The Sun (New York) Newspaper, December 18, 1865, Page 1

Bi unt eT 10.4 if The Latest News By Teicarapt to ihe 4. ¥. San, FROM 1'HE WEST. ICE FLOOD, Bp Several Steamboats Destroyed. : SLoxs Over 300,000 “G liteal Movements in the South, dovernor of Georgia Inaugerated RGINIA, AND NEGRO TESTIMONY. Kentucky and Indicted Rebels, w oul ana and Disabled Soldiers, “Y;{OUTH CAROLINA AND REPUDIATION. GB Mpertant News from Mexice. Ton terey Captured by Liberals, “WP ins SueseQUENT EVACUATION, Blncle Sam Expeets to “Go In.” am ‘UR WASHINGTON DISPA'TCHES c i, The Hudson About Closed. &e.. &e., &e. } Wasatseton, Dee. 17, ‘ficial information has reached the Dypartment ‘Btate of the ratification, by the Leg?slatures of jana, Georgia and Alabama, of the proposed ‘ ndment to the Constitution of the United on the subject of slavery. Vhile Mr. Burlingame, our Ministar to China, in this c.ty, he waa the recipient of marked nitions, not only from the Secretary of State and sao the Diplomatic Corps, and enpecially from } Reasloff, the Danish Minister, ans! Sir Fredo- t Brice, who had agreoab'e official intercourss b him in China while representing their re- Governments in that Emj,ire—both of gentlemen speaking of bim im the moat flat- } g terms, and entertaining him +w.th generous spitslities. He returns to his post with the full dence of bis Government and they bigh appre- on of his valuable diplomatic services. PSoee who favor the retention of the officers of [4 Veteran Reserve Corps aay, aiter an examina. "1s into the sul ject, that those officrrs represeut 4) hundred disbanded wlunteer crganizations, % that a large portion of them were wounded in te campaigns in Virginis. ing to the time required for copying the matic correspondence with England and ce, referral to in the President’sannual mes- it 1s not probable the transcnpt will be com- icated to Congress ti! after the halideys, it is true, ae repeatedly reported, that Gen, tainly known tn official quarters. yor Walach has approved the act passed in ity councils, op Thursday night, authorizing bial «lection to be held on Thuralay next to tein the opiziion of the peonle of Washington the enbjectwof negro suffrage in. the District blumbia, bmenta of white troops who have been on at Manaeeas, Fairfax Court House and else- ein Virginia near at band, lave been re- witha view to muster out. A been filled by negro troops. ‘ enty clerks have been discharged from the ury Departrnent within afew days, some for potency, others because their services were pbigir noeded. “s b amount of currency issued to the National ‘ato *%, during she past week foots to $4,791,000, an Pee of nearly $1,400,000 over the issue to the are | last weok A ® friends of Marshal! ©. Roberts declare bad ¢ has bern offered the New York Collector “ | schooner Eclipse, from New York, laden hey and commissary stores, way destroyed ) on Saturday, at the Seventh strees wharf, ever 110,000, } turday, including many Senators and EBsentauver, and Generala Butler, Humphrey iP; nton, 7, M, Harri, M. ©. from Maryland, in- Bic take Lis seaton Monday, S me specula- indulged in as to the course Mr, Harris pursue with reference to the test, or iron th as it is sometimes called, but speculation ‘3 metter is pubst rest by she announcement can conscientious!y take the oath. \ F Brown, Assistant Commissioner of the nen's Bureau in Virginia, isiu Washington s submitted to Gen. Howard @ proposition Wing the tranefer of negroes from Virginia to F noccupied Govemment land in Florida, the f a conference between him and the Legis- Jommitiee, Gen, Moward bas the proposition @adivisemrut. Ho expresses the belief that Matier w.ll be submitted to Congress Zim Schuyler Colfax in ® speech at a compli. Hib, banquet given bim in Baltimore, said BH regaidioal! the problems growing outof ect of reconstruction, ''if 't were well ‘one, if cerisin that it were well done, then 's were were done quickly ¢ but if it were not well lahen ‘tis done, then we should make haste Corwin has been gradually sinking a!l day yeicen in attendance thinks he will not THE Their posts | ginie. ¢ wasalargocrowd atthe Executive Mansion distri ee ee NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 18 Called to-day to inquiries ae te hie contin fe | hae been incondeloum aver Mince