The New York Herald Newspaper, January 27, 1868, Page 5

NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY. JA Wasunoron, Jan. 20, 1868. 11 o'Clock P. Mt. TRINORAPHIC. NEW CUBA. of the Southern States. Mr. J. W. MeClurg, of Missouri, chairman of the Com- mittee on Southera Railroads, wil! report about the lattor end of next week from the majority of the committes. The testimony elicited in the investigation ordered by the Thirty-ninth Congress, on @ resolution ef Thad ky volumes, and the report will be day, owing to | Stevens, Alle two bal P The ehurches were crowded to-day, owing proportionately lengthy. The committee found that the . id he Thanksaiviog holiday, Fie paar Southern railroads are stil! (udented to the general gov- nd preached the sermon, Captain General @roment tO the extent of $5,000,000. The original Appropriate to the occasion. Cap’ my Titan | MOUnt was 67,600,000, for which the railroads ga Lereundi attended mass s: 2? b spel ponds to gecure tho payment by monthiy instalments, eburch, which was crowded by the tin? of Havens | nie debt was the result of » purchase by ihe roads of Wocloty. very liberal (erms ofall the rolling stock bought at the 4 The weather is superb, and the health of the | North and used by the government during the war, All oity excellent. Clean bills of health will be tasucd rolling stock captured were turned over enseforth. {reoly to the different Zouthern eompantes, maktn; the aggregate about $16,000,000 worth of proper! government, both in this instance and in the terms stipulated for the liquidation of the debt contracted by the roads in receiving the goverament rolinng stock, acted fm & liberal and magnanimous spirit, but {¢ was found on investigation thai the térats of the bargain were Hot being fairly acted upon by thé ocn- tracting parties for whose benofit the tramgactions were mado, However, this imputation witi not apply to all the railroads of tha South. Most of them fuldiled ne cequirementa of the bargain ds far as lt was possible ia itolr atraitened circumstances; but those which were mot proaperously situated were the very ones, atrange to aay", that offered every excuses to pospone and put of the payment of their obligations, and to this day have done litti'* ox mothing te that end, They even presumed to cherish the eepectation of being compensated for tho use the general goVermment made of thelr roads during the rebellion. The ronda referced to are sttuated in Tennessee, and the secret of She mattor is, the Legislature of that State endorsed their bonds, ans! {s very willing to let the general government remain ag jong a# possible their creditors. Mr, Chanier, of New Xork, will presoat the minority report, and urge the continuance of the same liberal measures toward the companies which havo hitherto been granted; but in most other points be will agroe, it ts expected, in the views of the majority. Utah—How the Mermons Hold Thetr Elections. The testimony in the case of the contested election between Mr. McGrorty, the candidate of the Gentiles, and Mr, Hooper, the candidade of the Mormons of Utah, ts being printed, and it {a expected that the matter wilt come before the Committees on Elections at an early day, Mr, McGrorty, 1t 1s said, presente a strong argument against the right of Mr, Hooper to represent the Territory in Congress, and {t seems as though Cou- gress will be obliged to grapple with the serious ques- tion of polygamy in deciding between the contestants Mr. McGrorty will show the unlawful manner in whiob SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. Thanksgiving at the Churches—Weather Su- Havana, Jan. 26, 1868, THE PRESS TELEGRAM. Thankegiving Day in Havana—Marine inte: MNgence—Exchange Quotations=Sugur Mar- Obs Havana, Jam, 26, £868. Grand religious ceremonies took place at the Catinedral today. A 7% Dewm was sung in thankegiving for _ the disappearance of the cholera from this tsiand, + Brom thie day forth al! vessels leaving this port wilX , Be granted clean bills of health, The steamphip Liberty arrived to-day from New Or- ere Ou her way to Baltimore, k hange on the United States, in gold, % per’ cent Premiam for long sight, and 23¢ per cent for short sight, ~* @ugar,=The market closed heavy and inanimate fast night, but prices are without quotable change. JAMAICA, SPECIAL TELEGRAM TQ THE HERALO, Disappointment of the Dominican Commis. sioner Fiallo. Havana, Jan. 26, 1868, Senor Fillo, the Dominican Commissioner to Jamaica, had to leave moneyless and without hay. ing been able to obtain either powder or balls. _DEMARARA, » Fronch Convicts Overrunn the Colony= Arrival of C : Havana, Jan. 26, 1868, Wefhave accounts that Guyana is pestered with eonvicta from Cayenne. They have been sent back at the expense of the Frenoh government. ’ At Trevelyan four hundred coolies had arrived from China, Seven died on the passage. elections are conducted tn the land of saints. It ts dis. closed tm the testimony that on the day appointed for ENGLAND. an election the judges of election, who are also bishops eee ener and elders of the Mormon Church, take their seats at The Atndama Claims Correspondence Closed= | the polls, Before them (s laid « quantity of printed Tr Arre: tickets. The voters come up in succession and state how Lonvow, Jan, 26, 1868. ‘The London Observer in its Issue of to-day adsorts that ‘Dy the last despatches exchanged between Lord Btanley and Seoretary Soward in the matter of the Alabama Glaims the correspondence om the subject is finally qoned. } It ts oMictaily denied and im the moat positive manner that any orders or despatches authorizin; arrest of ‘Mr. Train were sent from the Home Offipe here, The they wish to vote, whereupon the jadge selects the tickets and deposits them tn the ballot box, at the same time informing the voters that their ballotaare in A clerk near at hand records the name of the voter and the number of the ballot, It frequently happens that one person presents a list of voters’ names, all of whom are absent from the polls, and thus a great cumber of ballots are cast by proxy, The testimony also shows that eight-tenths of the voters are