The New York Herald Newspaper, May 2, 1867, Page 8

8 THE COURTS. COURT OF GENERAL + SESSIONS. Before Recorder Hackett, SENTENCES, At the opening of the court yesterday the Recorder proceeded to sentence the prisoners who were remanded during the week. Heury Johnson, who pleade to burglary m the third degree, was sent to the State Prison for four years, William Frampton, who pleaded guilty to an attempt ‘ab grand larceny, was seatenved to the State Prison for two years and six months, Richard Abbott, wo was guilty of @ similar offence, savas sont to tho State Prison for eighteen mouths. It pears that (he accused held a prominent position in eeeesrmy, was provost marshal in Virginia, and had certificetes from distinguished military men, " rie ernaD .d Thomas Clark, who pleaded guilty fo lurgery in the fourth degree, were each sent to the Penitentiary for one yoar. BURGLARY. vos Connery and George Williams, charged with o arjously entering the premises of Frederick Bosch, No. 25 avenue B, on the 19th of April, and stealing two rings, worth $12, pleated guilty to an attempt at bur- glory in the third degree. hey were sent. to the State Prison for two years and six months, ry ACQUITTAL. William Rider was tried on an indictment charging him with stealing $72 in Engtish sovereigns from Wil- lam Morgan, a shipmate of bis, whe in a drinking sa- loon, corner of Cherry and Oliver streets, ‘There was a verdict BROOKLYN COURTS, ONITED STATES DISTRICT COURT—EASTERN DISTRICT, Condempations, ‘The court opened at noon yesterday for the May term, when returns of process were made in tne following cases :— United States against thirteen fermenting tubs, &c., seized at the distillery of J. H. Smith, Green lane; United States against 8,464 barrels of beer, &c., salzed at James O'Hara's distillery, Greon lane; United States agaipst five empty hogsheads, Ac., seized at Thomas Kennody’s distillery, ‘Auantic avenue, No claimants , and on. motion of Assistant District Attorney Magrath, decrees were entered con- demning the property by default, ‘The court adjourned until to-day, UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT--EASTERN DISTRICT. The Whiskey Frauds—The Case of John Dev- Mn and Others—A Demurrer te the Indict- ments. Before Judge Benedict. ‘This court opened for the May term yesterday, directly after the adjournment of the District Court. The United States District Attorney, Benjamin F, Tracy, then moved for the arraignment of John Devlin, Thomas T. Levan, Francis W. Tappan (formerly Deputy Collector), and A. J, Phillips (formerly Revenue In- Spector), under the several indictments charging them With defrauding the revenue. These cases have been so fully reported before that the public are now pretty general'y conversant with the circumstances which led ‘to the arrest and indictment of the defendanta, There is bat one indictment, however, against Phillips. Wiliam M. E of counsel for defence, after the Motion of the trict Attorney had been made, de- murred to the several indictments, as not constituting saflicient cause of action against the defendants under the law. Mr. Evarts remarked that the indictments were drawn up as accurately as possible, and that they @id not demur on the form of pleading, but because the law did not cover the offeace charged. The statute @id not make the offence with which the defendants were charged a criminal offence. ‘The question then arose as to when the argument on the poinis raised should be beard, whereupon counsel for defence desired that it should be heard before two Judges—Nelson and Benedict, District Attorney Tracy remarked that if the matter of ‘the argument were decided in favor of the government he should pot want them (the defence) to makeita ground for having the trial of the cage postponed until the next term, After some further discussion, Judge Benedict said tha: Judge Nelson would be over here on the 20th. He desired a'so that both matters (the argument and trial) should be before Judge Nelson and himself. It was agreed that the argument should be heard on the 20th instant, and no further business coming up, the court then adjourned until Saturd: ciTy coum. minal Calendar to be Taken Up on Monday Next. In consequence of the over crowded condition of the county jail Judge Thompson has agreed to take up Cases on the eruninal calendaron Monday next, and con- tinue with these for a week, so that the civil calendar wilt not be taken up until the following week. Judge Dikeman, of the Court of Sessions, has been unable to bold court regularly during the past few months in con- eequence of ; and, in view of this fact, the num- ber of criminal.cases has gradually increased until now ‘it is a matterof necessity to have some of them tried im the City Goart, before Judge Thompson. The position of Assistant Clerk to this court bas fallen to Thomas Dugan, who recently received bis appointment. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. Bop Rospgry i 4 Broxgr’s Orrice.—Late on Mon- day afternoon James McGuire and two other well known youngsters, uf the ward, entered the broker's office of ar. Julius Werner, No, 108 Greenwich street, under pretence of transacting some legitimate business, and while there McGuire engaged Mr. Werner in conversa- tion, during whick the other boys snatched a $190 Trea- ery note the show window and ran out with it, ‘This was the for McGuire, and inan instant he from the broker aud made his escape into She street. The tives were soon out of sight Cap- tain Steers, of the Twenty-seventh inet, being in- formed of the robbery, detailed officer Hays to work ap the case, and yesterday afternoon MoGu’ was taken ‘nto custody, but his confederates are still at large. The prisoner was before Alderman Coman, and committed to the Tombs for examination. Search is being made for the others concerned in the bold robbery. A Disrosssssinc Dirricuury.