The Sun (New York) Newspaper, February 5, 1866, Page 1

nl a Number The Latest News By Telegraph tothe N. ¥. San, FROM THE WEST. Another Terrible Catastrophe, Explosion of the Steamer Carter. FEARFUL LOSS OF A Tow Boat Also Blown Up. SEVERAL LIVES SACRIFICED, Later From Mexico. THE BAGDAD AFFAIR. THE SPANISH REVOLUTION. Proclamation of General Prim. Sinking of the Steamer Kill Von Kull. 100 Head of Cattle Drowned. THE 14TH STREET FIRE. 70 Horses Burned to Death. Pire and Explosion in Jersey City. &e., &e. TERRIBLE STEAMBOAT EX- PLOSIONS, Fearfal Lees ef Life. Pickaburo Feb. 2—The steamer W. R. Carter exploded ber boilers at three o'clock this morning, ®t Island No. 98. A large number of lives were lost, The boat and cargo are « total loss. The fol- lowing are Known to be lost: Mra. Dr. Richardson and three children, of New Orleans; Mrs. Gibbons, Mrs. Wolf, Mrs, Rice, of Cincinnati, Mre. Osterman, of Texas; Mre. Noose, Mra. Morris, of Colambus; and Mr. Howland. Many others were scaided and otherwise injured, The steamer Evening #tar brought many of the saved bere, Some were trane- ferred to the steamer Luna, bound for Memphis. The engineer wassaved, He says no cause can be as- signed for the explosion. The machinery was rnn- mmg smoothly, and the bost going slowly at the time, The steamer Emerald picked up three por- sons, whose names are unknown. Cincinnati, Fed. 4.—The steamer W. R. Carter, which exploded near Vicksburg on Friday, was com- manded by Capt. Hurd, brother to the captain of the steamer Missouri, Bhe belonged to the Mississippi Pteamebip Company, and was valued at about $100,- 000, Bhe isthe fiith boat of that line which has met with disaster, There was ap insurance of $77,000 on her cargo at Louisville. Explesion of a Tew-lieat at New Oricans ~Several Lives Lost. New Orleans, Feb. 3.—The tow-boas Baltic, lying et the foot of Custom House street, while starting out, this morning, blew up, and immediately sunk, Ouly 0 fow persons were on board, The Captain and engineer were killed, and two or three persons on the levee were killed by splinters. Several steam- Donte alongside were injured. The Captain and clerk of the Champion are reported badly burt. The Cause ef the Explosion of the Miami Cyneinnati, Fb. 4. An investigation ot the cante af the explosion of the steamer Miami, held at Mem- plus yesterday, shows that her first and second eng!- neers knew the boilers to be in a bad condition before ‘the boat left port. 7 Mexioo, The Bagdad A@air, re. New Orleans, Feb, 2.—The arrival of President Janrez at San Antonio, Texas, is again stated. (en, Weitzel bas written a letter to the Adjutant General ef the Department of Texas, reviewing at length the Protest of the merchants and forcign consuls at Mata- mores, He mekescounter charges, and asserts that they were greaily instrumeute! in aiding the Con- federaies during the war with arms, ammunition andother necessaries of wer, He says that he has disavowed the c.pture and pillage of Bagdad, and knows that his government will do the same. He siso says that all who have been identified as en- aeged in the Bagdad affair have been arrested, and that a commission is new in ression to investigate the wloe mater, General Weitzel has isened an order directing every co: manding officer to arrest jal! armed persons discovered lurking im ihe district of the Kio Grande, A military commission is now in sestion at Brazos Santiago, investigating the Bagdad affair, All persons, whether resident iu Moxico or the United tates, are summoned to appear who are cognizant of any of the circumstances con- ected therewith, General Weitzel has also aunulled be order mustering out of the service the One Hun- red and Eighteenth United Biates colored infantry, oii} *he report of the military commission is made, CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS, Thirty Ninth Session, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE Washington, Feb. 5. Mr. Rozers (Dem.), of N. J, resented a petition from sold ers of Pa'corson, New ersey, for the passage of @ law of Congress, giving joldiers who enlisted or volunteered tofore July, 868, bounties equal to those giveo W such as volun- ered after that time, The House puseed the bill providing that perrons » the naval service of the Uuited State: who lave et one foot and one hand in the line of their dusy a1] be allowed the same