The New York Herald Newspaper, January 6, 1867, Page 4

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Wolume XXX. eee cece gece eee No. 6 AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING, “ BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, \noar Broome pirect.—Garcacor, on tHe Lire oF aN AcThEss. NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway, opposite New York Hlotel,—Cenpritton. THEATRE FRANCAIS, Fourteenth street, uear Sixth mvenue.—Exizasetn, Queen or ENGLAND. GERMAN THALIA THEATRE, No. 514 Broadway.— Tux Magic Fiore. DODWORTH'S HALL. 86 Broadway. —Prore:son Hants Wit Peerorm mis Minacues.—Taz Heap ix Tux Ain— Mutrom in Parvo. STEINWAY HALL. Fourteenth street.—Miss Mixa Gxany’s ANNvAL Voncert. CLINTON HALL, Astor place.—Vatentite Vouspex, Tae GQrxat PotrxationaL Mune. BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS. 535 Broadway, opvosite he Metropolitan Hotel—Is racim Erntoriay ENtearatx- ‘Werts, SinciNa, Dancive ann Bunuxsques—F avtinc Curips ow Love's Rampixs. FIFTH AVENUE OPERA HOUSE, Nos. 2 and 4 West ty-fourth stréet.—Bupwortu’s Uitstaeis, —Sraorrat . Baliaps, Buauesquas. 0.—New Year's Catis. 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By the Atlantic cable we have a news report dated ‘Saturday, January 5. The Reform Leaguers bave determined to make- a grand demonstration in London soon after the opening ‘of Parliament, when individual members of the body ‘Will attempt to present petitions for reform in person. A rumor of the death of President Johnson was circu- ated on the London ’Change, January 4. A severe shock of earthquake bas caused a heavy loss Of life and property in Algeria Consols rated at 90% in London at noon yesterday. ‘Wnited States five-twenties were at 73. The Liverpool cotton market was easier at noon. Breadstuff Orm. CONGRESS. The Senate was not in session yosterday, having ad- Journed until Monday. In the House, no business being in order, according to ‘ggreoment, except general debate, as in committee of the ‘whole on the State of the Union, the day was wholly de- voted to speech making. Mr. Spalding and Mr. Stevens ‘were the principal orators on the occasion, giving their ‘views on the probability of the admission of the Southern ‘States on their ratification of the constitutional amend- gment. Mr. Stevens was very decided in his opposition ‘0 such a course, and said that Congress would stultify Atself to ask them to vote upon the amendment. 4 A caucus of the republican members of the House ‘was held in the Capitol last night. A resolution offered Dy Mr. Spalding that no measure for the impeachment wt tho President should be presented unless pro- ‘viously agreed upon in caucus and referred to the \Judiciary Committee, was adopted after some objec- @ions by Mr. Stevens. The documents for the impeach- ‘mont will beprepared and submitted to the Senate at the commencement of the next session as it was decided {there would not be time enough for final action on the matter duriag the present one. 1 THE CITY. + The two Boards of the Common Council met yesterday for the last time in their official capacity. A few unim- ‘matters were considered, and the usual compii- tary resolutions relative to the employée were In the Board of Councilmen a resolution the Board of Aldermen, providing gas lamps for Fort Washington road, leading from the Kingsbridge was defeated, but, on a reconsideration, was laid Both Boards adjourned rine die. ‘The building No. 113 Nassau street took fire yesterday, at one time a serious conflagration was threatened. combined efforts of the firemen finally extinguished flames. The loss is estimated at $30,000. ‘The Coroner's jury holding an inquest on the body of in McAndrews, who was shot on the Ist inst., on Ninth returned a verdict charging Louis Maller with Sommicting the murder and Joho G. Hass with boing smocensory thereto. Mea, Fanny Willard, a widow lady about thirty-two of age, & newspaper compositor by trade, was and killed at her place of residence, No. 140 Ninth , corner of Twentieth street, by a young man he was heard to call Tom, and whose name is to be Thomas Burke. The assassin immodi- on the perpetration of the deed shot himself in the , aad it ia supposed will die of the effects of his jur oa. Andrew Kinnis was arrested yesterday charged with hg stabbed John Honschel, on the 2d instant, near ington square. His captors allege that be expressed i when arrested as astonished that Henschel was dead, hoped that he would die, and that he te vet) had sedaced hie (Kinois’) wif, He was vod wo ayraut typ gy NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY 6, 1867. ss ll, A man was arrested yesterday, who refused to give his name, charged with operating extensively among prom, inent dry gooda merchanta in the city by means of dogua checks, .