The New York Herald Newspaper, December 21, 1871, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 21, 187L.—TRIPLE SHEET, CONGRESS. Tho General Amnosty Bill in| uhtwrcanyia) thats" Bike the Se.ate. A Sandstone, Nepotism and St. Demingo Inquiry Called For. Cost of the Mixed Commission and Geneva Conference. HOUSE SALARIES. The Labor Commission Bill Passed by tke House. CUSTOM The Commissioners To Be Neither Politi- cians Nor Partisans and To Be Chosen frem Civil Life. SENATE, Wasuinxcton, Dec. 20, 1871. Mr. Morton, (rep.) of Ind., moved to take up the House bill appropriaiing $260,000 for the expenses of the Geneva Commission, Mr, CaSSERLY, (acim) oF Cal., thought the country ought to have a statemicnt of the items, None was given, huwever, and the bill was passed. Mr. MorrTox also called up the bill appropriating $62,000 1or the expenses of the Mixed Commission at Washington, wich was passed. Mr. POMEROY, (Tep.) of Kansas, presented @ més Morial o! the settlers ou the Osage Indians’ land tn Kansas, asking that measures be taken to reach @ speedy decision o: the question as tu thor titles, Mr. BUCKINGHAM. (rep.) of Conn, presented a pe tition of the women of North Carolina against wo- man suffrage. Mr. ANTHONY, (rep,) of R. L, from the Committee on Printing, reported a resciution to print 15,000 copies of the report of the Civil Service Commission and the accompauyiag message. Adopted. Mr. CRAGIN, (vep.) O1.N. B., from the Commitice on Territor! reported a bill to pay the expenses of the prosecuuons in Utah, Bulls were tutroduced and referred a3 follows:— &. i 7, (rep) ot N, Appropriating $250,000 to vide a building for tue use o: tne United States Courts t Albaay, N. York, —Yo lucorporate the 0.—TO grant to Nis- £8 os ria Lol Cianas to try tue suit of Carondolet va, United NT AND TUE GIFTS. dem.) ot Ky., odered a resolution di. the Couimiteece on invesugaion aud Re. 4 LO ase ig aud report whether the tolore had, any tute ny to furnish matertal for any le bas or Bad auy such Mr. DAVIS, rec nei or if Lai g, aud | meal, because un to the position of Senator or Member of the House of Representatives, or to anv ofiice, civil or miltary, | or any State, which per- such election or appoini- sition. right, under the United Siates, Bon was atthe tue of Ment ineligible to the Mr. Epaonos—That Mr. STawan: lead of special legisiavion on this subject. He Wished to wave the bill passed sursiantially as it | had come from tie House, without adding further exceptions, aithouzh he Had no objections to Mr, Morion’s amendment. Mr. SUuNER said ne believed in being Just before we Were generous te mie revels of We Souk, lie thougnt it was @ good opporiunity Co do justice to the colored race, and, terelore, he offered as an amendment tue Suppiementary Civil Kiyzhts viii. Mr. Hint, (rep.) of Georgi, expressed the hope that this great and careluily cousidered measure would uot be overiaid with amendments, but would be passed as it came trom tie louse. ‘The people of Georgia were rejoicing to-day over the adinission of their senator yesterday, and the passage of tuts bill wouid add to their rejoicing. As tw the amendment of Mr. Sumner he hoped i would noi be pressed, Decause 1 would inevitably xive rise to debate, aud it had better stand aloue aud de passed or rejected on its own merlis, He (Mr. Hill) beiteved tae mea- sure io be impracticable, as he woud endeavor to show at the proper time. Messrs, SUMNER @ud HILL then discussed at great lengtn the quesiton of equal guts lor colored per- sons In hotels and public scools and conveyances. Mr. MORTON mouitied lus amendmeut 80 as to apply ouly to mempers of Congress and Uuited States eillcera, Mr. EDMUNDS, at half-past three P. M., moved to @0 into executive session. Lost. Mr. TRUMBULL, (rep.) Of Ill, appealed to Messrs. Morton and Sumner not to picss their amendments, if anytmug practical was to be dove this year in the way of removing disabilities wt coud be douse only by passing this bul us 1b came trom ihe iiouse, aud he urged the Senate oot to adjourn unl We bul should have passed, Mr. ALCORN, (Fep.) Of Miss., sa.d wnat if the vill Was iobe amended as proposed his iuterest in at was © @ great extent gone. Me appeuied to Mr. Sumner not to press bis ameidiment, vecuuse It would embarrass the pending bili, and algo because 1t would imperil the amendment self bo tack 1 Oa to 4 measure regarding @ tivo-liirds vote, Lie de- manded the passage of the bill a3 an act of justice to the people of tne South. fe spoke 4s the repre. Sentative of all classes and Colors, for he was not one of those who occupied nus present position bes cause of the exclusion of oilers, He would nob hold oftice on such terms, Mr. Scot, (rep.) of Pa., chairman of the Ku Klux Comunittce, saint be would vore Jor the. pill because it would piace the government tn a position where Mt couid reasonably hold the Southern peopie toa More strict ovedience ot the law. He had now reached # point wiere he would almost be wiluag ! to vote for uuiversal aiwnesty, vec.use he thousht | hat, Tegarding the few ex-rebeis now excepted, if | tne Southern people should be foolish enough to elect them to public oMces it would only make tne Spirit of rebellion more O.ltous nan tt 13 at present, Ui Jefferson Davis should be eiecied again to the Senate tus Lolitical opponents coula better attord to Nave him tuere than the Southern people could, Mr. MORTON thouzht ots amendment vecessary in | Order to make the bil right, but ne was Wiliug to | take a vole without discuasiag 1, | Mr. Witson, (vep.) of Mass., sald he would prefer | to vete for tne bulas it came irom tie House. Me | would vote for it NOt as a matwr ol expedicncy, not | 83.4 meaus of quiztins the Ku Klux, not as a matter of justice to the south, vat si as a matter of i Mercy. He dui not hate ana he i=} | we South or avy section of the country, out | the longer he | lie more the wicked- | ness rebellion grew upon him, | He was pumuoer had uifered i3 ameud. atteation of tne senate bad been direcied to it, aud he hoped it would soon ve taken | Up and passed; but he preverred that it snouid not sed 71 to the pending bill. THURMAN, (de@uL) Of ObIO, sald that Mr ir. Morton’s amendment would have n» cilect, vecanse | It merely provided that the bil should not attempt | what it could not do in any case—validaie an elec- contracts to do Work | ierest, cr 4b came to tka by ” parchas or ant; ‘so whether ny persons have made donations to tia, and wheter ne has bestowed upou tie douors or their Telatives olives or pli 1, 1 0, the Laiues ei Such persons aud ofices, having Mose belonging to eacu state separaiely; also Willer he Las bestowed Ofices or places of puviic trust upon persons related to himself, or tu mem. | bers of his tamily, aud, Wf so, We names of such persons, tweir relalousiup to it deat and ihe wiices oF j bestowed upon thei; aiso Whether the been amy Cont act arraugemeat or wader: Blanding by Which way oMcers or persona in the Murs oF Naval service of the Cuted States were | to have any part or terest in any bonds, mone’, lands of other property vo be paid on thé rudieation oO: a treaty with tha repad- lic of Dominica and the United States, and, if eames Of ali Stel persons and Lhe connec. yi the muatier; also whether tke ships or marine | it States have tasen any part im the cond rece Baez and Cabray, and, If so, What part, With Wht Object and by what authority; also whotuer lie | rest leul or tue Leads of { tlemseives from Wash- re to make electioneering Mu ud tospend tueir a pation, with te Y aud length of such absences; also tat te comivittee livestizauug Uiese subjects have power to send for persous und payers. Mr, Davis asked its luwediate consideration, Mr. I NDs, (rep.) Gi VL, Suggested that so tm- ortant a resviulion ought to Ye priuted vefore be. ne avied upuk. He ihereiore objected lo Coasiuering How. Mr. MORTON—I hope that the Senator will withdraw | the objection. 