The New York Herald Newspaper, May 2, 1868, Page 6

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TIT HALL, 806 Broadway.—EXUtiTi0N oF URFS AND Powreaits, ONWA’S PARK THEATRE, Brook!ya.— TROUS, Broadway and 34th street. -EQuxs- #, LIVING ANIMALS, £0, V°S OPERA HOSE, Brooklyn,—Eraror1an PROGRESS OF AMERIOA. YANORAMA OF THE War. New York, Saturday, May 2, 1868. THES NEWS. IMPEACHMENT. High Conrt yesterday Mr. Evaris concladea y argument for the defence, He read a pa- red in 1562 by several Senators, urging upon resident Lincoln the necessity of harmony between the Executiv: and his Cabinet Ministers, written at @ time that it was considered necessary to have Montgomery Blair removed. He also cited the re- mark of Senator Sherman, during the debate on the Civil Tenure bill, that when a President dics his Cabinet goes out. He wound up with a stirring peroration, warning the Senate that if they make way with a co-ordinate branch of the government in this manner the people will demand of them, ‘Where is thy brother?" Atthe conciusion Mr. Stanbery commenced his argument, Though laboring under evident physical prost nm his voice was clear and keen. Before proceeding fara motion to adjourn prevailed, and | probably Mr. Stanbery will conclude to-day. In the House of Representatives Mr. Brooks’ reso- Inuon cailing on the Managers for an explanation of | the Alta Vela letter was laid on the table by a vote of 69 to 26, after a heated debate, in which Messrs. | Brooks and Butler indulged in high-handed person- alities, THE LEGISLATURE. i In the Senate yesterday bills relative to emigrants | arriving at the port of New York, the Saratoga | Springs Water act, relative tothe storage of com- | bustible materials and reappropriating $5,000 to the | New York Law Library were passed. Mr. Stanford moved to reconsider the vote on the Canal Manage- ment bill, but the motion was lost by a vote of 14 to 1 14. Mr. Stanford then intimated that the contractors in the lobby had something to do with the persistent opposition to the bill, and quite a breeze sprang up. Several members insisted upon an investigation, but objection was made. Bills substituting Assistant Aldermen for the Board of Counctimen of New York and increasing the term of office of Aldermen, and nut 18 others for purposes not of general | interest, were ordered to a third reading. A bill was reported to provide for submitting the new constitu. e people, and Mr. Folger moved to refer it 2c of the Whole, but Mr. Creamer ob- | » moved to advance the Metro- . | pier | of ig eee NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1868.-TRIPLE SHEET. complete wreck. One of the killed was thrown one hundred and fifty feet high over a Sturgis elevator, Five of the bodies af the dead have beem recovered. Anson Burlingame, the Chinese Atabassador, with hus entire suite, sailed from Sau Francisco yesterday for Panama, en roule for Washington. ‘The salutes usually extended from one nation to the representa- live of another were fired by the forts in the harbor as the vessel departed, deff Davis’ bond is te be renewed to-day. The trial is xed for the last of May or the middie of June terms of the United States Circuit Court at Rich- mond, Lancaster, Pa., has gone republican In her charter election, even giving a republican gain. Ryland Randoiph, editor of an Alabama paper, was ordered before a inilitary commission some time ago by the authorities in that State for killing a | negro. Recently his counsel obtained from Judge Busteed a writ of habeas corpus, which, however, the authorities refused to obey, Thereupon the counset telegraphed to Goncral Meade, asking his | interference to stop the trial, and General Meade has refused to imterfere, The military court then assembled and the trial probably is in progress. Three members of the Baltimore Board of Alder- men were expelled yesterday for alleged corruption. ‘Thomas Dula was hanged in Statesville, N. C., yesterday for the murder of Laura Foster, his para- mour, in May, 1866, On the scaffold he discussed politics with the crowd, and only casually referred to the murder, refusing to admit his guilt, ‘The execu- tion was effected by the cart in whieh he was stand- ing being moved from under tim. His slater rode with hii to the scene of executjon, ‘The entire’ business “portion of Bast Berkshire, Vermont, was destroyed by fire on Wednesday night. ‘The Sherwood House and the Episcopal chur¢h, the latter being the only place of worship in the town, were among the buildings destroyed. The General Transatlantic Company's steamship Pereire, Captain Surmont, will leave pier 50, North river, at one P. M, to-day, for Brest and Havre. The mails for France will close at the Post office at twelve M. ‘The Merchants’ Line steamship United States, Captain Norton, will leave pler 12, North river, at three P. M, to-day for New Orleans direct. ‘The steamship Montgomery, Captain Lyon, of the Black Star line, will sail at three P. M, to-day from orth river for Savannah, Ga. The stock market way strong, but extremely dull yesterday. Government securities were strong and active, Gold was also strong, and closed at 1304. | Imponchment—The Attempt to Gag the Chief Sustice, Reckless andacity is