The New York Herald Newspaper, February 2, 1872, Page 5

CON Resurrecting the Chicago Re- Nef Bill. Amnesty Being Talked to Death in the Senate. A Souvenir of the Rebel Cruiser Alabama, The House Whitewashes Boutwell ard His | Syndicate by a Sivict Party Vote. THE INDIAN APPROPRIATIONS | SENATE, | Wasurnoron, Feb. 2, 187. | BWa were introduced and referred as follows :-— THE FIGHT OFF CHERBOURG. By Mr, MOBRIUL, rep.) of Me.—Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to cistribute among the ofiicers and crew belong- img to the United Staten Steamer Kearsarge, while engaged ‘athe capture and destruction of the Alabama, the sum of ‘$190,000, us prize money, in Neu of the bounty authorized by the act of June 30, 1864, provided the money shal) not be paid fo tho asstxnees of the mariners, but only to themeelves or focal reprosentatives. y Mr. SAWYER, rep.) of 8. C.—Granting to the Ameri- ean and East India Telegraph Company exclusive right for twenty-one years to construct, land aud maintain submanne gables between the United Staies and Asia. By Mr. TRUMBUL:, (rep.) of 1il,—Tranalerring to the De- tof Justice the existing powers of the Necretary of | Interior relative t the imprisonment or discharge of eonvicted offenders against the Unie States, and to the Re- | form Schoo! and jail ot District of Columbia. ‘By Mr. JOMNSTON, (dem. of W. Va.—Directing the Secre. | tary of the Treaauiy to, purchase i:,0U0,U00 of the secured gations of the Keal state Bank of Virginia, bearlog ax ss + interest and ru: Ki cei yr PomEnoy, ( ry Beate of Kansas, for judicial puraosen, alt that portion of Indian Territory lying north of the $5th parailel of lati- | By Mr. KXLLOGG, :rep.) of La.—Fstablishing » drawback on al) foreign materiais used in the construction of American ; Inereasing the compensation of lelter carriers ‘$0 4120 per'anoum, abd reestablishing» branch mint at . ‘The House amendments to the bill exempting the Philadel- feeboats from the Inspection law were concurred in. Mr. SHERMAN, rep.) of Olio, introdueed @ bill for the Feltef 0! Miles \ireenwood, a naval contractor. Mr. SAWYER, (rep.) of 8. C., introduced a bill to encourage Faphic commuuication Letween America, Asia and f i ¥2f Mr. LEWIB, (rep,) of Va., rose to a personal expla by Feierence {o the newspajier misrepresentations of bi Won un the Supplemental Vivil Rights b: nd said tl 1 ‘Was and always bad been in favor of the equal rights of the + @olored people, and would vote for the bill. THK OWICAGO RELIEF. Mr. LOGAN, (rep.) of Ill., called up the pending resolution te reconsider the vote by which the Chicago Relief bill was Mr. CHANDLER, (rep.) of Mich., advocated the resolution, and read additional communications trom Michigan lum- Bermen setting forth the injury that would be done them by of the bill ior the reli of Chicago, Mr. SERMAN favored the resolution to reconsider, in order that the articles to which the bill was to apply might be @pecitied: and he Lad an artice read from a Chicaxo paper 40 abow that the bill was already construed to apply to many afticles not contemplated in ite passage. He did not think, Bowever, that the Michican lumbermen had any reason $e complain of the biil, as they would have the beneit of the | general market in ail the Western States, and they had no Fight to foel injured because they were prevented from tak- fog advantage of the Chicago calamity. He also called at- tention to a remaraable article in the Chicago 2 :oune advo- gating the extension of the principle of the bili to all the burned cities, towns, villages and houses in the Northwest, proposing free trade wherever there had jyeen a fire, NDLER--Why not, if it is right inthe case of OF ‘Mr. SHRRMAN—It is hard to say why not; but if that ts true we must pass such bills every time a fire occurs, thus @eoriminating against home manufactures. Mr, FRELINOLUYBEN, (rep.) of N. J., sald he cestred to extend relief to Chicago, as his vote showea, but he would be sorry to make the burden of that relief ali especially on those engaxed 1a trading in that vicinity, |He could appre- eiate that it is possible by taking olf” duties on certain Grticles to so disturb trade thut a doilar of rehef in one direction may be ten dollars of damage in enother, Duties bave an effect on trade greater than the pecu- | gary value of the duty, as a pound at the end of the lever has an effect greater than 100 ands near the fulcrum. ‘The merchant wroperly ‘expects us to give him a uniform market and not to aiter un- meoessarily the conditions under which he mace hia pur- Bhases or investmevis. He should therelore vote to reter the bill to the Committee on Commerce, that provision might ‘be made for placing the buren on the whole people by au ppropnation irom the genera! treasury. r. LOGAN referred to a charge in one of the letters read 24 Mr. Chandler that this bill was a free trade trick, and said bad prepared and iniroduced the bill without the know!l- edge of any other person, ana bad simply fallowea the prece- Gent net jo the case of Po wad wa ‘the expiration of the morning hour the bill went over THE AMNESTY BILL was taken up. Mr. CARPENTER, bine of Wis., said he was not one of sbose who were huogering and thirsting after the passage of this bill, but ns political associates favored it, and be eup- ponee. it world pass in some form. He hoped, however, that Senate would insist that those who desired amnesty should take the Suppiementary Civil Rights bill with it. So far from there beiog any incompatibiity between the two measures, he thought eminently tit that they shouid go together, ‘The passage of the Civil Rights bill would serve to reconcile the peopie of the North to th geome of the Amnesty bill; and, if the frieuds of the Am- Qesty bill were acting in good faith, they would not refuse amnesty because it was coupled with this measure of just- Hee. TF the did, he would then wart for amnesty until they changed their minds. Everybody knew tbat this Amaest: bri was really a bili to reinforce the democratic party; ana, becore passing It, it would be well 4 Know what was the Intenuion of that party in dealing with the colored men of the South, The senator from Mis- sont, (Mr. Schurz) had delivered « very ingenious and able support of the theory e only proper way to Goal with ‘rebels was to forgive them fully aba quickly.” AR Senator had constructed his theory withont reter- and seemed to have adopted the idea conflicted with his theory, 80 much worse for the facts. (Laughter.)” He (Mr. Carpenter) had seen no evidence of the soundness ofthe Senator's theory in this case, The Pas Goes bad been extremely merciful and generous in dealing with the rebels; but that policy had not [odin the bapp: jects attributed to it vy Mr. Schurz, rebels, as a class had no evidence of repentance or loyalty, and he belleved at within twelve mo! from the passage of a bill reliev- Jette he (Mr. Davis) would Ole that the intelligent poll- bh pie ace seece Tbs ta wo out ‘an amnesty bili, and he had no doul fey regretted the, Ku Klux outrages a8 obstacles in the way ef such a bill; put whenever it should pass and put Jefferson Davis on the same footing with Generals Grant and Sher- man he expected no more consideration at the South for the sentiments of Northern Yankees. He regretted the turn had taken yesterd this Civil” Rights col voters would abandon the naa pasty. He ee Mpa rod Gd the bill coe, but he amended, an 01 pact saga in Lnmatey A out the provis at to urches. | He thonght it doubtrul ‘whether Cony had to enact the provision, and he was very certain that ifthe existed it would be very unwise and injuri- bey ‘st pare men poop gt begpthn! aoe we ata a . THURMAN, (dem. ) of 0, as! ir. Carpenter wrbether hia substitude retained the’ provision relating to ‘Mr. CARPENTER—Yes, sir. Mr, THORMAN—I remember listenin HH to an ent by Senator a year or two ago, in which he combatted the that the federal government had right to interfere and I wouid like to know on what principle he ‘Bow claims for the federal RN the right to interfere with education in