he wae striken by paralvaie on Friday night Porimanter Genera! Remsen hae adiveaend « oir colar to railrosd managers, mentioning the fect that @rrica of the mill rocade eenerally during lee Winter was ty irregularly performed a@ drioudly © May the tranemicsion of the maile The remety, he ways, ia with the Companies, Laeeen the cumber of aare on the mail erating eapecially om thone carrying the throngh metie, t the maxi tuto thet wi)! not necessar| y prevent the echetu'e time being f equlerly made, end the difficulty will be removed. The request now mede for sou t do #0 \0 10 00 1 ane Woresemable bot le lemanded alike for the in serest of the Government and the public, while Your faithful compliance will only be the proper (Deervacce of your contract with the De. partenent, DISASTROUS ICK FRESH ET, rent Destraction of teamboata St, Louta, Dee, 16. The ioe eorge in the river below the criy gave way thie afternoon, and the lee @wept ast the city with tremendous power, sinking or seriously damaging « doren steamers ands naraber of barges, involving «loss of about $500,000, The following i# @ partial lim of the steam? ca gunk : The Geneva, valued at #95,000; the Rowsettio, @20,000 ; the Calypeo, $25,000; the Hirflander, heavily laden, $80,000, cargo valued #4 $25,000, both fully insured ; the Omahe valued et 945,000; the Admiral, value not secertained Besides those steamers, which ares .otal Joss, sore half s doren are badly demaced, and several barges andi wharf boats, laden with government grain, were crushed like egg shells, Ibis not im- probable that more boats may be sunk when the joe above the city moves down. POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE. Georgia. Milledgeville, Deo, 14.—Governor Jenkins waa inaugurated as Governor of this State to-day. Io his address to the Legislature he says: “There is no conflict between the Constitution of the United Atater and that of the Aiate of Ss | The lawe of the United States are supreme.” Governor then pays handsome tnbute to ihe con- duct of the negroes dunng or. Ho says that they must be protec.ed in their persona! pro wake and have tLe right to enter the courts. hey shou id be encouraged to work, and then they would be the best work'ng c'ans, and their late owners the best employers in the world. The Governor then reviews the condition of the State institutions, and says that fore time even the lightest taxes will prove burdensome; but he thinks that in the eud the peopie wul not suffer, He conciudes bis ad- r bigh functionaries of the Government, but | dross with an carness prayer that “God will help stood they would also abandon that statein their ua all’ At the close of the address, Provisional Governor Jobneon handed the great seal of the Biate of Geor- gia to Governor Jenking, who took the oath of office, and was then declared by the President of the Sonate the Governor of the State. The srnti- ments of the aldres# are most cordially eudursed by the members of the State Lezislatura, which adjourns to-morrow, MILLaparvitee, Ga, Dec, 18. His Excellency An irew Johnson, Progident: The Lecislature takes a recess till the 15th of January, without electing Senators, Gov.Jenkine was inaugurated on yesterday. You will be pleased with his address. I feel confideut thet there wil! be entire harmony between him and yourself. J. Jonseox, Provisional Governor, Virgivia. Richmond, Va,, Dee. 19.—A caucus of the Benate and House was held to-night, and the Committees on Courts of Justice directed to report a bill at- mitting negro testimony in courts, and to amend Dp has declined the Mexican mission, the fact | the code abolishing penalties ou {ree negroes en- | from up the river are to the effect that navization Pecially. In the Senste s resolution was intro- | duced expressing regret and disappointments at the non-sdmission of the Virginia R :presentatives to feats in the national couneils, invoking their reception as preliminary toa full and free restor- Stion of this State tothe Union, Several Senators expressed objection to the resolution, and is was withdrawn. In the House there was @ protracted debate on the resolution proposing to inaugurate measures for the re-union of West and East Vir- Kevtacky, Frankfort, Ky., Dec 16.