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4 5 we $$ jected them to continued exposure. hard time for the street car and stage drivers, and some cases of death from freezing are reported. As will be seon by reference to our shipping news columns, there were extraordinarily fow arrivals of vessels at this port yesterday, the entire list com- prising only thres steamships and fwo schooners. ‘There was much drift ice in the North and East rivers, and that in the former caused considera- damage and annoyance to the shipping at anchor in the bay, compelling vessels to slip their cables and seek shelter elsewhere, and almost sinking the large packet ship Escort, which was anchored off the Battery. The ship was towed over to the flats between Bedloc’s and Ellis Islands to keep her from sinking in the channel, and will probably be brought up to the city in a day or two, Several of the piers on the North river side of the city sustained slight damage, which can easily be repaired. At the meoting of the Board of Councilmen yesterday resolutions were adopted calling for the appointment of ‘a committee of three to Investigate into the recent defal- cations of Robert B. ford, late Public Administrator, and designating that fon of Charles street between Fourth and Blocker streets Van Ness place. The Corpo- ration Counsel was instructed to inform the Board what is the legat fare that the Eighth Avenue Railroad Com- pany have a right to charge from one end of the route to the other. John E. Greene was appointed Reader of the Board. The new Brooklyn Common Council held its firat ses- sion yesterday afternoon, and organized by the election of Alderman Arehibald Bliss (republican), of the Seven- teenth ward, as President, and Henry McCloskey (demo- erat) as City Clerk. The messave of Mayor Booth was then read, and the various city officials were elected. United States Commissioner Osborn delivered his judgment yesterday in reference to the extradition case of George Gustaff, accused of having attempted to poison Alexander McKinnon by adminiatering to him prussic acid in a glass of ate, in Toronto, Canada, on the 3d of October last. Tho Commissioner stated the law and the facts of the case at some length, and decided that Gus- taf should be surrendered for trial at tho place where the offence was charged to have been committed. The case of the Mercantile Bank against Charles Wind sor, the absconding cashier of that establishment, came up inthe Supreme Court, Chambers, yesterday, on the NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR-AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, TERMS cash in advonce, Money sent by mail will be ‘at the risk of the sender, New York takon. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Annual subscription price, $14. None but bank bills current in Four cents per copy. Volume XXXI. 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Dr. Burcu New York, Tuesday, January 9, 1566. So TION. NEWSPAPER CIR! application of counsel to file a supplemental answer in sini Al relation to the procesdings in England, An action is Receipts of Sates of the New York Daily | "°¥ being brought by the bank against one of the sure- Newspapers. ties of Windsor, fhe decision was reserved. OFFICIAL, The case of the Peopl> against Alderman Farley was Fear Ending | bronght to a clos yesterday by the dismissal of the com- Name of Paper May 1, 1865, | Plaint. Justice Connolly, after an examination of the evidence, decided that the defendant had proved that ho acted openly, without donial or concealment, and under a color of right, as the authorized agont of the actual owner of the property in question, and that, therefore, the chargo must be dismiseod, 100,000 | _ The election of officers of the French Protestant Epts- i copal church du St. Esprit has been fruitful of lawsvite. 161,079 | In the Supreme Court there have been four or jive 90,548 | Actons about it, and yesterday it turned op in part first of the Suporior Court, defore Jude - $1,095,000 368,150 252,000 169,427 New York Henaro,. ‘Times, Tribune, World is bronght by the rector, wardens and vestrymen % acainst Mr. John J, Burmor, the former Clerk of the Corporation, to recover the book of records belonging to the church and five hundred dollars damages for its de- tention, The complaint was'dismissed. The General Term of the Superior Court was opened yesterday; but, no cases being ready, was adjourned till eleven o'clock this morning. ‘The general term of the Court of Common Pleas was to ’ ss have met yesterday to render decisions, but owing to transmitting the result of the recent olcetion there, ad- | 4.9 absence of two of the judges at the funeral of the ‘Vorse to negro suffrage, was received and laid on the | Rev, Dr. Cummings, was postponed till to-day, Tho table, as were also the credentials of Randall Hunt, | Common Pleas chambers wore also closed for the samo Senator elect from Louisiana, The memorial of | Suse. Get hee ean of a 5 In the Court of General Sessions, yesterday, John eaiaaad Se eae hehe ierac the optbsiose Phillips was convicted of stealing, on tho 13th of Decem- ver, three hundred dollars worth of wearing apparel, Of State statutes of limitation in the South, and rev- | being a portion of n bale of goods addremed to A. Low- oral soldiers’ petitions requesting equalization