The New York Herald Newspaper, January 14, 1868, Page 4

4 ein ai ahaa a ‘NEW YORK HERALD. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, FROPEIETOR. Volume XXXIII.....-+.» AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel.— xver Tux Gasiicur, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.-A Mipsowurr Nigurt's Daeax, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and U3th street. — Cariant oF Tue Warcn—Wooncock's Litts Gama, BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Pseer O'Day. FRENCH THEATRE. Fourtecath street—Lns Dianues Rosxs. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Ipiot or rus Movun- ain—Luoruen Bw np Me. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—Taz Desert Flowsx. BANVARD'S OPERA HOUSE AND MUSEUM, Broad. way and Thircieth sireet.—Fnost Kina. FIFTR AVENUE THEATRE, Nos. 2 and 4 West Sth street.—Faxin or Braman. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street,—Granastics, Equusteianis, &c. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Hawton Comai- Nation TROUPE. KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 729 Broadway.—Sonas, Dancxs, Eccentaicitixs, Buxvesques, &c. BAN PRANCISCO MINSTI ELS, 895 Broad way.—Ermo- ian ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANCING AND BURLESQUus. TONY PASTOWS OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comto Vocarism, Necuo MinstReLsy, &0. BUTLER’S AMERICAN THEATRE, 472 Broadway.— Fanos, Panto: ac, BUNYAN HALL, Broadway and Fifteonth stree—Tar Pian. Matinee at 2. STEINWAY HALL. —Mr. Dx Corvova's Lecrurs “Miss Jonzs’ Wxppine—No Ds.” PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.—Amsrtion. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Eratortan ‘Minsrretsy, Bactavs axp Bunxsquxs. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Brondway.— SBcimncK anv Ant. anuaury 14, 1868. New York, Tuesday. SMB NMAWS. ABYSSINIA. By the prompt use of electricity we are enabled to place before ‘our readers very important news from the British expedition in Abyssinia, embraced in a spe- cial telegram despatched by our correspondent in Suez, ‘on the Red Sea, yesterday morning to London, and for- warded to us through the Atlantic cable, reaching the Henarp building early the same evening. By this despatch we learn that the powerful native chief of Tigre, who bad previously alarmed the English camp by his movements, declared bimself friendly to he foreigners, and offered even to feed the wholo army of the Queen. He had already sent two thousand head Of cattle into the British camp, Water was also found in plenty at the landing place at Avnosiey Bay. General Napier arrived at Annosley Bay and marched for Senate to assume command. EUROPE. ‘The news roport by tho Atlantic cable is dated yoster- day, January 13, and contains interesting advices from Great Britain and the Continent, with the latest market quotations, CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday a resolution was adopted in- Blructing the Judiciary Committee to inquire into the expodioncy of providing for the removal of an officer under impeachment at the option of the Senate, Bills were introduced reducing the army and limiting enlist- ments in the navy. In executive sossion, Howard’s Fosolution recommending Sveretary Stauton’s reimstate- ment was adopted by a vote of 35 wo 6. In the House Mr. Bingham reported from the commit- tee the new Reconstruction bill, the principal features of which have already been published in the Henatp It was read twice aud recommiited. The Judiciary Committee reported the Sonate bill declaring what shall ‘be a quorum of the Supreme (ourt, wita an amendment making a concurrence of two-thirds of all the members necessary to a decision adverse to the validity of any Jaw of che United States, fier a long debate the bill ‘was parsed by 116 to 39, Mr, Garfield gave notice that he wou! introduce a resolution on Monday next to dis- charge bMajor General Hancock. MISCELLANEOUS, ° The order of General Meado removing Governor Jenkios aud the Treasurer of the State of Georgia, aad appointiog General Ruger to fil the first and Captain Rockwell, of the Ordnance Department, the second place, thus made vacant, was issued yesterday. The first portion of the order was greeted with loud cheers in tho Reconstruction Convention. In the Virginia Convention yesterday an article was §nirodveod setting forth that the government of the United States can be dissolved only by armod revolution or tho consent of the majority. An ordinance was adopted in the Louisiana Conven- tion yesterday making it a misdemeanor for any one to eject a laborer from the plantation gn which he labors atter the vote on the ratification of the constitution. The democratic caucus of the Odio Legislature nomi- nated Judce A. G. Thurman for United States Senator by a voto of fifty-one to twenty-four tor Valandighain The unrecognized dead of the Angola victims were buried at Bullalo yesterdxy, There were soventeen bodies, and a lot has been purchased in the cethotery by tho railroud company, who intend erecting a monument over the remains. General Bea F. Butler arrived in Richmond yesterday and was enthusiastically welcomed by a large concourse of negrosa, who esco: him in a procession to the Loiel, Inthe evening he made @ speech to an African regation in the African chureb. vernor K. 4, Hayes, of Ohio, was inaugurated yas- terday, The town of Sardis, Miss., was almost entirely de- etroyed by $50 000, The Gas Cowpony of Jacks masded a deposit trom tho vention before the 4 be used, the Convention retorted yesterday by appointing a committee to inquire Snto the validity of the Gas Company's charter, The compensation for mombers was reported at $200 day, Dut the action on it was postponed. Tho Commercial Bank of Momphis, Tenn., suspended payment yesterday, James H. Loverich, second teller of the City Bank, tn ‘Wall street, disappeared last Monday woek, and an in- vestigation into bis accounts discloses a deficit of £50,000, In greevbacks, with which itis presumed be