The New York Herald Newspaper, January 4, 1866, Page 8

OF nee mesenze ts, on tho whole, & P*in, matter of fact, # forward document, ~ Tuy Yee ABOUT THe NOTE 1 tavera of Co so E STATES. LYPAIRS ‘The abrogaties, of ‘ogs Hall has } conten CToaied Something of a sensation about beard and Tt was eyppored, and indastriously circu that there woo!d be no adequate accommodation for the | WPF 9 us to eee to’ it that freedom 80 established shall be legislative people this winter. The fallacy of this will be | &” .ocning more than mero name; it mast be so broad reall d from (ie fact that the entire accessions here in } gig comprehens! exceed (WO 1 aod rivhta_ nil races and colors, and must he xo guanted Jovan Hour | by god bedved in with, constitutional enactments There aro yo | that ‘no HEW YORK STATE CAPITAL any one time do not perhay fifty pergona, and that the alone wowd hold twice that number, many ho%els and boarding houses im Albany. us starveling newspapers they have or eixteo’uth of a support, and the cons are ‘ally except the Radical Character of the uenee IF chatthey | that «it evan, ust 60 MAY”, peprhouse There i no want of accommo” ation such as 't ys, ond its, quahty was proportionale’,y improved by Vic abolition of Congress Hall. Price® are juet the same as heretofore, and the speculation F reopening the old rookery near the Capitol un the E\ régean, otherwise the plan, would appear to be anew dodge of the lobby mea for keoping their particular followers well in hand from day to day on the lerust possible outlay, Byecch ef Speaker Colfax on Lincoln and Johnson. More Police and a New Set of Cri7a- iaal Couris. Dean Richmond gave notice @, the Delevan House, im. mediately alter the fast State Zection, that he woul be in attendance *pon the Legislature this winter, and would not need bis parlors, Obviously he has a correct appreciation of the force of the de year, and ill leave them to take rest of whe Regency aro of the same opinion. ‘Wood has taken’ up Richmond’s deserted will duty oficiato as leader ofthe ‘tlorce Be has not made his debut yet. cratic delevation WHE MESSAGE — THE HOTELS—THD REGENCY, uarters, and jemocracie."” IN OTHYA STATES. PROCEEDINGS aw WEW YORK LEGISLATURE. Mecting of tho Legistataves of Maine, Masza- chosotts, Pennsyfvania, Wisconsin, Min- nesote, Norsh Taroliva and Flaride Aupayy, Jan. 3, 1866. Mr, ANoREWS (FOp.) gave notice of a bill to create the Motkopolitan Sanitary District and Board of Health. Mr, Ezra Cornsnct (rep.) introduced @ bill which amendsthe bavking law of 1838, by declaring that the 4ranchise or privilege of banking under said act shall be deemed personal property, and shall be l.stle to taxation vo an amount not exceeding the capital stock. Mr, Conwett, also introduced 4 bill applying the same provisions as above to all named corporations and asso. cintions in the State which are not organized under the THE GOVERNORS SAY. NEW YORK. u(rep.) introduced the following resolu tions, which lie over:— Resolved, if the Aesembly concurs, That since the dis- persion of the rebellion recent facts have demonstrated that the danxerous principles which culmtnatod ju rebel- lion and civit war still exist in the South to a large ex- t, it is now the duty of all good citizens to demand of gress such wise and careful measures of reorganiza- tion as shall complete the work of restoring our Union minutadle principle of equal rights to all, irre- ee eo Seek with safeguards to the purity of wed, That, proper safe to the purity of the Dallot-box, the elective franchise, based 4 to the constitution and the Union, ou immediately to all loyal men in the D! without distinction of % Roso!ved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to each of (he Senators and members of Congress from thie Gar Albany Correspondence, AuBANy, Jan, 2, 1866. ‘The Legislature met and organized here to-day tn dé dit, af indicated in your despatches of yes roueyat temper of the two bodies manifested a sentiment | (nt the vividness of which bag been in a good degree obliter- The last session hed reached ite closing motents and had rejoiced to ecstasy in the termination The capture of Richmond, thesurren- der of Lee, the capitulation of Johnston, had exalted the upirite not only of these bodies, but of the people. terrible announcement of the aseassination of the Pfesi- dent reached here when the term of legislation bad ex- pired, and the sestion was then prolonged from day to day to receive the dead body of the Chief Magistrate, on its way to the tomb in Illinois, which bas been entirely refitted, still, nevertheless, re- tains over the Speaker's chair the black drapery and the \ funeral inscription, the words of Linuoln, “i have the “mort solemn oath registered in heaven to-presorve, pro- tect and defend the government.” This memento was by resolution boqueatbed from the last Assembly to the present body. which it suggests appear to be most earnestly entor- tained. The mournful progress of The dead President Mhrough the land, the impressive torchlight faneral at midnight at this capital, the crowded thronging of the people night amd day through these chambers to view the dead body of the martyred ‘Lincoln lying in state, all the elements of the great woe which go deoply im- pressed the country, have evidently‘ profound echo in ho eentiments of the representatives which the people have sent here this year, ‘The addresses of beth Alvord apd Tremain, and more exp ker of the House