The New-York Tribune Newspaper, December 3, 1866, Page 1

yol XXVI....N° 8,604 WASHINGTON. it THE REPUBLICAN CAUCUS. BEASSEMBLING OF THE REPUBLICAN MEMBERS—THE SPIRIT OF THE MAJORITY—FOUR-FIFTHS READY TO VOTE FOR THE IMPEACHMENT—CONGRESS HENCE- FORTI TO BE IN PERPETUAL SESSION—A BILL TO RESTRICT THE AFPOISTING FOWER—A DEPARTMENT INTERNAL REVENUE—STARTLING STATEMENT (ON- CERNING THE PRESIDENT AND JONN M. SURKATT-- THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. WY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNK. WASHINGION, Dec. @ The House caucus of Saturday evenimg bas stiuck key note fer the session, With few exceptions, the Redical mewbers have come back from their constitu- euts and from the great victories of the Fall with a spirit of resolute fidelity to their great trust, and with higher cougage for the struggle which the continued hostility of ‘the Executive will compel them to wage. The party was never so compact as to-day. A late repentance has brought within its lines some of the Conservative guerrillas of the last session, and on any measure of public necessity there is no longer a doubt that more than two-thirds of either House will unite against a Prosidential veto. That mewber of the House of Representatives who knows it most intimately and 8 best entitled to speak in its name, assures e that four-fifths of its members stand ready to vote articles of impeachment. Whether such articles shall, or shall not. be Jaid upon the table of the House will probably depend on the temper of certain members of the Senate yet to be aseertained. Mr. Boutwell's resolution in caucus, looking to an investigation and im) hwent, received a trunultuous welcome. Still, it is not commonly believed that om any existing ba- sis of facts, the impeachment will be proceeded with It is kneavn, spite of cooked reports to the contrary 'elein hed to New-York, that Mr. Johuson's message will vl‘d out no olive branches to the expeetant grasp of Congress. 1f that functionary shall make any tender of compromise, it will be only such as may breed con- fusion in Joyal councils. The proceedings of the cancus sufficiently show by what preliminary measures Congress proposes to guard its prerogatives and pro- vide for the public safety. Mr. Garfield's bill will declare in substance a permanent sessiou of Congress, aud, together with another bill not mentioned in cau- cus, will leave neither a moment of interval hetween the J9th and 40th Congresses, nor any oppor- tunity to obstruct the organization of the lutter. It is proposed to prescribe more exactly than is now done the method of erganization of the House | and to lock every door through which outsiders now attempt to intrude. On questions of reconstrue- tion, there is no one of the 20 or 30 leading members with whom 1 have conversed who does not recognize in the' voice of the people an imstruction to take care, by some means, that the Repablic receive no detri- ment, and if its permanent welfare cannot be secured by the pending Constitutional Amendment, that it must be by other guarantees, Nor will the Presi- dent be fl‘fl free to precipitate the country into a foreign war, in order to confuse the settlement of home questions. (‘ongress means 1o keep purse and sword in its own bands, and, while deelaring its unchanged opinions upen the Mexican jnvasion, the Alabama claims, and the Fenian diffi- culties, it will utter no rash word, nor suffer the Pres- ident to ipvolve the country by any rash act in respect 10 foreign offairs ; where its jurisdiction is complete and .,.,q;,,.;gu;d at bouu..'. it will enact impartial suf- frage at once. In ha Senate, Mr. Snmuer will move immediately to take up the Diatrict of Columbia Bill conferring the ballot upon the blaca, and pressitto a vote, if possible, before any other business 13 touched. ‘Ihere i3 reason to hope that the principle of that bill may, so far as Congress can do it, be implanted in the Constitution itself before another December comes yound. There are men who confidently believe that such an amendment conld pass both Houses before the end of the present session. | About 20 members, including Speaker Colfas, were | resent. Justin 8. Mornll of Vermont, was called to | the chaiy, and Ebon C_Ingersol of 1llinois, was made secrotary. Thaddevs Stevens was the first to take the floor, and in a short speech, bg Loped some mem- ber would move the appointment of a ten to prepare business for the session, the committee to report to the joint caucus of the Senate and House, to be held on Wednesday evening next. He did not wish to move such a committee bimself, becanse he 180 EW.YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1866, £5,000, a Deputy at a salary of §4,500, two assis- tants, salaries each $3,500; Solicitor and Cashier, salaries each $3,000; Auditor, salary $4,000; Chief Clerk and seven heads of divisions, each §2,500; and not more than 250 clerks. Section second provides that the Commissioner shall be appoiuted by the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court by nomination of the Chief Justi tion third authorizes and requires the Comissioner to appoint all bis own deputies and clerks, and also all assessors, collectors, revenue agents, inspectors, and genernlly to exercise the power now vested in the President and the Secretary of the Treasury for this purpose. Section 4 provides that all incumbent offi- cers shall remain in oflice for sixty days after th sage of this bill, unless sooner relieved, This bill is uot intended as a political measure for the purpose of weakening the President or diminishing his patron- age, but the office is clearly a judicial one, and re- (uires an able executive head. This security is be- lieved to be demanded by the financial and com- mercial interests of the nation. My. Boutwell informed the caucus of his intention to offer soou a resolution calling npon the President and Secretary of State for the correspondence on the subject