The New York Herald Newspaper, March 4, 1867, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENVETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, Velume XXXII. = — March 4, 1867, New York, Monday THE NEWS. EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yester- day, March & Lord Derby’s Reform bill will be submitted to Parlia- mont on the 11th instant. The adoption of reform as a Cabinet measure has caused the Colonial Ministers of England, Earl Carnarvon and Mr, Adderley, to resign, ‘The King of Prussia will entertain the members of the North German Parliament at a grand banquet, War is said to have broken out in India, Consols closed at 91, for money, in London on Satur- day. Five-twenties were at 7334 in London and 77 in Frankfort at the close, The Liverpool cotton market closed active and upward. CONGRESS. The Saturday session of both Houses of Congress con- tinued until ahout eight o'clock yesterday, when recesses were taken until baif-past seven in the evening, Tu the Senate, the conference committees’ reports on the Miscellaneous, Army Appropriation and Internal Revenue bills were agreed to. Another committee was agreed to on the Naval Appropriation bill, and the com- mittee of conference on the Legislative Appropriation Dill failing to agree, the Senate insisted upon its amend- ments, The Deficiency bill was then considered, several amendments were adopted, and it was passed. It goes to the House again for con- currence. The report of the second committee on the Naval Appropriation bill was agreed to. The House Dill amending the Tariff act was passed. ‘The credentials of geveral new members were presented, The Conference Committee on the Indian Bureau bill could not agree and it fails, An executive session was held at fifteen minutes to nine; and the doors were re- opened at twenty minutes after ten, At twenty minutes to eloven another executive session was held, and on reopening, the bill making valid the proclamations of the President during the war was passed, The Sonate was again in executive session when our report closed, In the House the consideration of the Deficiency bill ‘was resumed in Committee of the Whole, and it was reported to the House. Reports from the Judiciary Committee on the alleged neglect of the Executive in the pursuit of John H. Surratt and on the proposed im- peachment of the President; from the Committee on Public Expenditures regarding affairs in the New York Custom House, and from the Select Committee on Sonthern Railroads, were ordered to be printed. A committee of conference was asked for on the Naval Appropriatian ill, several of the Senate amendments being non-concurred in. The business on the Speaker's table was then disposed of. The Senate amendments to the Court of Claims Jurisdiction and the Fortification bills were disagroed to and committees of conference asked for, The Senate amendments to tho Logislative Appropriation and Compound Interest Note Dills were agreed to, Those bills are therefore passed, ‘The Senate bills relating to appeals and writs of error to the Supreme Court; regulating tne disposition of an ir- regular fund in the custody of the Freedmen’s Bureau; abolishing and prohibiting peonage in New Mexico, and supplementary to the acts abolishing imprisonment for debt were passed. The report of the second committee of conference on tho Naval Appropriation bill was agreed to another bill is therefore passed. In the Sunday even- ing session Mr, Stevens made a personal explanation denying reports relative to a conversation between two representatives and himself in which General Grant had been involved. A Committee of Conference on the Sen- ate amendments to the Deficiency bill was asked for. ‘The report of the Committee on the Fortification bill was agreed to, The bill making valid the prociamation of the President during the war was passed. The report of tho Conference Committee on the Jurisdiction of the Court of Claims bill was agreed to; and the House at one o'clock took a recess until nine o'clock Monday morn- ing. Tho reports of the Judiciary Committee on impench- ment and the pursuit of Surratt will be found in aa- otner column. A final and definite report on impeach- ‘ment is not submitted, owing to the want of time and the many important questions involved, and it is recom- mendod that the further investigation of the charges be transferred to the next Congress, All the facts intor- voning between the fight of Surratt and his capture aro detailed by the committee, and the testimony con- strains them to report that due diligence was not exer- cised for his arrest. The report of the Committee on Public Expenditures will also be found ia another col- uma. Jobn A. Dix has been confirmed as Minister at Paris, and Hugh Ewing as Minister Rosident at the Hague, by the Senate, MISCELLANEOUS. Oar lettors from Mexico are dated at Jerez, Fresnillo ‘and Zacatecas. The first gives an interesting account of tho battle at Zacatecas and the escape of Juarez. ‘The place was very stoutly defended, but bad general- ship counterbalanced the bravery of the troops, and Miramon outflanked the line of battle before a gun was fired. Juarez was at tho front among the soldiers all night, and only consented to retreat when he found himself in imminent danger of capture. He then