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Mr. B. BAILEY wa. satisfied TIN, no change VISA

Dir. y. BAILEY WA satisfied ttst no change va
necessary and at scme length opposed the rcso'uon
The resolution was then amended 80 a. 10 ins'rnN
the committee to repolt whether the c. nsrSa,ot
should be amended with regard TO the time Of eiectn9
Judicial officers and then adopted.
Tie use Of the Assembly Chamber granted te
Philip Schuyler on "Wednesday evening next foS leo
ture on Kansas.
Mr.. DAWSON moved that the House meet at 10 a.
NJ, and take recess frow L to p. M Table.
THF EFw-TORK TAX BILL.
Mr. ANTHON cal ID up the motion made on We'd
pt,iav on tie introduction of the New.Yors Aasual
Tax Bin Ly Mr. Foot 10 refer it 10 Select Commit
tee offve-two from New-YcTk, and three from the
state at large.
blr A. tEen moved that il be referred TO the New
York delegation which wa, carried by vote Of 20 49,
subseque utly, Mr. SPIN OLA, ly request, moveda
Reconsideration.
Mr.. FOOT ststed that there had bsen meeting of
she Nex-York tsx.payers, neld in that city, and 1t
would appear 90 il gentlemes here we're anAiopr to
have this bill referred before the expression OF this
MD sfing could reach the House He hoped the House
would ava, the expression of this meeting before
referred THE bill He moved TO postpone until Tues
day oext.
Mr.. ANTIf0N replied, claiming that If tAere had
been any pubic feeling On this subject the N5w-l ork
delegation would have been made aware of IT,.
A desutOry debate was then had-Messrs. &AHEN
aud WOODS speaking in favor Of . reference to the
New.York delegation AMI Mr. DUGANNE against
Mr. FOOT stated that he had this morning received
about dozen letters from prominent business in
New-York requesting that this bill be held back until
they coud be heard.
Without diposing of the question, the House ad-
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THE LATEST NEWS,
RECEIVED BY
MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.
FROM WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, Friday, +.

WAsHINGTON, Fnday, Feb. 10, Ioob.
Several of the House Committees organized this
morning including that Territories and Ways and
Means-the latter of which resolved to ask for per-
manent clerk.
railroad passenger car, weighing eight tuns and
drawn by five horses left Washington to-day for AL
exandria, over the ice of the Potomac River. When
last heard from was than half way across and
moving safely.
Mr. Martin, Engineer in Chief, left Washington this
afternoon for Boston to go Board the Merrmack
her trial trip to Norfolk As this is the first finished Of
the six national steamers, the Government is much
interested in her success.
Many cases are daily received at the Court Of
Claims. Among those presented to-day is one invoy
ing damages to the extent of $4,000 for alleged
breach of Government contract in 1912.
The contract for repairing the machinery of the
steamer Mississippi Ia $4,000 or $4,000 job was
awarded by the Navy Department to-day, but the
name OF the successful bidder has not yet been divuged
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which appeal directly to their sympathies, and in
some INSTANCES, to their blood. Mr.. RutIer of
South Carolina md Mr. Mason Of VIRGINIA. both
denounced the prOse odngs of that tribunal to-day
in terms which plainly manifested how deep was
their personal solicitude> Two hundred officers
could not be cut down without an uproar. and i. 80
happens that some Of them are conspicuous enough
to call for the popular evidences of favor to which
the Senate is by no means insensible in these DAYS
whatever it may have been half century ago.
The indications all point to an effort, either to
revoke the action Of the Board, which Mr. Critten-
den contends may be done by general law, or by
ZONE other wholesale mode of redress. Virginia
takes the judgments of the Board most to heart
and mourns the loss of her naval sons. and viii
not be cOmforted as Rachel of old wept over the
loss of her children
Notwithstanding the last favorable decision Of
the Supreme Court, and the understood incina-
ton of the Secretary Of the Interior, when the
Commissioner of the Land Office came to issue the
patent of Col. Fremont, two conditions were in
serted which virtually destroyed its whole value.
One was reservation in favor of the rights Of
third parties, and the other q reservation of tho
gold mines TO the Government These points
cover the practical value of the patent, and their
Interpolation wholly unprecedented and ile-
gal. There is every reason to suppose that this
new difficulty was raised by Mr. Gushing, who has
been fertile in expedients throughout which tended
in any way to embarrass the attainment of Col.
Fremont's rights. Beside, be was little sore at
the contemptuous dismissal which the Supreme
Court made OF the last attempt on his part to
evade former decree by a new proceeding from
the Circuit Court of California. Col Fremont de-
clned to receive the patent with these limitations,
which had no sanction Of law; and as the Com
missioner of the Land Office refused to comply in
the proper form, the whole matter was carried be-
fore the President directly. He decided this morn
ting that the patent should ISSUE according to the
regular usage and Invested of the unauthorized
restrictions. Unless some final obstacle be started
the case NAV be considered as closed. The dec
sion of the President will save a m0ndamus from
the Supreme Court, which would have been served
at short notice after the triHing that has been
attempted with its decisions. INDEX
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THE DECAPITATED NAVY BOARD
FREMONTS LAND-CLAIM.