the essence of the revo- lutionary spirit, Not to respect anything that stands in the way, to be equally ready to | trample under foot law, justice, propriety and right—this is and must be the essential char- | acteristic of revolutionary leaders. Danton, a | cowardly savage; Marat, vindictive and arro- gant; and Robespierre, mean, crnel and a sen- timental humanitarian, were the typos of the character in another time as Butler, Stevens | and Sumner are now; and never did the former three tread toward their object with more un- | swerving and infamous fidelity to a bad pur- pose than has hitherto marked the career of the chosen men of the radical faction in Con- gress. Hitherto the boldness, the dictatorial assumption of superiority, the domineering | tactics in virtue of which these men have led or driven their feebler associates, have been sufficient to give them unquestioned rule ; but there seems likely to come achange. There is a wavering, an unsteadiness, 8 disposition to cringe and hedge and save themselves on the part of the politicians, who, till within a few days past, have only required to know what Sumner said and Butler wanted in | order to understand what must-be the platform the republican party and the will of the American people. This faltering and fear, this doubt of the might and permanent ‘power of such leaders as Sumner, Butler and Stevens, is one of the signs of the times, as it indicates that even when the people's repre- sentatives are so degraded that we cannot count upon their probity or devotion to right, we can at least count upon the fact that they wish to be always on the stronger side, and mity thus hope to extort from their cupidity and fears that which we would expect in vain from their honor. But what is the cause that the wind sits in nae bill to the Committee of the on was laid on the table by a | nt voting in the ailirma- | ligating the charges of | > Ratlway transaction reported that | iit to obtain the witnesses they | had testified to the use of large but on being allowed to goto | r certain data had failed to return. | continue the investigation was asked for The veto on the Sherii’s Pees bill was | rhe Tax Commissioners and Croton | ‘ommissioners bills were made special | ernoon, and the Senate adjourned. | his house Leave to a commiitee of conference was appoinied nate amendmenis to the Supply bill, ‘The State y Dill was reported back with amendments, Bills were passed providing for the Payment of the cana! debt, relative to the proof of | Wills, and relative to the effects of judgments in for- eign countries. By unanimous consent permission Was given certain agenis to put up in the chamber a | new invention for the rapid taking of the yeas and ays. EUROPE. By special cable telegrain from Trieste and London | Jesterdvy, we learn that the Cretan insurgents are | again in active operation agaiust the Turks, and | that according to Greek reports many severe battles have been fought, the revolutionists claiming the victory in one protracted engagement. ‘The Turks, it fg alleged, committed many barbaritic The news report by the Atiantic day evening, May 1, announces the re lish Parliamentary debate on the Irish Chureh ques tion, the the inauguration of a Cabinet crisis in London, Mr, Gladstone's disendowment resolution was reattirmed by an increased majority in the House of Commons. Mr. Disraeli was in consultation with the Queen at Osborne. Admiral Farragut’s squadron was in the Taras, | Several Fenians have been discharged from prison in Ireland by warrant of the Lord Lieutenant, MISCELLANEOUS. Judge Black has writen another letter to President Johnson relative to the Alta Vela aifair. In it he says that he kuew nothing of the letter signed by certain radical members of the House, including Senators Logan and Butler, counseliing the President in relation to the affair, and that he had no com- Bounication whatever with them on the subject. The trial of General Cole was continued at Albany yesterday. The prosecution, after the introduction of several witnesses to rebut the testimony of the defence relative to the insanity of the prisoner, rested their case, and the defence examined two ‘witnesses to show whether Genera! Cole was boast- ful, ‘The defence then rested and the prosecution commenced the closing argument and summery. General Meade has ordered a hoard of oMicers to investigate the late election affairs in Georgia and to count the votes, General Gillom, of Mississippi, informs the Reeon struction Convention that they must follow oat the reconstrnetion acts in providing for the fon in that State, ai courier if on his way to Washing fre y, Mexico, car re 4 urd of outrage ' by th isul there the char exp hoite vost as aire wa vin | on which he must be removed if at all. this new quarter? They who have kept the run ofthe impeachment trial will hardly need to be told. Sifted to the bottom by Curtis, Groesbeck and Evarts, the charges against the President, that seemed trivial enongh from the first, have dwindled day by day until people begin to wonder how any body of men could have had the folly, the insane impertinence, to present them as reasons for the removal of the national Executive. In view of this, the