The New York Herald Newspaper, January 4, 1872, Page 3

NEW YORK HERALD, THUKSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. uty, De passed, but will be no doubt sever ely over- Y eT D, Brown, of $%, presented @ resolu. wow, which touches on the old sore, ‘sectarian ap- pr » and which is only one of the many maices of the fact that EAT ISSUE THE that will be made in Buate and national political strife within very few years will be on religious grounds. There are some here now who claim that within five years the great question in State politica ‘will be the Control of the raliroads; but many wil be found here and elsewnere who will contend that the questions founded on sectarianism will be, ere long, the Most bitterly argued in political warfare, r, Brown's resolution vides for an amend. ment to section 8 of article 7 of the State constitu- on, and among other matters pronibits the pay- ment of any of the puolic moneys to any organiza. tlon or institution under ecciesiastical direction. THE BRIDGE STREET BROOKLYN FERRY ts to be attended to in a@ bill introduced by Mr. Aitken, He Was evidently achin’ to get it in asa benefit to many Brooklynites, as it 18 to compel the Brooklyn Ferry Company to run the ferryboats landing at Bridge street at _lvast once in every tif. teen minutes, from five A. M, to twelve o'clock mid- be ‘ovisions of two bills introduced by Mr. Mackay ‘Wilt be found, if pi great protection to per- sons ct and iy for crime. One provides that any person charged with the commission of @ crime tnust be brought fmmediately before a magistrate and granted an examination within twenty-four hours, and the other that per- sons indicted for crimioat offences must be tried within two years M they remain that time continu- ously in the State, etherwise the indictment to be pull and void, While these bills may ve of great benefit in certain cases, they can be easily made to serve expert criminals, with shrewd counsel, to es- cape the strong arm of thelaw. but as there are several sharp aud shrewd lawyers in the Assembly this year the bills will, no doubt, be well canvassed beiore they go upon the statute books, THE STANDING COMMITTESS which were named A Feateniag are quite significant ‘The Committee on Privileges and Eiectiuns is so con- stituted, with Strahan at the head, as to leave small chance for hope to the poor boys from New York, against whom pavers, petitions and protests have been entered. The Committee on Rules, with Husted at the head and Jucobs at the tail, will be obliged to GOsome nico work to steer clear of tac- tional snazs, ag iis report will be closely scrutine jaed and roughty handled If 1t does not suit, THE TEMPER OF THE SENATE, The Senate is evidently uetermined to lose no time in breaking up the “Rings” which Tammany last year managed ior partisan purposes, and oiten- times, lor far more reprehensible reasons, to folat upon the people in various sections of une State out. axle of New Yorx city. Tinkering and plastering of old charters was Tammany’s great forte last year, and the natural result 18 that there is let for ti resent Legisiature no small amount of oVerhaul- ing in the country districts, wiich must be done speedily if there 18 anything in the word reform, THB STATE CAPITAL The Work of Reform Actively Commenced. Coming Events Casting Their Shadows. ANOTHER RING SMASHED. Short Work with the Infamous Buf ilo Charter. Fields in. Tight Tweed and Places. Mager Hall, Corporation Counsel 0’@or- man, Chamberiain Bradley and Tom Fields To Be Deposed. Proposed Constitutional Amendment on : Sectartan Appropriations. The Venerable “Jake” on the Fif- teenth Amendment. tor Le: otro The Financial Fuss in tho | fie" ii" purpose of “which "ta to _ ro. enact — indirectly old charter which ° the city of Buitalo had adopted of her own free will years belore, and which the Tammany folks last year utterly destroyed to gratify their own sei fish ends. Probably during the whole of the last ses- sion there was hot p: & more outrageous mea- sure tian was (hat very bili of 1871, which threw Bufalo into the hands and at the complete mercy of a set of men who were almost as distasteful to her as “Ring masters” always were to the tax- payers of the metropolis Tne old charter of Buflalo was passed after it had been draited with the utmost care by 81x commissioners appointed by the Legisiature, ‘This commission was composed of three republicans and three democrats. In 1569 it Was submitted to the people, and in the spring of 1870 it was put tuto acuive force. Not @ solitary citizen of auy uote ever found fault with It, RING RASCALITY, Democrats and republicans ailke declared 1t to bo all that ier citizens could desire, and yet in the face of all tnis @ few mdividuais, simply to advance parusan interests, U the whoie system over, aud went 60 fares extend the term of ever, oftice holder six months Deronda the term for whic he was elected. Not only this, but the city was cut ‘up into ern are for what purpose pot- house politicians an er loafers of the Tam- many stripe and compiexion can best understand. 1 only mention these iacts to show to what lengths the majority last year were willing to go to serve their oWD pur utterly regardiess of tho feelunys or the rights of the people for whoso efit they were expected to legislate, no matier What party they happened to beiong. Iremem- ber very Well how the measure Was rushed through in the double quick time order, ana how the lords of the Senatorial Manor here turned a deaf ear to the rotests of the demooratic Common Council of tue uty which was boi 50 sgpaerty cared lor, pug how it was sont whirlivg With most Indecent has through both houses and {nto the Governor's room to be signed. When it came out of that room it was a law; but how or why it was made a law 18 One of those FA es mysteries of the winter of 1870 of which the Registry law and the ‘two Per Cent vill were part and parcel. However, ict the dead past bury ite dead, and sufiice it to say that the bill which gives Bartalo a rignt to bave controt of hor own st Without regard to tue whims or ol * the wishes A FEW TOLITIOAL SHYSTERS ‘was considered in Gummittee of the Whole and orderca to @ Und reading, by next week it will ve a law. The determination mantiestoa by the Senate to push the matter througl as soon ag possible, and tne cuttiug allusions which Senator Lewis made to the action of the democracts Who rushed their in- famous coarter though for his city, placea Senators Lord and Hardeaburga in rather a ticklish position, Bardenburga nappened to be absent when Lewis Was making bis best poiuts in his quiet Duy forcib.e ‘Way, aud 80, to a certain degree, was excusabie for not making any attempt to expiain his vote last year, although when he did come in be made an etiort, and failed in it, to have the Dill Metropolis. Provisions of Comptroller Green’s Bill. ALBANY, Jan, 8, 1872 The capital to-day epjoys comparative quiet. The crowd of officials, “ring” followers, smali- fry lobbyists ana politicians, who during tne pest few days had thronged the hails and hotels, have left for their respective homes, showing platoly that