The Sun (New York) Newspaper, January 15, 1866, Page 1

! | THE umber 10.450. The Latest News By Telegraph tothe NX. ¥. Sun, (SR WASHEGTON DISPATCHES. REMOVAL OF SOLDIERS Grant's Reply te Gov. Parsons. | NO “LET Uf ’ Citizens Must be First Protected. REORGANIZATION OF THE ARMY. THE NEW PLAN PROPOSED, 160,000 Mien to Compose It, N All Cotton Boat Captured by Guerrillas. PASSENGERS LANDED IN THE WOODS, Another Disaster at St. Louis, NUMBER OF STEAMGUATS WRECKED, Letter From General Sherman. Charges Against Him Explained. News From Mexico. JAUREZ STILL ON MEXICAN SOIL. AFrench Expedition Against Him | FURTHER MARINE DISASTERS Wasitmares, Jas, 14 the recent Ts may be «tated with reference 4 @apatch to the Mo! ‘le Apvertisen, touch witodrewal of troops from Alabama and Georgis, | that in acting upon the a, plication of Governor Parsons to withdraw therm from the former State end to arm the local rm litia, Lieut, Gen. Grant has made the foLlow'ng reply : For the present, and until there ie full security for equitably aainte'ning the rights and aasfery o: all clinses of <ilizena in the Btates lately tn rebellion, TI woutt not recommend the with irawal of the Culted States troops trom them, Th: num- ber of interior varrison hs be reduced, bute mieoventlo force, suftic ent neure tranquillity, should be retained. Wile suc force Ins rota ron fn the Booth, I doutt the propriety of putting @rme in the hands of the militia An elaborate plan for the organization of t¢ Beyu er Army drafted by Brig.-General James 8. Broalin, bas been placed in the hands eof Congress. Itis for an army of 100,000 mer, makes the regiments ten companies strong, dropa two Majors in the cavalry ond givoa two roeond | lieu'enants to a company; increases the grades of the army and prov, ies for the ap) tmont f one General-in-Chie, three Goneras, #ixieen M. jor Ginernds an! thirty-two Br cad er-Gene ele yt cleo fee afield stall, a department steff, Ove bal? of the promotions are to tw made according to sen. ority, and the other half to merit, t @etermined by boards of examin Ih reqe en officer to serve two years iu the line bef tering the staff of the army, and makes West Poiute staf school, Any ono who can pass tho necessary eXamination may enter the army aa @ocond lieusenant. The plau exemyts officers’ sal- @rive from taxation and atows officers to be re- tired after 25 years’ service and viving them rght to hold civil offee while m retirement. Is incorpo- Fates the old regular army os apart of the new army, and prescribes the rules for uniform, leaves oi absence, furloughs and corrt-martials, Abi)! neolyetne sections has Leou prepared cour prising the plan propomed, and an oistorabe dowur Ment in phan jes torus accoipanies 4 The Unnied piates Cons.) a: Nureuburgh iuforma the Department of State that trom and after Jan. 1, 1966, passports will couse to be required of for- @yners in Bavaria, excepting in the cases of per- sons seeking employment, those travelling with public exhibisons, pediers, musicians, and the hike. The Sccretary of the Interior, (Mr. Darla), has rece: vod the tollowing t legram = Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 18, 1805, To Hon. Jam@s Hautas :—You Leave Leen duly @ectes [ { Bintes Benator for the long teria, eoulmenciu, March 4ib, 1507, for aix years, (Bigne F, Baus. Ex-Goy, Kirk wood, of lows, bas beeu elected to fill the unexpired term, The t reatuing den onstration made on Senator Wade last Wednesday, was by @ men weil known fo another Benator upon whom he called » short time after leaving Mr. Wade, !ut not tn the way of menace, The ofenier is from Massacuusetts, aud hae beretofore Leen in trouble both here and else- whore, ng the {mem)! ere Law week the Treasury D partment made the fllowing redemptions of United Bintes securities: #111,300 66 526 Legal tender notes Demand noves Com poucl interest notes Fractional currency .. eo ose Ackerson Call and ex Provisions! Governor Mar- vin have been elected United States Senators from Florida, over two rebel generals, and had arrived et Bavannad on the 6th inst., en route to Washing ton While the woolen manufacturing of the country | bas doubled since the commencement of the war, fs is sbown by official figures that in the four years ending June 80, 1866, the wool shorty, and | Woo ens imported mase an ageTexate of @140,00),- | 