The New York Herald Newspaper, January 27, 1867, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD; SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 1867. NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENS ETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFIOR N. W. CORNER OF FUI.TON AND NASSAU STS, Volume XXX AMUSEM TO-MORROW EVENING. BROADWAY TH oadway, near Broome sireet.—ALappin, Tas Sc AmP—CINDERELLA. NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway, opposite New York Hotel.—Cexpaic.on. DODWORTH’S HALL, 806 Broadway.—Prorgsson Harte wien Perrory His Mrkactgs—Tagz Hxap in Tut AIR— Tum Inpiss basket Tacx. RICHINGS’ ENGLISH OPERA COMPANY, Olympic theatre, Broadway.—Tux Rosx of Casmite. BAN FRANCISCO MINSURELA. 535 Broatwar, opnosite tho Metrovolitan Hotel—[w racia Brmoriay EXTKRTALN. wens, Sincina, Dancin@ 4ND Bun.esquss.—MiDNIGHT SESSION OF CONGRESS. FIFTH AVENUE OPERA HOUSE, Nos. 2 and 4 West Twenty-fourth street. —Gurerin & Cuntsty’s MINSTRELS .— Eriorian Mixsree.sy, Baiaps, Buxuesues, $¢.—Mxpi- oat. StvpENT. 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Lrorunrs Darcy. ‘Open from 8 40M UWP Me SUNDAY (THIS) EVENING—Granp Sacrep Vocal anv InstromentaL Concerr at Sreivwar Hatt, Fourteenth Street and Fourth avenue. New York, Sunday, Junuary 27, 1867. THE NEW as. EUROPE. By the Atlantic cable we have a comprehensive news Feport recording the important events which transpired from the morning of the 23d to the evening of the 25th of January. France, Ruasia and Prussia have reselved to negotiate in common with the Turkish government on tno Eastern question. The warin Crete is ended. The French peo- ple are reported as “disgusted” with Napoloon’s reform plan. The stroets of Madrid are filled with workingmen demanding bread. Formidable bread riots have occurred im Greenwich, England. The United States steamer ‘Swatara toucbed at Port Mahon with John H. Surratt on oard. Prussia demands an explanation of the move- ments of Austria in Galicia. The British government thas accepted the plan of North American confederation Proposed by the provincial delegates in London, anda ‘heavy Canadian railroad loan is to be placed on ’Change, Schleswig and Holstein are formally annexed to Gor- many. Denmark officially denies that the Island of St. ‘Thomas has been sold to the United States, Count Bis- marck declines a seat in the German Diet. Consols closed at 90% for money in London onthe ‘25th of Janaary. United States five-twenties were at 72% in London and at 723< in Paris. The Liverpool cot- ton market closed firm with middling Orleans at fifteen and one-eighth pence. Breadstnffs dull and downward. Provisions (rm, The steamships Union, City of Boston and Hecla, at this port, yesterday, landed the very interesting mail details of our cable despatches dated to the 17th of Jan- wary, which we publish to-day. CONGRESS. In the Senate, yesterday, the report of the Joint Special Committees to inquire into the condition of the Indian tribes and the management of Indian affairs was read and ordered to be printed. The bill authorizing the construction of @ lateral track of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad into and within the District of ‘Columbia was passed. The joint resolution amending the Internal Revenue laws so that alcohol and burning fluid mado from substances on which the taxes havo been paid shal! be exempt was paased, having previously passed the House. Bills were introduced amending the act restricting the jurisdiction of the Court of Claims, regulating the care and supervision of tho Capitol and grounds, and abolisbing and prohibiting the poonage system in New Mexico. Pending the considera- tion of the joint resolution giving increased pay to gov- ernment employés, the morning hour expired and the tariff bill came up. During its consideration the Confer- ence Committee on the bill regulating the appointment of pension otiicers made a report, which was agreed to, and the bill now goes to the President. Mr. Wilson in- troduced his bill to increase the pay of army officers, and the Judiciary Committee reported back the joint fesolution prohibiting the re-election of any person to the office of President of the United States. The tariff bill was then resumed, but no amendments of impor. tance were agreed to, The Committee of the Whole then reported the vill to the Senate, which soon after adjourned, Inthe House numerous bills of a private character were acted upon, and at the expiration of the morning hour Mir, Stevens’ recoustruction Dill was calfod up. Mr. Rose, of Titinols, made a lengthy speech in opposition to ft Mr. Stevens, at the conclusion, said that he had decided not to press a vote on the question at present, but that on Monday he would move the previous ques- tion. Mr Ashley favored the further consideration of tho bill under the five minites role, and a spicy debate ensued on the proposition, Mr, Ashley spoke of the President as the apostate leator of a negative re- bdellion, and said he had no doubt there were some men in the House at that