° -egtee 4 fn the Supreme Court, Chambers, yesterday, @ motion was made to vacate the order of arrest in the cade of Vicente M. Juloe, who was arrested a short time since on complaint of Dario Masuera, on a charge of fraudulent conversion of a promissory note for $5,000. The de- feudant was subsequently held to bait in’ the sum of 28,000. The parties were formerly members of Santa Anna’s household The cago of Ronald A. MeDonald, accused of having passed two $20 counterfeit bills on Mary L, Bragaw, of Gravesend, Long Island, was on again yesterday for ex- amination before Commissioner Betts. After a length- enod inquiry the Commissioner ordered the defendant, who produced testimony that he bears an excellent character, to be discharged, The further examination touching the charge against Ross & Co., tobacconists, of Fulton street, for having rendered false returns of their sales and manufactures to the Collector of Internal Revenue, had been set down before Commissioner Osborn for twelve o'clock; but owing to the death of the mother of Mr. Charles Donohoe, one of the counsel for the defendants, it was Postponed till next week. The case of Folger & Tibbs was again before Justice ‘Hogan, st the Tombs, yesterday, and, after hearing several witnesses, was adjourned until Monday. W. C. | Williams, supposed to be implicated in the transactions of the accused firm, was arrested om Friday, Twelve steamships left this city yesterday for Euro- pean and coast wise ports. * The stock market was firm yesterday and closed with ‘an upward tendency: Gold closed at 184%. ° Business was rather light yesterday, but the tone of the markets was generally buyapt. Cotton was rather easier, though closing steady. Breadstufls were again higher. Of ‘Change flour was quite active and 10c. a 20c, higher. Wheat opened Ic. a 2c. higher, but closed dull with a part.of the improve- ment lost. Corn advanced fully 2c., while oats were 1c. higher, Pork, though heavy, was active, Boof was ac- tive and firm, Lard was unchanged. Freights were steady and firm. Whiskey was dull and nominal. Naval stores were quiet but steady. Petroleum was held firmly. MISCELLANEOUS. Our special telegrams state that President Juarez left Chihuahua on the 10th ult, for his new seat of government, Durango, The American steamers Continental and Pan- ama have been seized by General Corona because the Proprietors of the company held a grant to navigate the coast from the imperial government. The Continental ‘was soon released, but the Panama was held until a de- cision in her case could be had from Juarez. The do- tails of the evacuation and occupation of Mazatlan are given. Both in that city and in Guaymas the liberals, on taking possession, perpetrated every species of bar- barity and outrage, American citizens coming in for an especial share of ill treatment. The opinion in Guaymas ig that a large naval force will have to be kept on the Mexican coast to protect American interests. The steamer Don put into Fortress Monroe yesterday disabled, having experienced heavy weather off Cape Hatteras, She had on board Admiral Porter and Mr. Seward, the Assistant Secretary of State. She was soon followed by the Gettysburg, on which the distinguished party ro-ombarked and continued their journey, leaving the Don to make repairs at Portsmouth. Our Fortress Monroe correspondent has reason to believe that tho ox- pedition which is going on go mystoriously is for the purpose of establishing a naval station in tho isiand of Hayti. 4 News from Yokobama, Japan, bas been received to December 1. Two-thirds of the native portion of that city aud the most important part ofthe foreign settle- ment were destroyed by fire on the 26th of November. The loss is variously estimated at from two and a half to four million dollars. Wino 3 John C, Breckinridge, the ex-Secretary of War of the rebel confederacy, is reported to have said that the mag- nanimity of the North is unparalleled, and that he” was astounded at the blindness and madwees of the South: | in not accepting the humane and merciful provisions of the constitutional amendment, A passenger car om the Dayton and Sandusky Railroad was thrown from the track yesterday, anda woman and boy were killed, several other passengers being seriously injured. Congress, Utah and the Mormons. The bill introduced by Senator Howard, con- cerning affairs in Utah Territory, strikes at the root of the polygamous system of the Mormon Charch in the moat effectual manner. This system has been petmitted to exist for many years in one of our Territories, to the great dis- credit and shame of the United States govern- ment and people. The common daw, as well as the specific laws of the different States and Territories, recognizes bigamy as a crime, and yet this crime is openly committed every day in Utah, under cover of a Church ordinance. In fact, that which is familiarly known as the social evil is as extensively practised there as in any, of our Eastern cities, but