1 Want to see this res lution passed, 1 feet ovliged to the senator trom Kentucky (Mr, Da. rlag . J want to see tuis investigauion made speedily, because 1 believe 1b will have (he effect of Syueicuing a vast nuTMyer oF Blan- ders that bave beeu put iu circulation for tue past Wo year: Mv. Eps s—I am perfectly in earnest about this matier. If the propricties oi the Senate would permit it | would say tual this resolution 1s in itself Boandalous, I wish to Lave it printed, | want ten thousand copies of it myseil as a cumpaigu docu- meni. The resolution was laid over, . BU NGHAM ONerod a resolution autnorizing Committee on Ke ireucliaent vo sitin the ciy of New York, and auiboriziog Us sub-comumitiee to administer oaths and take testimony, M JNDS Said It was doubUUl whether the oluiton, authorize a sub. oaihs, as i was only by an of tue comuiittees of either Louse had that right. ‘she resolution Was adopt Mr. BuCKiNGuAs also ofered a resolution direct- ing the payment oul Ol tne coutingent fund of the Sena 00, OF SO MCh Of tas May be neces sary y wwe expenses of the committee, Adopted, THE KAVY AN© ST, DOMINGO, BK, (Lep.) OF ca up his reson about to Si. Domingo, and Mt was passed ton. CUSTOM MOUSE SALARIES, Mr. Fenton, from the Conmitiee on Finance, ported the will to reorganize ine customs serv! and lo regilate the cisposition of fines, penali Jt prop in jtcu of the salaries, i perqiusites of ail Kinds now paid to odle custuins service, to Ux Weir salaries ag At New York—Coliector of Customs, $15,000 per @nnui; Surveyor, $10,000; Naval Oficer, $10,000; Assistant Collector, $6,000; Deputy Collectors, Dep- uty Surveyors and Assistant Naval Onlcer, $5,000 cue! chief cierk of 4 diviston ci Deputy Coliector, $8,000; day tuspector, diei; Ligut inspectors, $4 per diem; entry and lqui- dating clerks, not excecdiug $4,000; the o:icers of auditor and cash clerk ave abolished; one superin- tendeut of weighing gud gausring, $5, assistant superuilendents, $2,509 each; appratser, pa assistant appraisers, $5,000; exaimivers, 3,000, ‘Tue salaries of collectors at other points are Axed as Joliuws:— Ai Boston and Sap Franctco, $10,000; at Phiadel- phia upd Baltimore, $8,000; at St. Louis, Chicago and Cincinnati, $6,000, ‘The sauries of tne other officers at the above bamed ports are scaled to proporiion, ‘fhe salanes of all customs onicers at other ports not above enumerated are to be Axed by the Secre- tary of the Treasury at rates commensurate witit the duties and respousioliities devoiving upod them pclively, Dut in no case to exceed that now re- ceived by them irom salaries, morties aud all other sources. The bill furtuer provides that ali tines, penaities and forleitures received for violations of tue Customs laws shall be paid into the Trea- sury, and bo portion thereof shall be paid’ to any officer of the United States except in cases wwhere he actually detects the fraud And wakes the seizure, in Wich Cases ne Wil e@ entilied to one-fourth the net proceeds. Any verso NOL employed by the government ia, auder he same circumstances, eutivied to the sane , Hamely, one-fourth. Anotuer secon pro- iat all bonded warehouses and general order siores shail be located as near as possivie Lo the ints Where foreign vessels unload, and no ous tom officer sail be pecuniarly interested in such business. It 19 also provided that the public cart age of merchandise shail be under the vontroi of the Secretary of the Treasury. ‘The act Is to take effect July 1, 1872, GENERAL AMNESTY. The Senate thea’ tock up the House General Am- jesty vill. ats ROMERTSON said it was favored 7 all the prominent repuvlicans at the South, aud that its Pp Would galu te republican party more Trieuds there thab any other measure they coun iDLY Pass. an iideximauas read an elaborate speech on the subject Lie set forth OE i jength the enormity, te crime of the rebeluou, and expressed te hat Jefferson Davis god others ought " wo have been executed — tmmediaicly alter the end of tho war. The jovera: meut, however, had chosen @ dierent volicy and bad relleved so many individuals fro frei! poistacal disauilities that there was some ap. parent reason for charging It with Injustice If it felused to relleve otiers KO more guilly than those relieved, Hut he did hope that no other auuesty vould be introduced. vit. MORTON ouered au amendment providing that the act shall not be construed to date back so as to Validace Wie election oF appointment Of aly person te United states | Gon that was in itself invalid. Mr. BRAN, (rep.) of Ublo, proposed thatthe debate snouid cease at four o'cioes to-morrow, and the vote be then taken on Lhe vill aud ameudwents, Which was agreed to. ‘The Senate, taca, a’ twenty minutes to dve o'clock, Weat lato executive Session, aid soon alicrwards agjourned, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. WASHINGTON, Dec. 20, 1871, ELECTING POSTMASTERS. Mr. Urson, (rep.) of Ohio, offered a resolution in- structing the Select Commitiee on the Reorzaniza- tion of the Civil Service to inquire Into the ex- pediency of providing by law for the election of Dostmasters by the people. Adopted. ‘The Post Route bill was reported aud passed. JOSE M, GALLEGOS, the delegate from New Mexico, appeared and was sworn In. Mr. KELLOGG, (rep.) of Conn., presented petitions of the New Haven savings bank and others for reef , from taxation, | THE MAVANA STUDENTS, i 3 twelve | ic | | tives in Congress. | po | storm brewing. | with the a: Mr. Rorents, dem.) o1.N. ¥. ked leave to offer @ resojution Geclariag the exireme regret cf the House of Kepresentacives at the recenc wautoa mur- der oi the tlavana students, Mr. BANKS. (rep.) Of Mass, oodjected unless the coe Was referred to the Committee of Foreign aU. Mr. ROBERTS assented tu that disposition and the resiution Was so reierred. LABOR AND CAPITAL. ‘fhe Honse resumed the consideration of tho bill for the appointinent of a commission on the subject of proiis between labor and Capital iu the Unied States. Mr. CAMPUBLL, (dem.) of Ohlo, argued in favor of the disposition ‘of the subject which he had suz- gested yesierday—the reference of 11 to a select com- | yuttee of the two Houses, fe agreed with what | bad been said yesterday as to there vein: too many commissions, reterring 1a that connection to the faulure of the St. Dommgo Commission, ‘Ihe ques- tion of the relation between lavor and capital was one committed by the people to their representa- ‘The Comimitvee on Educauon and Labor was the proper comuittee to institute the proposed invesiization. If there were such @ slate of «iscuntent between capitalists and the working Classes. as to require prompt action by Congress, the proposition beiure the House was only calculate’ to procrastinate aud delay that necessary action. 