of upon loyalty ht to he granted istrict of Columbia, The Assombly chamber, ArBaNy, Jan 3, 1660, The Sreaker presented the annual financial report of the Auditor of the Canal Department; also, the report of tbe Superintendent of Banking; alse the annual report of the Comptroller; also the annual report of the Canal Commissioners. Mr, Ricnarpson (rep.) presented the petition of An- drew Williams for the reat occupied by Mr. Weed. Mr Jewsvr presented the petition of James #. Lyon, claiming the seat occupied by William Williams. NOTICER, “To amend the Metropolitan Police law. To amend the Suffrage act. ‘To regulate the To provide for fiNli gate nud Recorder in rate the Broadway Unc rate tue Cross Town Railroad Company. vecveat gas companies from charging’ sent on ‘To authorize divorecs in vertdin cason, . the feos of constables. For compensatton for causing death by wrongful acts, or the Champlain Cana and Hudson ie ya ot tabor wo aight hours he pw York Haaitay bil» © Mo compensation of fudger, e term of officers of the National Guard Relative to criminal offences in the Metropolitan Police To amend the General Insurance act establish a book of forme. To amend the charter of Poughkeepsie. re ed the Kings county Supervisors te raise [Dy bax. tapiorent frand in the purchase of breadetuffs in New cS To incorporate the Atlantic Yacht Club, bd Prevent nop-residente from holding etands in mar- kot: For the better regalation of the sale of beer and other malt liquors. Fora railroad in Houston, Grand and Bond streets, To \ncorporate the United States Real Estate Credit pal ‘To regipate the commieaions of brokers, ‘The recoliections reon the Righth Avenue Ratiroad. vacancies in the offices of Surro- nd Railroad. that of Sehyyler Colfax, Representatives, were strongly in accord with these ideas. The latter, upon de .ng introduced from the Speaker's desk in the Assom- wiy chataber, addressed tie roemnbers and the crowded SPEAKER COLFAX'® APERCH. ading to his-edopted State, ‘of prido and ratisfaction in his birth pl he adveried to the many momentous events for the coun may whic have taken place emce the Ist session, aud aald> Your presiding ofMeer has alluded, in the very kind remarks le has made, to the intimacy which, xtent, existed between wyself and that poble all 60 sincerely mourk. this Assembly chambor a f is dying legacy, that pledge—(re- Ir. Lincoin which were placed ‘on the wall of the chamber on the occasion of hts made to the Amorican ps of the Capitol, the responsibili- @ in this Btato, ident, whose death track, when enteri if to remind you of ferring to the words of ‘obrequies) which b ‘be assumed, on the tiee of the chief ox found our nation we ul Looking around for elements of strength found our elements of wer crippled, and he al the mercy of the enemies of our own housebold. Yet, fatuful to that oath which be had regiswered, he walked in the path wa: of duty, firmly and fearless!y, to the endl a great man ip the olden time that be found his t he left t marble, New Bank Superintendent. Aunasy, Jan. 8, 1866. ‘The Governor having nominated Mr. George W. Sehuy- ler, of Torwpkine, inte State Treasures, for Superintendent of the Bank Department, vice Edward Hand, deceased, the Senate, ip executive session, to-day confirmed the in I is the prenier beset oar deceased Presjdent—it is a trophy of fame for bim country weak and waning and torn and sneered at by powerful nations across the waters—be found every despot elmost lu Europe looking for the anticipated downfall of this republic, whieh was a powerful testimony against their tyranny, but be jeft ation strong and powerfal pected by every people an ho starry baaner of tho Union, OTHER STATES. ry elime, and with Nght with the stars of the glories of ¥ acre of our nad protected our Avavsta, Jan. 3, 1866. ‘The Maine Legisiavure met and organized this forenoon: by the choice of the follow ing officers ;—President of the ate, William Wirt Virgin, of Norway; aves; Assistant Secretary, W. 8, Clark, of Saugerville; Speaker of the Hoase, Jarues M. Stone, of Kennebunk; Clerk, Franklin Drew, of Fort Fairfield; Assistant Clerk, Sumner J. Chadbourne, of Dixmont, Governor Coney will be inaugurated to-morrow, as gathered Wo bis fathers, with the of a whole people over his tomb, te inthe Teropisol Fame in our hier than was ever dreamed of Luther eaid once and beanti “God buries His workmen, but His work goes on.” ident has passed away, but there aro others the work which he set a8 the representatives of ‘ork, to have that gener. all clothed with weeping and sorrowin, Secretary, avd standing in Natioual Vallal Massachusetts. Bostox, Jan. 3, Tue Massachuretts Legislatnre met to-day. ‘The Sepete chose Mr. Joreph A. ond President by « ‘the people of the State ot wus confidence and trast which will give to them the assurance that you are not n them in advance, who fille the placeof him who is distrust alway# beret ufienation Senators aud Reproseuta Eave conidenco ‘The House elected Mr. Juines.A Stone, of Charlestown, ving him 128 vote; vey Jewell, of Rowton, jaut S. Robinson was elected Clerl, and Edward 8. 