060 of which the unmasufactured wool aaounts to | ¥57,000,000 lbs, costing @46,000,000 Nearly ail v! ‘he imports of wool under the late tariff came in either at three or ex cents per pound, the duty | averaving jesse than tive cents. The wools of Australia and Bouth Afries, which are fine mer- | inoes, are invoiced at less than 24 cents per pound, | Becond Assistant Postusaster General Ferelly will | leave Washington to-porrow for various parts of | the Bouth in order to make better arrangements for | mai facilities, A ciroular has been issued by Brevet Major (iene- re! Donslson, Chief Quartermaster of the Military Division of Tonmessea requesiing suryoous, cbaD- Jains, agente of the Ban tary and Cheietian Com- rt do aolilers, NEW YORK, 3 | m oes J the army en. time dur why, Toanessee, Mi seis Sip! Ast ama or G orgia, having knowlege of u yeton ol cemeteries, places of cur al, of of the sc.tiered wraves al ur brave @ol vere in the States alove uame', tw sent ww) Captain BR, Woitman, Ase stant Quirter Master at Murfreesboro, Teny., euch tuformston as wil) be ueeful to hind ir f burial Ww ereve Whitinan bas been seme vimsting the bets e-grou woere the Uaion desu b military division, and & view w th end the rem ead, on the plan of those already tu j rogreas of completion af Chat- tanoowa and Ftone Bivo The ab aa part of the general pian already successfully iowugureted by Maj Gen, Meigs, The American Bille Somety celebrated ite fAtieth enviversary thie morning in the bal! of the House of Representatives v. Dr, Vermilye of New York, ae m the subject of the moral purity of the Bible to am large eu litory et that [lace Dr the Unites 8 Tur reception by te |e » the Wiote House i afternoon, of the mos Alargo number of foregn ministe heade of departments, Senators, members of Con grees, army aud wavy officers, with thelr ladies calle! The applications for pensions have now dwindle! wh wen average receipt of one bun !red and Reivhold Bolcer, ate Aswatant Ragister of os Treasury, died here « ‘ay we bre it ’ sixty perday., Thies isa falling off from four and five hundred applications that were received daily for many months alter the close of the war, The proporton thatere favorably acted upon is about ove in five, A probably unsuccessful appeal hae been made to the War Department for the restoration of Gen, Sweeny, the Fonian Commander-in chicf, his position in the regular service. FROM &T. LOUIS Another Movemert of the lco—Additional Disasters. St Louise, Jan. 13.— The ice atarted again about eleven o° i by the breek ing up of the Miasourl river, an! ewept past the ing the steamers Ne lhe Mo- ast cos ck last night, occer terrible force, ain of Pekin, Matic May and M f barces and city with brasks, Cty P ko, carry gw away the wrecks of rm ani crushing several wharf howls Ober sea: stream, bus their names are not yet ascertained The river {a now open aud very full of heary ice, but the ferry boats manage to cros# occasions ly The loss on the Mattie May ia 99,000; on the Ne- braska $20.00 ; on the City o kin $45,000, and on the Molle MePile #40,000, surance is unknown yiaare reporte! a8 aweps down the Pe The ainvunt of io GENET AL, SILEROWAN, The Goneral Makesan Kxplavation New Orleina, Jan, 13,—The Alexandria, La, Davocuat pub) shes ‘a letter from General W. T. Bherman, toa friend in Rapices Parish, in which he contradicts the general impression that bis ap of the pointment eas Suiperinten lent Miliary Acad my at Alexandria, |efore the war wan Cue ts Breage or Boaurecerd verta the froprem#ion thet when he left Lousiana he was ple'we | uot to enter the service ay sinat the Bouth, He dij say ot Alexandria that war vould be the inevitable result of secession, and at New Orleans, on the eve of bis departure for St, Louis he might have said to Bragg he was not going North to seek military service, which was true He refused to enter the volunteer force first called outby President Lincoln because he considered thas the whole South would be involved iu the war, which could be bancuied only by vast armies of regulars, General Sherman concludes as follows: “I wish the South well, und ifI Lave been a scourge there, how much bower that it T then Bou, Buuer or sowe other of that schoo Mexico. President Janrez Not at San Antonto. New Orleavs, Jan, 18.