11 the Presivent were 10 appoint the commissioners they would be selected exclustvely irom tne frieuds ol tie ad- ministration, Who they would be God only knew. aps Borie might ve at ine Mead of the co.umis- sion and fom Murphy at the tail, and sandwiched between them would be, perhaps, some men from | Yale aud Harvara, to go abroad for the benelit of | science aud to report, a3 1n the St. Vomingo matter, the character of the vermin, the bugs and tae Jizarus. Op tie other haud, a conmniitee to be ap- pointed by te Speaker would be selected with lmparualily, and would ve composed ol represen- tauves of both capita: and labor, and of the deinoe cratic party as well as of the republican parcy. Such acomnuitiee would be a far more diguided body than tat proposed i the bili, because it would be Composed Of men represeuting all sections of the country aod both houses OL Congress. Speaking of the necessity of action, he said that wuatterings Were coming up frou the laboring cuasses and were begtuning 10 be audinie, There was, peruaps, a ‘The cloud had mate’ 1s appear ance in the horizon. Lt was now, perbapa, no lar; than a man’s hand; but i would Increase ana 1 c until tie whole heavens would lackened and a storm with disastrous conseq seuces: would be tie result, uuless Cougress slould take prompt action to reiteve the lavoriug classes from me OPPRESSIVE SYSTEM OF TAXATION which now weighs upon tiem. He regretted that an effort had been nade to give the question a litical aspect. The House had been toi yesterday that the republican party was the friead of the javoriag man; but be asserted aud was ready to | Maintain that no party Nad ever exisied whose iegis- lauion bad been characterized by more of oppress siou and wrong to the great laboring and producing Classes of the couutry than the republicaa partly fur the last teu years, fie reviewed the legisiation of Jongress ou the subject of the tartt, internal ta. ana bonds, aud saw that the mut- verings which were neard arose from the fact that Congress — discriminated ~—_aagalust labor and 1a favor o: capital. ~Comueuting upon | the proposition for the repeal of the income tax, he said that it amounted 10 this: that tue rich man ‘Was to ve relieved from his proper burden of taxa. ton, and tue delicit was to ve made up by the mass of consumers, and yei the repuvlican party Ciamed to be, par excelience, ube Iriend and champion of the working man. Mr. Dawes, (rep.) of Mass, inquired whether party Was prepared Lo vote to rewin the democratic the income tax Mr. CAMPBELL repl thas he did not present himself as the representative of any party, Mo was here to represent nis imdividual Views and tu act uocralic parly jusc a8 long as Ne ve~ lieved that It would use its best efforts to undo and remove tue outrages and oppressions Which tue ree Publica party nad mmposed on the producing Clusse3s of the country, fle would like w know, however, Whetuer ali the repubiicans in the House Were prepared to vole for the repeal of the tucome tax, I so, the gentieman (Dawes) Was reckoning Without lis Host om that subject and on the quea- on of the cari, Mr. Dawes inquired why he imputed to the ree publican parcy the desire tu repeal Ube income tax? Mr. CAMPSELL repited (nat the President had not only recommended it in iis Annual Message, but had actually besougut individual members ot Con- gress to Vote for it Leiore tie Hol.days the gent! mea might a8 well sett their sails to mi the coming storm, There had been littie procession in the streets of New York lost Sun- day. ‘the wen who took part in it meant dasiness. ‘They coukt not have tueir agents velore Congress, asthe capitalists had, but they were coming, Tue Cluus were gatheriag, THE REVEILLE WOULD 800ON BE HEARD and the call to the ebarge would soon ve sounded, ‘Vhe confMict to 1872 between lavor and capital would be oue Of Wie most remarkable events in (he hisiory of the country. The cians were gatnering. ‘ihe, would come from the wountain tov, from the val- Jey, (rom the plains, from the (ar-off trontier, from the sea, froin we river and from the lakes, in one common Union against the wrongs inflicted upon them, and the motto on iueir vanuers would ve “iequaliy Of Man Before che Law." Mr. 81G@8, (dem.) Of Del., Said Wat memb¢ here ae the representatives of the favoring int of the country, and that when the republicans ua- dertook to say that the democrats were opposed to thev misrepresented the fact. the jaborin classed ‘Lever had hated | become | Beep Ea i LOL LL a I I of the United States of Ainerios, in Con, ss assembiet, that there sb.st be appointed by the Presitect, by and with the advieo and consent of the Senaic, a commission of three per= fons, of whom one abail be practically identited with the laboring inierests of the country, an | woo aaall be selected from evil Ho solely with Feference to tuelr character capacity for houest and impartial i 0 eh, olliee for the The democratic party was the natura! protector of the working classes, He alluded to the srant of 65,000,000 acres vi public lands to the Northern i’ eile Kaitroad for the benedt of ten or twelve Wealthy men, and asseried that the republican party had within the last ten sears extracted more | Muvey sro the lbortag classes (han alvihe demos crauic adsainisiyaciods .0r jorty one veara, Mr. HOaR, (rep) Of Mass, inquiied whether, during all inat time, the gentieman (Mr, Byrgs) iad not ad Ovated the policy oF Capitar Owning labor? Mr. Biucs repiied that he had always advocated the interests of ‘the labortag classes, Mr. Hoar suggested that that wasno answer to | the question. DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND, Mr, BicGs suugested tnatil Mr. Yoar read tne hustory of bts own Siate he would fiid tiat boys and girls not Niteen years of axe were xept at work In | | the factories of Massachusotts unth the supcriae | tende:t had 10 throw water im thelr faces to Keep them aivake, (General laugnter,) He also re- marked that it required & CO woination of ail /0- litlcat jactions iu Massacnuseits at ie last election tn order to deleat General Butler—tie cun- diate of the workinzmen’s party. (Laugoter.) Massuchasetis was 80 given bo meddling with other propie’s Wusiness that she could not rest sausued, ‘he gentiemin (Mr, vac) Was atraid of the next Presiiential eection aud wanted to manuaciare poliucal cap.tal, He (or tloar, Gould not lua any More abou ihe negro, and now he wantec two get up @ litte sympatay trom the labounz men, bul (hey unlerstoud this, Phere Was Wot au iMietligeut maa | in the House who velivved tuat a man couid | obtain a liveiiaood for its wile and chile dren by working only eight hours a dav. of one Fe: duties saul! es tin ale th i the slivision of the joint 01 aud the capitallat, and the social, educstional and sanitary condition of the laboring classes of the Unit how the sama are aifected by the existing jaws regulating commerce, finance aad currency, provive! that anid Commissioners. shad be appointed irrespective of poll ns! erations, and (rom civil hie, Commissioners shail receive an annual shall be authorized to employ a clerk, Feport the result of r inves’ tigation to tho lresl- . to be by bim transmitted to Congress. | The House, at halr-past three o'clock