The Sun (New York) Newspaper, January 18, 1866, Page 1

J » » ” - - J < . . J - » . THE SUN. Number 10,4538, The Latest News By Telegraph to the N. ¥. San, —— FROM WASHINGTON. THE REGULAR ARMY, How It Is Composed, PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING. $1,731,565 Exponded in One Year PROCEEDINGS IN CONGRESS. Affairs en the Rie Grande. A CALL FOR INFORMATION. Provisional Governor Question, SPEECH OF SENATOR DOOLITTLE. Sensation, Another Mexican Bagdad Attacked by a Party from Texas, SURRENDER OF THE IMPERALISTS, The Place Sacked. French Man-of-War Opening Fire &e., doc. Wasiinotos, Jan. 17 ‘When the recent mnefering out orders are ful- Glled, thore will be left in the service twenty-rix Major-Gonerale and forty-nine Lrigadier-Geverals. The bigheet tn rank in the Keguiar Army aso ne follows Lieutenant-(ieneral Ciraut; Generals Halleck, Sherman, Meade, Sheridan and Thomas. The Brigadier-Vienerals are Irvin McDowell, William 8. Rosecranz, uillp St. George Cooke, Fobn Pope, Joseph Hooker, Wo 8. Hancock, Jobo M. Schofield, O. 0, HowardJA. H. Terry, and J. A Bewlins, The total number of officers and men ip Abe Regular Army is 1,124 officers, and 25,1¥5 men — On aggrogete of 94.919. All the reviments except eo Beventeenth are assigned to military depart- Mente, and as fast as recruits are received the @rganized companies are formod aud put en routs @r places of service, About 4,000 per mouth are Being enlisted. The delegation from the North American British Provinces, who are here for the purpose of securing, @ possible, an extension of the Keciprocity Treaty, @ecompanied by Kecretary McCulloch, called on the President to-day and paid their respects, It appears from the report of the Superintendent of @ablic Printing that the net cost of the public Orinting and binding for the year ending Sept. 30th, taot, was $1,721,565, The report shows « large sav- Qyg fe printing and binding, over the contract “ve @em which existed previously to the establishment of the Government Printing Bureau. The man's name who last week attempted the Qesassination of Benetor Wade at Washington, is Fleming, and he hes been employed during the last Gree years inthe Brooklyn and Charlestown Navy yards, After leaving Senator Wado, Fleming called @n Senator Wilson, for the same purpose, namely : to et & recommendation for employment in one of the Navy yaras, It is not believed now that he intended 0 asenssinate Mr, Wade, but that his conduct on this eccasion was an explosion of temper, asual with him @o meeting with a rebufl—that Le ts harmless, but father demonstravve. The forty.ninth annual meeting of the American Colonization Society was beld inst night. It was not oo largely attended as the meetings have {been for several years past, but a number} of the old and time honored leaders were among the auditors. The Gnances were reported to be in fair condition, The ®@umber of emigrants to Liberia during the past 12 Moaths was 627, exceeding the emigration of any yearaince 1850. The prospects for the future are that the society will soon have more than ever to do, as intelligent freedmen are continually asking Qnestions relative w the transfer to Liberia. The African Kepublic has been making steady progress tm material interests, usefulness and influence, Commodore Winslow, the principal witness against @ommes, has arrived in Washington from New Orleans, and the trinl will take place a4 soon as the @ecertary deiaii of officers for the court martial can be aesigned. The Internal Reveoue Burenu bas information which leads to the belief that counterfeit revenue Stamps are being ealeusively mapufuctured some. wherein the West, The Joint Committee of Fifteen on Recenstruction fommenced the excmivation of witnesses this @oruing. “= Mexico. Avother Batch of Exciting Reports. Few Orleana, Jan, 10.—The Matamoros Rancurro @f she Sib instant contains the following highly im- pPertant and exciting intelligence: Several officers and men crossed from Clarkerille, Texas, and took up quarters apparently for the night. Bhortly after midnight the guards at the ferry along the rivor were surprised and disarmed by this party. Boch lighters as wore at hand were immediately seized, and with them the party crossed the military force at Clarksville, about one hundred strong,mostly composed of negroes, and entered Bardad, The imperial garrivon in Bagdad, about one hundred and seventy-five, was complotely surprised and captured, The commander of the post and the captain of the post were taken prisoners, while in bed. Itis reported