broke dnto a gatlop, hotly pursued, and arrived at Jerez, four- teen leagues distant, in five hours. Two days after the defeated liberals arrived in good order and apparently not much worsted. At the ball given the night before ‘the battle, which was not postponed, although the battle was considered inevitable in the morning, a magnificent baton, covered with diamonds and valued at $3,000, ‘was presented to the President. From Jerez he and bis Suite moved on to Fresnillo, where they were cordially received, On the ist of January Miramon evacuated Zacatecas, and Juarez re-entered it on the Ist of Feb- ruary. Miramon stated to the gentleman at whove house he had mado his headquarters that the Southern Confederates in the United States were still hand in hand with the imperialists, and that General Hindman, of Arkansas, was corresponding with them in the hope that the two defunct establishments might so work to- gether as to make both a success, From Barbadoes we are informed that the merchants having determined to take American silver at its full value, the money difficulty had been remedied. The Colonial Bank bad agreed to receive at Bridgetown tho quarier dollar at twenty-one cents, and the half dollar at forty two cents, until the 7th ultimo, The total amount of American silver in circulation in the island Wd not exceed tweuty thousand dollars, Sugar making was progressing, and a good return was looked for. In Demarara daring a fortnight cighty-six cases of w fevor wero admitted into the Colonial Hospital, of number sixteen died. From the West Indies we have advices dated at Kings- ton, Jamaica, on the 14th of February. There was no improvement in trade, The Legislative Council met on 2th ultimo in Kingston, and after discussing somo Jocal matter, such as taxes and expenditures, adjourned. The general health ot the island was good, The weather ‘was vory propitious to the harvest and a large number of sugar plantations were at work. The special committees of the New York Firemen’s Association en route to Columbia, S. C., with a hose cars riage intended {for presentation to the firemen of that city, arrived at Norfolk, Va., yesterday, and will leave to-day for Charleston. Aconvention of delegates from the various Father Matthew societies of the city was held at Military Hall, fo tho Bowery, yesterday for the purpose of taking measures for the due observanc> of St. Patrick's day, A lotter from Mayor Hoffman stated that he would unite ‘with the societies in the celebration, and submit their fnvitavon to the Common Council. The failure of Mellon, Ward & Co., of Boston, has eoriously affected at least one in the State. The First * National Bank of Newtonville closed its doors, having fuffered to the amount of $200,000, donble its capital, A mombor of the snspended firm was also a director in tho bank. Prospects of interminable litigation appear, owing to irregularity in cortifying checks of the State Bank, as reported yesterday. Eight hundred thousand dollars of the checks are held by twobanks. Tle cashiers of the Sub-Treasury and the State Bank have resigned. A heavy defalcation has been discovered in the Me- chanics’ National Bank of Baltimore, $300,000 being involved. Two of the oldest employés of the institution are supposed to have been the gallty parties, and wore NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1867. arrested on Saturday. The pilfering is said to have been going on through a period of twenty-seven years, At the Charch of the Puritans, Union Square, last evening, Rey, George B, Cheever, D, D., delivered a lec- ture on the “proposed State convention, regarded in the light of a responsibility to God, and the proposed crime of excluding the colored race’ as representatives thereto, The congregation, though not large, was attentive throughout to the words of the speaker. The thirty- seventh anniversary of the Brooklyn City Mission and Tract Society was held last evening at the Rev. Dr. Storr'’s church, corner of Remsen and Henry streets, The reports of the secrotary and treasurer were read, and showed a very favorable condition of affairs during the past year. Addresses were also made by Rev. G. J. Mingins and Rev. C, H. Everest. Business at the woollen mills in Rhode Island is so dull that hardly half the establishments in the State are running. The wages of the operatives in all the leading mills are to be reduced ten per cont on the 14th inst, Gary Brothers, a butcher and tanner firm in Troy, have failed to the amount of $100,000. The Great Settlement—President Johnson— The Old and the New Congress. No greater day’s work was ever done by the two houses of Congress than that of Saturday last. The passage over the President’s vetoes of the Southern Reconstruction bill and the bill regulating the tenure of office by both houses seemed to be impossibilities on Satur- day morning ; but in addition to these impor- tant bills the Bankrupt bill, a great and beneficent measure, and a little tariff bill on wool, and a variety of other things were pushed through. The great settlement of the Southern difficulty, however, in connection with other measures previously added to the general statutes of the United States, will give to the expiring Thirty-ninth Congress its dis- tinguishing place in our national history. On the