The New York Herald Newspaper, February 15, 1866, Page 5

4 NEW YORK JAMES GORDON BEN EDITOR AND PROPRIPDR, W. CORNER OF FULTON 4ND NASSAU STS. HERALD. rT, <a Volume XXXI.. EVEKING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, irri, SOLON SuINGLE—LIVE ENDLAN. | LUGY RUSHTON’S NEW YORK THATRE, and 73) Broadway.—Tar Buack Dow! Sea Yoo axp Ms AND THE Post. i AMUSEMENTS TILIS near Broome WOOD'S THEATRE, Broadway, pposile the St. Nicholas AD. Hotel. —Rur Van Winkie—A crind " GEORGE CHRISTYS—Orp Scuoo. or MinstRet Hatcaps, Musicat, Geos, &c.. Fifth Avenue Opera House, om Sane West Twenty-fourth street.—BaL Masque Ded BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 5% Broadway, opposite Mermpatan. Hovel.—Erwiorian SinainG, Dancixc, &¢.— Tur BRVERAGE GavoxR: TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Sinc- ina Dancing, Burtesques, &c.—Live IN Mexico; oR, Tax Parnior's Daugurer. BRYANTS’ MINSTRE! way.—Day Brrant’s Nev ES, BURLESQUES, &C.—' Mechanics’ UMP SPuKoM ie Live [xatn. il, 472 Broad- ‘uiko Comical HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Etmortan Mix- stkeisyY—BaiLavs, Buxiesques ann PANtoMruns. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.< Open from 10. A. M. tll 10 P.M , Thursday, February 15, 1866. THE NEWS. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday a petition of the Represinta- tives elect from Tennessee, asking that their State be recognized as again occupying the same position in the Union which she held before the rebellion, was intro- col and referred to the Reconstruction Committee ifons were also presented for the abolition of civil rights distinctions on account of color, to allow women to vote and for increasing the salaries of assistant asses- sors of internal revenue. A Dill appropriating twenty- ive thousand dollars for a survey of the Upper Missis- sippi and Minnesota rivers was introduced and referred to the Commiitee on Commerce. The ideration of the Reconstruction Committee's proposed constitutional amendment fixing the basis of Cong: ional representa. dion wis then resumed, and occupied the remainder of the session without a vote being reached. Mr, Hender- son continued his speech from the day previous, in the sumo rather indefinite and seemingly contradictory style. Messrs. Yates and Clark also spoke, the former viewing the amendment as unnecessary and snperiluous, and the lniter advocating the immediate concession of negro suf- fray In the House of Representatives the resolution autho- riding tho Secretaries of War and th wy to place at veal of our Quarantine authorities bulks suitable holera hosp‘tal purposes was adopted, as was also, considerable discussion, the resolution appointing layor, Postinaster, United States Distriet Attorney, dent of the Chamber of Commeree and Mr, Jackson iultz a commission to select a site for a new Post Olice and national court building in this city, Memorials were presented of New York photographers for a release from stamp tax, and of the San Franciseo Chamber of Commerce for an appropriation of two million dollars to r ‘3 in their harbor, A bill to establish a na- tional bureau of education was introduced, received its first two readings, and was referred to a special commit tev. Instructions were given to the Ways and Means Committee to report on the expediency of gradu- ating the tax on cigars aud other mannfactured tobaco necording to thg relative yal ticle, and to the Banking Committee to propriety of excluding interest bearing legal tender notes from the iawful money required to be held by na- tional banks for redemption of their liabitities. A bill giving the Postmaster General power to appoint other persons than postinasters to.seil letter stamps in locali- ties where the public service may require such appoint- , at d compensation not exceeding five per cent on was reported from the Post Office Committee and yeted for a considerable while, but not disposed of. ‘The contested election case of Messrs. Trowbridge and Baldwin, of Michigan, was terminated by the adoption of resolutions giving the former the seat and the latter fif- teon hundred dollars to cover his contest expenses, The remainder of the session was taken ap in further discus- sion of the Bankrupt bill, A message was yesterday received in both houses of Cougress from the President, transmitting correspondence between Secretary Seward and the erench Minister in Washington and other papers suggesting an international conference at Constantinople to consider the subject of cholera and measures for preventing its spread. THE LEGISLATURE. In the Sendte yesterday the bill regulating taxes on ands takou for Croton water purposes was passed. The I< to omond the act relative to frands in assesements for local improvements in this city and te incorporate the New York Agsociation of pt Firemen were reported from committee. A bill providing that the canals eal be kept in repair an for this purpose to the lowest Widder, was intr A number of other matters received attention; but they are devoid of general interest. A 1 ge was received ernor containing al miscon- t George W. Smi of Oneida and requesting an early investigation thereof, embers of the As twithstending thoir extended, ardyous and exerting se: of the day and night previons, resumed the ration of the Metro. polltun Health bil! errly y forenoon, and, having »1 the measth ), took it np as nent! by themselves, wernor the ap- pointment the Commissioners, and passed it by eighty yeas to thirty-four nays, there haing no repadl vote ngaing it, But ttle other Dustuess wae Wansacted, the majority appearing to think that ia putting this matter throngh they’ had done enougle for bw Bills were introduced extending for two years the terms of the commiseto construct wpb in this city, and authorizing the Comp- trotler to borrow seventyslive thousand dollars for the