New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-02-12

appropriation shall be expended for the pay or main
tensnce offs Acting Midshipmen appointed during
the recess Of Congress by the Secretary of the Navy,
in violation of the law and that they be discharged
from the Naval Academy in consequences Of their
illegal appointment, rs agreed to-49 against 49,
An amendment that while this Rebellion lasts, each
Congressional District in the loyal STATES shall have
one additional midshipmau, to be appointed rs mere
tofofe, on the nomination Of member OF the House
of Representatives and the Delegates 10 the presen'
House shall each be entitled TO one additional mid
shipman. was agreed to. Without coming 70 con-
clusion on the bill. the House adjourned.
Tho Democracy bereabout never tire OF howhnS
whining, and yelping about the outrage Of " Albany
lepislstou" for this city. They cry "Let US Alone
Let n. alone" with strenuous lungs, when they are
n. home bu. when they go to the Legislature, they
flood tho ournals with bills and resolutions all about
tho poor, suffering metropolis Soc the Assembly
ye,terday-one day only: No less than ten bills
noticed or introduced devoted exclusively to the
regulation Of our local affairs, and nearly oil BY city
msmbers. Yet these fellows will como back here
and howl about Legislative INTERCHANGEABLE hypo-
critics! Among the bills here referred are these:
To pay the Common Conncil to incorporate Dry
Goods Clerks; to alter the Secondavenue Railroad
route to incorporate Lithographes; to elect two
more Judges; to allow Notsries to live out OF the
c;,v to authorize the Croton Board 10 buy land to
give contractors lien on buildings, to make Loan
Offices nav pawnbrok.rs fees; to elect the City In.
spector. &c. About fly bills have been introduced
previous to these In short Nsw-York City, through
her Democratic delegation, has proposed for hsrsei
more than half the legislation yet offered.
by the arrival of the British stssmship Mehta,
We have Havana dates to the 5tb instant. A rumOr
was afos. in Havana that the Alabama had been
refused repairs by the English authorities at Kings
ton. and had been attacked and sunk by the TiogS
Sonoma, and Santiago de Cuba, but it was coutra-
dic,ed BY the English Consul. The Vanderbilt
which left Havana on the 4th inst reports that the
Alabama was lately at Kingston, Jamaica, for re
pairs having sustained serious injuries from the gum
Of the steamer Hstteras.
The New.York State Agricultural Society held
its annual session yesterday The receipts for the
year are $l7 1853 Or; expenditures, $l3,354 96. In
GLIDING 81 4S6 II paid premiums Of the last State
Fair; cash on hand, 1854 &C. including the State
approximation of g. 900 for fax machinery premiums.
Edward G. Faile of Westchester County WAS elected
President for this year. Utica was recommended ~
tho place for holding tho next State Fair.
The Annual Report Of the Brooklyn Board Of
Water Commissioners shows thst during the year
1892 the total receipts for water rents have been
500, 2e5 95-an increase Of $36,432 50 over the
previous year. The expenditures from May to jan
uary were 49, 1873 81 the appropriations, $67 ,754 Is
i -venezusla, ~ we learn by the arrival Of the
British bark Roanoke at Philadelphia, continues in
very disturbed state. The forces of the Govern
msnt under Gen. Ruben are said TO have been do
sated near Corons and it was feared that this Gen.
eral might be captured, and the war end disastrous.
ly for the Govenmsnt.
/ An epidemic Of resolutions broke out in the
lNew.Jersey Senate yesterday. -Four or five ssts Of
wbereases and resolves on national Affairs were Of
fsred and the whole batch referred 10 the Com
, mittee on Federal Relations.
The mails Of the steamship Bohemian, from
Liverpool JAN y, reached this city last night He
news and foreign files have been fully anticipated
in the State Senate yesterday bills wore passed
to give lands 10 the Agricultural College, and Il
regulate the sale of hay In NcwYork and Brooklyn