The New York Herald Newspaper, January 21, 1868, Page 4

eS , NEW. YORK) HARALD (TURSD AA, ANU ABN) 21 yy (0868 . NEW YORK HERALD, | i cxscatoeMRTEAMEOE laa] TA SUT Hormona = he BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. WAMES GORDON BENNETT, FROPRIETOR, BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Prer o' Day. FRENCH THEATRE, Docurss. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Dogs or rae Ouv Tou Hovss—Two Bozzanps—Dicx tx Newsnoy. Fourteenth street. —Tax Granp NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel.— UNDER THE Gasticur. OLYMP!C THEATRE, Broadway=A — Mipsvy Nichr's Dawa, mi eR NIBLO'S GARDEN, Br: —Tax Waite Fawn. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 1th stract. — Carta oF tue Watou—Wooncock's Lartir Game, BANVARD'S OPERA HOUSE AND MUSEUM, Broad. way and Thirveth street.—Frost King, ee FIPTR AVENUE THEATRE, Nos. 2 st 24th @treet.—Fakix or Braman. Prensa: 4 vena A NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteeath street, —Grawastros, Eguxstrianisu, &0. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Hawcox Comat. mation TROUPE. KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.~Sovas, Dancers, Eocentarcres, BURLESQUE, &0, SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—Ftnt0- PIAN ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANCING aND BURLESQUES. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, Wl Bowery.—Comic Vocaissm, NxcRo MINSTRELSY, &0. BOTLER'S AMERICAN THEATRE, 472 Broadway. — Bauizr, Fanon, Pantowine, &. |” BUNYAN HALL, Broadway and Fifteonth* street —Tux Pignim, Mawoee at 2. PLYMOUTH CHURCH, Brooklyn.—CHaeves Diceens’ Ruapinos. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC,—Manis Awtoixgrre PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn,—Jaca Cave. HOOLEY'S OPERA Hou Munstnxisy, Bautaps ap Bu! Brooklyn, —Eruroriax 8, a0) NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Science anv Ant. New York, T2SB Naws. EUROPE. The nows report by che Atlantic cablo is dated gester- ay evening, January 20, Articles in the Paris oreae indicate that France and Prussia are approaching to an understanding on the Eastorn question hostile to the policy of Russia, United States Minister Baucroft is nogotiating a pew commercial treaty with Prussia, The Fenians assaulted the artil- | lery tower at Duncannon, Ireland; but the particulars are not given, Press prosecutions were continued in Dublin, France was uneasy at an undefined prospect of war. The Mikado of Japan will enforce the new treaties concluded by the Tycoon with the foreign Powers, Dr. Livingstone’s safety is again reported from Africa. ‘The American annexation treaty 1s being considered by a special committee of the Danish Legislature. Consols, 927; for money and account in London, Five- twenties 72 im London and 763 a 7634 in Frankfors. Cotton quict with middling uplands at 7% pence. Provisions aud produce without marked change, CONGRESS. in the Senate yesterday biils were introduced annexing Georgetown to Washington, prohibiting the payment of Dounties to deserters, to facilitate the ad:ninistration of Justice and to regulate the foreign coasting trade on the Northern frontiers, The joiat resolution in refer- once to tue appointment of consuls was called up, but after some debate was laid on the table, Commitieos of eonference were appointed on the amendments to the Cotton and Currency Contraction biils disagreed to by the House, The resolution admitting Senator Thomas, of Maryland, to bis seat occupied the rest of the cession, Mr. Frelinghuysen, of New Jersey, speaking iu favor of the motion, . {a the House, under the Monday call, bilis and joint resolutions were introduced and referred in reference to | the rights of naturalized citizens, instrucung the Presi- dent to demand an explanation and redress in the case of Michae! O'Brien, who, was executed as a Fenian, and reducing the compensation of Members of Congress to $4,000. The House then resumed debate on the Recon+ struction bill. The previous question was seconded, and Mr. Bincham made the conclcding speech, but the House adjourned without coming to a vote. THE LEGISLATUDE. In the Senate yesterday evening a petition was Presented for tho extension of the track of the Harlem River, Morrisania and Fordham Railroad. Notices were given of bills for better equalization of taxes and to Ostablish tho oflice of receiver of taxes in Westchester, A bill was introduced to repeal that portion of the Rovised Statutes relative to the registration of brokers. In the Assembly nothing whatever was done beyond reading the journal, THE CITY. An article explaining the system of distributing mail matter in the New York Post Office, publisued elsewhere in our columns this moreing, will be found of interest. During tho twelve months ending with November last thore were delivered by carriers tn this city 12,009,070 mail letters, 5,137,000 city letters, and 1,606,014 news- papers, and there were collected from the lamp post Doxes 18,790,424 nowspapers and letiers. ('ne Southern and Weatern maii matter 1s carried daily acroxs (he Hud. son river ine four horse wagon and weighs one hun- dred tous, In 1818, Colonel Dodd, who is now $1 years Of age, and \s Superintendent of the Southern mail, was acoustomed to carry the satae matter down to the rivor in a bag on his back, Before the Board of Audit yesterday Mra Eliza 8, Cox, widow of Dr, Henry G. Cox, presented a claim for $10,000 xs damages for an accident that superinduced | the death of her husband. Testimony was taken sub- stantiating tue claim, and thocass was adjouraed until Wodnesday (to-morrow), at noon, Two mon uamed Mead and Murray were arrested yos- tarday, charged with