1, thay | Somes Sergeant-at-Arms of the House. John Morrissey ‘was chosen sergeant at arms on the part of the Senate, and Stephen Giftord Clerk, Governor Andrew sent in to the Senate a apecial mes- sage Covering several important documents of tocsl in-. terest, for the consideration of the Legislature. The States that the total expenditure incurred by Mi the war amounts to $27,705,109. This sum includes only such oupences ae them and clothed then with this Digh authority, so that rating together for a common ally 1m the pathway of duty, the callant mon by the footprints the harvest of death and died that our Live, that thi great work of the res way be accomplished on @ basi of the human system, and as enduring as the solar sys ropudlic might firm ag the Hzaments RADICAL CHARACTER OF THE LRGISLATEHE. I give you these remarke im ful}, and ning as a key to the temper Speaker Colfax s address presente the gnly allusion made hero to President Jobneen thus far, The proportion of the republican members to the democrais ip éhe Senate a twenty-seven to five, aud this ratio is even exceeded by the proportion of tue radicals in ihe Unien ranks, ‘Tho thing is all round, like # Dall, without a division to be seen or any diets Standing at thia polat of view, au at the record and tho result, it le the inevitable decree ‘of publi: be more clearly or more positively @rprensed than the verdict of the people tn thie radical aspect of this After something of a cal ments fer an opinion ca: developed, J think the present vedios should ostabtish a record forab)) ty and character devide tly b-yond an lature we have had for mauy years it remalda to however, whether they will have the oppertunity to vhow aod improve the same Vressive appearance in the chair and promises to do jus twe to bie previous reputation, lie ¢! soured for Caitedt States Seneter vext y VOT Senators were qualified in ther places, PENI OF BUEN otices of bille was reached in the Senate ea vy Senator Labau of an sme. inereasing (he th the esptration of usetts on acconnt 3 inbable sides to looking back « year impowelble to iguore or opinion. Nothing wt inder the escort of the cadets, South chureh, where the election sermon by Rev, HH. Quint, of New Bedford. Peansylvania. © Hanansune, Jan. 8, 1066. To the Legislature to-day a brief message was received from Governor Curtin, dated November 27, stating the necessity of his temporarily absenting bimeelf and sojourning in Cubs, in consequence of bad health. Wieconsin. Manrsow, Wie, Jan. 1, 1906. This ¢yeatog the Gew Slate officers were sworn ito fully an fine as they bi Tremain makers an fin Governor Fawohild in bie inaggoral «ays: —With the return of poace much of responstbility and care bas State will ever romom! bor with pride that sbey nobly answored the calls of the general governmont (or men Wisconsin's ons went to the front. With the close dangere have not been respomelbitities ceased. Great polit cd probleme roman onsotved, and their station the calmest judgment Aon Of our greatent public ight, Unwearled efforte and pose of Ail Intelligent chuigeng of Two Rrat and impe ming? by the lace atrebuoualy claimed bh sualy maintained by gmneut, Obrnined by the Ur set, there Is No apps demonstrated al The people of th more upon the leg ro ‘mmediate miereet, or Murphy, of New over ninety thou: coring the tacaney to vf Supervisors fail to n New York ix the engine by « republic, tions aro already deter. The right of secession, +o ihe people ot the South, awd vigor Troe for more than four years, wt them; gud from thie Army ot ihe pout of The national unity has the natioval honor full, by the armed power of the government, Jestroy the country eats before the ma- the Recorder wt cht to divide ai Ned te bow ther e law. and, ou bended ke © The verdict of the Practising what A tribunal a a NEW YORK BGRALD, THURSDAY,” JANUARY 4, 1866. ight | fact that trear 4, jg a erime which cannot ; be - committed with impunity shell have. thus THE NEGRO. been foil¥ ¥ sonstraed, will tle American peeple be ae “ne Amer ean peopie hav? demonstrated that ie 5 ete is one and indivisibie; that its people, of whoa h | @%€F” a6 of color, rhall be forever free. It now devatves ‘4 Day In the Confederate Capital. DUK RICHMOND CORRESPONDENCE. Ricumonn, Va, Jan. 1, 1865, The contrast between this day and the same instant a year ogo in Virginia, though really very great, is not aa perceptible as one remembering the relative condition of things a8 to the two eras would suppose, Last New Year's saw 4 cordon of Confederate troops, shabby, starved, des- litute, and on the eve of ignominiously surrendering a cause which they had blatantly spent four years in main- taining only to be defeated, belting a capital wherein the doughty leaders and their purblind foltowers were alike compolied to be patient of hunger, of thirst and of cold, and whence most of them were so s00n to flee forever, divgraced anong men, fug':!ves at once from justice and from country, whore Inaj:-‘y they bad grosaly, wantonly and wickedly insulted and |~ = juced. To-day—one short an? .vuin yoar—witnesses all this entirely and everlastingiy changed. The beneficent away of federal power is again acknowledged throughout the Bouth, though by far too gradzingly, by a people who have been subdued and humiliated ag never wore @ people chastened and humbied before since God made the orb on which they are outeasts, Nevertheless, there is an Outward show at least of obedience to constitu. tional law, because the arms and the (cannon of Bratugay and patriotic North have conquerdéd 3t for all ‘THE SLAVE, too, is everywhere throughout this broad and genial jand emancipated; and while, by reason of a widespread Toatsy of the defeated masses to appreciate the new order of things, too general in the conqueréd section, the