of Jobn H. Surratt. He said that he had reason to believe thatduring the search for John H.Surratt, his hiding place was known to the President, and that it was by the connivance of Andrew Jobnson that the escape of Surratt was finally eflected, He also de- sired a_comuwittce to investigate the official conduct of the President, and his acts down from the time of | his dranken inauguration, and if the grave offenses charged against “\im were sufficiently sustained to justify articles of impeachment, they should be drawn, und the offender should Le arraigned for trial. This was greeted with the most tamultuons applause, and pmolonged cheering, and, thongh Mr. Boutwell con- tinned to speak, his words were inaudible. The members then indulged an_interchange of con- gratulations on the magnificent vindication of October and November. Thad, Stevens remarked that he felt that he was too conservative last session [laugbter, ] and was rebuked by some of bis eonstituents when he went home becanse he had not been radical enongh, They had ahead of bim. He meant to cateh up, ‘This time he intended to go to the root of the matter, [Applanse.] The caucus then adjourned. An additional number of Congressmen arrived here to-day, and there is now no doubt that a quorum of both Houses will be inattendance to-morrow. As there is no organization to be effected, it is only neces- sary as a preliminary proceeding to ascertain the fact of a quornm in the customary way, the usage of the House heing to call the roll of members, but this is not the case in the Senmate. The next step is to appoint a joint comwmittee to wait on the President and inform him that a guorum of both houses have assembled and are ready to receive any communication he may have to make. These pro- ceedings will not occupy perhaps more than an hour, and should there be no hindering occurregce the mes- sage may be expected early in the afternoon, Copies of it and of the reports of all the Heads of Depart- ments and of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue have already been dispatched from this city by special messengex and otherwise to the principal cities in all ions of the county, a4 gemerous disposition being manifested by all the high oftivials to accommodate the press in order that the gublic may have at the earliest period information coucerning the Ex- that half a million of dollars will secure all the terri- POLITICAL tory needed, - —.—— ‘The melter at the United States Mint bas made an 0n10. NATIONAL CUNVENTION OF THE YOUNG MEXN'S LIN- COLN ASSOCIATION. BY TELRARATH TO THE TRIBUNE, CoLumBus, Ohio, Dec. 2—At the meeting ot the Na- tiom! Convention of the Young Men's Lincoln Associa- tion, held here rocently, there were delegntes from all the States, except Kentucky, Maryland and South Carolina. The business was trausacted in sccret session. The fol- lowing officers were clected : Prsideat, Thomas R. Shiner of Ohio. Viee-Presidents. Geo. New. t. Jobn Adams, Virginia; James Wolff, Louisiana; Major 0. C. Indiana. Secretary, Col K. Walker, Massachusetts, As orat vered by the President. Philadel- P?IW selected as the pluce for holding the Convention o 3 important discovery, which will save the Government o vast sum of money. Recent experiments have demonstrated that in fature coinages of gold, $2,600 out of every million converted from dust will be clear profit to the United States. The new process will not be made public. Agreeing with the War Department Board as to the utility of the ** Tompkins wheeled litter” in place of the common stretchers at permanent military posts and at depot hospitals, the Surgeon-General has recommended that one be supplied to each depot of recruits, school of imstruction, and to frontier posts. It is the purpose of the Quartermaster-General to dispatch one of these litters to the American Com- wissioner for the Paris Exposition. The statement in a Meadville (Pa.) paper that there is & Revolutionary pensioner named Bakemap, re- siding at Cattaraugus County, N. Y., is untrue. Iu- ventions of this sort have before been put in cireula- tion, for what purpose can only be imagined. The statement, recently published that the work in the Pension Office was decreasing is untruc, the facts being that the business has wnearly doubled within the last six months, This is partly ool LETER FROM EX-POSTMASTER-GENERAL DENNISON— IS VIEWS ON THE POLITICAL CELEBRATION. The following is a letter received in Washington by a prominent official, from Ex-Postmaster-General Dennison, on the political situation : Mravr, 0., November 23. T tuve some anxiety in regard to the temper of our friends in Congress in respect to the Pre t, but hope it will be of u diguitied and moderate nature s displayed in word and act. 1 am opposed to all impeachment moveuients, uniess the Presi dent has been doing or shall do something that will make it im. owing to the two acts increasing pensions ‘passed at | perative upon Congiess to vindic honor or preserve the the last session of Congress. Itis also to be borne in r'd:":‘é“' countiy. 1;\" to his policy, lll; o have pro- mind that additions to the pension rolls involve an in- | RS 1N (et AR Bt aad Coterie BT crease of labor which is permanent so long as the pen- | Jition the will of “the people a8 expressed in that 1, T shall be glnd to wee an fmprovemest in the sion thus granted continues to be paid. The u\{(ud cation of a claim therefore d ot end the work of | e of the President, and will hall with great satisfaction 5 5 b 0% | bis hearty cobperation with Congress in securing the adoption the Pension Oftice concerning it, but only begins its | o4 5ent by the Southern States. 1 have umylkmd Tho clerical force has, within | personal feelings toward the President. and will be sincervly labor in the premises. the same flvnod, been increased about 30 per cent, and ,;an{_-l 'Yn_:fl' hlm';-l\'x\t :.hmrlrmn:"xhr lk';nocm(:c party m'ul igher ine: is indispe . unite his fortunes w e Republican. T want to see the a still higher increase is indispensable to prevent the ored upon the basis of Union permanently and completely re the Awendment. 