The New York Herald Newspaper, January 29, 1868, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ‘All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hera. : Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will noi be re- turned. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four conts per copy. Annual subscription price $14, Vol XXXII AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.-4 Mipsumuen Niaur’s Degas. NIBLO'S GARDEN, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and U3th street. — ‘Tuu Wonvea. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Litrie Newt axa ‘wus MaRcaronEss. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—Tux Jara Pry Broadway.—Tae Waite Fawy, — BOWRRY PIEATRR, Bowery.—Baicanns of Annvzzi~ Asaassin or Mavzip, 40. FRENCH THEATBE, Fourteenth stroet.—teanant NEW YORE THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel.— ‘Usves ras Gasicut. OPERA HOUBE, 4 st., corner Eighth ay.— La Favonrra. BANVARD'S OPBRA HOUSE AND MUBRUM. 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A Fenian named Shaw turned informer in London, Tho British army in Abyssinia was in motion beyond Senafe, General Napier was to lead the advance for Anwlo, the capital of the Tigre district. 493% in London, Five-twonties 7174 tp 44 in Frané ore Cotton steady, with middling uplands at 7X4. a T%4. Hreadstuls and provisions slightly lower. By mail we have interesting details of our cable despatches (o the 16th of January. CONGRESS. In the Sonate yesterday the subject of printing the reports in the case of Secretary Stanton was discussed at some longth, being finally Jaid on the table, A bill to regulate procedure in cases of impeachment was in- troduced aad another, additional to the Tenure of Office Dill, was reported. The Reconstruction bill was then taken up and Mr. Frelinghuysen made a spoech in favor of its passago, Anotber committee of conference was appointed on the Deficiency bill, the House having re- fused to concur in the Senate's amendments. The Joint resolution to provide for an examination of whiskey meters wag passed. In the Houre the bil! providing for the taxation of shares of national banks was passed, and also the bill to regulate the deposits of public money, A resolution in- quiring of the Secretary of the Treasury whether the chatnpagne cases lately pending in New York have boen compromised was adopted. The bili forfeiting certain Inad grants to railronds in some of the Southern States was again discussed; but without coming to a vote the House adjourned. THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yesterday bills wore introduced relative to the public parks in Brooklyn, incorporating the Me tropolitan Underground Railway and to suppress all traf- fic im obscene literature, Some other business of minor depportance was transacted. In the Assombly the bill to prevent gas companies in Brooklyn from collecting renis on their motors was ad- vanced toa third readivg. The annual tax lovy of Now York city was presented. Bilis were introduced to regulate theatres and other places of arousement in New York and Brook!yn and t incorporate the Metropolitan Underground Railway Company. MISCELLANEOUS. Our special telograms by the Gulf cable contain news from the Mexican eapital to the 2ist inst. The Legisla- ture of San Low Potosi hed authorized the levying of forced loans and some merchants had been throwa into prison for refusing to accede to the ands, A report was current in Havana that Sante Ai been ordered by the Captain Genera! to leave. Tue steamship Georgia, Captain Dakin, from Vera Cruz on the 16th inst, via Havana, arrived at this port last night, She reports seeing on the morning of the Mtb @ brig ashore on Ajax Reef, Fla, with her lower masts standing, and in the afternoon of the same day a widowhee! stoamtug, painted white, ashore on the Torrey rocks, and two schooners anchored near her. In the Constitutional Convention yesterday an addition to the article on future amendments was agreed upon, which provides that no amendment shal! be valid until adopted by the people. The report of the Committee jos was again considered without coming tea bad vor ‘The South Carolina Convention have agreed on $11 por day as the pay of the meinbers. The Now York State Labor Convention assombied at Albany yesterday, The Citizens’ Association have addreseed a communica- tiom to the Senate and Assembiy of th voring the passage of Mr. Crowley's bilt for a now method of pro- viding for the taxes to be raiged annually in the city and county of New York. A laborer named Muller was italy stabbed ip Broad wreet yosterday morning by another named O'Br! ‘with whom he had previously had « quarre!. 0B Delng arrested, confeased bis guilt. Gilbert H. Bates, an ex-sergeant of a Wisconrin regi« & wager to © Brien, ment, started from Vicksburg yesterday carry the stars and stripes ove: armed and without money. He was accompanied as far as the Grant-Pemberton monument by the Mayor, Com mon Couactl amd prominent citizens of Vicksburg. Int ial of Cole for the murder of Hiscock, at Ab baoy, yesterday, the Court cause why the writ of certiorar! allo for the removal of the case to the Supreme Court sdould aot be quashed. ‘Tne trial of McKwen, the Newark Spiritual Jowdness was concluded at Newark yosterday, returning a vordict of guilty. ‘The civilina State Treasurer of Georgia was arrested yesterday by (he miliiary authorities, Darcy McGee has been expelied from the St. Patrick's Society at Montreal by s unanimous vote, Mrs. Edward A. Pollard shot a Dr. Moore at Baltimore yesterday during an altercetion about the whereabouts of ver Busband, who has been absent from her some weeks, She was committed to ja\i NEW YORK HERALD WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1868, Joseph Eisele, allas Schacfor, was arraigned for mur- dor in Parkersburg last Monday week, when he volua- tarily confessed to baving Killed three men and pre- meditated the murder of a fourth, for mo reason what- ever except the irresistible temptations of the evil spirit. 