of pay and | sustein, Trontou, which was in charge of the New Jersey Dounty, were presented and referred. Resolutions were | i. yeugs Company. The prisoner was caught in the act adopted talling ou the President for information regard- of stealing the goods. Judge Russell sent him to the ing the Order issued by our military authorities In Cali- } stag Prisoh for five years, Joseph W. Barrow, fornia forbidding exportations of arms to Mexico, and | wig stole seventy dollars from Samuel Donean, for the reasons why there has yet been no appointment, | was sent to the House of Refuro, William Piggott &s authorized, of a commission to investigate the claims | Hiaded guilty to assaulting Martin Oabill with a sharp of loyal slaveholdere for compensation for colored men kaife, on the Sth of Decomber, Joseph Waller pleaded ss iy Service whe wero eulisted in tho military | cutty to stealing four hundred and @fty dollars from Joseph Brown, while asleep in the Fourth precinct sta In the House of Representatives a number of matters tion house, These prisoners were remanded for son- received attention. Biils were introduced and referred tonce. Thomae McGlinn, jointly charged with Wm. to disposo of the public lands of the South as home- | 5, caisson with stoaling @ ‘quantiy of Aobecee. from the Bteads, toamend the usturalization laws, for theerec: | Domises of Me. Sheridan, im Franklin street, was 871,229 ZEB NS CONGRESS. The two nduers Of Congress reassombled yesterday. In tho Seuate there was not a great deal of buziness trang- acted. A communication from the Mayor of Washington, ws. tion of a new Post Office in this city, to provide pensions uitted. Edward Reddy, indicted for for soldiers of the war of 1813, for the construction of ® po pig ag i ariel gee apt el tea military and postal railroad between New York and | gyi, of Sieth avenue, was also acquitted. Washington, granting bounty and additional pay | periholomew Fitzgerald and James Miesholm wore tried to soldiers and seamen who enlisted in 1861, to | 6, 4 charge of robbery In the first degroe, the complain- secare the beneit of the habeas corpus to persons held | 421 being John Smith, who alleged that he was assaulted in servitude contrary to the constitution, and for various | £74 roped of one hundred dollars by the prisoners in other purposes. A bill was reported from the Ways and | cyatham square. Assistant District Attorney Bedford Means Committee, and ordered to be printed, authorizing abandoned the felonious part of the accusation, and a the Secretary of the Treasury to issue six por cent COM | number of witnesses for the defence contradicted the Donds sufficient to fund ail the floating debts of the | -or.otainant. The jury could not agree upon a verdict, government. The same committeo was instracted to re | vroreupon the Judge discharged them and the ac- port on the expediency of @ reissuance of mutilated cused, remarking that there was nothing in tho case, boads, and the Banking Committee on the pro- | tne caso of the prisoners Gonzales and Salvador, in- Priety of providing for the redemption by internal | gicted for the murder of José Garcia Otero, the Cuban, revenue officers and other government sgonts of muti- | 1 ine Brooklyn City Pa in November Int, was lated fractional currency. The resolution declaring that } proucnt up yesterday morning in tho Court of Oyer and the whole power of the government, if necessary, should | rerminer, of that city, before Judge Gilbert. ‘The coun- be used to put anend to polygamy, was adopted. Reso: | 2.4 rr Gonzales made a motion for a postponement of the lutions were also adopted calling on the President forin- | trig) (iit the next term of the court, in order formation relative to the delivery to our gov- | 4, aiow him time to produce evidence of ernment of the rebel pirato Shenandoah, and | cnoracior, and read « lengthy affidavit tn in fogard to the alleged kidnapping by Mast | conor of his motion. The Judge, however, milian of Mexico of one of the Iturbide children, ‘and asserting as the sense of the House that the national military forces should not be withdrawn from tho South. orn States till their presence there shall have been de elared by Congress no longer uecessary. The last named resolution was adopted by ninety-four to thirty.seven yous. Some time was spent in Committee of the Whole, uring which epeeches were mace by Mesrs. Latham, of West Virginia, Shollabarger, of Ohio, an& Blane, of Maine. Axeport from General Howard, Cummuasionor of the Freedmon’s Bureau, was yesterday presented to the House of Representatives iu respouse to the resolution | iotwoun thie city and New Haven, show it to have Of (hat body asking information in regard to whether | b40n omected in a most bold but skilful manner. The eny abandoned or lolied rebel roal estate in tho South | ener pried open the door of the car, either hefore the transferred to the charge of the Bureaa had been | tain started from this city or at’ one of the way restored to its former owners, or whether any Of | issions, and, entering and closing it, went to work, uch property allotted to the negroes as homesteads, leisurely and deli ly overhauling the ts of hhas since been taken from thom. The General says | pe \tte. athe penny oe wate pote or pol that iu South Carolina and Georgia the froedmen were | Pb very, was