1f the States persist i their oppo- sition, and reject that wholesome weasure, 1 will be prepared. with my political friends, to coupel o restoration upon. such terms s will give rmunflu peace and security to the nation however opposed the ruling classes of the South may be. We eannot afford to have another war, if positive measuses can avert it. We must prevent, under any eircamstances, this old leaven of the Kebelllon to resume its $way in national legisk tion. I confess to not comprehending the President. What he bopes to accomplish to give historical eminence to his adminis. I cannot coneeive. Without a paity in or out of Con. xeept 50 fr ns he may have counted the Democrati is powerloss to produce tesults, what great measure or of weasures can he hope to accomplish | If he hopes to achieve anything of permanent valne, ading the Mexican Dusiness, be wil be disappointe giving little heed o oax foreign conc s thoughts ure directed to home matters, which control until March 4, 1% thern States shull in the wean tiwe be fully re. ‘ujon, and their re atives admitted to ( body will have all the gl ox such results ean o b its cousent and upon its ter 1t really se the Fresident was steering the ehip of State without rudder o and without any definite port for ity final haven. ix it possible for it to be otherwise, His very Cabinet organ wquires it. 1 doubt whether he has the party sympathy, i omt the coneurrence of ouethird of bis Cabiset, nor cin is condition by an 2o, Aily intothe arms of th calls wetabers of that party ¢ withdrawal business from falling greatly in arrears. An appro- priation was made at the last session of Congress to enable the Pension Office to rent a building for its use, in addition to the apartments already occupied—= the Patent Office. A house on G-st., opposite the De- partment edifice, has heen rented for this purpose, and 18 now occupied by a portion of the clerks of the office. . In no other ity in the land do prices rule so bigh as in Washington. The head of one of the Bureans of the Treasury Department bad some bricks blown off his chimn short time since. He sent for a work- man to replace them, The workman, after looking at them, told him he should charge ten dollars for the job. The gentleman remonstrated with him on the exorbitant price, and finally offered him fifty cents & brick for laying. He then otfered to pay him for his | time at the rate of sixty dollars a day. The workinan still declined and the gentleman had to allow him his original price. GOVERNMENT FINANCES. DY TRLEGRAPH TO THE TRINCNK. WASHINGTON, T issued o the Na being £1,500.000 & The Treasurer of the | nt bonds a4 | e © little more sym truth b, p Ly the e future, e President, hesitutes ccitive Department of the Government, Agents and correspondents pledged themselves for the newspapers which they represcnt that every precautian should Le taken to prevent a premature disclosure of the tents of the documents before they shall n oifi- cialiy laid before Congress. This assurance and ¢9%- fidence in the promise aided materially in obtain- ing the supply of the documents for the press, and it is expected that publishers everywhere will respect the obligation which thus rests upon them. Sowe of the Republican members think that, if the procession to give them welcome shall reach the Capitol before the Message is sent to Congress, an :\d&n\\mmvnl will take place until Tuesday, without Wiiilug® fos the docnment. - ¢ The banquet to Congress will take place to-morrow evening. Speeches will be made in response to toasts by Senator Howe, Judge Fisher,"Judge Kelley, the Hon. Geo. W, Julian, inderland and Bo Senators Sumner, Fessenden, Wil Gen. Butler, Mr. Forney, Frederick Douglass, and others. The Hon. Thaddeus Stevens will respond to the toast on Congre: The procession will form at the City Hall at 11 o’clock a. m.. and move at 12 v'clock noon, beaded by the Marine Band, Gen. Hiram Walbridge will preside. At least five bills on the subject of providing ter- ritorial Governments for the Southern States are pre- did not desire to be its chairman. Hereupon a general | demand was made that Mr. Stevens should make the | motion, and he yielded. It prevailed wianimously amid applause, aud the committee was made up as | follows: Stevens of Penusylvania, Schenck of Obig, | Boutwell of Massachusetts, E. B.Washburne of Illinois, Garfield of Ohio, Hart of New-York, Allison o lowa, | Orth of Indiana, and Pike of Mai The subject of | | our € pared, and will be presenited ear D. eretary Seward received a dispateh to-day from the Consul-General at Alexandria, stating that John H. Surratt had becn arrested at a point in Egypt, and is now confined in prison awaiting a requisition from vernment. The Southern Republican Association will meet here to-morrow morning. mmittees will bhe the Congressional reception to-morrow was next taken up, and the programme was completed. Speaker Col- | fax was named to respond to the speech of welcome | on behalf of the House, and Thaddeu Stevens to | speak at the hanguet in the eveming. Mr. Stevens | then offered a resolution, in the name of the House, | requesting the Seuate not to confirm any nominations | 10 fill vacancies which there was reason to believe | had been created for political rcasons. This was | greoted with expressions of lively satisfaction. The Hall rang with applause. Judge Squuhlmg of Ohio | took exception to the resolution. He thought it was | interfering_with the Constitutional duties of the | Senate, and Senators probably understood their bus- iness without being instructed. It was making great fuss about a little matter. This brought - vens promptly to bis feet, who asked if it was a | ttle matter” that dishonest parasites should be selected with a basis of partisau motives to succeed | patriotic and