time and during the war who op- posed the draft, harbored desoriers and were in secret alliance with the rebels. Mr. Winflold said that if the insinuation applied to himself of bis associates it waa a base and unfounded slander, and Mr. Hunter said that fo fat as he was concerned it wasa base lie, Mr. Hunter was, after considerable discussion, censured by the Speaker, and the House adjourned, MISCELLANEOUS. A largo mooting was boid last evening in the bail of Cooper Institute in aid of the dostitate women and chil- dren of Crete, who have been greatly suffering through the oppression of the Turks. Mayor Hoffman presided. Eloquent addresses wore delivered by Rev, Henry Ward Beecher, Rev. Dr. Hitchcock and others. Appropriate Tesolutions were adopted. Our special fashions correspondent in Paris, writing on the 11th of January, describes in an agreeable man- ner the new styles of dress which are to prevailin the first season of the new year. The materials and trim- mings are set forth, and the great revolution which is about to be effected in the shape and make of ladies? head dresses chronicled with pre: mo and ine very im- Welligent form. The Inspector of Excise was busy again yesterday Granting permits or licenses to liquor dealers. Rut fow oases for violation of the law wero before the courts dur+ ing the day. Thirteen steamships left this city yesterday for Eu. fopean and coastwise ports. The mails by both the Eng. lish and French lines were exceedingly large. Ovor haif ® million dollars in specie was sent by the Havre and Bremen steamers, Six chiefs of the Fenian organization loft yesterday for Havre, giving unpronounceabie French names, Stephens is supposed to have beon one of the party, Coastwise business i improving, tho steamers carrying full freights. A disastrous fire occurred in the cotton warehouse No, 17 Albany stroot last evening, the building being com. pletely burned out from the ground fivor to the roof. ‘There were fifteen hundred bales of cotton stored in the place at the time of the fire, which were totally con- wamed, causing & loss of abont $60,000. The building ‘waa owned by Mr. Chas. Naylor, and was damaged to _ Wo extent of $10,000. ‘An Indian delegation, comprising representatives from erventeon tribes, lef) Kansas Clty, Moy, for Washington, @ Vides, ‘The Grand Jury of Hudson connty, Presentment against tho Weehawken Ferry Company | about their being one and the same party, and yesterday on the grouad ‘that it only runs one boat, | the rapid chang? of character is truly adinira- which, being old aad roticn, endangers the lives of pas- aie thas SAGE Sengors; that soep and Logs are turned into the gentle- ble and highly ingenious, Another sce men’s cabin; that tho ladies cabin, besides having its | Presents General Leonardo Marquez “severely walls covered with indecent caricatures and writings, ts | conscripting” in Mexico city, What is to be used asa smoking room, and that rain pours through | done with the conseripte is vory properly left the roof, aa if it was a sieve,"? to the imaginatio; me Governor Swann has Deen elected United Saige Samay f°? imagination, @ region whence i = tor by the Maryland Legislature, vet BS | soripts are very probably drawn. other, Robert J, Bauks bas been nominated for the Mayoralty highly suggestive, gives us a vivid idea of of Baltimore, to succeed to that office when the present | Campeche (improperly written otherwise) pro- erie 3 bred by weil Tecaletare é nouncing against the empire. It is very fine. e jury yestel aw damages in the sum foreg #150 1 ew Mary" Jobson, the pani a's | OA ae ana bis fac en Ra Ne piiat suit brought against Thomas Johnson, « widower, aged | PAlnte an colo Afty-seven years, residing in Brooklyn, for breach of | Promise between dirt and dark yellow, in promise, Mrs. Johnson is the widow of acaptain of the | the attitude of “pronouncing,” is very im- Ble sp charg who was ies * the we Lyi posing—in fact as nice a piece of imposition the past two years in the employ of the defendant as housekeeper, during which timean | * be son seen for somo time. Ravelly oy offer of marriage was made and accepted, but the con. | Posing Colonel Parra, telling the people tract was never fulfilled by Mr. Johnson, The suit | Guadalajara that, their city being taken by the came up in the Supreme Court, Brooklyn, before Judge | “national army,” he “hastens to tranquillize Lat, their minds.” Herein we see a spirit of mutual confidence and unflinching veracity much more ‘the United States Circuit Court, on an indictment charg- inghim with having abstracted two checks from two dif. | Characteristic of some people than of others; ferent letters while passing through the Post Office, and | for, such is the depravity of human nature, it is drawing money theron by means of forgery, was yester- | very possible there are persons in Guadalajara Seren tee entry ete who would not believe Colonel Parra on oath. Walter Taylor has been committed for examination by | W° Could go on ad infinttum, but propose to Commissionor Stilwell on a charge of having