The New York Herald Newspaper, January 30, 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 Heracp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed, : Rejected communications will not be re- furned, NIBLO’'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Taxr Waite Fawn. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street, — Ours. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Litric Newt ano THE MARCHIONESS. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery,—Buicanps of Asruzzi— Assassin oF MADKID, &6. FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth street.—HeaNaxt. NEW YORK THEATRE, Tue Prokwick Pavers. PIKE'S OPERA HOUSE, 234 at., corner Eighth ay.— Lucrerta Borata, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—A Nieur's Dream. » opposite New York Hotel. Mipsomaer BANVARD'S OPERA HOUSE AND MUSEUM, Broad- way and Thirtieth street.—Nonopy's Davaurer. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.—Granastics, Equesrarantsm, &0, THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Hastow Count NATION TROUPE. BTEINWAY HALL.—Onatorro or Damien, KELLY & LRON'S MINSTRELS, 740 Broadway, —Soxas, Dances, Kocrnruicities, Burtesques, &c. SAN FRANCISCO MI ELS, 5% Broadway. PAN ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANCING AXD BURLESQUES, Ermo- TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comto Vocacism, Necno MINSTRELSY, XO. BUTLER’S AMERICAN THEATRE, 472 Broadway,— Batter, Face, Pantomime, &, INVYAN HALL, Broadway and Fifteenth street,—Tax Matinee at 2, 8. F, B, CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUS! Brooklya,—Ermiortax Munsrreisy, BALLADS AND BURLESQUES. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— IRNCK AND AIT, New York, THA NEW S. EUROPE. By epeciat telegram daied in Naples last night we Teava that an oxtraordinary aud fatal strophe has occurred at Mount Vesuvius, Tuesd the side of the volcano situate opposite the C novo gate of Naples became detached and tumbled down, bury- ing houses and pasying carriages fn the ruins and caus- ing the lors of many lives, Tbe road was biockod up swith rocks and earth and a melancholy scene was pre- sented, Tho political situation in Tialy was exceedingly critical, and a coup Wéiat was dreaded ia Fiore Special envoy from the United States is sald to have arrived in Rome for an audience with the Pope, Prus- ‘sia is in accord with France in support of the Roman temporalities. The French Army bill passed the Senate aftor the exhaustion of many arguments in opposition. Marshal Nei! said that «fears expressed about Russia wore absurd." Mr. Train is lecturing in Cork, Fonian arrests continued io England and Ireland. A Genoral Council of the Catholic Church will be heid in November. Consols, 93% in London. Five-twenties, 72 in Lon- don and 757; 4 76 in Frankfort. Tn the Livorpoot cotton market middiing uplands closed at Tid. a 77¢d. Breadstully quiet, Provisions without marked change. CONGRESS. In the Sonate yesterday @ bill was introduced pro- viding for a nations! bureau of insarance, The bil! prow viding for tho sale of iron-clads was passed. The Re- onstruction bill was then taken up, and Mesers. Pomeroy and Buckalew made speeches, Tn the House tho pill coucerning the rights of Ameri« can citizens abroad was reported back from the com. nitteo and Mr, Banks explained it at length, but on the expiration of the moroing hour it went over. Tho bill forfeiting cortain land grants to railroads in some of the Southern States was discussed and the House aa- Journed. THE LEGISLATUSE. Tu the Senate yesterday a bill deciaring all canal re- pair contracts eull and vold was reported favorably. Bills were introduced providing for estimating the an- ual school tax in New York city st $10 for each pupil taught in the preceding year; allowing the ure of a pore tion of Fourth avenue by the Harlem Raitroad Coupa- hy; relative to theatres; appotating commissioners to set! the markets, and authorizing geverai street rail- rods. In the Assembly o bill making appropriations for the support of common schools was passed. Bills to pro vont the overcrowding of etroct cars, to tepeal the Motropolitan Sapitary acts, to amend tae Excive iaw, to incorporate the New York aud Brooxiya fron Tubular aud Tunnel Company and to ona Bupere visors 6f New York to raise me a& were intro duced. THE CITY. The Bear Aldermen coi { noon, bal as there wore bers enoagh present to order the oxpenditure of money th day at two P.M A lad named James McGunigon and his sister Ben, aged re pectively thirteen were arraigned in a Brooklyn court yesterday charged with attempting to marder a be tweive, named Hayes, ‘The mother of Hayes tostified that she bad heard the mother of the children urge them to kilt young Hayes, and they bad beaten him, being detected in the act of striking bit white down, with q brickbat and aa iron shovel, The one! yerterday me d to Batur ¥ adjor examination was adjourned Ta the Supreme Court, Chambers, the cage of tho Mayor, &e., vs. Fernando Wood, on motion by the Plaintiff to have the case go toa jury to determine the Goveral points involved, The defoudaut claims judg. ment for $27,000 for hire of his premises on Nassau Street to the Corporation Counsel, Attorney and Public Admimistrator, The Court reserved judgment Tho etock market was on (he whole firm, but ex yesterday, and closed steady. Government sec ‘were dull, but steady, oid closed at 140% a 140%. MISCELLANEOUS. Our mail advices from the Mgxican capita! are dated January 8 A slight shock Of carihquake yas experi ©nced on the 30th ult, The bill granting certain privi- Jegos to the San Francisco Steamship line had been Gigned by the President, Most of the news hay already eon auticipaced by our special telegrams over the Gulf cable, ° + In the Constitutional Convention yestorday the report of the Commitioe on Citios wae again discussed and a motion to discharge the Commitue of the Whole from tg Consideration to-day at noon was carried The United States steamer Rel ance has arrived at San Francisco from Valparaiso with advices to December 20, She left im that port the American war s\eamere Pow- hatan and Dacotab, the English frigate Topaz avd three Fronch war vessols, News from Alaska i@ received to the 181) Inst, No mention is made of trouble with (ho Indions, The Russian Fur Company's effecte were sold for £150,000, One of the now colonists had died of whiskey drinking, The Florida Convention have directed tho State Trea, surer to hold the public money subject to the order of the Convention, General Meade has instructed (he Con- vention to levy # direct tax to pay expenses, and in the meantime to draw on the Treas 4, ities The South Carolina Com on has passed oy grd!