the recent robbery of $15,000 in Donds from tho bank of the Republic. A large amount of the siolon property was found on their persons. In the Board of Councilmen yesterday a resolution was offered propoeing to provide for the confiscation of real estate in the cliy which may be rented for purposes of prostitution. ‘Two night watchmen at the Erte freight depot, foot of Duane sirect, became very quarrelsome over a discus- pion on the relative merits of Protestantism and Catholi- ‘clam yesterday morning, when blows and pistol show ‘Were resorted fo, and both of thom were injured, one of #hem named Somand, who took tho Catholic side of the (question being severely wounded in the thigh by a pistol how Tn the Court of General Sessions yesterday, before @udge Russel, in the case of Edward Joues and Kagene Addy, who pleaded guilty to burglary fn the third de gree, tne prisoners wore remanded for sentence. Joseph ‘Brown, convicted of stealing bedclothing, was sent to the Ponitentiary for six montns Alphonso Depiechon, convicted of burglary in the third degree, was sentenced to the State Prison for five years. Stephen Carran, having ploaded guilty vo forgery in the third degree, and Aanie Reilly, who pleaded guilty to an atteinpt at grand larceny, were remanded for sentence. Thomas McFadden, who pleaded gul!ty to an assault with intent ‘to Kill, was sentenced to the Stave Prison for five years, William Traster, convicted of stealing a pocket book contaiaing $110, was sentenced to the State Prison for one year. Ta the Kings County Court of Oyer Terminer, Brooklyn, Lawrence Erhart was yesterday placed upoe Dis trial on au indictment chargivg him with baving in October Iast, im @ souffle, stabbed one Herman Gross, from the effects of which he died in about an hour After, The hearing ia the case will be resumed this morning. The case of Develin, Tappan & Levan charged with Gofrauding the government by falsely bonding whiskey tn the Eastern District, was yesterday called up in the Jailed Bates Circuit Court before Judge Benedict, and ‘ver some discussion on a motion for postpomemeut the Dearing of the case was set down for to-day at noon, Tne stoo jot was firm yomerday. Government @ecurties wrobd, Gold sioned a: 13014 0 130%. | had an agent to New York on busines con- Py }with @ proposed issue of bonds tv enablé bim to Prostoute his plaog against Mexico. { In the State Constitutional ‘Convention yesterday th report on education was again considered. A motion to abolikn the oillee of Superintendent of Pablic Instruction and vest his dutios in the Secretary of State was lost, A motion to strike Out the clause abolishing the Board of Regents was pending when, without young, the Conven- tion adjourned, Alot of whiskey in a distitlery at Kingston, Canada, took fire on ‘Sunday, aud running through an under- ground drain fire toa wharf, which was destroyed, With three large warehouses, and parily damaged a vos sel which was lying at the dock. b A cabman in Quebec on Sunday night shot two young men fatally 'm a quarrel which ensued from @ di-cussion n tho roletive merits of their horses. Indications of a supposed plot to blow up the magazine at Toronto, Canada, have been discovered, The 24th of February has’ been set for the second trial of John H, Surrate, A fire in Atchison, Kansas, on Sunday, destroyed property to the amouat of $250,000, A fatal prize ght took piace on Sunday on Bloody Island, Il., just opposite St. Louls, Mo, Dennis Rear- don, a light weight, eighteen years of age, pummolled his adversary, Thomas McCann, aged seventeen, to death. He ahd eix other persons were arrested. Two passenger cars were thrown trom the Boston and The Southern negro Conventions are begin- ning te exbibit the croppings out of thecloven heel in an unmistakable manuer. In the words of a local paper, “the Devil, with alt his borns and hoofs,” is beginning to show himself in earnest. In. the- Georgia Oonven- tion the white man is considered of no eocount in framing the pew constitution. He ia disirancuised without recourse, in many instances, while the negro is elevated to every’ prerogative hitherto enjoyed by the whites, The radical negro’s aim is not only at political equality, but at social equalii? with the whites. This was evinced in the tumultuous dismissal from the Convention of.a proposition the other day to prevent the intermarriage of whiles and blacks, and to banish to Liberia any magistrate or clergyman who should be found guilty of uniting such persons in marriage, In the indignation of the majority it was proposed to banish the Proposer bimself to Liberia without delay. The Georgia negrocs demand equal rights to public conveyanoes, holels, &c,, with the Providence Railroad track near Mansfeld, Mass, on Sunday, and nine persons were injuret, The story of a beavy defalcation im tho Hamilton county (Ohio) treasury 18 said to be untrue, The reports of destitution and ill health among our garrisons in Alaska are false, There are gnly three companies there and they aro in good health and well provided. The Muddle at Washington—Mr. Chase Sill Maater of the Radical Camp. There have been lately and are still going on some tremendous shakings of the dry bones of this old planet of ours, from thé islands of tho West Indies to the sacred voleano of Japan—perturbations in the earth and signs in the heavens which are waking up egain the believers in the prophet Miller. But remarkavle as are these commotions among the‘ elemenis of nature, the simul- taneous disiurbances among the political forces of the nations, from Pekin to Rome, and from Rome to Mexico, are still more wonderful, as indicating the operation of tue same mysterious influences upon mind and matter. Most