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WASHINGTON. Apportionment Settled in the . Senate. Adjournment Referred in the House. The Strong Minded Women Coalescing with the “Liberal” Republicans. THE LABOR COMMISSION. Spanish Enalevement of Coolies---The Corre spondence Withheld. THE HORNET AND THE FLORIDA. FEDERAL SPOILS IN ALABAMA, FORGING CUSTOMS CIGAR STAMPS. WASHINGTON, Jan. 29, 1872, The Appertionment Bill Passed in the sen- ate—Amnuesty Shelved by Its Friends. The only points of interest to-day in the Senate ‘were the reappearance in the chamber of the Re- trenchment Committee, the members of wilich were tiie recipients of warm personal greetings, anda discussion over the question of taking up the Am- nesty or Apportionment bill. Mr. Sumner wanted Mr. Hamtin’s psalm-singing suggestion of Friday last relative to “Old Hundred” put in the Globe, from the columns of which the Maine Senator had tie good sense to eliminate it. Some discussion occyrred over a resoln- ‘ion to arrest recusant Ku Klux witnesses, but nothing was done with it. The majority of the returned committee being favorable to am- nesty, the friends of that bill were anxious to ob- tain a decision thereon before the committee return to New York, which, it is expected, it will doina day or two. Singularly enongh, however, the strong friends of the proposition were more in earnest for the passage of the Apportionment bill. Mr. Trum- Dull raised the point of order that the Senate had agreed to go on with that bill when it adjourned on the next day, deciding also to take the vote thereon at four o’clock; that day was Saturday; but, unfor- tunately, Mr. Trumbull managed to leave the cham- ber just before the Senate agreed not to meet ull Monday. Though the Vice President de- olded the next day in legislation was the ope on which the body next met, he ruled that Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, had the floor for a speech against the Judiclary Com- mittee’s amendment to the House Apportionment bull. A brief but spirited colloquy occurred over this rajing between Mr. Trumbull and the Vice President, im which the latter got the worst ot the debate. It Was finally decided to go on with the Apportion- ment bil, ang to postpone Amnesty until to- morrow. Morrill and kdmunds, of Vermont, made speeches against tne amendment, and the Senate proceeded to vote. The House bill was finally adopted, with an additional section unnecessarily reaffirming the section of jthe fourteenth amendment ‘which provides that no State shali deprive any body of male citizens of the elective franchise without losing & proportionate amongst from its basis of rep- Commissioners on Government Loan Negotia- tions—The Syndicate Minority Report. , The bill introduced in the House to-day by Mr. ‘Cox, of New York, provides that “there shall be no commission compensation or deauction'aliowed to ‘any person for the exchange, negotiation or sale of any of the bonds or securities of the United States, any law to the contrary notwithstanding; and that all laws and parts of laws which authorize or per- mit the Secretary of the Treasury to appoint any proper agent outside of his department to scll, negotiate or exchange such securities are hereby repealed.” This ts im accord with a former demand of the bankers of the country and the industrial interest, who desire perfect competi- tion in all matters where their interests are con- cerned, The synaicate resolution will come up in the House on Wednesday, and it Is expected that the placing of the new loan will then receive a Pretty thorough ventilation. It is yet uncertain whether the minority on tne Committee of Ways and Means will make a report or give their views in tne form of a speech on the floor, though it is wenerally admitted that neither Mr. Beck nor Mr, Kerr can speak with authority on the subject as the voice of the minority of the committee, Cuban Belligerency and Final Adjournment in the House. Mr, Voorhees, of Indiana, offered a series of reso- futions to-day recognizing the belligerency of Cuba, ‘and was anxious to have them acted upon at once, ‘There were some artful dodges on both sides of the House upon these resolutions. The banks insisted ‘upon having them referred to the Committee on Forelgn Affairs, against which Mr. Cox, of New York, objected, saying Banks’ committee has now under censideration a resolution of the same nature, “upon which tt could exercise the desire to consider the question, The House retused to pass the resolu- tions, and they were offered to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, There was a decidedly lively tilt over the Senate resolutions to adjourn in May, which Mr. Dawes called up for action by the House. ‘These resolu- tions had the effect to draw fire from all quarters, ‘The protectionists voted solid for an adjournment, ‘while the revenue reformers and free traders were ‘8 unanimous against it, Mr. Dawes did not ex- press his opinion upon the subject, committing him- self to neither side. Mr. Srooks drew a sad picture of the country groaning under taxation, waiting to be relieved through legisiation, which i would be impossible to obtain if this resolution were passed. He de- clared that it would be impossible for che Ways and Means Committee to report a revenue bil! before Apri or May. Mr. Farnswoith was very severe Upon the contemplated action, before passing a single jaw looking to the relief of the country to Tush forward with a resolution to adjourn. He said it was very much like the pranks of a pack of school boys. Mr. Butler spoke in favor of adjourn- ment, and among other reasons therefor was the torn up condition of the streets, which would un- doubtedly occasion malignant fevers and sickness of various kiuds, which it would be weil for the majority to consider. All necessary legisiation ould be accomplished within the specified ume and the interesis of the country beter subserved by it. Mr. Cox, of New York, denounced the whole scheme; declared it to be a political dodge, and that a mem- ber from,Massachusetts—the distinguished soldier of the House, he facetiously added, can deciae which one he meant—has so,pronounced tt. This wasa very funny tit at Banks, and as that gentleman dia ot appear to receive the thrust very