tho bark Sea Ranger, at Providence, reports that | our foreign relations, as evidenced by the ashe saw the same pirate on the 28th ult. in latitude | sending to Europe on business for the different 7N., longitude 33.W., and that she escaped by | departments such men as W. H. Aspinwall, showing the colors of the city of Hamburg. Robert B. Forbes, of Boston; Robert J. Walker THE LEGISLATURE. and others. Some of these gentlemen have al- ‘The members of the Legislature, being anxious ready started on their missions, whilst the others to reach « final adjournmént, are daily transacting | ST Preparing te follow. Wehave received from alarge amount of business, It is expected that | Washington @ fresh addition to the list, in the the session will close to-day or to-morrow. Inthe | person of William M. Evarts, of our city. Senate yesterday some time was spent over the | This gentleman, whose long and intimate re- Broadway Railroad bill, and finally all the Assem- | lations with Mr. Seward, ae well as hie known bly's amendments were concugred in, except that | ability, have no doubt pointed him out fer which merely grants the road as a franchise to the | the post, has departed on a mission for mit wip cpp tess agg —wapensad: — hice the State Department, Now that the State, the ing om a6 a COI . Treasu pealing the grant clause in the Harlem Railroad uy. and the Navy departments are about ~ to be so efficiently represented abroad, we trust charter was agreed to. Final action on the bill wes wot reached, The Conference Com that the War Department will take pains to be mitteo’s report on the city tax levy was | ® little more successful in ite foreign arrange- not acted on. Included in the large number of | ments than it has been in the case of the French bills which passed were that appropriating $500,- general whose rejection of its offers is noticed 000 to arm and equip the State militia and the one | under our telegraphic head. incorporati Hudson and Harlem Ri a aaa Company. “Sat aaah Wet eae ch te Tue Stearrer or Our Gexfrata Ovrpoxe— ‘Acroms Town Rajiroad bill and the bill for extend- | By the engineers of the Common Council on fag the strecta of thie ohty between Fourteenth and | the Broadway Railroad. AUSRN ED 8 TH enna | BIBLOR V6RDER. Pomme we. 48" WaLACk’s THERATAE. ievetwar.—MY None Son Low WINTER GARDED Beate er.—l ye Bane S THEATRE, Beoadwar —Coucmen Baiecmcon BOWEBY THEATRE. Satan mw Panm—Sar sce MINSTRELS Necheoloe’ Hall, 2 Broad. ian Soxcs, Bueasgors. Dances £0.—BiscK IRVING HALL, Irving place.—Conmecia Disouzr's Ooncunr. New York, Friday, April 24, 1863. THE SITUATION. NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1863. | ho) Karolmeut of Negro Soi dierge-Oitor Putility of the Idea. We perceive by tho letters of our cor- | respondents in Louisiana that Adjutant Gene- val Thomas has recently arrived out West, ostensibly to look after the welfare of the army, but really to undertake the serious business of organizing megro regiments and brigades for the federal service. Asan ini- tiatory step in this direction, we are told that four regiments are already in formation at Lake Providence, and that in ether places officers were recruiting “with some degree of success.” We think it is high time that the government should look into this abeurd and dangerous mat- ter. It is nothing but an absolute waste of time and money to attempt anything 60 Quixotic as the formation of negro military forces. In the first place, there is no necessity whatever for such guxiliaries; and in the next, the idea can never be carried out to any practical result. So far as the experiment has been tried it bas not only ended in lamentable failure, but it ‘has brought about eome of the most deplorable disasters of the war. For two years past our dis- orgenizing and bloodthirsty. abolitionists have been incessantly prating about the invincibility failure, If our i, Florida, South Carolina, Louisiana and other places had always confined themselves to the care and discipline of the regular white army, and had left the foolish illusion of negro regi- ments alone, we should certainly have had fewer reverses and more victories to reeord. The failure of the late attack upon Charleston is principally to be attributed to the extraordi- nary notions of our generals on the negro question. ‘Instead of looking boldly at the difficulties attendant on military operations against that almost impregnable rebel city, General Hunter spent nearly all his time drum- ming up negro recruite for regiments which never had and never will have any positive ex- istence. Everywhere else where the same scheme has been put in operation it has miser- ably failed. With an army