The New York Herald Newspaper, April 16, 1864, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. Commitics of the Whole, The Raliroad ported favorably on the Assembly bill tartffon the Hudson River Raitroad. A bill was eres treight JAMES GORDON BESNETS introduced to incorporate the Manhattan and Long Island Improvement Company. Io tho Assembly the Printing Comufittes reported against printing extra copies of the majority report from the Bank Committee against the bill to enable che Stave banks to reorganize under the National Banking acti alleging that the latter document te obaracterized by semi disloyal sentiments and, uncalled for attacks on feo. retary Chase. This report was adopted by the House, which also decided against printing any copics of the majority report of the Bank Committeo, by 42 to 62 votes. Reports were also made from com mittoes of the bills amending the act establishing the Board of Commissioners of Charities and Correction, for ‘ public market in Brooklyn, authorizing the Scoond Avenue Railroad Company to extend their track, to incor porate the National Savings Bank, authorizing additional bonds, to the amount of eight hundred thousand dollars, to continue the construction of our new Court House, to amend the charter of the Hudson aod Harlem Rivers Canal Company, relative to the more complete inspection of building ip this olty, and to autborize the expenditure by our Corporation of two hundred thousand dollars to build a reservoir and eupply the uppor eod of Manhattan Island with Croton water. ‘The delegation from the Taxpayers’ Association of (his city had another hearing yosterday before the Committee on Cities. The use of the Assembly Chamber was grautod for the occasion, the Assembly taking a recess for the Purpose of affording this favor, and also to enable such ‘of the members as desired to listen to the arguments. Judge Kdmonds spoke in bebalf of tho texpayers, and was replied to by Mr. Purser. At the gonclustou of tho addresses it was announced by (ue chairman of the committer (hat all their sessions hereafter would be executive oaes MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. A terrible age!dent ocourred on board of the United States gunboat Cheningo yesterday. While going down tho by she exploded her port boiler, killing several and scalding about thirty persons, Some of them will probably die of thelr injuries. Up to the time of going to press it was impossible to obtain a list of the injured. ‘The rush for gold certificates yesterday at the Sub Troasury was larger than ever, and the dodge of seit. ing chances was revived, to the greac “proat of certain worthies, who received at the rate of from twenty to one hundred doilara for their places in the quone Of eager ap- plicants. Some of the applicants were noticed with bundies of greaabacks a foot high. Some arraupcmenis ougut to be made whereby tne issuing of certificates conid be transacted in a more expeditious manner. ‘The interest inthe Yair seems to have siffered no abatement, The attendance yesterday was as large as ever, and the recoipte amounted to neariy thirty five thousand dollars, It is estimated that the total receipts thus far exceed six hundred thousand dollars. ‘The schooner J. W. Webster, Captain Slake, from Port Roya!,S. C., bound to New York, went ashore on Long Peach, New Jersey, on the morning of the 13th instant ‘The master, his wife and the crew were all safely landed by means of ropes. ‘The trial of James H. Nixon was brought to a clos yesterday, before Judge Barnard, The jury returned a verdict of guilty of mansiaughter in the third degree, In thanking the Grand Jury at the opening of the court, Judge Barnard announced bis intention of causing Horace Greeley to answer a charge of libel on Wednesday voxt. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday, City Judge A.D. Russel sentenced Daniel Brooks, the colored man, who had been convicted of mansiaughter in the third degree, on au indictment charging him with the homicide of William Smith, a barkeeper, on the 2d of February last, to the State Prison for four years. Louis Andres sen, wbo had pleaded guilty of receiving stolen goods, was sent to the State Prison for two years, and Louis Sasa received a similar seotence, on a pien of guilty of EDTHOR AND PROPRIETOR CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAy S73. ANUBBMENTS THIS EVENING. Inving Place Travian Orerse ACADEMY OF MUS”, ue Dian Matisec as One o'Clock- Afternoon Cin East RIBLO’ red eo any can anine ann Peravcso. ta Bventug—Inox Onvst—K WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadwar.—Rosepaie WINTBR GARDEN, Broadway.—Menks—Hoxevacos, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. Oc Wire—Lora u 6 250"S CATR EATR . Bowery —C: KEW BOWERY THEATRE. y's Carne Srak Srancrno Baxncm—brick avers or L Pou Monper i BOWERY TIRATRE. Bowery—Poxr of Conso's Ova Bsowsian—Siate SFCERT, BARNUM Ss MUSEUM, Broadway.—Two Grawts, Two Minos, Waar Is It, &0. a all Bowne, APRRO ey or sate or Beaviv—Al Sand 7% P.M, BRVANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad. wsy.—Braiorcaw Sones, Dances BuRcesquas, £e—THu Swniovs Fawiny. Woon's MINSTREL WALL, 514 Broadway, —-Eraroriay Sonos, Dances, Ke—GoING 10 Te Vai, COOPER INSTITUTE—On tio By Count Joannes. ae a * ANERIOAN THEATRE, No. 44 Broadway. —Battare, PANTOMIME, BUZLESQUES. de.—FRoutcs oY Coco. HIPPOTITEATRON, Fourtee: Doos xv MONKEYS. ' Afternoon HOPE CHAPEL. 718 Droatway.—Srenvoscoericos on Mrmnor or Universe, D TWENTY -sevENTe STREET CnOst, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Cuntosinies anv Leorurss, trom 9 A. M, till 10 P.M. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Boros, Daxces, BuRLESQuEs, &. street. —PerroRMing Kyvening == Brooklya.—ErwiortaN WITH SUPPLE MENT. New York, Satarday, April 16. 