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DOMESTIC NEWS. 
Wn*l>liiKton. 
President Ghant and Secretary Boutwell 
have decided not to All the vacancy occasioned 
by the resignation of Judge Richardson, Assist¬ 
ant Secretary of tins Treasury, for several 
months, in the hope that Congress will take 
60 tne action to increase the pay of the office—to 
make It at least equal to the Judgeship office 
whloh Mr. Richardson now holds in Massachu¬ 
setts. Mr. Boutwell says it will be a great injury 
to the public service aud of great personal cm • ! 
barmssment to him if Mr. Richardson does not 
return to the office. It is understood that the 
| cess in both citie3. There is every prospect that 
the object will be fully accomplished at a very 
early day. 
A dispatch front General Reynolds, received 
by the President on the 5th, states that all but 
four counties in Texas have been beard from, 
the returns giving Davis TO majority. 
New York. 
The Legislature met on Tuesday, the 4th Inst, 
The Senate was called to order by Lieutenant 
Governor Beach, who briefly addressed the Sen¬ 
ators, congratulating his Democratic friends on 
their success, and deprecating vindictiveness in 
the use of their newly-gained power. After this 
the following gentlemen were elected officers of 
the Senate:—Hiram Otikins, of New York, 
Clerk; George Graham, of Oneida, Scrgeant-at- 
Arms; Abram Myers, of Ulster, Assistant Ber- 
geant-at-Arms; Alexander Waterman, of Mon¬ 
roe, Doorkeeper; William McKinney, of 8clie- 
BecrelItry favors a re-organlzatlou of the Dc- i ncctady; Orson Root, of Schoharie; John Drew, 
partmont. 
On the 5th Inst, the Navy Department received 
dispatches from Opt, McComb, commanding 
the United Slates steamer Plymouth, which no- 
comKinles the English ship Monarch, conveying 
thw remains of the lute Mr. Peabody, lie In¬ 
formed the Department that they lmd decided 
to take a southern route, touching at Madeira 
and Bermuda, but does not indicate what time 
they may lie expected at Portlnud. According 
to the calculation made by Admiral Porter, al¬ 
lowing the ships to stop at Madeira and Bermu¬ 
da the usual time for coaling, their arrival at 
Part land may be expected about the 25th Inst. 
The payments by the Treasurer for Die month 
of December, I860, exclusive of payments on ac¬ 
count. of interest or redemption of the public 
debt, were as follows;—Civil and Miscellaneous, 
$3,#54,785.86; War, $ 1,kTUI8.se ; Nnvy, $2,141,- 
046.1)5; Indians mul Pensions, $900,62:1.45. Total, 
$ii,7ti:,3te.i3. 
Commodore Joseph H. Green lias been nrdortid 
to bold himself in readiness to command the 
Eastern squadron of the North Atlantic fleet, 
now commanded by Admiral Poor. The East¬ 
ern squadron of the North Atlantic licet com¬ 
prises the vessels stationed north <>r Cuba and 
south pf tin* Ohosiipeako, 
lu the Criminal Court o i t he 5th, in the case 
of the Baltimore and ol o Railroad, charged 
with obstructing the highways, the Jury, under 
instructions, found a verdict of “guilty" on nil 
counts except the third, v lileh charges that the 
road obstructs travel by la ng below the natural 
surface of the ground. 
According to no estima e furnished by the 
Becrutaryof the Interior in response to a resolu¬ 
tion or Congress, the public land In the Boulhorn 
States remaining unsold and unappropriated is 
47,479.019 acres. The Virginias, the Carolina*, 
Georgia, Texas, Kentucky and TonliOBsoe have 
no public lands within their limits. 
