The New York Herald Newspaper, February 16, 1870, Page 3

WASHINGTON Senatorial Debate on the Mis- sissippi Bill. MORE NEGRO LEGISLATION. Pheseribing the Franchise of Mary- land and Kentucky, Proposed Amendments to the Franking Privilege Bill. Pavorable Prospects for Recognit Cuban Belligerency. WASHINGTON, Feb. 15, 1870. Belligerent Rights for the Cubans. Tho Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs white isevsmng tne resolution recently referred to tt, giving belligerent righis to the Cubans, were inter- rupted by the hasty withdrawal of Senators Morton ud Williams, who heard a report that the National Hotel was on fire. Consequeutly no conclusion was Feachead on the matter. The previous discussion, however, leads to the velief that the committee are favorabie to the recognition of Cuban heliigerents, Mere Sambo Legislation—E:tort to Ferce Negro Suilrage Upon Delaware and Ken- tucky. .,gudge Bingham, tn the House to-day, tried to in- troduce a bill to enforce the right of citizens of the United Staves to vote in tue ceveral States la we Union who have hitherto been dented that mght on account of race, color, or previous condition of ser- vitude. Tho first section provides that all colored oitizens of the United States resident in the several States shall be entitied to vote at all elections in the State oi their residence, supject only to the same Conditions which may cow are or may hereaiterbe ra- auired to quality white citizens to vote therein, The second section enacts that where the constitution or Jaw of any State requires the payment of a tax asa qualification of an elector, any assessor acting under the Jaws of such stare who shail refuse or ne- giect t0 sssess the person or property of any eolored citizen of the United States shall for every such offence pay the sum of $500 to any person who ‘Will sue for the same, and in addition be fined not Jess than $500, and be tmprisoned one month. The ‘third secuon provides for a similar penalty, to be entorced upon the members of any levy court re- Qutred by the laws of any Staite to make or correct ‘Buy Assessment Of persons or property who neglect orrefuse to treat the colored citizens quaiificd to ‘Voto in the same manner as the whites. The fourth aud firth ssctions are of similar tmport, except that they apply to clerks and collectors of taxes who over- look or refuse to recognize Sambo @ full feaged citizen of the United States and of tne State wherein he 1s @ resident, ‘The sixth section inflicts a like penalty upon the presiding oficer or Judge of elections who refuses to receive tue vote of colored citizens, The seventh section gives the Cir- cult Courts of the United States jurisdiction in all causes @rising under the act. The biil is tended more particularly to enforce the provisions of the Miteentn ‘article of amendwent to tie coustitution, especially in such States as Delaware, Maryland aua Kentucky. It 1s believed py the repubiicans that even when the fifteenth amendment shail have been proclaimed as part of the constitution, democratic Stronghoids like tho States above named will refuse to recognize it without some such penal enactment 43.18 proposed by Judge Bingham. The Gold Puuic Luvestigutionm—A Huge Sen- ‘ ention Spoiled. Ths Committee on Banking and Currency ts ex- Pected to report next Monday. It was supposed all the testimony was in last week, but a fresh devel- opment, or oue that was supposed to pe such, came up yesterday, which, if it had not exploded harm: lessly, Would have opened up a new field of investi- gation. It came in this way:—A bookkeeper in a book store store in Washington wrote to one of the democratic members of the commit- ion of tee, stating that in recetpting an express book for @ money package before the goid panic, he had noticed an entry on the same page of a money package for $25,000 for Mrs. U. 8. Grant. He was summoned and appeared yesterday before the committee, when he perstated in the’same story, but was unabdle to ix the ume within one or two months, He was subjected to a strict cross-examunation. His story did not receive mach credence, To-day, in order to contradict this story, Mr. Shoemaker, the Baltimore Messenger of Adams Express, appeared before the com- mittee with the money package books of the Washington office, in whitch he could not find, up to the 24th of October, any such entry; Dut as the searcu was being abandoned he hap- Dened to look at the entries under tie date of 25th October, and there he did nd an entry of a pack- age for Mrs. Grant, and onthe same page an entry of a package for tne booksellers’ frm. ‘Lhe first was set down ou the ooluma as valued at $250; but two ciphers having been added for cents, 1t looked, at first glance, like $25,000, This explained the whole matter.. The suspicion againat the volunteer wit- ness was removed, and the whole matter resolved itseif mto a simple smal package tor Mrs. Grant, valued at $250; Proposed Removal of the Brooklya Navy Yard. ‘The subject of the removal of the Brooklyn Navy Yard was to-day again belore the House Committee on Naval Affairs. The objections to its continuance ai the present locality and the reasons why it should be removed to a site on the Thames river, Connecti- cut, already in possession or the government, were stated by Representative Starkweather, of the com- mittee. It was stated at least $15,000,000 would be Baved to the Treasury by the change above the cost of a frat class establisnment, more awple for the needs of the rervice on the Thames, The views of Rear Admiral Godon, commandant of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, were also laid before the committee, showlog, according to bis view, the 1m- polley of longer maintaining the yard at a site Which had ccasea to be adapted to the purpose, and recommendiug its abandonment. Effects of Representative Dawes’ Speech in New Hampshire—Iuvitation to Canvass the State. The following correspondence has just taken place:— Coxcorp, N. 4., Feb, 16, 1870, Hon. Henny L, Dawes—Lhe republicans of New Hampshire unanimously favor rigid economy and gu stain the adtministration of President Grant. Your Jave speeches have been construed by copperheads aud pretended labor reforms into attacks upon the administration and republican party, and tuey say you will reiuse to speak for the repuvlican cause in New Hampsbire, Being assured of your devotion to republican party and national administration’ as we ve of your inteution to reduce the appropriation end enforce economy, in behalf of the Repubitcan State Committee I have to earnestly request you to visit and Canvass New Hampshire beiore the March election. E. A. ROLLINS, Chairman Republican state Committee. WASHINGTON, Feb. 15, 1870. Hop. F. HW. Rowuins, Chairman Republican State Committee:— Ihave received your despatch and also a like re- quest from the New Hampshire Congressional deic- gation. If it was possible for me to leave Washing- tou I would immediately canvass New Hampshire jor the republican oausé and candidates. will make arrangements to speak in the State be,ore clection, Economy aud reform can be secured only by keeping in power the wepublican party. The President and Congress Will unite in diminishing expenditure ana taxes while maintaining the pavlic faith and reducing the national debt, and the labor reform movement, which strives to defeat the republican party, wil only injure the interests of the laboring ciasses and tend to placo th power their worst enemies. 