found strewn with papers and envotopes, assigned few plantations as homesteads by General | rr noe oiner matter there was one hundred and Shorman, and that thoy have not yet been dispossemed | ye. 4h, Ses coup: of Gao aa om gehey of there, but that s0 many plantations for a time occu- | 44.4 rs 7 dik watvarhaity & conde Pied by them as cultivators, but not allotted to them, | i neate to carry off, All the other bonds and money, Rave been under recent orders restored to their former | to cisding, it ie antd, ifty-cight thousand dollars in gold, Proprietors; that the Bureau is now divested of the were carried off. greater part of such property which it once held, and has Surrogate Tucker yesterday decided to reject the will ort {ta former character of a self-supporting branch of | a curret 1. Hopper, deceased, on the ground of inca. the goverament. Previous onlere for the settlement of | ee is ty rajgct the will of Joeeph Hall, on the negroes on the abandoned rebel lauds have lately in MOE | Fo 04 oF informality of execution. The will of Lydia Oe Weaver, proven under & commision to take tertimony, Secretary of the Treatury McCulloch yesterday com- | 4. wamitted to probate, The Surrogate’s Court then monieated to the House actitement of the diticuitics adjonrned to Satarday next Sttonding 6S aasemsment and collection of iuternsl | oe geigth auniversary of the battle of New Orleans rovenue in the late insurreotionary districts hy ccaton of |." ssi: Wodsing by tne ‘ibdianig esliahs the inability of reveaue oMficers to take (he wet oath |. soa nanquet was given in Tammany Hall, to which Sane @ Gy aaen en pny eee maty © two hondred gets eat down Speeches were made by them are #0 poor that (hey are forced to seek other em | ye John Van Baren, General Heintzelman, Vice Admi- denied the motion, and the trial was sot down for Mon day, the 16th inst, Ip the meantime 2 pan! of dvo hun- dred jurors will be drawn from which to secure a petit Jury. ‘The case of John Matthows, charged with murdering man named Keevy on the 13th of September fast, wae Drought up yesterday in the Brooklyn Court of Oyer Terininer, and the trial was fixed to commence to morrow. ° Farther particulars of the robbery on Saturday night last, noticed in yesterday's Heraro, of half @ million dollars from the Adams Express Company car of a train es henge eae ral Parragat, Mr. James T. Braly and others, Lottors to live. The Secretary urges were received from General Dix, Mr, Montgomery Blair ORNS me Ho epg Mnatton ve imer and a nnmber of other distingnished gentlemen. MISCELLANEOUS. The funersi of the late Rew. Mr. Camminge took place yesterday at, St. Stephen's church, Twonty-eighth street, and was attended by an immense crowd of anxious spectators. There were some two hundred priests in attendante, and « large number of prominent men from all classes of the commonity, besides clergymon of other denominations The mast sung was Cherabini's Grand Requiem, given by the Mendelssohn Union, directed by Professor William Borge. The Rev. J. T. Heoker delivered the funeral ser mon, sod Archbishop McCloskey pronounced the bene. diction. The ningty-sixth annual meeting of the Marine Socieiy ‘Tho extremely coli weather of Sunday continued to prevail yesterday, not only in thir city and vicinity, but in all parts of the country from which we Dave reports, In fact during the forenoon there was fan intensifying of the severity of the temperature, and the zero point, which ordinarily in this region fis regarded as about the limit of endurance, would ave been considered comparatively comfortab) altitade for the mereury. The thermometer early fm the morning indicate’ ten degrees below zero in this city, while from covntry towns in this State and in Connecticut we have the announcements of ranger all he way down to twenty cight degrees below. Even so | was held yestorday afternoon, for the purpose of electing far soth as Washington, 1. ©, it stood one degre be- | officers for the ensuing year, ‘The annual reports of the ~Jow ateight o'clock fn the morning. At Ottawa, Canada, | secretary and treasarer wore read and adopted; after Jt marked thirty-one fegrece. It was certainly the which the members of the aveoeiation partook of « splen- teveral \ goldem day we have hed ‘no years, and was, it may be | did repast before adjourning, pupposed, sufficient to conyeal the artor of the most A meeting of the O'Mahony branch of the Fenian Bro- enthusiastic devotes of Arctic explorations. There was | therhood was held Jast evening in Clinton Wall. The audience, Which was very amal!, was addressed by seve- ral epeakera The rumored gmuch suffering among the poor and the scantily Glothed, as well as thove whore business rub rietee”’ in Ireland ware It was 8 had tho effect of greatly transactions yesterday, and a very small amount of business was done. tended downward, and moat commodities were lower. Cotton was steady, Petroleum was dull and lower. Groceries were dull, <cidedly lower, under a very moderate demand. Grain was alsodrooping. Pork was irregular and lower. Lard was dull and declining. Whiskoy was dull aud enturely nominal. The Rights of the Southern Blacks—Tho fruitful theme of romark, only second to the secession in the ranks of the Brotherhood and the causes of ire which have so prolifically sprung therefrom. The proceedinzs wore