freedman 4s not quite yot tn the full and trank enjoy- ment of his rights before God and man; yet the shell of that colossal superstition, human slavery, 13 broken, and the day is.indeed imate which shall behold the ne- 's entire, ified and lasting emancipation—the flock and the white rejoicing "sara over the burst- ing of the chains of s-rvitude. ‘TH AYRIOAN CHURCH DEMONSTRATION TO-DAY, All thig, “and more too,” was in evidence at the Afri- can church to-day, where four thousand freedmen as- sembled to do honor to the sainted memory of Abraham Lincoln, and commemorate the anniversary of the day, three since, when the fifteenth President of the Unit States, by a mom tion, emanci- of bondmon, and dedicated binself to xemplar statesman of his age and time. ‘THE BORNE WITHIN TUR EDIFICE. as to imelude within its privileges person, not even the highest in the land, their | ean with | mpani Sample, Spon me sored ‘ - | national rights of the humblest citizen, whatever » dhe wr aneh ar aaee ‘Special onactments po ded passed for the benelit of the freedman to protect him against the oppression of his lato master. He should be admitted upon the witners stand aul in the jury box and be made to feel that ho is a man, invested with and protected in all rights of manhood. It is a matter of re- geet that citizens of our own Slate should have denied colored people in our midst the right of sufirage. Some wilt yet modify their opinions. ‘This privilege, soouer or aver, will be extended to that elass, In reconstruct- ing the Btates lately in rebellion it seems both neces- rary and that ample evidence be required upon their part they are disposed to yield w realy and willing obedience to the constitution and the laws. Each State ought also to bo required to ratify further amendments to the constitution, forever probibstin; the pens of debts contracted in support of the rel ond pang the sacredness of the nation debt; also declaring all ordinances of secession nuli and yoid, and apportioning repre- sentation in Congress upon tho basis of the number With these conditions faithfully carried out, and with the necessary Congressional enact. ments forthe full protection of the Union meu, white and black, the peoplo will be glad to admit those States into full coramunion with the Union, and welcome them with open arms, One of the groatest evils inflicted upon the country by the war is the immense national debt. ‘Tho faith of the government is pledged for its payment. ‘It must and wiil be paid, principal and interest, 1 1 tional honor is at stake, and people who created the debt, im their almost sup-rhuman et to maintain a free government have not only power but the will and integrity to fulft thefr obligations to the fullest extent, It would have been better to have failed im the contest and been blotted entirely from the face of the earth than, being successful, disgrace ourselves by voluntarily ignoring the claims of those who came for- ward to support the government in its time of need. Repudiation, in any form, orunder apy circumstances, 1s one of the greatest of nations) evils and the worst of national sins, The power is in the hands of the Presi- dent and Congress to make victory, so dearly won, last- ing benefit to the country; and, with full confidence in their wisdom and judgment, the people await their ac- ion. not Minnesot: Sr. Pavr, Minn., Jan. 2, 1866. The Legislature convened at noon to-day. Mr. J. B, Waketield, of Faribault county, was elected Speaker of ‘the House, and Mr. George P. Wilson was chosen Sec- retary of theenate, No other business was trapsacted, The Governor will not be ready to deliver his meesage untit Monday next. dense masses eman all intent on one bape How dit it the material composing 8 last great meeting held in this church, Thon the Confederate loaders, steeped in treason, and whose. Power was already sonsibly waning, delivered the final phil of their lost cause, the dential Jeff. rais- voice for the last time before his Ker Bagg 5 w, Ben- ng Virginia. side by aide with the olly outcaet and debased Ricuwoxp, Jan. 3, 1865, | jamin, and bis Confederate orators. To-day the repre. The Legislature reassembled to-day. No toportant | *ntalives of that race upon whom. these treason mon. gers sought to ingraft perpetual slav: reiterated the bah ot their ee! peed a glare of sel pai wired freedom, inked God, generous! rev- pone ey for their universal deliverance, for ‘Deir eterval emancipation. a colored pastor, Taring waren wan followed in a of speech by Mr. John Oliver, a colored citizen of the Fred asa class, and for eighteen years a resident of Bos- tou. Mr. Oliver spoke with freedom, earnestness, business was done. North Carolina. Raxzien, N. C., Jan. 3, 1866. Governor Worth bas issued a proclamation by recom. mendation of his council, calling tho Legislature to meet on the 18th of January. i Florida. wense and great acceptability to all who héard him. OUR TALLABASSEE CORRESPONDENCE. THB ADORNS bore upon the future of the race in these conquered Tayramaseye, Fla., Deo. 20, 1666. | gistee—the sunny land of their freedom. They were ‘The Legislature of this State met on Monday last, in } teld that they must remember when the war began it accordance with a proclamation from Provisional Gov- ernor Matvin. The House of Representatives was organ- 1zed by the election of Colonel Joseph John Williams, of Tallabasace, as Speaker. W. W, J. Kelly, from Pensacola, Lieutensnt Govornor, was