The New York Herald Newspaper, February 22, 1868, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXII No. 53 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—Irauian Orena. Matinee—La Favonira. OLYMPI Ba EATRE, Broadway.—Faxomom. Matinee ic Ez, Bs NIBLO'S G. N, \way.—-Tas Wairs Fi |ARDEN, Broad ‘an Ware Fawn, ow AlLacn's THEATRE, Broadway and 13s street.— BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—P: Part- Kamit Jans. Matinee at ee ee ' BOWERY THEATRE, Bow noon at 2-—-Mittem or N Fawatn Deractive, £0. REBT, £C, NEW YORK THEATRE, oovosite New York Hotel.— ov New Young, Matinee at2 BANVARD'S OPERA HOUSE AND MUSEUM, Broad way and 30th st.—Ticest or Li Man, Matiaee at 2. FRENCH THBATRE. Bonnxs. Burr Les ER QUI NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street, —Gruxasrics, Rquestaianisu, ac. THEATRE COMIQUE, 516 Broadway.—Haniowe Cowst- ‘Havin TRoure axp Mintatore Circus, Matinee at 2's, KELLY 4 LEON'S MINSTRELS. 730 Broadway, —Sonas, Dancxs, Bogenteicitixs, &c.—Granp Durcu “ Matinee, SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway. —Ernio- Tay ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANviMG AND BURLR: QUasS. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. 201 Row Come Vocatism, NEGRO MinsTRELSY, &0. Matinee at BUTLER'S AMERICAN THEATRE, 472 Broadway. -- Baier, Fance, Pantomime, 4c. Matinee at 2, BUNYAN HALL, Broadway and Fifteenth street—Tae 1¢Rim. Matinee at 2. STEINWAY HALL.—Mr. Caances Eyrinas's Reavixas, MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn,— Tus Hippew Hanp. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklya.—Eraiortan ‘Munatacisy, Baccaps axp Buiasquas. BROOKLYN OPERA HOUSER, Wilkiamsburg.—Tax “RADLE OF Linerty, &c. Matinee at 2 New Yerk, Snturday, February 22, 1N6S. THB MEW 5. EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yester- day evening, February 21. A Paris journal that Russia ts massing troops | gear the Danube. Italy gives officiat assurances to France of good faith ia the matter of the Sepiember Convention and the payment of the debts of the an- wexed territory, Train's lecture ia Dublin was a failure. ‘enian trialsand arrests engage the attention of the authorities in England and Ireland. The new postal treaty between England and the United States ts tempo- rarily suspended, The British Cabinet is more bopeful of the speedy termination of the campaign in Abyssinia, Formidable revoitt sald te Lave broken out simong the convicts and prisoners in Tedia, Consoles 93 2 935g im London, Five-twenties "2'y a 72} in London and 76 « 76% im Frankfort, lentes dull in Paris. Cotton quiet, with middling upl at 105% pence Trade improved in Manchester. Provisions slight'y ad- vanced and steady. Breadstuffs without much change, CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday a communication was re- eoived from the Secretary of the Treasury relative to the foree employed at the New York Custom House. | Mr. Grimes made a personal explanation, in tle cours’ of which a debate ensued, when it was sisted that a despatch was forwarded to the Governor of Sout Caro- Vina by Mr. Harvey four days before the attack on Fort Sumter containing information of edministration’s jetentions, and that Mr. Liacoin and Secrotary Seward suthorized the sending of the despatch. The dehate on the Recoastruction vill was continued, Mr, Conkling, yielding in the midst of his spvech to adinit of au ox- vally swe'ling, and fears are entertained that a damag- Trocautionary measures aro ing freshet may oocur, being adopted 1p accordance therewith. e Stirring News from Washi A Coup @Etat at Last from President Johnson. Yesterday was a day of momentous events and high excitement in Washington. Firat, the nomination by President Johnson of Geno- ral McClellan as Minister to England raised little breeze of conjectures and speculation ; but as there was nothing unexpected in this Proceeding it awakened neither wrath nor alarm in the Capitol. But something so bold and decisive as to be positively startling very soon followed: First, in an Executive com- munication to the Senate announcing the re- moval of Mr. Stanton as Secretary of War and the appointment of the Adjutant General Lo- renzo Thomas in his place ; secondly, in a communication to the House from Stanton transmitting the President’s order to him to vacate the War Department at once; and thirdly, in the announcement to the Senate from the President that he had appointed Major General George EL Thomas to be, first, Lieu- tenant General, and next, General by brevet. The removal of Stanton of itself was an act of defiance against the expressed will of Con- gress sufficiently astounding to both houses; but coupled with these promotions of the old ministerial General Thomas and of “the man who never lost a battle,” the “rock of Gibral- tar,” the fighting General Thomas, thera was enough to satisfy the Senate and the Houso that there was