The New York Herald Newspaper, January 22, 1879, Page 3

PURSHING THE CHEYENYES Anxiety at Port Robinson Concerning the Event of Colonel Evans’ Final Blow. HOSTILES WELL ARMED. Lieutenant Dodd to March This Morn- ing With Sioux Scouts. CAPTAIN WESSELLS SURPRISED. "Red Cloud's Ogatalas™*Evince No Wish to Join the Hostile, . [ar TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.} Forr Ronrssox, Neb,, Jan. 21, 1879, Nothing has been heard here up to seven o'clock this evening from the companies now in the field un- der Colonel A. W. Evans, Third United States cavalry, who, at last accounts, was hotly pursuing the ro- treating Cheyennes in a northeasterly direction from Bluff Station, on the Hot Creek road, Lieutenant Schuyler, of General Crook's staff, is still here, await- ing the final issue, which is expected to be, if in ac- cordance with the views of General Crook, either speedy annihilation or completo capture. Much sur- prise is felt that no despatch has been received to- day by wire at this point, which can be tapped, nor by messenger. Itis thought that the work will have been so serious as to comprise some of the Officers among the casualties and to make brisk business for the Post Surgeon, Dr. Mosely, who al- ready has his hands full, but expresses himself os anticipating another addition of wounded soon on account of not hearing from the pursuing column. The distance, at last occounte, was so small that it is believed if no new feature has beep added to the case making disaster possible, there certainly should have been s courier here yesterday with full informa- tion of the status qué. No more assistance can be sent from this point without leaving the post and the prisoners now here without sufficient guard over them. : DANGER s DELAY. _ Should the present force pursuing the Cheyennes not succeed in cleaning them up at once, the opinion widely prevails here that in ashort time » much more significant band will have to be contended with than the worn ont, starved and ragged set who are making such # desperate defence. The increased dangerous element will come, if at all, ‘from the few young bucks here, and those among the tribes of Red Cloud, Little Wound and Red Dog, in the Sioux nation, who cannot be restrained by the old men nor by the authority of the chiefs at this time. . SIOUX SCOUTS ENLISTED. Lieutenant Dodd, Third United States cavalry, who had been sent to the Pine Ridge Agency under orders from Captain Weasells to ob- tain fifteen Indian scouts, returned at midnight, accompanied by the soldicr chiefs Threc Bears - and No Flesh. He was followed by a detachment of some seventeen Indians, whom he had enlisted for three months with the approval of General Crook. Lieutenant Dodd also brought with him from Camp ‘ Sheridan one 12pound mountain howitzer, which is to be used in shelling the Cheyennes out of their earthworks. He will start to join the com- mand in the field to-morrow morning, taking the Sioux with him, to be used primarily for the, pur- pose of trying to save the women and children now with the stubborn fighters. As they understand the Indian character and know well how to resort to @evices and cunning, it is earnestly hoped by the military authorities that the useless and undesired slaughter of the former can be avoided. Among those going as Indian sconts are some of the bravest, here- tofore most warlike and cunning, of the Sioux native soldiery, while they are now justly recognized as re- formed men of considerable caution, judgment and conservatism. SALUTARY RESULTS ANTICIPATED. So far as the government is concerned the best re- sults are expected from their co-operation, not only as to the exhibit they will make in the field; but the moral effect of their going out to aid in capturing the Cheyennes at this time will be very great, es- pecially as there has been known to be a very strong movement to throw the public sentiment of their tribes, through manifestations of grief and sympathy, into the scale in favor of the Cheyenne casus belli. These will be checked, \t not entirely thwarted, by their action, and break the hopes of those who are disposed to war to throw the Sioux nation into a hostile attitude. .To- night ten days’ rations are being issued to these Indian warriors, with some horses and necessary transportation. They are in splendid spirits, but wearing a look of inquiry. They do not understand that they are expected to do any fighting; but there is no doubt, should any danger or emergency arise requiring them to defend themselves with their well understood and handled rifies the Cheyennes will know to their cost that equally as deadly and insidiously aimed shots as those fired by themselves ro directed against them by those who like the whiter would fain be their frionds, if permitted. ‘The little army of subsidiaries will move out in the morning, with some of their paint of yosterday still on their faces, and some with blankets, though the most of them are dressed in soldiers’ cavalry over- coats and citizens’ clothes, which have been donned in the last twenty-four hours instead of Indian clothing. ANOTHER ESCAPE CAPTAIN WESRELIA sum PRISED TO FIND NO HOSTILES IN HIS FRONT--COLONEL EVANS IN HOT PURSUIT OF THE FUGITIVES, (ey Tenecnarn to Taz HERALD.) Ix tHe Fievp, Weesents’ Commann, Nean Hor Onevx Roav, Tarery Miirs vaom For: Rowtxsox, Nob., Jan. 21, 1879. On yesterday morning captaln Wessolls was en- camped near tho base of the hills where the Chey- ennes succeeded in surprising and killing Private J. Barber, & member of his company, the day previous. Hoe determined to recover tho body, which, pierced with bullets, had fallen from his horse within twenty-five yards of the Cheyennes’ ontrenched position, It had lain their all day, Piaking eight men from his com- mand the little party, with revolvers in hand, dashed forward at full gallop, a8 they supposed into the NEW. YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1879.