1 hope yon will elect Governor Stearas by the peopie and wecure your usuul radical republican majority iu we cure. H. L. DAWES. Changes of Supervisors. Changes have just deen made of tne Jurisdiction of several supervisors of tnternal revenue, namely:— McDonald has been asaigned to Missouri, Arkansas, gud the Indian Territory: Marr to Kanaas. Dakota. tans, and Bridgeland 16’ Texas ery alg Genatorinl Amondments to the Franking Privi- loge Bill, Senator Morrill, of Vermont, this mornifix opened the digcugsion of the biil to abolish the frankins privilege by reading @ plece calculated to show thot the passage of the bill in its present shape would ve madvisable, ‘There are several ieatures of the pre- seut free postage law which, he thought, should be retained; for iustanoe, thediplomatic mats of for- eign governments aud the courtesy of the franking Privilege to ex: Presidcate of the Untted States, par- ticularly, The bili will be discussed by tie Senate Qs the unfluisbed business of the morning hour, A number of amcadments will be presented. It 1s Provabie the subject Wil be again referred to we committee to report @ mature bill, It is certain the House of Representatives will acopt any aniend- ments the Benate may propose. ‘The passage of the biil tn the firat place by the House of Repres¢ata- tives was mere buncomb. Butler’a Dienbilizy Bin. The Reconstruction Commitvee has agreed to But- Jer’a general Disabittty bili without amendment. An effort was made by the democratic members of the committee to strike out the section which pro- vides that any person formeriy ® meniber or the United States Congress or belonging to the army or navy, Who went into the rebellion, shall be excluded from the beuefits of the act, Mr. Beek, of Kentucky, made a strong appeal on benalt of this class of per- sons, but Butler aud the radical majority were in- exorable. Ben does not believe that there ty any forgiveness for these men, New Department of Government Proposed-- Commissioner Delano Aspiring to a Seat in the Cabinet. The greater part of the aession of the Ways and Means Commitice to-day was consumed in discns- sing & proposition to cievate the Internal Revenue Bureau to @ separate department of the govern- tent, with a Canmet officer at its head. ‘Tne Presl- denv’s meszage, it will be remembered, contained a recommendation to that effect. This is understood to have been suggested by Mr. Delano, the present Commissioner, who, it {8 reported, aspires Ww a seat in the Cabinet. ‘The committee, after an animated debate, agreed by a vove of five to four to report in favor of the measure. Opposition to the Proposed Changes of the Pilot Laws. Mr. H. Harbinson, @ delegate from the Pilots’ As- sociation of New York, arrived here w-day to protest against @ proposed provision in the new Dill of Mr. Lynch, of the committee to investigate the causes Of the decline in American commerce. The proy.sion objected to by the pilots of the whole country 18 one proposing an entire change ia the pilot system, taking iis regulation from States and Placing it exclusively under the jurisdiction of Con- gress. Some of the shipowners have complained that the present system 13 injurious to their busi- ness; that tue pilot charges are too high and the compuisory provisions tyrannical—that is, that part of existing laws which compels masters of vesseis to accept the first pilot that offers bis services when they arrive near thelr port of destination. The pllots declare that the present law is the best that could be devised, and that to change {t will be to encourage incompetent puots, and thus ruin the business of a large and use- ful class, who have made the calling the study of their tives. They contend that the compulsory part of the existing law 1s mutaal, obliging pilois to go with any vessel that halls them, just as weil as ves- sels are required to accept the services of the first pilot that offers, Mr. Uarbinson had an interview with Congressman Lynch, explained the wishes of the New York pilots and left for New York to-night. The Gxeene-Van Wyck Contested Election Care. The contested election case of Van Wyck ayainst Greene, fromthe leventh district of New York, was Brought up in the House to day and discussed by Butler, of Tennessee, for Van Wyck, and Burr, of Ullnois, tor Greene, until the hour of adjourament. Of course Van Wyck, being a republican, will get the seat whenever a vote Ia reacied, Thus far, dur- ig the present Congress, every democrat whose seat has been contested has been ousted, no matter what majority he may Lave received from the peo- pie. Judging from the action of tie Committee on Elections, which ig always sustained by the House, ouc would suppose tuat It ts impossible for a repub- lican candidate for Congress to be elected by traud, While the democrats can be elected in no other way. Tue indications are that every democrat im the pre- sent liouse whose seat is coutested will be cleancd out, The 1cubations of the Comiaittee on Elections and the dry, uninteresting discussions ta the House over these cases are the merest farce. Lavish Appropriation for Railroad Furposes. The Legis'ature of Florida has granted, it 1s gaid, over $3,000,000 of gold bearing State bonds to the railroad company referred to tn our despatch a few days since—which i3 equivalent to nearly $10,000,000 of currency. ‘‘otal taxable property of the State, a3 shown by the last assessment, is $25,000,000, The State debt now, by this issue, being over $11,000,000, with @ population of $140,000. This seems to be about the biggest thing on record of the kind. A Nico Little Lobby Job. Last Friday Senator Nye, of Nevada, introduced a bill to relinquish the Interest of the United States in & military reservation in San Francisco, ‘This means Yerba Buena Isiand, tn the harbor of San Francisco, and one of the most iinportant military positions on the whole Pacific coast. The Ceatral Pacific Rall- road Company, baving gobbled up all the land they could along the route over the Plains, have for some time been casting @ longing eye on this valuabie island a3 & very desirable terminus of their road. But instead of. offering to purchase it of the govern- ment at a fair valuation, the agents of this great monopoly have sought to get possession of it by Practices honest men would scarcely condescend to. Having been