mischief in the wind, and that the caso of “the man at the other end of the avenue” had assumed a phase which admitted of no delay. Mr. Conkling’s speech, in progress at the time, on reconstruction, thus rudely inter- rupted, was promptly suspended, and the Senate went into executive session. As the first result of this secret consultation Messrs. Fessenden, Cattell and Thayer were appointed @ committee to wait on Secretary Stanton and. enjoin bim to hold fast to his position until further action by the Senate. In the House the communication from the displaced Secretary of War was, in the midst of unparalleled excilement, referred, under the previous question, to the Committee on Reconstruction. Next, on motion of Mr. Butler, a previous order appropriating tho 22d of February to the holiday amusement of a miscellaneous debate was rescinded, with a view to these urgent business matters from the White House; and next, a resolution from Mr. Covode, of Pennsylvania, that Andrew Johnson be impeached as guilty of “high crimes and misdemeanors” was referred to the Recon- struction Committee, and then, still in an un- usual state of combustion, the Houso ad- journed. Now, this looks like bringing the conflict betweea King and Parliament’ to a crisis, There Is a great gathering of the democratic leaders from all parts of the country in Wash- ecutive session. In the House a bill from the joint Commitice on Li- | Drary waz reportsd on the establishmest of au interna. | onal copyright. The Naval Appropriation Dill was | taken up in Committees of the Whole. [t appropriates | $18,096,045, After some debate it was repor'ed to the | House and postponed until Mon A communication was received irom the President announcing that he | had removed Edwin M. Stanton from the position of | Secretary of War, and appointed Lorenzo Thomas, Ad- | jutant General, as Secretary of War ad interim, Alter some debate it was referred to the Committee on Kecon- | struction. Mr. Covode offered as a question of privi- Jogo & resolution that Andrew Johnson be impeached for high crimes and misdemeasora, which was also referred to the Committee on Recoastruction, and the House adjourned. TH® CITY. « The anniversary of Washington's Birtlcay wil! he ‘ally celebrated throughout the city and it+ There wilt be no ‘Tuere will be Jail, Tomp- oa will ring on the shipping and the pubiic buildings. pyrotechnic displays at the Battery, Ci Kins square and elsewhere, and Ir.nity forth at noon, ‘The Papal Zouaves from Montreal arrived in hie city yosterday en rou'e for Rome, They were recsived at St Francis Xavier College, and wetcomed by Kiehop Pine soonault, They will sail to-day for Havre on tho | ington at this time, dancing attendance upon Mr. Belmont and his National Executive Com- mittes, In referenc® to the appointment of the time and place for the National Democratic Convention. Have these gentlemen been pointing out the way to Mr. Johnson, and are they with him in those movements of yesterday? Are these proceedings part of an arrsoged Presidential programme involv- ing the nomination of Mr. Juhnson? I: is difficult to believe that, sing!e handed, he has underixken to challenge directly in Congress tue force of 8 law of Congress on the impeach- ment quesiion. The Tenure of Office law may | be flagrantly unconstitutional ; but if the two houses concur in adjudging adefiance of this law “a high crime and misdemeanor,” and that this remeval of Stanton, so soon after his reinstatement under this law, is an act of cui pabl# defience of the law, where is the com- steamer St. Laurent took considerable evidence ta reference to the furnieh- ing of supplies and the dutios and salaries of the m A tenement bouse in Thompson street was burned yesterday by the explosion of ® keresone iamp, and mghtebildrea wore seriously injured by the Samos. ‘The inman line steamsbip City of Baitraore, aptale Leitch, will sal from pier 45 North river today (Saturday), at one P. M., for Queensiown and I.\verpoo! The mails for the United Kingdo Coutinens ‘Will close at the Post Office at twelve M. ‘The Nationai line steamship Denmark, Captain Thomp- son, will leave pier 47 North river at noon today, 22! inst., for Liverpool, touching at Queenstown to ian! Passengers. . The General Transatiaatic Company's stesianhip S:. Laurent, Captain Bocande, will leave pier 50 North river at one o’elock ‘o-day (Saturday), for Hrest aad Havre. The mails for France will close as the Pos. OMce ab twelve M. The popular steamship Saragossa, Captain Crowell, of Laary's line, will leave pier 14 East foos of Wail street, at threo P. M. to-day (Saturday), for ( Harleston, & ©, connecting with steamer for the Fiorids porte, Kc ‘The stock m: Was unsettied yeater Govern ment securities were steady. Goid closed at 142 er MISCELLANEOUS In the Constitutional Convention yesterday (hy xpecial committee om submitting the constitution reported in favor of voting upon it