The New York Herald Newspaper, January 21, 1871, Page 6

ee, CONGRESS. The Income ‘Tax Repeal Strongly En- couraged in the Senate, A Test Vote on Woman Suffrage in the House. GAIR PROSPECTS FOR THE FAIR SEX. ho Territorializing of the District of Columbia, SENATE. Wasrixcron, Jan, 20, 1871, THE GEORGIA SENATORS. Br. Monvor, (rep.) of Ind., presented the certiticate of @ection of Foster Blodgett asa United States Senator from eo Btate of Georgia for siz years from the 4th of Marcb ment, which, ai Mr, Morton's request, was read and laid on Whe table. ‘Mr. SUMNER, (rep.) of Mass., introduced a bill supplemen- tery to the Civil Rights acts substantially similar to his DAM of last session, Referred to the Committee on the Jud!- KEW YORK AND ANTWERP MAIL BERVICE, dtr, Fratox, (rep.) of N.Y. introduced by request » Bal reciting the Postmaster Gerieral to contract with the North American Sieamahip Company of New York fpr the trang- Soriaiion of the malls, week's, between New York and Ant- ‘werp or Bremen, touching at Piymouth and Chervourg, for a farm of fiieen yeare, af the rate of $15,000 per irip. Ke- ferred to the Commiitee on Commeros. TU NBL UNDER TUX MODGON RIVER, » KCONKIUNG, (rep. of N. ¥., introduced pro. Be ahiGoual oovinheroiad and postal facilities in the port of York. It incorporates Marshall O. Roverts, Jobn A. fvingston, Dudley Field and owbers as the New York Port el Company, wiih authority to cons ruck a tunnel, tnoe ‘covered way in or beneath and across the beds of ibe Sf New York or Hudson river, from some point in N York city to some point in New Jersey opposi Jar tunnel from tint York to Brooklyn, The company is ‘also to be empowered to operate railways in said tunnels, ‘and to construct and use necessary approaches thereto, lim: wed to the grade of forty feet per mile, Damages to and sation for property to be taken are to be determined three commissioners, appointed by the United States Lia- Coun, Referred to the Commitice on Commer TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT FOR THE INDIAN! Mr, HARLAN, (rep.) of Towa, introduced a bill to ratify ‘and éarry into eslect the constitution and form of foyer: { for the Indian ‘Territory. adopted Decemer 20, 1570, at gee by a general council of the said Territory hed’ by authority of the government of the United States, “Referred Wo the Commiiiee on Indian Affaire, THE ALABAMA CLAIMS. Mr. ConmLuxa presented 4 memorial from the citizens of Rew York approving the recommendation of the President’ touching the Alabama ciaims ana asking legisla~ ion to futo eflect. Kelerred to the Commiitee on Foreign ons. THR GUTRO TUNNEL. Mr. NYE introduced a biil to ald the Sutro Tannel Com- my and addressed the Seuate iu favor of it, the dill look- ig to extending certain ald towara the conmraction of this tunnel from the sale of mineral lands not to exceed thre aaiilions of dollars, while the government is secured by first mortgage on all she property aud fifty per cent of the to be repaid to the goveryment, The whole work is to under the supervision of government officers, and no tobe paid until each section ts reported completed. Mr Buanwan remarked that for one he Sherman favorable to encovraging in any proper way the reat entes Of the Sniro tur hel, Dut to grant government aid im such Mahrection was a nove: propomison. The bill wag laid aside, Mr. Nye giving notice shat ho would call it up at av eariy da Mr. WILLTAMS, (rep,) of Oregon, submitted a resolution, to pe acted upon on Monday neat, for a select Senate com- mittee on telegraph legisiation. eR REW WASHINGTON PARK. On the motion of Mr. MORRILL, of Vt., the Commuttee on Public Bafidings Was instructed to inguire and report con- eerning the puichase and Improvement, as @ pubic park, of dhe two squares east of and adjace® to the Capito) groans, dm connection with the lands of Botaule Garden, the Smith: eenian Institute, the Agricultural Department and the south of the President's Mansion, the expense to de ed in the sale of unimproved lots ‘in the city not re- ‘Quired for public use and remote corners. WAL EXPENSES OF THT STATRS, ‘The Di to refund to the States the interest and discount on money borrowed to equip, pay, Supp.y and transport troops: for the service of the United States in the receat war was @ebates. Daring the discussion Mr, Scorr (rep.) of Pa, asked agpabimous consent to make the income tax repeal the order of business for Tuesday next, ‘Mr. Hows objected. The pencing bill being laid aside temporartiy, Nr. Scory ‘aid be desired to test the sense of the Senate on the question, and to make the income tax repeal the special order ¥. The motion prevailed by a two-thirds vote, Senators rising in ite favor to 12 in the begative. ‘At haif-past four P. M., after af executive sesmon, the Bevate adjourned iil Monday. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. WASBINGTON, Jan. 20, 1871, Mr. Woon, (dem.) ef N. ¥., presented # petition of the ‘ierchants of New York in favor of the appointmen! of com- missioners to audit and pay the Alabama claims. Mr SARGENT, (rep.) of Cal., rising to A PERSONAL EXPLANATION, wt to the Clerk's desk and bad read a paragraph from the Washington Nepublican of this day, stating that General Blunt, in hie testimoay before the Committee of Investiga- tion on Indian Affairs, had stated that one of the creat troubles in obtaining appropriations for the Indians was that wearly every member of Congress who voted for appropnia- tion expected and demanded liberal compensation, which was usually paid, and that in order to accomplish that some sharp practice bad to be resorted fo, Mr. Sargent remarked that {t was ouly mecessary for bm io say in reply to that fnfamona paragraph that General Blunt bad not testified be- fore the commiiter up to this time. The committee bad not been able to discover his whereaouts s0 a8 to serve a sub- pore upon him. The commitiee bad made efforts continu. ly by telegraph and otherwise, and would thank news- paper editors and reporters to publish the fact that that com. muittee desired te presence of Genera! Blunt. There was no testimony from any person of the character stated in that paragraph. It waa an asyersivu on # body of gentlemen who nothing in their associations or character to justify it in apy degree. It was merely a reckless libel on the House of Ropressntatives. “The House then proceaded to the consideration of private Dille, a large number of which wore passed. ERE DIPOMATIO APPROPRIATION HILL—8T. DOMINGO AGAIN. At forty minutes past one o'clock P.M. the House went Into Committee of the Waole, Mr. Ailison tn the resumed the consiceracion of the Consular and Dy Appropriation bill; the question being on Mr. Wooc's mo- tien Lo Dmit the expenditures of the secret wervice fund of the State Department so that none of i sbail be used in con- nection with the annexation of St, Domingo. ‘Mr. BUTLER, (rep.) of Mass., opposed tue amendment and referred to the fact that the publication of the mode in which General Scott disbursed asecret service tund in Mexico, showing an liem of $10,000 paid to high Mexican offict caused 4 revolution, or at least a pronunciamento, tp thal Dublic. It would be seen, there/ore, that an atiempt to go ‘ern the secret service fund would not only lead to compiicu- fions among flicials of the United States, but would “iake from the President any — power to deal with foreign officials. He bad no difficulty at w about St. Domingo, but he utterly declined to argue ¢! question now. Al! charges about it would be met . awered at the proper time. But he wanted the gentleman to cousider when they assailed the Presiaent where he bad no opportunity vo answer, and that, too, without the highest and best cause and the most thorough evidence, they did wrong ‘not only to the President but, to the country, in attempting to belittie its Chief Magutrate. | Mr. ELpEIDGE, (dem.) of Wis., said that the discussion Thad satisfied him that the secret ‘service fund ought to be abolished a» contrary to the gepius and spirit of our inatiin- ous. The instance cites by the gentleman from Massachu- metus ought to satiefy every One of the impropriety of pl tug large gums of money in the hands of is to be dis- Bored oF im Weir alseretion without rendering un account to ¢ people. Mr. Cox, (dem.) of ¥. ¥., also argued against the continu- ance of the secret service fund, deciaring himself opposed to all “ways that are dark and tricks that are vain.” Mr. KELSEY, (rep.) of N. ¥., expressed his amazement at the position taken by the gentleman on the other side against the continuance of the sec service fned, and he sent to the Clerk's desk and had read extracts from speeches made last session by Messrs. Wood and Eldridge in opposition to an amendment offered by bhuaself (Mr. Kelsey’ requirin Wouchers to be filed showing the distribuiton of that fund, ‘The reading of these extracts provoked laughter at the ex- pevée of the two members, Mz, Woop protested that Of inst session on this s: Be Aid not take back any of The amen‘ment efiered by Mr. Wood was rejected, and | without co} ng the bil: proceeded, at twa e'’clock, t the consicerat! ess et the Mistrict of Coldmpbta, in compliaace with @ standing order assigning | the thi ¥riday im each m b after two o'clock to that Dusiurs: FERBIVORIA re was nothing in bis speech which he did not now endorse, #0 RIOT OF 66 ‘The Senase bill to proviae fi af Columbia was taken up an territorial gorern i: appointed by ‘ne the Senate, anc who sb a Coun for the Diatrict ce8 & sort OF y tobe ap emily ure i@ be | by Congress. There 4 8,20 coarist of the Governor 4 if by the President. po be appointed. f rend seeded to consider it by Mr. ELA, (rep.) of.) king tne ated. chairman of ppored the an rarence £0 the bil. of ef 1 mittee nd made { ard that any city in the | the District eral etatement in clty has avout the worst govern United + mere were two clemoute entering into ite cal conditions. in t place, | there were a large nomber t residents | or ibe city not iMeniiGed with ite permasent in teresia, There were aim 4 zmount of colored poopie, brougi: kere vy Wbe events of the war, who had no | Permanent soterest in the cl’, bub ther Cue element | which would allow ‘ve one of the best governed | eicies in the couvirr, and that was ‘he control Congress had | over it. The capservative e.ement, representing the govern ment of the Unived Staies, bouid be preeerved; but if the | Movernor and ali other oflic&ys tere to be e.ected instead of pppointed by the President, thet clement would be aban. Soned, and with it abandoned.he would not give a fartbing For any government sagt could-be organized. Mr. HLA advocated his andencment, abd argued that to Aeave the Governor and Council go %e appointed by the Presi. | dent would be ap aitack on the Frpresentative principle of | he United States government. We bad gove far enough w the direction of centralization, aud i was not rato + any fartber in that direction. He aaverted that the ere of the city were able to take care @’ thelr own ct ana that nowhere else in the couniry were life and property 80 wate as in the District of Columbia. | . Woop declared himself not 0) ad to entrusting to De President the power of appointing the Hovernor. Jn his judgunt that power would be much saver Qau 1m the hands Of the people ot the District, who were of # very different ee now than they were ten years ago. The’ war had sent $nto (he District a preponderaling proportion & people who } re, but who who were really dis nprehending and understanding of others, He for one was not willing to trast the intercata of bie property to persons totaiy inegreble of eting thelr own interests. He would rather <rnet a» spporniod by the Preeideyt, aud who was rayponel le held to avait the | tee for Che tation ore the Mr. Woop his anpetnter, ‘trust one elected the gentieman willing to faNew vor cy. ‘that was no ~NEW YORK rey thn ad My THE STATE CAPITAL. two. New York was Portion af New York Saty is Ri GeDiarcret Cohimbie belonged tbe goremmenct He New Tax Levy Creates Mr. BINGHAM made » constitutional argument io support of tho. jnione of the bill. Mr. Bua's amendment was by a large majority. On motion of Mr, Cook the third section was amended by wubstituting for the words “House of Representatives” the words “House of Delegates.’ a Growl. \ 14 the fifth section by vrovidin: wae NCCm shall beapwolnted yy tne Freniieot by and | Legislators Who Want Their with the advice and consent of the Senate, ive of those first Appointed to be for the term of one year and the other six ior two years, and all subsequent appointments to be for two By. BAMBAL, opposed the amendment and argued ani COOK defended the principic of appointment as re- ining and guarding the inverests of the whole people of the Untied: States in this District. ‘Mr. Cook's amendment was agreed to. ‘A TEST VOTE ON WOMAN SUFFRAGE, Mr. JULIAN, (rep.) of Ind., moved to amend the sixth me, tion, which gives the elective franchise to all male citizens the United States, by striking out tae word “male.” (Laugh ter.) Me declared that he offered the amendment tn govd faith and desired a vote upon {t by yeas and nays, ‘Mr. Cook oprosed the amendment. He hoped the House po not encumber Oe er the tarue of female suf- ‘axe. The District had been mi e - ments with every form of government, and he did’ not want to be made the accue of that experiment, The vote waa taken by yeas and Nays 2nd the amendment offered by Mr. Jullan wad rejected-—yeas 55, nays 11d. ‘There was much exeitement and amasement ta the Touro asthe membes responded to their names, Some of the voter inthe sflrmative provoked much laugbler, while the osttive and devided tone with which others voted “n Frought down the house, ‘The following is the vote in detail:— Yeas- 55- Allison Darrall. drnele Dixon, N. 0, Asper, Kia, Atwood, Farnsworth, Banks, Finkelaburg, , Uamiiton, Bt Buck, Harris, Stoughton; Bafiston, Hawkins, Btrickiant Burdett, Hoar, Packara, Ind, Twitchell, Gessn Jones, N.C, Paine, Washoura, Wis Pe Ga Ba eLey, Prey Lawrence.” Pombroy, Wolf. Long, Porter, Nays—117. Pox, Marshall, Sheldon, N.Y., Gariield, Mayhain, —-Bherrod, Geis, MeCormick, Bhober, Giifitan, McCrary, lecum, Griswold, MeGrew, Smith, Ohio, Haldeman, MeKee, Smith, Ore,, Hai McKenzie, —_&mith, Vt, " Hamin, McNeely, Stevens, it, Hawtey, Mercur, Stone, Boles, Ray, Morgan, Strong, Booker, Hil, Morrill, Me. Swan, Brooks, Masa,,Holman, Mungen, Sypher, Buckiey, ‘Homes, Mvera, ‘auner, Burebard, Hooper, Niblack, lor, Conger, Hotchkies, O'Neil, Tillman, nner, Ingersoll,” Packer, Pa., ‘Townsend, ook. Johnson, Palmer, er, Cowlds, Jones, Peck, Voorhees,’ Cox, Judd, Pheli Walince, Crebs, Kellogg, Conn.,Poland, Washburn, Mas Dickey, Kelsey, N. ¥., Potter, Welker, Dickinton, Kerr, Rainey, Welt Dockery, Ketchum, — Randal, Wheeler, Donley, Knapp, Reeves, Weidisdy Dox, Knott, Ro ers, Wiison, Minn, Dukty Ladin, Sanford, Winchester, aval, Lewis, Sawyer, Witcher, Eldridge, Lynch, Schumaker, Wood, Fors Manning, Sheldon, La. Woodward, pieber, Qu the motion of Mr. Coox the House reconsidered the vote ordering the bill to be considered by se would have prevented final action to-day. Mr, LAWRENCE ‘esired to offer an ainend: that every wife, parent, &¢., should have a cover damages for injuries to person, propert support, &c., arising from welling or givin, ihtoxteating Hiquors, bu: the amendment was cat eff by the previous ques- | ton. Mr, LAWRENCE moved 10 lay the bill oa the table, Re- jected, 2SSome amenciments of deialis of the bill were offered by Mr. COOK and agreed to, and then the bf was passed—Yeus %, . DIOKEY, from the Committes on Appropriations, re- orted the Army Appropriation bill; made the special order Thuraday next. “The bill appropriates 327,475,000. ‘the House then, ut five o'clock, adjourned. ‘The veasion to- morrow will be for debate only. WOMAN SUFFRAGE. Annnal Meeting of the New York Society— ‘The Campaign Orgunized for 1871. ‘The Woman's Suffrage Society held their annual meeting yesterday afternoon, at their rooms, in Broadway and Siz- ‘teenth street. ‘rhe society was weil represented by the lead- ing members of the organization, and after coming to order proceeded to elect new officers and listen to various reports, and tomake such suggestions, speeches, &c., as the occasion celled for. Mrs. Lozier, M. D., and Dr. Mary ‘Walker were present, with other feminine celebrities. ‘The PRESIDENT on retiring read a short address upon the gubject of the ballot as a right and not a privilege. By « right she meant what God bestows and wi NO MAN Has A RIGHT to withhold, Who hus a right to use the vote and to give it to another? He has a right to use it who has a right to gov- ern himself; and he has a right to give it who has a right to govern others. Are we %o governed by those whom we select, or by those who are stron) enough to subject us? What makes the ruler Wit “and wisdom? How, then, shall we account for the royal fools that we fird upon thrones, In America, for king, read male citizen. It used tobe white male citi: zen. But we found that too many adjectives weakened the force of language, and so with MUON BLOODSHED we expunged the word white. But it will not cost so much to xet Fid of that little word male. We shall soon have tt out of the way. Nature is not partial to men. Her gifte descend to woman as well as to her brothers. When our fathers cut loose from King George the Third they cut loose from all the sanciiied shams of the past. ‘The committee for nominating officers reported Mra, Lo- zier. M.D., president; vice presidents Dr. Hallock, Dr. Mar- vin, Bre, Sowerby, and Mrs. Blake; secretaries, Mrs. Crosby and Miss Jennings; treasurer, Mr.’ Hazard; executive com- mittee, Mr. Poole, Mrs. Poole, Mrs. Ryder and Mra. Hallock. The nominations were approved unanimously. In taking the chair as president of the society, Mra. Lorren said that she wished that she bad done more to deserve the honor shown her tn her election. MER HEART had always been with these workers. She felt that without the pioneer work of brave women she would never have been abie to aitain the success in her profession that sisained But for the repeal of e law, brous ie agency o| ton, now A PAUPEER LUNATIC ASYLUM, and to sueb repeal, which enabied her to escape from dread- ful domestic attiction, she owed her salvation. She was lad to be avle to serve the cause. She had tried to be taith- ful in her domestic and professional relations and she would | do ber best in the position that the society had sssigned ber. Mrs. BLAKE spoke of ber experiences at the Washington Convention. Mrs. Blake and the Rev. Olympia Brown went into the House of Representatives together. They found one man FOREAMING AT THE TOP OF BIS VOIOR, and all the rest were talking and not paying the least aiten- tion, whereupon this litte colloquy took piace :— Rev. OL¥MPiA—Can this be the House of Representatives? Me its the most nadignified scene | ever witneseed. 18. BLAKE—Of course it is. But if women should do as those nen do WHAT WOULD THE REPORTERS SAY? We shoula never hear the last of ‘the gabbling of those women.” In Richmond Mrs. Binke found a state of heathen- asm {o0 shocking to contemplate, But she wcattered some good seed that she hoped would be elfective. MURDEROUS MARKETMEN. Oystermev on Their Muscle=Sndden Denth of One of the Combatapts—Arrest of .the Sur- vivor. About eleven o'clock yesterday forenoon Edward Sauls- bury, @ young man employed at the oyster stand of Philips & Carley, Nos. 98 and 9 Fulton Market, was engaged in sweeping one of the aisles and jostled against John Gannon, one of bis fellow craftsman, knocking from his hands a basket of oysters which he was carrying. A vio- lent altercation instantly sprung up, followed by blows. Gannon was struck over the gead with a broom handie, and the two, clinching, roiled together on the floor unt sepatated by te bystanders. | Saulsbury complained ofa violent pain in the abdomen, and charged hia opponent with kicking him. Feoling weak’ and sick he was placed on a mar- ket wagon by his fellow workmen and conveyed to bis” home, at $$ Frankfort atreot. On the way thither ‘he became unconscious, vomiting a white, glassy matter, and the bearers, affrighted, carried him to the drug store of ‘Conway & Brophy, corner of Pearl and Frankfort streets. Brophy was unable to do anything for the man and recommended bis removal to the pollce sta- tion, wivere he could be attended by a police surgeon, At this moment a gush of blood escaped from the lips of the in- ured ian, and as be wat on a chair, supported by (rienda, e suddenly expired. and Coroner Schirmer notified of the occarrenc Dr. Joweph Cashman, his depnty, proceeded to the place, bui posiponed the post-mortem examination until to-day, as the dcath had been #o recent, A jury was empanelied and dis- charged after viewing the body, with instructions to be Present at the mquest to be held at the City Hall to-day, Benjamin Rowe and William Sullivan, fellow workmen of deceased, were present at the fight, and state positively that Saulsbury wae kicked, though a su; the parts aiford no confirmation ol rficial exainination of the assertion. Gannon JERSEY CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS. The German Language To Ge Taughi~No Money ‘o Be Had. After a ively debate in the Board of Education of Jersey City, on Thursday night, it wae resolved to appoint Mr. Schmidt a teacher of the Germen language in Schooix Nos. 7 and 8, at a salary of 21,300 a year. matter there was hardly any difference of opinion. The main question was where the money was to come from. The appropriation for pubic schools is so nearly exhausted that it was found necessary to close the evening schools, and it is qufte provable some of the day schools will be closed before the end of the fiscal rear. Mr. McAn- erney remarked that the entasiment of additional expenses a: a time when there j# po money to purchase ench pecesraries as Chalk apd pencils, will have a woe? uudesira- ble resait. Sbould the proposition be adopted he for one would mejet that French and Irish be tangbt in the public schools, When the resolution was adopted tue qnestion atose how booke vould be purchased, and this was » puzrler whieb could not ve solved, but was “referred” to a commit Ht was quite evident from the tone of the aebat some of the members bad ap eye lo (he approachiny election. PEILADELPHIA ITEMS. She King of the Whi Pardoned Before Tri: PRILADYLPHIE, Jan, 20, 1871. George Montgomery, known ax the King of the Philadel- phin whiskey ring, who has been in the Eastern Penitentiary for the past eighieen months for whiskey frauds, was par- doned by the President to-day. Richara Ficken, the wealthy sugar re(iner, who severely wounded # boy in this city who rung his door bell on Jast All Hollow Eve, has been pardoned by Governor Geary, Picken having paid $4,000 to the father of the wounded boy for 1a- juries received.’ Fickep gave bei] ip 12,000 lor his appear: ‘ance to answer, but fied to Burope and furteited hie ball. Some papers contend that this pardon ts null, because ihe Governor has wo rigkt $0 pardop » san who hes not been: PORTICO OF EFI { © body was placed in the basement of the police station, | h As to the justice of the | ¥ Ring Pardoned’- | Usual Spoils. EXCITING SCENE IN THE LOWER HOUSE. LIB VDIRGaCe. What a Railroad Debate Can Do. The Old Underground Railw: Again Shows Its Head. THS WRIT OF MAWDANIUS. ALBANY, Jan, 20, 1871, ‘There are © great Many persons who believe that the working majority of the present Legislature is a very submissive one, and that the word of Tammany Hall will be tts law to the end of the session. Now, this nay be all very true, but there is such @ thing as enforcing & jaw in such a Way that those who have to submit to it oniy do so while they bide their time to vbrow off the yoke and declare themselves free to do as they pease. Tammany may fad out this to her cost before the session 1s over, if she does not have a little consideration for the indt- vidual wishes of mauy of the members whose in- fuence can be made hurtful, even though they may not live and have their being within that charmed circle called THE “RING,” and the new Tax icvy may prove the rock against which she will dash herself to pieces, I know very Well that there will be found any number of people 10 pooh-pooh this idea; but the fact wil) remain all the same for all that. Let me teil you why. In years past the old system of making up the Tax Jevy, though it lind, like many other public measures, very grievous drawbacks, was a popular one wiih every member of @ majerity, whetner it was repub- lican or democratic. The reason of its popularity needs very litiie expianation. Aside from we fact that each weuiber feit that he had a say in the mat- ter of telling taxpayers what was expected of them every year to muke the city government machinery work woll, he had his own private ends to serve. Whenever tt came up it always brought with it AN INNUMERABLE LOY OF JOBS, sandwiched in betWeon new laws and amendments of oid laws that were just aud equitable. ‘These “joes” were, however, hot so deitly hidden that a keen Oppos.tionist might not detect