remarkable of all—whether con- | sidered in connection with the hurricanes and earthquakes, or with the troubles of England, Napoleon and the Pope—mozt re markable of all, we say, is the present inoxpli- cably mixed up muddle among the politicians at Washington. It reminds us of the Mexican muddle, when nobody could tell whether Na- poleon would fight it through fordhe empire or back out and leave poor Max in the lurch. It reminds us also of those late upheavals of the sea among the Virgin Islands, which left all sorts of sea fish high and dry among the bushes on the hill sides, so that men hunting for birds went home with fish. This Washington muddle is, in trath, a most extraordinary thing. ‘The old figure of a tempest in a teapot does not meet the case ; nor does the bull im the china shop. The nearest approach to it is “the devil among tho tailors.” It is what a Bowery Dead Rabbit would call “a regular muss.” The late terri- ble commotion, however, has subsided alinost into a calm; but we are warned that it is only a brief suspension of “ihe ruction.” President Johnson is fixing up a bombshell which will blow the radicals to Halifax, on the one side, while on the other “Old Thad Stevens” and Stanton are setting a steeltrap in which they expect to catch the sly fox of the White House. General Grant, it appears, is mightily botbered, and his right hand man, Waskburne, is com- pletely befogged. No one can positively teli whether Grant has advised or intenda to advise the resignation of “Old Bea Wade,’’ Stanton, McCulloch or Seward ; or whether, in the last pinch, he intends to fight or fall back on the radical platform of reconsiruction. “Andy Johnson,” they eay, uuder the pressure of all his perplexities, has taken to cold water in order to keep cool, while Grant, they insinu- ate, is so worried by the politicians aud the lawyers that he finds it necessary to add to his cigar an occasional snitter of whiskey. With such a state of affairs at Washinglon can wo wonder at the noise and confusion among the gold gamblers of Wall streot? But in the midst of al! this dark and mol- ancholy muddle among the conflicting Presi- dential elements in the Cabinet and Capitol there is a streak of light I: is a sort of bluo light, to be sure; but still it brings out the | spectacle in the arena into pretty bold relief. This radical light brought tnto the midst of this radical darkness fs Chief Justice Chase. While Johnson, Stanton, Grant and al! con- cerned in this Tenure of Olice imbroglio, radicals and conservatives, aro engaged in « sort of Punic war against each other Chase is busy as a bee making honey. He has his Presidential retainers among the engineers of | the republican machine ; ‘he has them in every branch of the financial and revenue service, from the national banks dowa to the whiskey warehouses; he has them at the head and front of the social system and social reunions of Washington; and last, though not least, he has them in the radical majority of every one of these negro reconstraction conventions of the South, The upshot, then, of all this fuss at Washington will most probably be tho shelving of Johnson, Stanton and Grant, and the blooming out into fall flower of Mr. Chase as the radical candidate, on his Southern negro supremacy platform and balance of power, for the succession. On the opposition side, we understand, there are impediments in the way of Mr. Jonson which the Chicago democrats of 1864 flatly say cannot be removed or surffounted; and similar objections are urged against General Hancock, styled by certain copperhead journals “the hangman of Mrs, Surratt.” On the other band, the war democrats and republican conserva- tives, inclining to a fusion with the democracy, do not like the copperhead flavor of Pendle- ton. All theso dificulties, however, it is sup- posed can be settled by settling upon General Sherman, and Sherman's “ march to the sea,” and the congervative reconstruction platform of Sherman’s treaty with Joe Johnston, repu- diated by Stanton with the consent of Androw Johnson. There can bardiy be a doubt that General Sherman, as the ticket of the opposi- tion forces against Chief Justice Chase, would march again victorious ovor all obstructions from the great West to the Atlantic coast; and from his position as umpire or referec in all this late squabbling at Washington he may yet cut oyt Pendleton as the democratic favor. ite in Ohio, Seymour and McClellan in New York, Andrew Jonson in Maryland and Ken- tucky, and carry off the prize of the demo- cratic convention, whites, a3 in Louisiana. In the South Carolina Convention a large majority of the officers are blacks, and a black constitution will no doubt be born of the body. Inthe North Carolina Convention the blacks ats so jealous of their posilion as tho equals. of the whites that reporters are excluded who shall dare to make any distinction of color in their records of the proceedings. This, however, is not the sentiment of all the black delegates, for one of them insisted on the color being reported, alleging tuat “if his white brother was ashamed of his. color he (the black) was not of his.” In Virginia a pcoposition to assist the emigration of the blacks of the State to the Western country, where they can live in the enjoyment of their frcelom unmolested, was scouted at. The negroes mean to be at the head of affairs in Virginia, as in all the other proscribed States. ‘The latest dodge is that they must have their share of the members of Congress; but they may be willing to compromise if their white allies will furnish each black aspirant with an equivalent for two yeara’ Congressional ser- vice—sixieon thousand dollars, Thus are the radical