1562. THE The news from Fort Pillow is of a disastrous charac ter, and, if fully true, represents the humanity of the rebel guerillas at a very low standard. The flags of iruce which were twice sent to the fort by Gen. Forrest, demanding a surrender, were refused to be acceded to by Major Booth, when a vigorous attack was made by the rebels, which resulted in the compulsory surrender of the fort at three o’clock on Tuesdsy. Major Booth was Killed, together with several other officers. But the moct lamentable part of the stery remains to be told, and, if it be not exaggerated, is a terrible record against the roving gangs of bravos who infest the whole Southwest, and com:nit almost timitiess depredations apon the Union peo-tc and the troops of the Union wher- ever they fod them at their mercy. Upon taking pos- session of the fort, which bad only a garrison of six hun- @red, tho gueriliae commeuced an indiscriminate batchery, 208 only of the soldiers—biack and white— Dut of the women and chiidren, killing fm ali some four hundred §=persons, mutilatiug the dead, cruelly Dayonoitug the wounded on the field, and shooting some of them in the hospitals. This story may be, and we . grand larceny. The court thea adjourned aut:! Mouday trust it 6, exaggerated, The negroes became utter!y de | oaxr at poe de idlonie! oe moralized fet to the rear, Six guns were captured ‘The Mariposa Mining case, which bas occupied the time of the courts for so many years, still drags its weary length along. in the Supreme Court yesterday, before Judge Peckham, thore was an argument on a motion to compe! Mr. Fisk to give $109,000 bail during the contina- ance of the injunction which he procured against the trustees a few days ago, preventing them from issuing apy more-bonds; while Judge Daly, of the Court of Com- mon Pleas, sitting as a commissioner, was engaged in the examination of Mr. Garrison, whose evidence is intended to be used iv oue of the Calffornia courts. Hardly a week passes but that this tedious care comes up before the courts in some shape or other. The lawyers are making ® nice thing of ic. Tt ts a gold mine for them, sure enough. Jn the cage of Graio v2, Dolan, which bas beed on trial in the Court of Common Pieas for the last three days, the jury brought ina seaied verdict yesterday for the de- ‘The piaintid, it wii! be recoMected, felt into a ‘a front of defendani’s premises, and was in- jured for life, The collaset Cor tue plaiutiff intend appent- ing the case The Sonator ineurance case was continued beers Judge Oarvin, iu the Superior Court, yesterday. The case for defence was opened, and a number of witnesses wero examined for the purpose of showing the upseawortiionss of (ho raft, The tejat wilt be resumed again on Monday. Io the case of the United States against the echoover C. EB. Jay, seized and libelled some five years ago by by the revels and carried off, including two ten-pounder Parrotts aud two twetve-pounder bowitzers. A large emount of siores was destroyed or carried away. It was Fupposed that the attention of the rebels was to evacuate the piace, and more on or towards Memphie. ‘Tho robeis are also reported to have again attacked Pa- Gucab There is no doubt that this force is commanded ‘by Genera! Buford, who,on the 13th instant, demanded she surrender of Fort Halleck, Columbus, and who is waid to nave left that vicinity when his demand was refused. There is, provably, a deeper intent in these movemonts then may at present appear. The Southern papers, it will be remonbered, anuoupced some time ago That the rebel General Murgau was “about to undertake ene of tho boldest expeditions he has ever yet made,’’ wad it is more than probable that the operations at Fort Pillow and Paducah are merc side issues, intended to raw away troops to those placos, while General Morgin attempts to carry out his grand acheme in apother part of the military division of the Missiesippt. The rors I» the vicinity of the Potomac Army were, At noon yesterday, in excell-nt condition, and presented no obstacle to on advance movement. ‘Ths rebel Mosby, | the Vaited States District Attorney pon information fur- at the bead of about five hundred rebel made bis | nisbed at the time by the United States Marshal's of- ape o on Thursday iorving on the Line of tbe | COM, decision wag yesterday rendered by Judge Botts Motion was made to dismiss the libel. Fvidence was given to show the legal characier of (he voyage, and, as no rebutting testimony was given, the libel was dis- missed. Judge Hat! presides im the United States District Court next week, The Court will open at elevon o'clock, when the caleadar will be gone through. Urange and Alexandria Railread, ner Bristoe Station, 80 eudilerly as to take by surprise the patrol for the pro- tection of the road between that place aud Manassas, From twenty (o twenty-five of our soldiers were cap- tared. The rebels went tn the direction of Fredericks. Durg. By decision of court martial, private Wim. 4. Gibney, An @xpe dition went out on Thursday might to Occoquan, | Of the Seventh regiment New York State Volunteers, was fart capinred some prisoners fentenced to b¢ shot at Fort Columbus, Governor's Isiand, between the nours of tev and two o'clock yestarday after- neon, for desertion. A reprieve, however, has been re- cetred (rom Washington, and it ts probable that the pri soner wil! be pardone ‘The stock market was weak yesterday, aad erery share on the list exoept Harlem declined at the frst board from one to five per cent. Almost a panic was created in the m9 ; but a better and more quiet feet. ing was manifested in the afternoon. The gold market ‘was less exeited, and the premium fl! of to seventy. two, but frequently flaciuated between that Ggure and seventy five. Goverpment securities felt the pressure, aud submitted to a decline. The money market was oasy, ‘end the rate of interest fell below seven per cent. ‘The decline in gold bad the effect to unsottie trade yes- | terday, and thore was but litte doing in a business way, excopt ip a few articles. The merchants had but tittle desire to operate ponding the settling down of gold and the settlement of the tariff question. Imported merchan- | die wag very quiet, but mostly nominal. Petroleum was unsettiod. Cotton, groceries, &c., were irregular acd somewhat oominal, The drop in gold carried with it a decline in brendstuits. Flour was 100, a 26c. lower, ‘wheat 8c. abc, dowa, cora and whiskey 2c, a 3¢. cheaper, wh) other commodities were without decided change. Pork was susteined through the efforts of the Westera interest. Lard was a little off and beef firmiy bold. Froights continued depressed, at wersof tom. ® nage rather despondent. s Tut Hox. Bex Woon ov Prorres.