The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-04-26
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New York, Sunday, April %, 1865.
IMPEACHMENT.

In the High Court yesterday the order OF Senator
Edmunds to allow official reporters to take down the
debate In secret session postponed until Monday
after motion to postpone it indefinitely had been
voted down.
Mr.. Sumner submitted an order providing that the
Senate shall vote the several articles the day after
the close of the argument which was objected to.
He then proposed two new rules that each Senator
shall vote at the call Of his name upon each article,
and on conviction the presiding officer shall pro-
nounce the removal from office of the convicted per-
son. Objections were also made to these, and they
went over.
Mr. Groesbeck, of counsel for the President, then
delivered his argument for the Defence and at the
conclusion the court adjourned.
THE LEGISLATURE
In the Senate yesterday bills for the better protec-
ton OF emigrants In New York and to widen por-
tons of Douglass and Sackett streets, Brooklyn,
were passed. Bills relative to the State militia to
afford passengers certain facilities for transportation
on steamboats,; incorporating the New York and
Brooklyn Tubular Tunnel Company; appropriating
5000 900 for DEFICIENCIES in the Constitutional Con-
vention Appropriation and the West Shore Hudson
River Railroad bill were ordered to third reading
In the Assembly bills to protect passengers rail-
roads, provide for the maintenance Of public parks
in Brooklyn and several others of minor interest
were passed. bill introduced providing for a
new market on the present site Of Washington
Market.
EUROPE.
The news report by the Atlantic cable Is dated
Wednesday evening" April IS.
Prince Alfred was shot the 18th of March by a
man named Farrell member OF the Fenian organiza-
ton In Australia The ball was extracted with diff
aculty and the Prince sailed for England. The
Prince being very popular in Great Britain, the king
dom is vastly excited denunciation OF the crime.
The Fenian murder trials closed for the defence
In London. The new Spanish Cabinet Is complete.
The rejection OF the Federal Debt bill by the North
German Parliament stops oil naval and fortificaton
preparations in Prussia, and the work Of reducing
the army to peace footing will commence on the
LIST of May.
Consos, s3a< o33<. Five.twenties. T0I 70h In
London and 751S a 751l in Frankfort. Paris Bourse
steady
Cotton firm and active in Liverpool. with middling
uplands at 1sSd. and quiet in Havre Breadstuns
quiet and steady. Provisions dull.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The election in North Carolina is now known to
have resulted in a success for the radicals and the
ratification OF the new constitution. In Georgia the
result is still in extreme doubt figures being plenti.
full both sides and indicating very close and
cited contest. Colored members Of the Legislature
are known to have been elected
We have special kilograms from Mexico TO the
22d inst by the Cuba cable. Negrete's rebellion
was assuming formidable dimensions and General
velez was to be sent to quell 1t. Magistrates have
been prohibited from making any further arbitrary
arrests. Jmnez had submitted to the federal
authority.
Ristori and her troupe sailed from Havana for New
York yesterday.
DR.. Ehrhardt, or Edenhardt was blown up by new
fulminator Of his invention in Montreal yester.
day. One man killed and five dangerously
wounded, the inventor himself losing an arm and
his eyesight.
Two detectives in Ottawa swear to having obtained
by the questionable stratagem of placing one OF his
alleged accomplices In communication with him. and
then overhearing the conversation.
Whiskey frauds, involving prominent merchants
and high revenue officials are reported in st. Louis
by the Grand Jury.
BY the late boiler explosion in Manstee, Mich,
nine persons were killed and six wounded.
The coroners jury in the Erie Railroad disaster at
Carr's Rock yesterday rendered verdict declaring
that the speed OF the train at the time the accident
was thirty miles an hour. which, considering the
condition Of the rails on that section was too fast m
safety.
In the Cole. IIscock murder trial at Albany yeser.
terday further testimony for the defence was taken
relative TO General Coles tendency TO madness and
the court adjourned TIL Monday.
Senator Yates OF Illinois, has written letter tt
the people of that state acknowledging the error O
his ways aud promising TO reform again, but refusn,
TO resign.
The stock market was strong yesterday. Govern
ment securities we're very firm. Gold closed ut 1892
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