purpoe; appropriating seventy thonsand dollars for sick ant wounded soldiers, and authorizing a railroad im Lgitir aud oLhor strects, THE CITY. Tho case of the government against Senor MacKenna, charged with a breach of the neutrality laws 0 the United SMtalos, In endeavoring to fit out In this city an armed expe- dition tons ist Chile in her war with Spain, was up yester- tay bef-a Judge Shipman, in the United States Crreuit ‘Court, Mr. MacKenna, through counsel, pleaded not guilty to the indictment. Dr, Estaban Rogers, Chilean Consul, who is proceeded against under a similar indictment, also through counsel pleaded not guilty. ‘The trials are set down to come off early in Mareb. The exequator bitherto granted to Dr. Estaban Royero as Chilean Congul at this port has been revoked by the Pres.dent, An intorosting case, involving the right of poseession to an antograph letter of Washington, written to the Common Council of New York in 1785, was tried before Julgo Foster, in the Supreme Court yesterday, The jocter passed out of the possession of the city by some un\nown means into that of a gentleman named John Allow, since deceased, who held it for over thirty years. His daughter, Mrs, Stewart, sent the letter last year, to b+ anot oued off, in connection with other articles, to the firm of Bangs, Merwin & Co, ‘The letter was parchased by a Mr, Lent, bat returned next day, Am action was then commenced avainst Mr. Lent and the aactionoors by ‘tho olty, to recover the lettor, whieh, being tried yoster- day, the Jury gave a verict in favor of plaintiffs, In the case of JN. Balch against Asa 8. Meeroer, of the Pacific female em’gration scheme, and others, a de- cision was yesterday ronderod denying the motion to restrain (be California, Orogon aud Mexican Steamstip Company from parting with property in their possession, alleged to belong to the defendants, on the ground that ‘The Cohrt has no jariedietion, and because the steamer Const.intion, which left this city 4 short time ago with a load of female emigrants, is prosecuting her voyage and beyond the contro! of the company. Tho further hearing of the charges agrinst Zeno Burn. ‘yam of being concerned In mock auction frands was gewumes yesterday in the Court of Oyor aad Terminer. ho taking of testimony om both sides was clored, and 4) ig provable a verdict in the ouse will be rendered * today. John D. Slater and Charles Miller, scoused of Rating passed Gouhtarfeit Gurroncy, were yesterday digcharzed NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY FEBRUARY 15, 1866. vy Commissioner Stilwell, who did not consider the evi- dence conclusive against them. In the United States District Court, in Brooklyn, yes- terday, before Judge Benedict, Nelson J. Stewart, found guilty of counterfeiting fractional currency, was sen- tenced to pay a fine of one thousand dollars and be im- prisoned in the Penitentiary at Albany for ten years. Gaetano Luchere, also convicted of counterfeiting, was sentenced to the Albany Penitentiary for the term of four years, ‘ ‘An action was yesterday commenced by Mrs. Matilda ‘A. Moody against Georgo A. Osgood, in the Supreme Court, to recover damages, laid at ten thousand dollars, for being run over on the 6th of January, 1865, near 125th street, in Bighth avenue, by a sleigh driven by the defendant. The American Cousin case came up yesterday in the General Term of the Superior Court, om an appeal from Judge Barbour’s decision dismissing the complaint and refusing an injunction to restrain the performance of the play. Counsel argued the matter at length, and the Court ordered a postponement to give opportunity for an amendment of the case. ‘An action was brought yesterday in the Marine Court against the Hudson River Railroad Company by Wm. McDonald, to recover five hundred dollars damages for a span of horses killed and wagon and harness destroyed by a detached locomotive belonging to that company , near 175th street, in October last. The decision will be rendered to-day. ‘. Inthe Court of General Sessions yesterday Anthony Ransom was convicted of robbery and sont to the State Prison for ten years, Abraham McDonald, jointly in- dicted with Ransom, was acquitted. Raretia Rosetta pleaded guilty to stealing seventy dollars worth of cloth- ing from William Rosenthal, and was gent tothe Peni- tentiary for six montfis, Dennis Riley pleaded guilty to stealing one hundred dollars worth of property from Julius Becker, and was remanded for sentence. Patrick Barker, charged ‘with assaulting officer Kennedy, was acquitted. In consideration of the near approach of the season favorable for the yachtsman’s indulgence in his favorite pastime, we present in another column this morning & general review of the yachting field, and a statement of the prospects for the summer’s sport. All appearances indicate the next season will be a brilliant one. Ash Wednesday was duly celebrated yesterday in all the Catholic and Episcopal churches in this city. ‘The anniversary of St. Valentine was extensively ob- served in the city yesterday, and the number of missives of love, as well as of spite, hate, fun, &¢., which found their way from the public shops to private hands, through the mail and other modes of conveyance, was immense. ‘The coroner's investigation regarding the death of Wil- liam Carll, who was ehot in his drinking place, in abase- ment on the corner of Cortlaudt and Washington streets, on.the 7th inst., by one of a party of four disorderly cus- tomers, was commenced yesterday, and considerable tes- Umony was taken, Only one of the four, a man named William Stripp, has yet beon arrested, and he was among the witnesses who testified, Stripp alleges that a man named Frank McCormick fired the fatal shot, ‘The inves- tigation will be continued on Tuesday next. John Lynn, a street car conductor, during a difficulty about fare yesterday