them; but in the burry uid Murry amtd which ihelevy ever made Its appearance the kee oppostiiontst Who could have dragged them into Caylizht, was occupied too much with his own petty schemes in other quarters to at tend to ali that heeded exposure, Had a friend of some Politician a sinecure tn some public ofice and his posit had vever been legaitzed, what was easier than to pay Lim his salary, by the politician having the Lecessary paragraph siowed away In the Yaxlevy? Did somevody do a fuvor for Assembly- man This or That, he was told to walt till “next year,” and a ine appropriating $2,000 or $3,000 to the clerk of some board’ or other, whom the regular clerks had never heard tel of, made all tungs pas in the jong run. Now, tnis being the state of affairs under the old system, it can easily be imagined what a terribie loss the new mode of making up the levy will be to the members of the Leg:slature and their powerful backers at home. In fact, 16 cuts of haif the power of their usual poiltical promises, si: them of a great deal of their indueuces in circles worth conciilating, and makes com.ng to Albany AN UNPROFITABLE SPECULATIO! for doz of them, country as well as city, Is it any wouter, then, that the ‘ring’ project excites bitter comment and threatens 4 slorait How could It be otherwise, when a man, elected by the people to legislate for the good of the State at three dollars a day, pays five for tis board, and has to look elsewhere than at his own bank for that wherewith to do as others do? Indeed, it could not be otherwise, and more espe- Ciully ws he has the supremest contempt for what peopie call a good name, and does not beileve thas he who steals his purse steals trash. Yet comes the question, Will the bili not pass’ The question 1s certainly & hard one to answer. The bill may not pass, but, if it should, it will be because a very large umber of members who now imveigh asatnst it among themsel. es will have been whipped iuto lune by the most powerful kind of coercion, and not be- cause they approve of it at beurt. Lf one were to judge from the way the talk ruus now among the mem- bers the bill would seem not to have the ghost of a chance of getting through the lower House, but, you know, the powers that be have encountered more than one obstacle in the way of their ambilion before to-day, aud have always known how to over- coine every one. Besides, THE Fave OF THE YOUNG DEMOCRACY | still stares the grumb/ers in the face, aud they wince whenever they think of it, To be sure, if they should band together strong enough to defeat the Dill, they would be the gainers by it for the present session, as far as their individual ‘jobs are concerned. The old tax levy system wouid still be their own special cesspool of corruption, gand consequentiy of great proiit, and they would have the satisfaction of wrest- | Ing from four men a power which they had always belore, each and every one, a bargaining say in the sweet dispensing of. But iien their political here- after! Tae uncertainty of that may indeed make cowards of the have .rather than court those future ones they have | @ preity good idea of already. A cur once whipped, you kuow, always fears the rod. A SCENE. ‘There was quite an exciting time of it in the lower House thismorning, thatirrepressible White- | hal and Piattsburg Railroad being once more the cause of the rumpus. When the question was sprung upon the House a few days ago it got everybody by the ears, and even some of the wiltest of tne old wirepullers became hopelessly muddied as to the meriis and demerits of the matter, It was quite natural, therefore, when it poked its head into tne regular order of the proceedings again to-day, thas everybody was on the qué rive to see how the battle wouidend. Buck, of New York, fired the first shot by putting in the claims of the Coumittee on Com- merce and Navigation to take the whole question under {ts wings, and then Delano, of Fasex, rose 1n his seat and threw scbrapnel and shell into the oppo- nents Of the motion, until Weed, of Clinton, could stand it no longer. To say when he rose to speak that he talked loudly, and waxed fercer and fiercer as he proceeded in his denunciation of THE “NEW ENGLAND GANG,” who were at the Essex man’s back, would fall far short of the stunning reality. ben Alvord took a hand in thesquabbie, and, after trying to explain what kind of a thing the bill walch had given rise Wo the discussion really was, wound up by politely informing the ‘green genticman (rom Greeue” that he declined to argue With him, because he did not know what he was talking about! This compli- burgh to his feet. He looked as niad as a gored | bull, and attempted to tell Alvord he knew a thing or | two, when the Speaker's ;ruvel ruled bin jute a sit- | ting’posture. ‘The fun had now begun in downright | earnest. Weed saw itis claee aud went for 1t; and | Deiano, too, ac the same time. Bat it was all of no | usp; the cry grew louder and louder for the reading | of the bul, wich the railroad fo! wanted to | | smash. Weed ventured to explain. It was | |‘ bil to repeal the law waleh authorized | | the company to increase their rate of fare and run a | | terry across Chatmpiata, ) had to stop; for Fiagg, of Troy, | Gut of breath, with ihe resolnuons which had been | presented the day belore, to take the consideration of the supject out of his comuaitee’s hands. “Read them, read them " wa | #rected Mis arrival. Delano now saw his opportu- | Mity, and again poured a volley into Clinton count, | «Do you mean to say | Was a member of thel ows House in 1969?" yelied Weed as Delano look his | seat. “I mean,” was Uke scathing reply, “that you direw up the bill of *6%, and that you were a member of what is commonly Known as TAY “THIRD HOUSP.” Had a ten-inch shell fallen ani exploded in the | midst of the Assembly the | have been greater than that which followed Uils daring charge. The members jumped te their feet by scores at a time. ‘The contusion was terrible. A personal eucounter between the debaters seemed | imminent, But again did the Speaker's gavel quell the tumult. Weed got the floor, He was pale as a ghost, as he fiercely brushed his long ur back Jrou bis forehead, aud fatriy t bled with } Suppressed rage. Jt was Delano’s turn to wince now. “ You have gove beyond the dignity of a man | and @ gentleman, and you have stated what you know Lo be faise—to be false, sir,” ne cried. Weed eat down, and Delano rose and simply remarked, | “A certaid piece of property pas something to do with this tion,’ apd thep, alter a pause, he addee, “I don’t want (us matter in the hands of tue Railroad Committee. One of its most distin- guished mentbers told me yesterday that the com- mittee would teport favorably on the bfil.” Pigg was on his feetin an instant. “His name !’’ he erted; “who Js he who has a right to speak for tlus committee?” “*I won't reveal it,” replied Delano; “he can reveal Jnmself if ue waats to.” Then up Juinped Irving, 2 Member of the commitzee, his eyes flashing with angers ‘I don’t believe that any mem- ber of the commitieetoid the gentleman 60,” he ex- claimed. Tike was \ THE\LIE DIRECT, put Delano remained Ay Dassive aaa lamb, he said, and then he ine vearing in, all Amo- the cry trom all sides that | citement could not | ment set the galleries in a roar and brought Bteen- | ; { then made to get rid of the elephant of hee erat ‘vote tae original wi taken up and passed, Who will say that there ts nothing worth getting such a Tow as this? STILL HARPING ON BRIE, Goodrich, of Kings, introdaced the following tf after the Whitenall aud Plattsburg question hi Deen settled, Of course, it 18 meant to reach we Ene Railroad:— ‘ ‘The Supreme Court, by writ ot mandamus, may comve any corporation oF aksocialion or the directors. trustees, oflcers or agents thereof to permit making and entry of transfers oftshares of the eayital stoek of suc corporation oF association in the tranefer books thereof, ‘and to post and register such transfers i the stook leger of such corporation or association, and to make and issue cer- tincates for si 40 transferred; aod such writ may be sued out on the relation of any ym OF persons segally oF ‘equitably entitied to such transfer or certificate. HUBRYING FOR THE ADJOURNMENT. A bill was also introduced to compel the mao, Hudson and Central railroads to make @ statement to the State Engineer of the number