from Leliia that the latter escaped. The attacking party tnmediately upon capturing the town began @ system of plunder and pillage. The warehouses were gutted and their contents crowed over to the American side ot the river, The Imperial gunboat Antenio was called pon to rurrender, but she answered with a broad- side, which for a time senttered the invaders, A second demand for the surrender of the gunboat was subsequently made, which was answered in a similar manner, The Antonio, at the tline, wes on her way upthe river. Au Austrian sergeant on board of her waakilled, At daylight the French men-of-war in the harbor opened fire .pon the Liberals, compelling them to take refuge in the upper part of the town. ‘The last accounts stated that the Liberals still held (Re town. The deaths reported on each side are 81. By oad thas Lhe Linennis ama stmmmended ber — | General Reed. General Crewfort hed started from Brownsville for the scene of action. The Inet ac- counts say that thirteen bondred Imperialists bave left Matamoros to attack the Liberals, ANOTHER ACOOUNT New Orlewna, Jan. 16.—Intelligence ts just re eclved that four hundred filibusters, under the com- mand of Gen. Read, crossed the Rio Grande from the Amertean side, and captured Bagdad.on the Mexican side, below Matamoros, taking prisoners the Imperial garrison, numbering ebout one hundred and seventy~ five men, TUR rurNoH LLIN BACK. New Orleana, Jan. 17.A citizen arrived at San Avtonio, Texas, on the S34 inst, afters ten days trip from Monterey and Saltillo, He gave the In formation that the French troops had fallen back to San Lais de Fotos. CONGRESSIONAL PROCERDINGS Thirty-Ninth fessien, BENATE. Washington, Jan. 17.—The Chatr lala before the Senate the credentials of William A. Graham, Son- stor-clect from North Carolina, which were ordered to lie upon the table Mr. Bumner offered the petition of nine mon he troops in the late war, asking (or an allowauce of $25 bounty. Mr. Sumnor presented a remonstrance against the arming of the militia in Alabama, which is stated to have been done for the purpose of repressing disor dere among the colored people. The remonstrance alloges that there is no danger of such disorders, it was reterred to the special Committee of Fifteen Mr. Trumbull, from the Committee on the Jucicta- fy, aaked that that Committee be discharged from forther consideration of the petition of colored eiti- zoos of Colorado againat the admission of Colorado ase State nntil the word “white” is atricken from its Conastitntion. Tne petition was, on motion, re ferred to the Committee on Territories, Mr, Chandler offered a reslution calling upon the Prosident of the United Btates for any {aformation he may have roceived from the Commander of the Deparunent of Texas in reeard to affaires on the Southeastern border, and ff there have beeu any ticns of neutrality en the part of the army oc- upylug the right k of the Rio Grande Mr. Wilron callie! up the bill to increase and fir the military peace ertablichment of the United The substiture, of the Milltary Committee, for the original bill was read Mr. Sherman called Mr. Wileon's attention to the vi Biates 4th Fection, which he raid secrmed to require thas officers for colored troops eheuid | 6 selected from men who have eerved two) care in colored rogimente, Mr Wilcon ertd euch) wee not the meaning; it wee meant only to rejuire (#0 veare service In the aimy, and during some of that time service in colored reaimenta On motiou of Mr. Wileon, farther consideration of this subject wae postponed. Mr, Doolittle moved that the Senate proceed to the consideration of the resolution recently offered by Mr. Howe, for the establiis!ment of provisional governments in the lc oy recoded Btates, The motion prevailed, aud the resolution was read, Mr. Doolittle addressee ' (Le Fenate at loneth, assy ing, in the eourse of hile remerke— lwo political ideas, ralleally falee, however, broucht on thie civil war, whieh hascort the nation more than halfa million lives and untold millicns of treasure. First. that States hada right tovece lo. fecond, that alavery is atblessng, The sur of \aese two ideas by the South ia now the basis of permanent peace. Is it of no practical importance hether eleven States, with their ten millions of people, shall be taxed and governed without representation ? With less than one third of that nuwher of people, our fore- fathers, because the Parliament of vireat Britain, in which they had no representation, passed laws to tax them, declared the independence of these States, Ie it