with some of his passeners, on the corner of Fourth avenue and Fourtcenth street, drow a knife and inflicted severe stabs on several of them. He ‘was arrested and committed. The Ninetieth New York Volunteers, lately returned from Georgia, Were the recipients of a public welcome, Doth military and civic, in Brooklyn yesterday. It was afine affair and did credit to the War Fund Committee, who had the full charge of the arrangements, The Brooklyn Common Council committee to investi- gate the charges made against Mr. KE. C. Van Epps, Su- perintendent of the Traant Home, having taken the statements of a number of fomale inmates, have deemed the evidence against the accused sufficient to warrant them in suspending him from duty and appointing bis temporary successor. Mr. Van Epps will be heard in bis defence next Saturday, The sales of real estate were resumed yesterday, from the day previous, at the Exchange salesrooms, No. 111 Broadway, and a large number of lots were pat up and disposed of. ‘The stock market was steady on the whole yesterday, but closed strong. Gold weakened, and closed at 13834. Governments were steady and dull. The markets were very dull yesterday, and prices ruled in fuvor of the buyor. There was very little done in foreign merchandise, and domestic produce was generally quict and heavy. Petroleum was dull, but unchanged. Cotton was nominally up- changed, Sugar was steady, Coffee was firm. On ‘Change flour was irregular, ruling lower for common qualities, Wheat was lower, Corn was heavy. Oats ‘were more active. Pork was dull and drooping. Lard was steady. Whiskey was nominal. MISCELLANEOUS. A decision was yestorday given in the United States Court of Claims, in Washington, in the case of Thomas W. Pierce against the governmont, to the effect that the United States is not responsible for the fraudulent ac- ceptances, amounting to one million seven hundred thou- sand dollars, issued by John B. Floyd, while he was President Buchanan's Secretary of War. ‘The President has signed the bill passed by Congress prohibiting American vessels which during therebellion took foreign registers from having their American rogis- ters restored to them, and it is therefore now a law. The bill enlarging the powers of the Freedmen’s Barean has not yet received the President's signat nor is it expected to do so in its present shape. The Connecticut Republican State Convention aasem- Died at Hartford yesterday, and nommated Genera Joseph Hawley for Governor, 0, F. Winchester for Lien tenant Governor, and selected candidates for the other State offices, The platform resolutions adopted, while avoiding vexatious topies, endorse both President John- son and ‘Congress aud eulogize the army and navy, eral Hawley, the nomince for Governor, attended the mvention during the afternoon session, and made a brief speech, accepting the nomination, ‘The Canadian people and press are greatly excited, and some of thom are furious, over the failure of their commission recently in Washington to mduce our gov- ernment to renew the Reciprocity treaty, A Toronto paper declares that the members of the eomimission shamefully humbled themselves, and that they dare not evbmit to Parliament the requirements made of them a® aconsideration for its ‘renewal, The government papers pretend to be pleased with the failure of the negotiations, alleging that it will ‘lead to the consumation of their pet scheme of a confederation of all the provinces, Messrs, Galt and Howland, of the commission, returned to Montreal on the 11th inst., and the latter left next day for Toronto, to get all his flonr into the American market before the 17th proximo, the time when the treaty expires, he being owner of the Lambton Mills, Lord Monck, the Governor Goneral, returned to Montreal from the United states on ‘Tuesday, and a Cabinet council is to be held to-day, Details of Mexican news, through imperial channels, from the interior and the capital to the 27th of January, are furnished in our despatches from Havana, Three additional small victories of the imperial troops, the sur- render to them of the town of Papaulta and the pacification of the Sierra del Norte are recorded; but it is evident that Maximilian’s enemies «till give hienoltiere plenty to do, and that order is far from being established in the dominions over which he claims to exercise control. A detachment of his troops had been defeated near Tehuantepec by Porfirio Diaz, Gueritias and parties of armed republicans still swarm along the Principa: highways, and are continually swooping down on imperialiste and (raveltera A band of thom recently captured a mail coach between Saltilo and San Luis, andgot possession of imperial despatches en route trom the capital to Monte. rey. The inhabitants of Chihuahua bave been disarmed by the imperialista, A firm has received from Maxi- milian’s government the oaclusive privilege of construct. ing and ranning for seventy-five years & railroad from Matamoros to the Pacific, It was reported that Tanginis, the financier sent out to Maximilian by Napoleon, had suceeded in devising » scheme to make the imperial Tevonues meet the expenditures. ‘The message of Provisional Governor Hamilton, sub. mitted to the Texas Reconstruction Convention on Taes- day of this week, in addition to urging repudiation of the rebel debt, calls attention to the requirements of the national government regarding tho doctrine of ‘State sovereignty, the destruction of slavery, and the claims of the freedmen for protection of their civil rights and to testify ju the courts, A resolatigg declaring the se- cession fice and all acifoa e Secession Con- ventoin nail was introduced and referred. ‘The delegation of the Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Charch, after their visit to President Jobinson on Tuesday, reported to the convention of which they are