The New York Herald Newspaper, January 2, 1868, Page 7

- "RECONSTRUCTION. LOUISIANA. PrECIAL CORRESPONDENGE OF THE HERALD. ‘The Convention Still Penniless and Perplexed= Collapse of the Attempted Bond Swindle— Fears That the Tax Measure We! Down-Drafts of the New C ution—Nig- @era in the Universities, Schools, Hote! Bverywhere—Nigger Supremacy All Areund and a High Old Time Coming. New Onteans, Deo, 24, 1867, /The Louisiana Reconstruction Convention, like Mr. "Winkle on skates, is “just agoin’ to begin.” Judge Oooley says 20, and Judge Cooley is one of the smartest ‘ten in the Convention. It wuld be unsafe, perhaps, to earry the Pickwickian parable any further and predict shat after one or two very unswan-like gyrations the Con- swention will come down heavily on the broad of its back. — ty possible, but not probable, inasmuch as the con- @lement—the raving salt of the Convention— ‘Ras gained the upper hand since the collapse of the Jones-Conway financial scheme, ‘Fhe downfall of the bond project was complete and @oat 1s was introduced with immense mystery. Promi- went merchants of the city were hinted at as being tondy Begotiate $300,000 worth of State bonds at ‘eixty-five cents on the dollar, in proof of which they would deposit a forfeit of $25,000 within seven days, ‘Phe seven days grace expired, not a cent was deposited, ‘and, moreover, the men whose names had been made stalking horses in the business emphatically repudiated ‘all knowledge of the matter. Then it leaged out that ‘the whole scheme was an attempted swindle on 5 gigantic scale, which only failed in consequence of the Execative Committee at Washington not haying },000 to advance to the ring who were endeavoring to jpush the thing through. So it came about just as was wredicted by the Henan ten days ago, The bond ordi- mance was rescinded, and the Convention returned to ‘their first principles—a direct tax, The two meetings, one held last night and the other this morning, at which ‘these resolutions were come to, were stormy in the ex- "@eme, The bond negotiators, orestfallen and exposed, attempted, ineffectually, to cover their disgrace by \moving the repeal of their own ordinance, They have been unusually and painfully silent since. he tax goheme will probably bring in some money, but not ‘much, At tho race propused, viz:—one miil (the tax. property of the State being two hundred and fifty vanlilions)—it ought to realize two hundred and fifty yehousand doliars, It probably will not bring one bun- ‘dred thousand dollars. Piuchbeck, ome of the most negroes in the Convention, asserts openly that can never be collected, for in the country dis- i the collectors would de shot before they got off steamboat landing. Pinchbeck is an authority in /Mnancial matters—he is one of the weathiest and most "honorable faro bankers in the State. Meanwhile the Finayce (ommittee are ronning round from broker to broker trying to borrow money on the these very insecure taxes, Money must be yw, for the necessities of the conventionists and boarding house keepers and barte are clamorous for their three weeks’ 'ickliffe say that as they have tried the men and can’t ge: any money out of them, he fe quite willing to try the “rebels” now, But the } “rebels” don’t seem half so anxious as might be sup- bere to come forward and provide the means for their Gisfranchisement and i:npoverishment, wing {rittered away three weeks over matters hich need not have tak o three bours, Iaat resolved to devote itself to business he Convention in Whereof it has brought forth with immense labor constitutions, one signed by all the other signed by all will be,when the mages eee eeaaee! @ majority report iss fu ; R. Wappies.an ex-United States ry , of New Orleans; I. 8, Crawford, 8 large lanta- owner; J. T. Ludeling, President of the ickeburg Shreveport Railroad, and W. L. McMullen, an ex- jor general of tne Union army—all white men, ty jand men of seme intelligence and standing. The mi- {s drawn up by Ingraham, Val- Leroy, colored delegaies, of antecedents un- The disfranchising cia..eo 1h the majority report a8 i Aur, 96, The following persons shall be bited from ‘or ffom holding uny oilioe of honor, trust oF profit in to wit:—All personsjwho shall Pe “hn been convicted perjury, forgery, brivery, or other crime pun. ap bnpeislcenns as herd cables a povumes ond ‘ander interdiction, and all leaders or ollicers of bands during the la ¢ war or rebellion, The follow. ‘persons are prohibited from voving or holding aay office anor, tryst oF prof iu Une Stale, until after the, Brut of january, to MitL=All persius who, before, the june, of J ET ice Vice Pres. Beoretary Secretary of War, Becre. ‘of the Interior, Secretary oi tue Treasury, Postmaster or Attorne| inited States, diplomatic the tent Staten, members of Congress, Judges of Grout aod District consteoF the Uniiod dates, and Lieutenant Gove: nors of this State or of other udges of the Supreme aud District Courts of this fadges of the courts of last resort of other States, Of the Legislutnre of this State since the adoption tution of 1862 who approved {the it the eoession of te OF any O14 conventions who voied for ‘and commissioned oil!cers of the Army or Navy of ted States who ut any ine engaged in the inte rebel- ; Provided, the Legislature may, by a vote of two-thirds house, remove such disav lity. ‘There is an educational and tox-paying qualification in (ty report which runs as follows:— ' No ‘who shall attain the age of twenty-one years at day of Jannary, 8 2, or who shall come into the ‘after that day. shail be allowed to vote unil he can ‘and write, No ciector sha!l be permitted to vote at any lection who shall uot have paid tbe taxes due by him to the tate at the time he offers to vote. ‘ Ig the colored minorl'y report, these provisions are absent. They would not suit colored white mon propose the following simple bie oath of olllve:— mg ¢ ‘Swear (or ailirm) that I wili support the constitution laws of the United States, aiid the constitution and laws fils Slate, and that t wail faith‘ully ond ruially dis- args and perform all the duties incumbent on me Trae as hei anting0 the best of my ability and under- Pp od. ‘The negroes are not willing that white men should tne assembly unless they can subscribe this long- inded and inquisi orial tes: va: Ido rolemnly swear (or afirm) that I have never volun- borne arma against the United States since I have @citizen thereo! ; that I have gi nance, counsel vr encouragement to persons en; ‘armed hostility thereto; nefther sought nor ‘or aitempted to exercise, the functions of any file whatever, under any auchori.y ov pretended authority, Rostilty to the United states; shat 1 have not yielted A tary sup} ‘uy prevended. government, autho foonstivution within tie Cnited States hostile or in: Hereto, and did now w liui y desert from th service of tne United draft duri ort ‘eoustitution and is ‘aod that I will faithfuiy aod impartially discharge form all the duties 1u¢.17 eat on me a8 ——— —=, ao, to the best of my abilities and understanding. other notable provisions, these sable consti- makers, who but a few mouths ago were hoeing and cutting sugar cane, provide for a nigger uni- , and demand that all the scbools and institutions fearning throughout the ~iaie shal! be thrown open descendants of Ham. Ariicle one hundred and ail be composed of six