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Wedding Cards, Monogre lcrvlill Visit) ; PoMADE n falling o . o 1 Comfort and cure for the Ruw tage on receipt of ten cents. ™ Dr. E. B. Foors, N Old EYes made or or medicine. Sent. posta; Addrows r. B 1 L Harmless, Reliable, Tostantan: No disappointment, no ridicu 20 "unw-mk DAILY TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 185, Johnson | inflamed with the lust of murder, and only held in check by fear of the military power. He New Dok Daily Tribuwe. TR M o TESD“AY. FEBRUAIEY 19, 1867. | “1ERMS OF THE TGIBUNE. DAty Trisrxe, Mail Subseribers, $10 per annum. i NE, Mail Subscribers, $4 per an Trmuxe, Mail Subscribers, $2 per annum.’ Adygrtigipg Bates Daty Triusy, 20 cents por line. Srair-WEEKLY TBINUNE, 25 conts per line. WeekLy TRIBUNE, $1 50 por live. Terms, cash in advance. Addrass, Tre Trisuny, New-York, 70 CORRESPONDENTS, Mo motios seabs taken of Anonymons Communications Wihaterer o iatendsd for insertion must be autenticatod by tue namo and addres of the writer—aot uscemariy for publication, bub a4 s guarauty fir s good faith. All businoss letters for this ofice aboald be addressad to ona,” New-York We caa00t unlrtaks to rotarn rejected Communications Tus Tan Our special dispatches from Constantinople announce that Turkey is making great prepa- rations for war. This appears to indicate that Russia intends to reopen the Eastern question, and that the Cretan revolution is about to re- sult in more important hostilities. Gen. Miramon, who is undoubtedly one of the ablest Generals of the Mexican ITmperialists, is said to have captured the City of Zacatecas, and there is even a report that Juarez, who was at Zacatecas and had to leave in great haste, bad himself fallen into the hands of his opponenta. It is also claimed that the Liberal forces marching upon the City of Mexico, 14,000 strong, had been defeated by an Imperialist army numbering only 9,000, The reports are probably exaggerated. Generals like Miramon, Mejia, and Marquez may gain some advantages, but they cannot be expected to achieve alone what proved too much for the Imperialists and the French combined. —Latec dispatches report a Liberal victory. — Tnder a erowd and hurvy of all sorts of petty amendments, the bill for increasing the salaries of clerks passed the Senate yesterd. We may be pardoned for being as much nused as indignant at the picayune energy with which Senators from all quarters seemed eager to add their specific straws to the camel’s burden of the nation's debt. To give extra compensation to the army of clerks in the Departments was not enongh; it was necessary to add mavy-yard laborars, watchmen, lithographers, and post- office employés to the bounty list. We agree with the Senator from Oregon in not knowing why the clerks across the Rocky Mountains wera ot included; and wd do not understand why somoe supplementary bonus is not deereed to the &ailor and hootmaker of every Congress- man, and, if that be not enongh, te the tailor | and bootmaker of every Congressman's clerk. “Pho report on fhe New-Orleans massacre, which we print €his morning, was published yestexday by 7%s New-Yorl Times in advance of ita presentation to the House of Representa- tives, and in violation of the following pledge : “Roceived of J. I Smith, Official Reporter “of the House, a copy of the report and testi- “mony of the New-Orleans Riots Committee “for The New-York Times, under pledge that “peither the report, nor any part of the same, “ ghall be published, until the report shall b “heen made to the House of Representatives” “Signed, L. L. Crovnse, Correspondent New- York Times" The report was fu condition as to The <hed to na on the same Times, and was in this Sunday, but we did not eare to earn meral reputation for enterprise at the expense of honor. In its haste, The Times printed the report in an imperfect and mutilated form; it is correetly given in other columns, The Paris correapondent of The London Times undertakes to give a full account of the Cabi- net meeting held Jan. 19, at which the reforms planned by the French Emperor were laid before and discussod by the Ministers. The Empress, cliae ia the world Froxesce & M. Co, No. 0 Broadw WHEELER & WILs0 0 1TcH SE !’runml Btm!:lim.! , No. 625 Broadway. AROVER AKER'S HIGHEST PREMIUM SEw- @ lnr,n.s!, No. 485 Brosdway, N. Y. M Now-Vos k-3tite by kuias Hows, .;,1.""