revolutionists going on from bad to worse—from anarchy in Washing- ton and negro supremacy in the South to open and corrupt bargains for political plunder. In ail these croppings out of the cloven heel we see the tendency of the times—that thd radi- cula mean to secure perpetuation of political power by all the influences at their command, or that they intend to leave the government in a condition of inextricable confusion, riot and chaos, : The Gas Monopoly. There. is .ot a body of public men in this city who are more soundly and justly abused than our gas companies, and at the sume time there are none who seem to care less for the interesis of the public or the expressed dissal- isfaction of their patrons. Although com- plaints are being constantly made by the euf- fering public against the extortions of the gas companies and against the inferior quslit} of the manufactured article, yet our “light” pro- viders treat all remonstrances with the most supreme indifference. The offensive and noxious odors of unpurified gas, which often convert our homes into pesthouses and render the vicinily of gashouses ulierly untenable, are caused by the parsimony of the manuiacturers, They uso only an inferior quality of coal, and the gas is strongly impregnated with sulpbur. The Sanitary Commission undertook to remedy this evil and trace it to the proper source, but they accomplished nothing in the end. The gas companies, knowing their power and re- joicing in their enormous incomes (the annual profits of one of the city companics exceeding twelve hundred thousand dollars), laughed at all efforts made to bring them toa sense of their duty, They still continue their shame- less extortions, couduct their manufactories in @ manner that renders them public naisances, and obstinately refuse to submit to the public satisfactory statements of iheic affairs, On this last point resis the evil of our gas monopoly, placiag ibe public entirely at the mercy of a private corporation. There ia no reason why the supply of gas for the metropolis should aot be made a city department and be placed in the hands of officials appointed for that pur- pose, We have Croton Aqueduct Board, and water Is plentifully supplied to every family at mere nominal rate, If this department were entrusted to a private corporation water would cost nearly as much as liquor. Now gas has become one of the necessities of metropolitan life, and it should be supplied by the city itself, so that the onormous profits now aceru- ing from its manufacture would be transferred - from the pockets of greedy, soulless speculators into the city treasury. This is the only remedy that can be applied to the evils we labor under al prosent in the lighting of the city, and the Legislature should act upon it at the earliest opportunity. It is mere waste oi words to call on the present gas companies to mend the evil of their ways. Rare Paintings and How They Multiply. A clever system of gulling tho public in art matters by the application of the principles of the traditional Peter Funk to the peddling off of daubs end smoked copies of old master- pieces as genuine has within the past ten years developed into an exact science. Gal- leries on Broadway are splendidly fitted up and opened with collections from the old masters which would startle an old master out of his wits. Raphael died and had no idea of the number of times he bad painted his whole list of subjects ; Rubens produced brilliant orgies, but went to his grave without an inkling of the incalculable number of low- land orgies which would be begotien of his own masterpieces; and during ton years New Yorkers have bought, at passable prices, more masterpieces than the whole army of the old masters ever put upon canvas. It has become & fashionable mania to affect the artistic. & Hoddy, who cannot tell the difference between & daub and ® painting or even between oil and water colors, buys lasgely and by the invoice—buys indifferent copics and consoles himself with the funcy that if the specimens be not genuine they are at least quite as “handsome” as the genuing thomselves. “Handsome” is the word. A ploture must be “handsome” or the collector refusce to invest; and if a picture be not “handsonte,” & ¢ gairish and glaring, it is atealahtway taboood. New Yorkers, as a rale, | on both sides of the Atlantic. -| debtor to procure the consent of two-thirds of notwithstanding the numerous collections ex- examining a genuine specimen from of 8 European masier—the few existing being held'at pricés too fabulous for the American market, where quantity is of more importance than quality ; and tho injury wrought,to public taste by the exhibition of daubs bas elmost become a matter for legislation. Meantime auctioneers sell daubs because daubs are ‘salable; and Americans who affect’ the ar tistic. buy daubs for a paraphrase of Talley- rand’s reasons for believing tho Bible—frstly, ‘because daubs are fashionable, and secondly, because they know nothing about thom. - Tne National Bankrupt Law. The act establishing a uniform sysicm of bankruptey throughout the United States has been now some eight months in operation, and although the period has been brief, and the details and workings of the law, were buat imporfecily known to both bench and. bar, the couniry at large begins to fool and appreciate its beneficial influence. In all countries it is requisite that some legal measures should be devised to protect the honest but unfortunate merchant or tradesman whom the incubus of debt has prevented from: continuing his busi- ness, ‘thus deyriving the community of many of its most useful and industrious’ members, Many'a family has been reduced to indigence through the persistence