facuities, medicine, one of nataral science, industrial science, and one on the ‘Legislatui 1 pro. ors ‘theory ope tea bi The tats Its organization aud maintenan wided nts of this instiution of learning shall be cure, violating the letter or inder peualty of the annulling of the on, Article 154 stipulates that ‘all colleges, seminaries, jemir® Schools, jnst'tutions of learning of what na- soever, whether iivrary, legal, medical, military or vidual, authorized by tue Legisiature and under the trol of this State, shall be open in common to all \elases of students.” fe 145 goes still further and expressly declares “tere shall be no separate sev or inetututions of learn. feng established for any ex lus’ race by the State of Louisi- 1 Nogroes are to set down to table at ti br) with the daughters avd , precede or succeed them iu the occupaucy of their 11, The right of all citizens to travel and de enter. ined shall not be infringed, or in any manner whatever be tn this State. ‘These provisions, with others of like character, have {Deun rejected by the white deiegates, and ouly appear in ho minority report. The negroes, ti they bold to each how Eon r, have a working majority in the Conven- lon ot bigh Mketoh of a Day’s Business in the Conven- tion=The Black Beast and the White Ele. phant—Cromwell on Criminal Jurispra- flence—Aro All Men Born Free and Equal t= A Nice Point in MetaphysiceLooking For- ward to the End. d can push these articios through, There will be old time all round before this is done, New Onreans, Deo, 26, 1867, ‘The Convention is ‘just agoin to begin.” I think ‘Chis ie the statement bazarded in a previous letter, Ret me qualify it by saying the Convention is sill f*agoin to begin,” but has not yet begun with ite actual bustness. To-day the proposed constitutions came up by* spocial order, A pialn sketch of the progesdings will give a Dotter idea of the capacity of this sovereign body to the high functions it bas undertaken than bios pages of argument, The Convention resolved {t- if into a Commitioe of the Whole, Judge Tailiaferro, t president, making way for a gentleman who odestly claimed to be quite unfamiliar with pariia- ‘usages, a statement which the after proceed- abundantly supported. Wore from soventy to eighty delegates present, and bieck alternating pretty equally, Among the NEW YORK HERALD, THUKSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1868, colored delegates the best and worst types of the negro race are represented, Order and decorum are maintained quite as rigidly as in Congress, The whites on the front benches assert their dignity a little by elevating their legs on the desks in front of them, but thecolored delegates, better behaved or more diffident as to their heels, keep thelr feet out of sight, All the talking is done by somo eight or ten mea, principally white, and very pig-headed, stupid and obstructive they show themselves on all Possible occasions. Three-quarters of an hour is consumed in squabbling whether the reports shall be taken singly or together, Crane (white) bellows himself as hoarse as Speaker Coltax in the Cooper Institute to get the reports taken separately, The Convention decides ast bim— forty-two to ten. Tne reports are togethor, hari lot the ine of Righis” is read Persons, without regard to rae, color or previous con- dition, born or naturalized in the United States, and in: habitants of this State for one year, are.citizens of t) State. They shail enjoy the civil and political rights and privileges, and be subject to the same pains 1s This provision happens to be the same in both ro- Ports, but that does not debar opposition, Beldon (white), of N.C,, moves that the second article of the minority report should be put first, viz:— All men are born free and and have certain in- alienable rights; among these Uberty and the pu suit of kapy ‘To secure these. rights governments are instituted among men, deriving thelr just powers from the consent of the governed. Wickiitfe (white)}—formerly the most rabid of rebel editors, now reconstructed—objects that the very first sentence of this amendment contains a lie, All men are not “born free and equal’? Some are born rich and A white delegate on his right suggests that, if they come (o that, “men” are not bora atall; infants are born. ‘This proposition rather staggers the Convention, and mombers on ‘about feebly for a way out of the dif. ulty, . One gentoman suggests the use of the word “' croated’’ eq are “bora,” Apother delegate rises to solve she difficulty. He easays to read it up short by mcgree, DA eaten the word ‘inalienable,’ Three times he tries it, f ets as far as ‘‘inabdle,” then ‘ Inellible,” then ‘‘inel- niable,”” and caves in. Croinwell (coal black and somewhat notorious) mounts the hb. He has six bran now articles of his own to substitute for this one, He reads them. One provides that “there shall be no discrimination in the public civil or reugious rights of cit zens on account of race or color, Rinne a8 a punishment for crime whereot the party shall have been duly convicved.’’ This involves a new principle in criminal Loge at dence, which ‘rather startles t! gal members of the Convention, many of whom raise points of order, which so bewilder the unfortunate Cromwell that he stands with his mouth open full ten minutes, and says not a word. Isabelle (coffee colored) rises to speak, but is informed by tho chairman that the gentleman from New Orleani Mr, Crom has the floor. Mr, Isabelle wishes ‘‘de gemman would say what he’ got to say and sit down,” Thus urged, Mr. Cromwell brings his reading to an @nd,and Mr, Crane rises and yells his fifth or sixth speech that Gary Cromwell is the béte noir of the Convention ; Crane is the bite dane a lle at last gets a word in edgeways, and objects to “bof dem articles,’” 3 ms Crane begins his seventh speech. Pinchbee! fotared -snneinie man, Pinchbeck—says this is more than human nature can endure, and if that is the way they are going to waste time in Commit- tee of the Whole, he moves that the chairman report progress, The motion is carried, and the house re- sumes, Three hours and nothing done, Then comes up the original question agi as to see the reports shall be considered together or sep- arately. f Crane makes his eighth speech, which is rather less intelligible and to the point than the seven preceding orations, The house thins rapidly, and a count out is tried; ‘but a dozen colored delegates who have been regaling themselves at the stairhead with sweet cakes and candy rusb in and make up a quorum, Crawford (white) analyzes the now Celebrated article No, 2of the minority rey nd shows it ig all bosh and gas from beginning to ead. Crane rises for his ninth speech, Left speaking. Thus the sovereign Convention passes the time, This isa fair specimen of its sessions. The two constitu. tional drafts submitted contain altogether three hundred and eighteen articles, many of them certain to bring out acrimonious discussions and bitter partisanship. At the rate of half an articles day and twenty-five working days a month the Convention may be expected to tore minate its labors on the Sth of January, 1870. Unless oa happens to Crane it will not get through by en, J MISSISSIPPI. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. State—Com- e Hittes of a Nen-Adoption of the Constitation—R. Whites and Negroes— to Jacxson, Deo, 20, 1867. Reconstruction in this State progresses very slowly, and it is as yet a matter of serious doubt whether or not she will wheel into line under the provisions of the ex- isting military bills, unless they are amended or modified in some particulars, or uoless the republican party of the North recovers from the severe shock it has experienced at the hands of the democracy. When these bills were first passed and presented to the Southern people with a sort of understanding that thoy were to be a final sottle- ment of the whole question—distasteful as they were in their main features—the people were nevertheless dis- posed to accept them, wita the hope of thereby gaining representation and repose. Indeed, nine-tentns of the whites of Mississippi would ha’ Miltary Or Work. voted last spring for reconstruction under these bilis; and more than one-half the journals of the State, Includiag the Ciarion—the oflicial jouraal of the State—wore earnestly advocating reconstruction on this shades of poiiticai opinions her and went beiore the people urging acquiescence in the terms proposed. All seemed to promise fairly, and for @ time the prospect. seemed very fair of carrying the State for reconstruction on @ conservative basis. But the jance of the few leading republicans in tois State, in whose bands were the machinery of the loyal leagues, togetier with the successes of the democratic party of the Norch, bave determined the mass of tue white people of the Stace to have no further part or lot in the matter, A few months since the republicans met here in convention, and their proceedings drove from the ranks of recons'ruction thousamds who otherwise would have voted for ik Tho failure of the whites to register rendered it for some time doubtful whether or not the Convention was carried, and 80 close is the vote that General Ord bas not yet deemed it politic to ann it officially, He States, however, that it is incomplete, owing to Teguiarities of registering officers, but that sufficient ‘deen received at headquarters to justify him he has accordingly J It meets in this city on the 7th proximo, I pro- It will keeping you advised of its deliberations radical for the although there will be a strong conservative clement in the body. ‘here will be at least thirty gentiomen iu it who have at heart the true interests of the people, and who, while they would favor the present terme of recuo- struction, are not willug to go beyond them. There will be quite a number of delegates of the colored per- suasion, but, so fer as I have been able to learn, not one of that class of avy ability. There will be enough of the * peeing however, to lead them in “loyal’’ paths legisiation. Tam of opinion that the constitution to be framed by this Convention will not bo ratified, The whites will ‘vote almost to as high an apprec Privilege as they had before it was conferred upon them, They can't fee any money in 1t—no bread or meat; but they arc be- to see by their votes they are bringing fore could not com- mand the respect of their own race, and who care for the biacks only so loug a4 they can be made aseful for party purposes of personal preiermont, The whites have determined to rule this country, and they will do it, They are too poor to ewigrate, if they so desired, ‘and they cannot live here tn poritical eq , or rakber in subordination to the biack man. In thi and In other Southern States it i true they aro in the minority as to numbers; but, through the biessings of freedom, the like the red man, is rapidiy passing away, wise, But there is gradual sod a apirit of mutual distrust, the result of many conspiring causes, When freedom burst upon the black man he seemed to think that the injunction “in the sweat of bait thou eat thy bread’ no longer applied nl it was some time before ho could realize that freedom means work. And when he did go to work his hours of labor bad to be regulased by many conditions, It was now deemed unheaithy to touch the morniug dew or to stand beveath the midday sun; and ag to workiog in the rain, or otherwise being expose was out of the question, The consequence was, the your of 1860 was a most disastrous one to the pianting st, and in most casos the planter, afver reim- his merchant for supply had his laborers uh wages domanded or the portion p agreed upon, And it is still worse this year. The little cotton made commands so beggariy a price that it is seareely worth the trouble of preparing 1. the market, Oar peoplo ars convoquentiy discouraged, and wil be necessarily compolled to limit their farm: ing operations the coming year, Indeed, many are no # discharging their hands, even where the latier are in- debted for supplies, In othor instaaces the freeimen seem indisposed to engage for another year, and are oithor killing stock upon the plautations or flocking to the towns and villages to, live by occasional jonbing or matic stealing, So formidable and serious have @ operations become, and so much alarm have thoy ly raised ia the pullio mind, that Governor Hum~ pbreys bas tesued & proclamation Gpon the subject, which moots tue approval enera! Ord, and which will doubtless have the salutary effect of obecking tho retensions of these ambitious disturbers of the peace, ‘ho following order, just issued, will ino havo a good effect — RRAY ORANG NO. 2 eapquantens Sun-Distuot oF Mississires, DOCAR Te guna, Mines 60. ITA | Commanding officers are directed w nottiy the lending ol- ored men, sud’ take such other moyaures oon sary to give qoueral publication of the freed. men who are able will be required to earn their bans oe during the coming year, and to go to work upon the terms hat can be procured, evea shouldit furnish a support only, and thus prevent their becoming a burdem to the gov- aen who can, but will not, earn a erament. All freed: ive- Mkood when employment can procured wili lay them- selvos liable to arrest and punishinent us vagrants, “The oo- persion of sheriffs, constables and police magistrates is Tequesied tn the enforcement of this order, and any just ac. tion of theirs under its provisions will be tained by the military authorities. By order of Brevet Major General ALVAN C. GILLEM. Indeed, this is already the law of tho State, and is ap- plicable fo whites as well as blacks, but only in rare in stances has it ever been enforced by the civil authorities, ‘There is now, however, ® peculiar necessity for its rigid enforcement. There is more black labor in the State than can pos- sibly dnd employment next year, and heuce it is pro- posed to coilect the vagrant aud vicious on abandoned lands and make them earn a livelihood. To perfect tho necessary arrangements to thia end, it is understood, was oue of the objects of General Ord’s recent visit to Washington, The freedmen must turo over a new leaf or starve, and the white man must cease to rely upon the black man as laborer or both will starve together. There are some notable exceptions to the truth of this declaration, but the experionces of the past two years will justify its being laid down as a rule, unless a chang comes over the spirit of the freedmen’s dreams, at prosent seem vory mixed and visionary. SOUTH CAROLINA. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. Composition of the State Convention—Apaihy of the Whites. Cuanceston, Dec. 23, 1867. The composition of the State Convention will be about sixty mulattoes and blacks and Afty-seven whites, Nine of the latter are Massachusetts men formerly connected with the Freedmen’s Bureau, who wore discharged from service on their election to the Convention. A strange revulsion of feeling against Northern adven- turers has taken place among the blacks, The leading negroes elected to the Convention have become jealous of their influence, and declare that South Carolinians shali govern in that body. They appear to have recently imbibed all the intense local State pride of the old white ruling powers of South Carolina, The white population take but little interest {n the matter, regarding the whole action as illegal, resulting only as it must in forced negro equality and negro dom- ination in the State, At the same time, howe' they entertain the best feelings of good will towards their tate ves, which will do more for solid reconstruction than ail the epactments of Congress, Some of the oldest and ablest lawyors in this city and other portions of the state bave been consuited by the colored delegates, and it would not be 60 surprising if the advice given ts followed, a constitution aoceptabio to the majo- rity of whites and blacks should adopted by the con. vention and ratified by the people, Tue two extreme classes of the community —monarchists, represented by the old, impracticable chivalry, and the extreme radi- cals, mostly of recens importation trom New England— wil be avoided, Dr. A. G. Mackey, the distinguished masonic author and collector of this port, is the almost unanimous nominee of the delegates for President of the Convention. ‘A meeting of the republicans was held at Liberty Hall on Wednesday night last to hear the report of the South Carolina delegation to Washington, in reference to their interview with Chief Justice Chass, Butler, Wade, Sum- nér, Kelley, Wiison and other radicals, he meeting, which was composed of between seven and eight hun- dred freedmen few whites, was ad- dressed by the delegates of the Union League, Messrs. Gilbert, Pillsbury, KE. W. M. Mackey, white, and Harris avd Ransier, colored; and assurances were given that Congreas in no event whatever would recede trom their position or policy of nogro suffrage, The delegates, they said, were urged to hurry forward the work ot the Convention, so as to have the members of Congress trom South Carolina elected as soon as possible, The tone and temper of the speeches seemed to favor Chiol Jus- tice Chase as the nominee of the republican party for President, unless General Grant came out empnatically in support of the republican piatform put forth by the Chicago Convention in May. A very strong feeling was also exhibited for General Butler aud Sumner. Com- plimentary resolutions to the fifty-seven members who voted tor impeachment were adopted, after which the meeting adjourned. THE FENIANS. - Address of the Brotherhood—Duplicity of the British Government—Repudiation of the Recent Violence Abro Hgapquaxters Fexian BRorurrsoop, New York, Deo. 31, 1867. To Tus Amenican Ports ano Lovers or Linerty Every wasre:— ‘The leaders of the American Revolution, the great precursors of the armios of regeneration that in the Uld World bave since followed. their footsteps in the road to universal freedom, when they determined to assert the tiberties of their country by the sword, laid down the maxim which bas since passed into a dogma of political faith, that when men suffered from grievances Buch as those protesied against and undertook to sever the relations that bound them to the government under which they lived, the respect due to the opinions of Civilized mankind demanded that they should place on record the statement of their wrongs, the efforts they had made to remedy thom without effect and the prin- ciples on which they grounded their just right to re- sistance when submission bad ceased any longer to be avirtue, Following this example, the Congress of tbe Feulan Brotherhood assembled at Cleveland in the month of September last put forth in the national body they represented, a declaration of the principles upon which the organization was founded, and the objects at which it arrived, and the Senate elected by the same Congress, in the address recently issued to the reform- era of tho English nation, have reiterated those senti- ments, and placed on record the fact that between the people of Ireland and those of England there is no quar- rel whatever ; that both are oppressed and kept down by the same aristocratic power which, to support its feudal State, has robbed them of the rights of manhood; that it alone the Irish people proposed to Oylt, and that whatever might be the issue of that struggle it should be carried on in a manner worthy of a peopie aspiring to the dignity of freemen, and in no re- ‘spect should 1t be such as to cause e1ther those ougaged in it or the advocates of human freedom to viush at its details; that such a definition of the platform va which the Irish mationalists at home aad abroad pro. pose to fight the battle of ther country’s Independence when not wunheoded, there is suificient evidence to show, Not content with plundering our people of their liberties, Hneland, ‘through ber inoumerable agents aud the immense power her wealth and commerce gives her over the press o! tho world, bas followed them tuto every land with calamny Aud misrepresentation, stigmatizing them everywhere as race unfit for freedom, and capable only of ferocious outbreaks without definite cause or ouject save resist- fuce to a paternal rule, Thevuice of the rich pow- erful oppression is seldom without @ response tu the. world, wuile the oppressed flud few (rieuds outside the ranks of those wuo love liverty for tts own sake, and jon of Almighty Justice Thus turough ail their recent history the Irish freedom Lave bad to fight adouble buitio; oa the ‘one hand endeavoring to wrest from their hereditary op- pressor (ne national rights of which they had been robbed; on the other, obliged to counteract the malig- nant influence of the same deadly foe, and to convince the worid that their motives and purposes were not what oh emies would represent them to be, aud that the sy! ies of the lovers of true {reedom suouid be ox- tended to them even as they were given to tue peopte of Poland, or Hungary, or Candia, or any o.hors bravely bat. ting for tneir libertios, despite of difficulties aud dis- asters, The evonts of the past few weeks have more than Wor demonstrated the truth of this position. Our enemy fas reized on the occurrence of the blowin up of the-wali of the Clerkenwell Prison in London, by woich @ number of innoceus persone were kilied and wounded, to stigmatize the Nativnal Organization as a sapguinaty combination of traitors and assassins, with whom a civilized Power could only deal as with a baud of murderers and irreclaimaote savages; and every petty act of vivlence, every petty deed of incendraricm, ow. ever senseless ‘or unaccountable, has been tn the same gpicit carefully magnified and placed to the charge of the Fenian Brotherbood, in order stilt further to blacken our character ip the eyes of the world, Had these cliarxes Veen contined te the organs of the British governm nt of those classes whose int rest it is to perpetuate the slavery of our peopie at home, we dand despise them; for #o have been with tricks and devices by which the it becomes m part of their polic vgicike terror” by addtitonal measures of repret agalust the scanty remoant of liberiy allowed in that misgorerned land; and we know how y that gov= eroment have themselves furniehed agents and mate- Pais for such outrages on osber occasions in the hope that the opporiunity would thereby be afforded them to ‘stamp out’ the aspirations of Irsh people after freedom, as they blew from the modus of their cannon tho wretcued Sepoys, whom they\ themselves had trained to bicod, and whoee appeiites|thoy had whetted ter of their own count the Engtish governm! affair bay been transpareniy plain.