—A serious disturbance occurred at No. 2 East Houston stroet yesterday after- moon, owing to an attempt made by City Marshal Smith, of 115 Nassau street, to dispossess John McGee, on a igsued on @ warrant issued by Judge Russell. It ‘appears that McGee called at the Marshal's office and, threatened him with violence if he attempted The i ‘wine, and Kliza ferocious assault upon him and be was c retreat. Mr. Smith then called in officers Geary and Kelly, of the Four- teenth precinct, to was set upon, his face seratoned shield taken from his Dreast. The wered and taken before them to tbe Tombs for examination. Assavur Wirt 4 Cusaver,—Yesterday morning John Byman, residing at No. 6 Mott street, and Louw ‘wrowak: became involved ins quarrel, when the latter, as alleged, seized "s cleaver, with which he dealt Hyman a heavy biow on the shoulder, but without in- Mevng dangerous injuries. Kitwrowski was arrested: officer Meagher, the Sixth precinct, apd taken be- * 2 Alderman Coman, who committed him to the fombs trial” Not i twp Sonnocata’s Ornce.—Henry Holmes, who ‘was arrested on a charge of obtaining money on false pro- tences, is not, it is and never has been employed as a clerk in the 's office, Descent ow 4n Atizomp Gamnting Hovse. —The police of the Tenth precinct made a descent on Tuesday uight ‘upon the premises 101 Bowery, up stairs, where, it is alleged, a quiet company were engaged in the exhilara- George icCabe, ery the H. M ahas Henry Thom: to be \etor game; aries iso, dealer ; police sb the time of the desceat, and given in charge to. the property clerk. ‘Use cr rae Kxrvm—A inborer famed Charies Hogan, ‘atin “Covert,” was brought before Justice Dodge at the Jefferson Market Police Court yesterday, wad charged ‘With o felonious asmalt, with intent to kill, Upom aD Offiper of the Eighth police precinct, Hogan was ine eatoon at the time the occurrence is have taken and when the officer pore rent biga be forth a dangerous looking knife and made a longe @ the compisionnt. Hogan den: gril Iotentone towarde whe omcer gp | Joverna Mewnmns oF 4 Soci Cive iw 4 Piz.—De THEE Ht aie ie NEW WORK them by a professor of that tastrument and his female mene, ‘he trio aoe brought before Justice Dod, or ¢ Jeflerson ‘ket Police Court, cation temporarily committed, to await ype town of the supposed owner of the property found in their possession for ideatidcation. GBUAT AT POLICE HEADQUARTERS. Y Before Justice Bull, Justice Bull presided at this court yesterday, but he had little to do in the way of exercising his judicial powers, as there wero but eight persons arrested for intoxication by the police of the ap town precineta, ‘Theso persons were disposed of by being fined or dii charged. ” - THE EXCISE LAW. Opinion ef the District Atterney of Kin, County. When the excise law was first passed, & D. Morris District Attorney of Kings county, was’ one of its strongest advocates, notwithstanding the fact that ho was looked upon as the advocate of the liquor dealers, and belonged to a party whose representives opposed the law in the Legislature. Yesterday he made public a letter which he addreased to Mr. George Bliss, counsel for the Excise Commissioners, in which he gives it as his opinion that the new form of application for license as Prepared by the Board, isone of the most absurd and ridicalous documents ever issued. One reason assigned for the change in ifr. Morris’ views is said to be that be bas been denied by the Commissioners the control of the law in Kings county. The following is his letter:— Broox.yy, April 30, 1867, Mr. Gronce Burs:— Dean S1z—Mv attention has been called toa form of application for @ license, which, I understand, is re- quired to be signed as a couasion precedent te the grant- ing of a license by the Board of 1am sure this document was neither prepared nor approved by you, but must have been hatched, after a very short incuba- tion, by some one ambitious ‘to display his ignorance of the iaw and his lack of common sense, I am sure, also, that this extraordinary document has pot been approved by the Board understandingly, but must have been approved (if approved at all) by them upon representations made, and without personal ex- amination, It is under this bellef that I hastily write you upon this subject, for the purpose of urging upon you, as the law officer of the Board, the absolute necessity of puint- ing out to said Board the illegal, tyrannical and absurd provisions of the document, and of inducing its imme- diate withdrawal, and the issue of a proper form of ap- plication, in harmony with the law. Unless this be done, in my bumble judgment the timeis not far dis- tant when the community will sweep both the law and the Commissioners out of existence, If these humili- ating and tyrannical conditions are insisted upon they will and ought to be hurled back in the tecth of the Commissioners with contempt and detestation. If the object is to bring the law into utter contempt and effectually thwart its execution, then these monstrous conditions should bo insisted upon, But if the object ig simply to carry out the law properly they should be abandoned at once, The.man who voluntarily submits to such degrading conditions, in my opinion, is uniit to have a license, and he who troats