defeated in their attempts to get pos- session of it through ths War Departinent they have packed a strong lobby and hope to bag their game througn the influence they caa bring to bear on such Congressmen as are ready to have an impression made on them when you show the colcr of your money. To show the value of this property which the Central Pacific Ratiroad Company coolly asks the government to make it a present of I will quote from a report made by the United States engineers January 8, 1868, and dated at San Francisco:—"Tiis island,’’ says the report, “1s regarded in this city ag @ very valuable piece of property. If the public mind could be disabused of the idea that It may be obtained for a railroad and commerciai purposes by an act of Congress, and if the government were dis- posed to sell the island and were to put it up at pub- lic auction, to be sold to the highest bidder, it would probably bring £5,000,009.’" Itis reportea that a capitalist in fan Francisco stands ready to pay down $2,000,000 tn gold for the isiana whenever the government is ready to sell. Acquisition of Sites for National Defence. The Secretary of War has submitted to the Senate @ bill designed tp facilitate the acquisition of sites for national works of defence and to protect the public Treasury against the combinations sometimes formed by the owners of real estate whici may be required for public use, for the purpose of extort- ing from the United Staves an exorbitant price. Inasmuch as the erection of additional batteries for the defence of important pointe on the coast of the United States 1s a pressing neceseity, early and favorable consideration of the subject is recom: mended. An Immense Senatorial Bore. The venerable wind instrument of the Senate, ashe 1s called—Garret Davis—gave Senators an opportu- nity to attend to their private business to-day, while he was reading from an immense mass of manu. Script contained in a ponderous portfolio. The me cnanical labor of the effosion of so much ink must have been immense, Alter the Senator had been reading for about three hours the Senate adjourned. There are great fears the diminutive Senator will break out again to-morrow. Fourful Kavages of the Smalipox Among tho Montana Indians. General Sully has written to Commissioner Parker with reference to the ravages of the smalpox among the Gros Venties Indians at Fort Browning Reserva- tion, Montana ‘Territory. Since last September, when the disease broke out, 741 deaths have oc- curred, Jeaving ouly about 1,209 of this nation ailve. Everything that could be done to alleviate their suffermgs was done. Upon telegraph.c instructions § fram = Commiastoner i Parker modicat. supplies were sent to them and an experienced physician employed, through whose exertions a stop was put to the ravages of the Ue ease. General Suily says what makes the calamity atill more tobe deplored 1s that of ail the Indians in Montana these are the most friendly to the whites and among the indiana most G1eposed to clyilization. At oue time we deasng at the agency were BO rapid that tne few mén sheré eould not dig graves Inst cuough, aud they had 10 fill _up tne ice house dear the fort with (he dead and then cover them ap. Incendiary Attuaipt ‘to Destroy tue’ Natio! Hotel. ‘The fire which occurred at the National Hotel in this city -day te supposed to bo the work of an t- cendiary,. Tne house has recently paased into the hands of new proprietors, who were making exten- aivejaieorations for tts waprove:nens, and 1b 13 Bu poued that fire was applied to some of the infamma- bie matter colteeted in oneor the rooms uacer repair. Judeed, traces of the incendiary nave been digcov- ered, and the police are on nis track. Clasaification ef Imported Sugars. ‘The Commitee on Ways aud Meaus heard to-day a body of sugar reGners from New York, who stated that they represented, besides their own interest, those of the importers, They want a more numer- Qus classification of sugars*than that in the bill @iready reported, but the probability 1s they will not obtain ft. ‘The bili may be so amended as to leave im Custom fiouso samples of imported sugara tor’ bubdsequent examination. Contested Election Casca, The Election Committce, in view of tne action of the House yesterday, which t# considered adverse to the adoption of the mew plan of drawing o jury from the House by lots, wil proceed at on¢e with contested cases, It ig apprehended thac Mr. Paine will asic to v@ relieved srom the chairmanship of the commuitee, Execative Nomina ‘Tre following Dominations were sent in to.day:— Max Weber to be Assessor of Internal Revenue for the Sixin aistrics of New York; Wickham 38. Alavens, Collector of Cusioms at Bag Harbor, N, Y.; Silas M. Muitesou, Collector of Customs at Dunkirk .Y.; Larnubas path, Agsessor of Invern: Revenue for the Second district of Missouri; Charies H. Liemstead, Uniied States Attorney of Utah; John 8. Kouit, Marshal ior the Southern district of Lil- nois; Hayues KE. Hudson, Attorney for the Western districlof Leunessee, Postikasiers.—Charies H. Prince, Angusta, Ga.; Jesse Schriver, ‘Tilin, Obie; Jobu A. Marun, Atclit fou, Kansas, Personal. Jesse R. Grant, of Covington, Ky., father of the President and newly appointed Postmaster at his home, hag arrived in this city and ls a guest at (he Executive Mansion. Among the prominent arrivals in this city are Governor Ward, of New Jersey; Laay Ousley, of England; Captain John Grabam and Ma- jor Montgomery, of New York; James Gayier and Colvnel F. E. Mclivaine are also in the city. Mr. Paul Gerard, wife of the brother-lu-law of the late Portuguese Minister, was baptized a Catholic yesterday by Rey. Mr. Mackin, assistant pastor of St. Matthew's church. Mons. Gerard goes to New York himself in the course of a few days. Feruando Wood is becoming quite plous. He goes tochurch every Sunday, and recently seems to have turned bis attention to Catholicilam. Fernando Wood and Senators Casserly and Johnson, besides nearly the entire Giplomatic corps, attend St Matthew’s Roman Catholic church, corner of Fu- teeuth and H sircets, EORTY-FIRSI CONGRESS. Second Session. SENATE. WASHINGTON, Feb, 15, 1670, NATIONAL COAST DEFENCES. The Vics Presipent laid before tue Senate a com- munication from the Seoretary of War, with an ac- companying bill, relative tothe acquisition of sites for national coast defences. Referred to the Com- mittee on Military Alfairs, DONATION OF CAPTURED ORDNANCE. Mr, THAYER, (rep.) of Neb., from the Military Com- mittee, reported tue House jolat resolution author- ling the Secretary of War to place at the disposal of Bridge's Battery Association at Chicago certain capiured ordnauce, Passed. THM INON-CLADS IN THE NAVY. Mr. Monon, (rep.) of Ind., offerea a resolution, which was agreed to, caliing upon the President for iniormation as to the number and character of the irou-ciads belonging to the navy of the Unitet States, what they