of no practical importance whether these eleven Riates and ton millions of people shall govern them- selves under @ republican tory State Government subject only to the Constitution of the United States? or whether they ahall be heid as marian vaasala, to be governed for an indefinite period by the unlimited will of Coneress or by the aword? These and many other questions are involved in this disenasion. We must stand upon one side supporting the Lincoln and Johnson polfey of maintaining the Union of the States ander the Const! tution to be unbroken, or we must take our stand with the Senator trom Maasschu- settsupon the other and maintain that the Union ie broken, that secession is a success and not a feilure, eo far ot least, as to withdraw eleven States from the lulon or reduce eleven Btates to the territorial condition, Next to the great work of eruahing tho military power of the rebellion the policy reconstruction wos dearer to Mr. Lincoln, and more cherished by him than anyother, No sooner had the burden of Dis soul been lifted—no sooner had he seen the sur render of the great army of the rebellion, than in the fullness and giadness of his soul he made haste to give to the ple his views on the great theme of reconstruction, | polley has Leen fully entered upon,andin some es the work was really done. Mr, Johnson had himeelf been long eneaged in that work in aiding Mr. Lincoln to realize it in Tennesse be- sides the @ouvention at baltimore bad sustained it. The great Union party which re-elected Mr, {peel as President, and made Mr. Johnson fice President, had endorsed it and sustained it triumphantly at the election, Mr. Johuson coula not abaudon it without reversing the policy of Mr, Lin- col ‘That policy was advised by every member of binet, including, as | have stated, among other nawes, the very distinguished names of Mr Seward, Mr, Stanton and Mr. W im sell members of the Cabinet, and of Mr. Chase, Chief Justice, » bo, just from the presence of the dying President, adminis: tered to Mr. Johnson the high oath of office. How could he recall that last speech and look upon the dead body of bis predecessor ? how could he look in the face of the Chief Justice as he swore bin into office, and of those men in the Cabinet, allof whom had epproved every part and parcel of that policy and upon whom alome he could then rely tor counsel and Os i ¢-4 in the most trying and difficuls erisis rough which apy man was ever called to pass, Now, | repeat, could he look upen all these surroundings and then deliberately abandon the cherished policy of Mr, Lincolu's administration, trampie upon she advice of the old members of his cabinet as well ae the Chief Justice bimeelf, abandon his well Known convictions of duty, falsify bis own record and betray the reat Union party which nominated and elected him, in the contingency which had happened, to be President of the United States? Had he done #0, the whole country would have cried out against bim, aod with reason Io and out of Congress men might b. denounced him tor betraying tle public conti ce wud enpeciaily traying soe parly which elected him, therefore, a8 Dot worthy of consideration, the « is sometimes made—thes Mr. Johnson, while adhering to this policy of reconstruction, is ready to betray the Union cauro, Now, where are these eleven States, aud where is their situation? And first, Where are t ? in this Union, under the Constitution, or pot’ That they were once in this Lnion all concede, Ifthey have gone out trom this Union, it must bave Leen by one or more of three ways: lst, by the way of peacetul secession, by votin, ber resolving themselves out; or ud, by success! revolution, by fighting & y out te a successiul independence; or Ud, they been put out by act of Congress, Strong men of the Bouth have main- tained that the right of peacetul secorsion was always open to them, it wae aiwaye, however, denied in this body. The people of the South, then, tried the second way, the way of revolution—to out their way out with thesword But did they succeed f Ne! thanks to Almighty God who rules the Luiverse | Mr, Doolittle said it remained to consider the ouly other way, the third way, which, for brevity he would eall the “Sumner way, for States to go out of the Union, mamely, by act of Congress, Mr, Lvuolit- te then showed the Bouthern States to Le lu the Union under the Constitution, The State be said no more consists of ite torm of government than a man eonusists of the garment with which he is clothed, He may change thatevery day. He may be stripped of