—We are almost sorry that we disturbed the tender sen- sibilities of the Hon. Ben Wood upon the aub- ‘The steomer Continental, from New Orleans which ar. rived a this port yesterday, brings news from Alexan- dria, La. General Banks had reached Grand Foore, Alexandria was put ima state of defence against the rebel attacks. ‘The steamer which took Gonera! Banks and staf to Grand Moore, ou ber return was fired into by thirty Guerilias, tweaty-lve mites Lelow Grand Keore, wound ing Major E. C\ford, paymacter, and an engineer On Sunday , the 24 inst., Captain Smith, with thirty. two mea of the Fourveenta New York cavairy, while seonting ear Barrancas, Fla., met a squad of the Sever th Alsbarns (rebel), and e fight ensued. The enewy lost Reartly. Five ave suppored to be killed, and ten or twelve wounded. Terribic poreonstions are anid to be inflicted ov the Bouthort yeopie iv Ale’ who try to evade the con- scription, Hoadreds of men, women and children are ooncented in the swamps, and nombers die of starvation, CONGRESS. ‘the session of the Senw'* yestertay was mainly occu pied tm debate upon Mr. Suerman’s bill to pronibit speca tation in gold. Several amendments were proposed and rejected, and the Sepate adjourned without taking a vote on the proposition. In the House of Neprevoniatives @ bill autboriziog che establishment of an ocean mail steamship service Detwoen the United States ant Brazil was parsed. The Dill authorizes the Poctraaster General to unite with ibe Post OMice Departmont of Brazil in ostabliahing direct | ject of Corporation advertising. He really ‘Sadr Puabeey Wan a at dion ooh ores ees wy | seems to feel deeply about the matter. We ing steaers, iti of aot tenn tata two thousand tons each, of gufticieas nem. | Agined that he bad been a political and peso er to perform twelve rougd trips per annum between 6 patriot and a lottery. manager so long that he United States port north of the Potomac river and io | Wd mo feelings left. In the midst of his tears, Janeiro, touching at #t. Thomas, ia the West Indies, and | however, this eminent patriot blubbers out the at Bahia and Pernambuco, provided that the expense (0) remark that the Herarp cares for nothing bat the Untied Siates shall not exceed §200,000 per annum. Mammon. There the H Ben Wood maki The Postmaster Goveral is wuttorized to advaciiee lor mf Anne farses coomerglsd proposals for such service sixty 4 mistske. We do not care for Mamamon—It is Bewspapers in Washington, Baltimo: Mammon that cares for us, We only care to York and Boston, such contract to go into efeci on of | make the best newspaper to bo found in this or before preyed ur consid si Mss ager avy other country, and to give it to the people money , a i all reat $, oarry the malie, were nso pacced, ‘The joint renstouien | *t@ faie price. If Mammon comes along, like to diapone of the unemployed geoerairy war p od, | MY other spoils politician, and asks to be in- Bome unimportant business was transacted aud ihe Hove , troduced to us, we decline to be troubled with edjourned. bim . if we make money it is in an honest, fia the Stic Sonate yesterdey the bills appropriating ! panes by tee nf oe eee $160,000 for tne extoneton of the Chenungo canni to ibe | PY Advertising. But of this we are certain: wo Paanaylvania tioe, a4 $05,000 for the improvemon! of | 40 NOt make money by swindling the people the Chemplein Canal, wore pawed. These bille heve both | with lottery tiokets or lottery policies, or by seamed the Assembly, A request of the deiegetion from | golting up jobs about the streets, so as to re inedtew York To payers’ Asrociation to be hewrd by the / ceive pay without cleaning them, or by tuen- ing Mozart or Tammony Hall into an auction senate was presooted and Inid on the imble, Tue Sp) 'y ill wae wader Consideration for some time a ihe Low 4 room for the sale of city and county offiges to tho Highest bidders That ts alt to the Sth inst. THE LECISLATURE mitteo of (he Whole, amd war (idally reoowmiiet A | eumborof bills of little Interest were alo cow aint Committee ro | General @ reducing the ment—Significamt Rumors from Wash- NSW YORK BBRALD, SATURDAs; APRM, it the War Depart- ingten. From the day of tho promotion of General Grant to the aotive command of all the armies of the United States we have been apprehen- sive that his greatest embarrasaments in work- ing ont his plans and combinations would be found in Washington. From certain rumors afloat it appears that these apprehensions were well founded; but from the facts communi- cated to us upon the subject, by a careful cor- respondent, we are happy to say that President Lincoln refuses to Interfere, and that General Grant, therefore, remains, and is likely to re- main, the master, even at Washington, of the military situation. For some days past there bad been myste- rious whisperings ia that quarter of a difficulty between the General and the War Office about some question of red tape; and the little breeze of excitement thus created the Tribune yester- day undertook to set at rest by the following statement, to wit:—That “there is the best authority for denying the trath of a rumor car- rent here (in Washington) that General Grant has had trouble with Secretary Stanton respect- ing the movements of troops, and that the Pre- sident had sustained General Grant. It is averred, however, that General Halleck bad been remiss in carrying out General ¢ 1 instructions.” Quite likely ; for his officis correspondence shows that in any movement> conflicting with his peculiar notions he is very apt to be remiss or exceedingly obstinate. But still we prefer the statement of our own correspondent upon this matter, which is sub- stantially this:—That Mr. Stanton had com- plained to General Grant that in ordering the transfer to the front of various detachments of veteran troops garrisoning certain foris, and the substitulion in those forts of new recruits or men from the Invalid corps, the General bad assumed authority which belonged only to the Secretary of War. General Grant con tended that his action in the premises was clearly within his authority as General-in- Chief, and moreover that, having issued the order in question, it could not well be changed. The Secretary appealed to the President, and he, washing his hands of any further responsi- bility as a military leader, wisely decided that, as General Grant had been called by Congiess to take the command of all the armies of the Union, it would be best to let him have his own way. : Such, we presume, was ‘the difficulty and the settlement. We think it altogether probable that General Halleck may have supported the technicality of his brother lawyer, Stanton; and so we leave these iwo Marplots