hus God, It ts probable, from certain indications, that the money may be recovered. erich w man of twenty-fye, and his crime is supposed to bave Doon oscasioned by unfortunate dabblings in Chicago. Kook Island and Pacific Railroad stock, The second annual report of the Metropolitan Boar of Health, wbich bas just been published, shows that during the your 1°67 the number of marriages cole brated in Now York city was 16,026, and in Lrooklyh 1,349, and the number of births registered la Now York city was , and in Brooklyn 4,578, A young lady dead suddenly ia the street on Sun- day from tho offecis of tight lacing. Appropriate action was taken in noarly all tne civi! Stave courts yesterday in reforeuce to the doath of the Jate Chief Judge William B, Wright, of the Court of Appeals, The Supreme Court, General Torm, tho Su. prome Court—Ciroult—Part 1, and the Trial Terms and Chambers of the Superior Court adjourned until this morniog as a tribute of esteom and respect for tho Memory of he late distinguished jurist. lu the Superior Court, Part 1, yesterday, an action for $9,000 was brougut by the administrator of Cornelius Durphy againes Holgke and Koeeiand, Murphy bad Deen omployod by the defendants to work on their ma- chine, which broke and crushed him, and from the effocta of which he died, ‘The complaint was dismissed In the Saperior Court, Part 2, the case of Thomas Walaa we. John Dungan was yesterday, Jt was fire en Sunday, the loss being about Miesissippi, having do- © Ieconstruction Con- gas co Dronght to recever $2,000 for damegos alleged to have Deon dustained by plaiati in coovequonse of @ runaway bores, toe property of the defen‘ant, rauning mto bis corriage, by whien he aud I oe past aud the itor 4 ry found to r & young | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1868 In the Court of Common Pleas, General Torx, yeater- Gay, the case of James Speyers, respondent, vs. Alex. Duncan and others, appellants, came on for hearing. It was an appeal from a judgment entered upon a report of a referce 1n favor of the piaintiff for $9,885 for a quan- tity of tea. Tye Court reserved decision. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday, Judge Russel presiding, the following named parties wore sentenced, convicted and remanded for seutenve:— Benjamin Jenkes, previonsly convicted of stealing a trunk, containing wearing apparel, from Mra. Mury Jano Sprague, was sentenced to the State Prison for five years; the prisoner being an old oftender, Judge Russel regretted that the law did not permit him to send him up for tweuty years; George King, having pleaded guilty to an attempt at grand larceny, was sentenced to the State Prison for two years and six months; John L. Drake pleaded guilty to graud larceny, and was sen- tenced to the State prison fortwo years; Francesco Kuiz pleaded guilty to petty iarceny—sent to the Peni- tentiary for six months; James Malone, James McCarran and Samuel Nash pleaded guilty to an aviempt at lar- ceny, and were remanded for sentencs land, charged with the theft of a silk dress, and George A. Curtiss, convicted of stealing an overcoat, were also remanded for sentence, ‘The stock market was active but irregular yesterday, Government securities were very strong under aa active Speculative and investment demand. Gold was excited aud buoyant, closing at 140% a 1407. Highly Important Proceedings in Both Houses of Congress Yesterday. The conflict between Congress and the Pres- ident is coming to close quarlers. In the House of Representatives yesterday, under the pressure of the previous question, a bill was passed providing that hereafter, instead of @ majority, a concurrence of two-thirds of the members of the Supreme Court of the United States shall be nesessary to declare the uncon- stitutionality of any law of Congress. As the Court is now constituted it is morally certain that under the majority rule the existing recon- struction laws, if brought before the Court, would be quashed by a vote of perhaps five to threc. It is also pretty well undersiood that upon several incidental casos the question of the constilutionality of struction laws will shortly come before the Court for its decision. This two-thirds rule, therefore, is interposed to save the radical policy and from this decisive vote of the House the bill will doubiless become a iaw, the President’s thesa recon- from — shipwreck, objections to the contrary notwithstanding. Congress has the power, and the radicals, with a two-thirds vote in each House, will surely not stop in a matter where they have the authority of the consiilution, wien they do not hesitate to legislate outside the constitution to gain their ends, This Supreme Court bill, therefore, means that the Southern negrosupremacy programme of Congress is to be pushed through at all hazards, and under the new consolidation re- construction bill introduced in the House yes- terday, with the understanding that it is to be passed to-day. With the President held sub- ject to the will of an overwhelming radical Congress, with the Supreme Court reduced to @ nullity, and with General Grant pressed into their service, the radicals intend io fight out their battle. So much for tho proceedings of yesterday in the House of Rpresentative:. In the Senate there was a concurrent de- cision in the matier of Stanton’s suspension as Secretary of War. By the decisive vote of thirty-five to six the Senate, in executive ses sion, after a debate of five hours, declared that the reasons given by the Presideat tor Stan- ton’s suspension are’ not sufficient, and that the Senate, therefore, do not concur in this sus- pension of Secretary Stanton. By this vote, according to the Tenure of Office law, he is reinstated in the War Department, and we await with some interest the nex! move ia this matter. It depends upon Stanton; but he wil! probably not attempt to enforce his claim until covered by the shicld of this bill relating to the Supreme Court. From dhese movements in Congress and others toreshadowed, and from all the signs