The New York Herald Newspaper, April 9, 1868, Page 3

NEW YORK ‘HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1868.—TRIPLE ee ee WASHINGTO The Order of Summing Up on the Impeachment Trial. The Mysterious Ku Klux Klan at the Capital. Whreatening Letters to Ben Wade and Ben Butler. General Grant and the Impeachment Question. WASHINGTON, Aprii 8, 1868, The Impeachment Trial. The Board of Managers of impeachment will hold a meeting to-morrow morning, when it ts designed to consider the question of increasing the number of the Managers to take part in the argument. Five is at present the number spoken of. Ben Butler wil! not speak again. It*is also donbtful whether Thad Stevens will have anything to say. This arrange- ment, then, would leave Mr. Logan to open, Wil- fon of lowa and Williams of Pennsylvania to follow, and Boutwell and Bingham to lose on the part of the prosecution. To accomplish this arrangement the Board of Man- agets will ask the suspension of the twenty-first rule, whtoh gays, “The case on each side shall be opened by one person. ‘The final argument on the merits may be made by two persons on each side, unless otherwise ordered by the Senate upon application for that purpose, and the argument shail be opencd and closed on the Part of the House of Representatives.” If it is found that the Senate is not disposed to grant their wish, the Managers will ask an extension of the time to be used on their side of the argument, which Tay then be so divided among themselves as to allow each Of the five Managers who have prepared themselves to say something. This arrangement, if acceded to by the High Court, will involve a reply from at least four of the counsel for the defence, Judge Curtis, who will open for-the defence to- morrow, will speak only from notes, not having written his remarks in advance of delivery. There was to-day a greater demand for tickets of admission to the Senate than on any previous day since the trial began. Some of the members of Con- greas have promised or given orders for their tickets for a week to come. General Grant and the Impeachment Trial. The radicals are in high spirits over certain ex- pressions accredited to General Grant by those with- in the range of intimacy with him which manifest a complete conversion to the radical faith. Several days since a prominent gentieman in this city met the General in the War Department, and, accosting him, the two engaged in conversation. The subject of impeachment was brought up in connection with certain statements going the rounds of this city that the General was tm favor of impeachment. When this fact was brought to his attention it is said he made some allusion to his own part in the Stanton matter, and remarked that when he found the course about to be pursued did not coincide with his own convictions of the law in the case he declined to act further. During this conversation, which was very brief, several remarks, itis stated, were made by General Grant which in- dicated a leaning towards impeachment. The Gen- eral persists in maintaining his customary silence on political questions; but itis known that cnough has already been elicited by the radicals to confirm them in their opinion as to how he stands. The Relations Subsisting Between General Grant and General Butler. ‘Notwithstanding all that has been said about a re- conciliation between Generals Grant and Butler it does not yet appear that the relations between these dignitaries have been entirely satisfactory. Great efforts are being made by the friends of both to put an end to the breach which has so long existed, but as yet but little return has come out of all their exertions. It would seem that neither is disposed to make the first advances, though suffl- cient has been attained as a groundwork for further diplomacy in the matter. Ke Klux Klan Established at the National Capital—Threatening Letters to Radical Leaders. Forney, in his “Occasional” letter to one of “My two papers,” day before yesterday declared that the terrible Ku Klux Klan have at last established their “dens” in Washington, and that already anonymous warnings have been served upon Ben Wade, Ben Butler, Thad Stevens, General Logan, John A. Bingham, and most of the leading republicans in Congress. Forney is evidently dreadfully alarmed himself, and talks dolefully of deathheads, coMns and assassina- tions. He states that he has seen one of the dread- ful missives, with its cabalistic letters, signs and sentences, and predicts peril and death to the appointed victims. 1, too, have seen one of the anonymous letters of warning; but, unlike Forney, I have concluded that they are the work of some cruel wag, and nota live Ku Klux thirdting for radical blood. Imagine a foolscap sheet of paper, immed into voffin shape, with “K. K. K." at top and “‘K. K. FE.” at the bottom, in large biood-red letters, and two “smaller coffins in black letters placed near the mid- die of the sheet, so as to bear a distant resemblance to a pair of sepulchral eyes; imagine this sheet, which is white, to be scratched over clumsily with a quantity of ‘cabalistic letters, signs and sentences,” ‘as Forney calls it, and you have an idea of the ter- rific missives which are supposed to be the death sentence of the leading radicals. The sample which Ihave seen is worded as follows:— wonnenoareoonse sovcceoocceoerseteneseeeseeoneee® K. K. Ky K. K. K. H GRAND ORDER OF DEO, DIV. 29. Bloody month, cloudy moon. Death! Death ! to traitors | ; “The Negro must be eaten raw; blood and | H clotied gore,” is our motto, Our last day will come, then apostates and ‘will die to be bloody food for the Ku Klux Kla: We come ! We come! The Ku Klux Kian, TO avenge the wrongs of our fellow man! Fallen patriots! Assemble at a dis mala balla nexta darka moona, rm LP. G. G. C, K. K. Ky POR ROLEDOIOLE ELL DELIAtE DICE SOOOLEODEL pbb EH That anybody in his senses should regard this absurd document as anything but a hoax ts sur- Prising; but, nevertheless, it is true that some of the recipients have been thrown into a high state of alarm and apprehension. Ben Wade got one, but threw it into the fire, having been accustomed, he said, to the reception of threatening missives for many years, and never bothering himself about them. Butlef also was honored with a polite invita- tion to become “bloody food for the Kiux,” and tore up the note and envelope. All these missives were sent two days ago, and were accompanied by notes purporting to throw light on the subject. No oze cept such as are badly scared, regards the matter in any other light than as a stupendous hoax. Senator Dixon and the Connecticut Kiectio: Senator Dixon has no doubt the republicans have carried the Connecticut Legislature, owing to the rot- ten borongh system which prevails in that State, and by which a town of one hundred and Gfty votes has an equal representation with one of nine thousand. He receives the news, however, with perfect equanim- ity, having no desire, he says, save that of the coun- try’s