of passengers, turoughand way, they had carr.ed every month of 1870, and how much ‘money they had received for them: also the amount of way and through freight, Another bill was presented to authorize the prose- cutuon of railroad companies who have not iD ‘eurs past made their annual returns to the State Engineer, $40,000 in fines being now due tle State, A petition irom 17,000 Brooklynties asking for the increase of the pay of the poiice torce in Kings county was presented, Mr. Murphy’s bill concern- ing the uncialmed: moneys of savings banks, de- tails of which have already been published im the HERALD, Was introduced; also the oid MANHATTAN UNDERGROUND RAILWAY, which passed tho Legisiature in 1865, and was vetoed by Governor Feuton, and a bill to compel #as companies to make Teturns to the Comptroller aunually, After ali these bills had been rusbed to a second reading the aqjournmeut took place, and every “honoravie’? made a dead set for the cars, “homeward bound.” t NEW YORK LEGISLATURE. Senate. ALBANY, Jan, 20, 1871, y BILLS INTRODVOED, By Mr. CAULDWELL—Requiring the Harlem River and Port Chester Railroad Company to make their road con- form to the gravles of the streets. By Mr. G@xxet—Authorizing the Manhattan Railroad Com- pany {0 construct an underground rallroad tn the elty of ‘ew York. By Mr, Lonp—Incorporating the New York Life Policy Loan and Trust Company. RRPORTS. By Mr, GENET—Allowing the Avenue C Railroad Company to extend their tracks in New York. Also, amending the act for the better protection of minors, ‘Nr. PTRECE noticed a bill incorporating the East River and Bushwick Underground Rafiroad Compan; ‘The bili to secure a just division of the estates of debtors and creditors was ordered to a third reading. ‘Adjourned to Monday evening. Assembly. ALBANY,Jan, 20, 1871. BILLS INTRODUCED. By Mr. Goopnion-—Amending the Revised Statutes rela- |. tive to writs of mandamus, By Mr. CAMPEELL— To compel the gas companies of New York and Brooklyn to report annually to the Comptroller. By Mr. LOUTRELL—Relative to the Seventy-ninth regl- ment of Guards; alxo providing ‘for the completion of the Court House of the Third Judicial district, in New York city, Ky Mr, ScRInNER—Authorizing the Manhattan Railway Company to construct an underground railway in New York. By tir. MurPHy—Providing for the transfer of unclaimed hed surplus funds in savings bangs to the custody of the tate, RESOLUTIONS. By Mr, TENRYCK—Calling on the directors of the Central aud Hudson River Ratiroad Company for detailed statements relative to tratic anc travel. Laid over under the rule, ‘The House then adjourned till Monday evening at bulf-past seven o'clock. LECTURES. LAW AND LAWYERS IN REW YORK CITY, Lecture by A. Oakey Hall. The opening address of the New York Universtiy Law Schoo! was delivered before a large audience last evening, in the chape! of the institution, by Mayor Hall, who is a member of the Council, and graduated at the University in the same class with the new Chancellor. The following is a very con- densed report of the address. which was delivered without manuscript, and which, reported entire, would fill several columns :— New York city, of allthe cities in the world, is the place for the law student. The perusal of its law reports will con- vince any one thatevery variety of law comes under the discussion of its tribunals. So full are some of the daily law reporis that he who systematically reads them will in a few years acquire great theoretical knowledge of law. To this centre tends the commerce @ China, the Pacific and Europe, ‘and out of that tending bither arise constant legal questions for discussion, arbitrament and adjudication. Every one lives in alegal atmosphere in the metropolia. Legal ques- tions involving the customs, usages, statutes and adjudica- of thirty-seven States and all countries are yearly dis- cussed before the yea of New York legai students, He who Teads the daily pgera may almost run to the bar. The interests df commerce, new inventions, political changes, departures in. interaational law, treaties, statutes have all done thelr work in cutting old legal cobwebs, and, to return to our original figure, converted what once seemed almost patbless foreats into ‘ke ready of access. How an old sergeant at-law of the last century even would stare could he conés to life and see photographs of signatures to wills brought into testimony, or criminals or defendants in divorce suita identified by Pane, itkenesses put into the hands of an ofcer, or aee a wife executing a will or making @ deed, and in some places promissory notes, or obsolete, and @ lacge portion of Veteradorf's Abriigment is matte: merely of curfostty or illustration. There are whole chapters in'Starkey on Evidence that ate obsolete. There is a con- stant strugge going on between the old fogy lawyers and Progressive young ours. Yo & very great extent the juris prudence of Engiand bas become simpler than that in this country. Formerly lawyers universally combined to make their profession ax obscure as possible to the common mind. Now they vie with each other in accumulating well writien treatises upon every imaginable legal detatt, 1p order to make it clear and to accumulate exceptions to prin- ciples. A great lawyer, ike a great editor, may be de- i scribed nowadays to be a man who knows atleast a little of everything, or who can pnt himself in the way. at almost a moment's notice, ‘of acquiring any amount of in‘ormation on fo a given time, that it is possible to acquire oils. ‘The tendency In a great metropolls of jowarie the practice of “a specialty in all its manufactures nnd businesses. A division of labor has taken possession of even the law to « larger extent thainthe benchers of the Inner Temple dreamed of, when one man was a conveyancer, another a special leader, another an equity lawyer, another an attorney, &c. e law student will do well to select his peculiar specialty— all, content to suifer the ills they | although he must know all the kindred, and, to quote from myself, anclilary branches of legal science. One can very well acquire fame and fortune in a single purentt. Little Paul Dombey astonished his banker futher by asking, “What is money?” Yon will not astonish your preceptors, by asking, “What docs law relate to nowadays?” for they will answer you, reafirm- fing the ancient maxim | Quicquid aut’ homines— whatsoever man may do, an‘, indeed, sometimes whatsoever they may think. There are three or four thousand lawyers in thiseity. How many of those ever fignre in the news paper? And yet there are better lawsers, lawyers of great tice, lawyers who aceumuiate great wealth who never igure in the courts, Three-tifths of the leval questions are settled out of court and disposed of fn offices and counting rooms and in briefs that never see the ght. Time was when advocacy in law was everything. Nowadays it 1 nothing, except for notoriety and an adjunet to political fame. It {8 of very IIttle Importance compared with the law and Inwyora pe of court, Weil-marshalled facts eat oratory before juries. Attheinauguration supper of this {nstitution I heard a distinguisned and aged inwyer complain that law wes called atrade. It may be distasteful to one's pride and feelings to say so, but law everywhere has become rather a trade than @ profession, You may talk of the decay of the legal profession 8 one talks about the decay of the crama and of the press. But lawyers, actors and editors must conform themselves to the exizencies and requirements of the age. Nowhere in the world do the affaira of men—the quic quid agunt homine~-set_ in motion every great’ er minute wheel"of legal machinery so for chy. Other cities and State nd many rarali yearly send to this city their best Iewyers. If they are accessions ir. the claities they all succeed. The calling of the law 1s like a road car in this city; there is always room for one more. Platform passengers soover or later get seata. And there is even reward in holding on to the atrape. Sometimes one hole side of a morning newspaper will be devoted to the pings of the law courts. There ure many law clerks biy AS in thia fy in this city who have a greater income than the vest lawyer in Minnesota or lowa. And some of these men grow old as clerks, und rich, and are of as mueh worth to the community’ as lawy: palt the wigna at lawyers’ doors et it be no disparag