The New York Herald Newspaper, January 15, 1868, Page 4

4 * 4NEW,, YORK HERALD, = BROADWAY AND ANN pene JAMES GORDON caer}, My, PROPRIETOR. TRANG ‘elume XXXIIL.. tteeeeeeeeneren sees | AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. | NEW YoRK TI TRE, opposite New York Hobl.— Unpen tax Gasiicur, 5 { LXYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. of Wines Dexaw. 8 » WALLAOK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th rica — Cartaut or tux Watoa—Woopcock's Lirrix Game, .} BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Psxr O'Day. FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth street.—Matines @ 1— Bumaseru. BOWERY THEAT! =. Ry RE, Bowery.—Cavcrr Conuns— ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—Tux Desert Flowzn. ' BANVARD’S OPERA HOUSE AND MUSEUM, Broad. ‘way and Thirdeth street—Frost Kinc. Matince at 2. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Nos. 2 Gtreet.—Fanis or Braman. Matinee at 24 sh sa ea r NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth 8, street, —Graunastios, | THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—| Kien TROGRR Mallaes Stag ene atom Conte “ KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—Sonas, Dances, Ecornrnicrris, Bunuesauas. £0. * BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 58 Broadway.—Erato- ris AINMENTS, SINGING, DANCING AND BURLESQUES. ’ TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. 201 Bowery.—-C. Vocatisu, Nuono Mixermuisy, £0. Matinee arse” y BUTLER'S AMERICAN THEATRE, 472 Broadway.— Ba.ixr, Faunce, Paxtous, 0, » SERIE BUNYAN HALL, Broadway and Fifteenth street.—T: Pusnin. Matinee at 2. sad » ae fee ‘. DODWORTH ‘No, 806 Broadway.—Vaxvsxnorr's . HALL, Xo. 7, PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.—Ausition, HOOLEY'S OPERA HOU: Bi —] s poy SE, Brooklya,—Erarorian NEW YORK MU! OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Sciumnon ann Arr. wuiuraine - 7 «New Yerk, Wednesday, January 15. 1868. EUROPE. ‘The report by the Atlantio cable ts dated yestere day evening, January 14, Italy accredited a minister to the reatored republic of (Mexico. France and Italy are, it is said, negotiating a @ew treaty with respect to Rome, to replace the Sep- ‘ember Convention. The Russian official journal denies that England has protested against the imperial policy ‘4m the Roumania, Austria is to retrench largely in the ‘War Department. Comsols 92%; 29234 for money and account in Lon- Gon. Five-twonties 711, in London and 75% in Frank- fort. 4 Liverpool cotton market quiet, with middling uplands at 7344. a Tsd. Breadstufis and provisions without qarked change. 1 CONGRESS. Ta the Sonate yesterday bills were introduced and re- ferred for the better security of passengers in steamers ‘and to reduce the number of major and brigadier generals inthe army. Mr. Davis’ resolution creating a @ribunal to decide questions of jurisdiction between the government and the States was taken up. Nothing was Gone with it, The bill to prevent further contraction of the currency was then taken up as a special order. During debate apon it the Supreme Court Quorum bill came from the House wth amendments and was re- ferrea, ‘I'he Senate then —djourned. In the House the Senate amendments to the bill re- pealing the cotton tax were disagreed to. A resolution was offered inquiring into the expediency of selling to the-highost bidder the exclasive right to manufacture Spirits in the United States for ten or more years. On the expiration of the morning hour the new Reconstruc- tion bill came up for consideration, Mesere. Brooke and Beck presented the report of the minority of the Recon- struction Committee, ‘The debate was general, Messrs. Brooks, Bingham, Eldridge, Farnsworth and Loan tax- ing part in it, THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yesterday notice was given of bills for various railroads in New York city, incorporating the New York Underground Railway, and to prevent gas companies from charging moter rents. Among the bills Mutroduced was the one agreed upou by the New York liquor dealers to repeal the Excise law. + In the Assombiv & bil! providing for the relief of the poor in Brooklyn was passed. Bilis were introduced 1o repeal the act authorizing the Constitutional Convention, o amend the charter of New York city, to amend the revised siatuts relative to bawdy houses, aud to con- Struct a suspension bridge across the Hudgon in the Highlands, The Speaker announced the usual elanding committees and the appoivtmnent of subordinates. Rego- “lutions were offered and tabled under the rule ceclaring fnfamous and treasouable the establisbivg a military dictatorship in the S favoring tho taxation of government bonds fur state and municipal purposes. THE CITY. ‘Tho annual report of the Metropolitan Police, which has just been forwarded to the Leyisiat {es that duriug the past eight years 706,288 persona hal been arrested by the police. During the pasi year 103.269 persons were ‘arrested. ‘The Board of Excise held their rezular weekly meet- ing yesterday afternoon and revoked several livenses, Notice was served ou the Board by the counsel of a liquor dealer to the effect that he would, a week from to-day, move bofore the Supreme Court for 4 mandamus to compel the Board to restore bis client's license which the Board