cost, by whom designed, by what officers ther cousiruction has been recommended aud what ts their present condition. COMMITTEES Of CONVERENCE, Committees of conierence on the part of the Senate were appointed on the disagreements between the two houses on the Naval Deficiency and Military Academy Dis, a8 follows:—On the iormer, Messrs. Morrill of Maine, Cragin and Casserly; on tie latter, Messrs. Wilson, Schurz and Stockton. THE FRANKING PRIVILEGE, On motion of Mr. Ramsxy, (rep.) of Minn,, the bill to aboiisn the tranking privilege was taken up, the question being on the amendment of Mr. Drake to allow the free transinisaion of newspaper exqiangos through ule malia, a3 at present. Mr. MOKRILL, (rep.) of Vt., delivercd an argument upon the necessity of various modifications of the bL1 in the event oi its passage, so that the opera- tons of the Agricultaral Department in the circula- tion of valuad.e infurimation might not be impeded aud the department thus virtually destroyed. Pro- vision Was aiso necessary relating to the free trans- mission of the correspoidence of the foreign goveri- ments and other matters, He regarded the frank- lng privilege a3 @ privilege not to members of Uon- eon but to te people to communicate freely with heir representatives. It Wus one of the sources of politica light and knowledge, and could not safely 2 apridged. Tue people were catitied to know wat their represenvatives did here, and to know it at little cost, He suggested that the bill shoyld pe recowuitted, with a view to being perfected bY those oF its Irieuds who might be willing to lick it into shape, ‘Tie bill waa then laid aside, and tho unfinished busiess—the Mississippi bill—was takea up, THE MISSISSIPPI BILL, Mr. BAYARD, (dei.) oi Del., in reply to the Sena- tor from indiana (dr. Morton), denied the assump- Uon that the constitutional definition of a repubii- can forin of government progressed or changed with the times, claiming that the constitution was now, as heretofore, the supreme law of che States, He held that conditions could not be imposed upon a State, sucb a3 prohibiiioné of any change in the Stace constitution, wi:hout attacking the underlying principies of a republican government, that the ma- jority shail ruic or that the majority of the people of a State shall reguiate their own tustitutions, He cited at length from various authorities upon con- Stutlonal law Co show that the dangers of legisia- tive usurpation had beeu foreseen by the founders of tue government, and that the Lr ya sepa there expressed were now being realized in the con- sequences of the revolutionary and violent recon- struction system of Conyress, Mr. Morton said vue construction put by the Sen- ator from Delaware (Wir. Bayard) upon the consuta- toual clause guaranteeing to every State a repubit- can form of goverpinent would entirely destroy the provision. hile denying to Congress tne power to preserve its work, that Senator algo denied the Con wressional power to recoustract; but if the clause referred to did not vest thig power in Congress had no meaning whatever, Mr. Davis, (dem.) of Ky., delivered @ lengthy ar- gument upon the relative powers of the federal and State governments, and proceeded to give nis inter- pretation of a traly repubiican form of government, ead out the Infyingement thereof by the re cUOn policy of Congress. At lull-past five o’ciock the Senate adjourned. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. WASHINGTON, Feb. 15, 1870, PUBLIC LAND OFFICES. Mr, JOLIAN, (rep.) of In d., from the Committee on Pubitc Lands, offered a resolution to close the land office In uny Stave where the unsold public lands do not exceed 10,000 acres, which was passed. IMPRISONMENT OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN GREAT BRITAIN. A question arose as to the order of business. Mr. Dawes wanted to go int» committee on the Legislative Appropriation bill. Mr. Butler, of Ten. nesaee, Wanted to up the Greene-Van Wyck con- tested election case, sud Mr, Swann ired to dis. pose Of tho resolution reported from the Committee on Foreign Affairs in reference to the imprisonment of Americans in Groat Britain tor political offences, ‘The discussion occupied haif an hour, but finally the latver subject got the preference on condition that it should be disposed of in tue morning hour. Mr. Cox, (dem.) of N. Y., asked and obtained leave to have printed 1p the Glove tatement which he had received of tne giievances and sutferings of those poiitical prisoners, Mr. SWANN, (detm.) of Md., member of the Com- mittee on Foreign Aifairs, addressed the House in support of the resolution and to reply to tne remarks of Mr. Willard when the subject was first up, avout two weeks since, Mr. BANKS, (rep.) of Maas, stated that Mr. Orth, who had reported the resolution, was unavoidably absent from the House to-day and would seck an- eet Dna of expressing bis views on the Mr. CAVANAUGH, (dem.) of Montana, having five minutes before the dluse of the moraing huur, used that time in replying to the remarks ot Mr. Willard in eulogy of the Irish revo!utioniste. About a dozen meinvers asked aud obtaiued per- iniseion Lo have speeches op the ¢ an| Priamos pect same subject printed ‘The resolution whien calls on the President for In- formation was thea adupted. FH2 ORREX-VAN WYGK CONTESTED BLECTION CASE. House then, at a quarter Ww twoo-clock, took uD the contested eiection case from the Eieventn Con- gressiona! diainct of New York, the resolutions re- Ported by the comm bee belug tat George W, Greene, tue wMtiing member, 18 not entit-ed to the seat, an that Charles H, Van Wyck, the contestant, 13, The subject was dixcussed antil ball-pase four or aang Gnd went over until to-morrow without action, HILLS INTRODUCKD. By Mr. Cuuncuitn, (rep.) of N. ¥,—To regulate fees of a:torneys, &o., ia United States Courla, By Mr. Mons, (rep.) of Pa—Auchorizing the DAY Vent of buuuiies LO persons Who were rejected as voiunteria and immeuialely aiterwards dralied and held to nervice, The © Wien adjourned. LABOR REFORM. The Labor Movement in New Hampshire Meeting in Concord—speceb of the Reform Candidate fer Governor. ConcorD, Feb. 15, 1670, The labor reform party held the first campain meehng tonight at Eagle Hal, The hal was densely filled, the galeries peing flied by jadies. ‘The Concord brigade band was in atteadance. The mechny Waa culicd to order by Join B. Watson, of Concord, who introduced Samuel Flint, the candi- date for Governor, who addressed the meeting, The following ¥8 80 abstract of his sovec! . When he accepted the nommavion he expected the air to be tuil of lies He om foto denied bis connectiva with tie Massachusetts Lanor Reform Leugue, a¥ has been charged on hun, aud induiged in some gi¥ictures on tie editurials of the Manches- ter Mirror. 