genera] sentiment of the country, the common mass of radicals discover that they have still some sense of shame, and dare not avow their adhesion to the purpose of removing the President on those charges. There is not a radical in Congress, nor is there even a radi- cal newspaper, that any longer has any faith in the bill of impeachment; and though they urge the removal of the President on general principles, yet they have given up the charges Feel- tion contemplates, and whether, viewed as from the supreme bench, the President bas proved untrue to his duty, Ruling in this, be cannot but charge against conviction, and Senators feel that they can vote under cover of his charge and be eafe. The knowledge of this very fact, the feeling that they are to be left to the ruin they have sought, inspires the impeachment leaders to close the mouth of the Chief Justice and to start the point that he has no right to charge the Senate. Heace Mr. Sumner's proposition for determining by as mall a vote as possible all such questions. Doubtless they will fight this case desperately, as it forms the very crisis of their fate; but they will be beaten, as they already feel and know. Earl Russells Political Bid. Since Disraeli’s first defeat on the Irish Church question the leaders of the existing political parties in Great Britain continue their bids for place and Parliamentary lead with a degree of animation and in 4 shape which ren- ders the progress of the contest a matter of much interest to the American democracy, a3 affording a highly complimentary testimony to the vast power alroady evoked by the people of the United Kingdom in their straggle for com- plote enfranchisement. Instead of seeking to earwig the Crown and control and coerce public opinion to follow their lead, Disraeli, Mr. Gladstone, John Bright and the rest ure com- pelled to offer almost daily another and still another bid, by the indication or actual promise of some measure of wholesome radical progress, each with the view of proving that he himself is the most fitting person to bear up the popular banner and stand forth as the embodiment of the cause of liberating advance. In addition to the candidates for public favor enumerated above Earl Russell has just come forward with a “bid.” In his reply to the Parliamentary remarks of Lord Derby on the Irish Church question, on Tuesday night, the veteran statesman spoke strongly in support of national reform and freedom of conscience in Ireland by advocating the Glad- stone Chugch resolutions, Like Earl Russell, however, he supported both in a peculiar man- ner, by announcing that he had ‘‘a plan of his own” for the solution of the Irish difficulty; a plan much more efficacious than that of Mr. Gladstone. Having thus renewed his cer- tificate of recommendation as a whig reformer Lord John endeavored to step before Disraeli in his effort to catch the public eye; for he ing that the impeachment articles are too ridiculous and pitiful, that their case on those | articles is untenable and that they dare not face their constituents with the record of having voted for such articles, the courage oozes from the fingers of the brave associates of Sumner and Butler, their andacity melts to thin air and they desire to save themselves, though at the expense of their leaders—to abandon the attempt at any safe point, much erring to see the ruin of the impeachment | leaders rather than experience their own, But | Sumner and the rest, grown desperate with their extremity, are resolved not to be easily | thrown over, and they indicate the character | of the fight they intend to make by the propo- silion made in the Senate the other day in | cegard to “questions relating to judgment.” | Chief Justice Chase is the only man who can cover the escape of the radicals from their un- tenable position, He is the natural head of the republican party as the people understood that party in ite national character. He fs the wise, moderate impersonation of its safer principles and poticy; and when it was driven by folly and fury into ite nigger and impeach- ment extremities it was driven so far from Chief Justice Chase that men were ready to set bim up a “con- rervative” candidate against it, He is the one man whom Sumner, Butier and Stevens could not move, coax or bully into becoming a party | to their purpose : and so, as the strong man of the moderate purposes, he becomes now the rallying point of those who fear to siand with ; the extremists, He is counted upon by the as | moe te men as the one who cau save them | fr consequences of their folly, Yt will oon be bis dtity to close up the trial of the ! t by an authoritative statement of the He must declare to the Senate whether intimated that there exists a danger that the Premier may precipitate # “collision between the Crown and the ‘House of Commons,” an event which would be “most deplorable’— leaving it to be inferred that his ‘‘plan” would, if adopted, arrest the calamity. Such is the course of the somewhat old fashioned party leaders and State doctors of Britain. Each has ‘a plan of his own.” Mr. Disraeli’s “plan,” after its thirty years’ amendments, secured him the chief power by a ministerial rearrangement with Lord Derby. Mr. Disraeli