conducted to the end ina very harmonious manner. Alecture on negro industry and trade was delivered last evening in Hope Chapel by Rev. Sella Martin, the golored preacher. The lecture contained some humor, and expressed hope of success, At a meeting of the New York County Medical Society held last evening in the College of Physicians and Sur- geons, an interesting paper on suicide, igs causes and means of prevention, was read by Dr. Jerome C. Smith. Last evening the friends and supporters of Jim Kerri- gan, who is expected to fight Morris Phelan in “the ring” on the 16th inst. for one thousand dollars, gave him a benefit at 113 Bowery, which was numerously attended, Jim sparred with Doony Harris, and the por- formance gave confidence to Jim's admirers that be will win in his encounter with Phelan, if nothing should occur to break off the engagements, of which all the de tails bave been nearly completed. A fire occurred last night in No. 23 Chambers street, corner of Centre, occupied as lawycra’ chambers, a shirt and hosiery store anda hair-cutting saloon, Nearly the whole of the contents of the building were destroyed, The store 87 Ferry street was entered some time be- tween Saturday night and yesterday morning by bur- glars, who blew open a safe, extracted therefrom three thousand dollars worth of government bonds, and es- caped undetected. There were four hundred and thirty-three deaths in this city during tho woek ending yesterday, being an increase of twenty-seven over the preceding weok and of two over the corresponding woek last year. Of the number one hundred and eight were men, seventy-nine women, one hundred and thirty-three boys and one hun. dred and thirteen girls. A recent arriva! from Key West reporte that tho hoalth of Lieutenant Goneral Scott, who ts spending the winter at that place, is improving. The State Educational Conventions of Michigan, In- diana and Illinois have unanimously adopted resolu- tions favoring tho proposition, already broached’ in Congress, of establishing # national Buroau of Educa- tion. The stock market wag woak and disturbed yestorday. Governments were heavy. Gold declined to 130% at tho close, The fall in gold and the thormometer combined curtailing commercial Domestio ‘produce till On 'Change flour was again do- Auti-Sinvery Conatitutlonal ment. The leading idea among the republican Amond. members of the present Congress gppears to be the necessity for some additional amend- menis of the constitution beforehand, in order to make safe and sure work of the full restors- tion of the late rebellions States as loyal mem- bers of the Union. sitions for amending the constitution have been brought before the two houses in reference to the rights of the emancipated blacks, the bind- ing obligations of the national debt, the repu- dilation of the debts of the rebellion, and the right of suffrage. One of these amendments, at least, promises to become a leading measure of this Congross. We refor to that which seeks to apportion the representation in the popular branch of Congress on the basis of the voting population of the several States. Tn this view various propo- Genoral Schenck, of Ohio, a leading member of this Congress of the dominant party, in his recent qneecch at his State capital insisted that this amendment “should be adopted by throe- fourths of the loyal States before admitting the other States,” and that they, the now excluded States, aa® condition of restoration, should be required to ratify it; “for, otherwise,” sald he, “they might defeat it, and ultimately gain such power as to undo all that has been done to pre- vent a repetition of the late disasters.” This apprehension, it seems, extensively prevails in the republican camp, and under its influence it is possible that nono of the excluded South- ern States, from Old Virginia to Texas, this yearor the next, will be admitted into this Congress. Tho object of this aforesaid pro- posed amondmont is to compel the Southern States to give their blacks tho right of suffrage, or restrict sald States to the alternative of sacri- ficing their four millions of blacks in their enu- merations for representation in Congress. We apprehend, however, after some consider- ation of the subject, that this proposed amend- ment, if made, would be productive of little good and much mischief. The proposition is to make the legal voters of each State the basis of representation in Congress, leaving to the several States full authority to declare who saall and who shall not be voters. Under this provision, to gain a3 many Representatives in Congress a3 possible, the policy of each State would unquestionably be to make as many voters as possible, We should, therefore, soon find ti right of auffrage in many States ex- tended, not only to the black males above the aye of twenty one, but to white and black male m'nors above the age of sixteen, and to white and biack fomales above the age of fourteon, as a begiuning; and finally to babies and to sirangers aud aliens of a day's sojourn, and to lunatics, felons and jailbirds of all descrip- tions, to makeup a show. But, even with the amendment of the proposition in Congress limiting the suffrage to male citizens of the United States above the ago of twenty-one, legally free from crime, and neither idiots nor lunatica, we cannot comprehend the necessity