~—The State Benate re- ceived message fromm the Governor to-day, an- nouneing that he had pardoned Governor Hawes, Wiiliam E. Simms and others, and recommen ling that the sare be granted by the Genera! Assom- bly, and that a general Iaw be passed pardoning all persons indicted in the State Courts for trea gon, In the Mouse, the bill providing a civil remedy for injuries done by disloyal persous, was recovs\lered and referred to the Judiciary Com- mite, Tennessee, Nashville, Dee, 16,--The Legislature of Tennes- see having refused to allow negro testimony to be taken ip the courts of thie Bate, General Fiske, Superintendent of the Freedmen's Bureau of thie ct, under special orders from the War De- partinest, bas issued an order which demands thatall cas@ in which negro testimony is in volved, and which have heretotore been disposed of by municipal authority, aball be brought be- fore the court for adjudication, Louisiana. New Orleans, Dec 12.—In the Louimena Logis- lature @ bill was introduced providing $20,000 for a Disabled Federal and Confederats Sv !diers’ and Citizenss' Bureau Soath Carolina, Columbia, §.C., Dee. 11.—1he Legislature, to- day, received the following interesting communi: cation from Provisions! Governor Perry, relative to the Staic's repudiation of all dvbts contracted in the furtherance of the rebellion : Exccctivs Derantunyt, Sovta CaroLina,) Devew er 1865. § To Hia Excelleney, Governor Orr My Dear ora:—I rece ve ', ‘vo weeks aince, a telegram trom the Hon, W. H. S:ward. Sscreary | Of Btate, in relation tothe repudiation of onr war cobt, in the following woris: ‘Upon reflection, | South Caroliva would pot care to coine again into the councils of the Union incumbered and clogged which had been f with debts aud obligation sumed in her name ina attem The President trusts that she will lose no time in ma‘ing an offective organic dec! jon disarow.~ ing all debts and obligations made or assumed tn her name on behalf or jn aid of tbe rebellion, The President awaits further events in South Caroline with deep interest," as- to subvert it, Pough the oght, Mapy prominent fricode! In yepir to thin dispatch Lasaicd thal Lb mad ims! and four others are misg. : neticahla how 16 mahe any rich organic dae! Hoty @@ ur Miata Convention hed been disentved by my advica, ater having dene ai! that the Pree. ident had p-yueetel to 16 done, end thet ft wae powed to Reaping @ revolutionary bely, Nike thet the Convention, in etietence longer then abao A lute necommity required T further mace! that our war dela ween very femal) one, and iid not be eepersted from the rdingry @urrant eapenere of the State, th fouth Caroling hed been retwaded by the Confed- Prates 6 large poriion of ber et peoditured on cunt of the war And that no one had « right | to complain of being tered to pay thie debt, ae they were al) guilty im incurring it, I stated, moreover, thet fi. eatates of widows and orphans had | cen \avested in thin debt, aa the safems invest. ment which could be mace for them, and the lt Pould now be great injustice to thie innocent and he plees claae to \ieavow it omterd T hed the honor of receiving the fol ow munition from Mr. Seward through the ' Deranwrwent oF frare, W aattiwo tom, Now, 8, 186, To Hie Barcetiency Bh. F, ar ernor of the State or Sout ‘lina, Columita Arn | Thave the honor to seknowledge the receipt of your telegram of the 27\h imetant, invormalog me that ae the Convention hea been dissolved it waa impossible to adopt the President's eugecetion to repudiawe the ipeurgent debt, and to inform you that * von, oo you arge te the pwnd reai- ) 5 ry, Prometonal tov ° of tha’ pron A serious matare, the dent caunot et from ing © prt official exoression upon that mubject from the * are, have the honor to be, Your obedient servent. W.H. Bewann, You wil) please, Gir, lay thie communication be- fore the islature, for their action in reference to the “official expression” which the President is erating with interest, I heve the honor to be your Excellency's most obedient servant, RF Perny, Provisional Governor ot South Carolina, Mexico. ' Captare and Evacuation of Monterey by the Liberals, Washington, Dec, 16.