membhurs that they had made n statement to fale © Aue seizure of churches of theit conference by Vine military. under asguned instructions from dim, and § liate to a great extent the bold and startling Judge Taney of the constitution itself. authority irom the constitution for these dis- criminations against the blacks of this country rights, Ifthe free negro of the United States had no rights which white men were bound to respect, it was because his whole race fell under the ban involved in the constitutional recognition and protection of African slavery. With that institution swept away the negro born and raised in the United. & citizen of the United States, people, in whose name the constitution stands. Thus, in the amendment abolishing slavery, the power embraced “to enforce this article by appropriate legislation” gives to.Congress the power to enforce the general civil and -politi- cal rights of the blacks as citizens. The dis- tinctions resulting from slavery are wiped out, and there is no such color as white or black in the constitution from the beginning to the end. It is a most remarkable fact, too, that the ‘first appearance of the word “slavery” in the constitution is in the amendment abolishing slavery. ashamed of it, and that even while recognizing it by roundabout phrases they framed their that he replied that he had issued no such orders, and that with regard to some of the cases complained of he had directed investigations to be made. Tho Senate of the Kentucky Legislature has concurred in the resolutions of the lower house condemning the Freedman’s Bureau, rejecting the anti-slavery constitu- tional amendment, and requesting the removal of the national troops from the State aud the restoration of the habeas corpus writ. . Clark and Tristram, tried on charge of being concerned in the heavy robbery of the Adams Express Company, én the New Haven Railroad, on the night of the 6th ult., were found guilty, and were yesterday sentenced to the Connecticut Penitentiary. ‘The Reconstruction Committee and Their Latest Constitutional Amendment. The special order of the day in the federal House of Representatives on Monday next will probably be the resolution from the Recon- struction Committee embracing the following proposition for an amendment of the constitu- tion, to wit:— aunl'bemeocoaty and groper acre (othe zeae of each State all the privileges and immunities of citi- zens in the several States, and to all persons in the seve- ral States equal protection in the rights of life, liberty and property. ‘This is a fair proposition, but it seems to us wholly unnecessary and superfluous. The con- stitution as it is expressly declares that “the citizens of each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States;” and as this is included im that division of the constitution which treats of the powers of Congress, the enforcement of these equal “ privileges and immunities” clearly be- longs to Congress. Next, with regard to the protection of all persons in the several States in the rights of life, liberiy and property. What is this for? Enactments by Congress for the enforcement of these personal rights have heretofore never been thought of. The State legislatures and the State and United States courts have answered the purpose. But while, before the late rebellion, according to Chief Justice Taney, the negro had no rights which white men were bound to respect, he has since the war, with the abolition of slavery, been ad- vanced by the constitution to the level of the “free persons,” or citizens of the United States. Mr. Bancroft, in his late Lincoln discourse be- fore Congress, said that the Dred Scott decision had no foundation in civil law, canon law, feudal law, common law or constitutional law; but still, under the constitution as it was, State legislation and Congressional ‘egislation had established a system of civil and political dis- criminations against the blacks, such as to pal- construction given from the Supreme Court by The war, however, and the: amendment abol- ishing slavery have swept every vestige of in reference to their general civil and political fates. becomes: id one. of the It shows that “the fathers” were work to meet the ultimate attainment of ani- versal liberty. Why then all these superfluous constitu- tional amendments? They are the tricks of the party in power, as excuses for the con- tinued exclusion of ihe excluded Southern States. They are intended as food for bun- combe—as political capital for electionecring purposes in the North. They are intended to divert the public atiention from the- practical issues of Southern restoration to the a, it of plausible abstractions. In the exercise of the powers which they now ‘possess, the two houses of Congress may establish ample pro- tection and securities concerning the civil and political rights of the Southern blacks, and in avery short time secure a full representation from all the States on a satisfactory footing ot loyalty. But the dominant party are playing their game for power—a bold and dangerous game indeed, but one in which they will probably not be checked short of some emphatic warning from our approaching Northern elections. Tue Arrest or Oxt or ‘re Concorp Bank Rossers.