The New York Herald Newspaper, January 18, 1868, Page 4

4 ‘NEW YORK HERALD. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETO Volume XXXII AMUSEMSNTS THIS EVENING. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and lth street, — Carsain oF Tat Waren—Woopeeck’s Livre Gane BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Peer O'Day. Matinee at Ly, FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth street.—Tes Troms Movsqueraings. Matinee at 1—Maais Axroinerne. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street. —Fra Diavoro * BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Jack SuerraaD=Line mice Bor.—Yannux Jack. “PIKE'S OPERA HOUSE, Si st., corner Eighth av.— Matinee—Dow Giovani. | NEW YORK THEATRE, ovposite New York Hotel. Unpxr te Gasiigut, Matinee at 2 OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. —A MipsvaMen Nigut's Dream. Matinee at 16. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tus Ware Fawy ‘Matinee at 1. ' IRVING HALL, Irving Place,—Souee or Caaunen Music, t pi ations { BANVARD’S OPERA HOUSE AND MUSEUM, Broad- way and Thirtieth street.—Frost Kiva, Matinee at 2 ) FIFTR AVENUE THEATRE. Nos. 4 4 West 24th street.—Faxix or Braman, Matinee at 235. ! NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street, ~Grawastics, EQuesteiaNisM, &0. Matinee at 25y. THEATRE COMIQUR, 514 Broadway.—Ilaniox Coxsi- Nation TRovrs. Matinee at 334. "KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway. —Soxas, Dances, Eccentnicirixs, BORLEsquas, &C. Matinee at 2)4. ' SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 58 Broadway.—Ernto- rux rAINMENTS, SINGING, DANCING AND BURLESQUES. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comic ‘Vocauism, NxcRo MinsrRELsy, &¢. Matinee at 234. BUTLER'S AMERICAN THEATRE, 472 Rroadway.— Bauuxr, Farce, Pantomime, &e, Matinee at 2}4. BUNYAN HALL, Broadway and Fifteenth street.—Tur Pirerim. Matinee at 2, PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.—AmBrtion, HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklya,—Ermorian MunsrkiLsy, BALLAD! AND BuRLRSQUES, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Scuncr axp Aut. ‘New York, Sat ‘day, January 18, 1868S. THE NEWS. EUROPE, Tho news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yester- day evening, January 17, The sales of church property in Italy prove very Profitable to the government, Fenianism progresses in outrages and treason trials in Ireland. Very stormy weather prevailed in England, The bullion in the Bank of France has increased largely. The Turkish govern- ment seeks to raise a loan in London, Teneriffe, in the Canary Isiands, had been visited by a violent and destructive burricane, The Chinese imperial army was again defeated in battle by the rebels. By the steamship Australasian we havo a mail report in detail of our cable despatches to the 4th of January — tho same date as tho advices by the steamship Pereiere, published yesterday, CONGRESS. ‘Tho Senate was not in session yesterday. In the House the Senate amendments to the Anti-Con- traction bill were non-concurred in, The debate on the Reconstruction bill was resumed, with the agreement that it might be continued to-day and that on Monday the previous question would be considered seconded, THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yesterday, bills to cede David's Island to the United States; to locatea Harbor Distriet and es- tablish @ Board of Wharves and Piers; incorporating ‘the New York Underground Railroad Company, and the Annual Canal Appropriation bill, were introduced. The Senate then adjourned till Monday, In the Assembly, bills to provide for a Public Markot in Now York, and to reduce the fair on the Sixth and Fighth Avenuo Railroads, were introduced, A resulu- tion was introduced denouncing the act of Secretary Stanton in remaining in the Cabinet when he was not wanted by bis Chief, as opposed to public decency. The Assombly then adjourned until Monday, THE CITY. Tho Citizens’ Association, in @ letter to the Speaker of the State Assembly, object to the appointment of a new commission to disburse the proposed $500,000 for the rolief of the poor in New York city. They assert vhat that amount will be consumed in salaries, while the old Board of Public Charities and Correction cau do the work much better. In the case of tho Poople, &e,, of New York against Josoph E. Lfnn, which came before the Supreme Court, General Term, on certiorari to review the proceeding at Special Sessions, under which the prisoner bad been convicted of larceny, Justice Ingraham rendered a de- cision yesterday, holding that the conviction of the Petitioner was illegal, as but one Justice of the two composing tho court was sitting at the trial, and that in the event of the absence of one Justice from the bench, owing to tilnoss or absence from tho city, it should so appear upon the record upon which the conviction pears Ia the Superior Conrt, Special Term, yesterday, a mo- tion was made to strike out ap answer as irrelevant in an action for slander, in which Henry Hives is plaintift and John Groen, President of the Second Avenue and Forty- second Stroet Railroad Company, is defendant. Plaintiff alleges that defendant called hima thief, Decision re- served, Tn the Court of Common Pieas, General Term, yes- terday, bofors Judges Brady and Barrett, the decision