foreigners, who have responsibility of that action Is thrown entirely upon the never been naturalized, that Hooper ran as wi acgidesulbarbdioy a candidate for Representative of the State of Deseret, as woll as that of dolegate for Utah, DENMARK. and that, if ho ts admitted, { should be asa representative of a foreign government, and that located within the territory of the United States. It will be shown that the Mormon district {s regarded by them ts © separate and independent government, that Brigham Young {esues messages as Governor of the State of Deseret, and that no taw enacted by the Terri- torial Legislature of Utab will he recogeized by the unti! (} has deen passed by the General Assembly of the State of Degeret. {t is also proved that Mr, Hooper, when be was endowed by the Church, was re- quired to take an oath of hostility to the United States, and ts, therefore, not « preper person to be admitted te the Congress of the United States. Teleg ye Mr. Washburn, of [lmola, te busily engaged {0 per- feoting his bill to secure telegraphic postal communica- tion with all parts of the United States. He has already received information from Europe pertaining to this subject, and 1s daily awaiting more, As he contemplates violent opposition from the established telegraphic lines, he desires to make his proposed system so complete and desirable that there will be mo doubt of tts adoption, It will be some weeks before the bill will be ready for pre- sentation to the House; but when it bas 60 far pro- grossed he will endeavor to secure immediate action in order to make the benefits expected to scrue from so rapid a means of communication avaliable at the earliest moment. Whe West India T: e Troaty in the Legisiature. Coraxmaaun, Jan. 26, 1668, ‘The following progress bas been made in the Ri dag on the question of the ratification of the treaty for ‘Abe sale of the West India Isiands to the United States:— In the Folksthing, or Lower House, the special com- mittee appointed to consider the provisions of the treaty, and examine the details of the negotiations be- “prreon the Danish and Amorican governments, made a “favorable report, This was debated during the latter part of the week in secret session. #, On Saturday the doors of the chamber were thrown @pen, After a spooch from the President, closing the @abdate, the vote was taken and the treaty of transfer ‘Was ratified without a dissenting voice. ~The treaty now goes te the Landsthing, or Upper Mouse, of the Rigedag, for the concurrent and fins) motion of that Body, % ABYSSINIA. British Captives, Lonpox, Jan. 26, 1963. ‘The latest despatches recoived from Annesley Bay and Benafe show that the British forces have as yet madeno <pdvance beyond the latter point, Intelligence of the cot tion of the British captives had been received in the j p at Senate, They were at Magdala, alive and well, aaa Were carefully guarded to prevent a possibility of puoape. It was feared by many that they would be re@ as soon as King Theodorus heard of the Ppproach of the expeditionary force, but no threatening Gemoustration against their lives had deen made, snd “paolr troatment as prisoners remained unchanged SOUTH CAROLINA. The Conventiou—Proposed Relief Mensures. Cuantaston, Jan, 26, 1968, The Reconstruction Convention yesterday adopted fwo revolutions requesting Genera! Candy to exempt ne hundred eores of ind from sale under execution, amd te suspend sales of property by the sheriff for fhree momyha, The measures of relief proposed do n: favor the violation of cuntracta The Cisposition ef the Convention {e conservative TENNESSEE, Tho Ordnance Tnvestiaation. ‘The Ordnance Committee met yesterday, bearing wit- ‘nesses in regard to the alleged abuses in the Ordnance Department of the Government. The object was to se- cure copios of the orders by which the inventions claimed by Mr. Dyer were manufactured for the use of the government, [+ was stated that no euch orders were formally given, but were contained im private letters. Those, is appears, were dostroyed. This action bas acted unfavorably on the minds of the cammittes, sod there is some talk of harsh measures for this inexp!t- cable disposition of such valuable material, General Butler, who was authorized to make @ report of the labors of the committees up to the present, has eus- pended bis work to allow more teatimony to be taken, Diplomacy Simplifed—New and Novel Treaty Feejee Islands. Feejoe Islands and the United States has just been received at the Department of State, It ts rather vague in point of stipulation ond eccentric Im form, consisting simply of an {mmonse tooth of a whale, ulcely variegated (u color, at the onde of which {9 attached © strongly twisted grass cord, which serves ag « heudle, or as binding the treaty. 1 ‘ered (he tooth wae instructed to may to the President that it wes siresty by which the King of the Feejees mortgaged hie \aiands to the United States for the payment of the (nstalments or indemutty to the United States, to continue for three years, the President, op bie part, to egres to prevent the rival Feojee King from levying wer againet the legitimate sovercign during the continuance of the mortgage, On Deimg arked bow ihe treaty was to be rasified and changed, the sgeut said bis instructi re Ghat if the President socepte the tooth, then the treaty la established, If be deciiner the treaty, be w to returo she tooch to the King of the Feejee Islande, ‘The treaty, oF tooth, wae wrapped in « rude cleth, made from the inmer bark of 8 tree, without spinming or weaving. 1s \# oot EDows whether this ular irenty ‘will be sent te the Senate for ratifeation, 4 Home years ago three seamen deserted from a United Meurnia, Jan, 26, 1664. Joba Cosgrove, one of the prisoners on tris! at Malone was shot, hae been arrested on Malone’ ements in artieulo mortise th at rove had fermeriy threatened bis life. PENNSYLVANIA. . «= Merchaat. 