the States Mr. CARPENTER—The question {s easily answered. What I doubted then was, whether Congress ower to enter upon a meni scheme of education in the States, ‘and appropriate money to support schools; but, while reflec ton has led me to doubt still more, I have no doubt of the power of the government, under the constitutional amend- ments, to say the colored man shall have his rights in the common school, and on that subject I hope the repuifii- can party will NEVER BACK ONE 1NCU. ‘The seems to me perfectly clear belvcen volunt institutions, whether incorporated or not, which Ought not to be interfered with, and those institutions which are founded and maiotained for the genera! good and at the ‘expense. YHURMAN—The question is het! I arg tho beaett Hon is not whether colored o so erie lic mur. the public schools. The question f reguiation is taken away from the CF head give the coiored people the bene- ‘you shall be compelled wo give it ander the constitution, xolnde # colored man at take away from the Staten the right to te, courte? Notatail. Bats de “In this particular you shall not ‘diseriminate.” arodney Mr, Davis, ( yor + 8uid that the Sumner amend- dem.) 0 ment was to be put upon the Amnesty bill f Sica We "aku nn eats ac the uthern would rather « - well ‘alied’ © Without am. er Beaty than accept it naddied with such ® provision; and for one he would that human ingenuity could not devise a jon of the character of the Civil Rights bill that he He then discussed at great length the histo accept. Of the doctrine of secession and the unconstitutional acts of the republican party, and announced that, having been bora ind of freedom, he would go down to his ue in the in a lat assertion of the rights of free thought and free s; ‘Without reaching a vote the Senati fifteen minutes to four o'clock, P.M. went into executive session, aud soon after adjourned until Monday. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. WASHINGTON, Feb. 1, 1872. THE SYNDICATE REPORT. Immediately after the reading of the journal the debate as resumed on the report of the Committee on Ways and ‘Means as to the transactions of the Secretary of the Treasury with the Syndicate in negotiating the new loan. Mr, MAYNARD, (rep.) ot Tenn., a member of the Commit tee on Ways and Means, made an elaborate argument in de- fence of the Secretary and in support of the resolution of be pe of the commitiee. ri RLLEY of Pa., another member of the Com- mittee of Way: leans, followed on the same side of the juestion, ‘asked what of an ontery the democrats of question, and sort House would have raised if the Secreta had refused the offer of the foreign 000,000 of the public debt at five per cent and had con- ued fo pay six percent? What answer would it bave been for the Secretary to say that he found a divergence of opinion ea" on an immaterial point of Jaw, and hori be had better mot do it apt showd construe tuat immaterial point of law? They made may of the Treatuty’ Taker eat recuse tne ikereat of noe resto SMe bonas fe the hande of his pets, had on an jmmaterial note fT, OT por cent while the eminent bankers ring for five per cent bonds, He went Se Mr. Cox's pretentions to public virtue in, thie se to the fact that Mr. Cox hed spoken ta meet: fag ia New York in favor of the” ere 39 RE-ELECTION OF MIK¥. NORTO: Txoei's owsnams. 19 tne Henaip of We Slate Of New York, of the Treasury ankers to take xe | lage | yeare. | England could not failto bave a favorab’ | Tangement was made that the commii | bo he republicans, but they were certa {argesses from the millions stolen by 1 StmntDe my (dem.) of Wis, — Th Mr KVLLrY—That was not necessarily a0, a8 a man who stole $20,000,000 conid afford to buy high-priced men, politicans go. (Laugbter,) He did not mean to assa!l Mr. ox, Who was pure in hiv personal charactor, but who was ner a@partican. The appearance of Mr. Cox aasail- ng the conduct of the Seci of the Treasury be ine “greatest Joke Of tbat xeutlemabis life: It was BO funny, eo characteristic, that hehad been induced to bring & few {ote in close Jaxtaponition with it. Ms. DAWK, (rép.) OF Mase., chairman of the Committee of Wayaand Means, closed the debate, apologized (or aidvessing the House at this late stage of such « dry deoate, his if the charges made aes vere of the, Mreamuty | that he the transaction with the Syndicate an defianee of law were true, andif the House pronounced it true, tbat fact would deal a blow at the credit of the nation moi severe than any it bad sustained even irom rebellion war. He proceeded to derend the Secretary's cou g that it was not in defiance ot law, but that it wi ig Out the law according to its plain object and pu and under the necessities of the ease. Th ciary bad been arraigtied, not fora want of economy, ora violation of a law, and to that arraignment pleaded and had’ victorious!y shown that not violated, but bad executed, the law. bong! Norton & ey were cheap men. justifeation for i bei thi the ee net he he Supposing that the Syndicate had made such proti bad and bad made them at the BF the noverumeal wBign’ wan nor ths conan an of the government—wl he Unite! States made out of the transaction? In n ‘ing 200,000,000 of five per cent bonds and withdrawing | 6 swine armouot of six per cent bonds it hai made asaving — f A year, or $20,000,000 at the end of ten years. interest would make $26,000,000 at the end of ten PRESENT VALUE OF THAT BAVING | was $14,840,000. If the caiculation were carried out on the whole #1,500,00),000 for thirty years, when the longest Dond shall cease, the saving in interest tnvested semi-annually, at alx per cent, would amount to, %1,773,900,00u, 6 present ue of that saving sin.rio udu. © The benest of the uccers Of funding that $200,000,0.0 did not end there. It had so strengthened American credit abroad as to render it o ‘That put at The certam that the balance of the debt could be funded | ¥o, as four per cent. In that connection be read a letter of Assistant Secretary Richardson, dated at London on the @0th of December, relating to a conversation which the | writer had had recently with the Governor of the Bank of | England, who is represented as saying that until lately be had always thought tiat the debt could not be funded, but that now it had been s.own that the resources country were so nuiversal and the determination to maintain its it #0 fixed and settled that we should soon be able to borrow money at four per dent. | Buch a sentiment expreased by the Governor of the Bank of | effect on Ameri- can securities. The Sgeretary. might tarn trom t puny arraigoment to the public judgment upon his course, hav- ing reduced the fey ic debt pet $300,,00,000 and having funding $200, not only saved $26,000,000, but asei | the saving of 340,000,000 more hatever might be the vote of the House on the resolution, the Secretary could turn | to that other and greater verdict of the American people and | of the countries of Enrope, | The vote was taken, and the resolution declaring that the Secretary of the Treasury, 10 negotiating the loan, had nei- ther increased the bonded debt nor incurred an expenditure | fontrary to law, was adopted, by a strict party vote of-—Yeas, 3 nay | ‘the House then, at aquerter past three P, M.. went into Committee of the Whole, Mr, Cox in the chair, and resumed the consideration of the INDIAN APPROPRIATION BILL. After the committee had gone through forty pages of the bill, and while there was still thirty pages unread, an ar- should rise und re- qin bill, allowing certa'n amendments to be offered m e House, Mr. Tavn, (rep.) of Neb. offered an amendment provid- ing that no payment shall bé made to tribes that are at war with the United States; but that {f portions of such tribes shall remain at peace and observe their treaty obligations payments may be made to such portions pro ruta, apd also oviding that all appropriations for Indiana shall be liable fo payment for depredations committed by any of Tribes. Without disposing of this or any other amendment the | Hone, at five o'clock, adjourned, “NOT