—Senor Romero, the Mexi- can Minister, received to-day official news from Matamoros to the 10tb inst General Kscobedo took the city of Monterey and held it for some time. Two French columns in strong force were sout afer bim, and he was fiually compelled to sbendon Mooterey, One of the French divisions attacked bim, and it is reported ho defeated them with beary loss, en00"D DISPATOR. Washington, Dec, 17.—Senor Romero has re- ceived official intelligence from El Pasoup to the 12th of November, President Juarez, bis Cabinet and the other officers of the National Government intended to leave Ei on the 13th of thet month for ihe boy of Nhyshus, The Frevch had retired ag fet as Dinango, and it was under Movement of concentration. Reports via New Oricane, New Orleans, Dee, 12.--An old and estimable Mtigen of New Orleans rew from Matamoras a few days ago, who-was intimate there with the Fronch affars, He seys they fully snticipate war between France avd the United States and they believe that it will commence on the Rilo Grande, They already have their plan of campaign mapped out, which anticipates the sudden crossing of United States troops over the Rio Grand on pontoons; they (the Imperaliate) will then abandon Matamo- rag and the Rio Grande and fall back on Monterey, which would he held as » strategic point. Their officers claim to be thoroughly informed as to al! the moane the United States have at their disposal here and in Texas for an advance into Mexico, The Weather. BAVIGATION O8 TUB BOrDAos, Poughkeepate, Dee. 17.We have experienced « Succession of cold days, The FaGus says reports between New York and Albany is about at an end for the season. At Castleton yesterday the river was filled with floating ice. The night boats for Now York passed there at 5 P. M., getting through with difficulty, The propeller Beck reports the ice above as very heavy. The freezing atmosphere to-nighs will undoubtedly settle the question WAStINGTON Washington, Dee. 16.—This is the third succen- sive night of very cold weather, The therm me- ter har indicated a temperature below the freez ng point throughous the greater portion of each lay, « TENN EAsrS, Nashville, Tenn., Dee. 16 —1t commenced anow- ing at four o'clock P M to-day, Half au inch bes fallen, and ‘tis ati!) snowing. Miasovat, The weather ja more mode- rate to-niyht; t imation is iropeded, and the rives being frozon o there bave Leen no arri vale or departures eastwarl to-day, There are about four hundred persons from the Fast on tho Iiinois shore who cannot get across from the ra.l- road termiuus, A few voutureome ones made the ei eo om the ice, and unfortunately one man was drowned, Beveral steamboats atthe levees were crushed by the ice today Many were car- ried down the river, and six or eight were sunk. CARADA Quebec, Dee, 16.—The weather here is very cold, The thermnometer fell w twelve rees below zero last uight, This morning itis at eight degrees be- low, Montreal, Dee. 16,— The cold weather has set in n earn At eight o'clock thie morning the thermometer registered e ght degrees below zero, St. Louisa, Dee. 16. News Items, By Telejraph to the New York Sun.) Gen, WINFieLp Soort arrived st New Orleans on Dec, 12tb, from New York, on the steamer McClcl- lan. A salute was fired in his honor Tor steamer De Boio, from New Orleans, Dec. 10th, for Pascagoula, exploded ber boiler on the passage, killing four persons, scalding four others and wounding the pilot gud second engineer. Tae cotton crop in the Parish of Nachitoches, La,, amounts to 400 pales a!) told. In the Terre Bonne Parish the yield cf cotion and sugar is very smal! PAILrP ALLEN, formerly Governor of Bhode Ie laud, and afterwardy United Biates Benator, died on Saturday, as his residence in Provi- dence, Con, Comey, on Priday, opened thirteen pro- posais for fresh beef for the troops at Fortress Monroe, Norfolk and the surrounding camps, The prices ranged from }1}¢. 