4 PEILADELPEIA, Jap, 26, 1868, + Bariy this morning Charles Edwards was attacked by levee in the streets aad beaten with « billy end bed through the lunge, He will probably din One the sssnasins bas been arrested and identities by Ed. de. 44 Mr. Samuel W. Roop, formeriy of the drm of Biitin Stator verse! and (ook shelier in tke Feajee isinoda An ‘Redp & Co, & known sad highly respected omcer went lm search of them sad appealed to the Grant, died yostorday. suthorition there to ameiad fo y capture, after muck ee re prevarication the King admited (hat (he deserters had MAINE een eaten by his people A demand was as that time made for indemulty, when he sovereign agreed to give Aipulated mam, Ou hapa twenty yeers ego), and (he object of treaty or tooth arramgement # forwarded by the King ap aD evidence of bis good faisB, aad te show thet be has wot forgotien his pecuuisry obtigations, The Congressional Temperance Soviery, The first public meeting of the Cong ynal Torn perance Society this sexton Was held to-night im the hall of (he Honse of Representatives There was orowded auditory, both ou the foor and \n the galier! Senator Wilson pravided, Le ea'd (be society wae organ. od one your ago, and be be bad exercised a good now Storm at Augusta, Avavera, Jan. 26 1468. A sorte anow storm prevailed bere #i) dey, gn aches of snow bas fallen. ' EUROPEAN MARINE NEWS. Quaaerrows, Jan. 20,.—The steamship Manhation, Captain Willi ) Which left New York op the 151m inom, touched at this port today aod subeequeatiy eatled Yor Liverpool. ALLEGED ASSAULT AND ROEDENY, Ww Moser Joha Quiun wae patrolling bis beet is ‘Ninth avenue, adout twe o'clock yosterdey morning, he heard tha ery of murder, and ren shied atroot found Micheei Tangney, ef 902 Bleecker stress, laying on the grovud with bie fe me was anowber ev!) hardly (eo tempe aueceul vely in. Horses Greeley, a speeches on that wror him and gearching bis pockets, At (he seme time Pe ww Philip Bmith and Jobe Amiib crows to she oppo- ite side of he avenne, and, on arresting end searching Aunewatt which fen rt J, Wallenr tins written « long letter Vireeredt sitet Glan ee bags ed ye] Will soon be proliabed, giving e Bistory of the snnere. ter peareey morn. gee Justice | HOD of territory to the United States and in favor of the eee ee teceet ee one Where thay were | purctiags of (lie Russian Amoericad poHeRions and (ine Wilh not on! mltting aD asean's Daninn Wast India Ielands, oy ite Aim ge Sir him of his watuh, valued as and $10 in baci They pleaded net quiley An Brror Corrected. 4 wore coment for eramination, An areor having oconreed im @ former davon it Proper to state that Represontative Pile, of Missouri, in * recent explanation ia the House, distinctly disclaimed 409 persona! knowledge of fraud of charge of fraad by the firm of Fow! Goodell & Co,, of Tlinols, tn connece +100 with goverament contracts, ~ SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. A Vexed Question Settled—A Clerk with a Cabinet Ome Pay—T' Effect of the Reconstruction Bill Upon Individual Kights— Crisis in the Presidential Question—Rival ack of Seoial. Harmony—Popu- lar Levees—Vanity in the Way of Dress, Wasuixatos, Jan, 25, 180 The case of Mr, Stanton, it seoms, {s at last sottled comfortably, The correspondents have proved up thelr | ghatomenia tziiching Goneral Grant's agency in reinvest. | ing the suspended Seoreiary with his porifolio, aud (he binet {a reconstructed by and with the consent of the Senate, Tho President has made up bis mind to tolo- rate the arrangement, for the oxcoliant reason that he bas no alternative, Bis only hope is iu the r of the obnoxious minister, and of this there is not jongh prospect to elevate the executive thermometer evento the Mark Tapley temperature of cheerfulness Mr, Stantom back im tue War Department designed that he should remain thors, It Wasas much a part of the new programme of recon- struction sa that which contemplates invalidating tho ctvfl go’ nts of the Southorn States, taterferiug with the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and awal- lowing up the whole power of the government in Gen- era! Grant, The mon who coincide with this view make daily pilgrimages tothe War Department, are in conatant ane’ Confdentiat intercourse wita ti@ bead, and he and they nce # perfect understanding as to the relative ovli- gations of #00 to the other, That ft edo ttery to the notions of honor snd del!- cacy of Grant and Sherman for Stanton to ro- main {s not oply inferable, but has beon demonstrated to the satiafaction’ Of Many; bub the Auotuations of modern politica have WFought a change in the old feehs foned code of honot acd 4iguity, and office has become valuable for itg emoluments 8nd its convenience as an ald to partisan schemes, hes Mr. Stanton resigns it will be from # suggostive imp tae: $hat will mot brook re- sistance, and in the meantime he w.W continue to fi tho place {s the solitary capacity of elerk, with a Cab’ officer's aatary, + The Senate's spirtted opening wpom thy Revoustruction bill foreshadows © protracted and’ sxclting Sampaign, Against the powerful argument of Senator itt¥e they sot their heaviest mag, Senator Morton. 10 Crow iad jeries of the Senate since the oun commgnt of the The men who pla lye was evenied tbe sympativtoe of the audi- ence. The speaker was proceeding {n his illogtcal bus peculiarly demonatrative atyie, aud at Jongth he became inquisitive pounded several questiais to Senator Doolittle, whose argument he was endeavoriag to com- bat. He insisted upon knowing with what «lass of men the Senator would rank himself—would it by with Val. landigham and Jeff Davis? Under what flag would he enrol himself? And this question he repeated, apa) for an auswer, Senator Doolittie rose, and with calns dignity pointing to the flag of the Union, reaponded, Under the flag with thirty-seven stars!’ And tho « lories came down with a round of stamps that Renny ‘ade, with the flory indignation that inspired his vigor. ous raps, could not for thé moment atifie. There are some potnts in this Dill which, aside from Ita collective enormities, are calculated, if it is passed, to infilct individual Ita prime object is, first, to nts, and thus it recently issued grants for State lands, ontered aud sur- veyed in 1854, If the existing State goverments be- come vold by the new Reconstruction bill, the acts of the prosent State officers would also be void, chasers of the land becotce the sufferers. Of these lands there {s one heavy purchaser now at the capital, He bought them from the State of North Carolina iu good faith, and has patd his money fdr them to a ve: large amount. His object is to soll them to setual sot tlers, and to induce colonies of foreign emigrants to buy and cultivate them. By the introductiog of this bil! bis plans are temporarily frastrated, and by its passage he would suffer pecusiary embrrrassment and heavy loss, ‘We have reached @ peculiar and somewhat perplexing crisis on the Presidential question. It i# imposaible to conceal the fact that the constantly secumuiating poli- tical complications have materially depreciated the Grant atock, while to an equal extent it has appreciated thas of Chi The programme seems to be to use Graut for purposes of reconstruction and to kill him by the modus operands that ig designed to place the Executive, the Supreme Court aud Congress in subordination to him. In proporticn to the unpopularity of the measure interred will Grant To pro- portion Congress may receive conderonation for pasa- ing tt, 60, according to prophecy, ie Grant to be con- demned ag tts designated and unresisting tnstrume: He may reconstruct the ten States upon jem for the radical purpose of perpetuation, while bittous Chief Justice bags the same. Tue ©: men are partial to this measure, They at upon his radicalism, of which they have daily confirmation by the minority decisions committing him to full accord end sympathy with Cor and they foresee in thie contemplated elevation of the General-in-Chief a poiiti- cal advantage that wil! be turned to good secount. That the present condition of the Presideatial aues- tion is regarded with uncoramen {utorest by the rival aspirants we need only refer to thoir social relations for confirmation. The receptions of General Grant are open to the public. They are poveiac tertainments to which access is gained without the usual convontional exactions, They are as free to nief Juatios as to u ace; but he does not i} Rimself of hia and his accomplished daughters, Mrs. and Miss Chase, decline to grace the the future dictator, Thi 5 judge Chase sre som at by the courtly people o pointed the street in froi with carri the Grant turnout fs never among the! iufer that the Presidential rivairy bas coolness, The question avto who was the coward in the Chan- ler-Julian quarrol has not yet beau accurately vottied. Mr, Chanler intimated that Mr. Julian wae troubled wiih the malady of cowardice, but them Mr. Jolian retorted with a challenge for Mr. Chanler to test the question for himself at any time, and Mr, Chauler promised to in- duige himself io that luxury without delay, Whew the House adjourned Mr. Juliau burried of under the pri tection of his wif o irection and Mr. Uired in good order by another, By this ilttie we are reminded of the prowess of Dowler and “Pickwick Papers," aud from present appes: adjustment no less amicable than that which it historian of the Pickwicklaus iv lkely ase of onr belligerent raoonstract. settiod stave of polition! affairs does not add to rmouy of the capital. The recoptione are well attended, but there !¢ an exclusivenoss that war noticeable ju the times when there was « prevalence of Southern society, and the xpirit. of imitation held a somewhat arbiivary sway. @ White House levees are #0 accessible thas they are usually Uhronged, o are thore of General Gran'; but the receptions of OC: officers and Senatore are more selset, and denote with no tittle eccursey the p died of the hosts aud prevailing vanity ta the way of Srega for ladiea is black velvet, heavily trimmed with lace, The contrast become unpopular, id footmen; but And 90 we tod a social oe = hite silk; Dat those who drow: expen- es tooolors, The ladies asy there travagance in f witeh etroug corrobors’ But jant of cheerfulness ip society con. sistent with the costly diapiay. The routine of atace! formality at ali the gay assemblies imparie « dulnser (o them that is soothing. Routhera Appeal to C one Kesigtnnce to Nearo Sapremncy, Wasmvoton, Jon, 25, 1807 Cannot the politicians in Congress do pething to Arrest the wild work of rain new being #0 rapidly con- wammoeted in the tem States comporing the grea) plant- tug action of the ‘op fw time to prevent the com entestrophe of genere! destruction through the utte ‘wreck of the cotton, tobe ree and gnger regions We should be sorry to believe 1} was not pomsidie to re serente of industry, com and evi and on sound prineiples of con. tutional few Wesheald be sorry to believe it had become neceenary oF expedient that the Southorm Aiates ould be restored to the Union by force and fraud, with rors practically romtroliing thelr elective power and conetituting their actual and Tega! bodies politic, The solution of the problem of restoration depends on the were that ought to be give Lew fons for the purpose of securing par legitimate end Goatructive uaiumente the radio! politieiane are p « Southora States Into aegro corp oper, and hen drag thera forei mies te ration In the sgeinet (he angry proven of @ th people of the United ef, 00 one not at 4 by pasion can fail to perceive shat agrere error, if note ros! crime, Wii Rave beon committed, It would, indeed, be ‘nflultely eafer and wiser to do sothing theo to de that, Tt would be beth o dreadful * end « fatal curse, Th would end eould only bo the signal for re For, judging frow all of the United States the malo features of They will mover couteus, are aeiplo, that Congroms shi mpore them by rimonious agitation, # Of the tines, the peo; the Rodenstruction acta, om Of politieat Millions of authority in wh that will never fo supremacy ia © Stave whateror. do Gonvingnd = that Whey Will reuwns and roaitt, without Intermisnon, ‘aa effort on the part of the radicat managers to set up ton Negro Statee in the South ae & CoUMtArbalance for the poew dle tows TEP ereRialive ANG eisotoge! jabu- ones it om hie ia Noe Wa ibink Cay the peonle have alreaty dectared that tho radical party ail not perpe'arte (heir rule on auch a Dasia as this, aud that