welfare, in remaining any longer in the national councils. His term of service in both House and Senate embraces now a period of about sixteen years. It will be remembered that he had the moral courage a few yedrs ago to throw off the trammets of party and take a decided stand on the side of the President, When radicaifwm threatened, aa it stiil aloes, to break down all constitutional barriers in ita fanatical attempts to reconstruct the South. The extreme radicals of the Senate, when the news from Connecticut arrived, expressed to Mr. Dixon their fupposed-to-be extreme regret that they were ces. tined to Jone his presence in their midst and at- aributed his deviation of views from the radica) | 6tandard to mature and consctentioug convictions. If these sympathizers shed any tearé they must have +] beap.of the crocodile order. ‘The President’s Visitors. ‘The Presideut has been kept very busy to-ay With the’muititude of visitors calling upon hiv, Dering thia morning Generals Steedman, Loreyizo Thomas aud Granger, and ex-Senator Cowan, of Pennaylva- nig, bad interviews with the Presidet, | ; Movements of Collector Smythe. ‘Collector Smythe, who has beev here for some days hobnobbing with Senators and, closeted with the Pre- dent, left for New York last evening, Important Case in tve Court of Claims. A case involving an important principle was to-day argued in the Courtof Claims by Messrs. D. F. Murphy and Ashton, of Philadeiphia, for the claim- ants, the claim being for services of vessels emp!oyed by the Quartermaster’s Department during the war, when the Quartermaster General undertook to exer- cise a revisory power and disapprove of a contract made at New Orleans by an assistant quartermaster under direction of General Canby, commander of that department, at the time supplies were being sent to Mobile, The case was argued for the govern- Ment by Mr. Kerr, Deputy Solicitor. There are other similar cases on the docket. The Mode of Empanelling Jurors, ‘The bill before the Senate this morn:ng regulating the mode of empanelling United States jurors in the trial of cases where the United States is a party is regarded as quite important, It authorizes jurors ‘to be summoned and empanelied who live outside of the district and State where the case is to be tried, This will allow the courts in the cases of Surratt and Jef Davis to summon jurors from any State in the Union, ‘The principal opposition to the bill came from the democratic side of the Senate, and itis said these members suspect the bill was drawn for the special purpose of meeting the cases of Surratt and Davis. Relief for Freedmen and Refugees. In the Senate this afternoon Mr. Wilson, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported, with an amendment, the House bill passed March 19, 1868, to continue the Bureau for the relief of freedmen and refugees, The amendment consists of an additional section, by which the Commissioner is empowered to sell for cash or by instalments with ample security school buildings and other buildings constructed for refugees and freedmen by the Bureau to the associations, corporate bodies or trustees who now use them for purposes of education or relief of wants under suitable guarantees that the purposes for which such buildings were con- stracted shall be observed; and it is provided that all funds derived therefrom shall be returned to the Bureau of appropriation, and accounted for to the Treasury of the United States. Relief of Persons in the South from Political Disabilities. Messrs. Blodgett and Parrott, the committee ap- pointed by the Constitutional Convention of Georgia to visit Washington and present the list of names, over five hundred of them, recommended for relief from political disabilities, &¢., publish to-day an address to the people of Georgia, in which they state the result of their mission thither, saying among other things that Congressmen seem to be somewhat cautious about relieving persons In the rebel States from political disabilities, and we are induced to believe that very few, if any, will be finally relieved United = States until our election is over and it is known how the, election has gone and how those desiring and needing relief have stood in the contest. We are clearly of the opinion that, if our constitution is ratified by the people, and the reconstruction party succeeds in the election of oMicers in the organization of the State government who are true and loyal men, and who can take the required oaths, then our homestead and relief meas- ures will be safe, Indian Affairs, The Secretary of the Interior sent to the House to- day a communication from the Commissioner of tn- dian Affairs, who says:— ¥ Referring to the office reports of the 20th and 2ist of February last, in which reference was made to the necessity of c jin appropriations being made at an early day tn order that the faith or the government and the promises of the Indian Peace Commissioners may be kept good, I desire to say that it is evident to my mind that unless immediate action is had by Congress upon the estimates referred to in said re- oe and the necessary funds appropriated to ena: PI ie the department to carry out and fulfill the romises made to and the agreement made with certain tribes, we shall have trouble with them. I am led to believe this from various ru- mors that have reached this office of the feelings and intentions of certain bands and tribes on the Plains. If we .expect to keep the Indi- ans friendly to the government and at eace with it we must fulfl our prom- ses made to them, otherwise we can but expect as would be the case were we dealing with white men and Christians, a renewal of the troubles had with them last summer. Besides, if our agreements are not faithfully carried out the Indians will soon lose ali confidence in the government. They will be- lieve nothing that ts told them by its officers, and an almost endiess war will be the result, which will cost millions of dollars to Lag che and to avoid which thousands are only asked. This question has become of so grave importance that I deem it my duty to again invite your attention to it, If we are to have another Indian war this summer I do not wish the country at large to think it was caused or brought about by the management of the affairs of this office; and after the urgent requests that have been made for funds, and the statements that have been made in regard to the matter, this bureau certainly cannot be held respon- sible for any acts of hostility or depredations that may be committed by the Indians. Colonel McGee Ea Route for Canada. Colonel James E. McGee, brother of Thomas D'Arcy McGee, who was yesterday assassinated in Canada, left here last night for New York. He was intensely excited about his brother's death, and intends to go to Canada without delay to investigate the affair and look after the interests of the deceased's family. Colonel McGee was one of the bravest officers of Meagher's Irish Brigade. ARMY. GAZETTE, WASHINGTON, April 8, 