it wears the habiliments of religion in Utah, while it flaunts in the habiliments of fashion in New York. But there is something more daring in the vio- lation of moral law and in open defiance of the statutory laws of the country, in the sys- tem of polygamy as practised under the juris- diction of Brigham Young. It is in this that the bill of the Senator from Michigan must rely for its justification and its potency, and which recommends it to universal favor. The pro- visions are stringent and seem to reach a remedy for this disgusting sore upon the body politic. We have had laws passed over and over again, aiming at the destruction of this evil; but the Mormons, secure in their distant seclusion, governed by officials of their own faith and banded in a powerfal organization for self defence, have laughed at the laws of Congress. The condition of affairs in Utah has been thoroughly demoralized for the last fifteen years or more, examples of which are furnished, not alone by the prevalence of the social evil in a form which the Mormon law apparently legitimizes, but by the treatment which Gentile citizens, who are certainly entitled to the pro- tection of the government, have received at the hands of the Saints. It is not uncommon to find this class of citizens persecuted even unto death by the Mormons. To infringe upon their cus- toms by intermarriage with the sealed women of the Mormon leaders, or otherwise rescue from an abhorred fate the poor female victims of the polygamic system, was but to provoke the vengeance of the whole Mormon community and to evoke the aid of thé “Destroying An- gel,” whose ministration usually ended in the assassination of the offending Gentile. These are familiar facts in the history of Mormonism. That they should be permitted to continuo is a reproach to our government. At the present time there is a conflict be- tween the Mormon leaders and the Gentile merchants in the Territory, of which we have just received information. The heads of the Mormon Chureb, it appears, have prohibited traffic between their people and the Gentiles; and the latter, who are for the most part engaged in mercantile business, have remonstrated and propose to leave the Territory if the Mormons will pay them a certain valaation on their stocks of goods end guarantee them the debts in- curred by their Mormon customers. This Proposition Brigham Young refuses to con- sider, and retoris, in his answer to the remon- stranoe of the Gentiles, that « portion of these Gentiles have been demoralizing the Mormon community, introducing intoxication end other vices im various shapes, greatly to the dotri- Of hip valndy copategeiion, subeldisipg Geavors to create disunion and anarchy in the Territory. All these facts, showing the evil which results from the incongruous elements of Mormon socicty, are but strong arguments in favor of such a bill as Senator Howard has in- troduced. But in order to make a law of this kind operative it must be sustained by the strong arm of military power. We must employ such agencies as will effectually execute the law and reduce the hitherto resist- ant Mormon leaders to submission. It is a known fact that the Mormons have within the last ten years—since the Utah war, under Sidney Johnson—organized a militia force, and that they despise the civil authority of the United States, Hence the necessity of preparing to enforce any law which Congress may enact for the suppression of the “peculiar institution” of Brigham Young and his followers. This ex- cresence upon the national escutcheon must be cut off, or else we must submit to the imputa- tion of fostering in the very centte of our re- public. a practice which is the type and evidence of Oriental, barbarism—an ineult to the Christianity which we profess and a defiant antagonism to the recognized laws of the land. It the dill which Senator Howard. ‘has intro- duced could be made to embrace the euppres- sion of the practice of concubinage outside of Utah, as well as within its borders, which, though legitimate in the days of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, under the Mosaic law, does not suit the present condition of society, it would be all the more satisfactory. But we shall be content if, for the time being, the polygamous system of the Mormon fraternity is abolished. It is a disgrace which our gov- ernment should not permit to endure. Management of the New York Piers and Wharves The ruinous condition of our piers and wharves is not only a disgrace to a city like New York, but if suffered to continue, threatens serious injury to our commerce. A corres- pondent, who is thoroughly conversant with the subject, suggests that the remedy lies in raising the rates of wharfage to an amount sufficient to enable the owners and lessees to rebuild or repair the docks and keep them in good condition. He holds that the present rates are altogether