them with the contempt thty merit shows his fitness to receive one, Look for a moment and see what this application de- mands beyond what the law requires, and ,tell me if it would not.be a disgraceful humiliation to submit to its terms. First—The applicant is required to state the particular part of the “‘premwes to be used,”” whether basement, first or second floor, Whence, I should like to know, comes the power to require this as a condition precedent Section license “‘any person,"’ &c., to carry on the bu: any one named place,’ &c, To eay that this language authorizes the Board to restrict the license to any par- ticular part of the premises designated is an absurdity beneath refutation. They might as well compel the applicant to designate at what point of the compass upon the premises the bar is to be located, east, west, north or south; the style of bar, kind of bottles, shape of tumblers, size of demiyohns, and prescribe the mode of making cocktails, brandy smashes, sherry cobbiers, Bourbon sours, gin slings, &c. Stono fence sa vulgar drink, and its prohibition ought to be insisted upon as a Condition precedent, Second—The applicant must agree ‘that there shall be an opening in the front door or windows of said pre- mises, at least four inches square, through which may be seen the entire interior of the placo licensed when the same may be closed.”? This proposition is evidently defective; it should re- quire the person in all cases where the “opening at least four inches square’ is required to be in the window either of the first or second floor, to have a good and substantial ladder permanentiy fixed, so as to enable pimps and sneaks to ascend at all times to this ‘opening at least four inches square,’’ over which should be marked the ‘‘Pimp’s Lookout,” or the “Sneak’s Look- in.” But there ig another omission, still more serious than the one here indicated. It contains no provision for moving the barrooms of the Astor, St. Nicholas, Me- tropolitan, Fifth avenue and hundreds of other hotels, to the front part of the house, #0 that the “opening ai least four inches square’? may command a view of the © ontire interior of the place ticensed.’? Then again TMany places are partitioned off, the front room being used as a cigar store, the bar being in the back room. ‘These partitions should be demolished at once, to accom- modate the pimps and spies that are to be calied into being to watch these ‘openings at least four inches square.” Windust’s place suggests another omission, with a front on Park row and the rear on Ann street; and as there are many places built upon just such provoking angles, they must be straightened out. But I forget that the brain capable of conceiving such brilliant ideas as are contained jn this detectable document must have taken into consideration all these minor points, and pro- vided a system of optics to which walls, partitions and angles form no impediment. I will not, therefore, point ut any mors of these seeming oratasions, | 4 init me, however, to cal ir a! another view of the auljece’ Please” tak the Commissioners where they get the power to exact such & condition. I can find no warrant for it im the law; and the man who h powers by law would be escaped lunatic, and be captured and sent to some lunatic asylom. ‘The proposition is 80 repugnant to every feeling of manhood that it excites our contempt and detestation, and evokes an unqualified pity for the zealot who con- ceived it. ‘The spy and pimp and the detestable system of espion- age upon the liberties of the people belong to tyrants, Let them remain in the countries they disgrace—we do be want them here. ist R - bd ‘ou cannot urge too strongly upon the Board the ne- ceesity of cornea this falal error at once, The at- tempt to enforce it will, and should, fail, Even if such &@ tyrannic power existed (It does not) there would be no earthly reason for its exercise. The people hay shown a disposition to comply with the Excise la good faith, that is commendable in the highest deg: w is admitted oa all hands to be susceptible it, and in some cases to work hardships, generally complied with, Let not this acquiescence b) misconstrued; the same spirit that in- duces this obedience to the law will hurl back these in- . sulting, illegal and degrading conditions to the source whence they originated. Third—“And diagram on the following pace is certified to be acorrect diagram of the premises occu- pied by the und "The diagram here referred to is an oblong that would puzzle the brain of the most expert architect t4 torture imto a correct diagram of the premises occup! cui bono? = And again, whence the power to require &? If there is no legal’ power (and here is none) thei this requirement is simply usurpa- Woile the throughout the world 7 the great benefactor, permitted to make his money in a foreign land. Has it not occurred men that isolation eee “4 N ei allowed io serving or waiting connection with customers, or in customers are served or waited upon. ‘This proposition mast the brain of some little urchin tured om ons and idea could not yy from capital? adnaround ibe Toon or to be a Under eighteen to clean one hundred and twent: watches, nback#, ke. pd burglary took pi before ten clock at night, Manufactory is in the centre of the © few seus from the Centra) Police ity, and only | was , Rehgaes 2 CITY INTELLIGENCE. Boar oy Counry Canvassers.—This Board met at eleven o'clock yesterday morning, and completed the canvass in the First, Second and Third wards, after which the Board adjourned to eleven o'clock this morning. Arrommesnts i tuk Comprrotuer’s Orricr.