1868, Brevet Lieutenant Colonel J. F. Randolph, sur- geon, has been relieved from duty at Fort Wood, New York harbor, and ordered to report to the Fifth Military District, to relieve Brevet Brigadier General T. A. MeParlin, medical director of that District, By special orders from the Adjutant General's of- fice, the Superintendent of the mounted recruiting service at Carlisie ee aaa emia re- quired to prepare qe nts Of convenient size o| recruits hat aré SEP Ho me to time become disposable at that post, and forward them to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, for assignment to the Third United States cavalry. __ Bri ret Bi Her Cetifral John P, Hatch, Major of tates pel bas been detailed thé Fourt nijed as Su ent of the recruiting service at Car- lisle Baftacks, for the ensuing two years, on | Brevet Brigadier General William N. Grier, Colonel of the Third United States cavalry, who is ordered join his regiment in the Department of the Missou! General ‘Hancock will establish permanent head- uarters to-morrow this city, at the corner of Nineteenth and G ts. No business is being transacted at his headquarters beyond the ordinary routine affairs pertaining to the military government of tue division, WASHINGTON GossrP. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALO, The McCardi@Case—Statement as to the Cause of Ics Postponement—Justices Field and Grier in Favor ofa DecisionResponsibility of Sen- ‘ators in Their Ruling, &e. WasHINoTor, April 7, 1868, Considerable speculation has been going the rounds in reference to the postponement of the McCardle case until the next term of the court, Those who were anxious to have the case decided now allege that @ decision waa deferred through some under- standing that the setting aside of the case should be taken as a consideration that the votes of certain conscientious Senators should be cast against im- Peachinent. Upon what ground this statement was set afloat it is impossible to say. Im the first place, it anticipates a decision favorable to McCardie and opposed to the interests of Congress. The prac- tical effect of an adverse decision would be to nullify all the reconstruction measures of This Would restore the administration of the affairs of the South where tt stood before Congress undertodk to interfere. By virtue of his authority the President might therefore withdraw the military government from the South and re-establish the dominance of the civil law. This programme, It is asserted, threatening the downfall of the radical power in the South, brought the jtatter to their senses, and through the diplomacy of a certain high officer of the government a sort of reciprocity treaty Was arranged, in which the setting aside of the McCardle case should be a consideration for the voting down of impeach. ment in the Senate. However plausible this may appear, the statement cannot be traced to any official source, The MeCardie care, It may be remembered, was Oxed foveJannary last, and then postponed for the in- ‘ang of Mareh, When the argument in the case had been completed, and it was feared by the radicals that It was goin, ainst them, the bill repealing the appellate ieriedict ion of the Supreme Court was sinuggled through Congresa. The McCardle case, however, had already been closed and awaited only a decision, A day Was fixed to render such decision, The court, however, was divided as to its powers to render a decision, Chief Justive Chase, Nelson, Chi ford, Swayne, Miller and Davis were in favor of orang the action of Congress, while Asso- ciate Justices Stephen L, Field and Grier opposed any delay, but urged immediate action, Associate Justice Gtier presented a protest, which has already been published, and was strongly en- dorsed by Judge Field. The latter declared that he was not an advocate of the court going out of its regular line of duty; but he did maintain when it be- came the duty of the court to act it should not delay in order to avoid responsibility, a This is the first instance when a judicial tribunal has delayed judgment out of deference to a lezisla- lve body in a ease where the phe was a prisoner and where the anticipated legisiation was known to be opposed to the sufterer. Judges Field and Grier both strongly protested, and it was well said by them when the case was set aside until the next term, “1am ashamed such an opprobrium should pone upon the court and that it cannot be re- ‘uted. There is one point in the pending attempt to im- peach the President which appears to have been entirely overlooked by the Senators now sitting in high court. Every day of ‘their session they are called upon tégive rulings upon points of evidence as to its admissibility or otherwise. It would aapene from the reckless manner in which the votes of the members of the court are given when called upon to determine such questions that they con- sider themselves by virtue of the altitude of their high court above the scrutiny of the fature, They seem to forget that the time will come when the President's case will be cited in courts of justice from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It is very possible that a majority of these Senators will resume the practice of the law afier their oficial career has terminated, Now this very case may be cited against them and their own action be subject to an analysis which might not receive the endorse- ment of a low court of law. , ‘This fact Senators appear to have ignored entirely. ‘There will be a day of reckoning, and in the long run the motives of those now sitting in judgment upon the case of the President will be unfolded to the world, and hand down to infamy the names of those who had no higher motive than the accomplishment of an avowed purpose, whether that purpose be right or wrong. The Time the Impeachment Trial Is About to Last—The Witnesses for the Defence—The, Interest to Hear General Lorenzo Thomas’ , Evidence—Logan’s Role in the Piece. Wasainoton, April 8, 1868, Two weeks hence, by a careful estimate of the amount of evidence the defence will be likely to offer, the quality of that evidence and the time it will take in its delivery and examination, the length of the speeches pro and con and a small margin of space left for contingencies, will see the end of the impeachment trial, and the anxious public will learn whether the country is to be placed under a new Executive régime for the rest of the year 1868. The counsel for the defence say there is no reason to believe that their case will take any longer time in its disposal than that of the Managers. The latter occupied a week and the former think the same term will be amply suMcient for their purposes, It may, therefore, be a matter for congratulation that the general anticipa- tion of a long, weary and wasteful consumption of the public time will not be realized, and that while the trial is as brief as could be reasonably desired, the end of full and fair discussion will be attained, General Thomas, who appears as the first witness for the defence, is