of the times, we may, we thiuk, safely hi hold of most momentous events in the history of the United State: opinion thit we are on the thre: Cholera Sniling Vessels and Overcrowded Steamers. Twice of late bas it been our painfal duty to record the arrival of Gerurn emi ;rant vessels whose voyage across the A‘lintic has been ren- dered dreadful beyond description by cholera of the most malignant and fatal type. Oa the ship Leibaitz, which arrived last Saturday, the disease raged tour weeks, aad out of one hun- dred and forty-live victims atackel by it only forty survive. No language ean properly de- pict the heartrending sceaes which were wil- nessed by the ill-fated company on board; ant no language can be too severe to stigmatize the guilty neglect of the owners of the ship to provide medical attendance and ,all other means of precaution agains: sickness, No sur- geon was on board either in this or in the pre- vious case to which we have allujed. Both our own government and foreign governments y “quire emple provision against the re- uch neglect on the part of emi- rontent bas lately ordered several s Lv be eoized and libelled on the charge ot living violated the laws against the un- healthy and dai serous overcrowding go fre- quently practised both on steamers and sailing vessels. But tho case of the United States against the steamships City of Paris, Atlantic, Baltic and Manba'tan, when called up on Saturday for arsnment betore Judge Blatchford, occasioned a most remark- able detence, particularly on the part os the ro- presentatives of the City of Paris, It was con- tended that Congress had not the power to legislate for the action of foreign cilizsns or foreign corporations ; that the steamship City of Paris was owned by @ fore’ corporation, subject only to the marine law of Great Britain, The inypudence of such a defence as this is heightenod by the fact thit the application of the very ste: nies involved fp th Postmaster General praying for what would virtually be equivalent to a valuable t ship compa- case is now before the return to Europo fox poalage | | | which they wish to carry. Suppose that they should happ:n to fail in complying with a con- tract for carrying the muils, might they not with equal reason claim exemption from penal- ties because they are foreign corporations? The libet was dismissed in the case of the steamships simply on the ground that the law requiring certain allotted spaces for accommo- dations of passengers on emigrant vessels does not apply to vessols “ propelled in whole or ia part by steam.” This being a mere technical objection, Mr. Courtney, the United Siaies Dis- trict Altorney, intends to reopen the whole case on apnea! to the Circuit Court. Congress should hasten to remedy the defect which has thus been discovered in the Passen- gerlaw. And we must add that it is high time both Congress and the American people shoald realize the importance of encouraging by cap tal, by government subsidies whenever requi- site,and by all other suitable means, the es- tablishment of great American s'camship lines both for the mail service and for the transpor- tation of emigrants. As things are going on at present it looks as if not only our Atlantic but our coasting trade would ere long be carried on under ‘oreign fiigs. It is becoming abso- lutely necessary to guard against a threatened evil so humthating. The New Reconstruction Programme. The last radical Reconstraction law would make General Grant absolutely supreme in ten States of the Union—give into his bands an empire richer than the whole Roman world was under Cesar. It would practically establish Cewsarism as the result of a political stwife waged nominally in the interest of popular rights. Radicalism has kept the game of recon- struction open since the end of the war, has prevented settlement, thrown away all chance for peace to secure, as it has constantly de- clared, the equal rights of all the people—to secure “governments r:publican in form” throughout the South; and now it comes at last to propose absolute despoiim and a one man power. Here are republicanism and popular rights of the real Down Hisi stamp. But what is the mpaning of this? It is the effort of that party to shift its terrible burden of respon- sibility to other shoulders. It would throw on Grant the load it can no longer bear, ‘Then, if all comes out well, the raticals expect toclaim the honor, while, ifall goos wrong, they will point to Grant as the cause of ruin. But this gam? should be cut short in i's very in- ception, and the President should take steps, if this bill becomes a law, to do what should long since have been doae wilh regard to the other Reconstruction laws, He should have a case made to obtain the decision of the Su- preme Court. Laws made by the proper law- making power must bo accepted and acted upon until the Suprem> Court has declared that their unconstitutional character renders them null; but when the unconstitutionali'y of a law is so bold, so broad, so defiantly dis- tinct as to be obvious to all, there can be no excuse for deliy in obtaining that formal declaration of the court that will justify the President in refusing to execute the law. Genera, Grant anp THE RapicaLs.—History has to a large extent justified the state. ment that the tendeney of republican in- stilutions is towards absolute monarchy, It was so in Grecce, in Rome, in the Italian republics, in England, and more lately m France. It is all very weil to say that such tendency is neither natural nor necessary $ but facts are stubborn things, and in their infu. enca more potent than tucories. Are wo in the United States about to furnish another example? The events of the hour certainly pointin that direction. The radical republi- cans, once the hope of the country, are no longer patriotic. The love of party, it is now manifest, has extinguished the love of country. Come what may of the country, the radicals must rale—such is their policy. Like a cer- tain illustrious personage, they think it “better to reign in bell than serve ia heaven.” Anarchy or a dictator—that is the future they are preparing for the country. Of the two we certainly prefer the and General Gront as imperator might be a relief from greater ills, tator, Avr Cxsar, Aut N “L have frequently called at your door, andam much surpri to find that you have not been in Rom> sin Cosar left it.” So a friend wrote to Cicer once; but this will be » common observation in Wasbiagton by and by when tho now radi- cal Cysar shall be abaont in Lis imperium. Tux Nationa. Cory Bank Darancation.