any garment whatever but still the wan remaius, oud fors Btate w change its form, or forthe t im being to be stripped of ail turm of goverumeant, can Ro more destroy ste existence than is @ man destioyed wheu be takes off one coat to puton another, or is atripped entirely of Lis garments, Nor is @ state destroyed by the declaration of martial law iu iy por by wer unless couquered by es foreign pexer or dismembered Ly varorn 2 PO Da OR ed NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUAR be torn by civil war and even be drenched in fraternal blood, does not di it either, unless the final issue of armre shall be acainet {t. Mr Toolittle the considered the most important and just at this & perk most practical question, - ity hat were powers and duties im in closing the war cia makin ace, which of necessity must precede Sisban ling ofthe army; what terms, he asked, had the President a right to demand of the States or of their prop s conditions precedent to d the withdrawal of the army? First, and and as the basis of all, anqualified « Constitution of the United states, Congress passed in pursuance the amending of acts, laws and proceed the States made of prosecuted were againes the Lnited States, Including the rebel States. Third, acquiescence in the situation which the war hae brought wpon them, including the abolition of slavery, for and on account of which they made the war; for the sincerity of such acquicscence, aud as the em- Premo test of its good faith, the adoption of the constitutional amendinent, by which slavery, the cause of the war.ie surrendered and made impossible and liberty made eure by being placed under the uardianship of Congress in every State and territory Seevers the practical resumption of their pelitical duties upon those terms as Btatos in the Union, Theee are the conditions {n substance, which Mr, Lincoln, three years ago, announced to the people of these Kiatesas the terme of pacitication. These are the substance of the terme offered by President Johineon to admit. thereiore, either the right of Btates to secede or the power of Concress to expel them, weuld be to admit inte our aystem @ nciple of selt-de- struction wholly at war with @ pe Union, There are thirty-six « in under the Gen that thirty-six estates con- stitute the great bi ewhich the world calle the Laited States of Amer Upow that iino aud under that flag we began the great carmpaign, aud now, (iad helping me, I will coutinue to fight it ous on that line and under that ting to the ond, whoevor vise tay abandon it, Adjourned HOUSE OF REVPKESENTATIVES Mr. Hsing presented the credentials of John N. Goodwin, delegate from the Territory of Arizona, who was qnalified and took bie seat, Mr. Arhiey, of Oblo, presented tho petition of Mr Pos.on, coutest- ing that seat Mr. Sehenck offered a resolution, and asked imme- diate action ou it, reques the Secretary of War to *u ud the sale of Government built nd other P rty at Point Lootout, Md, He explained that Polnt Lookout war a point of land on the Marviand side, where the Pote Kiver flows into the Chreaa- peaks Bay, There w ree or four hundred acres, on which were potidiugs. p evious to the war, oceu- pled fo connection with that watering piace, During the war, these oulldings were taken for hospital puar- p tes ond the Government established there a depot orp leonora, The buildings were worth only a com. prratively emall eam ; but the Government expended perhape lf wo tor the construction of other build. sand improvements, Ihe Secretary of War had the sale of this property and furniture to take place to-morrow. Lo the meantime, @ patriotic indy had secured the title to the realestate and propored to present it oa a donation to the National Miltary and Naval Asylum, e@ @ home for soldiers and ealiors, provided the Govern will also give its proporty tothe same Asylum The subject only came letore the Comrulttee on Military Affaire t morning ; and as time wae desired to further iuvesti- gate the eul ject, the above rerolution was tutroduced, The resolution was thon agreed to, Tho liouse resumed the coasideration of the bill to incorporate the National Protective Liome Com- wivertised pany. Mr. Raker, of fl,, onght not t I e his reasons why the bill id it created what purported natitution with the p ot five y money received ae ch the invested in in the corporators, The bill conferred an and exclusive privilege on a emall number of pe: who might convey land without liuitation, He doubted the constitutional power to grant such privi- leges On motion of Mr. Finck