0 1Tc. per pound, Tas steamer Dumont collided with @ tow-boat near Patriot, Indiana, jae; Tbureday, o0d was con- siderably injured, One of ine crow wee killed, + = re ne 1865, Tre ettendivn enti property of Rufae Trina, Fay at Weer Gront Worke Villers, Wa, wae on rely domtroyel by five on Maturdey night Ineo 070.000 | tnerenes 840,000 Tae steamer Paariegs, from Cinelonatl wee Orleans, wth a fun Cares Mtrocd the minken @ rack of the Mack Hawk, below Mound ¢ ity, took fire and wae entirely coneumed, The hoet wee valued Ot Witty Hhonsand dollere, Value: feargo intnows Rerorts from Ottawa state that American rec\ Proe' ty ia enwaging the earnest attention of the Canadian Government, and that after the Christ mes holidaye @ deputation wii! proeesd to Wesh- ington to continas Negotiations Tae publicevion of the Net contetwing the name M. Morphy, President of the H\beraien Foclety, ae ® contritmtor to the Fenian fund, hee created Much comment Toronto, where he regiles, The Canadian papers call for bie arrest, but the Gov. ernment will hardiy do it, for it would probably cause @ Fenian outhreak Tae vilege of Limes, Livi geton County, § Y. wae visited by «© destructive fire leet Saturday morning. Three blocks and « dwelling were burnedthe post offer, Masonic Lodge, two gro- Cory stores, @ book more, photograph gallery and two shor stores. Most of the mail matter in the pomt office was destroyet Loss probably $20,000, Artis broke ont on Saturday morning in the Lincoln Hall building, Chieags, 1!!., whieh com Municated to the six story marble building imme. diately west, and thence to the corner of Lake Greet, The beavicst losers are Whipple & Co, dry foods, 75,000; Richardson, agricultural imple mente, $40,000; J. ¥. Bcammon, owner of the building corner of Lake and Franklin streets, $50,000, The total loss will be about $250,000 ; in- ured for about half of that amount, General Intelligence. (By Matl to the Now York Sun} A woman in New Bedford, Mass birth to @ baby weighing Gftew u pounds, Tar average weekly receipts of the mensengers attached to the ‘ Soldiers’ Messenger Corps” in Boston, is about #6, The opers in that city gave them « benefit on Saturday. Farnam lonartvs, of England, ehial system to be a dead fa! monastic scheme as the means heathen masses of England, Tas news from the missions on the Mosquito coast is very ead, the late burricane having in feted extensive devastations, destro ing ® nutn- ber of school-houses, dwellings ond church sta- tions, Apvions from Jamaica to December 6 have been received. Itnppears thet, at the date of the last advices, there were still seme sixty rebels to be tried, aud previous papers speak of four and five being hanged in one evening OLD gentleman (affectionately)—'‘My son, why do you chew that filthy tobacco!" Precarious youth (atiffly)—“To get the julce ons of it, old codger."* » lately gave ud one halt * of reaching the Rewart Date Owen ts to have two writing hie history of the |ife of Preaide ancoln, end bis publishers pay him $3,000 when he begins hie work, and #15,000 when he ends 18. Stanton Fatxou, of Waterbury, Conn., carried hia wife to Church on Sunday, the 10sh inst, and then went into the woods to cut firewood. A tree fell upou him an ‘ied almost instanily. A Main Providence, R 1, eked the city an- thoriies to give him #400, for injuries received through the city's neglect. It was refused. The man went to law, and the jury bas just awarded hin $5,600, Tam recent discharge of # number of bounty jumpers and ceserters frorn the Albany Peniten- Wary, bas errated qui ean excitement in that eliy, ther release having created a perfect ‘carnival of crime" in the vicinity. A Hoveton (Texas) paper of Dec. | saya: ‘*Main strees been almost blocked, for two or three days pi with cotton teams. From the way is hos been coming in for several days past, it seome shat there i# no end to that precious ertice in Texns. We hope there uever will be."* D. 8 Warurs, mall carrier from Iowa City to Waat ton, Was frozen to death e few vights since ou to the latior place, Mr. Warren was 78 years of age, aud his borse beipg fast in a mud- ole, aud the night teing dark from s snow siurm, the od man and his horse both perished, Gay Gant bas issued au order to commanders of poste where ler is stored, to exercive ul! proper meamir ts preservation, and holding thera strictly respoumble for the care uf all maga. vines, The war closed with ao immeneo jusuuty of powder tn the hands of the Goverumeus, much vl which will be sold, A reominentr bachelor politician on the Ken beck, retwarked to # judy that soapaso’ cellent to keep the fect warin in bed the young lady, who Lad been an er, “but eome ventiemen have an trop fi that which you know soihing about.) The bach- elor turned pale, aud maintained « wistful silence. It proves by