4 municipal election in Wheeling, Wost Virginia, yes- terday resulted in favor of the democrats by a majority exceeding that of last year, Tho Cincinnati and New Orleans steamer Emerald was lost near Tunica Bond, Missiasippi, on Saturday. While rounding the Bend she careened and her cabin slipped - into the Water and the hull sunk, Four ladies were loat, An accident occurred on the Atlantic and Groat West- orn Ratlroad, near Lewisburg, Ohio, on Monday night, by which several passengers were injured. An aceidegt occurred on the Hudson River Railroad near Cornwall station yesterday, by which five passen- ger cars were procipitated from the track and against the rocks, injuring five passengers, but none severely. Another very destructive fire visited Chicago last evening, and was still raging at an early hour this morning. It commenced on Lake street and communi- cated to buildings on Wabash avenue. The loss, so far, is roughly estimated at $2,000,000, The stock market, including government securities, feacted from the previous advance of yesterday, but closed firm, Gold closed at 1405 a 140%. The Great Debate in the United States Senate. The debate to which the Reconstruction bill has given rise in the Senate is the most notable that has fixed the national attention since the great intellectual contest that still classes in historical assoeiation the names of Webster and Hayne. In that debate the constitution was the topic, as itis in this; and as then the discussion of the powers of that instrument and of the rights of the people under it gave ample scope for the exercise of the best ability of the nation, so now the same fruitful themes awaken argument that looms up grandly above the ordinary nothingness ot Congressional reports, Mr. Doolittle opened this intellectual tournament by a vigorous assault on the radi- cal bill, and through that on the whole revo- lutlonary policy behind it—taking the casein a broad, statesmanlike view—placing himself indeed at the standpoint of the people and not on any narrow party platfoym. He pointed out distinctly how the bill must tend to destroy those vital principles of the right of the people around which our whole governmental system is builtup. He was immediately assailed by the small party snarlers for having made a “political speech ;” for everything is a “politi- cal speech” or “demagoguery” that is not downright radicalism. But it was seen that this would not do, that the speech was too’ strong, too direct, too damaging to the bill to be permitted to go before the country without ® more respectable attempt at answer than the mere use of opprobrious phrases ; so radical- ism marshalled its forces. Mr. Trumbull re- sponded feebly on the same day on which Mr. Doolittle had spoken, and on the next day Mr, Morton, of Indiana, gave fully and ably what is intended as the answer of bis party. Mr. Wilson, of Massachusetts, and Mr. Johnson, of Maryland, have spoken since, the latter in a strain of close and learned argument, the former in a very schoolboy’s rigmarole of vapid, wordy, absolute nonsense, Senator Morton was chosea apparently by the common consent of his party associates in the Senate to sustain their reconstruction bill, to argue elaborately the abstract justice, the propriety and the political necessity of that measure, although he was physically un- able to stand up on the floor of the chamber and had to address the President from his seat. We shall, perhaps, not err in supposing that the man specially fixed upon in such circum- stances for such a purpose is regarded as the veritable Daniel of his party, and shall be jus- tifiable in assuming that the statement of the party policy is confessedly the strongest that can be made. Taking Senator Morton’s speech in this light his party has no reason to feel especially satisfied with its case. The Sena- tor’s argument for the bill is mainly based on three definite points, which, he assumes, form the common ground of agreemert between the Northern peoplo of all parties. These points are:—First, that immediately after the sur- render of General Lee there were no govern- ments, from our point of view, in the Southern States ; second, that under the constitutional clause requiring the guaranty of a re- publican form of government it was the duty of the United States to establish governments in those States; and, third, that the United States government could only do this by means of a law of Congress, in which law Congress has the right to insert whatever it may deem necessary for its real purpose. Senator Morton, moreover, holds that, insert what it may in such a law, Congress is not acting outside the constitution, and that radical politicians who assert the Reconstruction laws to be extraconstitutional make that assertion “only for themselves.” It might well be objected that these points are not a common ground of agreement for the Northern people, and especially that Mr. Morton stretches the point derived from the constitution to