of trained white soldiers in the field more than sufficient to overrun the whole South, we go on from day to day procrastinating and disputing about the organization of s handful of poor negroes, who, instead of being useful, would be a pasi- tive obstacle to the progress of our arms. If we had not.soldiers enough to fight our battles there would be some excuse for this fanatical delusion; but with a magnificent army in the field—such an army as the world has never be- fore seen—and with millions yet ready and willing to fill the places of those who may fall in battle, it is worse than ridiculous to talk of arming ignorant negro slaves, who have neither inclination nor intelligence for so important a work. The duty which rests upon our government and army is to defeat the rebel forces in the field, as the surest, and, in fact, the only means of crushing the rebellion. It is not their interest bor their duty to interfere with the established laws of labor in the States in which they hap- pen to come. With this we have nothing to do. ‘The President’s proclamation of general eman- Cipation has had no effect upon these immuta- ble laws, and it is idle to suppese that the enrolment of s few negro regiments effect such @ kinds of labor i of property, of gravitation itself, as to etrike at the foundation of the laws that regulate labor. superior have been cared for and kindly guarded in sick- ness and in health; and, though there have been some instances in which brutal owners have breught odium on the patriarchal relations of master and servant, in the majority of cases the negro has been largely benefited. Any inter- ference on our part with this long established system of Southern labor can only bring disas- ter to ourselves, and more misery and wretched- ness to the unfortunate slaves than they have ever dreamt of in their masters’ service. Let the government, therefore, set ite face firmly against the further organization of negro regiments, and let our generals and other off- cers turn their attention to the solemn duties now resting upon them—to defeat the rebels and scatter their armies. We know that with the gradual advance of the federal army large Bumbers of negroes will be throwa upon their hands; but these people can be serviceably em- ployed in a variety of ways—on the trenches, in erecting fortifications, in ploughing up the fields for cultivation, and in ministering to the many other wants of the advancing army. Let their services be “employed in any way; but to enrol them as soldiers is to demoralize the regular army and to increase the difficulties we would avoid. When the rebellion is over; when the rebel armies are destroyed, if it must be so; when peace returns to the land, and the calm, sober second thought of the people shall take the place of the dreadful passions now. agitat- ing North and South, then the States themselves can coolly take up the question of labor, and discuss and decide it; for there is no power out of the independent States to pass upon it. Recatesexess or Stace Dnivers.—On Wed- nesday last, between twelve and one o’clock in the afternoon, as a boy of some thirteen years of age was crossing Whitehall street, in the vicinity of the South ferry, he was suddenly struck by the front wheel of a downward Broadway stage and knocked senseless to the pavement. The unfortunate child was soon taken up by seme bumane persons present ead Dorne into the nearest drug store. Kvery effort was used for his restoration; but, after faintly geeping once or twice, he expired. This is o fatal exemplifieation of the necessity for proper conductors on these Broadway stages. We have repeatedly drawn attention to this mat- ter, and yet notbing bas been done to improve the system. As things are at present regulated, there is no safety whatever for hhman life on that great thoroughfare. Not » week pases but we bear of falls, bruises, «prains and every other kind of accident, resulting {: 7 the negli gence of stage drivers, and now the let of casualties has culminated in the instant death of a promising boy. It is to be hoped that the Coroner's jury will look well to this matter, so | that some proper remedy may be applied to | Prevent ene d -asters for the future. Awormen Great Vicrony The great Broad- way Railroad victory over George Law. ‘Tua Bapspwhy RaiLuoan Resonvtion Sraneo oy Tae Mavor—Lncxmasep Exorrexar. --Much of the doubt cxisting inthe pablic mind as to te legality of the action of the Common Coun- cil in granting to the Harlem Railroad Com- pany the right to extend their track into Broad- way has been dispelled by the fact of the Mayor's having yesterday confirmed that action by his eignature. It is fair to