thelr interest was cen- tred-in the organization of the House, Tho para- sites who have helped in years past through the Supply bill to bleed the Treasury of the State, fnd- img themselves euchred by the determination of Speaker Smith to appoint no more officers than the Statutes provide for, have gone away in nigh dud- geon, and the members who supposed they could be enabled to distribute to needy patriots somo of the capital patronage are much crestiallen. _ THE WORK OF REFORM * bas been initiated in good earnest, and If the well meaning men do not relax tn their efforts the people ‘Will have reason to be thauxfui. Another point of reformation which Speaker Smutn intenas to inaugd- Fate is to diminish the number of official reporters, Year by year tne uumber of representatives of the Dress has been growing larger, until the “corre- spondents of such journals as the Bungtown Bugle, published weekly or monthly, claims a seat in the halls.of the Legisiature. These fellows do most of ther “correspondence” by clipping once or twice & month irom tho columms of the respectable journals throughout the State, and, under the pretence of being correspond. ents, ply & mean, petit larceny lobby business, They are gencrally greasy-looking, ‘down-at-heei,"” Mliterate scoundrels and outrageous |ivels on jours Qalism and on manhood, “Let the good work go op” and Speaxer Smith will be thanked by all honest men, aithough he may incur the indignant but barmless scorn of the paupers who pick up crumbs by politics and paltry papers. We coin a's i Pace neo haa 1 ce. a Ee Mighty “Boss” iinsdit Senin whom—as will seen—three distinct memorials wero yesterday ed. As stated in despatch of yesterday, . cf 1 Hawkins presented @ memorial from “CALYLY CONSIDERED’ the electors of Pihe Nineteenth Assem! for some time to come; but re Lord was in his seat irom the opening of the Senate, and, thereiore, bad to toe the mark. He sat on the front row, looking stolid and judifferent, while Lewis was ar- gulng that the bill should be taken in hand at once, @pparently lost in deep meditation over the whys and wheretores of the part which bad induced lim to foliow in the Wake of the “Ring”’as le had done, But the deep meditation had to come to an end, and sohe got up and said that it Mr. Lewis wouid guar- Glatrict ing tho seat of Mr. Ficlas.” As soon as the jourual had been read this my sist the handsome Colouel roso 1n his plave and as. te have the journal corrected so as to read A memorial, or petition, from the citizens of the dis- trict, asking for the expulsion of Mr. Fields,” TILTING AT THE RING. When this request was made every cyo in tho House was turned on Fields. He rose very slowly said antee i the vill Was uot A partisan one he would gue Dees ke reeoen i te Wo re have no objection to its being then and there con- louse, and that the tite was read “contesting.” sidered in Commiltice of the Whole, a Hawkins was unflinching, He moved to “correct? should. have stated,” said Lewis, in reply, “that the he necessary phraseul puts Buffalo in te same oe by inserting to rapes al serra tustead of ‘contesting.’ ie Matter was fnally compromised by leaving off that ton of the title asking for either expulsion or He was not allowed to rest with this, for as soon the introduction of ng Was announced Mr. mbly presented @ bilt providing for certain ‘this ili, in point of fact, condition she ‘wag in before the charter of last year was And this was Lora’s answer:— “1 voted for that charter iast year, and I felt at the time that IT WAS NOT A PROPER CHARTER, but I voted for it for party reasons.” v Here let me drop the subject, for tnis confession Mr. Wombiy._ ne was Hank Male ors of Lord’s will do more to open Lage ogi ho eyes as last ‘and again this year, and for wnom that |} ‘0 the influences that were brought to bear 10 nese man, together with ‘the Hepburn, Tom | ‘e King charter for Budalo, against the will an Bros ary, Sharkoy, Greeley, Lanigan and some of | Wishes of its citizens, and other like meusures too tne Pollee Headquarters ofictais came up to lobby | BUMerous to mention, than any further statements I couid make about tne matter. THE IRREPRESSIBLE NEGRO, Woodin’s vow as to the Aftecuth amendment has been Tuidlied as far as the Benate is coucerned, a8 his resolutions declaring null and vold the ac- tion of the jaturo of 1870 withdrawing tho assent of the state to the fifteentn amendment, en the bill, strange as it may . lowing 18 the téxct of the bill: Nines ‘act to provide, in for the government of the ott; of'New York Uy cehnid reibivale tin aud nepasents iD. le of the State of New York, represented aad Adveribiy. do eunet as followste sain BEotION 1.—The respective terins of office in this section | Which assent, it will be remembered, nad be pestigned or under the local government of the city of gyen. by the ture Of 1869, were . Even frag ‘ty cones on Lhd oat AT any Brien declal by n8 vote it he believed the “ayer ot the “ake ot “Hew Yore sng We Pe | negro hau as good @ right to vote aud was polii- feo jamal In, and of the then Brtsent Counsel | Cally entitled to all the rights and privileges as the the lon, and of the then present Corporation At. | M0st Intelligent white man of his constituency, tho reat majority of whom are the est haters of e blacK Man in the metropolis, the vote, how: ever, was not unanimous. Jake Hardeuburgh could'nt bear to of Thomas ds a9 9 member of the Board j cgargs of the Department of Public Parke—the the frst appointment ther shall be until the end of this year, ‘appointment or election to the sald Discos shells had $ ‘time in such manner SWALLOW THR PILI. Rereat Te regret iran s¢ shall | When his name wus called he made no answer. 8x0. %.—The aapirober of the oly of New York sball “Qall the absent! ’ gaid Woodin, to appoint to the several of ry afore “Mr, Lord!’ cried the Clerk. ‘Kuere was RO reply, ve power from time naka cee fill ail va- | as the gracious Mr. Lord, not Wishing to be put on faim ing cfrwna rn nny Of set oes daring te | record, had, with & careful regard of his Owa repu- ‘BBO. 8—This aot shall take effeot immediately. sation, bei dr into the cluak room the moment he ‘Was this the last thrust made by the re- Woodin oul up the horribie resolutions. or formers at the city officials, as Mr. Hawkins intro. Quced @ bill to confirm tne action of the Grand cy of the General Sessions in the continued No- vember term. This is certainiy an extraordinary CROALIZING A GRAND JURY'S FINDINGS, There should certainly be no necessity for such “Mr. Hard gle orted the Clerk aiter he bad in vain calied Mr. Lord three distinct times, and the Clerk was hoarse at that. Up i the Senator trom the Fourteenth looking rather furried. “What is the Pe em 1?’ he asked, with an alr of bap Lye tue dignified Senators indulge a gen The Gere stated it and Hardenburgh exclaimed:— action, but it shows that tbe reformers are deter- “My gracions! I thought the fifteenth amend. mained to insure the holding, end, if ble, the ,, Poy conviction” of the "indicted. oficial s—vonboly, Te en: On Conan ave Come SnD & Co, attorney General Barlow moye ground the Assembly Chamber during the ‘mothlag Stee roana advising with Hawking in rela- tome iutrodnoed, urging Lim to push them imetiately and placed os tye sreemiteae Renae ge members’ following is the text of the bill:— seiarpdebiast an bay hag orders of the Court of General of the fi for the city and last November feren thergots 7° New ‘aD nact }OTION ive orders and fo tte fand for the city and county ot New York 0 can ‘any. @ November tast, and on the 18h and S0th’ days of centr THIS DREW A GENERAL Lavan from the lobbies, The laughter ceased, for every. boay was on the tiptoe of expectation as to what staud Jacob would take on the question, acd Wanted to bear what ho had to say for uimsell. He Stood for # second or 80 Without saying ® word, with his ae er pee A Pt cain bie a ing AK a erate grip and wis ey ng colling 0 ‘coun He finally excl: = ““f desire 10 be cxtused from ” ‘The gs Fepublican Seuators determined Not to let Jacod off so casily, and when the Lica- ons ‘ork, tenant Governor put the q Y er | mous “NG 1? Grusned “fadow's last’ hope of goniug urporting to continge the la “NO ope of getting of onig Gout ommencene oh term, nsca toand shi day ot Janvary in the presect Year, | “*Welh® gand hey aud his stale wae childlike and nd eve er Saeeenia Teepe sorta Pland a ne Ppeod hatatel eahall heced ot thts Sra. The Grand Jury svmmoned. to attend at ead ver ‘Wooun arinuea hem anne Jy oe ‘oom ohms Sie ET a a ip Ao wal door opened and in stalked Mr Long, ue ft neement of said term tout and including the sald of January, aud ibe powers of anid ‘Grand Jury shai 004 ona onpasling Cast tt a asp wine sald city fad founty during the said term as "3—All provisions of any acte heretofore passed, #0 re erly ob- livious, you know, as to the part that like th historiéal Brooks,'tad deen wanted, and was ot ahd'ihus cariy tn th ut Sion did the irrepressible r pesto give tne ne! POR LOVE or even both combined, qi far ae they may be inconsistent with this act, are Tepnblicans @ chance to ti Buy r two of the pealed. very meo who, last year wit col: rr ‘S20, 4.—-This act shall take eect immediately, pur Woodin and his friends to fight in every ait mine tie spare on, fie “expulsion” if ‘tom nul ils the session of the assembly vas very fame.” ‘The bull Introduced prombiting the hiring of CT LABOR Cal encounter that Wok place on this very negro question. 8A VERSUS TWEED, oncerning the “Loss,” presented The memoria! by Mr. Beuedict, CONV and which will be made the basis will, when it comes up for action, oreate much dis- | for future operations to prevent him from taking his cussion. 6 Dill prohibits the hiring out of con- | seat in toe Sen or at least from keeping it any Victs to contractors, and its provisions will, no doub leugth of time shouid he take it, contain suit the Workingmen’s Union; but the question mil be mooted as to Whether the ‘state shall not have ~ some revenue way ip to derive ita prisons, tarted 10 Guilize convict labor ‘in the building of roads and bhi Ro hah ghd generally, by compelling the new in the matter of bie 5 in the Fourth ey General from the Execative evidence advidence, (aa to, tne way tu rred against Tweed by the re three:—Number one \e mmittee of the Dig Citizens Committee, who ask ior bis expulsion, secon vigtd 10 Work In gangs, as in portions of LuFope. | te irom the taxpayers Who beg ihat hie sate ae thie will come further complications, as the poor | clared vacant and s mew election ordered The ~ men who work now a8 roadtaakers will | third, which will be found in the Feport of the the recognition of their claims as well as neral procecdings of the Senate, som the ‘skilled mechanice, The bill Will. 1 all probe Aupaall. wag nate tor wet ns Phas for his own comfort, There 1s considerable specula- as what action _ ay wi! ra sake in regal to the memorials; yu 1 mi impression seems to be that @ nice little game is tobe played by which the Boss will get Ousted and Rossa be thrown overboard at the same time, The memorial asking for the new election in- dicates this result very plainly. For once the sen- ate complies with the request of the voters, In tue Fourth district. the citizens will be able to go to work and elect an entirely new man, no matter how Rossa may how! about his right tothe seat declared vacant. No one here appears to take much notice of the contestant, and it 1s sald that those wio are in the SECRETS OF THE SENATORS understand perfecily weil that the anti-!'weed peopie Of the district are not very wnxious that he should lake Tweed’s place, provided they are allowed the chance of sending some other person in his stead, Rossa served well the purposes of bis managers at the election; but it remains to be seen if they will stick to him if they Oou out they are at liberty to elect another man. HOSSA’S MEMORIAL, Rossa’s memorial presented in the Senate declares that he received a majority of the votes Ip tne Fourth Senate district Mf iegally counted; ta large number counted for tweed were cast vy aliens, nonresidents, &c., Who voted each several times; that at least six thousand votes were cast in way; that the registration ‘Was Ulegal; that on the day of the election Rossa’s uckets were destroyed; that the Inspectors of Elec- ton were men of no character or standing; that the canvass Was &@ Mere pretence; that the result, as clo- clared by the canvassers, was @ fraud; that up- Wards of six thousand votes allowed to Tweed should.have been allowed to Rossa; that, theretore, the petitioner asks an investigation into these charges, COMPTROLLER GREEN'S BILL, A bill will be introduced in the Senate to-morrow by Senator Benedict which is to the fnanctal vernment of the city Yok for the ensuing four ont the expiration of which time it is supposed a uew charter for tne city government will be in operation. The bill is pre- pared by Comptroller Green, who is now here, shaping it to sult the views of Senators on the ma- jority side. It provides tor the raisiag of the neces- Bary ‘unds for the payment of deficiencies and ar- rears, and for the current expeases of the govern- eels oyna to the Comptroller the powers con- fer: the Tweed charter on the rd of Ap. portionment. It also tained cont @ provision, as originally drafted by the Comptroller, (ayn that officer to settle all outstanding claims againat the city or county. The Vomptrolier was to have the authority to appoint a reterence for such claims, 10 | which they should be reierred for arblwation. ‘In case the judgment of the referees should be against the claimant no appeal from their decision was to be uliowed, but in Case the referee’s decision should be in favor of the Claimant the Coimptroiler was to nave ‘ THE POWER TO REVIEW AND REVERSE Or appeal the same. The Senators, or a portion of them, were unwilling to entrust so great @ power iu the hands of any single oilicer, and hence this tea- ture of the bill has had to considerably modified. As introduced it will robabiy, give authority to the Comptrolier w setie only a Certain class of claims, under specified conditions; but even this clause may be entirely stricken out 10 the Senate, and the bill made simply a temporary jaw