of some Shylock insist- ing upon Lis “pound of flesh,” and thereby causing loss to himself and other creditors, who would have all been paid had a little time been allowed. Under these circumstances. it has been found necessary to pass laws afford- ing relief to debtors, and every State in the Union, with one exception, has endeavored by statutory enactment to provide such relief, In this State there was a law called the Two- thirds act, which rendered it necessary fora his creditors before he could be discharged from his indebtedness. The principal and it seemsthe only objection to the present general Bankruptcy law is its expensivene:s. The honest debtor who has surrendered all his stock of worldly goods towards the payment of his debis finds it impossible to mect the demands made by the law and its offlcers as a prelimi- nary step towards granting the relief which is sought. In the Register’s charges are included such items as office rent, light, clerks, station- ery, &c., which are unjust and unnecessary. Measures should be taken to prevent this glar- ing extortion. Again, in case of involuntary bankrupicy, the petitioning debtor, under our present system, may be prevented from deriv- ing any benefit from the law, as no provision is made for the appointment of an official as- signee to receive and hold the assets of the debtor until the final adjudication of the court. This decision, in cases where the application is resisted, is frequently delayed for months, the debtor in the meantime retaining his assets, with full power to do what he pleases with them. If Congress would only abandon for a moment their “ nigger’ studies and squabbles with the Exeoutive and turn their attention to the subject of bankruptcy they would benefit tho couniry more than their present course is doing, and would remove the obstacles that impede the operations of the present national Bankruptcy law. The Arrest of Train—A Case for Mr. Seward. One of the most striking and remarkable events of the day is the prompt arrest o! George Francis Train immediately upon his arrival on British soil. His apprehension by the Bow sireet runners had no connection with street railrouds or woman’s suffrage, but was, we are assured, induced wholly by his woll known Fenian sympathies and the fear that he might carry with him into her Majesty’s dominions, among his ordiuary bag- gage, hand grenades, infernal machines, re volvers, bowie knives, copies of his own speeches and other combastible and dangerous material. The arrest, therefore, becomes at vnee an international question, and will raise Train in some people’s estimation to an im- portance equal to that assumed by Mason and Slidell during the rebellion. Indeed, we are by no means sure that he will not yet fill a larger space in history than Mason, Slidell and the whole Southern confederacy combined, and cast the much debated Alabama claims into the backgronad. Train bas alveady figared prominently be- fore the people of the two Continents, In England some years ago he proposed to con- fer upon the population the benefit of horse railroads ; but somehow or another he failed to keep on the track, got himself into a maddle, and, like his brother plilosopher Grecley, saw the inside walls of a foreign prison. When he returned to the United States he established a Crédit Mobilier and a CréJit Foncier, to turn every man into a millionnaire; but although he made a great noise ia Omaha we do vot remember what became of the money or the speculation, Since the subsidence and mysterious disappearance of Colorado Jowett Train has held the trumpet of fame in“ bis own grasp, and what with woman’s rights, copperhead politics and Feni- an'sm, he has sounded it right lustily on his own behalf. It is the duty of the government to inquire at once into the facts connected with the collaring and hauling off to jail of such a prominent pairiot and distinguished citizen. Congress should immediately take up the case. It will be far better than legislating to destroy the government and give political and social supremacy to the negro over the white man. Above all, Secretary Seward should x01 suffer this outrage to pass unnoticed. Let him write no long letters on the subject, which nobody will read, but bring the matter to an iasue by immediately arresting Charles Dickens and holding him as @ hostage for the captured Train, Here is a direct road out of the difi- culty, Dickens and Train are both great talkers, each has an immense idea of his own importance, and each wears o profusion of seals, rings, pins and chains. They would be an excellent set-off, one tor the other. As the grenter nation of the two we can afford to be the more generous, and therefore we do not propose that Dickens shall be imprisoned, even though Train be kept under lock and key. ‘Ihe hostage may go through with his readings and make as much money as he can, only giving bis parole not to leave the United States until Train’s return, safe and sound, with his flowing looks unshorn. If Seward will at once arrest Dickens in the nme of the Amorican republic wo shall speedily bring England to her senses and satisfy the Fenians <Devonuarion Wanrep.—As to he War Depart ment muddle every one. tells bs own story— Grant one Johnson anotr, and Stanton still another, , of course, ustifying bim- self. Would it not be well for “ongress to ap- point a committce of investigtion and have the ense fully and minutely inaired Inio and all the questions and anawerspubdlished ina big volume? The doing this night keep Cou- gress from doing something wore. CITY POLYTICS. Tae Younc Mys’s Gevenaz Comurree ov TAMMANY Hait.