too low, and argues that if a fair amount of wharfage could be collected it would be to the interest of the owners to make the required improvements, The subject is one of much importance and will claim the attention of the Legislature at its present session. Whether any comprehen- sive scheme of city reform will be porfected at Albany this winter is doubitul, in view of the approaching Constitutional Convention, where the work can be more, directly and completely done: “Phe public intereats. demand that the | control and supervision of our wharves and piéré should be in the hands of a commission. | ‘They should ‘not be farmed out: at: a nominal sum to any private corporation, but should bo made a source of -income to the: city. The Warehouse and Dock Company; chartered sta former session, and x 0 powers and privileges, is one of those private speculations of which the city has already felt the. cost; Itehould meet with no encourage- ment whatsoever from the present Legislatare. It is eimply @ scheme of a ring of lobbymen to enrich themselves at the cost of the taxpay- ers, The city basa right to make all she can outof her wharves and plera consistent with that liberality toward commerce which has always distinguished her. Itis evident that the present rates of wharfage are too low, consid- ering present prices for labor and material, to warrant the owners and lessees in expending much money on the repairs of the docks. This evil should be at once remedied. The rates can be raised without any additional cost to shippers, provided they are at the same time protected against thg impositions to which they are now subjected. There are at present harbor masters, and pilot and harbor commissioners, and others claiming authority on the doeks, by most charges, legal and illegal. The Legislature can make some reforms, if they do’ not inau- gurate a thorough and permanent system of relief, They can repeal the laws relating to the Pilot Commissioners, place proper restric- tions upon the Harbor Masters, raise the wharf- age fees toa fairly remunerative amount, and appoint at least a temporary commission to see that the necessary repairs are made and that the interest of the city is protected in this valuable property. They can also repeal all charters geanted to any monopoly by former Legislatures and leave the city wharves and piers open to competition. The necessity for reform is so pressing that the city cannot afford to await the action of the Constitutional Con- vention, and if the Legislature will study the interests of the people instead of those of any private corporation, they can do much at the present session to secure an immediate re- moval of the most pressing of the evils under which commerce is now suffering at ‘his port. Tas Repeal or THE Angsty CLavss.— The Senate has concurred in the House bill repealing the section of an act of the last Congress relating to the rebellion confisca- tion, &., which empowers the Pmsident to grant amnesties. There was a long debate in the Senate on Friday on the wisdomand expe- diency of this repeal ; but we canna perceive that it amounts to anything more than an ex- pression of the wishes of the two haises in the matter, because the constitution exyressly con- fers upon the President the “powe to grant reprieves and pardons for offences sommitted against the United States.” We prsume that the object of the bill is a remonstnnce from Congress to the President, for fear hat other- wise he might be persuaded to ollow the advice of Greeley in granting » unversal am- nesty to the rebels of the South, hi or miss. It is only a bill to head off Greeley. a WARE ‘Ax Borron Torna Acron.--A contemporary Announces that an editor of ono ¢ the city papers is to change his profesion and turn actor. ble curiosity is mani- fested to discover who is the editor illuded to. Some suppose it to be Mons. Marblu, who is to make his first public appoarano as Man- tilini, picking up the “demnition gold and silver.” Others imagine that it 5 Greeley, about to appear in the character f Othello. Some fix upon Ben Wood, in th part of Robert Macaire. There has been etme rumor that Raymond js the man, and that bs débit ts for additional | of whom the shippers are subject to all sorts of tobe made os of twia"ing and tumbling. We think we can- assert pe, ‘tively that itis not Brooks, as he has renewed ba ' former engagement to play second fiddle in the ‘adical orchestra at Washington next season. Senator Howara ® Resolution on Moxico, In the United Stata’ Senate yesterday Sena- tor Howard presented @ resolution on Mexican affairs, to the effect “Thm the Committee on Foreign Relations be instrus.'ed to inquire and report to the Senate” the folowing points which we enumerate for the sake of clearness. First, “The present relations between France and the republic of Mexico.” Second, “Tho extent, both with respect to population and territory of the successes of Maximilian in his endeavors to overthrow that republic.” Third, “The amount and character of his military force, including his French auxiliaries.’’ Fourth, “The action of the Executive of the government of the United States in reference to the intervention of France in the affairs of Mexico, including any treaty or project of treaty proposed, assented to or recommended by our Minister to France, with a view to 4 settlement of the difficulties between France and Mexico.” _ Fifth, “The present prospect of the withdrawal of the French troops from Mexican soil, and the probability, in the case of such withdrawal, of Maximilian being able to maintain his standing there.” Sixth, “That for the purposes of such inquiries ‘said com- mittee be authorized to send for persons and papers.” Here we have five very important and in- teresting questions, the inquiry into which would be necessarily very laborious and ab- sorb much of the time of a committee not otherwise engaged. Now, the Committee on Foreign Relations is not the proper one for this business. They have a vast amount of other work to do, and if Mr. Howard’s resolu- tion be turned over to them for action thereon the probability is that a report would not be forthcoming at the close of the present nor even of the next session. The proper way would be to appoint a special committee or send an embassy to Mexico, where all or most of the necessary evidence and information could be had without any great expense. If no committee of the Senate can be found will- ing to undergo the trouble and risk of a journey to’Mexico, or if other embassies should back out and go home, in imitation of General Sherman and ex-Senator Campbell, we will furnish Congress with one of our correspondents for the purpose of having the work performed speedily and to the entire satisfaction of the people and government of the United States. European Ovations to Our New York Yacht- men. Tho Atlantic cable despatches daily continue the record of European ovations to our New | York-yachtmen, Prince Christian, the Danish son-in-law of Queen Victoria, visited the yachts on Thursday, and afterwards they were invited to visit Windsor Castle; They were entertained yesterday at @ banquet, given. in their honor by the Royal Thames Yacht Club. A similar banquet has been offered td them by the Ameri- can residents at Paris. In Russia great inter- est hasbeen manifested in the late race, and the Imperial Yacht Club proposes to invite them: ‘0 visit St, Petersburg. Throughout EBnuropethe extraordinary and successful run of the Hearictta and her companions in midwin- ter across the stormy Atlantic has aroused universal attention. All the maritime nations particuiarly have been led by it to take imme- diate practical interest in those modern Ameri- can improvements in ship building and in sea- manshig which have been so admirably illus- trated by the race. The honors, royal, muni- cipal md popular, spontaneously bestowed upon ow New York yachtmen, are gratifying to a high degree. But they will chiefly con- gratulate themselves that even their “flattering reception abroad, as well as the winning of a purse ofainety thousand dollars at stake, will sink int mere incidents of the race in compari- son wih the important praetical results involved init. The mavy and the mercantile marine ¢ every maritime nation will be af- tected by its having stimulated curiosity to dis- cover atd ambition to appropriate the mar- vellous screts in building, rigging and run- ning thalenabled the yachts to make three thousand perilous miles safely and in regular steamer firie, The ocean yacht race has bril- liantly invngurated a new era in the history of navigation. Tae Canapran Fentan Prionites’ Cou- MUTED.—k appears that the Fenian prisoners in Canada, sentenced to death, have had their | sentences. commuted, under instructions from England, ‘o twenty years’ imprisonment, and that accordingly on Saturday the prisoners were en rade from Sweetsburg to the Kingston Penitentiary, their appointed place of incarce- ration. Ininterposing its authority to prevent the execution of these men the British govern ment has acted wisely; but, still, considering that they were only the dupes of other parties, who remaized on the safe side of the line, the punishment inflicted appears to be dispropor- tionate to the actual crime committed. Wo pre- sume, however, that when this Fenian move- ment shall have so far died out as to dissipate-all apprehensicns of danger from it in Ireland or Canada, it vill not be a difficult matter to pro- cure the release of these prisoners; and that, time, we guess, is not far off, inasmuch as the prophecies of Roberts and the plans and promises of Stephens have all utterly failed. As for the contributions to, and those bonds of, the Irish Republic, they are gone, like the Confederate scrip of Jeff Davis, beyond