The New York Herald Newspaper, January 20, 1867, Page 4

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The Liverpool cotion market remained unchanged at the close, Bread- siuile active, ‘The steamship Asia, from Queenstown January 7, has touched at Halifat on ner voyage to Boston. She was 4miained one day at Queenstown waiting the arrival of the English mails, Tho news detail report of the Asia hes been anticipated, but she brings us a special mail telegram comtaining the latest mgyine intelligence, which appears to-day. CONGRESS. in the Senate yesterday the House bili solecting Teague Island as a depot for iron-clads of the navy was reported back from the committee. The bill to author- ize the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company to coustruct @ lateral branch of the road in the District of Cotumbia was called up and pending its consideration the morning hour expired. The Bankrupt bill camo up, motion to postpone it and proceed. with the Rail- bill was lost, tis the House bill of last seasion amended by the Judiciary Committee, and the question wes upon agreeing to the amendmenta Pending its consideration the Senate adjourned. in tho House several bills of a private nature were co naidored and passed upon, and the Reconstruction bil! of Mr, Stevens came up, Mr. Spalding offered an amendment, which was accepted by Mr. Stevens, to the efect that until the States are admitted to representa- ton tp Congress the writ of habeas corpus shall be sus- pended tm their limits and they shall be placed under martial law. Mr. Scofield made a speech on the pend- img quessiog, in which be said that ‘a perfidious secre- tary, one O14 man, stood in the way of the ratification of the constitational amondment."’ Several other mem- bers addressed the House, and Mr. Miller, of Pennsyl- vania, indicated that he would, at tbe proper time, offer an amendment providing that no State should be ad- mitted to representation im Congress until 1t bad ratitied the constitutional amendment, The House soou after adjourned THE LEGISLATURE Te “enate was not in session yesterday, In ‘so Assembly a resolution was adopted requesting the dud Wr of the Canal Department to commupicate a + stoment of the awards made for loss or damage grow- 1. : ont of the constraction, operation amd maintenance of the canals of the State, Notice was given of inten- tion (o mtroduce a bill appotnting a commission to amend and revise the charter of the city of New York. A Dill ‘was introduced to regulate the carriage of passengers by railroad companies, A resolution was offered directing the Attorney General to institute suit for the recovery of damages against the Harlem Railroad for pot placing Washington correspondent gives upon the bast authority a Hittle inside history of the lato mission of Paria, dated om the 28th of December, which we pablish, (@ vertigaleriy interesting at thie season of the year, as NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY 20, 1867. tho writer announces the inauguration of the season of bals mesque ,im that city, and reports the preparations which wore already made to honor it duly till Ash Wed- nesday morning, The new costumes, outdoor and in- door, for morning, full dress and afternoon, with the materials, colors, trimmings, ornaments, headdresses, and so forth, with which the New Year was to be received by the ladies, are tully described, ‘ Advices trom Rio Janeiro dated December 25, and forwarded by the cable from London under date of Fri- day evening, say that the allies would soon resume the offensive. General Lopez and the Paraguayan army were said to be discontented, Lotters bave been recetved by parties in Washington from Fort Phil Kearney, dated Deecember 15, which give succinct accounts of the movements and engagements at that post immediately preceding the fearful massacre which occurred about the 22d ult. The party that was massacred, it appears, was outside of the fort, protecting the wagon trains, and, having encamped, wore surprised by the Indians and killed before they could offer any combined resistance. ‘Nige men were massacred in Southern Utah on the Sth inst. by the Indians. ‘The Supreme Court of Alabama has decided that the act of Congress requiring a stamp upon State legal pro- ‘ceases is unconstitutional, aod also that the State, being ‘a de facto government under tho confederacy, its per- sonal representatives are protected from all loss on Con- federate investments, under an act of the Logisiature. ‘The case of Calvin M. Northrup, indicted for an attempt to poison his wife, was concluded last Friday at Bedford, Westchester county, before his Honor, Judge Gilbert. The jury brought in a verdict of guilty, and the prisoner was remanded for semteoce until the first Monday in February. In the Kentucky senate, yesterday, Senator Helms’ resolution favoring the raising of ten regiments of Ken- tucky infantry to maintain the doctrine of State rights was defeated. Two ballots were had for United States Senator, but no choice was made. A boy Gifteen years of age shot at the clerk of the National Bank of Port Jervis yesterday, with the inten- tion of robbing the bank after killing him. The ball struck a large bound book, thus saving the clork’s life, ‘and the boy was arrested, A large boiler exploded in a machine shop in New- borg, N. ¥.,0n Friday morning, Quo man was killed and five others wore severoly injured. A coroner’s