—Vhe Bau Auionio iim Bay of the Bd inst, porting the arrival of Juarez from Fi Paso, and that it was Gen. Orteva who came to San Autouio, OOSVIRMATION Via WARMINGTON Washington, Jan, 14 —Official intelligence from the city of Chibuahua up tothe Sth of December, has been received in this city, President Jusres instead of being at San Antonio, Texas, as has been represented, was resting iu quiet at Chibua- bua, Ho writes to a friend of his aa follows: The commanding officers of these States, the frontier States, and political lea ers, have al! ex- pressed their approval of the extension of my term, and I have reason to believe thes the same will happen in the other States of the R public, The French, it seems, had sent another expedi- tion to Chibuahus, Bhould thie be in great force, the Mexican Government will again abandon that city, and go to some other convenient point of the Republic, News vin Saa Francisco, San Francisco, Jan, 13. —A letter from Acapul- co, Sth, says an Imperial force of 8,000, sent from the City of Mexico, was advancing toward that potnt irresistibly, They bed passed Rio Miscalo, He also contro- | defeatod Gen, Junius, and taken possession of Chilpaniengo. eet MAKINE DISASTERS, Paffering and Loss of Life, Portland, Oregon, Jan, 5.—On the 27th ult. the ship William Rell, of Boston, struck « reef of rocks ip the Straits of Pucca, and went to pieces, Crew saved, The ship was in ballast, The steamer Oregon ia etl aground, Her freight bas all been saved. Washinton, Jan. 12.—The United Btates Cons! at Antwerp, writing to the State Department says, that on the 12th ult, the master, J. B, Perry, and Seven men of the barkantine Hattie Morrison, were reacued from the wreck of that vessel by Captain Wylamas, of the Dutch galiot Cornelia and Susanne, The Hattie Morrison was shattered to pieces by the severe yales of the 17th to tho 20th ult, in latitude 45 degreeg, lonyitude west 20 Je- grees, and Was inasinkieg condition, and when diseo d, one 1 Eiward Brown, bad been washed overboard, and the master and two viher men badly injured, Official information bas been received hare thes the schooner Euigma, of Rath, Maine, was wrecked atseain sbout latitude 27 ceyrees and longitude TT degrees west, on the lst of November lass. Al! she tee weve found to be in « destitute and etary- ing condition, clinging te she wreck, Que died oy eRLeusbivd, | re \hen usually | Bostom, Jan. 19 8. John, from The steamer ROB. Rogge, of Provitence for Grauv ll, wae abandoned at sea on he Sth fnet., with 6% fees oi water inher bed Thee ew were nav « mer Cassau tr 1 New O-leana, re 6, forty miles from Cope Fear, page- wreck which resem deitieecdeots aiso saw ploces of wreck and several ich appearet to bave been in the water some t Fortr Momroe, Jan, 13.—The schooner Prd wo KR ky from Georgetown for New York, has pulin herewith ealecarre! away. Toe pr pel Joho Gibson, from Auuapolia tor New York arrvei bere disabed Sue will York, Ts ia reported thas ie Khirty miles north of Cape Heory to a disatl a iso rep ortvd (hat there i@ an un hear were lise and drifting oon Ly nc bburg out to see. San Franeao, Jan, 7 —The ship Free Trade, Driv water, which eailet for Koston ult. bas returned in distress and Jost moet of her sails, Boston, Jan i4.—The bark Fredonia, Capt Burke, arrived here today Faya! Bh reports January let, latitude 41, 50, longitude mm the 15th She sprung @ leak from be wowed to New | fell in with British ship Gratituie, Capt. Motto. | ther, from Liverpool, Nov, 19th, for Now ¥ elake condition; and, it being heavy weather, and the shiplaborng hard tn high aea, Capt, Burke Was reqiuesied to lav nd take off crew and pass uaerm t) Which consonte! the #hip compriset emi ant passengers, var to rough weather, the process of transferrin: ao erve a numberof people from ove Vease! to another Waa not completed until! the 84, three dave from thet MW feltlag io with the wreck; but they Were all fnal’y resened and brought te this port Capt, Borke eyed great magnenmity on the oo aeon, snd bis conduct throughout was marked by kincness, Having got all hands off safely, it wael 1 impossible to stow away go many poo f, eon board the vessel, which wase all s.70d vark, but be courageously took naitet oft) row lag over aut! argo k @ root for thein, 1 vearly ali the » a bet ehaw ou 1 All ban # were the puton shortal . ae lhia own sores were getting low, andl 