at the next Fal eiection, and directing the Secretary of State to bi t pe lished together with the forms of bailots to be weed The Convention, alter some other business, adjourned till Monday evening. The mails of the steamer Columbia, from Hi roached this city last aight by rail from Charles ‘The news bas been anticipated by the Hemacu's speeiay Cuba cable telegrams, It was reported in Hav: orders had beon given by several wealthy partion to Bpain to their agents in Cubs to realize on the stocks tm hand, The President yesterday sent in to the Senate the Domination of George B. McCieliag to be Minister to England, and General George H. Thomas (o be Breve Lieutenant Goneral and Brevet General. In the Virginia Convention yesterday the artici wofrage wae discussed, A conservative member sud (he white mon whe fought under Lee woul Plicited appinane, General Gillem bas again refused to enforee the Tax ordinance of the Mississippi Convention unless it je modified. A vigorous thaw is in progress at ai! points on the adage. The siroams emptying into the river are gied- ' ~ before Shey would submit to negro rule, The name ot Lee pensation to Mr, Johnson? Does be propose to head off the impeachment penalty by an appeel to the Supreme Court? This may be his purpose. It is said, for instance, that Mr. Stanton bas given no answer to the requisition of General Lorenzo Thomas for the keys of the War Office. If ¢his be so, an applica@on for s mandamus may follow to oust the refrac- | tory Stanton, and this may change materially | the present complexion of affairs. | But what means this promotion of the fight- ing General Thomas to the rank, by brevet, of General Grant, Under the circumstances it is inferred that the object is to call General Thomas (Sherman having declined) to the new | Military Division of the Atlantic, with bis head- | quarters st Washington? General Grant hay- | ing Jost the Presiden\’s confidence, is General | Thonue, de facto, to take his place? If so, what for? Such questions as these are per- plexing and suggestive of an impending con- flict at Washington, which may revive some of | the decisive events of the Long Parliament of | England and of the frst French republic and of the empire, The case at Washington as it | now stands is simply this:—If the radicals fail to act promptly and decisively they are gone; if they attempt to act decisively they may fall; and from their failure Andrew Johnson may eut out all competitors and walk over the broken fragments of the republican party into the next Presidency. Genera, Smeaway Keevs Nean Saore.— General Sherman appeals to the President to let bim stay in Missouri, because his services the political complications of the capital, He knows what to do in Missouri, but it is not yet so evident who may win in Washington; but» man may commit the blunder of taking the Widtg side Warning to thé Austrian Clergy. The Austrian Cabinet has issued an official circular warning the clergy of the empire against “fomenting discontent” in the country— an extraordinary government necessity, the acceptance and shaping of which by imperial authority forma remarkable commentary on the effects of the present teachings of the con- secrated representatives of Him who incul- cated “peace and good will” to all men, and who Himself maintained a perfect silence under false accusitions, even unto death, eighteen hundred years ago. Austria labors under many difficulties, gov ernmental and social, just now, and gt is very plainas a matter of historical fact that the Emperor Francis Joseph is making Jaudable endeavors to relieve them by the inauguration ofa system of political conciliation towards the different peoples subject to his rule, and the harmonizing, as far as possible, for pur- poses of universal application, the distinct useges and peculiarities of government so long enjoyed by each. For such ends and in such crisis religion taught in the spirit of’early Christianity—tolerant and universal—must be used as amost potent agent. So we flad that the government in Vienna has been end»avor- ing during the past few years to enlighten the Catholic Church as to the real intent and scope of its mission, the utility and success of which do not depend on the observance of Concor- dats with Roma so much as the preaching and practice of a Concordat with humanity. Hence we have beard of the passage by the Austrian Legisla‘ure of liberal measures emancipating Protestants from certain civil disubilities imposed on account of their religion, a reform of the law applicable “to “mixed marriuges,” laws for ihe relief of the Jews, the repeal of the antiquated school system and the perfection of a more enlightened and enlizhien- ing system of public education, with other acts of the same sort which are progreas- ing towards legal fulfilment under the execu- tive charge ot Baron Beust, the Premier, bim- selfa Protestant, All this is distasteful to