the bill was laid on the table, by a vote of 120 yeas against 52 nays, ‘The House resumed the consideration of tho bill te extend suffrage in the District of Columbia by atrik- ing from all laws and ordinances om the subject the word “white.” Mr, Darling, of N. Y , eaid if he knew himself ther war no unjust or manly prejudice which warped his ju ut or controded bis action on any matter ot Le tion affecting the colored race upon this continent, He believed in their equality of rights before the law with the dominant race. fle believed in their right to life, Libert, ithe pursuit of nap- piness, and yet he believed fore they conferred upon them the political right of suffrage ae contem- piaved by the bill under consideration Whey should seek io elevate their « 1 condition and Iift them up from the depthe of d ation and ignorance in which many of them by eceding waves of the sea of rebellion, There were ny objections to conferring upon the colored men of this District, the eift of unqnalitied suffrage, The preponderence which they possess numerically would inevitably lead to mischevious resulis without education, Make education @ qualification not property and they would vote Yatelltgently He would not dis- regaid entirely tue voice of the District many volers of which are rong Union men, There was propusition betore the lMoure to create a com- mission tor the government of this city, and in order to give eo opportunity of waturing @ bill for thas ui pose, aud p.eseuting it to the couelderation of the Hioure. he moved that the mensure now under dis- guagon Le postpoued uutil the firet Tuesday in April, Nar, Hale addressed tho House tn favor of extend- ing the euffrage to all, without regard to rece or color, who can read the Constitution of the United Bt $ to those who are assessed for and pay taxes ou re reonal property ; to thore who have served ia and 4 bovorably discharged trom the military and naval service of the United Stat d to exclude from the rigut of suffrage thoee who Lave borne arme against the United S ates iu the late rebellion, or given to it ald aud comfort, Me said, as ke under- stood the terms, there was no conflict between what was called radicalism and conrervutism, If to move all thatw rong and prejudicial to our sys- tem just as tort due revard to public interests to bw aradical, If it a to pre: ¢ iu tull force and effect all th asgood and excellent in our preseut * tem, then he clauned to be @ conservative. ie denied that thie is exclusively a white man's gov- erument. It was founded in behalf of man, without regard to race or color, r. Thayer sald, in bis remarks, to pass thie bill was clearly within the scope of Constitutional power, Mr. Van Horn, of New York, said he would allow the colored men who during the war had shown their capacity to secure liberty aud permanently establish ig @ chance W vindicate themselves beiore the world, He argued in tevor of liopartial suffrage in the District of Columbia, remarking in thls connection that the blacks had been consistently joya:, and that, if it depended on the white citizens, slavery would have been tn existen:¢ as the present day, Mr, Kaymoud, of New \ ork,presented the memorial ef the New York Chamber of Commerce in relation to the French Exposition, whicu was rolecred,— Adjourned, FROM MAVANA, Disastrous Earthaanke in Mexice—A lave Question to ttavana—Cholera om Beard a Spanish Ship, Lic. (Correspondence of the Sun.) Havana, Jan, 15.—The steamship Manhattan er rived yesterday fro Vera Cruz, and sailed again this morning for New York, butwas obliged to put back again from rome accident to ber machinery, An earthquake was felt at Vera Cruz on the Sd, at 6.% P. M., bat no damage was dene, The effect in the foterior of Mexico, however, was more serious, and ip Origava, Malireda, and other places cousider- able damage aud loss of life is reported, Another railway across the Isthmus of Tehuante- pec is projected, The Captain-General of Cuba ts still at variance with the Aadieveia (or Buprewe Court), The latter @chort tine since ordered six hundred slaves, from the eatate of the famous Zulueta, to be brought be fore it, ou the plow that they were tree. Zulueta applied to General lmuice for ald, and the latter couutermanded the ordersof the tribunal, ‘This, in ite turn, protested, and informed the Captain General that its powers and his were different, and that be bad no autbority for interfering in the r. The affair hast fx Disteresonutoag with Zulia ces SP and . BLL then siont Comme Onin a artd hu a Y 18, 1866. on the lith. Considerable excitement was occasioned by her being placed im quarantine and then released ; end now it is reported she is again to be placed under iwill be dy Se rr 1 the Hevana papers have ent on the sulyect, has been quite cold for the past fortnight, strong therly ind, Be feral coa*iing v bee eked, an y others have put in here distress. smong which was the ‘ Hritieh bri« Meulings, from Uslveston tor with cotton, New Jersey and the Amendment. Trenton, 8. J Jan, 17.