—The Young Men's General Canmittee of Tam~ many Hall will mees at tue temporay rooms of Tam- many Hall, 114 East Thirteenth eiret, on, Thursday evening, the 23d inst,, for the purposcof effecting a per- 3 js#ued a call tor the pupose o° securing cance of the membors { the commiites Fursuani to the culiof Tammany Aal, on January 10.4 Poruion Of the comm tice, insufficientior tue purpose of rmapent organization, presented itsilf at the rooms of Uhe curmmittce und temporarily wind, This pauciiy of pumbers was cither dus to the fact tht the other mem- ‘bers had received no notice of the yeeting or because this committee has of late years exised but in name, 3 declined to take any practical iurest in the ailairs of the party. if the former, the cal will serve as an elleotive notice for the ensuizy moiting, and if the latter, in view of the growing interestgol the democratic Lehi ag yt pe I Tet his year in Canis muaic! te an national, 0 Lemaporary 6: a man trusts the ‘cali will be teariiy onded to by its mem The committeo should exist not only in name, but in fact; ats members should work, and work together, and chen tts powor, if it but chooees to properly exercise %, will become aa- mi ‘the ppoeberd Bro requested to the Secrolary uf. she comtativog, ig! Baward. Heory @ commil wi jenry Anderson og the chairman pro tem, and Mr. hartin tem. Orrosition RapioaL Umiox Rervsiscat Comurrres. —The Executive Committee appointed from t1e Union Republi- can Committee Hilal i 5 the radiq! republican ele- ment had # meoting atfour P. M, yestirday at 64 Frank- lin strect. ‘he oniy business transaciid was the eiection of Isaac J. Oliver os permanent prestient and Messrs. William Drummond and Allen Cooper as secretaries, aoe which the meeting adjourned & four P, M. next A New Wopxincusn’s Panry.—A mass moeting of German workingmon was held last aight at the Ger- mania Assembly Kooms, in response to a call inviling reunion of workinzmen, to form a tew socialistic and political party, having for its objec a remodelling of toe system of governmental admiuisraion at present existing, whereby the condiiion of the work. ingmen of the count migh be improved end their influence ia the Biate extended. A platform embracing as its lealing poiate the folowing was pro posed :—}'irst—The abolition of all inpost dutios, with the exception of an income tax and cf duties of impost upon raw material, Sevond—KEcouemy and retrench- ment im every branch of the public service. Third—The enforcement of the eight bour law. kourta—Lao re- Peal of ali laws in conflict with the principle of equal rights for all, and of prohibitory and Sunday laws. Fifth—Eiigibility-of every citizen to Congress or the Legiglature without restriction as to Mxidence, Sixth— Only the Uniied States to issue papet money, abolition of the vatioual banks and strict ouforcement of the laws touching bribery and corruption at elections, Ihe meet- jug was weil atieuded aud entered with much earnest- ness 10 & discussion of these several propositions, TRE LATE ROBBERY OF THE BA\K OF THE REPUBLIC, Acrest of the Thieves. Tt will b, ramecuborod that on the 16th inst. United States and muwovuri bonds to the amount of $15,000 were stolen from the Bank of the Republic by some person who, it was supposed, had been lurking in the counting room of the institution while the discount clerk was advancing # loan upon the bonds to a cus- tomer, and who, during the temporary absence of the clerk, managed to make away with the bonds unde- tected by any person iu the bank, = ‘AS soon as the robbery was made known to the Police authorities superintendent Kennedy detailed Certain ‘of the detectives to work up the case, and im view of the boldness which thieves of the bond species have shown in their piunderings of late, be thougat fit to impress upon the detectives’ miuds that the men who had taken the bouds from the bank should be taken at all hazards, and that right speedily, ip order to show robberdom that it could pot carry oa ia ~~ and exceedingly disagreeable business With inpunity, Under these orders detectives Phil Farley and Eustace co-operated, and floally onme to the conclusion, after considering ail the diflicuities they would have to en- counter, and all the probabilities On which they might base cortatu of tueir piaus in the work beiore them, that a ceriain “gentieman,"' well knowa, as they allege, in gambling circios, Was not aitogether ignorant of ali tbat happened in the bank the day of the robbery. so hemor rey pa to hunt him up; but they Found tuat it was @ far easier task to walk up town and down town and acioss town, and to ride iu stages aud cars and what not in their search ng tour, tuan ib was Lo get wituin eyeshot of the individual whom they sus- pected to have been in the Bank of the Republic on the 16th ins. Yesterday forenoon, bowever, they espied the maa t quietly, and in@ mood which apparently indicated the utmoat pranasibitg, of mina, sauotering along the aristocratic side of Broadway, Messrs. Farley and Eustace stop up to him and inti- maved that if be would be so obliging as to extend bis waik in their company as far as Police Headquarters Le would save himself a great deal of unnecessary troubie and Broadway a scene ia which he wouid be forced to play @ victim’s part, Mr, Edwin Mead, for.such is accosted the the name of the individual dutectives, on being addressed by the two “strangers," glanced about hun hastily for a ‘only bo al wind we of 6 rr ignomi Moun running the risi ying an nous death om the sidewaik, gazed at by a vuigar crowd, did he attempt to escupe, smiled a very grim smile, bowed ively, and informed the oilicers that, although New ‘eai's day hud pas-ed, under the peculiar cireumstaaces tw which be was placed he could not refuse their invita- tion to call