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= have La Grange, Phillips, Orlandini and rignoli ; on the other Parep2-Rosa and a host other artists, Pike has the same advantage over his opponents that Fritz, in “La Grande Duchesse,” had over the enemies of his royal mistress. He can undermine the enemy’s on with Bourbon, and place all of them de combat. But he should remember that he has certain risks to encounter in his Italian opera enterprise. The principal one is that opera house is new, and needs s strong seitgstion to bring it up before the public and make it, as it deserves to be, the great opera house pt the metropolis, This can only be done by producing first class opera and keep- ing it up to that standard from the beginning to the end of the season. At present, however, the operatic situation may be summed up as follows:—On one side we have beauty and fat; on the other beauty and grace, as far as the prime donne are concerned. The catacombs in Fourteenth street have already inflicted much injury on their garrison. How it will be with the opera house on the west tide remains to be seen. Tho Chevallor Train and Joh® Bult. The American Chevalier George Francis Train, that extraordinary and chameleon-like propagandist of the odds and ends of al! the political theories, socialisms and plans of moneymaking without hard work which have been broached or practised in New England since the landing of the Pilgrims, keeps whiz- zing away in Irelan with a rapidity and effect to be equalled only by the run of the first ex- preas mail train on the broad gauge of the Pacific Railroad through the Indian territory, the amazed red men standing affrighted and partially blinded by the flash. He keeps in continua! motion, lecturing, writing, telegraph- ing, visiting the public works in and around Cork, expressing a wish to enter the British Parliament, scolding John Arthur Roebuck, reading his Rocky Mountain speeches to police officers, planning Crédits Mobilier and Crédits foncier, popping in and out of jail, politely requesting Mr. Disraeli.to forward him the sum of one hundred thousand pounds sterling from Downing street and intimating that he will in- vest a large portion of the cash in building Tines of horse railroads in the cities of Great Britian—beginning, of course, with Cork and Queenstown, where the track could be worked to facilitate the exodus of one or two additional hundred thousand new voters to the United States, or inward for the movement of Fenian troops, just as Train’s whimsical stra- tegy would suggest. Every time Train opens his mouth he sends forth s scream for something new which startles the British officials, just as the steam whistle alarms old women by the wayside when the engineer ‘epens the throttle valve. John Bull is amazed and bewildered. He had had asl ght acquaintance with Chevalier Train previous to his recent landing: from the Scotia, ‘but evidently measured him only as Train, not asa Yankee. This mistaken idea induced poor John to try his old-fashioned plan of police re- pression on the Chevalier the moment he set foot on British soil as a Fenian sympathizer a ‘few weeks since; put it proved a miserable failure, for Train is not only a Yankee, but a ‘Yankee under full pressure to accomplish something, and with more steam on just now in consequence than would serve for any other ‘twenty Yankees in the land, and as much to (Spare as would comfortably animate the mem- bers of all the free love and women’s rights ‘associations in the Untted States, from Lucy Stone and Elizabeth Cady Sianton down to Horace Greeley. Lord Stanley would give any amount of “money to get this political lunatic Train out of the country; but Train is determined to remain, and wants the money besides. Mr."! Disraeli never heard of such a “ curiosity” as Train, The Marquis of Abercorn, Lord Lieu- tenant of Ireland, a very aristocratic and pious old gentleman, who shapes his es- timate of Yankees from Miles Standish and the ladies of the Mayflower, thinks Train a very indifferent “boy from Bos- ton;” and Lord Strathnairn, Commander-in- Chief of the forces, who made bimself so well known to the Sepoys of India, has gone off from Cork to London since Train’s arrival. None of them care to touch the Chevalier. ‘Indeed, they appear not to know how to go about it, If Train were an Irishman “pure and simple” the Bri.ish law offtvers could deal with him at once for “sedilion” or “treason- felony,” as they have dealt with Mr. Sullivan, the Dublin editor just convicted of sediiion, and with Mr. Lennon, wh» has been consigned to Portland Stat: Prison for fifteen years. Train is “seditious” to England every hour in the day, and will in the end give her rulers great trouble ; but they cannot touch him or put him in jail without making matters worse. Inthe meantime his “sedition” pleases the Irish people hugely. The citizeas of Cork, who think that their political condition cannot be made ‘worse by any change, carry him (o his hotel from the lecture halls on their shoulders, and at such an elevation that he is placed almost beyond exact identification on the part of the deiec- tives. Beautiful young ladies wait on him and present him with addresses and confec- tionery. A