and marti- nets to divide the honors of this affair between them. Its redeeming feature {s the decision of the President. He rightly construes the action of the two houses in reference to General Grant. The vesponsible representatives of the people expect him to be allowed to man- age our armies in the business of this impend- ing campaign with full authority, and with- out restraints or embarrassments from the War Office, or {rom the President himself. Mr. Lin- coln, we are glad to believe, has fesolved so to recoguize the wishes of Congress, and that General Grant shall be supreme and untram- melled in his control over the Union forces, whether in garrison or in the field. This is a point of the first importance gained in behalf of General Grant. We are thns as- sured that he will not be McClellanized by remonstrances, crippling orders or any inter- ferences from the War Office. In this very matter, too, of transferring to tie frent the vete- ran troops doing garrison duty, and ia supply- ing their places from the new levies or the in- valid corps, the intelligent reader will cor- dially recognize the wisdom of Grant, and the stupidity of the War Office in attempting to in- terfere with him. With ail the tenckinge of the numerous disasters and failures resulting from this great mistake of retaining large bodies of veteran troops to bold useless or unimportant places when they are wanted in “the front,” the blunderers of the War Department still ad- here to their folly. We congratulate the coun- try, therefore, that General Grant’s war policy is sustained by the President, and that theirs is rejected. For the last two or three years we bave from time to time urged upon the administration the policy of calling out for six mouths, or for three, forty or fifty thousand of the militia of the loyal States, to garrison the forts around Washington, Baltimore and other places, in order to strengthen the Army of the Potomac by the addition of the forty or fifiy thousand veteran troops that would be thus relieved. General Grant, a# far as possible, without call- ing out the militia, is now pursuing this very course. His object is to crush the main armies of Jeff. Davis, and, first of all, the rebel army of Virginia. which is the lifeeand soul of the rebellion. He is right, and the President is right, in yielding again, as at Vicksburg, to General Grant’s superior military sagacity. Let General Halleck obey orders; let the Secretary of War keep quiet and cheerfally , supply the ways and means; let Congress, hav- ing disposed of Mr. Long and Mr. Harris, do what it ean to strengthen our armies and the Treasury, and let President Lincola continue to trust in General Grant, and as sure as the re- turn of summer will be the suppression of the rebellion before the summor is ended. Tat Massacre at Fort Pittow.—Our news from Fort Pillow is a confirmation of the worst that was feared of the rebel operations there. Forrest seems to have carried the position by storm with an overwhelming force on Tuesday last, and then to bave fiendishly massacred far the larger part of the garrison, both white troops and black. We venture to hope that this news may prove to be exaggerated, as such news so often is, It is difficult to believe that the circumstances of the barbarous transaction have not received an additional color from the excited imaginations of those who escaped to st beg story. Butit is bad evough, at the very east. Thus the war, as far as the South can affect it, has taken one more step in its degeneration towards mere barbarity. Such transactions this at Fort Pillow stain the annals of war only a it is waged by men the lowest in the scale of civilization, and in whom there are none of the better qualities of the human race to temper the fierceness of mere brutal rage. The Chinese and tbe Sepoys bave become the ehosen modele of Southern men. Such affairs as this eoutd not occur without the most culpable negligence on the part of the government. Why isa piace ocoupied at all if it fs not ocoupied by men enough to hold it? The force in this fort was too small to hold it, and too large to be lost in tho attempt, and the sane is proball> teue of evory position tn, For- cnst's way E ‘IMPORTANT FROM ALBANY. Atpany, Aprit 15, 1864. CONTROVERSY OVBR THE BANK COMMITTEH's REPORT. ~Too Committee on Printing made anothor roport this morning upém the reporta made by the majority aud minority of the Committee om Banks, creating no litle excitement im the House. The report of the committee, denouncing the majority report and favoring the minority, started @ breeze, The previous question boing ordered, a vote was forced on the adoption of the report of the Printing Committee, which was concurred in by @ vote of sixty-five to thirty-two, The following is the report: — The Committee on Publio Printing, to whom waa re- ferred a resolution to print extra copies of the minority report trom the Cominittee on banks on the subject of “That wboreas it the opinioar yous commtico, the in| your committeo, eald iene tenaiaaie referred few days since, was obaractorized by the most remarkable and sem!-disloyal Innguage towards the goneral government, and especially towards Secretary Chase; aud whereas, at this peculiar crisis of our coun: try’s history, when more than ever the arm of the gons- ral government needs the support of every loyal citizen in putting down this acoursed rebellion; and whereas, longuage, which ia times of peace might, as a measure, be deemed justifiable, when criticising the evils of the wornment, would ato time Mee this be not only wrong, but criminal; aod whereas, in this respect maabelty report, in tho opinion of your committee, is clearly subject to the charge of disloyalty ; and whefeas, the miuority report from sald Bank Commiites, m: y Mr. Braudroth, of Westchester county, was in the main sound in its principles und con- clusions as regards the views of the propricty and neces- sity of taxing the stocks and bonds of the general goveru- meat and the stocks ef the national banks; apd whereas, the finawcial policy of Mr. Chase was'so clearly dofined in said report; and whereas, the criticism made im said mi- nority report upon the character and effect of the language expressed in the majority report was so cultaentiy truthful and proper, and the censure is justly deserved; aod whereas,+in the opinion of your committee, this Mouse owes it to