to meet the financial dinicuity experienced irom the lack of any proper authority eltner to raiso or apply money for the purposes of the cuy tiga Comptroller Green is anxious that tne ill shat! be pushed through both Houses to-mor- row by means of a suspension of the rules, as there is urgent need of immediate legislation to enabie he government of the city of New York to go on. Under these circumstances it is highly prpbdavie tnat one House. or the otber will strike out ali un- necessary provisions and allow clalins against the city to go over until some Goal means may be pro- vided for their adjustment, The Fourth District Judgeship—Report of the Auditor of the Canal Department—Appoint= ments by the Treusurer and Comptrolicr= Confirmation of Notaries Public. ALBANY, Jan, 3, 1872, According to the mutual arrangement, the ques. tion as to the title ‘of Judge Samuel W. Jackson, appointed by the Governor, or Judge Joseph Potter, elected by the people, to the Judgeship of te Fourth Judicial district, was argued before the General ferm of the Supreme Court and decided by that tribunal to-day in favor of Judge Potter. The counsel of Judge Jackson, as was expected, will carry the case to the Court of Appeals, which meets on the 13th Inst, and ita final decision will be speedily pronounced. REPORT ON THE CANALS, The report of the Audiior of tue Uanal Depart. ment shows that tbe surplus revenues of the ca nals for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1571, were $981,558 68. ‘Iis, however, cludes a part of the navigation season of 1870, the two ‘The net receipts of al years Compare as follows:— + $590,974 61 o 931,683 ol ‘The total outstanding canal debt is $11,966,420, On the guth of September, 1871, the sinking Fund, under secuon 3 of arlicie 7 of the constitution, was Overdrawn $366,760 65 In payment of the interest on the debt. This deiiciency, together with @ portion Of the enlargeaient debt, amounting to $1,562,900, which becomes due on the ist of July next, must be provided for, Yue Auditor thinks that, although Vhere have peen deffciencies durig the past two years, the requirements of the constitution may be met with & Wise management of the canals, even upon the pian of re- duced tolls, He urges & more economical adininistration, aad especially a closer adherence to the proper linits Oo! ordinary repaira. The intro- duction of some instrumentality which shall reduce the time of the trips, whether it be steam or some other force, he urges, Without making any specific suggestion. TREASURY APPOINTMENTS, State Treasurer Rames bas made the following appointments:—D, 0. Bitte, of Monroe county, de- uty; O. HM. Phelps, of New York, casuier; K, G, ukes, of Albany, retained bookkeeper; W. 3, Wood, of Karatoga county, check clerk. APPOINTMENTS BY THE OOMPTROLLER, Comptrolier Hopkins has made the following ap- ointmeuts:—Pnilip Phel| of Albany, Deputy; Henry Gailion, of Albany, Second Deputy; George “aley, of Oswego, Account acd Zrausier OMicer; Joun O’Brien, of Budalo, Warrant Clerk; O. A. Kul: ter, of albany, Entry Clerk; George P. Laugdon, of Buflajo, Stationery Ulerk; Willis kK, Merriman, of Albany, Contidential Clerk; sidney W. Park, of Troy, Chiel Tax Vierk; Tax Clerks, George Fiske, of Buttalo; Thomes Wd. schuyler and Charles J, Ains- worth, of Alba Oswald Davis; E. Stanley Foster 4na Benson Van’ Wart, of , and John Van Dick, of Coxsackie, CONFIRMATION OF NOTARIES PUBLIC, The Senate in executive session conormed the appointments of the following Damed Notaries Puv- lic for New York and Brooklyn:i— New YoRK—William V. Archer, William B, Aitken, Henry 8, Atwater, Augustus 7, Anderson, Willian H, Andrews, Augustus fH. Adams, Eben Appleton, Herman Albert, Samuel Adier, Benjamin browne, Harold A, Bagley, Nathan Berliner, Richara A. Brown, George J. Banks, Sigismund Bott, William A, Bray, Daniel A. Bostwick, Charley M. brown, Thomas Brennan, Wil- lam Bowers, William H,. Butterworth, Prescott H. Butler, Edward Bissell, James Bloom- inguale, Charies Batcheior, James J. Chew, Speacer W. Cone, Wiliam A. Copp, A. E. Caldwell, brastus D. Culver, Patrick Daily, George Duriee, Francis Dominick, Rudolph Dulon, Obaries W. Darling, Thomas J. Doran, James W. Fisher, Morris J. Fried- Jander, Charies Fritsen, William Furness, goeree HH Fairoanks, Isaac fry, James O’vonnor Favb, Me- Jancthon T. Forrman, George N. Gardiner, Victor Girdudy, Edward Grimm, Charies Goeller, Henry A. Gumbieton, Lawrence Gardener, J. B. Greene, K. M. Gaiiaway, ‘Heaman Gerth, Hrnst C. F. Gasteyger, ‘George Goldmark, George W. Gailinger, George i. Hoit, J. Frank Helyer, Bernaru Hess, Thomas G. Hullhouse, Asahel R. Herrick, Frederick Hegemann, T, Banneire Hoell, Jona Hough, Charles T, Hill, Oharies J. G. Hal, Charles 0. Joline, Mark W. Jones, Andrew H, Josline, Charles A. Jamin, Heur; D, Jones, Philip W. Kafer, August H. Kossing, Charies L. Lyon, Frank R, Law: Teuce, ‘Theodore Liltentoal, Henry Lieb- enau, Ferdinand Levy, James P. ‘Lacombe, Edward 7%. Lawrence, George 0. Layer, Thomas H, Lee, Wm. P, ae Moytagae L, Marks. Jonn T, pececaaie,, Theodore it McNamee, Owen F. M Neirney, Marvin J, Merchant, Henry 8, Mower, re Oo Noxon, Joba Nickanson, janes #. Ogi Jono R. O'Halloran, Joan K, Perc, fenry EB. Reterson, Charles &, Keli, Charies Fegnenlt, Earnest K. Kanbitscack, BO, Robinson, 4d Ri , James H. Stevens, H. J, Sherm: Isaac Schweitzer, Heary L. Sinith, D. Mcbui Jobn B.' Stats, George P, steetzur y H. Schooley, Thomas 8. Strong, Wheaian Searing, Frank N. Shepard, Ndmuu: Swith, Bernard W, ‘ratiel, wnevdore A. Voigt, Di M. Van Cott, Autuony D. Vail, Peter W, Van Thomas Verren, ik, Clark F, Witemore, Wachuer, William Gd. Weed, Frederic 8. Jackson Wallace, Winans, jsadore Jease West, Jr., Alux- Odell, Ye xm Fatnham, Lewis ©. Werthelm, Theodore Wri er Hamilton Abram L, Bari, Thomas E. Stewart, George L. Si- monson, KE. M, Steele, Cornelius Suluvan, Samuel Hub. om Ga—Charies W, Bedell, William R, Wadsworth, chara J. Godwin, Jr, Brookiyu; ire ©, Plersva, New York. The Troublo About the Senate Committe Jimmy O’Brien the Cause=—The Erie I Intereet. er ALBANY, Jan. 4—12:30 A, M. ‘The troubie In relation to the Senave commitvees continues. Lhe repudtican Senators desired to have their own members of the several commitiees, leaving bianks for the democratio names, to be filled in by Lieutenant Governor Beach. This the Lieutenant Governor refuses to do, on the ground that if the Senators desire to take the Feaponsipitity of naming the committees out of u his they must complete the work on tneir own responsi oluity alone. The republican Sena- tors don’t wan to do for the rea. this, son wey fear wo O'Brien the positions he desi; intend that he sould occupy any prominent post- tion. therefore wish to cast upon Beach whe onus pioasng the democrats. ES La is also velng made over the Rall- Gora betweeu Senators Madden and 4 retuse Senator don't 53 MRS, WHARTON'S TRIAL, Maryland Politicians in the Anna- polis Court Room. The Mysterious Drama Enacted Before the Bench. Haggard and Worn Appearance of the Accused. The Attorney General and Dr. Reese in a Medi- co-Legal Struggle for Eight