The Sun (New York) Newspaper, January 4, 1866, Page 1

— 1580 Number 10.441. SS The Latest News By Telegraph to the N. ¥. Sun, --—-—- - 0... FROM WASHINGTON. The National Debt. STATEMENT FOR DECEMBER, An Increase of $2,000,000, Grand Total, $2,716,581,536, News From Mexico. JAUREZ LOCATES AT CHIHUAHUA, HIS CABINET WITH HUM. Grand Ovation by the Citizens. BITTER WEATHER ON THE PLAINS. Intense Suffering and Death. MEW YORK LEGISLATURE. A Metropolitan fealth Bill. Wegro Franchise Resolution, CITY RAILROAD PROJECTS. Local and Miscellaneous News, DISASTER IN THE LOWER BAY. Two Persons Killed--Five Soalded FIRE AT HOBOKEN, Two Children Burned to Death. nar ee &e. Ptatement to Janunry Ist, INGO. Washington, January 5, 1866..The following ts a watement of the public debs tovthe Ist of January, 1806 : Coaracter af lsnue. When vedcomable or payadir. Bix percent. Rond rec, 31, 1567, a July 1, 168... Five percent. Bonds, Jan 1, 1874 Five per cent. Bonds, dan. 1, (ST! Bix per cent, Bonds, Dee. 31, 189), and June %, ISS) 282,645,990 00 6ix per cent. five- twenty Bonds, May 1, 1867, of May 11, ens ° ; x per cent, twenty Bona, Nov, 4600, or Nov. Amount. Total. @15,323,691 89 90,.00,000 0 7,022,000 00 $14,750,500 00 a oes “4 10,000,000 00 x per cent. five- twenty Bonds, Nov. } 1870, or Nov, 1, S85 60,590,300 00 Five per cent.ten-ior- ty Bonds, March 1, 18T4, or March i, 1914...., . @ix per cent, Bonds, Oreeon War, July 1, 1881... 172,770,100 00 1,016,000 90 —————— $1, 167,148,291 50 DEDT BRARING CURRENCY INTEREST. When mable Charac'er of Teone, or layable, Amount, . -November 1, 1895.. 640,000 © ce January 16, 1895... 2,862,000 00 Four, five and six notice alter thirty days.. 97,257,194 50 Certificates of In debtedness, -One year from date, 60,667,000 00 Que and two year five per cent, notes............,.0ne end two years from date....... 8,630,700 00 Three y ven- thirty: ui ry «Three years from date + +++» 830,000,000 00 Three year Com- ud Notes......Three years from -” GRURs cocccccvseers 180,012,141 00 Total..oosseeee mere TRU Uw) MATURED DEBT NOT PRESENTED FOR TAYMENT, Notes....... Texas Indemnity Bonds... $726,000 00 t yeer 7,50 Tieasury notes, = 24,100 00 dasesesee ‘ Fj 81,269 88 Treasury netes 1is,411 Of Temporary Loan.. 1,40 00 $1,106,880 32 DEUT BEARING NO INTEREST, United Btates N $426,251,989 76 Fractional curren 76,00u, WU Oa Gold Certificate of de- posit..... oe see 7,483,140 00$459.519,960 37 Grand Total....6....sseeseseee 62/807, 01408T 99 Amount in Total, Treasury, coin $45,785,659 69 Treasury, carency., 44,998,371 11 ane 090,728,581 80 Amount of debt, Jess cash in WIT. 0. eaeenes i -$2,716,051,636 19 The foregoing is dobt, ae it appenie correct statement of public Tom the books aod Treasurer's he Dem the Department on the let of January, "' (Bigned) Hoon MoCuttovcm, Becictary of the [reasury, Wasitxoron, Jan, 84, pi-offi-ial news from the city of Chihuahua upto the 24th of November, has been received here, President Juarez, bis cabinet, the members of the Supreme Court and other functionaries arrived as Chibauhnua, the capital of the Mexican R:public, ou the 20th of November, The Premdent met with avery warm aud enthusiastic reception end quite @ popular ovation, Soveral ladies with badges of national colors received the President at the palace, Inthe eveuing ® patriotic dinner was given, The Minister oi the Iuterior issued on the NS Bist of November, circular to the Governors of | the States, iuforming them that the seat of the | National Goverument will be Chihaubua forthe presest. The people at large were rejo.ced at hav- tug gotrid of the French troops, The news from the interior !s represented to be encouraging for ihe natious! cause, Messrs. Branton, Harlan, Chase, Sumner, and others, who went to Baltimore to attend the fune- rel of Houry Wivter Davis, bave revuroed to this city. General Grant +!!! be aheent but 2s abort time, He will soon make hie trip to New Orleans. All the Methodist preachers of the District of Columbia and vicinity were to moet this evening, in Wesley chapel, to scopt measures for the ap- proaching centenary snuiversary, The attend- ance will be large. The Relect Committees on Reconstruction have had only one meeting, merely on preliminary business, The next