an appli- cation absolutely irrational. He argues that the constitutional requirement to gua- ranty a republican form of govern- ment is an “nnascertained power” that may cover anything and be carried as fur as “necessity” may require, the dominant party being always the judge of the necessity. But certainly the constitution pro- vides a limit for this power, and that limit is all that part of the constitution with which, beyond a given point, the power would be in- consistent. Senator Johnson says well on this head :—‘ It is » universal principle of con- struction that in ascertaining the meaning of any particular clause it shall be read in con- nection with other clauses, and that the Sena- tor bad disregarded other clauses intended to restrict this and every other clause of the con- stitution.” Indeed, such an interpretation a6 Senator Morton gives is not only repugnant to other clauses and to the whole spirit of the organic law, but also to common sense. Were he right, it must finally be admitted that a part is greater than the whole, and that one line of the constitution can give a power to over- ride the constitution itself and destroy the very things it was framed to secure. There is a significance even in the very word chosen in the constitution. The United States is required to “guaranty ;” and this word, implying #0 clearly that the act is to he done on the behalf of the people of a State, would itself estop Congress, if the words of the law had any power in the premises, from ereot- ing of ite arrogant will and altogether dospite the people a government of its own creatures, But there is a noteworthy fact in all this appeal of the radicals to the clause in question. Mr. Sumner, we believe, was the first to use it as cov- oring the Congrestonal power. Since thon it has been used without limtt by radicals of every grade of intelligence from Morton to Wilson, in season and out. But in all this time it has never once occurred to them that the govern- ments they were éstablishing on this authority were not republican either in form or in spirit, but were military despotisms, and that even beyond these despotisms they did not contemplate republican governments, but the rule of a minority. Sonator Morton has a large view of what may be done under this provision. Can he not see that it may have been intended to guard against any State ever being made intoa “military district ?” His party answer, of course, would be that the district is only a means to the good end. But when were tyranny and usurpation ever with- out an excuse like this for every evil project? It is well, perhaps, to show how easily the radicals satisfy their consciences ; otherwise it would be hardly worth while to examine their argument; for the cas in truth, beyond and altogether outside of that argument. Taking the broad popular view, it remains that Sena- tor Morton, the chosen champion of his party’s cause, has failed to meet the real issue that is before the country. The discussion with the nation is not on the power of Congress to do a certain thing, but on the spirit in which it now acta. Congress has power enough over the case, and the people would in any event admit its authority ; but the trouble is that Congress does not wisely use its acknowledged power; does not contemplate the real necessities of the case; does not sympathize with or endeavor to give effect to the will of the people; but abuses its great opportunity, betrays the trust the nation has reposed in it and legislates if mere party interest and inspired by partisan purposes only; legislates not to secure to the American people the peace and freedom they fought for, but to base the supremacy of party thoughts in the very statutes of restoration. The charge is higher and broader than the radical champion deems. It is not merely that a bill in Congress transcends certain points in the constitu- tion, but that the purpose aimed at in that bill is inconsistent with social existence, transcends the laws of human life, strikes at the founda- tions set by God Almighty. Mr. Morton has: some glimmering of this. He admits that he oan see the dangor and Injustice of setting the negro in the South above the white man. He even says that at first he opposed it as a great evil, and tells us of his growth in the radical doctrines, Well, the country has not seen yet those cogent reasons that have changed the gentleman’s opinions. The coun- try stands just where Mr. Morton did before he threw himself into the radical whirlpool and gave up his own judgment for the judgment of Wendell Phillips. Mr. Morton chooses the nigger as the least of two evils; and just here is the whole radical case. What is the other evil? The other evil has no existence ; it is a chi- mera—a figment of the radical brain, It is the notion that white reconstruction is impossible. There is a certain kind of reconstruction that is impossible. It is the kind required by Wen- dell Phillips and Charles Sumner—reconstruc- tion that would require the Southern people to humble themselves in the dust, to make them- selves unfit for an honorable place in this Union. And in default of that sort of recon- struction, which only the savage radicals desire, it is argued that we must take the nigger. Such is the radical case as even Mr. Morton shows it—truly a poor enough case on which to go before the American people. of the Press—Beware. A set of peripatetic scribblers in this city, to whom no designation is more applicable than the common one, “impostor,” make a