- Rance levying a tax to pay expenses, the amount to be teived being $75,000, Toe North Caroline Convontion hag authorized @ com- Btico bo oileot & luau of $10,009 to pay mileage, NEW YORK HERALD THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1868. The Louisiana Convention has adopted articles of the mew constitution providing for the wholesale disfran. chisoment of a large class of ex-rebels, The Virginia Convention yesterday was engaged maioly in exciting and unparliamontary debates upon taxation and @ proposed amendmont to the Registry law, r 1n the Mississippi Convention a resolution was intro- cuced to encourage by State patronage the publication of ae loyal newspaper, The Connegtieut Democratic Convention met at New Haven yesterday and renominated the State ticket of last year, headed by Governor English. The Maine House of Representative yosterday, by 100 to 33, voted to repeal the State Constabulary law. General Meade has issuod a circular to the effect that all the ordinances adopted by Conventions and legalized by him are to be desmed laws of the States in which they have been adopted, and are to bo construed and enforced by the courts accordingly, Tho celebrated Gaines will cago is again before the Supreme Court at Washington, involving this time a side issue in a claim for the past services of a slave. James Delomater, of Kingston, N. Y., on trial at Wilkesbarr, Pa,, for the murder of Dr. J. D. Durkin, of the lattor place, in May last, was yesterday foupd guilty, Financial Tinkeriug tn Congress. Hardly a day passes without there being a number of resolutions or propositions made in Congress relative to the national finances. This is the most difficult subject to understand and the most complicated of any connected with the science of government. There is so much to unlearn, so many prejudices asso- ciated with established habits and interests to overcome, in devising a sound system of finance for our abnormal condition, that few are capable of handling the subject. Yet we see every liltle village politician rushing forward with his crude nostrums. The tyro is always more presumptuous than the philoso- pher. Propositions too numerous to particu- larizé are made in both houses of Congress to contract the currency, to expand it, to fund the debt, to let the debt remain floating as it is for a while, to reduce the interest, to pay the interest in lawful money, to pay the interest in coin, to keep up a mixed currency, to make the currency uniform, and so forth, No one has submitted a thoroughly practical sysvem on the whole. Members are only tinkering with a difficult and comprehensive subject. This is not the time to legislate upon the na- tional finances. Congress did well in stopping any further contraction of the currency. That simply leaves us where we are, prevents com- mercial and financial disturbance, and the deranyement of existing values and contracis, and gives (he country an opportunity to grow gradually and healthfully with the present currency up to a fixed and sound condition. Nothing more should be done at present with the currency, so far as the volume of it is con- cerned. Congress would do a good thing, however, to pass the bill, now under considera- tion by the Committee on Banking and Cur- rency, to retire the national bank notes and substitute legal tenders in their place. This would neither inflate nor contract the cur- reney, but would make it uniform and save to the government and people sometiing like tweuty five millions in lawful money a year. Such a measure would be excellent, well timed, and an admirable corollary to the anti- contraction bill that has been passed. Tho two together would give usa stable currency, a uniform legal tender currency, issued by and’ based solely on the government, and would sive to the Treasury twenty-five millions a year. Beyond this Congress should not attempt to legislato on Gnancial questions for the present. We are approaching the timo for holding the notional nominating Presidential conventions. Afler these have been held—in about three months from this time—the campaign wili be carried on to the exclusion of everything else till November, when the issue will be deviled. Members of Congress will be so absorbed in making the next President from this time tor ward till the question bo settled, that there will be no opportunity for the mature con- sideration of the difficult problems periaining to our national finunces. Any legislation on the subject must be necessarily hasty, imma- ture and calculated to disorganize rather than improve the revenue and business of the coun- try. Besides, how can Congress legislate upon any general system applicable to the whole country—and that should be the only legisla'ion—while more than one-third of the republic, and the most productive portion of it, is uarepresented and rapidly running to ruin? How can we put the national finances ona sound basis until we know more about the future? We are passing through an