jury severely censured the owners of the machine shop. The night express train, from Albany to New York, on the Hudson River Railroad, ran off the track yoeter- day morning between Garrison's Landing and Cold Spring. Nono of the passengers were injured, and thoy all reached this city shortly after ten o'clock yesterday morning. The Potomac River is frozen over at Washington. Nothing further has been heard of Commodore Blake, who is believed to have perished in the snow storm of Thursday at Boston. (The schooner Sophronia, bound from Buckeport for Now York, went ashore on Thursday night on Cape Ann, and was lost with her cargo. Tho mate and one seaman were drowned. ‘ ‘A merchant was robbed in St. Louis on Thursday night of $10,000. The robber escaped. A large number of arrests were made yoeterday for violations of the Excise law, and ninety of the prisoners were required to give bail in $100 to answer bofore the Court of General sessions, An article embodying the researches of a Heratp correspondent through the tenement houses of the city is published in our columns this morning. It contains some startling but undoubtedly true statements regard. ing those pest houses of the city. . ‘The officers and crew of the schooner Julia Ann, who ‘were reported lost yesterday, are allsafe, The vessel, however, is a total loss, Aman named George Hull was shot last evening at No, 87 Cannon street by an ex-policeman named Brown- ing, whom he discovered on rather Woo intimate terms with bie wife, The wound, it is said, wifl not prove fatal, ‘Thirteen steamships were advertiaed to leave yeeter- day for European and coastwise ports. Several were more or less detained on account of the ice in the bay, ‘while othéfs could not leave on account of their freight lighters being frozen in the ice. Amecting {h ald of the suffering Cretans was held yesterday afternoon at the Chamber of Commerce rooms, at which Mayor Hoffman presided and Chas K. Tuckerman acted as Secretary. Preliminary measures were taken to send funds, clothing, &c, to ald the Cretans in their heroto struggle against the Turks. Te the United States Circuit Court yesterday, Judge Smalley presiding, John Disbrow and William Gallagher were severally sentenced to twelve years’ imprisonmont at Sing Sing as counterfoiters, John Bradley and Gellonier Demichille, counterfeiters, were sentenced at the same time—the former to eighteen months’ and the latter to two and a half yeara’ hard labor at Sing Sing. ‘In the United States Commissioners’ Court yesterday Commissioner Osborn again took up the hearing of the eharge against Ross & Co., tobacconists, of Fulton street, of having rendered false returns of their sales and manufactures to the Collector of Internal Revenue, and after some documentary evidence had been given the case was adjourned to the 31st instant. The stock market was frm yesterday, but quiet. Gold was strong, and after selling up to 137 closed at 1365 bid. The amount of business consummated in commercial circles yesterday was unusually light, end prices tended in favor of the purchaser, save in afew istances. Cot- ton was dall, but steady. Coffee was steady and firm. On ’Chango flour was dull and asbade easier, Wheat, corn and oats remained unchanged. Pork was less ac- tive and heavy. Beef and lard were heavy, though Prices were not quotably lower. Freights were dull. Whiskey was entirely nominal. Naval stores ruled ex- tremely quiet, and petroleum dull but firm. From the Field of Battle Back to the Field of Politics. King Solomon to the contrary, nevertheless, that there is nothing new, we have in the | present attitude of the rebel States something new under the sun. Appealing from the con- stitution to the sword for the settlement of their political dogmar, and defeated in the field of battle after a four years’ struggle, {axing all their energies and resources to the utmost—a struggle involving the sacrifice of over half‘a million of able-bedied men—the ruling politi- cians of these rebel States are now, as if nothing had happened, preaching again the old story of their constitutional rights, How have they been brought into this ridiculous but danger- ons attitude? With the surrender of their rebel armies the States of the defunct confedersey | words, recognized their position to be that of a hostile foreign coalition at the feet of s conqueror. ‘This was the grand result of the war. Those States and people by their rebellion had for- feited their constitutional rights—the States as members of the Union, and their people as citi- zens of the United States. To this extent they ‘were at the mercy of the government, and in Hi HE Bit i ie fi : State to State, respond in favor of Congress, Here the conflict should have ended ; but here it is only more sharply defined and reduced to such close quarters that the weaker party in the ight must be annihilated. It becomes the spectacle of the Roman Coliseum, where the vanquished gladiator was at the mercy of the victor and the voice of the audience life or death. Meantime, rallying around President John- son, the rebel States, with wonderful alacrity and unanimity, hasten to reject the pending constitutional amendment declared by the people of the loyal States as their ultimatum. From Virginia to Texas the rebel States have thus, in the field of politics, resumed their old conflict for State rights, which we all had sup- posed was settled on the field of battle, and