fren Our Own Corresipsaehl 49,.
WASHINGTON, Thursday, Feb. IA, 1885,
The President has announced his purpose with
much emphasis to provide for all the dimissed vie
Tins Of the new Clerk in the House OF representa-
tves. Some Of them have already found shelter
under the wing of the Treasury, and others are
promised protection AS soon the ler t0t'0"'S can
be iudiciOusly applied. Every patriotic place
holder who is now suspected Of Know'Nothingism
Is doomed to execution by sort OF drum-head
court'martisl which is established at the West
End and which has blacklist almost as long as
the moral law. The President says his time has
come and those whOeOmmend appointments at one
end of the Avenue, cannot consistently condemn
removals at the other
Ia length the Senate is fairly under way, in the
debate on the action Of the late Navy Board. A
large majority OF the body are interested in eases
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ASSEMBLY.
THE STATE EEGISEER AND SURVEYOR agt. The
BOARD or RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS.

THg STATE REGISEER AND SURVEYOR agt The
BOARD or RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS.
A petition was received from the Hon. Slas Sey-
mour, State Engineer and Surveyor, asking that the
law creating Board Of Railroad Commissioners be
repealed for the following reasons:
That the duties Of State Engineer and Surveyor were
before the passage the shove mentioned law quite aiu
Gus and responsible bOse pertaining either Of the Offices
whose ncuuheuts constitute the Cana Board % this State
And further these duties require and should receive his und
yided time and attention particularly during the enlargement
OF the Erie aad Canals and the completion Of the
Bstk River and Genesee ' alley Canals
Second That duties prescribed In the act 70 establish
Board Of RAroad Commissioner by which the State Engineer
ud surveyor h member and ex-0e0 President Of sgca
interfere materially with duties formerly .Ll ~
sw pertaining that sce and nom the performance Of which
duties be $ released By the provisions Of said act
THIRD That the Position held By the state Engineer and
Surveyor under sAe member and President OF SAID
Board euals uyon him degree Of responsibility than
~ sachto either the Other 5er OF ihe Board that he
hers Of can daring the Ab-eee Of the state En
sueer from the meetings Of said Board tact turing a
state Engineer and Surveyor would not Willingly ard should
lot lesally b. held TesIonnble.
Fosyh That tie prescribed BY the aw for forming
IL. Beard Commissioner lot such ~ Is eAe laed 70 u
80 ~ ar cunt q reliable good the people Of this stale
Tn elected By the ksead Companies VII Dc
cutie Ia Nv Wb reference 20 the Interests Of hs con
" bS md with the II the Senate quite likely 70 be
- rofsl fsvon'e and who - gate unlikely % -
ted b. his knowledge 70 deharge f.AfaHy ne
duties Of ofee and yet tbs board OF commissioner = -
=, S.,c Fusneer Surveyor made TO wsxht a~
t,r 10 tie rruceedngs VII h0ut um the 1atHre % the
n Al the INTERESTS Of the peore Of ihts Sste
- he travelling publc q Tie Railroad Cepaars tneu
49, rorrs or promoted BY the provisions Of tbs act
The reooe undoubtedly have right 70 know and Il TIE dl
e eert.ntv that ths Railroad a. well - other eo
siioI 5 are conducted RP1l J saa legitimate susSe' P'
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could pay no higher compliment 10 tho Demccsstls
party than by tins o~trscism Of iss tired champions,
but |, will be seen that no favor has been extcnocd
even 10 those Southern men who agree with Mr. Banks
in regard 10 secret Caths and obligations. We look
vain for recognition Of the talents OF Humphrey
Marshall OF Kentucky Of Peroy Walker Of Alahsns.
The whole SCOPE and design OF Mr. Seward--that u
consolidating an Abolition North against minority
Soutk-is subsequently assisted by Mr.. BANKS In We
exclusion Of the representative Of the south nom
Il Sding positions on leading committees.
l'tat Mr. Banks should adopt the novel and msa-
s,rous policy we havc exposed and then that be shoaM
comla emily look forward 10 be peacefully SUBSTANCES
IN tie az ulnisraton Of bis high dutiesthat be who
start. with this declaration OF upon the nights and
franchises u Others should look to be sustained By
lem in rctuIn-that he who prated and bypocuiically
mated Of desire TO be impartial and just in his To-
t,uourr with the representatives of the Americas
p,opIc sla ud dare to follow this pious fraud with the
FsThay nT,nahgnity and fanaticsm which has dls-
iced lila II It formal step in the Speakers chair
rlno.t pszses comprehension.
IT, 80 charges lie at the door Of Mr.. Banks
ho,A fsser.s ION him by irefragable evidence-we
Lind % she a.. araton in which he faneied oontn
cencv who're no ould be willing to LEI this glorious
Trion Side Z" IN 10 that other revolving doctrine
in which he Ntb1 Tilted the question OF the sosotp-
ron of the races 4, suggested test We are DOW 90
MD 10 see that ther of these were the mpusive
outbreak, even OF An clifton enthusiasm but that they
were the we-connsd conceptions OF his heart and hn
b,a;n That man DO I'D be wiling TO let this Union
Is ho tins (or me &, Il time IN American memory.
ccollv nrocecds 10 ignsys and insult fifteen soveregs
States Of This Tpion, a. ID who without blenchng.
exercises power conferred upon eim under the laws
affairs of otbers but TO .ste and paraze those whs
are Il vs nterfered wihse an wen believe that such
a man is willing to let the Union slide. And, also.
when the same man appoints VI The head OF The most
important committees in the III ,use demagogues who
have grown gray obscene obk quy OF the people and
the institutions Of the Southt Is easy tcconceive how
fully he believes in the doctrine OF ths absorption u
the races according to the scisn DC and pblosopbss
nse presented by him in lasc spt ech in Me Hope d
Representative
Such is the brief view Of the fin step. in the pro
posed administration of the Federal Gov@nnent BY
the sectional party of w. H. Seward. We shan have
no more TO saw of il hereafter.
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Total. ,9O8 ,sl6 8