6s were saved from the ship Abuagry om erante, Fach person was al- !helfe pont ot water and ove lnecuit per which is ¢ ‘ nee the for We pa As boon ae the above facie beceme known, ater the bark telewra uel bevow thie port, @ steamer waa apatched tw tow her uj, and on bir arrival survivors wore placelin K Llell’s carriage ha 1 ther Lbhale Wonks ponervusly nuded w by the vmy thor. ves, Capt, M- Siother mak os the following statement: Left Liverpool Nov. Is, with 275 passengers ; heavy) gales vost oO be pantaye, Ortho vi Doceraber x crenced @ hurreane ; abonng very heey ot tus tiebs rung *® The passer cers Weregorueiod up Boine pubbo Work ob he pucnps ah) others discvary are ny | Wee my inteuuen te putimto Malifax, but the Fre- | dena Leaving we U8 the pansenye: eusel WO pump eny lomer | offer to pay 150 of hem daily woges they would may oo Gourd ema pump. Ween we sban oned the ship there was Whiee cot nud tile@ iucies of Water in bie hold, Loulsase | saya it was mistaken ine. | Low of the Steamer Mary Doardmaa— Pariber sartioulars The lowe ci Gus veesel, bound trom Morebead Ciy,N Cy to tite port, baw O eleready re miethe 80m. In the cold and Mitter frosts mday night, Sih inst, abe grounded on Ro ported ot mer shoals, where she lay oa Tuesiay morning, with the aes breaking over ber. Tweusy-three men and one woman were on board, to whom death eer med inevitable, and who would widoul 4 edly bave perished but ior the tim eesiatauce of Messe, Toor. Boguine and Bephen H. Jones, of theatre ma Lesne We wb the ito iveut risk of thel wh lives pushel out auids tlorceness of the weatier, in a row boa! two bourse hard pulling, during which they were » Wh inp ete!y encased in cethey succeeded in reach- tug the propellor, B ont and es thet bath toeu brougl t one hal senvers sal ly lwo the siaaner Chas, ¢ 4 whieh lay at @ short distance from the ieir boat became #0 clogged to Le rendero! unscless. Again W embarked in @ surfebost and a lifeboat of the Chamberlain's, with whteh they rescusd the remaining twelve persons, Captain Jourdan, of the Mary A. boaruman, preseated the e sign of his vessel, which bad been tytog with the Uuion down, & Pilot Segurne, as & mie mento of the termbie scenes he had so successfully passed through, No words can expross the grusi- tude that \6 due w pilots Sevuine and Jones, for their noble and self-sacritiing elforta to save the hves of all on board the Mary A, Boardman, Buch deeds of heroism as they performed ale sekiom rocorde:, and wey ceoorve uot nly the thanks aud praise of every true «nd good citizen, bur also the earnes', hearty aud War eppeuse of tue Humace Biel) of the word, The Weather. Buffalo, N. ¥4 Jan, 14.—Weather very cold. There was ae light ell of snow last nibs Poughke:paie, N. ¥, Jan, 14 —The weather te very cold, The mercury fell teu degress in three hours this afiernoo, and stoud 0 degrees above zeroatd P.M, Phiadelphis, Jan, 14.—The weather has aud- denly become much colder here, the meroury fall- ing from 10 to 15 degrees, The ety is clear, with oN. W, wind New Brunawick, N. J, Jan 14,-The weat vis getting very cold, Sharp wind from the Nurth, Thermometer 6 degrees above zoro, me! jee NEW YORK STATE LE Senate, Albany, Jan, 13.—Mr. Lebau pave notice of a Inlite extend the time jor the Coupletionof the Boutheide Bailroad on Long Island, Mr. Piats introduce! a till for the relef of the Platwbourg aud Montreal Kailroad Company, Mr, Collings introd.ced a bill to provide for the repair of the canals alter th: A£piration of re vair contracts, or When the repeir contracts shal! vecotmne forteited or deciared sbendoned, ‘The bill prow foe that the works aball not be relet by the nbracting Board, but shail be prosecuied by the Canal Commissioners, r. Le wnatroduced # bil! declaring the rt as Ww uve sof the poor ot sppiicable to the county of Richmond, Aujourned unul 7 o'clock on Monday evening, ‘ISLATURK, Assembly, The Becretary of Btase sent in @ communication 1) answer to @ resolution, REPORTS. Against printing copes of the Governor's moe ga.e in the Germon language, Axreed to, Print- ing extra copies of the report of tue Canal Com- iss) ners Which wae wzrved to. Mr Vandeniurgh ollered # resolution directing the Pruting Commitiwe & bave the public print- ing Cunsract placed on the files of (he House, which was @ lopied, BILLS INTRODUCED, For the