will not take place until the reassembling of Congress. All the papers and credentials which have been referred to the Cornmittes on Elections are being printed. The testimony in the contested election cases will mal large volume The Freedmen's Bureau to-~iay turned over to their owners three farms situated m Loudon Count), Va. containing 1,226 acres, whieh had been held as confiscated property. Four companies of the 5th United States Cavalry serving in the vicinity of Cumber'and, Md., bave been ordered to report to the commanding officer in North Carolina for aasignment to duty, The gold cotnage at the Mint during the month of December was 1,129,000 ; silver coinage nearly $57,000, and copper coinage over $105,000, The amount of prize money that has been al- ready paid amounts t© about nine miliions and « half dollars, and it ts estimated that about five millions and shaif remain unpaid. This ts only one moiety of the proceeds of captures; the other going to the government. The follow!ng ise part of the list awarded : Vice-Admiral D, G. Farragut, @55,443; Rear-Ad- miralé PLL 456; Tear-Admiral D 1), Porter, #94048; Kear-Acmiral &, F. Dupont, $69,416 ; 1 Theo, Batley, 899,098 ; Rear-Admiral 8. H » B14447 | Roar-Admiral H. H. Bell, $12,- r-Admiral, T, P. Green, $10,368; Rear- : $9,571; Rear-Admirai r-Admiral H. K, That- . H 8. Palmer, 4,510; Rear- Admiral L. M. Goldeborough, @3,026 ; Hear-Admiral ©, K. Stribling, @2,261; Kear-Admiral William Merwin, $1,478; Rear-Adiniral H, Harwood, $473; Capts, J.B. Marchand, #12.490; B. F. Sanda, $76,. 516; WM. Walker, $84,518; Conmanders James EK. Jonatt, FY 7,449; John J. Almy, $54,431; D, B. Kidgeley 1 ; RK. H. Wyman, #94,08; H. Collins, $18,272 ; G. 8, Glissen, $30,426; George M Ranson, $20,190 William Badd, $88.40; Piers Crosby, 623,006 ; W. O. Landt, $91,116: P.G. Wat- mough, $24.272; 8. PD. Trenchard, $15,560; J. R. Mullany, $15,441; Willian E. Dennison, €18,444; Edward E. e ; Lieutenant Willism 8 Cheesman, $1 : Carl English, 818,918; R. HW. Lameom, 940,596; Acting Assistant Paymaster Jee $10,430; Lieutenant William B. Cushing, #16,100; Actine Volunteer [jeuteuant Fre eric D. etewart, @15,078; Acting Masters Charies Potter, #19,045; Charies Burelas, #12,(45, Alexander Waliir Slaven, Acting Assistant Surgeon, A, Shick, 10,087, Departure of Secretary Seward. Fortress Monroe, Jan, 8.—The De Soto passed out the Capes lest evening. The Hon. Wm. H. Seward, and Assistant Becrotary of Stave, F. W. Seward, were on board, FROM THE PLAINS, Severe Weather--Serious Loss of Life, to Kansaa (ily, Jan, 3,.Advices from Santa Fe by the coach, aay that intensely cold weather pre- veils on the plaing, The snow-bound trains had lost nearly all their animals. Several teameters were severcly frozen, some fatally, Eleven men were picked up slong the route in s helpless con- dition and taken to Fort Dodge for treaiment. It is anticipated that there will be a heavy immigra- tion in the Spring to this place, It has already begun. Immense Trade Across the Plains. Atchison, Kansas, Jan, 8.—The Datry Cnam- PION to-day publishes an accurate statement of the amount of freight shipped from here across the plains for the past year, Twenty-seven firms and individual freighters are engaged in this trade. During the year the aggregate amount of their shipments was 21,500,000 po.nds assorted mer- cbandise, requiring for ite transportation oearly 5,000 wagons, over 7,000 mulea and horses, and nearly 26,000 oxen, employing upwards of 5,000 men, Over halfof this freight went to Colorado, aud the remainder to different pointe in Utah, Moutans, Nevada, liaho, New Mexico, Nebraska and Western Kaveas, including military posis, The capital invested in this business is over $6,000,000 The value of the merchandize and wachinery transported 1s bot definitely kuown, The overland coaches, which leave and arrive here daily, ° taken outand brought in over 4,000 passengers, aud bave also brought in $2,400,000 in specie, and carried out 4,600 pounds of express freight. The Butterfied Overland Dispatch line bas also carried a large number of passengers each way; but as that Hue was established late in the seasen, no accurate statement of ite business 18 made, Freighting business in the city is seven times greater this year than in 1861, five times larger than in 1862, four times larger than in 1563, and 6,000,000 pounds greater than in 1464, The most experienced freighters think that \he trade in 1866 wil be nearly double that of the past year, POLITICAL INTELLIGEN(CR, Maine. Augusta, Me, Jan.3.