the President is boastfully paraded before the country as their champion in this new con- flict. His superserviceable organs of the rebel and copperhead press, that have been a dead weight upon him from the beginning, in this connection have hit upon a new but a very absurd exposition of the voice of the people. ‘Taking the democratic vote of the North and adding to it the whole voting population of the South as it was before the war, they figure up @ half million popular majority of the Union in support of Mr. Johnson, and threaten to employ all this force, vi et armis, if necessary, to sustain him to the end of bis term. If we are to believe these incendiary threatenings as emanating from the President, we must conclude that he has gone over to the South against Congress and the North, and that he has resolved to sink or swim, as the champion of the rebel States against the loyal States, in the enforcement of his rejected policy. “Will you,” said Mr. Seward at Cleveland, we believe, on the Douglas pilgrimage, “will you have Andrew Johnson as President or King?” The Secretary of State was then supposed to be unduly excited ; but if these late silly copperhead declarations amount to anything, they show that he was spoaking by the card. At all events there can be no fur- ther trifling upon this business, This state of things is not likely to be accepted by Congress as a necessary evil to the end of Mr. Johnson’s term of office. It is not likely that the rebel States will be allowed for two years longer to dictate their own terms of restoration, when Congress, by a single constitutional proceeding, may settle the difficulty, and has the requisite force in each house to do this thing. This has now become the main question, and we guess that the remedy suggested will be ap- plied as the first business in order with the assembling of the new Congress on the 4th of March, and we have no fear whatever that the peace will be disturbed in this peaceable solution. The Assassination Plot in Egypt. The conspiracy which has just been dis- covered in Egypt, and which, according to the telegram printed by. us yesterday, had for its | object the assassination of the present Viceroy and the placing at the helm of affairs Salim (Halim) Pacha, proves that by the establishing of a constitutional government the difficulties | of the situation have not.been completely re- moved. Nor indeed did any one at all fami- liar with the state of- affairs in that country believe that they would be removed by any such means. It may be unsafe to speak of this conspiracy asa fact until it is confirmed by further intel- ligence. In the circumstance itself, there is nothing at all improbable. Egypt long been famous for such plots. It is the ex- ception, not the rule, foran Egyptian chief ruler to die natural death. Since the foun- dation of the present dynasty, of which the present Viceroy, Ismail Pacha, is the fifth who has held the reins of power, Mohammed Ali alone, the founder of the house, has died in circumstances free from suspicion. Ibrahim Pacha, who had been invested with the chief authority toward the close of his father’s life, and when from age and infirmity he had become unfit for the cares of State, perished at the end of two months, Abbas Pacha, his successor, was brutally, though not undeservedly, put to death in his own palace and by his own attendants after « brief and inglorious reign. Said Pacha, though the vic- tim of disease brought on by his unnatural mode of living, died in circumstances which at least encouraged the belief that he was the victim as well of some foul play. Nor, what- ever else might be the effect produced, would it surprise any intelligent foreigner resident in the country to learn that Ismail Pacha had shared the fate of so many of his predecessors. Ismail Pacha, in consequence of recent move- ments, has become specially obnoxious to cer- tain members of his family. Ambitious and avaricious in the last degree, he has exerted himself from the moment of his accession to power to advance his own interests, to the detriment of other deeply interested members of the viceroyal house. As the result of a policy cautiously but persistently followed, he recently obtained from the Sultan at Constan- tinople a firman establishing him and his heirs forever in the sovereignty of Egypt. In other the succession which formerly devolved upon the oldest living male descendant of Mo- bammed Ali now devolves upon the heirs male by direct descent of Ismail Pacha, The European, not the Asiatic, mode of succession fenow the law of Egypt. It will readily be understood how a change of this sort should prove obnoxious to all those princes who are thus sommarily cut off from all chance of suc cession. The oldest of these princes ‘is Mus tapha Pacha, popular prince and half brother of the present Viceroy. It is commonly re- ported in Egypt that it cannot be determined whether Ismail or Mustapha is the elder, some of questionable value baving turned the scale in favor of Iemail’s succession. Cor- tain it fe that since the accession of the latter to power Mustapha bas found it convenient to reside out of the country and chiefly in Con- stantinople, The next in point of years te ft fs not to be doubted that {f there te in ft any: '] thing of truth it will be found to bee family Another Shot at President Johnsen. The bill to regulate the tenure of civil offices, including