forged a | COnClude for the present, remarking that 0 power of attorney, The cases of Froeman and Miller, | Study of this Mexican panorama has, if possi- and John H. Trapp, already reported, wore adjourned, | ble, increased our admiration for that romantic the former till Monday and the latter to Tuesday. nation, which will continue for some time to The trial of Patrick Dwyer, indicted for shooting Patrick MoCudden, which has occupied the Court of | ford matter to the delvers in that = of Goueral Seasious the entire week, terminated yesterday | literature known as “yellow covered. by the jury, after an absence of fifteen minutes, render- We hope to return to the subject, which is ing a verdict of not guilty. truly inexhaustible. A number of stirring pic- The protracted examination in the case of the Rev. tures, many of them charming fancy sketches, George T. Williams, who is charged with having picked in a‘gaak of sail ‘ the pocket of a lady while riding in a Fifth avenue | ®F¢ 10 progress, and such of ourreaders as have omnibus, in November last, was yesterday brought toa | never heard of Mexico, and consequently know close, by the decision of Justice Dodge, who concluded | nothing about it, will be much edified and en- Sones Che pene ine sre. lightened by an occasional stroll with us in the The United States steam frigate Pawnee arrived at | Mexican gallery. the Brooklyn Navy Yard yesterday, from Portsmouth, of The Proposed Bridge Across the East River. NE — ay Wr syd bh some Lela The bill introduced in the Legislature by indians are determin cep their negro slaves, de- claring that white men’s laws an not agpisibte peed Beat BS Maa Led Seceaeemact & allure, ‘The negroma here appesled to the military for bridge across the East river would be a deaitance. very good measure if it were likely to A young man named Bailey was shot and killed | give reasonably expeditious relief from the encod et tbe ser in ted hp annoyances which it professes to desire sulting the former's sister, whereupon blows enaued ana | 2 G° Sway with. To have to wait five Thompson shot as stated, years for the commencement, and then to Horace Greeley, the negro murderer, was sentenced to | have ten more years to wait for the completion be hanged, in Charleston, yesterday, on the lst of March | of the work is, however, more than the public Bea ox ee eg Ree ad ee patience will put up with. Those who have large interests embarked in the ferries would aa snow in the woods was reported to be five feet | “doubt be well satisfied with the arrange- A Frenchman has been arrested at Now Gloucester, | ment, but the community owe them nothing. Me., on suspicion of being concerned in the murder of | They have contrived to give us, in return for two old women at Auburn, Me., during the heavy snow per § valuable franchises, as niggardly an ae re ey Me ger ee amount of accommodation as they well could steady, and closod at 1343. offer us. Not only have they shown themselves ‘The amount of business consummated in commercial | disregardful of the convenience and comfort aceeat ne Aaa ig ad teachin ke cards of the public, but of their personal safety- jes, VOI pu ‘ produce rate¢ dull, and irregular, while- merchandise wee Peay ge sta! Gdesebie asi’ ruled nominal, with nothing of moment doing. Coffee was steady and firm. Cotton was dail’ and unchanged, | thom they seek to postpone the day of reckon- On ’Change flour was less active and 10c..lower. Wheat | ing. They feel that the time has come when ‘was dull and heavy. Corn and oats were dull and | the project of bridging the river must receive sly sida are wai, Saku salads serious consideration. Unable to defeat it, advance, Whiskey was unchanged, Naval stores were | *ey do the next best thing for their interests less active, though values were unchanged. Petroleum | by favoring the introduction of a bill which ‘was dull and depressed. will so delay the execution of the enterprise OT as to afford them time to realize enormous ad- ditional profits on their capital. This must not be allowed. We must put an end within the shortest period practicable the annoyances which we have endured this winter from the parsimonious and inefficient arrangements of these companies. We do not believe that the construction of a stone bridge need take any such time as that proposed to be expended on it by Senator Murphy’s bill. But if the engineering difficulties in connection with the work are of a character to demand it, then, we say, let us have an iron suspension bridge, which will avoid those difficulties alto- gether, and which can be constructed in fifteen months, or, at most,a couple of years. The iron bridge which has been thrown across the Ohio river at Cincinnati was undertaken and completed within the former period. There is this to be said in addition in favor of a bridge of this kind—that it can be built at very little cost, for, running from Wall street to Brooklyn Heights, it will injure little or no property of the business establishments in the lower part of Wall street, not being of a nature to be