extra- ordimary politival, social and moral revolu- tion. We do not know what the radical policy of Coygress may end’ in. It has virtually abolished the Executive, it has erected a mili- tary dictatorghip over the South, it seoms de- termined to make the semi-barbarian Africans of the Southern States a controlling political power in the republic, and it is preparing to remove the President from his ofice and put a violent Jacobin in his place. In fact, this radical Congress seems resolved to make the next President by revolutionary means and agains! the will of the people, if they cannot by constitutional means. How absurd, then, to attempt to legislate about financial matters when we are standing, probably, over a vol- cano—when, at all events, the political and critical condition of the country absorbs all thonghts ! Tu the course of a few months the voice of the people will be heard on the great and vital political issue of the time. We shall then know what the future of the republic is to bo. We shail know whether we are to live under a constilution, a Jacobin directory in Congress or a mililary dictatorship, Until thon, as we said before, it is utterly useless, a waste of time and dangerous to legislate upon the national finances, After next November we shall know how to regulate the finances to enit the circumstances of the time and the future of the country, but not before. We advise members of Congress, therefore, to cease tinkering with the subject till the Presidential election be over and our fativre condition be known. Train Goa Ox.—George Francis Train writes to @ copperhead city sheet that he will stump Ireland dvspite the Derby government— meaning that he will make as much trouble as he knows how and delnde as many Irishmea to the halter as possible. We would expect such ® course from such lunatic, and the publication of this kind of (rash from the cop- pethead sheet that sympathized with all the disorders, burnings ond murders that troubled this country through the war. This despatch was sent to us, but we declined to give it place in our columns, A New Impeachmont Bill. Mr. Edmunds, of Vermont, has introduced into the United States Senate a new bill on impeachment, which, if it can be carried through, will enable Congress to get rid of President Johnson on ‘a mére indictment of impeachment. .The bill substantially proposes that on the arraignment of a civil officer on articles of.impeachment from the House before the Senate, the party so indicted shall be sus- pended in the functions of his office untii ‘he end of the trial, and that then, if acquitied of the charges against him, he shal} be reinstated. The bill further provides for the employment of tho army, if necessary, to enforce this afore- said suspension, Now, as. the suspension of Mr. Johnson would be practically his removal from office to the end of his term, this bill pro- vides for all that is wanted by the radicals in his case. With this and the other radical measures before the two houses duly passed over the veto, the reconstruction programme of Congress will embrace :— 1. The Tenure of Office bill, the working of which we have seen in the reinstatement of Mr. Stanton in the War Department by the Senate over the President’s objections to the continuance of this man asa member of his Cabinet. 2. The new Reconstruction Dill, “which makes General Grant Provisional Dictator over the ten unreconstructed rebel States and wholly independent of the constitutional authority of the President as Commander-in- Chief of the army. 3. The bill providing that the concurrence of two-thirds of the members of the Supreme Court shall be necessary to invalidate a law of Congress, 4, The bill to regulate the appellate juris- diction of the Supremo Court. 5. The bill to extend universal negro suffrage throughout the United States. 6. The bill of Mr. Edmunds for the removal of President Johnson on being arraigned for trial on articles of impeachment. This is an imposing schedule of revolu- tionary measures. If passed into tho form of laws of the United States we may then look out for something still more revolutionary and startling—a Roman triumvirate or consulate, an English commonwealth, a French direc- tory, a Mexican republic, a Haytien empire, or something which will dispense with the old constitution entirely; provided always that the new Congress to be elected next fall shall be a repetition of this Congress, whose term expires witb that of Andrew Johnson, March 4, 1869. The Sale or Lease of Samana, We publish elsewhere a letter from the Con- sul of Hayli at New York, protesting against the right of Cabral and his agents to negotiate for the sale or the lease of Samana to the United States governmont, contrary to the wishes of the Dominicans, as lately expressed in their Congress by an emphatic negative vote. Now, with all due respect to the Consul of Hayti, it seems to us thai these negroes ‘of St. Domingo, whose quarrels for along series of years have led to the anarchy which offers a serious and important lesson to those who would fain introduce negro supremacy, with all its dread{ul evils, into our Southern States, and even concede to it the balance of power in our general government, are both presumptu- ous and unwise in resisting a negotiation tor such a sale or lease of Samané as would be no loss boneficial to their real interests than to our own. With Mr. Seward the negotiations for Samana were, in the main, only preliminary to the purchase of St. Thomas, The possession of Samana itself is but of comparativoly slight importance to us, except as a step towards ulterior purposes, the object of which is to secure permanent advantages not only to the United States government, but to the inhabi- tans of the West In lia islands and to mankind at large. If the Dominicans persist in vain efforts to oppose “ manifest destiny,” we may bo tempted to suggest that there are now Fenians enough “out of business,” without including those in office in New York, who might find it more immediately profitable to sail to Hayti than to Ireland, and gstablish an Irish republic which would speedily put a final stop to the continual and tedious warfare be- tween blacks and mulattoea, Tie Emerald Isle is not the only gem of the ocean, Extraordiunry Stenmboat Accident. The telegraph informed us yesterday of a most extraordinary steamboat accident on the Mississippi, at Tunica Bend, below the Red river. Lt appears that a steamboat carrying o valuable cargo of sugar and motosses and sev- eral passengers careened while turning the Bend, aud her cabin slid off into the rushing current with its living freight of ladies, four of whom were drowned, while the boat itself, minus the cabin, righted immediately and was lost @ moment afterward by striking on a snag. What sort of cabins must these boats have that can slip off like loose lumbor whon a boat carcens to one side? What would we think of ono of our ferryboats or coasting steamers if the upper cabins were to be swept away, even in a heavy storm? A thousand anathemas would be hurled at the head of the unlucky builder, and there would be no end of worthless investigations aa to responsibility, and so forth, But they are not addicted to such formula in the West. Steamboat captains aro not unnecessarily particular about their cargo or their boat unless they are part owners; and os to their passengers, they think the fate of the boat, whatever it may be, is good enongh for them, and whether they are blown up in the sir or slid overboard into the water nobody lies any business to grumble. A few stout nails would probably have kept the cabin of the ill-fated steamer Emerald ge- curely to the deck and saved four women from a grave in the turbid Mississippi; but it is evident that this thing called a cabin, with cating and sleoping apartments complete, had no more security on deck than a hen coop, and probably less, because the latter article is usaally lashed to the hulwarks to preserve its precious treight from a watery grave. They want few stringent steamboat laws in the Western States, Tus Newark Srinivatisr3—A New Jersey jury has brought in a verdict of guilty against @ ciazy tailor who vio!yted the laws of decency and morality ia his exposition of the dootrines of Spiritualism. Such a verdict serves only to elevate the knight of the goose to the dignity of # martyr among the infatuated followers of this monstrous humbug and thereby increases the evil. A straight jacket, a leech or two, a cold ‘ath, plealy of medicine and @ short sojourn in a lunatic asylum will soon cure such crazy people of their ridiculous fancies. The Proposed Board of Survey for the Navy. We are glad to see that at last Congress’ is arriving at something sensible touching the construction of our navy. We have often wondered if there ever could be an end to the fashion adopted in the navy of arriving at results blindly, if at all. We did a good deal in the war because Americans cannot help doing wonders if the opportunity is offered and tools placed in their hands. But we might have accomplished greater things if affaira had been properly directed. : Just twenty-one years ago there was in the navy a vessel which was called by the Mexi- cans the American Devil. Full rigged, well armed, fast and an excellent sea boat, the Princeton was the war vessel of the world. The genius of one man, unhampered by jealgusies or wornout traditions, and guided by the practical knowledge of other men whose every interest was in the success, gave usa start that placed us ten years in advance of the world. Then followed in time the Susquehanna, Powhatan, Wabash, Minne- sota, Iroquois, Wyoming, Lancaster and Hartford, and vessels of their class, and afterwards came the flood of nondescripts which we now undertake to dignity with tho name of men-of-war. The first class were, so to |. speak, homogeneous craft, with some appear- ance ofa principle behind the system. The last class are utterly devoid of all homoge- neity, and are as if a dozen heads had been at work each to nullify the best labora of tho others, and there seems to have been no con- trolling influence to harmonize the offorts of the designers of the hulls and engines of our ships. Mr. Welles and Mr. Fox have done pretty well, better, perhaps, than others could have done ; but there was an obstacle to com- plete success they could not surmount for want of power. They could not bring harmony in ‘councils when diverse influences were at work. Now, had there been a body of men with the necessary power, thoroughly cognizant of the indispensable requirements of a man-of-war such as that which, in tho faco of a national prejudice, @ecided upon the concentrated armor system of tho monitors, whose success is now 50 glorious, or even the system developed in the New Ironsides, the most effective broadside iron-clad in the world, what might we not have done with the navy? When one interest pre- dominated or overrode the other, that body could have speedily enforced an eqni- librium. Of the Ordnance Department they would demand homogeneous batteries ; of constructors, sea-going ships of flne model and capacity; of the engineers, the smallest possible space, greatest economy, greatest speed and greatest endurance; of the man- agers of yards and docks, facilities for building and repairs ; of medicine and surgery, hygiene ; and of provisions and clothing, proper food and clothing; and under such a plan what splendid results might have boen attained ! Daring the war we could not stop to perfect all these changes, but at present itis of first neceasity to profit by our valuable experience before we have time to forget it. Congress seems to take this view of the