all except those of the Cabinet, just passed by a large majority in the United States Senate, and which will meet with equal success in the lower Honse, is another four or six hun- dred pounder aimed at President Johneon by the radical artillerists, It provides that no one appointed to an office by and with the consent of the Senate shall be removed or suspended by the President of the United States trom the exercise of such office without the consent of the Senate. When the President shall, during @ recess of the Senate, remove an officer for misconduct and appoint another in his place the removal and appointment shall be only temporary, or, in other words, till the Senate at their next session shall have had an oppor- tunity of approving and confirming the Presi- dent’s action, The same course holds good in Presidential nominations to offices vacated by death or resignation. This is the substance of the new bill, which will no doubt soon be- come ataw, andthe aim of which is plain enouyh. Under the old system sppointments to and removals from-office during Congres- sional recesses were fully in the power of the President, and did. not await the sanction. of the Senate. The radi- cal party charge Mr. Johnson with having removed certain good men from office because they were political opponents, sppointing others from among his supporters to the vacant offices. They therefore propose to deprive him of the power to do so in future; and the wonder in the matter is that they did not make the provisions of their bill more strin- gent, by providing, for instance, that during Congressional recesses all removals and nomi- nations sbould be referred to a standing com- mittee of the Senate, who might meet at any convenient place for discussion of the Presi- dent’s proposition, or, without meeting, com- municate with each other by telegraph. Con- sidering the bitterness with which they assail President Johnson, it is a very great wonder that they have permitted him to enjoy the privilege of making even a temporary appoint- ment. And, since the eagle’s wings are to be clipped, it might suit the Senate to have the Presidential salary and allowances reduced, say to one-half, and prohibit the holding of levées at the White House except once a year, on the Fourth of July. But let us not antici- pate. The leaders in the impeachment scheme are ingenious enough to know where to apply the screw, and have .the will, as they undoubtedly have the power, to do it. The Italian Government and the Church. The cable is not generally very clear in its statements of European news, but in that of yesterday coneerning the proposed financial measure of the Italian government in regard to the Church it is more than usually cloudy. What doesit mean by the announcement that the government intend to tax the Church prop- erty to the extent of six hundred millions of lires? is this i Snnuel tax? It can hardly be the tatter; for ‘in the two bills presented to the Italian Parlie- ment by the Minister of Justice in February, 1864, for the suppression of religious corpora- tions and the suppression of ecclesiastical tithes, the total income of all the ecclesiastical property falling within these two classifications amounted to only 76,266,616 lires (francs) per annum. The addition of the ecclesiastical revenues of Venice, and even of the Roman imposition of the amount stated. If not a yearly tax, then what is it? Is itto be regarded as a compromise with the Church for this specific sum, the amount to be paid in fixed proportions, spreading over a certain period? Taken in this sense’ the ar rangement would not beso very disadvantage- ous a one for the clergy, for the property which they hold is capable of being improved, under proper management, to double its present value. We hardly think, however, that it can be regarded as permanent, for in every future difficulty of @ financial nature in which the government may be placed it will be apt to recur to this easy method of supplying its wants. The Republic: gramme for the Futere, A meeting of the Republican National Com- mittee was held in Washington last week, at which it was resolved to commence a thorough reorganization of the party throughout the Union, and for that purpose the Executive Committee were directed to establish their. headquarters in the city of New York and to employ a sufficient force to render the work complete. The main object of the com- mittee in this movement is to harmonize the operations of the republican party in all the States with the policy and measures of Congress, 80 that everywhere there may be as far as possible a singleness of purpose and a unity of action in the organization wherever it has existence. Heretofore, as the leaders of the party complain, the republicans have failed to secure the full benefit of their numerical strength, in consequence of the great diversity of views and of plans by which individuals and factions have sought to accomplish » common purpose. This evil they believe can ina great measure be remedied by the efforts of an effi- cient, bard working central organization, and they very properly select New York as the most desirable base of operations. This action of the party will settle the squab. bles among the republican local committees in this city growing out of the expulsion of Ray- mond from the chairmanship of the National Committee and the election of Marcus L. Ward, of New