— Another serious bank defatcation has been brought to light, It is the old, old story imperfect and careless management. In one of our most respectaole city banks a teller is able for o protracted riod to do aa he pleases with moneys entrusted to the safekeeping of the bank authori Ali at once he is found a detiualler to the amount of three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. This, certainly, is 9 fair sum fora teller to embezz omparatively, however, the sum is a trifle. The system of manaze- ment under which such wholesale plunder is possible is the real evil of which we have to complain, Under such management we have no guarantee that the thousands of to-day will not become millions to-morrow. If one teller has such power, so has another. Byvidently the bank managers are not doing their duty. In view of such # disclosure as this of the National City Bank it is poor consalation to the public to be told that in consequence of the large surplus on hand “ the depositors will not suffer.” *¢ the Stans or AN Expine.—The moment the great Bonaparte perceived the first gleam of the im- perial purple dawning in the gloomy and agitated horizon of France, he affected an uiter contempt for trading politicians and stamp orators and coined a word to express it In o letter to one of his brothers ho terms the lawyers and “ring’’ man ‘gers of Paris a seb of “jdiologists and talkers.” The radical “idiolo- gists” in this country may perhaps go far to create an empire, but will they be permitted to rule it? Upon this issue the people of the United States will likely seitie the question to suit themselves next Novem er. Tistoricat Paraus al was conquered “by soldicrs that went from Roms, and tiat army then, renewed in Gaul, returaed the com- pliment and coaqnered Rom». How long may it be before a good radical Cesar, holding the South by » Northern army, bat oll the time re- erniting that army by the young /ellows of the t 4 the Rowan story in ganause Joulh, can repe ing the unarmed Noga? Tas Governmesr anp Hovsgnonp OF THE Granp Ravican Empme.—We presame wo shall not violate imperial confidence by fore- shadowing the character of the government and household of the new and magnificent empire proposed to be evecied by the radicals upon the ruins of republican liberty in the United States. Here it is:— His Imperiat Highness Ulysses I.—Movarch of all he surveys, Imperial Mouthpiece and Keeper of the Imperial Word aud acience—-E, B, Washburne. Aliniater of Conilscaied Nstates and General Factotum Of the Lmporial Munsiou—Thaddeus Stevens, Minisior of Miltary Injustice—Edwin M. stantep, Minister of the Radical Rack aud Political Joint ‘Twister in Gencral—George S, Bontwell, jer of the Binck Rod— Douglass. Lord High Cnamberlan and Picker Uj of all the Im- perial Old Boots, Old Hats and Oid Clo’ Genorally—Joha W. Forn Imperial Soft Impoucher and Knight Commander of the Order of the suiphurcous Bath—Jaines M. Astley Imperia! Windmill and Chief of tue liunperiai Biow- pipes—J. W. Hunuigutt. Court Watchman—Henry Wilson, Court Hangman—Ben Wade. Keeper of the Imporial Bedohamber—Charies Sumner, Lady in Wattiag—Anna Dicktasoa. News rrom Havana.—In the Heratp of yes- terday we published * several important special telegrams which put us in possession of Cuban news up to the 12th instant, Affairs, it appears, have becom» very unsettled in Cuba, and a rising of the negroes is constantly ex- pected. Cholera—or, as they call it, cholerine— which has been raging of. late, is again said to be on the decrease. , The taxgatherers are meeting with serious resistance in the perform- ance of their duties. Burglaries of the most daring and atrocious kind are being perpe- trated under the noses of the police. The state of matters has become such that the hope becomes general that Cubs, by purchase or otherwise, will soon be annexed to the United States. It would certainly be a more profit- able investment than St. Thomas, St. John or stormy Alaska. Beware Tue Ipes,—Grant is going td: the Sonth, say the radicals, as a now Cesar. Let him remember how his great original tell— “at the foot of Pompoy’s pillar.” There are many Pompeys in the South. In fact, the whole nigger race fs one great Pompey-like statue that the radicals have erectod. Let Grant take care that ho is not slain beneath it by the ides of Mare Tue Corporation Ske-saw.—The two Peters— Peter Cooper and Peter Bismarck Swecny— are amusing themselves with a merry game of see-saw on the plank of municipal retrench- ment, Now a scathing exhibil of some Corpo- ration extravagance sends Peter Cooper high up in the air; and anon a fresh payment into the treasury of the interest on the city deposits sends Peter Bismarck Sweeny up to an equal height. On the whole, the pubjic, whick is attentively watching’ tho liitfe Bey rise 80 far made more out of Peter Bismarck Sweeny’s end of the plank than out of Peter Cooper's. A Casarean Orxratioy.