~The jolut resctution te favor of the Constitutional Amendment, pasacd the House of Assembly to-day by a vote of 42 to 10 NEW YORK STATE LEGISLATURE, Senate, Albany, Jan. 17 —Bitis Revorren Pavonanty To amend the act for widening South Keventh Street, Mrooklvn To alter the Coumissionors Map of the Ninth Ward of Brooklyn, Bits Noticrp, — To equalize the bounties to volunteer For @ railroad under roadway, New York. Incorporating the Board of Truatece of the General Convention of Univer eof the United States Hints Ietnopvorp.To amend the act relative to contracta by the Mayor and Conimenalty of N ork, by striking out the word serting the word “Mayor.” lrovid: of two thirds of each Board of Kr veorte reyuisite to the equalization of assessmonts correction of assessment rollin, Brivis Pasaxp. Amending the Metropolitan Police Act. Limiting fees and compensation of Jneticrs and Constables in Kic nd county, Providing sor the erection of a now Academy in Utica, The bill amending the net creating the department of Public Charities and Correction was taken up ia Committos of the Whole, Mr. Low moved to the Board of supe Corn issioners of Ch: Mr. Lent opposed the mo giving (hie power to the su qualified tojudgee. He dd thas h W lnerense the ealarion of the Comin inal proposed bo FBG, whieb be did not cousider excessive in view of their arduous duties tt me al insisted that the salary should be fired tn we bill, Mr. H.C. Murphy opposed the motion because the question ie a purely iocal one, affecting only the einens, aod which ought to be loit tor decision to them and their yepresentatives bere asking tor it, and certainiy the Hoard of Supervirore is as sale « depository for the power ea the Legisiature can be ! pervisors of New York are as worthy of trust Supervisors o. other countion, and all that die thatas iiuch eoutideuce thall be placed in them, Mr Folger co jod the tea that every interfer- ence by thie I ture with the affairs of the city ot New York t ef away by so much the right of local self government in that city Alter further debate progress aa reported, and ihe Seuate adjouraed. Assembly, A resolution waa introduced to furn'sh fortr coptes of the Red Book to each member of the House, aud to the clerks; also five copies to each officer and reporter, Mr. Krown moved to etrike ont forty end insert one, Lost by a vote of 26 wos. Th subion bo furnish forty copies was tuen aaopied by ® voiw of 16 Nortors.-To extend the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace. lo iucorporate the Producers’ Warehouse Guaran- tee and Commission Co, of New York Mr. Maunier To tneotporate tho Long Island Bouth Side Sportetman's Club, Bitte Israopucen,To limat the Mability of lunkeepers, To incorporate the Brooklyn and New York Ware- house Company, To allow persona to testify in their own behalf. Also, relative to the Courts of Special Heseious 1 New York, Kelative to Police Courts in New York city. Motions AND Kesolutions.—Mr D te Wood called up the resolution that ali revolutions relating to national affairs be referred to the Commiiieo va Federal Kelations, Adopted. Mr. Bald offered a bili appointing a committee of five w examine into aud report upon the affairs of the N. Y, Gentral Raliroad, This giviog riso toe debate, the subject was laid over, uuder the rulo Adjournea, News items, By Telezraph te the New York sww.; Tr te stated that a grand Fenian Convention will be held im Buffalo, N. Y. om the first of February next, Tus steamer Richmond is now being loaded, at Nashville, Tenn. with cotton for New Orleans, being the first shipment made to that port, Tux House of Delegates of Maryland yesterday passed resolutions endorsing General Grant's re- cent letter, opposing the withdrawal of Federal treops from late imsurrectionary districts, and opposing the arming of militia in those States, Tas finding and sentence of the Court Martial at Nashville, Teon., in the case of the four murderers of Win, Heffernan, bas been approved, They are to be publicly hanged at or near that city, on Fri- day, Jan. 26th, Ail of the condemned were gov- ernment