subject, and is inclined to give us a Board of Survey. The bill introduced in tho Senate by Senator Nye seems to cover the ground, and is wisely con- ceived. It provides that the President shall appoint, by and with the advice of the Senate, three line officers on the active list of the navy, one of whom shall be the admiral or vice admiral and the other two rear admirals, who shall be a Board of Survey of the Navy. Under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy tho Board shall exercise such super- vision over the various bureaus of the Navy Department as now established as shall be necessary for securing uniformity in the various classes of vessels, their construction, armament, equip- ment, and in repairing and refitting them. The Board shall be responsible to the Secretary for the efliciency of the naval establishment and for all matters relative to the procurement of naval supplics and materials, and for the construction, &c., of vessels of war. ‘The Board must make estimates for appropriations hereafter to be presented to Congress for naval purposes, and the money shall in no way be expended except on the approval of the Board. In fact, nothiag can be done relat- ing to naval constraction or repairs from which the Board withholds its approval. Con- gress is starting in the right direction now and should follow out its design in its general do- tails. We need a first class navy to be prepared for any eventuality that may arise. With our present fleet we are in no condition to sustain our claim to tako rank a3 a naval power; and the éarlier we set about correcting the terrible failures of the past seven years in naval construction the sooner we shail be in a posi- tion to make good our boast of rivalling the great n@val Powers on the high seas, This well considered project of a Naval Board of Survey should be at once pressed on to com- pletion. Royal Pay tor Negro Legisiators. t The negro Reconstruction Convention of South Carolina forms a high estimate of its services. The Sambos who used to be glad to get a few dollars a month for working on the cotton ‘or rice plantations have fixed their pay as constitution makers at eleven dollars a day and twenty cents mileage. Our white Congressmen, who get eight dollars a day, will envy these happy blacks. When the darkics come to Congress they will undoubtedly en- deavor to raise the dignity and emoluments of our national legislators in the same propor- tion. If a negro member of a State Convention be worth eleven dollars a day, what ought a negro Congressman to get? Thirty dollars a day at least. How astonished these South Carolina negroes must be with their extraor- dinary change of fortune! They can hardly realize whether they stand on their heads or heels, To cap the climax of their ridiculous presumption they should have proposed to pay the white members of the Convention half what they get themselves ; and that, after all, would be only somewhat in proportion to the estimate in which the two races are held in the South just now. A white man may be nearly half as good as a nogr Ovn Mexican News—The latest special telegrams to the Heratp do not warrant the bollef that Mexican troubles are over, Presi- dent Juarez and his friends have evidently a hard task before them. Yucatan isas unsettled as over, Inthe State of San Luis Potosi the’ legislature had authorized the levy of a foreed loan on the merchants, The sum demanded is thirty thousand dollars, but the merchants have returned @ peremptory refusal. Ip the State of Chiapas a revolt is hourly expected. Mexicans have certainly not yet proved to the world that they are capable of self-govern- meat, BOOK NOTICES. Waits Supremacy anp Nearo Svsorpiwarion: on, Necross a Scsoxpinate Race. By J. H. Van Evrie, M.D, New York :—Vaa Evrie, Hor- ton & Co., Nassau street. ‘This is a republication of a work which, the author iuforias us im the preface, was produced originally about the time of Mr, Lincola’s election, but fell still- born in congequence of the excitement of the war. The title explains the object of the book, and if it contains nothing new in facts t at least exhibits a good deal of care and painstaking to get a fair share of information together upon a subject which, just at this time when a political faction, using their power with a whip hand, aro forcing uegro su- premacy upon the white people of the South without mercy, excites universal interest, Tho whole tone of the work shows the earnestness of a mind thoroughly convinced of the truth of its own theories, There are many who will feel bound to differ from tho opinion bere expressed that the human race did not spring from one common stock; but thousands who have studiod the peculiarities and capacities of the negro race will probably agroe with the author that the African had not a common origin with the white man. The ciaims of the negro to enjoy secial equality with the whites in any portion of this country, we take it, are already decided upon adversely to Sambo and Cuffee in’ the minds of ail intelligent mon not ridden over by the abstractions of Phillips and Sumner, the cunning of Thad Stevens or the chicane of Ben Butler. Nevertholegs, this equality is going to be torced upon the white population of ten States, and a little rubbiog up of one’s memory upon questions involving the qualifi- cations of the nogro for this new position may do no harm. In this view the volume before us, though not Derfect in {ts way and manifesting a protty strong spirit bordering on the fanatical or “negropnobia,” if we may 80 call it, does not come inopportunoly. OBITUARY. Gilbert C. Davidson. Tho doath or this gontieman occurred in this city yes- terday from paralysis, by which be wns struck down ton days sinto, Mr. Davidson was bora in Albany, where he regided until the past four years, His father was & partner of Erastus