interfered with by it On the Brook- lyn side it will strike the hill just at the bridge which crosses Furman street, and there- fore will not cost a shilling, either in the way of reconstruction or the purchase of ground. There are competent engineers prepared to undertake the work so soon as the re aisite capital can be raised, and therefore we trust the Legislature will decide on no particular plan until it has this and the various other pro- jects before it which are being prepared for its consideration. It must not be forgotten that the ferry companies have heavy intorests at stake, and that by the suggestion of tedious and costly designs they calculate upon either deterring capitalists from the undertaking, or of so delaying the execution of the work as to keep them in possession of their present enor- mous revenues for ten or fifteen years longer. Benjamin B. Miller, convicted on Saturday week last in Gold was Mexice WePking Out Her Destiny. The situation in Mexico remains on as large a scale as usual. Imperialists, republicans, brigands and independent bushwhackers con- tinue to fight and die. The work of regenera- tion goes on with relentless vigor, and there is a prospect at some future day of the coun- try being at peace. Every day increases the number of Mexicans who are forever at peace with this troubled world. Miramon and his “merrie men” are marching to retake Guada- lajara, desolating as they go. Murdered men and women strew the roads or dangle from trees. Diaz is approaching the capital and death has one of his aids on his staff. The former represents imperialism, the latter is republican. Each has from ten to twelve thousand men, Mexicans all, bent on mutual destruction. The imperialists are split into two or three factions. Some want the empire | with the Church; others will have nothing to do with the Church. Some want the French to stay; others want them to go, and so on. Then the republicans have their own split, from which the country is likely to derive much benefit. Juarez heads one party, Ortega the other. Puebla and most of the valley towns have declared tor Juarez. The State of Michoacan and a village here and there in other States have pronounced for the other side. A crowd of partisans of each met the other day in Agnas Calientes, and, finding themselves literally in hot water, went at it hammer and tongs, until little was left of either. Victory in such cases in Mexico is ex- tremely impartial and generally declares for both parties, The present instance is no excep- tion. Victory will thus continue to perch on the banners of contending parties until the last sole surviving Mexican shall survey the coun- try from the peak of Orizaba and declare him- self satisfied with the peaceful condition for which his countrymen are now working. This coming climax is the salient point in all Mexi- can news which many persons find so much Wenvewt Parurs axp Parson Beronen.— difficulty in understanding. The confusion i8 | Mm. contrast between Phillips and Beecher not so mach in the news as in the number of was strikingly presented in the report of the those who are engaged in muddling it. For speech from each of these great reformers in instance, there is a German paper, the editor | the Heratp yesterday. Phillips isa man of of which thinks he knows all about Mexico, wrath ; Beecher goes for charity. Phillips but who puts his awkward foot in it so largely | has no faith in anybody but Pompey, and none that we are convinced he knows much moro in any policy but that of universal suffrage ; about Dutch cheese than he does of Mexican Beecher believes that something may be gained olitics. The way he mixes up Maximilian, by relieving even rebels of the pangs of starva- Madeira, Sicily, Congvess, Cuslotta and the | 4 1B. _,Prillips, in fact, is 4 Puritan of the old steamer Elizabeth shows he was evidently te oe ‘who olleved te iene witches and spired by @ surfeit of sauerkrant. roasting Quakers, while Beecher is a Puritan The pleasantest view to take of Mexico is to of the new dispensation of Christian charity regard It as a moving panorama, giving us| gna brotheily love. Phillips, therofere, thongh scenes the most variable and incidents the he thinks he is ahead, is really behind the most thrilling. We have in our mind’s eye a great reform mdivenidiats of the age, while series of pleasant pictures, furnished by the hi ith th ‘i ielest ‘dabetligenod trom-the expiring: ommplre, | See Beene ee Tee Thus, in the first place, we have a partyof| AN ASSEMBLYMAN on Staust CLEANING IN colored gentlemen, composed of Turkos, Alge- | New Yorx.