CTbere ia some slight discrepancy the above totals
which we have compiled the details in the Land COmnis
soner Report and his aggregates but this does not affect
the following deductions:l
1t will thus be seen that, though the first rush
for lands under the Graduation Act had passed,
more than one-haf of all the lands sold for cash
within the last fiscal year were sold for less than
the minimum price, while considerably more than
one.tbrd were sold for barely l24 cents per acre.
Such. then, is the state at which we have ar
rived less than quarter of century after Mr..
Clay proposed his plan of Land Proceeds Dlstri-
button to the States for purposes OF permanent
utty-more than half the lands alienated during
the two last fiscal years rendering nothing to the
Treasury, while of the residue sold for cash moro
than half is sold for less than the minimum price,
and more than one third for barely York shilling
Der acre. And the lands are being swept off at the
rate of Thirty to Forty Millions of acres per an
mum, or about twice as fast as the Government Is
able TO perfect the surveys-the aggregate sur
yeyed during the last fiscal year being only l5'3I5
283 acres.
Il il not high time that new system were in
supurated that we should cease to eat mp our
National hertage--tO squander on the annual and
usual service of our Government this magnificent
patrimony at the rate of Thirty to Forty Millions
of acres per annum That the Public DOMAIN
should pass gradually and steadily away from the
Government into the hands of individual owners
and cultiyators is ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; but
ought its proceeds if such there be, to be eaten
and drank so fast as received Ought we not,
when all the arabic aud fertile of the Mssis-
spp Valley shall have been ceded to private owner
ship to be able TO tell our children, Eyes we sold
out your inheritance and here are the net proceeds,
carefully invested and laid up for you :"
There are those who insist on pittng against
each other the system of Land Proceeds Distrlbu-
ton devised by Mr.. Clay, and now prominently adj
yocated by Mr.. Bennett Chairman OF the Commit
tee on Public Lands, and the system of Free Lands
10 Actual Settlers which has more the approval OF
many humane and intelligent thinkers. There need
be no such antagOnsm. Let Congress adopt and
enact the essential principle of each; l. That
whatever moneys shall be received into the Treasu-
nv for Public Lands shall be ratably apportioned
among the States, to be by them consecrated TO
Education and Internal Improvement; and ,. Let
il also enact that every person making home on
the Public Lands shall be entitled TO perpetual
Presumption of the quarter-sectOn Cor eighth on
which his habitaton is built. Both are right in
themselves-Free Land for the Landless and the
Distribution of Land Proceeds fairly among the
States-and they need not be pitted against each
other. Let Congress sanction both and stop the
prodigal alienation of our National patrimony In
behalf of States Roads Pensioners, Spectators,
and everybody else but the pioneer and actual
settler. Ii. G.
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THE IRISH CONVENTION.