on Superiaiendent Kennedy, On being brought to tue police central office, before Captain Jona Young, Moad was searched, wuen two of the stolen Missour: bonds wero found on his person. ‘When questioned as io how he had come by them, he said that & man by tho name of Miles Murray bad given them to bin. Mead was then placed under tock and key, whilo diesers, Fariey und Kustace weu; out to look tor Murray, Afver considerable of a seared they found thelr man on Second avenue, near Sixth street, and brought him to headquarters, where, on search. wg him, the eight remaming Missourr bouds were found safely siuffed iate” various parts of his , clothing. In answer to questions put to him relative to the bonds he stated that Mead had given them to bim. Besides the bonds a yery large amount of money was found on the porson of Murray, It is supposed that the two men changed the numbers of the five United statos bonds tuat ‘9 stolen, and thus suc- cveded ia negotiating their sale or sold them within an hour or so after the securities had been taken from the bank aod before the “dealers in bonds and other securi- ties’? could be warned of the danger tucurred in pur- chasing them, ‘The two men are said to be, by the detectives, gamblers of the first water, moving in those aristocratie Circies Wherein the most successiul fighters of the tiger are considered tho wortniest mombers of their sphere, ‘and that Mead has been for some time | rel acting asa “pull”? in Wall street specutations, They are both genUemanly jooking, of the medium height, Me: Weariug 00 Whiskers and Murray sporting iarge Dui Grearies, of whicb, like all specimens of masculin: boasting of ‘‘side boards,” he is very proud, SHOOTING AFFRAY BETWEEN WATCHUEN. Owe of Them Severely Wounded—Retigious Differences the Cause. For some time past Martian Samand and Epbraim P, Coon have been employed as night watchmen at the freight depot of the Erie Railway Company, foot of Duane street, Yesterday morning, at five o'clock Sa- SUICIDE OF A BOY BY HANGING. Mr. and Mrs, Stadfeit, of No, 103 Fourth avenue, on returning home from a‘ visit yesterday afternoon dis- covered tive lifeless body of ‘yd fon, ioent Lt fourteea years of a we” & towel from a nail in the door ofthe room. oe fon he had been hang- tog or what causod him to commis the act is not known. A NEW JERSEY. - . athe Jersey City. hy ‘Tow Acoipenr 4% ray Ruiznoap Dzror.By she acot- dent which occurred at the New Jorsey Railroad d:pos on Weds the driver of a mail wagon was slightly iu- jure A ‘map standing beside the horse Was also struck, bat verong the Stnashing of the railroad car no further iajury ‘Susta:ged, e Newark. A Man KILLED ON Ta8 Bargoa,—Yosterday morning an unknown ma was killed on the New Jersey Rail- road, near the Wish House, in Kast Newark, by the eleven o'clock train from New York, @ body was conyoyed to Lhe Mai ‘street depot, subgequentiy removed to the Morgue, Deceased, in company with « triend, was walking along the side of tbe , whem the engineer of tho train sounded the whistleto warn the men of theirdanger, ‘The deceased atepped upoa the wack direatly io front of the locomotive, and was own a distance of fifty yards, He waa apparently jcrman, about siaty years of age, a THE NEWARK SSIRTUALISTS. Arrest of E, Z, Wickes-Three Indictments Aguinst Him—Coudition of Miss Reevee= Mck) in Court. At th sitting of the Essex county Grand Jory the dotalls of the disgusting spiritaalistic exhibitions were Presented before that body, and after mature delibera- tion on their ‘part indictments were found, not only against: the man McEwen end Mrs, Reeves, but also three againt Dr. E. 2, Wickes, of the Mutua: Publishing Company. Upon the indictments being presented to the court then in segsion a writ of capias was issued.tor bis arrest and placed in the hands of constable Ball Tne officer t onca to the publishing house in Gar- den aiken bea wince could not be found. Fortwo or three days the officer continued his search, but on Sua- day night he obtaiued such information as bia to secure the arrest of the accused, Yesterday morning the constable proseeded to Now York, and ol ing the assistance of a New York detective visited 208 Broadway In room No, 16 of the building he ound yiieg This Peet is in some nape seman om = the jowarl pablisping topsee) prisoner a mani- fested a disposition not to accompany the officer, but on Jearning that if he did not be would be locked up in the Tombs until a requisition tor his removal could be pro- cured be quietly accompanied the officer to Newark and was iaken to the office of the Essex county shberid, where he was subsequently remanded for trial, © ‘The indictments against Wickes are for misfeteanor, fence consists of is stil unknown. ‘Miss Beeves, the daughter of the woman pow con- fined in the Stute Lunatic Asylum, and woo took @ prom- {neut part in the exhifions of nudity, ts stil at her residence. Sho insists that ner conduct wag in no manner improper, and that the world will yet seo that she hes for the truth’s sake. Ste pretends to read the inmoss secrets of those who cali upou ber, and argues the (rude of her asgertions with great duency. Upon ail othor sub.octs, however, she 13 perfectly sane. Miss Reeves States that ver mother and McEwen have’ attended “circles” at the engine house occupied by the pubhish- ing company, public denial to the contrary notwith. standing. In the Essex county court yesterday morning the triat of MeMwea Was postponed uotil Monday next. Om being placed a! the bar he war questioned Ly the Court in regard to bis counsel. He replied, ‘od i+ my counsel,” The Court refused to allow the triai'to pro- ceed, and assigned CL, ©, Giflerd to detend tue prigoner, Brilliant