installed as President of the Senate. To-day Governor Marvin, Provisional Governor, addressed the General assembly, and introduced D. 8. ‘The government were jed to this result, and daca meg ott emancipation only to insure the foo cao the constitution, and tife integrity of the union.of all the States. ‘Therefore, Sete ee ae clating where this cardinal fact, the freedmen every: tacked beds, &: aw : Before United States Commissioner Osborn. Devid Williams, Assictant Superintendene of Post an Ontce station H, wan charged with appropriating letters sere eget the fa and hrestricted enjoyment of 16 and money therein enclosed not belonging to bi ia ee. ‘and glory, and consummation—one James Gayler, Special Agent of the Post Office Depart- ment, suspecting that many of the letters sent to station H were tampered with, adopted an ingenion: plea to discover the cause, which proved enocessful. [a con- Junction with Mr. Dexter, Superintendent offfstation F, he directed six letters to J. M. 8, -station H, Yorkville, each letter containing wn dollars in marked bills. The letters ort F. caper meses ies ee mene liam him with a found the marked money on th 1 of the pri on 01 e who did not attempt to is beta ping es and Day, of the Office Department, were aiso ex- — and corroborated many of Mi ‘6 state ments. Op motion of Mr, 'R. N Waite. ined to ae ‘ting, the scoomplizhed band of y-focith regiment’ Massachusetts Volunteers ‘Pied the hilislc hondeomelys nn VuRtCers eu ied "s ‘Ob! praise a ‘he Lord He cot — eke 3 counsel for the pris- A Born Arrewpr at Mrnver—A Wounpen Sovuimn tne Pexrereator.-—-On New Year's day James MoCarty, » discharged and wounded soldier, visited MoAvoy's liquor store, corner of Jay and Chapel sireets, avd while there bad au altercation with the barkeeper, a son of the pro- prietor. MoCarty then left the Serrano did vot re. turn again 0 ere 3 evening, wi he came in armed with a loeded revolving pi: MeCarty, finding young McAvoy there popes | to basin without any ceremony aimed the pistolat the latter, pulled trig - gerand yn ome 6 Victin in U bead, ‘The per petrator nh attempted to make bat was Shortly afterwards arrested by officer J. Barr of (he For a sore w vay end the result man’s 3 attended fice McAvoy, extracted the bullet and declared his tn- IN THR ADJACENT COUNTRY. At the city of Petersburg # most im) celebration, commemorative of the issuance of it Liveola's Fmenctpation proclametron was bad. Several thousand freedmen were in the procession, which was nearly, if not quite, a mile in length. Speeches were deli by competent orators, songs were sung, and general Uon was the accepted order of the 4 e eee my the raral ai te Th aT, spent the day, and that 2 \¢ the region felicitously and a man: uspi- The Labor Question In Virginia. Wasmyeros, Jan. 3, 1806. Ex-rebel parties who occasionally come to Washington from the adjacent counties of Virginia, to trade, speak enoouragingly of ther in Inbor question. - The majority of the enlored abandoned thoir projects for ries not of a character. [t is said that MoCarty painful nature of some unhealed wounds which he re- ceived while serving as 4 soldier in our army during the late rebellion. Launch ov 4 Stmamboat.—VYeaterday morning a bait. Past ten-o'clock Messra C. & R. Poillon successfully fa, —Lengih, two hundred and fifty-five feat vo feet; of hold, nine feet, She } large numbers of them ere contracts A boat of the same dimensions is ‘elge. | ly beom retnforced by = of their broth. where. When both are completed they will comprice | ren who Bave trie@ aml oy - the summer the opporition line to Nyack and Haverstraw. Messrs, | months, apd who have failed realize expecta. F. Secor & Co, are building ‘he engines for the boat | tions here. launched yesterday. A@drees of General Palmer te Four Scppey Deata or 4 Baye Caenren.—Mr. George 1. Sampeon, the cashier of the Long Island Bank, ded sud - Genly early yesterday morning, at hie residence, 122 Columbia street. He retired to his room at about eleven apparently in robum Thousand Colored People in Men- tucky. Toorevitie, Ky., Jan. 2, 1866. General Palmer addrensed four thousand colored people ve | o'clock the previous even health, and ti Im the open air yesterday. - par- pam ay He congratulated the audience that slavery was ended medical assistance forever in the United States, and that the colored people, Sempeon was 4 bay conned to be slaves, had no longer interests country in 1818. wif acted thom ro the mass of the’ Americad Boormaa, Johneton people. wee that to this continent had been re. whieh, he assumed served the glory of s second example of the deliverance held up to the we Mit tee slavery; that now for the first years of age, time ours ie Sliven Geta th aee te ae danghter to mourn bie government ie to be maintained by giving full effect to iis soy img a baa thal be no other ai Deivieon the colored 7 of the City Hall Police Court, was @ color ‘int "things, 25 morning The clating friends. Justice Cornwell ig their ‘Of the Justices of lyn, the lacks ie to labor, and in effect SPA po ar fant i Poraeareat arame sxe the colored laborer. Anassr or 4 Youse Coxrioxxce Oreraron —Detective | that compels tee tech’ cen, te wert fer bat W. BL Foik on Tuesday last arrested » lad named James | price compels the white man to dothe same. The inter. ged wi ears, who, it te cha ‘ente of the black man are therefore ibe interests of every Barron, ixteon yearr, charged, has been | white man