| It is bupantew weeks since, with au te mockery of law&nd jus- tice, they executed th or ant which the opiuion of every bovest minded person in England and the deliberate verdict of the vilized world bave pro- nounced to be a purely political vilence. Tho blood of these murdered men has clon to thom for the tine by the very ruthles deed, winning for their victims the sympaity of man. Kind, and of which they were so anxious to deprive them. It {a to justify themselves by an ex port facio decision and to divert attenuon from their own crimes against humanity that they now seek to fx upon swe Irisu na- tronailste at large tho responalbility of acts with which hot only have they had no compilcity, but which are at once repugnant to ble principles they profess and detri- mental to the policyzthey have devermuned to pursue Bat while the oat/onalists of dare prepared to face the hostility acd misreprosentation of the British government and their ¢ hey desire that the ¢ American people aud @ fof treedom within the Bp domioions should understand their true senti- mente and poiloy, and that no insidious enemy should be able to fasten on thom the odium of respopsibility of acts with which, a8 a body, they have no sympathy. In the name, therefore, ‘of the Fenian Brotherhood, the arate, by their representatives and.the body aut rized to spenk for them, hereby declare that the actsch, teed by the English government and its hired scribes ,'¢#inst the organization—to wit, the blow. {ng wp of the Clerkenwell Prison and cousequent de- struction of innde,*t lives, the fring of Post Offices ana gasworks, whicv, ,** instruments aud appliances of Civilization, it is 10 thy interest of all to preserve, and the sending of explos,® oF deadly missives to indi- viduals through the maily—are neither authorized, ap- proved nor encouraged by the authorities whom the members of the Brotherhovn Tecoguise; but, on the contrary, are regarded by them 48 the work of secret agents of the English governmon? Sndeavoring to brin, odium upon the national cause by 1.2 perpetration o crimes foreign both to the genius, the Jnstiuets and the religions training of the Irish people, The history of Ireland teaches that whed A change of rulers, in the time of James 1I., placed powe? tempora- raily in the hands of our people they did not use it to retaliate on those whe had been their oppressors while inthe ascendancy; on the contrary, they protected even the English ‘dissenters, who fled to them from persecution at home, Aud even when the solemn arti- Cles of the treaty of Limerick, entered into betwe their representatives and those of the English, Cro had been basely violated, and they driven in thousands from their native land, they met the minions of English tyranny on every baitle feld of Europe, but they met them as soldiers not as assassins; and while the grandeur of the retribution they wrought on their foe perpetu- ated their fame and gave to the struggle for independ. ant Irish nationality a vitality of which noact of its enomies can deprive it, no stain remains on thelr escutcheen to connect their bistory with such crimes as have made hideous the record of English conspiracies, from the gunpowder plot of Fawkes to the modern me- eens of murder perfected by the Sheffield Trade inion, In the name of trath, of justice, and by the record which our people have made for themselves in the past, woask the eltizens of the United states, especially, not to be led away by specious misrepresentations to belie such accusations levelled at the elements of the Irish pation, which sympathizes with thoir own free institu- tions, and desires to extend the eertt a entcred by America to their dowr-trodden race, by whom ia the charge advanced ? By a Power which has been the enemy of this free Tepublic; which, in {ts infancy, employed the brand and the scalping knife of the savage Indian against its citizens, and io its recent etrugere for the ‘ation of the national authority fitted out piratical expeditions against {ts peaceful commerce, fostered and encouraged those who sought to introduce pestilence and incen- diarism into the principal cities, organized murderous raids on the defenceless villages on its fron- ter, and defended the perpetration of those acts by a mockery of law in its courts, Can the world forget that when the bombshells of Orsini sce’ red death among the ci(izensof Paris,England, in who reat workshops those missiles of destruction were ma only protected the fabricator of them, but even placed his defender among the highest of her logislatora gal aga reward for dvocacy. And when the barracks of the Roman Zouaves were blown up, recently, by a revo- lutionary party, which derived its matn support and re- sources from English influence, ao far from the pious horror of these aristocratic hypocrites being excited by the deed, the speech put into the mouth of the ruling sovereign by her responsible ministers exhibited such an evident jeaning towards its perpotrators as to draw from an English peer, Lord Denieigh, a public and inde- pendent protest, Woe ask the world to judge fairly botween us and our accusers, The Fenian Brotherhood were not against the lives, liberties or property of their English brethren, but against the feudal tyranny which degrades human nature in En; d and Ireland alike. Thoir efforts wiil of prisons, but di- rected to the overthrow of political despotism, which makes the jail and the gibbet the symbols and asserte of its power, They neither employ in thelr strug; the secret weapon of the assassin nor the torch of tl incendiary ; but, resolving to face the issue of battle hke men determined to be free, they commit thelr cause to the Almighty disposer of ovents and their own stout arms—their only motto, “Liberty for all;" their rally- ing cry, “God save Irelana!” By ordor of the Senate F. B. ISLANDS. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. The Whaling Fleet—Murder and Suictde on au American Bark—The Succession to the Throne—The Lackawanna—Heavy Failure. Howowuwv, Nov. 12, 1867, The fait season is fairly under way and business is quite brisk. Fifty whalers have already reported them- selves here and but twenty more are toarrive. The average catch has been better than last year. Many vessels reported with a small catch latein september have done remarkably weil by iting on the ground until the middie of October, Afier the first of October itis no child’s play in the Arctic; gales are frequent and the weather is bitterly cold. Ihave heard of ves- sols waiting in hopes of getting one more cut at whales until they wore down by the head with tho weight of ice which had struck the ships in spray; their patience ig sometimes rewarded, and ali is taken in of biubber and bone that can be, and then the vossel 1s headed away tothe southward for a milder ciimo before the blubber is tryed out, Owners and agents of whalesbips in the East Hitle know the hardships experienced on a voyage for oil in the Arctic, Consul Smith bas bad many complaints from seamen to listen to this fall, and ae cal teste ‘&@ disposition to hear patiently and do ail justice, The decks of the American whaling bark Eagle, Cap- tain McKenzie, were the scene of a fearful tragedy on a th inst The story, as toid by officers and crew of the bark, is as follows;—Among the crew was a boy named Manuel Laro! native of Pico, one of the Western islands, aged ut fifteen years, and a negro named Jobn Daly, a native of Deme- Tara, West Indies, The nogro: obtained @ most unac- countable influence over the boy, For some reasou ho became enraged at the boy aud attempted to kill him last spring, but failed. Supposing the man to be insane he was put in irons and confined for o time, Becoming docile and being a good hand he was released, and no trouble was known to exist while on the cruise north. On the night of the 11th the negro was off on board another vessel until quite late, on returning he brought his bed on deck and turned in. The boy ani the cook of the bark made up their beds on the main hatch, and the cook says that the first ho knew of the trouble the boy screamed and said Daly bed. cut his throat, after which the negro completed his horrible work by cutting his own throat, Queen Dowager Emma visited her Britannic Majesty's Alert on Sundi 3d inst., for the purpose of ding divine worship, and whit oyal Standard of Hawaii floated from the main. It is a ma ter of much speculation bere as to whom his Majesty hus appointed as bis successor, The question is often asked as to whether tho British party have not suc- ceeded in having Emma nominated. Prince Witham ©. Lupaitlo, T have before stated, was believed to be the King's favorite, and thought to be popular with tho St, George’s Club. Lunalifo bas said that the first act of his reign should be to strip Sir Charles Coffin Harris, Pievipoveatiary to Washington, of ail rauk and power, and that humble individoal may bave worked je to depose the Prince from his position as first jer, the succession is & matter which y one yet, for bis Majesty looks good for ninoty years. The Lack SANDWICH still in our harbor, Captain Rey- olds de je the large fleet of the Lack- - the case, let the secretary of the Navy commissioo other vessel to take b . It is important that the United Staies government should bave their large inter- esta in this group properly guarded. Pe ‘3. Savidge, grocer, bus made an assignment "for the benefit of his creditors, Liabilities stated at $40,000. Sugar and coffee shipments to California are said to be he rocks upon which be bas split, The assignment has ‘ust been made public. THE BUANING OF THE RALEIGH. The Charleston Courier has received the following in- teresting and thrilling particulars of the lave burning of thi nship Kaleigh, off the coast of Sourh Caroina:— jonatuaa Cass, @ pacsenger, who arrived Thurs. tates that on Tyesday, about quarter to was golug from the upper deck be- tow, when he mot the purser’s wife at tue foot of the stairs. She informed bim that te steamer was on firo, and asked for ber husband told her be had not mn arriving et the lower deck ne from the rear of the engive, and the captain and others making efforts to exiinguieh the fire. One of the fremen toid bim the fire was just alt of the boiler, and that they could do nothing, not being abie to get the donkey engine or fire apparatus in work- ing order, A general alarm wos given, and the fre spreading very rapidiy, the forward part of the steamer was soon enveloped in flames. The passengers and crew made & great rusia lowering the boats Being engine, the wheels kept going. motion, The boats wers lo Could not say how many boats were lowered, but af gotting in ove be saw two others allont, Captain Mar ‘was very active, giving ders with great coo 4 decision. The passengers, however, paid bur littio attention to Bim, lowering themselves by ropes and by tho sides of the steamer into the boats, overcrosd- ing and capsizing them. The eon was very rough. The doctor fell into the water and was picked up by a boat then containiog about twenty-five persona, This bo capsized over twenty times, bat boing metailio life boat, with air-tight apartmentg, she did not sink, even when sho filled with water: Mie occupants capsized her themselves several times, with the hope of cleariug her of water, clinging, at such times, to her sides, The men wore so exhausted, however, that they would get in without belag able to wait, Gradually one alter other fell of and wore lost, until only ten were left, Many ineffectual attempts were made to right the boar aud dip out the water, At length those woo wore | eservers agreed to keop off some distan and accordinely left an old railor in the boat by bim- self, who, by m of a piece of wood, commenced bailing, Rod was successful in ligh Anotner got In, and tactag off his shoes aso batliag. Lue doctor then took off his boots, by the help of which the boat was entiray cleared, when the rest o| those around got im, They bad vow drifted a quarter of awwile from the steamer. It was then pear sundown They had but one oar, out Just before dark, in sailing Around the Wreck, they eae up with the purser’a boat, from which they took three men, and were given another oar and Tow-lcks, They thon steered weat- ward, he wreck they saw various parte about, and @ number of sharks wir mii ‘hoy also saw two rafts, on whieh there wore @ number of men, but coutd not tell how aft, and commeuced unadle to siop the many, As th amor they heard some one bailin, li who ft war, though it was , The mem, without either hats or sh worked very cheerfully, each taking tholr turns rowing. After rowing all Tuesday might chey made land on Kiawah Island, On going ashore the boat was carried over the beach and launched into Kiawah river. They got aground several times, #ud the men had to foot tt Surough ethe woods, About tiree P, M, they came acroas @ house and were kindly received by the negroes, who @ them water and some ssveet potatoes, which partially relieved their hunger. On of the Begroes offered to pilot them to Chariestoa—an offer which they gladly accepted. They made another halt on the road aftor this at another house, wher: thay stayed and Warmea themselves until ten o'clock Wednesday night, About half-past ten they started for Charleston, guided by their negro pilot, and arrived here about bali- past ight Thursday morning, They were ail vory ‘indly received at the Mills House, where thoy took breakfast, Ono of their number—a poor Italian, named Garigardo—unable to speak a word oF English, had four gons on board, who are all believed to have been |. They were harpiste, and were on their way to New Orleans for the purpose of trying their fortures in that city, The last Dr, Cass saw of the captarn ho At Ol reported in sight, and many hoped to receiv: them; but none came near them. Among others lost was Jobn Brooks, first engineer, who was last seen by Purser McManus om one of the gratings of the vessel, and James Ammerman, second engineer. RECORDS OF THE CORONERS’ OFFICE. ities Dur! cides, Suicides and the Year 1 867. HOMICIDES, Janvany 3—Hoenry