already very well known to the country as the famous Secretary ad interim. He is an easy-minded, good-humored, rather harmless old gentleman, who was never designed by nature to shake tbe pillars of either the social or _— sys- tem, or perform any other deed calcula! to startle the community. His appearance is looked forward to with a great deal of interest—not that he is expected to make any astounding revelations, but people feel a large share of curiosity to see the man whose name is so much identified with impeachment, and who talked with so much complacency about kicking Stanton out of the War Ontice, especially when he was assured that the eyes of Delaware were upon him, ‘Thomas lived a happy, harmless, unobtrusive existence previous to the time the President confer- red the tremendous responsibility upon him of Secre- tary ad interim. The weight of this honor over- wheilmed him, and Lorenzo has ever since been a prominent figure in every ge! place where the story of his great deeds and terribie intentions he has always shown an obliging disposition to relate. His evidence is expected to be both instructive and entertaining—instructive so far as throwing a light upon the actual conspiracy between him and the President, and entertaining from the peculiar style of the general's delivery, which is a delightful biending of humor and simplicity, Last week no witness of any note made his appear- ance save the TovoRtney, facetious Karsner, of Del- aware; but this week and next other great guns, be- sides Lorenzo Thomas, will occupy the witness stand, Campbell, the Mexican Minister; General Sherman, General. Steadman, Secretaries Seward, Welles and Browning and Postmaster General Randall will put in an appearance, and the galleries, of course, will be thronged, and the ladies will lay aside their knitting and crochet work, and every eye and ear will be strained to catch a glimpse ora word of the distinguished witnesses, Campbell and Sherman will relate their conversa- tions with the President about the Tenure of Ofice act, and the Secretaries will detail the ad- vice they gave the Exewutive in Cabinet meet- ing. Three witnesses from St. Louis will testify as to the President’s harangue in that city, and then a long array of documentary evidence will be forth- coming to combat all the points in the Managers’ case against the accused. Last evening a large force of clerks was at work in the appointment ofice of the Treasury Department until a late hour examining the list of ee for some time back, with a view to making a trans- cript of a certain kind of cases, which the counsel for the President desire to use tn supportof their case. The three working days allowed the defence will be well employed, and when they open their guns, broadside on, at the feeble entrenchments throwp up by the prosecution, sad havoc will be made of the impeachers, jutler is admitted on all hands to be the only relt- ance on the Managers’ side, but where will Butler be in the presence of the five keen, lithe, forensic ‘ladiators on the opposite side? .Stevens, Wilson, Willlains and Boutwell are practically counted out, and Bingham’s tawdry rhetoric will fall very stale on the ear after the polished arguments of Evarts, Logan is the only nog ad left. ‘The terrible Logan will send the flerce flash of his eye tnrough the very hearts of the fourteen wavering Senators, and when he beats the rataplan of his eloquence what a sense of creeping fear will be felt 7 those indecisive members of that great High Court! Yes, Logan will overshadow the bottled orator himself and carry off all the laurels in a‘bunch. It is not yet decided how many speakers will ad- dress the court on either side. itis proposed to set aside the rule confining the speeches to two, bat if the Managers do this the defence of course will claim a similar privilege. THE FORTIETH CONGKESS. Second Sessi SENATE. WasmtINGTON, April 8, 1863, PETITION FROM ARMY OFFICERS. Mr. WiLson, (rep.) of Mass., presented a petition from army officers praying a continuance of the pay and allowances to the officers on the retired list and protesting against the pending bill on the subject, which was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. we ek eee mene. avkueTOx OP SCHOOL PORPERTY PROM TAZATION. Mr. HaRvan, (rep.) of towa, called wp a bill to ran Rees held and used for school purposes fa the District of Columbia from taxation. FREEDMEN'S BUREAU—THB COLORADO RIVER RXPLORING EXPEDITION. Mr. Witson, from the Committee en Military Affairs, with an amendment, a bill to con- tinue the Bureau for the relief of freedmen and Also, favorably, @ joint resolution authorizing the of War to issue clothing and suppiles to ‘under Professor Powell on the e: tn A ae . SUMNER, of Mass., presented a petition ofthe apd traverse jurors of the United States in the city of Boston SOK that their present pay ($2) is ineuMcient pay their expenses at drst class and asking an increase, Which was re- ferred to the Judiciary Commi OORAN STBAME! Mr. MORGAN, (rep.) of N. Y., offered a resolution to print the report of the Secretary of the Treasury in to passengors in ocean steamers, which was jopted. ni QUALIFICATION OF JURORS. Mr. TROMBULL, (rep.) of IIL, called up the bill in re- gard to tie qualification of jurors, Mr. JouNson, (dem.) of Md., supposed that the law allowed @ court in ite discretion to accept such jurors. Mr. TRUMAULL replied that such was the practice in many States, but the bill proposed to make the Practice uniform, Mr. BAYARD, (dem.) of Del, thought this a dan- gerous provision, A man could not be otherwise than partial after ouce forming and expressing an opinion. Mir. Davis, dem.) cv Ky., was mot sure that the SHEET. measure wag not an innovation on the sacrat right ofan impartial trial by jury, and cous lin the opinion expressed by the lasi speaker. He would sooner yield the whole government than this ines- timabdle right. During Mr. Davis’ remarks Senators Trumbull and Johnson were engaged in smiling conversation in front of him, Mr. Davis—Senators may laugh and smicker, but their scoffs and gibes ill uot drive me from opposin: this innovation. f do not care what their high position in society is, That is not the way to meet Opposition to an iinportant measure. th gentlemen rose in turn and were understood to make a disavowal, Mr. Davis said he was perfectly indifferent. He had been speaking in all seriousness. Mr. FREUINGHUYSEN, (rep.) of N.J., held that in these days of general newspaper reading the expres- sion of hypothetical opinions, based on rumor, does not militate againss Wie impartiality of a juror, The bill was framed to correct certain injurious rulings frequently made by the courts, Mr. BAYARD again opposed the bill, ‘The bill then passed by yeas 37, nays 8 The fol- lowing is the full text of the bill as passed:— Be it enacted, £0., That no person shall be held incompe- tent to act asm juror upon any grand jury by reason of har- {Ing formed oF expressel an Spfnton upon ths matters to. be