On the 3d Inst, there were presented at the 
Treasury for redemption two of the counterfoil 
4*1,000 seven-thirty notes of the Issue of June 10, 
1865, They wore from the same plates as the 
counterfeits which have heretofore been pre¬ 
sented, and which hoar so close a resemblance j 
to the genuine as to lead sonic people to believe ( 
that the plate from which they were printed was 
stolen from t he Treasury some years ago. These 
| of Orange, and Cornelius V. .Simpson, of West¬ 
chester, Assistant Doorkeepers. Mr. Tweed 
then offered a Joint resolution to repeal that 
of last session by which the Fifteenth Amend- 
mendment to the Constitution of the United 
States was ratified. The resolution was made a 
special order for Wednesday. Notice was given 
of a bill to repeal tlu* Excise Law. The Gov¬ 
ernor's Message was received and read. 
Tim Assembly was culled to order by Mr. Un¬ 
derhill, the Clerk of the last House, and Prayer 
was then offered by Rev. Mr. Bridgman. The 
oath of office was then administered to llie 
members by the Secretary of State, after which, 
on motion of Mr. Moscby, of Kings, the House 
proceeded to the election of officers, which re¬ 
sulted In the election of the following gentle¬ 
men, all Democrats:— William Hi tollman, of 
NOW York, 8|>oaIccr; J. G. Rhodes, of Onon¬ 
daga, Sergeant-at-Arms; John C. Pierce, of 
Wyoming. Doorkeeper, and M. W. Wall First 
Assistant Doorkeeper. Mr. Ill tollman, the now 
Speaker, on taking Hie chair addressed tho As. 
SOtnbly at some length. Among the resolutions 
offered was one expressing sympathy for Cuba. 
The Governor's Message was received and read, 
and the House soon afterwards took n recess 
until 4 P. M. to draw for seats and afterwards 
adjourned. 
The Senate, on the 5th after the reading of the 
Journal, took up the resolution relating to tho 
Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the 
United States, and after debate passed It by a 
strict party vote of yeas sixteen, nays thirteen. 
Not lee was given of a bill to amend tbe New York 
and Long Island Bridge Act, and one to amend 
the “ Conspiracy Act,” 
In the Assembly Mr. Jai ibs, from the Com¬ 
mittee on Rules, reported ru. s increasing stand¬ 
ing committees from seven ) nine members 
each, and others from live tost* "it, and the Sub¬ 
committee of the Whole to sixteen; also, re¬ 
stricting the clerical force of leading committees 
to one clerk, which would reduce the number 
hitherto employed from thirty-four to twelve; 
also, restricting the pages employed to twenty, 
all of which were agreed to. Among the meas¬ 
ures introduced were bills to repeal tile “Con¬ 
spiracy Act," the Excise Ixiw, to amend the 
Metropolitan Police Law, and compel gas com¬ 
panies to report annually to the Comptroller. 
notes were presented by the Second National In ,,M! afternoon Hie concurrent resolution of 
Bank of Louisville, Ky. *be Senate to repeal the resolution of tho last 
President Grant has directed the Secretary of session by which the Fifteenth Amendment was 
War i.r, prepare an order requiring all military 
officers who have been on duly in Washington 
and other cities, for the term of three yoay*» to 
report for Held duty in the West, and uwo to 
prepare a detail o« the necessary officers to fill 
their places from those who have had a long 
term of field duty on Hie frontier. There will 
be of course some exceptions, in consequence of 
some officers on duty in Washington being phy¬ 
sically incapable, from wounds or other causes, 
from performing duty In the field. The object 
of the order is to equalize the service of the va¬ 
rious officers by dividing the desirable places 
among deserving men. 
The Postmaster General has been asked to fur¬ 
nish the Special Committee on Navigation In¬ 
terests with the figures for the last t wo decades, 
showing the amounts paid to foreign steamship 
lines for tho conveyance of the ocean malls, and 
also that paid to American ships during the sumo 
period. 
Tho French Cable Company have put out a 
vague card which a cureless reader may take to 
be a denial of the statement in the President’s 
Message,that their concession contains the very 
objectionable features of subjecting* all mes- 
6uges to the scrutiny and control of the French 
Government. In reality It makes no such de¬ 
nial, nor could the company deny the Presi¬ 
dent's charge, with the peculiar language of the 
sixth article of the grant of the French G ivern- 
ment, showing to the world the truth of Presi¬ 
dent, Grant's charge. 