prac- tice of visiting manufacturers, merchants and business men, under pretence of being con- nected with the Heravp, and soliciting money from them, avowedly in consideration of favor- able notices that they promise to write and to have published in this paper. These fellows are simply impostors, and against them we wish the public tobe warned. They seize every op- portunity to ply their vocation—their coolness being generally equalled only by their men- dacity—and frequently succeed in swindling the credulous, One attempt of this kind has just been brought to our notice by Mr. W. W. Shippen, of the Hoboken Land and Improve- ment Company, whose good sense and prompt- ness in the premises are highly pratseworthy. Suffice it to say that the regular attach¢s of the Herat have no occasion to solicit money from anybody whomsoever. They are paid regular and remunerative salaries, and when legitimately sent to report or to de- scribe anything as matter of news, are expected to do so without fee or reward from any one save ourselves. If, in future, persons to Whom application be made for money by pretended representatives of the Heratp will call in the aid of the nearest po- liceman, and have the applicant arrested on a charge of false pretence, they will not only confer a favor on us, but at the same time benefit the community by aiding to put an end to the operations of these too often suc- cessful swindlers. Below we print two letters that speak for themselves, The style of the latter one is as characteristic as its impudence is sublime :— Orrics ov Tar Honoxss = ann I jow Mg Dear Sin-J am 40 constantly im rec and verbal applications like josed of them. I send it to you eo that if yeu are doing anything outrageous y the animus that instigated i, Ww. Jamas G, Baxwatt, Exq. [Private,} “Hrrato” Over, Monday, Jan, 27, 1868, W. W. Smirras, bsq., &e., dc. :— Resrectan Sia—I am satisfied you read in with satis- faction yesterday the report on the various ferries around New York, aud which appoarod Lo, Your ferries wore highly spoken of; and ince learned that sexte 08 under your survellion Tho Lazzaroni pedial report of them, No doubt tho venerable and respected gentioman would ‘Wish to read all about them when he recoives a paper from here containing a correct and elaborate report pub- lished in the Hanaro, 4 Those are pretty hard times on editor kindly oblige me with a few ered and reciprocated by your fautfel WM. R, ALEXANDER, Editor and reer. Thope you may long bo spared to fill the high offices you do and to see the retura of mat happy now yoars. Whatever you please to bestow new shall ve viewed ia the light of a ‘new year’s gift.’ This man Alexander never was connected with the Heraty. He is one among » hundred of the mendicant “ Bohemians” who are prowl- ing around the city representing themselvos as reporters. Another of the samo stripe is, we learn, in the habit of showing » motallic badge (No. 13) similar to those formerly worn by the members of our reportorial staff, and making efforts to hoodwink confiding people into the belief that he is in our employ. Against all snch we give the public notioe to be on thoir quard. servant, Negre Keconstruction tm Liberia ant the South. A lecture on Africa was delivered in Cooper Institute on Monday evening last. The audi- ence were mostly colored people. The especial text of the lecture was a description of the habits and customs of the people of Liberia, together with a review of the form of government of that black republic, its aris- tocracy and other matters pertaining to its social condition. It seems that, according to this authority, the aristocracy of the country, composed principally of black emigrants from the United States, had improved in at least one relation since leaving here—the marriage re- lation. Content with one wife, as most of the emigrants were before bidding adieu to the shores of America, they have improved the number so that it now reaches among the noblesse one hundred and fifty wives for each black nobleman. This is bringing Old Africa and Young Africa together practically. The aristocracy of Old Africa in the good old days of King Solomon and the Queen of Shebs boasted of the number of their wives and con- cubines, and Young Africa, transplanted with its vigorous shoots from the Auxuriant soil of Southern America, adopts at once the customs of its illustrious prede- cessors. They might as well have gone to Utah on this Continent; but Brigham Young and his Mormon followers hate niggers, and hence their departure for a more congenial clime, where the thermometer ranges from sixty to one hundred and five in the shade all the year round. This is practical negro recon- struction in Liberia. How far it improves the morals of the emigrants our readers may judge. t Now, what is the tendency of the prosent scheme of negro reconstruction in our own Southern States? We will confess ourselves mistaken if it cannot be proven to point in a direction similar to that we have shown it to assume in the case of Liberia, with, possibly, this difference—the blacks want white wives here, while in Liberia they are content with wives of their own color, in all their sweet nessa. In the discussions in the Southern re- construction conventions any careful reader must notice the inclinations of the blacks in regard to their social relations with the whites, They demand, in the first place, equality in all political affairs. That is partially conceded them. They next demand equal privileges in all public institutions