The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-05-05
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CONGRESS.

CONGRESS
the Senate yesterday nothing Of Importance was
transacted The bill providing for the pay ment claims
or loyal persons for and subsistence furnished the
army, laid over until Tuesday next.
In the House resolution expressive Of regret at the
Attempted assassination of the Car Of Russia was
unanimously adopted. bill to pay a certain
private claim growing out of the burning of vessels
by the pirate Shenandoah was passed The bill
TO revive the grade of General in the Army
then under consideration and an amendment
20 tho effect that there should be but lieutenant gen
esl hereafter in case OF vacancy occurring in that
Office. was lost Mr.. Deming OF Connecticut addressed
tho House the obligations of the country General
Grant Mr. shelabargcr claimed, as an additional
honor for the General, that no had proposed
the destruction Of slavery month before the
President issued his proclamation OF emancipa
ton The bill reviving the grade passed finally, by
vote OF 1l6 yeas to IL nays. 1t originally intro
duced by Mr.. washburne, the 10th of December last
and reported back from the Committee Military AZ
Oars with amendments. message from the President
in relation to pardons granted and property seized
abandoned and belonging to q bellgerent enemy,
received and ordered TO be printed. The session to-day
will 10 devoted to general debate
THE CITY
Oa, ono case of cholera and two of vsrolod
poreA the ship Falcon yesterday. The cabin pas
senser Of the England allowed the city;
bu the ,teerage passengers remain on board.
Al the meeting Of the Board Of Health yesterday
Mrern0oh resolutions adopted asking power from
tbs Governor provide establishments for the dcten-
tam and accommodation Of passengers arriving in
footed vessels and also TO and provide for such
pecsons reside in cellars dwellings, when, in the
OPINION Of the Board such action becomes necessary for
chs preservation Of public health.
Al the meeting Of the Board of Excise yesterday the
opinion OF the counsel rendered the right of
liquor dealer TO sell at than place the
Lcenso The decision to the effect that separate and
distinct license requisite for each place Several pro-
tests entered before the committee by the liquor
dealers who not endorsed by tho captains and
lion taken their cases. Two arrests were made in
Now York three in Brooklyn for violations Of the
law
meeting Of the Missouri bondholdcrs was held At the
lows Rooms Pine street yesterday afternoon. W. b.
bunoan Esq, presided, and the Hon. Mr. Foot, men,
o of the Missouri State Legislature delivered lengthy
hsoar.e repete with information TO the condition of
- severai railroads in his state. committee OF
Lrec bosahoiders having been appointed to wait upon
No Uovernor of Missouri and confer with him the
subject OF their common interests, the meeting al
jourucd subject to tho call OF the Chair.
To stimulate the exertions Of the parties engaged in
oades yorng eject the capture Of John Ross, the al
lged OF the Wall forgories reward OF five
tho,snd dollars for his apprehension and additional
Of per cent all the stolen money recovered
has offered by the Union and Continental
National Banks. The affair Is still in strtu quo
In tho United States Circuit Court yesterday. before
Judge shpman tho government gained verdict for the
rccoyory quarters for a store withheld by tho
les the ground that the Cor that period had
been injured by storm that it untenable, and
fi.att h0I had cied In
goycrnmsp, claimed that by the law Of the state the
le.aor WAS bound to keep the store ia question in
repair unless IL was so provided In the lease.
Judge Cicrse. in the Supreme Court Chambers, yes
terday decided continue the injunction restraining the
Now York Mail Steamship Company from selling the
Rising Star on complaint OF Mr. George Sumner, Of
tho stockholders OF the company, setting forth that
fraud lad been committed In recent attempt TO sell the
vese, the injunction preventing sale OF other vessels
o. tho company was removed
rho ,se Of Carl Noelte who Is charged with cmbez.
yng several thousand ,haers the property OF Meyer
Co. bankers Berlin, Prussia, ami for whose extradon
several motions have been made behalf OF the Prus-
ssn government, has been again before Commissioner
Newton hut the sheriff Of New York, who has the
cased custody nj the suit OF party who has
menced civil suit against him. still declines 10 surren
DOR Noe,te the United States officials The matter has
beco again adjourned.
Tho case Of the United states vs. John Lambert
who charged with having stolen twenty thousand dol
lars gold the property OF the government, was re.
sumed yesterday before Commissioner Osborn Adj
dtond cy'deuce having been tiken the inquiry wac fur
tber adjourned
Two ticket spectators brought action against Mr..
George Wood, Of Woods theatre, al the Third Judicial
Drc, Court yesterday for interfering with them in the
saic y Gckcta opposite his theatre The complaint
d,sp.. xs,i by Justice Smith
w. noble made some experiments yesterday with
ntr, syccrine at quarry in the neighborhood OF
Eghty -crrd street ,nd Eighth avenue He clearly
dsmcnsir,ei the terribly destructive nature OF the
compcuoi
Qa..sye Never q German, robbed an old genilems n
namsd Rern,ndez on Thursday evening, Of 80 700 IN
gold 81 tse Canal street by applying chloroform, but by
the wschfuness Of the proprietor OF the establishment
who suspected foul play the whole amount
oil sni the robber arrested.
Anthony Reich employed in the store No 49, Eighth
avenue was burned 80 badly on Saturday morning last,
thai he expired yesterday OF his injuries.
Anltle girl named Adelaide stinscn fell into po, o
boiling saicr, on Wednesday last Twenty nth street
end died yesterday OF the injuries received
Orc occurred on Thursday night in tho stables ia
tia and 45i seventh II twas supposed Il
b, lnc of incendares Five horses were burned e
death Tho tass is estimated q, two thousand two hun
drrj jplsrs
The a,rke among the laborcrs in the wilamsbau
rppsvuk stili continues
The steamship cay or London Captain Mirehouse, o
The fomsn line, VIII sail halrp,st nine O'Clock this
(sstur,yj morning for Queenstown and Liverpool The
steamship A1emania, Captain Tranimann for South
ampt,n and Hamburg; the Hermann, Captain wcnke.
for southampton and Bremen and the Lafayette, foi
Bsest aud H,yrc all sail 10 day. The mails by the CT,
OF London ,oj larayct' will close ., the ros onc, a