P, M., ad- Journed, the session to-morrow to be for geveral debate ouly. THE LEWIS STREET PANDEMONIUM. Freaks of Jeslous Women—the Marriage Feast in the Orient and Its Unhappy Tere mination, No. 163 Lewis street 1s a four story tenement house, Each floor 13 occupied by two or more fame lies, and there 1s a liquor store on the first floor. For some time past 1! has been the scene of disorder and drunkenness, Young men and women, some whan ad the Btate to come andsay twat | of them not over fifteen years of age, man saould uol work ten hours, twelve hvurs DT were accustomed to congregate there and fourteen hours a day I! he saw proper to dio so’ win Wauied to Tegulaie tue relatioas of uplial ne shoul KO LO tus OWN Sune dud 8C\ aM eXauple .uere, Instead of exc.ting Whe Wile laboring classes Dy the fatreducuon of such & measure as tii. ‘They all KuewW ACW Ab had veen with ine negroes, who Were Lold Uhat (uey were to | have each lori wcces of waal and a mule, (i.ausne ter.) 50 uOW ine atieupt Was made to deluce the laboring people of tie Coury. He Dad o douvt that no sooner wouid the bil be passed than tree or four Qusdred vroken-wiuded republia.s politir cians would ve at the Whe touse, veseechiny tue President to give thew the appolutiment as Coulis aioners, Mr. is:NGHAM, (rep.) of On10, spoke m advocacy of the proposed investigation, wich, however, lie be- heveu suoulu be made by the Comuntiee oa Kuuca Uon and Labor, ‘the mvestigation Would tend to Quy Wwe Wrong Lupression uf toreiga workin,men comm ty this county. He ad no tear ol ie re SUL Me Was veriectly Wiluug Utat the lavesuzation should be made, ie wished tue wuole record of Almeticun hibor to be made a8 Civat as suuligoL to lhe Oppresseu men of Oller couilries, ‘Toey Would then aauersiand Uae ie ts the pridd ana buast of ainerica (iat here tur Wwe Best time and by tbe direct tuteryeniioa of lew had veed secured & FAIR DAY'S WAGES Fuk a FALK DAY'S WORK, He cared nothing as to waat wight be adyoou.ted by the iiterna.stodais or tne Comuane, ‘Tae poole of tis Country Were euligulened; they kuew tueir Tigh 3, aud auOWiNs dare Mmalotai ds, Leb Cue a Uy be made, ana cue ict Would be made to appear tuat Witu.n the Laas O. Olio, tor exXaurpie, Where tiece Were ny dure tuan 3,000 square Holes oF terriory Aud ZvVu,vu peole, Laere Were more freeuowers, More ied Wiv Wada permauenl siake 1M che soil Tuan Waele Were In Great Brival wWita ber ivJ,v00 square miles oc terrilury aad Ler 27,000,00) Ol bev vie. Mr. SHANKS, (rep.) of Ind., advocated the bill, and Stated Wiai tue lavestigatioa Was Wot ty acterunae | results, but ty enable the people to determiue tuew for Wi Seives, hold high revel and indulge in bacchanalian orgies 1ll early morn, Hardly a night passed without some row or scrimmaze, Last Sunday & marriage took place witnin these unhailowed pre- cincts, Robert MeMaster espoused Elza Durham, and the ceremony was followed vy the usual festivi- tes, Since that time it has been a scene ol per petual nilarity, An end must come to ali things, ant an eud came to the wedding feast in Lewis street, Yesierday moraing Mary Vempsev lodged a com- plaint pefore Junge Scott, at Essex Market Court, Aguiust Jane Foster and all her voaruers, on ihe secon flour oi the house tu Lewis sireei, for being disotderly. Tuey were escorted belere His Honor by dergeant Thoinpsva, most of them younz xiris aud inen not above twensy. They gave their names as Marv Brady, Michael Brady, Carrie Johnston, Emma mito, Kober ».cMasier, Euza Le G OD ert Brown and Wiillim Graver. None of them seeinea to know what they were atrested tor, but protested strongly that tiey were merely visitors, Juper—I have had sever.t compialuts against bi folks, aud 1 am determtued to break up tus thing. WeslasreR —Judze, us fellera atat got nuthin’ todo ‘With it; unis all comes of jealousy; 1 marred Lizzte Durvam Sunday atzat, and this Dempsey girl she 18 Just raisin A-Il about it; Lnav’s whai’s the matter, JvougE—1 will put you all under $60v bail to keep the peace. Many Buapy—I’m a married woman, Judge, and there’s ny liusband (poluting to a silm-iooking weaias with a ueavy faili of har behind his ear); Ldon’t sce waat you want to lock me or my husvand up lor; 1 am marred four months aod never did anyruins Wrong in uy Lite, Jane Hugnes, the mother of Mrs, Brady, here spoke up. Sue ts a low-sizod woman, will dark, pleveing eyes and red face. Wer lorehead was ene veloped ta rea ilunact, and she presented anything but a fascloatng appearance, She said, “This is a@iont of revense, ier Honor, because siicnael Brady married ay dartner and not that troliop, sary Dimpsey. here niver was disturbance m the house tii last nizhi, Whin that sitvumpet vimypsey { alt ine byes around the corners and thi up mto my litte place, ‘raere was elgi.een OV Ulin, aad Ptnraied thim all civilly, and wor willin’ cuough to go down quoily wha LT axed Khim, Lhave notin’ avin the byes. Dunpsey she Kept & Daggid tatm and sendin’ taim back agin’ for pure d-viliweat, 80 as to roise me tumper, and, joodge, she wor sain’ all ae tne We foon c inmences On’ the sntairs at viree o'clock. Aud do ye Know what she mint by that?) Phat was Uiat the garis were to be dragzed Out of the rooms and (here would be nothin? oat schaimperta? and shky.ardin’ srom the top to the boitom of te house tii daylignatio the mornin’, JupG¥—! thins you are all a pretty nard lot. Mrs. How No Worse gor our neiguvors, av we Wor let alone, but We'l_ not be put upon, SvdGE—Liljcer, remove tiess poopie, ALL Tits YoUNG dEN—Taus 1s rougi, ub to ine Clerk's fad read a letter irom Walaa Ladin, rou Mouiiers? Lacraatioiual Uuiod tug thas tue eyes of atl Lae labore r. L0.r's Dill. ad Cae ine lel ter jUSE read Was @ air specu ot those wiica, Thom aii parts o: th. Couuiry, irom mea mterested | |b every juria of iwbor, fe aud received darhag Ue | past Week, Hecuaracieriaed ine amenduent oi Tered by Lo reer Lite | ComMiitec—as au wtiacn upon te Y Ml. CAMPJeLL Wistlalled aay SU He had Gicrea {us amendmedt because be velieved Laat a comm tige -o appommted would ve dalrer and freer frog ob, ecuOR Luad any Colmuission appolaved Presi lent. MOAx said that Lwo UtIngs were to be accom- b, a thorousa dit ELAN ; aud sevoud, the sate cUoa Oi Lae COWMUTY WiLL Lue resau. Bota of e impossible wader she proposition of tne irom Udio. ‘Tuc tuvesigation coud not Af, DPE VENSON, (Fep.) Of Vitto, desk aud genue be cairied on wwroughiy by a Comamitve OL the y “ House aiid Seaate coustsweat with aliéation 3 the | j Abt, Tie Xeusc, tates (erste ond aopoing } Oller dues vi Lae INvUAVess, AN ID bue Hex place ihe whole bevy were then taxen oul, to be pros j tere Were ali meyers vl one or Lie other poiitt- Cal pariv; 80. tne proposition when trausiaied | Vided tor by the city Ll proper bail is procured, meant that im tie per paar ge no me.aber s r oi the iavor party would be competeut—uo Riv! DiLaTa IN BOs oh person nol a aemocrat or @ revuDilcan, Lai ee lal It could not be utierwise, aul, Wherelore, ihe propo Sition Oelitiled aud Would ve UnUerstood To Delite the measure, It was true that the rresilent might HOumate aad the 5enaie migut confirm vores geulie- Men of te vias descrived vy tue Yentieman irom Dewware (Mr. buggs) as “brokeu-widea republl- Can pouliclans,” i he did he Would Rave, 10 Ms great Oftice, struck u Vlow at the