of | the Seventh District Court im favor of Coburn, Mason and others, defendants, was reversed, It was an actian to recover $110 arising out of a betting affair, in which the plaintiff, Edwin Wilson, alleged that ho mado a bet as to the quality of wine and as to when Hicks was exe- cutod, and when the money was lodged with a stake- holder a dispute arose and Coburn, it i alleged, walked off with the money. In the United States Commissioner's Court yesterday, before Commissioner Osborn, the long litigated Wood- Newcomb case reached a stage that promises a speedy termination to tt, The case was submitted with argn- ment of counsel to the Commissioner, who reserved bis opinion, Edward Titus sued Edward Thoroton, in the Supreme Court, Cireult, Part 2, Brooklyn, yesterday, for $5,000 Gamagos for false imprisonment. A verdict for $600 ‘was roudered for the plaintiff. In this caso the plaintiff ‘bad been arrested on suspicion of larceny by the de fendant, and two days alter was discharged by a justice Qftor an examination, Io the Supreme Court, Circuit, Part 1, Brooklyn, Charles Kilsey sues William B. Barbor for $3,425, one quarter's rent of a storehouse and wharf, Defendant Goknowledges the non-payment of the rent, but sete up ‘fA counter claims of $2,575 for damage alleged to have boen done to tho goods stored in his warehouse, by the noglect of Kilsey to keop the premises in repair. The cago is still on. Ta the Brooklyn Uity Court yesterday Mra. Mary Ta’ commencod suit for damages in $5,000 against Charles J, Taylor and others for the lors of her husband, who was drowned while in a row boat by « collision with the steamer Norwalk, which belongs to defendants. ‘The latter deny negligence on their part, and the case was continued, MISCELLANEOUS, ‘The steamor Kaglo, Captain Greene, from Havana and Nassau, arrived at this port yosterday. Her advices aro to the Lith inst, from the former and the 12ih from the Jatter port. Our special Cuba cable telegrams have an- ticipated the vews brought by the Eagle, ‘The reports relative to the intentions of the President in reference to the case of fecretary Stanton aro numerous and conflicting, The most exciting story is that he will soon r mpve his refractory subordinate and prefer charges agains that will bring the matter before the Supreme ( of the D art, came up to the Supreme Yourt at Wash mgion yesterday on wn appeal, and @ motion for an early trial was argued. The ceurt took the subject under advisement. Thisisa case which involves the constitutionality of the Reconstruction laws | Tn the Constitutional Convention yesterday tho article on the powers and duties of the Legislature was adopted, with a section prohibiting lotteries and the sale of lot- tery tickets in the State, The year 1888 was determined upon as the time when another constitutional couven- tion may be held, Geveral Meade has removed the Compirolier of the State of Georgia aud appointed an army oilicor to the position, In the Mississippi Convention yesterday several raso- lutions were introduced to abolish the poll tax. * A reso- lution was adopted providing for a lst of citizens in whose behalf Congress is to be potitioned for removal of disabilities, ‘The case of Tracy against the Firat National Bank of ‘Selma was argued yesterday before the Court of Appeals at Albany, The suit raiges the question of the legality of attachment under State law of the property of national banks, Decision reserved. William 1, Hamilton was elected United States Senator by the Maryland Legislature yesterday, in place of Reverdy Jobason, by a vote of 56, to 46 for Governor Swann, The English war steamer Chanticloer arrived at Vic- toria on the 16:h from Honolulu, Another destructive fire occurred in Chicago on Thurg+ day night, The loss is over $200,000. A defaication to the amount of $300,000 1s reported in the Hamilton county (Ohio) Treasury. The New Reconstruction Bill-The Presi- dent and the Impeachment Penalty. The new Reconstruction bill, which 1s to be passed on Monday next by the House of Repre- sentatives, and which is doubtless destined soon to become a law over the President’s veto, provides :— Sxcr10n 1, That the existing provisional civil State governments —those set up by President Johnson and g0 far left by Congress at the discretion of the military commanders—in the ten unroconstructed rebel States shall not be recognized by the executive or judicial authorities of the United States, Sxc. 2. That the General of the Army (Gegoral Grant) shall have full and absolute authority in the execution of the Reconstruction laws over each and all tho ten States ombraced in the five Southern Military Districts. Sec, 3. That the General of the Army, in his discro- tion, may remove and appoint the civil officers in said States, and the President shall not interfere with him in these matters or in the appointment of the military district commanders, Seo, 4. That it shail be unlawful for the President to order the army or navy to the support of any of the existing provisional civil governments of said ten unre- constructed States, Seo. 6. That any interference by any person with infent to prevent the execution of the ordera of Genoral Grant under this law shall be held a bigh misdemeanor, sub- ject to @ penalty of five thousand dollars fine and two years’ imprisonment, This is substantially the