ent to the w maneging clerks mn this elty who know more of jaw thin some of the eminent lawyers of that great place where empire's star tends. Mr. Hall then proceeded to spenk of the eriluent luweers whom he had known to his own thine at the bar and who were now dead, and passed a slowing tribute to the memory of some of them, still inculeating his favorite idea that the Cuture of the bar Was to be the adoption by its members of specialties Ju tie profession. An amusing incident occurred during the lecture, which cansed considerable fan, The gas, by the light ot which Mr. Hall was reading trom fis notes, went totally out on a sud- den. The Mavor, not a bit taken aback, a that it was the opposit of the gases —m thei bis own—had caused the mishap, and with the lecture fn the dark. After a few Kerosene of le quiedy went on moments an old coutimin . Mr. Halt assured the t very atrongly reminded him of the aman, incide f aFr ash n audience that th days he was hin WOMEN OF ALL AGES. Discourse by Miss Minnie C, Swayze. Miss Minnie ©. Swayze, a young indy who ja well up in history, proved last night by nmaerous examples that wo- men from the earliest ages to the present time have been warriors, orators, p painters and sculp- tore, and in ‘arts their performances have equalled and rivalled weu, at the same time preserving the delicacy of women, The lecture, which was given in Weber's rooms, corner of Fifth avenue and Sixteenth treet, was de- livered 40 well as to make the chronological facts easy to take, The lecturer closed her enlogy on women by a very five recitation from Mrs. Browning. ANOTHER LONG ISLANO MYSTERY. A Jew pedier who tas been accustomed to travel through the towns of Queens county for the past ten years, and who was koown by the familiar name of Frank, was shot on ‘Tuesday evening last, while driving to his home fn Colum- busville from Flushing, Afier_—_belng shot, his team keot on until they arrived home, nithough the wounded man wan insensible. ie has since died from the effects of the wound. As no ‘attempt was made to rob the wagon or the wonovled man the cause of the erime remains a mystery, There report that at the time Framk was last seen before being shot a com- anion was in the wagon with him, and that since nothing as been seen of him. ong entire matter has been kept ati se Prat cdr ut Yor tang Dawn, Buurderer tas becy taku. ‘Yhe friends of the man say be han 10 enemies. faced before the | Atter | THE BORNKG OF THE STEINER WaLLON| WT ENEZOEN LA. a hold of in a committee after | Statements of the Barkecper, Pilot and Enal- ueerA Feariul Scene—Heartrending Fea- turee—Narrow Escapes. {From the St. Louls Democrat, Jan. 18.) Yesterday a lernvon’s train frem Memphis brought to St, Louts the foliowing named officers and em- ployés of the burned steamer T, L. McGili:— George Murray, DLOL Vuiver Cottrell, first engineer. Charles Hazen, barkeeper, W. Woodruit, secoud clerk, John Grannis, steward. George Trussel, second clerk, and Thomas McCue, second Gvok. r oun Ausun, striker. “Another striker, ‘The pilot, James Kelly, went to New Orleans, and tho-e 01 the rousiabouts Why were saved remained 1 Memphis, ‘The statements of the survivors who have reached the city ada little. of easeatial i:nportance to those already telegrapned and pubiushed in our coluuins, Yet as these statements are corroborative and will be read With terest, we append some of them, Mr. Charlies Hacen, the varkeeper of the ill-fated steamer, wakes to our reporter the folowing states ment: STATEMENT OF CHARLES HAZEN. When the aiaim of fire was first given I happened to be sitting in tue cabip, by tne hall stove. {saw the chiet clerk, McFariane, run into the ottice, hay- ing al bis clothes on. He hurriedly opened the safe, got out Dis bLOks, and with them under dis arms ran down the siairway, abcad of me. 1 Sprang tO my reom, snatched my coat and overcoat and got them on, seized iny trank by the handle and ourried down the stairs. As soon a8 I pot down | saw Kelly, the pilot, helping some others to lauuch a stage piank overboard. Aboat twenty persons then got outon it. Among them 1 saw Ue steward, a colored man, and I think Mr, McFarlane must also have becn on ihe stage plank. ; They ran out on it before it get tito Lhe water, aod | | \ | as they were on the end of 1 the plank was tipped up and spilled (uem into tie Water, and the plank stage plonk to help them. but Keily fnully said, «We slid 10 after them, ‘Then we tried to get our the other have to 100k oat for our Owaselves.’? Both Key aud the eng.neer had been Working ifke Beroes, saving others. ‘Lhere Were ouly eleven baies of cotton on board and thein we tumbled overboard. 1 jumped on one of them and succeeded in getting to te shore. Captain Tompkina I left standing on the forecastle, near by the javkstai, he said to me, “Dont you jump overboard. You won't be ab'e to swin, dressed as yuu are.” | replied to him that I couldn't sWim, anyWay, aud I migntas well go. That was the last isaw of Captain Tompkins, He had been working hard, engaged throwing barrels of tour aud other things overboard, “to give the women,” as he satd, ‘a chance Tur lie.” He told me he Would fulow me in a few minutes, He was very sessed, I goton board the steamer St. Francisand was there well taken care of by her oiicers and crew. Among the passengers were thirteen Mexicans, and I understand wut there were four of them saved, OLIVER COTTRELL'S STATEMENT. Twas engineer of the T. L. McGill, The fire did not originate in the engine room, as stated, bus starled back aft Ou the starbeard guarier, and was caused, Lsuppose, by the Overheating of the de siove. It veroke out about lali-past nine o'clock. ‘The alarm was given by some of the deck crew. 1 Was silting in the biacksmiih shop when I heard the alarm. [ran out, on finding te boat was on fire, and attached the hose to the fire-pump, or doctor, Nelson Browo, the second engincer, assisied me in atiaching We hese and starting ihe doctor, Jerry Lory, the assistant engincer brought the nozzle aud rendered ass.siance. The doctor had just got to work when word cauie that it was useless to use the fire-pump, the flames baving got under full head- Way. At Unis time the engiie rvom was filled with fire and smoke. the throttle Lran up on the foo-box and valve to blow Nee Reis ou a, ouenea $6 my hair was singed, and the side of my lace was stightly scorchea—nothing serious; lL was the jast one io jJeave the gengine room; in commg down from the foot-box, bliuded apd choked by the smoke, I fell twice, and lost my bearings; could not tell which Way to go or where I was exactly; In going about [ pot hold of the siats alongstde the bolers, and then i knew iy locality; I went to the forecastie, where a crowd was coilected; Captain Tompkins and the first clerk, air. ‘McFarlane, were tiere; McFarlane had the books of the boat under his arm; the Captain was throwing barrels and cotton bales overboard for the peopie to hold to; the pilots, Kelly and Mur- ray, were helping, pitcuing overboard everything that would fcat—pianks, barrels, anything they could lay hold of; 1 joined them aud helped to throw out cotton bales, &c.; there were eleven bales of cotton on board, and we heaved them all overboard; George Murray threw over @ hook piank and jumped overboard on a bale of cotton; the negroes Knocked him off and took poss:ssion of it; it was @ strugg.e¢ for ite—every man for himself, without regard to race, color or previous condition of servitude, as the politicians say. I thought it about time to take care of No.1, and jumping on a bale of cotton, called on Woodruif, the second clerk, to jump on, He jumped on, like a June bug; the baie careened, and I rolled ‘off into the water, and weat splashing unger the guard. I toundered sround and got hold oi the bale again, but had bard work to bold on, being almost frozen. 1 beld with my hands a8 long as | could, when i lost mny grip irom numbness. 