1 pogin with the declaration in our Piatiorm thatiabor ia toe sole creator of weaith end mouey produces notuins, Here varions tliua- trations were given aud te aiuded to Lhe position of Rorace Greeiey that capical is productiv ot deny that capital in some of iis formsis pro- guetive. The farmer has it in his iarm, docks and nerds, and they may be productive cuplial. We say mouey produces noting, and take our position and intend te fight 16 out on this line, It may be asked if thig be wrue how do the rich live in juxury and increase im wealth without labor tnemseives? ‘This im the great question Chat underiles tils whole movement. We intend to show tne worxing mea and women that they are rebved by law. Ly seems clear that HO man tives Without Work Unicss be lives 0a the jabor Of others. Kvery Wan mtst have tae necessilles of 1ue, ‘inese are ail produced by labor. Money never raised food or sawed a stick Of timber. It does not increase, like animals or crops; it 1s ulterly barren, It does someumes increase in value for the benefit of bondholders to the great disadvantage or utter rum of the laboring classes, how does a man jive on bis money? He don’t live on it; te lives on your labor ud mine, Where aman lives enurely oa the in- come irom money invested in bonds and stocks he hives on the labor of others, as much if be were a pauper in the almshouse, So the working men aud women in tis and all other countries aro supporting-the eatremes iu socity. We give to one the bare necessaries of life; to tue other we furnisn @il toe luxuries on earth. It 15 true the rich pay us. for their Inxuries While the paupers pay us nothing; but where do they get the money? They do not dig it from the eartn or forge it in shops, uniess, indeed, they bappen to be forgers. It aii comes from your Jabor and goes to the slavehoider by force, the lead- ers of fashion by custom and the boudbolders by jaw. Here he spoke of the national bonds, tue mau- ner in which they were issued, Low little real mouey ‘was reaily paid for them. fe said:—Tne legal tender notea of the government are deciared to be legal tender for all debts with bus two exceptions, netiher two of which applies to the princival of a bone. 1b ioliows, then, that the principal Was payable in the currency created by the act of February 25, 1402, bus the bondnoiders ciaim i siall be paid in gold. Here 18 # delloerate attempt to cheat the workingmen in this country of more than one mil- lion dollars in gold. ‘The bond question was treated sull further im ther fluctuations and ilustrated by Various applications to exchange, merchandise and contracts, If tue bouds are payable im gold not more than haif is honesily due. ‘The bonduolders are carrying things on In such & grand scale. such an fumiensity of villany, that it seems almost sub- lime, But the people are findmg out tie cheat spd the bondhoiders are growing cautious. He noticed the change wiitiuh two years in the pubiic journals on the questious of the payment of bonds in gold, but wey fay pay- ment in greenbacks 1s repudiation, Here the speaker gave an amusing lijustration of digging out a fox ole and no 10x at the end. Now let us follow tho bondholders into the repudiation hole, If we borrow money aud offer to pay the same in equal quautity and quaiity, the same awoant in the same currency, is this repudiaion? We oifer to pay tie bonds in this Way, and some Old hound bawls out “kepudia- ton! and every ite cur ta the pack yeips in chorua Let the bondholders beware and not pro- yoke us too far, There is sucha thing as repudia- tion, Tne return to a specie basis was discussed, the speaker claiming we never had it; and here the banking question was coas: ‘ed, saying that If tue banka in old thnes could have only issued bills to the amount of specie in the vauits then there would have been aspecie basis. Take au old State bank; you will Gud. it sowethlog different from the tavernacte that was siown to Moses on the mount, Do you want to return tw such a state of things, especially Wien we consider that tie bottom dropped out of these banks every fen years aud peopic found to their sorrow there wag no specie basis? ‘The deposit of bonas and the ustional bank- ing system was condemned as coutribuung to capital to tne injury of honest industry. Our ptat- form demands they be abolished. Wien money is plenty retea of interest are low; when scarce, hign. it ought to teach our republican traders Uiat we need extension mstead of compression. ‘The old Jederahst once #aid that weshall never have good Uines until a poor man is compelled to do a day's work for a sheep's head and pluck, this is what the landholders want now. More money is asked for the departments at Washington, and our taxes mm most of our towns ure growing hig! ond the means to pay harder, We want no more regions near the North Pole nor public lauds given away to private corporations. Many are the engines cimployed by our political tn quisifions to wring money from our honest working- men and make them sheli oul for the benedt of the extortionists, I ahall say nothing on the polley of the tariif question, only that it operates like a sponge W absorb the prodacts of labor and takes bread from the families of the workingmen. Here the necessity of @ new party was treated on. Our democratic friends tell us their piatform is al: that we can de sire, Our repablicay irieuds ciaim more. They say they have done move for tho laboring classes thaa guy other party that ever existed in the country and Point to the past. We do not epesk of Lie past. Good deeds in early life will not atone for crimes of riper years. ‘The great question of the day a, What are these paruics doing now? They taix well and prouise fair; but by their fraiis we Know them, and Wwe know that both parties are uuder the control of the vondhoiders, as the old parties were under the siaveuolders. They have deposed “King Lasa” and crowned “King Cash.” He is ruling us with a rod ofiron; we can’t gct rid of him by stayiag tn either of the old parties. Workingmen canuot correct abuses in the old parties, because of diszensions and differences on measures or men. A house divided against itself capnot stand. They are willing for us to talk of isbor reform if we only vote thetr ticket; but this ion of working. men of both parties reveais we handwriting on the wall and causes their countenances to change and their Knees to smite together. You cannot cieanse @ fountain by filtering the water below; you Taust go to the head, dig a new channel, open a new fountain of pure water. When scoundrels and fools get the control of a party the only way to reform it is to Kill it, When the tree becomes rotten it is ft only to be thrown down and caat into the fre. ‘This cannot be done as long as you vote the party ticket. You cannot vote for a@ villain without encouraging his dishonesty. 