of making this thing, as a constitutional amend- ment, a condition of Soutoern restoration to Congress. The purpose involved in this proposition for reducing the basis of federal representation of each State to the count of its legal voters is to secure the rights of Southern blacks as citizens against the prejudices of Southern whites. “The constitution aa it 1s,” with the ratified amendment abolishing and probibiting slavery, secures the black population of all the States in all their rights as citizens, excepting tho right of suffrage. This amendment, declaring that “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist within the limits or jurisdiction of the United States,” gives to Congress the “power to enforce it by appropriate legisla- tion.” Then again there is an old provision of the constitution which declares that “ the citi- zens of each State shall be entitled to all privi- leges and immunities of citizens in the several States.” Under this provision a black citizen of Massachusotts to-day can enforce his rights in the courts of South Carolina, although this was not the case before the late rebellion, when State sovereignty was the ruling dogma of the South. Now, the South having submitted to and recognized the sovereignty of the United States, this national sovereignty and the power to enforce it are admitted and established from the Potomac to the Mexican border. We hold, therefore, that the constitution as it now stands affords ample seourities for the rights of the Southern blacks as free citizens, excepting the right of suffrage, and we think NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1866. tiara irtcmealbvecermenr Akh sit he eid pa that this matter may be wisely left \.° the States concerned. Their will so"? put them in the right on this sub- ject. In other respects the conditions exacted by President Johnson are surely sufficient for the protection of the Union in this work of Southern restoration. Let us have established law, order and confidence in the South, and wo shall have from ifs renewed industry a power- ful contribution of substantial aid and comfort to our Northern: taxpayers and our national treasury. The rich resources of the South in behalf of the liquidation of our national debt are of the first importance, and these cannot be secured while the Southern States are held in their present unsettled, uncertain, confused and demoralizing condition. The Fifth Part of the World. ‘Our Australian correspondence, published Yesterday, gives'a highly interesting account of the British colonies in the. southern hemi- sphere. The progress in that part of the world is truly remarkable, and has nothing like it except in the more extraordinary progress of our own country, Cities have sprung up in a comparatively short period, having popula- tions of a hundred thousand and upwards, and rivaling those of America or the Old World in magnificence. This is another evidence of the pre-eminent qualities of the Anglo-Saxon race, or northern races of Europe, as colonists, over those of southern Europe. Australia, or more properly Australasia, embracing the colo- nies of New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Van Dieman’s Land, or Tasmania, New Zealand and other smaller ones, is following in the course of the American colo- nies, which now form the United Btates. The entire population is probably two millions. The colony of Victoria alone is said to contain eight hundred thousand. The united colonios of America at the time they declared their in- dependence had about three millions. Whata mighty power has grown up here in less than @ century from a population only one-third larger than that of the Australian colonies! Our own grand republican empire is the eldor sister of the one now growing up in the filth part of the globe. Like causes will produce like effecis, The seeds of civil liberty eown there among the same ambitious, enterprising and hardy race will be developed ultimately in a republican form of government. England has found it necessary already to concede a great degree of self-government to the colonists. They still desire more, and it cannot be long before they will claim absolute independence. The most remarkable fact stated by our cor- respondent which interests us is the progress of American enterprise and ideas in that part of the world. It appears that our people are doing almost ag much a the British in its de- velopment, A great many Americans are there, and are taking leading part in every kind of business. This is the leaven silently working that will in time produce great results, The great number of our whalers that used to go to the southern seas, and the many that atill go there, may be re- garded as the pioneers of American enterprise and commerce, It was not an uncommon thing to see a floet of twenty or thirty at one time in the harbors of Sydney, Hobart Town or New Zealand. Trading vessels, with supplies and all sorts of articles of commerce, naturally fol- lowed. The discovery of gold in Californis greatly extended this commerce, and like dis- coveries in Australis incrersed it much more, The last event drew & considerable emigration from the United States. Thus the process of Americanizing sin part the southern hemi- sphere bas been going on till we see tho results mentioned by our correspondent. But