the confession of the murd Corbist, recently convict sentenced wo d at Chicago, that three meu are vow under ten years benience in the State of Iilinois, under conviction for crime for which they bed nothing whatever todo, They were convicted on ctroumstuniial evi- dence, aud will be pardoned at once, ARTHUR BAVoy, who was sent to pmeon for kill. ing Jobu J, Marlowe, at Boston, and died a few daye afterwards. is reported to @ only feignet death, dd to have maue good b escape after his wiven up to his friends, His brother, r, Baye that be was" waked" and buried in due torm, Tow *Trent''—the historical vees with the seizure of Masou aud Slide survived the American war, wes at the Isle of Doy broken up, ot her ola p time ago. ‘Tur Richmond Times laments that the fine old Virgiuie Kentlemen, who cari gold-headed cal and were the pride of society, are rapidly dying off, It ascribes the unusual mortaiiy of their nee of new apple irandy during the war, instead of good ola iiquors, wud to uther dopriva- ons and anxieties, Tun Virgioia (Nev) Unto of * Ou Friday rivedint Cuun, lady 1 associated ae Lot loug A\ lass account she who she was tw be Mer caree: 6 eude!, Lkewise that eenengers, who web to she dogs some lato date, says: UIDs lagi, a Mins Lucy White ar- bY, With a tull treigbe tor White & ®X days frow Suiugle Spriuge. The Grove sx musiang horses over che | .eree) Bierras anu landed Ler fregit iu satety at ite des Beelon 1b BvOUl three days quicker san is Usual for teums to make the trip.” Tue United States Consul at Tever fe under duro oi Ov, by ee4ds information to tle Depart. Ment Of Sisto thas the Bauiury [ard of thas island bave decreed that no weasel cou ng to thet pore from» place where the cholera ex sts, or from » place in daily Ccowmunicution with such port, shall be adlavitted ; and ihit vessels from other ports of Europe shall perform » quarantine of oveervation before beng admitted. Veseele wi! be admitted from the United sites, provided they show s clean bill of beaith, certified w by the Spenish Consul, government and penpia of the province of fe T New Brunswick bave been sesiousy edivaiod re: SUN. Third Your. =e -—-49 | canis be apprehanaiona of « Fenton twa froth the United Minton, It ie anid thee the fre intima on Bae eiven in @ digpeth of the Bh inet from . Writtah Minieter tu Washington to the Lieuten pes al the colony, The latter funevie ronne ia oo in momen defensive oners: ae started in pereon for the fromtior, 4 an * volinieere wee rommence!, « war Peamer wae dimpatohet from Malifaw to M8. 1» 's rah Nepewi si: 1¢ of woope the Inv at Suthorities and benk officers of the shrestens4 wowne held eectias conmiliations, and for the time 1h6 anti-Fenian war fever wea tranaferred trian | Canada to the New Rrunewiek border, Thirty- | \ Faceonter With a Panther, A young man, nemed Mill, of South Grand ly Washington county, 8. ¥, hed » Pingular eneoun- ter with « rf squirrels of 8 cave, and came out of the opening bi IDde having had « tuasie with some once it eterin: fo “eee 18 onto he procure! » lantern and exe, aod re-entered the cave, For fifteen feet he hed to craw). Then he was able to ay up, He proceeted fity feet turfber, when @ Saw the eyes of imal glaring athim. Hot poked the gun, wh the stranger seleed in bie mouth ; he fred ; the anime made a rush, but & blow with the hatehet finished him, The question then was to cot De Wee practicnbie Until he got to the #pot, when be had to call for help, and it sequined five or mx to pull the captor and captive to the open air. It Prove’, wo the great asionisiment of Mr, Hill, to be » Pau ther mx feet long. The hunter said be woul nu robela than no out. row ita. dertake another such» LOCAL NEWS, WEW YORK AND THR VICINITY, SkaTino,—This winter sport commenced in earnest on Beturday, and was continued yester- day morning, but » alight fall of snow interfered somewhat with the sport, and it wae taken op sgain im the evening, A large number of both eexes viatied the Central Park, but the large Ponds there are not yet in good order for akating. The Fifth Avenue Skating Poud was, however, well patronived, the toe being af least two inches thick, Here the elite of the elty of both sexes *ppear, and large numbers of season tickets were taken on Saturday, It tsexpected that