pensions as are allowed by + to persons in the wilitary service who have suf- » 1 sitmuilar lorsos; and also that the provisions of ction five of thelension law of July 4, 1464, shall poy to persons in the naval service. The term r ry" in the former’ law was construed not to clude persons in the naval service. The design of billus to equalize the Pension law THE PREEPMEN'S BUREAU BILL The House ‘Mr, Washburne, of Lil., in the chair), Lecal and Miscellaneous News, | LIFE. | NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEB | proceeded to the consideration of the Senate's bill bo enlaree the powers of the Freedmen's Boreau. Mr. Maraball, of Il). stated at length his objections tothe bill, There was no right or aushority tor the War Deparifhent establishing in the States a syatem of goverument apart from thet which should be licabie to the entire peo; warrant fo the Constitution ¢ bureau ect as judees, sustained by the military wer, and go into the States, enter the markets and bay up lands for the purpose of settling thereon freemen, and protecting and maintaining them, he supposed, sning ineti« tution ? The bill shoud be {An act to destroy the Constitution, and mbject the people to military power and domination." Mr. liubberd, of Conn., considered the bill ae per- fect as they could now get it. One object was to give employment tothe emancipsted, and to secnre the advantages of labor to those men who were now Wandering over the country homeless and Land dg and another wae to them the opportanit; ive learning wo read and to protect meselves in reasonable way in their civil rights. Tn reply to Mr. Mareball be eald there was anthovity in the Const!- tution tor the parsage of this bill, for to Congress w fiven power to pass all proper laws to carry out t Provision of the Constitution, which include we public are. Mr. Moulton, of Ill., understood that the object of the bill wae to protect four millions of men whore Tights have been denied in the southern States, and dependent to some extent upon the ald of sovernment, They should be protected from the damuabie violence of the traitors in the Southern . Mr. Kelley, of Pa., oald that General Spencer of Alabama bad called upon bir and shown him a news- forte containing the proceedings of a court sent ng black men and women to death for larceny, oF imprisonment for ninety-nine ras for the offence. Mr, Ritter, of Ky., said tho bill proposed to esiab- lish a government within agovernment. It was not for the benefit of all, but for ouly ® part of the peo Rie - was not for the whites, bat for the biacks. he enormons amount of money required was to be Paid by white people. Why continue this expensive establishment to free on a hard workiog and honest ‘@ from twelve millions to perhape a handred or iro hundred ana fifty million® of dollars? Thies machine opened @ vast field for the retention of military men in time o: peace, and it was made abeolusely necessary to maintain a large army if for boother purpore tha pe to protect the agente and employes connected with the bu eau. Whether is wastue design of the billor not, the effect would be immense colonies of negroes, who would ultimaely Sriye cut. the while people oo # oe Dtates, and fil thelr places with the 5 Mr. Ronnseau, of Ky, said ‘as oppowed to the bill, because if this oypessi ensure should be passed it would lead to “he injury of those ts claimed to protect. Buch extraordinary po « bad betore been conerred, Take oi ans begro, and he would stend OY th ho would do but do not place such power in the hands of bad me: who would ent into the Southern States, Ho as he understood the Freedmen's Bureau in Ken- tucky, it, by ite indiscretion, harassed loyal men, There was no reason whatever for the illegal and unconstitus'onal legisiation p Alter all the sscrifices of Lnion men to pul down the war, they baa been wid by the [ aghonay gem from Peanaylvania (Mr, Stevens) aud by the genieman trom Ubio Car, Bhejlabaiger), and o:her extreme men, that “the Bouthern States are out of the Union,” and that “the Constitution must pmgades to ae? ime nm to the privileges of oor, uneseoe Leiug denied adm mon were earnest and efficient in support of the (nion cause, and some ot rendered efficient service iv the feild ground thas J avis complet, ry ‘as now occupied by « ppeal Plates could seced: on this floor, b to the people to come