we may confidently look for greater re- sulte then these. Unbounded and varied as the resources of our own country are, the restless, adventurous and enterprising charac- ter of our peoplo will lead thom to the rich colonios-and genial climate of Australia in greater numbers than heretofore. Looking at the rapid development of California and the other States on the Pacific, and at the early period when railroads will traverse the contt- nent from one ocean to the other, we may con- clude that the bulk of travel and commerce to and from Australia will be through this coun- try. Lines of steamships at no distant day will cross the Pacific, as they now cross the Atlantic, long voyages around Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope will be avoided, and Amerioan interests and influené® must become permanent throughout the South Seas. Stand- Ing in the centre of the world, America will exercise the grontest influence over the old continent of Europe on one hand, and over the new continent of Australia and the Asiatic world on the other, Such views are deducible from what ts occurring, and such undoubtedly is tho flat of destiny. Ewaration ann Tar Drarivario’ or Ewt- oxanra.— We published some time ago a list of the number of cmigrants from Europe who arrived bere from the Ist of January to the Slat of October, 1865, and we gave, as correctly na could be ascertained, the different parts of the continent to which they betook themselves upon their arrival. Of course, in many instances, emigrants may have changed the point of final destination upon which they originally fixed their minds, but in the main the statement was undoubtedly eccurate, Since the close of the war tbe attention of emigrants has been directed very considerably toward the Sonth- ern States, where favorable opportunities of lensing and cultivating to advantage planta- tions and farm lands are now presented. We append « list of arrivals ffom Europe between the Ist of November and the 3ist of December of the past year, and the intended destination of the emigrants, which will show that foreign labor, industry and capital are already beginning to turn, in increased ratio, toward the South. The number of emigrants who arrived here within these two months was 88,357, and were dispersed as follows:— Ment ay tesla New Hampel Nova Scotia New York. Siee 1 ove ue s = a8Geed ga than to Vermont or New Hampshire, «rne POF Ye Have Always With You.” The repors .°f the Police Commissioners, which we published t.'° Other day, exhibited the normal condition of < Certain class of the poor of this city, especially those who live in tene- ment houses and im the damp aud mouldy sub- terraniean habitations that abound in certain localities. If that report shows the wretched- ness of this class of the poor in moderate sea- sons of the year, what must it be in such sharp and biting days and nights as we have latterly experienced? Some narrow-souled philan- thropists may argue that these miserable people are sufferers through causes arising from their own vices and’debaucheries, and hence are not Proper objects of Christian charity. To all such we eubmit that these poor creatures ought to receive more consideration at their hands than some others; for they have abandoned God's laws and are abandoned sinners among men. They are thus doubly objeots of charity. In that bestowal of the charities of our Christian benevolent societies, therefore, this sinful and miserable class of human beings are. entitled to at least some consideration; for the bitter cold pinches the vicious as cruelly as the virtuous poor. Thovirtuous poor! We have, alas; too many of this class among us. We have them in alb the lower grades of society, and in some of the upper ones. Many of latter in former yéars lived in affluence, but from one cause or another have been reduced to poverty. Among the middle classes there are very many truly Christian and worthy poor families. Among this class are those dependent for their daily sustenance upon the earnings which a widow and elder daughters may obtain to support younger branches of the same family. This class reserve to the latest moment the procure- ment of winter supplies, if ever at all able, of provisions, fuel and clothing, and as the piercing weather now upon us was precipitated almost without warn- ing their distress is truly pitiable. There are, too, the war’s horrors. They did not end upon the battle field; but they have followed bereaved families to the threshold of their hum- ble homes, and in these cruel hcurs of winter have stalked in among weeping widows and scantily clad children, huddling before a few embers of cheaply bought faggots, like shiver- ing skeletons around the glimmoring ashes of atomb. Many of the distresses of the families of deceased soldiers would be relieved if the government would speedily pay to their sur- viving heirs the amounts due them. We re- pestedly hear of instances where widows and children have been left unprotected and un- provided for by the husband and father having fallen in the service of the country. These families osp2cially deserve the attention of the pay depariment at Washington, and we Invite ita officers to the performance of that duty at the earliest practicable moment. But what are the rich doing in this starving and freezing hour for