Tho ordnance officers of the Navy-found 
great trot tide In procuring supplicsof powder at 
the beginning of the rebel I ion owing to the ex¬ 
tortionate demands of the speculators in niter, 
which was then imported from Hindostan. To 
remedy this the Government lias erected a niter 
depot at Malden, near Boston, where 3,<500 tons 
are now deposited, and it Is proposed in erect 
another similar depot in the Middle or Western 
States. 
Tin* January statement of the Secretary ,>f 
the Treasury shows that the entire debt is 
43,658,333,6',0, and the amount in the Treasury is 
*209,487.716.60, of which about. $109,000,000 Is in 
coin and coin certificates; the actual debt is, 
therefore, *2,448,746,053.31. or *4,813,781.93 less 
than on the 1st of December, and *76.710,306.70 
less than on the 1st of March last. 
It will he remembered that some months ago 
certain oonpons of the Ffvo-twoutIe» of 1863 
were pronounced counterfeit at the Treasury 
Department, and two of them, so stamped, were 
returned to Germany. They have since been 
subjected to a re-examination by the engravers 
of the Treasury, and are now pronounced gen¬ 
uine. 
On the fid, the Internal Revenue Bureau made 
the Hist requisition on the Public Printer for 
income return blanks for 1870. The number 
called for was 1,600,1)00. Home idea of the vast- 
ness of this amount may be obtained when ji is 
known that it will require 8JB0 reams of pnpetv, 
weighing in the aggregate about seventeen tons. 
Seven white children were withdrawn by their 
parents, on the 4tli, from u Washington public 
achoo. because one colored child bad been ad¬ 
mitted. 
Senator i handler, who has been absent, in New 
York and Pi, ladelphia to urge measures for the ! 
fund for theta'nllyof the late Secretary Stan¬ 
ton, has returne 1, and reports gratifying suc- 
adupted, wus received. After debate, tbe reso¬ 
lution was adopted by a strict party vote of 
Sixty-ultra to fifty-six. 
Ezra Gregory, the murderer of Louis Lougree, 
at Dresden, Washington county, has been held 
for t rial on the charge of wilful murder. It waa 
found at the Inquest, that Gregory took deliber¬ 
ate aim at the deceased before firing the fatal 
bullet, after threatening to blow his brains out. 
The general feeling in tho vicinity is that it was 
a case of cold-blooded murder, Gregory being a 
powerful man, while Lougree was of light build, 
weighing only one hundred and thirty pounds. 
Gregory was heavily ironed before being con¬ 
veyed to prison. 
The citizens of (IroenporL and villages along 
Pcconie Bay are making an earnest move for 
tlie establishment of a light-house on Long 
Beach bar, at the entrance of Groenport harbor. 
Mr. John Ellis, a well known florist ol' Cim Hor¬ 
ton Hill, near White Plains, visited New York 
City on tho 31st ult, to attend to some business, 
and was to return homo the same day; but up 
to the 5th ult. had failed to do so. He was last 
seen in a fruit store in Fourth avenue, New 
York. Bince he left home Mrs. Ellis, his wife, 
lias died. 
A man named V. W. Buckliont. committed a 
terrible crime on the first dayof the yeur.in tho 
village of Sleepy Hollow, near Turrytovvn. Ho 
allot and killed his wife and one Olias. Randall; 
and shot and seriously, perhaps fatally, wound¬ 
ed Alfred Randall, the loth Or of tho latter. Im¬ 
mediately after the occurrence he gave himself 
up. 
The opening of the new year was celebrated 
lu a new way in Syracuse. A monster barbecue 
was given for the entertainment of the poor of 
tbe city and the surrounding country. Three 
beeves wore consumed and 6,000 loaves or bread 
were distributed. 
Stephen A. Dubois, President of the Hudson 
River National Bank at Hudson, died thereon 
the 31st ult., attorn short illness, at the age of 66. 
On the 4th, in Binghamton, James Dewitt and 
Mrs. Kitty Blanchard were sentenced respec¬ 
tively to four years in tlio State's Prison and 
three years in the Syracuse Penitentiary, having 
pleaded guilty of manslaughter in the third de¬ 
gree, in killing Warren Blanchard, the woman's 
husband, in April last. 