assume that Mayor Opdyke would not have signed the reso- lution without being first convinced of its le- gality. And it is generally understood that the right to make such a grant is retained to the Corporation by the last clause of the act of January 30, 1860, which eays:—“ Nor shail it (meaning that law) be held to impair in any mauner any valid grant for or relating to any railroad in said city existing on the Ist day of January, 1860.” Now, one of the conditions on which the Harlem Company wes allowed to ran ite cars to the Astor was that it clausé of the act ef January 30, 1860. It is obvious that this {s the pivotal point on which the whole thing turns, and it will be for the courts, if the matter is brought before them, to declare the true interpretation of the law. In the meantime the action of the Mayor in giving completencas to that of the Common Council bas intensified the excitement in the city growing out of the matter, and there was terrible commotion among the bulls and bears in Wall street all day yesterday, fighting over the Harlem Railroad stock, which re- ceived a new impetus after the resolution was signed. The schemers st Albany have had the wind completely taken out of their sails, and the large consideration which, no doubt, was to have been paid to the legislators there for their favorable action melts into thin air. The coup d'etat of the City Hall demolishes them. Their defeat and disappointment may lead to curious disclosures as to the mode of procuring legislation at Albany and New York; and if there be litigation, as is now quite proba- ble, we may look for strange developments: We understand that property holders in Brooklyn are particularly jubilant ovér the Haar realization of their favorite measure—a Broadway Railroad. No matter who loses, they win. And slveady the civic authorities there have gone to work cleaning up the main ave- uues of traffic, in thd of enticing over a large emigration from this city by the prospect of cheap rents, clean streets and an easy access to places of business and pleasure in New York. We are glad that anything has occurred that will have the effect of purifying the City of Churches, and if it derives that and other ad- vantages from the establishment of a Broadway Railroad it is quite weloome to them. If it will inaugurate an era of clean streets in both cities it will be an uddifional recommendation to it. The Harlem Railroad Company actually en- tered upon the performance of its engagement yesterday, by laying a small pertion of the track in Broadway between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets. About seven o’clock last evening, however, an injunction was served upon the foremen having charge of the work, fand operations were accordingly stopped for Tas Caprors or Tar Warrenton Batrery— A Footaoip Acamsr Vicssscra.—The destruc- tion by our gunboats of the rebel battery at Warrenton, some ten miles below Vicksburg, andon the same range of bluffs, gives to our ‘forces. foothold on the south fank of Vicks- burg itself, which, together with Gen. Grant’s cleaning out of all the supplies in the country on the north side, will, we suspect, soon bring about another grand rebel evacuation. In fact, the greatest danger now to be appre- hended at both Vicksburg and Port Hudson is that the rebels will act upon the decision that it is better now to abandon those places and save what they can than to sacrifice their can- non and gunpowder in a useless defence. The occupation of the Mississippi between Vicksburg and Port Hudson by a powérful Union gunboat squadron, in cutting off the communications of those two places with their late supplies of subsistence in Western Louisi- ana aod Texas, renders both Vicksburg and Port Hudson of very little further value to the enemy. The special object for which their heavy fortifications were erected has been de- feated. All the rebellious States west of the Mississippi are now completely severéd from their confederates on the eastern side of the river. At one time, the capture of the ram Queen of the West and the Indianola by the enemy, and the prospect of these operating, together with two or three other gunboats of their own contrivance, below Vicksburg, made the case look somewhat alarming; but now, with the ram blown up, and with the Indianola buried in the mud of the Mississippi, the small craft and other defences of the rebels on the Red river must be abandoned and destroyed, or they will surely be captured. The game is so manifestly in the bands of Grant and Porter, Banks and the brave old salamander Farragut, that we dare say they will capture Vicksburg and Port Hudson with- out much further strategy er expenditure of gunpowder. The most serious thing to be feared is that the cunning enemy will move off in time, as usual when the chances are decidedly against them, in season to save their artillery and ammunition and other materials of war. We hope, however, that our officers concerned, land and naval, will so shape their movements as to make Vicksburg and Port Hudson each s substantial victory, like that of Island No. 10, instead of s worthless prize, like that of Corinth. Tas News vrom Muxico.