the Austrian clergy, not so much, perhaps, in their cbaracter as Catholic clergymen as that of the members of a close corporation—which clergy- men of every denomination are—firmly per- suaded that the world is good enough as it is, that they themselves point the “way,” the “troth” and the “lighi” unerringly, aud that the latest sermon which each or any of them preaches is the best and most essential to sal- | vation tbat was ever uttered—the same delu sion which befogged the mind of the venerable Archbishop of Toledo ia his treatment of Gil Blas as “a homily critic.” The peoples of the Aus'‘rian empire sustain the goveroment so far as they understand its intentions, and the mistaken endeavors of 4he clergy to bring public thought to a halt and re- action induce merely “discontent,” which, in the technical language of the circular, i» tous “fomented.” The issue of this document will serve to enlighten tho hierarchy in the maiter of the law of public progress, and we have 10 doubt that, when duly instructed, the pre- lates and priests of Austria will sccommo- dato themselves to the every-day advance of | citizen rights and declare that all measures de | jure are measures de facto, and good uad to be | obeyed accordingly. \ Goneral McClellan's Nomination, ! The nomination of General McClellan as Minister to England, sent into the Senste yes terday, would, undor ordinary circenrostances, be a fruitful theme in political speculations. It is so far overshadowed, however, by the boid stroke of the President in the removal of Stanton from the War Office that the considera- tion of its political bearings becomes 4 metier | of secondary imporiance. General McClel- lan’s capabilities for the misajon to England | will hardiy be disputed, and in his contirma- tion one of the democratic probabilities for the Presidency would be out of ibe way; but as | laid over by the Senate we need not longer dwell upon it here, A‘t other questi now eclipsed in the decisive stand tken by Mr. Johnson agzinst the Tenure of Office law, and upon the settlement of this the settlement of all the great ques'ions of the day must now depend. General Meclellan must, tuereforc, bide his time until it is determined con sively whether President or Congresa is mast of the situation. Security of Sterrnuwe Passenyors. The recommen lation of the Secretary of the | Treasury with rezarl to the better pro‘ectior | of steerage passengers on emigrant ships is © very importsat document. Few know how far morality is outraged and how sad is the suffering to which the poor female emijsrant is subjected on her transatlantic voyage. Facts | have been presenied to the department show- ing that the most revoliing scenes have oc- curred on board of emizrant vessels, in some cases the female passengers being exposed to | the unrestrained brutality of the crew, and in | | a thonsand instances the privacy of these poor women being grossly infringed upon. Mr. McCulloch, who appears to bea good deal more at home on this suject than on finance, suggests that soch stringent laws shall be | enacted as will visit wih retributive jusiieo not only the crew, but the officers of vesiels who il!-treat their passengers or permit them | to be ill-treated. It is not necessary to dilate upon this subject or to indicate the danger to which female virtue is sub/scted wnder the present emigrant system. Our emigrant so- | cieties appear to be powerless in correcting this evil. We can hardly bolieve that they. are indifferent. It is evident, therefore, thai soma stringent laws are required to remodel a sys- tem which is fraught with injustice and cruelty, “Roaves Must Hana Taat Jurymen May Dive.” —This well worn quotation has received this branch of the subject will doubiless bo | | | The Henao hes lod off, as it usually does Mr. Logan called the attention of the House of Representatives on Thursday to the sales of the ten-for:y bonds by the Treasury Depart- ment for a less premium than that of the regular quotations in the New York market It appears that nearly eight millions were thus sold between the 1st of October, 1867, and the 21st af January. Mr. Logan said he had cal- culated the differ¢nce and found that the gov- ernment had lost twenty-four thousand two bundred and sixty-four dollars, besides the commission of one-eighth of one per cent given to Jay Cooke & Co., amounting to ten thousand oae hundred and seventeen dollars, making the whole loss thirty-four thousand four hundred and forty-one dollars. Mr. Logan said, alao, that he unders‘ood a letter had been written by Secretary McCulloch to a gentle man controlling a national bank, stating that the Treasury would accept tea-forties in lieu of five-twenties at eighty-sevea and a half, while in his report to Congress the Secretary says they had never been received at a higher rate than eighty-five, In speaking upon the | subject Mr. Randall, of Pennsylvania, de- nounced the practice