Ist of December, 1865, when this Congress first assembled, President Johnson was master of the situation, and might have remained so but for the busy, buzzing outside politicians that were beginning with their flatteries to catch his ear, to the exclusion of better advisers, The experiments of Southern reconstruction upon which he had ventured during the long Congressional recess of nine months were submitted to the discretion of Congress; but in the famous 22d of February speech the beginning of a rupture was pro- claimed from the White House. From that day, cautiously, for some time proceeding by gradual approaches in pursuit of a new party, Mr. Johnson at length took a bold and decided position against Congress in his celebrated Philadelphia National Convention fiasco of August last. In the succeeding autumnal State elections his corporal’s guard of repub- lican followers and the Northern democracy coalesced in support of the President’s policy, with the President’s bread and butter to back ‘The General Baakrupt Law. The Thirty-ninth Congress has left behind it one legacy for which the people will be grate- ful. The passage of the act to establish unt- form system of bankruptey throughout the United States will afford general satisfaction and prove a valuable boon to the country. While some of the features of the law—tor its final approval by the Executive may be re- garded as certain—may require alteration or amendment, its enactment in an imperfect shape will be universally conceded to be pre- ferable to its defeat, The jurisdiction in bankruptey cases is given by the act to the several District Courts of the United States, with the United States Circuit Courts acting in a supervisory capacity as Courts of Equity. The Judges of the District Courts will be assisted in the performance of the duties imposed upon them by Registers in bankruptcy, who are required to be counsel- lors of those courts, or of some of the Courts of Record of their several States, The power of the Registers is limited,and provision is:made for reference of disputed: questions to ihe Dis- trict Court Judges, and for appeals from the District Courts to the Cireuit Courts, and from the Intter, in cases where the matter in dispate shall exceed two thousand dollars, to the Su- preme Court of the United States. There are two kinds of bankruptey contem- plated by the act ; voluntary and involuntary. In the former any person residing within the jurisdiction of the United States, owing over three hundred dollars, and finding himself in-- solvent, may apply by petition to the jadgo of the district in which he has resided for the six months preceding the date of the.petition, or for the longest period during such’six months, and shall thereupon be declared a bankrupt. The creditors, having been property notified by the court, meet together and appoint one or more assignees of the estate of the debtor; the choice to be made by the groater part in value and in number of the cre- ditors who have proved their debts, or in case of failure to agree, then by the District Judge, or, where there are no opposing creditors, by the Register. The whole affairs of the bankrupt pass into the hands of the assignees, who have full powers granted them necessary for the collection of all debts and the final adjustment and closing up of the estate. Stringent regulations are made for the proper deposit and safe keeping of all moneys received from the: estate; and where delay is likely to occur from litigation in the final distribution of the: assets the court is emposrered to direct their temporary invest- ment.. The bankrupt is liable at all times to them, against the policy of Congress embodied in the pending constitutional amendment and the Civil Rights bill, passed over'a veto. The people, from Maine to California, to whom Mr, Johnson. had appealed, pronounced aheavy judgment against him.* Had be re- spected that judgment he might still have ac- complished an advantageous compromise for himself and the South with Congress, But with all the odds against him he-still persisted in his rejected and exploded policy, going on from bad to worse, until by a vote exceeding two-thirds of each house his whole system of Southern restoration and Executive patronage is cut out by the roots and a law of Southern reorganization is established, transcending the most sanguine hopes even of “Qld Thad Ste- vens”’ twelve months ago. Universal suffrage (“excepting Indians not taxed ’’) is established in all the Territories ; and likewise in the District of Columbia, where at the first broadside a radical Mayor for Georgetown was elected the: other day by the balance of power held by the: negro vote. Next comes this sweeping bill: of Sothern re- construction, re-establishing martial law over the ten excluded rebel. States,. providing for universal negro suffrage'in the work of State reorganization, for the exclusiom of lead- ing rebels, and for the-ratificatiom of the pend- ing constitutional amendment: by each State concerned and by the great majority of three- fourths of the States required to make it part of the supreme law. This is tte grand result of Mr. Johnson’s Southern policy, and these are the conditions. of restoration fer which his Southern friends and followers. have to thank him. Had he yielded