made no particular “bid,” but held himsclf open to conviction, and to go, perhaps, as far as any of his competitors, if the advance would recommend him to a@ more powerful party. Mr. Gladstone soon afterwards made a distinct offer, which has been accepted by the House of Commons, and, in order to neutralize the effect of that “bid,” we find that Disraeli devotes himself to the work of pre- serving the nation from the evils of some widespread Anglo-Papal conspiracy, the fruits of whi¢h, if realized, are to bring great profit to Pope Pius the Ninth, a gentleman whom we had come to regard as quite effete in the political world. The Premier also promises immense commercial wealth to come from the newly conquered “Mexico” in Africa, John Bright is “bidding” in and out of Parliament, with ideas of serious governmental changes. He talks of the disendowment of every Church in the empire and speaks of a national Senate instead of the Honse of Lords and vote by ballot, while scions of the aristocracy, fresh from the universities, calculate their resources and ask themselves what they can afford to give, with the view of outbidding. Bright. The rivalry has become so exciting that Earl Russell has been moved and tenders the ‘plan of his own” of which we have just spoken. The Earl stands forth with Parliamentary and official experiences extending over a period of fifty-five years. In his non-official days he has been a representative of English democratic reform, Irish emancipation, the Irish Church Tithes Appropriation bill and many other measures of progress, but he has also preached the ‘finality of reform,” and when in office never exhibited any inclination to carry out his early professions, Earl Russell's “bid” will, therefore, scarcely be accepted by the people. It has already damaged Disraeli, and may injure Gladstone, but will hardly exalt the veteran statesman to power. Before the period of the first general election under the new English Reform bill we will have heard of many other “bids,” but it is more than probable that the man who will be fully accepted has not yet spoken. In the meantime the British people will regard each “bid” as made as a fresh evidence of their own political strength. Due Naval Officers and Snilors, We perceive that a resolution has been intro- duced into the House of Representatives re- questing the Secretary of the Navy to furnish a list of vessels and property captured or de- stroyed by the navy of the United States during the war, with the disposition made of each cap- ture and the cause of delay of payment of prize money to the parties in accordance with existing laws. Thisisa movement in the right direction. The delay in the payment of the prize money honestly earned and fully due to our gal- lant naval officers and sailors is anything but honorable to the Nuvy Department, and not at all calculated to impress the rewards of the ser- vice favorably upon the public mind, The with- holding ofthis money has been a source of no little disappointment and suffering among the families of many in the service of different grades, Calculating upon the promptitude of the government in settling these claims—just and proper as any ever made upon the public treasury-——both officers and men have been led to encumber themselves with indebtedness, until at this Jate day they are left almost in despair of ever realizing anything whatever from Thies should not be, The Prize Money overnment them, | clearly owes the money for hardy services ren- | dered, and the demands of the claimants should charged are euch 98 the oOnstitu- | he mot and settled without unnovessary delay. “Old Ben Wade” and His Cabinet—4 Very Nice Question. : It would be a very curious thing if the greedi- ness of *‘Old Ben Wade” should turn out to be the saving of Andrew Johnson. Before this impeachment Wade, as an aspirant for the Vice Presidency on the Grant tickot, stood about number five on the list, coming after Colfax, Wilson, Fenton and Curtin. In view of the ‘honors and emoluments,” however, accruing to the President pro tem. of the Senate, in be- coming President ad@ inicrim of the United States, he has rapidly risen to the position in the republican camp of number one for the Vice Presidency. Consequently we sre not sur- prised to hear that Collax, Wilson and other Vice Presidential aspirants are disposed to hedge off the verdict on this impeachment if possible till a day or two after the adjourn- ment of the Chicago Convention. But, worse yet, it is surmised that if with this postpone- ment of Johnson's removal Wade is still the successful man at Chicago, there will be a ver- dict of acquittal for Johnson, in consequence of the strong disinclination of some half dozen anti-Wade republican Scnators to give their consent to the arrangement making said Wade President of the United States till the 4th of March, 1869, and Vice President for the next four years thereafter. ‘Old Ben,” they say, is too greedy, and is dealing unfairly with Col- fax, Wilson, Curtin and the rest of the republi- can Vice Presidential expectants, in consenting, under the circumstances, to allow his name to be used at all for the next Vice Presidency. Worst of all, however, it is beginning to be