of the Secretary of the Treasury, and stated that ninety-four thousand dollars had been paid in commissions in ten moaths for the conversion of these bonds. There was a very feeble attempt to whitewash Mr. MeCollock, but a resolution of inquiry into his conduct was carried. It is the most astounding thing to see this incapable and extravagant Secretary of the Treasury toler- ated in his office fora day. His whole conduct or policy is to favor such cormorants and speculators aa Jay Cooke & Co. He acts as if the Treasury wero a fund for their use only and to make them rich. What need to put ninety thousand dollars or even ten thousand dollars into the pockets of Jay Cooke & Co. for doing what the Treasury itself could do without any cost? The whole business looks very suspicious, and the sooner wo get another Secretary of the Treasury the better for the country, Powtié Servants anp Pustic Riowts—A Lrt- tLe ReminpeR.—Observant foreigners bave pointed out, as an inconvenience and even vice attaching io our democratic society, that officials of every grade are too aptin the United States to forget their true relations to the pub- fic, whose servants they are. Too many of them “put on airs,” and strut their brief bour of authority in both a ridiculous and an offen- sive style. They need an occasional reminder to aweken them to a sense of public rights and of their own duties, We are, therelore, glad that Judge Barnard has granted a writ of peremptory mandamus compelling Charles Schurig, Register of Kings county, to permit the relator in the case to inspect the deods and records in the office upon the day, if applied for, on which suct: deeds snd records are re- ceived by the Register. The case is important as involving the right of the people to the in- spection of public documents in chargs of its servants, and the decision of the Judge is manifestly just. = Tae Two Generats Tuomas.—The genoral reader must not confound the General Thomas appointed to tbe War Department in the place of Stanton, removed, with the d@ghting General | Thomas of Chattanooga and Nashville. The former, Lereozo ‘Thomas, now quite an old man, wae formeriy Adjutant General of the army, and laiterly, we believe, the general Auperintencent er inspector of the national cemeteries, and still later restored to the post of Adjutant General in the War Office, The litter, or General George H. Thomas, now in command of the Department of the Cumber- lnnd (Keatacky and Tennessee), is in the prime lite and every inch a soldier. Will ho aovept his promotion to the position declined by Sherman? That is the question, Tae Repos or INDIANA ON THR Ft- s.—The republicans of the great Stato of Indiana, judging by shir platform, have some financial idess of their own and don’t like re- purdiation—that ix, tuey do not like the uame. Here is tho remarkable paragraph in their plat form in which they consider the nat onal debt:— “Uhe public deb:, made necessary by the re- beilion, sbould be honesily p»id, and all bonds issned therefor should be pstd in legal tenders, commonly called greenbacks, except where, by their express terns, they provide otherwise.” Here ere the republicans of Indiana on the financial situation. Where's Greeley ? THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH SWINDLE, Lettor from an Ux-Director. Cuicaco, Fev. 19, 1343. To me Sorron ov rae Heeato:— Toe Board of Prado of tis cy are andor obligations to the Heeacn for iis tadevendeat remarks in regard to the great telegraph monopoly by the Westera Union Company. It is umderatiod that the press contracts sh he company forbid the press to enconrage tho ug of opposition inxs Hence the muzzling con- tract of a free press torbids editors to give their views. of a public wature, aud goes with the masses. To your article of the 17th Inst. you assume that the Wostern Union owns all tho lines st operates over, This fs far from the fact, Of ite winety thousand mitos it Joaroe at least ove-third of ite wires, In Iilinois Judge Caton owns all too lines ia the State. The Western Us.on Company pays him $40000 a year for fity yous for Gls franchise, The game is the caso im Jows, and lines in many other localities. If the corpany will give the number of miles i: actually owns it will be found that it f* capitalized at $1,000 por milo for each wire, and thousundsjof milus have from two to Aix, and even eight, wites on @ pole The stock bas been watered many times, Toe original cypital in 1861 wae $360,000, The original sharcs were 9/00, sad thoy have spawoed of wavered wot! it now Tepressaie $208 66, om which a dividend is earned, and the tolal capital has roached over $40,000,000, Some $°,000,000 were lost in tho Rossian project, for which bouds ad stock were teeaet, nod to retire which the dividends of the company are now aged for some yoars abead. The Rochester millionoaires wo managed the institution im ite early days have mostly sold out, ood