back w the old platforia of the Union, the My af and the enforcement of ihe laws. (Loud applause, Mr pie ps at Mee said he wes one ot those who believed in the consiceration of questions of this character; they were not be bouna and trammeiied by the routine of party man pulauon, or ccerced by tie mach mery of « party cauc@s. He was the repre- rentaive in part of a Btate which gave fieedom to eighty thousand slaves without coinpensation. He believed that the freedmenu ought w be encouraged to Inbor and be protected in all their rightsaud trom the danger, no matter how remote or circuiwus, OF Jing suse the conaition from which they Lave been ‘Thecucd. He od uis o} jections to the bi, tained the ag: 2 principle, which may b to as 8 justification berealves for estabiieuln for the eu to! paupere, Le was opposed ¢ money being placed ip t hanus of agenie wo be used, if other measures should be introduced giving the freedimen she right of suffrage, tor corrupiion, in the buying of votes. ‘here, however, waa es receem ing feature in the bill which almoss tempiod him to give bolt hi to their eeute. bieriuge of phlaniorophy b ea and under the p. uly to speak iu bebail of tue called ypon bim not ih, but of the whole country, and Ww concema the spirit wish which this bili wae vroughs forward, and the zeal with which it wae pressed. ‘Ibe teach ug winch comes from she lips of those who advocated this measure is devilish eopuletry, aud beiongs rather tothe Pharisees who nuloveed thelr garments that they might scourge the Saviou:, hie bili wade the PVresiceat the aistrituior of cast-off cloibing which belonged to eboddy contracts, aud wus for (he benefit of ther radica: trieuds ia New t-ngiand who deal ia merchandise, The design med to be to couunue ihe eu, ol teding which Was commenced 14 Ume ot war, F ave at length his :@asous for oppomug the bill, and argued thet it would seriously iniertere wich immugraioa to whe South, TLe House ad- journed, The President has sent to Congress a letter written by General Sherman, wbo reports the results of his recent inspection of the Department of Arkansas, making the following ebservations: The negroes of Arkansas can all find profitable and lucrative employment, and are protecied 10 all their rights aud property by the civil authorities. I met ro one citizen ox widier who questioned or doubied that their ireedmen was as weil arsured in Arkansas as in Oblo, Governor Murphy said that negiovs could scyuse title to real estate or any kmd of property, and that the courts, both federal and te, would protect them. ‘There was av universal bf ression of confidence in the present condision of offuire, except on the part of some former rebele who thought the present vest oath prescribed tor them was loo etringvot and severe, | have tound every. where in the Soush aiarge number of our officers and .oldiers looking out tor iand and empioynen: ; end [doubts mot that duiing the next year ail the land which iscoared will be under cuitivation, a large part of it under the direction of energetic you men, and that ail branches of business in Arkansas will be seimulated by the presence of a ciaesof men which has not heretoore existed in that State, ingle imuiv.duale now travel unarmed trom one poiut of the >tate to another, nud General Keynoide je rarely caled upon w aflord miimsy protection te euy one, white ox biack, From Europe. Later Mails, ‘The steamships Africa aud Damascus, arrived at this port yesterday from Liveipool with passengers aud mails, A telegraphic synopsis of the news by these steamers has already been published in the Bun, but the following in addition will be tound interesting . THE FENIANS, Cornelius O'Mahony charged with being.connected with the Fenian orgapization was again put on bis trial on the 16th, before the Special Coromission, at Dublin. The trial occupied the whole of the ifth and l6th, 6! result being @ verdict of gulity, was described by ihe Atiormey f the most confidential acouts of bennec to five * penal ce A) " men arrested recently at Sligo, on a chare i Fenianism, have been liberated oa their Own Dau. ‘The skibbereen Faare of the 13th publishes « te egram trom Cork, stating that the “Head Ceusre” blephone was reen within 4 miles of that city, ‘the corvespondent of a iublin paper says that recently @ /uneral party eniered a chuichyard situa. fea in @ eolitary part