—One of our New York Assembly- rines and Martinique negroes, dashing in the | mon, who was an earnest supporter of Street moet irrepressible manner on a couple of vil- | Inspector Boole and his hygienic guard, is lages which they give to the torch, putting it | anxious to investigate the cause of the present poetically, in the most delightfully Corsair | condition of the streets of New York, and to fashion, Then we are shown how these | secure the removal of the “filth and garbage” men and brothers had a “trifling encounter” | therefrom. The recent storm, almost unpre- with a party of republicans. At this juncture, | cedented in its character, has certainly not with a flourish of the brush in the hands of the | improved the roads and sidewalks of the city; wizard artist, the color leaves the skin of these | but as we now have persons in authority who dark braves, and we behold them fearfully and | are not laboring under the belief that hygiene wonderfully made in the likeness of chasseure | means “a bad smell” or “a kind of miaema,” d'Afrique and mounted counter-guerillas de-| these Boole reformers may rest satisfled that ciding the fate of the enemy by & brilliant.| the streets will, as. general thing, be kept in charge of cavalry under Captain Clay, who | better condition now than they used to be un- Durmed them fonr miles and atrewed the | der the old Street Insvector Department. N. J., mades | ground with dead. There is no doubt whatever | Phe Cable News—Interesting Evente In | balance of the Legislative session. This scarcely Europe. The cable despatches thig morning are of muob interest and foreshadow stirring events in Europe. They contain the news of the last four days, communication having been inter- rupted since Wednesday. The Eastern ques tion begins to take definite shape. The state- ment trom Paria that the French, Russian and Prussian governments have resolved to nego- tiate in common with the Porte upon the Eastern question is made positively, and not ‘in the form of a rumor. Those three great Pywers have therefore come to the determiziation to administer to the “sick man’s” oatate, and England and Austria are excluded from any participation in the negotiation— the former probably from her own voli- (ion and the latter by compulsion. It has been evident for some time that Russia and Prussia were in accord, and Napoleon has now disclosed the policy upon which he had doubtless long since determined, and for which his recent movements have prepared the way. Simultaneously with this important news comes the report that the government of Prus- sia has asked that of Austria why the troops of the latter are being concentrated in Galicia. For some time past Austria has been accused of attempting to foment an insurrectionary spirit among the Poles; but she has heretofore protested that she has made no unusual mili- tary movements on the Galician frontier. The attitude taken by Prussia shows how entire is the unity of purpose between herself and Rus- sia, not only on the Eastern question, but in the North. The troubles of the Hapsburgs seem to be increasing, and there now appears to be but one choice for Austria between hu- miliation and war. The Emperor Napoleon has his own domestic difficulties, although it is not likely that they will prove of a serious character or interfere with his foreign policy. Advices from Paris and London represent the French people as dissatisfied and “disgusted” with the measures recently put forth by the Emperor in the shape of reforms. The virtual suppression of debate upon the policy of the government appears to have aroused the indignation of the excitable Frenchman, and to have overbalanced the sops offered to him as an equivalent for the tirades of Thiers and Favre. Indeed, he finds little’ just now to gratify his self-esteem in the acts of his government either at home or abroad. Buta bold position on the Eastern question and the great Paris Exhibition will no doubt soon turn the tide again in favor of the Emperor. The British government has its hands full, and its neutrality on the Eastern question is a necessity rather than a choice. The reform agitation advances steadily, and every day’s existence gives it strength and solidity. A formidable bread riot has occurred at Green- wich, and in the present unsettled and revolu- tionary condition of the public mind every such event is an additional peril to the govern- ment. A serious bread riot is also reported at Madrid, which may be in reality the com- mencement of the revolution that hangs over Spain. The compiexion of the news from all quarters is warlike and revolutionary, and it seems probable that some of our European friends who have been predicting another re- beliion in the United States may find enough to do to preserve peace within their own borders. City and Judiciary Reform. A resolution has been adopted by the State Senate, moved by Mr. Gibson, calling for a de- tailed report of matters connected with the management of wharves, piers, markets, fer- ries and other property belonging to the city of New York, and of all moneys paid for ad- vertising and printing for the city and county during the past three or four years, and for re- pairing, whitewashing, furnishing and fitting up the arsenals within the county for the last year. This is all very well, and we have no doubt that Senator Gibson will find matter enough in the report, if he should ever get it, to supply all the rural pulpits and debating societies in the State with material for descanting upon the