—The circumstances attending the arrest of one of the robbers of the bank in Concord, Massachusetts—an interesting account of which was given in yesterday’s HenaLy—dis- play an adroitness, perseverance and finesse on the part of our detective and regular police force worthy of all praise. The robbers themselves were men of the most scientific character, and when one reads the history of their patience in effecting the robbery and their cunning devices to elude detection and to hide their plunder, it seems like a romance. One thing not exactly connected with the robbery was made manifest during the progress ot laying the toils to entrap the culprits. The police suspected a party of being concerned in the affair, pounced upon him, and believing that he was arrested for what he really was—a passer of dounterteit money—the fellow confessed to that fact and dis- gorged several thousand dollars in counterfeit fractional currency. This shows that the police can scarcely touch a suspected person without finding him alive with spurious government ourrency. We rather expect that the cashier of the Concord bank isa far happier mortal to-day than he was a fow weeks ago. Tae Risk i Rexts—The enormous ip erease in the rents of stores and dwellings in ‘this metropolis demanded by the land- lords for the coming year 4s calculated to injure this city eventnally. It is true that many people prefer to pay high rents here rather than low rents elsewhere, because they can make more money in New York im any businessor profession; but still this disposition may be ptiehed too far. New York is like a bucket of water, full and running over, and Jersey City, Brooklyn and all the Villages be " this city gud Poughkeepsio or New flores are flourishing from the spillings of the bucket But if peovle continue (9 be drivey out of the metropolis by the extorifons of Tand- lords the whole city will become merely a place ia which to do businese, and will bear the same relation to the adjacent towns, that the lower wards now do to the wards above Canal street. The whole of tris island is suitable for building sites, and there is plenty of space to accommodate all our inhabitants, if dwelling honses be speedily erected; and, after all, that is the only permanent remedy for the evil of high rents. But, imthe meantime, we recom- mend to the landlords a prudent discretion, and advise them to remember that it is better to have a good, honest, paying tenant at a rea- sonable rent, than a philosopher who promikes to pay any rent, however extravagant, and really pays none at all. The Health Bill at Albany—Epidemie in Polit! The rural gentlemen in the Assembly at Albany made a grand flourish of trumpets on Tuesday over what is termed: a health bill for this metropolis, The entire day was spent in a wordy contest and the night exhausted in the ‘controversy between the two factions in the re- publican party, Were it not for'the fact that it was announded at the outset that “the Health bill was then taken up” we might have looked in vain for any reference to that subject. Had the measure been called “a bill to regulate the politics of tliis city and State, to define the status of the political cliques, and to-determine who should be the next candidates for Gover- nor and United States Senator,” the discussion and speeches on the oecasion would have been in order and to the point; but, as it is, it is impossible to see what all this talk and bluster have to do with the health of the citizens of this city. the cholera ; but it is quite evident that the danger of an epidemie’is at Albany and not in New York. In fact, we:should judge that it has already broken out there and is sweeping every- thing before it. It seems to develop delirious symptoms and calls for immediate remedies, or the erection of a politica lunatic asylum may become necessary. Since the recent conven- tiom of allopathic doctors at the State capital failed to prevent the breaking out of this epi- demic, we would suggest that the homeo- pathic physicians forthwith try their skill and There was, ‘it. is true, some allusion to see,if they cannot cure what the other school could not prevent. The developments of the debate furnish some very curious facts in regard to this political epidemic. version as if he were at @ religious revival; another gives his views of the reliability of the New York Tribune, indicating that it is 4 cross between a fanatic, reform-and copperhead. A little later in the day the discourse takes a new form, and one of its victims suddenly becomes very rich and declares that New York city is owned by gentlemen in the raral districts. He theretore was in favor of the country members taking the responsibility of doing what they pleased with theirown property. They “could annihilate the cholera and Ali other pests that have visited the country.” be true we would: suggest that they try their bands on the: Legislatures, by way of experiment; for that, next to Congress, is the greatest nuisance that we are just now afflicted with. But to accomplish this work of annihi- lating pesta, we are told they “must confide in Governor Fenton. The Union party,” he adds, “ought to have confidence inhim.” From this statement it appears that they have not, and this, no doubt, is where the shoe pinches. Fol- lowing this outburst comes voice from the pit, describing the remarkable “scenes presented to neas during his descent into hell,” accom- panied with a jumble about “hanging men of color, insidious blows at Governor Fenton, defeat of Wadsworth and the election of Sey- mour.”” Weed faction, Raymond faction and a Greeley faction float before the august assembly, which call forth a dissertation on rings in the republi- can party. Mr. Littlejohn finally comes to the rescue and manifests a great anxiety to get ready for a pestilence. He wants a sanitary regulation to go into “operation, to-morrow.” This he shows to be impossible, for the reason that the bill This episode calls out a history of our Chamber of Commerce, the Loyal League, republican committee, the Police’ Commi:- soners, Board of Supervisora, with allusions to our city Postmaster and Surveyor of the port, closing with an appeal in behalf of Governor Fenton, who is termed the commande’ of the republican party. One member talks about his con- If this As the debate proceeds visions of a Tribune is opposing the Senate because Weed is in favor of it. in-chiet All this we are asked to receive as appertaining to the health of