—In surgery the Cmsarcan operation is resorted to only in extreme cases, and sometimes, although rarely, both mother and child survive. In politics the desperate expedient of making a Cwsar out of General Grant may be called, in a certain sense, a Cesarean operation. Those who advise it hope that it may prolong, at least for @ brief period, the lite of the dying radical party. But would it not be the death of American liberty ? OBIuUARY. William B. Wrizh Judgo Wright, of the Court of Appeals of the Stato of Now York, died suddenly on Saturday night ast, in tho city of Albany, where he was presiding as Chief Justice. Educated for the var, he practiced many years in Sule livan and Ulster goumties, and frst appeared in public life in 1840 as a member of the State Constitutional Convention, whore he displayed great ability, In 1847 he represented Sullivan county in the Logislature, and in tho fall of the sawe year he was clectad to the bench of the Supreme Court of his district, where he served up to the period of bis election to the Court of Appeats, a position he occupied with great crodit and general satisfaciion to the time of his death, Judge Wright Was not a brillinat man, but bo possessed abilities of a high order, joined toaciear judgment, ua integrity of purpos* and a thorough knowledgs of ‘the elements of his profession, which made him a valuavle meuiber of tue judiciary of our State, His opinions wore always rouad, and hod great weight with bis brethren on the bench, wno rarely disacreed with him, His loss will bo greatly felt in the Court of Appeals, of which he was so great a piliar and ornament, and by the bar and a host of personal tmends thronghout tho State, This death resulted from an attack of infiamn.attou of doeys, undoubtedly iutensiled by the sty oned by the news of the death of his son Lieutenant Commander Adams, of the navy. prod atJudse Wright's residence, in Kin sane evening. Between the Judge and the salian’ cor there had exised a most intense and eBeorbing affection, from the latter's eariiost days, and it is a in. guarcolnetdoace that they ehould bows be called hence wiiuin a few hours of ea_h otuer, PAINTINGS BY THE “ OLD MASTERS.” We confers that the announcement of an auction sale of paintings ** attriuted to the oid masters carries us back in momory to days long since passed away, whon such auction sales were not wncommoa, and the impor. tation of wretched copies and wall smoked daubs was stiil considered a legitimate business, in connection with which the most illustrious names might be paraded without exciting suspicion or critical sneera, But inthe case of the pictures offered for sale this (fuesday) even- ing at Leods’ gallery, the present owner, Mr, Jovas Pickles, of New Orieaus, assures us that ho 13 not a pic- ture dealer and jaeatly bought them not for specu- for his owa private collection, which he pb dd bimself with forming during tue last twont ars. Ho has in his possession cortidentes, y endorset, woich fully convinor him of the age ‘al of the most important of t . Mr, Je’ pictures aro to bo wold in conse. sof losses sustained by their owner during the | lave war, EXTENSIVE BURGLARY, — Bight Thonsand Dollars Involved, Quite au extensive borglary was perperrated down town day defore yesterday, aod up to Inst accounts no clue of the robbers bad been obtained, Tt appears shat the proprietors of the chronometer and nautical instru. mont ostablishmont 62 South street, on going to their place of business yesterday morning, discovered that the place had been entered by burglars, who bad succeeded in making way with twonty-Ove gold watches ond twouty-fve silver waiches, alto. gethor valued at from $7.000 to $8,000. Tha pro: prietors state that the burglars must have entered tho place on Sunday afternoon, as they bad been at tho lishment themaotves about noon, aad wound up ho Clocks aud watches. The place waa entered, they ik, trom an adjoiing butldine, aad on leaving from which the watches wore taken the burgiars dit tuab a DeAm they id placed on the in- 9 of the door on their gorag out kept it tightly closed, av if It wero locked on the matde, Information of the robbery was lodged at beatquarters yesterday aiiernoon, aud Iuspector Dilks aad Captain John Young ipsctyled measures which it is supposed will iead to the detection of she thieves. BAOOKLYA INTELLIGENCE, Venoier 1s Asotiee Rannoap Acctveyt,—The inquest before Coroner Smith and a jury ou the body of Charles Dubey, iavely residing at No, 56 C tavenne, who wos run oveton the Myrtle avenue railroad track on tho morning of January 1, was concluded Inst ovening, The deceased, \t Way shown 1m testimony adduced, was pertectly sober on the morning of the day in question, aad #5 riding vA tbo frogs plavoru of acar on thay Jing, when, desiring to get olf, be asked the driver to lator failed to de so, and, Fred which saoeequonty ly tor tho Fake ot justice, i not be wacortaiged, an’, of be oxpecied to no drivor or forward and cr cknowindytiag tue fact, The jury by verdict “Wo find o4 came to | ath by inja a rin Over by some vebiele tu tho vt donee the jury can wee n¢ toad Company WASHINGTON. IMPORTANT PROCEEDINGS iN CONGAESS. Passago of the Supreme Court Quorum Bill in the House. The Highest Judiciary Power Made Subservient to Congress. A Concurrence of Two-Thirds of the Members Required to Invulidate a Law. The Case of Secretary Stanton Decided by tho Senate. The President's Objections Ignored and the Suspended Secretary Rein- stated in the War Office. The New Reconstruction Bill Re- ported in the House. $$$. Wasuincton, Jan. 13, 1868, 11 O'Clock P.M. Mr. Stavton Relnxtated in the War De- partment. % To the relief of the Senate, if not of the public, the Stanton suspension case has been decided, and the sus- pended Secretary of War ts relieved from his uncom. fortable situation to apply whenever he chooses for his quondam position, or feeling reluctant to resume the cares of office again to go his ways in peace, if not in welcome oblivion, gladdened, however, with the refloc- tion of being the tavored recipient of Senatorial appro- bation. As I antictpated in my despatch of last evening Sonator How ard’s report was adopted and the President’s objections utterly ignored, That a considerable share of interest attached itself to the docision of the question may be gathered from the fact that an important bill on the suspension of the currency con- traction was laid aside on a gote to go into executive session for the settlement of this matter, and in Executive session it must have necessarily ex- cited a good deal of attention, when members