‘,.; inveatoratebe Sowing Ms TrUSSES, ELASTIC STOCKINGS 2 Veses-at WILLCOX & (. auin ia lexs Nable to iy ¢ Grand Triak ] Send for » (ACHINE yva Macmisss. Kuias Hows, adgee decision’ et the 08 Broadwar. ew Blore. No. il Dyk. ono’s Hak Wholesale and ret Tne Hanrson Bor THFE SAFEST AND BEST BOILER IN Circulars, apply 1o J. B Ihn)v Agent 1 URISTAD( 4 o T e Editor of The N. Y. Tviln Sin: In arecent issue of your pap ma among others asa candidate for nomination at the approaching Union K vention inthe Fourth Cc § ailow mo the use of your tations of my name “for havo been nbauthorized by withdraw my pame from the vou alluded to Congressional blican Con- t. Wilt you Danbury, Conn., Feb. 0, 187, From The Independeat. Mr. P. T. Barnum, the well-lmown proprietor of the American Musenm, is ur The Mdependent, ns for a nomination to Congress in the Fourth District of Connectient. The following letter is from the editor of that pape; KALAM 200, Mie My DEARSIR: T onglt (o or—1 mean the letter in v num as o candidat h you asked Wy opiu. L have been num's Fa pinion of thie am 1 aequaiy i t, I had that he would some day be a clergyman. where beard his sentiments, as enunciated in these tares, commended by all the good deacons aud the mothers of grown-up sous. As to his political views, I eannot for- f" that, when Connectient was easting upon 1he whole il a shudow of shame, Mr. nim's speceh for like & suubes ier legislature, The o ion that Tcan see to his electio: ressiougl Committees get once ¢ he net of comical and irresistible anecdo nt b an end to all public business. Perhap 'd be an objection that Mr. Barnum, in taking of office, might decline to take the whisky which sometimes attaches toit. On the whole, you may | a day’s walk am mankind and not Tind g wan of | grander Commou Seuse than M. Barnum, And, as Coi- l wan itscl! is something of a huwmbug, it is just the place or bima. Yours ever, THEODORE TILTON, The Bridgepart Stondard advocates Mr, Barnum pomination, and says in its issue of the Sth inst,, ¢ appears altogether probable that he will be us the candidate.” ———— ve Bufirage fe sis ohj s L e TWO POLICEMEN & B TALAGRAPH TO THN TRIBUNR BALTIMORE, 11~A bloody affray oceurred to- night on Fellast. Two policemen named Dobson and hiot widle attempling to arrost med | Loth of th ved at the wan Glady, ko, 101, er vor. Tl bul without wa are informed, who was present, wasnot over satisfied with the concessions, which sbe thonght gave too mmeh latitude to the Op- position. Chasseloup-Laubat (Marine), and Laveletts (futerior), inclined to more Liberal views, bnt took seme eobjoctivns to the plan. M. Fould did mot conceal his opinion that the plau. could hardly be looked upon as serious. Aftar hearing “ with his wonted we- “renity and patience* all the ministers had (o sap, the Emperor “invited them to resign en “ mas ed, with the hope, however, that all would be reinstated. Ta this hope, as is already known, soma of them were disappointed. The account of The Times is quite interesting, but whether it is based on facts is a question which we are unable to answer. Mr. Eliot'’s hill, reported to the Honse yester- day, embodies what tho Committee of Investi- gation on the New-Orleans riots believes to be the best method of reorganizing the State of Lonisiana. It provides that the President, with consent of the Senate, shall appoint a loyal Governor, who has bad no part in the Rebellion, who &hall hold office for one year; that he shall also appoint a Provisional Couneil of nine persons, who shall have the qualifications prescribed for the Governor, and excreise, with that officer, all legislative power; that all officers of the State chosen by the Council and Governor shall be loyal men, able to take the test-oath; that on June 1, 1867, all male citizens of the age of 21 years, withont distinction of race or color, who have resided in the State one year, and have never aided the Rebellion, shall have the right to vote for a Governor, state officers, and members of the Legislature ; that in October next an election by such quali- | fied voters shall be held for membess of a Con- vention to form a State Constitution; that the cretary of War shall issue orders to alate these elections; that the Constitution shall pot permit any distinction of men on account of race or color, and &hall prohibit the payment of any debits contracted on behalf of the Rebellion, and shall recognize the perpetual union of the States; that the President shall forthwith appoint a military commander for the State, who shall enforce laws which the civil authoritics neglect; that no laws passed by the Provisional Council shall be valid till Congress has approved them; that until Lonisiana shall be admitted to repre- seutation in Congress, a delegate, properly qualified, shall be admitted, with the same rights as & delegate fiom a Teritory ; that all laws of the State consistent with this act shall ré#ain in force. I'ho third reading of the bill was ordered by a vote of 85 to 59, and the House soon afterward adjourned, to allow further examination of the subject before voting upon its adoption. the Senate yesterday, sup- Mr. Chandler, in Committeo to inquire whether Mr. had any authority to appoint, Provisional Governors for the Southern States, by a long speech, Mo argued that the Presi- dent, or Acting President—as the resolution was worded, had no such authority; that the office of Provisional Governor was unknown in onr laws, and different from that of Military Governor, which the President might legally create ag Commander-in-Chief. The appoint- ment of such Governors he considered sufficent reason for the Impeachment of Mr. Johnson. He also advocated impeachment if it should be proved that Mr. Johnson had returned the