new biil. It pro- poses to set aside the President and to make tbe General of the Army chief magistrate over these ten unreconstructed rebel States, In other words, the constitutional President and Com- mander-in-Chief of the Army over all the States and Territories under the jurisdiction of the United States is by this bill to be President only over those States and Territo- ries represented in Congress, and Gen- eral Grant is to be President and Com, mander-in-Chief of the Army—nay, absolute dictator—over the States still excluded from Congress. Wo are to have two Presidents— one, conditional, over the North, elected by the people, and one, absolute, over the South, appointed by Congress, each in his district in- dependent of the other. The question is here suggested, however, Will Mr. Johnson, in view of his constitutional oath, recognize such an act of Congress as this? He is Com- mander-in-Chief of the Army. He may, in this capacity, order the General of the Army to Alaska to look after the Esquimaux in that extensive district, or to St. Thomas to look into the advantages and disad- vantages, earthquakes, &c., of that island for military purposes; and should the General re- fuse to obey any order of this kind he may be subjected to a court martial. But suppose that in these measures of resistance to this bill of usurpations Mr. Johnson were to be arralgned before the Senate on articles of impeachment, and were to be tried, convicted and removed for “high crimes and misdemeanors,” what then? Why, then, so far as this Congress is concerned, with “Old Ben Wade” in Johnson’s place, the last obstruction to the consummation of the radical programme down South would be re- moved, We percelve, too, that the terrors of impeach- ment are again revived for the benefit of Mr. Johnson. In Thursday’s Houso debate Mr. Eliot, of Massachusetts, remarked that it the late failure to impeach “were attributed to any lack of poliiical firmness or to any timidity on the part of the House, he could say to those who so believed that they would flad them- selves in error ;” that “ithe republicans in Congress meant that the lato robel States should never come back except as loyal States ;” that “they would fight it out on this line if it took all summer ;” that if “ obstrac- tions were placed in the way of the republican party they would, with the blessing of God, be removed.” In the next place, we bave a leading radical organ opposed to the late im- peachment movement thus speaking in refor- | ence to executive obstructions to the Tenure of Office law:—“If Andrew Johnson moans to defy this Tenure of Office law and make a war upon the conatry, let him do it, it he dare, and take the consequences.” Again it cries aloud:—“ We say, let the President, if ho dare, put a finger upon Mr. Stanton or General Grant.” “The next card that Congress may play is im- peachment, It is for Mr. Johnson to say whether it shall be played or not.” Impeachment, then—a convenient pretext of hostility from Mr. Johnson for impeachment—is an object of the unseemly en‘orcement of this Tenure of Office law in the case of Mr. Stanton and of this new Reconstruction bill. The radi- cals of Congress, let us assume, no longer’ alin to frighten, but wish to provoke the President to some overt act of resistance upon which they can indict, convlet and displace him. What, then, is Mr. Johnson to do? These rabid radicals will stop at nothing, and they have a two-thirds vote in each house of Con- gress, Tilus situated, what is Mr. Johnson to do, or what can he do, but submit to the des potic power of Congress? We say that in maintaining his oath and his office he can dis- regard these threats of impeachment, and ought to disregard them —that it is bis duty to do #0, and take the consequences. What bas he to fear from Impeachment? Let us suppose that from a stubborn resistance to these Con- | gressional usurpations of his authority he tx | impeached and removed, bas he not an appeal | to the people? We are snre that in such an | appeal from Congress to the country he would, | by a resistless uprising of the pegple in hia via- | dication, be carried back into the White House, and with an overwhelming majority of the House of Representatives to sustain him. At all events, it appears to us that b ween a calradical Congress and a degrading submis- sion, resistance or resignation and an appeal to the country is the only alternative for Mr. Johnson. Lord Clarendon, the Holy Father and the Fenlans, The Earl of Clarendon—an English states man of much experience and sagacity—has undertaken a special mission to Rome to request of Pius the Ninth “to use his influence with the inhabitants of Ireland for the sup- pression of Fenianism.’’