of the county of Wicklow, jow eved « coffin into the grave, covered it, and went thes ¥. Toe police of the district went to the cemetery in question, and, disinterring the coffin, found it to contain a quantity of pik On the 1st), Martin Haar in drilling 1@ the store in Halston stress, was iound ulty, and sentenced to five years penal servitude, viarey, ® youth trom Lippesery, about eighteen your, ho gave lessons of ago, was next pnt forward, and baving pleaded fullly, sentence was deierred. CATTLE PLAGUE. Hopes are entertained that a preventive has been: fonna that will atop the ravages of the plague. The liigh Bberiff of Chesire writes to the Times in to the successful ,sreatment of bis stock by vaccina~ tion, t are np to this present time quite nd well, 1 made yo difference in their either before or after the operation. No as given, nochange of diet. some of the n milk, some were dry before calving, My own family and household partook and partak their butter, milk and cream, without experieuct the slightest inconvenience, As the question of vac- cipation being # sateauard against rinderpert is of vital importance in this cheesemaking county, | may tate that, after the mont diligent inquiries, J have t been able to hear af one fatal case in (his neigh borhood where the operation had been eucceas/ul. Many vaccinated cows have died, but not one, as iar ee I can hear, where the vaccine had taken, I bi lately been trying an experiment, which [ am ew ee deep iinterest with capt of your readers, hureday morning last, the 11th, I hed a 13 months old Alderney heifer, which had been most sucessfully vaccinated, turned into @ Kind of lovre Piace, nine Seet square, in which was one calf ‘very Ul from unwistakable rinderpest, and another caif which bad just died trom the effects of it, The deal calf was removed in about half an hour after wy calf was put into the place, The sick calf died tho ‘ol iug day. Bince then two more calves il! from rin peet have been pisced with my calf, and bh from the disease, My calf is ash ever she was, notwithetandime five days and five nights i @ noe 4nd coming in immediate coutect with these tour dying and dead calvos.” THE SPANISH REVOLTTION. The following prociamation of Gem. Prim ts ciren lating freely about Madrid ; “ Bpaniards!—We have arrived at the terrible moment in which olation is the only resoucee of the nation and the main duty of bonorabie men, | am at the head of c erable military forces, aud @ reat number of armed countrymen hasten on sides to fight under my orders for the enuse of dom and our fatherland. My banner is the /ast m ifesto of the Progressista Central Committee With itin my band I will fight with my wonted valor against the Government which dishonors us a >road and ruins us at home, to the point of making us « laughing stoek —_ foreign nations, and bringing us to the verge ofashameful bankruptcy, Solliers who have already fought under my orders—yon are @ware that | have pever forsaken you; and thet if you stand by me iv this enterprise I aball Know how to lead you, fi ou the path to victory, and ext remunerating your endeavors. Fellow citizens —men of hovor!—aid mo, you, too, to bring to a b PpY end @ political revolution, which may eo ewe the necessity of thet social revolution with ich we are threatened. Spaniarda! Hurrah for liberty, tor the programme ot (he Ceatral Progres- mate © ittee, for the constituent Cortes! Juas Pein.” MISCELLANEOUS, The Florence correipendent of the Datry News alluding to @ telegram that the U A. Fleet in the Moditerranean had beenjordered to Lishou sa: received the intelligence while at « briliiant ba! Secertained, that no euch intelligence had reached jd of the numerous members of the corps diploina que who were in the rooms, Hut I found shat a distinguished Americar gentlemen present had received @ telegram to # similar effect trom the captain of one of the shipe of the equadron. | tound, further, that intel ie been received, though it had not yet become generally known, that there had been some ‘trouble’ on the Kio Urande, Aud the two facts seemed capab'e cf an ominous counec. tion, Of course the inemediate comment w: ‘trouble’ between A {pase and the | united sta ‘Aad the Emperor will yielc’, and id at he would have all to lowe and nothing t euch a struggle,’ whispered im uy ear the re tive of acourt, neither