1 con- sider ‘hese guod and auficent reasons. If not the only, it is cortainly the shortest way to reforsh. For tweive years past ( have not voted the State ticket. He had feit alone, but now he felt as if he had a party he could work with. ‘Tne address was received with considerable appiau A letter was read from Alexander Troup, of New York Lavor Reform, stating that a simular party would be formed in New York, SMALLPOX IN WESTCHESTER. Appearance of tho Disease in Morrisania— Efforts fer Its Exclusion from the Public Schoole—The Scourge Iguored by the Heulth Authorities. Despite the persistent efforts made by parents and oMfciais m the town of Morrisania to suppress and withbold any information bear- ing on the extatence of smallpox in their midst, it has at length leaked out that the dread disase has for some days prevalied in por- tions of Melrose and Mott Haven. There can hardly be any doubt that some of the medical faculty in the Places named are cognizant of the presence of the disorder; but up to this time no instance has trans- Pired where any physician has reported a single case to the town authorities, Such is the general Gisposition of tne community to keep the mater quiet that it is impossible to ascertain any precise location of the disease or ita extent, except the bare Ciroamstauce that both old and young have been at- tacked, ‘ Fe he we It ig understood that children in whose families some of the members had been | diet hoe with the Gisorder have been attending without intermission certain of the schools, there: ea ll the health of almost the entire population. In order to check this disregard for common ty on the pare of parents the principal of District School No. J, of Mott Haven, sent # communication to the Board of Education at its last. reguiar meeting, on Monday evening, calling atteation to the fact that the Gisease had manifested itself in the immediate vicin- ity of that school. On motion, it was ordered ‘that the principai of each school be authorized to re- quire satisfactory evidence of the vaccination of any Scholar ag a condition of his or her being admitted Orremaining in said echoel.’’ Strange as it may ap- pear, the heaith authorities of the town have as yet adopted no perceptible meaus to prevent the spread of the dincase, THE STATE CAPITAL. Reeommittal of the Special Sessions Bill. Sharp Debate on the Funds for the Sectarian Schools. CITY MATTERS IN THE ASSEMBLY. The Election Bill Passed to a Third Reading. ALBANY, Feb. 15, 1870, THH COURT OP SPECIAL SESSIONS BILL. There was a good deal of flurry to-aay tn the Aasembly cansed by the motion of Mr. Flagg, of Troy, to recommit the Court of Special Sessions bit! to the Committee on Cities from which It was re- ported on Saturday, Mr. Flagg said that the bil was hurried through the committee without due consideration ; 1m fact, he implied that it was done im indecent haste. Of course the motion met with strong opposition. Peter Mitchell was especiaily indignant that a member from Rensselaer county should interfere with New York affairs. te denied that there was any want of consideration in reporung the bill, and gel bimself pretty ve- hemently im favor of the bill, which, a3 you are aware, makes the jurisdiction on the bench of the Special Sessions Court common to all tne police justices in future, mstead of giving it exclusively to the judges from two districts—Dowllng and Lixby. ‘The bili, which was sent back Lo the commitiec to-day by @ vote of 61 to 43, repeals the existing law giving this speciat jurisdiction to two justices only, A dele- gation from the police bench, consisting of Judges Hogan, Ledwith and Cox, were here last week to urge the passage of the repeal bill, and g returned Satisiied that thelr work was welldone, But there ig maby a slip twixt the cup and the lip, as the re- ‘sult of the vote to recominit proves, THE SENATORS ON THE FLOOR while the vote was being taken on the motion nun bered two—Genet and Norton. ‘They were sent for in haste when tne motion was introduced, and came down at onco from their high peroh in the Senate Chamber. They mingled among the members; they looked pale and agitated; they whispered threats against those who would dare to vote for a reconsideration of the bill, Norton was lward to Bay that no man who voted aye would et achance to vole again at any future session, He made 10 bones about declaring the original oul a fraud, giving, as it does, to two members of tho potice courté anexclasive right, which, he clainied, was wholly undemocraiic and unwarranied. Senator Norton was as warm as the tropic, but nis caloric could not meit the ley hearts of the “ayes,” and so tie bil went back to the committee, to be- come the sulject of further reflection. MECIANICS? LIVES AND LIMBS. Bergen’a biil for tae protection of jife and limb to Mechanics and lavorers, whicw provided that the owners of buildings should be held penally respon- sible for any accident that might befall a workman while engaged on such building, fell througa to-day for want of & sullicient vote. ‘the oppasition to tt Was wudoubiodly based upon the penal ciause, in- volving fine and imprisonment. If its ovber provi- sions the blil was unobjectionadie, Lt was one of the many pleces of legisiation whica emanated frow the Workingmen’s Labor Assembiy lately held here, SECTARIAN SCHOOLS, In the Senate the bill that was last bight tutro- duced and referred to the Judiciary Commiivee, to provide for the setting aside of an amount of m equal to twenty per cent of the excise fund of i863, for the purpose of sustaining sectarian schovls, Was Up i debate upon motion of Scnator Creamer to re- ferit to the Committee on Municipal Affairs. The debate on the motion was very bitier, an so angry Were Senators that they traveiied oulside of the mo0- lion and entered fiercely mto the merits of the bill. For the past mouth inuumerabie petitions haye been Introduced 1 both houses in laver of she repeat of (ue bill, and it ia stated that something like @ hun- dred thousand names have been enuexed to them. CREAMER ON THY FLOOR. Senator Creamer heli that tue oatcry against this appropriation of money for the purpose of educaung tue poor culldrea of New York who are now un- wiling to attend the regular school, because of thelr poor clothes aud general dislike to assovigte with tue children of richer classes, who now atten. ce those schoois, Was a mean and partisan interterence, and Indicated the growth of @ most dangerous at unseeling sentiment. He appealed to Senators” to remember that tiv money ¥ os. by the city of New York to the school fund of the State ~ had been always a generous share of that fund, and that in this case the clty proposed ww raise this money wud A¥K NO assistance Jrom the rest of the State, very New York Senator was ia ravor of this bill, and he thought these remonstrances Were of such # pelty character as to warrant their reference to a committee on obscene literature. ‘the Senaior spoke, as he always docs, ably, earnestly and eloquently, aud while evincing great teeing and uiuch bitterness, be sull held back bis