Tail- road rolling stock in the Rebel States to South- ern companies; if he had ordered the distrigt taxes in those States mot to be collected; if he had made appointments withont the consent of the Senate. A general debate followed, Mr. Fessenden and others believing that, while the House was investi- gating the acts of the President to decide whether they justified his impeachment, the Senate should not investigate. Taking this view of the subject, the Senate voted to lay the resolution on the table. The Sultan, seeing no other escape from the troubles arising on every side, has resolved to emancipate the Christians from all disabilities and has issued a call for a Turkish Parliament. This is an important move, but whether it will have the desired effect is more than doubtful. The recent decision of the Supreme Court of the United States encounters an influential op- position near at hand. The highest Court of the District of Columbia has come to an unan- imous opinion that the test-oath is constitu- tional, which may startle the worshipers of a venerable and moss-grown judiciary. The District Conrt, after controverting the positions of the United States Supreme Court, does not feel bound to regard its decisions a8 mandatory, and refuses to set aside 1ts own rule, requiring the test-oath to be taken by at- torneys practicing within its jurisdiction. . THE NEW-ORLEANS INVESTIGATION. "I'his investigation seems to have been con- ducted with remarkable fairness and acomen. It discusses very carefully the causes and his- tory of the riots; it lays the blame where it bolongs; and it proposes the remedy which the present state of affairs in Lonisiana seems to require. And, with all its legzal thoroughness, there is an eloquence in its langnage which will commend it to all patriotic and honest- hearted men, and will give it a painful and enduring interest among National state papers, We do not purpose to recapitulate the har- rowing story which the Committce tell of the outrages of that bloody day in New-Orleans; the savage brutality of Monroe's Rebel poliee; the hacking, cutting, clubbing, and shooting of unarmed, inoffensive, umresisting mnen, whose only cxime was loyalty to their country; the mur- ders committed under the guise of friendship | and protection ; the cowardly slanghters by “ officers of the peace,” who fived upon the de- fenseless members of the Convention with ons | hand, while they waved the white signal of | truce with the other; the gashing of dying men's faces by women wrmed with ra- zors; ot the horrible maltreatment of the dead and wounded. Al these things are fresh the public mind. We o need only say that the newspaper reports of them were not at all exaggerated; the Committee | | have found full confirmation of the stories in all their most shocking partienlars, The report lays stress upon onc most important fact. But a single citizen of the Rebel party was killed and he by accident, and only ten policemen were wounded, none of them severely, This is conelusive proof that the Convention vas not armed, and that the procession of colered men who were attacked on their way to attend it were totally unprepared for any violent proceed- ings. “ This riotons attack npon the Conven- “tion,” say the Commitlee, “with its terrible “results of massacre and murder, wag not an The invitation was, of course, aceept-+ | official reports of Gen. Baird aad Gen, Mow | Mayor was a Rebel ; that his police were Rebels, “accident. Tt was the determined purpose of “the Mayor of the City of New-Orleans to “break up this Convention by armed foree” Six months have elapsed cinee this wholesale assassination was perpetrated, and not one of the guilty actors in it has been punished, arrested, or complained of. But the survivors of the unfe nate victims have not been permitted to escape, and, under an old law raked oul of dusty statute- books for the purpose, proceedings have heen taken and are still pending against the members of the Convention for a breiwch of the peace. - 1 Preparations for the massacre were wnde under the shield of the municipal anthorities | for some time before it took place. PPire com- panies prepared and armed themselves ; the police were withdrawn from their posts, supplied withrevolvers, and kept waiting at their station- houses until the signal for the butchery was | given, and then rushed to the bloody work with a raging mob of Thugs, ruffians, and Rebel woldiers. The Mayor made no effort to stop | the disorder, and the military commander was | misled ns to the hour of the meeting, so that he conld not bring up his troops in time to repress the outrages. And with all this, theres was ne attempt, not the faintest reason to suspect an attempt, on the part of the obnoxious Convention, to vesist arrest by civil proces the few who got info jail thonght themselves fortunate ; and Gen. Shevidan avers that twenty policemen could have taken the whole body into custody. The most important and most painful part of the report, however, is that which refers to the responsibility behind that of Mayor