Ruglirb, American, por, | need scarcely add, Freneh, Mise Fume biarding addressed an audience ox- tempore for two hours, om the Lith, atthe we, James's Hall, London, her sutiect being “America” Ib ie said that during the caunpeten in favor of ihe re-election of the late Presideut Lincoln, ashe ed thirty-two extempo: @neous oraiious ip laht days, oacling ceremony of open! Parliament sty is notto be so entirely shorm of all pe. Sighteers may at lesa jon of }ooki DR Upow the roy ement of “cream-color the ground wish street, preliminary and preparatory to his grand official drive. A ietter from Berlin eaye that the (iovern-. mont has begun the new year with & ounber of severe decrees against the pr ihe wel known journaidete, Kramer and tieid have been imprisoned NEW YORK STATE LEGISLATURE. Senate. Albany, Feb 3.—The sunual report. of the Trus- tees of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Beience, was received and ordered to be printed, BiLLs ORDERED TO A THimp Keapina—-Exvending the time tor the cilection of taxes sinroughout the Mtate until the firetof April, which does not apply to cities whore taxes are collecte! unc the special law, Amending the general jusurance law by mit. ing any one riek (aken by a company to ten per ‘ Ot ite paid ap capitel, notwithstanding the company mey reineure the same property Adjourned until onaay evening, Amembly. Rerronte.For the relief of Brooklyn and Rocka+ way Beach Railroad Company. For fixing the salary of the City Judge of Brooklyn at $5,u00. Biiis Nortoxp.—Authojizing New York Central Railroad to subscribe €2,%.0W0 forthe construction of s railroad between Athens, (iteene county, and Newburg, completing the connection of the York Central Letween buffaioand New York on Wost sue of the Hudsou River, towns becween Athens aud tue Now Jore to subscribe io the stock of the above road. Bitts IntRopucep,—lo diminish crime and facil- itave prosecutions, To jacorpurate the Traders’ bx change of New York, To iaco:porate the Mesropoli- tan Medica: aud Burgical Coliese. Authorizing the ducorporation of associations lor the erection of eo Authorizing the Brate line Miouuments to soldiers who Lave falleu in detence of the Lnion. Lo amend the Miliu@ KBerolimeot act making those who p Officele im the late war super. nujwary, lorepulate the uso of cu mi tho tous of Bioome street, New York, Adjourned, News items, By Telejraph te the New York Bun.) Taw steamer Goorge Washington arrived at New Orleans ov Saturday. A aGtutiemans io Cincinnati had his pocket picked, on Saturday, of $15,000 in seven-thirty bonds, Frveor x of the guerillas cowcerned in the steamboat capture on the Tombigtee river, arrived in Mobile on the 11th juss. A gecexr fire at Jecksou, Tvxas, destroyed buildings and other property to the vaiue of fifty thousand dollars, Tas Union City Flour Mills at Waterloo City, Tod., were destroyed by fire, yesterday. Loss, $20,000, Tur Governor of Louisiana has not yet signed the bill ordering an election on the second Monday of March next, for parochial officers throughout the State, and municipal officers in New Orleans, YesTexvaY morning, a fire broke out in Oswego, | N.Y, in the dry goods store of Mirris Place, and the entire building wee destroyed. Loss on build. ing, $40,000 ; on stock, not ascer*ained. Ges. Coot-navan, who, it is alleged, has been engage! in various swindling op: rations iu differ. ent parts of the country, was arrested at St. Louis, Mo., on Friday, Cons(DERABLE @xc!tement prevails in Cass, Jack- fon and Lafayette counties, Mo., on aceount of the threatened organizetion of the old bu.hwhackers ‘0 attem)t the rescue of some of their number now io jell, KK IR RUARY 5 Ii Apprriomat troops belonging to Indiiape, Michi- gen, Missourl, Minnesota, Obie, Wisconsin and other Btates, have been mustered out of service, ‘Including the New York 90th infentry, A womnan of colored deleyates are st{l! in Wasb- ington, looking after thelr politica! aud other tnter- eats. They have Leen reinforced by Frederick Douglass, Tae Government, tt is already known, bas reong- nized the indepenience of Dominica, and the Pres- ident bas nominated to the Senate Gen, Caseneau as Minister to thas republic. Ho ie there engaged as a merchant. Om Saturday, the Freedmen's Bureau received from citizens in Birmingham, Fogland, through our counsel at that point, articles of clopging valued at $4,000, which were donated for the beimefit of the American freedmen, Ta. Junetion City (Kansss) Union says: " The commiasary and quartermaster warehouse ot Fort Riley were burued on Wedneslay, The loss is es- timated at ® miilion of dollars. Nothing eaved.' Lange invoices of goods imported from England by the way of Havana, bave arrived at Gal Texas and been sent into the interior, Be German vessels are soon expected at Galveston with emigrants, Tue County Clerk, Sheriff and Deputy Sheriff of Pope county, Arkansas, were ell recently aseass!