kindly, Mr. Maynard turned the tables very nicely upon the gentlemen opposing the action of the Senate by sending for a volume of the Globe containing the proceedings of the House ten years ago, wen a similar resolution was offered by the democrats @ariicr 1n the session and fixing @ day in April for adjournment, upon which Mr. Maynard said these gentlemen all voted yea and had the record read, ‘This nad a perceptible cooling effect upon the Sramer of the discussion, and upon motion of Mr. Farnsworth the resolution was referrea to the Com- mittee of Ways and Means. The revenue reformers @re sure it will pass the House, while the free traders declare it cannot be done. In the mean- time Mr. Dawes has it safe in committee, where it ‘Will be hela until some definite plan is arranged in Tegard to the policy of adjournment, The adminia- tration party 1s not 80 well defined in the House as in thy Senate, and this is thought to be strictly an administration measure, if it assumes that com: NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET, Mexion in the House, 1t may pass in spite of every other consideration. . Diplematic Correspondenco—What is Revealed aud What is Not. among the Executive papers placed in the House document room to-day was the volume usually ac- compaying the Presidents Message of diplomatic correspondence. This has been carefully edited by the State Department for the purpose apparently of preventing Congress and the American people from knowing any more about what is going on in diplo- matic affairs than that depository of traditional secrets may deem necessary. A careful examination of the correspondence © of our Minister at Madrid and that of the State De- partment with him and the Spanish Minister here reveals absolutely nothing Dot known. There are only a few brief and unsatisfactory communications from Cuba, and not a word 1s found in the collec- ton relative to the landing of Africans there, or of the enforced servitude of the great body of the Chi- nese coolies who have becn imported into Cuba. It is asserted that vaiuabie and interesting cor- respondence 1s now in the State Department;relative to coolie enslavement. .Mr, Cox’s resolution, calling for these papers has not yet been responded,to, but among the correspondenes to and from China Mr. Fish has sandwiched a letter from our Consul Genera: at Havana relative to the importation mto and treatment of coolies im the island of Cuba. ‘This letter does not, however, touch the real points of this matter, in the lon of whieh our State Department seems to be doing the work the Spanish rulers of Cuba most desire accomplished. Labor has been decreasing in Cuba for some years past, but the Spaniards are very anxious that ‘This fact should not be knows to the American peo- ple, who are customers for at least ninety per cent of all that Cuba produces, To prevent this decrease of labor, resulting in great part from the knowledge the Chinese have acqutred of the brutal treatment their countrymen receive in Cuba, and their conse- quent refusal to contract therefor, the Spanish authorities have prevented coolies on the island from leaving it, and are now organizing a system ofensiavement, The State Departmentis in pos- session of information proving this to be the cuse, and the public should be allowed to read it. Coalition of the Strong-Minded With the “Liberal” Republicans. Mrs, Isabella Beecher Hooker and her co-workers in the female suffrage cause are here workingout @ scheme as bold as it is comprebensive. Becoming disgusted with the backwardness of the republicans in their behalf, they now propose to throw their efforts in favor of the new “liberal repuDlican”’ movement and henceforward operate with that faction. The action of tue Senate in rejecting the ap- Plication of the female suffragists to state their case from the floor of the Senate was the immediate cause for thts movement, and the representation of the new coalition in the House, anxious to absorb all elements of strength, took advantage of this disaffec- tion and met them graciously in their eiforts to get @ hearing before that body. Tmis movement has been gaining strength for several days, and to-day a basis of action was agreed upon between the parties tnat is likely to prove advantageous to both. Tne programme 1s that the leaders of the female suf- fragists are to have a hearing for their cause upon the floor of the House, to produce upon the country what they are pleased to term ‘a moral effect.” For this privilege the suffragists are to throw their influence in favor of the new Coall- uon, to carry for it im next spring's elections New Hampshire and Connecticut, and some few of its leaders, prominent among whom will be Mrs, Hookét, are at once to go into these States and take the stump against che Grant republicans. Already their influence is being felt as shaping nominations in Connecticut, and thelr influence is counted upon to accomplisn much good in that ai- rection to the party to reeeive its labors. The movement is weil understood in Connecticut and the East, and the fnends of English and Pond are con- sulting with the heads of this coalition as to nomina- tions for Governor and metabers of Congress. In the Presidential contest the women will favor Sumner as their candidate, but will gladiv support either Trumbull or Judge Davis. Mrs, Hooker, Mrs. Caay Stanton and others expect to be aple to get before the House for their arguments next week and are now preparing thelr addresses. Another point un- der discussion by the new party is the absorption of the labor reform element, whioh will giadly come to it if fairly met, amd the propesition-te cali three conventions at the same time and place for the representatives of the three elements to gather and confer as to the nomination of a Presidential candl- date is being mooted and will probably be the pro- gramme agreed upon. It is expected that the con- vention 6f the labor reformers, called to meet at Columbus on the.17th of February to nominate a Presidential candidate, will adjourn without action and then meet for conference with the liberal repub- leans when and where the latter may call their convention. ’ Alabama Party Spoils—The Mobile Collector- ship. Under the Tenure of uffice act, Judge William