submitted to such grand jury for investigation founded upon pudlic rumor, statements in public journals or the common story of the times, provi ied he be otherwise competent, and upon his oath declare and it appear to the satisfaction of the courtthat notwithstanding such optaion he ean and will act impartially uvon the matters to be submitted and true pre- sentiment make according to the evidence; but the court may in its discretion set aside any such person. SEo, 2 That in trials for offences against the United States no person shail be held to be incompetent to act as a juror by reasou of having formed or expressed an opinion upon the guilt or innocence of the accused founded upon public rumor, statements in public journals or the common history of the times, provided he be otherwise competent, and upon his oath deolate and St appear to the satisfaction of the court that not- withstanding auch opinion he can and will fmpartlally try the accused upon the crime charged in the Indictment or {Ofor- mation and a true verdict give upon the evidence to be pro- duced on the trial; buithe court may in ite discretion set aside any such jucor, PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION—INELI- GIBILITY OF THE PRESIDENT AND YICE PRESIDENT For A sgoonD Terw, ariecariomecel Mr. SUMNER introduced a joint resolution propos- ing an amendment to the constitution of the United States. The resolution is identical with one intro- duced in March last by Senator Cragin and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. The proposed amendment is as follows:—"No person electe President or Vice President who has once served a8 President shall afterwards be eligible to either office.” Referrea to the Committee on the Judiciary. PRIVATE BILLS. At the expiration of the morning hour the Senate, pursuant to order, proceeded to the consideration of Private bills reported from the Committee on Claims. EXECUTIVE SESSION, At half-past three o’clock Mr. Morgan moved that the Senate go into executive session. The motion was agreed to by a vote of 22 to 19, so the Senate went into executive session, and shortly after ad- journed. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. WASHINGTON, April 8, 1863, The House met at twelve o'clock. THE INDIANS. The SPEAKER presented a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs relative to the ne- cessity of speedy legislation on Indian appropriations, which was referred to the Committee on Appro- priations, THE NAVAL APPROPRIATION BILL, On motion of Mr. WaSHBURNE, (rep.) of ILL, the Senate amendments to the Naval Apuroosis lie, bill were referred to the Committee on Appropriations. THE STEAMSHIP ATLANTIC. Mr. WASHBURNE, Of Ill, offered a resolution, quot- ing an advertisement in a New York paper for the sale of the steamship Atlantic, to pay $115,500 due under the contract with the Collins steamship line, and directing the Secretary of the Navy to report all the facts connected with the mortgage held by the United States on the steamship Atlantic, why the sale has been so long postponed, where the steam- ship Atlantic now is, whether the government is likely to realize from her sale the amount due, whe- ther she was chartered by the government during the war, whether an, posters of the charter money was deducted, &c. The resolution was adopted, THE IMPEACHMENT BUSINESS. Mr. Rostnson, (dem.) of N. Y., oifered the follow- ing as a privileged resolution:— Resolved, That the resolution of impeachment a Andrew Jobnson, President of the United States, Tuary 24, 1868, and the proceeding amendatory thereof or sup- plemental thereto, be and the same are hereby rescinded, and that the managers be recalled. The SPEAKEw ruled that the resolution was not privileged, because there was pending a motion on which the previous question had been ordered on the 3ist of March as to printing forty thousand copies of Mr. Butler’s openiny address, and no business was in order, except by unanimous consent, until that was disposed of. The Mouse then, at a quarter past twelve, ad- journed. THE STATE CAPITAL. Appointments by the Governor—The Hell Gate Pilot Law. (From the Evening Telegram of yesterday.] ALBANY, April 8, 1863. The Governor to-day sent in the appointments of John Kershaw, of Brooklyn, and James Thompson, of New York, to be Harbor Masters for the port of New York. The Senate considered the nomimations in executive sesajon, but the question of confirmation was postponed, The nomination of Stephen Smith as one of the Sanitary Commissioners for the Metropolitan Dis- trict was confirmed. The bill to amend the Hell Gate Pliot laws, so as to Permit captains of vessels going, through Hell Gate to make their selection of tugboats or pilots, was or- dered to adhird reading in the Senate. It is still in the committee in the lower House. NEW YORK LEGISLATURE. SENATE. ALBANY, April 8, 1863, BILLS ORDERED TO A THIRD READING. Amending the charter of the Tontine Life Insurance and Savings Company; incorporating the Public Exchange in New York; incorporating the Old Guard of New York city; to incorporate the vete- rans of the Twenty-second regiment, National Guard, of New York ; amending the law concerning the Hell Gate pilots; for an additional number of notaries public in New York, Mr. Hag submitted a majority report to repeal the law relative to brokers. Mesers. FOLGER and WILLTAMS dissented. Also to incorporate the Brooklyn Eye and Ear In- firmary; for the relief of St. J h’s church in New York; to enable the trustees of the First Presbyterian church in New York to donate B rty; to facilitate {he construction of the Adironduck Raliroads incor- porating Pr Park and the Germania Savings Bank i@ Brooklyn. THE WAITBHALL PLATTSBURG RAILROAD. The s aapetica of eae Whitehall and Platts- bare # road = prabes ea ing the objections of the Governor, 0 ve Bas. sion, After executive sessiot duckiioh Was ffi on the table. BILLS ORDERED TO A THIRD READING CONTINUED. ‘ Lind earates yi oon act; for ih — ing of West street, New York; authorizing Sehenec- tady Me to purchase an additional steam fire fo prevent burials near reservoirs and is used for supplying Brooklyn with water; for the im- nion street, Brooklyn; for the abate- ment of certain nuisances in Brooklyn; relative to commissioners for the building of a public market in New York; ratifying pi ngs of the Rochester Common Council; fixing the salaries of justices of the Justices’ Court in Brooklyn. I the ast Now York Savings Bank Inco! low wins Hi incorporating the West side Savings Baok’in New York; incorporating the Isthmus Canal Company, eee aye —" a 7 the Henith and Accident Insurance ‘Company. wORD—LocoFporating the New York Recess till four o'clock, Afternoon Session. e New Yor! n ‘nderground Ratir. Dill, introduced by Mr. Caldwell, we passed by a vote of 22 to 2 inst b- | ‘THES CHARORS OF BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION. Mr. Hates moved the following:— silenced before pon Measures In relation to which tuck indgenens are anf ‘be exerted, to