Jersey, in his place. The last Repub- lioan State Convention reformed the local com- mittees; but the old incumbents refused to recognise its authority and continued to claim “regularity” for themselves. They will of course yield to the decision of the National Bxecutive Committee, which is clothed with the power of reorgenization, In view of this movement of the ropubit- cans it ts time for the democratic party to take anew departure and to prepare for the Preel- Gentle} campaign, which may be upon them eooner than they expect, The old copperhead a pepo fa dead and buried beyond the | regurrection, and the recent ; pra Now Hampehire politicians in favor hering to the Chicago platform, Southern rights and the “constitution as {t was” shows the hope- Vesaness of attempting any reconstraction of the party with the old leaders atits head. The demo- cratic reorganization must commence here in this city, side by side with that of the republi- cans; and it must have for its base the live Miles O'Reilly democracy, flushed with recent simply e war impost, of is it an’ victories and holding in its hands the power and patronage of the municipal government, There must be no delay. The republicans are already in the field, and their movements must be met at once by their opponents. Miles O'Reilly is a practised soldier, and knows how to set a squadron in the field. Let him muster his troops at once, reduce every incompetent, worn out old leader to the ranks, throw away all their rusty, useless woapons, arm them with the effective, resistless issues of to-day, and march on to victory. The demapracy, which ia till respectable in strength, must make up its mind to take this course without delay, or be prepared to lay down its arms and surren- der at discretion. Tho Recenctruction Question in Congress. Thad Stevens’ Reconstruction bill was up before the House of Representatives yesterday, and en amendment was proposed by Mr. Spald- ing and accepted by Mr. Stevens providing that from the date of the passage of the act until such time as the States in rebellion shall be admitted to representation in Congress the writ of habeas corpus shall be suspended in Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alat Louisd Missi sippi and Arkansas, and those “districts of. country” be in the meanwhile placed under martial law. In the courae of the debate upon the bill Mr. Scofisld made a sharp attack upon Secretary Seward for having sent the consti- tutional amendment to the ex-rebel States for their adoption, arguing that the States repre- sented im Congress alone had the right to vote upon the amendment. He charged a design on the part of the Secretary of State to lead the other departments of the government into acts recognizing the actual existence of the rebel States, and included certain Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States in his censure. The Southern people will soon begin to learn the real value of that advice by which they were incited to reject the terms proposed by Congress, We have no doubt thar the sensible portion of them would now gladly welcome any policy by which the constitu- tional amendment might be made operative without their direct concurrence, so that they might secure the substance of peace without doing violence to the shadow of “honor.” Progress of the Excise Law. The utmost activity appears to prevail among the yet unlicensed liquor dealers to obtain per- mission to carry on their business until the Excise Board resumes its sessions, The In- spector is fairly run down with applications, which are granted at the rate of about one hundred and fiftyaday. These permits are not (aken out with leas feeling of hostility to the law because they are # necessity, nor must it be supposed that the liquor dealers are re- laxing their efforts to have the law amended by the Legislature. They took confidently to the prospect of obtaining such modifications as will relieve the Excise law from its most objec- tionable features. After next Tuesday those who have not succeeded in obtaining permits ond have hithefto been selling without license _must remove their signs and signals, haul down their flags and surrender at discretion. Up to yesterday morning there were about five hun- dred and eighty applications to be acted upon. The total number of licenses granted so far is abont six thousand six hundred. Between the excitement among those seek- ing license to seli liquor, and the constant arrests tor illegal distillation, tranda‘apon the revenue, the investigation of Congressional committees and the trials before the United States Commissioners Newton and Jones, the whiskey question would seem to be the most lively, and certainly the must spirited, subject of the day. Secretary MecCul h and the Gold im the Treasury. It is reported that the prevailing opinion in Washington, with regard to the sales of gold by the Treasury Department is that Secretary McCulloch will not be allowed to exercise the same control over the market he has hitherto exercised. The Committee of Ways and Means, to which the subject was referred, has not yet come to «@ positive decision ; but it is thought a report will be made to limit the power of the Secretary. Mr. McCulloch is naturally opposed to any restriction being placed uponhim. The power he now possesses is great and full of temptation. If he should be so disposed he can make for himself or his friends milliags of