Hours. Aiken’s Report. Professor Official General Brice Believes the Pris- oner Insane, He Thinks the Trial Will End s “Without Results,” ANNAPOLIS, Md., Jan. 3, 1872, ‘Yhe long days and weeks of Mrs. Wharton’s at- tendance upon ber trial have apparently worn verrl- bly upon her health, and although she walks into court each day from her carriage without dimoulty, yet the terribly revolting circumstances with which she is surrounded seem to have made her step feeble and her face haggard. The trial has lost none of its dramatic interest, and @ stranger accustomed to the coarse and ree puisive surroundings of an ordinary criminal court would be struck with astonishment upon entering the court room at Annapolis. The whole scene bears the impress of a well played drama, The accused’ worn down with patient waiting, trusting in a Higher Power for her vindication; her daughter, closely veiled, but clinging to her mother with that filial confidence which has never fora moment been shaken; thelr faithful friends, who have adhered to thom through good and through evil report, form a group whica naturally challenges the pencil of the ar- fist. The Judges, who with tbe keenest vigilance watch every movement of the opposing attorneys and mete out justice nd somewhat of the sternness of Spartans, are a stody in themaelves, The attorneys, in their efforts to seize upon the slightest shade of advantage, put to the biush the hair splitting of the chemists and Physicians, and, by their intellectual encounters, give an intense interest to the trial which has pos- sivly never before been experienced in any similar case in this country. The jury, too, oegins to show the “wear and tear” of the prolonged struggle, and their individual characteristics manifest themselves more and more ws each day is added to the number aircady occupied by the case. The lovely fair, both from the Naval Senéol and the city prover, have never wearied of listening to the dry detats of the experts, not a dozen words of which do they proba- bly understand, and from ten o'clock in tue morn- ing until three P, M. they may be found situng quietly tu their seats, specially arranged ior them, as though they were perfectly absorbed by the weird deialis of some fearful drama. The great unwashed crowd thickly gather around the rauings which enclose the bar, and gaze down from their perches with idiotic expres- sion upon the scene transpiring before them, Great must be the Interest which draws tue ladies day after day lo the halis of justice and euavies them to withstand the stifling odor which arises from the persous of many immediately around them. MARYLAND POLITICIANS AMONG TOE AUDIENCE. The Court House to-day was unusually crowaed, The State Legisiature met in this city at twelve o'clock, and, beside the members of the respective Houses, a multitude of camp followers poured into the town | every steamer and train of cars which arrived. The town itseit is, for the nonce, a thing o life, and the Court House was crowded almost tu sudocation during the progress of the trial. Atien o’clock the Court met as usual with a full bench, and the attorneys for both sides m attendance, A bighvs rest Rad somewhat retieved the teuiousness or Bonga ss AT ad aept g and both sawyers and Court appeared to enter upon lie case with re- newed vigor, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL AS A MEDICO-LAWYER. Dr. Reese, of Philadelphia, who was on the stand yesterday when the Court adjourued, was recalied for cross-examinaiion, The examina- tiun of this Witness «Was conducted = by Attoraey General Syester. Never has that gentleman appeared to beter advan in the court room. He aisplayed searching analyucal powers with which his best frieuds had pot credited Aim, and @ knowledge of the laws ot science aud an insight of buman nature which, uader the circum- stances, were really surprising. | His questions took @ range commensurate with the whole case, and the Opinion seemed to be general that never had @ wit- ness Deen compelled to submit to a more rigid and thoror cross-exumination, The periect fa millarity with medicine and chemistry which the Attorney General displayed may in a measure be explained when the public 1s informed that Dr, P. C. Wilhams, the clerk's ofice, keyt him bountifully supplied with questions by means of little bulletins, which were forwarded to him in the court room. Dr. Reese, the witness, passed through the fearful oraeal in @ mauner which not only stamped him as a perfect master of his prolession, but showea that his Knowledge was of a characier to protect him irom all_the assaults of those upon the side of the State. He never for a moment lost his self-posgession, and trumphanuy stepped from twe withess stand after an exaimimation of about eignt hours, His testimor sed the case as Jar os it has been made up by the doctors, He went over the same ground which he traversed yesterday and the day before, and which has al- Treacy appeared in the AERALD, giving lucid expla. nations of the manner in which the analysis should have been conducted, and reudered tus Jormer as- sertions, that the analyses of both Professors Aiken and Torey were utterly worthless as developing the presence of antimony in the stomach of General etchum, He gaye It as his opinion that General Ketchum died of cerebro-spinal meuingitis, and gave an exceedingly interesting and lengthy de- Scription of the symptoms attending that decease, They were, as deseril by Lim, almost identical with those observed during the progress of Ketchum’s illness by Dr, Williams. Dr. Reese's cross-examination occupied nearly the entire day. Dr. Edward Warten, of Baltimore, the principal Medical expert for the delence, was cailed to the Stand as goon as Ur. Reese was released, bat nis testimony was just commenced ag the hour of ad- journment arrived. PROFESSOR AIKEN’S OFFICIAL REPORT, The following oficial report of Professor Alken, made to the State’s Attorney for Baltimore city, comprising his analysis of the stomach ot Generai Ketchum and of the stomach of Mrs. Wharton's son and various other articies, is for the first tine Presented, that a judgment may be tormed as to the correctness of his conclusions from his own ver+ batim oficial statement;— UNiyensiry or M LAND, Oct. 14, 1871. To A. Luo KNOTT, State's Attorney DEAR S1%—In compliance with your request made yester- da, bmit the detafis of the examination of the various matters committed to mein covmection with the case of the vs. Mrs, Wharton. Without attempting to carry out ail the various modes which might have been pursued ior ob- taining required results, I counned myself to (bose whieh I ud lead to clear and reliable conclu yor was formed, in my wbseace, get accers in which u done ; that the utm insure 1 ‘and that aad all the ‘and therefore it was impossibie for anv foreign matter nest Lally mingled with the substances under examination. tomach of General Ketchum was brought to me, with orifices tied, by Dr. Wiliams, in company with Pro- Miles and Chew, It was opened on» clean plate by Miles, and its contents, about four fluid ounces reenied, turbid into @ inner surface ed no ided indications of auy extensive violent infammatory Activ, thas seeming to exclude tne very corro- Bie poison. ‘the aymptoms immedial ing death, T vo stryennta cause, abd was told, appeared to point at alkali was sought by a process based on the followin, acts vegetavie alkalies (rom acid salts, whicn are sol- uole in alcoho! and in water, aud when a solution of this kind i decomposed by 4 mineral alkall and agitated with ether, the vegetable alkall is set tree from fe combl Hoa ‘and digoives in the ether, from which it be. recovered by, allowing ice, ether to $rapo netantaneously, c 1 the pomad to me were mit frit Neokot any sell fed with tact cid, and digested at (he temperature of 160 deurees F heit, Unwt the jiquid portion was 4 rendus was on rey = al a oO digest: og 1b (OF 80) mperature of e Faorenhelt and titered. The alvrate optalnes ‘ety ee oe ‘at tho same temperature until nearly dry, sod Gissolved in stmall quaniity ‘of water. ‘This so. ution was filtered and neutralized with bi nate of VOHNINE . 