revoked some time ag * Accordiag to Dr. Harris in this city, and 239 in Brooklyn. - The following decrees of condemnation were taken by default before Judge Blatcbford yesterday, no party pearing to defend:—Five barrels of distilled spirits, found in Fitty-f 5 von barrels same, in Weet Thirty-third street; 1 ome same, Columbia street; five barrels same, Meer! street; two barreis same, Sixty-ffih etre near Fulton forry parrots same at pier 11 Nor pier No iv-live barrele same, line Blreet; nine barrels of cut tolacco, Tenth avenue, In the United Slates Cireuit Court, Brooklyn, thirty- nine barrels of whiskey, se) sireet, the tax not having been pw ondemned. In the Court of Goneral Sessions yevierday, Judge Kusgol presiding, Howard Byran and James Birdeali pleaded guilty to an attempt at burglary, Sentence de- Je same, South eireot ame, West eet; ten 5 ten barrels same at 408 Columb nid which will | ly report there were | 692 deaths during the first eleven days of this month | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, ‘T868. Ofice yesterday, Genoral Grant surrendering the keys immediately on the receipt of the resolution of tho Benate. The State Constitutional Convention reassembled at Albany yesterday and adopted the article on thegjudi- clary. “ In the Virginia Convention yesterday General Butler ‘Was invited to speak, and om his entrance the conser. vative and some of the republican members withdrew, The North and South Carolina Reconstruction Con- ventions assembled féaterday, the first at Raleigh and the latter at Charleston, Judge A, G. Thurman, who was recently defeated in the race for Governor of Obio by ® republican candi- date, was yesterday elected United States Senator by the democratic Legislature, It appears that there ts no money in the Georgia treasury, the funds having been removed to prevent their being seized by the Convention or military. The Convention some time ago requested Governor Jenkins to suspend the collection of taxes in order to afford some relief to the people, and recently, when that body demanded the collection of a tax to defray its own ex- Penses, this order of the Governor was found to; bea considerable thorn in their side, In the Convention yesterday a resolution was introduced to draw $60,000 from the treasury to pay per diem, and recommending Congress to divide the public lands among the negroes, The Maryland Legislature are balloting for a United States Senator to succeed Reverdy Johnson. Governor ‘Swann is, so far, considerably ahead. The New Jersey Legislature assembled . yesterday and elected Henry S, Little President of the Senate and A. O, Evans Speaker of the House, Another murderer bas been convicted in New Jersey— John Dempsey—at Morristown, sor the murder of Keram Carroll, He was only sentenced, however, to sixteen years’ imprisonment, | having ferred, William Phillip wae placed on trial in the same court on charge of an aesault with intent to kill; con. | victed of assault only. Sentence deferred. Judge Benedict will sit iv the United states Circuit for the Southern district on Monday next, when ino criminal calendar will be called and cares set down for trial. 4 The stock market was on the whole steady yesterday, Govorument securities were wirong and cl upward tendency, Guild was excited and cloved ai 141), we 1414. ed with an MISCELLANEOUS. By special telegram from Aden, Arabia, forwarded by way of London and through the Atlantic cable, we learn that the Anglo-Indian army contingent, destined for | called? for ina movement for a new p: service in Abyszinia, was being rapidly embarked for | the scone of hostilities on the ph (°) of Jauuary at that port, By special telegrams over the Cuba cable wo have ews from Mexico, St. Thomas, St. Domingo, Porto Rico, Hayti, Jamaica, Martinique, Venezuela aud Belize, ‘Twenty-four ghousand troops were embarking at Vera Cenz (or Yucatan, Cholera bad brokea out in Belizo, Some casos were prevalent ip St Thomas creating quite aan: among she mbabitants, Another Tovolution was \inminent at Huyti, this time in favor of General Solomon, the Kavoy Fxtraordinary to England Shocks of earinqnake are stitl active at A plot for (we sination of President scovered Porte Rico. Falcon, of Venezuela, bad be Beoreiary Siaatoa resumed bis duties at (he War The, Revolutionary Crisis at Washington— A Call Upen the Country. We live in revolutionary times. The recent Proceedings of the radical party in Congress show that we are still in the midst of a revo- lution, “Old Thad Stevens” is one of the master spirits of the age, as was Hampden in England in his day, and as, in their turn, were Robespierre and Marat in France. The work of transforming the republic into a military despotism advances with startling rapidity. We have, or are to have, the national Executive reduced to an automaton, the Supreme Court re- duced to a nullity, the head of the army reduced to = mere servant of the radical faction, the States reduced to a mixed despotism of bayonets and negro semi-barberians; and all this in bold defiance of the constitution, the pledges of Congress itself and the will of the people. We may well ask the question, therefore, what comes next, or where will be the end of these audacious revolutionary doings of the rampant radical party in power? We can only answer that it is abundantly evident that this party do not intend to stick at trifles or hesitate in any scheme to main- tain themselves in power, even to the procla- mation, if deemed expedient, that the republic is dead and that the empire has taken its place. Is there no hope ?