Investigate as to ‘the truth or falsehood rece charges and rte. ined, further, te ed bane silent, & committer of three be ay ~ “ \ Power to send for persone a meets oF the Lie Raliway Gor ‘perso eo e ‘ting or Glateaing to act on Weir. bball’ “or aip wnctboviers of sald company, or ap acting. or. olnimn- y ing to on oa their behalf have, directly or indi rectly, offered to to any member of mem bora ot the Legisinture uring the present seerion any or other valuable thing Lo Intuence his or thelr vote or action in the Assembly oF Se: nd that the consideration of all resolutions of bills relating to or In way way way ting ald compa: erevy ap: ny be postponed until the cominittee pointed shall Fepork. aaa Mr. O'DONNELL moved ¢ an amendment to s! out the word “brie,” 80 a8 to include oiher ta corporations, and particulariy tie iegisia Lin liad on the Ceutral halir fare bill a yes co, When it is alinged $205,000 were expended to influence legisia- ion, Mr. CHAPMAN moved to strike ont the last claus which provides “that the consideration of all re thong and bills relating to or i» any way artactip, Erie Railway Company anal! be postponed et the committee hereby appointed shall report.’ ane considerable debate this motion prevailed— 0 13, Mr, Hauge sald that the adoption of this amena- ment maie it necessary to make some alterations of the preamble, and he therefore moved to lay the whote subiecton the tadle, which Was carried and the Senate adjourned, ASSEMBLY. ALBANY, April 8, 1868, Mr, ToweR reported complete the bill to incor- Porate the Security Savings Bank of New York, BILL3 PASSED, Relative to the care and custody of truant children in Rochester; to provide for the election of an addl- tional justice of the peace in Brooklyn. The bill re- pealing the act exempting the property of ministers of the gospel from taxation was dt by 65 to 43, The session was mainly occupled in the considera- tion of claim bills antil the recess, Evening Session. On motion of Mr. Hartman the bill to amend the Metropolitan Excise law was made the special order for to-morrow at twelve o'clock. BILLS PASSED. To improve and widen Middle street, Brooklyn; to divide the fag) Si and Tenth wards and to create a new ward in Brooklyn; to provide for laying pneu- matic tubes for the transmission of letters and pack- ages in New York and Brooklyn; to widen and im- prove Vanderbilt avenue, Brook! m; to amend the charter of the National Savings Institution of New York; in relation to limited copartnerships, THE COMPLETION OF QUARANTINE. ES br prey ihe pubit yt A provide for the etter protection of the public health and for the com- pletion of quarantine, + Court of Appeals Calendar, ALBANY, April 8, 1868, The day calendar of the Court of Appeals to-mor- Tow is Nos, 151, 153, 154, 156, 167. There will ve no further day calendar this term. CITY INTELLIGENCE. THe PusLic Moneys.—Comptroller Connolly re- ceived yesterday from the City Chamberlain the sur- plus interest accruing from the city moneys during the month of March, amounting to $2,843 11, mak- ing the total paid into the city treasury by the Cham- berlain under the present system $62,516 04. Board oF Fire ComMissioners.—The Fire Com- missioners held their regular weekly meeting yes- terday—the President, General Shaler, in the chair. Two communications were received from firms in this city, enclosing certain amounts of money to be distributed among the members of one or two engine companies in appreciation of their services rendered at fires, A donation of $100 and another of $50 for the Library fund were received. portance was transacted by the Board. BoaRD OF HEALTH.—The State Senate yesterday unanimously confirmed Stephen Smith, M. D., of this city, as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Board of Health, in place of Dr. Parker, resigned. ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART.—Last evening an interesting paper was read by Mr. J. Disturnell on the “ Discovery, Climate and Productions of Alaska, or Northern America,” at the rooms of this association, Cooper Institute. There was a numerous attendance and the chair was occupied by Mr. H. Williams. After a few prelimt- nary observations the speaker adverted to the dis- covery of Alaska by a Russian officer named Barhum, with others, in 1741, and alluded to the aborigines as a quiet and indus- trious people. The climate was reer low and of a very variable and mostly unpleasant char- acter, which had somewhat a disastrous effect upon the cereal productions. Notwithstanding this, how- ever, he thought the government had acted wisely in the recent purchase of Alaska, There were nu- merous resources as yet undeveloped, and the United States, he was confident, would realize all the high anticipations formed of that vast region of country. The paper was very instructive and stated many in- teresting circumstances in connection with’ the Northwestern portion of the country. RICHARD O’GORMAN AND THE YOUNG MEN'S GEN- ERAL DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE.—The juntor members of this organization, through their chairman, Mr. E. H. Anderson, have invited Mr. O'Gorman to address them upon the topics and issues of the day. The invitation is of that nature that Mr. O'Gorman could not refuse, and, reserving his decision for a period, he finally appointed the 14th of April for the com: mittee and his fellow citizens to meet him at Masonic Hall, where he will address them upon the question, se warner: ARRIVAL OF MEDALS FROM THE PARIS Expost- TION.—The gold, silver and bronze medals which were accorded the United States exhibitors in the Paris Universal Exposition arrived to-day in the steamship St. Laurent from Havre. There are several hundreds of these medals, each of which ts set in sf oan — e, < i required Coke teres cones x em. were consigned States agent, J. C. Derby. Cugar Eoas yor Easter Sunpay.—Until yester- day the speculators in eggs, owing to their scarcity, had congratulated themselves that the demand and price for Easter Sunday would be graduated by the limited supply; but the unexpected introductt late in the ahernoon of fifteen hundred barrels caused them to change their views and so modify their demands that eggs for next Sabbath will be very cheap and within reach of the poorest. SUICIDE OF 4 CYPRIAN BY STRANGULATION.—On Tuesday night oMcer Smack, of the Eighth precinct, arrested Bella Hunt, alias Maggie Hunt, allas Isa- bella Carlton, a cyprian, on the charge of intoxica- tion and disorderly conduct, and took her to the Mercer street police station. The prisoner was com- mitted to a cell where at three o'clock in the morn- ing the doorman, William Cronan, heard her breath- ing quite loudly. Three hours later, when the door- man went to “turn out” the prisoners, Isabella was found to be dead. Coroner Schirmer was notified and subsequently held inquest on the body. Deputy Coroner Wettengel examined the body an¢ about the neck of deceased found a neck- tie wound twice around it in sucha manner as to stop the circulation of blood and produce strangula- ton, The jury rendered a verdict in accordance with the foregoing facts. was twenty-two years of and anative of this country. She lived at No, 67 Grand street. SUPPOSED SUICIDE.