A kerosene accident occurred at Fort Edward 
on tlic*28th ult., by which a family named Pelkey 
was dreadfully burned. One of the children 
died, and the mother and another child cannot 
survive. 
A uiunbof of convicts confined in the State 
Prison at Bing Sing gave u grand vocal and in¬ 
strumental concert in the prison chapel on New 
Year's day. The performers acquitted them¬ 
selves very creditably. Nearly all the convicts 
attended the entertainment. They were also 
treated with a holiday bill of fare at dinuer. 
For the first time In The history of this State 
the navigation of the Hudson has been resumed 
in midwinter. Oil the night of the 3d the steam¬ 
er Norwich reached Albany from itondout, ex¬ 
periencing no Inconvenience from ice. She re- 
P 1 tried the river clear, with t he exception of 
8■fine floating ice between Albany and Athens. 
The steamer Connecticut was also announced to 
resume her trips between New York and Troy 
on the 4th. A large number of the barges and 
other craft detained by the sudden closing of 
it the river in December were also to be moved 
y while the weather permitted. 
PVnine. 
,t The Legislature organized on Wednesday, the 
, t 5th inst., at Augusta, by the election of William 
M . Bolster President Of the Senate, and Reuben 
Foster Speaker of tho House, both officers being 
Republicans. 
At Bangor, on the 3d, John Lawrence shot a 
t Mm. Atwood, hi dieting four wounds, which will 
I- probably prove fatal. He then made a desperate 
ii | but ineffectual attempt to destroy himself by 
a cutting his throat. The acta were committed 
s under the influence of Jealousy and inteui- 
f peranee. 
, JUdge Sheplcy took the oath of office as Judge 
- of the United States Circuit Court at .Portlund 
- on the 1st inst. 
New IlnmpKliirc. 
On Wednesday, the 5th inst., tbe'Democratic 
’ State Convention met at Concord and nominat- 
: ed General John Bedel, of Bath, for Governor, 
and General M, T. Donahoe for Rail re *d Com¬ 
missioner. Tbe resolutions, among other things, 
' declare that all bonds and securities should be 
taxed, and that all debts, not otherwise speci- 
1 fled, should be paid in currency. A eulogist of 
the late President Pierce was silenced by stamp¬ 
ing and other noises. 
The new City Governments of Portsmouth 
■ and Manchester were organized on flic 4th, The 
' debt of the former is *1544,000, and of the latter 
> $125,000. 
s | Vermont. 
THE directors of the Vermont Valley Railroad 
1 on the 30th ult., at Rutland, elected Gouverncur 
Morris, of New York, President. 
Jtla*«a«li it Kelts. 
Tit e State Legislate re met on Wed n csday, the 
6tb inst.. and Horace H. Coolidge of Suffolk was 
chosen President of the Senate, and Harvey 
Jewel! was re-elected Speaker of the House. 
The United States steamer Alaska has been 
ordered from the Boston Navy Yard to accom¬ 
pany t he Terror In convoying the British man- 
of-war Monarch, with remains of the late Mr. 
I'eebody, into Portland. 
Tho municipal governments of the various 
cities in t ills State were organized on tho 3d inst. 
Among those reported are Boston, Lowell and 
Springfield. The appropriations for city Im¬ 
provements ru Boston, for the year, amount to 
$6,903,500. 
The report of the Auditor of the city of Bos¬ 
ton shows the city debt to be $23,433,939, which 
is a net increase of about $3,000,000 during the 
past year. 
The validity of an Indiana divorce ig to be 
tried In the Middlesex Probate Court, on the 
petition of Mrs. Harriet M. Shannon for letters 
ot administration as the widow of the late 
Oliver M. Shannon, from whom she was divorced 
by a decree of an Indiana court. The estate in¬ 
volved is valued at $200,000. 
Rhode Island. 