the great public aseumed their mantle in its now days of degeneracy and frurtal opposition from all querters im constracting hme, = Tt is onri- mated that some twelve million dollars have a new reading and interpretation in these latter days. “Dividends must be passed that directors may dine,” is the latest version of the old saw. ‘This was illustrated in the proceedings at the December meeting of tho Board of Directors of the Western Union Telegraph Company, when it wau voted first to increase the salaries of all executive officers about fifty per cent; second, to have a dinner that cost two thousand dollars at Delmonico’s; and, third, “to pass the divi- dend” for the term. Itis true, two thousand are needed there, and he wants to keep out of | dollars would be butadrop in the bucket towards paying ® dividend on a capital of forty-one million dollars, but it is a nice little driblet in tho way of expenses which tho | stockholders have an interest in knowing some- thing about =“ Many micklos make o muckle.” | the Rossi been the gains of the Rochester ring ia this stock and extension. The Atlastic and Pacife Com- pany vow bave thetr lines completed to Cleveland from New York, and by early spring thoy will reach here. The towns and cities throogh they pase ar Joving & reduction of tariffs at about ono-balf of the Wertern Union charges ® year aga Chicago is the great telegrapbio centre of the West, wires reach us, The daily receipte aro not far from $1,600. The following is the increase Im nine. toon years up this way:— December, 1848. December, 1907. $406 $45,600 Bae v2 451 4348 a4 2248 246 4119 It Will be recollected that December ie the dullest month of the year, the lakes being icebound, and it ie fait to estimate double the amount for eight months in the year, Tho total for the year is not far from $1,900,000 for the use of the wires ot Chicago. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS" FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. HAYTI. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. of President Saivare’s Il-tated eral, ‘ Havana, Feb. 21, 1868, The general officers captured in the late enga, ment with President Salvare's troops and subse- quently shot by the Cacos were Generals Parrett Alexandre Carvall and Alphonse Elie Provost Tenne. These were immetiiately shot. All the remainder were forced into the service. General Alexis Nord, commanding the northern depart- ment, was degraded. The officer who committed suicide was Gencral Poison, commanding on the Guanaminthe frontier. He preferred taking his own life to surrendering. ENGLAND. Murder Verdict in the Cl Kkenwell Explosion Politics=The Postal Treaty with the Loxpoy, Feb. 21, 1868. The Coroner's Jury have concluded the protracted tn- vestigation of tho explosion at the Clerkenwel! House of Detention and to-day rendered their verdict. They bring the charge of murder against the prisoners Bar- rett, English, O'Keefe, Mullany, the two Desmond woman Ann Justice, and others whose names bave not yet been made known. Doudt is expressed as to the complicity of Allan, who was recently discharged, but has been rearrested. The verdict concludes by severoly tho Metropoli‘an pclice in the Clerkenwell district for the lack of activity and vigilance, ‘The indications are that Mr. Beresford Hope will carry the election for member of Parliament from the Unl- versity of Cambridge. The seat was rendered vacant by the appointment of Mr. Selwyn to the bench, Mr. Huot, Under Secretary of the Treasury, bas in- formed the House of Commons that the operations of the new postal treaty between Great Britain and the United States has been temporarily suspended, but only to en- able both governments to revise certain points, which bad been mutually overlooked, and which it waa neces- sary to set right. Pai mentary Pi dings—Abyestuia, Mox- ico and Ireland. Lonpon, Feb. 21—Evening. In the House of Commons this evening, Mr. Disraeli gaveoan explicit denial to the resort that the expeadi- tures already incurred for the Abyssipian expedition ox- coed the estimates laid before the House at its last session by the goverament. Lord Stanley made ap explanation in regard to Mexico. He said that diptomotic relations with that country bad been suspended for the reason that last September the Mexican government declined all inter- course with those Powers which recogaizea the late empire. Str Stafford Northcote, the Secretary of State for India, said the Iatest letters received from Goneral Napier gave reason to hope that the war in Abyssinia ould bo ended this season. Tuesday, February 25, bas been assigned as the day for the consideration of the state of Ireland ia the House of Commons. FRANCE. la Snid to be Moving on the Danube— ly Giving Pledges—The Bank Return. Paris, Feb, 21, 1868. The Patrie to-day, spoaking under reserve, says it has reason to believe that the Emperor of Rugsia is massing treops near