this metropolis. What all this r'gmarole and bluster have todo with the regulation of the sanitary affairs of this city is more than we can see. Had the debate taken place in a party caucus, when the whole question at issue was whether this or that clique should rule the party, the discus- sion could not possibly have been any diffe- rent, That is plainly the purport and meaning of the whole affair. It is not the health of our citizens, the cleanliness of our streets, nor the danger of a visit by the cholera which exer- cised their minds, but political power and political patronage. To this point the whole thing has been degraded at last. It is about time that this nonsense and political claptrap ceased. No good can come from it, nor will any measure which is brought forward and advocated wader such auspices effect anything in preventing the threatened pestilence. Every effort of the Albany solons in tinkering our sanitary matters has only made them worse instead of better, Last winter they provided that the city should be cleaned by contract. The result is that our streets are in ten times worse condition than before. We did have some show for our money under the former system, bat there is none now. At this rate the passage of another sanitary measure at Al- bany will compel ns to resort to mud scows to get across the streets. This political contest has finally resulted in the Assembly passing the bill in accordance with the dictation of the caucus. The Senate Will was rejected by the House, and thus the whole subject stands, each branch of the Legiy | latare arrayed against the other, with no indi- cation of either yielding. Each faction of the republican party has shown to the public that it cam control one portion of the law-making power—the Weed clique the Senate and the Fenton clique the Assembly. Here we advise them to let the whole question drop. We want no more sanitary laws. Therw is al- ready ample provision to regulate our sanitary affairs and to resist the approach of the cholera, fagas human sqencios can urevent tho surcad provision for more efficient quarantine, and then the appointment of a board that will see that our present laws are enforced. This can all be accomplished by the appointment of a board of control, of which the Mayor should be ex officio a member, as an advisory power, which shall be responsible for the proper gov- ernment of the city and the efficient adminis- tration of the laws as they now stand. This is all that is wanted in the present emergency. A bill for that purpose is now before the Legis- Tature. Let that be immediately passed, com- petent men appointed, and there need be no fear of the result. The only opposition that has been manifested to that project eomes from the office holders and those journals which are under the control of officials who are’ afraid that if it becomes a law they will be’ compeiied to do their duty, and, that many of their sources of fat pickings wif be cut off. Let us, then, have the Board of Con- trel, and neither faction in the Legislature will be forced to the necessity of yielding to the other, but the whole contest can remain, as it is now, # draw game. Surrression or Tae VioLENtT SovrHERN Press.—A despatch from Richmond says Gen- eral Terry, in command. there, had closed the office ofthe Hraminer, and that it was under- stood the order to do'so emanated from Gen- eral Grant. We are not informed what was the cause of this action om the part of the gov- ernment, nor do we know positively whether the order was sent from Wa8hington. We cannot give any opinion as to the merits of the ease, therefore, except we have a right to ussume from the liberal conduct of the gov- ernment generally that it was only doing its duty. We have always vigorously defended the liberty of the press; but no one can defend the incendiary course of the Kraminer and other Southern papers of the same stamp. We think the government has been very lenient to them. The rabid, fire-eating ediiors of the South never had any common*sense, and are incapable’ of being tanght. They imagine that the blood and thunder style of vitu- peration is the perfection’ of editorial writ- ing. Having no ideas, they substitute strong and abusive epithets. They,have been the worst enemies of the South:; they contributed more than any other class to precipitate the rebellion, and their inflammable language now is doing more harm to the Southern people than anything else. These fellows do not re- member that the South was in. rebellion a few months ago ; that it was conquered, and: that it is still under military rule.. While her brave soldiers, and such men: as General Lee and General Jo Johnston, accept in a decent and proper manner the results of the war, and are doing all they can to conciliate the North and to restore their country, these firebrands are as crazy as ever. The best thing the South- ern people could do would be to drive them from their country, or, at least, to frown them down so that they would never be heard of aguin. The conservative people of the North, with President Johnson at their head, are try- ing to put down the revolutionary agitators on this side, and the Southern. people must do likewise with the same class on their side. ‘That isthe only way in which the country can be harmonized and have permanent peace. Tux Vaeancy iv THE Boanp or Poice Cow- MISSIONERS.