On the 1st inst., in the Court of Magistrates, 
Pawtucket, the case of Hiram A. Briggs, ac¬ 
cused of attempting to poison his family, was 
called, but the defendant did not appear, and 
his counsel moved to dismiss the case, as the 
prosecutor, Mr. Briggs’son, had filed a motion 
to that effctfi»-A. roenmont signed by the mem¬ 
bers of the family to the same effect was pro¬ 
duced. Tho Court den iod the motion and refused 
to remit tho bail, and tbo case was continued 
until the 15th. 
Now Jersey. 
The moulding mill of Messrs. Garrison &. 
Turnbull, near Passaic, was destroyed by fire 
on tbe 1st inst., causing a loss of $10,000. The 
lire, which was discovered by persons living 
near the building, is believed to have been the 
work of an inoeudiary, as there had been no fire 
in the furnace or stoves since eleven o’clock on 
Friday morning, the 3ist ult. The property waa 
fully Insured. 
Pennsylvania. 
The Legislature met at Harrisburg on Tues¬ 
day. the 41 b inst. The House organized at noon. 
The Senate met at three o’clock, but the equal 
division into two parties presented some diffl- 
cultyto the organization, which seemed likely 
to last for Borne time, hut finally the organiza¬ 
tion was completed by the election of Charles 
II. Stinson, Speaker, and George Hamtuersly, 
Chief Clerk.' The Governor's message was sent 
in on the 5th. The Avondale calamity was re¬ 
ferred to. and a law was recommended to enforce 
stringent regulations to prevent the recurrence 
of the terrible disaster. The movement for free 
steel and iron is deprecated and recognition of 
Cuba advocated. 
The mem tiers of tho bar of Philadelphia held 
a meeting on the 3d in the Supreme Court room, 
Chier Justice Thompson in the chair, at which 
resolutions of respect to the memory of Mr. 
Stanton were adopted. 
The argument on the writ of error in the ease 
of Dr. Schoeppe, in the Supreme Court of the 
State, is set down for the first Monday in Feb¬ 
ruary. 
Maryland. 
The Ex-Collector of the Port of Baltimore, 
CoJ. Webster, characterizes as false the state¬ 
ments recently ascribed to Cornelius Wendell, 
of Washington, by the reporter of a New York 
City paper, to the effect that .Mr. Webster had 
raised money to buy Senators to vote for Presi¬ 
dent Johnson's aquiltal in Hie impeachment , 
trial. lie says he collected about $2,500, COHtrib- 
utjng *100 himself, which was turned over to , 
Hon. E. Cooper, and was designed for Mr. John¬ 
son's defence. 
The Legislature of Marylaud met at Annapolis , 
Wednesday the 5th inst. The Senate adjourned , 
on the 5th inst. without organizing. F. C. Lat- . 
robe, of Baltimore, was chosen Speaker of the , 
House* i 
Louisiana. 
The quarrel between Governor Warmoth. and ] 
some of the New Orleans city officers still con- f 
tlnues. Auditor Wiekllff is not yet in possession j 
of his office hi Mechanics'Institute, the Gover¬ 
nor aud the Metropolitan Police being yet in ,, 
possession. The Chief of Police been committed ^ 
to prison for contempt of Court in allowing the ( 
Governor to use the Police contrary to orders. | 
IHUsis-ippf. 1 
It is asserted that General Alcorn, Governor- 1 
elect, positively refuses to accept the Provision- 11 
al Governorship tendered to him by Gen. Ames. " 
_ ’ b 
Triiiitiiscc. s , 
The colored people in various parts ol tin r j 
South observed the anniversary of the issuingof v 
the Emancipation Proclamation on the 1st inst. li 
At Nashville they organized themselves into u V 
convention, at which 2,500 persons were present, a 
i Resolutions wero adopted expressing, among 
other sentiments, their grateful remembrance 
of the late President Llncolu for their freedom, 
„ and their approbat ion of recent acts of Congress, 
0 and of Mr. Kelly's resolution regarding the re- 
| construction of Tennessee, which they deem 
necessary to their security, both as to life and 
r property. 
Kentucky. 
| Latest reports from Louisville are that George 
D. Prentice is gradually recovering, and is now 
' considered out of danger. 