- nated, aa supposed, by unconverted rebels. The Clerk, Rev. Mr. Stout, was e member of the Free Convention two years ago, Ges, Woot bas ordered the military districts embraced in the Department of Mi ippl, to be discontinued after the Ist tnat, Military posts are to be established at Vicksburg, Jackson, Natcher sud Meridian, and temporary stations at Columbus sod Grenada, Ax exclustvely special train arrived at Annapo- lia, Md., yesterday, with only six persons -Gener- ele Grant and Sherman, Asmetant Becretary Fox, Hon. Montgomery Blair and Judge Fisher—on s visit to Admiral Porter and the Naval Academy, There was grand parade and review of the mid- sbipmen, after which the visiting party rode through the town, General Intelligence, Uy Mail t the Ne York Sun} It is eighteen years tince # man with «middle name occupied the Presidential chair, Ta sre now eleven steamers profitably en- Rego! in the carrying trade between Galveston end Hourton, Tuene were in China, in 1865, 187 missionaries, including ladira, Of thene 92 are Amer can, TT are English and 15 are German Secretary Seward appeared on the floor of the House of Representatives ou Friday, for the first Sine since the atienps on bie life, Tae negroes of Mobile who own cabs or draya, sre required to file @ bond or security of $1,000 before being allowed to use them Mu. Wa. Srusgue, the Rhode Island Senator, and his brother, Amase Sprague, employ six thousand han 4 thoir manufacturing esteblish- ments, Tum funeral of the Rev. Dr Nott, President of Union College, took place on Frid at Achenec- The remains were interred tn the » The attendance was very large, Liszt, the jreat German Componer, bas received an official invitstion to composs a march snd mass for the approaching coronation of the Emperor Francis Joseph at Pesth, as King of Hungary. At the Fenian demonstration at Cincinnati on Wedneadsy night, President Roberts aud Secretary of War Bweeney, were escorted by @ battalion of the Brotherhood, armed with thelr mus! eta, who Were received with great outbursts of applause. ‘Tus son of ® general in the Poglhah army, named Warren, was committed and sentenced to nine mouths’ iinprisonment at bard labor, for sles ing an overcoat from the Westminster Palace Hovel, London, on the $0sb of December. Tow English transiation of Napoleon's Life of Julius Cesar is nearly completed. The iret vol- ume had Hamense gale, and the publishers say they paid a much larger sum than that originally stipulated (or to the Emperor's representatives, Tas production of ‘peormint in the Hate of Michigan is getting P gg ® vory considerable branch of business, as it appears from the Lasernal R ue Department thes $90,000 worth of that erticle was manufactured during 1965. Tus pre-Adaroite and post-Adamite rellos, which have Leen oiscovered in various paris of the world, are to form « special division at the Great Exhibi- tion in Paris next year, Tbey will be under the direction and management of M. Lartet the dis- Unguished French geviogiat, Beiouam Youn@ has been made « forlorn wid. Ower twenty-eight times during his conjugal ex- perience. He endures his many bereavemenis with the fortitude of a Dahomey chief, Que bun- free sud eighty-five couforiers are still spared to sm, it has been discovere! that the conductors of the sermi-officlal Paris Constitutionnel bave Leen gully not ouly of misappropriating the shareholders’ money, but have converted to their own use sub- scriptions raised on bebalfof the Rouan cotton weavers during the late cotton famine. Tux official statistics of the city of Rome give the nuoiber of inbabitants as follows :—Men 100,084; wowen 95,669 ; priests, monks and students 4,655; pautacel soldiers 4752; Jews 4495; prisouers 17, Married persons four-tenths of the popula- on, Tum English court-martial which tried the cap- tain and master