in the country, Heretofore the legislation of guilty Of numerous confidence operations, extending | the country has been moch in favor of wealth and over a period of one yeor. The prioner has a good edu- | the owners of isves, Uel hereatien, Savery out of cation and adds who, obserr'ng advertisements for the way, ‘be for the laborer, po matter w! bie ja the news;apors, would make applica. | color may protect him from the despotism of capi id of assume his duties, end after ingratiat- comt-tence of bis employers would ly diwa with money or valuable property. In hie operations he has severally used the alleses of Pe. tereon, Wilton and Simpson. fu this wey he vietimized the firms of Meteall & Duncan, of No. 23 Sonth street, New York, of eighty Aollors in gold; J. W. Herbort, of No. 16 Broadway, New York, of owe hundred and ninety- seven doltare; Samuct Rrown & Sons, {nsnrance agent of No, 96 Pine street, Now York, of twenty dollar, CW. Delamere, of No. 46 Pine atreet, New York, of He was oxamined and commited om the some cows of brutality and outrage committed, tue Work of abandoned persons in diforent parts of the He spoke of the right of colored persons fy tm the courts, predicted that withio a short time all dirabilities would be removed, aed thet within a few years the qvestion to be aeked world be, not “who ia the whitest, but who ix the moet bovest, inteligent and indostrious” He urged end thrift ond the cultivation of kind feelings towards ail as the true solution of afl qnestions betweea the reces The We will be pablished entire, It was enthy siastically reeely ed by the colored and the atmost good orter and kind ferling prev: ing ite detivery. 0. Svopes Dean —Adam Cook, @ hand engaged inthe bom factory of Mr. Emith, in Sedgwick street, fell dead on Tuesday lest, while at work. Coroner Lench bet oo vest, when the jury ‘emdored a verdict of death by weaae of the heart r Boawn oF Serenvicons,—The new Boont held its first mertiig Ob last Tuesiay, and elected Snperrisor Talbot, of the Fiftekgth ward, ov oben The democte's, whe are in a minor'ty, made no nomination, Reremuces Gaver, Comvetee —The Kings Covnty Repeblican Geasal Committee met on lat Tucedey a Freedmen. Wastiwerox, Jan. 3, 1866. ¢ Freedmen's Barean we gather fe that there are ihiee hanced and seventy-five by # following # were lected for the | freedmen in the Pate of Terns, cvenrequted cee te nce een Pandereon, Bee Flee bottoms of the Hie-o', the Colorado, - c € OW. Detcher alone, cach Spootawt of a eget pinntat | ‘ re ven't do fur them, and they de Ores o 0 6e twee TT tling with Britons tn the gec> which she filled when batt sing witb Pee tine | ott o CLERA IN EUR ond war of our indepen OPE. remember, no star in our Union shone with more bril- Nancy than South Carolina, aud I trust it will soon re- in its former beauty as an emblem of the Palmetto tate, where Sumter and Pickens once fought with success our national battles. It would be @ gr could we ascertain the in its cradle of poliation, THE CH Lettev from Silas E. Burrows, the Great American Traveller—The Disease in Parts—The Empress of the French as a Nurse. eat blessing to the hui ia of the cholera ‘The pilgrims to Mecca, on the Red Sea, whiel: is the Jernsniem of Mahomet's disciples, are said to form the caravans which engender and extend Thave accompanied these wonder- ful, devout and fanatic Mussulmen for many thousand wiles in their pilgrimages to and from Mecca, and if neglect of cleantiness, with filthy hab'ts, can engender disease, cholera and the plague, we can with propriety attribute it to them. has recorded that both the p! inated on the shores of the Re ined to doubt ity accuracy, nor the op nion now increasing that the Islamites are the authors of thes: and that the bratal male indulgenc from the depraved habite of seractios (whieh, fortunately, have been transplanted into our | Mormone, to degrade have tended to create the di depopulate the land which the original founders of poly- gainy supposed would furnish by it an increase! popula. SILAS E. BURROWS. this scourge of man. Fasxca Srramen Evrore, x Hook, Nov. 3, 1865, Jn my travels round the world nothing bas been moro gratifying to my American feelings and education than witnessing the divine course adopted by rulers of na- tions when fearful pestilence, from which nearly all fly with terror, is depopulating the land. When I see the beautiful Christian example of power. ful monarchs leaving their palaces of health and security to visit the hospital of loathsome disease, where misery and suffering are too often left without attending kind- neas, I feel that the human family have, in such beauti- ful examples, an approuch towards the character and precepts of our Saviour when on earth. They incline me to hope that the professed followers of Christ and the citizens of this ‘‘great republic” will hereafter approach more rapidly than they have: heretofore towards those Christian virtues, honesty, hospitality, chatity end reli- gious toleration, which existed in America, with its » When Columbus first discovered was shipwrecked on our shorep, I hope that such examples of good will to man, where “cings become nursing fathers and queens nureing | mothers,” will have a tendency to arrest the base pas- sions in this favored age, and engraft on the minds of the vicious and cruel the original virtues of the native Americans. I trust that when fires, eltipwrecks, railroad dizasters and other paiuful