BUFFALO, Friday, Fen. To-
The Irish Convention this morning was occupied
principally in receiving the report of the Committee
appointed address the Irish citizens In Canada and
the United States.
G The report explains the object and design OF the
Conv enton, shows the benefits to accrue TO settlers
and emigrans if is faithfully carried out, calls upon
Irishmen to give aid and support to the colonization
movement, and appeals to the clergy to cooperate.
Ten Supreme Directors were appointed-ive from
the United States, and five from Canada-to whom
Convention powers were delegated.
The Committee on Canada Lands recommended
Ottawa Valley, situated in Huron Territory, Canada
West, as the most suitable soil and climate for coon-
cation purposes.
After the transaction Of some minor business, the
Convention adjourned sane de.
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FROM WASHINGTON.
THE PUBLIC LANDS.
,rrespondencs of The N. Y.'Tnbune.

Pictorial Correspondence Of The N. Y. Tribune
WASHINGTON, Thursday Feb. Ii, 1856.
We lave seen that the aggregate sales aud
crsr,ts Of Public Lands during the last fiscal year
ueye over Twecty- -four and Half Millions Of
acres which ought, if not sold at the minimum
priee to have put more than Thirty Millions Of
Dollars into the Treasury. The amount sold for
cash was over Fifteen Millions of acres, and ought
to have yielded to the Treasury near Twenty Mil
lions of Dollars; but the amount actually re-
ceived therefrOm was but S14,4S5,3 o4; while
the receipts for the succeeding quarter
lending September 3Oth LAST had fallen TO
90. 325. 1873 The last year was a very favorable
one for the Treasury since the aggregate OF aena-
ton by the Government during the preceding fiscal
rear was no less than 81 1872 02 acres, though the
sales were only ,025, 735 acres. In other words,
for every acre for which the Treasury received
payment in the year ending with June 1904 be-
tween three and four acres were alenated without
payment-Qiyen away to States, railroads or pen
sioners. Last year happened to be like trough
between two waves--the Swamp Land grab having
nearly run its course, while there was lu in the
railroad grant tempest, and the Bounty Land ma
chinery had not yet come fairly into operation.
But now Land Warrants are advertised in every
brokers' window of Washington, thick as lottery
tickets ever were, and hawked all over the country
at prices twenty to thirty per cent below those at
which public lands can be bought with money; so
that it would be absurd to expect that money, to
any extent, will be paid for land while saving OF
thirty or forty dollars may be made on eachquarter-
section by buying with warrants. Probably two OF
every three acres patented during the present fiscal
gear, and three of every four patented during the
gear ensuing, will yield nothing to the Treasury.
We have seen that, during the last fiscal year.
the lands actually sold for cash have yielded less
than sixty cents per acre, though the minimum
price il understood to be 81 %. How is this
The statistics Of the Land Office make answer
Because of the passage Of Mr.. W. r. W. Cobb's
Graduation bill, reducing the price OF all lands that
have been five years unsod; rating those that have
been ten years on sale and unsold still lowers and
80 on until those that have been thirty years in
market may be grasped at l24 cents per acre. The
Commissioners Report shows that, under the OPP
GRAFTON of this act there were sold during the last
6soaI vaar.
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FxECFTJON AT DOYLESTOwN. PA.

DOYLEsTOWN, FTiday, Feb. 10, 800.
Jacob Armbruster, convicted of the murder of MS
wife was bange to-day within the walls of the jail He
made some remarks on the scaffold denying that he
was guilty of the crime for which he was to suffer- and
declaring that the trial conducted by preludced
counsel and pelured witnesses lie was attended 10
was convicted but he refused to shake hands with
them and denied the minister leave to pray lie said
repeatedly to the Sheriff" lou dare not hang me;
you know you dare not and continued to protest
nj: innocence 10 the last. His dying words were
want no Judge but God" The drop fell, and he
died without q struggle.
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THE PRESIDENCY B0RDER-RJFffAh
CANDIDATE.
Correspondence Of The Charleston Mercury.
WARRINGTON Saturday. Fob. 9. us

Correspondence Of The Charleston Mercury
WASHINGTON, Saturday, Feb. 2, BsS.'
The probabilities strong that the adoption %
the two-third rule will preclude the nomination ssthr
of Messn. Pierce or buchanan by the next Deisse
cratic Convention, between whom the contest rs fcs
the present narrowed down that Mcssrs. Wise and
Hunters friends making strong fight againss
each other to secure the delegates TO the Conventos
from Virginia, so that in the event of such contn-
gency whoever is lucky enough to the virgni@
delegates may become the Compromise candidate:
Wise is decidedly the strongest man OF the two; ana
YOU will find that if the policy of having Souther.
candidate is adopted by the Convention AZ against
Hunter, be is sure TO be the victor.
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KANSAS AFFAIRS.