-TRIPLE SHEET. where Barber’s badly lay in # small ravine. It was stripped of clothing and sealped on the side of the head by the hostiles during the night. The troops finding themselves not fired upon, dashed fur- ther up tho hill and were surprised. The sav- ages had again escaped, their trail leading west. Four companies of the Third Cavalry, commanded by Colonel Evans, who had that moment. atrived, started on the trail, Nothing has been heard from them since, The savages are said to be manufactur- ing their bullets from some unknown contrivances. ‘They also succeeded in getting with the body of their last victim his carbine, pistol ana sixty rounds of ammunition. The savages are moving apparently in the direction of Red Cloud's cantp very slowly, hav- ing, it is believed, among their number many badly wounded, A FIGHT Yor LIVE. ‘There is no doubt they will be overtaken soon, but will never bo captured alive, as they are undoubt- edly acting under the impression that they must succeed in making their escape or be killed. Colonel Evans has received insiructions to charge them at any cost as soon as ihey are again brought to a stand- still. Orders are just given to follow on rapidly, and from the known. determination and experi- enco of Colonel Evans, «as well as the experience amd energy of General Crook, who is very much chagrined at the manner in which the Cheyennes have eluded capture thus far, your correspondent has no doubt bit that before this will be received a decisive step will be taken to close the race and make a finish. POSSIBLE’ ADDITIONS TO THE HOSTILE FORCES. This is felt to be very important here in the command, as there is a bare possibility that if the fighting Cheyennes are allowed to remain out much longer in the attitude of resistance they will receive accessions to their numbers from the Sioux Indians, who are moving, the rnmor is among our camp followers, to render assistance to tho fow des- perate warriors we are trying to overcome, thus far without avail. It is scarcely credible, but the belicf here is that they crawled through the intervals of the soldiers’ posts during the dark hours of last night, IN THE OGALLALA CAMP—RED CLOUD’S BANDS FIRM FRIENDS OF THE WHITES—SIOUX SCOUTS TO FIGHT THE CHEYENNES. (BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.] Pre Rince AGENcr, Near White Clay Creek, Neb., Jan. 21, 1879. It was seriously apprehended that tho Ocallala Sioux in and about here under the chief Red Cloud would be found in astate bordering on war. Your correspondent hastily rode to this place to see for himself what was the true condition of feeling. The indications and expressions abroad were most discouraging, and opinions of the best in- formed from Fort Robinson to Camp Sheridan, and down to the limits of this agency, if not positively coinciding in forecasting o certainty of trouble from the Sioux, at least hinted darkly that things were in a bad fix. Thecontre of the camp was reached after riding through about half of the principal head men and chiefs, who had been called together to consider the proposition of furnishing fifteen scouts which Lieutenant Dodd, United States Army, wanted, to pursue and hunt out the hostile Cheyennes. Everybody about the agency was unanimous in the conviction that no ground whatever existed for the apprehension that any of the Ogaliala scouts would join in atribal movement for the warpath, on ac- count of the... punishment administered to. the Cheyenne captives in their late _ night escape, though they are intermarried and otherwise connected with the Cheyennes. The traders, as well as the government employés, wore of one mind, that no thought of organizing a war party had entered the minds of any considerable number of the Ogal- lalas. A few, known as growlers, werd ugly; others, not many, had black paint on their faces, while again with some there was a threatening scowl and look of grief. AGENT IRWDK's PRIGHT. ~ Red Cloud and Agent Irwin were absent. The lat- ter was said to be the only frightened man on the reservation, and those in consultation with him before his sudden departure, accompanied by his family, spoke sympathetically as to his dis- tress and want of nerve in what he pro- nounced @ dangerous state of affairs. No one was found, on an exhaustive inquiry, to coincide. with him. His infirmity seems to be such as to make him leave his agency even when trouble is mooted, though his assumptions in public aro that he alone controls the Sioux intractables. Care- ful inquiry produced no corroboration of the story “he gave out to the assembled officers at Fort Robin- son that an Indian was lurking within three feet of him during the night of the 17th, with a drawn dag- ger. On the contrary, several Indians offered to guard him, to quiet his terrors. FEELING IN THE CAMP, The principal men and young bucks were seen by your correspondent and freely ‘talked with. Tho most said in any way unpleasant was in reference ,to the killing of Cheyenne women and children by the military. A great deal of paint has been dis- tributed of late by the traders, and both bucks and squaws are completely covered with it now. The latter, gayly dressed end colored to the eyes, were jovially drawing rations and packing their ponies. It may be set down confidently, for -the present at least, that nothing to break the peace in the shape of an organized movement will be at- tempted by the Ogallalas. This, of course, will not prevent the bare possibility of small bands of young and restless bucks going out in the neighborhood for plunder or other warlike acts which cannot be prevented by the conservative old chiefs. and head men. Tho only warlike act which has occurred in the tribe was the pursuit of Three Bears, a soldier chief, by two Cheyennes lato st might. He had been conspicuous in finding and capturing their band when in the sand hills. Ho fired” soveral shots at them while thoy wero run- ning off. There arc some of the fugitive Cheyenncs, doubtless, now in the Sioux camp, but they cannot stir Up any contention. The acting agent, Ben Tibbets, says no trouble need be expected from the Sioux, This relieves both military and civilians hereabouts of greataniety. The Sioux, as a genoral thing, are behaving splendidly, At first they objected to fur- nishing scouts, but afterward offered more than were wanted, American Horse opposed it, but a(ter- ward sont his son, GENERAL CROOK ELICITING FACTS as TO WHO 18 RESPONSIBLE—THE FUGITIVES WELL suP- PLIED WITH ARMS, AMMUNITION AXD roop— THEIR PREPARATION FOR FLIGHT AMPLE, (sy TELRGRAPH To THE HERALD.) Omawa, Neb., Jan. 21, 1879, Information received at Military Headquarters from Lioutenant Schuyler, at Camp Robinson, con range of Cheyeunes, Two minutes brought them to | firms General Crook’s opinion rogarding the re sponsibility for the escape of the Cheyenne prisoners. Lieutenant Schuyler states that snow has fallen on the trail since my last telegram, and he now believes it to’ be improbable that any“but the dead and wounded, or worn out squaws, will hereafter be picked up, He states that on the night of the out- break the soldiers were allowed to go to their bunks as usual, with the exeeption of the men stationed about the Cheyennes’ building. An Indian stated that they were preparing for the