employes, A Nasnvitta, Tenn, dispatch seye that during the debate on the bill granting civil rights to ne- groes in the House yesterday, e flerce altercation took place between Messrs, Steel and Arne!!. The Ne was given and returned, The House adjourned ln great confusion. Tam P.jladelphia Fenians held » meeting, on Tuesday, to receive the report of their delegutes to the New York Congress. They passed resolutions supporting O'Mahony and Killian, and expressing confidence that their cause will soon be brought to ® successful issue, Tux New York 8'ato Temperance Society eom- menced {ts first annual session in Rochester, N.Y. yesterday, at the First Baptists Church, Vice Presi- dent Samuel Harris, of Catskill, in the chair. J. C. Gallup, of Oneida county, was chosen Secretary, Sessions wil! be held three times each day, Abous sixty delogates are present. General Intelligence, (By Mati to the New Yerk Sun} Forty thousand tons of ice have been cut and peeked in Bt, Louls, Mo, withia the past two weeks, Canranrens ere getting $12 per hour for repatr- ing damages to the bosts injured Ly the ke at St. Louls, ‘Tan Fenj ta prison in Dublin were each eup- plied with « substans al cake on Christmas day by Mrs, Biephena, wife of the e#caped Head Centre, Tue Faculty of the University of South Carolina, res.ivod lately that the national legal tender notes should be received as par in paymeut of the feos. A LARGr meeting of clergymen and others was held in Philadelpha, on Tuesday, to inauyurate measures fur the proper observance of the Ssbueth in thas city. Tus managers of the Boston Theatre wore lately fined fourteen thousand dollars for making false revenue returns, A portion of the flue was alter- Warde remitted, Tas insuguretion of a monument to Geo, Lyon, who fell early in the war, took place last Thursday ot Jefferson, Mo, Gov, Fi) » Gen, Boorman, Thirty-Third Year. — Dertme the preliminary examtnation of Joha Cooper who murdered his @imter some daye sine ot Conner’s Creek, Mich., « desperate “lynch” Peraoevm ts a sure thing in Tennessee, One day last week 270 barrels of crude oll were revei ved. at Nashville, and several hundred gellons were Waiting cooperage aud transportation at the wells. Dentro the prevalence of the late annular eclipse, an enthusiastic colored forlividual became xreatly elated. Breas do Lord,'' said be “ulge ger'a tae hab come at las—le's (reo, aud now we uwine to hab « black un.” A masrr pudding, which had been sot out to cool one morMing recently, in Boston, was taken to the atation-house by # policeman, on charge of sucking in the street practice which is not permitted in thas tidy late olty, Ex-Gunteaia Uuara, Pillow, Hood, Longstreet a ore riyerty lealere have been in Cineia- navi withia the pest five weeks, and engaged 1,600 white laborers and purchased 00U coven ploughe to work plantations in the South, Th loas of the Missiequol Bank at Sheldon, Vie by the clssppearance of the defaulting cashier, Habvell, ie stated at about 950,000. As directors are personally responsible, hie fat! . who te one of them, will lose every dollar he haa. H# personal eff the Bante ‘oots bave already been attached by Apviczs from the Dry Tortugas state thet Dr. Mudd, Spanghr aud O' Laughlin, the aseassination couspiratora, aro doing the most menial work aboutthe prison. Mudd ie figuring to reinstew hinelt inthe position he forwerly held in the hospital, from whieh he was removed for making Sh attempt at escape, A verter from @ date! Deceiw when nine have caten made to carry him off and rnor Morton, of Indiana, do written on ebf rom New York, ete utone meal on the voyage, and that was the evening | starved, and I am eo weak and: foots that Loan scarcely stand on my feet. The voyage baa done me uo good, aud my limbe are very much weaker,’* Ws. Gaatiam, of Nashua, Chicasaw County, Nl, has suddenly found bitoself worth 45,000,000, 16 comes {rots bis great qraudfather's estate in Scot~ fend, which waa sold many yeare ago, the pnoe bought having since accumulated in the Bank off Engend, Us bed peo, quarreled with his wie aid eon, and hes now wade a will cutting. then o'f without « abilling, The officers of the Eighteenth ILnots mens helt a meeting at Cainp Butler, D1, on the ‘natant, for the purpose of contributing means tor support of Jennie Irvin, an orphan girl, whose fathor, @ veteran soldier of the regiment, wee Killed while on bis way to Springfield, to be dis~ charved. The officers pledged themse:vee to * tect, educate and maintain” this child of the ragi- toent until he arrivoa at lawful