GUILTY.” ae | Last of the Jersey “Lear? Case—The Prosecation Klashes in the Pan and Abandons It—A Grand Juror Debarred from Giving Evideace=Grand Jury Room Preceedings Held Inviolate—The Acquitted Applauded in Court—Baxter Remanded for Sentence. It was apparent from the outset of the Willetts. Yates-Baxter-Whitchead conspiracy case that the prosecution nad seemingly too strong a@ position to hola ground, and the remark in’ yesterday’s Hrratp that Baxter’s story was disbelieved | was proven correct by the disposition of the case @re the day closed. As the two preceding days the court room was crowded | with a well-dressed audience, and the deepest in- | terest Was manifested in the proeeedings through- out. AS will be seen by the proceedings an effort | | horse car roads have drifted into a ruie system, concentrat. | on | After the first was built and oj QUICK TRANSIT. Meeting of the Committee of Ninetv—Proposition for the City to Build an Underground Road—Foley Saye He Can Take Care of Vanderbilt—The Viaduct and the Central Underground Koads to Umite. ‘Lhe Committee of Ninety of the Citizens’ Associa- | tion neld a meeting at the room of the Committee of Twenty, No, 52 Union square, last evening. John Foley, the President of the association, presided, In the absence of the Secretary the reading of the minutes of the previous meeung was dispensed | with, Mr. Willlam M. Hoes was selected to act as Secre- tary pro tem., after which the following gentlemen were proposed an’ unanimously elected as mem- bers of the committee:—-E. H. Brown, D. H. Knapp, R. R. Hazard, Jr, Joseph Korhner, Hugh N. Camp, S. A, Warren and Charles Spear. j Mr. John T. Daly, chairman of Snv-Committee on — Railroads, read the following report of his com- | mittee:— Your Sub-Committee on Railroads beg leave to report that, ursuant to instructions from the General Committee of inety, they have, aa directed, investigated the merita of ex- | Hating crante of dur State Legislature to existing companies, | seeking to coalesce these different interests, to secure adii- tional legislation and to pave the way for a compre- | hensive ‘system of railway travel, thus setting the most important queso now Before the people of this elty. We regret to stato that we have been unable to accomplish this; the charters beretofore granted and now in existence are trammelled with debts, , bis pardon lor the comparison. | Batuimore merchants to tue lower order of Chinese, | something to say, as we rights to maintain. By wha ght does any jature dare to prevent a New York traveller from bringing the lowest New York prices before any buyer, however remote— whether % be at St. Paul. Minnesota; New Orleans, or Denver, Colorado? There is no right inherent am any State Legisiature to do it. Now Baltimore claims to be an important port of entry jeved the Cuiveg —— ee bent onan as o class, are Wealihy, but ene that liberal spirit that invites competition, They have sought through spurious laws to keep out of their ay and State the competition of all other cities and States of our country, thereby sneae that in mercantile ability they can only rate witl second class Chinese traders. Please notice the fact, Mr. Editor, that Baltzmure sends ferth a large army of travellers to the free States and cities about, Men selling sugar, coifee, tobacco, canned iruits, £c., {rom Baltimore, are met daily oy travellers who travel from free cities in al! | Parts of the country. Yet while sacl is ime case thetremployers are still in such a comparatively barvarous condition that thetr selfishness runs away with their sense, and 80 the country has the q tacle of Baltimore travellers im Vennsytvania, in Ohio, all through the West, while ther Chinese | employers are crying out to their Chinese legtsia- | tors jor laws that will make it ielony to offer goods m their State or city. What a spectacle 3s that lor an American city fn the nineteenth cen- | tory! If any intelligent Chinaman reads tis | ask | J only compare the 7 such as the celebrated ‘Ah Sin, OJAL TRAVELLER, A COMM THE ALABAMA CLAIMS. Opinions of the English Press on the United States Deman The London Morning Post maintains that 15 | 18 proved to demonstration that Her Majesty’s | government not only did not endeavor to | RK HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY ¥, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET, THE REVOLUTION IN MEXICO. Narrow Escape of the City of Mexico of Being Captured by Diaz, Details of the Battle of San Matteo and the Oc. cupation of Oaxaca by the Forces of Juarez—-Want of Concert Among the Revolutionists, MEXICO, Jan, 18, 1872 ‘Yhe revolution which a month since so serfousty threatened the existence of the present govern- | ment has, through the activity of the latter and the apparent want of capacity of revo.utionary leaders, | already given signs of weakness, if not an early | death. Jealousy and ambition among tne rebel chiefs has naturally resulted in a want of concert of action or a tardiness in the carrying out of revo- lutionary plans, One of the first suicidal acts com. mitted was the drafting of the plan of Norta, which Was evidently intended tostrike at individuals rather | than principals and to avenge some imaginary or or real personal mjuries, This made the revolu- onary movement unpopuiar. In the second place, the plan of Noria was intended to remove from the political arena Mr, Lerdo, who, 1m case of a vacancy in the oceupancy of the Prestdential chair, suc- ceeded to the Presidency by the requirements of the constitution of 1857,, Finally, the evident unfitness seats and other chaacles, rendering x “f a of. tale place that of the United States at a disadvan- | of the revolutionary leatiers seems destined al Ore | Ie leo fm evel a a ‘ rant eoalcaced an ihe Toa bullt according to the tage by securing its assent to the abolition of | to terminate the rebellion at anv early ate: ciied in their chartera, while they would privateer 2 Confe : : “ a no doubt. afford great relief to. the travelling. pu privateering while leaving the Confederates free to | day, As your readers already know, avout they. would not or afford such w aystem as the people require, ‘The present ing in the vicinity of the City Hall Park. No was coniemplited when the Charters were gran cumstances have compelled auch syatem as at present extata, ‘Thia will not answer with steam rads, and a clear and com- prebensive plan should be ad the outeet. “In co: cluding the first part of our instructions, we would further report, that ‘after having examined all the plans eab- mitted we have no hesitation in strouzly recommendiag the underground system for the centre of the island, ma. Dining more advantages while x can be putin operation at a lens cost than any other plan. Arguments heretofo ainst the underground pian, and which for lack of infor mation at the tlme could not be refuted, are now set at rest. Your commutiee have the fullest data and can answer evel objection hituerto urged agatnst the underground aystem bi reference to, the actual experience of the present roads o London, What {a required iret is a road from the Battery to the Forty-second street depot, with a large station at the City Hall Park. This, with a track sunk from Forty-second street to Harlem on ‘he line of the Fourth avenue, would aiford the greatest relief, and be the first road of the system | already relerred to. ‘This section would afford reliet to up- town residents, and give to New \ork’s surplus population eral plan an’ clr facilities to reach Westchester county, the natura! o at OF this city. Means of transit aye now ‘ore to the population ilving twenty or thirty miles from tne city, and these avenues are how rapi idly extending in Weatchester | od that is inaccessible | that every resident of is above Forty-fiith street, and whose y Hall Park, actually pends one month out of every tweive in the horse cars, most of that time hanging to a strap in a car calcu'ated to hold twenty- two, but crammed with fifty or sixty, persone? The plans submitted to the present Legisiature are