—Yester- day afternoon the Comptroller appointed Jobo H. Whit- ton clerk of Washington Market, ana Robert McKinnin Deputy Collector of city revenue, ‘Tue Nicuotson Ravemest.—Daring the past three or four weeks the Common Council has passed resolutions (whieh are at present before the Mayor for his sigua- ture), to pave, with Nicholson pavément, Broad street, from Wall to South street; Nassau’ sirest, from Pine to Spruce street; Mercer street, from Canal to Eighth street, and Pearl sti from Wall to Beekman street, The Mayor states that he will withhold his signature of approval to these and all other similar resolutions until such time as he may watisfied that the property owners Noes of the various streets intended to be paved with the Nicholson pavement approve of the pro- posed improvement, Tur Broapway Brives.—tIt may be a source of con- solation to the discontented individuals who persist in re- fusing to regard the Broadway Bridge as a great local blessing, to know that at least one good and very unusual thing may be said in ite favor. experienced in the ways of the City Fathers that although the contract price of this wondertul engineering achieve- ment amounted to the bagateile of $14,002, its ultimate cost would certainly reach $25.000. It is now positively stated, however, that $15,000 will cover all the expenses. entailed by ita erection, There are possibly a few sour- tempered cynics who will regard it as a bad bargain even at that price, Tue Pioneer Stxamawr vor Rosaian Amenica.—The Pacific Mail Company’s steamship Ocean Queen sailed yesterday for California, and will connect at San Fran- cisco with the first steamship for Mr. Seward’s newly acqyired territory—the Oriflamme—which sails on June 1 for New Archangel, Sitka, direct. No passengers have been booked for Rassian America direct, but it is said that Commodore Watson, of the navy, who gocs out in the Ocean Queen to San Francisco, on arriving there will be ordered to the land of the Esquimaux and icebergs, for what purpose remaing a mystery. Tue Catnouic Fam Bumpinc.—The Catholic Fair Build- ing on Union square, which was begun in the middie of last month and is now rapidly approaching completion, is well adapted to the purpose, considering the fact that it is merely a temporary structure. It will be completed by the 8th imst,, and will be stocked with the ueual array of fancy articles by the 15th inst. The object of the fair is to raise the means tv build a home for destitute Catholic children, and considering the fact that Mr. Ives and Archbishop McCloskey are specially interested in its success, and that every Catholic church in the city qill contribate of its means and of its congregation of to attend a table appropriated to each church, it is scarcely to predict that the enterprise will be @grand success and will accomplish the purpose tor which it is intended. The building will extend about 267 feet along Seventeenth street by 50 feet wide, which is nearly completed, and on Fourth avenue i48 feet by 50 fect. wide, which is only partially built, The roof will be Made secure against the rain and 25 fect high. ‘There are twenty-five men now employed upon its con- struction. Tas New Hamnure Packet.—The new packet steamer of the Hamburg and New York line, the Gimbria, ar- rived in this port a day or two since, having made the trip of 3,069 miles in ten days, or in about eix less than the same trip was made by the Hammonia on its first eseaying of the Atlantic, The Cimbria -was built by Laird & Co, on the Clyde, and is reckoned one of the fastest packet steimers in the catalogue. In nearly all respects the new vessel is a literal transcript of the Hammonia, being 330 feet in length, 40 feet-in breadth and 33 feet in depth of hold, with a tonnage of 3,000 ‘ons, The engines are of 500 horse power, and the accommodations for passergers are excelled by few if any of our ocean steamers, The main saloon ia of that sort of compicteness of tinish seldom seen in American-built steamers, The second cabin is commodiously furnished, and even the steerage—usually the dread of travellers with limited means—is well ventilated, roomy and com- fortable, Yesterday afternoon a collation was served on board to numerous invited guests, among whom were James Kelly, Postmaster; Asajstant Postmaster Norton, and a number of celebrated shipping men. The Cim- bria makes the initial trip from New York to Hamburg, leaving port on Saturday. and amid the bronze Apollos, tony of the captain, & Haraburggentietaan of the Ger. e captain, a Ham! jleman of ‘ man school, the Teutonic travelling element cannot but find both their artistic and soolal instincts well satisfied, Lecrurss on Arriaa.—Mons, P. B. Da Chauilu, the emi- nent African explorer, has engaged to deliver two lec- tures before tho New York Association for the Advance. ment of Science and Art, full particulars of which will ‘be advertised at an early date, Nationat Acapemy oF Desicn.—The Council of the ‘Academy have determined to open the galleries free every Saturday (until further notice), from nine o'clock in the morning until dusk. On Saturday nights and at all other times the galleries will be open at the usual ad- mission prices, . General SHALER AND THE BoaRp OF SuPERVIs0RS.— Yesterday General Alexander Shaler sent in his resig nation as a member of the Board of Supervisors, in con- uence of having been appointed by Governor Fenton a Metropolitan Fire Commissioner. Sovimenx Rsuier,—Speaker Colfax recently addressed aletter to the Commissioners of the Southern jef Fund expressing his willingness to aid the movement by repeating his lecture, “Across the Continent,” in this city on the evening of the 6th inst. The entire pi gee are to be appropriated to the relief of the Ewiaratiox.