age, from Stafford, Ct., goton @ apree im a night or twoago, and when taken to the station house their pockets produced one painiod trumpet, four painted toy houses, one coll, full dress, one doll's Lust—China,three papers ladies’ buttons, nine coarse combs, one old table kucfe, coarse linen thread one-half pound, three papers of ping, two toy books per covers, twe corvicopias —littlo ones, oue broken beart—sugary one old thimble. Tun following is the farewoll addrose of a Wed tern editor to bis reajers: “Ihe undersigned re- tires frou the editorial chair with complete convic- tion that all le vanity, From the hour he started bis paper to the present tine he has been solicited to Le upon every giveu subject, and eau't remem- ber ever having told @ wholesome truth withous diminishing bie subscription list, or makt sn enerny. Under these circumstances of tri sud baving @ thorough contempt for himeel, he retwee in order to recruit his morel conssitu- tion." Low of tho Schooner Mary and Adaline. The sehoouer Mary and Adaline, Davis, whiea sailed hence for Chincoteague Sth inst, in baliast, reporta: Beme night took a beavy gale from N. N. companied with enow storm, when the gale i w North, bipw ing fearfully: ay the mast, eplit rudderr head, stove a + alle, so badiy ae to make it ay e necessary to aban Tho M, and A. was 16 years old, of 102 tons, and was owned by A. ©, Haven of thiscity, Sappue LOCAL NEWS, NEW YORK AND THE VICINITY. “Ant Tugne Ornke INHABrrep Worips,” —A lecture was delivered last evening before the Young Meu's Christian Association at the Rooms, 161 Fifth evenue, corner 22d street, by Professor Henry Draper, of the New York University, on the above subject. The Room was crowded and scores went away unable to gain admission. The lecturer entered into a scientific analysis of the circumstan- ces and conditions required on our planet to sup- port life—euch as the existence of an atmosphere of water, food, &c. If these conditions exist on other Janets, anid Bo greater opposing circuinsan~ cos exist, these is strong presumptive evidence fand, of course there oan be no other at anges that otber planets are inhabited, Mercury Venus, he ‘lared, were too hot to support kind of life, Of the earth next in order to them «| were more or less informed, Mars which follows the earth in the solar system is fifty milluns of miles farther away from the sun than we are, Bnow spots are discovered upon it and other phe~. nomens such as occur On our earth, proving the: existence of air and weer which in their tura, prove the existence of vegetable life which here supports animal and human life. If, there'ore, the condition exists in Mars for supporting human life why should it not be inbabited? At presens telescopes do not reveal objects very distinctly, butin @ few years these difficultios may be over- come by scieuce, and we may then be able t speak. more tively on those things. The Protessur then alluded to the moon hoax which created sun ® sensation here some years 4 By weaue of electric light discovered by Prof. Clark, who was present with bis machine, a tiie stereoscopic view of the moon was given on cups vas, which added greatly to the interest of tuis pars of the lecture, and to the more intelligeus spprehension thereof by the audience. He showed that the dark spots, as seen by the naked eye and supposed to be water, were cavities of seve~ rel bundred miles ia wid bably volcanic, and conta no water, The white spots are rugged mountain projections, roloanio aleo, whict the telescope exbibite as ectively at work. As only one aside of the moon has ever ” the earth, we cannot tell whether the other side is inhabited or not, The conditions necessary for life may exist on thas portion of is which wo never #00, From the foregoing brief outline the interes\ing mature of the lecture may Le judged, The Press dont of the Association, however, announces that ements would probably be made with Pro~ pb gen er Py aa bia lecture at some uber time in @ larger ball, Doctor McGowen will leo« ture before the Association on Wednesday Ai ing, Jenaary Slut, Singing meetings are alters hailed with the lectures on Wednesday eveulugt and are free to all. Gerrisa Square witn Tum Mayor. —a stage river was arrested yesterday afternoon for obstructing Broadwey, in front of Winter Garden, with hie stage. Marshal Tappan, of the Mayora@ Court fined him @3, which be refused to pay. The case was referred to the Mayor, who confirmed the fiue, Thies made the man rave and swear otq@ good rete, and be told bis Honor be would “yay