—It is evident the Freneh have gained no advantages in Mexico, i news was from Vera Crus, one on the 11th. It is easily understood that party to hide their achievements, and hence we mar reanonably iefer that the muocenena were on the side of the Mexicans. We shall hear of them, no doubt, in duo time. Geynest Wise Aca Unnux & Oxeov.—The fiery, fussy and irrepressible General Henry A. Wise has several times heretofore been under disgrace for his blunders and failures as a rebel military leader. He was chased out of Western Virginia, and turned upon his coufederate, Gen. Floyd; and, by way of eveo handed justico, the one was sent off by Jeff. Davis into North Carolina and the other inte Tennessee, Next, Wise ran away from Roanoke Igland and lloyd from Fort Donelson, and beth were under a cloud again for some time. But, to give Wise another chance, he was lately sent against Williamsburg, and, failing there at Fort Magru- der, he bas again been superseded. And ao we shall probably not hear of General Wise again till the end of the war. He is a great spouter, but @ poor fighter. Gewmrat MoCLELLAN. ayo THE ConoREssion- 4L Report on tas Conpvor or tas War.— We have received’ two of the three parts compriging the report of the Joint Committee of Congreason the Conduct of the War, and these two parts auntber one thousand two hun- 1. embraces the Army of the Potomac; Part IL, Bull run and Ball’s Bluff; Part I1., the West- ero Department of Missouri. The first part contains the testimony of General McClellan complete. It gives a full history of his career fn connection with the Ariny of the Potomac. We shall endeavor to find room for the evi- dence to-morrow. NEWS FROM HOOKER’S ARMY. Heapquarrens, Army or rum Poromad, April 23, 1863. Major General Fogliardi, who for some time past has been in quest of General Hooker, left for Washington to-day. Auotber Rortheaster set in this morning, and it has deaf raining Dearly ali day. The roads, partioulariy in the low grounds, are in a horrid condition. ~~ Be: Adil is quiet. Cases of Disioyalty in New Jersey. Tamron, B. J., April 98, 1863, Tho United States District Court is now in session in this city. The Grand Jury have been in session for the last two days, and have adjourned until Wednesday next. The in- vestigation of coriain charges of didloyalty which have ‘been m: various times against individuals isa part of their business. Patrick Brophy, charged with robbing the mails at Joteby City, confessed the crime to-day, and was sen- fenced to the State Prison for ten years. The National Bank Act. Sampvspr, Ohio, April 23, 1863. Moss Bros., bankers in this city, havo filed the neces- sary papers for a bank under the national act. They are to start with a capital of $100,000, with the privilege of tncreasing it to $200,000. Gevernment Contracts. Battmors, April 23, 1863. Tho following government contracts were made to- day:—H. B. Coggeshall, 100,000 pounds of sugar, at 12,49c.: A. H. Covert, of Chicago, 500 bbis. mew extra mess pork, at $14 68. Theatrical. WINTER GARDEN. Miss Lucille Western takes her farowell benefit at this theatre this evening. ‘Lucretia Borgia’ and ‘Don Cxsar de Bazan’’ will be porforméd. Miss Western will play Lucretia and Don Casar. OLD Bowser. Miss Fasny Herring takes a benefit this evening, ap- peariog in ‘‘eatan in Paris,” ‘The Savage and Maiden’ and “The Flying Dutchman.” Miss Herring is a very Vorsatile actress, equally at home in melo drama, bur- leaque and farce, aad is deservedly an immense favorite. Mr. @. L. Fox plays Criquet, the clown, in ‘‘The School- mastor,” and Manager Crumm! . (omimist. WALLACK’S. ‘The programme which drew the largest house of the Beason at tho benefit of Mr. Moss, last week, was repeated at this theatre last evening. ‘‘The Follies of a Night’? was capitally acted and heartily applauded, Mrs. Hoey, ‘Mr. Lester Wallack, Mr. John Gilbert and Mr. Charles Pisber dividing the honors. ‘Sweethearts and Wives,’’ having been somewhat abbreviated, rattled off admira- bly. Mise Madeline Henriques and Mr. Young sang their songs neatly. Mrs. Seiton and Mr. Mark Smith were no- tiosabiy good. a Terrific Tornado im Illinois. Cuicaco, April 28, 1868. in the vicinity