itself, its dignity and good name, to re- buke, repudiate and wash its hands of aay quasi en- dorsement of that which, by any possible construction, might be deemed disloyal in spirit or in lotger; therefore, Resolved, That there be printed, for the use of the members, officers and reporters of this [iouse, four taou- saud extra coples of said minority report. R. K. CROCKER, LEWIS PALMER. CHARDES STANFORD, THK MAJORITY REVORT, The report of tue Printing Commitiee having been adopted, with the charge of disloyalty upon the republi- can member who signed the majority report, the question of printing the majority report was called from the table, and aspicy debate aroge upon it, Mir, Andrews, the Chair- man of the Bank Committee, spoke in defence of his report, holding that this question of taxing the banks ‘wag gne that the farmers of the State were vitally inte- rested in; for, if the bauks were relieved from taxation, tt would fali upon the estate of the evwuntry, and comp t it to bear the burdens, while the mencyed capi al and the financial corporations are exempted from paying their share of the taxation. Mesers. Redington, Crooke and Brandreth denounced tho majority report as being uot only uvealled for, but un- just. Me. Crooke gaid that he belioved the report was ‘written by the democratic member of the committee, Mr. James B. Murray, of New York. He also looked upon this as the commencement of another contest be. tween the banks and the frreromens, ee that whieh wok place in 1837; and, if he remembered rightly, the name of T. W. Olcott was then, as now, at the nead of the contest on the side of the banks A vote was finally reach. ed, and the report of the Printing Committee t there be printed only as many copies of the majority report as the twelfth joint rule requires, yas votodt down, aud the Speaker anhounced that the’ House decided that there should be no copies printed. [his conclusion of the Speaker—also many other decisions made by him—is as wide of the mark as the east is frou (he west. A joint rule, adopted by both houses, requires that a fixed aum- ber of copiog of all reports of committees shall be printed, and the House cannot provent it uniess that rule is sus pended by a two-thirds yote. Without thai the printer fs obliged to print the report under his contract, and Speaker alvord may file # million of decisions to the contrary, and it will make oo difference as to the real fact. BERORIS OF COMMITTNES. The standing committees of the Assemb!y reported several bii!s to the House. Mang of them were reported complete. Among the number was a bill to reguiaie (he use of wharves and slips iu the city of New York whieh shall be leased to steamship companies; also the Senate Vili to amend ap act entitled an act to incorporate the Hudson and MMarlem Rivers Cana) Compauy, passed May 2, 18@8; also to amend the charter of the New York Wareho:'se and Secuirty Company. THE RAILROAD COMMITTEE reported complete the Senate bill amending the general railroad law, providing that water should be kept in every passenger car, also extending the time for com: ing the railroads from five to seven years; also com- plete the biil to authorize the wse of dummy eveines upon tho railroads of this State, The Senate bill to in- Seen ae National Savings Bank in the city of New York was reported {avorably by the Bank Committee of tbe Assembiy. ha by reported complete the tion of buildings in the city authorizing the Second Avene Railroad to ‘extend its track; also, complote, the bill to improve Severth aye. nue. ‘The Senate bili increasing the Court House stock eight hundred gee dollars wae reported favorably to the House, and referred to unmjttes of she Wolo; also for ihe ey HF Rod } fast Sow Yor id Rockaway Railroad Company. The Senate bill to amend the Brooklyn Park act, and the Sepate vill to authorize the Mayor, Aldermen ‘and Commonalty of the city of New York (o borrow two haadred thousand dollars to extend Croton water and build a reservoir in the city of New York, were both reported favorably and referred back to the committee to report complete, The Croton T Dill 8 to supply the a rend of Manhatiau ‘siana TER ON C17iRA inte bill relative to the tnspec- of New York; also the bill water, Jin ak Gopeon PB RAILROAD. The Assembly bill regulating the freight tari on (he Hudson River Railroad was reported (ayorably this + gaa by & majority of the Senate Committee ou Rail. roads. It reduces the rxte to an enormous amount upon the price charged this winter. Several other vilis were reported by the Senate committees, but uone of a ral importwnce, i WE CARN INGO CANAL dt the Fenate precisely in the same manner that it ed the Assembly, and now only awaits the signature of the Governor to become a law. The Assembly bil! for the improvement of the Champlain Cana) algo passed the Benate without any amendment, and gos with the Cho- nango Caual extension to the Governor (or bis signature TH SCPPLY BILL. The biil providing for the deficioncy in the Appropria tion bill was considered for some time im the Senate (Nie morning, and fins oommitted to the committee, with Jnatructions to amend by striking ont certam® items. A large number of biils were considered in the Com- mitive of the Whole in (hal body, but none of any public importance. EXTENSION mrLr, ‘THM TAXPAYER. The Aseemnb!¥ took a recess at one o’vlouk, for the pur. pose of giving the representatives of the Citizens’ Associ- ation of New Yor® an opportunity to speak before the Assembly Committee on (ities In the Assembiy chatn bor, aud before as many of (he members as migat wish to hear the argunient ‘The same parties who appeared before (he Senate com mittee last night prevented thonsel yer jinmediately npou the Assembly taking the rcoesa, Judge Rdmonds ad d essed the committee vers much fm the same style of argument ac he wed Inst night commencement, alluded (o the the commodities of life, and that if bread went fast as butier they would have to starve: and all this laid to the increase 0’ 4axation. He alluded in his speech to a large number of grievances and complaints in regard to the way that the taxos of the city had been in creased from time to (une, He went over the figures and itemy, and held that the tax levy could be reduved io iar Purest replied (o the statementa of Eamo: ir. Purser r to the st Ju ada, and showed that the revenue which he Yidbeonts) held could be ved to the expenses of