outbreak that night, but his story was not believed, and no pre- parations were made t@ frustrate their design to eseape. The day after Wild Hog was arrested outside of the prison, the door was opened to let out one of the men who was willing to give up, but he was immediately pounced upon by the others and forced back, while the bucks began crowding out of the door together, Wild Hog's son crying, ‘Get out of the way; here wecome!”” Twenty carbines were at once levelle2 on the door, checking them, and they immediately began tearing up the floors. Abont six o'clock they became quiet and the danger was con- sidered over until the occurrence of their sudden outbreak. Schuyler shows the company at the lower camp, one mile from the place of confinement of the Indians, to have been better handled and more effec- tive than those who had the reds on hand. WELL PROVIDED. The squaws in the escape carried even saddles on their backs, and ,each had a certain amount of dry meat and _ bread. Every buck had an extra palr of moccasins in his belt. The shots fired in the prison room were mostly from carbines. A few shells were found in theroom. The first five Indians killed had Sharp's carbines and a good deal of ammunition. One had a Henry rifle, and there were in their possession a large number of carbines. After six guns and two revolvers had been captured the Indians were still ablo to fire a volley from each ambush of from six to twelve shots, according to different estimates. The Indians got into very rough ground, covered with brush, and Schuyler was informed by the officers that getting them out would have cost the lives of from twenty to thirty men. Up to the time when they broke out the Indians were allowed fires all the time. ‘THE NUMBER OF THE FUGITIVES, General Crook repeats to the Heratp correspondent that the bucks numbered forty-nine, leaving nine- teen still out, as originally stated in the Henaxp. Chicago papers have placed the original number at thirty. ‘WHO WAS AT FAULT? General Crook says an carly investigation will be made by a board of officers, when this affair will be thoroughly sifted and the responsibility placed where it belongs. THE DEPARTMENT COMMANDER ON THE ALERT. General Crook has been suffering many weeks from a severe cold, with an attack of malarial fever, and has left his residence but once during that time. When the trouble occurred at Camp Robinson he was considered unable to attend to busi- ness, but insisted on giving his whole at- tention to it, and handled and sent telegrams, un- questionably at great inconvenience, being four miles from: department headquarters and his adjutant, General Robert Williams, and, becoming impatient at the meagre and vague character of the telegrams he received, he despatched to Camp Robinson Lieutenant Schuyler, of his staff, whose keennoss and sagacity in unearthing facts are well known in this department. His opinion as to the responsibility has been entirely ‘based on Lieutenant Schuyler’s report, \ He has been aconstant reader of the Heratp, and states that he has gained much information from its Camp Robin- son telograms. He differs wholly, however, with that correspondent’s view of prospective trouble at Red Cloud, and his estimate of Agent Irwin, whom he considers a thoroughly capable agent. NEBRASKA SENTIMENT ABOUT THE CHEYENNE ‘MASSACRE, The Omahs Daily Herald of the 17th inst. reprints the despatch from the Hrnatp of the 12th inst., in which it was stated that it was in accordance with the recommendation of General Sheridan, and with the concurrence of General Sherman, that the Commis- sioner of Ind’an Affairs requested that the Cheyenne prisoners, confined at Camp Robinson, Nebraska, be sent to Fort Wallace or some other military post in Kansas, so that the civil authorities might select such ‘as were guilty of crimes for trial and punishment; that their lack of clothing was not such as to deter them from starting northward, and that the order to pur- chase additional clothing had been countermanded ‘until it had been learned what supplies were actually required; that the Indians, fearing a criminal prose- concluded to escape. Herald replies to the above despatch as The above is a tissue of Hes. Without knowing anything of the trath or falsity of eo much of it as relates to the recommendations alleged to have been made by Sheridan or Sherman, we feel prepared, from our knowledge of the entire falsity of the rest of it, to say that that statement is .alsoa lie, The above report was written in tho Indian Bureau, evi- dently. Perhaps Mr. Hayt himscif was the com- poser. We shail be obliged if Commissioner Hayt or anybody else in Washington will disprove the foilow- ing assertions :— ‘hese Cheyennes were surrounded in the sand hills of Northwest Nebraska in 4 severe snow storm on the 20th pf October last by three companies of the Third cavalry under bee deo Johnson. Their num- ber was then officially givon as 149. They then said* inson or they would remain ome’ at Camp live with Red Cloud's pepvie. but.would dic before they would return to their reservation in the Indian Nerearage Sips irri The Commis- sioner did nothing in the case until the 19th ot De- ordered their removal cember, when he to Kansas, The thermometer that at Camp Robinson indi- cated thirty Tees low zero. The Com- missioner ‘must “have known this. Tt was one of the items of news, curront in all the THE STATE CAPITAL, A Bill to Reorganize the Court of Special Sessions. TALK ABOUT RETRENCHMENT Democratic Senators and Assembly- men in Caucus. UNION AND VICTORY. Fourteen Millions of Dollars Paid in Official Salaries in New York, {BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.] Axvany, Jan, 21, 1879, Abont thirty members of the Legislature left Albany to-night en route for Bath, Steuben county, for the purpose of attending the dedication of the State Soldiers’ Home in that locality. They proceed by way of Binghamton, on the Erie Railroad, Mr. Jewott having placed a palace car at their disposal. The rumors as to combinations in the lower House against corporation and other influences apparently in control of the Legislature already begin to cir- culate. The lobby is evidently at work in this direction. There are prominent surface indications of the formation of a strong Assembly phalans against the interests of the Central Railroad, Mr. Chauncey M. Depew’s well known countenance is seen to-night around the corridors of the Delavan, in earnest conversation with some of the members, Aparticnlar breeze has arisen in connection with the appointments of clerks, messengers, pages, in the House. It was