of the British seawer Bulldog, lately destroyed at Cape Haytien, Hayti, found them guilty of negligence, whereupon the former metery was dismissed the service eud the latter repri- manded, A Mowiee exchan; 'y8; We observed» drunk. eb wan mibing in heelbarrow yesierday, en- deavoriag with all bis might to wheel himself home, The “barrow” was drunk or baulky, for it ssubbornly refused to go, bus its occupant was ‘*wheelei'’ around to the calaboose, by « friend of the fallen.” In M t the corner stone of a new Roman Catholic cathedral waa laid in Pekin, It is to be of maginficent dimensions—three bundred feet long, nen oue buudred and Afty feet in breadth, to the extremes of the transept, lis spire will overtop the ioftiest of the palaces of the im- perial city Reronts in the Methodist papers mention great revivals in Now Jersey, in and near Newark, resu ‘ing in the accesaiuo of more than five hun- dred pe sons to tue curches, From the Pitsburg Coulervnce and ite vicinity nearly twensy- five hundred persons bave beeu gathered in, At Good Ground, L. I, r one bundred profess cunvVermion. Ir is stated that Prince Christian of Augusten- burg, the future husband of the Princess Helena of Eng.and, will be invested with the rauk of Royal Highness, The ro) al couple are to reside in Eng- Jend, and Froymo: to betheir home. The vision, for woich the sesent of Parliament wil asked, | ly to be ® dowry of £30,000 and £6,000 a y The marriage will not take place ual June nex ro- < ‘hirty-Third Year. "I vaye liom has rere ol the “manly Tae London fromtina Lire ae es evil days, The admi are diaguated with those who manage sneh affairs, sad the sun seeme to | ave set over the grave of Tom Sayers. To revive the Rng, 't thinks, seeme an utterly hopeless task, and. from One cause and another, thet “inatituuon'’ has sunk lower and lower ance the date of the famous fighs of Farnborough. Jury Davis’ imprisonment and the nifeats tons of public execration of his offences whieh be sees in the newspapers, are, according to & corres pondent, wearing upon hie mind aud ‘@using bim fo lose bie amiability 1 seli-jreseamon, Tos Congressional propositions for his early trial, and the constant allusions to bie crimes have, it is sated, soured bim terrbly, and readered bin Violent in both language and meuner. Tra schooner N ey with forty-four Southern emigrants bound for Brazil, went ashore on the 4ib, on the coast of Cubs, tw nty-six miles from Mavana, the vessel siriki \gainst ® projectn, rock, The passengers and crew were all save. Some made their way to Havana, whence some wens to Moxico, some returned to Florida aad some fe Alabaiua, The colomista intend to renew thoir efort to reach the Bouth Awerican land of promise. Prete PRertias, gon of Major-Goneral B, M. rentias left Quiney, Ill, recently, on akates, with ® dispatoh for Lagrange, 14 miles above, and made the run up in 60 minutes. He remained there Su scan ites then staried on bis return, aod ran down tn minutes, baving made the round wip of 28 miles in an bour and 4 minutes, running Sine, and been out only two hours and » quarter, Tee great Cincinnati briige about to be sus Peuded across the Ohio river oun te the longest ia the world, being over 2,000 feet looger than the Suspeusion Bridge over the Niagare River, and 540 fees longer than the Menai ri ige un Eogland Lie tal span will be 1067 yarde. The mas stone piers tower 110 fees o: he floor of the Diidge, aud 200 feet above ther foundations, One Yoar is the period allowed for building it, Tus Treasury Department, in settling « balance of two cents due to Erastus Foote, of Boston, sent # drafts to him worded and numbered se follows: * Draft ¥,950 on Treasury warrant, Treasury of the United States. No. 1,054, Wanhington, Jan. 8, 1866. Ab sight pay to Erantue Foote, collector and disbursing ageut, or order, two cents, F. E. Spinner, Treasurer of United Btatea, Recorded Jan, & 1866, B, BR Colby, Register of the Treasu ry. Assinant Treasurer U8, Boston, Mare” Ou this important document there were seven Signatures, and all for two vents. The gentioman who owned the drait was offored adollar for it, bus said be would not sel! is for five dollars. “Harpesnourar Preaching™ is the sppropriate erin applied to @ pulpit peculiarity, by the Caan. vias Kayisorom; ‘I nosice," says the writer's handkerchi:f babit in the pulpit, which bas led m bo