incidents occur those calling themselves men will no more steal from the dead und ‘mangled remains of the victims, taking what the ele. ments have not destroyed, but will be restrained, not only from the fear of God’s chastisemonty but by the beautiful examples of tho who expose their lives to br ng relief to the affi:cted. T hope, also, that the Christian character of the nati as recorded from the pen of Columbus in his raise to the original American people, who, admiral was shipwrecked on our shores, to protect the lives and influence to arrest nation that in residing in this to alleviate and Ts Quaraniine ar 8: ter of lovely woman), adful. chaatigement aud THE REBEL ATTEMPT TO BURN NEW YORK. Martin Before the Civil Authoritics-In- ation—Complictty of the Prisoner with Kennedy, «&c, UNSTED STATES COMMISSIQNER’S OFFICE. Before United States Commissioner Oxborn “The case of Robert Martin, charged with beiug one of tho parties Who attempted to burn the hotels of New York in the winter of 1804, was brought up yesterday before United State Comanissioner Osbora, oner was defended by Mr. J. Larceque and ¢ Whitiaker, of Kentucky, and Assist 8. G, Courtney conducted the case on the port of ibe resting Exam! our continent, B. B. MeDonald was the first witness. follows :—1 resided at No. 3 Union square the hotel fires; 1 eaw my store; he was in Hains, be presented 9 ny with @ man pen r_of intreduction (o Donald, of Toronto; Ica ut; itwasastmple letter of intr ienor of it merely introducing Moxwell, stating that be visited \. ; | bad uot seen my brother for o | vorouto in the preceding spring, and ray was nob then connected with the rebellion; J bod bh desuitory conversation with tbe prisoner after bi sented (he ietter; this was about the end of October, L recollect the fires in the 1 the next day at my etore; they told me they to stay in the city for a short tine, and msked 1 was the better method, for them 1 eugvested a which was then monarchs of the world ion, Erbute of pi when that contribu erty of th ioe, and subst a vice, substitute a de Songs ile All be Tepublic will not be tect the distresrad that the orginal people were who never heard of the Christian religion, The bh ly example of ‘good will to man’’ di Napoleon or his lovely American traveller it is my di to Cwsaf the thin the First, those saw Martin and W » board or take « bot originate with Andalusian bride; and as on record and “‘revder Iso to Nicholas visitors that called on them were : enuedy, aud Chenault; the prisoner lef! Gt my store two small black leather valisés; he asked me to take charce of them on the dayof the five; they were (nken by the det ctiver on the day following ana ven to chief detective Youn, Shenauit and Kennedy, at the well; the Jatter never told me anything abomt thes men; Idd not.seo any of the party stneo the fire exempt Can tain Keamedy, in the carly pert of January; | aw tim at Police headquarters, whore T was under atrost: a Mr Chensolt eae boarding at the Belmont Hotei, snd I wae. introduced to bim; he never told me who they thoughs they were young men om tusiness; the it eRaup office; the reagon Morn sp the sMiges with me was that (bey were going to Vhiadelphia and would be absent for « i Ltook a package of gold, which I rovatved from Martin on the day of the tire, and got Mr. Verry. our bookke per, to put it ia (ve safe of my etore dowa to my boarding honse on Ue day the fire; 1 bed preymavty taken rooms tron Mir the mext morning of she fires p the Henare, and thet day § was brought ulverry sirect, where I rem» ned foer gnonthe, Martin did not tell me how mueh gold there was in the pacicage; On hia first arrival at my bane he asked ing to altow Din to deposit some gold in my safe; 1 introdaced &'m to the bookkepeer, who received the gold in A itather bag, and pinced it in the safe; Martin never business; vever sald be was a Cou Jab Mastin, baying ren xambaed, ts: f ., baving reside in New York, at No. 275 Wevt Forty-thtrd street, rs; kuow the prisqner; met bie first vember, 1504; camo in when 1 war no one else was present Tevinted. See Pet‘rbang. Rusa. vis it. Petorsl TW schooner yacht during the cholera “4 many thovsand jababitants of that city. wecond Legge struck down T was introduced te gente, and cons * mont Ho'e! by Max where I visited him visits the Emperor @, going the rounds of Majest, to perso. situation sod wants of ‘his brave men. ‘Tho at that time the most powerf left the lovely, quict and all the on earth, that healthy retreat of his Im its loveliness ox'sted, to visit his hos. anfect. f, surrounded Vovel is next the tic happiness 1n all | stgned Cor leavin Pitals of deadly disease and mm. This duty of the ‘ zar to his God, bis religion and to fought the battles of Russa, purity of bis august Majesty's ‘private character lic eye; aud could that part of I. be written it would show a life 1 as tho electric strval orn sky, and would not fail to charm an No healing balm of medicine can be 80 effiracions tor by the terr ble soburge of man a+ the eat rolers of nations cholera proves ima), was an evidence not inte! for the the hi of Ni pure and those struck dowp voice sud countenance of the yeeary. vr heg dreaded name and their impreesions are fixed on death when firet ai ; but when thei sovercigns come to ticit aick , the destroyer ie in a is torrars, and the sumtower be. d'vease canuot be Gorge to cheer and ‘visiting told ine any of ron 3 have for Ofteen ia Toren, in tatkiog with W. awoke