the suodty miliiounires, loaded with their gold- beartug bonds, shai! not thas maintaia a mountain of dobt on the stooping sioulders of an overburdenod na- tion. If, then, it wore really poasible, ag Senator Wilson bas ao confidently asserted, “to bring them alt in (mean. ing tea negro Statea at the south) by the Fourth of duly,” It would bo not only unwise, but to the last do- grea imprudent, blindly to pursue a policy wich if successful, leaves overyihing unsettled, and w! perchance, may Kindle the faraos of # dangerous exci ment throughout the country, Prosiden: Jobnson receatiy, in a message, bas ear estly advised Congress to repeal the Reconstruction act Dut he appears to think that the Executive tment Las exhausted ils rosourers after the dofence it bas made with his vetoes and the Important recommendation he has submitted. Ho (s of opiuion that tee proper remedy for the evils resulting from tho radioal legislanon mast be now Gar either by the people or by the Supreme Court or by the Congress, Sinco the republican party, foilowing a heated leadersh p in Congress, inflicted the wrongs and injuries of which their constituencies have rightfully complained, and since (t ty clearly within the ty of Congress 4 prompt and ample retief to wppose & legislative atone. mout woud be preferable to eitter a judicial or pop lar tomody, Sutveia! action might be Wo formal an slow, aud popular vindication might possibly bo tog rioleak The Linportance of Samath—What tho Dipto- atic Dundrenry Thinks of It in Wash- {ngton, Wasmnaros, Jan, 26, 1808, The arrival here of General Pablo Pujal ea special envoy of the Domtnican republic, bearing fuli powers from hie goverament to treat for the cession of Samana bay to the United States creates, quite a wiir in diplomatic clrcles. Tho opinion of the Dundreary hangers-on of the European logationa is that they “don't kuow where this sort of thing will end, you know," The (nends of Alaska look blue and (be friends of St, Thomee look a shade yollower than usual, for the magnificence of this lags transfor, foreshadowing as it does ® groat tropical empire under the dominien ef the Stars and Stripes, puts their tcebergs and forty-acre patch into the dim back- ground of a beautifully dissolving view. If Congress is wake to @ resifgation of the true interests of the uation Gt felt £9 aocure All the above named territory. a the bay and peulnauia of Samand, I can safely toatiay that ti !mportance has not been over- catimated, Samand {s the natural outlet of the great valley of the Cibao, whose marvellously productive re. sources a0 captivated the imaginations of the Spanish discoverer. In the time of Cbaries V, the exports of this valley exceeded $50,000,000 per annum, ‘The following extracts, which T have buen permitted to make from an official report, show clearly the mill- tary and naval adventagen offered by the bay of Samant Aw I had tho pisasnce of accompanying the expedition reforred to, I can bear wituess to the mathematical cor. roctness of the statement mad “Samaué bay f¢a grand Iead-tocked harvor, or rather aeridy of harbors, shicty miles deep, and tn all its char. acteristics 14 ono of the noblest ‘havens ta tropical Ameries, It embracea within itself ali atten for the construction, repair and supply of claas, in addition to its lont wal fully indented with sheltered c fb the uayiog ef the world may ride out all weashers | ty. “A protecting line of reefs etn stretches across the inner eatrance of the bay aud effectually guards ita interior besin from the heavy seas of the open ocean, bus this barrier {3 traversed by a deep aad commmdious channel which affords easy access to the largost ships. Just within these protecting reefs thora are to the north—only separated by a tongue of land—two deep bays, nobly backed by commanding acctivities and sen- tnolied in front by the Cayos Alevantadus, Ia enterin, thom from the oust there aro about eleven fathoms ol water which gradually shonis to eight, six and four on approaching the beach. “7 parsonally veriiled, by soundings and measuroment, op @ coasting vialt which I rade tn axpectation that the United States government would establish & naval depot in the victnity, that s wharf two hundred foot long would enable jo tp four fathoms of water with clear bottom. Sovoral springs of the purest water fall into this doublo bav, and forests of excallen( slip timber surrouad i} for wiles dvep in- (aod. “There ate numerous other good barb ages on this oxtensive bay, but Toxa more attention om account of entranco of the bay and the capabilities of the position in a military point of view The salient promontoriot which onolose them and tbo king position of (he seatnel Alevantados insure au absolute command of the bay, and with the defeuces re- centiy constructed by the Spanish ougiuoors thie point presents au impregaable fortroms in our Armerican ages." VIRGINIA. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD, Murderous Attack Upon a Colonel by 2 Sole dier=Feariul Straggte=The Soldier Overs powered and Nearly Killed—Supposed Cause of the Attack=Colonel Kone. Lrxounvns, Jan, 26, 1498, The garrison at Carap Sohofield, naar thie city, waa thrown {nto a state of great excitement yasterday after: noon by a bold and daring attempt ou the part of am dier to murder hia superior officer, Coloma! Thomas &. Rowe, The circumstances are that lato In the ovening he soldior called At the quarters of Colonel Rose requesting a fow momenta’ private conv on with him outside, The colonel, in compliance, soon emerged from the door of the building, whereupon tho soldier in- atantly levelled his musket at the colonel and fired, too ball passiag beswoon the arm and body and through the sleave of the coat without inflicting any wound A violent and deadly atruggio now took piace, the officor closing with hla antagonist, and seizing his muskot, to which both held on with terrible energy, knowing that life or death depended upon the fons or pos mn of the weapon. The colonel, how- goon esded im wrestiag {t from his would-be and with the butt ond of it «crack von the head, brow ers hands, no struggie, and fore whil d