the poor of all Eradoo and clesscot What avo dup Chris. tian ‘benevolent sdcicties doing? Where are all our charitable associations? Large amounts of money sre annually subscribed in the different churches to aid the poor of their several parishes. Where are those philanthropists now? Thoy should understand that if they have no poor in their own parishes it is no ain to go beyond and relieve suffering humanity whorever they may find it. The rich while enjoying the warmth and comforts of their splendid apartments and the substance of their abundantly supplied larders, should remember that the boggar periéhes hard by their palace doors; that the vicious, rendered more desperate by the tortures of their condi- tion, are rushing faster and faster into crime and more ewifily to perdition; that the safeguards which surround the worthy and virtuous poor are gradually crumbling away; that the once opulont are losing faith in the gospel teachings they once listened to from the richly velveted pulpits of royal edifices ereoted In honor of God, and arriving sadly at the belief that the purple and crimson of those stained glass windows aro but the droppings of the blood of » sanctified and mourning Sa- viour. Tho rich have it in thelr power to amelio- rate the sufferings of these people. Now is the time to do so. Many of them are, no doubt, great sinners; and bere will they find abundant opportunity to do a little good for the mach ill they may have done. The charitable societies, the churches, all organizations that pretend to have followers in the train of the white robed angel Charity, should seize the present o¢ca- sion for showing their reliance in the holy admonition, “The poor ye have always with you.” Tux Searmo Season anp tue Heaven ov Awentcan Lavus.—We have heard that some fashionable physicians have advanced the idea that the addiction of American ladies to the amusement of skating is cal- culated to undermine their health. This is manifestly absurd. It may be true that skating is an exercise which, if too violently or im- prudently indulged in, may engender some physical derangement. But so will dancing, swinging, swimming, horseback riding, exces- sive travelling, gymnastic exercises of nearly every kind, if indulged in to excess end beyond the endurance and powers of the human sys tem. We have heard that some people have surfeited themselves by over-eating, that per- sons have become tipsy by drinking, that people have become crazy upon religious top- ics, that some incomprehensible individual has committed bigamy; but are these any reasons that there should be no eating, no drinking, no religion, no giving and taking in marriage ! By no moans. Neither should there be uo skating by ladies because some impradent misses and young ladics have overdone the thing, just as a few others muy have exceeded their phys.cal abilities in gymnastic exer The truth is, the exercise of skating among American ladies is @ healthful and truly agrec- able pastime. The young and oll enjoy it with benefit, It isa pleasure to know that it has become eo goneral and popular among the most fastidious class, and that our skating lakes and ponds, which multiply hardly fast enough to accommodate those who indulge in the amusement, daily and even nightly prevent such brilliant spectacles, perfect and incessant moving panoramas of health and rosy beauty, manliness and decorum, Every year the exer- cise becomés more and more # favorite one | ion of ta members, ind for social purposes, betd the fret | of Missouri, Virginia, Mar, p< , a 4 Teniitands Goh We toed ca arn American fadies. Even now the first going to Tennessee, South Carolina and Vir- thing @ young miss not fn her teens looks for in, or hanging by, her stocking in the chimney corner, about Christmas or New Year time, is @ pair of ekates. Then comes the eagerness with which she views the bright sheen of the sun upon the newly formed ice. And how her little eyes beam with joy as, with the assistance of a big brother, she glides over the surface. Surely the pastime of skating is and will con- tinue to be one of the most agreeable and most healthful institutions ever introduced for the benefit of American ladies. Tas Coutzction ov InrennaL Revenva at vHE Sour4.—It is ‘stated in our Washington despatches that the receipts from internal revenue last week amounted to nine millions of dollars. Tyhis vast sum came from the work- ing people of the North. The South: has no money to pay taxes, and not much of anything, at present, to pay taxes upon. The difficulties about collecting the internal revenue there re- solve themselves into this brief statement: Although the Southerners who come to this city manage to put up at our best hotels, drink expensive liquors, smoke the costliest cigars and fight the tiger with something of their old spirit, they leave poverty and destitution af home. But it is not fair that the North should continue to pay all the national expenses, in- cluding the interest on the national debt. The South is back again in the Union, and enjoys its protection and the most of ita privileges, and should be made to pay a share of the funds. Southerners are willing to do this; but the radicals in Congress object, They will not give the South a chance to renew her former prosperity. The argument drawn from the relative proportion of the internal revenue which the two sections now pay is one of the atrongeat that can be urged in favor of imme- diate restoration on the plan of the President Practica. ReTRENcuMENT.