—The Maine Legislature metand organized this forenoon, William Wirt Virgin, of Norway, is President of the Benate, and James M. Stone, of Kennebuuk, is Bpoaker of the House, Governor Coney will be inaugurated to- morrow, New Hampshire. Coneord, N. H., Jan. 3.--At the Republican Btate Convention, held in this city to-day, bis Excel- lency Frederick Buyth was unanimously elected by acclamation fer Governor, Lieut, Col. Geo, D. Savage, of Alton, was nominated for Reilroad Commissioner, on the first ballot, Concord, N. H, Jan, 8, P. M.—In the Republi. can Btate Convention to-day a resolution was adopted recognizing in Andrew Johnson, the just citizen, the sincere patriot and the distinguished Statesman ; and decluring that ‘the tone and tem- per of bis recent aunt message to Cougress meets our Warm appre and augers well for the success of his adm nistration.”” Another resolution declares that the scheme to pleat by foreign bayonets an Austrian despotism nM xico had ite orivin in undisguised hostility to the Un'ted States aud is a standing insult to our power aud # menace to our republican institutions, Massachuactts. Boston, Jan, 8.—The Leyisiature met to-day, The House eleciod Mr, Jamnes A, Btone, of Charlene | town, Bpeaker, The Sonate chose Mr, Joseph A. Pond, President, by a uuanimous vote, Governor Bullock will mot, probably, deliver his Message til! Baturday. Boston, Jan. 8, P, M.—Gov. Andrew sent into the Senate * special mossage which states thas the tote! expenditure jucurred by Massachusetts on account of the war amounts to $27,706,100. This sum includes only such expeuses as have sccrucd under the direction and supervisipn of the several Biate departments as sutbori by legislative enactmi nts, As far as ascerta:ned the exponses in- curred by vithes and Wwe (o- NEW YORK, Downiies gud other { road, rollitary purposes amount to nearly an equal eum. After the reception of the special m e, the Governor and Legislature procesied to the Old South Church ere the @ection sermon was preached, Pennsylvania. Harrisburg, Jan. 8.—in the Legislature to-day, a brief Mensage was received from Governor Cur- tin, dated November 27h, stating the necess!ty of his temporarily ebeenting himself and sojonrning tn Cubs, in consequence of bad health. Wisconsin. Madison, Wis, Jan, 1.—This evening the new State officers were aworn fnto office. Governor Fairchild tn his inaugural seye: With the close of the civil war all dencere have not been averted, nor have all rémponaibilities erased, Great political problema remain unsolved, T and important questions are, however, determined by the late war, The right of secersion, 60 strenucualy eg adheg the people of the Bouth, has been forever decided against them and slavery has become « thing of the But not until Jefferson Davis shai! toon tried, convict ed and bung for treason, and the fact that reason ie a crime which cannot be committed with impn- nity, ehall have thus been fully demonstrated, will the American people be content. It now devolves upon us to see to ft that freedom shall be something more than mere name. It ie @ matter to regret that the citizens of our own State should bave denied colored peo) in our midst the richt of suffrage. Time will vet modify the'r opinions This privilege, soouer or later, will be exteuced to that class, In recon- structing the Btates lately in rebellion it seems necessary that ample eviience be required upon their part that they are disposed to yiell « ready and willing obedience to the Conaittuson and the laws. E: State ought also to be required to ratify further amendments to the Cousiiiution forever prohibiting the payment ot clebta contracted in support of the rebellion, and affirming the sac- redness of the national debt; slso declaring all ordinances of secession null and void , apportion- ing re, resentation in Congress upon the basis ot the number of votersin ¢@ Biatve. The power is in the hands of the Preside: 1 Congress to make victory, so dearly won, sing benefit to the country; and, with full confidence ia ir wixiom sud judginent, the people await thor action, Minnesota. St. Paul, Minn, Jan. 2..The Logislature con veued at noon to-~lay. Mr. 8. B. Wakefield of Far- iboult county, waa elected Spesker of the House, and Mr, George P. Wilson was chosen Secretary of tbe Senate. No other business was transactod. The Governor will not be ready w deliver his message until Monday next. Nerth Carolina. Raleigh, N. C. Jan. 8.