anger witn rare command, Senators Woudin and Chapman replied, and both spoke of the respectable names on the petitions, and insisted that this sectarian appro- prialion Was the lirst step towards the entira over- Lurow of the moat perfect system of public schools in the world. Daring the debate the time for exec- utive geasion Came, and this most interesting «qt tion went over for tne day. A LIVELY TIME IN THE ASSEMBLY. ‘The evening session of tue Assembly Was as amu. ing as a theatre when a light comedy is on the stage. Kiernan’s bili reguiating the election of Inspectors and Canvassers of Elecuon, which bas been pub- lished in the HEXaLD, was on (he tapis, and the dis- sion Made the fur By. Speaker Hitchman, J. i. White and others opposed tho bill with a Whole food of amendments, some only of which were passed. Kiernan defended bis position galiantly and sought Lis opponents with bis armor on. Me talked like a ian who knew that he was right, His opponents were equally vebement and deaunciatory. Aito- gether tugre Was not a pleasanter time for the iaten- ers on the Assembly Door this session. ‘the result, uowever, was quite adequate Lo the eloquence aad the fun, Tao bill went to es third reading-~a tri- ump for its friends and confusion to its cnemies, No one expected that tne night session would have been delivered of 39 much genuine enjoyment as the debate Upon tue biil developed, ALTERATION OF THE MAY OF NEW YORK City. Mr. Burnuw bil making alterations in tue map or Plan of tie city of New York, which was introduced in the Assembly to-day and referred to the Com- mittee on Cities, provides for the extension of Filty- second, Fifty-tatrd and Fifty-fourth street, from Eleventh avenue, im a straight line, to the Hudson river, uuder the direction of the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonaliy, a3 In other cases; the widtn of Suid streets TO b2 tle same Hs those portions cast of enti aves THE SECOND AVENUE RAILROAD, Mr. Klernan’s bul to authorize the Second Avenue Railroad Company to extend its tracks, provides that said company imay coustruct an additional truck irom present track at Twenty-wird street, io Viret avenue; also through First and Second avenues, § ‘Dwenty-third street to Houstow sireet; thence, with a mingle track, througit Houston street to borsyth street, thence through = Forsysa o Grand street, thence with an aaditfonai track to Christie street, Unbence through Allen aad Forsyin streets to Division street, thence with double track to the Bowery. Alao a double track from Pearl atreet through Ohat- ham street and Priating House square to Spruce street and from Chatham strect to Broadway. Also a single track from Peck sip, through Front street, to Burling slip; thence through Burling slip to Soath street, through South stroet to Peck Ma Also dou- bie track through Firat avenue from ‘Twenty-third Streat to Hariem river; dowble track from First av: nué through 126th street to Second avenue; doubi track tn Ninety-second treat from Second avenue to the East river, Aiso donbdle tracks on Sixty-third aud Sixty-fourth streets, between First and Third avenues, Also douvic track through New Lowery to Pearl street, ‘Tie said company are to make com- pensation to the city for the rights conferred, the amount to be determined by tures commissioners, to be appointed by the Supreme Court. CONFINMATIONS BY THR SENATR. fhe Senate to-day confirmed the following uomi- Dations:— : Loan Commissioners.—Royal Cordia, Clinton county; Keuben 0. Robie, Steunen county; Alexan- der Stephens, Steaven county; Henry H. Huntington, Schuyler county; James H. Miller, Rensselaer county; Hiram D. luli, Rensselaer county; Onauncey Matthews, Herkimer county; Wiliam M. Mosher, Herkimer eounty; Kichard Cottreil, Clinton county. Bufgalo Police Commmtssioners.—Harmon 8, Cit ting, Kovert H. Best, Ralpl Courter, NEW YORK LEGISLALURE. Sx ~~, SENATE. ALnANY, N. Y., Teb 15, 1870, REPORTS, By Mr. Muneny—Authorizing Brooxlya to borrow money to pay liabilities. BILLS INTRODUCED, Reorganizing the Brookiyn Park By Mr, Prer Comminsioucrs. PILLS PASSED, Amending the act to improve bighwaysein Yonkers and East Chester. Altering (be map of New York. Relative to the appototment of marshals in the cit, of New Yorke PP ¥ pwd tet Aidt and Girls Lodging Tlouse of the Chtidreu! bebe tn of New fork ‘the >enate agreed to go tuto executive session at one o'clock. SECTARIAN SCHOOLS. Mr. Creamer moved to cischarge the ae Committee from further consideravion of the bill ree peaiihg the act allowing excise inonevs to be pried to sectarian scuools, aud the same be re erre to the Committee on Municipal Adaira, 7 Mr. CREAMER said the bill referred to New York, and theretore ought to goto the Commitiee on Mus nicipai Affairs, At. Woon suid the Janguage of the act was such that the Judiciary Committee ought to decide om it 83 a ileal question. MY. SIUKVUOY adinitted thatthe language Was ame biguons, but he did not reyard it aso legal question, bor did he think thiv a sectarian matter. Themoneg Was given to al! venominations, Mr. WoodIN Was bot particular as to the come mittee, bus he wanted acuion. Mh bE was Ww Would be «ced for ab & ieeliog in the state that the money rateed for educational purposes was diverted to sectarian school, It was regarded as am attack ob the commoa schooi systein. Mr. CREAMER thoucht tere ought to bea come Milcee On obscene literature, Lo whies to refer mak sere emanating {rom hypocritica, religious cant— 13 spirit of iiading other people's business, which seems to acitiate the peope of the western section {of the Siats—ax to how the poor, ragged children of New York shail be cuucated, or as to Whether apy tpogey hull be ap- propriated out of the city treasury to take them ous of the streets and educate them, He ssought they would be better engased Mf Uiey would call for am amendment of the laws in relavion io taxation, by which all the counties of this State escape troin pay. Ing their proper share and put more than one-hait the enure taxation of tue State Upon cee counties of New York and Kinga. Mr. Woop:n respouded in detence of the pevl- ‘Woners In Luis Mater, whe, le said, wee tue peers oF the Senator, He conciuded with expressing his satisfaction with having the bill take any direction. ide belleved the whole question would come up ab another time, Mr. CHAPMAN moved that the Comm ttee of Chart table and Keigions Societies be discadrged Irons Jurther Consideration of peiitions on tie sudject and tat ike same be reler ww the Judiciary Com- mittee, Agreed to—14 to ‘The question was then on Mr. Creamers motion to refer the vill to the Commitive on Municipal Adairs, The Senate, without disposing of the question, Went into €x-cutive session. On reopening the doors, on motion of Mr. TWEED, both bil and petitions relative to spyrepriating excise MONEYS LO Seciar hools Wore selerred (Oo the Comuittee on “iumicipal Attasrs. Bib