suspected that Wade, if promoted to the White House in the place of Johnson, only ten days or a week in advance of the Chicago Convention, will be very apt to use the immense patronage of his position, Cabinet places, foreign missions, custom houses, post ofiices, territorial appoint- ments, &c., in buying up the Convention at so much per head to nominate him for the Presi- dency itself over the head of General Grant. Thus, for instance, as President ad interim, to secure New York at Chicago, Mr. Wade will only have to cause it to be suid in his name to the New York Chicago delegation, ‘‘ Choose, gentlemen, your candidates for a place in the Cabinet, for your custom house, your post offices, and so forth, and they shall not only be appointed, but in the event of my nomina- tion and election for the next Presidency they will hold their offices in all probability for five- years instead of one.” And 80, as the world goes in these days, every State delegation to the Chicago Convention might be bought up; for does it not stand proved at Albany that “every man has his price ?” In this view of the subject even the appoint- ment of Mr. Wade’s Cabinet in advance of the Chicago Convention becomes a very nice and delicate question. It is a matter of some mo- ment, ifwe look no further than the Vice Presidency; for in the appointment of these seven Cabinet officers, whomsoever they may be, there will be ‘five times seven expectants disappointed and lost to Mr. Wade. Hence by the Wade Senators and anti-Wade Sena- tors there would appear to be powerful reasons for delaying a verdict on this impeachment, and there will doubtless have to be some defi- nite: understanding with the coming man in regard to his game at Chicago before the im- peachment verdict is rendered against Johnson. Touching the probable materials of the Wade Cabinet, we see Greeley set down as Secre- tary of State on a slate made up by a radical organ which professes to know what is going on at Washington and what is to be. But this is not the place for Greeley. Disraeli would twist him around his finger on those Alabama claims, and the Yankee-Mexican speculators and jobbers, “hanging on the verge of the government,” would completely entangle him in their nice little arrangements, The Post Office Department is the place for Greeley ; for there his practical ideas of re- trenchment in regard to mileage, Congressional books and the franking privilege may result in the saving of six or seven hundred dollars to the Treasury in gold. Beyond this we have no special interest in Mr. Wade's Cabinet, but we insist on Greeley for the Post Office Department, although this appointment will upset Mr. Thurlow Weed's candidate for the Treasury, Senator Morgan, But if we may credit.some recent observations attributed to “Old Ben,” the prospect under him of Grecley’s appointment to any office is very dubions. Itis reported that ‘Old Ben” the other day, in response to certain Chicago propositions made by a Pennsylvania delega- tion of office seekers, said:—‘‘You mistake your man, Iwould not turn my hand to be made Vice President or President either. But if Iam ever called upon to make an appoint- ment under this government I shall look for an honest man. I woulda’t appoint a politician to any place.” Upon this plan of action Diogenes, with his lantern, we fear, will have tobe called upon to pick out the men for the proposed incorruptible Wade Cabinet, and « Cabinet thus selected will be something new under the sun. Is Andrew Johnson's re- moval to bring us the millennium? We think not. A Cabinet Crisis In England=Mr. Disraeli Aguin Defeated. The highly important debate which has been progressing in the British House of Commons, in committee, for some evenings past on the subject of the formal adoption, in word and principle, of the first of Mr. Gladstone's three resolutions for effecting the disendowment of the Irish Church, and the severance of the connection existing between that establish- ment and the State, was brought to a close yesterday morning, and eventu- ated in the defeat of Mr. Disraeli by a majority of sixty-five the hostile vote being increased by six members since the division had before Easter, notwithstanding the fact that government gained three seats by elections in the meantime. Parliament has accepted the Gladstone resolve, which we pub- lish in our news columns, solemnly reaffirmed its position in favor of voluntaryism and free- dom of conscience in Great Britain, and thus brought the quasi Cabinet interregnum which was inaugurated by its first vote into the very serious condition of a ministerial crisis, the solution of which rests with the Crown. Mr. Disraeli hastened from London to Os- borne to consult with the executive in the emergency, and it may be said with truth that at no previous period of her reign did Queen Victoria stand more in need of the advice of an able and honest counsellor, The people, | the expensive commissions inang. through their representatives in the House of Commons, have assured her that the cause of healthful democratic progress cannot be arrested by political intrigue, and that the chief adviser of the monarchy is not acceptable to the nation. A change of Minis- ters becomes