the government were by Jaw to the sinking find, and couid not be ‘used for any otber purpose. Mr. lurser also that there was avy offer before the Common Council to clean the stroeis of New York for one hundred thousand do}- 3. that, while be was ready to unit them in the reduction of taxes, he thought that the izens’ Association would do weil to look after the reve. nues of the city, and see if they cond net be increased, and referred to the Excive Commiesioners, who are appointed Court of Cor 0 Pleas, While the license increased almost ity does to several other the speech briefly, when the subject Rony: it to & coclusion, and the committee all their sessions iter should be executiv ¢ Sessions. It is positively denied that the Common Council asked for fi hu thousand dollars for the City Inspector's Office, It is stated that the amount asked for was but three bundred and fifty thousand, In my despateh | he of Judge Hi my in regard to the specoh of Jw OB ton in reply to Joun F. Develin I may have aces en ia jee to Mr. Hilton by not giv: statement in (ull. did not omploying additional legat counsel on part of the city, but objected to the power being Sema adi nap pe jogel, an: aod Mayor shoul have a voice in the matter. rat Hlornce Greeley red in tho. 1obbien ith lors a io wdayw his ‘History of the iovetton eaplaining it sort teylog to gel! ft to the members and outsiders, ‘Tk TAX COMMUMONERE, Tho bill extendi terns of office of the present Tax Commissioners in York came up belore the scu- ate Committes on Cities this evening. Mr. Kutus An- drows a; dagainst the bili, and presented’ throe or four vite in regard to the workings of the officers, ils argumont wi Lo AY! opposition to the rystow of the Logistature in extending the terms of office holders. He contended that it wae . He ‘At much ions of the bill. ry over the entire prov ir. ury argued that if eny bill was passed there should bean impartial commissioner named to appoint the Tax Commissioners, but not to extond their office, Ex. Alderman Mott defended the bill, and held that (he mone that the affidavits cl was levied upon the subdordl- nates in the off was for politioal and party purposes, and no other. He reforrod to the ‘petitions asking for (he passage of tho bill, nignod by mon, a8 ho held, tp pape two hundred million of the taxable property of Now York, amongat whore names were Wm. Peter Cooper, . Anton, ,W. V. Brady, Joha J. ee, Srtis “temp” pores s Cy | 0} 8 Tex laas, and platen’ that tho ouly whether (he petition of those mon, be wiidavits of men four of fi who have been omployed iu the office, should bo rogarded by the committee, Mr. Drowns, & Deputy Tax Commissioner, also urged itd wed was they ey rend by the comm!\ioo, na wen Laon, of Ansom iF. Who appsaced be: the bitis to tnoor; the Passeogor and Oompany in tho city of New York, or, ia other take sevgers to and from the railroad dopota pad and lauding, with their baggage, on the same plan sow operation in all Western cities. ‘THR goLDteRS! VOTING MILL. It is thought by those 1m o on to be pela aa st opponitt vo tbe raoiple direct ‘ever, on 0) ion eo - lors voting, but to tue provisions of the bi Goup ‘Thore were three articles tary of State's office to day: dor tho general mining law, tho aggrogate capi amounts ty eight millions i Idaho Territories, Tho fied sinco the 1st of January for gold and silver mining aggroanle capital of which amounts to the enormous 6um of one hundred million of dollars, Cor cop- per, lead and iron, about fifteen millions, ARRIVAL OF THE CORSICA. ee News from Ngssau—Loss of a Blockade Runner, &. ‘The steamer Corsion, Capt. Le Messutior, from Havana on the 9th, vin Naseauon the Lith inst., arrived here yosterday moruing, She brings ao later aews from tbe first named port. ‘The schoonor Potrel, at Nassau from Charleston, re- ports the loss of the steamor Juno, from Wilmington for Nasaau. She broke in two, and nearly all hands on-board were drowned. The full particulars are thus given ia the Nassau Guardian of the 26th alt — The steamer Helon (formerly Juno) lef Charicaton about halt-past eight P, M. on Wednesday, March 9, for this port. The weather was modorate on starting, but about midnight a stiff breeze 4: up, which ia- a to a galo at noon the next day. The wind waa blowing from south to southwest, Tho vessel was theu in the Gulf Stream. About forty-iive or fifty bales of cotton on deck, besides coal, kc, were thrown ovor- board to lighten ship, and she was put before the gale about four o'clock in the afternoon, She bad previous to this taken in a considerable quantity of water, but this waa pol ‘lout, A fresh leak, however, was slarted in the midship compartment, which extinguished the fires, At six o'clock P.M. the gale had not ubated, and the steamer, which was then under sail, unfortunately parted amidships and sunk in three minutes. Ali hands were on deck at the time, it is feared that many of them went down with ‘Two of the officers (Messrs. W. J. Burke aad J. A. Dont) saved themselves by clinging to a piece of the bridve deck, to gvhich they on from six o'clock in the evening till ten the next morning, when they were [ase up by Gap- tain Mabernicht, of the schooner Petrel, from Charleston, bound also to this port. Some of the crow got } iuto two of the boats, but one of them was capsized by the falling of the smoke stack, and the other was swamped. There were eight officers, including the cap- tam, belonging to the Helen, and twenty-two seamen, &e., besides one stowaway, who, it is feared, all met with a watery grave. Tho bridge on which the two who wore taken on board the Petrol saved themselves was not more than eight feet long by about four (eet wide, aud this parted in the night, and it was with great difiiculty kept togethor again, "8 attention was first directed to the survivors fasting heat » when be tacked them. A report that the British gumboat Cygnet had been fired into by the United States gimboat Rhode Istand, of Abaco, proved to be unfounded. . The steamers Syren and Coquette had arrived from Wilmington, aud the Greyhound, Will-o'-the Wisp Syren nad sailed to run the blookade. Prince Charles Bouaparte, cousin of the Emperor, had arrived at Martinique, ez rovts to Mexico, with 2 ragimeat in whicn he is captain. ‘Vhe Gvardion of the 6th inst. says:— Her Majesiy’s steamer Medea, six, 835 tons, 350 borse power, Coramander D'Arcy S. Preston, arrived from Ber- Touda