Miller, of Tuscaloosa, again becomes Collector of ‘the Port of Mobile in consequence of the withdrawal of the name of ex-Senator Warner from before the Senate by the President. his fact was officially set- tled by Attorney General Williams to-day to oblige Mr. Boutwel', who was anxious about the interests of his department. The fight over the federal patronage in Alabama is occupying more attention than it Would seem to deserve; but the truth is that the arena of the conflict is not confined to that State altogether. General Sherman, his brother, the Senator from Ohio, and their large following in that State, have espoused Warner's cause with much warmth; but the General 13 absent, and it has become no longer &@ question that Warner has no influence in the Svate he lately represented in tne Senate. Consequently be has to be sacrificed for the good of the party. The Labor Commission Bill. The bill providing for the organization of a Labor Commission is now on the Senate calendar, and wiil probably be taken up for action during the present week, It is understood that the friends of the measure, who are afraid that if amended and sent back to the House 11 may fail of passage, have induced the Senate Commitee on Education and Labor to agree to withdraw their amendments, In that case Mr, Wilson will not press his amendments, even though they meet the approval of those who support the measure. If this is done the bill, in all probability, wili pass the Senate as it came from the House. ‘The President to-day, in conversation with gentie- men who were urging the appointment of some friends, declared that he would first consider the names which might be presented to him from the lavor organizations of the country. If they could agree on any one man he would nominate him, or he would select one from any three they might present, It is reported that Mr. Sumner will make an elaborate speech in favor of the proposed commission. If he does it will be in furtherance of the programme of the last projected coaution against Grant, which appears to regard the Senator trom Massachusetts as the most availabie man for the Presidency. Diplomatic Approprintions—Mail Subsidies. The Committee on Appropriations to-day finished the Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill, which appropriates $1,217,000—an increase of $70,000 over the appropriations for last year, which is caused by appropriations for various matters con- nected with the diplomatic service heretofore paid out of the contingent fund, Hone A. A. Sargeny was before the committee in favor of an increase In the subsidy to the Pacitic mail steamship service from $500,000 to $1,000,000. Bingham Still in the Traces. It seems that the democratic members of Congress who expect Mr. Bingham, of Ohio, to join m the anti-Grant crusade have veen counting too fast, that gentieman deciaring in positive terms that he is now, ashe always has been, a strong supporter of the administration and favorable to President Granvs re-election. The Florida at Newport—Her Next Voya: ‘The steamer Florida 1s reported at Newport, K. I., weather bound, and it will be necessary to tow ner to New York. She will soon be fitted out for another voyage, and her mission and destination, carrying arms to the jnsurrectionary districts of Cuba, are no secrets, The Hornet Case to Be Tried at Baltim Secretary Boutwell has instructed Collector Thomas, of the port of Baitimore, not to issue Clearance papers to the steamship Borges aunty further orders, Her career is to be thoroughly in- vestigated before she will be allowed to ieave Baltl- more, and it the evidence is sufficient she will be libelled im that city, Things Quict iv Ha Healt Despatches received at the Navy Department to- day from officers in command of United States ves- sels tn the harbor of Havana represent that every- thing is quiet, and the bealth of the crews of the Nipsic, Kansas and monitor Terror is good. Leather Before the Ways and Means Covnmittee. : The Committee on Ways and Means heard the leather and tanning men to-day. 4G. W. Allen, of Milwaukee, argued in favor of a reduction of the duty on leather and the removal of the duty on hides, Foreign raw hides are now taken to Can- ada, where, owing to cheaper labor and tanping material, they are tanned and exported to the detri- ment of our own trade, At present the Canadians have an advantage of eleven per cent over us. AS our law now stands 1t 1s simply legislation for Van- ada. Heasked that manufacturers be placed in such @ position as toenable them to compete with their neighbors. Hon. John B, Alley declared himself opposed to a reduction of the duty on leather and presented a protest of three l¢ather dealers of Boston, who be- leved they expressed the sentiments of the leather and tanning trade generally. The matter of taxing hides 1s more @ question of revenne than of protec- tion. Foreign hides do not to any considerable extent come into competition with the domestic article, If the duty on the sale of leather were re- Moved we could compete with Engiaud, but not with Canada, Francis M. Johnson, of Boston, argued that there shouid de no duty on extracts of bark, &c., used in tanning. To-morrow the committee will hear the wood and lumber men, International Copyright. The jolnt Committee on the Library to-day heard W. P. Hagurd, J. E. Potter, R. Sherman and others as a delegation trom the publishers, paper makers and printers of Philadelphia, in opposition to the enactment of an international copy- Tight law, as proposed by resolution of Hon. 8. 