? The Earl is accom- panied by Lord Bloomfield, British Minister at the Court of Vienna, so that the suit of the Defender of the Faith in St, James’ will be placed before the Sovereign Pontiff in the Vatican with all the proprieties of Cabinet routine and all the amenities and good feel- ing of the Austrian concordat. This appeal of England to the head of the Catholic Church is, -in its intent and object, reasonable enough, and may be useful in the desired direction if the Holy Father possesses any particular placebo likely to be effectual in the ugly case of these cross-grained Fenians, which we very much doubt. We think, how- ever, that Lord Clarendon bas not shown his usual appreciation of time and circumstances in choosing the present moment for its pre- sentation, Tae Holy Father is just now con- siderably exercised and annoyed with home matters and what, in the case of a man of family, would be termed domestic troubles. Garibaldi has not been effectually laid, the September Convention is on the point of repeal, the French troops are hanging “off and on”— neither in Rome nor fairly out of it—Victor Emanuel keeps around, notwithstanding the bull of excommunication ; and, as if to fill the troubled caldron to overflowing, his Holiness has made a venture into the question of woman’s rights, and feels himself called on to undertake to regulato the style and cut of female dress in the Eternal City. He has just ordered the Cardinal Vicar to issuo a decree on the subject, in which he com- plains that the Romans seem to forget that a church is the house of God, and says that “probably the cause of this evil is to be found in the conduct of the women, who, when they go to church, dress as if for a theatre or a fashion- able promenade.” His Holiness recommends that a number of respectable ladies should form themselves into a society with the object of “counteracting by their example and influ- ence ® luxury which produces the ruin of families and leads to immorality.” The Car dinal Vicar, in publishing the decree, announces that women with “extravagant headdresses” shall in future not be admitted to the com- munion table. Now, Lord Clarendon ought to have known all this, He has the telegraph at his command and could have learned in a moment what sort of a pickle the Sacred College is in. His lordship has evidently neglected to obtain this information, and hence the inopportune moment at which the communication of his royal mistress will reach Rome will probably defeat its object. It ig really uncharitable on the part of England to trespass on the good nature of the Pope at sucha time. Had Queen Victoria been personally informed that the matter of ladies’ headdresses and stort petti- coats was in order in the Vatican she would bave comprehended the Papal difficulty at once, and endeavored to “hold on” a little longer, with the aid of carnal weapons, of rifled cannon and fron-clad ships, without troubling the venerable Ponti? with the unfashionable vagaries of the Fenians before he had adjusted the woman’s rights difliculty in Rome. Congress is Not the Nation, Congress, however vicious its legislation, however extravagant, however insane, “can hardly imperil the nation except as its immedi- ate interests are imperilled by the temporary su- premacy of bad laws ; for Congress is not the country. In the days of the French revolution it was different, for the National Assembly was France. In the days of the great rebellion in England it was different, for Parliament really had the people in itor behind it, They were days in which the mass of men thought less and knew less than now. They were days in which the telegraph did not carry to the num- berless cities of either nation its constant state- meat of the progress of events, so that the peo- ple might scrutinize the conduct of those who pretended to act in their name—days in which there was no regular recurrence at the polls of & peaceful means by which the people could repudiate men who hal betrayed their trust, either in selfish ambition or party passion. Guillotines were tho only resource, and the blood they drew crazed an excited people. But the ballot box is our guillotine. With this we cat off the political head of our Executive onco | in four years ; with this we decapitate a whole Congress once in two years, and the tele- graph gives the people that daily statement of facts by which they jadge who to decapitate ; and this is our safety. Already the nation has sufliciently declared against radicalism, and since the election of the members of this present Congress the country has repudiated the prin- ciples that prevail in it, Congress goes for- ward desperately, knowing tbat its life is short, wishing to do what it may in the little time that remains to it, But all its efforts will result only in giving greater strength to the reaction against the nigger supremacy policy of the fana- tics who believe that the true course to pursue toward an offending eye is to pluck it out. The Last of Ma Our cable despatebes of yesterday gave us a fall and unusually graphic account of the funeral of Maximilian. It has been impossible for na to read these despatches, with all their sorrowful details, without reflecting on the brlef but eventful past with which his name bas been so prominently associated. It seemhs but as yesterday when Maximilian and his be- loved Carlota lived life of contentment and of enviable bliss amid the shades of Miramar. It was @ species of Eden to the youthful and happy pair. Into this Eden, however, as into many others which have formerly existed, Satan entered. The words of the tempter were powerful. Visions of splendor and of dominion arose in the mind of the ambitious princess. Maximilian, like a second Adam, yielded to the subtle Influence of woman, Tho forbidden fruit was tasted, Their eyes were opened. How bitter the tempting fruit bes proved to be, and how disappointing the splendid vistons, all the world now knows. Mexico was reachod ; imperial tithes were worn; bat empire to them was never more than a | | | | | Zz world knows of Emperor and Empress, ‘But how great the change which has passed over both! Maximilian returns but dust and ashes, and Carlota is a hopeless lunatic. In the sad history of this high-born and once happy couple whata field is opened to some Schiller or Shakspeare of a future.time ! Ignorance in Congress. Mr. Bingham is one of the keenest and readiest of the radical members—an acute parliamentarian in all regards, although, by the way, no man was ever more handsomely laid under the table than he was by the re- partee of Mr. Eldridge on Thursday. Mr. Bingham is, moreover, the gentleman who holds ‘that five lawyers in the Supreme Court ought not to set aside a bill that had been voted for by “sixty lawyers in Congress”—evidently having no notion of the difference between politics and law. This learned gentleman seems ‘to suppose that the United States isa pure democracy; that everything in it is sub- ject to the breath of the majority, and that it will be a “sad day” when it is otherwise, He has, perhaps, heard of the constitution ; but as to what constitutional government means he certainly knows nothing. He is a fine speci- men of a smart man—“ most ignorant of what he’s most assured.” He thus scornfully spoke in debate the othor day of another member :— “The gentleman seemed to assume that there were tribunals in the country superior to the people who created them.” Now, in this there was no reference to any action of the people through the States for an amendment to the constitution and the tribunals it estab- lishes ; tho phrase “the people” was used for the majority in Congress. And thus we may see that Mr. Bingham holds in scorn the princi- ples of all who believe that there is anything in our government tbat the rash readiness of an excited majority cannot change. And this man is held to be one among the less con- tomptible in knowledge of those who represent the people in Congress, Here are more of his words in the same debate:—“It would be a sad day for American institutions and for the sacred cause of republican overnments if any tribunal in the land created by the will of the people was above and superior to the people’s power.” All this, let it be remembered, is said with regard to the action of Congress, The “people’s power” means their power to pass such laws as tho one on the Supreme Court, not their power to modify the organic law in the regular way. What does this class of politicians suppose the constitution was made for ? The Eastorn Question—Ominous Signs, Our cable despatches regarding the situation in the East of Europe justify the fears which we expressed some days ago. The breach be- tween Russia and Turkey widens more and more, According to 4 Russian journal of some official authority the Sultan has been urged to “ make extensive naval and military prepara- tions in the Mediterranean,” and Russia explains her meddling policy in Turkey by tho state- ment that she desires no extension of territory, but is concerned for the safety of the Christian subjects of the Port. Our news for some time past has been quite in keeping with this view of the situation. A letter which we published in yesterday’s Heratp, fromthe pen of our special correspondent at Constantinople, shows that the Ottoman gov- ernment has teen and still is manifesting a willingness to satisfy the reasonable demands of its Christian subjects, but thas Russia remains a8 exacting and unreasonable as ever. Russia, in fact, in the interests of the Christian subjects of the Sultan, has both intrigued and dictated, and her dictation bas been as incautious as her intrigue bas been ill- disguised, The policy of England has been as obstinate in seeking the preservation of Tur- key as that of Russia has been in seeking its destruction. Afier somo shifting about on the part of Austria and France—France particu- larly—it may now be taken for granted that the old coalition (Italy, of course, is excepted) against Russia and in favor of Turkey is com- pleted. The Western Powers have, however, been as liberal in tendering advice to Tarkey as Russia has been busy in intrigue; and so long, we may rest assured, as the Porte mani- fesis a disposition to profit by the advice ten- dered, so long will the Western Powers stand by it Tho question as between Russia and the Western Powers in relation to the affairs of tho East is, to a large extent, a legacy left by the Crimean War. It might have been better for all parties if that war had never taken place. It was Russia, how ever, and not the Western Powers, that provoked that war, and if the former suffered defeat and humiliation she had herself to thank. But defeat and humiliation do not necessarily uproot ideas. Russia was not less convinced after the Crimean war than she was before it that it was her destiny to march upon and to establigh the seat of her government in Constantinople. It was merely a question of time, and her purpose to accomplish her des- tiny was deepened rather than otherwise by the temporary check. We do not say that the time has yet come when the crescent on the dome of St. Sophia must yield up its place to the cross. Our opinion, rather, is that it has not yet come. In an encounter at the present moment with the Western Powers, who are in honor bound to