- Do those last fall elections signify nothing? Are the opposition elements powerless? They seem to be. The old cop- perhead leaders who took the opposition reins into their hands after the elections of 1862, and who built up the radical faction thereby, are assuming again the whip hand of the un- fortunate democracy. Pendleton, who, with his copperhead record, platform and followers, broke down McCicllan in 1864—this “dead duck” Pendleton comes forward and insists upon his right to the Presidency in 1868. He and his copperhead brethren claim the honors of popular reactions and democratic victories gained in spite of them and upon issues which they never understood. The impudence of these fellows with their copperhead pro- gramme is hardly surpassed by the radical scheme of negro supremacy and their filthy black and tan oligarchy down South. To poor Pierce, poor Old Buchanan and their Northern doughfaced confederates, playing into the hands of Northern abolitionists and Southern secessionists, belongs the responsibility of pre- cipitating upon the country the late terrific rebellion. Pendleton, the Seymours, the Woods, the Brockses, the Vallandighams, and all that tribe of copperiead Bourbons who learn nothing and forget everything, have since the rebellion played the game of the radicals, and are still playing it, in and out of Congress. They see nothing but their own petty disap- pointments, and they will have nothing but their own petty They are the ““deadheads of the unlucky democracy, the political spendth dante revenges, ifis and gamblers who have stl resolved to beggar their n joined to such idols is a party. 2 hopeless case, | The question v« *, then, Is there no hope ? | is this free government to go the way of all the | republics of the past! Betweeu the audacious dicats on the one side and the impndent cop- perheads and the eubmissive rank and file of the democratic party on the other, is there no way of escape irom a ruling radical Committee of Safety or a military despot? Js there no haifway bonse of reat for us between Mexican snarchy or French imperialivm? Yes, there is, There are in the democratic party, and in the republican party, all the sound conservative elements needed for the salvation of the coun- try. As (hey stand, however, they are but the servants of (he xadical Jacobins or the copper- head Bourbons. Let these conservative ele- mens be drawn off into an independent Union organization, aud both radicals and. copper- heads will be dished. How is this to be done? | Tt can be done by # tew active liberal and re- | sponsible men in the call of a national conven- tion—a-call upon the East, the West, the North sud the South, and upon all men of all parties } favorable to his grand ides of a new Union party. The of 1866 was a premature experiment, and in of an officeholders’ lovefeast it fell to the ground. We want a con- vention and ® party feoxh from the people. - shall this convention be Jobneon Philadelphia Convention the complexion But in whose name must bave some name and some repress ¥ man around whom ally. Let itbe called in the name and upon in the name of And » principles embodied He has been reputation since 1866, Of all men in the country he stands forth in the boldest relief as the champion of the constitution against (he revolutionary radi- | i He has been the only check that 7 making history and a historical cals, saved tis so far from ihe exireme designs of radical fanaticiem. single handed, notwith- sianding the denunciations and persecations of the threats and radical camp, and the sneers and jeers of self-conceited copperheads, Andrew Joloson has held his ground against these radical encroachments upon our republi- can system with a degree of courage, reso- lution and unflagging fidelity that makes him the reliance of all the genuine Union elements of the land. They all look to him for # rescue, aud to secure it they lave ouly ia golema cou- | vention to proclaim him their leader and candi- date for the succession, . Let this great enterprise be set in motion and the masses of the democratic party, in rallying around Andrew Jobnson, will soon place the Pendletons, Vallandighams, Seymours ‘and all the copperhead faction in their proper position as camp followers instead of party leaders, Finally, in behalf of all tho oppo- altion elements, Andrew! Johnson is, porhaps, the only man from whosp record, antecedents and present attitude on the great issues of tho day the people, in opposition to the radicals, can march on to victory. Highly Important News from Abyssivia— Projects of the British ou the African Con- tinent. The exclusive intelligence from Suez which we received by special telegram to the New Yor« Heraxp, and which we published yester- day, is highly important. It not only confirms the testimony which we cited the other day relative to the proverbial hospitality of the tribes among whom the British missionary army is now engaged in diffusing modern ideas and distributing both Bibles and bullets, but it indicates the progress already made in bring- ing