8. Cox, and also heard an argu- Ment delivered by Gilbert Burling, of New York representing the artists of that city, in favor of such @ measure for their protection. The.com- mittee adjourned until February to agitate it, When the subject will he considered further. It was stated by the Philadeiphia representatives that a@ bill is in course of preparation In New York, and will shortly be submitted to the committee providing for an international copy- right law, with modifications which will suit their views. It was also asserted by the Philadelphians that @ majority of New York publishers do not favor the movement suggested by the Cox resolution, and that the Harpevs and Appletons are the only pub- lishers of prominence that support tt. New Trial in a $27,000 Cotton Case Denied to the United States. Im the Court of Claims to-day Juage Knott de- livered the opinion of the Court denying the moron ofthe United States for @ new trial in the case of Jono Silvey, invoiving about twenty-seven thousand dollars’ worth of cotton, seized at Atlanta, Ga. The motion was made under a statute en- acted a year ago, authorizing the govern- ment, within two years after the decision of a case, to move for a new trial upon the discovery of fraud, wrong or injustice to the United States, and this de- cision is important as giving the construction of the Court to the statute in regard to the diligence re- quired on the part of the government and Kindred questions. Chief Justice Drake and Judge Loring dissented. ma—Our Fleet There The Vance-Abbott Contest. Senator Morton left last night for New Haven, where he ts to deliver a lyceum lecture, He 1s ex- pected back here by Wednesday morning, when the Vance- Abbott contest will be again tak@a up by the Committee on Privileges and Elections, and probably decided, Appointments and Nomivations. M. Crea as been appointed Assessor of Internal Revenue for the First Virginian district. The follow- ing have been appointed Storekeepers:—S. S. Bur- ney, of Wisconsin; J. R. McCullough, C. C, Bell and 8. V. Parrent, of Kentucky. The President sent the following nominations to the Senate to-day:—To be Poscmasters—H. L. Titlot- son, at Nevada, Mo.; L. C. Albertson, at Atlante City, N. J.; Sylvanus Milner, at Mount Vernon, In- diana, British and American Mixed Commission. The British and American Mixed Commission met at noon to-day, and after a brief session adjourned Ull eleven A. M. to-morrow. No decisions were made to-day. Judge Field’s Case. William Hastings was again before the House Committee on the Judiciary to-day continuing ns argument to show why Justices Field and Hoffman should be impeached, Imitating Customs Revenue Cigar Stamps. The Secretary of the Treasury has received @ let- ter from Uollector Arthur, of New York, represent- ing that the Customs revenue stamp amMxed to boxes of imported cigars has been imitated and is used by aealers in cigars manufactured in ths country for the purpose of deceiving purchasers, and asks if there 1s not some way by which the public may be protected against the fraud. It appears that the stamp referred to, printed at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, has no value except ap evidence that the contents of the boxes are imported cigars, and as there is no law against imitating it dealers im do- mestic cigars have procured lithographic imitations and use them with gr at profit. Secretary Boutwell has under consideration the draft of a bill, which he ‘Will send to Congress in a few days, making the imi- tation of this stamp @ felony. The Distillers end Useless Meters. The bill introduced to-day by Representative Stevenson was at the instance of J. W. Gaff, the President of the Distillers’ Manufacturing Company of Cincinnati, and im behalf of other aistilers in the United States. The bill 18 intended for the reliet of the distillers by the refunding and repay- ment of moneys expended by them for ‘fice meters. The Internal Revenue Department has abandoned the use of these meters, and they have been ae- tached at the distillers’ expense, and for snearly three years the distillers who have complied with the law and the orders of the Department have, they say, been deprived of the use of a large sum of money expended in an experiment without benefit to tLemselves or to the government. The distillers regard it as but an act of justice that the money wrongtully exacted from them and paid for useless, Worthless and abandoned inven. tions should be promptly refunded. It is estimated there are 622 meters, of which ninety-six were at- tached to distilleries. There has aot only been a 1088 of spirits by leakage ana interierence with dis- uliing operations, but a loss of probably $500,000, owing to the purchase and expense of the meters now abandoned by the Department, Chicago’s Tobacco Stamps. A number of tobacco manufacturers in Chicago haviog petitioned the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to refund the value of stamps on packages of tobacco destroyed by the great fire in that city, the Commissioner replies that, after carefully con- sidering the applications, he 1s satisfied tnat he has no warrant of law to grant the relief asked. The tax on manufactured tobacco and cigars under the law occurs when it is sold or removed from the place where it 18 made forsaie or consumption. The tobacco in question had all been sold or removed; the tax accrued and paid. Itis not, therefore, a case of erroneous or illegal assessment, or payment which was excessive 1n amount, such as would con- stitute one of those cases in Which the law allows tne Commussioner to refund. Relief in these cases can only be given by Congress. Mall Contencts Awarded. The Postmaster General has awarded the mail coutract on the route between Vicksburg and New Orleans at $29,000 a year, and also the Red River route at $17 & year, to Captain George Kauns, ‘The lower coast and St. Francisville are retained by Dr. Paierson at former prices. The above lettings are regarded by experts as very iow. SUDDEN DEATH IN HOBOKEN, On Sunday night Mrs, Carroll, the wife of Omcer Carroll, of the Hoboken police force, while teach- ing her little children how to spell, at her residence, in Meadow street, fell back in her chair and dicd instantly, The oficer had just left the house to go on duty, but had only gone a few squares irom his home when the news reached him that his wie wus dead, A post-mortem examination will he | made by Dr, Prendergast. deqtn resulted irom apopiexy, It ts provabie that her + te Long Istand, on Monday, A BRUTAL HUSBAND. Dastardly Treatment of a Wife—Driveu to Desperation, She Falls a Victim to as Ac- complice of Her Husband—A Divorce Ob- tained by Fraud Declared Void—An Extra- ordinary Case. POUGHKEEPSIE, Jan. 29, 1872 In August last the New York papers contained in- formation that Mr, and Mrs, Caservan were names registered atthe Delaware House in Port Jervis; tat Caservan was a low-browed, repulsive-looking character, while the woman, in direct contrast, pre- sented @ most beautiful and prepossessing appear- ance; that the two nad hardly been in the hous two months before the man began to abuse the lady, and persons passing their room heard him accuse her of infidelity. He did not stay much at the house, and the lady appeared disconsolate. Shortly alter he disappeared, and in a few days she also left. Then a man, giving his name as Billings, ap- peared at the house, and inquired concerning the couple. He was very reticent, and did not stay long. At the next session of the Supreme Court m= this city, Justice Joseph F. Barnard Presiding, Mr. Billings sued for a divorce, bis chief witness being the man Caservan, who had stolen nis wife, It seems that as soon as Caservan left Port Jervis he hurried to Billings, who was at work in this city, to inform him of the infidelity of ms wile, thus adding this distardly act to his evil deeds, Mrs. Billings had also gone back and told her husband a different story, but he refused to believe her. He, however, promisea her that he would not proceed with a suit for @ divorce, and she left him. He, however, did go on with the suit, and the man Caservan was, of course, his main witness, and he PROCURED A DIVORCE unknown to his wife, Judge Barnard toid Caser- van to his face that he was the basest wretch he ever met, ana should he ever come before bim charged with any crime he would give him the fullest extent of the law. The above divorce was granted last month, and as socom as the wife heard of it she came here and put her case in the hands of Recorder Robert E. Taylor and John Hackett, when a motion was made before Judge Barnard to set the decree of divorce granted Bialings aside on the grounds that adultery couid be proven on the part of the husband. The evidence was taken this picceine: Doriand & Williams acting for the de- lence, James Cramsey testified to seeing Billings in the house 148 Union street, Poughkeepsie, frequently from August, 1871, to October following as iate as twelve o'clock at night. Hewlett Lake tesufied that Billings told him he had improper imtimacy with Susan Haight, the pro- prietress, of the house. The latter's testimony was corroborated by Willtam Haxby aad John L. Wigis The latter testified to seeing Billings with a woman at Collingwood Upera House, and that Bil- lings afterward told him he had improper inter- course with her. B. W. Van Wyck also gave dam- aging evidence against Billings, Snsan Haight, who resides at 148 Union street, aented ever having anytuing to do with Billings, but acknowiedged that she had harbored poatitutes Wnhen asked if she was A MARRIED WOMAN, witness replied that she was; that a Dominie Clark married her, but that she would not tell where she was married. She said when Billings came to her | house he was introduced as ‘Billy Wayne.” She said her husvand’s real wife lives with @ man named Jonn Storms and that his friends always told her he had a divorce, Jonn Henry Haight, the husband of the last wit- bard testified that he had no divorce from his first wife, Ethelbert Billings, the husband, when put upon the witness stand, denied Cramsey’s evidence and the evidence of Haxby,. Lake and Wiga, ‘hen Mrs, Emma Billings, the wife, was sworn, Nearly all of her evidence is given in the following statement, whieh I procured trom her lips, avd which, if true, shows thatthe man Billings must have driven her to desperation, and at the proper time the villain Caservan stepped in and so con- ducted the arrangements a8 to Gbtain ample proof for Biliings to optata a divorce. Se said with con- siderable emotion: — 1 was married to Mr. Billings In November, 1866, at the age of fliteen years, m the village of Sauger- ties, N.Y. He was was working there at that ume, andl there on a visit [rom Syracuse. The next morning aiter I was married he sent me home. I stayed home six weeks without hearing a word from my husband, when my father sent for him. He came and stayed three weeks, and borrowed money of my father to take me to bis parents, in Ellenville, Ulster county, where I was coldly re- ceived, His mother wanted me to go to work in a paper mill. We were tere two weeks, when we weut to Saugerties and stayed five weeks, and he left me to 100g for work. He left me without a cent and was gone tive Weeks. Finaily I found him IN SING SING, He said he eeitidn't tind board for me and told me Lo go to my sisicr’s, T'did so, and stayed two weeks. Finally ne took me to his Uncle Jewel’s, in Yonkers, where I stayed two days. Then I took my trunk to Sing Sing and told him I wanted a home. He told me to go home to Syracuse and try to get work for him. I got him work in a marble yard, but he didn’t stay over iwo weeks, AJl that time i stayed at my mother’s, and he boarded himself. Then he went to Fulton, N. Y., leaving me till he got work. Three weeks after I followed him, and boarded at Fulton two months, WANTED TO KEEP HOUSE, anda wanted my father and mother to help him. They did, and we started housekeeping. One day during my absence he cleaned out the entire house, sold everything and left. 1 followed him to Syra- cuse, He leit me again in the fall of 1867, and I didn’t see him till the spring of ’68, when I heard he was in Ellenville, { went there, and his fatner wouldn't speak to me. Billings told me to go back to Syracuse, and he would come ana support me, He didn’t c till the tatter part of April, and then stayed only two or three days. I have lived in twelve or thirteen places. He has given mgs child no attention whatever; showed it no kindness or latherly affection; ' has taken it away and it m_ charge of his father, If I step was driven wo it by bis cruel acts, My relatives have supported me for nearly three years. The last time J left Syracuse with bim and my child we reached Albany at three o’ciock in the morning 1n a@ drenching rain storm, and he took me and my child the cellar of @ — police station to stay all night. (Here Mrs. Billings’ votce faltered and she wept.) He must have had money, because he spent twelve shillings the day before treating his frienas. 1 told him 1 could not stay there, and went out and begged permission of the depot master to stay in the passenger house all night with my child. ‘The man kindly granted permission, My lusvand saul to me:—*Now you have got enough of tramp- ing; you won’t want tu follow me any more.” I was Unree days WITHOUT ANYTHING TO EAT, and when I reached my sister’s I said, “Don’t ask me any questions, but give me and my child some- thing to eat.’ The husband dentes allof the above; but the wife's sister, a highly respected lady of Rome, N. Y., fully verified the wife’s statement. After ali of the evidence was in Justice Barnard declared the divorce granted to the husband in De- cember null and void. Then came a decision rela- tive to tne custody of the cmid—a little boy, three years old. Judge Barnard decided that neither the husband nor wife was @ proper person to care for the little on and pronounced it in charge of the Court till Feb- ruary 28, when he woult hear applications for its care, announcing that whoever takes the boy must Rye, ample security ior ms maintenance and care- ‘ul brini my’ up. All parties then left the court room. The feeling 13 very strong against tne hug band. The wile 18 at present employed in a cloak ii) in Syracuse on @ salary of seven dollars per weel STABBED HIS WIFE. Yesterday morning Catharine Watson, residing at 20 West Twenty-seventh street, caused the arrest of ber husband, Thomas, upon a charge of assault and constantly annoying her. The prisoner, on being arraigned before Justice Cox, at Jefferson Market, promised to keep away and not annoy her in the future. Upon making which he was dis charged with @ reprimand. The two left the court room logether, and as tne woman Was about entering a Seventh avenue car to proceed up town he pulled a large Knife from his pocket and plunged it into her left shoulder, He ‘was in the act of repeating the assault, when a pas- senger on the rear platform of the car seized his arm ana prevented him doing further damage, Officer Jones, of the Sanitary Squad, witnessing the assault, came forward and took Watson In custody. He was again arraigned before Justice Cox, and committed, in default of $1,000 ball, to answer. DEFRAUDING THE GOVERNMENT, Crxctnxatt, Ohio, Jan, 29, 1972, In the United States Circuit Court, in the case of the United States vs, Daniel G. Dustin and others for alleged conspiracy to defraud they United States of taxes upon certain distilled spirits manufacturea in the Sixth Onto district, in which @ demurrer had been filed on the ground that prosecution was barred by the two years statute of limitation, Judge Emmonson on Savurday rendered @ decision that the thirtieth section of the act of Congress of March, 1367, punishing conspiracies, was a revenue law) and the period of limitation for offences against said section Was five years 1ustead of two, PIGEON SHOOTING, A pigeon match for $100, play or pay, between David Robinson ana Philp Schindler, 21 birds each, 21 yards rise and 80 yards boundary, find and trap for each other, wilt come off near Fort Hamt)+ and rules Will govern the rt oddiai Pep THE HERALD ON THE NILE. Departure of a Herald Correspondent for the Nile Basin. EN ROUTE TO THE SOUDAN. An American Official Party Bound for Khartoum. MUNIFICENT CO-OPERATION OF THE VICEROY The Details of the Expedition—Snpplies, Arms and Ammunition. ON BOARD THE DAHABEAR Leta Orr BENISDUEF, Dec, 27, 1871, When news came from Khartoum that Sir Samuel Baker was in distress at some point of the Nile Basin I preparea to go at once, as a correspondent of the HERALD, to the Soudan country in order to investigate his position and condition. 1 soon tound the journey impossible to undertake alone at this stage of the season. Happily an occasion occurred, id | am now on my way to Gondokoro in company ‘with General F. A. Starring, United States Consular Inspector and Special Agent of the United States; Consul General Colonel George H. Butler and Gouverneur Morris, Jr., who go as far as Khartoum. Serious charges having been made against the Consul General regarding his appointment of the agent at Khartoum he addressed the following let- ter to Genera: Starring:— Camo, Dec. 7, 1871. General SraRRING—The State Department hav: ing, at my request, detailed you to investigate the management of my consular office in Egypt, 1 would therefore uest that you include in your inquiry the United States Consular Agency at Khartoum, concerning the manuer of making which appoint- ment informal representations have been made to tne Department by persons unknown to me. 1 shall be at your disposal to start at any day you may desi te. I have the honor to remain, Snag your obedient servant, GEORGE H. BUTLER, United States Agent ana Consui General. General Starring at once responded that he would willingly go, especially as there were other matters concerning the interior of Africa which de- manded bis investigation as a representative of the United States government, particularly as concerns the slave trade; and we accordingly set to work for one of the most dificult trips in tne world. One morning early we drove to Boulac, the port of Cairo, on the Nile, and began the inspection of THAT ANOMALOUS NILE SQUADRON CALLED “DATIA- BEAUS.”? What is a dahabeah? simply on its exterior one of the ugliest and most unsightly objects that evor floated upon water. Its shape comes from remote antiquity. It embodies the Mohammedan idea of marine beauty. Imagine the hull of a biu(ft-bowed, square-sterned North River coal parge, Pui upa bu:Khead@ athwartships, just amidships. Abaft is all your cabin room, @ long saloon, staterooms to starboard and port, and convenient tollet rooms. The interior 1s always luxuriously upholstered, painted, furnished and embellished, and you have divans, chairs, sideboards ana carpets, Above the saloon is the hurricane deck, which 1s reached from forward by a companionway, and here oue finds sea chairs and divans, where he can repose beneath the shade of awnings, which can be spread from sheer- pole to sheerpole, or so as to enclose the entire deck The forward part of the dahabeah {s reserved for the crew. Rowlocks are fitted oa the gunwate and thwarts are fitted for the men. In time of caims the men sit in their places the live-long day chanting a savage air, and, working like machines, propel the dahabeah at a pace averaging from two to three knots an hour. But when there is a favor- able wind the space 1s decked over, a cloud of can- ‘vas, all comprised in one sath, 