Monroe and his municipal roffians, which bore them up in their eriminal proceedings and indirectly instigated the massacre. In a public speech at St. Louis, Sept. & President Johnson charged that “ the riot at New-Orleans was substan- “tially planned” by *the Radical Congress,” and that » cancus of Repablican members had | instigated the Louisiana Radicals to eall a vev- | olutionary Convention to overthrow the exist- | ing Government of the State, and (o establish a | new one based upon negro votes. The report shows that, on the contrary, the caneus and the Reconstruction Committee both refused to give any countenance to the scheme of the Conven- tion, as & matter with which it did not beeome them to interfere; and it concludes with the | opinion, which we must say isa very mild one, that Mr. Johngon’s outrageons charge “was an “unwarranted and ugjust expression of hestile “feeling, withont pretext or foundation in “fact.” And this charge he made after the | had put him in full possession of all the ¢i cumstances of the affair, and when he himsel by his memorable telegram of July % to the Rebel | Lieut.-Gov. Voorl had enconraged the massacre by giving the ruffians to suppose that the military would be on their side. Ie put the troops, as far a8 he durst, at the disposal | of the Mayor's gang, though he knew that riot | and bloodshed were apprehended ; that the bullies, and bad characters; that the whol vorted his resolntion iustructing the Judiciary { hellish crew of Rebels gud cut theouts were | | & simultancous manifes rection by all the South German States. This | did this, and yet he had the unparalleled clfiggtery to charge the responsibility for the hmi of New-Orleans upon the Republican Congress! The Committee make no comment, Their simple narrativé of the facts 18 the most cloquent of denunciations. We have no space to follow the report in its exposition of the perfect legality of the Con- yention; mor can we spare room for many words upon the subject of the present state of affairs in Louisiana, to which it devotes some consideration. It only confirms what the North- ern people have all along known, that none but distinguished Rebels can hope to occupy high places of trust or power there; that none but Tebels can teach in the schools ; and that were the military power and the Freedmen's Burein withdrawn, loyal men would lhave no smfety but in flight. For the remedy the “ommittee trusts to Congress. “ The “presnt civil government of Louisiana,” they say, “should be suspended by act of Congress, “and a provisional government established and “mairtained by military power until the time “lga some when Louisiana is controlled by “Joyal men and may be restored to its ‘practi- “ cal rdations to the Union’ without endanger- “ing its seourity and peace.” We agpend to the report the snbstance of (Gen. Sheridan's testimony, in which our read- ers will find a great deal to corroborate the conclisions of the Committee, and in particular some important facts illustrating Mr. Johnson's position in the matter, The circumstances of the pablication of the celebrafed “garbled dis- “patch” are expos:d in full, and we trust that the President’s fri:nds will find in them food for 'pleasant refledion. RECONSTRUCTION OF GERMANY. The treaty of peace concluded at Pragne between Prussia and Austria provided that that portion of the old German Confederation which lies south of the river Main, and which com- prises the Kingdoms of Bavaria and Wur- temberg, snd the Grand Duchies of Baden and Darmstadt, be excluded from the North Gernan Confederation. It was to be optional for these States to form a South Ger- man Confeleration with or without Austria. From official statements of both the Prussian and the French Governments, it has since be- come known that the temporary separation of the South German States from those of North and Central Germany was & concession by Prussia to a direet demand of France. Louis Napoleon, in insisting upon this arrange- ment, hoped thit these feeble States of North Germany, anable to find sufficient support in Austrin, and repelled from an alli- | ance with Prussia by the prevalence of sec- tional animosity, might be prevailed upon to nceept a protectorme of France. Bismarck, in concoding the point, trusted that common sense would be strong enough in the Governments and people of Senth Germany to cause them to accept the leadership of Prussia rather than a protectorate of France or an alliance with powerless Austria, and that they would not re- fuse their codperation in the final consolidation of all Gednany. Sooner than was anticipated has the enrrent of events realized the anticipations of Count Bismarek. In Baden, which very reluctantly had been drawn into the war against Prussia, Government aad Diet, soon after the conclusion of peace, expressed a wish to be admitted into the North German Confederation. For ob- vious reasons, the Prussian Government could not favor soch an isolated move on the part of Baden, as it must prefer on in the same di- movement has now fairly begun with the highly