—Governor Worth hes issued @ proclamation, by recommen: tion of hie counc.}, calling the Lexislature to moet on the Isa of January, THE KENTUCKY FREEDMEN, Address of Gen. Palmer to 4000 Colered People. Loutaville, Ky., Jan, 2.-Gen. Palmer adirensed four thousaud colored people in the open ar yes- terday. He wae giad that hereafter, before the law, there shall be no other difference between tl the nature of things, for years tw come, the people of this country must be laborers, but that their interest# and the interests of white lator dlored entical..that all eforte to degrade the ja to legrade ibeir labor, and in effect to degrade the labor of a/| others, and those who atiompt is are just as much the enemies ef tie white laborer ae they are of the cclored laborer, He that counsels the bisck man tw work for half compels the white man to do the samme. The interes of tho! lack man arr, there. fore, the interests of every white man in the coun- try. Here.ofore, the legalation of the country hae been very much in favor o! wealth and owners of es, but hereafter — ory being oust of the way must be for the | Yr, DO matter what his color may be, to protect bim trom toe despotism of capital, He expressed his gratification at the gen kindness exhibited by the peuple of Ken- sucky for their late slaves, which he asid wae the rule notwithstanding there had been some cases of brusality end outrage committed, the work of abandoned persons in differeu: parts of the State, He spoke of the right of colored persons to temily iu the Courts, predicted that wituin # short time al) dissbilites would be removed, and that withtu ® few yoars the question to be asked would be not “who le whitest, but who is most honest, ivpelli- gent and jndustricus.”’ The spocch was enthusiastically received by the colored people, NEW YORK STATE Senate, Albany, Jan, 1.—Mr. Andrews gave notice of « bill to create the Metropolitan Sanitary District and Board of Health, Mr, Ezra Cornell introduced « bill which amends the banking law of 1538, by declaring that the franchise or privilege of banking, under said act, shal! be deemed personal property and be liable to taxation to an amount not exceeding the capital stock. Mr. Cornell also introduced a bill applyiug the same provisions asthe above to all named corpo- rations and associations in the Biate which are not organized under the act of 1538, Mr. O'Donnell introduced she following resolu- tions, which lie over: Resolved, if the Assembly concurs, That since the dispersion of she rebellion recent facts have de- monstrated that the dangerous principles which culminated in rebellion and civil war still exist in the South to @ large extent, is 1s now the duty of al! good citizens to demand of Congress such wise aud careful measures of reorganization aa shall complete the work of restoring our Union upon the immutable principle of equal right to all, ir- nr tive of color, lived, Thas, with proper coheewards to the purly of the ballot-box, the elective franchise, Union, ought to be upon loyalty to the Constitution and the granted immediately to all Joyal wen in the District of Columbia, without distinction of ec Resolved, Tha: a copy of there resolutions be #eut to each of the Senators and Mewbers of Con- gress from this State, Adjourned. LEGISLATURE, Amembly. The speaker presented the annual financial re- port of the Auditor of the Canal Department; also the report of the Superintendent of Bauking; also the annual report of the Comptroller ; also the snpual repors of the Canal Comm seiouer, Mr, Richardson presented the petition of Andrew Williams for the seat occupied by Mr. Weed, Mr, Jewott presented the petition of James 8, Lyon claiming the seat occupied by Mr, Williams, ROTORS, To amend the