understood that the announce. ments would be made to-day, but Speaker Alvord disappointed the expectant multitudes, It is now understood that the list will be finished at to-morrow morning’s session. ¥ A peculiar hitch hag arisen as to the appointment of aclerk to the Committes on Cities, of which Dr. Hayes is chairman. Clashing interests advocate dif- ferent candidates, but it is likely the problem will be solved by morning. This committee is the most im- portant of the lower honse, hence the bit- ter struggle for. the place of clerk. Several of the Assembly committees met for the first time this afternoon, but no business of any importance was taken up. In fact, nothing of particular interest in this connection will be looked after until next week. Everything is chaotic at present in a political sense. The leaders on both sides seom to be resting on their oars until republi- can politics in New York city begin to take a definite shape as a result of the late election. TWO RICHMONDS IN THE FIELD. It is stated here that troubie is brewing between the Arthur and Cornel! wings of the party which is likely to break out in open war at any moment. Both gentlemen are understood to be candidates for the republican gubernatorial nomination next fail. The position assumed by the democrats upon the United States Senatorial question has met with a good deal of ridicule here. Tho republicans laugh in their sleeves at the protest and high-sounding speeches delivered last night and to-day in caucus. ‘They loo® upon such action as an additional evidence of democratic insanity, and encourage them still more in the belief that they will elect the next Gov- ernor of this State. | REGISTER LOEW. Governor Robinson has sent a notification to Regis- ter Loow that the first part of that gentleman's an- ewer as to not keeping books of account isadenial, but that the second part which deals with the charges as towollection of illegal fees cannot be viewed in the same light. The Governor gives Mr. Loew until the 1st of February toput in an amended answer if he thinks fit. TALK ABOUT RETRENCHMEST. The Assembly to-lay was principally occupied, outside of the introduction of bills, in discussing the | The member from the Eleven h important and threadbare question as to the necos- sity for s reduction of salaries in the New York city government. The ball was opened by Mr. Erastus Brooks, who called up his resolution referring to the salaries paid in three of the inferior courts— meaning the different branches of the Court of General Sessions. Mr. 2B. H. Strahan was the first to debate this resolution. He conceded that official salaries ought to be ily reduced. It was peculiar, he said, that Mr. Brooks’ resolution alluded only to certain’ courts which hap- pened not to be under the control of Tammany Hall. ‘The speaker was in favor of an examination of the whole system of extravagance, but he was decidedly opposed to any apecific partisan raids, and thought that other courts should be included in the | resolution. ‘The people had taken the controi of the judiciary in New York out of the hands of Tammany society, that was organized solely for the purpose of living upon the money of the hing = crowed Mr. Stra- han then gave aside hit at the illustrious “Tom” Dunlap in alluding to the $15,000 yearly ealary paid to that gentleman as Commissioner of Jurors. Mr. Brooks replied with considerable spirit to the apparent imputation of Strahan that he was one ot the close adherents of Tammany. He expressed himself as willing to: join with anybody in enforcing necessary reductions in official salaries, and loudly said, “I am no man’s man, and do not wear the livcry of Tammany Hall or any other hall.” He further remarked that the salaries of New York cit: officials reached $14,500,000, instead of $10,000,000, The local governgnent of that city was not responsible for such @ state of affairs. The is- | latnres of past. years were alone to blame. Mr. Brooks also threw a sbaft at Mr. Strahan in the state- ment that when the latter was a mernber of the Tweed Legislature he (Mr. Strahan) did not interpose any vet forcible objections to the corruptions of the period. afterward defended lt from the impeachment by stating that he to find his name recorded in ot the questionable meas- the former Tammany ." Mr. Brooks continued his statistical information as to the enormous salaries paid to judges, clerks and attendants in the Supreme, Supe- rior, Common Pleas, General Sessions and Special Sessions courts. Every one of these abuses, he con- tended, grew out of special bills passed by the Legis. lature.” The police und civil district courts also came in for a severe handling. Mr. Strahan took the floor in reply, remarki that a Board of Aldermen exclusively democratic. had fixe | the salaries of the Supreme Court justices. He also attempted to saddle the blame ot the delay in necessary reforms in this direction upon Governor Robinson's hart span f asserting that a dem- ocratic Executive vetoed = certain = bills which, if they became lew, would have resulted in cutting down expenditures in judicial and other salaries. Mr. Grady subsequently retorted this point by Mri attention to the fact that the bills were so laden down with jobs as to pre- clude the possibility of Exccutive sanction. The As- semblyman from the Second ‘also defended Tammany Hall, making the vaulted dome of the Capitol ring again and Pom with his encomiums of Oomptroller oll, and that gentleman’s brilliant management of the Four- teenth street organization. He also took occasion to strike at Congressman O'Brien (who was on the As4 sembly floor during the forenoon), in an attack on the “republican reformers of Murray Hill” for their support of that gentleman in the recent election. Mr. Strahan subsoquently returned to his dissec- tion of the Tammany bugbear, insisting that there was not# man in that o1 ization who did not de- rive his sustenance, directly or indirectly, from ithe city treasury. ‘The debate lasted over an hour. A sensible speoch {his maiden one as @ legislate; the way) was de- livered by Mr. Varnum, who counselled a wider scope for the resolution in dealing with other extrava- gances besides those referred to in the Court of Gen- oral Sessions. Mr. Varnum offered an amendment that the resolution be laid over in order to give an opportunity for the introduction of such s resolu- tion, which waa adopted. BROOKLYN'S OCRAN PARK WAY. The bill of last year providing that Kings county be assessed as a whole for the construction of the Ocean Park Way from Prospect Park to Coney Islantl was again introduced by