disre- garded the alluring attraction of dinner, and even of hot suppor on a cold evening—for the session was one of nearly seven hours—to hear what had to be said pro and con. . After Senator Pomeroy had taken the chair Senator Dixon continued the speech which he left off on Satur- day evouing to oblige mombors of the Senate who dgsired to adjourn for the piirpose of attending several State dinnors, Mr. Dixon spoke for over an hour, com- mencing with the objections In the Presiucnt’s Message, which he showed in an able argument were evsn more conclusive as a reason for the removal of Mr. Stanton than the mere reading of the Presidential document itself would convey, Ho passed on to the consideration of Secretary Stanton’s record, and concluded with an eloquent eulogy upon tho conduct of the President, ‘Mr, Fessenden replied in defence of Secretary Stanton, and spoke at length of bis ‘kindness of heart, geutle- ness of temper,” and of the great services rendered by him during the war. Mr. Dixon here observed that Andrew Johnson ron- dered at least as great and far more perilous services during the same term. He confronted treason in iis stronghold, and im himself formed o uulwark against the tide of secession, Mr, Fessenden continued, and said that the reasons given by the Prostdent an his Action wore insufficient, and that 10 motives shout induce & Chief Magistrate to take £0 important a step except such as the nation Wonid cheerfully justity, He then proceeded to defend Mr. Stanton from the charge brought agalust him on Saturday by Senator Buckalew, of being responsible for the horrors of Andersonville, Mr, Buckalew afowe and reitorated his statement, and aaid it appeared (o him during tho war that Mr, Stanton's policy was the policy of the goveromont. Mr. Fessenden, in covctusion, said be bad not origin, ally intended to speak in the debete, but be thought the remarks of the Senators from Wisconsin, Connocti- cut and Peapsyivauia domanded critical reply. Mr, Hendricks followed, and said thad Secrotary Stan- ton having declared to the President his opinion that the ‘Tenure of Offico vill was unconstitutional, it was, to say tho least, very improper on bis part to seek to hold office under it, He claimed that Mr. Stauton was re- sponsible for the New Orieans riot, and no amount of sophistical pleading on the part of lu. (rionds could free him from the imputation, As a man.of honor he should have made it his bounden duty (o protect the Prendent, for he had the despatch in his pocket which could have yielded that protection and saved the head of the nation from the vile slander and voparalivied defamation that was 80 freely heaped upon him, Mr, Morton spoke next, He did not think tho Prosis dent was responsible for the New Oricans riot, neither did he think Secretary Stanton was, and the immediate celivery of tho despa'ch about which go much had boen said he belioved would have made no difference in the result, Mr. Davis followed ina long and woll sustained legat argument detending the President, Ho quoted largely from the law upon tho subject of executive power and the appointment of Cabinet officers, Mr, Howard ciosed the dobate by replying to the con- servative members, after which tbe vote was taken, resulting in tbirty-tive years tn favor of the majority report and six naye in opposition, © A resolution was adopted instracting tho Clerk of the Senate to notify the result of the vote to tho President, Goneral Grant and Secretary Stanton, The issue of this determined and protracted debate in Telation to the restoration of Mr, Stanton to the War Department meets with lively commont among public mou. hose endorsing tho action of the Senate employ & multitude of incoherent reasons to show why this act of legislation 13 justiGadle, and tho radical Senators themselves indicate in their conversation that tho jus- tice or logality of the moasure was secondary to the direct blow mntended to be levelled at the Executive, But for whatever object the act was accomplisued, it 1s now obvious that a now system of tactics will have to be adopted, It is considerod that this bold move of the Sonate is equivalen to 4 chalienge for the prosocation wf a war by the two branches of thy goveramoent of a more bitter hostility than has as yet characterized the attacks of the Laegisiative upon the Executive. The radicals appear to be utterly demoralized, and are determined upon @ course equally vindictive aad revolutionary, Now that Stanton has beon really reinstated .the question arises how the attack will be met, Will Stanton bo allowed passively to rerum his office, Grant go back to tho hoadquarters of the armyyand the Presideat re ceive the intrusion of thiy objectionable Miuistor as his connsellor 10 participate ing the affairs of the adm uis- tration and his policy? Ie is dosigned by tho frends of tho President to pross upon him the necessity of order. ing General Grant to remain in hia present office and test the constitutionality of the act by submitiing it to the Supreme Court. Stanton, on the other band, bas been per. suaded to act pliantly the part laid down for him in the radical r6la To-nigut the radical ragloaders have doen busily engaged in plotting with the reinstated Minister the part be is expected to play, and Tunderstand that he bas given assur -uces that he will at once enter upon the doties of his office and send in a fetter of resigyation to the President, to ake effect when & successor shall bave been regularly appointed and coufrmed by the Sonato, This, a4 18 well undorstood, is equivalent to an assump. How of the office indotinitery, a8 it Is not expected the Vresident w 6 able to fad & Candidate satisiactury to the Senate, To- night a certisied edpy of the re ons ate Was sont to tho President, Gonornl Grams and Mr, tion of the & Stanton, ‘Tho advent of the Socretary apon bis old fleid of duty ts looked forward to with div Senator Doviitties Repart Onaes on tho Dooliitio’a report Tho following is Senator mn cane at | coviidenee b tween the President The