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resistance was given. In August following 

 similar troubles occurred in the town of Berne, 

 in the same county. As Colonel Church, agent 

 for the owners, was riding through the coun- 

 try, ho was fired at twice by a party of men 

 concealed behind some bushes by the roadside. 

 The occupants of the wagon were not hit, but 

 the horses were wounded. Four men were 

 subsequently arrested for this outrage, and held 

 for trial on the charge of assault with intent to 

 kill. 



The Legislature, at its regular session in 1866, 

 transacted but little business of general and pub- 

 lic interest. The following resolutions relative 

 to national questions, were adopted by a large 

 majority in both houses : 



Resolved, That it is our mature and deliberate con- 

 viction that no State within which there has been 

 insubordination or rebellion should be admitted to 

 share in the national legislation, until it presents 

 itself, not only in an attitude of loyalty and har- 

 mony, but in the persons of representatives whose 

 loyalty cannot be questioned ; and that each House 

 or Congress is the sole judge of the qualifications 

 and election of its members, and has full power to 

 determine for itself when the constituency or the rep- 

 resentatives meet the conditions above set forth. 



Resolved, That it is our conviction, that as the 

 country was pledged in the beginning and through- 

 out the war against the rebellion to a vigorous pros- 

 ecution thereof, to the great and permanent end of 

 the vindication of the national integrity, and the 

 reestablishment of the national government ; that, 

 as it accepted during its progress, as a measure of 

 war, just and constitutional at the time of its utter- 

 ance, the President's Proclamation of Emancipation ; 

 that, as it adopted at its close, as a measure of high 

 national policy and justice, the constitutional amend- 

 ment, which not only by the organic law theoreti- 

 cally made freedom universal, but, quite as impor- 

 tant, conferred upon Congress all the constitutional 

 powers needful to establish and enforce universal 

 freedom in practice and in fact; so the nation is 

 pledged to the world, to humanity, and, most of all, 

 to the freedmen, that in all lawful ways the liberty 

 and civil rights of every human being subject to the 

 Government of the United States shall be protected 

 and enforced, regardless of race, color, or condition, 

 against every wrongful opposing law, ordinance, 

 regulation, custom, or prejudice ; and that the spirit 

 which formed and organized and developed to the 

 present strength that policy, has not fulfilled its 

 allotted work until every subject of that government 

 stands free not only, but equal before the law. 



Resolved, That we are in favor of the extension of 

 equal suffrage in the District of Columbia, to all male 

 citizens of a suitable age. 



A special session of the Senate, as a High 

 Court of Impeachment, was convened in Au- 

 gust by Governor Fenton, for the trial of Judge 

 Smith, of Oneida County, on the charge of im- 

 proper conduct in connection with filling the 

 quota of that county, under the call for volun- 

 teers in December, 1864. Hon. B. Sedgwick, 

 of Syracuse, and Mr. Hunt, of Utica, appeared 

 for the prosecution, and Hon. Ira Shafer and 

 Henry Smith, Esq., of Albany, for the defence. 

 The trial occupied four days, and during its 

 progress the fact came out that the message 

 from the Governor to the Senate, on the 14th 

 of February, calling them together for this ex- 

 traordinary session, had afterward been altered 



and amended without the knowledge of the 

 Senate. The Senate refused to recognize the 

 modifications, and decided that the trial should 

 be had on the message as originally read. Be- 

 ing unable to find any record upon which to try 

 the defendant, the Senate therefore adjourned, 

 leaving the case undecided. At the succeeding 

 regular session Judge Smith was removed from 

 office. 



While the special session of the Senate was 

 in progress, President Johnson, Secretary Sew- 

 ard, General Grant, Admiral Farragut, and 

 other distinguished gentlemen, passed through 

 Albany on their way to the West. A series of 

 resolutions welcoming " the President of the 

 United States, and our distinguished fellow-cit- 

 izens,' General Grant and Admiral Farragut," 

 to the city, were offered in the Senate. A mo- 

 tion was made to amend by including the name 

 of Hon. W. H. Seward, Secretary of State, 

 which was lost by a vote of 8 to 12. The res- 

 olutions were finally adopted as follows, the 

 first by a vote of 1 7 to 4, the second by a vote 

 of 16 to 3 : 



Resolved; That the Senate do, on behalf of the 

 people of the State of New York, welcome His Ex- 

 cellency the President of the United States, and the 

 other distinguished personages accompanying him, 

 to our territory. 



Resolved, That our distinguished fellow-citizens, 

 General Grant and Admiral Farragut, who are ex- 

 pected at the State capital to-morrow, be warmly 

 welcomed to the soil of this State by this Senate, on 

 behalf of a grateful people, who recognize their ser- 

 vices and appreciate their worth. 



On September 30th, the total number of 

 convicts in the several state prisons was 2,788, 

 of whom 159 were females, and 70 insane. The 

 aggregate value of all the prison property is 

 estimated at $2,166,969.17. The following is a 

 statement of the earnings and expenditures of 

 the last fiscal year : 



EARNINGS. 



Sing Sing Prison for males $125,704 83 



" " " famales 4,829 01 



Auburn Prison 97,734 91 



Clinton " 193,37656 



Total '. $421,644 80 



EXPENDITURES. 



At Sing Sing male prison $220,259 36 



" " female" 27,14913 



" Auburn prison 134,001 73 



"Clinton " 191,64090 



" Convict insane asylum 15,937 15 



Total. $538,983 27 



Statistics of the State census for 1865, made 

 public during the past year, reveal some inter- 

 esting facts. The native citizens of the State 

 form 67.34 per cent, of the population, show- 

 ing an increase of 3.73 per cent, during the 

 previous ten years ; and during the same period 

 there is a complemental decrease of every for- 

 eign element, except the German. The num- 

 ber of voters are 823,873, an increase of 170,- 

 551, a large proportion of whom are naturalized 

 citizens. The negro population, now number- 

 ing 44,081, has been steadily diminishing for 