the natives of Africa under British in- fluence. The Chief of Tigre, who had mustered a large force, the movements of which had alarmed the English camp at Senafe and caused @ forward movement along the line of maroh, is now reported friendly, This powerful African warrior has sent in two thousand head of cattle for the use of her Majesty’s forces, and fresh water has been pointed out in the vicinity of the landing place at Annesley bay. General Sir Robert Napier had arrived at that depot of the expedition, and had immediately set out for Senafe to put himself at the head of the British advance. It is not impossible that the British will be as successful in securing the alliance of other rivals of King Theodorus as they have been in securing that of the Chief of Tigre. In that case King Theodorus will probably have to succumb sooner than was at first anticipated to @ suocensful foreign in- vasion. This astute monarch displayed no little good sense when he said that he thought he under- stood the British policy in Abyssinia, “First,” he said, “you send hither your missionary to spy out the fatness of the land. During the last twenty-five years we know not how many travellers have traversed our country with the same purpose in view. After the missionary and the professed traveller you send along a consul to look after the missionaries and the travellers, and then you send troops to look after missionaries, travellers and consul and to tuke possession of our country.” General Sir Robert Napier, in his proclamation against the Abyssinians, has indeed assured them and “all people of Ethiopia” that the army commanded by him seeks only the liberation of the pri- soners held by King Theodorus ; and he says to them, “The Queen of England has not a thought against you, your country, your liberty and existence.” Nevertheless, the history of British explora- tions, of British negotiations, and of the present Abyssinian expedition, renders it obvious that the British government aim at nothing less than the subjugation of the whole African continent, They contemplate ruling over territories more vast and richer far in agricul- tural and mineral wealth than Hindostan. Guided by their Parkers, Spokes and Living- stones, they intend to take possession of a new Hindostan extending from the Mountains of the Moon to the Cape of Good Hope. Abolish- ing slavery in its owa native home, they are sanguine in their onticipation of compelling the hostile tribes of Africa to become docile laborers under their control in the develop- ment of the incalculable resources of wealth in regions hitherto unexplored. They mean to cover Africa, if it shall prove practicable, with a network of railroads like that which they are spreading over India. They confidently hope to surpass the yield of gold in either Siberia, Australia or California, and the production of cotton in our own Southern States, The American cotton trade they are bent upon ruining. In a word, they expect to build up on the African Continent a colony that can be managed somewhat like a plantation in South Carolina, and that shall be more productive of wealth than any colontml! possession of which they have heretofore boasted. These projects of the British will, of course, ifearried out, checkmate all French designs connected with the Tsihmus of Suez. In time they may lead to the solution of many curious geological and ethnological problems. We shall be able at length to verify or to contra- dict the theories which have divided the scien- tific world as to the comparative antiquity of the various continents and races. Perbaps the theory of Du Chaillu and other African ex- plorers may prove correct, that Africa, if not the oldest, was the earliest inhabited portion of the earth; that there Nature “tried her *prentice hand” on the gorilla and then on the negro, and in due succession upon the higher races, until she perfected the Caucasian race, which is destined to direct and control the rest and make (bem available for nobler and more useful purposes than either of them could singly have accomplished, Jackecin-the-Box. Jack-in-the-hox, the perpetual surprise and amusement of children, is but the prototype of many men who seem to be #0 constructed that every once in « while, however closely they may have been shut down upon hy the pres- sure of circumstances, they pop up again be- fore the eyes of those ‘ ren of & larger growth” who compose ihe public. The latest and most notable instance is Santa Anna, who, having barely escaped with his life from Mexico ® short time ago, is already reported | from Havana as clandestinely preparing four hundred recruits for service in Yuentan against the republican government, and as propbesy- ing that within a year there may be half a dozen Yucatans in Mexico. abandoned his ambitions hopes of recovering the old-dictatorelip which he used to wield. Atall events, he is detormived to spring his name onthe pablic from time to time, not withstanding bis age and his repeated disap- pointments, Then we bave George Francis Train, who was supposed to be smugly en- soonced between wet shects in a water cure aaylam, but who escapes from his hydropathic nurses and suddenly reappears—now on the peak of one of the Rocky Mountains, where, with Old Ben Wade, he emulates the scream of the American eagle; then