the Danube. La France, in ite issue of this morning, asserts that the Chevalier de Nigra, the Italian Minister to Paris, hae pledged Italy to the faithful observance of the Septem- ber Convention as it 190 to the pay- ment of the principal are of the old debt of the States of the Church which were annexed to the kingdom. Tho builion ia the Bank of Franca, according to the Feguiar weekly statement just issued, has increased 23,000,000 frauca, IRELAND, Train’s Appearance and Failure ta Dw Is was very thinly attended, There was no rioting, though measures bad been taken by the authorities for the preservation of the peace, A correspondent of one of the morning journals, in Dabiin last evening. alluding tothe lecture, says entire fatiure, speculation it was an Deauiw, Feb. 21, 1968, ‘Tne audience at Traia’s lecture last night was very bomtorous, Some porsous present who hissed tho speaker were rough'y used. A strong force of police wason hand, and provented any serious personal vio- lence or disloyal demonstrations. Dewy, Feb. 21- Evening. ‘The jury were unabie to agree on a verdict in the case of John Martin and ‘he other parties on trial tor partici. funeral procession, and have been John Curtin, an tonkeepor, and David Murpby, & writer, Were arrested at Cork yesterday on a general charge of complicity in Foniag movements. Mr. Murphy had but recently arrived from the United States, INDIA, Convict Revolts Against tho Queen’s Au- thority. Loxnow, Feb. 21—Evening. The Fvening Globe has a report that alarming revolts have broken out among the prisoners in India, THE NEW DOMINION. at the New Confed- ation Tarff—Deoth of a Ju of the Pro- Court. St, Joms, N, B, Fob 21, 1868. An important meeting composed of the leading mer- chants of this city tion respecting offens.ve ticles by thi tions be made to the Dominion government indicating the change desired. The press of the city also held a meeting and paseed revolutions strongly opposing the impouition of newspaper postage. Kinnear, member of tho Legislative Coun. Of tue Probate Court, is dead, Tavestigntion Patrici’s Seclety Fontan Scare, of the Sr. al—Another Mowrrnat, Feb. 21, 1968, Bishop Bourget, patron of the St Patrick's Society, futonds an investigation into its affaira. A suspicious ciroumstanco I@ said to have taken placo since, which bas caused the military au- take extra preeantions 19 guarding the maga- proaches to Bt, Helen's Istand, Some chonges ilery force have also taken piace in conse- carriage factory took fire p and contents were do. VIRGINIA. y nventioe=D jed= Wholesale Schofield. nTrage—Lee Ricuwoxn, 21, 1868, ‘The Virginian Reconstruction Convention was engaged to-day in discussing the suffrage question, On the com- HOrvative wide it was asserted that the white men of the State would never submit to role, and that the who (ought under Lee would sooner come out and sald the whites wished the biacks wel Willing to be taxed heavily to colonise om the best lands the govornment ow Two black delegates replied, urging the right of the agro to suffrage and his capacity to use it for good. be Convention adjourned Wil Monday, to observe to- a8 @ holiday. Sohotiend to-day removed the City Recorder Ge and leven magistrates of tho Hustings Court for having permitied tobacco inspoctors to qualify without taking the required oath of office. Mr. John Dooley, @ grominent merchant ef this city. died [sab aight, NORTH CAROLINA. The Convention—Raliroad Propositions Bee fore That Hody. Raveiom, Feb. 21, 1868 | ‘The Convention is still engaged in the discussion of suffrage, No vote was taken nor was any other business of itaportance transacted, the State liabilities to over $5,000,000, before the Convention, but no: acted upon except one for the Wilmingt ead Rutherford Railroad: Company, SOUTH CAROLINA. The Cenvention—The Question ef Uolered Congre-smen- Cearieston, Feb 21, 1868, ention the day was consumed in debate, ing colored delegates have gone to Washing. tom with a view to ascertain the probable reception of colored ‘Congressmen and the chance of obte.ming from Congress iand for the negroes. The new military Mayor, General Burns, entered apom bis duties to-day. M'SSISSIPPI, ention=General Gillinan Agaie Row © Tax Ordinance-The nvention. Jacksos, Feb, 21, 1867. In the Con fon to-day & member stated thet General Gillem would not enforea coliections under the Jast Tax ordinance, bat would under such ao ordinance as he bimself would suggest, It 13 probable anew ordl+ nance conforming to the General's ideas will be adopted, nection LY of the Bill of Kights provides an equcationas qualidcation for holding atfice. ‘The Democratic State Convention adjourned last nigas after adopting @ resolution in consonance with the matiar pal democratic party, and electing delegates to the Messrs W. 8. Featherston MM, mand W, T. Morton are d Democratic national convention, ‘Terger, E C. Wa for the State at lar FLORIDA. Large Fire tv