Mr. Stegman and referred, “HOBTAIL” HORSE CAR! Mr. Madigan’s bill will, if passed, compel the rail- road companies in New York gity running what are known as one horse, “bobtail” cars to employ con- ductors as well as drivers, TOMPKINS SQUARE AGAIN, Mr. Dugro’s measure authorizes the Commo; Conneil to direct tho Park Department to comple journals of the country. The sqnaws and children hadn't a blanket that wasn't in rage. They did leave their reservation in the same clothing they now wear, butt they left in August, and it is now January; be- sides, clothing often wears out in Nebraska as well as in Washington. The man who penned that telegram was a fool or a cold-blooded scoundrel, On the 20th ot December, 1878, the Commissioner was informed tr that before these Indians could be moved they must have clothing. He never answered that telegram until January 11, the very day of the outbreak, ‘This whole Cheyenne basiness isin keeping with the rost of the Indian Bureau mam mont. ie is disgrace to the American nation. m Mr. Hayt we ure prepared to hear ore He disptayod his incompetency so fully in his dealings with the Sioux as 8 “diplomatist” that we beg leave to suggest to him that as a private citizen he might be more of a success than ho has been as the head of a bureau. This Cheyenne business must be i think that General Crook should be o1 ington to explain what he knows about it. Wo be- lieve that the more Crook's part in it may be scru- tinized the more thoroughly he will be respected by the American people. Somebody mast sui for this infamous picce of incompetency. If we commence with Crook the bottom facts can be made to wr sooner than by any other method, We want to know all about this and also about the trouble with the Red Cloud and Spotted Tail Sioux, which came so ‘near a war last autumn and which yet threatens our people. We give our word as a journalist that evory statement in the last yh of the New Youk Henavp telegram, above quoted, is a lie. Order Gen- eral Crook to Washii m, make him show all the apors, telegrams and indorrement of his office that r tipon this subject. It he be the gnilty one punish him, but if not, and we are willing to wager heavily that he is not, then let the one who is de- linquent be sacrificed, DEATH FROM FRIGHT. (BY TELEGRAPH TO THR NERALD, } Perenenuna, Va., Jan. 21, 1879, Dollic Ann Martin, *wife of Samuel Martin, was found dead in her bed by her husband this morning about four o'clock. She was said to have been fright- ened to death by the burning of the chimney of ber ro but although there were certain suspicious y and scratcnes about her face, and many re- — of mystery in regard to the manner of her eae aw Coroner on application declin« est the transformation of Tompkins square into a public park. On the requisition of the Park Commissioners the Comptroller is empowered to isene additional bouds, to the amount of $35,000, to finish the neces- sary Work. . DONT CROWD HORSE CARS AND OMNIDUSES, Mr. Grady’s measure, if it becomes ww, will pre- vent our horse railroad cars from carrying more than twenty gers, two horse more than forty, one ed to holdany | horse omnibuses more than eight, and two horse more than twelve, 4 breach of this statu is vet down as a misdemeanor, the penalty to be paid by the rail- road corporations, if the ye Pe Bs fey Oa cannot be pointed out as the only violators. MANHATTAN SAVINGS INSTITUTION, Mr. Flynn, of Brooklyn, wishes to investigate the affairs of the Manhattan Savings Institution of New York, His resolution directs the Bank Superintend- ent to take necessary steps in that direction, and Teads as follows :— Resolved, That the Bank Superintendent be requested to report to this House at his earliest conv the exact condition of the Manhattan tution in the city of New York, the relit- tion of pending logal proceedinzs to its solvency: and law of this State the semi-pro} ‘Treasury in its assot: is ix compatible with the con’ Of the said savings ba dd whether fur what legislation is necessary to aid either depositors. THE KNICKERBOCKER LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, A resolution was also presonted yesterday by Mr, Hamilton Fish, who seems anxious to flod out every particular as to the management of the Knicker- bocker Life Insurance Company of New York. The resolution reads :— Resulved, That the Kuickerbocker Life Insarance Com. puny report to the Assembly within ten days the amonntof all none; mn Jostate, where such real estate is sit- uated, where xuch losns wei de, the amount of interest paid thereon from date of said lon the amount of in- terest defaulted thereo 0 what amount pt fees were paid to or received by the counsel of said company upon such loans POLICE FoR DISTRICP TELEGRAPH COMPANIES. Mr. Seebacher seeks to empower the Police Depart- ment in New York to appoint policemen who shall be at the call of the District Telegraph companies. REFORMING THE COURT OF SPYCIAL SESSIONS, Sevator Hogan presented the following bill in the Senate :— Aw Acr to Secure Better Administration in the Courts of Special Sessions of the Peace in and for the City and County of New York. ‘The people of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows :— Sxerion 1.—The Courts of Special Sessions of the Peace in and for the city and county of New York shall hereafter be constituted and held only as here- inafter provided. Skc. 2.—Within three months after the passage of this act the Mayor of the city of New York and the Chief Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the city and county of New York shall meet together and appoint two judécial officers, to be designated as Jus- tices of the Court of Special Sessions of the Peace in and for the city and county of New York, who shall immediately severally teke and subscribe before the Clerk of the city and county of New York the oath of office prescribed by the consti- tution of this State, which oath shall be filed in the office jof said Clerk. ‘They shall hold their office for the term of five years from the time of their appointment; each justice must have been a coungellor-at-law duly ‘qualified to practice as such at least five years previous to his appointment, and he shall receive a salary at the rate of $5,000 a year, which shall not be increased or diminished during his term of office, and shall be provided for and paid by the city of New York in equal quarterly instalments. Sec. 3.