corruptions and wickedness of New York for the next three years. But what is the neces- sity for such an inquiry? If the venerable Senator will draw upon his imagination and picture wharves, piers, markets and all other property and privileges out of which the city should realize a» handsome income, parcelled out by the several “rings” as jobs among grog- shop politicians, bruisers and others of their friends at an expense instead of a profit to the taxpayers ; if he will put the figure for advortising and printing for the past three or four years at about ten times any reasonable amount, and the expenditure on arsenals as high as his conscience will justify, with a view to the‘number of supervisors having an in- terest theroin, we will guarantee that he will come within bounds of the facts. These “investigations” seldom accomplish any good. The people know well enough that the whole grogshop government of New York ig as foul with corruption as it well can be, and if the Senate is not in possession of the same infor- mation they must be a very unso- phisticated and innocent body of men. They have already an investigation on their hands in which one of their own number is personally interested. It does not seem to occupy much of their attention, and the public might altogether lose ight of the fact that the ex-Sireet Commissioner of New York holds a place in the Senate of the State, and has a voice wade vote on all questions relating to muni- cipal défHiption, but for ® dropping fire of petitions for his removal which is heard now and then in the chamber, and which is received complacently enough by the member against whom it is directed. The fact is our citizens want a thorough system of city reform, and they would remind Senator Gibson that such resolution as he has introduced can scarcely be considered necessary, and is sometimes used for the pur- pose of delay, and with the object of defeating the very measure it purports to promote. They would also remind him that in seeking city reform they do not desire simply to trans- fer municipal jobbery from one” faotion or “ring” to another faction or “ring,” or to take the piers and wharves or any other city property out of the coutrol of corrupt officials. to Hon. John Morrissey’s club, a little higher is said, eix Fonian chiefs. The queations then reour, who were these six mysterious Fenians? Whither boundt How much money have they carried away? What is the maniiest destiny of this money? And is that famous man Stephens among the missing? We pause for a reply. CANADA. SPECIAL TELEGRAMS TO THE HERALD. Ne Fenian Trials Yesterday—A Canadian Ex- cise Law to be Enforced—The Regular aretha. Torowro, Jan. 26, 1867. Thore are no Fenian trials going on to-day. The court met at ten o'clock, and without transacting any business needed at this time, in view of the noar ap- proach of the Constitutional Convention, when the whole system of judiciary, civil and crim- inal, will no doubt undergg » thorough refor- mation. oa * Sue O'Brien Caso. . This 5, which recently occupied so much of & time of the Court of General Sessions, ad the brutal details of which so shocked the public mind, is again brought into notice. In the Supreme Court on Friday the argument for ® new trial, based upon a writ of error, was heard and replied to, the Judge reserving his decision. We call attention to the case not by any means for the purpose of imperilling the liquor dealers to close their places of interests of the wretched man now under sen- ‘at seven P, M. until at seven A.M. tenoe of death. If there has been error—if | _,The omcial gasstie announdss thet the whole number his counsel have made eut a case for him with sufficient clearness—by all means let him have a new trial. It is one of the greatest glories of our free institutions that, no matter how great and how henious the crime with which a fellow being is charged, he can claim the benefit of » fair and impartial trial ; nay, that if there has been any defect in the pro- cess he can demand to be tried again. It is perilous, however, to the interests of the com- munity when liberty in ‘any of its forms degen- erates into licentiousness. There is a growing conviction in the public mind that these new trials are too easily obtained. Rarely, indeed, is sentence pronounced’ for capital crimes but the most vigorous attempts are made to have the case reopened. Efforts failing in that direction are immediately turned toward com- mutation of sentence. Such a state of things ought not to continue. It can only serve to encourage crime and to expose our judiciary tribunals to the contempt of the world. Our judicial proceedings should be so conducted as to render fresh trials unnecessary, and the power of commuting sentence should be wisely and sparingly exercised. Every failure of justice, sowing, as it does, fresh seeds of evil, ought to be regarded in the light of a public calamity. Nothing can contribute so much towards such failure as the habit of setting aside capital sentences. Nothing, therefore, is so much to be deprecated. The