in Kansas, where, eupporled by a bevy of women’s rightg women, He has not yet | like Apollo in the midst of the nino muses, he strikes hig lyre to the tune of female suffrage then again at s mass mooting in Cooper Insti- tute, where, as at a hundred other mass meet- ings throughout the country, he announces himself as candidate for the Presidency of the United States, exulting in anticipation of ro- ceiving at least a million Irish votes; and, at the latest dates, in midocean, on his way to join his Fenian friends abroad and strike terror into the heart of the British lion. Colorado Jewett also reappears after having been long lost to sight ; he is coming home, it is said, to ask for and accept the Austrian mission, which has gone a-begging ever since MoCracken and Mr. Seward interrupted the historical studies of Mr. Motley.in Vienna. On Monday night Lester Wallack played Jack-in-the-box, after a year’s absence from the stage. But of all on the long list which might be made of our Jacks-in-the-box Peter Cooper is the only one who pops up so often that his head is always sticking out, and it is of no use to try to shut him down. i Competition in Telegraphic Cables. We publish a» communication elsewhere which affects to treat satirically the subject of increasing the number of cable telegraph lines connecting the New with the Old World. This fs too serious a matter to be treated lightly. The commercial and polilical as well as the social welfare of all nations is concerned in this question. Granting that the present Atlantic cable company has done excellently well ao far as it has gone, it cannot be blind to the fact that the longer it exists and the larger the experience of its managers tho better is the cable qualified to meet the require- ments of communities. We have already wit- nessed two evidences of the benefits arising from actual experience in this cable business— the reduction in tolls and the presence of a more liberal spirit in the general management. We have no doubt that age will continue to improve its usefulness as well as cheapness, and that it will not be many months before we shall witness a still further reduction in the rates of tolis. In the meantime, we hold that the establishment of other cable lines should be encouraged. Competition is the life of all trades, and the cable business is no exception. If the old fogies on the other side of the water do not regard the matter in this light, it is only necessary to arouse the en- terprising and intelligent capitalists of our own country, and the nece: cash to construct the new lines will in due time be forthcoming, New York is the centre, the grand electric focus of the whole commercial world, and all grand enterprises, like the laying of sub- marine cables, have naturally a fostering caro among our moneyed men, The Hzratp’s At- lantic cable despatches have beon transmitted with remarkable punctuality and accuracy. We have been at more expense for these de- spatches than all the other New York papers put together have been for intelligence through the same channel, and we mean to carry it out on the same line and to the same extent until we have other lines established and new fields of enterprise to enter for the benefit of our readers, AvyorHeR CanpipaTe vor Presipent.—It is stated that a progressive Jerseyman has just completed the construction of a steam man. We are not informed as to all the peculiarities of this new citizen of the neighboring State— neither how he steams up nor what sort of fuel is necessary, nor how it is put in, nor what is the comparative danger of his bursting his boiler and blowing up his neighbors. But we consider that his possibilities, from the mere ideas his existence involves, must be very great, and we hereby nominate him for the Presidency. He is just exactly what we want. Put him in the White House, and let the Senate have the appointment of stoker and engineer, and there can never be any more trouble in the great republic. He has claims to the office, too, we suppose. Pendleton has been nominated for the Presidency on account ‘of his claims ; and so, of course, the steam man has claims, too—nobody knows what they are— and in this respect he and Pendleion are on a level. The Rise in Gold. We warn the uninitiated and the people generally not to be at all disturbed or to enter into any speculations on account of the sudden rise in gold. It has nothing to do with the value of things, the currency or the credit of, the government. It is simply tbe result of Wall street gambling, and gold will tumble down again just as it went up. Any exciting news, or any news that can be made exciting, from Washington, Europe, or anywhere else, is instantly seized by the gold gamblers (o bull or bear the market, as the case may be. Such news, real or pretended, answers for these fel- lows just as a greenhorn does for the faro gamblers. Of course they made a terrible fuss over the news from Washingion on Monday and frightened the timid for a while. when, in tact, there was not the least necessity for a rise in gold. If the Senate will have the sense to pass the House bill prohibiting any further contraction of the currency, not only gold but prices and business generally would be steady, in spite of the spasmodic efforts of the gold gamblers to create excitement and fluctuations, Aw Iwrostor.