relief of the Plattsburg and Montreal R, R,. Company, To amen: the charter of the Queens County 5.vings Bank, Also to ainend the charver of bie Bast New York anc Jamaies BR, B, Con pauy, To amend soe Excise law. CRDRBED TO A THIRD READING, To author Ze the city of Osweg to borrow money for the erection of # new academy building in Utica, Adjourned to eleven .'clock on Mandey moruing, ein | | anaon the ib | News item, Py Telegraph t tie New York Sun.) Trea te moch excitement in Nw Zealand, The tinued Ornate have been receiert at Fortress Monroe, f© muater out all the rolunteers in that depart Mont. Tie Adjutant General of Missiasippt has re voked the order to disarm the peyroea, the appre hended danger having passed over, AT @ joint doation of the Lowa Legislature, on Friday, Samuel J. Kirkwood was elected U. 8, Senator for the short term, aud James Harlen for the long term, Tite Collvctor of Internal Revenne at Louisville Ky., bas seized another lot of one hundred and twenty-cigbt thousand with counterfett Government stanipa on the boxes. A ptsraton from Beatie British Columbia says A proposition will soon be mulmitted by the Gk eromment to open steam communication between Victoria and Ban Fri \. Gov. Curns of Pa, ts expecte!l to leave Mav- inat.,, for New York, Ha health bas Improved, and bia alarming symp- toms have alos! entirely disappeared. Tne steamship Colorado, with passengers and mails, froin New York Doe, “lat, arrived at She reports the death of RK. W Beott, late commanding the United States steamer Saginaw, at Acapulco, ou the Sth mat. of fever, ver gold Mecovertes wer in New Zealand com- satily San Franciaco, Tuk steamer Trenton, with one thousand beles of | cotton, waa burned on the Wachia river last Wed- powlay. The cargo wes inaured, but it ls believed the boat was not. Crew and passengers saved, Tus Mobile, Ala, Apverrte earns thatea bond of outlaws receutly captured the steamer Lilly, with one thousand bales of cotton, at Mclotosh Blut, lande| the passengers {n the woods and took the boat up the Tombighee Tas Motholiss Masonry Anniversary was ob- porved at Baltimore, yesterday, with appropriate services in al! the Mothalims churches, Bishops river | Ames, Janes, Kingsley and Simpson, and others, {% e adiresses. Secretary Harlan presided at the meeting in the Charles atreet chureh Ges. Soraipas, in reply to a letter in the rebel orwan of dieting the United Sistes official reporta of the rebel forces and losses in the Blonenhoah Valloy, haa published a letter in the New Orleans Camsoxnt, showing that he captured as prisoners more men than Early states to havo been bis entire force, Tur Ne reska Legislature has orgauized at Ovaha The messave of the Governor favore the organization of @ Bite government, the vigorous Prosecution of the Indian war, and recommends e law for the regisiration of voters, He also recom mendes # geological survey of the Territory, and the organwation of an Eralyratiou Dureau, with an agency in New York, New York city, from Gen, Early, oontra- General Intelligence. (By Mail te the New York Sun} Avrima Parrt, the operatic artiste, receives 1,000 a night for her performances in London, lun. Virginia epinstere com: tain that th unmarried wen let are all captured by the wid own, Awnarsanors from Morocco have arrived in Paris They bring as presenta to the Emperor mx maguificens horses, aud @ tiver of rare beauty, Tue quarantine which was established on the Roman frontiers on aceount of the cholera has been abolished An old soldier named Coignet, who was the frat to tear the title of Kuight of the Legion of Honor, has Just died at Auxerre, France, aged 91, A pisre rose lately in Hid Gietboroag (Eng) between the |ron workers and their employes, by which 1,400 men were thrown out of work, Buca is the lack of house room in Atlenta, Ga. that hundreds are living in tents, and they can's even get enough of that uncertain sbelter, Tur first meeting of the New York Temper- ance Society, under its new organization, will be beld as Rochester, on the 1ish and 18th of this month, Tan oldest clergyman in Boston is Father Cleve- land, in his 04th year ; #ti!! active in the duties of bis charitable profession, He was an office holder under Washington, Tne War Department bes received and ac- ed tLe resi, nation of Major-General Barnum, has been elected Prisom