—Coroner Rollins yesterday re- ceived information that Mrs. Lydia P. Purcdll, of No. 262 Seventh avenue, had died suddenly under circumstances which induced the belief that she had taken poison for the purpose of self-destruction. A report was in circulation that two physicians who had attended deceased previous to her death had made a post-mortem examination on the body and foand evidences of potson in the stomach and other internal organs. Deceased was forty-five years of age and a native of Ireland. Ano inqaest will be held on the body, Dnowned Bony Recoversp.—The remains of a man, recognized as those of Patrick Smith, were yesterday found floating in the dock foot of Delancey at East river. Last New Year's Day Mr. left his home, and being seen no more alive it is sup- that he accidentally fell overboard and was rowned. Coroner Kollins was notified to hold an inquest on the body. Supprw DeaTH.—Anna Hartman, 4 little girl three years of age, died suddenly at the residence of her ni Sixty-fourth street, between Tenth and Bicventh avenues, One of the Coroners was notified to hold an Inquest on the body. DgaTn rrom BuRNs.—Sarah Ann Murry, of 281 Mott street, who was severely burned on Monday last, died from her {njuries yesterday afternoon. THE FREIGHTING BUSINESS. Forwarding, notwithstanding the vackwardness of the season, is at this time heavy and remunera- tive. The passenger boate and propellers which ply ‘on the Sound, including those that connect with Boston and ports further east, are doing an active business. Scarcely @ vessel of any description for Now Haven and cities beyond but leave or return to our harbor with decks crowded with freight. itis the same on the North river. Not only is freighting active on boats which connect this city with Albany and Troy, but it employs all the smaller steamers barges that run to intermediate places. The Rirmers ‘are hastening forward their Finter-made butter and cheese, their eggs, potatoes and other vegetables, and are isonving goods iu When the Erie canal {s officially mn, which will probably be on or about the Ist of the increase in freight will be many fold. Boats blockaded by Ice, while in transitu, will then arrive in this city with freighi, indulk, mainiy of the cereals for the Atiantic coast and European consumption; and, in addition, the steamers whic! navigate exclusty #4 river will find, when the hurried business of pi ng. rough with, sufi cient to employ them until the usually the heaviest: the year, opens, The activity among forwarders just how, as the crowded state of the wharves indicates, sould satisfy even the moat sceptical ag to the present prosperity of the city. All things considered, our foreign trade was cut down one-half by the rebellion. New York was never busier than at this time, Her mer- chants, mechanics and laborers are very generally employed. Money is easy ; the balance of trade (al- though much of it is carried on in foreign bottoms) ts on our side, aud If we have average crops—audl there are propheta who say We shail this year s abundance and quaity the harvests of many pre- seeding sumimers—the business of the autumn Wills Interior and the AUantic and Guif States wil akiag them all together, surpass any in the No business of im- living in remote counties, members of the Legislaiure, are striving to have as 8! 3 THE ARCADE RAILWAY. the | Objections to the Broadway Underground Railroad—Uuter Impracticability ot the Pian—Damage to Buildings in the Excavae en and Lujury to Merchants’ Goods from the Smoke and Dust of the Engines. Of all the stupendous schemes of gross outrage and Wrong proposed to be perpetrated apon the city that of the arcade railway takes the precedent. Hasty legislation has never been more swift to abet plundering jobbers than fn the passage by the lower branch of the State Legislature of the bill to incorporate the Arcade Underground Rallway Com- pany. It has yet to pass the Senate before this work of infamous jobbery is complete, and it is fortunate that the opponents to @ measure giving such glaring exhibition of fraud on ts face, and in its details inflicting such damag- ing loss on our leading merchants and property owners on Broadway, await final action from those in whose judgment and integrity there ts rellance— asumMcient reliance that the tide of corrupt legisia- tion, bearing on its tumultuous waves this bill, will only reach thus far, and that the returning ebb of its muddy waters will overwhelm with shame and con- fuston alike the concoctors and couspirators in the scheme. It is unnecessary to describe in detail the arcade railway. On paper it looks well. The accounts written in its favor read well. The diagrams have a seeming show of erudite engineering skill. The drawings of it in a state of completion, the elegant cars, the Nght and graceful columns support- ing the superincumbent roadway, the winding stairways at pleasing Intervals from the street door for ingress and egress of passengers all look impos- ing. But there are many things that look well on Paper that cannot stand the test of practicability. This ratlway ts one of them. In the first place the bill does not state the depth of excavation to be al- towed, and it was very ingentous in the framers of the bill leaving this matter of depth contingent on necessity. The general published statements give the depth required from fourteen to seventeen feet. Competent engineers, among whom we may instance Mr. Craven, Chief Engineer of the Crotun Aqueduct Department, say that the least possibie depth will be twenty-two feet eight inches, and that the likelihood is that twenty-eight feet will be found indispensable. It 18 easy to see what will be the effect of such deep excavation, continuous through Broadway. Tiere is not a buila- ing on this thoroughfare, except the HeraLp buila- ing and the Park Bank building adjaceut, whose foundations go down deep enough not to be seriously disturbed by such excavation, and except tuese there is not one whose front walls will not be weak- ened by it and placed in danger of falling. Asis well known, all the lower fronts of the modern built structures on Broadway—and they now embrace the majority of the buildings—are constructed on iron posts from twelve to sixteen inches in thickuess. If this railway is constructed all these buildtigs will have to be shored or needies put under tive first hoor lintels, with props extending down to the founda- tions of the sub-cellars to give them temporary sup- port, and according to the proposed pian of the railway, when the latter is completed and the props removed, the original foundation supports are gone. The expense of this shoring, aside from the uite- rior damaging results to the stability of tne buildings, will be immense. It will cost Mr. A. 