of Rev. Dr. Babin tor the Marder Kn oh leap Waas Expected.as Gev- Orrawa, C. W., Jan, 26, 1867. ‘The trial of the Rev. Dr. Babin, an Episcopal man, for the murder of his sister, is The City of Mexico Besieged. New Ontxans, Jan. 26, 1867. Accounts from various Mexican quarters indicate the AFFAIRS IN FLORIDA. The Indians Object to Giving Freedom their Sinves—Freedmen Renewing Co! Laguna age Naw Onczaxs, Jan. 26, 1867. An official letter trom Florida says the Indians of Everglades, Florida, are determined to keep the negroes in their tribe as slaves, denying that white men’s laws are applicable to them on the subject of slavery. The negroes claim their liberty, and have appealed to the military for agsistance. It is feared there will be trouble in Florida touching this matter. It is officially reported tbat the freedmen throughout Florida are renewing contracts. There was a large emi- gration from South Carolina and Georgia, for the purpose of obtaining oe or colonizing on the St. Johns river or south thereof, General Ely had arrived from South Carolina with @ colony of eight hundred freedmen. Tho colonization agencies in — southern portion of the State seemed to be very popular. A dimeuty occurred in Fernandina on December 26, some citizens resisting the seizare by the Sheriff of some property that had been sold for taxes. The Sheriff was driven off and appealed to Governor Walker for a milt- tary force. The Governor, having no men, asked the interference of the United States troops. Colonel Sprague, who has charge of the latter, declined, and the Governor has applied to the President, All was quiet and the authorities were awaiting instructions oa Washington. THE TRAGEDY AT AUBURN, MAINE. Arrest of a Frenchman on Suspicion of Being the Murderer of the Two Old Ladies, , The Territorial Sumtenge Bill a Law of the and. The bill which on the 12th instant was submitted to the President from Congress, conferring the elective franchise in all the Territories of the United States, without regard to race or color, “excepting Indians not taxed,” not having been returned by the President within the ten days limit of the constitution, has become a law without his signature, the same-asif he had signed it. He doubtless had his objections to the measure; but in consider- ing these objections he concluded it best to take the half-way course between a veto and an ap- proval and let the bill pass by default. In the same way the bill repealing the amnesty and pardon authority given the President in an act of Congress becomes a law, although the repcal cannot touch his constitutional authority over this subject. The repeal simply amounts to an opinion, a recommendation or protest from Congress touching the exercise of this Auburn last week. The evidence is of a circumstantial nature, but points strongly to the accused as the guilty man. The principal circumstances are these:—On the day after the murder a man called ata house in Wost Minot street, about six miles from the scene of the asked for supper. The woman of the eo tenphiog mee. co Mr. Pee: . house tied that his shirt bosom and wristbands were of on ‘errito1 Suffrage |, | dloody, there were on portions ‘pautaloons and cloth the time of his looks like a step towards the policy of Con- | arrest, had the bosom of his ebirt torn out, and. bis rem and ofa nny be agian of die | western geod eg ncn ae for a treaty of peace. the marks of baving been with a knife, as if te stains, 3 which the physician declared to Our City Kallroad Tux. It appears that the managers of our city horse railroads are conferring with the Congressional ‘Wednesday night and Thursday morni: the murder was committed, and sdmits having called at Libby’s house, in West Aul about half a mile from Committee of Ways and Means tor the purpose the residence of the ‘nurdered women, about three of having extended the term of the law allow- | Qclcck 00 Thureday, morning. Mr. Libby | saw of scene of the murder. Ano! the face that tracks about the house after showed that some person had been there whi s boot without a heel. The prisoner has such a boot, and it fits the tracks mentioned. The supposed murderer is a smatl man, about four feet ten inches in hi about forty ae He says he came from and that he been working at woodchi rious partics in Maine this winter, but their names. He is represented as a man of vicious appearance. FATAL SHOOTING AFFRAY IN TROY. Troy, Jan. 26, 1867. About nine o'clock this evening Thomas N. Bailey, engineer of the Rankin Steam Fire Engine, was shot m the street by a young man named Joel B. Thompson. It appears that about an hour previous Bailc7’s sister aad in some manner been insulted by Thompson. Bailey met bim in the sireet and charged bim with the and some words passed between them, when Thompson drew a revolver and fired as stated. The ball through the ‘heart of the victim, and he died almost in- stantly. Bailey leaves a young wile and widowed mother. He was one of the most nent morabers of the City Fire and highly esteemed by all who knew him. He was about thirty years