Metropolitan Police Law, To smend the suffrage act 0 reg-late the fare on the Eighth Avenue Rail- rom ‘lo provide for filling vacancies In the offices of Sarroyate and Recorder in New York city. To tucorporave the Broadway uncerground rail- THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1866. To incorporate the croas-town railroad cempany. To prevent gas companies from charging rent on metres. To authorize divorces in certaln cases. To increase the fees of constan len For compensation for causing death by wrongful acts, lect or default. For the survey o the Champlain Canal and Hudson R ver from Troy to Whitehall To limit the hours of labor to aght hours per he New York Sanitary bill. To equalize the compensstion of fudaes, To hiwit the time of officers of the National Guard, Relative to criminal offences (n the Metropolitan Police Mistrict. To amend the goneral Insurance act, To eetablish a book of forme. To amend the charter of Potkeeprie. To authorize the Kings County Supervisors to raige money by tax. To prevem fraad in the purchase of brealatuiTe fo New York. To incorporate the Atlentic Yacht Club To prevent non-residents from holding stands in markets, For the beter regulation of the sale of beer and " fn Houston, Grand and Bond sareota, New York To inccrporase the United States Real Estate Crodit Company. To regulate the commissions of brokers, Ad- ourned, Appointments by the Governor. Albany, Jan. 8. The Governor having nomin- sted Mr, George W. Schuyler, of Tompkina, late Stave Treasurer, Superintendent of the Rauk De. partment, ot ¢ Klward Hand, decease!, the Ben- ate, In executive session, to-day confirmed whe notnination, GREAT FIRE AT VONKERS, Lem 850,000. Yonkers, Jan, 3 —A destructive fire and the largest whic! ever occurred in thie village, broke out in the four story building on Getty Square, in the centre of the business portion of the village, owned by the Hon Wr. Radford, about one o'clock thie morning, whieh, ine few hours, was entirely destroyed, TLe postoffice, the Srarmaman news- paper and job printing office, the grocery of Morris and Lie i, the Nquor store of Wm. Cumming, the news office of Daniel Burns a lagerbeerr saloon and the Nat'onal Guard Armory (which was the prin. cipal public ball there), all were located in the said building. The total lona by fire is entimated #) $50,000, apon which there ia an insurance to the amount of $16,00, From Japan. San Francisco, Jan. 8 — Advices from Japan to Nov. 11th, state that a commission had gone to Onke to ascertain if the Tycoon intended to with- draw from Yeido and reside near Keato, the dwelling place of the Mikado. If ac, they would then be able to discuss the question of indemnity and the proposition of op ning a oew port and try to settle the d Mcultes created by Nagatey and demand @ reduction of all duties to the ad valorem rate of five percent. on imports and ex- porte, Tt wasaleo hoped that they might come to acleer unders'anding of the legitimate power of the invisibie sovereign of Japan, the Mikado, Nows Items. By Telegraph to the New York Sun.) Tus Tith Pennsylvania Regiment passed Cairo, Ill, yesterday, on its way home. Tas steamer Minnie, yesterday, collided with one of the Monitors lying off Cairo, Ill, and sunk She wan valued at $45,000, Tue double-ender Agawan exploded ber steam ebest near Norfolk, Va., on Tuesaday, and wes obliged to re\urn to Fortress Monroe, A view broke out, on Tuesday, on the corner of Race and % .:reets, Clocinnati, destroying sev- Loss about #20,000, Tax restrictions under whi the Episcopal clergymen have been laboring under in Alabama have bern formally withdrawn. Tas Wooi Growers’ Association assembled at Columbus, Obio, on Tuesday. Matiers of much interest to sheep farmers are to be discussed. A ring, Tuesday night, in Lockport, N. Y., do s'royed the block of burldings in which the offlce of the Weatern Un!on Telegraph was mtuated. L, Dani pict & Sons's #tore, in Cleveland, Olto, was robbed, Tuesday ht, of several thousand dotiars’ worth of furs, No arrests have been made, Tak total loss by the great fire in Philadelphia, on Tuesday, amounts to balfs million of dollars, upon whieh there is an insurance of about one- third that amount Som® commotion was created, a few