inportant speech of the new Bavarian Prime Mnister, the Prince of Hohenlohe. Be- lieving tle object at which the Bavarian poliey should ain to be “ the preservation of Germany “and the unity of all the German tribes,” the Prince amounces that his vernment was resolved ot to form a South-Western Con- federation nder the protectorate of a non- German poyer, nor to conclude an alliance with the fouth German States under the leadership Austria, nor to lend a hand to the formatim of a South-Western Federal State shut w) within itself. The only course left to Bavarii as a second-class German State, “which, as sch, cannot exist without somé “European aliance,” was to ally herself, in ease of a focign war, with Prussia. This allisnce would render it necessary that in case of a foreign wai Bavaria should place her army under the comnand of Prussia, and that in the meanwhile fie Bavarian army should be so reorganized as to facilitate -such military codperation. Yo make this alliance all the more efficiant, Prince Iohenlohe an- nounced his wish to induce the other South German States to adopt exactly the same policy, The latest accounts from Germany state that the programme of the Prince of Hohenlohe is fully approved by all the governments of Sonth Germany A conference was to be held at once at Stattzardt, to mature a plan for the introduction of the military system of Prussia and to conelude an allianee which would pro- vide for placing all the South German troops under the leadership of Prussia in case of a foreign war, ‘The importance of this movement to the fu- | ture of Germany is obvious. Whatever the dissensions on the best way of regonstructing | the political unity of Germany may be, the military union of North and South Germany will ire (he progressing reconstruction from all foreign attacks. Together, North and South Germany constitnte a nation with & pop- ulation of about 38,000,000, which, under the leadership of the first military power of Furope, will be amply able to defend the integrity of its territory. The patriotism which prompis this new movement of the South crnan States cannot fail to be fully appre- iated in Northern Germany, and to give a powerful impulse to the national tendencies for | the union of all the German people under one Government, I'he grand Reform proeession in London took place yesterday, to the entirs satisfaction of the | friends of Reform. The programme of the pro- cegsion provided that it slould parade the streets in silence, and only give thres cheers while passing the American Legation. Another of those slanders with which the Tories have of late persistantly labored io damage the, reputation of Mr John Bright has been nailed. ‘The workmen employed by his firm have given their answer to the charge that | he is a tyrant and oppresior in his dealings with them, by spontanconily presenting him with an address repelling the aceusation, and expressing their entire confidence in his fair- ness, and their sincere reganl for him. In his reply to the address, Mr. Biight indieates the true eanse of the Tory hostility cncounter, He is bated by the e he has to | the AMOIOER BT, s lo's | enemies, because he is the uncompromising advocate of popular rights. THE CLERKS' PAMPHLET. The clorks in Washington have published a pamphlet to prave, by a formidable and bristling urray of the nine digits, that you cannot buy @ much pork for a shilling in 1867 as you could in 1860; and that honse-rents in Wash- ington are abominably high. We beg leave to assure these gentlsmen that the same phen- omena have been noticed in other parts of the country, and that they are by no means _nlqne in their serious dombts and anxieties. It is the peculiar misfortune, however, of other martyrs, dwelling far from the seat of legislative wisdom, that they are not able to bore and button-hole Congress with that con- venience, alacrity, and persistence which these clerks are, by the circumstance of lo- cality, enabled to ejx'flgit. We know a great iifAhy persons of fixed incomes who would be delighted to receive enhanced stipends; but they cannot petition Congress, and would get no attention if they should spend their small surplus in publishing pamphlets for gratuitous distribution. Some time ago, we good- nataredly called the attention of the eclerks to this plain fact, thinking that they would like to have company in their misery; upon which they denounce us as “low, mean, and “ geurrillous"—spelling the latter word with one more “1” than a rigid economist would be likely to use. We are afraid that they exhibit a similar prodigality in buying their pork. At any rate, if they must have hams and saus- ages, those edibles are cheaper at the West, and able-bodied laborers in demand there. We know very well that Washington retail- ers and landlords are not specially reasonable in their charges; butif salaries are to be raised to meet their ideas of prices, we shall have an inerease of 20 per cent annually. This will not make the clerks themselves a penny-worth bet- ter off, they may rest assured. The more they