—General Grant has sent three members of his staff to the De- partments of the East, West and Southwest to ascertain if further reductions cannot be safely made in the military forces and ex- penses. This is a movement toward practical retrenchment of which the tax-burdened peo- ple will most heartily approve. The Lieuton- ant General began his reduction of the military expenses the moment that Lee surrendered. Instead of proceeding in triumph, like » con- queror, to inspect the city he had captured after go long and bloody a siege, he hurried to Washington, like a sensible man, to cut dowa the enormous armies which were no longer necessary. Since then he has dismissed our soldiers to their homes and brought nearly every department.of his command to a: peace footing. It would be well for the country if we had a practical, common: sense man like Grant in every bureau of the government. Tue Travr or 18x Counrry.—We publish ia another column the annual circular of the Mercantile Agency of Dun & Co,, to which we would call the attention of the public asam interesting statement of the condition oftrade and commerce in the country for the past year. It appears that the number of failures in 1865 wae Gre hundred and thirty. and tho liabilities over seventeen millions and a half—an excess over tho years 1863 and 1864 of nearly double but considerably less than in any other year since the panic of 1857. The general condition of tradé ip represented to be remarkably healthy, and the future prospects most suspi- clous. The reasons, therefore, are very fully set forth in the circular, which will be founda document of considerable interes: to the whole community. Obituary. MA, BLIJAH ¥. PURDY. Mr. El¥ab ¥. Purdy, for a long time past prommentiy identified with political affairs in this city, and whose Icading position in the councils of Tatamany Hall wom for him the title of the War Horse of the Domoeracy, died at twelve o'clock tast night, at hie residence ie Ludiow atreet. Mr. Purdy was one of our County Super- visors for a number of years, and remained » member of the Board at the tinte of bis death. JOHN @. M'DOWRLE. Join G. MoDowell, of Elmira, N. Y., died tm that city on January 1, inst. He was one of the oldess settlers of tne Southern tier counties, and had boom member of Assembly, County Judge and State Senator under the old constitution, Hix last appearance im public lite was as Presidential elector in the fail of.185R Literary Intelligence. ©. W. Denison, lately » chaplain in the United States Army, has written and published “The Life, Campaigns and Public Services of Major General Philip H. Shert- dan.” The book ia illustrated with » portrait of Geueral Sheridan, scones at the battles in the Shenandoah val- ley, the battle of Five Forks, Sheridan's ride “To the Frout'' at Winchester and other remarkable events, It is printed in Philadelphia, “Daisy Swain, the Fiower of the Shenandoah,’ ts the title of an interesting tale of the rebellion as affecting domestic life, written by John McDagnal! and pubiished in Brooklyn, N. ¥. “Roanoke, or Whore is Utopia,” inthe title of » new Uilastrated povel from the pon of C. W. Wiley, anthor of ‘“Alamanee” and other books of that class. Mt ie jost out in Phiadelphin. “Putting op Airs, or A Warning to Wives,” has been given to ® very interesting novel Jnst teed in Now York. Tt is from the pen of the acthor of Ue ‘Marry- ing Mau,” “The Jill,” “Angelina,” &o, Moxs Corsrenrats.—For reasons best known to those tm the eeeret, it has been supposed for some time past that plates were Belug made for the purpose of counterfeiting the Ave dollar National Bank notes, Mr. R. R. Lowell, government detective of this city, assured hiniself of the facts in the ease informed the Hou. Fdward Jordan, Solicitor of the Treasury, who immediately came to New York aud commenced an luvestigation, which resulted in the discovery of the plates, avd thas saving the community from the Hability of te: ine to deal with avery dangerous comnterfelt, The afleir iv andergoing further investigation. Conpenevce oF ime Temacenare Cosceriow,—The annual roport of conference of the Society of St, Vincent de Wuwul attached to the Church of the Inmeoniate Com been igened by the conference, and shows ar from October 11, 1864, to October v@ families, comprising two bondred ividualg have been relieved rence. Provision hae been made for fifty deatitnte children. The report aleo shows ws from various sources ginouite and the diaburgements $2,246 Os ds nthe treasury of i # conferen: eaperey of the Rev. Dr. Morrogh, aud is ont in the city Jance ip nader Us one of the most Tur Geewax Veranas Usios,—This Union of German Veterans, composed of the veteran associations form @ by members of the Gorman volunteor regiments raised In this city, which was organized for the mutyal proter- grvoral menting of the present year at (hetr headquarters | at the Steuben oust yesteniay, where some additional Hons of vetormne were adinitved tothe Univ vid:—The Firet New York Field Artillery Veteran Bo. Yoty, the General German Veteran Booiety, compared o A Verman Pollard postpoued iv rollard's ease vay to-day wasll Thursday