lavorlug interests of iuecountry. he President Wasa ulau 01 courax | but taere was oue chiug Waled he dared uot do, aa luat Was to devoie tits Commission to poutical or parusau purposes, lie President Was tu exercise | the authority conterred upoa him i tue eyes of the | auXxious, Ex pecthiry, AROUSED SENTIMENT OF THE LABOR'NG CLASSES. Mr. CAMVBELL asked Mr oar if he thought te President wouid appoint a democrat ou the com- mission. Mr. HOAR thought that 1f the President could flad @ democrat with sue interest, the Capacity aud the desire to make the proposed investigaliod—and he mabe and veleved he could—be Would appoint 1. Mr. CAMPBELL asked Mr. Hoar to name a demo- crut whom we Iresideut had ever uppoinied Lo Oilice, Mr, Hoar declined to pursue that subject. He had a word to say to the gentiemaa irom Delaware (ir. Biggs) He hope. ne never Would be led ta de- bae to the exchanze of crimimauou or r tion in regard to the history or character of A Man Found Dying in a House, with Dis Skail Uroken—Was it a Murdcr ¢ Hoboken has again been the theatre of a tragedy Which is shrondea tn more projound mysiery than gay of the numerous deaths by violence that have taken place there for a log tine, It aitords some slight satisiaction to the public when they learn exacuy how @ victim has been bratully hurled into eternity, and at whose hands he has fallen, even though the murderer, possessing politi- cal mfuence, may succeed im escaping the aveng- ing arm of the law through perjury and fraud. But when @ mortal is foully despatched within @ jew seconds, In @ manner toially unfathomablo, anxiety fills the breusts of all who happen to live 1n circumstances similar to those of the victim, Ata quarter betore eleven o'clock on Tuesday night Patrick Flynn, @ratier respectable pedler, retired to rest, alter a day's toil, ut the residence of his wife, 99 Meadow sireet. she lay down al the same time, and seon fellasicep. 1a halt au hour she was stared from her slumbers by ORES OF “MURDER”? in the yard below, Sne missed her husband, and she recognized the cries as ls, Hastening duwn stairs the dillereut States of the Union. if iM | ghe found that be nad run mto tue next house, ex- Bay American Staie labor, numanity or mo | claiming ail tne time that he had veen Killed by two jYality were disgraced it) was tue common | men, ie grasped cae Daunister (or a short time and disgrace of every American citizen. As to the work- thea fell exhausted to the floor, A long and deep lug Classes Of Massacuuselts, his read from Dela vare remeuuver tue fact which le lad stated — su turas 1t was a fact—iaad been disclosed vy an tuvestigation of precisely tae character of that now proposed, Witch nad beea ordered by the repuuil. Cau Legislature of Massacausetts? Aud iti? (sir Dar, could not flud a vetter argument for the bill he would say that if a singie boy or girl ot uiteon Wound was found in the back of his head, and he was covered with bivod. Docwr Benson was sum- moned, and the Wound was pronounced not neces- sarily tata The man sank rapidiy, Lowever, tll three o’ciock, waeu death relieved him of bis tor- ture, He described bis assalant as a poltceman, Who struck im upoa the head with hls cub, aud Bali that aman mM citizen's Clotlies Was with tno Years of age, instead of being In the Common scuod! | onicer, Lf he has becu murdered the assassin or tutue busouw of the fauuly, was Wworsing M & | must have disguised himself im tne unt- factory untti nature failed 2n4 water had to be | form of a polceman. Oulcer “Hammoud thrown 1 tts iave, Lhe cost of on nearing the first cry raised rushed towards the THK COMMISSION WOCLD NOT B@ THROWN AWAY | scene, bul saw no one in the yard. Several fovt- M that one Ung alone was disclosed and held UP | prints were visivie iu the suow, nowever, those of tn the lace of day asd remedied, He would ask the | the deceased (Wao Was nude) being also perceptible. | gea leman (rom velaware If the Massachusetts law | wuica iorbaue che eupioyment o1 calldren In facto- | ries, umiess they Had aa opportunity to attend | schdol, avas aot beter thau not uaving any common School, And sendiag sguorant boys Bud girls Lo the piliory or whipping-post ? Mr. BigGs sald tnat it was right and proper for Chusetis to estaplisin hey lavor bureau, bus she { NOL Come LO Congress fur that purpose, A’ Ware, that was an 1 One of the members of the Fire Departinent, wao Was standiag oa the opposite side of tne stree! that he saw deceased rushing trom the hatiway his house inty the street and thence into tie adjoiuing house, shrieking “Murder? Hence it would seem tnat Flyno had been TAKEN FROM HIS ROOM to the yard and there oaten, inasmuch as there was blood On the stoop. Sone say tuar he was sallering with delirium tremens, and to cals condition ran Lo the Whipping-post in Vela StiLUtion Wille Lue people Of that Slate were proud | into the yard and ‘ell on the stoop. This opinion of, It nad oy been established for feions aad | wnoien 1s. by no means cerwain, 13 suared scoundrels uud thieves and robbers; and itwas to | yn py Drs, Prendergass aud Benson, who be suid, Lo the great giory oi tie Stal had ever been brought back Ue secou being properly Waaied. (Geueral laugiter.) Mr Hoa Inguirea Woe ner no wouwen were Whipped tuere a second time. Mr, Bigus Was unuble to say, But there had been quite an emigrauon trom Delaware to Massachu- Belts. (Laugiter.) Mr. Hoak said that af the gentieman from Dela- Ware, or auybody eise, thougat chai tne system of Delaware was veticr than that of Massacousetts, Or Liat was @ matter for an exulting sneer or lengh he was Welcome to eliwer, Ho had nothing turiher to say. This was SIMPLY A DEMAND FOR LIGHT; it was a dewand Jor au investigation into the ques. tion Whether the legislation of the general govern- Tueut did in any respect operate injurious to the lavorers of the country, Who would dare to say that he would reiuse an lavesuigation demanded by made @ post-mortem examination last evening and found sudicieat cause of deatv both ta congestion Of the lungs and disease of tie heart. Nevertieless Odicer Heyes remained about the scene of Flyna’s death yesterday, but failed to find out anything which mught lead to the impiicauon of any one Coroner Parslow will bury Ue rewains to-morrow, without bolding au inquest The case must tuere- fore be rauked among Lait udozeu similar ones in Hoboken, wither notaing 1s found out about a murder, or, uf the murderer be detected, he escapes serious puuisiment, POLITICAL MORALITY IN JERSEY. A Jersey City Alderman Ordered to Vacate His Seat—Alleged Frauduleut Naturaliza- ali tue organizations of lavor, und refuse to nave | tions it maue by the See luparual and Ub The present Board of Aldermen of Jersey City competent persons, On those two proposinons he ' would est tue bill, and cail ior a vote Ou It Comite: Pent. mesueveray ony OLwe ce The yore was first taken on mr. Burchard’s | Whom, Messrs. Reardon and Joyce, are amendment directing ihe iuvestigation to be made | democrats. Joyce owed this iniroducton to by the Bureau of Statisvies, aud 1 negatived. public office to the St Patrick’s Alliance, ‘The vote was wen taxen op Mr, Campoeil’s pro- Position lor the ap olutment of a joint committee, and he was forgetful cnongh of the aid rendered to and it was negatived. + tat Mr. Kilt 4, | make