■ A little girl named Annie Gtllem, four years 
old, died In Louisville the 30th ult,, from hydro¬ 
phobia. 
Ohio. 
' The State Legislature met on Monday, the 3d 
inst., at Columbus. The Senate organized by 
electing E. J. Hull (Republican) Clerk and B. X. 
Churchill (Democrat) Sergeant-at-Arms. The 
! House elected a “ Reformer," A. J. Cunningham, 
or Hamilton county. Speaker, Mr. Cunningham 
, voting for himself. The “Republican Reform¬ 
ers" from Hamilton county voted with tbe 
Democrats steadily. In the afternoon Alexan¬ 
der Keeler (Democrat), of Hamilton, was elect¬ 
ed Sergeant-at-Arms. Resolutionsratifyingthe 
Fifteenth Amendment were introduced in the 
Senate and were referred to the Comm it too on 
Federal Relations. Tbe annual message* of Gov¬ 
ernor Hayes wits delivered to the General As¬ 
sembly in the afternoon. It is quite brief aud 
only alludes to national matters by recommend¬ 
ing the ratification of the Fifteenth Amend¬ 
ment to the. Constitution of the United States. 
Referring to State finances he estimates the re¬ 
ceipts for the current year at $4,791,144.50, and 
the disbursements at *1.477,999.00. The total 
debt of Hie State is given at $9,855,938.27. Tho 
Governor recommends a revision of the finan¬ 
cial laws of Ohio; the adoption of apian for the 
classification of convicts in the. Penitentiary; 
that provision be made for the chronic Insane ; 
the establishment of an agricultural college, 
and that aid be lie rendered to the Soldiers' Or¬ 
phans’ Home. 
California* 
Tine Central Pacific Railroad Company has 
erected a hospital at Sacramento, CuL, at an ex¬ 
pense of $70,000. 
The steamer China sailed from San Francisco 
for Hong Kong and Yokohama on the 1st inst., 
carrying $693,000 in treasure, and 450 Chinamen 
returning to the “Celestial Empire.” 
The Indiana. 
A fight with Indians ts reported to have oc¬ 
curred lioar Fort McDowell, Arizona, in which 
eleven savages were killed. 
A Choctaw chief has entered a protest in be¬ 
half of his tribe against a violation of the treaty 
with them by collecting the Internal revenue 
tax in their country. 
tircat storm. 
On Saturday night, tbe 1st inst., a heavy storm FOREIGN NEWS, 
of wind, rain, and snow, lasting some two or 
three days, swopt over the Atlantic seaboard Great Britain, 
from Washington to Maine, and inland as far as The London Times ascribes tbo disparity In 
Detroit. the value of five-twenties and consols, while tho 
IN Maine the gale was very severe, and began former bear double the Interest of tho latter, to 
on the 2d, prostrating the telegraph poles and the Democratic advocacy of repudiation 
doing much damage to shipping. Tho rivers Grenville Nugent has defeated the Fenian 
rose to a groat height, and were cleared from ice candidate for Parliament, in Longford, Ireland 
for the Ural time in mid-winter sluea Jg». Near The Londou Slock Board refuses to quote Erie 
Lewiston the railway culverts wens so badly Railway shares Unless stamped by the Protective 
washed out that no trains wont out on the morn- Committee to guard tho interests of sharehold¬ 
ing of the 3d. At this plaoe, on the morning of ers. 
tho 3d, a remarkable display of auroral light On tho night of the 5th tho house of Mr. 
was observed at 3 o’clock. The light was vivid Motley, tbe American Minister, was robbed of 
Pink. At Hallawall much damage was done by property valued at. *5,000 by burglars, who en¬ 
tile flooding of tho streets and cellars. tered his dwelling while the inmates were asleep. 
