New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-04-21
NetpIlprk daily Gribn'ts
TUESDAY, APRIL 81, 1868.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Cor,,,i,t,e on the Harbor Defense bill reported
IN favor of appropriating 100000, the money to
he axoended under the direction Of the Governor,
,be Controller of the State, and Senator Morgan.
(Thi, will be great disappointment to certain par
ties in this city who have been expecting to have
finger in the money-bag.l The Conference Commit
tee on the Canal bill reported against enlarging
locks west of Montezums this year, but in favor Of
survey and report of the cost TO the next Legisla'
ture. The report was adopted, and the General
Government is invited TO furnish one engineer. The
bill sppropriating half million Of dollars for the
purchase of arms was amended by reducing the Up,
preparation to $l5S0OO and ordered to thiIo
reading. 81. A.
In the Assembly the bill authorizing 'ne
formation Of Banking Associations unoer Tue
Congressional Banking act was reeouinl''eu,
the bill appropriating the surplus oil the oanai
Revenue was ordered to third reading. Inc
following bills wero passed; Providing Tor
recording Internal Revenue Stamps; relative 70
letters of administration on estates oil non
residepts; relative to labor contracts Tor State
Prisons; relative to moneys and property in custody
Of the Clerk Of the Court of Appeals the bill ineor-
ro,atiDr the American and Mexican Railroad and
Telegraph Company was lost, and motion to re-
consider tabled relative to assessmens-losti the
bill amending the Militia laws was fayorably re-
ported.
The Tammauy Society elected Sachems last
evening There was but single ticket and no
row. Elijah f. Purdy, Copperhead, was chosen
head Indian. Among the thirteen Saebems chosen
are the Controller the Counsel 10 the Corporation,
the Street Commissioner the City Inspector, two
Commissioners of the Alms-IIouse two State SEN
ators one Alderman one Supervisor, one ex-Sherlii,
one ex.Street Commissioner, one ex-County Clerk,
one ex-Judge, &c. Some Of these self-sacrifclng
patriots have fed at the public crib for thirty years
Or more; some of them not SO long; only one OF the
lot has never held Office higher than cerkship.
Yesterday the t1ial of Ignatz Rsdetsky, charged
with the murder Of Sigismund Fener, in 1861, was
commenced in the Kings County Court Of Oyer and
Terniner. The court room was filled to repletlon
with spectators. Ex.Judge Stewart Of this city is
counsel for the prisoner, assisted by Messr'. james
and Dunphey. Daniel d. Morris, Dist. Attorney
and James Troy, esq., the counsel for the people
OLly five witnesses were examined, when the court
adjourned.
The INQUEST on the body Of Mrs. Thomas, OF
Weehswken Heights whose sudden and mysterious
death is supposed to have been caused by poison,
was continued yesterday before Coroner Farrell Of
Jersey City. Two OF three witnesses were exam
med without throwing new light upon the subject,
and the case was further postponed one week to
await the result of the chemical analysis Of por-
lion of the ntestnes, which is now in progress.
The remains of Lieut.. Col. Kimbsll Of the 9th
regiment, Hawkins Zousyes, arrived 10 this city
last evening, from Washington, in charge OF the
oiut Committee Of the Common Council and Com.
nittee of the friends of the deceased, and were
escorted by guard Of honor from the 7lst regiment
N.Y.S. NJ. to the Governors Room, City Hall,
where they will be in state until tomorrow, when
The obsequies will take place.
There was an enthusiastic Sumter demonstration
ct Hitselbergers Hall, in the 10th Ward, last even
ing. The audience was composed OF ladies' and gen.
temen residing IN that ward aud they were ad-
dressed ably and eloquently on the affairs Of the
crisis by the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and Thee
dore Tilton.
The Navy Department has received letter
stating that on the I'd inst. the United States trans
port steamer Union hove in sight Cape Fear in
distress. In tie afternoon it was found necessary
70 abandon and destroy her by fire to prevent her
rom drifting ashore TO the Rebels.
The schooner Antelope, Capt. Chids, from
Charleston, via Port Royal arrived at this port yes
,erdag morning She was prize to the United
States steamer Memphis, taken off Charleston, and
her cargo supposed to consist Of sat or saltpeter
The Confederate steamer Barasse, from ST.
Mays, Fla, with cotton for Nassau, was lost at sea
about the 10Th inst, having foundered. Her crew
we're picked up by the bark Concord and arrived
here last night.
There has been no further Copperhead outbreak
In Indiana leading Democrats are cOunseling sub
mission. Report says that another Union man was
killed in Brown County on Monday.
The Councilmen met yesterday, referred Mayor
0pdykes Message against the passage Of the Broad
way Railroad bill, increased the pay Of Park-keep-
BIS Is per cent, and adjourned.
The French gunbo4t Catinat, Commander Fa-
oere, from Charleston S. c. arrived here yesterday
morning in 70 hours. She left the U. S. iron-clad
trousides at anchor
In another column will be found general order
prescribing important regulations to be observed
with regard 70 regiments whose terms Of service are
about to expire.
A grand Union meeting was held last night at
he Maryland Institute, Baltimore, under the aus
pices Of Union Leagues. The resolutions were Of
!he right sort
Georgia is still refractory. On the 18th inst,
he bill TO indorse the Confederate bonds which had
passed the House, was indefinitely postponed in the
Senate.
In the Stock market yesterday morning, the
movement was Irregular and the market generally was with