—The number of emigrants who have ar. rived at this port during the present year is 44,327, Daring the corresponding period of last year the number ‘was 45,196. Of the number arrived 25,225 landed at Castle Garden last month, and are now scattered all over the Western hemisphere, New York received 8,605, Pennsylvania 3,489, Illinois 2,625, Ohio 1,658, Massa- chusetts 1,373, Arkansas, Alabama and Utah five each, while other States and Territories received small detach- Auizcep Violation ov tam Exciss Law.—James MoPhillips, No, 76 Tenth avenue, was brought before Justice Dodge, Jefferson Market Police Court, charged with a violation of the Excise law. He was held to answer in the sum of $300. Ausm m 4 Pomc Scuoo.—Dering the thander storm which passed over this city yesterday morning, nearly all the panes of glase in Grammar School No. 10, sitaated in Wooster street, were shattered, an unlooked for occurrence, which considerably startled both teachers and scholars. Fortunately nothing like « panic ensued, and the children were quietly dismissed to their homes, ‘Tre Geeuaw Socrery.—The directors of the German at this port during the pqst month 9,920 were Germans, Ht a E § if i t r LT AY 4 MOVING DAY. A Damp Episode in Metropolitan Annals. ‘Yesterday the janitor of the year 1867 opened the door for the fifth ume, and as April stepped out into the rein, May, with wet feet and dripping raiment, walkedim. The inaugural c remonies of the new priestess took place precisely at midnight night before last; and yesterday morning New York, like London in one of the odd tales of Mr, Dickens, woke up with @ great yawn, ‘and wasatonce notified by her landlord that moving day wasn the carpet, and malgré the rain she must get up, pack up her duds and tramp, The day passed along the street, shutting off the gat from the tamps, absolutely dripping with damp; scuds of cloud and fog hung over the metropolis, and in general the weather was exceedingiy unpropitons for moving and exceedingly propitious for remaining indoors and smok- ‘ing one’s. ‘The rain was just of that sort to make one pon A ing enn to be about to slacken, and never doing so, All over the city it dripped camen seenmiene ly and rolontlceniy, Baking Boge = every available. point, and runn gutters in muddy currena trom Broadway, on elther side, north and south, toward the docks. On Broadway there was itttle to indicate that it was traditional moving day, Some few firms, disgusted with the advance in rents, had endeavored to better themselves: by shifting from one block to another, or from first floor to cellar; but, in general, business men had imi- tated the example of alot, and voted rather to bear te tlis they had than fly to others that they knew not of, and had remained In old quarters at a liberal advance rather than move. Above BI also, in the middle part of the city, there was little transmigration, and only sporadically cartmen might have been observed drawn up in front of pretentious palaces of marble and of brown stone—though on the east and west, and in the lower part of the metropolis, mostly inhabited by tenant people. there were indications on every haud of May migration. On East Broadway and streets ad- Jacent the walks were almost impasdable, and not unfrequentiy from eight to dozen carte might have bean counted upon a single square, Furniture and duds o! all sorts barred the way for pedes- trians; and meantime down dripped the rain, fitfully yet mercilessly, in lulls and gusts, Airearier scene than Broadway at ten A, M., yesterday, wellbe imagined. ‘he rain feil so continuously as to stop for an hour or more all efforts to load the carts— dripj-ed unceasingly, and with an obvious indifference to the interests and convenience of the movers. ‘the little Indians in front of the cigar stores reeked with rain drops; millinery dummies, dressed in the latest Pansian style ‘were suddenly hauled indoors; the water ran in little Mississippis from the weary disconsolate horses, and drizzled in dirty pools from uncleany furniture upon the flag stones. The rain had played a sort of practical joke, for whereas early in the morning the sun made a feint as if about to shine, later, the clouds shut in his disk, and the storm came down in ceaseless cataracts, In the eastern half of the city the average of movers was about four per square, while in Williamsburg the general average was still greater, and nobody pretended to stay in 1867 whore he had staid in 1866. From New York to Hobo- ken there was some migration; from New York to Wil- liamsburg still more; and from New York to Brooklyn, W. D., very little—rent; in elizibie locations in Brooklyn. having risen to almost as high a figure as in New York, In one case, in Williamsburg, as many a8 fourteen mov- ings occurred in a single square, and in another a tene- ment house inhabited by twenty families had been rented from over their heads, and the poor people having up to yesterday secured no abodes, were at twelve M. tarned out into the drizzle, without even a roof for the night. Inanother part of the city an old manufactury was bought by a grasping landlord, and rudely partitioned, so as to accommodate about twenty families, every one of whom is expected to pay $400 rent, thus reimbursing to that worthy nearly the whole cost of that shaky old building in a single bon In the corner precincis of the city—in Oak and streets— there was less of moving, though between Broadway and the Bowery there was considerably more than happened ear, Ta Baxter street and the lower part of Mulberry—the paradise of lodging collars, are and organ grinders, notto mention the mummies that peddle cigars along City Hall square, and retreat to their cases in these streets at eight P. M.