of instruction, in all public places of amusement, hotels, travelling conveyances—in short, wherever a respectable white man or his wife or children, properly attired and well behaved, can go, there must Sambo and Dinah be permitted to shuffle in, whether properly olad and well behaved or not. Pluming himself upon these privileges, to the use of which the black has been en- tirely untutored, what will inevitably follow? The black smacks his lips at the prospect of marrying a white man’s daughter. As the white radical craves the negro’s vote so will the negro crave possession of the charms of the white radical’s daughter. Equality at the ballot box will be succeeded by demands for equality in the bridal chamber. Revolting as it may appear, these negro reconstructionists do not hesitate to speak in their debates about the “lechery” of their former masters, and couple the term with the significant expression, “Bottom rail on top now.” It is enough to make innocence and purity and humanity everywhere shudder to reflect upon what these licentious blacks may attempt to do during these the first hours of their unbridled freedom and lust. As the negro reconstructionists in Liberia have taken to themselves many wives, {t will not be remarkable if those in the Southern Stfttes imitate their example and covet the daughters of those whites whom they have been taught to consider themselves the equals of, morally, socially and politi- cally, and, to make all things equal, have the whites marry their own black daughters. The Late Ohio Congressional Election—A Significant Result, ‘There wag an election held in tho Kighth district of Ohio on Monday last to fill a vacancy in Congress resulting from the death of Mr. Hamilton, late one of the regularly elected delegates of said State. In this elec- tion General Beatty, the republican candidate, it appears, waa chosen by more than a thou- sand majority over Mr. Burns, the democratic candidate. This majority, in view of the fact that this Congressional district was carried by General Hayes, the republican candidate for Governor, last October, by only some two hun- dred and fifty majority, becomes a matter of some significance, How are we to account for this republican gain in this district since last October? The true explanation, we think, may be given in one word—Pendleton. Since the Ohio October election the democrats of that State and of all the Northwest have been shoutiog the glories of Pendleton and pro- claiming him the preordained standard bearer, embodiment and expounder of the party Yor the next Presidemcy. And who is this immacu- late Pendleton? He is, perhaps, the best liv- ing representative of the principles and policy pursued by the Northern copperhead peace faction during the late rebellion. Upon his reeord he was most signally swamped in Ohio in 1864, a8 @ man of the same political type and stripe as Vallandigham ; and now in 1868, when the democrats trot him out again, the people of Ohio avail themselves of the first opportunity to repudiate him. The best thing that Mr. Pendleton oan do, therefore, is to follow the example of Horatio Seymour by formally and positively withdrawing from the Presidential contest. The New Suffrage Bill of Mr, Stevens. “Old Thad” has at length reached the radi- cal ultimatum on the enffrage question in a bill which he has introduced in Congress pro- viding the right of suffrage to every male citi- zen of the United States in all Presidential elections and in ali State elections, and that all elections shall be by ballot. This is a very important amendment of the radical recon. struction system, which, as it stands, enforces universal negro suffrage only upon the anre- constructed rebel States. Mr. Stevens thinks no doubt that “sauce for the goose should be sauce for the gander,” and hence he honestly proposes the expansion of universal negro suffrage by act of Congress over all the States. Tho States of Ohio and New York, for instance, in rejecting universal negro suffrage, are to be treated just like North and South Carolina and brought under proper discipline What is to be the noxt thing in order we do not know: but it would not sarpre us in the least ff it wore t appear in tho shape oy’ & bill of disfranchisomen, *<ainst all white pera ns in the Northern States dusmed disloyal by the’ radical Directory or Committod of Safety’ at Washington. . THE STATE CAPITAL. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MERALA. Tho Police Commissionership and the In- pe nearer Tammany Hall—A Schrewd Trick e tione—An Undergtouad Gri le Atvany, Jan, 28, 1868. ‘The excitement among the New Yorkers to-day is the ‘approaching caucus On the subject of the vacant Police Commissionership, The quarrel between the two fac- tions of the Kings county representatives has deca made up, nor is it likely to be, Indeed, the, ids of the two candidates from that section are so bitter in thelr hostiliiy that each would prefer to see the Bomination of a man from outside the district rather than the success of the other, The Tammanyites have aot been slow to take advantage of this state of affairs, ally as their good offices buve been invoked to adjust the difficulty. As I predicted in a previous letter, they intend to make use of this quarrel and of tee uamuitabltity of the candidates present 0 run one their own’ part; joring claims of Kings county to the place. The! ‘fee county del were so bling as to fall imto the trap which was set for them ia the proposition to throw the selec tion Of a nominee