--When the present Board of Police Commissioners was created it was distinctly understood that it was to be a no-party com- miasion;. in other words, that party politics were not to be taken into especial considera- tion in selecting the members of the Beard. A vacancy will occur in the commission the present year, by the expiration of the term of Mr. McMurray, and efforts are making among party cliques to have a person selected to fill the vacancy. who shall bear a particular politi- cal stamp. This is not right, nor is it carrying out the spirit of the act constituting the Board. The present incumbent, Mr. MeMurray, has proved a highly competent and valuable mem- ber of the commission, He has filled the re- spons#le and laborious position of Treasurer to the entire satisfaction of the other mem- bers of the whole police force and of the community generally.. He has- systematized the duties of the office, is working efficiently to carry out the provisions of the act, and he gets along smoothly and harmoniously with his coadjutors. He is the proper man to be re- tuined in the place, and we hope the efforts te oust him and place in the position a mere poli- ‘eb, 14, 1866, In the Senate to-day Mr, Scovel offered a preamble and resolutions, hailing with joy any Congres action or enactment Ww every soldier of the armies of the Union since April 14, 1861, with to the place of birth or the color of his complexion; declaring that #0 long as the elcetive franchise shall be denied or abridged in any State on account of race or color, nove there.n of sach race or color should be in- cluded in the basis of representation of such State in the Congress of the United States, ond approving the efforis of oar Senators and Kepresentatives im Congress to mature such an amendment of the constitution as would effect this result, These were made the order of the day for next Tuesday week. Governor Ward sent in the name of H. Newton Con- ger for Secretary of State, for the second time, and wa contirmed—yees 14, nays 6; bree democrats voting for it. The contract between the Morris and Kesex Railroad and the Aantic and Great Western Rabliroad was dis. cussed and ordered to a third reading. The Maine Leg At Under a suspension of the rules, Mr. Payson (dem.) was permitted to offer to the House to-day series of resolves declaring that it should be the first Posire and prayer of every citizen, and the ebief aim @f every stateamag, that the lately insurgent States stw wuld be speedily re. stored to their former orbits; thatfail factious opposition imoerits and receives stern reprod ation; that President Johnson is eutitied to oor warmed thanks for bie earnest efforts in that regard; that all pe™ tions and applications from abroad for the panishwaent of odences comiitiod against the government belong rather to a barbarous civil the government being hetng itself petitions the Best and only judge of tw and applications are wnealled for, « judicial to the true interests ¢ sf the e The Kentue® y Leg CINCINN ATH, 1M, 1366, Yestord ¢ Kentiee? » senate adopted the Hone resolut @ troops from muing the Fyecdmen’s Buren, asking for he 7 it of habeus corpus, and reject Lutronal # yendimnent, my the co The House has pad ed the xing wight hours ors day's labor by a0 6 of seventy to fourteen, Tae Leper? oy Han Masgrn. The prenarations for this great event @ f the festive season are of Lue grandest, description, Ab@ the society purpore to have it inferior to no other ball that has taken plice this winter at the Academy of W asic. The (ollowine order has been issued regarding ©@ shes conveying guests to and from the bull: 260m F ory Mant) Metkorotitan Porter Foumaumewst Company to the Liederkrane Ball this evening atthe. ACh: dems wale will be admnitied at - Coy byt = ace, Coaches ols aiivcrine there he C4 door ‘ourteenth street in ¥ courhes will form (for the in a sane, order and i i pied ate had ied’ ae veh oon, and | out of to motopole by tno edloran of'and-|oftiatsoousQl AN tat lo wand Game] Ee Ww Bp aM ExIco. Surrender of Papantia to the Tmperialists. RESTORATION OF ORDER IN MONTEREY. FURTHER OUTRAGES BY GUERILLAS. RAILROAD ENTERPRISES. Znipress. ke. Our Havene Correspondence. Havana, Feb. 7, 1866, The Engbeh packet Eider avrived at this port on the Sth, with dates from the city‘of Mexico to the 27th ult, ‘THE KAGDAD AWYAIR. The Mexico city papers contain full accounts of the capture of Bagdad, and express the hope that the United States will make such. explanations and’ repuration as will remove the necessity of a declaration of war. SURRENDER OF PAPANTLA' TO THB IMPERIALINTS, Aparty of imperial troops, en route for Agus Dalce, wore suddenly attacked in front and flank by a heavy force of liberals January 14. The surprise was'complcte, and the imperialists tost one piece of artillery, after the gunners had’been either shot down or captured At this june. ture a squadron of French cavalry that had beer serving as the rear guard made one of those Dwilliant charges which have so marked their warfare in this country, They swept through the lines of the enemy and put them to flight, with a loss of fifty men kitled on the field. ‘The gallant Captain Susani, who led the charge, was killed. The libe:als fled towards Payantla, closely followed by the imperialists. Soon after Generals Munoz and Alatorre sent in a flag requesting an armistice, which was granted, and rez tted uti urvender of Pa- pantla on the following terms:— Papantla recognizes the empire! The enemy will deliver up all arms and munitions of waz in their possession principal officers will receive passports to leave the coun- try 1f desired. ‘A model document, embracing everything necessary in the fewest words, . ‘On the same day Gaptain de Geldern, at the head of a troop of lancers, aliacked the lberads at Tecotutla, in- flicting a loss upon them of thirty4+bree kill eloven. prisoners, the remainder being dispersed in. all directions, A few davs afterwards the Austrian Captain De ja Sala concluded #treaty on the same terms with Juan Francisco Lucas, by which the military pacitica- tion of the Sierra del Norte is entirely secured. MONTEREY. “ Many of the merchants who bad removed to the inte- ror on account of the proximity of the liberals returned totheir homes. Among them we see the n of P. Milmo, Jose Morell, Brach, Shonfeldt, & Co., all