—there was very little migra- ( HERALD, THURSDAY, M tion, some livin; im this vicinity being too squalid in their poverty either to move or to remain where they were; snd in the up- per and eastern portions of the metropolis—in avenues A, B, C, D and adjacent cross streow—there was nothing but moving on every hand. People in these localities seemed to take to moving with the same sort of facility that Falstaff manifested for drinking. At nine o’clock in the morning, along the streets, damp, muddy and dis- agreeable, were drawn up long rows of caris, and on them were barricades of stands, stoves, bureaus, bed- steads and other paraphernalia of housekceping, tall as those erected in the streets of Paris at the time of the revolution. Vermin which bad not boen disturbed for a whole year wore startled {rom their lairs yesterday and made desperate efforts to escape from the din; bed bugs and croton bugs that had slept in their deus like lions witbout disturbance from buman hands since May 1, 1866, were suddenly awakened and crept out to ask what was the matter; filth, damp, mildew and pestil- ence breeding that had gathered in nooks and crannies and crevices out of the way of the sunlight was stirred for the first time for a year yesterday, and sent forth in response a breath as fetid as that by Arabs attributed to a ghoul having just gorged herself upon carrion; and all this with the dripping of rain, the natural heaviness of the atmosphere and the oaths of carimen, answered to make up @ sort of bediam more rotien than that which was corrupted from Bethlebem. ‘This was the scene during the forenoon, in which the rain dripped down, as if moved by a specially benero- lent impulse to wash New York clean of its foulnesses ; though in the afternoon a new scene took the place of the old, and carts laden with utensils of all sorts and dimensions moved to and fro and hither aad thither, like the ceaseless!y-moving ships in a certain old ballad ; \d lunatic and about four P. M, cart cart stopped in front of house after house, and was unloaded of its burden ot wares, Walks were again encumbered; doors 3 were thrown open, and houses which at twelve M. had been deserted as Moore’s banquet hall were thrown open; and from four to six P, M., weary, wet and discontented themselves for the mi; pnt or coiled themselves up individuaily in the ‘space possi! in main efforts to sleep after the day's jading. Not than seven thousand fomilies shifted their desert, the public may con- gratuiate themselves that moving day is over, and sottle down quietly and soberly tor the surhmer, ARBIVALS AND DEPARTURES YESTERDAY. Departares. Liverroor—Steamshi ja—Mrs Balfour and servant, New York: Mrand Mrs H Cohens, Schildren and servant, 3; Mrs Island; Miss Dunlop, Dough inde infant and st is; Mise York; Joshua H Morria, 2, 1867.—_TRIPLE SHEET. CONNECTICUT. . Message of Governor English to the Legisla- ture. The Legislature of Connecticut was organized yester- day, and Governor English delivered his message.” A considerable portion of it was devoted to national affairs, We make the following extracts:— ‘ NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The situation of public affairs is in every aspect im- Doriamt. Two years have elapsed since our country emerged from # civil war such as the world had pever Supremscy of aie federal consivtisn and ie integrity of the national Union. Over tne calamities of that up- happy conflict, which desolated so large 2 portion of our country and carried sorrow into so many households, we long shall mourn; but as citizens of 1 commoa country we Strive to extinguish the vindictive reseni- eo are by the action of Congress denied all participation in the nations) govern- ws character of our government and waaatorm the Typaplie jon pursu Congress ‘towards the ton States of the South 1, In my judgment, wholly unwarranted by our funda- mental law, and as fatal to tbe Union and the constitu- which has been sup- Overpowered by the armies the republic, they sur- rendered, acknowl their Aipaiance to the yrers. ment which opposed, accepted the legal consequences their acts, Their Immense armies eerie and pote their pescet aa wig surr "To bring order out of chaosto restore to ther mate functions the “tate authori their broken relations with tho As Commander- in-Chief of the armies President Lincoln addressed self to that work, Under his plan, matured by Presi- dent Johnson, the States were reorganized. In obedience to its requirements tleir constitutions and laws were changed, and, by the act of the of each of those States, slavery was forever sbol By this the re-establishment of the Union was essentially con- summated. Little more was thenceforward required for the country to move onward in a harmonious and_pros- perous career than the admission of Senators and Repre- ‘sentatives from those States to seats in Congress. Unfortunately the tendency to centralization had re- ceived new impetus during the war, consequent on the exercise of extraordinary powers by the government, and this developed a new and extreme [oeitesen spiris, It demanded the exclusion of the late insurrectionary States from any constitutional rights within the