the lee wil be of sufficient strength in the Park to admit of skating to-day, where several refreshment ssloons are already opened, In Harlem there are several public ponds, which were visited Saturday aod yosterday by lovers of the sport. A number of Private ponds are also opened, and e@ivantage has been taken of them by the erpaichoream worship- pers of the Ico King. In Jersey and Brooklyn there was siso ® good turn out, end if the ther mometer keeps down to-lay, there ie Little doubt but all will enjoy theurselves who can cute figura on ice, The costumes of the lady skaters this winter are varied and handsome, and the way in which they (the ladies, not the costumes) ‘handled thelr fee." is pleasant to behold, Tua Fentans.—Oo Saturday the Senate transacted « large amount of business connected with the Order, the Secretary of War, Coneral Sweeny, being setively engaged with importans matters, In the course of the day and yesterday, members of the Order were still engaged cireula- ting contradictory statements concerning the re- cent action of the Fenian authorities, At present rouch valuable time ts being loss over @ quarrel sbout tne supreme anthority, which will doubtless be settied when Head Centre Stephens makes his sppesrance on this side of the Atlantic. ConTROLLER's OFricr.—AWARD OF Tre Luasee or Engisn Hovars —Ats meeting of the Commissioners of the Biuking Fund held on @at- urday, the leases of the various engine houses were awarded tothe parties named below, The conditions are that the leases areto run for one year only, and the Corporation resumes the right to take them at any time they may be required for public purposes, No alterations of the houses are to be made, and they are to be returned to the city in the sare condition they are in at present, House of Engine Co. No. 10, Join Connelly, #200, Engine Co, No 81, Toomas Duffy, 9155, Lugine Co, No, 89, William Fagen, $460, Engine Oo, No, 61, Eagieton Mar, Co,, $850, Hose Co, No, 60, 3.0. Nealis, @800. Hose Co, No, 6, B. BH. Gib- Long #4), Howe Co, No. % J. Crud, $600. Hose Co, No. 16, Lawrence & Kearnan, $325 Hose Co. No, 19, Van Raust, #775. Hose Co, No. 2: Alexen:ler V. Davidson, $825. House of Fifth W. Exempt Hose Co., Jacob Thorp, §760, House of No. 61, D, O'Donobue, #400, House of No, 28, A. L. Whitelane, @400, House No, 81, L. BR. Purdy, #760, Hose Ce, No, 83, doulan Club, #400, Hose Co, No, 49, Isaac Whitenach, $415, Hose Co, No, 20, Daniel Snow, 9750 City GoveryMent—Boarp or ALDERMEN This Board met on Saturday, Mr, Jones in the chair, A communication was received from the Assistant Corporation Counse),in answer to a reso~ lution of inquiry, stating that an appeal has been taken from the decision of Mr. Justice Clerke, of the Supreme Court, lu the matter of a mandamus directing the Common Council to creates joan of $75,000 for the purpose of erecting a new market- house, and that the appeal will be heard en the 23d inst, Lhe communication wae placed en tile aud the Board adjourned w this afternoon, Boaap ov CocsciLmen,—At @ meeting ef thie Doard on Saturday, an ordinance creating @ loan of $75,000 for the erection of ® new market-house in the Exghteenth Ward, was taken up and /aid over, The Board then adjourned to this afternoon, Capture or Boorn.—A meeting of mem- bers of the Bixteenth New York Regiment was held on Saturday evening, for the purpose of con+ sidering their claims to the reward offered for the capture of Booth, the assassin of President Lin- coln. The reward, as will be remembered, is $100,000, and these men allege that they are the only just claimants. he claims must be all in by | January Ist, and the mon sre anxious to send them in at once, Boston Corbeit, who shot Booth, is @ member of the regiment, Out of 1,050 men of which she regiment was originally composed, there are only about four hundred lels to claim the reward. Boarp or Ciry CANVAS8ERS.—The Board met at 10 o'clock on Sasurday morning, and com-~- pleted the canvass for Msyor and Corporation Counsel in the Seventeenth Ward, as follows; For Mayor—Jobn T, Hoffmas, 8,223; Marshal O. Roberts, 4,091 ; C, Godfrey Gunther, 995; Johp Hecker, (67. For Corporation Counsct--Richard Gorman, 4.512; Murray Hotiman, 2,72. Alderman Kolly moved for the summary arrest (Continued en tho lam Page.