faithful officers, removed only because | they would not swear allegiance to a treacherons Ex cutive. [Applanse,] If this was a “little matter, he did uot know of any worthy of the attention of Cong He had heard of vacant judgeships out in | Obio, but he hoped no such consideration would in- | fluennco any Republican. [Applause.] Judge Kelley | gaid he was glad tbe resolution was offered. Men | who had been guilty of stealing, and whom as criminal | judge he would have scut to the Penitentiary, had | {mn appointed to office by Andrew Jobuson in place | of incorruptible men, whose only offense was that | they were true to their trust. He instanced the case of one man who bad been caught stealing a steam engine from the Navy-Yard, and who was now one of the President’s appointees. Me. Darling of New-York | said that worthiess men bad been appointed in his District, and be should do all iu bis power to prevent their confirmation. Tbe resolution was then passed unanimously, even Judge Spauldivg acquiescin Mr. Stevens then read for the information of his fel- | low-members the following bill, stating that he in- tended to offer it at once, and pusk it to a vote within | | ten days. It was received with warm applause | wll SEepiox 1, That in instances of In_cuse of disubility or misconduct in office occur he recess of the et lere the interests of the | ke it necessary 1o dispinee the ineumbent until d e wl snd ob. publle may m he adyice tained there 1 u vote thereon, or by net advisin appointment of the PErson so nomins Deenn thias suspended shall thereup official funetions, as though the rrupted Hat evers person who bus been or shall her lie Snite for oftice, M fuil 1 unless tw Tho predecess ion, yeurs b disability. [ shall ‘relieve nominee wald office. W henever any person bus awsumed oflice, o discharging its duties on the nomination of the President, be him of « o jected by the Senate shall still continue to kol fore he has been confivmed by the Sennte, on his rejetion. all the subordirutes or deuties who have been appoiuted Ly L, or ou Lis recoramcidasi | vaeate their places and o | w Sk 4. Tht al 008 to oftice made by the Pros hall be communicated to the Sennte within twenty dayy Laey ure mude or after the next sneeeeding sessl the Senate r. Spaalding suggested that committee be ap- pvinted to take into consideration the expeuses of | passing a law for the assembling of Congress at some date anteecdent to the first Mouday of December, | Gan. Garficld of Ohio said he had prepared a bill, | which he would submit at an early day, providing for | the eonvening of cach Congress on the 4th of March, | This bill contemplates that Congress shall be con- | structively jn perpotual session, to be prorogued from time to time by 4 joint committ Mr. Kelley read a bill providing for a Department l of Internal Revenne, The first section provides that | here sball be one Commissioner with o salary of | | recently published, were yesterday opened by the lected for each State, their d being 1o superintend the thorough organization of the Republican party in the South. The objects of the Association are com- prehensive, and look, among other things, to a liberal and judicious use of the resources of the Government in developing the heretofore neglected interests of the States, Prominent members of the Association are organizing a company for the purpose of completing the unfinished railroads in Alabama, and propose 10 ask Cougress to remew certain Lml grants their bebalf which were made in in Alabama for railroad purposes in 1856, and which | have reverted to the Government. R. O. Sidney Corresponding Secretary, has divided his plantation in Mississippi into small farms of 50 to 100 a each, and through the auspices of this Association fau ilies are being loeated, provided, and equipped to re- wain permanent residen Tt alists are being prepa wmore ctical method of Unionizing the South is be- tically pushed. pointed by the Legislature Louisiana last year to visit Washington and urge Congress to make an_appropriation for the repairing of the levees on the Mississippi, is here again, Itis the intention of its members to agitate the matter thoroughly and have their bill passed as soon as possible, During the past year the expenditures of the Post Oftice Department have exceeded its receipts by ®065,002 09, Deducting the Government appropri tion of $700,000 to puy for Government and Cong sional matter passing through the mails, The annual deficit is only 3 (0, ‘The amount of stationery necessary for all the as- sessors and collectors in the United States, which was erroneously stated to amount to $5,000,000, Las been carefully reckoned up by the Department and found to amount to a little over 100,000, The contract has not yet been awarded. A surprising case of honesty among Congressmen was observed to-day. The Hon. Fernando C, Bea- man, M. C. for the Ist District of Michigan, who w a member of the XXXVIIth and XXXIXth Con- gresses, and has heen ccted to the XLth, during his first term was awarded ¥509 72 on uccount of in excess of amount due. He declined to re- ceive the amount, informing the Commtitee of the correct mmonnt of mileage duc, and insisted upon the reduction, which has ever subsequently been made, To-day, upou closing the accounts, however, Mr, Beaman was prevailed upon to receive the money to prevent a disarrangement of the books, but he depos- ited the same with Treasurer Spinner to the eredit of the United States. When it is considered that be has en redlocted totwo Congresses since the amount was awarded and declined, without the matter becoming publie, and that he especially requested that the sul- fair to e of securi lude that his action was not for the purpose & «clat or votes—but it deserves both. s for furnishing iron head blocks for the of Soldiers, in accordance with advertisements gravi Quartermaster-General in person, in presence of about 50 persons. The blocks are to contain