of Cy 4 vi A Verrific tornado occurred county on Saturday last. it fences their yard, at the foot of Tenth strest, Fast river, the longest steamboat in the world. She has been known as the Dictator, and was built for the New Jersoy Steamboat Company A large concourse of people were gathered to see the Jaunch, apd at about twenty minutes before two o'clock the vessel began to move slowly down the ways, finally Ey vemel wi New az i z F i | ! il ; Hite if? | i i ii z i i i I i i : i a | a tf i i ? ii i H is dl ii | i i a br tatty Pimmer ant into ure, Mise Lameden. Mr Fi dy a Dr and t ren, Race fas a low, Hj two % (MPORTANT FROM ALBANY. Preparations for ‘Cause of ime Deimy of the Bax Levy— Presentation of a Watch to the Clerk of the Senate=-The Gold Bill and Tai Levy im a Committee of Comterence= Passage of the County Treasurer's Bilt as an Amendment (to the State Tax Bul-Parting Sotial Gathering at Se. mator Pruyn's Howse, &o., &c. Avnany, Apri! 23, 1663. Evorything this morning indicates an carly adjours- meat. Mombors are preparing to take their departure aa soon a3 possible, and there is an ovidout dotormipatéion 0D the part of a large number of the members to adjoure to-day; but they will not be ablo to accomplish it before a very late hour (o-nieht, if they do at all. There has been considerable anxicty im re- gard to tho delay of the tax levy by the committee of the House, Tho items wore all agreed upon by the commitice on last Monday morning, and it was supposed that it would be reported forthwith; but somehow or other it was not reported. Evory pos- sible effort was made to get it reported, or © aacerteta what caused tho delay, but to ao avail unti yosterday, It was thon ascertained that the democratic members om that Comptroller Brennan -was a Fernando Wood maa, pd that Woed had some scheme ‘in the bill,and they ‘were studying every trem to seo what nigger there was to the bill for Wood's beneflt. It was impossible to convinces the gentlemen that thore was not something covered op especially for Wood, until Comptrolier Brennan went be- fore the members and showed that his political course had to Wood, and oe b mppmngncnarernginny “ory! submitted tax levy, it was reported, and immediately Diy. ‘This Is @ good commentary ou Wood's standa- with the democratic party out of the city of New York. Senators to Mr. Terwilliger, the Ca watch, made by one of the wet nyse oe to the Senators : iH eft flr ei is il g A ES 5 z 3 OK: cilement, and an effort will be made to pass by for the Governor to return it. ‘ The Senate took a recess to-day at one o'clock, to partl- je in a social affair at the residence of Senator Pruya, who dag everything sag SSE roe repel tion. Tad Govornee a § were tad sve eats al dclicantes of, the time, and in the parting toasts and a the elowe of the session. It was ene of those ater ings which sweeten the triais of public life,whou san feelings are iaid one side,and man appears in capacity of a friend and bor, agreeing to that noting shall mar the happiness of all. The Broadway Ralirosd Bill in the Senate—Arming the Militia—The City Tax Levy—Progress om the Cross-Towm Ff 4 passage of the rer pay over time their collection Tax bill. A and after a to returm the b to the County Peksed and sent to ney pees Tially modityiog” Senate sdjourned upon the report. The Cross-Town + | day. The ings. Rumor baa it Prmletgn pron ton gy: ps tdyegtirete Wy) Md pleasure of receiving @ call in the from an cial gentieman with a paper in his hat. may may not take piace to-morrow. One thing ts certain, absoat themselves, ! SEW YORK LEGISLATURB. Senate. Ataawy, Aprit 28, 1008. ILLS PaseeD. For the continuation of the proceedings suspended the death of Thomas Carnley, Inte Sheriff of New York. Incorporating the Market Savings Bank, New York. For the preservation of the wood lands im Saieiit *"inedtporating the Hudson and Harlem Rivers Canal Coai- Pani all the canal claims and cana) bridges bills ordered to a third reading yesterday, The \mambly's: amnendnsents to the New York Tax bill curred tn. The bill extending streets in New York from West Fourteenth street to Thirty-Qrst street was ordered to a third reading. EVENING SESSION, The report of the Conference Committee on the “old jud, te’* item, $80,000, and the ‘old item. $46,005. was agreed to by both Dill were concurred in, except ‘Sec onee ene oe bill of its te character, which amendment was lost by a vote of 16 10 15, A motion $0: reconsider wae The clause & portion of the charter of the pi he Te Ga rte of a Commissioner of La- repeae s Sram ee The bil recive to arrears of taxes is New York wan co" Acoombly. Avaas, April 28, 106s. ‘To amend the est relative to savings Danis i