1B Part . snr ly sh, BA i the preceding operation were mingled together into two parte "A and B. ‘The part A was treated with stron; hydrochloric acid, sufficient to form a thin paste, and Rented in @ water bath ; at intervals crystals of potuah were added, until the whole became a homogeneous liquid mags, and the hext was continued until the odor _o chiorine was no longer distinct, this liquid was filtered, the Fesidue wasned with boiling’ water, the flitrates and’ the Washing, about half pint altogether, were mingled in a glass and acted upon by a current of sulphuretted hydrogen fas Anil saturated, “While the gas was passing through the iquid it was heated to 150, and allowe. to cool slowly. Aft standing twenty-four hours the aulphuretted hydrogen wi ‘agai used to insure verfect saturation, and the glass wa aside for the precipitate to subside, ‘This wan quite abundant. and of a dull, rather dark, yellowish color, and insolubie in a solution of carbonate of ‘ammonia, and so sparingly, if at all, soltuble in liquid ammonia as to forbid the idea that {t could be arsenical. In the ab ence of arsenic the only other metal which could be reasonably suspected as present, and which could zive @ precipitate in ay, Way resembling what was obtained, was antimony, and the next search was for that @RAROH FOR ANTIMONY, ; ‘The portion B of the mingled residues of the strychnine Process was heated with water and an excess of tartaric acid filtered, the filtrate treated as before described, with mopnarenien: MYCaeD ti ena ‘wet aside for twenty- four Precipitate was rownish red dissolved in ‘boiling hydro- at the time the The resniting acid solution cloud which was soluble when treated with hydro Peouliar, orange red precipitate, ‘The old solution boiled with dark coating on the bright ly heated in a glass which was. not ‘ia, @ f antimony, t 00) ve & metal. and the tarnished copper slips bi, el shipe of brij tube, gave @ white de erysialling and which did not dissolve in boilin water. These resulta I consider characteristic 1 antimony, and satisfied me that antimony was present in the stomach of General Ketchum) in the form of tartar gmetic. The quantity present, which was not determined directly by the acale beam, but by what I considered a safe approximate esiims to be hereafter described, must have been not less than twenty grains, as the quantity of such poi- gons found in the stomach after death has been produced the action of another portion which has been absorbed and consequently cannot be found in the stomach, The exact amount of such residue has always appeared to me wholly ualinportant, FOUND ANTIMONY IN THR SHAPE OF TARTAR EMETIC. I next examined the white sediment coutained in a tumbler brought me by Professor Chew, who stated that the n used for preparing some article of food or rink for Mr. Van Ness. The sediment had an acrid metailic taste, unlike the taste of arsenic, but resembling the taste of tartar emetic. When contrasted airectly, with both dis. solve.t in water, It gave no precipitate with ferrocyanide of ium, but gave ® white precipitate on the addition of ydrochioric acid, soluble in an excess of that acid. The hydrochiorle acid solution and the sediment, when uropped into water, gave white precipitate which ‘was sol tartaric, and also gave an orange red _p addition of sulphydrate of ammonia. The it obtained by dropping the hydrochloric acl no! white sediment Into water also become or: addition of Lae origi of ammonia, The or: pitate dissolve: drochloric acid gave olf nowution tne odor of sulphuretted hydrogen gas. ‘Ih actions are all characteristic of antimony and do not belong to any other known metal, A drop of the solution of the white sediment in water was evaporaied on 8 Np of and the solid residue contrasted with that left by the evaporation of adrop of « solution of tartar emetic, showing & very striking resemblance vetwoen them, as tartar emetic, deprived of its antimony, ia left in the condition of, or rather leaves behind it, the acid tartrate of pb A drop of the solution, from which all the antl- mony had beet separated as sulphide, was evaporated side by aide with @ drop of @ solution of grea of tartar; when the solid deposite left showed a very striking rescmbience, To approximate the quantity of tartar emetic it in the white sediment one and treated with sulphurated hydrogen, proctateats of sulphide of golimony, weighing enths of a grain, corresponding — with tenths of a grain of tartar emetic, on the ¢! elght- ‘he weizht of the whule Sediment as estimated was not less than fifteen grains, and of that twelve grains must have been tariar emetic.’ The sulphide of autimony obtained trom the stomach of General Ketchum was fully or more than double what was obtained from the sediment in the tumbler, and therefore I think {t safe to estimate the tartar emetic in the contents of the Stomach ag equal to twenty grains, and thit in the sediment from the tumbler as equal to ten grains. Tho sample of brandy you handed me was examined tor vegetable and miu- eral poisons, but with negative resulta, ‘No trace of Aby. polsohous compound could be detected. ANALYZING THE STOMAOH OF YOUNG WHARTON. Tho last analysis was that of the remains brought from Norristown, belng the stomach and contents, with a portion of the liver of a body said to be the body of Mrs, Wharton's son. The body having been more than @ year under ground one could not reasonably expect to ind any vegetable poisons, and no search was made for them, A care{ul search wag made for all the ordinary metallic ‘poisons by the method already described, with the additional use of Marsh's teat for arsenfo, The organic matters were disorganized by the use of hydrochiorle acid and chlorate of potash, and when exam- jued with Reimisch's teat and Marsh's test gave no indication of the preseuce of either arsenic or antimony. ‘This com- pues the work entrusted to me. To sum up, I may say hat antimony was found in the stomach of General Ketchun und in the tumbler which had. been used for pre- paring something for Mr. Van Ness, but that nothing noxfous was fouud in the sample of brandy ’or in tue remains of Mrs. Wharton's son, Respectfully, €e., WILLIAM E, A. AIKEN, DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE PROFESSOR'S STATE. MENTS. There were discrepancies between the testimony of Professor aiken upon the siand and the above report. The precipitate irom portion A, which le describes in the report as dull, rather dark and yellowish, ne tealiied was ‘dark brownisi.’