naume, d regiment of the deceased soldiers, at the various Government o about 100 in numbgr, -t bidder has not yet become t which the blocks™ are to be t is doubtless true, however, that all bids each will be unsuccessiul. The number of blocks to be furnished is not far from 300,000, It has been determined to locate the White House, and the Presidential Park that will surround it, about two miles out of the city toward the north-west, Here the natural irregularities of the surface and a heautiful stream of water will afford every advantage to improve nature by its developmentin the hand of art. 1tis intended to make this spot to the nation what Central Park is to New-York—the highest cemete o The name of the lo nton, | § , and Trumbull, | d for colonization, and this | g ject might not be alluded to in the newspapers, it is | INDIANA, MEETING OF THE JONNSON STATE EXECUTIVE COM- MITTEE. TEMPLEANC — RLVIVAD IN THE RIVER COUNTIES, APH TO THE TRIBUNK KEEISIE, Do was commerc .—Tlhe Nationa! Union Johnsou f this State met bere ou wis generul. A committee was appoiuted dx an independent party move. ention to be beld in March, The campmittes were for adbering to the platforia adopted at Phikdeiphia, and to leave the question of suirage with bY TELE Pove revival wh Temperanee e sinee eontinues g in full force o other counties adjacent. | 8¢ Mex in this ¢ .y,..\.ymu.rmm,"““!‘ Ak drunkards, have espos wtinenee, avd are | MISSOURT now br Mat ! THE CHOICK FOR SENATOR DROWN'S SEAT. BY TALEGRAPH TO THE TRIND the members g that o Vering nearly if n® quite 1000, 1 da sigit te ple Mok 81, Lotas, Dee, 2.—Late reports from all pointe of this Ktate repiesent an almost unanimous wish among all classes of Radicals to have Mr. Drake appointed Senator, fud it fa ww considered that he will be tie wan. Pl o MONTANA. MEETING OF THE L¥ BY TRLCGRE 10 T g, ST 1 te Mon b, able to gl admittan . d the revival is t the semme, nnd hat of the Father Matthow well known Hb"tc-'! SLATCRE. ua papers state that the mwey wae o i Louts, Dee. 2. Legislstare of the Territory met at Vinginia ity on the Sl 1t awd Gov, Green b s highly praised b | Hon. CY 8, chosen Pre n the ( rennlzing Tt take Clay Siwif L hxunmfl :ri’» ‘p:e.%?"fm ’l'znilnr{'. ] ¥ of Freeport, linois, was Ou tho tirst d Montana Democrat, formerly of ¥, for pi printer. Among the members of the ample Orz, D, Tattle, Joseph G. Spratt and p H. Chiles, o SRRV B ba gt o MURDER OF THE CAPTAIN AND FIVE OF THE CREW, e The Homg Komg Daily Press of September 25 the following o at of an attack on th n brig oue | F . Beng. Howes of l thie Brie went S —— the Chigs seas, by pis PEDESTRIANISM. Lubra, which left this port on BY TELRGRAPA To THE TRINONE. Awericas | e yort : he Nl et Y ast, londed il ammunition, bound Wasn1xo The folk g e Beea amn, returned o t evening. having been at received at the Tribune Bureau ot 1'by pirates and the captain nud five of the crew killed or Savannah, ANNAN, (n vi . i, and where Jupan,’ < < OBITUARY, ———— THOMAS L. SERVOSS. ervoss died in this city on Friday. He | o, small arms on board. ve hal iy suspicions as to the b and then of cours ved in | | where he gained o large tehez, and the In 1827 them ; the mate followed and told they would resist all entry to ¢ o ntil o red. 1 . it and Bot to 1t his 1 the piraten o ‘ Lind by this time ta ¢ .Ardxl’red 8. L. WHARTOY, | rotused One, howe u Lis way down tho riggiug wun shot and fell overbourd They kept popping e s Toe ¢ o | in the foretop, and when_asked why they did so, LouisviLiLg, Dec. 2,—Dr. 8. L. Wharton, a promi- nent Nashville practitioner aTs. Wis enly seiaed with a spasin whilo taking of medicine, at tiwe counter of Donnerville's drug-store, and fell unconscious to the iu half an hour of paralysis of the heart. RGE M. RICEMOND, TRIBCNP. od could take w ish replied m kill Chis the pirates first went into th to take what they liked and go, T} proceeded $0 plund turning everytling 1p y ¥ the eaptn with him at first but ul the cabin, literally rday worning they were apparent had taken (having well load ’h i BY TRLEGRAPE TO THE OVIDE: R. 1., Dec M. Richmond, with what they head of the Rickmond Calico Pr Caterday proceeded 1o cast off; before going, however, they st ikl ey e mensure of their erimies by a deliberate murder. CINCINN ain was fn the cabin on sofa, with one arm yound NCIN] « waist_holding one of his children in the other. One —r——— andrels came below, presented a pistol at him nnd de Jiberately fired. The ball eutered near the Hght eve, and deaih st instantancous. On mustering the erew t of ptain and one of the seamen were found dead, wid four giore missing, one of whom was secn to fall overgord after heliig wounded. The chief wiate, who was uuhurt, al though be had a narrow escape, then put the vessel round with the remainder of the crew, and returned to Hovg Kong, arriy inge here at 6 p. . yesterday evening. “There are o suspicious eircimstances attached to the three of the survivors swear positively that while alofe i 120 the voiee of the stey i “hiueso eook, who was one of the sur- peared from the vessel about & p. m. lust nght.” OPENING OF THE SUSPENSION BRIDGE OVER THE OHIO. WY TELEGRAPN TO THY TRINCNE. $k CIXCINNATY, Dee, 2.—The great suspension bridge was opened duly Gark 46,000 persons had crossed the strict 0,000 passed over and back, The crowd on the aried from twenty-five hun- dred to three thousand pe t the motion of the yoadway was harily perceptible, M. Roclling, the bukler, sy t cables would readily sustain a double procession of locoumotives over ifs entire length, The test it was put to to-day is probably the severest it will ever bave % Col. W. K. Busley, late of the 6tk OLio Reglment day of consumpt; AREIV \‘l n CIE. ‘Thare were eight deaths from cholera in the city last weck. e o | o —— The steamship Arizona, Manry, from Aspinwall, ARNY GAZET Nov. 24, with merchapdise, malls andspecie to Pacifie Mail 4 Steamship Company, “nrru«l ut this port yesterday. The tol | BY TELEGRAPE TO THE THIBUNE. foving is ber specielists | Dec, L—Brevet M died here Sherman & C n. Davis Tillson, Assistant Dancan, Cowmissiover of I, F. wn d Lauds in the State of Georgis. s Tias mot been mustered out fron Dec, 1, but is retaived in service uutil G B further orders. o . 