with- | out namber, each strongly urged, and tis ts not to be won- | dered at; for « feasivle charter secures at once a monopoly of th at trafiic, and will ultimately prove a much more valuable franchise than the present surface roads. With | the charters heretofore granted it has been impossible to se- | manding the entire confidence of tueir fellow citizens, leay- | ing to this commission the selection of route, mode of trans portation and every other question pertaining to this important | subject, giving them power to build the road, this commenc- ing the ‘system of communication, This commission should | m over all is in this city, whether operated by steam or horses, In this manner, the’ interests of the city public would be greatly promoted. It is the Opinion of your committee that the city would nitimately be | directly reimbursed for every outlay made. Indirectly the cost of the road would be saved to the people every year. Your chairman recollects that after the charter for the first horse railroad was —_ gran' capital could | not be induced to venture for a long time, a few rods of rails | Were laid down in Canal street to save the charter granted. rated capital was easily farmed to gridiron the whole city, and Lorse railroads eame an epidemic, and are now considered as among the most valuable franchises for this elty. ‘The same reguit will follow the completion of the first underground road built in this city, and your sub-committee respecifully urge upon | your Generai Committee the importance of speéay action to | Recure such legisiation as will eifect the result indicated in this report. JOHN FOLEY, the r was made by the prosecution to prove the conspir- acy by means of letters which bad been used by the Grand Jury which found the indictment in the case. ‘This failed, and an abandonment soon fol- lowed, BAXTER’S STORY CONTINUED, The prisoner Baxter being again placed op the Witnoss stand proceeded with his cross-examina- tion, in the course of whica he said that in 1871 ne came from Belleville to New Brunswick with Charies Whitehead; received various sums of money while m jail; had procured different food trom jail fare; never had said he would knock the old man in the head if he spoke to him (Baxter) like the other men. Mr. Henry Gordon, THE EAR-TRUMPETER, ‘Was next sworn. Witness nad lived in Washington village forty years; knew Willetts since August, 1866, and Mrs. Willetts since her childhood; Mrs. Willetts was formerly Jane Devoe, tne wife of James Devoe; Willetts lived in Brooklyn, at Willetts’ Opera House; witness also knew Yates. The bal- ance of his testimony was unimportant, and related principally to dates ana the handwriting of Messrs, Yates and Willetts, Mrs, Rebecca Keschmutch and her sister, Mrs. Catharine Skinner, were next sworn, and identified the handwriting of Mrs. Willetts, She was their brother's wile, THE STRAW WHICH BROKE THE CAMEL'S BACK. Ex-Sneriff Obadiah Clark, foreman of the ) which found the indictments against the acc was next sworn. The witness was shown a paper gnd asked who wrote what was on it. Counsel for defence objected to the question, as the paper was written ip the Grand Jury room. The Court permitted the erence. but before answering it the witness asked if it was right to disclose what occurred in the Grand Jury room. ‘Then followed an argument, pro and con, by the learned counsel, after which THE COURT SAID that the witness could not be compelled to answer, and it would not be-right fora Grand Juror to dis- elose what occurred in the Grand Juryroom, He ‘was allowed to retire, and Dr. J. C. Thompson, who attended Mrs, Willetts and old man Whitehead about the time of the burning, was sworn. His evidence ‘was immaterial and of @ character too indelicate to publish, At two o’ciock the Court took a recess, and on reassembling the case was ABANDONED BY THE PROSECUTION, Dr. Thompson’s cross-examination resomed and concluded, ex-Chancellor Williamson, Prosecutor pe associate counsel, addressed the Court, and said:— May IT PLEASE THE COURT—We offered this morn- ing to prove wnat took place before the Grand Jury. To this evidence the defence objected, ‘the Court sustained the objection, upon the ground that the admission of such evidence 13 against pubiic policy. During the recess the counsel jor the State have consulted as to the course they ought to pursne in discharge of their duty im the further prosecution of the case. They now feel bound to say that under the ruling of the Court the prosecution is shut out from the proof of facts wnich, in the Judgment of counsel is necessary to sustain this indictment, ‘They believe tt Was upon facts which the ruling of the Court now excludes them from proving that in- dictment was found, and on which the prosecution reiied for conviction, There are other important facts which the State can prove, but all of them fall on the one point, which the facts that transpired before the Grand Jury would establisn and which 18 essential to sustain this prosecution, Under these circumstances we do not feel shat tne time of the Court should be taken up in proving facts which amount to nothing aiter tney are proved, This being @ virtual abandon ment of the case, the Court took counsel, and Judge Scudder, the pre- Siding oficer, sald nothing remained but for the jury to render @ verdict of acquittal. The jurors heid @ brief consultation among themselves, when Clerk Holcom» called their names, and the foreman, speaking for them, pronounced the defendants NOT GUILTY, ‘The announcement of the verdict was the signal for @ oud burst of applause on the part of the exoner- ated parties’ friends and the audience gen- erally, whose sympathy from the first went with the well dressed, well party and against the repulsive “English Jimmy.’? ‘The manifestation of approval was promptly checked by the Court, and the defendants passed ou of Conrt aud (A crowd too. They were imme-+ ately lionized and loaded with c nom all (ag 3 ies see enerataintons ie prisoner, Baxter, who had plead guilty on the opening day of the trial, was ‘remanded. to jail to awalt sentence to-morrow. Messrs, Ludlow & Lud- Jow were assigned to look after his interests, There | as it {8 supposed to take that time to test 1% | gne and thirty days’ imprisonment, 1s much speculation as to what can or will pi Cy or will be done TWO MORE THIEVES CAGED IN HOBOKEN, Following closé on the commitment of two New York robbers, was the arrest of two men early yesterday morning by Officers Hourigan ana Han- rahan, as the former were driving @ wagon laden with buffalo robes, corn and carpenters’ tools, on board a ferryboat. The nee gave the names of Wiliiain Bartell aod John ‘le, and were commit. ted for trial. Two men from New Durham identified the plunder, which had been stolen from them during the night. One of the prisoners struck Om- cer Hourigan and attempted to fortunately, he chose the wrong policeman to give the slip to, the officer being one of the best and bravest men on the forge ” Chairman General Committee of Ninenty. JOHN F. DALY, Chairman sub-Committee. Mr, MOKENZIB Opposed the report He asserted it would throw the whole power into the nands of | Mr. Vanderbilt, of the New York Central. Mr. EDWARD MaTrugwe¢aid he nad had, during | the day, an mterview with one of the directors of | the Viaduct road, That gentleman satd his asso- ciates had about abandoned their pian and were going to unite with the New York Central Underground road. Mr. Matthews thought this | idea, if carried out, would be the nest that we could | get. They propose to run the road from the Battery | to Forty-second sireet, and then if they cannot ar- range amicably with Vanderbilt they will run under Madison avenue. Mr. FoLey nad no confidence whatever in the promises of the gentlemen who were running the Viaduct and Central Underground He knew full ‘Well we wouid never get any rellet from either of the | Charters now in existence. The people should take the whole matter into their own hands and put it through. ‘1 will'vertture to say we can settle the