in seasem a little to Congress and Northern opinion te might have gained much for himself and the South; in conceding nothing he has lost all He must now surrender or resign or be will be re- moved. The conflict with Congress has been narrowed down to this final test. The Thirty-ninth Congress has done its ap- pointed work and it retires from the field, but the Fortieth Congress, of the samo materials, immediately takes its place. It is the Long Parliament against Charles the First; it is the irresistible revolution against James the Second. The thing is fixed that the war for the- Union shalt not turn out a failure. Now, what will President Johnson do? According to the custom from the beginning he must submit his budget on the state of the country and his sug- gestions for the publie welfare to this new Con- gress, after its organization, as the first essen- tial to business. He is, therefore, required to meet this bill of reconstruction face to face as a law of the land. His policy is swept away— every vestige of it. A revolution has been ac- complished in the course of a day, and the new order of things is a law of the land. Will Mr. Johnson so recognize it and bravely face the music? That is the question. The election of the terrible Ben Wade as President of the Senate embodies a purpose and a warning which Mr. Johnson would do well to bear in mind. Moreover, the omifous figure of General Ben Butler begins already to loom up in the other House. What party arrangements will now avail Mr. Johnson in still standing out against Congress? The Northern democracy, with the loss of their Southern balance of power in’1860, lost sight of everything else, and have not since seen any- thing else in their efforts to recover it, But where is now that Southern balance of power, and where will it be for the fature? In the Southern negro vote, Who would have believed it possible even six months ago? Yet so it is. And, then, all the old democratic fire-eating leaders of the South are cast out. What existing party arrangements on either side will answer to meet this state of things? What can Andrew Johnson do if cast adrift upon these waves of political reconstruction? He will soon be swept into oblivion, His only course of wis- dom is to lay down his arms, give up the fight and fall in with the ultimatum of the Thirty- ninth Congress in his opening message to the Fortieth Congress. Otherwise he will soon be & traveller on the road to Tenacssee. be called up for examination'on oath upon all matters relating to the disposal or condition of his:property or to his business transactions, and, for good cause shown, his wife may in like manner be compelied to attend as a wituess in the case. In the distribution of the Bankrupt’s estate dividends are to be paid as agreed upon by a majority in value of the creditors, from time to time;,at three months intervals, bat the fol- lowing: claims are first to be-paid in full :— First, the fees, costs and all expenses under the Bankrupt act; setond, alt debts, taxes and assessments duc to the United States; third, all State debts, taxes and assessments ; fourth, ‘wages dhe to any operative,.clerk or house servant to an amount not exceeding fifty dollars for labor performed within six months pre- ceding the bankruptcy ; fifth, all debts due to @ny persons who are or may be entitled to preference by the laws of the: United States. “The voluntary bankrupt is ontitled! to bis dis- charge: provided no fraud is:proved against him, at:any timo from sixty days to. one. year after adjadication of bankruptcyy;; bat the proof or discovery of any fraud. or conceal- ment deprives him of th» right to discharge. No persom who has once received hisdischarge is to be-entitled again to become a:voluntary bankrupt, unless his estate is suffisiont to pay seventy per cent of his debts, or ueleas: three- fourths.of his creditors assentin writing to his bankruptcy. Preferences and fraudulent con- veyancesare declared void by the act, and suitable provisions are made for the voluntary bankraptey of partnerships and cozporations, The- exemptions under the lawvare: as fol- lows :— ‘The - necessary household ard kitchonfurniture, and such other articles aod necessaries of such. bankrupt as the assignee shall designate anck sot apank haviag refer- ence in the amount to the family, condition and circa stanees of the bankrapt, but cétogether not to exceed in value, in any case, the sum cf $500; aad also the wear- pe rcange of such bankrupt, and that of. hia wife and children, and the uniform, arms and equipments.of any Person who is or has beon a soddier in the militiner in the service of the United States; and such other property as naw is or hereafter shall be exempted from attach- ment or soizure or levy, on exsoution by the laws.of the United States, and such other property, not inoladed in the foregoing exception, as is exempted from levy and sale upon exesation or other process or order of court, by the laws of the State in which the bankrupt has his domicile et the time of the commence- a 0 bend gn a leg oy, to an amount not exceeding that allow such State: exomption lawsin force in the year 1864. 