almost a necessity of the State in consequence, and the appearance of even an effort on the part of the Queen to avoid such necessity may prove dangerous by provoking the ‘deplorable collision” to which Earl Russell bas alluded in the English House of Lords. “It is very probable, therefore, ‘that her Majesty will accept the situation, and that Mr. Disraeli will resign the great seal of office into her hands, He may try a disso- lution, but can hardly be benefited by a general election. The Premier will not be likely to suggest a ministerial reconstruction, for his own advent to power has only just: been effected by an official movement of that sort in the retirement of Earl Derby, and a repe- tition of it would scarcely be tolerated. A new man is evidently required, and the Queen may send for Mr. Gladstone. The leader of the opposition is an accomplished scholar, a polished and close political logician, and possesses considerable Cabinet experience; but it is. a question if he has sufficient weight and grasp of intellect to direct the affairs of Britain at such a moment. If cordially supported by the Clarendon-Russell party in the House of Lords, the Nonconformists and radicals of Scotland and England, and the Catholics and Protestant liberals of Ireland in the House of Commons, Mr. Gladstone would be able to form an efficient Ministry, and could wait the eventful issue of the first election under the Reform bill with hope of continuance in office. He will need all this support how- ever, and if it is not accorded to him the people must themselves either indicate a new Premier to the Queon or change their opinion of Mr. Disracli at the hustings during a general election. Mr. Disraeli’s elevation to office proclaimed the termination of the era of the official trans- mission of power by aristocratic inheritance in England and the near advent of 9 new one in which the people will manage their own affairs, in accord with the Crown, for the general good. In this view we thought very well of Mr. Dis- raeli, knowing the tenacity of purpose which his people possess and the grand traditions of rule which they cherish. It looks, however, just now, a8 if he is scarcely adequate to the occasion. Instead of taking lessons in wisdom from Solomon, afd imitating the magnanimity and fine sentiment of David, the Premier descends to the Pavliamentary shifts of a great ‘‘Popish plot” and the frequent use of personal invective, so that it appears as if he guides himself more closely by the very equivgcal morality of Jacob in his attempt to retain the “blessing.” It is to be hoped that Queen Victoria will not be made the Rebecca to dis- guise him. Tne Crry Tax Levy.—The tax levy, which appropriates twenty-four millions of dollars for the expenses of the city government, has been passed in the Assembly—a considerable ad- vance upon the sum required last year. A few of the items provided for out of the multi- tude included in the bill may be interesting:— Advertising for the Common Council and city gov- ernment, $50,000; aqueduct repairs and improve- ments, $80,000; alterations of aqueduct, $19,000; charges on arrears of assessments, $7,500; charges on arrears of taxes, $7,500; cleaning strects under contract the suin of $493,500, and the sum of $6,196 for contingent expenses of the commission and $10,000 for annual compensation of the Commission- ers; Cleaning markets, $35,000, A provision is also made for raising the sala- ries of the Mayor, Aldermen, Recorder, Comp- troller, President of the Board of Health and City Chamberlain. A hundred thousand dol- lars is set apart for the twelve public dispensa- ries of the city. This, in the aggregate, is a pretty heavy levy upon the taxable property of the city; but notwithstanding the outcry of the radical journals it is a fact that nearly two mil- lions of the increase since last year is to be charged to the State tax, and is attributable to uvaied at Albany. THE STATE CAPITAL. | The Last Hours of the Legislature—The Cp- nal Question and the Submission of the Re- vised Constitution—Railroad Agencies at Castie Garden=No Change in the Excise Law. ALBANY, May 1, 1868, ‘The canal quarrel led toa very warm {interchange of compliments in the Senate this morning. Senator Stanford, who was elected on the platform of oppo- sition to the present system of canal contracts, bit- terly denounced those who had defeated his bill to abolish the Canal Contracting Board, and charged that their hostility was due to the corrupt influences of the lobby. It will be remembered that the republicans, under the oper- ation of a caucus resolution, voted as a body against the bill, Had the afvir transpired in the City Hall there would very probably have been some inkstands set in motion. The bill for the submission of the revised constitu- tion was under consideration in the Senate to-day, — opponents fillibustered and staved off action on it, The bill relative to emigrants “arriving at and departing from the city of New York’ was passed to-day in the Senate, with an amendment providing that nothing contained in the bill shall prevent any railroad company from seiling tickets to any persons at the rate of fare charged for first class passen- gers, nor from