INTRODUCE! By Mr. CREAMER—Kelative to tue Croton Aqueduct Couipany. SSEMBLY. AubaNy, Fob. 15, 1670. BILLS INTRODUCED, By Mr. KiganaN—Authorizing the Second Avenue Ratiroaa Company of New York to extend their track. By Mr. Jacoss—To provide for reorgauizing we Brooklyn Park Commiasioners. By Mr, JERRED—{o charter the city of Rome, By Mr. Mappox—Authorizing the Brooklyn Com- mon Council to regulate the employment of the conductors and drivers of street cars in (hat city. By Mr. Kigknan —Eastabiisning @ © age route from the foot of Corilandy street to East Thirty-fourta street, East river, By Mr. BLaiR—Amending the act incorporating tho Working Women’s Protective Union of New York, By Mr. BuRNS—Alter{ng the map of New York. By Mr. HeNNes3y—The Eight Hour law. By Mr. O. Muar u¥—Amendiug the act relative to collection of arrears of personal waxes in New by Mr. Jacops—Amending tho Brooklyn charter. by Mr. Mappox—Amending the charter of the Ma dustrial School Association of Williamsburg. Hy the SPEAKER—Autnhorizing the Park Presbyte- rian cuurca of New York and the Yorkville Presby~ tertan church to unite, and, on lus moton, the ot Was read and passed. By Mr. BLaiR—Amending an act for tho further espn of lemaie employes Im the cuy of New york. THE SPECIAL SESSIONS COURT BILL, Mr. FLaGG moved that the bili placing tie Special Sessions Court in New York uuder the old law be. couuitted to the Committee on Cities. Mr Mr eLL mquired at Whose roquest the motion was wade, Mr. BURNS stated that he had been requested oy several parties in New York to be heard on Unis bill. Mr, MITCHELL stated that Laegentieman wuo nad Introduced this bill Was abscnt, and he ‘. Mitchell) had intended to move to lay the bill aside Wien lt came up for a third reading. He then pro- ceeded to denounce the court as at present or- ganized, and claimed the bill Was a proper one. d@Mr. HUSTED opposed the motion to recommit. ‘Tocre had been no undue haste in this matter, Tne Dill bad been fully discussed 1a comuitice of th whole House and had been ordered to a thir ee arent hat the! good r. WHITE inaisted that there were reasons why the bill suouid be recommiuted, ‘Tbe Sreakkit called attention to the fact that he fouud by the number of this biil that it b by some manipulation, been made tO take precedence over forty nine other bills anead of tt. Mr. FIELD moved the previous question on Mr, Flagg’s motion, Wulch was ordered, Mr, KIERNAN, before voting, stated that this pill had been reported undor an agresment Qpon It oy the New york delegation, and he regarded the mo- ton as conHng with bad grace trom the gentleman from Rensselaer (Mr. Fiazg}, in the absence of the gentieman who presecated the bil, He thougus the most proper course to pursue, voth as re- gards etiquette and Pariiamentary usage, was to Jay aside (he bill until the gentiewan having it di- rectly in charge was present, Mr. Viagg’s motion to recommit the bill was care ried—51 to 43. BILLS PASSED. Amending the revised’siatutes reiative to Super- visors preparing lists for jurors, except in New York aud Kiags counties. ‘To enable the American and Foreign Bible Society to consolidate with the American Baptist Soviety. Chartering the Ministers and biders’ Protestant Episcopal cnurch of the diocese of Long Island, Amending the Charter of tae New York City Mis- sion aud ‘Tract Society. Keoess to half-past seven P. M. Evoning Session. CANYASSERS AND INSPECTORS OF ELECTIONS. ‘The House, in committee, took up the bill provide ing se the election of canvasvers und inspectors of elections, Mr. HitcHMAN (the Speaker) moved as @ substi- tute for tne first section, that the viticers in New York, except municipat oflicers, judges, &c., shall be elected at the genera: election in November, aad the others at the charter election. Mr. KiekNaN Opposed this amendment, claiming that the billas it was protected the purity of tie baliot pox. Mr. HITCHMAN said that if he could as this time Move an amendment to tho title of the bili he would make if read, “An act to encourage fraudulent vot- Ing in New York.” He thea went on w denounce the fraudulent voting in New York, saylug there were men there who voted at every electiou twice, thrice—yes, twenty times, A motion to report progress was rejected, Mr. HiTCHMAN’s Motion was then lost, Mr. HITCHMAN moved that the Board ot Super- visors appoint the inspectors and canvassers for the next clection. He was opposed to aliowing the old oflicers to act or to having the Police Comuiissioners appoint them, and he proceeded vo state How Iles ally these oficers had acted In the past. Mr. KIZRNAN said the cat Was Now out of the bag, and Lp to denounce the majority of tuo Board of Supervisors. Mr. HiTcHMAN said he was willing to give the ap- pointing power to the judges of the Superior Cours or Court of Common Pleas. Mr. Husren said it did him good to hear these con. fessions of great frauds in the city of New York by bowh wings of the democratic pare Butas io the bill he didn’s see anything in it woich was designed to benefit the republican party in the least, Mr. Bexcen spoke at length, denouacwwg the cor- ruptions in New York and attributing them to tue Registry law of 1865, which placed the elective ma- chinery in the bands of @ partisan Pollee Commis- sion. Mr. WriTr blamed the judges of New York for discharging person# a@rrested a8 repeaters, As to these Inspectors, it Was an Importaut question as to who shail act as inspectors at the hext election. There were now at least sixty of these officers who are rybed Lyon Peaneehea the trouble was in the magistrates discharging repeaters after arrest aud before they were gotto the station house. ‘The committee then, on motion of Mr. Jacons, re- ported progress. In the House, on motion of Mr. KIRgNaN, the bill was ordered to @ third reading. The Main street, Brooklyn, bill was ordered to @ third reading. ANOTHER ULSTER COUNTY MUADER, A Negro Splits His Employer’s Skull Opes The quiet little town of Plattekill, Ulster county, ‘Was yesterday thrilled by the commission of a most Wanton and brutal murder, and taking into consid- eration the population of Uister county, and their generally quiet pastoral mode of life, it seems as though that section of the country was gaining @ moat unenviable notorieyy, : } In the course of a slight dispute yesterday afters noon between Danici A. Hasbrouck, a farmer, re-" aiding at Plattekill, and a negro servant in bis euls ploy, the latter me rey, my h exasperated and some harsh wor male vere an ie on ihc hich was lying far ae and kulivg: was arrested, =, zed a0 ax Hasbrouck on the head, splitting iw almost tnstentiy. ‘The negro Charles 0. Faxon, formerly well known as 9 meme ber of the editorial profession In the southwest, di at clarkaville, Teon., recently. He wat conned Biearn Se per tae wrist ‘Seve me tue let Aiterwards became se eae centhae of te Budale press, Louisville Courter. Henry ©. Faxon, of thi as