8 51 Brevet Gen. 1. ommia‘oner tor the W, Scholl & Co..... L 67,004 27 State of b Caroline, wtered ont from Dee. 1, but Eugene Kelly & Co 5400 0 | will e retaiued i seivice conmected with the Buresu until further Wells, Fargo & C 06,123 12 \ orders. V. 20100 0 tirevet Life .-Col. James A. Bater. Coptain Tih Regiment Veter d Copt, N. i1, Blaotin of the 9t Regiment Ves ut and houorably discharged the Reserve Corph en uste Keverve Corps, linve service frous Nov, 2 - NAVY GAZETTE. BY TELEGRATM 10 THE TRIBUNE. FROM THE IsTHMUS. e EDERED, ~e Nov. 20—Capt. Augustus L. Care as Light-House Iu- - 4 spector of the Tiu Light House District, 2,048 00 APPOINIED, . | Mor: 9i~Josaph B. Factue on Suivions Suvsin. Whole total. .. ... R TR TN P — REPCBLICAN REIOICING.—A banquet in honor of the recent Union victories in the Vil Congressional D) triet of New-Je was given wider the auspices of the Youug “eeutive Committec at Newnrk, on Friday evening. Some hundred geutlemen were present, prominent among whom were Senintor F.T. Frelighuysen, Mayor Pediie, Cougressmen Halsey sad Hill, the Hon. Jus. Hays, Cort. landt Pasker. esq rs. The President of the Commit- Wi, 1L F ded. ” Among the toasis were b g g, . o enTyEEEEH A EUROPEAN STEAMER AT BALTIMORE. BY THLKGRARM TO THK TRIBUXK, i BALTIMORE, Dec. 2,—The steamship Somerset, from Liverpool on the 15th ult,, arrived to-day, bringing a largh co. Among the passengers 1 the Right Rev, i, Wishop of Murylind, who returus from 14 visit to Europe for bis liealth, wiich is understood to b " somew Liat improved. o i BoAT RECOVERED.—The water-boat that, Was run the followlug: * Lhie duy e cdobrate, e T | dows by the steamer William Cook on Thanksglving nigbt, in The Mayor « Uity pesponded to by that offieis ur | the Bay, was found up the River, near Blackwells Inland, by sergeant Fitzge raid and Oticers Thompson and Dole of the development of park and ormamental and artistic gar. dening. The Jagd will ¢ost about §1,500 en acre, so Representatise iu Congress My, James L. Hass - Toe IViL ¢ 1 Lg Suidlers of tle Repr My ilalsey: © QurState Senator, yressional Distriet”" M ;" Major Sears. Hamor Police and towed down to the Jarge Office Elljj, Where aberow e with the thewive and sails atipebeds | J.C HIRC HAMPL PRICE FOUR CENTS. ‘ EUROPE. —— NEWS BY THE ATLANTIC CABLE T0 DE.. 2, THE ARREST OF JOHN I, SURRATT, BY TELEGKAPH TO THE TRIBUNE, WasnINGTON, Dec. 2, 1666, This Government had information as long ago as last Winter that John H. Surratt had gone to Europe. The person who communicated the fact, conversed with hifn during the voyage across the Atlantie, and also reported that Surratt, believing he was far re- moved from danger, was free and outspoken concern- ing Lis connection with the assassination conspirators. To-night Secretary Seward received a dispatch by Atlantic Cable, dated to-day, as follows: “1 have arrested John H. Surratt, one of President Lincoln's assassins, No doubt of identity. Signed, ‘“HALE, 1, 8, Consul-General, Alexandria, Egypt.” iy GREAT BRITAIN. GUNBOATS FOR IRELAND—MARTIAL LAW PROCLATMED IN LIMERICK—JAMES STEPHENS—THE ENGLISH MILITIA—~PROBABLE DISPATCH OF TRGOPS TO LIVERPOOL AND GLASGOW=FURTHER ARRESTS OF FENIANS, Loxvoy, Friday, Nov. J—noon. A gnnboat left. Sheerness yesterday; another will leave to-day. Their destination is Ireland. They carry with them a large supply of anns and ammunition, to be used in the suppression of Fenian outbreaks. No more arrests have been made. Loxvoy, Saturday, Dee. 1, 1660, Martial law has been proclaimed in Limerick City and County, and arrests continue daily. There is a vague ramor that the Chief Organizer, James Stepheus, lately arrived in Paris and is now secreted there, It is denied that the English militia will go to Ire- land. Loxvoy, Dee. 2, 1566, 1t i quite probable that troops will be sent to Liv- erpool and Glasgow on account of the bad feeling that prevails among the Irish in those cities, Many arrests of Fenians have been made by the Government officers in Ireland. QUEEN VICTORIA AT A PUBLIC CEREMONY. Loxvoy, Saturday, Dee. 1, 1666, Queen Victoria and snite went to Wolverhampton to-day, where she took the chief part in the ceremony of unvailing & statue of Prince Albert. There were immense crowds of people present, who extended an enthusisastic welcome to the Queen, THE LAMIRANDE CASE. Loxvoy, Saturday, Dee, 1, 156 The Daily News fears that Lord Stanley has acqui- esced in the refusal of France to give up Lamirande. THE GREAT REFORM DEMONSTRATION IN LONDON—IM- PORTANT MILITARY ORDER, WDON, Dee. 2, 1466, All the regular troops in this city will be strictly confined to the precinets of their barracks during the Reform meeting which takes place here on Monday. PERSONAL. Lieat. Manry, late Contederate Naval Commauder, has arrived in London, piiers FRANCE. THE FRENCH TRON-CLADS. Pamis, Saturday, Dee, 1, 1866, The case of Arman Fils vs. the United States con- cerning the iron-clad vessels built for the Confeder- ates, through Messrs, Erlanger, Slidell & Bullock, which eame up before the First Tribunal of the Seine, it is thonght will be settled by arbitration. - PRUSSTA. A PRUSSIAN ADMIRAL ABOUT To VISIT THE UNITED STATES. BenLiy, Dee. 2, 1806, The King of Prussia has decided to send Prince Adelbert, lately created an Admiral, to the United States, to study the modern improvements in naval construetion, The naval system of the United States will be adopted as a model in the furmation of the Prussian service, rather than that of England. UL THE MEXICAN QUESTION. | SECRETARY SEWARD'S DISPATCH AND THE EMPEROR NAPOLEOY. Loxvoy, Saturday, Dee. 1, 1866, 1t is reported on good authority that Mr. Bigelow, the United States Minister