on Savday ‘ast, to relieve her Majesty's steamer Vesuvins. She experienced very bad weather on the passage. Her Majesty's steamer Shannon, thirty-five, 2,667 tons, 600 horse power, Capiain Oliver J. Jones, arrived from Bermuda this morning. We understand that Vice Admiral Sir James Hope, K, C. B,, our bow naval commander-in cbief, may be ax- pected bere next mont, in the flagship Duncan. The same paper conteins the following paragraph: Wesrehappy to learn that a bas revived at Abaco, between forty aud fifty smail vessels being now p and stood towards engage that occupation, in consequence of iucreased prices Laving been offeres vy Mossrs. Haymana Freres and other merchants. bout haif-past five o'clock V. M. on Monday last 9 pe ra rigged fod paddie steamer pasee near Cherokee Sound, and at sunget she bauled of to exgt uorth. ‘east 2pe Drpt) eee Thore te no truth in fire rumor that the dract bas been postponed until the ist of May, as will be seen frem the foliowing telegraphic despatch from Provost Marsual Pry Wasmixcxon, april 14, 1864, General Wa. Hara—Credits will be “given for both voterans and recruits to iuciude the 15th instant. Be propared to wake the draft i iately thereafter in Sob-districts then deficient; but do not commence it until further orders JAS. B. PRY, tan. PIQTOR Mars 0 the enti for Ove hundred thondaee fbn New York, Brooklyn and Btaten Ieland are in excess of the quota, If tho Tenth district alse there ts an excess of sevouty-six. From the above order of Gencral I'ry it appears that no crodit will be allowed aiter the 16th instant. Movements of Secretary Chase. Secretary Chase, doring the short time he has been ia (his city, tas succeeded in completely baffling every- body's curiosity as to the object of bis visit. A large number of gentiemen cailed at the Fifth Avenue Rotel yosterday for the purpose of seeing him, but we ble to find him. Everybody received the same answer—that he hed gone down town eariy in the morning, and would not retura untit evening. It was rumored around the hotel that he was at the Sub-Treasury office in Wall street, which wae doubties? correct, although a pum or of the freqnentars of, pint locality bad failed f hoar of it. The Feorvetary is a shrewd mon, & very shrewd man, aud covered up, bis tracks yesterday ina manner to excite the envy of an Indian.” He did return to botel in the evening, but nobody saw him. He mado a hasty toilet, and was of again in a fow momentr, ‘He las gone out to dine, oS. wee ee received by all wno asked for him, Whether the answer was true or not of cannot sar. Bat we can assure cverybody like any ordinary mortal. He heartily, subsist on Bo gow ypred or Treasnry noles. Tue gold market was dull and quiet yesterday. Mr. Chase's pres } fence in the city doubtless oxercives a wholesome re. straint on the speculators, We learn that he is !ikely to remain bere fora few days longer, by whioh time we the premizm ow hope he will have reduc: ‘and ar. ranged matlers to prevent spoculation in ft for future, The Soldiers’ 10 THE EDITOR OF T Fort Hamitrom, Apri! 14, 1884. Koclosed you wiil receive ten dollars towards the fuad to establish @ “Home for Discharged Soldiers.” Nothing at this time can be more needed, for of ali God's crea- tures many of those who are discharged from the service (rom wounds or dieabjlity are the most helpless aud suf- fering. Fashion seems to have sanctified the “sanitary” as the oaty ehaonel through which our sympathies and chari ties must flow. Lot this be oorre ted, and, by establish. ing (by donations ed Soldicrs,”’ lot the citizens of the fF. of their brave but w thie most voble work, as you will see by the pampo! send with this. Having been connected with that ivatitu- tiow since ite frat formation (nearly two years since), I fee! taost deeply the wants and a discharcod soldiers MRS, COL. DAY, @pera. The public will havea last opportunity, at the grand gala matines today, to bear Medori and Brignoli in Robert le Diable, which we have no doubt they will avait thomsolves of, After the brilliant success which has at. tonded the production of Meyerbeer's great composition, it is nOt probable that the admirers of the work, ond of the artists who have done so much justice to it, will slight the opportunity affordedto and, thérefore, if & efant and very lages sudlenoe shouia be prevent ai the matinee, we shail not be di ted. Faust was given last night toa ¥: fine Novse. Man- voleni deserves all the good words auve ha a og him. The Salve Dimera was excellent, as usual, Kell well, «nd was warmly received. Her- maine was eocored repeatediy, His ia the fourth act, was loudly anplanded, Mile, Sulzer got an en- core ih the flower song: On Monday aight Pou s will be repeated for tae inat time. ai Tue Wier Ganors.—Medoa and the Honeymoon were Playod at this thentre last night, for the boneft of Miss Avonia Jouos, to « rather slim house. We can attribute ‘a thin hfuge on such an occasion only te the attractions of the Sanitary Fair; (or itis to be hoped that nothing tosa than patriotism could induce New Yorkers to uegiect 60 rare an intellectual treat as Miss Jones’ porformante Of Medea, Fler interpretation of the character # aa {otonge stady of the whole range of tamulis that may ftir a woman’s heart, and is quite equal to the highest oonoaption of the old story. Excoution of a Murderer. 4 Darton, Ohio, April 16, 1664, foha W, Dobbins, convicted of" the murter of George Lindormoth, a yaar’ ago, waa hung to bbe County fall to. day ——-~ NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. Synopsis of the New Interaa’ Tax Bill. Action of the Senate on the Bill. te Suppress Speculatien in Gold. Subsidy for Mail Steamers Betwoon the United States and Brasil. The Postal Money Order 6ystee jopted. All Ratiroads Compelled to Carry Mails, Bees Wasmacron, April 15, 158. MOVEMENTS OF GENERAL GRANT. Lieutenant Geaoral Grant tert Washington this mor. tog for the front. PROLIBINON OF GOLD SPROULATIONS. ‘Bho gold bill unexpectedly failed to reaching « Guat ke. ie remarks of “Mr, Collamor, that another protracted discussion must ensue before the ultimate result ts attained. The session wag extended until near night, with the hope of disposing of the subject this afternoon; but the views of Mr, Collamer, in the opinion of some, requiring a reply, the Senate adjournsé till to-morrow, refusing to entertain a proposition to ob serve the usual Saturday