of age. A KNOCK DOWN IN THE VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE. Ricumosp, Jan. 26, 1867. Immediately upon the adjournment of the House of Delegates to-day a scene occurred between two of the members, who bad a collision, one of them being knocked down, Both had been members of the Committee om Lunatic Asylums, and @ statement made by Mr. Ward, the chairman, in the house was taken by Mr. Smith, the before the ing them to charge the public an cxtra cent for the payment of the revenue tax of three per cent charged on the gross receipts of each company. The law in question ceases to ope- rate some time next April, and it is very natu- ral that parties interested in the gross receipts of horse railroad enterprises should desire to extend its operation till the day of judgment. They not only charge the public the three per cent tax, but make an enormous profit of seven- tcen per cent besides, derived from the one ceat extra charge. The calculation is very simple. On every dollar they are taxed three cents. Formerly a dollar represented twenty passengers. Now, however, twenty passengers are represented by a dollar and twenty cents. Deduct from a dollar and twenty cents three cenis for the tax, and the remaining seventeen cents are so much additional profit. The grand result is that the tax has had the effect of increas- ;-ing the groes and net receipts of the compa- nies, instead of diminishing them to’ @ small extent for the good of the country ; while the tax-paying public, already overburdened, pay the companies the enormous tax of twenty per cent over and above the proper fare for the privilege of riding in their cars. The thing is 1 t, and Cor hould not mentee a elt aetna Ay bene 7 rossly un; an ngress shor not permit | members ie ¢ apt ‘ard. A dis- groely <ageey P te then several mem! interrapting, but it, Railroad companies should do their share of supporting the government, and as a rule they are able, though not willing, to do it. There is no reason why they should be ex- empted, when the salaries and incomes of all others are taxed to an amount that in the ma jority of cases bears heavily on the payers. The charge of six cents on our city railroads should be discontinued, and the law limiting the fare to five cents enforced. We look to Congress to have the imposition put an end to. arose, ith succeeded in planting an effective blow on Ward's Prominent feature, which floored that gentleman and drew blood, after which they were separated. Both were subsequently arrested by the city police and held to bail for a breach of the peace, POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE. Tax Iupxactent.—The Savannah (Ga.) Republican of the 224 inst. expresses the opinion that the impeach- Ment project will not be carried out, because the more moderate republicans oppose it and the democrats desire it as the “‘short road from a majority to a mmority,” as Mr. Greeley expressed it, But it warns the South that if tt is carried out, no revolution will result from'it, and all hopes of Southern gain from a civil war at the North will prove delusive. “The course is too plainly marked out to even admit of a mistake,” and the Northern peo- ple know when to begin and how; and, if disposed to prosecute the work, they would do so in the teeth of such threats of revolution and be all the more deter- mined on that account, How Iurgacament 18 To Bx Avotpen,—A loading mem- ber of the Maryland Legislature said in aspeech on the 28d inst, that if articles of impeachment were presented by the House Mr. Johnson would demand that they be tried by a Senate in which all the States wore repre- sented, and if this was denied, he would appeal to the army and the navy, and the war would be carried late the Northern States. a Orrices Ge Brooiwo—A Franrvt, State or Tutxas.—- The Jerome First Gentleman Medal. A correspondent from Princeton is anxious to be informed what qualifications will be likely to entitle a graduate of that college to the medal to be purchased with the interest of five thousand dollars donated by Mr. Leonard W. Jerome and bestowed upon the “first gen- tleman” of his class. This is avery grave question and one upon which there may be conflicting views. In Congress, to which our correspondent alludes, the qualifications of @ gentleman are variously understood. Among Kentuckians the rule for a gentleman appears to be to waylay a member who has used too much license in debate and to belabor him soundly with hickory stick. The rule in Towa, on the other hand, is to take the beating patiently and wait for redress from the House. We would not advise our correspondent to look to Washington at all for the character of" @ gentleman. He scems to be in a fair way of gaining the prize as it is; but should he need further information we must refer him to the Manhattan Club, or, in case of failure there, up town, whore the first gentlemen of the city ‘are cortain to be found. » Wao Wan Tasr!—The sicamer Ville de Parla, which galled hence for Burope yester- day, received on beard at (a lest moment, it