selling tickets at the principal ticket oitices of said company to emi ts and other sec- ond class passengers, provided that the said com. pany has at the same time an agent who shall sell ickets at the place designated by sald companies for selling tickets to emigranta, The Commissioners of Emigration shall permit every railroad company of this desiring such privilege to have an agent at each and every place so dt ated by them to sell to emigrants and other second, class ley but if any such agent shall be found by the said Commissioners to have been guilty, at any time while heap ag an agent, of defrauding emigrants, or of any other wrongful or a = Cog such agent, ye ie heaton 3 é railroad company to int anot take hus place. It goes tack ‘to the House for con- currence in the amendments, A last attempt was made tm the Senate tasnight to get the Excise bill out of the hands of the com- mittee. A resolution to that effect by Senator Creamer was tabled by a strict party vote of 14 to 14, NEW YORK LEGISLATURE. SENATE. ALBANY, May 1, 1868, BILLS PASSED. Confirming the title of the Excelsior Insurance Company to certain real estate in Brooklyn. Incorporating the National Burglar Insurance Com- pany of New York, Relative to emigrants and other passengers ar- riving at the port of New York. It authorizes rail. road and steamboat compantes to appoint agents to solicit second class passengers at the landing places of the Commisstoners of Emigration. Amending the act for the improvement of the Brookiyn Heights, ‘The Saratoga Springs water act. Authorizing town subscriptions to the Lake On- Reapproy ing $5,000 for the New York Law Library. GEMENT OF THF € F MANA Mr. St ) vorse v bil an vote of 11 io 1 Mr. SiaNvord gold be could not understand thls Manavernen e, Lost by a motion oa t Ito ay t trac'ors who were in the li room of the Senate when the bill was under consideration Mr. FoLorn y denied that he was thus influenced, and whether the Senator bad ang itr rampant tenia be- . STANPORD know nor' lleve that the Senator was moved by any such 0 . O)DONNELL sald in view harge made by the Senator from the Fl iM dtserict he would feel compelled to ask for @ committee of investiga- tion, Mr, STANFORD said he made no charge. He onl expreiod an opiuion, basing that opinton on what Mr. PARKER said that possip! know the effect of his own cit Aah a ing Rr mens Be did mate chon —— t amputations, ‘and he should move to lay until au inv stigation ean be had, 08 he, teble Ir, STANFORD—I made Oo charges. I simy I couid not account for the concerted action “ot the Senate to defeat this bill except by the presence of a lobby of contractors. [did not say that lobby had any influence on the vote. I only sald it was and that I could not account to myrelf for except by that fact. Mr. PARKES insisted that the charge was made and ought to be investigated. He, therefore, moved to lay the report ou the table, which was carried, Mr. PARKER then asked unanimous consent te move for @ committee of investigation, Mr. Norton objected, BILLS ORDERED TO A THIRD RBADING. Incorporating the People’s Mutual Security Gom- pany. incorporating the Rhinebeck Ice and Passenger Bridge Company, Relative to we storage of combustible materials in New York. It removes certain restrictions, The ite Bushwick and Kings County Road bit ¢ Bushwick and Kings County To divide the Eighth and Tenth wards in Brooklya and create a new Ex Lorrimer street, Brooklyn. ‘To divide the Ninth ward, Brooklyn and create @ new ward. Amending the charter of Brooklyn—adversely, agreed for the improvement of Third. streot, Brookiya— epee agreed to, Amending the charter of New York. It abolishes the Board of Councilmen, and provides that the Board of Aldermen shall hereafter be composed of one alderman and one assistant alderman from each Assembly Vistrict; it also extends the term of oifice of the aldermen, Authorizing town subscriptions to the Buffalo an@ Washington Kailroad, For the consolidation of the Greenpoint Rallroad with the Nassau Street Railroad, Brooklyn. Incorporating the Cosmos Life Policy Trust Com- pany, New York; also a minority report. ‘the Buffalo Common Council Printing bill, Incorporating tue New York Dramatic Associa on, For an additional justice of peace, Brooklyn. A betta.) the charter of the Mutual Savings Bank, rook Yn. Amcniing the charter of the National Savings Bank at Buifalo. Amending the charter of the South Brooklyn Sav- ings Bank. Incorporating the Teutonia Savings Bank at New York. Incorporating the Industrial Savings Bank at New- ure. = Insorporating the St. Francis Monastery at Brook- yD. THE PROPOSED NEW CONSTITUTION, Mr. Foucer stated that the Judiciary Committee or a majority thercof were unable to agree upon @ re- port on tle bill for the submission of the new consii- tution to the people, and he therefore moved to refer the bill to tue Committee of the Woe, By dilatory motions to postpone, to refer to a selec’ committee, &c,, the time was consumed until twe cd, When the Senate took a recess until Afternoon Session. Mr. Fou.cen reported for the consideration of the Senate a bill providing for submitting the new con- stitution to the people, He staied that the committee could noi agree, and ie therefore