ly after ty of life, and Was hospital will not re ta iy 1 : in attempting the murder of his com. Bome of the vidiors Shik promoditata I's quarters a th turned to his own to arm bimacif for the perpetr his bloody deed, Others are of opivion that the n was tho chiof of a yang of conspirators agelnat Colon Rose, flicer, it will ber 4, Was recently th Superintendent of Registration and Miectiona at Ren- moad, where charges were mado against lim, After » yours of ago- ations of the Old Tent 4d Germen ell the c . & ses displayed remark profolevey, Among those who particularly dievine guished themsalve were Masters Sam, ieanca, E Marks, 1. Colin, @, Herzig, W Luaxpuosky and L, Jocuboweky who wore warmly applauded. Two pupils of Mias Mary Davic--Mesiare Marks and Jacabowaky—yave aome d ¢ulb munical selections apen the which wers gonorously applaadad. ‘ op i German f Moater Ackerman t Mopo,’' Mester Les; ‘The Ox and the and Master Marke ¢ Tho cinsvew oted 10 @ sad the clasgics by Vr pi”, The geographs clave he prompt auswore giv »pounded, tea bat g the claswor xan ducation lew sha: A your ago. The 9 of & acpariog eetor tem Pruw Commialonor of a8 Of the ptinolp os ebown by the sais of KUCHORGOrE aud comimersiat danie aa {o}lows = Kew York. Philadelptia.... Now rr) Chicago Baltimore, ati rele $4 114.091, 120 cee RE TOT T aves 4120,085, ‘ e718 a OOK ONT, Lot 059 906.4 NUARY 27, 1868. - bildrea who ~ a NEW JERSEY. Jersey City. Farxrnoar Borw™Y,—A Oro broke out at half-past ven o'olock iast aigh On board (he Niagara, a forryboat belonging to the Pavonin Ferry Company, plying be tween Chambers stroot, Now York, and Pavon{a avenue, Jersey City, which was laid up at the foot of Payonia avenuo, Jorsey City, at the time, for tho purpose of being overhauled preparatory to resuming her place on the tine, The fire ts supposed te have been the work of an incendiary, as there were no fires on board and had got been for some time previous, and shere was, therofore, a0 possibility of hor accidentally catching fire, The boat ia one purchased from the Peck Slip Ferry Company; sho has been extensively repaired, snd was Worth considerably more than whoo sho plied tho Fast rivor in the service of her formar owners, Sho is anid to have been worth (rom $30,000 $40,000, and we could not learn of any ingurauce. When the fire was first dis- covered the most strenuous exertions were mads to her, and the ferryman had the hose ready for operations, when the boat was unfortunately out ioose oy sone Goknown person or persona, just aa No, 1 f Jersey City arrived upon the ground, and the fting slowly away from the docs, id reaoh of the streams throwo; and, down atream, just below ouse, where she now lies, burned to the +] Qad_apparentiy @ total loss, Two canal boats, owned by Smid & Rano, (whi owder mills are situated up Lhe North rivéf,) lay just off the dook cireotiy fa the way of the burning boat, These canal boats being used for the storage of powdor. two thousand pounds of which oombustibl be stored on boatd—considerable approhe cited lest thoy might catch fire froa the Niagara; bub fortunately these fears were not realized, Hoboken. A Wows Acowewratir Pomowry nt Panis Gary, at Peoria, May 6, ; held at Madison, February 26, qitd Tom the same piace oa the 10ih, a week onriitr, ba y | eight hour provige should e | dill 5 tn “a ward, which has tong deol Knowy as ond of the vilost haunta ta the city, Ite keeper, @ woman of some forty years, aad of a notoriously low character, by CHCOMrag Og bis visite Boow obtained auch compiete as- Condoncy over him a to induce him to make her « Promise of marriage, whioh she eagerly accepted, Ow ‘uesday night last the boy ther #tales that ahe him son with liquor, and before he hat recovered 14 effects went wilh bim before ® justice on the soutls 1 of the river, who performed ta mairimonial cere, mony. They then returned to hor residence; bat their bilag was of short duration, for the eucient bride was arroatod uoxt day on sundry charges which being unablo to find bail was sn the father of the unfortunale’ bee ‘cone course he had taken, und, ass lust ron fo gond him to the Bouse of Retuge; riley Der Jan. 25, POLITICAL [NTELLIGENCE, The Uilinola republican State Gonve Mon wil bo held The Wisconsin Republiean State @onvention wii be There is talk of cutting down the aa! mon to $4,000, with mileage at ten cents « mulle, inserted ia auch o The Speaker to the House of Representat i to have $7,000 @ year, Thiy movement ta pt made dy the radioals for the purposo of lessening the oxpénsd of buying off negro aspirants for Congrossionat honors in the South, One of the members of the Kansas Legtslature elected on the same day that the amendment to the con- stitution disfranabising all who bad been dishonerabiy discharged from the service wag adopted is by that swendment dedarred from holding hisses, and a bill him of the disabitity, On Friday night # woman named Mary Carrotl, awed _ ee bape edd nits ferip.av Yoara, who resided in Willow atreor, had beon | Whio. WAY Pe done D Working late and feeling fatigued called on her daughter Ww ‘ho Cnn Votet for acup of tea The light: hed been extinguisned and —Rvery uneie Atisen, the girl placed ber band on to the closes wi New flampahire—n“*ry male (ahabitang, Paper Containing sugar w: Hing, | Untuckily, ho Vermont—Every man, ‘or, she took apother paper by mist taining Massachusotts—Evory malt cittcen, Paris green, with which ebe diluted the tea and tbe Rhode Island—Every male o:tizen. woman drank it of, ae to say she did not make | Connecticut, Indiana, Iinole, Mssonrl, tows, Now any remark about thé tasié, but after going to bed abe | Jersey, Ohio, California, Oregon, Nevada, West Virginia ‘Was seized with vomiting and medical ald wax procured, She lingered all next day and diod on Saturday night. Coroner White held inquest yesterday and « verdict was returned in accordance with the facts above giver ; Hudson City, A Wowan Commits Scrcioe ay Hanaixa,~Yesterday Moroing two young men who board at « house in Bergen avenue, near Franklin street, were horrified at finding the lifeless body of their mother, Sophia Wa: strangled on @ rope which was it driven into the wa: W adopted {s not known, but she had been lately | under mental depression. Coroner White wag wotified and wil! bold am inquest, Deceased was fifty years of ago. Commuu!paw. Tae Srocx Yanps.