into a Caucus of the representatives from the whole litan district, The caucus will be held within a few days P bly. Bismarck Sween: €omptrolier anolly, O’Brien, Bob lutchings and otuer Tammany Iuminaries and big guns arrived here this morning to forward object as well as to take care of the tax levy bills which have been submitted to the Legislature. It is pretty certain that Mat Brennan will be the nomi- mee Of the caucus for Police Commissioner, ‘The republicans played quite a joke upon the aemo- cratic majority in the Legislature to-day. Some time since a series of resolutions regarding tne protection of the rights of maturalized citizens abroad was adopted in the House and sent to the Senate, whore the wily Sena- tor Folger moved as a substitute the resolutions to the came adopted by the Republican state Convention of t. The substitute, word for word, was adopted Senator unanimously, Net a single democratic vered the trick, The resolutions as were sent back to the lowor House, where to-day they wore unanimously adopted, the trick being still undiscovered, The result is that the republicans pave stolen the thunder of the democrats and have put the latter on the record as endorsing a re- ican pronunciamepto, The democrats had not dis- bag oe triok wa 5 the — vd ghee spap lpr ani ir opponents were quietly laughing sleeves at the successful result of their ruse. Senator Cauldwell has introduced a silly bill for “a metropolitan underground railroad," which is a sort of sabterranean gridiron, proposing as it does to runa railroad under Broadway, the Third or Fourth avenue, the meee avenue, and thence to Har- lem river ; transversely under Chambers street or other thoroughfare near the City Hall and under the Kast aud North rivers, between Brooklyn and Jersey City. It 1s elther a “blind,” as the unfamiliar names would indi: or else it is a sort of foriorn @ corporators been thrown overboard by their quondam confréres, It was simulta- meously introduced in the House vy Mr, Purdy. The Cole-Hiscock Case. Auwany, Jan. 28, 1968, {m the case of General George W. Cole, indicted tor Killing L. Harris Hiscock, District Attorney Smith this morning made a motion to quash the writ of certiorari cvs by Justice Wells removing the case to the jupreme Court, Judge Peckham issued an order to show cause why the motion should uot be granted. The order is returnable to-morrow moruing, when arguments oa the motion will be heard, Assembling of the State Labor Convention at Albany. ALKANY, Jan. 28, 1868, The State Lavor Convention met here to-day ana was called to order by President Jessup, whe submitted a lengthy address, He recommended that the Eight Hour Labor act be so amended as to contain some provision for its enforcement, He called atiention to the imper- fect apprenticeship system and to the subject of convict labor, and advised that a committees be appointed to draft biils to present to the Legisiature and also to pro- pare patitions for signatures to be immediately sent to ‘that body. The Committee on Credentials submitted their report, which showed that delegates were present from New York, Albany, Troy, Lansingburg, Poughkeepsie, Port Byron, Rochester and other places. The supplementary report of the President showed that thero were two hundred and cighty labor organizations throughout the State. The Treasurer reported the receipts to be $218 50; expenditures, $105 45; balance on hand, $113 95. The following standing commtttees were appointed :— President's address, Messrs. sl’arr, Laing and Topp; Finance, Messrs, Muihali, Haisted; Consti- tution, ‘Messra, Troup, Whiley and Connelly; General Good, ‘Messrs. Norton, {ose and McCormack, Several committees appointed at the special session mado their reports, alter which the assemblage ad- journed till to-morrow morning. NEW YORK LEGISLATURE. g ES SENATE. Aunany, Jam, 28, 1998, PRTITIOS?, IC. Remonstrances were presented against the repeal of the Motropolitan Excise law and petitions for the ex- tension of the same over the whole State, Mr. MoRray presented a petition from the Brooklyn Prospect Park Commissioners askiug for authority to purchase a piece of land situated at the northeaster! f the Park, between the Ninth and Tent Xtending to Fifteenth street; also for consol 10 one general act of the several ucts relating to the management and maintenance of the public parks of Brooklyn. slr. Murphy introduced biils in confor. mity with the petition. MILLS INTRODUCKD, By Mr. Cauldwell, ine pian the Lropolitan Underground Raliway ; by Mr. Morphy, relieving non- residbut executors from tho obligation of giving bona: by Mr. Kennedy, authorizing the United States Accid insurance Company of Syracuse to withdraw a Bent part- rs of its securities deposited with the Insurance ment; by Mr. O'Donnell, to guppress all trafic in ob- acene literature; the bill changing the name of the Utica and Waterville Railroad Company. BILLS ORDERED TO A THIRD READING, Changing the name of the Woloston File Manufactar- ing Com; of Buflalo; creating the Board of Trustees of the town of Morrisania; creat tho office of Re- ceiver of Taxes for the town of Westchester, in West- chester county, GALRS OF UNCLAIMED BAGGAGE BY RAILROAD COMPANTES, On motion of Mr, O' DoxxeLt, a resolution was adopted ‘the Comptroller to state what money has been veral railroads im this State from imed baggage and freight, if any, and has been made of the same. Ad- 28, 1868. in Jef. companies in Brooklyn their meters; making appro- prtations for the compietion of the