? Again, the precipitate from portion B, described as brownish red, was, under outh, stated to havo been “not the orange red of antimony, bus Gark, tinged with red; and the white ‘cloud was stated to have been obtained only from a single drop in @ vest tube, and which white Cloud never wok the form of a precipitate. One of the most extraordinary facts connected with Professor Alken’s report is that it nas tne two let- ters “KE. E.”—errors excepted—writien upon it just before his gignature, He also made on ihe witness, staud an alleged correction tn his report by which, in that part relating to tue tumbler and tn the phrase ‘Acid solution of the sediment when drop- ped into water” the words * orange-red precipice” are substituted for the word “sedimenc.” ‘Thus this precipitate is made to produce itself—an effect to be its oWn Cause—an absurdity upon its face. AN INTERVIEW WITH GENERAL BRICE, After the adjournment of the Court to-day the HERALD Correspondent called upon General B. W. Brice, tate Paymaster General Unitea States Army— Whose wife is the only surviving sister of the late General Ketchum, whom it 13 alleged Mrs, Wharton ‘olsoned—lor the purpose of getting his statement Iu relation to the controversy. The General was found as usual in good spirits, and received we with that courtesy for waich he 13 80 proverbial. I, after the usual salutations, said:—“I sec, Gen- eral, that you nave been absent from the trial for several days.” “Yes, sir; 1 went to Washington and did not de- sire to return, but was ovliged to doso, This 1s a very tedious trial, and they might as well close it as far as apy results detrimental to Mrs. Wharton are concerned, excepi influence upon the public mind,” “May I suppose, General, you are fully convinced that Mrs. Wharton committed this crime :”? “4 have never had the sligutest doubt of her guilt; if I had J should of course never have taken any part in the trial, and have only taken such part a3 was becoming ‘the husband of General Ketchum’s only surviving sister.” “Ia it not @ little contrary to intelligent reasoning to assume that a lady whose whole life has been so conspicuously devoted to kind and generous acta, ana was generally regarded with great tavor oy all who knew her, should at once and at her advanced age take to committing such terrible crimes as are charged against her ? “10 a8 Im ible to reconcile it upon any theory except ‘hat of insanity, and J have no doubt that she ig aMicted with that malady. 1 was in hopes sbe would have gone to Europe before she was arrested, and that would have prevented this un- pleasant tral.” “If you believe that she killed General Ketchum, you must not stop short of imputing to her many more crimes of a similar nature; and, of course, it could not be natural to suppose for a moment that @ lady of her universal good standing, intelligence and kindness could comiit such deeds if in her right mind,” WHAT ABOUT TRB $2,600 NOTE? “Thore is something peculiar, General, aout this note of Mrs. Wharton to General Ketchum not eastly understood. Could you enliguten me upon tuat subject?’ “General Ketchum was one of those pecuilarly re- ticent men whom we sometimes find tn life. He had very few intimate friends, and never imparted to any living person anything avout his business a To relation to this be was particwariy marded, I doubt if ever any living person except irs. Wharton and himself ever saw the note of $2,000 you allude to, but of its ex. istence there is no doubt, His carefulnesa in keep bis accounts, even to @ penny, was remar' and bis memorandum book en- tries of interest made after semaee, 17, 1871, the date upon which Mrs, Wharton said she paid it, is tne only evidence we have that it was not paid, But so careful and accurate was he that we that as conclnsive evidence that it was not paid. This trial develops the fact no man should keep his business affairs too mach to himseif.'? “General Ketchum had been @ long time an intimate friend of the Whartons, I believer” “Yes, sir; for years. he Knew Colonel Wharton when alive, and has he 4 been on intimate terms with the whole family, had few more intimate acquaintances outside of his own family," tn the westruction of the mote by Mme Whatton son in the destruction of the i sup-+ posing it to have been paid? - “Oh, no, sir; that 18 often done; but there was something 80 pecul in the Generai’s manner of doing business that I donot thiuk he could nave possibly tallied to have made some recora of it had \fwnen, General, ata yon rst that Mrs “when, you suspect that Wharton boys hed Kapil Retoaumi? Fs “When she came to ton, on July 3, to ask the return of $4,000 worth e-Lwenty govern- ment bonds, which she sald ad given Generat Ketchum for safe keeping and conversion into ten- ‘ty bonds,’? “ey forty ton f a, haritan the Soy eae to your tre n Was compassing Geue- ra) Ketchum's death thi sf m e “Her stavemen's about the business transactions between herself ana the eral were so at vari- own know! tis b habits tnat I at once suspected ber. poaltive, pet. edduved in this case potting to une vi oint guilt or innocence of Mra, When believer’ “No, sit; it bas all been circumstantial, and, ast said before, will probably be without results. [am sorry for Mré, Whar and shall be giad when the ie 2 ow aud Batis! With wuatever result is obtained,” ADVERTISEMENT. M. E. Fasrns—Information will be accepted as sUipulated, Telegraph Annapolis, THE KU KLUX TRIALS, CoLumata, 8, C., Jan, 8, 1872, In the United States Court tms morning ten more prisoners from Spartanburg county pleaded guilty, And told the story of their crimes in open court, Among them was an old man, who was dis charged upon his own recognizances, A youth Armstrong pleaded gulity of the Thailand was seutedced vo vo yours iu the Devos 9h Oarreckady, - WASHINGTON. The Recall of Senor Roberts Reconsidered. THE COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS: The Republican National Convention--« Philadelphia Wants It. WASHINGTON, Jan. 3, 1872, The Spantsh Minister Not to be Reealled—Ime Portant Dipiomatic Questions Looming Up. Since the announcement of the proposed recall of Sefior Roberts and the sending here of Admiral Polo ag his successor, the Spanish Minister has ree ceived intimations from Madrid which giva Nim reason to believe ,that there hi been @ change of policy. which will prs cluge the proposed removal. It 18 nov belie in diplomatic and oMicial circles that the advisers King Amadeus are ready to remove a represen! tive whose relations are friendly with the govern. ment to which he 13 accredited, and replace bint with an official new to diplomacy and known only} to the country to which he 1s to be sent a8 having ex pressed contempt for