Corning for many years, Mr. Gil- bert Davidson was alison membor of the iron house of KE. Corniug & Co. for more than twenty-five years, where ho accumulated a handsome fortune. Ho was well - known in Albany, where ho was greatly esteemed as a public spirited, liberal and high minded citizen. Though nover, wo believe, bolding office, be was an influential man in political affaire, and especially in matters relating to railroads. Socially he was a most genial, companiouadie gentleman, whose Dearing with those with whom he caine in contact was such as to endear him to all, His friends throughout the state will be grieved to learn of his death, Ho was about filly years of age. Wooster Bacch. Dr. Beach, one of the oldest, talented and persovering medica! reformers of our day, died on Tuesday lasi, He had been a practitioner for more than forty five years, and imnugurated a revolution in the practice of medicine which did away with the old-fashioned system of blood-letting, salivation and the various nervic mea- sures, against which bis best efforts were directed He established a school for the dissemination of the princt- ples he had adopted and graduated @ large number of students, Dr, Beach was also the author of nino or ten medical works, and was the proprietor of two newspa- pers. Tho Zelscrpe, a weekly, aud tho Lvening Journal, a daily, were both popular in their day. Athannse Lanrent Charles Coquercl. . This distinguished divine and reformer, president of tho Paris Presvyterial Council of the Reformed Church of France, has recently died in Paria, He was born in that city August 27, 1795, and was graduated at th ‘Theological Schoc! of Montauban in 1818. Upon the completion of his @tudies in France he spent twelve years in Holland; Ueto | in the French church at Amsterdam and occasionaily at Leyden and Utrecht, where he formed an extended and vaiuablo acqualaiance with tho loading divines of the liberal porsuasion in that kingdom. Ho then returned to Vuris and be- came pastor of a Reformed church in the city, waere the prominent liberal Christians attended, In 1848 be was almost unanimously elected to the National Assombly, when he displayed great ability and a pro- found knowled/e of political aflairs, Ho was on tho committee to draft the new consticution, and was promi- neat m the support of the republican administrations of General Cavaignac and that of the present Emperor, who was then plaiu Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, President of tho Repuvlio, He was very earnest in bis support of Buvignier's propasition for the abo- littion of capital punishmont and voted In its favor, Aller the coup delat of Coqueret withdrew from — political ie himselt to his sacred profession and literature, fo pubiisyed néarly a dozen volumes of sermons, de- Nivored during a long ministry. Ho tas also writte: ti puvlished a nomber of works, which have had a great Ciroulation, as well in the French as in the “English, German and French languages, ‘ihe better known are his “Anaiyteal History of tho Biblo,"” “acted Biograe phy,” a reply to Sirauss’ “Life of’ Jesus,” “Modern Orthodoxy” and “ixpermmental Christiauity.” Of late yours M. Coqueret haa been the leading momber of the Reform Church in France, He was an eloquont aud owerful spoaker and a profound — theologian, lo was ® friend of freo government, and gi during tho war his heartiest —_eflorta id sympathies to the Union side of our war, and no one in ‘rance was more delizhted than he at the faal removal of the blot of slavery upon the istitutions of our coun- try, He was a great admirer of President Liocoim who was ever held up to Franco as che graaest man of modern timee, Socially M. Coqueret was @ charming man He wasa brillant conversationalist, familiar with every topic, and fult of tho kindest ‘eelings and sy mpa- thies for every clvss of society, In his death the ad- vauced Church has lost a grand pilar and support. AUCTION SALE OF COaL. Tho regular monthly auction sale of Sofanton coal from the Lackawanna regions took place yeoterday. Forty thousand tons were offered, The attendance of purchasers was aboat the same as usual, but the bidding was decidedly dail, showing goat depression in the trade, Kastern purcbasora were not reprosented and the buying was confined almoat extlusively te city and suburban purchasers, Steamship aod steamboat com- panies wero the principal bidders, The subjoinod tybular statement statement shows the rieea Obtained yesterday compared with those of the th inst, = ‘slight decling in stove and steamboat coal and a small advance in lump, grate, eg aad chestaut, ° THE BROAD STREET HOMICIDE. Coroner Schirmer yesterday held an inquost at the New street Police station on the body of Lawrence Mutloa, the man who was stabbed in the neck with» knife in the bands of Wiliiarh O’Brien at the corner of Broad and Beaver streets about eight o'clock on Tues- a orning, as fully reported in yesterday's Herato, voral witnesses wore examined, when the case was subdmitied (o the jury, who returned a verdict “That Lawrence Mullen, the deceased, came to his doath by a stad wound at the hands of William O'Brien, January 28, 1868." Thogprisoner, who Is @ laborer, twenty-nine yoars of age, anative of Iroland, lives at 101 Madison Stroet, was (hen arraigned for examination. jon to the charge proferred against bim ho am guilty of Gage ete} ‘but it all came rough drinking liquor.’ er Schirmer commitred oO risa to thi hid is to await his trial, Deceased was twenty-oight years of age of Trai lived at 28 Washington street, where he bh: and one child, Hi child in t commnontenesaatsenisalontansesen OUR STEAM NAVY. To tHe Eprron or tas Herato:— T notice in your paper an article on ‘Our Now Steam Navy,’’ of all of which it may be said, “Tis true, ‘tis pity, and pity "tis "tis true'’—"ower true.” But what is the use of the press polating out the blunders of our naval engineering? Has it not been done time and again with literally no results? Have you not at vari- ‘ous times in the past seven years called attontion to the fearful In the Dundreds of instapces In which th 90 of the Davy has afforded bim ere eae whero bas he m pleasant to port to our navy failure; but it ts some- best to look at facta though they be unpleasant. tthe twenty-three gunboats—to be sure the hulls but if the engines had been of any valuo the nt or individuals Would have ropatred tho nt with rotten hulls and pagar without power broken up for old metal, Look at the doubdie- ‘ar vessels scurcely over used (many of (hom); but with these wonderful specimens of mechanical inge- nuity In the shape of engines they are going, gol gono to any old junk man for $15,000—not dimes for doliara, Look at the fight draft monitors, not wholly, but partially, the work of the same groat mind; and jar, Hut not least (that is, in siz), fook at the Wampanoag class of fast frigates—four yoars in building and now not fit to go to soa, Words aro useless, 1 say no favre, lures of this “head of & Bureau?” vast NEW YORK LEGISLATURE. SENATE. Atsany, Jan. 29, 1868, - ee sss CONTRACT FRAUDS, b >, from Canal Committee, reported favoravly a bill declaring the belief that all repairs by contracts of the canals and the work and repairs and Gredging of the Albany basin awarded at the loiting ia December, 1366, aro fraudulent and void, and to declare the same void, and to. recover al money patd on said contracts beyond @ reasonable compensat work om thereuader. ne ” on ter ‘ne Presipent presented a memorial * ton. Auditor of the Canal Dap 48 Bow pronouces as calumuious and false the ion of fraud and corruption contained in the report of the Select Committee on Canal Mismanagement, as far ag tho same alludes to him, The memorial wag ordered to be printed, q Mr. CREAMER ga’ notice of « bil Incorporating We ir. CREA notice of a bil hawken and Hunter's Point Ratiroad Company, “4 Mr. Norron gave notice of a bill for a railroad in Aye. nue C, New York. . BILLS INTRODUCED. By Mr. Pauee—Providiog thas the annual school tax in New York shall not exceed the product obtained by multiplying the sam of ten dollars by the average num. ber of pupils who have actualiy been taught for the whole preceding year, . By Sir, Gener—Authorizing the New York and Harlom Railroad Company to use in the construction of ther passenger depot that part of Fourth avenue lying be tween the westerly side thoreof and the line drawn parallel therewith ifty fees distant westerly from we easterly side of Fourth avenue, aad extending from the northerly side of Forty-second street to the southerly side of Forty-fifth street, and also all ihose parts of Forty-third and Forty-fourth sireets lying between the westerly side of Fourth avenue and a parallel line dis~ tant two hundred (eet wosteriy. . By Mr. Pignct—To compel the proprietors of places of amusement to construct alleyways becween the seats and keep them unobstructed during performauces. By sir,. Haue—Amending the act onabling husband aud wife to testify for or against each otuer by adding the words “‘or in any action or proceeding in which or a3 to any matier as to which the othor is incompetent to testify ;”’ authoriziog the Blessburg Railroad Company to hold real estate in this State, By Mr. O'Doynstt—Autnorizing a sale of the mar- kets in New York, and names Messrs, James Brown, Benjamia W. Bonney and Isaac Sherman as commis- sioners Lo sell tho property, By Mr, Ganer—authorizing tho construction of a railroad in 125th and other streets in New York, By Mr, Banks—Amending the act to puaisb crime im certain cases so as to allow judges to sentence prisoners convicted of State Prison olfences to pont.cntiari.a without regard to age, B hee hiexan = inoeporaiing the Tenth and Cort. landt Street Railroad Company, Mr. Beaca introduced a bill authorising the Holi Gate pilots to coliect half pilotage in casos where signalled and subsequently refused to be received on board; also to collect the samo pilotase from government versels as when such vesseis are pioied by way of Sandy Hook, SAVETY 10 RAILROAD TRAVEL Messrs. Nichols, Thayer aud Norton were appointed a select commitice to report Wit levislation Is uecessary to secure greater safety iu ratiroad travel, CHARITIES AND CORKKCTION. The Pkeuprxr presented a communication from tho Commissioners of Cuarities nud Correction estimating tue addivonat amount necessary tor tho reliet of tue poor and de#titute in the city of Now York at $60,000, and stating that thus far tuoy have deuied ouly tirly- five applications, Adjourved. ASSEMBLY. a Aunany, Jan. 29, 1868, BILTS REPORTED FAVORABLY, To amend the Brooklyn, Eastern District, Fire Do- partment act; to amend tho Nowburg city charter; to incorporate tho Depositors’ Savings Bank of Now York; 40 Incorporate Luo Rondout Savings Bank; to amend the chartor of the Brooklyn Germania Savings Bank ; to in- corporate tho New York starksmen Citizens’ Asgocla- ton. 3 BILLA PASSED, To incorporate the New York Corcoran Irish Legion; making appropriations for tue support of common schools; for a New York State Institution for the Blind at Batavia, BILLS INTRODUCED. By Mr, Barxrgr—To amend the School act, By Mr, Keapvy—To prevent the overcrowding of city railroad cars. By Mr, Kizrxan—To amend tho Hell Gate Pilot aots, By Mr, MoKimver—To repeal the Metropolitan Saal- tary act. By Mr, Poyn—To amonud the Excise law. By Mr, Jacone—To incorporate the New York and Brooklyn [ron Tubular and fuanel Company. By ‘Mr, Hrrcumax—To enabie the Board of supervisors of New York to raise monoy by tax. MILK FREIGHT. Mr, Pirra moved to recommend tho bill to regulate freight on milk on the Harlem Railroad to the Commit- tee on Railroads for tho purpose of argument. Adopted. HELL GATK