CIScIEsATI, Friday, Feb. -, 1856.
Judge Conway and Samuel G.. Smith, of Kansas, adj
dressed crowded assembly at indianapolis on
Wednesday evening Kansas affairs. deep sym
patty with the Free-State cause was manifested by
the audience. The meeting merely preliminary
and nothing was done except the passage of resolu-
tions calling a County Convention without respect
party for the purpose of rendering assistance TO the
Free-koil settlers of Kansas.
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NETWORK LEGISLATU RE

BY Our Own RepS-ters.
SENATE. .ALBASr, Feb. Is, 1856.
Messrs. LANSING, YOST and ROBERTSON,
Membets of the last Senate, submitted gerry volum-
nous report this morning, under the following reso-
luiiOns
Is SESATE April -. 1855
Pe.oIred Thata Committee he appointed III. part Of the
SeDste sars she situation q The funds tT t-
Of the late Court Of ChAnoery az The time Of the fbohins
e Ead Court sRd the stsoHnt Of the the
time f sbohus the fad Court the smount Of the at
the present time II what place they situated unds whose
control the any par thereof and ell thrss
persrng said fsnd and tsst they Spo the 10 the
next Legislature.
II had been Supposed that large portion OF That
wac commonly known a. the Chancery Fund was Edng
idle and unprodueve, except for the officers having
it in charge but the resut Of the Investigation of this
Committee prove those suggestions groundlecs.
Their report shows that the fad, much smaller than
generally believed TO be- il active and productive,
belonging TO individuals who in the receipt Of the
accruing interest Of the principal as they become
entitled to the same. OF the entire fund, al the
CLERK Of the Court Of Appeal. holds amounts in stocks
TO s3s OO6 and in securities and moneytO sl7O7 10.
From the report Of the Committee quote the follow
ing tabular statement
Amount Amt Amt Of Amt pa Am. nv Am. in
inv. ia nyst cseh Vs. BET Gctl in hsnds cash
Corsties. Bonds in In delivery Of IT'S. nv in
And stoc ks Count "a in hand Of
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UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT.
W,sutSGTOS Friday. Feb. IS, 1856

WAshlNGIOSi r Iluas' r0N' - -
George Clifford, esq, of New-lork, TINS morning
called up the case Of Kinsman ait. Parkhurst IN the
United States Supreme Court, aud argued for dls-
missal of the appeal on points of law. The motion
was opposed by Mr. Keller and the Court have II IN
der Amusement.
No. l42-Argument continued by Mr.. Gillett for
defendant, and concluded by Mr.. Griswold for the
plaintiffs.
No. s3-Samuel Ward, claimant bark Moppang, VS..
Vim. NJ. Peck, ct al, Argued by Mr. stanton for the
appelees, and submitted on record by Mr.. Benz amin
for the appellants.
No. e41Jas l.. Ransom Thos. j. Davis admir-.
Argued bv Mr. Cox for the plaintiff aud by Mr.. Win
ter Davis for defendant
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NAVIGATION.

CHICAGO, Friday. Feb IS 1885,
The Mississippi river still closed above Cairo, but
lie uayigablc 10 kew-0heans The Ohio river Is open
TO Smiihand.
RICHMOND. Va, Thursday, Feb. IA, 1855.
The james River Is still frozen up and wholly IN
navigable.
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IRON HAVANA.

NEw.ORLEAss, Friday, Feb Is, 1856.
The steamship Empire City, from Havana on the
18th inst, has arrived here.
The accounts of the sugar Drop continue TO be
unfavorable. The weather was bad, and the crop
would probably not be larger than last year. An in
crease in rates was expected Molasses was scarce.
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NON-ARRIvAL OF THE CANADA-NO IT.
DlNGS OF THE PACIFIC.
HALIFAX. Feb. 10.

The steamship Canada, now over due at this por
from Liverpool has not yet made her appearance here
We have no tidngs of the Pacific.
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WING NOMINATION FOR GOVERNOR OF
NEW-HAMPSIIIRE.

CoScoRD, Friday, Feb. i, 1856.
The Straight-out Wings Of New Hampshire have
nominated Ichabod Goodwin the Wing candidate
for Governor.