-Mr. George H. Pendleton bas been making a distinguished appearance out West as a politician in other men’s glothes. He stole his financial svit from the Heracp ; | hie nigger political suit he stole from Andy Andy was a first rate tailor in his | Johoson, day and made good fils; but as this particalar suit was not made for Pendleton it sits badly. New Yous, Jan, 14, 1868, ‘To tae Eprron oF tae Henan In vour paper this morning you state that the amouns collected by me to dave for the Swedish famine sufferers was $15,000, with an additional $25,000 aubebribed for but not paid in, Lwish Coould say it was co, The Amount received by me to date ix $1,500, with $2,600 additional subscribed and not paid in; bot with the well known liberality of the Americans (whose gener- osity to the anfortupate # proverbial) I have every reason to believe that enough money will be raised dur- yng the next two months to enable the committee to load an ordinary sized vessel with grain and ovher necessaries and despatch it direct to the sufferers in Norrland. ‘The latest accounts from these famine safforors, | am sorry to say, more than confirm ail that hi been said about their terrible destitution, every dollar that cau be raived for them, and alibough nearly driven to despair they still live on in the lope that a inerciful Providence will soon relieve their seven years’ sufferings by » moderate, if nots bounciful, har- Vest. In the arly part of Mareb s vessel will be read, to receive whatever 4 ebaritabl famine sufferers, In the meanwhil 1m the shape of tood that will keep, a two mouths’ voyage across the ocean will be gral received by wany time and duly acknowledged in the city papers. FRED. WALLROTH, ‘Trongurer New York Keliof Goumittoe, THE STATE CAPITAL. | Eee ie! hoes. ~\ The National Crisis in the State Legisinture— Appointment of the Assembly Committees— Legislation for New York City. % Aupasy, Jan, 14, 1868. * ‘Tho sensation of to.day’s session was the aunounce- ment of the committees appointed by tho Speaker, Much of the edge of expectation, however, had been dulled by the Huraip’s publication of the appointments, and the axe fell without creating so much feeling as was anticipared, A few changes had been made at the latest moment, An onslaught was made on the Tam- many directory about midnight and the substitutions ‘The next sensation was the introduction of resolutions @enunciatory of Congress for its recent action on the new Reconstruction bill. Thedemocrats are determined to employ their majority in the Now York State Legisla- ture to give countenance tothe minority party at tho atiowal ospleat, A series of finance resolutions of the democratic stamp, modified with a tinge of Ben Butl ism, was next introduced, as well as one to print an distribute es ons of President Johnson's last message, = This urat of democratio exuber- ance also found vent im a resolution remove from over the Speaker's head words of Lincoln—*I bave the mogt solemn oath regis- tered in Heaven to preserve, protect and defend the forecanesh, titute those of Jackson—‘‘By Eternal, the Union must and ball be preserved” — the word “President” being by amendment fluaily in- before the word Es iy i river at come point between Verplanck’s and Buttermilk Falis; by Mr. Caldwell, amending the act authorizing the construction of railway tracks im the towos of West Farms and Morrisania; by Mr. Murphy, ‘this state; by Mr, Creamer, to authorize the tion of passengers in New York by means of stroct railroads to be constructed through certain streets and avenues; by Mr. Genoi, authorizing a railroad in 126th and in other streets in New York, also incorporating the New York Underground Railway; by Mr. Caldwell, itcn Transit Railroad Company construct certain roads in New York; by Mr. Norton, to prevent gas companies in New York charging meter BILLS INTRODUCED, By Mr. Caldwell, authorizing certain State officers to wettle the claims of the State against Westchester county by reason of the defaication of a late County ‘Treasurer (about $150,000 is iecetvety: by Mr, Murphy, to the Manhattan pompeey, known as the Wilson bill; by Mr, Creamer, in to the sale of ale, wine liquorsia Now York, It repeals the act of Inst year and authorizes the Mayor to grant hieenses, ‘Tuis is the bill agreed upon by the liquor ‘THR MRTROPOLITAN POLIOR LAW. Me. Gaver introduced a bill for the repeal of so much of the Metropolitan Police law as relates to the towns of Nowtown, Flushing and Jamaica. SAVETY OF RAILWAY TRAVELLERS, Mr. NicHoLs moved the ‘oliowing resolution, which ‘was laid over for one day :— Resolved, That # select coramitiee of three be appointed to inquire and report what n, if any, ia required to insure greater degree of uafety to power to send for persoas and papers. ‘The Senate then adjourned. ASSEMBLY. Avpayr, Jan, 14, 1868, RELIRF OF THR POOR OF BROOKLYX. My Mr, Jacons—Pfoviding for the relief of the poor of she city of Brooklyn, The Dill constitutes the Mayor, Comptroller and Street Commissioner a bonrd of relief, with (ull power and authority to disburse to the desery- ing poor ot Brooklyn such sums of money orto relieve the neceasities of the needy unemployed in such man- ner as they may deem proper; the whole amount to be so expended not to exceed the sum of $250,000. Mr. Jacobs asked unanimous consent to have the bil! pat a final passage, which was granted, and the bill pass STONE PIER® AND ROLKAFADS IN NEW yoRK. Mr. O'Ret1.