war on this very organization im- ‘Ihe vote Wds nex aken on rr illinger’s a he ed amendment, requiring one of the Commussioners to | Mediately after election. Joyce vc be be practically identified with the jaboring interests | Weaker in the sirnggle, and sen ence | O! of the couucry aud Limiting the term of the commis | @Xpuision was pronounced, Here began his wouvies, The men who eievated him to power releuted when it was too late, but they soon found @ road to retaliation. If Joyce were oniy possessed of any foresight, he might readily perceive that ho was in the position of the man 1n the giass house, who invited combat by throwing stones at his neigbors, Insteal of endeavoring to conciliate his enemies and postpone hostilities he actually resumed the Biou ty One Year, and It Was aureed to. Mr. FAKNS WORTH, (rep.) Of Ili, moved to amend Mr, Kuiituger's ameudment by requiring tai the three Commissioners to be practically identuued WiUn the interests of labor. Mr. Hoaw sual he wouid accept that, Mr. GARFIELD, ,Tep,) Of Oni0, objected, on the ground that tue Com.nssioners Would all be on the eee tan onipotine Loa; Out he suvsegueatly Wiih- fgut. by. his alliance win’ biecran in the t 4 ; late campagn an 1g active 01 one objected; but be, too, withdrew less elturis to, ofeat ott goueague, Rear. ‘The CULLING ¥ " y doa, The jatier open F i Ne ee een lec aie pronoaeull to | upon him, which will fatty arive him from political two members of Lie Commission. lie, A resolution was offered and adopted in the Mr. PERCE, rep.) Of Miss., objected. Board of Aldermen that @ committeo be ap- ‘The yous was tien takea on Mr. Perce’s amend. | pointed to Investigate and report nde ad ment requiring the Commissioners to be selected | Joyce was properly Sey Bo gt pol suely With reierence to tueir character and capa | occupled, That comimitiee, ai tion of several weeks, reported on Tuesday night that Joyce was disqualified on the ground of non-citizenship at the time of his election, althouga ‘The main ques- city, aud ib Was agreed to, The jast awendment was that offered by Mr. Cox, requiring te seleciiou to be made Irrespective of ui holding his aaturalization papers. Reeve. to. ane ene aepiamcaiise sore tec ti tion to be solved in we Cas Toad the man- ‘ i lec — ner In Walch the papers were p . x20 gall Bcee young ta ibe uegeave were Nese “The fouiowli cxtract from Joyoe'’s evidence will Nays 86. ‘Those youn, Adams, Barver, Bir in the negative were Messra. rt Braxton, Bright, Burcnard, | show that he dia not render much assistance to ‘he committee:—"‘Arrived in the United State Caidweil, Camppeil, Clark Comingo, Connor, - “4 Oriteher, Crossiand, Davis.” Du Hose, Eluridge, | 1861 or 1802, did lt pooeie net pouvey Handiey, Uarris (Va), Kerr, Lewis, MoCorauck, | twenty-seven or twenty-c ht, i i _ Mcintyre, Paimer, Peck, Pri Read, Riwe (il), th Mea ga une ~" ieee Wetelnsrie, Wincwester and ter, Hatiee, Terry, | Ie, oy New York; could not recollect the namo of Whitihorne, Wincnester and Young—36, TEXT OF THE Bible ‘The bill, a8 passed, reads as follows:— A ttt to provide for the appotatment of a commiaston on thy sabjector the wages and hours of avor, and the diviston of profits vetweon labor and capital in the United States. Wort enacted by the Seaate aad House of Meprescusatives tie Vessel le came in, nor the name of the ine or firm the vesset belonged to.!” “ne Hoard of Alderinen adopted the report, and ordered Joyce to appear next tuesday evening and show cause Why his xeat anand nol be deciared vae COL AROUND THE CITY HALL. What Was Rumored Yesterday About Certain Prominent Parties and What the Rumors Amounted To—The Mayor's Contem- plated Resignation and What He Says About It—Peter B. Sweeny Heard From. Romors flew thick and fast in the neighborhood of the departments yesterday, One was that the Grand Jury had indicied a Judge of uno of the Courts, who, it was alleged, had obtained money on false vouchers; another that the Mayor's resigua- tion had already been placed in the hands of the burly Coman, who was to call a special meeting to consider whe situation late at night, alter the re- Porters nad goae their ways unsuspectingly, and yet auother that Sherif Brennan bad received war- rants for the arrest of severai heads of departments and officials who are yet in power. However, the rumors proved to be without the slightest founda. tion in truth, As for the rumors of the conten. plated resignation of the Mayor they were renewed with greater vigor than ever, Wat foundation for truth they had may be inferred from the follow- ing:— (From the Evening Telegram of last evening.] A reporver of tho Zelegra)n Dad an Interview with Mayor Hail Us morning in his favorite oillce Lu the City all, ‘The Mayor was down at an carly nour, aud Was e,ceedugly vusy siguing Checas: aud Warrants trow tie Vumpirolier’s O:tice aii tae Morning. (Le Mayor expressed nis desire to give any Imivrmation to we reporter. ‘The tater askea:— Mr. Mayur, 13 Lnere any truth 10 & report pub- Msnea tais morning toat you have your resigualion written oul? Mayor—lI gucss you mast refer to some resolution of # com:nittee about my resiguation. RgevORLKK—NO, 1613 positively stated that you have your resignation written oul, aud in addition that the Buard of Aliermen wailed until four o’clock yesterday to receive it, MayorR—lI have not seen taat paragraph. Rerortsr—is it true, Mr, savor? ‘The Mayor hesitated aud looked out of his window for a loug time. Alter considering, apparently very careiulty, ne said:— “1 nave not resigned yet.?” REPORTRR— Vo you intent to resign, sir? MAYoR jagain alter «long pause)—Weil. you may Bay im the Zed gram that Lam at preseat Ure subject of circumstances Which may oblige me to leave ottice Immediately. Wuavever 1 do will ve tn the Interest of the citizens, RKerorrsr—Mr, Mayor, there 13 no trath in the statcmentthat you have already written your resig- nation twice and twice destroyed It? Mayor—that 13 not true, ‘Tue reporter then withdrew. ‘The Mayor yesterday submitted the following lists of appomtments of School Inspectors aud Trus- ees :— Mayor's OFFICE, } New York, Dec. 20, 1871. To THe HONORABLE THR BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION:— lo pursuunce of the act passed April 25, 1864, as Gmended by the act passed April 13, 1871, caapter | 574, 4 hereby appoiat the following persons to be Inapecivrs 01 Common Sciiouis, for the fail term of three sears, trom and alter the Ist day of January next, each to ecuuvely succeed the inspector whose term of ofice thea expires by limitation, Vis.3 : In the First district—Anthony J. Oliver, baker, 23 Cherry street (reappointment), da the Second districjk—William F, McNamara, lawyer and editor, 155 Henry s'reet. ln the Tard district William il. Gray, merchant, 146 Hudsoa street (reappotutneat). In the Fourth disirios—Har LU. Woods, Super- Intendent Second Avenue Rutiroad, sd Allen street (reappointment. Tn the Fiiin district—Alexander MceLeud Agnew, meichant, 24 Kasi Tweniy-urst sirect, fo the S1xta district—Joua H, Tietjen, merchant, 4it Toath avenue (reappoimtment), In the Seventh digtrict—xobext McGinnts, builder, 417 East Fulty-seventh street sieehpauutmenty A. OAKWY HALL, Mayor THE TRUSILES. MAyYor’s ORFICK, New York«, Dec. 20, 1871. TO THS HOXORABLE THE BOARD OF