it, and as also sustaining! @ policy of hostility to that country’s recognize traditions and policy. In the opinion of diplomats’ here such an appointment as Adiniral Polo's could be justly regarded by this government as an evid dence of hosulity, while it would be proof positive of foolish bungling at Madrid, There are important diplomatic questions between the United States and Spain, about to be opened,’ which preclude, perhaps, the possibility of thet being amicably considered except through an ex pertenced Minister who ts thoroughly acquainted with American laws. Philadelphia and the Republican National Convention. Considerable rivalry prevails among the prinel) cities with a view to securing the meeting of th Republican National Convention, At present Philadelphia 1s the most active, and ogee are largely in its favor, The National Commit tee meet here on the lith inst, and wilt then decide both the time and place of meeting. Tha Congressional Union Republican Committee will) probably meet on the 9th or 10th, In order to have the report of tbe resident committee before them, and to be able to advise with the Nationall vommittee, Colonel Forney is in the tt urging the claims of Philadelphia, and state: that the local committee who are in charge of tha matter Rave conditionally secured the use of tha Academy of Music for the Convention, arranged for half fare on all railroads, and also secured a reduced} hotel tariff for the delegates. There will be con siderable debate over the time of meeting. Thi Western republicans are generally in favor of aw early day. Goveraor Morton urges this, and wil work energetically to secure an adjournment. ol Congress to suit that policy. Others from thé Eastera, Middie and Souvhern States do not desird the Convention to be calied beiore the Grst week in June, This is also the desire of the Philadelphians. Civil service Reform—The Examination Diti< cultles—Meeting of the Advisory Board, The Commissioner of Internal Revenue finds tha road to civil service reform not an easy onetd travel. Yesterday and to-day he was overwhelmed With appiicauiona trom Congressmen with sbory memories, who, hurrying to make their point befora the new order of things begins, had forgotten uns Teminded thereof by Mr. Douglass that it went inta operation on the 1st of January, There are @ considerable number of vacancies iu the revenue service, and others are cone stantly occurring. The Commiswioncr can make no appointments nor can he, as requested by @lous Congressmen, at present appoint ang, examining boards, so that their friends may appear before them, Under the plan accepted by the Pres ident the new advisory board, which meels tox morrow, 1s required to prepare schedules for, and plans of, examination, as well as to arrange and group the several Claeses of officlais, so as to make practicable the needed variety of teste. It will taka some time to perform this duty thoroughly, aud, as the revenue service 13 sure to suffer from delay incl Gent to the change, the board will be urged to take up at that Bureau at once, and devise some plan, it only temporary, under which present vacancies may be provided for, It will be necessary to dele- gate the examining power in the several revenue districts to the collectors and assesvora thereol, na the Commissioner was considerably non plussed when asked who was to determine the com. petency of the proposed examiners themselves for sucn duties, The Civil Service Aavisory Board held an infor- mal meeting today at ther room in tue Interior Department—the same heretofore occupied by the Civil Service Commission. There were present George Wiliam Curtis, Join H, Blackfan, D. U. Cox and E. 4. Eluott, Tne other members of the Commission have not yet arrived in tue city, but are expected by to-morrow, ‘They wiil receive their commissions from the President immediately, and will hold daily sessions, Tie Free Teaders’ Programme, A meeting of revenue reform politicians and edl- tors, which it was expected would be heid at the Arlington House to-day, has apparently beea indea- nitely postponed. Nothing has been heard from apy of the gentlemen identified with this movement further than that when Congress racets they will be represented here by @ bureau of correspondence and information, to be under the direction of Colonel Grosvenor, for- merly editor of the Missouri Democrat. Grosvenor is the chairman of the so-called Liberai Republican State Committee of Missouri, by whom a recent address was pubiisned declaring hostiity to the national administration. His presence here 13 une derstood by Grant republicans to mean the organiza- tion of @ movement similar to that which elected Gratz Brown Governor of Missvurl. Offering Stolen Bonds for Sale. Yesterday a man presented ata savings bank in this city five United States bonds of the denomina- on of $1,000 cach for sale, which the clerk recogs nized as @ part of $26,000 stolen in December last trom the office of @ gentleman corner of Liberty street and Broadway, New York, and which had been extensively advertisea. Detectives were called aud the man, who gave his nanre as Horace Corp, was arrested. He asserts that ne purchased tne bonds in New York, and offers to return with the oMcers to that city and ¢stablisn his good character, Minister Sickles at Waskington. General Damiei £. Sickles, United States Minister to Spain, arrived here to-night at ten o’clock on the New York train and proceeded to the Arlington Hotel, where he has vnzaged quarters. The Administration Still After the Ku Klux— Letter trom Attorney General W m8. mes fr eeorce he by Dee, 30, 1871, jon. JOHN POOL, ington, D. O.:— My Dagar Sin--I have received your letter of the 27th instant, covermg one from Colonel Carrow, United States Marshal ‘of North Carolina, from which it appears that certain interested persoas pretend and are to produce the impression that the Jate ch in the ofice of Attorney General indi. cates on the part of the administration au abate- ment oi vigor in prosecutiug ofenders under the recent tion of Congress to enforce the rights tien. SS aot acquainted with the motives which In- duced Mr. Akerman to resign, but 1 know that tho President was petfectly satistied with the energy and zeal ere? by hia in proseouling members of the Ku Klux Kian, ¢ Judging from the evidence elicited upon recen| triais of such persons this Klan is an organization that no Cnristian or civilized government can wi. erate; and i those Who commit or coautenance its atrocious crimes expect any favors from me they are doomed to signal and bitter disappointment 1 do not abandon the hope that mood cuigena In the Southern States, for the sake of their own safety and hap! as well ag froim other vonsid+ erations, will assist (he public authorities in break. ing up all combinations of men formed te disregard law and destroy the peace of Rociety} but if uurea- and defiant crime wakes jt necessary the President 18 determine to use all the yous which the constitution and jaws bave pl in bis hands to protect the lives and proper Ie Cth zens ond maintain the supremacy g he laws Yona, YOry Wuly, GEO, H. W.