well known as of the first merchants of that city, and ix accepted as a proof of restored confidence in the quiet and order of that section. CAPTURE OF THE MATL STAGES. On the night of the 13th of January a guerilla force of three hundred men, commanded by “Martinez,” cap tured the diligence at Knearnacion—a point between Saltillo and San Luis Potosi—whereby they got posses- sion of the mail and military despatches from Mexico to Monterey, and also the mails which were en rowte for San Luis and Mexico, from Saltillo and Monterey: Au unfor- tanate Frenchinan named Ruivsant, a beef contractor for the French army, being-among the passengers on the diligence, was brutally murdered. UNSAFE CONDITION OF THE ROADS, ‘Ihe roads from Monterey in all directions were bi by detachments of the liberals, who invariably mak heavy contributions trom the passing traveller. Tho passengers on the stage trom Matamoros to Montercy were lately robbed at Seralvo by the troops of ‘Trevenio. A new guerilla party of one hundred men, commanded by Davila, had made their appearance on ‘the road be- tween Monterey and Matamoros, the object of each an@ all being the plunder of friend and foe. ome ‘The inhabitants of this di, have been disarmed by” order of the imperial authorities. GRANT FOR A RAILROAD, An imperial decree of the 8th ult. grants to Messrs. Dousdebeg, Siegler and Zangronis the exclusive privilege for seventy-five years of buiiding a railroad from Puebla to the Pacific Oc*an, via Atlixco, Matamoros Izucar and the valley of the Atoyac, the roud to be opened to Mata- moros Izucar by the ist of January, 1869. An attempt was made to throw the train of the Vera Cruz aud Paso del Macho Railroad from the track om the 18th ulti but without suecess, It was the work of gucrillas, A party of maqunted Egyptians had been sent to discover them. Don Marano Sanches, a liberal chief, bas submitted to the imperial authorities at Tux- pan. It is said that Mr. Langlais, the great French financier, who was sent by Napoleon to regulate the finances of the new empire, has formed « financial scheme on the fixed basis of thirty mill of dollars, of which it is eati- mated that twenty-four millions will bo produced by the ordinary revenues of the empire, and six niiltions by ex- traordinary means, It is also said that Mr. Langlais, shile not oecupying the position of Secretary of the ‘Treasury, actually directs its movements. It is aldo said that the projet of the “concordat” agreed to between the Pope and the imperial commiss oners has been examined by the Emperor in a full coungil of ministers and approved of, Official information had been received im the ng Mexico that an imperial force had attacked General Por- fino Diaz, near Teuantepec, and had been defeated with ‘a loss of twenty-three men. The Emperor and Empress had left for a short visit to Cuernavaca, TEXAS RECONSTRUCTION CONVENTION. Governor Hamilton's Message~Kesole- tion: troduced Declaring the Acts of the Secession Conv jo Null and Void, and that No State Has the Right to Withdraw from the Union, &c. Ganvestox, Feb, 13, 1866. % vernor Hamilton sent a message to the Texas State Cou¥ention to-day. It calls attention to the positive requirsments of the general government touching the doctrine Gf absolute State sovereigaty, the abolition of slavery, the rights of the blacks to testfy im courts of justice, and to be protected in person and property, and the repudiation of the rebel debt. Judge Latiewor, from the Red. river, introduced the following :— people of Texas, in Couvent bat the so-called ord ed Conveation of braary 1, 18 said so-called Convent to have been mull and NEW &e. &. se em ‘A motion to lay the resoluson on the table by Judge Frazier was lost by a vote of 45 to 7 A substatate offered by dudge Hancock declaring the action of the Secession Convention revolutionary, aud therefore void, together with the sceession ordinance, was then referred to a committee, Areolution declaring. passed. sine with the Uni ville, Tenn, yestelday « ney a mob for shooting Licutenant Colon Firat Tennessee cavairs Sailing of the Steamship Africa. Bostox. Feb, 14, 1968 ‘The steamstip Africa soiled this forenoon, taking twenty seven passenyers fer Liverpoat and thirty seven Tor Halifax, aad $60,000 in specie for the latter port. Dyer, of the News from San Franct Bay Frawemen, 4, 1866. ranged about sixty degrees, to-day, at moon, reached The thermometer here above zero all winter, seventy three, Mi shares are neti decline im others. ry Ophir, €425; Irn slow Jacket, $300; Alph with a rive in some and a Curry, $1,010, Savage, $108; Chollar-Potosi, $280, Srown Point, $500. Muu, Zon ar tH Brooxtws Acapemy ov Meate.— There was a large aud fash e andience at the Brook- iym Academy of Music last evening to greet Mile, Marie Joe, the Cuban Syiph, open her opening night, Bak weather makes no difference in her houses. The plays— the Wizard Skif and Wept S the Pag = ao c stage, and, as fur as the . Nee was, of the principal attraction, and she gave the City of Churches a real aston. Meeker, deifiien und Parkes and. dies Flover gave her fair stpport; but there were # r peed i parte rather borlly cast and worse red. There will undoubtedly be an Improvement nig! shen the satne Dill will be repeated. Thowe who have never seen the Cuban Syiph should certainly embrace present opportunity, the body of a bien ford washed ashore yesterday ‘aornivg, Bull's ferry, at Gottenberg, N. J. Deceed wax about ive feet six inches in height, forty to fraty-five years of Digh forehead, thin har and full, Qeayish whiskers. Shed on a black coat, dark boots run cover at the sides, Were NO Pw vers oF uther arviciae found, nod the body evider Ay heen inthe water some time. A deep wound was di eurrred on ane af | ceased camo to his taken in charge by Whe Befer ce at Goueuvore iat ty purpose ¢ cuging y WoNest cation