have to pay with, the more they will be obliged to pay; while the poor Treasury will be keep working night and day manu- facturing paper money, until nobody will take its assignats, and the explosion comes. How much the 20 per cent which our friends are praying for will buy them—in the form of paper—we leave their ready reckoners to com- pute. In view of the impending erisis, everybody else i3 practicing a rigid economy, and all wise commercial men are taking in sail. The way by which the Government is advised to weather the storm is sufficiently curious. It is to crowd on more and more canvas—spread every rag of sail, i. e, convert every rag in the country into a paper dollar; grind out money by the cord from ita prolific mill; raise everybody's salary ; then fresh issnes of irredeemable cur- rency ; then*fresh elevations of the salaries; and so0 on, in delicious abandonment, with a plenty of pork for the crew, until the levanier overtakes us, and we sink grace- fully od onr beam-ends, with all the comforts and excitements of what is called “a ‘revulsion.” If the salaries should be raised now, it is possible that the poor clerks might be sorry for it, when forced to pay #30 for a jobbing-wagon in which to cart home a week's wages. With most of our gold and of the best elass of our securities gone abroad to pay for things which we do not need or might pro- duce at home, it is barely possible that some things which we do need may be uncommonly hard for the mass of our men and women to get, when the weather has become a little tem- pestuons, Two things are snggested in the pamphlet before us. One i3 that Government clerks “should be allowed to pur¢hase articles of pro- | “vision of the comm at on the same terms “as do army officers.” The other is that Gov- ernment should immediately build three hund- red cottages for the clerks to live in. We can- not say that we like the look of the scheme ; for we have observed that when Government | goes into business, it generally gets cheated ; and it has had such monstrous ill luck in other matters, that we shrink from seeing it setting up in the grocery and building line. Each of the three hundred cottages would probably cost as much as a small palace, and be likely to fall down and bury some unfortn- nate clerk in the ruins at the end of a couple of years. As between the building business, L have really a good working Legislature, REPORT OF TIHR RAILROAD COMMITTRE-WORK OF THR SESSION—EXEOUTIVE PARDONS, BY TELEGMAPH TO THE YRIDUNS. B ALBANY, Morday, Feb. 11, 1367, “There was not a working quornm in either branch of the Le; islature to-night, consequently the business was mostly coufined to the consideration of bills in Committes of the Whole. The Rallroad Committes of the Asserbly reported unanimously in favor of the ruilroad of the Me. tropohitan Trausit Company; also, in favor of the railroad between Albany and New-York on the west side of the Hudson, A little over one-third of the scssion of the Legislature has passed, and a comparison with the work performed 0 far with thatup to the same tinis last year is credit- able to this Legislature, Up to the 9th of February, 1968, there were introdugedinto the Senate 219 bills, and inte the Assembly 561; 60 up to the samo Lave passed the Semate, and 101 the Assembly; 251 billa were reported by the Committees in the Assembly, Up to the 9th of February of this year there wers introduced into the Senate 223 bills, of which 165 have been reported for the Committees. 8ix hundred and twenty-one bills have been introduced into the Assembl y o‘qe 233 Jjave heen reported. Pifty-five bills has nc’genn e, and 06 the Asscmbly. Considering that the real business of the present session did not commence until after the time of the settlement of the Senatorial contest, January 15, the above statemont provesthat we doubly apparent during p 0] hav been fewer uunecessary eechen nring flwweek previons, Tt the members will have the good sense 10 abstain fa’unhfl;mmumu speeches, ‘ulm,- are eXpensIv o State treasury than nine- e lzflm %fim e specchuos aFc Iiended 0 do- feat, they wi confer more benefit on their constitu- onts :‘ul more credit for themselves. For instance, veral ddys agoabout two hours were mn:fl in the mbly I’)y the dlscussion as to whether the State would 80 to the expense of about $150 in {mtmg extra Reports of the Regents of the State University, It cost about $400 to discuss the matter. It cost each day 700 *to run” the Assembly, and as the scesions so far ave not avera, three hours aday 3!““ can 1 how profiteble it is to have these small discussions, business of both houses has been ugql&ed dllllum(ly by Laying such thoroughiy competent clerks M Ter- williger of the Senate and Caldyell of the Asse fiwnl !}‘xo ormer, ton,hnhnw owu_}: !hu'lemhu dfi; s e a 0 er du wenty-five bills have he‘a‘lfi’ifieh bflm’ {m ||.