Union. Assuming that the war in its practical results was a failure, the Union is really divided, that the inhab- itants of the ten States which combined under the so- called confederacy, are alien enemies, and, with the ex- ception of the blacks are to be treated as a conquered and subjugated people, Congress has arbitrarily excluded the Senators and Representatives of those States from the halls of leg: jon, and refused even to examine their credent:als, By this means Cot has taken possession of the government, and under the dictation of & committee, whuse sessions have been held in secret, has get aside some of the most important and salutary provisions of the constitution, and even menaced with its power the independent action of the judiciary, The Jegislation of the Thirty-ninth Congress was toa great extent a series of usurpations and infractions of the constitution, commencing with propositions to en- force amendments of that instrument, in the inception of which nearly one-third of the =tates, and fully one- third of the people, had no voice, and eventuating in placing that people, ia a time of profound peace, under military domination, The bill to establish military governments over the ten Southern States, and which assumes to annul the State and municipal governments and the legal tribunals of that portion of the country, has justly alarmed the ap- prehe! na of considerate and reflecting citizens, It is in effecrestablishing martial law over those States, But whence does Congress derive the power to subject any rtion of the citizens of the United States to martial jaw? Martial law is uot military law, It embraces the citizen ag well as the soldier. It is the substitution of the will of the commanding officer in an enemy's country in the time of war for the municipal jaw which previously prevailed, It is a creature of necessity, and exists only where no munci- pal law is in force, or where the success of mili- tary operations renders its suspension for the time being necessary, [he dotiborate enactment of martial law by a legisiaiure is a solecism; for a legistaturg bas time and opporwunity to epact municipal laws to be administered by civil tribunals in conformity to the constitution or organic taw. Congress has no power not granted to it by the constitution, and martial law is something wholly without the constitution, existing only in the absence af law, It bas no more power under the constitution to es- tablish military governments in the Southern States than to institute an order of nobility in New England, But the evil consequences of this legislation do not stop with the eatablisuiment of martial law. ress bas assumed that power only for the purpose of more thoroughly accomplishing the subversion of state au- thority. By the military arm it has not only stricken down ali local civil government in those States, but, by its aid, it deterinines who shall and who shail pot cipate in forming the governments that may allowed to them for the regulation of their local concerns. It assumes the power to dis- franchise the white inhabitants of those States and to enfranchise the biack—thus condemning, without con- vietion or trial, a large portion of tieir tatelligent popu+ Javon, and placing tne political power in the hands of those who have never participated in the affairs of ernment, and a large majority of whom cannot eo ballots they are authorized to cast. This is not recon- struction, It is not a measure of peace, but a measure ot war. Local self ernment is the very corner stone of our republican {i All stable goveroments recog- plzo ore a8 a mere principal of governmental g poli ‘® government to discard it is suicidal. Ir Congress can thus legislate for those States it 1s not difficult to foresee, in the not distant future, like inter- ference in otper states, It these powers, thus exercised, bave been nigbtfully then the constitution of Connecticut and the ancient right of the people, so often asserted when a colony of Great Britain. to “ late “ constitution requires that the President shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed ; but Congress has seen fit to change tue prescribed time of its meeti 80 as to secure @ continuous session for the purpose ot enforcing laws by its own decrees and to hold the consti- tutional authority of the Executive subject to its will. For thts change. uncalled tor and unex; ‘the coun- try was unprepared. In consequence thisConnecticut 'a large section of oar common country and in conflict eee ey te anaes course of the Senate fn regord. to his. ap in Je responsible for 1 Senate, w Tefuses to allow foe Remo Sve oppeced which he believes Estimable men of of them having served with fidelity throag! have been thus they had received Ts was in pursuance of this ite grasp the functions which the other branches posed to take the pa shy M Congress, When soldiers became Certainly could ast Ravenous sapgened Wt were to be prosecuted under pew and it laws were condidvenbio partion of Ka tine tn devieing Bow inws for ae neat Se seeps ceee wor mire foanded, snd 10 the ment ‘mn enlightened age That the idbabitants of the proscribed States will peacefully submit to the rule that bas been provided for no one can doubt. Their to do other- wise, if nothing else, assures this a Union of co-cqenl Beanes wader Khe Coatanation may result from their submission most fervent hope. ba \ions of to us will still remain. the wescttcion, which & imporent to retain the fry af & a majority y, become oe ee it once was tor the to«morrow ? ‘he sword that is so easily drawn to