Inspector of the B.ate of New York, Tue London Reoorp—the organ of the Evangeli- eal party in the Church of Kng!and—laments the spreading influence of German rational ism among the junior members of the Buglieh royal family, Taw Catholic Patriarch of Abyssinia haa ad- dressed # memoria! to the Ewperor Napoleon, setting forth the grievances of the Catholics in thatcountry, and praying for the interveution of France. Tus suspected Adams E partial hearing on Wedn rt were recommitted in « ult Of $25,000 bail each, Theentire auount of treasure so far re- covered ta #245,000, Lonp Patwaueron's will shows him to have died worth #600,000, pearly all of which he leaves to bis widow, and upon her death it gocs to her son, who ia to aemime the name of Temple, His letiers end papers be also leaves Ww bis wile, Ov the 9,000 post offices m the Southern States, about 2,000 have been reopened. Nearly 800 of those bave received postu istreases, because no man could be found who could take the oath that be bad not boroe arms against his country, Tbe ladies are able to take that oath. In the Supreme Court, ctreult, at Nowark, New Jersey, veruict of thrive thousaud dollars damages was given against the New Jersey Ke lroad Com- pany on Saturday in favor of Janos Tl, West, a boy who wae run Over end biinded by one of the defendants’ trains, A wumore of women tn Miastesippt have formed themselves into a * Ladias' Bouthern Aid Associa. tion," @ branch of which is to be established in each of tie late rebel Bieies, to raise es fund thas will place the wife and chiluren of Jetf Devis above the possibility of want or dependence, Mrs, Davis has written # letter expressing ber Williuguess to receive the mouey, At « place called Pont de !'Archetto, not far from Milan, ® young woman engaged to be mar- riod was recently seized in # field near home by two men, Who cub off her juxuriant bair with eo par of shears, after which they departed, saying, ‘Now, go and marry the man you have chosen," The act is supposod to bave Leen inspired by jeaiousy, Tas Plymouth, Mass, Smntimei, of the 12th inst, vrt# thas during the recent intense cold weather large numbers of the fish inhabiting the waters of Capo Cod Bay perished from cold myriads of wich, consisting of see Lease black cigara from New York | Thirty-Third Year. nn fish, lobwters, ete. waahed arhore in thet local: strewing the cosat for miles aroond with ee frozen carcages Instances of this charactor are ox- coedingly rare, even on thie bleak coast A srriot military watch ts ke on the vi mente of a!) vemsela arriving at oe dapantetie ows Fortress Monroe, ramors of a plot to rescue Jef Davie having been freely circulate, A wear tug with solulers Bightly patrols the waters of the harbor, aud passes to the fortare more cl wmely ex- amined ber a formerly, baving to undergo the scrutiny of two sets of seniries instead of one, Jets bealth continues good, bs LOCAL NEWS, NEW YORK AND THE VICINITY. From suNsmine and thaw, and from slash and mud, we have again come to tee and skating. On Saturday the weather was comparatively fine, wit the thermometer at from 40 to 60, but the wreete were in a terrible condition of splash and disorder, The skating ponds had been closed for | two or three days, and lovers of the epert began fo grumble After midnight, however, « per ceptil le change was fel', and when the aun rose yesterday morning the mercury had fallen severe! dexrees, and @ sharp frost set in, which continued to increase in insenaity during the day until eight o'clock last evening, when the mercury stood at 19'y, and as midnight 1s was 4 degrees lower, The ponds at Coutral Park and Fifth avenue were bot opened yesterday, however, as the oe was not considered in good con jlition, but several of the smaller fry, on sunken lota de, were visited by hundreds of both sexes, The Fifth Avenue Pond was floated over last night, and will no doubt be in excellent skating order to-day, should the cold snap continue, Iu the meantime the cold weather had ite eff ct on the poor, aud beggars by the score appeared en the streets asking for help to buy coal, which sells in corner groceries at from sixteen to eigbtoen cents per pall, How strange it seers that persons who cannot afford to buy a ton of coal at $12 pay about $20 per tom by the pail-full low i THe River.