imeved to refer the bill to the Committee of the Whole, Mr. CREAMER objected. BILLS ADVANCLD TO A THIRD READING. Incorporating the Bowing Green Savings Bank, New York, ‘Yo provide payment for claims of the Seventh regt- ment against tie state. For the extension of Bushwick avenue, Against opening Lafayette square, Brooklyn. Agreel to. Incorporting the East Side Association of New ork. Against amending the Utica policelaw. Agreed 0. Against authorizing the contract for filling vacant lots in Manhattan avenue, New York, Agreed to. THE METROPOLITAN EXCISE LAW QUESTION, Mr. CREAMER moved that the Committee on In- ternal Affairs of ‘Tow. and Counties be discharged trom further cunsideration of tae bill grading liquor licenses in the Metropolitan district from $3u to $250, and the same be advanced to the Comuittee of the Whole. A motion to lay this motion on the table prevatled— 14 to 14—the President voting in the aftrmative, THE CHARGES OF BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION, Mr. HALE, of the aclect committee appointed to Ine vestigate and report whether any corrupt means were used to influence legislation in connection with the Erie Kailway biil, reported that the committee had been unable to complete the investigation, and that certain parties whom it is supposed would aie important witnesses could not thus far be fore the committee, they either being out of State or secreted. The commutiee ask authority to continue the investigation during the recess ol the Legislature. ir. GeNeT inquired whether the committee had be- come possessed of any information leading to the belief that any Senator had taken money for his action here? Mr. HALE said the resolution creating the commit tee of investigation contemplated the teuder of money as well as the taking of money. There is proof—he would not Say how satisfectory—of attempted use of money with tie design of tufivencing legisiation, He would say, further, tiat one witness testified to the ase of very large sums of money, ior “ egitimate pur- poses,” the witness claimed; but the witoess was unab’e at the time to give details without referring to n data, Which, he said were at lis house, aud mumittee Das been unabie to procure tie at ce of tat witness since that time. The motion anthorizing the continuation of the investigation was then adopt ERIFF3! r or's veto of: ‘© Was sustained by the foie 9 ayes; against the Dil 11 nays—not ‘wo-thirds, Mr. McrpPsry moved a reconsideration of the vote and to lay that motion on the table, Carried—22 against 4. . Motions to take from the table the veto of the Whiten a burg Kafiroad bill and the veto Ratiroad bul were then voted Mr. MonGaN moved to hold an executive session a6 four o'clock to-morrow afternoon, Lost. The Tax Commissioners’ bill and Croton Aqueduct Commissioners’ bill were made the special order for a qnarter past four o'clock to-morrow afternooa, Adjourned io Saturday morning. ASSEMBLY. ALBany, May 1, 1868. The Speaker announced the Supply bil: from the Senate, with numerous amendments. The House refused to concur in them, and Messrs. J. L. Flagg, Furman, Jacobs, Bentley and Selkreg were ap- pointed a Comittee of Conference. Mr, J. L. PiaaG reported back the State Charity bill with amendments, and on his motion it was laid aside until it could be properly engrossed, BILLS PASSED. Pe be provide means to pay tie inverest on the canal jebt. To incorporate the Interior Lake, River and Rall- road Company. To compel the Grand Street and Newtown Railroad Company to convey passengers witiout change of cars, ‘To prevent burials near the reservoirs and ponds used for the supply of the city of Brooklyn wit water, ‘To incorporate the East River Savings Bank of New York. ork, To improve and extend Atlantic avenue in the town of New Loits. To amend the act relative to the proof of wills. To incorporate the United States Contracting Com- any. = To incorporate the West Side Savings Bank of New York. ork. ‘To incorporate the Freewill Baptist Conference of North America. Relative to the effect of judgments in foreiga countries. To amend acts relative to the Cherry Valley and Mohawk Railroad. The session was mainly occupied in concurring in amendments of bilis passed by the senate. To amend the charter of the Poughkeepsie Female Guardian Society. To incorporate the New York Burglars’ Insurance Company. To provide for grading streets in Newburg. To sacilitate the construction of @ ratiroad in Als county. leghi erative to jaying out roads in Morris: In relation to appeals from decision: ia. f canal ap. ators of the town of Westchester sidewalks, + For the protection of the planting of oysters im Gravésend bay. By unanimous consent, WM. S. ANDREWS offered a resolution for the putting up in the Assembly chamber, ready for use, the invention of James Beardsley and others for the tnstanta: the yeas and nays in legisiative ty to be suormite ced to the next Legislature for approval. Adopted ‘The Assewbly then adjourned, to raise money to lay takiag of An Ohio paper tells a of Colonel Washburn, remarkable wound evidan's battles in ) shol through the tom of one of his eves, nicer the back of distoried and he al t pain. : Foe at tO last he never expe rienced the slighes