inquire if the use of ‘ery neccesary erticle ie @ part of sheolugical uing. I notice some ministers take it out of their pockets as they do their sermons, and lay it on ihe pulpit, Bome he it out lengthwise through the midcile of the le; some roll it up and suck it under the Bible; some shake it over thei¢ Leads ; some eliuch it in Abeir bands as if they were guing to throw ites the audience ; and sume keep ciowding it into their pockets and pulling i} out ageim, with o nervous wovement, &@ If they did not know whas vee to nake of their hands, I went once to bear * popular young preacher, and as much as half hie sermon Was made np of pocket hapdkercie! snd the moat of the other baif was gold watob an Live of poetry. LOCAL NEWS NEW YORK AND THE VICINITY. Staamen Kitt, Von Kot Suxx,—About four o'clock, P. M., yesterday, the well-known steamer Kil! Von Kull, from Elizabetbport, N. J., srrived af the foot of 4b street, N. B., with « large freight of cattle, which came over the New Jersey Central Railroad, While discharging her freight at the former place,she sunk,and about one bundred bullocks were drowned. The Kill Yoo Kull now lies Lu fourteen feet of water. Skarino, — During the p week, the Woather and the ponds have, in « remarkable de gree, favored the skaters of this vicinity. There cannot be much complaint of lack of opportanisy or of unfavorable weathor, indeed, throughout the winter thus far, and though the season should be tullder tu the future, and the opportunities of skating fewer, the publi will be satisfied with whathas!een. T!ore is, however, no present in- dication of such # change, but rather the comsrary. On Saturday and yesterday, the crowds who visit- ed the Central rk and other ponds in this viein- iby, were imnouse, The Park lakes were crowded almont to excens, both deys, The second grand carn val of the season wae held op the Fifth avenue pond op Saturday a‘ternoon and evening, when the poud was iluminated, and the sports kept up tll a late hour, The poudts over the r.ver were equally crowded aud successful during the week, Washington and the Caploline ponis, Brooklyn, were visited by thousands, and were in excellont condition. Ab’ Union pond, Willlamaburg, which bas been well attended, alwo, there will Le a grand sketing match for @ valuabie gold watch this afternoon. A grand caraival and i!lumiaation will be held on Bylvan lake, Hoboken, thisevening, Tbe pond will be open all day to visitors and skaters, Axotuern Srewaer Lipeu Case.—Mr, Richard Tf. Colburn, one of the editorsof the N. Y, Terpune, aud Mr, George Knapp, one of the editors and proprietors of the 8+, Louls Missouri Rarov.s Cam, were arraigned before Justice Dowling, Batur- day morning, on # complaint of libel preferred ty Mr, A. T, Btewart, the merchant, The complains charges Mr. Colburn, a@ correspondent of the Missourl Rerustioan, with making certain state: ments in one of uis letters, dated a: New York, re- flecting on Mr, Blewart's private character and moral stand’ng, which are untrue and maliciously libellous, "by means whereof this depouent (Stewart) has been greatly injured and damnified,’' Ib is also charges the proprietur of the paper with complicity in the matter, inasmuch as they allow ed the letter to be published, The warrants lesued by Justice Dowling, for the arrest of Mr, Colburn end Mr, Knapp, who was temporarily sopping as the Fifth Aveuue Hotel, were served at eo iaic an hour on Friday atternoon that the accused could not be taken Lefure » magisirate until Saturday morning. Mr. Kuapp gavo bail in the sum of $1,000, aod Mr. Colburn in €500, to await the re- sus ofan examination, which will be held at the Tombs this worming as balf past ten o'rlock. Sina Sina Biaps Akounp, — Saturday morning Buperintendent Kennedy received « tele- gram from Bing Bing that seven prisoners had escaped from the Btate Prison there, Their names are Patrick Burns sad Jobo Dol sentenced to five years each ; Jubn Behan and Jas, McLaugh. li, ton yearseach ; and Richard Greenwoou, Jas. Carlisie and Jobn Davis to various terms. Jack Bhepberd, Ed. Griffith, Wm, Hampton and the no\orious May. Duvall, also recently escaped, are sill at large, These prisoners cacaped with false keys and |t issaid that four kee were in the hall through which they had to pass, Theyza well langwo te New York detectives, who are now (Comtuned on the Last Page.)