In New Hampshire tho storm began with France. 
snow, of which three to five inches fell, followed . „ .... . * __ 
by a heavy rain, aud a furious gale. On tho 3d , _ ex i»edition to recover 50,000,000 francs in 
a freight train on the Vermont Central Railroad treasure, lost on the coast of Spain, is in pre- 
ranintoa washout near Sharon, killing Eugene nY," V'l-. , , , 
Hussani, a brake man, and badly injuring Sidney 1 Ie a 1 i ench Radical paper, has been 
Pliss, engineer. A gravel train on the Suncook pr ? S ' CU , to3 for »dvooattng the formation of a 
Railroad also ran into a washout. Injuring a fire- p< ?!i uca ''’^“^.aions among the soldiers, 
man, the engineer, conductor, and a brake-man. .‘ P l ° pcw p rench Ministry, it is said, will accept 
Kneeland the fireman is supposed to be fatally T !!L poi< ^ tlle " R’sht Center. 
injured The Official Journal of the 6th inst. publishes 
From*M ontpelier, Vt„ wo learn that on the 2d t M - Henri Chovrccu, late 
the nun washed away tbo temporary railroad „ re ***© Uopartmcnt ol Rhone, to succeed 
bridge erected in October last. The aeeutnula- J*™ Haussnuinn as Prefect ol .he Seme. M. 
Hon of ice above Berlin Mills was immense. H* u, ssmana Is relieved of all h.s administrative 
Massachusetts suffered but very little, if fu ! lctl ? nB * Tl,,s e * ent u ****** 118 °» e 
any. the storm only manifesting Itself m u l> r »ne importance, beluga sureh.dhait ion of the 
severe South wester. P°7 e . r of ‘ he " ew t lm !| ,6t £ y ’, 11,0 Emperor was 
CoNNEcrtODT received some iojury-the river fe0t -, Tl »« B f»P«> vo d 
was cleared from ice, and great floods were by .f ' ett * f r b]8Muj«ty wrote te him, and 
caused in various parts of the State. On the 3d, l , ! V? I “f , of 
at Staffordvllle, the reservoir, the Home Milldnm of thT£ ^ h ° removal of tho 
and tbe dam of Converse & Son were carried e ‘ 
away, the latter taking with it the dry house Spain, 
and chimney stack and about one hundred aud A Madrid dispatch contains a rumor that Ser- 
twenty-fivo cords of wood. The loss amounted ratio will be invested with sovereign power,‘but 
to over $5,009. the Cortes hesitates to take tho step. The Lon- 
New York State was swept over pretty don Times deplores the downfall of Prim, and 
thoroughly, but little damage was done, how, attributes it to the prolonged duration of the 
ever, except on the Hudson and on Lake Erie. Provisional Government. 
At Oastlcton the ice was piled twenty-five feet General Prim telegraphed to Florence for a 
high, but it broke on the 2d, so that steamers definite answer from King Victor Emanuel as 
and tows reached A lhany on Monday the 3d. to the candidature of the Duke of Genoa for 
Along the Hudson River the storm prevailed thG Spanish "'lion the Italian King 
all New Year's night and most of the next day, K ilve a negative reply Prim and the whole Span¬ 
ned consequently the tide wasverv hie-h. Tho ish Cabinet resigned their porte-folios. 
down track was washed away from Roy Hook to 
Peekskill drawbridge, and the up track was also SPECIAL NOTICES. 
very badly washed. Further north, between __ _ 
Gardson’s and Fort Montgomery, about a bun- twL nnow twoTtt 
died feet of tbe track was swept away. Near i ilKALL - 
Cruger's a schooner lay pounding against the BT ALlct: tARy 
track. ' * 
At Buffalo, soon after dark on tbe evening of With this number The Revolution commences 
the 2d, the wind Increased to a gale from the a new story, entitled “The Born Thrall, or Woman’s 
northwest. The storm continued with blinding L1fe and Experience," by the well-known writer, 
snow. The track of the Niagara Falls brauoh of Mlss AUCE Cary— to be completed during the year. 
the New York Central Railway was torn np and r » t0 UieAn ;':^ v, ' ry 
t i. r( movement. tbiB work wiJi be tu the cause of Woinun. 
rt if:!?Tv, w y A oook of real ltfe experience—uniting a solid, 
tntnc distance fiom the Round House to (he moral and religions purpose with lliss Gary’s well- 
International Ferry. The passengers and freight known talent in the departments ot general liters 
on the O.mada railways were transferred at tar... >**try andflotlon—cut* readers may confidently 
Black ltock. expect i* ork of no ordinary interest and import- 
Leoiuird Crocker, a man sixty Tvc years of once—worth much more than tho price of one sub¬ 
age, the lessee of the New York Central Cattle Bcription to The Revolution for the year. 