matter from the Batiery to Forty-second street tor 000,000. Let the city issue bonds for this amount; the incerest on it will be but $350,000,” As tor Vane derbilt, he had a right to but two tracks om Fourth avenue, and as ft is now he is but an outlaw, “and, Ley I can take care of him as easily as I did the ng. Mr. MATTHEWS sata that $5,000,000 would not Dautld the depots on the road; it would cost at the least calculation $12,000,000, He thought the pres- ent charters were the best, for the greatest moneyed men of our city are backing them. Mr. STRAHAN contended that the Viaduct and the Central Underground could not fuse without fur- ther legislative enactments. ‘The city has already ents assent to those new principles of international | Tessed by disappointed English enthusiasts probably im their operation were maimiy calculated to pro- tect the property of neutrals on the high seas,” {HE AMBRICAN DEMANDS. The Saturday Review says that the admirers of the Treatv of Washington are naturally anwilling | to admis that the American claim is fatal to the reputation of the «iplomatists who fancied that they had established a precedent for ar- | not known of course, but can be readily tuferred. | bitration as a substitute for war, A patrt. | otic complicity im every ational wrong | which can be verpetrated or contemplated is im | the United States regarded as the most indispensa- ble of public virtues, If they were required to pay | not to be compelled to Nght. With such elements to | tne cost of a war supposed to have been prolonged | by thetr aid or connivance, they Would not refer the | would have proved, no donbt, a trivial aifalr, as no | question to any tribunal at Geneva or elsewhere, | fortifications were in order and no guns mounted, | but would simply defy tae complainant to enforee | his demand. The affected contidence in the justice of the arbitrators which is pro causes unmixed satisiaction In the United States, | It 18 true that the admission of the American claims is simply inconcetvanle; bub il they are taken into jormal consideration the treaty will be conspicu- ously exhibited in its true character of an abject capitulation. Those who pretend tnat the capture of some scores of merchant vessels prolonged the French would have been eager to concur with Eng- land in the defence o! Confederate independence, | for the purpose of insuring the success | of his Mexican enterprise. Mr. Roebuck and one or two other English politicians failed even’ to oblain a _ heating when; they suggested that the true policy of Englana | Would be to assist in establishing the independence of the Confederacy as a check on the arrogance and ambition of tue Unitea States. Ten years ago it Would have been thought useless to jasist that | England should be both neutral and responsible tor the cost of the war; but extreme deference, when it | fails to arouse generous feeling, naiuraliy invites in- | bee | solence and extortion, | INCONGRUITY BETWEEN THE TREATY AND THE CASE. | ‘The spectator thinks “we ought to have a very ly and oficial explanation irom our own gov- | ernment of the apparent incongruity between the | Wweaty and tha case, If the United states, in order | to win popularity at the trections, shoulda have been guilty of stramimg to the utmost the letter, and violating the spirit of their treaty, we, shoulda hope that congress would call to ac- count instead of supporting 80 discreditavie a pro- eceding. But we confess ourselves hardly able to | believe it, and yet, if Uhac has not been the case, our | own ey has been guilty of the viunder of a | Pal zits own diplomatic achievement tn colors | very different irom cose Wiuch the result warrants, | and of adding another to the list of its grave recent | blunders, That, too, we can hardly believe; but any third explanation of the maiter we are quite | unable to suggest.” A SWINDLE FRON BEGINNING TO END. The country, says tac Court Journal, will we hope never consent to the Geneva Treaty being signed | 00 its behalf without it 1s before heard and discussed | in both houses in Fartiament, ana the basis | of that discussion we -think ought, and we trust will be, that i is necessary at times in the lives of nations to stand up and fight for right, and not yield to an wapostor who | boasis of his strength, to an insulter, or to a} thief who would lay nis hand on our property. | We must resist mantfully, and to the bitter end oc- | casionally, a8 & nation (notwithstanding what Saint Cobden said), just as much as for mere mani, feeling and justice sake we would resist au not hand quietly over our watch aud purse | to any rascal who might stop us on the highway | and demand them. Most men, though the pro- { ceeding cost them a physical damage that taey Would not have had for ten times the value in ques- tion, would seek to bestow a thrashing on the rover, or at least resist under fair chances with all their power. We must tell the Amer cans that they are mistaken if they think we will quietly be robbed in the way they, with the utmost coolness, have pro- posed, They must not rely upon the present effemi- Rate Engiish administration, Its hours ate num- bered througn its various acts of incompetency and arrogance, and any further false step, and perhaps au early discussion of What has been dove in this | expended $10,000,000 in building roads—the Boule vard and others-—and now way can they not spend 5,000,000 to bulid a road that every one needs? When once constructed the city can sell it out if tmay' choose at considerable more than the original cost The report was finally adopted. The following gentlemen voiunteered to proceed to Albany, as provided in the resolution:—John T. Daly, John H. Strahan, John McDonaid, William M. Hoes, William R. Bergholz, Lewis Batlard, W. H. Cheseborough, John D. McKenzie and Henry Clews. Mr. FOLEY offered the following resolutions, which Were unanimously adopted :— Whereas {tis the unanimous feeling of the people of tis city that the present facilities for travel are utterly {Dade- quate; and whereas the want of proper facilities for travel in becoming daily more judicl habitants, causing over-crowding and forcing thousands w seek x homes the city, and subjecting those who remain to _fearfal ‘loss of tlme and money; and wherena it has become an impera- tive necessity in advancing the moral and social well being and best interests of the people of New York that a system of rapid transit throughout the city be provided forthwith; and whereas it is enough for us to know that the various = ind charters which have been anced for the last ten years to secure this much-needed reform have utterly failed, and ‘as yet been productive of no practical benefit whateve whereas the waste of vaiuable time in horse cars, and the loss of several millions of dollars in taxes, would pay for the whoie cost of this great improvement in one year; therefore Resolved, That we respecifally demand that the Legislu- ture set aside all plans and speculators who have for ten goare defeated this Important work and permit the people ot jew York to construct at once an underground steam road from the Battery to Hariem, at the expense of the city if necessary. Resolved, That this Committee of Ninety select seven of our leading citizens and submit their names, together with a proper bill creating ‘ailroad commission, for the imme- diate action of the wure, $0 that this work may be commenced without further delay, and thus provide for that which we need more than any other Improvement. This will also aid the 6,000 poor workingmen now out of employ- ment. Resolved, That » committee of twenty-four be appointed to proceed to Albany and urge upon the Legislature the pag sage of this bili immediately, COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS, Action of the Merchants of the City of Bal- timore. To THE EpITOR OF THE HERALD:— We learn through the Herald of January 31 that the merchants of Baltimore are rushing a bill through their State Legislature to prevent the sale of goods in their city or State by travellers from