re- demption. Generat Sara Anna AND THR FioxLZ Gon — The great living Mexican statesman and warrior, the hero of Tampico, Buena Vista, and so forth, General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, beneme- ritus patriae, 6 as famous in the Valla, or arena whore fighting chickens most do congrogate, and as renowted in the lists of love as he ever was or hopes to be, on the battle fold, when- ever his country calls upon him to put his solitary foot init. But love is treacherous to all, as the Gomral must know from long and varied experience in the pleasant and rather sequestered island of St. Thomras;‘while another proof of the deuble-dealing of the fickle god and the ead vagaries he suggests to his vota- ries, is painfully evidenced by the case of Ma- suera against Juelbe ef al., which appears in our law reporis this morning. Fortanately for the General, he suffors no injury to bis property by thir affair; but for the sale of his yeputation ase busband and father, he ought * at ER Harlequin, with surprising feats.| to eee to it that more order should be observa! in his household. England and the United States, It is curious to notice the anxiety which hag been manifested in certain quarters to produce the impression that, i spite of appearances to the contrary, the year 1867 is to be a year of peace. The head of the new kingdom of Italy and the Emperor of the French have both favored us with their sentiments, and in each case the burden of the song has beew “peace.” The London Times has taken up the song, and from a recent telegram we learn that if con- siders England’s “only difficully” to be with the United States—a difficulty which will best be obviated by a “speedy and amicable adjust- ment of outstanding differences.” The state of affairs in Europe may or may rot be such as to warrant the Times to infer that England has nothing .to apprehend in that direction. We are not, perhaps, so sanguine as the Times in our expectations that England will be able to keep herself clear of any possible imbroglio that may take place on the Continent. Of this, however, we are certain ; that if England has as little to dread on the side of Europe as she has | ' to droad on the side of America—provided always she acts the honorable part—matters are square enough. The difficulties between her and the United States are reduced to the } narrowest possible point. The “outstanding differences” between the two countries are not numerous, All recent events “indicate the growth of mutual good feeling. There is one thing, however, on which the people of the United States are decided, and that is the im- mediate settlement of the Alabama claims on the basis proposed by their government. Com- promise ot any kind is now outof the question. The money must be paid down. Let that be done, and done promptly, and it will not only remove all “differences,” but exercise a power- ful influence in deepening and intensifying that good feeling which ought ever to exist between the two countries. Progress of Correct Views on the Subject of Currency and National Finance. We perceive that correct views with regard to the national cutrency and finances are mak- ing way in the minds of both our public men and the people generally. We receive a great many communications showing this; the news- papers, with a few exceptions, are becoming enlightened ; petitions are being sent to Con- gress against any curtailment of the national currency and against immediate resumption of specie payments, and in favor of an exclusive legal tender circulation}; and the members of both houses are introducing resolutions and proposing measures to the same effect. We may eay, in fact, that common sense is gaining the: ascendency on this subject. People begin to see that the republic has been healthfully prosperous under our present currency cireu- lation; that experience has upset the theories of the bullionists, and that the busipess of the country is placed in a position independent ot foreign money traders or other foreign in- fluences. The pretended forebodings of the im- mediate resumption theorists of disaster in the fature have no foundation. Our own exporience. and the experience of other nations under a similar state of things, as well as common sense, show the fallacy and danger of unwise contrac- tion and forced resumption, With an ample and yet properly limited legal tender currency, and no other, it would in the course of a few years be at par with gold, and in ten years or leas this systom would make us entirely inde- pendent of foreign monetary influences. We should really revolutionize in time the ideas and practice of the world in the matter of cur- rency. We hope Senators Sherman, Poland and others in the Senate, as well as Kelley, Stevens and other members of the House, who seem to have correct views, will enlighten their col- leagues and give us a sound and an established system of curréncy and finance, based upon convertible legal tenders. Neoro Surrrace mw Tae Dusratcr or Co- tompta.