¥ introduced a bill to provide for ouliding ne piers and bulkheods for the better accommodation ol sh /pPing et, York barbor, Among the bills introduced wore the followin, By Mr. Murphy, to defray the expense of ipping the Second regiment, also to repeal the act ouenér icing the Constitutional Convention; by Mr. Kiernan, relative to carrying slungehot and jan Nig Weapons; by Mr. Bergen, (o antend th code; by Mr. D. Burns, to continue the license to sell liqaor in the Me- tropol itan district; by Mr. Campbell, to regulate the use of piors and slips between Broome and Delancey streets; by Mr. Hartman, to amend tne charter of New York city; by Mr. Johnson, to extend the powers of the French Benevolent Socicty—it authorizes the society to purchase or take by devise or bequest real estato— passed; by Mr. Moram, to amend the Rev’ relative to bawdy houses; by Mr. Frear, Metropolitan Excise law by extending the time tor the collection of ticense fee; bi to wharves and piers in (he East ri abolish all tolls on coal going West from tide water; by Mr. Guigon, to facilitate toe construction of the Rondout ‘and Oswego Raiiroad; by Mr. Brush, to amend the act authorizing ©. ©. Leigh and others to lay telegraph eables between New York and France; by Mr. Sherman, for the constriction of a suspension bridge across Hudson river, 1m the Highlands, STANDING COMMIT ERS, ‘The Srraxkn anuounced the following standing com- mitiees:— Ways ana Merns— Sumner, Bentley Flagg, Cornwait, Jacobs, Commerce awl N nan, Burns, KeKlover, Trainer, Cunale—Morses. alvin, Chap. man, Underwood, Lasiver, Badroad-—Mers rs. Living, Leitier, Welling Federal Re Burlaus, Tasbroue Mesers, F. H, Woods, Madden, O'Reilly, Plock, Van Valken. oy Towne net Coontie—Mevers. Bur ATI, i, Place Bentley, DB. Burns, Lounsbury, Miller, th and Metin 1 Sovieticn—Mesats, Mathews: . Haragen, Sul- +—Mesare, Howard, Bergen, Hal Frear, Bamier, Murpuy, Jones, ra. Starr, Skillman, Halsey, Pen. pitie, Wiiliame, Cornwall, heady, Moran, Batier, W 1, Smith, Decker, Weed, over, State Prisons—Measee, Nelson, ©. K Messrs, Quinn, Hasbrouck, Hariman, Messrs. Plock, Sherman, Hub. ey, A» Richardson, Jamupbell, Britton, Loughran, in and F bard, Murphy, Rite Js and By irlge Hiley, Parma Lande Movers, Topli ‘ “Letier, Keady, Furman, Dally. P Gleason, Futian Affatrs—Ni Fariey. Chapman, Wiley, Ackert, Baleom, Charitable and Be ous So-vaticn—- Me Madden, W. 8. Clark, Matthewson, MeKiever, Sher Daris, Glen Agricwliere—Mexsrs, Miller, Guigon, Humphrey, Wells, ni omg Public Printing-—Mesars, Buell, Moran, Skillman, Matticon, Depasturnt—Mesers, Jace a Mesare, Purdy, Pradstrect, F. Ht, Bevan ioe Me ary-Mesara. Louasbury, Kiernan, Llitle, Ackhert La Bam, Alfie ’ nent Library—Messes. Stephens, Rogers, Frear, Tower, anny, b>. Comm iter Wi Me ‘Trainer, O'Reilly, Ker Nelsoae We'8. Clark, Hasbrouck, Buell, Cook, a Allis, Reatiey, Juliaad, sol, edler, ‘Torrey, Skule, SN NEES tay following appoiatioats > @> Bhodes. Mr. Prrrs offered the fol were Inid on the table under the Resolved, That our Senators in Congress be i1 our Revresoutatives requested 1o (abe tuch manne cota sifectually secure to American citizens of forelea Prtitat the Comptroller of the alty of New York be re- Pesolutions, which the ested to tranamit to this, Ne SnG*counsy tax levies on or before the 10th day of Februsty “Also, That the Canal Board are hereby requested s sinetel eatiees tee oltooal cal ene net heey. ch of w mill per ton. DEXUNGIATION OF THR ACTS OF THE RADIOALA IN CONGRERR. Mr. W.% CLARx offered the following, which was laid on the table under the rule:— Whereas measures are now pendin before Congress the of which is to extinguish ten States of Abe. Union und establish in their stead a miltary ship, in which the civil laws ane panne and are to exist only at the willof the mili Uberty power, ani qatrpation by the tion and subjection of the fedoral Judiciary to the dictation of Dongrenniogal. fs 3 Resolved (if the Senate concur), That the representatives of New York in the will of the. of the State, in obedience to their oath to sup- port : constitution, hereby pronounce of usur- Hl fF 23 ge g set A a) ue a ‘THE UNION FERRY COMP, Mr, C. L, Sura introduced which was tabled under the rale:— Resolved, That a committee of five be ited to pro- Brookly: EP Grievances of lio in gegued to the ascommodadons. given fo: Chews by the ferries plying between that city and New York. PRESIDENT JOBNSON’S 53 of srrenyi serene ding Seo ee copies for distribution, ‘Tabled. ny i INQUIRY IN RELATION TQ RAILROAD, FRBRY AND GAS COM> PANIES, E * THE STATE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. Asany, Jan. 14, 1868, The Constitutional Convention reassembled at noon to-day im the city Common Council chamber, with President Wheeler in the chair, ‘ A communication was presented from the Canal Board showing the capacity of the Erie canal to carry merchandise eastward. ‘fhe remainder of the session was occupied in drawing oa, Evening Sesston. i 2 ADOYTION OF THR ARTICLE ON TAY JUDICIARY, Re reportof the Committee on the Judiciary was én An amendment was offered that no Judge or Justice shall told office after the first day of January uext after ‘he