defend Turkey, the probability is that Russia would be again worsted. We are not tho less convinced, however, that the time is coming when Russia will find ber opportunity, and when Constantinople, directly or indirectly, will fall into her hands. Tn considering this Eastern question it must always be borne in mind that Russia repre- sents principles which are progressive, and that Turkey represents principles which are retrograde, and that, in the very nature of things, the principles represented by Russia must in the end bear away tho palm of victory. It must also be borne in mind that two-thirds of the population of Turkey in Europe are Chris- tian, most of whom are of the Greek Church, of which Russia is the natural and acknowledged protector. It is impossible that four millions of Massulmans should continue to lord it over eleven millions of Christians, The disparity in numbers, as well as ia thoughts and feelings, between the governing and the governed glasses, is too great for such a state of things to continue. Sooner or later Tarkey in Europe must come under Christian influence. Russia insists upon it, and if Russia plays her cards well the time is not far distant when the mauly resistagce to the ageressions of « favati- | mogkery, Barone bas rooelved back all thay the | Weotern Powers will relax their opposition. - .NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1868. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD, pee) eae IRELAND. Feninu Assault with Greek Fire-A Man of Actiou In Court e Conk, Jan, 1791868, A phial of the explosive fluid known as ‘Greek fire’ ‘Was thrown yesterday at one of tho witnesses for the government in the Fenian trials here; but the material failed to ignite, and no injury was done. No olue has been obtained to the perpetrator, Dosim, Jan, 17, 1868. Attho examination of Lennon yesterday Sergeant Kelly, the survivor of the two policemen who were shot at Stepaside, and a woman, both swore that they fully recognized the prisoner as the man who fired the pistol shots which wounded one policeman and killed the other, ENGLAND. State of the Weather. Lonpon, Jan, 17, 1868. The weather is quite stormy, At this hour the wind is blowing hard from the west. ‘The thermometer indicates 45 degross, ITALY. Profitable Sales of Church Property. Frorence, Jan. 17, 1868, Tho sales of the ecclesiastical estates sequestrated by the Italian government have so far proved very pro- ductive, Tho sums realized at those sales show an average ap- Prociation of forty-three per cent in the value of the property since it was placed im the market, TURKEY. A Money Loan Proposed in England. Lonnon, Jan. 17, 1868, The Turkish government is seeking to raise a loan in the English market, the procoods of which are to be applied to improving the navigation of the mouths of the Danube, CANARY ISLANDS. Violent and Destructive Hurricane at Tene- riffe. Lonpon, Jan. 17, 1868, Information has been received here that a very vio- lent hurricane recently prevailed at Teneriffe and in that vicinity, Ships were driven to sea, houses unroofed and blown down, &c. The damage was very great, though no montion is made of loss of human life, CHINA. The Imperial Troops Again Defeated by Rebels. Lonpoy, Jan. 17, 1868. Advices from Hong Kong and Shanghas havo beon re- ceived, which state that anothor battio had beon fought between the rebels and the imperialists at Shintung. The imperialist army, which was under the command of Footal, was again defeated. FRANCE. The Bank Roturn and Stock of Bullion, ¢ Panis, Jan. 17, 1868, The regular woekly returns of the Bank of France show that the amount of bullion in the waults has in- creased seventeen millions of franca slice the last roport, CUBA. Exchange Quotations—Marine Intelligence. Havana, Jan, 17, 1868, Exchange on London 12012 premium; on Paris, 3¢@1 per cent discount; on the United States, in cur- tency, 27 a 29 discount for long and 26a 27 for short sight; in gold 1 per cent promium for long aud 234 a 34 por cent for short sight, The steamers Star of the Union and Bienvillo sailed to-day for Now Orleans, NORTH CAROLINA. Tho Reconstruction Convention—Draft of a Constitation Reported=Relief for the People. ” Ra.atau, Jan. 17, 1868, The Convention to-day adopted the rules of ordor, and elected J. W. Prock, of Wilmington, sorgeant-at- arms. The Committec on the Constitation mado a report in reply to the order of the Convention requiring a draft of ‘@ constituion. Mr. Rodman, of Boaufort, offered an ordinance pro- viding relie! for the people, which wag referred to the Committee of the Whole for discussion, Mr. Durbam, of Cleveland (conservative), offered re- solutions declaring that the peoplo of North Carolina are sincerely desirous of resuming their constitutional reiations with the government and the sister States. They acknowledge the power of Congress to enforce the Reconstruction acts, but they believe thom unwise, un- constitutional, uujust and-uppressive, The resolutions were laid over, SOUTH CAROLINA. The Reconstruction Convention=Proposed Homestead w=The Question of Confisca. tion and Disfraachisement. Cuarcestoy, Jan. 17, 1863, In the Convention to-day Mr. Parker introduced an ordinance to establist’a homestead law, excepting prop. erty to the amount of $2,500 trom levy or reizure, It was referred to the Judiciary Committee, Mr, Hurley