New York State In- stitution for the Blind at Batavia, NEW YORK CITY Lavy. The Sreaxen presented the annual tax levy of New York city. BILES INTRODUCED. By Mr. Quinn, to incorporate the Eleventh Ward Sav- Ings Bank; by Mr. Riley, to regu! theatres and other laces of amusement in New York and Brookiyn; by ir, Chapman, to repeal the act relative to the Utica police force; by Mr. Purdy, to incorporate the Metro- politan Underground Railroad Compauy. Adjourned, THOMAS PAINE’S BIRTHDAY NIVERSABY, Very meagre in numbers and very greatly Jacking In enthusiasm was the celebration last ev! hundred and thirty-first birthday ann! Paine, The place of celebration was th on the Bowery, and eight o'clock ip time specified for tnitiation of Steuben House, evening the the programme, At a few minutes to ten o’clook three tables ees in hall, generally do- showed a thin @ diminutive paraleliogrammte voted to the worship of Terpsichore, environment of men ai thirty-two of the stronger 1s was no such gatherin, to convene in the old tity Assembly Rooms such inviting spread of tempting Viande; it Was po auch feast of roagon; it was ao such flow of soul; is was no @uch music and dancing, After a half-bour of wery tedious w: various courses to be brought on, Dr, K . toad three rs, the first f a, the second from itd from Mrs, Ernestine 1. non-atiendance. Rose, The first bad the their excuses for An engagement, the second ditto, and the third was til; Dut though abeent in the body al! took spi Announce themselves present spiritually. next read, not quite as long a# Homer's Ti W proceeded to read aapeech. Afer giving the loading pointe im Mr. Pain Lng og he Oke of his religious views, and from the latter pro- claimed the right to talk out bis bolief anywhere, to advocate the existence of one God or tow thoasand or none. In conclusion ne gave ® complimentary notice to tho United Staten constitution, becauye thare was no mention of any religion or God In It De. Auwent Crane stated that he bed deal and had read a good but he tn all hia travels the equal of nm read of @ better man. Th Opinion, the pioneer of everyt! it diMoultto ind anquag4 &y pains to abut to express his . Liovo exhibited a Pestcoregh of the tom> of lived wi a oof the tomb and id to ‘imseif among his proudest worship- ir, Wannen Nass took pride randod an infidel frees hus Porte “oe the tyranny of chi 88. andalso followed in the “jodie bs men a of the om epeakers in cont 1p baving BO mention of ‘Dr J. J. Edward, J. H. Atkinsoa, Willis’ Maca and others followed in speeches and sentiments, It war after midvight when the king ended and tho party proceeded to carry out the dancing part of thei lously arranged programme, which Iasted ult tae morning. POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY POLITICS. The Radical Republican General Committee. Radical Republican General Committee held aw adjourned meeting fast evening at their headquarterr, Broadway and Twenty-eecond street, Freeman J. Frithian in the chair, A communication, signed by Rufus Andrews, was received from the Twenty-third street organization, in which it was stated that ate meeting of that organization the subject of harmonizing the conflicting elements of the republican party of this county bad been discussed, and that it bad been decided that @ special committee, of which Mr. Andrews was made chairman, should confer with the Twenty-second street organi mn, im the nope thet the latter body would appoint a conference committee with a view of putting an end to al! existing differences. This communicatior hen read, occasioned quitefa lively’ among the bers, and for afew momenta it was almost an impossibility for the Chairman to pre- serve order, every patriotic radical present seemed desirous to have the first fling at tho document of the Twenty-third street organization. Finaily, after two hours had been spcnt in fierce deaunciatory speeches of the past doings and sayings of the Tweuty-thira streetors, certain of whose speeches relative to their expressed determination to buck against the “reguiae republican nominations,’’ {| eir views were not con- sulted, by holding a convention on their own hook im April next. A committee of five was ap’ pointed immediately to take into consideration what answe! uld be sent to the conservative organina- tion. After an absence of about a quarter of ap hour the committeo returned and reported the following pro- ambie and resolution, which were adopted amid much din and confusion, caused by filibustering of the very few who opposed their passage Whereas the present Union repubitcan organization of the city of New York was authorized by the Uniou Republican State Canyensics of rv fev surhoriga 0 being al i jecessary to preserve the Union republical theelty from the ‘treachery of com rirends and hapiey for Andrew Jobasun and the State conventions since 1366 have 7 fied the present organization; and whereas (uithfully Lue organization has conducted the interests confided (0 it. and isand has been and anxious to eurol wishin iselt every true and real Union republican ; and whereas recogm: tion of «compromise with divorganizatiougis wrong 10 itself and disastrous as a dent; therefore Resolved, That while the usual channels to join the reg- ular organizations of the party are open, this Geuerai Com mittee respecttuily declines to take any action upon the communication to its president from the committee of which Hon. T. Murphy is chatrman, and that the Secroiary wond a copy hereof to the chairman of the special