focacaiae Sor paciewee 16 reat in ite oe ‘8 constitution hereafter. been the brew sal of the soldier that he has saved to our ‘old witheot a sie diaoed oF 6 Ma ; but useless been Tetain their Tarth'tacouetitational If'fte ‘charter of our liberties been lost, won, : 4 a if year age from been Froviaea to, tat fand. A further made rA of handa ‘The de year seers: & ei My }— the ms i nee ee fee owned by the State ($383, jogeth the cash on han MA the clos of the aiyent. ‘ it will leave the total Nabi Savings Banks in th fifty three in number, shows favorably with the moore jast year, the gain in deposits amounting to $3,861,376 +4 Png ae amount of deposite a gy banks on the la} january, was 180,390 1; hile + te market value of their: assets amounted to $33,150,- ‘The Governor recommends an eight hour law, unless) otherwise agreed between parties, ‘The Connecticut Legislature. Hunrrorp, Conn., May 1, 1867, At the republican caucus last evening one hundred: and twelve members of the House were present, Hon. John T. Wait, of Norwich, was nominated for Speaker by acclamation on motion, of Hon. Charles Ives, of New™ Haven, who declined. James U. Tainter,.of Colchester, ‘was nominated for Clerk, and Dwight Marcy, of Plain- field, for Assistant Clerk. Hon. A. J. Gallup, of Ster- ling wae nominated President, pro tempore, of the Senate, ‘and Jonn M. Simons, of New Haven, Clerk. All the iblican Senators were present, democrats at their caucus nominated Hon. Wil- Mam James eqns A of Hartford, for Speaker, and. Frederick A. Willoughby, of New Haven, Clork. Fred. Heer of Newtown, was nominated for Clerk of the: THE NEW BISHOP OF ‘MONTARA. Consecration Services Yesterday at Trinity Chapel. ‘The consecration of the first Episcopal Bishop of Montana, the Right Rev. E. sylvester Tuttle, took place: yesterday in Trinity chapel, and was attended with the: usual solemnities. There was an extremely large attendance both of clergy and laity, and the church was nearly full when the services commenced. The following Bishops were- present:—Bishop Hopkins, of Vermont; Bishop Doane, of New Jersey; Bishop Odenheimer, of Pennsylvania; Bishop Kerfoot, of Iowa, and Bishop Randall, of Colo- rado—Bishop Hopkins presiding. There were between forty and fifty clergymen present, including Drs, Dix, Morgan, Littlejohn, Gallaudet, Peck, Jobnaon, Staunton, Rev. Mr. Farrington and the Rev. Mr. Dutton. The services opened with the usual office for morning Prayer, the Rev. Dr. Littlejohn reading the exhortation, the Rev. Dr. Staunton the First Lesson and the Rev. Dr. Morgan the Second, The communion service was them commenced, At the close of the epistle Bishop RANDALL, of Colorado, ascended the pulpit and delivered the sermon, taking for his text the passage from Timothy, ‘Make full proof of thy ministry,” He said they had assembled together to confer the apostle- ship of the Son of God upon a brother; and on such an occasion the injunction of the great Apostle of the Gen- tules, addressed to a youpg soldier of the cross, to whom had been committed the charge of all the churches in. Ephesus, was surely appropriate to the solemnities, While m this injunction the truth expressed was patent, that which was implied was not less important, and both. demanded their devout attention It was plain enough if Timothy were required to make full of bis. min- istry that there must be suc institution as the min- istry, the ministry of Christ to man and for man, as a of that plan of salvation which the Son of Man set forth and established. It was pot strange that it Was so, nor was it strange that inBnite wisdom should sometimes differ from finite wisdom as to the best of carrying out the Divine plans of grace 1n regenerating, renewing and saving the human family. The ministry, then. as an institution, became a plain and positive element of the Gospel. But the min- istry and the Word were not made to dwell apart, and what God had joined together no counsels of man could put asunder. Neither the ministry without the Word, nor the Word without the ministry. could alone accom- pltsh that which had been ordained as the conjoint work of both. ‘The Word and the ministry had come down through all the ages since the birth of Christendom to- gether, mutual witnesses of their common or gin and Di- vine authorities, and all who challenged the fact of an apostolic ministry or of its unbroken saccession, must. answer the same challenge im relation to the Word of God and its integrity as transmitted through the Evangelists and ‘There might have n other means of evangelizing the worid, but God had chosen these only, and any atiempt to convert the world in any other manner would only disturb His kingdom, hinder its progress, and end in utter failure, Besides the ministry and the Word there were the sacraments as means toan end, in connec- tion with His mystical body, the church, and tothe hands of the ministry were these ordinances committed. Ry virtue of such ¥ we bad these sacraments to- So -Avod ts thee eaenrin, sate mae Mier ate preserved in y, and the same vod that Christ. established two sacraments in His i é pial sf p i iF & iz i the Christian : di f . E 5°55 E i if i= iil jel i i lf F F Bi i i i i I Weibel to escape om the morning of the J6th of April, nie Wee aeint ia murdered his wife by cutting her roa Officer McKenney, of the Sixth precinct, deposed that by ta mye en o'clock on = morning sete fowe cuizen; Grossed the strest, and aiked another i: ij | Fi f z i 2 z Fs i af t t FH i iH a ae tl i i id é i £ & z. li @ i i & 55 hi § ¢ fi : He z i he i i i # i i i fi HE