Yards lu Buffalo, led. St. Mark’s Church on Sun- -- 
day night in a buggy with a hired man for his WILLIAM H. T. HUGHES, 
home two miles distant, and C ' : ng along the 39 Pine St., Now York, has some choice Jersey Cows, 
the beach, was carried away by t.. waves. The | to arrive per •• New World.” He imports European 
were found in Mr. Crocker’s own field, covered 
will) ice, snud and drift, wood, whero they had 
been washed and drowned by the tidal wave 
which broke over tho turnpike road near tho 
fake shore, and about three hundred feet from 
where the horse had been found. 
Iu New York City and vicinity tho gale was 
very severe, but no great injury was dono be¬ 
yond the blowing down of five unfinished build¬ 
ings and two dwellings in Brooklyn, which in¬ 
jured no onA, but entailed a loss of some $10,000. 
On Long Islaud the telegraph poles were pros¬ 
trated and me liberty pole at Flushing broken 
off some seventy feet from the ground. 
In New Jersey on the 2nd inst. the Hoboken 
meadows were overflowed, and about one hun¬ 
dred houses were surrounded by water. Two 
bulldtngsin Hudson and Jersey City were blown 
down. No oue waa hurt. 
The passengeis on the 6 20 P. M. train on tho 
evening of the 2nd inst. from Jersev City to 
Newark experienced a novel but unpleasant, 
sensation. The gale blew with such violence 
over the flats that the windows were broken and 
the lights blown out. and tbe cars rocked so 
fearfully that they were in constant danger of 
being capsized from the track. Nearly six huu- 
dred passengers weie on board, and only reached 
Newark after a 1 wo hours' battle with the elo- 
mento. The spire of the Fourth Prcsbyterirn 
Church of Trenton wus blown down in the go c 
on Sunday evening the 2nd inst. The congrega¬ 
tion escaped without injury. The spire was tho 
finest iu the City, and the society's loss la hcav y 
The steamer Rebecca Clyde, Tull, master, 
from Wilmington, X. C., reports that on the 2d, 
off Abseeom, she had a gale from southeast, 
which shifted at 2 P. M. to the south southwest, 
blowing a hurricane twenty-four hours. The 
steamer shipped heavy seas, which carried away 
the rail, both boats, the engineers’ house on tbo 
deck, after cabin, stove galley, smoke stack, 
started tho boiler, disnbkd tho engine, aud 
cairied away the steering gear. She also lost 
the mainsail and foretop.sail yard, leaving her a 
complete wreck. On the 3d, at 10 A. M., when 
forty-five miles east of Itarncgat, she was taken 
in tow by the steamship Norman, from Boston 
for Philadelphia, and anchored at tho Upper 
Quarantine. 
At Washington considerable damage was dono 
by tho storm on Sunday. New Tork and Phila¬ 
delphia Sunday night trains arrived at 9:15 
o’clock Monday morning, or four hours after 
schedule time, owing to the heavy storm which 
washed away part of the railroad track over 
the Bush River crossing between. Philadelphia 
and Baltimore, the trains being detained at that 
point until tho track could bo replaced. The 
trains from Baltimore, northward, on Sunday 
night were delayed by the washing of banks at 
each end of Long Bridge over Gunpowder River. 
buggy was found in the ice on Monday after- stock of all descriptions to order. Sole Agent for 
noon, and so great was tlie anxiety that a reward Lawrence Paksoxs Fowler. 
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with tho shafts of the buggy still attached to 
him, but the bodies of Mr. Crocker and Mr. 
AVebb, his driver, were not recovered until the 
afternoon of Thursday, the 6th lust., when they 
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