committe> from which seid communication was received. Quite a stormy debate was had after the Twenty-third street faction’s document had received its quietus by & batch of affidavits and other papers from the Twenties Assembly district republican organization, demanding that they should have what was termed ‘‘fair play’ at the coming primaries, which by vote the committ cided would come off on Friday next, The ‘bate! was Jaid on the table by a vote of 50t0 43. Mr. Howard C. Vail closed the proceedings by a spocch advo. ating the resumption of specie payments, during whicn ho stated that 1 something were not done ia this matter by the republican party and speedily it would be detested at the polls, MISCELLANEOUS POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE. General J Beatty, Congressman tect from the Eighth Ohio District. General John Beatty (radical), who has just been elected to Congress from the Kighth Obio district, iw place of the late Mr. Hamilton, by a majority said to be rising one thousand, is a very popular man in his dis trict and has a splendid war record. Ho was bora in Sandusky City, Ohio, in 1828, For several yeara price to the rebellion he was engaged in banking at Carding~ ton, and in 1860 was Presidential elector for the Thir- teenth Congressional district on the republican ticket, At the beginning of the war he calisted as a private soldier, was unauimously elected captain of his company and a few days after was chosen Lieutenant Colonel of the Third Obio infantry. He was in most of tho battiés in West Virginia, at Middie Fork, Rich Mountain, Cheat Mountain, Klkwater, &c. As colonel of his regiment he accompanied General Mitchell through his memorable campaign tn Southorm Kentucky, Middle Tennessce aud Northern Alabama, tuking conspicuous parts 1n ull (he various ights, He headed his regiment at the battle of Perryvilie, holding the oxtreme right of General Roussean's divi By stubbornly holding the position, even after one-third af his men had been killed or wounded, be did much toward the success of the day. He commanded a Drigade at Murfreesboro, where ne had two horaew killed under him. In tke Chattanooga campaign Beatty was the first to lead his command to mit of Lookout Mountain and commenced the figbtiag at Chickamauga, He aided in the retief of General Bura- side at Knoxville, and, returning to Chattanooga om the 13th January, 1864, was obliged. for private reasons, to tender bis resignation. Such a military record woul@ make any man popular in alraost any Congressional dine trict in the West, and it is no wonder he carried the dis- trict by even an increased majority as compared with the last gubernatorial vote over his democratic com- potitor, Colonel Barnabas Burns, It is almost necdiess to say the democrats did not anticipate success against such odds, popular with his party as Colonel Buras may be, The following is the vote of the two previous oleo- tions in the district, Full returns from the last are not tins i ies ~1867—Governor.— Haye:, Thurman, key 5 Dem. ~1866—Congress. ~ Hamillon, — Re Counties Rep. tions. ‘The campaign in New Hampshire ts going on briskly, on the side of the democrats, by public meetings largely attended, and by the radicals by issuing campaign doca ments of the following interesting character :— Orrick or Tas Rerostican State Committ Conconp, N. H., Jan. 1, 5 Dean Sm—As republicans of New Hampshire we ere again entering upon a campaign of unusual importance. To insure success over an unscrupulous and earnest op- position funds are required. ihe expenses will neces sarily be large, Speakers are to be employed, docu- mente printed and distribuied, absent voters returned to their bomes; and in order to raise @ sulliciomt amount of money for these purpose: yon rt tee expect all holding positions of will be willing to contribute somethivg to the general fund, They fave, therefore, designated for your contrioutiea the sum of $25, which please forward in the accompa nying envelope imball, Coacord, and tor which & receipt will be The necessity tive; our success isa duty } who = Soo ew di ' ally res Yours, very truly. i spines 4 BH. ROLLINS, Chairman. ‘4 that the radicais are hurrying up matiers fn Alabama in order to secure the emtrauce of reprosen- tatives from that te tn Congress before the eiectiom in New Hampshire, March 10, There is time to dott, tet the effect be what it may. Ls Telogram of yestorday.| Lebtapcomats ox ong N, BL, Jan, 28, 1868, meoing was held at Bagie Hall the Democrattc State (01 wee. Samui D, Clay, of May aud FE. D. fampshire, with mumo by vee. bade ban Vd, fi William Little, of Manchester, Sas comerval Raymond om Thuratay 7 be held by both parties Ae ete areende tikiag ine, ial vigor tm the tall q speakers Trem abroad are prosised, Congres others. ed. is apparemt; tmmediate action ip im. ad we doubt not thas promptly and chess- A largo conservati last evening, cailed 4 Speeches were Rand, of Ne promises shod The this terday resulted {n favor of the demogracy by ap age majority of Gve hundred, ® gaia over last your, Political Miscellany. A democratic State convensiun meets Im Jac'geon, Miss., February 19, Govervor Humphreys, of Mississippt, defines Yo Cur. nish the negro Reconstruction Coaventiqy aow in ses sion in that State with the names o(Ahose who gare him the Information in regard to an apprehended rebol- lion, upon which was based his prociyimation of the Om Deocembor inst, He cays Goneral Ord has all the tafor- mation and he is the proper paren to apply wo for it.