—Tho recelpts for the paat woek were one hundred and thirty-oight cars, containing 1,036 cate, 7,048 hogs, 1,203 sheep and’ 225 horses, Slaughtered at the abattotra during the sama time, 230 cathe, 7,500 hogs and 2,800 sheep. Newark. Pores, Reconn.—During the past woek the’ pollee made Sfty-ono arrests, Owing to the onforcament of the Sunday law only three arrests were mado youterday, Caurnty To AstMatt,—Offcer Brant, who lg detailed on duty at the Market street depot, yeaterday reported two car loads of hogs which hud boon teft at the freight house of the New Jersoy Raitrond, the aniraals undor- going great suffering, A number of the hogs were dead, and some of them had already commenced to decom. poao. The living oned wore rapidly dying aud had bad nothing to eat or drink since they were placed on tho cars, They are consigned to e butcher doing business in Centro Marke! tion are unfit for consumption, A charge against the owner for cruelty to animate will be preferred to-day. Avuegan Gaayp Lancexy,—A young man namod John Fullor, @ laborer, regiding at 320 Market street, was ar. rested on Saturday night charged with stoaling aa over. coat, valiod at $20, from Abraham Bierman, of 132 Market atroot, In default of bail the accused waa com- mitten to await the action of the Grand Jury. Monrvagy Rarorr.—The Chy Clerk reports thirty- n deaths during thé past waok, a slight decrease, A Pusuic Hosrrvat,—Petitions are now in elrculation ssking the Common Council to tak erection of @ public hospital, It is proposed to apply to $0 fr the Legisiature for pormisaton to isue Newark city be at to erect the hospital. ¥ proposed to increase i. ds to ap amount aufll muds it f y the nb anterpri nationalit: oniribUte to (he much needed ingtitn« toa, Greenville. : Dear Of 4 Caio WHOM Parsgoete,—A colored woman, named Jackson, gave u dose of paragorte to died in a short time afterwards. A post-mortem examin- aiion was made, and au tuquest held by Justice Finn, | t when the jury returned o verdict that “death enaved from an overdose of psregoric," and the mother wae Nod from culpability, AN (GNORANT. ENGINEER The Collision of Frigates at the Navy Vard— The Damage that Resulted to the Minne» sota and Vermont. A gentleman who was on board the frigate Minnesola lided with the Vermoal, at the Navy Yard, day inst, sends us for publication the an. neked scoount of the origin of the catastroph ‘The accident which bere! the frigate Minuesote on her atthe Navy id © to some animad dont, and, lest the fault she not belong, you will oblige in the Bexaco. Whi the Minnesota was ap- coming alongside the dock, Pustin elu hard a starboard and riging to “atop her, round unt! bor head wae v= ing ship Vermout, The commender theu rung the bell to “back her,’ but to bis aatonishment he found the frigate forging ahead, The Mautonant then sing out down the batch to “back her hard’ — that the ship was ahond {nsteud of # engineer Fe “dhe te backing lar snd ponderous ass was the time with grdat coo!aman, air.” But the thering frest th novle It Orders wore fi uently thorough mvestigation by a Court of peed § appointed | quarter deee to “back her herd," by Gevere! ‘ehofeld, and of which General Stonemaa from the engine room “she ia ba was chairman, Cole Kose waa fully acquitted, when | Commodore seoing that the repeated order he rejuinod his co hor” ouly seemed to her go ahead (be fastor, re. officer to whose 80 r ked to tha sogin thon if this be backing, go ence ant untaunted bravory the sscape of the seventy 4, sir.’ The words were scarcely out of his mouth five officers through the tupael from the Livby tal abou t loloutiy into the Vermont, carry. Maliogeruer due. aw ‘@ stern out davits, riypiug ap her Ss ae eso nae is rn gallery, parting her immense stern fasts and dot THE NEILANOAN SCHDDL—EXAMINATION OF THE PUPILS | Civor Stamagey whilo. the crigate’s port cetlends wore YESTERDAY. toru of, the spriteail yard broken, aud the bow anchor, pina weighing eight thousand pounds, destroyed, Uuder The exosilout Jewish acheot lecated at No. 80 th | somewhet varying circumstances the versal herself siraot, of which Professor Heilbroun is the olpal, ee ongee Fvigee omnty Seccate tes oS: has just cloned A prosperous term, Yesterday moruing | white they wore working the parents of tho.bays, many of whom were ladies,o} ‘aclentifio”’ sugineer of « batter engine driver wo: 2 fustit oxamina not have committed thig egregious Dunder Wierong met as the lustitase to wi she oxamination of the | Moet ‘e aino ship was Imperl four clases which const!t The school is | pia ts ceatemenemee 4 pri subseriptions of | AALAVADS IN THE UNITED STATES. ' {zens of Lerasiitish faith, bot recentiy oes b j unfed had already ac Lieved « ered name for tue Thea Director Of the Buren of Statistics haw pre. a thoroughness of the inatruetton imparted and the supe~ | parnd tue ‘ollowing summery staleunt of the leazti intained in ail ite departments, The | sos cogs of raitronde | " « pit Imatvoudunoe ie not terge, bat the oar | 8nd cons of raiirowds Iu (he several States at the close of early proved that the labor 186t . by the principal and b ——-— Cot of Roads nit, Mates, & Rhode Istend Connvstiont Naw ¥ 87 108, 686 92,073) { 49,985,194 | 20'049/040 24.041,091 | Aa Oe Mary!aad ‘600.80 | 430.80 1,607.0 27 268,206 | 4,000,000 } 600,000 | +, 66.925, 95 var. 61,606, 64 2,710.01 88,603,8 89,406. $01,588,714 on who was weed but fir’ than seventeen years | and who was the ohie? cauas of hie troubles, The boy OW Lime sings fei! into bac company, ually e- came addicted to habite of digeipation and soon entire: (odeiied agatnat the oqmiro! of tye ww, Among bis _ OTD FOROTEE WEA & hOUWe va Lioesty airaet, te tee this clty, and im their present condi- | ow amount of about $2,000, Ole Bull with » torchligut proc its oposition to the iaw prohibiting ‘t bwer ou Sunday. died in that city lately lad lived in hi house for more than eighty yours, during sixty of which he had occupied om packages of horse railroaa tickets Inst Sum Acta iii, ¥. 