other cities and States. They do so in face of the recent unanimous decision of the Judges of the United States Supreme Court that their former Chinese law was unconstitutional, The advocates of the measure admit its unconsti- tutional nature, but look for three years of its use, All citizens should be interested in redress. ing the wrongs of any class of citizens, Now, Mr. Editor, we—commercial traveilers— can readily show that we are an economy to trade, and should be protected in our rights, There is no country in the world where goods are sold on smaller margins above cost for profit and expense than in Great Britain, Four-fifths of all the sold on the ‘three islands” to deal- ers are sojd by commercial travellers, and there you’ have o& ‘ical test of the atem. The reason is that the traveller multiplies ¢ house, therefore smaller profits will sustain it, This being the case, consumers and users of 8 pe, but, un- | should be interested in the freedom of trade within | and she our own country. if Marylanu were a foreign State ‘we would have nothing to say; but as it claims to be @ part of our common country we wil) have matier, may end its carreer. | The Alabama affair 18 4 swindle from beginning toend, There is not one shadow of pretext for the claim of the United States, It was well known at the time that the Alabama was abont to leave tne shores of England that the United States represent- atives would not give in any official re- quest for the arrest of the vessel, though lic, fuly meet the wants of the city Avall themselves of that mode of warfare, bub that ; the middie of December General Porfirio Diaz it limited its action to obtainme from both belliger- | suddeniy appeared before this capital, with about | thirteen hundred men, and it was fuliy expected vy law established by the Declaration of Paris, which | every one who understood the position of anairs, m and out of this city, that he would enter trium- phanuy i a few hours, He remained ail mght with | his forces at Chabeo, @ march only of three nours from tne city gates, where, it is sald, some confiden- ualagents from this city visited him to intorm bm of the siate of affairs, Tne represen- tations made to him by such agents are It is notorious that at that time there were but a few drilled soldiers in the eity—say 300 in all—and perhaps as many more men with arms in their hands, but, belonging to the levra, were only estrous: Oppose him the capture of this city by General Diaz But it seems there was A PROVIDENCE IN THR AFFAIR, and the news given to Diaz by his confidential agents had the effect to prevent bim irom improving his opportunity, ‘The best and only troops of the government were marching upon Oaxaca under command of General Alatorre, or following m his rear, under command of General Rocha. Tne latter some “Horm “the. city's “ora *anotit” aft’ fn | War by two yours would scarcely deny that the allie was forty-eight hours behind General Dla, woien wate {eoaiet teas onttied fatten wane toae Bats aided einer have secured their permanent independence or might have enabled the latter to reach the city and aay Sinar proses ‘Oor ely eae Se Oomenaiin a j neva Taactastas postponed oe. CREE E Oa yay | formed therein a force of four or five thousand nen, Greate ite parks, Dock Commission to, build. fle, docks, 0 | Rete "aumeed for the siraggie, and nostinonee | *wilclent to have held a against General Brooklyn Bridge Commission affording fuclities to relieve | from all participation is taxed at ten times the Rocha, at least until tho end of the sion, composed of genvemen of inteyrity and ablity, com. | amount, Jt is notorious that the Emperor of the | Gaxaca campaign. Bot General Diaz swung around the circle, and, passing through the States of Mexico, Puebla, Hidalgo and Tlascala, and, touch- ing the State of Vera Cruz, arrived again in Oaxaca in time to see General Teren, commanding the rebel forces at San Mateo, a few leagues from Oaxaca city, defeated, but too late to aid him, and In time to enter the citv of Oaxaca to participate in the abandonment of that capital by his brother, General beirx Diaz. pr by Generat Alatorre on the nignt of the 4th of January, and so complete was the disor- ganization of the forces fleelng therefrom that tp to the present date the whereabouts of the revel gen- erals and their forces are not positively known. It has been rumored that General Felix Diaz aud Gen- | eral ‘Toledo, with a considerable force or infantry, attempted to reach the Puerto Angel, with a view sailing to Mazatlan, in rder to aid the rebel garrison at that port; but whether such @ movement has been made, and if so with success, the interrupted mail and telegraph lines do not yet iniorm us, 11s sald also that General Poriirio Diaz, with over a prousand cavalry, moved from Oaxaca Into the State of Vera Craz, upon the coast of Sotavento, where he 18 awaiting the Crganisation of rebel troops in the mountain range 7 may attack Orizora or Vera. Crnz in case tne | government troops are withdrawn from that part of the couutry to be vsed agaist Trevino; but all this is rumor as yet. Tne bal service of the mails and the wires cut by the com- forces does not permit the sale batin, transit of news. Iu the interlor the aspect of the question 18 more favorable to the government. ‘rhere 18 no concert of action between Trevino, Quiroga, Martinez, Guerra and Marquez; and while | they are employed ia their own personal misunder- standings the government 1s organizing and arm- ing torces for the recaptare of Saltillo, Durango and Muzatlan, and for the protection of San Luts and Zacatecas. Generi Leon, the Governor pro tem. of san Luis (im consequence of the absence of Governor Escobedo), has iurued over the troops he had uader hia command to Generai Sanchez Ochoa, who has been re-established in the army, and who 1s now on his way to San Luis with those troops and an additional force, making a total Of about one thousand men. It is calculated taat the government will have in @ few days about eight hundred men, with which to opena serious cam- paign im the intertor. These troops have been and are being raised by the leyva, and yet, strange as it may ‘seem, they make nearly as good troops as volunteers. General Donato Guerra, it is said, recently left Mazatian for Durango, with 500 men and as many new arins received from san Francisco, leaving & small force of 300 men protect that piace. It is believed that, unless they are reinforced by more rebels soon, they will be captured, as Governor Reubi is organizing @ force of about one thousand men to attack the place, and will be aided by 800 more sent by Governor Pesquira, of Sonora, and periaps as many more sent by Lozada—who, by the way, is not dead, as has been erroneously reported. The government calculates the forces of Trevino, Martinez, Quiroga, Guerra and Borrigo do not exceed 3,000 men, with Pressed to do so, till the eleventh hour, and one would half fancy that, in his diplomatic forecast- ing, he saw the complications that might arise by his procrastination, At the very last moment he said to the administration, “stop her!’ and they did their best, but it was ‘too late; the agent that was sent to Wales got there in time to see the vessel steam down the Irish Channel, and showed such & lively pair of heels to pursuit that was made hopeless. The best was done in good faith towards the United States that could be. The whole thing has been, we repeat, a “try on” of a Agreed American type. The nature of the attempt is further manifested in the endeavor to include the deeds of anumber of other vessels, mere Confederate blockade ranners, ° The Times wrote on Thursday for the govern- Ment one of its best and most careful leaders, and there is clearly alarm in the Ministry, But it does not hide the truth trom the observant reader; on the contrary it shows that our negotia- tors Were not equal Lo compete with the Americans, The Englishmen expected to be dealt with in an honorable spirit, and were too reilant on goo itention—a fatal error in all business transactions, to guard against which lawyer is employed to meet lawyer in the sternest ‘disposition im every case of moment, Our Commissioner left @ fatal loonhole in the clause which holds the words “without prejudice,” and runs as follows:— ‘That, in thé hope of an amicable settlement, no estimate was made of the indirect losses, without prejudice, however, to the right to indemnilication on their account in the event of no such settlement being maae.”’ No lawyer or business man wouid have allowed even a few pounds to be at the mercy of words so full of latitude for after purposes. And we do not wonder at the Americans using weir own reading of what 18 an ‘amicable settlement,” in order to take advantage of the clause without preju> dice to indemnification for indirect losses, A CANINE COMBAT INTERRUPTED. A Posse of Connecticut Offici Pouacing Upon a Party of Dog Fighters Arrest- ing Them for Violation of the Statutes. HartForp, Conn., Feb. 1, 1872, A party of dog fighters, of New York and Boston, arrived here last night and proceeded early this morning to Vernon, on the line of the Hartford and Providence Ratiroad. Chief of Police Packard was advised of their movements, and, in connection with the Sheriff of Hartford and Tolland counties, organized an oMcial posse and interrupted the fight. ‘Thirty-five of the participants were arrested and taken to Kockvilie fur trial, The penalty is $7 SHOCKING OCCURRENCE IN ELIZABETH. A Dissipated Woman Frozen to Death, There 1s considerable excitement in Elizabeth, N. J., over the rather singular fate of an.unfortunate widow named Mrs, Hannah Lyons She was found dead in her house on Magnolia aveaue, with @ demijohn partly filled with whiskey alongside of ner, She was o partially clothed and was about thirty-five yeare ‘age an rather well looking in appearance, Dr, Borann’s impression is thac while under the influence of liquor she dropped on the floor, the fire went out Was frozen to death. An was held y by Coroner Gibos and a in accordance With the Deceasea was worth over a ‘She led a disewated 1ife, which to hold Monterey, Saltillo and Durango and send to San Luis and Zacatecas. ARMS SEEM TO BE PLENTY, and yet Gencral Manuel Marquez, rebel command. ing in ‘Atlan, has sent an agent to san Francisco with $80,000 with which to purchase more arms. These arms are quite likely to fall into the hands of the government forces if sent here. There has been some discussion about the military plans of the government by the press, it being the supposition that General Rocha would be sent with a force to Matamoros by sea, with a view of | his coming down upon Trevino’s rear and oc- | cupyi Monterey, Saltillo, &c. It has veen said that the American steamer now in port would be chartered for this purpose. Whatever may have been the plan of the government afew tours or days since, its present plans are said not to incinde this movement, at least tor the present, not until the whereabouls ana movements of tne Oaxaca rebel leaders are better understood and more is known of the efficiency of the troops m the in- terior. MISCELLANEOUS WAR NEWS. The Diario Ofevcl (government Orgad) Says It has received various letters from Mazatian up to De- cember 30, containing tne following news:—That Colonel Saavedra had left Manzanillo, with 700 men, With the imtention of landing them at Cha- metla, thirty leagues distant from Mazatlan: what Pesquiera, Governor of Sonora, had seut an ad- vance guard of 400 men upon Cullacan, under com- mand of Colonel Castra, and that hé would follow in person with 800 men; that Governor Rubi, of Smaloa, was at Ajoya with about three hundred men, commanded by Colonel Ozuna, intercepting com- munication with Culiacan; that Damian Dalleure had been sent from Mazatlan by Marquez as a com: | to propose to the latter to join missioner to Lozad mt, or, at least. remain neutral; the revel movement: that Lozas lined to do either, on the contrary sending troops to combat the rebels. T which sustains the rebet cause, says the capital of Oaxaca still has great regard for General Porfirio Diaz, &c.; that 2 revolutionary movement in Queretara on the 16th is spoken of, 1 consequence of which the government of that State ‘Waa compelled to leave that capital in haste; that Aureliano Rivera, with a small force, was in the mountains near that city, on the road toward San Luts aud that a considerable revel command was to be entrusted to him by General Narvaez. ‘The government has resoived to purchase two coast guard steamers, as appears by a recent publi- cation of Mr. Romero, Secretary of the Treasury, on the subject, Mr. Urquidi, for a long time an officer in the ary Department, has uied. Congressmen Castafieda and Lermos were re- cently attacked by robbers in a diligence near Queretaro, and defended themseives. (ne former Jost & part of his left hand from a robber bullet. The jent has reopened the port of saltno Cruz on the Pacific coast, The government has just obtatned a new victory @ small rebel force in Guerrero. ine revels it General Jimenez has since defeated Gens. Tal apt! but the news lacks confirmation. At moment of writing tals letter tere are no large bodies of revels south of the States of San Luis Potosi and all are divided up into email bands, lt remains wo be seen If they will be- e united. The ee pas nomad, Mr. Miguel Castro Gov- ‘the prees of he cap! | cigoussos the Magdalena rug broke his lew at Cor- affair and the arrest dova a Rw Gaye mincey rac ORY ie '3-APPRAY. jutionary commander Who was wounded af we battle of Han Mateo, has ade Oaxaca city was occu. | ongalica, and that it is feared he | | ported progress. dressed the following to his troops ani fellow citi- zens:— Luis Mize ¥ Tera, General Ay —y of the republi- ean army, Chief the ‘of Mixtecas and military commander of the Of Vera Cras Lisve, to the inhabitants of the State :—~ ‘The revolntion initiated in the patriotic State of New Leon nas secouded in Oaxaca, Sinaloa, Chiapas, Gueser> and other States of the republic. This revo.ution has round led by Gene- Tal Porfirio Diaz is not the signal of a military tumult nor the protection under which bastard aspirations are hidden. It i the symbol of free liberties, ridi- culed ' til this present A ‘of a power who tranples under his feet every prtuciple of justice, every sentiment of dignity. The ti has come when the State of Vera Cruz, the military gov: which I have under my cl royect | fo. famous domination ituposed apon it by the £ those bora i distant Janda, and carrying on their i athe stigma of reprobation with which socity has Marked them, are, notwi ing, the ous mercena- who trae with the blood of Mexican people. The the ecko, of te, victorion ete revolution WOgresses, Me q Durango to the distant tends ivom the regions of the mounta\ sonsof the people chatlenge the power of hopin § who, with no other par \e'r OWN personal wy, Zee Mty robs | she treasury the people ot FP diood “and i mocracy. But It shall not be 805 blood has flowa already, ana those who, lie mysell, have tured itout to susiaia the holy prineiple of liberty, do nob jonbt that the victory shall be ours, Inhabitants of the Stato of Vera Cruz, the herole State where Larexoza «nd Liave aan thousands of hymna to lb- capnot hear erty, with Indifference the eni! o: insurrection whic that same liberty ole country haw given, moving in its foundation the throne which despots have intended to raise. Inhabitants of Vere Crag, those who hay of revolution ; those who have already meu’ armat with the partisans of Juarez, have conddense! Your saer- | Hoes shall not be wvastedy your. patriotiam stalt be unly ree warded. Soon, very soon, when my wounds sbull permit | me, Tshail join and remain with you, a bring arma, Soliiers, aint the hopes which my heart c will not be long waited for. of your General and friend. LUIS MIKR ¥ TERAN, OAXACA, Jan, 1, 1872, CHUZCH AND sTATZ. The National Convention Secking Assistamce from the Couris of Okio—The Bivle in Pube lic Schooly—elizious Amendmvat to the ited Siates ConstitationAbbovs Warne ing to the fathers of the