shal! have atteined the Several amendments portance were agreed upon, after which the article on the judiciary was and referred to the Committee on the Ju- diclary for revision, vention ‘The Con then adjourned. THE CITY BANK DEFALCATION. Additional Particulars. The Grst intimation of the recent alleged defalcation at the City Bank, obtained by the police authorities, was, that a gentioman in some manner connected with that instivation rasbed into headquarters day before Yesterday morning, in a state of great nervous excite- ment, and, inquiring for Superintendent Kennedy, was ushered into bis presence, when he in- formed that official that the directors, in investi- gating certain books during the previous two days, had discovered a fearful discrepancy in the accounts of Mr. Leverich, the second teller. This official mes- senger of the bank enjoined strict silence upon the Superintendent and those whe should be despatched to investigate the affair that the public ear, ever ready to listen and the public mind ever willing to cogitate upoa such rascality, should not, tu this 1mstance, be gratified. Notwithstanding that these precautions were observed, and the detective sent to “work up’’ the case was ordered to keep a sealed mouth, the publicity of such a etartling discovery was made soon thereafter by the gossiping character of certaia persons connected with tho bank, It would seem by their revelations that the continued abseuce of Leverich trom his accustomed seul, without good and cogent reasons for such conduct, was thought to be slightly suspicious; and, acting upom thie suggostion, inquiries wore made at his residence by order of the Dank officers as to the cause, when they as- certained to their great astonishment that he had not been home for several days. Suspicions that were but shadows before suddenly partook of the nature of wunpatatable reality, and tne investigation above referred to being a once com- menced, disclored the unwelcome tact that the missing teiler had quietly and ma peculiarly remarkable man- ner abstracted fuods of the institution to the enormous amount of about $350,000, ‘The consternation of tho said ofiiciais upon this alleged revelation overwhelmed them and cap be betier tmagined than described. But little has been revealed in relation to the habits of Leverich, but some pronounce them to have bees, ces, sober aud quiet, while his dail; war of rather an unostentatious he bas gone to, busy Wall street bel Of the past, is at present qui tond to be fall of facts im th. tentous nods of ther hea Europe !"” The Cy Bank, if the facts of this case, aa alleged, are true, sem to be peculiarly unfortunate, as Duta short time since the adroit forget Livin, victimized trem to wl handsome figure of $75,000 by means 0: a check purporting to emanate from Commodore Vanderbilt, which amount, it will be remombered. he jt im indulging im the pleasant pastime of buying land in tho far West; bat fortunately, in this instance, for the bank, a greater jon of thin amount was recovered by quickly unearthing the forger and prompt seizure and sale of his suddenly acquired property. Further developments may made un this extraordinary case that will give at ienst the anxious public some ag to the amount alleged (0 have been absiracted from the bauk’s surplus tunds, i ATLANTIC CABLES. To ver Eorrox ov tHe Haran Among the many opportunities for investing capital nothing now seetus #0 desirable ay a cable enterprise. Ik is fully established that communication between one point and another under water is very pleasant, ‘There i @ peculiar relish about a eable despatch which mex- sage by land route does not powess. So you see the public are sure to patrouize you if you only haves cable, But money i needed, and must be raised on this side of the Atlantic, As a people, we have been back- ward in this particular line=-viz., cable line. We have scraped and mined tho earth; we have pored her dreaa- fully—in short, wo have invested im everything except acable, Now, my countrymen, will you not turn to that? Some will attempt to discourace, and will tell of the difficulties to be encountered —of icebergs, of vor- 2, sharp projections, of Fenlans—but your hat is, you will choove « rote (ree fr . Any amount of stoo e:iher of the following excellent se American Company —direct the course of to-day be vs Brest to the *. ne from Brest to the Untied States via st. ain to the United States vin Porto aries and sh line from Scotland via Iceland, Greemland and ish line from Falmouth, Iengiend, to Halifax Russian fine via Bebring S€rait said to have hope yer). 7. The Franco. Amer! Hand and 8 Telegraph Com. pany, to touch at she Azores. ® American Atlantic Telegraph pany, which “tie thought will (ake any route that may remain alter the ov ern are Pup) Undou! nds of Maximilian will patronize No. 2, an it offers M 1 bondholde the profits in such a manner as to ceive on their bonds thirty france ann stand a divident sufficient to reimburse the ton yours, ‘while they still reserve the right to indemnivies thar may bo obtained from Mexico or France, Atnorican people might have a pride in No. 8 if it had a sure foundation, byt many would doubtless have docided friendguip for No. @, t} bewe ap ald acauaiotanga: participation in bie them bo re- PANY, \ the following resolution, | . ne ‘