4 Acts of involuntary bankreptey under the lnw are classified as. followec:—Departure or absence from the State where debts are owed, with intent to defraud the creditors; conceal- meni to avoid service of process for the re- eovery of debt; concealment of pro- perty to avoid seizure on legal pro- cess ; assignments: designed to delay, defraud or. hinder creditors; arrest and detention for seven days, under execation for a debt ex- ceeding one hundred dollars ; actual imprison- ment for seven days ina civil action founded on contract for one hundred dollars; assign- ment, gift, confession of judgment, or any other act by which preference is given to any ere- ditor, endorser or surety; dishonoring commer- cial paper, or suspending and not resuming payment for fourteen days. The petition for an adjudication of bankruptcy in such cases may come from one or more creditors whose debts reach two hundred and fifty dollars ; but the petition must be brought within six months after the act of bankruptcy has been com- mitted. In involuntary bankruptey the pro- ceedings are made more stringent than in the other description of cases. The penalty for any fraud or concealment, direct or indirect, under the act, is imprisonment, with or without hard labor, for a term not exceeding three years. There are other details in the act, relating to the duties of the officers appointed and au- thorized under the law, the amount of fees, &c., which are interesting only as matter of detail. On the whole, the act seems carefully guarded, and, with very slight amendments, will, no doubt, prove 9 popular and beneficial law. Conrtraation or Gexerat Drx.—The Senate, in their extraordinary exceutive session of six hours’ duration between Saturday night and Sunday morning, very properly confirmed the nomination of General Joba A. Dix os Minis- ter to France. General Dix, thus relieved of the humiliating position at a foreign court of & diplomatic nomentity, will be enabled to enter upon the business of his office with the aetf-confidence which he did not before possess. The New Congress. id The Fortieth Congress, under the law re- cently passed, will assemble directly upon the heel of the Thirty-ninth, at nom to-day. Le roi est mort, vive le roi! Twenty-seven States are now entitled to representation in Congress. Onty twenty-one, however, will Be represented in the two housesto-day—Connecticut, Ken tueky, New Hampshire, Tennessee, Rhode Island and Catifornia having not yet elected their’ Representatives The States actually represented will count one hundred and twenty- eight republicans and thirty-five democrats in the House, with forty republicans and twelve democrats in the Senate. The Senate will be reorganiwed to-day, with Mr. Wade, of Ohio, as President,-Mr. Forney holding over as Secre- tary. Mr.Colfax wilt’ doubtless be re-elected Speaker of the House,.and Mr. McPherson holds over as ClesK until a new election, when, imall Y provability, he will He chosen again. Both houses will, perhaps, beready toreceive during the day any communication from the Prest dent of the United States; but Mr. Johnson} owing to the recent extraordinary pressure of business upon him, may 206 himself be ready to send iz his usual message of recommenda- tions until to-moriow. Tue Taxvre or Orrice Law.—The distin- ,guishing feature of the new law regulating the tenure of office is ir the provision which pre- vents the removal of a Cabinet officer without ythe consent of the Senate. For instance, we will suppose thatMr. Johnsen has got sick and tired, as he ought to be, of Messrs. Seward,.McCul- loch and Stanton. He desires to remove them. Be reports to the Senate that he has removed them, and asks the concurrence of: the Senate. The Senate says “yes” in regard to Seward and: McCulloch, but “no” in regard to Stanton. Seward and McCulloch accordingly go: out, but Stanton remains fast. The Senate holds him.and the President can’t budgehim.. This, it is ‘said, is the true intent and meaning of the bill.. John Tyler was, indeed, a happy maw in the White House compared with Andy Jobn- son, who has caught a Tartar in ‘grappling “Qld Thad Stevens.” CITY INTELLIGENCE. Snow Sronm.—At half-past eight o'elock last'ovoning:s snow storny, accompanied by a sharp northwesterly wind, prevailed. Up to a late hour the fleecy element was falling quite briskly, with a promise for its contin- uance. A few days ago tho sage of Yale, Professor Un- reliable Loom, gravely informed tho world in one of his wordy theories, probably a plagiarism from” Poor Richard's Almanac, that in consequence of certain con- ditions of the atmosphere existing m January, counter- Dalanced “byorriain other conditions in February; &c:,. [| Oid Jack Frost. had got square with the peo ‘ot bie hemisphere,. and that trom then until the 4th-of July fea iach eo emriga, bara aneeng owner iy neieaare aod bpeczes. Alas hath made him mad, to the meteoric: suower, nations of Ffost, Boreas & Co, who brought on the Present snow storm and chilling winds that remind.one more of midwinter than anything else. Conelusion— Loomis is 8 humbag, the snow storm is a fact, Convention or Fataxr Marurw Societins.