—The President, it is understood, is preparing an elaborate veto message, which will probably be submitted to Congress to-mor- row, against the bill granting general suffrage to the negroes of the District of Columbia. The bill will doubtless be passed over the veto; but the message will still, we expect, be very interesting in disclosing the opinions and views of the’ Executive on the, general ques- tion involved and in reference to the ex- cluded States.’ Special Meeting Yesterday. A special meeting of the Commissioners of Excise was held yesterday, at four o'clock, all the members being Present. President Schultz occupied the chair. One ied Sh ae te ee Upon motion, it was umenimously resolved of the Asylum, amare —- several eee license in the until Thursday ‘next Mr. “Jemstiastoner Bergen was, Present, convalescent from his late sevore illness. Enforcement of the Excise Law. The Excise law, according to the terms of Saperin- tondent John A. Kennedy's recent order, will be rigidly enforced on Saturday next, the 12th inst. At présent there n'a terrible Hutter at the liquor dealers who sued out injunctions against Excise last summer, THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT IN VIRGINIA, 4 marked chgnge of opinion in relation to the constitu. tional amendment among the mombers, While before there was a strong fooling in its favor, it is now doubtful whether there will be « half dozen votes for it in both NEWS FROM CALIFORNIA. ‘San Francisco, Jan. 6 1867. ‘The China mail banquet last night passed off spten. In response to toasts speeches were made by ‘THE STEAM YACHT JUNIATA. ‘Tan, 5, 1867, gin ius Keuel'a hain Rake ee os wee QO ultimo. 0) ” =: — ws Cae — —e oe SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD, The Dos Pats i to Fortress Monree Dis- abled—Tao Gvtiysburg also Arrives—The Expeditiona,” l'orce Trausferred to: the Gettysburg. | Fortress Mosroe, Jan. 5, 1867 Daylight this morning “iscovered the United States steamer Don, Commander Chandler, coming into this harbor with part of her mainmast gone, one of her cut- ters missi ng and other indications of rough and perilous @xperiences at sea, It wae soon learned that the Assis- tant Sesrotary of State, Fred. Seward, amd Admiral Por- ter were on board—that the steamer, in ber trip from Annapolis on her mysterious mission to the Weat Indies Or elsewhere, had encountered a severe storm off Hat- teras, and that, finding herself unseaworthy from the effects of the gale, she had been ordered here. Hardly bad she ost anchor when the gunboat Gettys- burg, Lieutenant Qmmander Rowland, made her ap- pearance, and the twe vessels at once entered into com- manication. Shortly ater the Gettysburg proceeded to the Portsmouth Navy Ya't for coal, pursuant to tele- graphic orders received fra 2 Washington before starting from Amnapolis, while the Doo remained here. This evening the Gettysburg vetmn.ed fromthe Navy Yard, and both are now anchereg 4° Close proximity in the voyage of mystery Southward op Ae steamer, while the Doa goes to the Portsmoush Newy 2 ard for repairs. From. this it. will be seen. that the st mer originally goes out with less than ber com} and ammunition, shor that her mission is not a. hes- oy, poate oy is Ms ‘an sulk tysburg loft Annapohs at three P. M. yester. day. She cut her way through a solid mass of ico eight inches thick and two miles long with hardly any trouble. As is well known, engaged as a blockade runner, she got up a reputation for unparalleled speed, and the repairs and alterations bestowed on lier since have made her one of the staunchest and most reliatte steamers in our naval service. Fire In Nassau Street—Losa Estimated at Thirty Thousand Dollars. About @ quarter before six o'clock last evening a fre broke out in the building No. 113 Nassau street, which at one time threatened to add another to the unfortunately lengthy list of disastrous conflagrations that have recently occurred in this city. The fire was tirst discovered break- img out on the fourth floor, in the rear part of the pre- mises, facing on Theatre alley. The police were imme- diately notified and an alarm rang by the City Hall bell. In response to this gummons several engine and truck companies hastened to the scene, and with all possible despatch put their apparatus into effective working order. windows and hatchways in considerable volum®. Some few minutes ian rane tiie Bue Fd i HH : E : i i t i i z ue i ag i i ii i. 2 8 Hi ill j i i F : <5 i Fil Lit tel The Fairhaven nail works Gre at midnight last it. The origin of the and the amount of the loss are as yot Disastrous Conflagration at Yokohama—Twe- thirds of the Native Town and the Meet portant Part of the Foreign stroyed. San The bark Archibald from and others were destroyed by the