proposed an ordinance to declare all out- standing obligations for the purchase of stores null and void, which was referred to tho Judiciary Committeo, Mr. Longly introduced a resolution declaring that tho ubli¢ good required that all ideas of coniisc: further disfranchisomont bo abandoned, It on the table. &@ motion to recon yeas, sixtoon boing al upon was waa lost by 61 nays to 46 Me Avausta, Jan, 17, 1808, Tho correspondence between General Meade aad Gov. ernor Jenkins is published, General Meade con: 4 the ordinance pasted by the Montgomery Con to lory and collect a specific tax defraying its expenses and requiring the Treasurer Of Goorgia to advance $40,000, to be replaced when the specific tax is collected, as an appropriation made by law in tho #enso used by the constitation of Georgia, which provides that ‘No spall de drawn Tae Ee" atts Tetpgrete ‘ads by law." Genera) Meade therefore requests Governor Jenkins to issue a warrant om the Treasurer for the Convention. He further says niom that the Convention is Aion acts to exercise such the vepera' as @ precedent for bis action in support of the Recon. struction Convention the jons made by the Constitutional Convention in 1965, and concludes by asking the co-operation of the Executive Department in the performance of the difficult and embarrassing duties devolving upon bim, rhor eo jeation, say ful consideration ‘of the whole so! is of duty, he deciiues to comply with and tuen staies Lis reasons for , on ae arising under the ven under the both of he bas sworn , protect and defend. priation Eiving been made by the ure, and the Convention not called in accordance with the constitution, by Congress, he cannot comply with its behesta, Con. gross Cannot by its simple act appropriate money from the treasury of the State of Georgia, and cannot confer than are possessed by sonslaer the ordinance of the Con- mai law. There 14 noUiog in the Reconstruction fets he treasury wit! e Cont of the novel They prov! we of defray ing the expenses PeThirdon Apart trom the constitutional priecipies in- volvod, the liabilities of the State now prossing upon the treasury would not warrant him fo wuthoriging the ‘Treasurer to advance money to the Convention. Goneral Meade reeeives the commanication of Go nor Jenkins with protound regret, considers his action 44 on Impedimant to reconstruction, dees not fool caliod vpou to Auswor big arcumouve Aud removes Lu irya the office of Governor of Georg'a with entertain- ing for bim bigh personal respect, eens froma Conscientious sense of duty. * vm Maladminulstration of the Municipal Affairs of Augusta—Reomoval of the Stuie Comptreiier by General Meade, Avavera, Jan. 17, 1868, The Commission appointed by General Meade to ex- amino into the alleged maladministration om the part of the City Council has adjourned over until Tuesday next, in order to give time for full investigation, Afser the journment of the Commission a meeting of the citi- be was held in the Councit Chamber and. a canis appointed to obtain evidence sustaining the charges set forth in the petition against the Mayor and Council. . General Orders No, 12, dated Atlanta, January 17, moves John F. Burns, Comptroller of Georgia, re- for dectining to respect the instructions of and ing te co. Seon operate with the Major General Commanding. Charles Wheaton, Thirty-third infantry, bes ordered to Milledgeville to act as Comptroller, Proceedings of the Georgia C Thanks to General Mende Fi Trying to Influence Legislation~The Section of the Bill of Rights. ‘AtLanta, Jan. 17, 1868, The Convention to-day adopted, with some dissenting votes, @ resolution thanking General Meade for the course he had pursued in regard to reconstruction. ‘The Prealdent laid a letter before the Convention from a Connecticut firm engaged in the guano mmportation, stating that it lost. an order from Savannab and could Mili Georgia planters on account of the Tscllen of the Con- vention in forbidding legal collections, and Lyownp | — Fg action as tending to destroy the credit the Sout Three additional sections of the Bill of Rights were ado) The militia section is the usual ope about a well regulated militia, &c.; but has added thereto that the General Assembif shali have power to prescribe by law the manner in which arms shall be borne by private persons. Three phono; hic reporters have been engaged in New York to ee verbatim reports of the Convention proceedings, Sinking of a Steamer at Sava Savannan, Jan, 17, 1868, ‘The steamer Anna, an old blockade runner, wes sunk at hor wharf this morning, . Aheavy wind storm from the west is prevailing. MISSISSIPPI. The Reconstruction Convention—Proposed Abolition of tho Poll Tax—Petitioners for Removal of Political Disabilities. Jackson, Jan, 17, 1868. In the Convention to-day the following werg referred to the appropriate committees:—A resolution to appoint a special committee to inquire into the propriety of re- moving tho capital of the Stato to some more loyal and convenient place; an ordinance forbidding corporations, &c,, from levying a poll tax exceeding $1; resolutions authorizing the islature to provide for repairiag the ievees of the Mississippi, aud pronouncing grievous the lovying of a poll tax; au ordinance declaring, among others, the essential quaiifications for electors, the ac- coptance of civil and political equality of