holiday. During the debate Mr. Chandler took great pains to villity New York, declarieg (hat Jom. Davis would receive more votes in that olty than any other'man, and that the speculators as a body were rebel sympathizers, keeping up the price of goa from treasonable motives. His views upon finance aid not seem to impress the Sonate to any extraordinary 4a. gree, attention being directed to those of fiaancis! ability and experience. MALL STEAMSHIP COMMUNICATION BETWEEN fEB UNITED STATES AND BRAZIL. Tho House seemed to be ina working humor to-day, after its recent extended forensic exertions, and some ifnportant meagures were pat throngh with but tits debate. Most of the day was devoted to bills reported by the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roade, The passage of the dill granting a subsidy of not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand dollars per ennum for the establiahment of 8 line of mail steamers betwoon the United States sud Brazil is regarded as tho t- auguration of a new policy ia snch matters, and the abandonment of that which bas 90 lgng prevailed, and which has resulted in the mortifying fact that at the present time there is not a single Amert can steamer running to any foreiga port, except to Aspim- wall. The speech of Mr. Alley, of Massachusetts, was @ most convincing expose of the folly of this course, whtem has destroyed our own commerce and built apthat ed European gations at our expense. ‘THE POSTAL MONEY ORDER SYSTEM ADOPTED. ‘The bill providing for a postal money order system 9ise inaugurates a measure which hes long been needed, end cannot fail to be valuable to the people and remunerative to the Post Office Department. There was no oppoaltias to this measure, the only difference of opinion being ep regarded the maximum agjount to be sent, which gome members thought should be ohe hundred, instead of thirty dotiars, as fixed by the bill: If the Senate will for a time ‘@bandon abstractions and pass pach ae rendering a real service to the a oes THS ORGANIZATION OF MONTANA TKARITORE. The House is determined not to pass the Sonate ameed> mypot to the Montana Territorial bill allowing unblesohet Americans to vote at the elections in that Territory. Sevoral of the republican mombere voted agalast agres- ing with the report of the Committee of striking out the word ‘white’’from the suffragé clauem As the Seuate declines to agree to another Confereneg Committee instructed not to agree to any proposition te strike out the word “white,” there is a probability (hee the bill will fall altogethor, in which case the gontlemes: who have been felicitating themselves on appointments q me's io the new Territory will be left out in the golf. om hee 22" HoMINATIONS CONFIRMED. The nominations of Captain Hawkins and Colouels Waa, Birney, Chetiain and Pile, as brigadier genorals tn the voluatesr forces, were confirmed yesterday by tha Senate. Brigadier General Rawlins, chief of General Grant’ eta, was confirmed yesterday by the Senate. at THE MISSOURI BLEOTION CASES. The committee on Elections are still engaged on te Missourt cases, having had ap the case of Linaséy va, Scott this moruiog. Mr. Lindsey will Gnish his argument, \o-morrow. ee ARRIVAL OF GENERAL BURNSIDE. ik! Major General Burnside arrived in town to-day. THE BIDS FOR POTATOES. Pia During the past woek bide have been opened at @ Chief Quartermaster’s office for the goverm ment with ten thousand bushels of potatoes, all of whtem have been zejetted, [i consequence of the high prices demanded. Py THE CASE OF COLONEL 0. B. MOORE. Colonel 0. H. Moore, who iast summer gallantiy rey pulsed Morgan’s force of five thousand, with two hundreg@ mou behind an abattis of fallen trees, in Kentucky, hag arrived here upon a mission connected with bis unex- pected dismissal from the service, based upon the fact of luis absence on account of sickness for sixty days, The Colonel bas been in the service eight years, and com- manded for some time a brigade in Burvside’s corps. He declines to ask to be reinstated, having simply laid be. fore the department a atatement of the facte counsates with bre illuess and absence from duty. APPOINTMENT. Victor Biolaski bas received an appointment toa Gret class clerkship in the Fourth. Auditor's office, Treasury Department, ; AFPBOTING SOENEIN COURT. ‘One of the most romarkable scenes ever witnessed fa @ court room transpired bere to-day in the trial of Tuell (ew the murder of bis wife. The only witnesses to the dowd wore the little children, the eldest of which is @ lad of tam years old, When brought inte court the soene was inom. pressibly affecting, The boy is unusually intelligent, an@ gave bis convicting testimony with suppreased sobs, while his father wept convulsively with such intensity as to tm terfere at times with the proceedings. The Judge as welt a6 all present manifested great emotion, pertioulariy t his examination of the boy preparatory to putting Bian qs the stand, * T MIRTY-RIGHTH conamuse. 3S Senate. Wasammatos, Aprit 16, 196 JUDICIAL MATTERS. Mr. Howaap, (rep.) of Mick., Introduced a bili amend tbe statutes in force in the District of bie, ropeating the saving clause in favor of pension beyon@ leven on the old Maryland laws, for the limitation of eer- tain actions for avoiding euits at law, the administration of justice in testimentary aflaire, &e. TAK ON AGHIOULTORAL IMPLEMANTS. Mr. Doonsrtix, (rep.) Of Wis., presented the momoriat man capital invested, equal te havo facture $ Agricultural implomeuts, instead of cout on @ii sales. It represents that those are five times the value of the ‘fitteen cent on Eee? that they denofited the West, and wit them the of agricultural resources would be rotarded. tial was referred to the Committes on Finance. PROMIBTION OF SPECULATIONS MM COLD, RTC. Mr, Sumnman, (rop.) Of Ohio, called up the bit hibiting apecuiative transactions in » &o., AF lished in yestorday’s proceedings, He said od; of the bill was to prevent gambiii ao mitted thought that at this time it an injurious Se eemcennet an by eo who Rad’ 80 geld OS acl! was an offense that was da: y comatiat, Fee ‘tho swbdject, in a letter to Mr. Finance Committes, under date of the ment, April 12, 1894, the Gecratery of the a Hit—Noivithatanding the diraty Bialos noter in cireul and from wae as currenc) a Brie KJ aod made a legad Londor thelr fi Timesa tn Pan 38, my atage Pan on'y Yo atteID Led Wo 08 aa i i ~~ - | y