18 spread from a long yard, hoisted to the foremast head, The gatley is forward, Such in brief terms is the fashionable Nile boat—at once roomy and hideous, shallow but high-standing out of the water, resembling, in the dark, a captured whale, suffering from trom too many harpoons. They are generally about sieyy feet long and fifteen feet wide. THE HARBOR OF BOULAC was tnronged with these craft, when the Const General, with this 1mposing janisgary, boarded tne finest in the harbor. Number 1 possessed that odor which 18 didused by the volition of bloated cock- roaches; No. 2 was nearly overcrowded with self- invited guests from the famijy of minor vermin; No, 3 was very good, but had been chartered by a body of Briuish tourists; No, 4 belonged to a wealthy Russian, and was immediately set down as a con- tingent. Having imspected the whole fleet we saw one anchored in the stream in aristocratic isolation, smaller but handsomer than the rest. We boarded her, and hardly had we entered the saloon before General Starring and the Consul General exclaimed, simultaneously, “his 18 the HBRALD |"? “How ?’ I demanded, “We'll take this one, and she shall be named ‘The HERALD.’ ” THE HERALD ON THE NILE Of course your correspondent had nothing to do but to recognize this graceful compliment as one paid to @ journal whose enterprise in Afriea has been carried to the heart of the savage wars. Forty-eight hours afterwards the longest streamer ever floated from a Nile daflabeah was bearing out sixty feet to leeward, with “The Herald’ in great block letters, The Herald is not only the most sumptuous and elegant dahateah on the Nile, but is one whose in- terior space 1s disposed in a manner better suited to a fiver cruise than that of any other I have ever seen. She was bulit for M. de Lesseps, the «istiu- guisned engineer of the Suez Canal, and has been soughs alter by many parties during the season. ike all dahabeans she has the transverse bulkhead amidships and abaft cabin room to the sternpost, @ distance of thirty feet. The saloon is aft, up- nolstered Ingreen and red reps, waimscoted tn saunwood, furnished with mirrors, divans, & piano, @ harmonium and pendant lamps. Leaving the saloon by the passage running fore and aft, we find six staterooms, two pautries and a bath- room. On deck sea chairs, divans, tables and set- tees are liberally provided. Every stateroom is luxuriously furnished—fine, clean bed linen, marble basins—and waterpipes ran fore and aft, THE CANTKEN is suitable for princes. The Herald is 60 feet long, 15 feet breadth of beam and draws three feet of water, She 1s fellucca rigged and carries a yard 30 feet long and 1s very fast, being capable of going above the first cataract. A messenger Was immediately despatchea to Mr. Jonn Abiitt, a hardy Briton, and several adventurers were made unhappy by the announcement that the dahabeah had been engagea by the American party. Hassan, the chief janissary of tne Consulate, was commissioned to lay in supplies, and the work of preparation began. Hardiy had the contract for the boat been signed before the projected trip came to the knowledge of the Viceroy. Colonel Butier, in applying soon afterward to NABAR PACHA, MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, for a firman, was informed by His Excelleacy that the Viceroy’s government would undertake to tur- nish all necessary facilities for a rapid trip by the Nile to Korosko and across the desert by dromeda- ties, and thence by river to Khartoum, Two days afterward the Viceroy informed the Consul General that he would be happy to see him at his palace. Upon receiving Colonel Butler the Khedive tnsisted upon giving the party a steamer at his own expense to the first cataract, where he would tender another steamer, with dromedaries at Korosko, and oi the other side of the Nubian Desert a steamer to Khartoum, with supplies and everything necessary. The Consul General insisted apon keeping the dahabeah and upon declining the steamers, save ag a low. THE VICBROY WAS OBDURATE and would not fisten. Finally, however, upon learning that tt was a sincere desire not to impose upon his hospitality, ne desired the day of depar- ture tobe named, Despatches were immediately — OOO rt emt to the Governor General of Soudan, to all gove ernment agents and authorities along the line to open up the routes of travel; to bave every link ready fora perfect connection, and to offer every courtesy and facility m their power. The Viceroy ordered the steamer to be supplied with wines and provisions, but these were also declined. The steamer appointed as the tow 18 one of the swiftest on the Nile and 1s elegansly fitted up for the recep- ton of guests, HASSAN, TRE MIGHTIEST OF ALL ARABS When he handies bis consular baton, drew up & Schedule of provisions that produced grave sus- Picions that he must at some time have been @ cook at Bignons or the Trois Fréres. He had, however, in deference to the expressed wish of the party, received orders to pus no wine, liquor or beer, or strong or spirituous drinks of any nature on board, and it Was agreed by every member of the party that none should be permitted, And here 1s the Herald, the finest boat on the Nile, bearmg four healthy passengers to a thirsty climate, setting the example of teetotalism to the religious tourists,, who are generaily shipped as high up as Thebes, I confess that in the heatea discussion that preceded the adoption of this rule I pleaded long and earnestly for a few dozen of red wine to properly digest some of Hassan’s conserves, but the Consul General pointed with significance to his much-loved champagne and then lobbied with the other members of the Party against my resolution. Thence we concluded to take TEA AND GOSSIP. Preparations for a Nile trip vary. It depends up» on whether you are the indulged son of a busy, non- travelling capitalist; if you are stop at the first cataract, and then take along with you lace ties, two dress suits and linen shirt fronts originally Prepared for ladies’ bosoms. If you are fatally aMicted with archwology an old bag, without soap, or tooth brushes, will take you happtly through @ hundred days; but if—in the language of the West— you mean “business,” and intend to do serious work, to cross the desert requires all the