Schiosser, aged thirty-five, born in Germany, stabbed by Charles B. Manuel (colored) at 46 Thompson street, Jan, 4—John McAndrews, shot by Lewis Miller, cor- ner of Forty-frst street and Ninth avenue; John G, Hass held as accessory, Jax, 6—Fanny G, Williams, aged twenty-eight, born in Connecticut, shot with a pistol by Ihomas M. Burke at Ninth avenue, corner of Twentieth street, Jax. T—Richard Thomas, aged. twenty-seven, born in Ireland, stabbed by Jobn Sullivan at 22 Stone street, ‘JAN. 20--George 8. Hull, shot by Charies Browning. Feurvary 18—Louis Kleemann, aged thirty-five, born in Germany, struck with a hatchet by his sister, Regiua Kleemann, Jacob Henrick, aged fifty, born in France, stabbed by William Schnobel at No, 225 West Tuirty- eighth street, MARCH 28—Delia Lonorgan, aged thirty, born in Ire land, beaten by her husbaad, Morris Louergan, Maxca 30—Male child from premature birth, caused by an abortion on its mother, . Marcu 81—Mary E. Noble, aged thirty-eight, born in New Jersey, death from abortion by Dr. W. F. J. Taters; Madame Dubois held as accessory. ‘Apni 6—Stephen 8, Carland, aged twenty, born in New York city, stabbed in the groin by Antnony Mahn, corner of Elizabeth and Hester stree ‘Arai 16—Ann Waibel, aged thirty-seven, born in Ger- many, throat cut by her husband, Charles Waibel. ‘Apri 18—John R. Livingstone, aged thirty, born in tho United States, shot with a pistol by Vincent Cody at 17 Jefferson street. Henry Heiming, aged twenty-eight, born in Germany, boaten with a club by unkuown par- ties, Freeman Jungley, shot with pistol on schoouor Ottawa, May 4—Mary ©. Thorp, aged thirty-nine, born in Now Jersey, died from abortion by unknown persons, 6— Michael Farrell, aged forty-five, born in Ire- abbed by Eugene suilivan, Charles A, Armhoim, thirty-seven, born in Germany, stabbed by Jerry orton. May 16—Annie McCaffrey, aged twenty-five, born in Treland, shot by her husband, James Mevaifrey, May 20-sHenry Davis, aged fifty, born in England, shot by George Rosenberger. Jon#1l—Matty Grunnen, aged twenty-four, born in United States, shot by Alfred RK, King, at No, 30 East Ninoteenth street, Juns 25—Micbael Flynn, aged twonty-seven, born in Ireland, shot by Jobn Buggermann. Juux 1—Lewis Kuil, aged fifty-three, born in Ger. many, skull fractured by William Bothan pushing him from a stoop at No. 29 Park streot. JuLy 16—Thomas Cosgrove, aged forty-five, born in Ireland, stabbed by Philip Monaban in Ninth avenue, between Sixty-first and Sixty-second strocts, JuLy 20—William Dempsoy, aged thirty-nine, born in Ireland, stabbed by Dennis Leflerty. John Niede born in Germany, knocked down and killed by William Wendt, Jury 23—Christopher Bostwick, aged thirty-one, born in United States, knocked dowa and killed by William Higgins, ‘Serremoun 6—Matilda Cadena (colored), aged thirty, born 1m United Staves, stabbed by her husband, Crispia Cadena, ‘Suer, 7—John O'Flynn, aged thirty-eight, born in Ire- land, beaten by William McKenzie. Ser, 8—Kate Cancadon, aged twenty, born in Iroland, vioiated and \ajured by —— Beatty, —— Curley a — Devan. Surt. 10—Cloment Curtin, aged thirty-five, born in Ireland, beaten by unknown persons, Sarr. 19—Philip Welsh, aged seventeen, born in Now York, stabbod by Charles Sweeny, Octossr 15— —— Christian, aged twenty-eight, born in the United States, skull fractured by being pushea from stoop of the Frankfort House, » Oot, 20—Robert 8, McChesney, aged twenty-two, born in the United States, stabbed by Marr Walsh. Noveuoxr 4—Daniel Friel, aged twenty-nine, born in New York, shot by Jeremiah Hartigan in Pearl street, noar Frankfort. «Nov. 16—Wm. Handey, aged forty-seven, born in Norway, struck on the head, by the mate, Alfrod ‘Tookor, ‘with a capstan bar, on brig 1. Miller. ‘Nov. '30—Charies Thompson, aged twenty-nine, boro in Denmark, stabbed by John O'Donnell, Decemuxr 1—Hudas dpira, aged eight days, death from being prematurely born by her mother receiving injuries at the bands of Billy Mullen. Dec, 2—Jobn oy aged forty-one, born in Germa- ny, shot by Frank McCoy. Den, 12—David Moore, aged nineteen, born in Soot- land, shot by James Griffin, Deo. 13—Thomas J. ~harp, aged thirty-one, born ia « United States, shot by Edwin Kelly, Heury Wi bach, aged twenty-two, born in Germany, shot in # ga- Joon by unknown parties, SUICIDES, A . 2 Totwoen 50 aad 60. 21 Between 60 and 70, Between 30 and 40. Between 40 and 50. Catting throat. Taking laudanum Taking oxalic acid Taking arsenic. ing strychni al Taking morphine ‘Taking other poisons, Jumping {rum windows. Drowning Unknown Drowning.......+ Fails from windows. Falis down stairs. Falis down batchway Fails from scaffold. Falis, miscellaneous: Ipbaitng chloroform Injarod by horse. Iajured by mackin by city car Buros, women, Childret Sealds ie expiosion........ Suffocation trom ‘smoke, Sulfocation from tilumiaating gas. Suffocation from earbonio acid gaa. Miacelaneo is, Intaaticides THE TRAGIC AFFAIR ON THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. A Cocdator Murdered=Esenpe of the Assassin, Fw the Pittsburg Commerotal, Deo, 31.) tr. Charios Ji Parker, the popular conductor of the Jouvstown accommodation train, Pennsylvania Ri road, met with his death about balf-past six o'clock y terday evening, while going East, at the bands of drunken desperado, named Samuel Hull, who was « passenger In bie charge, From all that could be gath- ered the circumstances of tue bomicide appear to be these:—In the performance of bis dutyg conductor Parker cailed upon Hall for his ticket or bis fare, The latter retused (o hand over either, and acted in a very disorderly manner, Finding Huil was determined to be unreasonable, Mr. Parker had recourse to the Inst resort of a conducior with « refractory passenger, and rung the beil to stop the train in order that Hull might be put off. The train was stopped about one mile west of Nineveh station, Westmoreland evunty, and just as it stop Hatt ‘and plunged it into the body of Mr. Parker, who expired almost | without uttering @ word, The murderer coolly walked out of tl julling the bell rope as he before the horror-stricken passengers could the train was in movion, train proceeded to rker, Whose resi- dence was at Conemaugh, threo miles beyond Johns town, where be leaves a young wife to whom he was wedded some six months ago, Mr, Parkor was about twenty-eight years of age, @ courteous and obliging con- ductor, and a faithful officer of the company. Hull, the murderer, resides about one miié¢ south of New Florence Station, and was formeriy a brakeman on & freight train, He was seen after the murderim the barroom of }the Washington House, New Florence, He is about twenty five years of age, ire feet inches high, has sandy And light mostac oars pierced, and had on, at the tim diaek cap and binek overcoat, Parties we an and immediately started pursuit of Hull, and it probable that he will soon be 0 are au. Vhorized to state that the Pennsylvania Railroad Com~ pany will pay a liberal reward for the capture of iull, on the Och of April as It trol of water In Chicago and threw another into a privy, from which it was rescued nearly dead, has been acquitted, no evidence be for the delence and no arg! bei NEW YORK STATE GOVERNMENT---1818, Governor—Rouben E, Fenton, republican, Liewenant GovernorStewart L, Woodford, ropul lican, Seoretary of State—Homer A, Nolson, democrat. Comptrotier—William F. Alien, democrat, Attorney General—Marshall B, Champlain, democrat, State Engineer—Van BR, Richmond, democrat. Treasurer—Wheeler H. Briatol, democrat, Canal Commissioners—John D, Fay, democrat, Stephen T. Hayt and Robert C. Dorn, republicans, The Canal Board comprises the Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Comptroller, Attorney General, State Engineer, Treasurer and three Caual Commissioners nine in number—six democrats and two republicans, the Lietenant Governor and two Canal Commissioners The Contracting Board is composed of the stato Em gineer, throe Causl Commissioners aud the Auditor of the Cana} Department, and stands, politically, turee ree publicans and two democrats, ‘The demoeerats have a majority in the Board of Truss tees of the Capitol, the Board of Trustees of the State House, Commissioners of the Canal Fund, Commission. ers of the Land Office and Custodians of the old State Hail THE LEGISLATURE Meets on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 1968- SENATE, Dist. 1—Lowis A. Edwards, Orient, domocrat, 2—James F. Pierce, Brooklyn, democrat. 