6 as | have I give thee, Navy Yard at « low rate of epeed, hor | 2% ‘e1 orders to land the powder before | The Boston Journ! | t Th ular Atory 0 one of the ollcers, He atated he had | phd and Colorado--Every white mate citizen, New York—Every mate citiaoa, bat colored mon es- quired to owa $250 taxable property. Pennsylvania—Every white freeman. ry mals peason. ry pergon. sas--Kvery white malo adult, Dolaware—Evary free white male citizen Maryland—Kvery (reo white male citizen. nnesseo—Kvory free white man formerly, but now Regroes vote. i in those States which were engazed in robstlion, aad whied are governed by the reconsti'acHon laws, negroes ara allowed to vote and hold ofiice, LONG ISLAND’ INTELUIGERCE. Sivoutas Date op an Usasows Man at Usiow Coursm.—On Saturday ororning, while some woodmom in the employ of @ Me, Iseacy, nt Uniow Coursa, L. 1, were preparing to cut wood in & grove near by, they ise covered the body of an unknowet man partially buried tn the ground, Life not being quis extinct, the stranger was removed to Mr, Isance’ residence and a physician at- once sent for, The offorts of the latter wore, however, unavailing, asthe unfortunate max died shortly after wards, The circumstances attendiny bis death aro of peculiarly mysterious cheracter. Nothing was discov- Gred on his person that could lead So his identity, Tt us uppowed by many that ne was the ytetim of gome foot pad. Othera think he comamitted suivide. Amerst or an Atttaro Fuware [oreprary at Sor roLk,—A young girl namet Sophia Jane Werner bas been arrested and lodged in the Suitdfik county jail, to await the action of the grand Jury, on s.ehar set Gre to sevoral i it fall Sout One of these wae Eleezer in, and was injured vo the 1 by Mr, “Taw Exciar Law—Suenrer’s Gaus ro Cowan Licwvad Fxvs,—Acting under instructions trom the county Ex- cise Board, Sherif Durland eold the promises of ong day last, in order is M nell, at Winfeld, oa ovovor the araount of an exciva toot GENERAL ITEMS, Ata revent charity bali io Chicag(» (lie ravetpia ware 0 $6000 aod the expenses $10,000, Venison is selling at St. Paul at feu im six to 190 conte pound, Two million acres of land in Mivsisaly »pi are advertised ‘or salo under execution, The Scandivavians of Madla . Whs., compiimeuted jon. Railway iron ts shipped from Pe: aylvania to the Hocky Mountains without being untoadat |. If a man could make a noise like a lock'st, corresnond- ng to the differonce in weight, he could be heart sis- hundred mil The Missourt 1 gislature proposes to parnish by fine and imprisonment parents who neglect Qo send (heir her {nfant on Thursday ovening, from whish tha child | children to school at : four months in tha’ year, During the cold woather in St. Paul frost @xthored on ho window panes (hreequartera of an iach as amo Gata peach troes 2 bloo! Fi The German element :n St. Louis baw triumphed ia sale of lagow Mr, John Gladdiug, a venerable citizen of Provider at the age of mighty-six, room, a chureh received two . mar “Silver aad gold have I nous, but quote 4 contribution box in a Port) Tho Grand Lodge of Good Tomplart of the Eastern Division of New York has now about three hundr subordmmate lodges, of whieh forty have beeu form wit n the Inst three months, ‘The Houston Telegraph hi if mail robberies all over Tex: id adds —"' Unie: speedy stop ta put to theme we eball soon be practically without tuctlitves, foe (© will not trast anything iu them, P. Sanger, Dis- trict Attorney for Sut ortly resign bla the duties of the his attontion t John Hance k Mutual Lite Insurance position and devote Premidency of Company. By recent Ae ‘on of the Supreme Court of Maasa- ebusetts 1 4 that the guarantee capital of « mutual life insurance company, when not a stock ta- surance company, i taxable to (he shareholders and uot to the corporation. At Leavenworth, Kaussg, Judge Adame rendered « case of the Stats ¥a, Cencral Custer and charged with ‘he murder of Wiliem 19 of company K, United States cavalry, mm favor of the defendoute, Aw on evidence of bard times in Miseisipp!, the ‘euniner @aya that, on the occasion of a re. tertaiument seventeen pienters applied appear on the stage, declaring that, they bad mo talent in line, they bad nos jnough from ‘their crops to purchase tickets, aud k their way ‘Brough as part of the apper Johnson, # pi Aberdeen Were anxious Lo show. So severe ia the winter in France that wolves have from ther haunts, and have beeq seem bere poopie ore numerous, ia’ search of food. Thin snows that France is nardly e!vilived, for no old civilized country would pertait wolves to exist ip iis bousdarten, It is now about two centuries since the last wolf tha’ wandered « large ree killed in the isinud of Gress falling by the heud of the famous Sir Evew of Loshiel been driven Brite: ‘ A Perfect Hair Dressing—Burmett’s Cocontas aris e Lue Klvee wid ® supscior te Frenol, ioe anni olla or wloahal “ae “ A Rupture Cure. Sbermun’s Herel Aypiie nud ltupture Curglive and vompound a! (iacautees of permanent re fice 7 Hroadway omplexton.—Bloom of Cour oahlgse ss ihe conplonion,. cempasn. Fold «3 all de ponchos get = Moet oh jon Champagne. fritters © Sissies Cheam ay / IMPERIAL GREEN SEAL) VF UK RXOLLLIZN atreption suse efure i Dr SILLERY OF mas, i ore Wings are now Cor ele iB ea in (hie olty As tHONY OCIS, & Ageat (or Messrs, Moet & Chandon tw tue 0. & Snpanese Hair stutn hair, whiakey Tmiastaehiem Denn fist Maw y Dale Mona's bor fe Drowlwny to I ve Voy ali de nggia, Necnuse a Per Has n Bad should not be late necraption Is 16 wh, ’ ry sy,and for {bis parpuse ao rou , raivaly, or wih more bauett ta ia! br an De. b. JAYNES BXPECTO® 8% Sear scientifically compounded from oarel soircied draws, fed wien, on tin), wil! alm foucd # sy af (88 wo wide reputa iow, So! ov all drugsive, Hatchetorts Hate ort eonty par! eut Oven Ye Wree te the ous, Panos be Howe a Hate ty vist adores ace, Wholesale aed The TaN #0: also appite No. 6 Astor House, Description Baeented tee tna ata NUNG BS t ae hy on lara, ‘Pann ni of Printing, & obtained soa whey Aiea