OBSTRUCTIONS, Mr. D. Bunxs moved to instruct the Senators and Rep- resontatives in Congress to support the measures for (he improvement of Hell Gate chaunel. RETRENCUMENT, Mr. Jacons called up the Sonate resolution relative to rotreachmout in the departments of the State govorn- ment, and providing for the appointment of a joint committee to investiyate, with a viow to proposed ro- forms, Adopted, In the evoning session the Governor’s mozsage was considered in Committee of tho Whole. Mr. FLAG said the way out of debt was through eav- ing aud economy. The various statements as te the amounts to be raised by tax, coming as somo of them did from high republican authority, ind that tuere lad been looseness in tho expenditute: le combat:a the idea of the prosparity of the State having increased with tts business, Would his Excellency maintain that tha wes a real and not ao imaginary prosperity? Tuat eince the subsutution of paper for gold the appreciauiou in vaiues was real and not nominal? Jf euch was his opinion then the remedy for debt was simply she issue of paper, But it was not on account of the iadooted- ness that complatut was made People objected aa much to the continuance of tho doancial expedients wuich were neceasury during a state of war, it was a fittng commentary on the presont state of a%airs that while - gold wes losing its purchasing power in the world green- -backs wore not appreciating. A roturn to specie paymonts was the solution of the present diffiouliies in business and manufactures, In referring to reconstruc- thon he pointed Out tuo recent Eurupean war, and said that while vanetifg no republicanism hike ours tho Buse marck goverument knew bo sub,ugated provinces alter the war closed, no conditions of ciiise: but such as it imposed on Linogse Who followed iis ow! er in the struggle. . ‘he Assembiy then adjourned. THE COLM-HISCOCK HOMICIDE. {- -om the Evening Telegram of yosterday. ALvANY, Jan. 29, 1868, An immense .crowd assombled in the Court Hoave this morning on the occasion of the argumont of the motion by District Attorney Smith aud Lyman Tremaine to quash and supersede the writ of certiorari grautea by Judge Miller removing the trial of Gonoral Cole from the Oyer and Terminer to the Suproime Court, , Mr. Smith read his affidavit setting forth tho facts in regard to the indictmeot in tho Oyer and Terminer of the prisoner, his plea of not guilty bofore that court, and the action of counsel on beth sides in proparing for the trial at tho present term, Mr. Hadley, the prisoner's counsel, read an immense array of aMdavits, setting forth that Mrs, Anderson and Mrs, Cuyler wore necessary and absolutely osséntial witnesses for the prisoner, and tho affidavits of Mra, Cuyler and Mra, Anderson showing the ovidence of Mra, Anderson to have been essential as proving the inti- macy, [rom circumstances which had oxisted between Mr. Hiscock and virs, Cole; that the hearing of the trial in this county would be ar nent to the interest of tue defendant, a8 much feeling had been manifested here just bim both in the local and other news| A number of pa wore embraced as among those that bad published statements of tho facts of the homicide and editorial comments thoroon, 1ngel also atated in bis affidavits that two of the justices sitting im the Oyer and Terminer wore not lawyers; that the dis- seating opinion of those justices would overrulethat of the other justice sitting with them, and that the prison. interests would be seriously impaired by being coa- red before them. Mdavit of General Colo sets forth that he oxpects and belioves that he will be able to prove by the testimony of Mra, Cuyler that in 1 whi doponent was ailwent in the army, L, Harris Hisco bad carnal knowled; of and seduced dopo. nent’s wife, and continued to hold this intercourse aftor deponent’s discharge from the army; thatafter bis discovery of tho offences be becat rostrated by griof and agony and was subjected to violent and ovorwholming paroxysme of grief, and that these continued uatil the time be left Syracuse to go to Albany; that he went to Albany with @ view of mecting bis wife’s brothor to Consult with him upon the matter, Brooklyn, and that bis meeting with of June was entirely unexpected and accidental; that Olive C, Cole, wife of Senator Colo, in the summer of 1864 visited prisoner's wife and obser: ed circum. stances whi led her strongly to suspect that an abortion had recently been produced upon her, and that deponent expected to prove that L. A. Hiscock wi ected with the procurement of such promature dolivery, but that Olive (. Cole ts now im the city of Washington; that W. H. Wheeler, another wit. ness for defence, saw deponent tal for Albany on the day alluded to, aud not doponent’s action Was so singular that Whoeter thor and feared that deponent might commis suicide; that in 1862 dopo- whilo charging on the rebel pickets at NewSern, . C., was severely wounded, the effect of which injury has seriously affected deponca’s Lealth and mind since then, ana that W. H. Palmer was the surgeon whe attended his injuries and can testify aa to their extent and eflects, but for a long time was unsbie to Gnd his whereabouts, and yostorday aacortained that Dr, Palmer was in Richmond, Va; that Drs, Wheeler and H, W. Brown, also impowt tant Witaesece, wore both absent, the former on a United States aupply ship and (he latter in Virgini ‘Tho Court excluded from the argumoot all reference to the injurious fufluence of the publications in tho newspapers, and (ho probability or Improbaliiity of t prisouor being fairly or unfairly tried im this county, the kaowledge of the facts was as widely disseminated throughout the country at large ag ia this county, At (he close of the argumont the Court announced that it would render a decision on the application to quash tn well of cortiorart (o-morrow WMoruiig,