Affair at the Academy of Music. The firemon's ball, for tbe bouedt of the widows and orphans’ fund of tue old departunvat, which took place at the Academy of Music last evening, was per sea brie lant adair, being aigo the uccasion of a brilliant assom- Dlage, The decorations for the occasion were few and appropriate, but not fanciful, expressing the meaning of the festival and appealing to tho benevolence of Now York in letters of gas jeie, Tue atieudance, notwithstanding the fall of sleet and rain, which froze as it feil, wus une usually demvustraing tuat tbe votaries of fasuion ave Do ton to being benvvvlent provided @ plea- sant combination of benevolence and pleasure Can be effected by those who appeal to sueir pockcss, Doors were open’ at eight o’ciock, aller which ine boas a roil of carnage wheels through Fourteenth s1 73 the direction of Irving place, which, having deposned their irelghts of fair women and brave men, were ordered into line by the police to reappear at @ iaicrnourof the eatlime tee _veeter? Mf fire which depends cae the Lt ol cel Ww suddou), ie: ss tho head of tne vad of in arias of fashion ‘Showed tickets, and were graciously 0 pass iu by the doorkvoper. Commitices tnree, in badges combining the red, white and biue-an ébuilli- jored = patriotiem to which Americans are barmlersty addicted—were already on the floor, and Fag ‘Ro pains to mainiain most per! harmoay in afl @ arrangements for tue evening. Tue police com- mittee wore the red, the floor managers the white, and the saloon committee the blue, Tne music was under the experienced direction of Q S, Grafulla, and con- sisted of a web of sweet sounds, woven together from the works of Strauss, Pariow, Wiegand, Hermann, aod tat Pack of music, the comp: of the Opéras Bouflés. ‘The dancing was kept up untii quite midnight, end the Wee smali Lours came dropping in by ones and twos be- fore the last carriage took up its freight of fashion and was driven off into she lamplight. T. B. Peterson & Brothers continue to issue thetr popular people's edition of Dickens’ works, and have just Drought out “Nicholas Nickleby,” “Oliver Twist” and “Bleak House," handsomely bound in cloth, prated on excolient paper in clean type, and containing a mumber of illustrations, which might have been in a better style of engraving, we think, without detracting from the general make-up of the book. Messra, Peterson are also publishing a cheap twenty-five cent edition of the same author’s works, the ninth volume of which—“‘A Tale of Two Cities,” ts just out. The edition is printed in large type, im doubie columns, on clear paper, and cer- tainly is an excellent one for ine low price for which it is placed in the hands ot the million, ‘he Charles Dickens’ edition of his own works is pub- shed by Ticknor & Fields, of Boston, ‘David Copper- feid”’ is the last issued, and is equal typographicaily ana ia make up to its predecessors. Toey have aiready @:ta- lished the reputation of Dickens’ edition. THE SECOND AVENUE HOWiCIDE, Yosierday was the third day's sitting of the above in- quest, which continues slowly to drag iis weary length along, Some few additional facts were elicited having bearing on the caso. Dr. Purdy, the police surgeon, in his evidence, is wholly antagonistic to the statement of Wiogand’s family physician as to the nature of the wounds inficted on the deceased, the former being of the opinion thal they were caused by @ pistol ball ia- stead of @ sharp wi as the ysician tes- tified. Stephen !Jnindol!, an officer of tue procioet in which the allray took deposed that he was at Mosbach’s saloon on the night of the 2a instant, aud saw the deceased leaning against the counter, and Mosbach standing benind the bar with a revol ver in his hand. He arrested Musbach, aa Stick said that he had shot at hi dd took him to the sia tom, where be was locked M4 until the next morning, when he was released on bail of $500 to appear al the Special sess.ons, Oilicer Aboot coniirined the previous witness's testimony as (® what took place in the saloon, and Dr, Purdy then gayo evidence, the sub stance of which is given above, ‘The inquest was then adjourn-d until to-day at noon, whea tho in¥ostigation will be comtinued, WESTCHESTER INTELLIGENCE. Serovs Acaorst TO Ma, Moyor, or Westcrssrar. — On Sunday evening, about sevea o'clock, while Mr. J, B. Monot, of Hi Point, Westeheser, formor pro- prietor of the New York Hotel, accompanied by a gon- tleman named Biair, was driving along McComb’s Dam road, near Fordham, in endeavoring to keep out of the way of an approaching vehicle, his rockaway struck a and the loss of a wheel. The post caused a i valuable pair of Hambletonians, became fri; dashed og & territic without a it the face and head, He was removed to the Fordpam serious, are not neces- daugerous {he carriage was smashed and the horses bruised considerabiy. THE GOLE-MISCOGK AUADER CASE From the Ei Toi of (Fe as Sree i atl The trial of Cole for the mai of Of Syracuse, a member of the Constittional Cot Galondat fot ants woek, bat wil a peso ability be cal my postponed. Mr. Hadley, the counsel for will dive papper oat pp opto od the etter may have time to die out of In the case of Mrs. ot jsoning her husband, the same ‘counsel (Mt, Had matter aly’ id the pd yp ay and eventually. not err ae on ons of soldler, who nero dorderiy whale being tranuper soldiers, who were disorderly w tr tod toe company, being discharged and inflicting tne wound, Tha caso has been very ably conducted by Linus Child of New York, R. H. Dana of Boston aod 8. B. Baldwin, of New Haven, for the tion, and Joremah Hat- sey of Norwich and J. 8, Beach of New Waven (or tha defonce, — New Haven Courier, Jan 20, sacrificed her aid . ee