—Large quantities of floating tee came down the North river yesterday's ebb, Alling both rivers almost from shore to shore, portions of which waa very heavy, and making navigation somewhat dificult, No damage how- ever, bas been done. Tus Fenian Dirricunry—A New Arrin ov Dinwoonn,— Within « few daye past, letters have been published, purporting to bave been written by James Stephens—the Mead Centre of the Trish Revolutionary Brotherhoo!—in which the Untoo Bquare factions are sustained and the Senate in- contivently thrown overboard The latter body proclaim the «aid letters two be i- pudent forgeries, and at present the discussion on this enbject fe attracting much at tention among Fenians. The letters, which are sail to have been written by Stephens, bear little or no evidence thet that distinguished and Patriotic Irishman ever bad a hand in their com- position, The Senators, and others who denounces the Union Bquare party, declare that these docu- ments are e * weak invention of the enemy," and that in good tine James Stephens will write or speak to the people tn words thaé cannot fail to any to the troubled waters of Fenianism, ** Peace, be #till.” Until then they propose to ‘watch and wait’ Taw Case or Mrs. Ginnor—Cornonrr’s Inquest, On Saturday Coroner Gover comm uc 4 an inquest on the body @ Mre. Aun G.lroy, who ue doath waa alleged to have been caused by neglect on board the emigrant ship Neptune, after her confinement, Jobn Beach, M.D, testified as fal~ lows: Thursday, January 11, 1966, about eleven A.M, T examined the condition of Mary A. Uilroy, then lying ine berth in the tasin cubiu of the ship Neptune ; she was sensible and able to converse intelligently ; she was very much prostrated, aud her pulse feeble; she bad frequent attacks of retching ; her lower extremitioa, « little below the knees, were of a livid color, and of a very low tperemurs ¢ sonsibility there seemed to be en- tirely suspended ; her nose waa of the avme trys hue; and about two P.M. Texas c! . egein, end found it be omng weaker, «) my opinion to Coroner Gover that she wold live twenty-four hours; twelve hoursa 6. 8 a Imadee rmortem @Xuminalon ss (© oo + and found it well nourished ; the lower oxr a thes and nose prosented the maine dark lueus vi T sew them during life ; the difference of bus « ture below and above the knees was ese... well marked, All the internal orguns wer « relly examined and found healthy. ws w « jon death reeulied by exposure for waut vi | care and attention, A number of other witnesses were exam ue! who corroborated the facts bervtolore publ vue, after which the inquest was adjouiwed uutil iio morning a6 10 A.M. As Esquimaux DoG,—One of these inyeli- gent animals, brought from the Arctic regicus | Mr, Hall, will arrive in thie city ou Tuesdey, on i can then be seon at No, 91 Nassau stree—it |, the purpose of hie owner to sell him tw the Lily tidder, The quadruped alluded to ja neue: “Kane,"* afier the celobrated and lamented plorer, who #o enthuslassioaily praised these a) mals for thei many canine excellencies, iu specimen in question tea fine, large, full blow! fellow, am excellent watch dog, and exceed): valuable, Flarnessed to # miniature sled or waco. thie dog “Kane” is powerful enough to draw a good-sized child, old enough to drive him, throu,!, the city or sround Central Park. Evan F, Purpy,—On Saturday mornioy the members of the Board of Bupervisors aud 11, heads of the departments of the city goverumuns assembled tn the Govermor's Hoom, Oity Hall, u. y tho last tribute of respect to the memory ‘ijeb FH. Purdy, Rev, Mr Price read the bur « service of the Episcopal Church, after which : relatives aud friends of the deceased took the last look a8 tho face of the dead, ani the li w 4 piseed upon the cothn preparatory to ite rew.y.. he body was thea carried the hearse in wu. ing, end tence borne to the rail road dep. Twenty seventh street, to be taken to Whiw Pia. Cowetory. where us was interred, Tus Ark We Burarus,—Prof, Chandler, of Columbia College, on Saturday evening delivered 8 lecture to « large and attentive audience of work ing men and women en the above subject. He opened by stating the speculations of the ancients for 5,000 years on the properties and char- acteristics of the atmosphere, They failed w un- derstand tte nature for want of experiment, Ny (Comtinned en the fast age) o c