at Paris, recently read to | Napoleon, in person, a very grave and decided dis- pateh from Secretary Seward. This dispatch, so the report goes, implicity required France to tulfil the engagements she had entered into with regard to the Mexican question. The Emperor, however, made no reply. | THE EMPRESS CUARLOTTE'S CASESAID TO BE HOPELESS, Tuikste, Saturday, Dec. 1, 1866 Advices received from Miramar report that the case of the Empress Charlotte is said by her consulting physiciaus to be hopeless. MAXIMILIAN EXPECTED IN EUROPE. Preparations are being made here to receive the Emperor Maximilian who is expected to arrive here | inan Austrian war vessel at an early date, SENSATIONS PRODUCED IN PARIS BY THE NEWS OF GEN. SEDGWICK'S REPORTED MOVEMENTS. Pauts, Dee. ca announcing the occupation ed States troops, has caused a A dispatch from Ame of Matamoros by marked sensation here. -~ ITALY. THE TIME FOR THE EVACUATION OF ROME AT HAND. Panis, Saturday, Dee. 1, 1566 The Journal des Debats says that Rome will be evacuated on the 12th inst. MARINE INTI UNITED $ 2§ SQUADRON AT LISBON. Lishox, Dec, (e famous Misntonomol und six other vessels belouging to the United anchor i this harbor, 1t is ascertained, bowever, that they | will suil in few days, although their destination is uuksown, ARRIVALS OUT. Nov. - Evening.—The Cimard steamship Jave, 1, arrived liere this momning. wship Palmyra, Capt. Brown, Liven which sailed from Boston Nov e The st ‘ork, has arrived ont i (I ANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. LONDON MOSNEY MARKET, Loxpox, Nov. %—Noon.—Consols for money. #, Loxno, Nov. 30— p. m.—The money market reninins easy at 5{24 per cent. Consols are very firm, aud the tendéney slightly upward. Sules to-doy ot 3@ 805 Loxpoy, Dee. 1.—(onse o Loxpoy, Dee. 1<Evening. i demand, AMERICAN SECURITIES. Noon.— pening rates for American Five-Twenties, 303; Erio sharcs, 46; Loxnos, Noy, 2 sccurities are as follow « Tilinols Central N 6 p. .~ United States 5208 have exhibited gb perhaps o little weak at the and the closing figures 70} e stronger on The former sold at 77, « steady appearance to-day, th close. The opening rate was scllors, 70 buyers. Ame Tlinois, and vather weaker ou Eries. and the latter at Loxwoy, De States Five-Twenties 3 ception of five-twenty bouds, hav, port. The following are the eurs: | Eries, 434 Ilinois Central, iu) x . 1—Nooil, follow i os, with the ex dectined sined (he last re. ut rates: Mivetwenties, 504 ties is dull. States Five Twenties, 10j; 1 Loxpoy, Dee. b—Evening. | s Central, 7% United quoted the same as at the opening, but little business was done, Unitad States securities advanced §, closing 704, and with faig demand, 4 £ UNITED STATES PIVE-TWENTIES IN BERLIN. Beniix, Dee. 1—Evening.—United States Five Twenty bonds closed at the same price as at the opening. LIVERPOOL MARKLTS. Loxroy, Nov, 30—6 p. m.—The accounts from Liverpool od vise a more steady feeling in the Cotton market and an increased business. The sales to-day are given at 10,000 bales, the markcg closing with & good degree of firmness at 14d. for Middlivg Up- lands. The elrculars report the business of the week ending last evening at 73,000 bales, At the Liverpool Corn market to-day all descriptions of Breadstuffs were slow of sale, and in Indian Corn a decline of from 3d. to 6d. per quarter of 480 1b was accepted. THE LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. Liverroor, Nov. 30—Noon.—The Brokers' Circular reports the sales of Cotton for the week at 73,000 bales. The sales to- day have been 10,000 bales, The market opens steadier, ut 14d. for widdling uplands. Liverroor, Nov, 30—Evening.—The Cotton market is w! out quotable change. Liverroor, Dee.1.—The sales of Cotton to-day have been 10,000 bales, the market closing quiet st 14d. for middlieg up- land. Liverroor, Dec. 1—Noon.—Cotton market to-day epered steady, with prospect of a day’s sale of 10,000 bales, Middliog Orleans is quoted at 14}d. Livirroor, Dec. 1—Evening.—Market for cotton closed steady. The sales to-day have aggregaied 10,000 bales, of which speculators and exporters took 3,000, LIVERPOOL BREADSTUFIS MARKET. ’ Liverroor, Nov. 30—XNoon.—The warket for breadstufly is unchanged. Livesroor, Nov. M0—Evening.—The market for breadstufls is somewhat easier, and corn bas declined to 30;6 for wized Western, Pork is also tending downsward. ‘A he market for breadstuffy is very active, MEXICO. o -— A QUEER STATEMENT—GEN, BAZAINE FAVORS ORTEGA. BY TELEGRAPH TO TUE TRIBUNE. Wasnmaros, Dee, 2, 1866, Letters from the City of Mexico reecived here, dated the 10th, state the fact that Gen. Bazaine had given arms aud ammunition to two Mexican Liberals, and promiseq them that they should not be intertered with by the Freoenh forees, provided they pronounced for Gen. Ortega and proelaimed bim as President of Mexico, MAZATLAN OCCUPIED BY THE LIDERALS—GEN. VEG\. SAN FraNcisco, Dee, 2.—Consul Godoey has received sitive information of the occupation of Mazatlan by the Liberal Gen. Corona Nov. 14, " Letters from President Juarez and the Minister of State, Lerdo de Tejada, say: Gen. Placido Vega is expected at Chicuahue to ca:iponu with the President, and s are citertaised bere that the news of his death by order of Corona may prove incorrect. EXCITEMENT ON MEXICAN AFFAIRS—ARRIVAL OP IMPORTANT DISPATCHES. . NEW-ORLEANS, Dee. The Gialveston Bulletin of the 20th of November contains the following: *The city was full of rumors yesterday in refercnce to the Mexican affairs, no doubt “induced by the arrival of mn‘m with d'x'lp-tchu. and the departure of the steater beth Read with a return-beorer of disputches. We are assured, by those who know about the matter, that it bas no reference to the French, We are not informed as to what it has reference. The Government is not aceus- tomed to send off private steamers, as the Read was dis- tehed, for any matters important, like all other exican metters, A considerable obseurity about the affair is increasing, A disposition is mani! South to admit quaiified sufliage, impartial 48 to color. Violent attacks on such papers who do not directly oppose it. show that it is gaining ground, &8 an equivalent of uuiversal amuesty of the ultra Union papers of the North, -yt e WEST INDIES, fowpatipese: VIRULEST (HOLERA AT ST. CROIX—YELLOW FEVER AND SMALL-POX AT 8T. THOMAS, BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE. WasHINGTON, Dec. 2.