ai! men, and an obligation never to countenance secession of the State from the United states. Tho following were adopted :—A resolution providing for a committee of five to receive the names of citizens ia whose behalf Congress is to be petitioned for the re- moval of disabilities; a resolution instructing the Com. mittee on Schedule to report an ordinance providing that hereafter no official bond be required of persons elected or appointed to office m the State, but Lilla a fine, imprisopment and perpetual disfranchiement for mal- feagance in office, " ‘Tue following was mado tho spocial order for Tuss- @ay :—An ordinance providing for the publication of the Convention proceedings and ordinances, - LOUISIANA. The Convention—Extravagance of That Body Against the Collection of Its Election or Appointment of New Onteass, Jan, 17, 1868, In the Convention to-day the special commitjee for the investigation of the report of the Committee on Contingent Expenses reported that exorbitant prices had been charged for stationery and other articles, and recommond the non-payment of several accounts unless a redaction of fifty per cent bo made, The committee offered a resolution that the extravagant expensos of the Convention contribute greatly towards the unpopularity of the tax fixed to meet its necessary expenses and ren- der its collection more difficult, Articie No, 83 of the constitution, adopted providing for the election of Judges of the courts, was reconsidered and rejected to-day. speeches were made favoring their appointment by the Governor insiead of election. Pending this discussion the Convention adjourned. No quorum was present at the ight session. MARYLAND. William T. Hamilton Elected United States Senator. Bartimone, Jan, 17, 1868, William T, Hamilton was elected United States Senator by the Legislature to-day on the first vote, to succeed Hon. Revordy Johnson, The voto stood as fol- tows:—Wm, T. Hamilton, 56; Governor Swann, 46; Judge Merrick, 5, MISSOURI. Proposed Salo of a Branch of the Pacific Ralle road—The Governor’s Reasons for Seizing the Iron Mountain Railroad—Proposed Issue of City Bonds in St. Lous. Sr. Lovws, Jan. 17, 1968, Members of the Legislature from Southwostern Mis- souri in caucus at Jefferson City last night, agroed upon a bill to be presented to the Legislature for the sale of what is known ag the southwest branch of the Pacific Railroad, recently forfeited by Genoral Fremont and associates for non-compliance with the torms of the pur- chase, The bill provides for the sale of the road for $1,000,000, which is to be paid yback to the purchasers in instalmeni# a8 subsidies as fast ad tho road is ex- tonded, x resolution was introduced in the House some days since to memorialize Congress to grant subsidies to the Kansas branch of the Union Pacific Railroad equal to those given to the Omata road, The resolution meew strong opposition, ibe matin argument inst the roposition i# that such subsidies will enable the Kansas Pacific Railroad Company to extend their road overs considerable portion of th» route designed to be covered by the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, which would cat the intier company out of rect connection with the Pacific coast and ee a largo extent of country in the Indian Territory and New Moxtco, which is specially trivutary to Missouri and St. Louis, from early develop- ment. Governor Fletcher sent a to the Logisiatare to-day givin, reasons for seizing the Iron Mountain Ratiroad. They are simply because Thomas Allen, the Inte purchaser of the road, bas failed to comply with the torma of the sale, in the expenditure of money for the extension of the road, Tho City Council to-day adopted a resolution to momorializo the Legislature for pormiesion to issue one million dollars in bonds to enable the city to raise money to pay tho accruing interest and to liquidate otner debts; also asking the Logisiaturo to place the Board of Health, Board of Water Commissionors and Police Commissioners under the control of the city governwent, The State Senate to-day adopted a resolution com- mending the United States Senate for reinstatiag Edwin M, Stanton as Secretary of War, ILLINOIS, Destructive Fi in Chicnge=Loss Over $200,000. Cricaco, Jan. 17, 1868, Fire broke out last night in the five story building 197 Lake street, completely destroying it and damaging the adjoining buildings from No, 193 to No. 199 toa considerable extent, Building 107 was owned by Samuel Thomas, of Kentucky, and was yalued at $45,000. It was occupied by Starrett & a hardware and agriculvural \mploment morchant it stock was valued at $140, loss on which will $ nye reach $100,000, No. 195 was ocaupied Leary 0. tinware and stove ostablishmen ‘thelr Rivided as foilo’ fe 000, each; Etna, and Clinton, of New York, $15,000; tome, $10,000; Commerce, of All $3, nontal, of St. Louis, $5,000,each ; mors’, of Cincranatl, $1 acd, nies, $50,000. Another Large Fire in Cinclanatt. Cisorswart, Jam 17, 18 48, Darber, Choate & Naber's furniture factory was do. stroyed by fire this morning, The loss was $80 000, on which there is $35,000 iasuranco {n Cincinnat! aad Gov. ington companies, MASSACHUSETTS. Thomas’ Nomt as Chief Jus tice Neantived, Bowron, Jan, 17, 1868, The confirmation of Judgo Tacomas as Chief Justice bas been negatived by dve votes to four in Beocutiva Vounsii to dae