Convention, % CINCINNATI, Feb. 1, 1872, The National Convention for a rehgious amend= ment to the constivution met this moruaing. The Committee on business reported ia favor o£ aliowng the remonstrance of T, E, Abbot to be read, Rev. We alaye was then instructed to reply to the remoustrance in writing. Tie redd- Tudions preseated last evening were then taken up, discussed and passed with slignt amendments Tae discussion on tiie resolution with regard to the Bile iu schools waa exteuded, Rey. H. H. GORGE made the point that the quese tion of the legality of the requirement to have the ; Bible read in the public schools, now pendins In the Supreme Court of Oto, would, if possivie, ve taken ‘to the Supreme Cours of the United States, where, aithough Justice strong, the chairman of this Convention, and vther Christian men Were on the bench, Who Were desirous of giitns the Bible to the children of tne country, yet them Would be obliged to decide the matter according to | constitutional law, and in the constitution of the Untied States there 1s no clause recognizing religion | or morality. ‘Therefore the enemies of the bine | have much to hope when the question comes before | that Court. | The substance of Mr. Abbot’s remonstrance was | that this proposed amencment would have a tead- | ency to ereste an aristocracy of Christians who | would meite persecnuon and would render tncapable of holding office all citizens Who could not subseribe: tothe principles of Christantty, and warned the delegates that the surest way to rum the country | and the Christiaa religion itself was lo engraft the creed in the constitution of the State. The Convention (hen adjourned uli the atternoom. The Rev. A. D. Mayo repited to Mr. Abvow. He said that his protest contained the gist of ie popa- | lar objection to this movement, viz.:—That the ' nation will be bound to deny all political myhts to | all who do not believe in Christianity, and w1!! cause persecution and finaliy bloody war. Ii seemed | Strange that such calamities should be foretold. Al | that iis Convention asks 18 but to put in the tederak constitution what 18 incorporated in nearty all the constitutions of tne States, The copsiicution of Onio, under which Mr. Abbott lives, contains every idea proposed for the national charter. Has he suffered persecution’ ‘The tronble with { Mr. Aboott’s class of thinkers 1s that tney do not | understand the character of the American ‘ple. The American government 18 _ prac {So far from betng oppressive no governe ment ever acknowledged the complete spirit. ust and political = rights of man unul ; Christianity with its law of universal Jove and | lubercy had inspired the souls of the people of the United States to make a government, under which Mr. Abbott can denounce Curistiantty, and ever | threaten a new rebellion, with no one to motest nim or make him afraid. Tne people of the United | States say leave religion to churches, so far ag | creeds and ecciestastical polity are concerned, Buy , they acknowledge the obligation of obedience to | God and to live up to the highest morality known | to man, which, under the influence of Christianity, has made Christian morality the idea! of every | civilized State. The people of the United States | will persecnte no man, save him who seeks to de» ; Stroy the inheritance of American freedom, ‘The Commitee ou Lurolment reported more than 250 delegates present from ten diferent States, \ viz.:—Omo, Peunsyivania, New York, Michigaa, in- diana, [iin Mussourt, Kansas, Kentucky and West Virginia. Mr. MCALLISTER Introduced the suvject of he necessity of money. ‘The sum of $750 was collected. | Pending the collection the Rev. CHAUNCEY BARNES, (| Of Athens, Onio, took the stand, and was proceeding to show by chart the principle that belongs to the ; Practical” government of Christ. One of the pecuharities of this was that preachers should have | ho salary. He was cailed to order. {| Professor SLOANE said the chart was an absurdity. | Mr. BARNxs said that he hoped the spirit of preja- | dice would ve cust out of the Convention. He was | Speaking of what God had moved him todo, The Rev. Mr. Barnes has built @ Spiritualistic temple up | Athens county. Lf the spirit of God witich actuated ) that man in Athens county could move the hearts | of wore present the contributions would ve more tperal. A Voice—What Charch do you belong to? | Mr. Barnes—I do not belong to any of your | eartaly man-given governments; I believe in the governmeut of the Lord Jesus Christ. { want you | to understand that Lam talking against the spin | of prejudice, ‘Tne CHATRMAN Called him to order, and at this jancture a scene of great disorder prevailed, and eres of “Stop hun!’ “Put kim out!’ were heard, |. When qutet was restored Mr, BARNES said he had been excited, and, as Paul said, he had been caught up, and would now come down. (Laughter.) Extracts from @ paper prepared Professor Taylor Lewis, of Union College, New York, on the impossibility of State neutrality In morals and reil- gion, were then read and Weil received. The Convention closed its session to-night. THE JERSEY REFORM MOVEMENT. Meeting of the Citizens’ Reform Association of Jersey City—Unanimous Outcry Against Commissions. ‘The Citizens’ Reform Association of Jersey City held @ meeting av Washington Hall last evening, Dr. yuimby in the chair. Mr. Ransom, on benalf of the Committee on Charter Amendmentagere- He had been to Trentow had an interview with Senator McPherson, who is heartily tn accord with the reform movement. He also reported that in his interviews with several members of the Leaisiature he found them prepare® for amendments to the Jersey City charter. They appeared to have at last arrived at tue conclusion that municipal government by commissions waa playea out. Mr, Smith Mead hoped that In the amendments provisions would be made to Nave the Assessors elected by the people matead of having them the creatures of the men who spend the mouey and whose will they mist carry out. Mr. Fleming quoted from @ recent number of @ aw magazine a decision of the Micaigan Supreme Court, declaring that the Legislature bad iv cousue tutional power to appoint a municipal commission for the city of Detrott The decision embodies some interesting nistorical facts, Ax far back as 200 years ago the peopie of Massachuse:ts anit New Jersey resisted the atiempts of the colonial Gover- nors to govern municipalities by agents appointed by the executive, Ana yet the late Legisiatare of New Jersey fastened upon the people wie odious yoke against which they successfully contended under jmonarchical rule. He had read in te New York HERALD of that day, @ very interesting article on tie sttbject of governmens by COMMISSIVLs, ANAS was glad to see the people aroused on sich an ime portant question. Mr. Aneas Fitzpatrick spoke in dennnciation of the corrupt men woo weut to the Legislature from Jersey City— not to represent tae people, hut 00 rep. resent themselves and to do the bidding of the Ring which was plundering the city. The election of such men was an acciaent, The people were a1s- gusted with the corruption of ine old de | mocracy and im order to drive them fron ywer they woult support any oue, The Fame people woud agaut rise in their might and drive out the “rings,” which were even more corrupt than their predecessors. He aanounced his determination uever to give Up the fight against such corruption. tHe would rally the people from one end of the country to the outer against it The people were looking to the Grand Jury and the Courts, and he felt satisfied that if tue question were tested in the Courts the action of the cumuus- sions In Jersey Uity would be set aside, AN ENGINEERING TRIUMPH, The Shawangunk Tuunel Successfully Come pleted and Opened—A Train of Passenger Care Vass Through Safely. Ronpuvt, N.¥., Feb. 1, 1872, The first passenger train through tne Midland Shawangunk tunnel left Elienville at huif-past five this morning. A special train from Middletown, with ratiroad officials and M there eueral reioicing over the events