3—*Honry ©, Murphy, Brooklyn, democrat, 4—Wiliam M. Tweod, New York, democra®, 5—Michael Norton, New York, democrat. 6—Zhomas J. Creamer, New York, domocras, 1—John J. Bradley, Now York, democrat, New York, democrat. Morrisauia, democrat | 10—William M. Graham, democrat. 11—Abiah W. Palmer, Amenia, republican, 12—Francis 8. Thayer, Troy, ropublicun. 18—A, Bleecker Banks, Albany, domooray, 14--George Beach, Catskill, deimocrat, 15—*Charles Stanford, «cheuectady, independent. 16—Mathow Halo, Klizabethiown, republican, 17—Abraham X. Parker, Poisdam, republican, 18—*Joho O'Donnell, Lowville, republican, 19—*Samuel Campbell, Now York Mills, republeam, 20—J, B. Van Patten, Fairfleld, republican, 21—Abner C. Mattoon, Oswego, repablican. 22—George N. Kennedy, Syracuse, republican, 23—John F. Hubbard, Jx,, Norwicb, democrat, 24—Orlow W. Chapman, ‘Binghampton, republican, 25—*Stephen K. Williams, Newark, repuoticam, 28—*Charlos J. Folger, Geneva, republican, 27—John I. Nicks, Elmira, republican. 23—Lewis H. Morgan, Rochester, republican, 29—*Richard Crowley, Lockport, republican. 30—*Woicott J. Humphrey, Warsaw, repudiicaa, 31—Asher P. Nichols, Buflalo, democrat, 32—Lorenzo Morris, democrat, Democrats, 15; repubiicaas, 16; independent, L. ASSEMBLY. Albany. 1—John C, Chism, democrat. —Fiancis H Woods, democrat, 8—Jackgon A. Sumner, democrat 4—Theodore Vau Valkenburgh, dom Alleghany tlas Richardson, republican, Broome. Chauncey C, Bennett, repubiicam, Catiaraugus..-++ 1—Jonas K. Button, deimocrat, 2—£. 0. Topum, republican, Cayuga.......+. 1—Charles H. Weed, republican, 2—Sanford Gifford, repuviican, Chautauqua.... 1—Matthew P. Bemus, republican, 2—Wintield 8. Cameron, republicam, Chemung. . Edmund Miller, democrat, Chenango ; “Frederick Jutiand, republican, Chaton. William F, Cook, republican, Columbia, 1—Harper W. Rogers, democrat. _ 2—*Stephen B, Wendover, republieam, Cortlandt... Raymond P. Babcock, repubicam, Delaware. 1—Alvert K, Suilord, republican, 2—Edward J, Burhan Dutohess........ 1—*A. A. Brush, republican, 2—A. T. Ackert, democrat, sesoeee 1—Georgo J. Bamler, democrat, 2—Richard Flack, democrat, 3—L. P. Dayton, democrat, 4—*Alpheus Prince, democrat, 5—James Rider, republican, Samuel Root, republicaa, ++» Edmund F. Sargeant, republicams Samuel W, Buell, democrat, + *H. F. Tarbox, republican, J. Loughran, democrat, . £, W, Stannard, republicaa, 1—*L. J. Bigelow, republican. 2—A. Cornwall, democrat, . 1—*Pateick Bures, democrat, —W. 8 Andrews, democrat, 8—*Patrick Keady, democrat, 4—Francis M. Mailison, demvcraty 6—W. C, Jones, democrat, 6—J. Worth republican. 7—Caleb L, Smith, democrat, * 8—DeWitt ©. Tower, democrat 9—*J. ©. Jacobs, democrat, Jobo ¥, Mann, repubiicam, L. E. Smith, republican, 1—D. G. Wellington, republican, 2—R, stewart, republican, scageeses 1—John M. Davis, republican, 2—N. O. Bradstreet, democrat, 8—* Abner I. Wood, republicam, Angell Mathewson, dem 1—*Michael C, Murphy, de 2—Deanis Burns, democrat, 3—Daniel O'Reilly, democrat, 4—John Galvin, democrat, 5—Chris, Johnson, democrat, 6—iimothy J. Campbell, demossaly James Reuly, democrat, 8—*James Reed, democrat, fave Borge |, democrat, — anthony ‘an, democrat, 11—Poeter Trainer, democrat, 12—W. B. Quinn, democrat, 13—J. C. Moran, democrat, 14—James MoKiever, democrat, 15—* Alexander Frear, democrah 16—*James Irving, democrat, ome Ls pissee, Soemvoret, —L. D, Kiernan, democrat, 19—W. L. Wiley, democrat, B, Van Brunt, republican, illiam Hitebman, oorat, 1—Kansom M. Skeels, democrat, Benjamin Farley, republican, Onoida,......... 1—W. H. Chapman, democrat, 2—Alanson B. Cady, republicam, 8—James Stephens, democrat, 4—Ambrose Nicholson, republicam, Onondaga....... 1—A. G. 5 Allis, republican, 2—Luke Ranney, repudiican, 3—Hiram Eaton, republican, Ontario...ese.. 1—Heury Ray, republican, 2—*samuel H. Torey, republican, 1—W. ©, H. Sherman, democrat, 2—Jobn B. Reeves, *Edmund L, Pit 1—Jonn A. republican, 2—James D. , Fepublicam . 8+Alvin Richardson, Otsogo.....e0++. 1—Myron J. Hubbard, democrat, 2—William 0. Bentley, democrat, —samuei D. Humphrey, 1—*Francis Skillman, democrat, 2—Jono B. Madi domocrat, Ronsselaer.,.... 1—John L. Fiagg, democrat, 2—Jared A. Weils, republican, 8—1. B. Howard, democrat, John Decker, democrat. Thomas Lawrence, democrat, 1—*George M. Gloason, repubiicam 2—Julius M. Paimer, republican. 3—A. HL Al biican. . ¥ love, repablienty 2—Alembert Pond, repubiican. Robert Furman, dewocrat, Franklin ... Fult’o aud Ham, Geneseo, Livingston, Madison, . Mont; Mery « New ‘ork. Niagara... mocrat, republicam. 2—Lyman Baloom, repubticaa, Janos M. Halsey, democrat.’ “David G, Starr, democrat, 0. H. P. Kinney, republican, ‘John H. Setkreg, republican. 1—William Lounsbury, democrat, 2—Abram KE. Hasbrouck, democrak 8—Lheodure Guigon, democray N. B. La Be publican, ood, republican, repubiican, epuviicrm, Wayn Westchester.... 1—*Samuel 2—"Georgo J ry ©. it, *Willlam Bristol, republican, ©, 8, Williams, democran Democratic majority Marrimomat Manger tx Wasmivorow Ctrv.—Daring tho past year the clerk of the court issued 1,916 tare Fiage licenses—1,261 to wirites aad 665 to colored peuple, The register shows some very interesting facts. On the ‘26th of April inst 4 license was procured and revurned with the words ‘she wouldn't have me.” Tho largess number y one day was on December 24, when there n issued, and on several days there i no entry. number for the year shows a falling off of over 100, last yoar the aumber footing up 2,016—1,250 ‘whites and 186 colored, It ts fact toat mee of the marriages of colore Dor issued to them was in August, when there were the population of the Distriet given by the rec ‘consus—100, 8. of wh) 15,957 are whites and 31,674 colored—t during the year there was one ma: sixty of the white population, aud one to about fifty-three of tbe colored population, showing @ lar, proportion ef colored seekers for connubial bappioese than white. —Washinge n Star. Senator Sumner and his wife, it is star Journal, bave Hoaily agreed ou & permanent separation, The ground aileged is “the ovrtainiy—diseovered only too late—that there existe betwoen the parties aa incom. patibility of temperament and oprn:on on certain social uestion oh precludes tho possibility of their living feppliy together as man and wie.’