dollars by influencing the markets. Besides the values of the country and the market prices of gold and other things, which he can send up or dowa at will, ought not to be left within the power of any man, and oer- tainly not in the power of a man of such nar- row views of financial matters. A large re- serve ofgold should be kept on hand or within call by the government, for that inspires con- fidence; but if the accumulation should be- come too great, and it be advisable to sell, then the sales should be regulated by law and upon afixed principle, There is no other way to prevent corruption or an improper inter- ference with trade and values. Destruction of Cotton and Loss of Life by Fire. v Monta, Jan. 18, 1867, The Bremen ship Mobile, with two thousand bales of cotton, was burned in Mobile bay this morning. The steamer Montgomery, with 600 bales of cotton, was burned siz miles above Erie, on the Black Warrior river. Three negroes perished in the flames. Fire at Pert Jervis. Port Janvis, N. Y., Jan. 10, 1867, A fire occurred here at one o'clock this morning, burn- ing McGovern's Hotel and the Delaware House livery stable on Pike street, The loss on the stable is about $800; insured in the Arctic, of New York. J. I, Hoyt loses $8,600 on his stock, which is ingured in the Yon- kers and Home of New York #. MoGov. gee 600; in other city compa- Bi Fire tn Buffalo. Borrato, Jan. 10, 1867, u i i H| i i : jul f fp eis ia ii ial Ag 239 CITY INTELLIGENCE. Suoonna Avrray m ras Kiaverra Wanp.—Betweem Sevea and cight o'clock last evening a man named George Hull was shot at No. 87 Cannon street by an ex- duced to return and live with her, but he could ly, PO gl. of swans seoneng. Se sevanee when be company with his wife in circumstances, and, while labor mort, drew @ revolver and shot the nearly through estion, when Browning taken he ged to the Eleventh procines station was tenses forpome time consected with the ning was e wi ae ey ol beld previous to 1785. from di@erent trades societies, which were at that time established for mutual protective purposes. The society was incorporated by an act of the Legislature on the 14th of March, 1792, after which period it made provision for the pelecttiotadtiont members, and cou! ted to the support of widows and members. In 1811 the act expired of its own limitation. Another was ares additional powers. This was amended ip 1821, and provisions made for a school of in- struction for the children of members; other childrea, however, were admitted. This school continued in exist- ence until 1842, when, owing to the establishment of the wublic Scheol system and its admirable working, it was found ho longer necessary, as it wag a source of continual outlay from the funds of the gencral body. At its com- mencement a library of about 4,000 volumes was ob- tained through the individual exertions of its members and the philanthropy of the kindly disposed. A valas- ble bequest was at one timo received from the late Bea- in ilt of his extensive library. His two sisters, jiza and Sarah, made donations amounting to $5,000 and $3,000. The society is managed by its own mem- bers. The management is entrusied to five committees, which receive an annual appropriation for the nevessary expenditures of their respective offices. The annual im- come of the society is about $30,000, about $25,000 of which is spent upon the various titerary, library, school and pension departments of the body, bal allowed to accumulate, and will ultimately be devoted to the erection of a new building, which has been under discussion for the last three years, The library contains about 36,000 volumes of a varied character, among which are maay valuable statistical and mechanical works, A Soctat Te.ecaarsio Exrsaraiss.—On Friday even- ing @ meeting of the telegraphic clerks of this city was. held at No. 145 Broadway, for the parpose of forming an association for social purposes, Mr. S. B. Christie was, chosen President pro after which the follo per. manent officers were elected :—President, Pies 5 Zz Godward; Vice Leh ong ed G, W. Roberts; Treasurer, has identified as Michael Me 8 German, thirty- five years of age, had committed by himself in the forehead with o country, Acorwgsts, &0.—James Cassidy, a boy residing Horatio street, a plumber by occupation, was toe of the Ninth avenue line, and received injuries, i w 3 fir above were taken to Bellvue Hospital. VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE. Ricmmonp, Jan. 19, 1867. ‘The House of Delogates to-day rejected the Senate bill increasing the legal rate of interest to ten per cont, This action ‘eaves the present usury law still im force, theme being six per cent. TWE KENTUCKY LEGISLATURE. Faawnvoer, Ky, Jan, 19, 1867, « Senator Helms’ resolwtion, tooking to the establish- ment of a standing army in Kentucky, was defeated in the Senate to-day. The Senate instructed different committees to bring fa the following bille:—Fitst, a bill to reduce the present. rate of taxation in the State. Second, a billto fix the frage party of Louisiane the peat of A. P. Fisld, some. what prominent us a local politician, was declared vacant, A robbery amounting'to $12,000 ia gold bas been din. covered in the banking house of Jacob Barker, A clerk. Sot ime Rear as eee and Wtsipn apm a, Bib 00,000" THE NEGRO WORAGE GREELEY CONVICTED OF MURDER, ‘The negro ‘Horace Grantor” tnt ay tone ot marder, Joba ® Regro, his wareeueieg