intw new good Emperor, to arrest from the iim but once in Toronto; J in New York and Torent) tine I saw the prisoner ty T saw both im Tor no at the ; 1 met Walliams alzo, in both these places and at ibe same time, about a wacls oe the case was adjourned to Friday, ab ten. LH mag 4-5 tte Court of Generel Sessions. Hetore Judge Reseel. KMPANELLING OF THE GRAND sUkY. wing geatiomen were sworn yesterduy to dis clare the dutios of the Graud Inquest during the presene term of the court:—Charies J. Livingston, Voreiman James Lynch, Linus Scudder, Wm. L. Lockwood, Chari Tt. Aborn, Ambrose K. Ely, Bzra Bliss, John Stopepe Wa Mounboim, Leonard K. Parker, Win. PF. Spencer Kirby, Mariiu Martine, George W. Comstoe! B. Potier and Richard CG, W. Moore, CHARGE OF THR Crty suDG Judge Rossel then charged the Grand Jury. that, notwithstandiug the exertions of the judges Prosecuting ofBcers, he regretied to inform them ‘bat crime was on the increase in thin city, and that near! three Hundred cases wore waiting their action He ‘urged the Grand Jury to be prompt and energetic ip the discharge of their duties and to report the Lills ax soon as they were rendy so that the Court might dispose of. the cases as fast as they wore bronght in. His Hi anid he would repgat the suggestion made to the Grant Jury last month, and that was, that they were not bound to examine all the witgeases sent before the District Attorney, All that was necessary for them to do was io be satisiled on two points: —Firet, that a crimian! offence ited. and seeoudiy, 4hat there ix probavie cause to suppose the party gul ainess of the court cilitated and they would save themse!res a great deal‘ Court regretted to say that some of the po lice magistrates did not discriminate eatlictently in tele rence to cas@ Drought before tiem, for they acted wo the principle thet every wan arrested was fe preferred agtinet bi jury should bave franness enoug! were not established 1 hed the good . Brown Socard, the BEES ei 2 = informed me that the public tle of the cholera im tbe city, ae it terest of the inhabitants aud the government atate and character of thi i H i ry ie dixaare being officiaily that in ‘Sunday, there were throw bunieed and bomitale from that no medicine bet He sad that eight. ond that it was not Bf Pd i H ‘or and state yf tire disease for adopting (he in 1648, which no and suns'ithe morning The mornmag with joy we anticipated spending the night in New decided to place as in this dreary ine at Sandy Hook—whiech creates ncy, particularly with those whose happy surrouaded by the family cir- dearto them who have veep far away. Many are inclined to censure the New York Board of Health for their severity in sending our ship to tine when all are well ov board, and bave been through the passage of fourteen days frou Havre of thie extreme precaution, and in the city from the not, however, com} ould be Trealiy fa. deaths on board the English steawer us. The Board of Health the Atalanta is a crowded fosti prises iy pees of the coum wh and ere ron, rear A iry, a which situation, at knows to gain admit. > should, however, recollect that caravan of emigration, our ship is one of thy comfort and luxu: i by con potent evidence, ve Oty Judge called iyo hitenion of the Gra: rea Whisk the law requiccs, the Grand Jury rotived to Jory to certain special stat NOTICE TO COCKSRL FOR PHisorRns. Assistant District Attorney Betfort (ven py: cowed to call the calendar, stating that ' w 10 dispore of all the case Wit be iripemsibbe Cor umes the Courteom. cused paccos to bring themeety cs have ti et cases hab We Would adopt officer, poned. Judge Russe! vot > wuggested by tue prosecuting VIOLATION OF THE BARREL avr. ho was indicted andes HH i 2 : k Bi AN ALI HORD BUROLAR CONVICTED OF LaRcesy Chapin, jay convicted of potty larceny. lorick Parker, who lived at 007 Greenwi ! be met the prisoner the nigh! before was broken, and that subsequent iv bim were found |v i = Fy | Veet and pantaloons 3 5 | i F F z i i and ordered him to pay a five of one hun i | 4 i i i ie to peity iarceny apen [he verdict ander the im ictment, ised tg examine, ‘The prisoner was e good Dr, Brown Seoant, entirely to my of some Freneh coaded io reaching Brost sad out sleep or appetite. 1 felt cherred in Hardy and six others, Sisters of the Sacred H Hehment, on board, Knowing if I was very sick 1 would be negieoted Parig, and I bed to oecupy a eabin, where, with “y dressing own aroand ma, 1 made myself as comfortabio and respect Die in appearance as could he expected from & man of my yeare lounging in the saicon of the steanter., foanid mysett happy When we were at sen, with ail well “No plagas to watch, no cholers to harin us, fea arvand as." Fouth Carolin, eae & paren jo roeerve many and in a first clase ear aided by the great kindness im, by having & bed te it, sue jetting on board the the tong joorney, with er place, corner store. and Counsellor ney aint Se fisetior at Law, $95 Broaiway Altearth forget, : ger on board, an 10 TO THOMAS R AGSEWS, 2 AND 22 URUEN. wich rage ot Murrag. and there and everstiteg else Thad the good fortuss kind attentions from him and bit seeretary et the court of Rome, the Rev. Dr. Birmingham, whieh will wot be forgotten, The Kiehop wae pleased t hel me pre 0 for coming on shore, a My son wonld 1, alt of whieh, together with trent preyere for the Pee fe witel attr bed Be. For cate tot feit (as 1 betieve), Wh the United Stat » NT former mmitom of patriutivn