unterigned, not poms Adie to sures fn the sie a sonings or in the conclusion of tho majority, respecte fully submits the following views of eh ity :— ¥ First—by the constituwon of the United Siates and by the uniform practice of the government frow the begining, the President has power to re move at his pleasure all executive oificers, Without ea'eriog Upon @ discus ion, airenay exhausted, of this important questi it is enough for the present purpose vo say that when the Tenure of Ofliee bill passed the Senate the opinion of a decided majority of this body was against PitCing @By restriction upon tle power of tho President to remove members of bis Caines The reason for tois disupetion berween neads of depart- ments—the constitutional advisers of tho President commonly called bis Cabinet and other executive ofll- cers—-is obvious, From necessity their relations to hun ure personal as well as confidential, They meet him in council asa part of nls administration- his execulive family —and no fairminded man, I tuink, wouid deny io the President the right to remove the head of a departmeut when those relations of confidence aud im- limacy are interrupted, When Uhis subject was under discussion several Senators expressed Lue same idea ia the strongest terms; in fact, (he Senate for & tong time insisted upon feaving the power of the President to ove his Cabinet ollicers absolute and unrestricted, and the subject vad House would not agreo to tha ; went (oa committee of conferenc vr Williams, of Oregon, one of the conferees wio avreed to the report onthe partot the senate, sad, February 18, 1867;— “1 wilt add that I have from the besinnug of this controversy regarded this as que am im- material maiter, notwithstanding the tact thas tho two houses have beeo very venacious im the respective positions they have taken; for I bave no doubt that auy Cabinet minister wao has a particle of Self-respect—aud we can hardiy suppose that auy man would occupy so respovsible an offic witnout having that feeting—wouid desire ww remain in the Cabinet after the President has signitied to him that tus presence was no longer needed. AS & matter of course the effect of this provision will amount to very little one way or the other; for I prosume thas whenever the President sees proper to rid himsel: of an oflensive or disagreeable Cabinet miaister be will only have to signify that desire, and the miuister will retire and & new appo ntinent be made,” Mr, Howard sui have no doubt that the practical interpretation of the bill will be such as the bonorabie “ena:or from Oregon has suggested, und I shall vote for (h's amendment with & yreut deal of pleasure, and hope tue Senate will coucur mit? Mr, sherman, the other conieree, said:—HL agreed to the ropart of the conference committee with & grod deal of reluctance, =~ the = Senate had by «wo deliberate votes deciared its purpose not to make the duration of the Cab net officers fixed by any time, but that they should hold their offices at the pleasure of the Prsident, and that was the orivinal design in the creation of their offiees. But the general parpose of this bill 18 80 very important, it @stablisnes so salutary a re- form, that] thought it ought mot to be endangered by a dispute on a cwliateral question, ‘The House conferees, and the Hoise by two voies were very teuacious upon tbe subject, and there seemed to be a probability (ue bili woul be 10st upon a question that was collateral and unimporiunt, 1 tae it that no case can arise, or is likely to arise, where a Cabinet. minister will atiompt to hold on w his oitice after bis chiot desires bis removal. Tan scarcely con- ceive a caso. [think that no gentleman, no mon with any sense of honor, wculd hoid a position ay a Cabinet oflicer after his ‘chief do-ired tis removal, und therefore the slightest intimation on the part of tbe President would always secure the re- sination of a Cabinet officer For this reason I do not wish to jeopardize the bill by an impor- tant and collateral question.” Again, im the same de- bate Mr, Sherman said: “And i 1.W)p. sed that cither of these gentiemen (referring to tue Casinet ot air. Johnson) were so wanting in manhood, in honor, as to hold his piace after the pontest intimation by the Pros- ideatof the United States that his services were no longer needed, I certainly, a8 a Senstor, would consent to his removal at any time, and so would we all.” ‘These wore the arguments added to this body by the members of the conference coinmittee, who yielded on the part of the Seuate, and by such arguments alone tho Senate was induced to give up its own opin.on upon this subject, Within tbe reasoming of tiese able gentle. mon a Cabinot officer DéCom03 iucapable of discuarging properly the duties of his ctlice whoo a want 94 gontidence exivts, pastween him and his supers Whén their ancable reiativns are imterrapu and the offluer can no tonger bonoravle man sit in the confidential councils of the Executive against his expressed wish, To illustrate how the public interest may su(ler by qu in/errupiion of that coplidentia! relation which the Cousiitution and the ne- coasity of jthe case require, I will cal! autention to the following facts, without at this time expressing any opivion one way or the other upon the propriety of tne action of the Secretary of War in withholiing irom the Prosident a most important despatch in relation to the riot at New Orleans, ‘the President received one as fol- lows:—{Here follows tue telegram of Andrew 3. Herron, Attorney General of Loulsiana, announcing the assem- bling of the Convention and the commencement of the riot, with the bees of the President, that “the military would be expectod to sustain, not to obstruct or inter- fere with, the courts.” Mr. Sianton i bis testimony beforo the Impeachment Committee stated that the aespa.ch he received from General Baird, a copy of which was furmeved to the President, was in these words: Heanquanrens, Dxranritent or Louisiana, Nuw ORLEANS, La., July 28, Hoo. 8. M. Stanton. Secretary’ of "War, Washington, i A convention bas been called, with the sanction of Gov. ersor Wells, to meet here on Monday, The Liewenaut Governor and city authorities think it unlawful, and: pro- ‘pose to break it up by arresting the delegates. | have givon ho orders on the subject, but have warned the parties that { shouid not countenance or it kuch action without ine structions to that effect from ‘resident. Pleasy instruct me at once by telegraph, ‘A cAiRD. revet Major General cuidmauding, The despatch of the Prosiient to Mr Voorhedd was shown to Goneral Baird. He admitted iis autheuucty, but declined to act, becauso it was not addressed to him, If the proper confidence had existed between ihe I dent aud the Secretary of War Mr, Stantow mos cere tainly would have known the policy of the Executive with reference to that aifair, and soutd at once have com. municated to Mir, Jolinson the despatch of General Baird, which of Itself necessi ated insiractions {rom the President. All attempts directly or idirecily, by intimation or assertion, to make it appear tuat trose words “at once” were interpolated into that ges; atoa by tho knowiedgo or at the instance of the President are without a shadow of foundation Mr. ©tanton’s testimony should be conclusive. ludependent of chat by the record of the War Office and by the origivai despatch {¢ will appear that those words were contained in it. Tt ia @ti Uvjust aud un ounded imputation sought to be casi upon the President, In saying this the undersigued has vo rofereuce to the report of the majo-ity, who, on examimativg, are as well satisfied os bim vif that ‘hose words were ia the despatch as recorded iw tho War Otlice and as furnished to the President, but wherner comiained oy uot it is wholly immaeria oo far as Mr Stason was concerned, All such despatchos require immediate reply. i quote from bis tesumony also the following :-— Have you a reeoleetion of a despatch pf Genetat Baird, of New Orleans, on the 23h of July, 861 A. i recouives that desp: : 1 eanwot now recollect « 1h wil appear ia the report of she Commitive on the 6 Orleans Hon, Q. Kelerring to the despatch of thn wh of July by Kutta, Task you whether that despaten receipt wi A. received that h ed tt enrefalis wee trae tie Line ef neston 1 Baird proposed, and made no unawer to che i suo It 8 stated that tnia wae recetwed a Was that the hour A. That is the date of 1 Saturday might. 1 received. eC; & Cony Of the des. reception in th candas fh av cy ( niinself being in 1 the saine susject, would it not nave. vised him ov the receipe of that dew A. L know vothing about this correspondence, and know nothiag about any correspoauence, except this ome despatch. From this testimony It appears that Mr, Stanton re- ceived this deapateh on Sunday forenoon, exaunued it caretuily and considered the question, Gonsidered what question? Notving less than whether tho federat forces should aid and support a convention claiming power to chi tho constitution of Leuistaa or should its delegates «to bear rested by city) authorilies as an 4 unlawful assomblage. He swears be examined and siderod that question, and decided it upon his own re- nsaltation with the Preei- evoug | to have sundored his Phere is My men.ber of this relations to the Prosdent, body, th my opinion, 40 lost to his own seif respect tuat if placed in Mr, Johison’s position at that time ae wind use bo did nov consult bim before making that decisi Gy his sileace in not answering the despatch he approved Baird's course He had no right to do so without taking the instructions of the President, who alone was asked for or coud give thom. Had the President seen that de«pateh o cun doubt he would bave direcied the Secretary of War to General Baird to sus ain tho pocecdingd of tue and uot to innder them by preventing the oxecu- tion of jezal process, and Geueral Bar) woull bave no excuse fur alowing & bloody riot to rage in nin district (or want of express ardern from the Pre-iveot? (an any man suppose that sir, Stanton was so att riy iguorant of the President's policy as nov to know ‘ha: by sustaining by military force a convention essembi ny w revolu ionize the gov-ramentot a State, whieh tho President regarded as a valid State government, he was thus thsarting the President in a vital point of bis policy? Ho did know it, or bis ignorance was of itselt & suifictens disqualification to hiw remaining in the Cabinet, Th was upon point of dispute beiwren Congress that this revolutionary conveution gamble, Whether the Premdent wae right or wrong in his poticy, though Mr, Stanton was [eegre to We policy and fa Vored ihe sseornbling of this convention to overihiow ir. not have removed him it, the duty of Stanwo, as Sseeretary of War, was all the more imperative, because he dit- ered with the President, 10 have consulted bim upon the question of instructions to General Baird about tna “90nve more especially whoa p cuntict between the civil aud military aatherities wag \ominont, Had Mr, Stanton the right to decide it with. out consulting his chief? He had every reasoa to Doileve that the President woud feel the deepest interest . in that «question, and — therefore 18 was altogether indefensibie to withiold it @ single hour. This want of confidence—to use no stronger torm—existing even thon Upou a vilai question was tho real cause of the = dilfcu! or Stam. to by not answering, in elfw insirucied Generat Bard to use his military power to sustain that convention aud to the urrodte of it# inombers by the civil nition of Now Orleans, while the President, being informed that legal proceedings were beiug takea in the courts to tet the validity, of that convention, had answered the despatch of the Aitoroey Coveral that the military authorities were expected to sustain, not obsirnct of interfere with the procesd. inge of tho courte =f repeat, this wane af d ths Secretary of nich he stewid have onelus.vely, ia vile and discordans War already oticting, and for bon ramoved two years ago, S10%# aso, tho fatal rewult of a divide CONTINVED ON EIGHTH PAGE