—Tie-cen- vention of: délegates of the various Father: Mavhow ‘Temperance cecieties assembled yesterday afternoon at Military Hat),.Bowery, for the purpose of considering: and adopting measures necessary for the due observance of tho approaching celebration of St. Patrick's Day; About two hundred persons were present, and cleven |) diferent socwties were represented. The meoting was the Presidont, Edward Mulvaney, in- Committee appointed to wait’ om.:the stated that they had d “their duty. A lotterfrom Mayor Hoffman was |, etating. that he took pleasure in acknowledving their invitation which he woul: subeait to the Common Council, and that ho would unite with them in zation on..the-l6th ef March. A roppedi A long ence to the past whieh should be re) oted in: tho convention in connection with the Convention,.when the matter was for consideration at the next session. The meoting then adjourned: until next sunday, work to stop work the building and pus the place men on in charge of ‘no oflcer. Supper .Dratua—John Roach, a colored waker who | lived at Mo, 13 Thomas street, was taken suddeaiy ill on» Saturday evening,,and expired soon afterward. The body was remeved to the Leonard strect police station and: Coroner Schirmer notified to hold aa inquess Yester day mo-ning about two o'clock Leozard Shaw, recenthy. employed as night watehman in tho Sub-Treasury, died very suddenly at the Claremont Howl, 144 Futon street. Deceasad foll anc) injared himself some. days ago and his death may have: been hastened trom that cause, Inv Leo, Deputy Coroner, wil make & post moriom examina- tion ow the bods, after which an inquest wily be held by Corona Schirmer. The remains were rempved to ca. undermker's. FUNERAL OF GENERAL @ARON WABB. ‘The-funernbserviees over the vemains ofthe late Gen- eral Aaron Ward took place yesterday afiernoon inSt PacVs Episcopal church, Sing Sing. The. deceased had beos for many years a resident.of Ossining, and a large number of citizens attended the ceremony for the pur- pose of attesting their respect. for his memory. A num. ber of gentiomen from Now York, yersonal friends of the deceased, were also prescat, including, among others, Mayor Hoffman. At half-past two,.o'clock the remains exrived a} the cburch, where they were met by the pas. tor, the Bev, J.C. Helms. As the coffia, followod by a Yong train,of mourners, consisting of the bereaved fami- and themore intimate ‘Friends of the deceaser', ¢ throshotd, Mr. Helms began to reoito the openin, passages af the solemn ard beautiful service for ube di }used ia. the Episcopal Church. The procession slow! moved up the aisle until, having at tength reached tho chancel, the remains were deposited in front of the aiter, and the mournorg seated thomacivos in the pera reserved forthem, The choir then sang the extremely appropriate psalm beginning, “Man that is born of a woman,” aftor which Mr. Helras read the well-known chapter of Cor/mthians. The usval prayers were then svid, and after a hyme from the Broke it was announsed thatthe remainderof the ser. vice would take pleee at the grave. The coffin was replaced in the hearse, sad the whole congregation formed in processian and proceeded to tie cemetery, just outside the limits of the town, where the con- cluding rites wore. performed. As the remains were peverently lowered into the grave, oad again when the having reached the passage, “dust to. dust,’ ww down a fow handfulls of earth upon the. coffin, as @ symbof of the final interment which must shortly take place, the scene was extremely solemn and impressive. Ae.soon as the service bad been concluded the grave was immediately Sled up, and tho spectators dispersed, many, however, remaining behind until the mea paaaemee thie the peony sadly hee pn | them as they performed e only remaining ‘that be rendered to the ocensed.” om wer: WHOLESALE, REDUCTION. OF WAGES OF THE WOOLKEN OPE~ RATIVES 1% RHODE. ISLAND. Prov R. L, Mareh 3, 1867. Notices were yestorday. posted Py all The" eating woollea manufactories of the State that the wages the ives would be reduged ten it the tach et Hardly half of the woollen Raehinery ta the State ie now running. KENTUCKY LEGISLATURE. Lovisvn.ue, Marob 2, 1867. emia; siney eer boan dofinitely rejecind. r WSANITY AND SUICIDE. Lovisvitse, March 8, 1867, H. Myors, chief clork of the Nationel Hotel, Patrick formorly of Utica, drowned himself this morn! while | whore they will be dno about Ava o'clock (q-morrow vanished 8% quickly as did his erin hired i this torough the maohina- reviewing the opgani- |, delegate moved-that- THE STATE CONVENTION, Sermten by Rev. Geo, B. Cheever, D. D, At the Church of the Puritans, Union square, last even- ing, Rev. Geo. B. Cheever, D. D., delivered a sermon on “The Proposed Convention of the People of this State Considered Under Our Responsibility to God, and the Proposed Crime of Excluding the Colored Race.” The congregation was rather smail and listened with evident interest to the views of the reverend orator. He Belected his text from the seventh chapter Matthew, third, fourth and fifth verses:—“Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye and considerest not the beam tbat 1s in thine own eye,” &c. The following ts a synopsis of the sermon :— In the old Mustrations of vhis passage ir engravings & van was represented with a buge stick of ttmber under ‘and endeavoring to look into the spple of fis @ to find there eee, Boog gi ag 2 Saae ee clarener ‘himself, or wag bis eyelids sian ings cond i were Ex- (Gaughter.) He desired to calf the attertion jory to their responsibilitiesas