—Each of such justices shall daily, during alternate months, excepting upon Sundays and legal holidays, hold a Court of Special Sessions of the peace in and for the city and county of New York at the Halls of Justice therein, or in such other place as may hereafter be provided, commencing each day at the hour of ten A.M. They shall from time to time make and adopt such rules to regulate the busi- ness of said courts as will secure a vigorous, orderly d just administration of justice therein. Bither justice may act in the place and stead of the other, and if both shall be unable to act by reason of sick- ness or other disability, the Court may be held by the Recorder for the a oer county of New York, or the City Judge in city and county of New York, or the County Judge of said county. Sec. 4.—The Courts of Special Sessions of the Peace in and for the city and county of New York, shall have power to hear and determine and punish according to law all complaints for misdemeanors, excopt where the misdemeanors consist in misfeas- ance) or malfeasance in office, unless the District Attorney shall upon motion to such Court requiro such complaint to be sent to the Court of General Sessions of the Peace in and for the city and county of New York, or unless the accused when arrested and brought ‘before the committing magistrate shall elect to have the case heard and determined by such Court of the General Sessions of the Peace; aud it is hereby made the duty of such magistrate upon such arraignment to inform the accused of the provisions of this section, and to indorse upon the complaint ar, ‘and if so id Hank or its the court’ at which the case is to be tried. Whenever a prisoner upon such arraignment shall plead guilty to the offence charged such magistrate shall at once proceed to take his ex- amination and reduce the same to writing, and upon the same being signed by the prisoner to indorse such plea upon such complaint and commit or hold such prisoner to appear for sentence at the Court of ial Sessions next sitting. The Chief Clerk of each Police Court in the city of New York and the Justice presiding thereat shall forward daily to the Clerk of the Court of Special Sessions all complaints whereon the accused is held for trial or sentence at tho latter court, and all recognizances to appear thereat, and shall take from said Clerk of said Special Sessions a receipt therefor. Sec. 5,—In gases of misdemeanors where the accused shall plead or elect, pursuant to the last sec- tion, to have the case tried by a Conrt of Special Sessions, the complaint shall be forthwith filed with the clerk of such court. If the accused be admitted to bail after electing to be tried by a Court of Special Sessions » jizance shall be taken for the cs ot said accnsed at said court, which shall also be filed with the clerk of said court, and if the accused fail to ap- pear pursuant to the condition of said recognizance, the said court shall, by an order entered in its minutes, direct the same to be forfcited, and the clerk thereof shall return said recognizance with a certified copy of the minutes of the.court, forfeiting the same to the District Attorney of the city ana county of New York, to the eud that said accused and sureties may be prosecuted thereon according to law. Src. 6.—The said justices shall, within ten days after their appointment, meet together and proceed to appoint the, following officers for said Courts of Special Sessions, who shall hold their respective during the pleasure of said justices, to wit:— A clerk, who shall receive @ salary at the rate of $3,000 a year; a Geputy clerk, who shall receive a salary at the rate of $2,000 a year; a sten- ographer; who shall reccive a salary at the rate of $2,000 a year, and an interpreter, who shall receive: a salary at the rate of $1,200 a year—all which salaries shall be provided for and paid by the city of New York in equal quarterly instalments. Each of said officers shall, before entering on the du- ties of his office, take and subscribe before the Clerk of the city and county of New York the oath of office prescribed by the constitution of the State, which oath shall be filed in the office of said Clerk, to- gether with a bond to the Mayor, Aldermen and Cow- monalty of the city of New York duly executed with sufficient securities to be approved by the Comptrol- ler of said city, conditioned in the sum of $2,000 for the faithful performance of his duties ac- uw to law, and thereupon the authority, tenure and salaries of all the officers and employés of the said courts, except policemen, shall cease and deter- mine and they sh ively forthwith deliver over to the justices all the books, papers, records: and public property then in their custody and con- trol; and the said justices shall be authorized to insti- tute and maintain in the Supreme Court any proper suit and legal proceedings for the possession thervot. Tho clerk and deputy clerk above mentioned shall rospectively have power to complete any incomplete action or duty of the present clerks of said Courts of Special Sessions and with the same legal effect as if completed by said clerks. The Board of Police Com- missioners of the municipal police of the city of New York shall provide from time ¢o time for the due and proper service by the officers of said police of all sabpeenas and other processes issuing out of the said Courts of Special Sessions. Src. 7.—The District Attorney of the city and county of New York, or any person by him duly authorized to appear as his representative, shall have the right to conduct any examination tn the Courts af Special Sessions mentioned in this act for any offence cognizable therein and to move any case for trial therem out of its order on the calendar thereof, and to remove by motion any case from oue Court of Special Sessions to anothtr or to the Court of Gen- eral Sessions, such motion to be made in the court wherein such case is at the time. Ske. 8.—-All fines imposed by any of the said Courts of Special Sessions shall be received by the clerk thereof, who shail return the same montbly, with a statement under oath of the ainounts thetof, the cases in which and the times when the same were imposed and coll ed, to the Comptroller of the city ot New York. Any such clerk who shall neglect or refuse to make such return payment shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. The Warden of os city Prison of the city of New York shall coliect all fines imposed for criminal offences upon persons com- mitted to the City Prison from any of the police courts, and shall pay over the same to the said Com, troller on the first day of cach and every month, witl the like written statement as herein above provided. Src. 9.