'T. Stewart alone a quarter milion of dollars, aud there ig no provision in the bill fora dime ot indeimaifca- tion. The bill further allows an excavation of one hundred feet from Broadway either way on all the streets running into it, which is only so luc wddi- tional dam: to all corner buildings, besides giving 80 much additional valuable space to tue rairoad company. Besides the immediate and incontestibie damage to the buildings on -Broadway, the use for railway purposes of the street will rob our merchants occu- pying the many-colored and magnificent stores on this street of a vast amount of most valuable room. All these stores have basements aud suly-cellars ex- tending many feet under the street beyond their street fronts. These spacious underground rooins gre stored with valuable goods and from light admitted through the illuminated” tiles above admit their conversion into salesrooims, which most of them are. In many of ti places are annuaily sold what in ew our city became the great com now 18 and our merchant prinves re yearly sales by scores of milllous wou esteemed sufficient basis for the fort merchants. immense rivalry in trade, the geuius of progress in the growing expan lou of busin » has Made (his space, L.ke all space bus.n $3 trams tions on our great commercial wet, valuabie, it is growing more valuable every year. ‘There is another interferenc® with we rights and interests of our Broadway merchants—ih + cars are to be propelled by steam. Much stress is laid O14 this fact by those seeking to Deer the pl. aud some of the papers glow with «> hu mi over the rospect thus opening for bes + vtausit by steam mm. the Battery to Harlem. Jt ws said ‘that the engines will consume all the sinoke and ashes and dust and noxious siuells from the engines. Every sens ble person knows this is humbug. No engine gilted with such powers of absorption hag ever been invented, and is ot likely to be. .It will be a delightful era when such an eagine tum of railroad (ravel, he millennium of scriptural prophecy. ‘The {uct is, or rather will be, if this railroad ever goes into opera- tion, all the annoyance of the dust aad cinders wud smoke and soot begotten of stean railroad travel will be experienced to their fullest disa ble ex. tent. Their fine, small particles will fil the air and the nostrils of every one, and permeate 1! lots of everybody and every nook aud crauuy of every building. As @ personal nuisance it will be siniy insufferable, But this not the worst—valuable goods, by these flying, permeating particies, will be damaged by the wholesale. ‘The loss to our merchants in lus respect alone willbe very great and in luct inest- mable. The strongest point urged in favor of this arcade Failroad scheme is the relief of Broadway. Of the many projects to accomplish this end tits is pro- nounced the only feasible one. It is reaily (he least feasible of all. The bill that has aiready passed to athird reading in the Assembly providiuig for ‘ie construction of an underground railway, begianit at the east side of the City Hall Park, going turougn the Five Points, thence extending up Mutberiy sweet and through Madison avenue, reaching its termiians at Harlem river, will fully answer the desived pur- ose in this regard. ‘This calis for no Ww iwicsale Semage to our finest stores, no entailment of trait Jess 1088 on our merchants, and no general ign ing of private rights, the predominant features of the Arcade way bill. Broadway, the great business street of our city and the pride and glory of every citizens, has thus far been spared the touch of vandal railway speculators. Those who would destroy magnificence and beauty and glory have been kept a! Broadway should ever r as tt is, For military jes, for great procession occasions and for the solemn fuperat FX our people tura out to do spectat honor to tieir bene- factors and heroes, this street ts wanted. ‘The iniquitous fraud of this a bie of brief showing. Of the seventy-six persons EO whom the charter is granted an examination will show, as heretofore ted in the HEKALD, t names of thirty-six do not appear in tory; twelve are non-residents of tt are brokers and agents; seven are roads and banks; five are merch: Jawyers, Property owners and merchants on Broad way, Who have the greatest pecuniary inierest at stake, are in nowise represented. rersons the country, of them in who bave influence with country many ferred on themselves this franchise, Most of ‘to: living in the city, who are juterested in tt, are lite known In business circles, aud the few who are known are tron dealers who are looking to supply the road with tron, or newspaper mien Wioe are controtied by promises of stock, Tie vitiz themselves, the ple interested in shoriemay the time of transit between the lower and upper ex- tremities of the isiand, a8 will be seen, have also been left out in the cold, Had there been a disposition to honest dealing @ commission Wouli tiave been ap- Pointed to investigate the state of the poplar pulse on the subject, and ascertain the views and wishes of our merchants and leading business men. But the scheme has been hurried up and hureed through the Assembly. It is to be — it has reached we farther terminus of its travel. “we have assumed that tis arcade railway scheme Is a genuine affair; that there are parties who have really and seriously set themeeives (o work !o con- coct this scheme, and that they mean business, We do believe they mean business, but no. the laying of an underground railway througa broadway. The impracticability of the plan, the time tt will take to buid tt (at least teu years), the interference of the ind the utier, reckless diste- ta developed in (his tine of any gach co! jou. The imply a plot to elicit vide owners ani own to Le Oppose wit Auese ids have not been forchcoming, and it Is to be hoped none will be frigitened into offering ther do wot think any ove need be afrald of the bill or of the railroad as any likely pro- doct iu the future. But tt may be @ serious thing for all this. In these degenerate tines oF trickery and movomania for spoile and speculations it is dimcult to tell the at of this or that or foretell what may happen, There ls this consolation: thatin of ie Senate concurring with the Louse, which, ted above, we do not believe possibie, (iere are ellate courts of Juriadiction Whose powers to pro- Croton and gard of all pe procedure are adverse t probabiey ts that it is case tect personal rights and property are superior to cor- rapt and unconstitutional legistation, x at THEW age oe has started ap with remar! eo ty and country, The sales of the the last day of March were very Heavy one dry goods house alone selling $80, worth of merchandise. There is an impression among buyers that prices are to be higher, which has stimu. The farmers are Making the most y, and preparing an immense seed. Hardware firms aro of fence wire—much of of iowa, Nebraska and s they inter that a very large ii this spring be enclosed and put Ravivat IN Be Post says busio vigor, both ta jobbing houses ov