1 seized the bale with my teein, amd stuck to it like grin death to @ defunct Ethiopian. Whiie nolaing by tne teeth, buli-dog fashion, I tried to restore the circulation to my uands by pounding them violently upon the bale. Can't tell how long I was in the water—it seemed a century or two—certainly longer than | would like again. It was the coldest bath | ever took. The bale bonds, or see @ prisoner, in many States, testifying in his | quated down, and when twenty-five feet from the own behalf, and a husband and wife practically testtiying | a a Pr aee ethan At icam one helt Gr Daten nor? ying | suore a yawl from the Henry C. Yaeger came aton and I was hauied tn, like @ irozen turtle from a dead Jog. over the side, They put me ashore and started ot, and Woodruif and another map belped me craw! on and had inyseli thawed out, My fingers were frost- bitten and I was as cold as a turnip. I was kindly treated on the Yeager, and, in tact, everywhere. 1 live iu St. Louis and feei thankful for my escape. STATEMENT OF GEORGE MURRAY. 1 was pilot on the McGiil, When I heard the alarm Iwasin the Captain's room, in the texas, talking with Captain fompkins, The Captam thought the mate was having trouble with the men. We went on the roof and then heard the cry of fire. 1 ran down on the main deck and was making my way into the engine room, when I Met a couple of negroes runving terward in wild ex- moons at harvest .ime. The engineers were trying to getihe hose out. The doctor was at work. £ Baw there Was no use to try to go any further m that direction, so 1 started back, and was followed closely by the fire fiend. I went on the larboard side, where the crowd was. ing, jumping overboard and wringing their hand: The smoke was very thick, I started up the steps, aud was again driven back by the flames. Iran back and went on the starboard side and heiped the Captain pitch over cotton bales and barrels. { threw @ hook plank out, and the Captain told me not to get ON 1, aS it Was Not saie. 1 jumped for a vale of cot- ton in the water, but two negroes were ahead of ine and secured the prize; so 1 hac to swim for my life. bull rails, 1 asked him to heip me. He said he could himself; but he told me to hold on to # pale of cotton. I could not do this, as 1 was too numb from cold. I ‘was swept under the guard, und managed to swim to the starboard wheel, when I found the hook plank 1 had ‘thrown overboard; it kad lodged in the wheel. Aiter several efforts I got the piank loose and paddied down to the siern, where I was picked up. Iwas as stiff as asaited cod, and hardly able to move. I was put on shore and taken on board the Yaeger. My clothes were frozen stiff, and had to be got off by ripping them open with a knife. ly fingers were frcst bitien, and are so still, burst, Cottrell said, “There goes the steam pipe.” We were kindly treated by the people on the Yeager. The Alice, the St. Franc along and their ofticers rendered every assistance in their power. We came to Memphis on the Alice and from there by rail to St, Louis. There was one lady passenger in the cabin and two on deck; these, with the colored chambermaid, were all lost. Subscription for the Benefit of the Sutlerers. St. Lours, dan. 1871. About one thousand dollars was raised at a meet- ing on ‘Change this noon for the benefit of the sufferers by the burning of the steamer McGill, and for the recovery aud burial of the bodies of ‘those ee A commiitvee was appointed to raise additional funds. EARNINGS OF BROOKLYN CORPORATIONS. je enrnings of the Brookiyn banks and gaslight corpor tions for the past month were as follows: — Brooklyn Gaslight Company, feet... Brookiyn Trust Company, deposit: | Mechanica’ Bank, capital’? 145 83 Meckunics? Baul depost 1,506,534 556 £0 Brooklyn Savings Bank, doposiis..c.: 4024647 10,08 72 Fulton Bank, capita "200,000 53 83 Fulton Bank, deposits . 132 $4 Germania Savings bank, deposits. 144 45 Brooklyn Buuk, eapital, 35 00 Brookiyn Bank, depontta, 290 40 Brooklyn Hunky circulation $7 Long ialand Bunk, capital: 40 83 Long Island Bunk, deposi. : 201 64 Dime Savings Bak, & D.; average de- posit 72099 1,807 67 People’s Ganlight Companiy, B D., feck. 8,890,200 2,082 55 singe County Savinge Wank, ED te 356 Commercial Bank, average capital... MOM Commerelal bunk, deposi 139,000 THE RETURNS FOR THE SKOOND. Flatbush Gas Company, cubic feet. Union Guslight Company, cubte feet... 624,600 Kast New York Savingn Hank, deposita. BO280 duzeos’ Gaslight Company, cubie fe ge Mechanica and Traders’ Bank, capital. 100,000 Mechanics and ‘Traders’ Bank, de- itn. i a ne 182,586 Miamisburg Gaslight Company, cu: bie feet is QUITTING THE WORLD. About eleven o'clock this morning an unknown man, evi- dently laboring under mental aberration, was seen walking through Willow stxeet, Hoboken, When he reached Fourth street he drew a pistol trom his pocket and shot bimself through the breast. Death quickly foliowed. What impelled bim to the act is vaknowns active, yet ecemed to be quite calm and self-pos- | 1 I was as stuf asa poker, and they roiled me | into the yawl like a coil of cabie, my legs hanging | board the Yueger, where I procured dry clothing | citement, the whites of tueir eyes looking like full } te eke ee teeta present divided between the diferent local Boards of Esti- ‘They were scream- | I saw the carpenter, John Sheckey, holding to the | Just before I jumped in the water the steam pipe | and the A. J. White came | We heard a noise below. | | Taw, sagt | por | clous exercise possible. ) saving of milions to our t | thorized by the Legislature, and thus to protect the inte not do it, as it Was as much as he could do to help ; ga | efty shali not be liable for iadeuts | manicipal credit and to attr Closing Scenes of the Fall of Maracaibo. : Revolt of Prisoners at San Carlos—Capitulatiog of the Fort—Fighting in the Streets of the City— Final Capture of the City and Navy—De- mands for Money—Immisent Danger of Foreign Vessels—Guzman President. Caracas, Dec, 25, 1870. The fort of San Carlos, which is twenty mules froma the city of Maracaibo, was captured by Pulgar’g¢ troops, under General Eleazar Urdamata, on the 3d of December. But two days belore that the pring oners of the fort revolted, aud, the doors be! opened for them by the sergeaut of the guard, th m dearush for the commaniint’s quarters. He, seeing that he could not defend tie fort, attemptedy to blow up the magazine, but was instantly sheg and seriously Wound¢d by muskei balls, He wi afterwards out down with a saore, aud died of wounds io a few days. Atter a few hours! fight the fort remained in the nands of the prisone’ who declared for Guzman Blanco, Pulgar, was not near the fort at the time the revolt of the prisoners, and did not hear of tt diversion in bis favor until two days afier iv iad occurred, When he at once despatched a body troups and took possession of the fort in the name of Gugman Blanco, Afwer the taking of the fork some lively skirmishing took place between and the town for about two days, aud at midnight Of the 6th Pulgar’s Woops, wider Geceral Ei Urdamata, entered the towu. Severe lighting the wok piace IM the strecis, ie People Aguung fh street to street, firlog ou Pulgar’s iorces irom cha aud house Widows aid item Louse tops. 7 tghting lasted several hours, aud ut iength war Was forced to reure, which be did in order, and jewed tie ailack On the ‘gue bale “again raged iu ihe streets, the firing was very irregular and at rand tough tue deience was vigorous. Alter nearly a day's fightm,s Pulgar’s Wuoys were successful the city capituiated to General Urdamata, In eventing /ulyar entered 1n persed abu ab once levi Upon Mie CLUZeRS ALU IerousMs if iMoney, jocces OF Pulgar behaved im tue mos. gallant mi ner during the ight, aud afterwarus were most ex: emplary, ot cousuibung any depredsuoa or pi ‘Two Vessels Which were la tue uarvor of Marag caibo during the battle—the Auierican schooner J, MM. Moraies and the british schocacr aide — Muh exposed, aud siiot aud sheil uew Untick about them, The shot from the siuali arms iroui the tow! was 80 heavy that the cap ain of wie Morales obiged to cider lis crew beloW devs and the Ade: lade was Considerably damage ih ier rigging. Hi ilaiusall Was COMpicLoly USE.eS5 Lroua Lue LUuNvel of shots that had passea throug it. A boat's ere’ from Maracaibo tet the (owa, ud, runing siongsid the Mo.aies, fred & heavy Volley acrons or decks, Daring the baitie of ihe oth Lwo government ves sels atoud On and Off the LOWA Quid Kept Up a Vigored ous firing, but when the towu surrendered they surrendered alse, All the oflicers 0: Hernandez’! troops and men taken prisobers wore at once ex. iled to Curayva, but the prisoucrs Of Sau Carlos, a well as Trem ali the other prisous, were Liberaved Guzinan. fi ‘the orderly conduct of Pulgar’s troops, after thé, taking of tlie city, 80 upposiic to tue