—Fines imposed by any of the courts of Special Sessions mentioned in this act shell not be remitted, except upon motion or consent ot the Dis trict Attorney, unless the person so fined shall have- — in prison one day for each dollar of fine un- wed. Src. 10.—Appeals from convictions or sentences in Court of Spocial Sessions of the Peace in and for the city and county of New York are hereby abolished. Any conviction hereatter had in any such court may be reviewed upon certiorari by the Supreme Court in manner as by law provided. Ske. 11.—No justice appointed hereunder ehall re- ceive, enjoy or share any fees, perqnisites or com- Pensdtion of any kind, directly or indirectly, other than his said salary; nor shall he hold other office or carry on or be or int in any pursuit connected with the inistration of justice, but shall devote his whole time and capacity, so far asthe public welfare demands, to the duty of his said office, Src, 12.—Upon the expiration of any term or the happening ot any vacancy (by death, removal, resig- n@tion or other cause) in respect of any justice (or his office) herein BF shige for, such vacant place or term shall be filled and supplied by the appointment of anew justice for the residue of any such unex- pired term or fora new term, which a! be fora term of five years, as the case —_ be. SK, 15,—Any Justice int pursuant to this act may be removed by the Court of Common Pleas for the city and county of New York tor tho like causes and in like manner es a police justice of th: city of New York. Ske. 4.—Any wilful false swearing in any case where an oath is authorived or made under this act shall be deemed perjury. Sec, 15,—All acts and Hons of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are Pepealed. Sko. 16.—So much of this act aa relates to the origi- nal appointment of said justices and officers to be vy them appointed, shall take #t once, and the 3 residue including the authority of such justices and officers to enter Upon their duties, shal) take effect at twelve o'clock noon on the second Tuesday next fol- lowing after the day on whieh the sqpoinnanedt of the justices herein provided for shall whereupon all pending inquiries, actions or proceed- ings then pending in said Courts of Special Sessions shall be entertained, continued and completed therein before the justice holding such court pursuant tothe provisions of this act; and the term, compensation and anthor'ty of the clerks, stenographer, interpreter and other attondants which may be in office or ser- vice at the last named time shall then cease and termine, and they shali then give place to the officers herein provided to be appointed. THE SENATE. Among the visitors in the Senate Chamber were ex-Senators Woodin, Vedder and O’Brien, Senator Loomis was early on hand in the Senate with a bill similar to that introduced by him last year, provid- ing that the Governor shail, with the advice and eon- sent of tne Senate, appoint three persons to constitute. a board of railroad commis- sioners, This supervision — of itself informed and the manner in which they are operated, with reference to the security and accommodation of the public and the compliance of the several corporations with the provisions of their charters and the laws of the State. The Board may command the production of books and compel the attendance of witnesses, ag though their subpenas haa issueg from a court of record. All persons connected with the Board are prohibited from owning any stocks or bonds and trom all connection with any railroad in the State. Senator Mervin reported favorably upon the nomi- nation of Willian F. Rogers, Isaac F. Quimby and Ansel F, McCall as trustees of the Soldiers and. Sailors’ Home, and they were conti: THE GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. The Senate went into Committee of the Whole to discuss the Governor's Message. Senator Pomeroy took the floor. He said it devolved upon him, us c an of the Committee on the Affairs of Cities of last year, to reply to the animadyersions of the Message. Whilé the document contained innuendoes against the whole Legislature it preferred direct chapype against several committees of both houses, and the speaker had availed himself of the first op- portunity to reply to them. Upon the broad field of American politics there was room for the widest di- vergence of individual opinion, but there was no room anywhere for official’ discourtesy such as Governor Kobinson’s. Senator Pomeroy read a portion of the Message having reference to the com- mittee ot which he had been chairman, and buried back the charges“upon the Executive of upon any other man who comes here under cover of @ consti- tutional right, to throw snch a reflection upon us.” Taking up the passage wherein the Governor deprecates the support by the State of free institutions of learning of the higher grades, he took exception to the whole tenor of the passage. He ob- jected to the terms rich and poor classes. “Thank God,” said he, “under the genius of American institutions we have not classes of society as the Governor asserts; they have only tem. porary conditions.” He denied that education unfitted man for any pursuit or rendered him dissatisfied with his lot. All conditions of people availed them- selves of the benefit of the higher schools, and they should be sustained. The gentleman deteuded the action of the last Legislature in reference to the Public Burdens bill, the charter for New York city and denied that any credit was due the Governor in con- nection with canal and State prison reforms. He declared that most of the benefits of the best charter the city ever had were frittered away by the ee associates of the Governor himseif, and chal- lenged any Committee on Cities or any Legislature ‘to devise acharter such as the Governor recommended, which cou!d command the co-operation and support: of @ sufficient political organization in the city of New York to carry it into effect. In conclusion Sen- ator Pomeroy characterized the Governor's lan as “uncalled for, unjust and untrue.” He was first Governor of the Empire State to adopt the lan- gu and the manner of Andrew Johnson in his dealings with tuo Legislature. Senator Ecclesine made, in reply, a speech in which there was a great .deal of rhetorical cry, but very little of the wool of fact. ‘On motion of Senator Pierce the Message was made. a special order for Weduesday of next week, and the Senate adjourned until to-morrow at eleven o’clock. THE DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS, ‘The democratic members of the Senate and Assem- bly met in caucus in the Senate Chamber early this evening, Senator Hughes in the chairand Mr. Stevens, secretary. Mr, Brooks