COMMISSION. QF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION:— Jo Reranee of the act passed April 18, i571, chapttt 574, {hereby appoint the following persons to ve trustees of comimon schools fur the full tera ol five years, from and aiter (ue Ist day of January pez each to reapecti®ely succeed the trustee whose rin ot oflice then expires by limitation, viz. :— In the First ward—Rithare A. Barton, cooper, No. 53 Whitehail street. in the Second ward—James Sullivan, merchant No, 2y1 ri street, Jn the Third ward—Andrew D. Purteli, produce Geaier, No. 104 Vesey strect, in the Fourth ward—Arciubald J. Fullerton, clerk, No, 2o Cherry strect. In the Filth ward—John P, Frazer, merchant, No. 193 Hudson street, In the Sixth ward—Thomas W. Casey, merchunt, 150 Centre sirect. Iu (ve Seventh ward—Thomas Shiels, merchant (reappointment), No. 55 Pike str In the Kighth ward—David Walker, merchant (re- | appointment), No. 12 Macdorgal street. iu the Niuth ward—Oliver B. Stout, editor, No, 47 hares street, In the Tenth ward—Eaward J. Knight, lawyer, No. 76 Canal street. In the Eleventh ward—R, J. O'Sullivan, M. D, (ro- ba dees No, 13 avenue B, the Twelfth ward—Cnaries Place, secretary of insurance company Geappeaninen th 125th street, between Sixth and Sevenib avenues, In the Thirteenth ward--Kasimer Krenkel, safo Manufacturer, No, 6 Attorney street. In the Fourteenth ward—Coruellus Desmond, dealer, No. 234 Mott street. In the Fitieenth ward—John A, Hardenbergh, merchant, No, 13 Kast Twelfth street. In the Sixteenth ,ward—Benjamin 8, Van Buren, merouane (veappointunent), No. 253 West Sixtcenth atreet, In the Seventeenth ward—William Fischer, grocer (reappointment), No. 16) Essex street. In the Eighteenth ward—Joln N. Hayward, man- pore gad (reappointment), No, 243 Kast Seventeenth street In the Nineteenth ward—Robert McCafferty, | lawyer, Lexington avenue, curuer East Sixty-iourti streo! In the Twentteth Ward—Petor Trainer, merchant (reappoiatment), No. 107 West Twenty-eghih strect. In the Twenty-first ward—Michael A, Gehegan, builder, No, 234 Fast Thirty-fifth street. in the Twenty-second ward—Samuel A. Raborg, M. D., No. 267 West Futy second street. ‘A. OAKEY HALL, “ ayor, City Chamberiain’s Offi:e. The city deposits are being gradually transferred from the National Broadway Bank to tho National Park Bank. Jt 1s said that this new idea of the new régime ts being carried out by advice of the Comp. troller. The why aud Wherefore has not been aa- certaingd. Comptrolier’s OM:e. There was no business of any great interest trans- acted in the Comptroller's office. A few additional cierks of the Department of Public Works suc- ceeded in getting tueir salaries for last September, The Sheviff’s OMico was in a ferment all day on account of the many rumors that were afloat, and the crowd of callers was fully ng great as ever. The Sherif put on his great coat at four o’ciock preciscly, after stating that he had not received any warrants tor the arrest of any person of consdffueuce to the pubic. The Fire Department. The Board of Fire Commissioners held a regular meeting yesterday, Commissioner Hitchman in the chair, A communication was recelved irom the foreman of Engine Company 14 in relation to tne furailure in the house, for which an ex-officer claimed payment, and for which the Committee on Finance of the board had directed the men to pay $175. The foreman contended that if the turniture Was removed at once the men would be only too glad to subscribe for newer and better ariicles. ‘Treasurer Hennessy, aiter being informed that it was quite probable that the Board of Apportionment would hola n0__—s more meetings and that the Board had not communicated with the department in answer to the requisition made by tho department, stated that there was no money to pay the men their last montis salary; that the source from which he had obiained money for the previous two montis’ paymenis had posi+ tively refused to make any more advances; that tt was exceedingly hard to expect the men to do the severe work (hey were cailed on to perform with their families suffering for the actual necessities of live, with a severe winter staring them in tie taco, unless they could get some assurance of payment, ‘The ratio of flres was increasing, the reserve of th deparunent was decidedly ineficient, or insuficient, and the men were consequently obliged to do much more labor than they might be called upon to doit the depariment could aiford to keep a suilicient re- serve. The Department of Public Parks. There were present at the secret meeting of the Park Commissioners held on Tuesday Commis- sioners Stebbins, Green, Fields, Dillon and Church, A petition relative tovaltering the grade of 152d street, from between the Boulevara and Tenth avenue, was received and referred to tho Treasurer to examine and report. In compliance with a reso. lution passed at a previous mecting the Treasurer statement of moneys required for the nee of the department during the year 1872, ‘The Commissioners refuse to siate What tis amount will be. A statement was also preseawed showing the amount ol whe expenditures. Tho re- ports were received from the Hngineer-in-Chief as to What portion of the work on the Eighth aveaue slopes of the Central Park can be prosecuted dur- ing winter avgas to the condition of the Works on vhe roads aud avenues, A report was received from the engineor in chanre of Tnrean of Otv# and” ‘opographicnt Bomucerine relative to the island above Lesth street, waich was referred to the Treas urer to @: ‘ito and report to tHe wah Sweeny’s Whereabonts. The whereabouts of Peter B, Sweeny was the theme of general conversation avout town, par- ticularly in political circles, where he was once 8® , great @ power to command. The following de- spatch, which was received late yesterday alter noon, settled the question sa‘tstactorily:— ST. CATHARINES, Ont, De To rum Eprrok or THe HEwALDI 2 18tle Observing that a telegram has vecn sent througm the country to my prejudice, in consequence of YN temporary abseace irom the city oO: New York, “4 desire to Say that When 1 leit there was no pretence of imputation against me. 1 came here simply 10r my health apd to obiain a brief period of repose. It will be found that 1 will ot shrink from any on responsibilty, PELER B. SWEENY, Heenan Heard From. ‘The following despatch puts to rout the rumors that Heenan was stil in this city and was endeavor * ing to keep oug of the way of the officers of the law, It 1s but just to say that Heenan’s friends claim that he went to London long before the vouchers were stolen irom the Gomptrolier’s ofice, and that he could not, therefore, have been one of the robbers. The following ts the despatch alluded to:— Lowpon, Dec, 20, 1871, A cable despatch from New York was pubiished in yesterday's papers stating that warrants had been sept to burope for the arrest of Johu y. Meenan and lwo olners, on We chargo implicatins theut tn the robbery of the New York count vouciers. Mecaan, who Is in this cuy, to-day pubd- hishes a card proavuncing the report false, He has iso visived ile oviice of the Keutcr News Company, throngh whicu tue cable despatca was received, an threaiened Ue company with a suit for libel having givea publicity Lo the siatement. CONNOLLY AND TW2ZED. m “Anything more about Tweed t!’ No; 1 guess not,” q “What does that special call of the Grand Jury mean?” “1 dou’t Know; but I guess they're going for somebody else this tue.’ “Who else?” “Oh, I don’t know. two others.” -e Thus the conversation went on between two of { the lesser lights 1m the political world. ‘Their exe 1 1 suppose Hall and one of | pressions might readily be taken as an index of the | gencrai tone in the political world. There was “nothing new about weed.” There had been ra. mors to the effect that ‘tweed was io be agala arrested, and at such au uusceimly hour as to cause eXtra wbuoyance to Mid, exira expense to the county aud exirsordinary trouvle to the newspapers and their representatives, 1t seems, however, to be pretiy decidedly seitied by both’ Sherif Bre nan abd his Corer of tne “Orders of rresu y Departmeat that unless the warrants were given to tuem Io seasonable hours they will not serve f UCM al SUCH times as inay suit the whims of any- body without regard to the general good of tie many. Mr. Tweed, therelore, remameud with nis q luimily yesierday aud last evening undisturbed by tue mudions of the Law. BX-COMPTROLLBR =CONNOLLY Was somewhat indisposed yesterday, owing to the fact Luat on say he could noi go out of doors , Lo take his accustomed daily exercise, No turth eforis have been made in regard to tae mater Dau, wtid he still ianguisues in Ludlow street Jaul checred by tae visits of his famby and friends, an in the sll Bourg of the aight by the dulcet notes of veputy Sherid Keese’s “ulcer.” Suprems Court Orders ALBANY, Deo. 20, 1871. Ata Special Term of the Supreme Court, held by Juage Learned to-day, on motion of Samuel G@ Courtney, the attorney for Richard B, Connolly, and on the reading and filing of the cousent of tho A® ney General, if was ordered that the order dal eptember 9, 1971, and Med In the County Clerk’ Oiilce 01 the couuty of Alvany on Decomber 18, 187! ended by adding thereto the rollowin. ‘AT riher orgered that that portion of the orders. | to suow cause herem, oi mouion to vacate tie order of arvesi herein, be ald tho same ts heredy demed. ‘The order of she 9h tustant above alluded to is the order reducing Mr. Conuolly’s ball from $1,000,000 to $509,000. THE SHORTZST DAY. The Winter Solsticeo—The Taruing Polat of the Season—The Phases in the Change of Day and Nizht To-vlay—St. Thomas’ Day—ts the-shortest day of the Gregorian calendar. On this day—the 2ist of Devember—the winter solstice occurs—that is, tag sua, in the annual revolation of the earta, is them at that point in relatton to our planet whichis . furthest south from the equator, or, in other words, at his “greatest southern declination.” Two —e ig | solstices occur in the course of the year, at one of which the days are longest and at the otner shortest, ‘The former ts avout the 22d of June, iu the height of summer’s heat, when the sum traverses thd Tropic of Caucer and darts his burning rays almost perpeudicularly on the earth, THE SRCRET OF THE SRASONS. At this season—tne coldcst—the greatalistance of the sun to the southward causes its Mght to fall slantingly on the surface of the planet, and muck, Of it is reflected off into the alr, so that the great “Sol is less powerful in his genial mfuence om animated and inert life, This is the great secret of life and death—tho secret of the seasons— That co The approach vo the solstitial points in the tm agined circie of the seasons in the evolation of time is marked by singular phases of change in the length of the days and nights, the rising and setting ot the sun, Moon and stars, as weil as by a conv! tion dawning tn certatn youthiul minds that the “holidays’'—so dimly discerned in the fuiure throngh all the rest of the year—are near, actually ~ hour at hand, In the traditions of the ancients these days were called dies haloyones, “halcyon days," doubtless from the fact that the nights were inem longer, when Sleep knits up the ravell’d sleove of care, ee the hours of oblivion overbalanced those of toll, ur — £7. THOMAS’ DAY 1s a gateway to the Ciiristmas season of joy and ” good will, and irom that fact 1s worthy of as a pleas aut a place in onr tnougiits as in those of the al cieuts, Lut letua turn to the phenomena wale quark this period, TUM VAGARIE3 OF NATURE, On December 1 the sun “rose from his couch” at five minutes past seven A, M. ‘Truly, an early hour wlien tho air bites shrewdly, and 1f 18 not to be sup. posed that such &@ virtuous habit could obtain jo) even With a dignified planet that may not acknowl. edge human weaknesses, Wo find that the very next morning @& few extra winks belat him: by one minute, and uutil the Lith Insti his laziness increases in the same proportion, Le avesse does not forsake our monarch of the eavens, yet owing, mayhap, to a qualm of col science, he does not let the vice gain upon him any further for a day, rising at a quarter past seven op both the 11th and 12th, The next two «ays he dor not food the Orient until sixteen minutes seven; then, on the 15th, until seventeen minutes past seven: and alter that, until the sist of the month, one minute 18 _squanderod each moraing by the self-Indulgent “Sol.” Now let us oxamiae his hours of retirement. Scandalous fact! They grow gradually tater; yet not so fast as the hours of Tising. From the 2d to the 13th NO CHANGH occurs, and then but a «rifling one—a minute of light saved in one or two days, So vn the 18th and 19th, he sets ab 4:34, on the guth and zist at 4:35, om the 22d at 4:36, on the 28d aud 24th at 4:37, on the Bist at 442, At the beginnyng of the present month the day contained nine hours and twenty-nine minutes of duration; to-day there are nine hours and fourt minuies; to-morrow there will be nine hours filieen minutes, and on the Ist of January ou hours and twenty minutes, On the morning of the New Year the sun rises at and seis in the evening at 4:41. ANOTHER HOMICIDE. Escape of tho rerpetrator. Yesterday morning a case of homicide was brought to the attention of Coroner Herrman, at his office in the City Hall, It appears that on last Saturday® | night Michaol Fitzpatrickyan Irish laborer, thirty-five « years of age, Was carousing with some acyualutances, and after induiging in divers drinks one of the mea desired Michael to join the rest of the company ia @ gambling game at cards, but ne doviined doing so. Some angry Words Were the resul!, aad during an altercation that ensued, corner of Thirty-eight street and Ninth avenue, the man who liad asked Fiapatrick to gamble, as caarged, struck lum om the back of the neck with an irow bar and Knocked him to the pavement, thus causing aanger-_ ous Lujurless Fitzpatrick Was subsequenlly taken to Bellevue Hosptial, where he died yesterday. Deputy Coroner John Beach, M, Y., made @ post Morten examination on tie body and found that deceased had susiained a fracture of the spinal column, which was tho cause of death. By pers Mission the remains were removed to the house “t Ol oue of deceased's relauives, 063 West Thirty-sixtlt street, and a Jurther investigation im che matter may take place to-day, It ts stated that the mam Who struck the fatal blow inade his escape, but ne 1s kuown, and Unptein Caffrey, of the ‘twentie precinct, 18 In parsult of nim. The Captala, hows ever, ag secured one or Wo of tue persons pre! al Lhe time of the occurrence, ee: Eas