nights ago, in a theatre at Mobile, by some persons bissing the tune of ‘Yankee Doodle,"' and the soldiers ap- plauding it, The tune was ordered to be played by the milisery commander. New Yeans day passed off very quietly inVirginia, The colored population in Hampton turned out en masee io a grand procession, beaded by e band of rmusic from the 6th N.Y, Artillery, garrisoning the fort, and were reviewed by Major-ien. Miles, commanding the post, General Intelligence. (By Mail to the New York Sun) eral bulidings, Mres Lavaas Krew playing ‘The Workmen of New York'' with g: success in New Orleans, An Italian girl in Parma lately committed sul- cile becwuse her lover doclared that be fels more affection for bis wotwer than for herself. Tax Poughkeepsie (N. Y.) Pumas of Tussday says that for four daya | jous only one arrest was made in that city, and that was for drunkenness, Tax latest Boston notion las ‘paper bat -om- yuuy, which is pow forming. Merproof paper er are w be made for frum eight to hwenty-hve cents. A citizen of Atlante, Georgia, bas sent the edi- tor of the Wyandotte Kioses, Gazerrs $60,000 tn rebel mouey, ead in resura Wishes tue paper foro month, A DisMOND pid, containing thirty diamonds, and works waeny hundred dollars, was found at Bonyor, Me., the other day, in s lot of rage iuport- ed from Suyrna, Tax Charleston Coverme announces the desth of Captain W. C. Pease, of the revenue cutter Kewa- nee, He died of typhustever after a woek's lilness, His family is tu the North, Naw Year's reception was fatiguing work for the President, His right arm wae consideral ly swoi- len on Monday night from shaking ands with so many persons, aod gave Lim conaiderable pain, Im the little town of Wegelbeu, to Westphalia, fifty-four persons have #\ffered death from trich ‘ {oem derived irom eating the fleas of a Clucased SUN. Thirty-Third Year swine, Tho Aisesae | 0 i death ® dreadful one, Phe rtpn toe Boot vad Tar King and Queen of Portugal have rrive® in Lonion afer a pleasent visit bo France and ones toes King is tw «five years old and the ween twenty-one. They are th Victoria as Windsor Caatle, secure anal » Khe Ly pada poner R. 1, Burierre eave that the om cholera is quite prevalent iu various i of ca eee a en of North Pr ridetion Raye fo thousand dollare worth of } » disease within & short tine. sate a tase cl ya Two gamblers in Bsn Francisco, condemned to y fine, tendered the amount in grecubackt, ut the Court |s considering the question whether coin shall not be required of them. Long loge arguments have taken place. Pursow Cmarerian, of Schierwig-Holetein, haw left England for she Continent. This unim tau fect te chronicled at great in the Londor’ pre because the Prince is now betrothed to the rine@es Helena of England. Tukur aypears to be considerable diffouky at the Mins .o putting on coins the most, ‘la God wo Trust." The officers are afraid thea avervbody will read it “In Gold we Trust". which i# much nearer the fact, Dupin the jast forty years Mexico hes he® thirty seven diferent forme of government, thirty- two of which were “Ropublics,’’ with seventy-five different Presidents. Iie revoluwons during tha timo bave amounted to over two hundred, Bry order of Gov, Andrew the groet event of the sboliuon of slavery was celebrated st noon om Mon‘ay, by ringing the church bella and firiug. sahutes on Boston common and at Cambridge, hain Dorchester, Charlestown and oshes jocalities, Tus Linrsston of last week contains the vale divtory of Win. Lioyd Garrison, who announces: shat this is the last nur the paper having beew published thirty-five years. He says the object for which the Linakaton wee commenced Las beam gloriously consummated, A DELEGATION of tx Indian chiefs of the Kiowatel and Ba sand Foxes, passed through Todianapoliay) afew days ago, with two interpreters, They are om therr way to stnoke @ pipe of peace and conier with their Great Father, the Presitent, Ooe o6 them, « bideous-iooking old fellow, 1 reported ta have been warried eighty -fve tines, Arrival ef Steamship Dritasnia—Loss ef Mer Captain, The Britannia, which arrived here yesterday sailed from Glasgow Dec. 18th, with 290 cabin aud 212 steerage passengers, bad throughe out the passage very heavy westerly gales. On the