said he understood the committee were not ready to report an address, but he hoped. it would be ready for the public eye to- morrow morning. In the meantime he would take the liberty, as it was his privilege to be per- manent chairman of the Democratic Convention at Syracuse last September, and because it has been his good fortune to receive the support of his friends as candidate for Speaker, to present a few thoughts to the members of the defhocratic in its resent crisis, and he asked the privilege of 80, irr. Brooks then said:—Here in Alba: the oldest chartered town and city of the whole yublic, even earlier than the Revolution of 1668, our New York an- cestors met, not only to discourse upon union, but to accomplish it. Here the famous Two Nations, the Iroquois of the period, christened the town the “ancient place of treatie: and here, where the Dutch were so long supreme mas- ters of the sea and-rulers.of the land, the motto was, “In union there is vs What is necessary o for a country in times great emergency is also for a party. The only source of our weakness is our divisions. In the Assembly, with the dominant party in a minorit if 40,000, the democrats have not one-fourth of the members, and in the Senate, with the sare popular rebuke, the democrats only number one more than one-third of the whole body. The most notable event in the recent State Convention was the strong language displayed by members of the Conven- tion toward each other, and although but a few of the many delegates shared in these recrimina- tions the effect was to disturb all harmony in the convention and to exhaust all that strength and vigor of action which, with united hearts, bands and pur sex, might have assured viotory at the close of the November canvass. The divisions created in the convention followed in the organization of the - State Committee, and with honorable ns the members were absent from the scene of duty, if not indifferent to the result. The fact of a single candidate, and that for an office without power or patronage, might have contributed to this result, as did the fact of decided opinions growing out of the date fixed for the resumption of specie payments and the increased issue of paper money, by which the democratic party lost for their own candidates votes far in excess of the Fepublican plurality in the Stage. | So, also, the uns natural and unfortunate combinations in the city of New York, by which democrats united with republi- cans, ani, though the union was on local- issucs and for local ‘candidates, the effect was shown by the discussions, and the yote was generally disastrous throughout the State. There, as in the State Convention, the strength of the party was exhausted in fighting each other, rather than in meeting the common enemy. There, too, this enemy found their own strength and en- couragement in our weakness, and, as one conse- quence of this federal interference, were per- mitted to successtully defy the law, the constitution and justice, by depriving many’ thou- sands of naturalized citizens of their rights and fran- chises. So much for the past. Shall these things continue? With forty or fifty thousand dcmo- cratic majority in the State shall we join our hands and ranks to secure honorable vic- tory for the democratic party in the State and in the country, or shall we expend our time, our energies and our hopes for the future, in continued ‘warfare upon each otier? Putriotism, principle and duty invite us in one direction, and selfishness, bad temper and folly lead the other way. If we are really friends of the State, lovers of the country and mankind; if we are dovoted to democratic government und opposed at heart to the outrages which have been perpetrated upon the pople at home and everywhere throughout the Jnion, our present duty is as clear as the sum in the heavens, and that duty is the reunion of the democratic party for the sake of the Union, and espe- cially for the honor of our own common’ First pure and then peaccable. Let this be our shibboleth, and so sinking all that is selfish and personal and tending to discord, we shall rise again # successful party, and thus—the ancient peace of treaties—once | more see re-established a victory which shall be not for a day, but for all time. Mr. Brooks then offered the following: — Resolved, That it is the sense and feeii cratic Senators and membe ing of, the demo- y In the Legisla- ne united action of hout the State . therefore, that & re. wiloge of ail that future success ix cortain, union of the party Is both the duty And the p Who wish well to the State and to the cont STAND SHOULDER TO SHOULDER, ‘Mr. St. John said he had felt that the democratic arty in the State had been only warring against it for the past year, and if all honest democrats would only stand shoulder to shoulder with the leaders success will surely follow, and they will be the victors at the polls next election. . A HINT TO LEADERS, Mr. Jacobs said that leaders must sacrifice their prejuclices and let the 500,000 democratic voters of the State be hi ‘The party must succeed, even if leaders yo down. Mr. Grady said he looked forward ‘to the future sticcess of the great old democratic party. He would like to go even further than the spirit of the resolu- tion and ask the leaders of the party, who were tem- porarily apart, to heal their differences and unite their forces for the success of the party. Senator Hughes said it was casy to put our thoughts on paper, adopt resolutions and then go away satisfied, but something more is needed. All differences of opinion among leaders must be hushed, and such men, with their bickerings, must move out of the way. Unless these leaders settle their differences the young democracy will rise = and burl them aside, and regain the power of whic the democratic party has been wrongly deprived, With unity must come suecess. Mr. Ecclesine said adhesion to constitutional prin- ciples has always been the keystone of the democ- racy, Tho personal wishes of afew men in the dem- ocratic party must give way to the desires of the many. Senator Hogan said he represented the strongest democratic district in tho State, and the resolution had his hearty support. ‘The resolution was then adopted. MR, MINTURN NOMINATED FOR REGENT. ‘The joint caticns then adopted a resolution endors ing the nomination of Robert B. Minturn for Regent of the University. THE ADDRESS TO DEMOCRATS, In reply to inquiries the chairman of the commit tee on the proposed address to the democrats of the State, said it would be ready for signatures at nine o'clock on Wednesday morning. Adjourn