Talinhassee=A Soldier Burwoed to Death=The Convention, Tattauagser, Foa., 21 1808. ‘The building occupied by Messrs. Kirkeoy and Jobe- by Ore this morning. The fire broke out in a vacant store next to the North State Hank, which sustained some injury. Moeasra, Kirksey aad Johnsom are insured tor $30,000 on stock ard $4 00007 ee in the Home Company of Now York, Guif State. Home of New Haven. A soldier oumed Pratt was caughs by a falling wall and burned to death Several other persons were injured, It was doubtiess the work of aa diary. cone Convection to-day adopted several articles of the constitution. lereafter they are to have night seasons 40 expedite business. ‘ TENNESSEE. i Negroes Refused Permission to Sit as Jurors at Chattanooga—Buralarics at Nashville, Nasavinis, Feb, 21, 1868. Apumber of negroes were summoned a fow days ago to serve op @ jury at Cbattanooga, but Judgo Adams re fused to permit them to wot, Burelaries of nightly occurrence (a Nashvilta, the residence of Colonel R ©. McNairy was mount were stele, t at Pitteion—Bishop steve A riously Injured, gcuaxtor, Fob, 21, 1868! This afternoon a man named’ Jobo Johnson, of thie * city, accidentally shot bis wife im the head, kitling bee. instantly. ‘ med Sweeny, who was working in the Ox« was killed by the falling of » portion of the roof at one o’c!ock this afternoon Yesverday # Lebigh Vatiey Railroad cer drawn ochiod ; the Lackawanna and Bloomsburg train ran off the track in consequence of a broken rail, and after beng ed several hundred fect broke loose frome the train and was precipitated down ao embaukmen’ evgnteen feet deep into ‘ne North Bi Canal, turn ing over and breaking in —< habe ba ee passengers were injured; none of them srriousty, hot creer S00 Bishop ‘Stovens, of the diocese of Penne syivania, It is thought he will recover, CONNECTICUT. The First National Bank of Bethel Clesed. Berture, Fob. 21, 1868, The Bank Commissioners closed tho First Netionat Bank of Bethe! on Thureday. The cashier is under arrest. A very large amount of certificates bad becom isaued, ———— oe ILLINOIS. Capture ef Counterfeits aud Counterfetters iu Chicago—Another Fire. Carcano, Feb, 21, 1368, | United States detectives to-day made a descent on ® house iu May street, arresting four persons and cap~ turing $40,000 in counterfeit fractional currescy, 4 plates, &c.' fhe parties were held to vail in the sum $1,000 each The estavlishmont of A. G. GarSeid, on the corner Franklin and Harriso strona for the manufacture suraace was not ascertainet. CALIFORNIA. y Law tx San Fraucteco-The Graut—Commercial and Marine came Sax Francisco, Feb. 21, 1268, fhe Legislatare bas retused to repeal the prosemt Sunday law, The bill has @ a portion of the Yosemite , notwithetanding the veto of J is necessary cleared for Liverpool with: 8,000 sacks of wheat. @ its provisions valid. @ abip Guardian 2,000 barrels of flour and FIRES IN NEW you. in Thompson Street on ve of Some of the Ten ar Badly Buroed. « About five o'clock ye: jay moraing a Ore originated inthe apartments of Anthony Schatier, or the top of Otth floor of the tenement rouse No. 45 Thompsen street, It was caused by the orplosion of » kerosene oll Iamp, The alarm was promptly given by Mra. Schaffer, who succeeded ting ber three cb\ldrom out of the room and to the roof, The occupanis of the front rooms on the same floor were not, however, a fortunate, Charles Grunow, wife and Ove children, Dearing the siarm, immed! iy ruened for the roof, buttne flames and smoke were on the staira before them and they had to ron the gauntlet of fire and stacke to reach a place of safety, Wiliam Grauew was burned on bis face, and bis five children are each more or teas Dorned about the legr, face and bends, Francis l’oley and his family, who siso occupie! apartments in frou on the same floor, barely escaped with their lives. of bis child arma. ately 00 liver wer deen on either of the lower Loors sevoral lives would ve doubt have beon sacrificed. The inadequacy of the roof ag tue only moans of eacape 8 tenement houses ie agsia demonstraied, Mr. Seu Property was si! destr loss about $600; insured for $600 im the North Insurance Company. Some slight Gamage by water wae jornard Miller on the fifth fi Amsterdam In) avenue, kept by Patrick Mclaugbiio, Tho flames wero quickly extinguished. Dammegeatost $50. The cireem. stances of the fire were of euch « suspicious mature that the police arrested Mr. Mclaughiia and bis cous! named Patrick McLew, who acted as in vertigat ved before the imagis. Police Court, McLaughlin te ihe Greenwich Insui pany. fis owned by Jobn 0" insured in the Citizens’ Insurance Compa: fire was discov. two ferryboate of the Thirty. fourth street line, which was et ihe time lying at the heat, company's dock in Greenpoint She wer a ne and was running regulariy on the line at the ti ocourrence, We co Jurid light from horizon brilliantly h totally ed, could aot learn the name or