foretnought necessary in preparing @ campaign. Guns and ame munition ate very necessary, tor the natives, at ‘ certain stages of the journey, are apt to require LEADEN SALUTES in honor of their ideas of etiquette. Gentlemen of the ebony hue often require unwilling contributions, but with a good Remington you can pass them more rapidly and with a softer metal than is current among Europeans, Game requires shot guns, and the ambitious animals which stride abroad must be laid low by fine rifles. Pistols of good size are necessary for self-defence in the field, while a small parlor weapon ia indispen- sable at five paces. Beit-knives, battie-axes and polgnards are sometimes happy expedients, and belong to an ordmary outtit, All these things we have on board in one form or another. General Starring has a fine armory, and tke Consul General, Who is wont to fire at half-frane pieces at 100 yards, has a brace of guns irom the select of Egypt. Mr. Morris, with the indiiference of an old frontiers+ man, trusts bis fate to his favorite gun. Your cor- respondent, proposing to penetrate 600 miles beyond Khartoum, has a more elaborate gutfit. It should be said, forthe benefit of those who design a trip to the interior of Africa, that no man should come here without guns and cylinders for the ammunt- tion. The laws of Egypt, or rathér of the Turkish empire, prohivit the Importation of ammunition or arms; hence the caution mentioned. To buy fine, well-proven weapous in Egypt is impossible, save by chance; hence we nave been required to take | with us several inferlor weapons. I believe, how- ever, without knowing positively, that all leisurely explorers in Alrica overburden themseives with too much ammunition, Large bedies move slowly. SANITARY PRECAUTIONS have been very necessary in preparing. As regards aress, flannels are indispensable under the flercest sun; and the eyes must be guarded while moving across the desert. so much has the Viceroy beem interested in the expedition that he consulted his physician and in a lengthy conversation with Gen eral Starring communicated the doctor's state ments, He was of the opinicn that total abstinence in the Soudan country would be injurious, and he was alarmed at the resolution, without, of course, understanding the texture of the American frame— suited, as itis, to all climes and vicissitudes. He cautioned each gentleman to wear a flannel band around the abdomen and to observe a prescribed regimen. ‘The Consul General was thos ADVISED BY HiIf PHYSICIAN. “Ayold exposure to the rays of the sun imme. diately after eating or great fatiaue, Food asin Europe, with less meat and more farmaceous dish, Few stimulants need be taken; cognac snould be on hand in case of sicknéss, The beavicst mea: should be eaten at twoo'clock. A free use of green fruit tu be avoided, Vegetabies to be well cookea, By rins- ing out the mouth frequenuy thirst may be avoided, Alter marching in marshy districts half an nour should be spent under cover.” THE VICEROY’S FIRMAN. When the announcement of the Viceroy’s munify cent intentions became known 1 was under the im- pression that he was opposed to encouraging the explorations of the Continent beyond Khartoum, I therefore paid a visit to Nubar Pacha, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and he received me with great cor: diality. Tassured him that I aesired to visit the equatorial region and delivered A FIRMAN from His Excellency. “Sovez tranquille! soyee tranquille! je vous donnerai tous quil faut,” continued His Excel. lency. “You will find a rude country there, explore?” “I go as a correspondent of the New Yore HekaLp—not so much an explorer as a journalist to ascertain Sir Samuel Baker's fate and to look at the country with newspaper eyes.” “It is a rare spirit of progress,” said the Tailey- rand of the East, ‘which dominates your American press, It 15 the go-ahead tn your people. I tell you frankly that none but an American journalist would recetve the support of the Viceroy’s government in going to the equatorial basin, and no American will receive greater assistance from His Highness than @ representative of the New YorK HERALD. americans have energy, and do not come here to harass the government? besides, they nave no sel- sh tnverests.’? mAifter thanking His Excellency for the friendly at titude of the Viceroy’s government toward the Herat [ retired. A FAREWELL RECEPTION. On the 26th, at two o’clock im the afternoon, the Consul General gave a farewell reception to the ladies and gentiemen of Cairo, The report was spread in the saloon, and the only saaness I re- marked consisted in sly shafts aimed at temperance, while the ladies talked of nothing but Widow Cliquot, the culture of the grape and fine wines, THE DEPARTURE. On the morning of the 27th, without tears, the Herald moved from her moorings, and, firing a parting salute, was towed rapidly past the gorgeous palace of the Viceroy, and stood up the stream, bound to be due at Thebes tn six days and at Korosko in thirteen. Last night we lay moored oif shore at Kaft-el-Ayat, having made thirty miles during the day, Atsthis writing we lie off Bebbe, a mud river port for the vagrant navigation of the Nile. You go to THE DEPUTY CONSUL GENERAL. Mr. Albert Lee Ward, private secretary to Mr Washburne during the stoge of Paris, and secre- tary to General Starring, has been placed in charge of the Consulate at Alexandria by Colonel Butler, and will exercise the functions of the ofice ander the title of “Deputy Agent and Consul General.” Colonel Batier does not leave the limits of his own Jurisdiction, Mr. Ward has accompanied us to this point and will carry back tuls letter to be in Catro, ane THE VICEROY is now at Roda, accompanied by Earl Dudley and Lord Ward, Lord Ward is commercially inter+ ested with the Viceroy in many enterprises, Includ- ing the production of cotton and sugar. MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE, The Legisiature Beainuing to Savor of Fish The Treaty of Washington Again. Boston, Jan. 29, 1872, Aresolution passed the Massacnusetts Senate to. day asking Congress, in view of the anticipation of the effects of the Treaty of Washington, to provide relie! and indemnity to fishing interests anty on tonnage, or such other form as may PEs Jeet WER