<‘" 5 up to thyv samn Hmo Inse nly two remain iu lis possession uusigned. Fenton will send to the Assemdly a nmenmm w been s from death to life, and 21 other than from death to I making a totalof 203. This report will compare favor- ably records made by other Governors in the same kind of cases. In Gov. Hunt’s term the total num- ber pardoned, commuted, and respited were as follows: In 1851, 168; 1452, 241. Horatio Seymour's—1853, 208; 1854, 201, Of Gov, Clark’s there is o record, John A. King's-— 1857, 104; 1858, 222. _Edwin D, Morgan's—1359, % ; 1860, %3 1861, 62; 1562, 106, Horatio Beymour's—1363, 104; 144, 2. R. E. Fenton's—1865, 151 ; 208. : I —— THE STATE LEGISLATURE. BY THLEGRAPE YO THE TR BENATE. .. ALsAxy, Feb, i1, 1567, The Senate met at 7% p. m. BILLS NOTICED. By Mr, WHITE (Rep., Onondaga)—To amend the char- ter of the Ononda, ‘rust Company. By Mr. BENN (Rep., Erie)—To publish tha pro- neur‘hua of the Buffalo Commoun Couucil in » German paper. y Mr, WILBOR (Rep., Columbia)—For the eonstrue- tion of a bulkliead railroad in New-York. BILLS ORDLRED 10 A THIRD READING. The bill authorizing the village of Eowe to purchase s steain fire-engide wis ordered to a third reading; alsog the bill to consolidate the Jordan demy with Sch District No. 4 in the town of Elbridge. Adjourned. /o 4 ASSEMBL The Governor sent in a statement of reprieves, comtmutations And pardons for the year 1566, RTS, By Mr. PARKER (Rep., Cayuzni--Unanimous froin the Railroad Com: ' .‘&wm; tho Metro- rll\lal'l‘nl-fil?n ¥ to constrnet Tailroad tracka jn he City of New-’ . Also, to fucllitate the ovnstrnction of the and New-York Railroud oa the west side of report Huds ver, Mr. LITTLEJOHN , Oawago)—To antloriza the E.I‘ esharre Coal and ltmmmconpuy o purchase and hold BILLS INTRODVCED. By Mr. CRANDALL (Rep., Alleguny)—For the registra- tion of births, murriages, and deaths, By Mr. LOCKWOOD (Rep., Cayugai—In relation to the coupling of UZeT CATS. By Mr. n.m‘.fl (Dem., Kings)—For the improvewment of l&flh—avr., Brooklyn. 4 By Mr. KEADY (Dem., Kings)—To amend the Charter of Brooklyn ; to extend eertain streets to the river, By M. C. Murphy (Dem., New-York)—To amend an net relative to the use of bouts and vessels in the Motropoli- tan District. MOTIONS AND RESOLUTIONS. By Mr. KEADY (Dem. jKings) : “ Resolved, That the Cominissioners of the Me(ropolhitan Police be and they are herehy directed to report to this House forthwith by what authority, if any, the Superin tendent of Police In the Metropolitan District haa direeted the practical suspension of business before one of the Police Magisirates of the City of New-York. Mr. HAVENS (Rep., Bssex) presented conenrrent reso- Iutions, welcoming, with feelings of lively picastre, Nebraska, the newborn cluld of the West to the brothes- hood of States. Laid over under rul Hi’ Mr, MAXWELL Ulster)—To _improve and modldify the nentrality I aid over nuder rule. Mr. BURROWS (Rep., Eric) ealled up the resolution relstive 0 priuting repoits of the Court of Appeals. Adopted. Mr. ROBERTS (Rep., Onelda) called up a resolution re- questing the State Engincer to give an estimate of the cost of sularging the Chenago Canal within the bounds of the City of Utica, Adurlul. By Mr. KEADY—That the Committes on Military Af- fairs be direeted to inquire into the expediency of paying bounty te such volunteer soldiers as enlisted during the early part of the war, but reeeived no State bounty, and report to this House, by bill or otherwise, such action sa they may deem necessary to meet the cuse, Mr. POITER (Rep., Albany) called up the resolution relative to salt duties Mr. HISCOCK (Rep. lution on the table. BILLS ADVANCED TO THIRD READING. To authorize the Third-ave. Raflroad Compauy to lay @ switeh in One-hundred-and-thirteenth-st, To incorporate the Utiea Bafe Deposit Compasy. Onondaga) moved to lay the reso- rried. witha public grocery, and & reasonable advance in the salaries, we should prefer the Iatter, But we hope fhat these poor Babes in the Wood ‘will insist upon neither. We certainly expeet to see brighter times, with pork cheaper and rents lower even in Washington ; but we do not ex- pect ever to see the time when any man draw- v ing a salary from the public will be willing to have it reduced. If this 20 per cent shonld now be added to the clerical stipends, it is vastly more likely to be increased in the future than to be taken off because the cost of living has become lower. Yon will hear no proposition of that kind, no matter how the markets of Washington may rle; and if you begin to put up salaries there for one class of the employed, you will have no peace until you put all, not merely in the District of Colubia, but throughout the conn- try, upon an equal footing. It may be *low, ean, rabid, and seurrillons " (with two I's) to desire to avoid this but we venture, in view of all the consequences, to express such a wish. Prof. Agassiz will lecture this evening, at the Cooper Institute, on “Ancient Glaciors in the | Tropics.” pollissd 1471 LIRS We call the attention of newspaper nlen to an ndvertisoment offering I of a firmly-established daily new 2 one of the leading cities ol tue Cuion. e — FRESHETS. —— THE FLOOD IN BOSTON. WY TRLBOIAPIE TO THE TEINUNE Bostox, Fob. 11.