general be< havior of Venezuelean solders, was @ surprise t@ the people, TAXES LIMITED LY LAW. ‘Two per Cent the Present Basis of Valuae tions—Important Leaisiation. Tu CrriZENs’ ABSOOTATION OF Ni Fon ‘Jan. 20, 1871. ‘The Citizens’ Association begs leave to call the attention of the people of the city of New York 1o the bill now before the Senate, by which the amount of expenditure of the city ang county goveroment for the years 1871 and 1872 is to befized at two per cent of the valuation of the real and personal ea tates inthe city as now fixed for the year 1871 by the Com- ralasioners of Taxes and Asssssments. No measure of req trenchment and reform so salutary and sweepiig nas beer for years presented to the Legiviature, For the first om it is proposed to adapt ‘municipal expenditure to @ limited incotne, instead of stretching the iacome to meet an. almest uuchecked expenditure. Under the proposed, ay un-) derthe present system, tues are to be levied vy the Board‘ of Supervisors, under the authority of the Legislature. ‘The change to be effected {* merely in the fixing of amount of tue tax and the distribution of the revenues amon; the different branches of tue county and municipal zoverme ments. Under the present system, Watch 1s the product successive enactments of the Leaisia 102, by f the greater part of the annual expendi:tire 1x tixed aud ap~ propriated by local authority. The Boara of Supervisors de. cides what umount shall be devoted to armories and dr rooms; the Mayor and Comptro.ier, with the Commussivne! ot Puvlic Works, make the appropriations tor the Depart ment of Pabite Works. ‘The Mayor and Comptroller and President of the Fire Des partment fix the expenditures of that department. The De~ partmenis of Police, Heaita and Charities and Correction cach send » Commissioner, who, with tue Mayor anu Comps troller, oxes the expenditure of his own department, ‘toa Board of Educauou tixes tor itseli the amount which it ex; 18. Petihus the makiny of the greater part of our annual appropriae tions fs conuniited to seven dilterent local boarus, 0. six of which the Mayor is a member, aud to five of which toe Comptrolier belongs, but which kave no other connection with each other. ‘The rest of the expenditures are provided for by the city” and county tax levies, waits are passed by the Legislature, usually in the last hours of the session, under circumstances least tnvorable to evouoms, and waica provide fur all sorts, of miscelianeous objects by’ the appropriation of sums whic! are based on the éstiaates of th. local autuorities, and which, as they must provide for unknowa coutingencies, are aimort necessarily too large. ‘Aw the gross amount tus Ged in New York and Albany twin every year too great to he ralsed by taxation, the tax levies anaually provide anthority for the issue of vonds for aliferent purposes. Sueh ts the syatem waich, with v: modifications, has been estaoiisbet ior years, and under which, in spite of every effort oi frien ia of retorm, our eur- rent expenses and our permauent debt have mcreased, ‘The bil before the Senute appropriates for ali the expenses: of the city and county, including its proportion of State ix, wnd the Interest and’ priveipal of the webt payable from, taxation within the, year, a tixed sum amountlax to wo pert cen: of the value of property as now assessed for IST]. 10 apporcion ‘this sum itcreuiee a ioard, compored of the Mayor and Comptroller aud two heads of departments, and! cuucentrates tn it the power and responsibilty, which is at fous mate, and adds the uutiority now exercised by the Legisia~ iure over the comparatively unimportant 1tema provided for. by the tax levy, tins rendering possible the imitation of exs penditure to a'reasonable wmodut, and ay anteiigent dtetri? pution of the municipal revenues. Tue state has already: empowered the local government to speaa money. Tae esiect of this bill is to jimit that power aad renuer ite judi So much for the principle of the Ite iminediate practical cifects wil be au unnuak payers, the diminution of our taxes and a check to the increase of our permauent debt ‘the fourth section of the bili provides tant no Yong except revenue bonds and bunds issued by wtiection of the Conunias sioners of the Sinking Fund shall be issues without the con- rmeastre, | currence of @ majority of the oiticers a.ready named us mem vers of the Board of Apportionment, and unless previous o0~ tice is published for ten days in ave daliy papers, ‘The eect Uf this nection ta to give puvitety to the Wsaio of bonds ane ent of investors and the credit of the city. ‘The ufth section takes away ail power now existing to Ket- Ue ciaims ay st the musiclpality, and provides tuat the contracted by. any department in excess of the app: mn for sich de partment, and thut no Judgment suail be eutered agatast the city except upon the verdict of a jury. t a ft is unnecessary to point out the value of such a provision: + this, Tt dificult to beileve that any unprejadiced person can, after a fair consideration ot this bili, tail to see that it prot misea a most destrable re‘orm, and that its enactment will promote the growth of ti in the tnancial ad- roinistration of the city w! esse. tial to maintain our and retain capital and com- pon this island. rooiation calis upon every cltizen tp meagure for himself, aud to give it sure its becoming a law. xamine the pore as will ine LER COOPES, President Citizens’ Association, THE METHODIST MLBDLE. Contusion Worse Coafounded~Another Seere® Session—A Basis of Settlement Made and Repudiated. i ‘che Methodist Book Committee had along and deeply in- teresting executive aession yesterday. A basis of settlem:nt between the prosecution and defence was prepared an. dis- cussed, and at forty-five minuves past four P.M. the com- mitiec and the contestants had so far agree’ that they could and did unite in singing the Doxology over it. This seitlé- ment contains the withdrawal of the charges aga Lanahan by the prosecadon, und his withdrawal of awers, and, ag the commiitee understood, of his iormer aliogations of frand and mismanagement. ‘This latter potat, however, it was tinderstood at the adjournment, Dr. Lananan had not and would not agree to, And hence, while the com- mittee by vote instructed their secretary to furnish tho re rtera With au oticial copy of the “basis” and the s.atas of the litigants under it, Bishop Janes assumed the respon bility of withholding tt until to-day, wheo, if Dr. Lanaban perstste in his refusal, the whole caso may become more Complicated and « trial be forced forward. Dr. Carleton was in frequent consultation with the com- mittee during the day, but Dr, Lanalan refused to appear before them Uniess necompanied by conasel, gfe c had a long debate over this matter, but finally they the prosecution and counsel, end after some consultation rent for Dr, Lanaban and bis ‘counsel, who also appeared. ‘The ground of dificulty and the basis of settlement were then traversed, and what was believed tobe harmony gained, when the committee joined tn singin, ‘The Chair was instructed to appoint a sub-committee three to act in concert with Bishop Scott and Sadge 1 Fan tor the prosecution, and Judge Reynolds for the defence, thorough Investigation of all the books faud acconnts of i Concern, past and present, and to ail to thelr aid such experts as they may need in investigating. The results of their labors are to be lald before the committee at its quadrennial meeting in Februi aia previous to the meeting of the General Co: ference in a of that year. Lan: a ATTeS: ceases forthwith. ‘The offlctal career of Dr. Carleton, senior azen ey will nik was unanimously endorsed by she committee, to-day tu close up business, Tho Irish Emigrant Soofety held their annual meeting yess terday andelectea the following officers for too ensuing year :—James Lynch, President; John H. Power, First President; Jameu Olwell, Second Vice President; Jer 3. Campion, Recording Sécretary; Chairman Finance Com- mittee, James 8. Henaessoy, The sum of $10,000 was dix tributed among the various institutions devoted to tue cara of poor emigrants and their orphan children. The society was reputed in @ most Qourishing condition. Mensurcn were taken reiative to a further protection of emigrants agai fraud, and a resolution was passed t the transfer ol {he Emigration Commision from the Bate to the federal an: orl “