M4, while hove to under close reefe! main mizcem topeal during the terrific gale with immense sea, al J large quantition of waster, stove two boating end boet two others; had whoel-house stove ne and recelved other alight damage ; at 11 o'clock st mght, during the height of the gale, the shi laboring heavily, the barometer making 28.20, large quantities of water on deck, fee tes far re thee morning, John Campbell, was neen to all tows) whoel, and was not seen after, and it ja believed) he ee warhed oe the or crete He was about 25 yoars o! ¢, au wo Bovey neath, Scotland, bia = LOCAL NEWS. MEW YORK AND THE VICINITY, Disaster ox toe Lower BAY.—Two Pr sons Kittep—Five Banry SoaLnep.—The steam tug Neptune, while in the lower bey, youterdayd morning, burst her boiler, killing two men, andl badly wcalding five others, Thoy were transferred to the tug Resolute and brought o the city, andl while on the passage up an accident occurredta the Kesolute’s machinory, whereby the sen of tha Cxptato of the Neptune, who wen the only one whe eacape on the latter, was scalded, No one cise om the Keosolute wes burt. FYROM ANOTEER ERPORTER, At the time of the disaster the Neptune fastene! to the Spit Bucy maide of Bandy Soni The explosion took place at about half-pest fous A.M, the vessel being instantly envoloped in @ cloud of sioam, aud sinking in three minutes ates the explosion. The pilot and cook were instantly killed, and the rernainder of the crew severely, bua not mortally scal’ed, Capt, Willems wee on et org at the time —but bis sou waa on board the vessel wil wae the only one that escaped withows low jury. The tug Kesolute, iying near by, took the wounded mon on board and brought them i thie city. When juet below Goveruor's I ) the cylinder head of the Resolute blew out, the esong~ ing steam badly #caldiog Mr. Willies, who was sitéing in the eugine-room atthe line. The suffers ere vere ‘ended at tle Baitery and every attention: paid t> their wants, [tb is expected they will al recover, One of tho crew, Vewr Atkrns, stated that on being re!leved (row bis wawh ab 4 ocho! he went Lelow and retired to bie bunk, He bi not been asleep many minutes, however, before he was tiartiod by # loud explosion, followed by « severe shock which threw lic irom bis berth toy the floor, The cabin was ‘ueisantly filled with water, With some difficulty he managed to geim access to the deck. He there found tho vessel & complete wreck and in a siuking coudiiiou. The Neptune wan a propeller, built and owned at Round} wut, by M #. John Dillon & Co. Bhe wasa now vessel, sud valued at #0,000, Bhe was 75 tong burthen, and sbout 125 feet in length, LIST OF THR CASUALTIAG, Henry McGinness, pilot, killed, George Kanive, cook, ary ; ded, Peter Arkins, crow, scalded, John Cogewell, crew, acalded, Beruard Quina, crew, scalded, The wounded were at once removed w ane Cay Hoepita’, where they were well cared for, Epwix Boots at rae Wisrer GARDEN, Buruitant Reosrrion,—The audience at the Win- ter Garden last evening was no doubt tho largest ever aseembled in that theatro, As stated ip the Sun yesterday morning, every seat had beow sold long before noon on Tuesday, and yesterday only @ limited number of standing places were sold, The doors wero opened at seven o'viock Py M, when @ regular rush was mede, andl soon the large building was crowded in every part, Ik was supposed by some that Mr. Hooth's receps tion would |e marred by an attempt to bise bim from the stage, but those who knew better did not refrain from bringing wives and alsters to greet thie young tragedian’s first appearance after the Wash. ingtom tragely, Io the audience our reporter no= ticed many of car most res, ectable citizens, bee longiay to all political parties, who united in wel- coming agen to the staye a talenied youmg actor, Among the most distinguished gentlemen prosens were observed tho Hon. George Bancroft, George W. Curti. © ‘ol, Bhaw of the firey negro regiment m wre! into the United Btatee service, W. T. Blodget, Keq, Bayard Taylor, Robert D. Holmes, Grand Master of F, and A, Masons of the Blate of New York, Dr, Charles D Brown, om- buinner of Pri sident Lincoln's remains, &>. When the curtain rowe there was s general buras of apy (vw lamed oa tho Lue Lage.)