—Tle United States Consul at St. Croix, West Indies, under date of Nov, 19, informs tho State Department that the Government of that Teand received intelligence by the express-boat from St, Thomas the day before, that disease had broken ont suddenly and ’ ek wl.mm&mflq ,m.....nmm% iiera, Thie minber of Wd thoss iz PRI The Consal addw, all 2 from St. Thomas will be to a quarantine days, and neither ww -l:. eargo esn be landed during ver and small considerabl thit time.” The yello - pors are also said to pre: ail at St Thomis 10 & o oxtent, The health of Santa Cruz is remarkably good, no epidemic and no contagions diseases having existed here for long time, with the exeeption of two cases of smull-pox. reeently imported from. St. Thomas. Passengers coming to Santa Cruz will do well to (embark on honrd vessels bound direetly here. Postal communieation be- tween the Islands will not be interrupted. ———— - CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. o —— SENTENCE OF TWO PHILADELPHIA MURDERERS, BY TELVGKAPH TO THE TRIBUNE. PiinapeLpiia, Dec, 1.—In the Court of Oyer and ferminer to-day, Judge Allison sentenced Newton Champion to be hung for the murder of Mary Carney, in o house of ill fame, last Summer, Wm. H. Maguire, who Killed the girl named Maggie Baer, in the Continental Theater, about 1wo years sinee, was sen- tenced to cight years' solitary confinement. The sentence was made light on account of the alleged insanity of the prisouer. ARREST FOR SMUGGLING SAVANNAR, (GA., Dec. 2,—A Capt. Lucine was res- terday arrested by the United States Marshal upon the chiargs of smuggling. He gave bail, ACCIDENTAL SHOOTING—ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. BY TELEGRAPH 10 THE TRIBUNE. St. Lovts, Dee. 2.—Jobn McNamara, a citizen of respectable standing, sccidentally shot his wife to-day. aud theis tried to kil Bimselt, A COLORED MAN KILLED. BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE. Provipesce, R. L, Dee. 2.—Darid Nichols, a colored drayman, was killed last eveuing at the dock of the New-York steanier while loading machinery. FATAL AFFRAY BETWEEN LABORERS—ARREST OF THE AssAILANE.—Shortly before noon ou Saturday, two of the workmen employed on the new Herald building, at the eorner of Broadway and Aun-st, named Patrick Hannegan and Thomas Mullen, quarreled about the ownership of a piece of timber, aud tinally exchanged blows. During the fracas Haunegan, it is alleged, pushied his opponent from the pavement into the cellar of the building, the unfortunate man falling o distance of about 0 feet. He was picked up inan iusensible condition and re- moved to Bellsvue Hospital by one of the Broadwas squad, where he died in a fow hours.” In the mean time Officer Mc- Waters of the Twenty-sixth Procinet was informed of the cir- cumstance and procecding to The Herald building, after o lengthy scarch arrested the aceused. He was conveyd to the “Tombs, where Justice Dowling committed him to await the result_of the injurices of Mullen, The d residded in Brooklyn where be leaves a wafe and fumily, ArteMpTED RoppERY,—While Mr. Chas. 8. Smith, a clerk in the employ of Harper Brothers, book publishers at Frauklin-square, was entering their building through an alley way leading from CHffst, about 5 o'clock p. m. on Natanday, Naving in his hand & bag containing §7,500, he was met by an unknown man, who, as he passed, dealt Mr. Smith a biow on the side of the head felling him to the pavement. The thief scized the bag, but Smith held on to it and shoutad for help. Becoming alarmed, the thief ceased his offorts and made his escupe. Mr, Smith received o severe contusion, but wes not serivusly injured. L Roy OvERBY A TrUcK.—On Saturday evening Wm. Wheeler, aged six years; residing with his parents ut No. 35 He was Forsyth-st., was aceidentally ron over at the earner of. Forsyth and Tiester'sta. iy a truck driven by ‘l'lewlz . Marstalt of So. 117 Henry-st. Une of the boy's taken to Bellevue Hospital. STABBING AFFRAY.—On Saturdayafternoon Edward Nilaud, a resident of Bergen, N. J., became engaged in an aiter- cation at the corner of Washington and ts, with some Wnknown persons, and was stabbed by o of the puity just be- peath the ehin, receiving o severe wound, The assailaiis then winde their eseape. The injured man wus conveyed (0 Dellevue Hospital. . o Deatn oF YOUNG Cuirass,—Barly yesterday morning Alesander Culiass, the young wan who whs stabbed iu the ovster saloon, No. 23 Spring-st.. on the morning of the 234 ult., died at his residence, No. ¥ King-st. The ante mortens deporition of the wounded man has beon blished in : LxipUsE. Coroner Naumann has been notified to hold an inquest, * Baudy " Slavin, the assailant, his escape im- ‘mediately after the axsault, and hus not yet been mn‘ml. ACCIDENTALLY SBoT.—While Sergeant Philip Grif- fith of the Seventeenth Precinet was engaged in Joading a vevol ver on Satunlay evening, in the Station-House, the weapor, ex Dloded, carrying away wound was dressed the foreinger of his leit Loud. The Police Surgeon Mott. IN AVENUE B AL 8} o'clock yesterday morning a five was discov. cred in & bedroom on the third floor of the tenement lionse No, 176 Avenue B, occupied by Andrew Cabill; Tt was soon extin- wulshed. Mr. Cahill’s Joss on_ furniture by fire and water wounts to #2300, Tnsured for 640 in the K ‘ompa e furniture of James Cosgrove on the seeond. foor, damaged by water to the amount of §200. Insured in Lie cifie Company, The building wis but shghtls damnzod. Lhe cuuse of the fire Is unknowr.,