—The great rain-f; ansed considerable damage in the lower and b ing Chuiech, first f wdedd to the depths of tw consid used by the storm was A it lower floors, tlooded | ep. A large quantity of snl- , dies and machinery was injured oz de | Imated at_thonsands of dolla: factory of J. R. Bigalow and their raw 5 of many h phur magn stroywl; it w ol dwellings we 154 e A vooden dwelling damage was also caused by the lionse In course of erection in East Boston was blown down, Tn o large brickstrueture fn Maju-st,, used a5 a storeho by 8, P. Teele and Howe & Co, was iderably damaged by havieg the roof blown and the front “and rear walls demolished: the roof was. lift om ity foumtation rried 20 feet, turning it completely over @ 1ts landing, and the chimneys were blow @w-York express freight train, known ns the “ Little from that city, over the Worcester Railrond, d about eight hours yesterday on account of at cansed by the action of the rain storm on the frack. An embankment about four miles this side of W had been undermined by the water, but the rth and the traek remafued level, and had on 1rozen. A pass ain had passed over the spot shoret e | the oxpreas freight train, and of its high rate of spect, crossed » frelght train consisted of six cars The latter, with three cars, had passed track gave wiy; the fourth was thrown 03 i the fifth off the track, lllmlgh upright No one was mfited, The mall tran fom Providen which was hindered all the way, arrived at about 109, m. but wis obliged to stop at Janiniea Plain and disehirge nie water on the track endun- o Lres, ALgoglogk the cars mude thelir wiy to To extend the time for the completion of Lebansa Rpring Railrvad. To amend ct relative to the malntenance of the um. I{e ised Statutes relative to exceutions Srate Luna ‘To amend the againal proporty. Adjorgne PRSP TS CRIME. —— BURGLARY IN A BONDED WARENOUSE—THRES CASES CONTAINING SILKS AND SATINS VALUED AT $12,000 STOLEN. Some time between Saturday night and Monday morning a party of burglars forced an enirance iuto the United States bonded warehouse of Conger & Miller, ab the corner of Water and Clinton-sts,, from the rear. The thicves passed through the cooperage yard of Mr. Bri on South-st., and climbing over a quantity of hog=hea and barrels piled up beside a fence, zained t of the Dbonded warchouse, and were effectually sech observation, They first forced open one of the ares doors, but inside of this were piled u’) # number of hog lieads of sugar, and these the rascals could not move. They then forced open another door at a short distanes from the first mentioned and eutered, Several eases - taining dress goods, cloths, lincns, etc,, were ripped ope but the thieves finally settled upon three cases containing silks and saiins, the property of A, T. Stewart & Co., and the contents of these were cntirely re- mwoved and placed in 15 or 20 rice-bags, the cont t whic they had emptied upon the floor. Having s themselves i some_ new underclothing which they in the place, and drauk a quantity of wine and liguor, the thieves took their departure with their phnder. They tlso took with them a quantity of jewelry, the prop- erty of a brother-in-law of Mr, Miller, who is now absens i Europe, and v ad left his iture aud sowe other axticles on storoge inthe place. At 8 o'cloek the workumom Q'tm cooper-yird of My, Briges found three hage fOlled awith silk, and this hag been identified as @ portion of thas stole r amount taken is valued at aboats The police entir A that recovered (13 pleces) at 82,000, have o elue to the thieves, and Capt. Jamesor are aetively at work endeavoriug to procure L and arzest the th — . Ty CANADA. —— SCHEME T0 COLONIZE BRETISI GOV1 A MY TRLRGRAPI TO THE YRIBUNY. Orrawa. Feb. 11.—At a meeting of the Board of Trade resolutions were adopted to promote a scheme foe the colonization of British Cohwmbia and Vancouver's - Inlan nd the adoption of the Homeste: mended to sthunlate emigration, 18 was Kivo free mentaiuance to colonlsts settlin, Vieloria. ot D1 L0 L 28 KENTUCKY. OPENING OF A WIGH SCHOOL FOR COLO —THE STATE WAL DEBT. BT TRINORAPR TO TS TRIBUNR. Lovisvitie, Feb. 1.—A colored high school was ned to-day at St. Mark's Church, under the anspices noYount of the L‘q:u‘o lians. Addresses were dellvered by the Rector, the . Mr. Badger, U, 8, A,, and the Hon. Jus. Speed.” Miss Cornelin Jounings, graduate of the Colored tustitute at Philadelphia, is tho Prinel; Gov. Bramleite reccived $155,000 ted States Government.toward ligui , from the Uni~ fng Reatncky's war debt. P R T THE PACIFIC COAST C— HY TELXORAPH TO THB TRIBUNK. SAN Fr c0, Feb. 11.—The Hall & Norcross Mining Company have declared @ dividend of 312 por foot, payable on the 15th inst. Good ahipping Wheat solt to-day ut §1 65 per hhd. Flour—Extra, 86 Superfine, $3 60, Mining Stocks were quoted as follows: Crown Pom, $076; & Curry, #200; Tperial i atmieiedl TIE STEWART DIVORCE CASE RGRAPH TO THN TRIBUNK. Ciieaco, Feb, 11.—In the Superior (. morning a new finl was grauted by the btewar GRae, tUiE leate giveit the complaimant to awead the bill, ; Yellow Jucket, $85° ‘$170. Legal Tenders, « Ophir,