individa- veference tothe coming been determinedon, Tie Legislature had dovised rules for its method aad conduct. Thoy had wiseiy stricken’ out the word “male,” and added that all might be ad- rmitted without distinction of race or color, wiiether it be accepted or rejected, Aceording to thi ment, however, he had read as folluws;. ment allowing neerves to vote for deleg: vention was lost by a vote of 90 against it to 33 for it.” In this manner New York bad decided’ that thisy was @ white man’s government, that. tho black man hero had‘ no rights which white men were bound to respect. It was resolved to exclude négroes from*this convention, This was an outrage on tho~ laws of God and of the true purposes of the State and off the national constitution, He intended to take notice of this outrage. ‘The constitution of the State granted negroes the right of voting at $250 per head—coléred head, (Laughter.) Any refusal to allow them to vote for delegates was therefore a siiame. The Legislature had no more right to question the authority of the nogro in this particular than they had to refuse the red-haired people of schokarie county; or Irishmen, or Cath from the vote. What business ‘had the Lecislature with the color of a man’s skin? Why did they not hiss it out of the Assembly? When @ people were im vited to assemble in natiowal convention, elt were thrown back on ‘their’ original rights, whict existed before any constitution’ was: formed, All had a right to assemble in convention to: consider what were? their rights and to elect delegates, It was the most un- alloyed and ‘perfect despotism ever perpetrated by w Logislature, federal or rebel. It-wax laughably unjust. He could hardly believe his own eyss whem he read it, but the statement had not ieen contradicted. What would the South say, Europe say, when this imconsist- ency was seen? This act sanctioned al! the oppression of rebels azaivst the blacks, Te twenty-seven hundred murders of blacks in Texas was net's more emphatic assassination than the deprivation of this right to so many It was a moral. assassination. These members might bo arrested for assault and battery against the people’s original privileges: Robbery and fraud of every kind go up or down” by penalties ¢stab- lished by the state, It was a blow at pul virtue, in- expediency, a8 a party measure,. wae no ex for unjust laws were too fm ther re- these are "ssualy’ only given anor’ Soay contiois sano me nearly destroyed us, for it Brenght down alty, andiwe ought to be anxious and Fredalie§ jose py eased eatin away from }; we al! such oppression and injustice.as were the causes of | Our trials, Religious men should especially be inter- | ested in this convention, yet they had maui! much | woscrupulous pol | management of the city goverament,: but they did ‘avail themselves properly of ‘means~ to: correc evi. The moment a con' , What was g » 32 God. It was no excuse to say, “I yoted against the pots preteen eaped mere politics.” The most sacred right was that of the ballot. WAthout it man be- came «slave, Such condvet was the slungshot of a vote that morally killed a fellow man. It ceuld not be reeon- eiled with comfort to the conscience.. “If ye aro. not faithful with that whick, is another+man’s, who shall give you your own?” But God hae said, too, “You sball have your own,” rad it would come with verible penalty, ‘He shat loved not his brother whom he hath seen, how can de love God, whom he bath not seen ?’” Human nature was a buadie of thrends, but the o2e that bound them all was the governmental red of selfish expediemey. Slarery had destroyed many 5 but with us Fi cut them asunder by war, in order to take out tho cancer that was consuming urs What should we do-with theroots? We seid the can er wasa necessity, a:y essential institution, am “heirloom of do- mestic socievy."’ The most extravagant patriotism was that of adh.wing to tke constitutes Use laws of God. The constitutan ought to te interpreted by a Northern comscienco-and divine judgment, and not by a Southern conscience and slaveb: guarantee. God broke the Union, aad out of it came slave and free- dom with them, We hart pat onraelves up 29 auction to the Souttafor uinoty days, but God intended to save as, and savedus thewas ho does now by the madness of the rebels Tf the South had adhered to the Union we would have givea up God, justice and evovything else. We wanted to seve the Union, with or without sdavery. But they the Union, aad in this way God sawed the nation, ‘The constitatione’ amencments wero laid down a8 & ponwon bridge for them 4 step iato the Union, but ti eg aia hes accept them, and thei madness agai neeess: @ more ae. vere and jast measure All honor to Gbngress It had already passed the Military Reconstruction bil) by over- Wwhelming majorities over “ae veto of the Prosidont. Stevens was a noblo-Jeader of the grara purposes of ree- dom and the colored race. The are of Massa. setts was the onty Northermone who had the coarage through their committee to bring in a strong, just, wise report against the constetutional amendment. That State maid, “We ee to follow a multitude todo evil, but cea afford to separate and alone on righteousness justioe.”’ Thos was grand. It was cad mend tho clockwork of the governmout, Beutler, fy “To mend the clock of the State, even while tb was going, and. to set its time according to God's time,’” was what Hoe was leading us to. The deat goveraments would: be of no avail without men under the guidance of pure principle and religion to administer thom. The tm goes had been tried here one hundred years, and faized bocause of this wast, We ought tobe glaof a kingdom alongside of us, 80 long as it was administered well, whether by Eng land in or in Mexico by Napoleon, with Maxi- milian at its head. So | as our government was just wo had nothing to let others try thelr experi- ments-—but if it was unjust then there was 5 Forbidding a ki oa this continent was inexpressi- bly weak—the Monroe doctrine, which tho lecturer always considered foolish, ridiculous, and uaworthy of a great people. We wore not afraid to have our govern- mout testod by the establishment of a monarchy along- sido of us, But God was saving the nation, he believed, ‘and these trials and dificulties were only circumstances in the varies, of His volition which was leading to our sal’ would close by reciting a noble son- net by the poet Wordsworth, which alluded to same Le the future:— country, if thou o'er fc peeraua wie for Toots civil akte have bled t How like Roman Sydney bowed his head, nd Russeli’s milder bl seaffold But these had fallen, eer — ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA AT BOSTON. , March 3, 1867. verpool on February 16 nm February 17, arrived at this at ‘clock this morning. Hor wails and the lated Press New York, The steamship Asia, from Li and Queenstow: rot ceed and despatch of the Assoc! ioe patch bags will be forwarded by the eight P. M, trasn for BANK TROUBLES AND FAILURES. The Failure ef Mellen, Ward & Co., of Bos ton—The Certified Checks on the State Bank—Resiguation of Two Cashiers. Bosrox, March 3, 1967. ‘The failure of Mellen, Ward & Co, has given rise te various rumors, The whole loss resulting from the sus- Embezzlement of 8300.000 im the Mechasite” National Bank of Baltimore—The Pilferings to be the Guilty Parties. . Baurimore, March 3, 1867. A heavy defaication has been discovered im the Me chanics’ National Bank of this city. It runs through e period of twenty-sever years, and was discovered finally last week by Government Inspector Callender, an@ amounts to $300,000. The parties implicated are:— Samuel H. Wentz, genera) bookkeeper, who has been an officer in the institution thirty-five: years; and Jobn H. Rogers paying teller, an officer for twenty-five years, Both were ‘arrested on ©sturday, bat were released om bail of $10,000 each. This is the third heavy embezzle- ment which has occurred im the same bank within the period in whieh this has been going ox. Both of the accused are men of family; the formerts quite an elderly man and has a large family, The Mechanics’ is one ot our largest banks, and much excite- ment prevails im consequence ‘of tho aifuir. ‘The bapk will, however, be sustained, ead continue to moet ail ite inbilities, Another Account—The Bank Onc of the Vic- tims of the Merchants’ National Bank of ih! ‘7 le a Waomvatox, March 3, 1967. ‘The report of a very large cefalcation im one of the prtmcipal banks in Baltimore has been received here to- day. The amount is stated to be about $400,000, and the-bank is said to be one of those which was victimized by ‘he operetions of Mesara, Huyck aud Bayne, of the Mezebiants’ Nationa Bank notoriety. Pallure of a Firnrin Troy. ‘Troy, March’3, 1867. Gaxy Bros., butchers and tanners of this city, have failed. Their ‘abilities are said to be fullly $106,000. If time iv granted'by creditors they will be able to resume * business, pay a! their indebtednew ‘and bave a hand- some surplus left. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Mr. John Francts Maguire, M. P. for the city of Cork, |. is to be entertainad at a dinner on the 14th inat., at Del- monico’s, by a limited number of gentlemen of Irish ‘birth and origin, The: tickets are placed at the: ariste- |, cratic price of $20?. The list of heats includes general jwell known gentiomen. of legal, judicial and several professional standing, as wellas a goed nany eminent } merchants. Mr. Maguire will depart for Europe about the end of March. As be is en; in preparing a work on ‘rhe Irishin America,” ho’ is naturally anx- tous to wilmess the velebration of St. Patrick’s day im New York. On the-ovening of the 16th he will joinia ‘the grand banquet ofthe Kmghts ef St. Patrick atéhe Astor Hours, to whiely he has been invited. MEWS FROM. THE PACIFIC. COAST. ‘Sam Fraxcuoe, March J been no elage communication acrees the Sterra Moun'ains\for two weeks, ‘The ship Kaval, from Phitedeyphia, arrived inst might. hello’ = eethe deer towne’ that Drendemona “did Cereus ineline,” why didn’t he present ber with a bottle of | LON'S NIGHT BLOO! Gt When he gave her the Laadkerchief he a hecghat magic: 1867.—Spring Fashion. SEE J, Wy BRAD LEY S.NEW EMPRES( INVIS (BLE: TRAIL, ongases aaa a na ae GE&CErUL sean ‘GARE SKIRES made. Bee i FASHION MAGAZINES, HOR SALEtin all FIRST CLs SS SORES in the UNITED SPATES anc. MANY OT! 300! PY (01 Fy Rotter teen ant ate oremnet BRLDLEY & GARY, and hi Reade ste La 97 Seamberr, and’ ALSO, AT WHOLDSALE /BY LEADING JOB! Fwks” sre ke sed WRirnen, 7 ia Sica ces Wore ING PUBTSUES. 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