delegation of this sort appears, in- deed, to have puzzled Train, tor the first time, perhaps, in his life. The Indies offered him a peculiar kind of Irish sausage, prepared by themselves. The Chevalier never saw the like before, either in his early New Bnglaod kitchen or during his tour among the Australian aborignals. He hesitated a moment, accepted it and acknowledged that he did not know what to do with it,as he “could not eat it—a compliment to the Indies—and he could not transmit it to his posterity.” As Train gives off spark after epark of his ejaculations concern. | ing “Johnson,” “Seward,” “Adams,” “ Napo- leon,” “ horse railroads,” ‘‘ Grant and grave- yards in the Wilderness,” “Pius the Ninth,” ‘Lucy Stone,’ “Greenbacks and gold,” “Equality and Fraternity,” and so forth, the Catholic clergy of Cork stand with their hands folded in prayer and an expres- sion of doubt and bewilderment on their countenances similar to that presented by the Fathers of the Holy Inquisition when they had to deal with Galileo in the yoar 1616. In this dire dilemma the English government can pursue only one course, The Chevalfr Train iss political lunatic. He must be duly diagnosed and declared so, either by an author- ized medical commission or a summary act of Parliament. He has too much steam on and the physicians alone can relieve the cerebral congestion. Policemen do not understand the case, Wet Lord Derby bave the Yankee Che- NEW YORK Y{ERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1), 1868.—TRIPLE & valier attended to according to this plan:— Within a few miles of Cork, near Maryborough, stands one of the best managed and most healthfully situated lunatic asylums in Great Britain. Let Train, after a preliminary blood- letting, be committed to this institution as a political lunatic—not & political leader—tor the apace of twelve months, and should he live go long be will certainly come out cooled down to the proper standard, in love with cold water, not remembering ap iota about the one hundred thousand pounds sterling claim, and in fit condition to dine with the Inspector General of Police after he has had « com- plete absolution from Cardinal Cullen. Relative Rank in the Navy. The introduction of the measure to place the navy in the hands of a Board of Survey, con- sisting of three admirals of the highest technical akill, professional experience and valuable general knowledge, haa strangely developed the absurd claima of the staff officers to higher rank In the service. By the operations of the late war additional grades have been created for the line officers, while the staff have not been correspondingly favored. The staff now claim perfect equality with the line officers, and demand not only the highest grades, but places in the new board of control. At first blush their claims would seem to be just and proper; but when we consider how fruitful of annoy- ance and trouble the practical working of the system might be, we readily see that the proposed chanze is unwise, and that it would prove tatal to the efficiency of the service. The proposed scheme would fill the cabin with s number of officers of equal if not superior rank to the commanding officer, who, while they stood upon a perfect equality with him, would enjoy all the immunities and honors belonging to the superior, while they would be fiee from the responsibility and trouble of command. Sach of the staff would have his barge flying a pennant, if ranking with an admiral, and would move to and fro in the grandest style, keeping the ship in a perfect turmoil and bewildering the quartermasters with the complex questions of relative rank. To obviate this trouble the quartermasters and boatewaing, gunners and sailmakers, might be put in the line of promotion so that they could properly discuss questions of precedence and rank. All these claims are exceedingly foolish and absurd. The line of demarkation between the line and staff should be clear and impassable. There should be no room for disputes or chance for unpleasant clashing of rival claims. A man-of-war is built for fighting purposes, and it is reasonable and proper that officers who do the fighting should hold first rank. The staff have their respective departments to direct under the control of the commander, and his rank should be assured in all cases, in order to prevent coll sion of authority. But the staff propose to overturn these wise provisions for the proper discipline and government of the ship. In the proposed Board of Naval Survey there is no need of representatives from the staff, as a properly selected body of line officers is amply able to control the action of the various staff bureaus, and build up an efficient navy. But the question of relative rank should go over unti) some time when it can be properly discussed, and the attention of Congress should be solely given to the measure now before it, which promises well for the future of the service. Let us first have our navy in the very best possible condition for offensive or defensive work, and then we can discuss the claims for higher honors put forth by the staff, which are of secondary im- portance, BOOK NOTICE. Tas American Beaver ann His Worxs. Lewis H. Morgan, auth Troquois.”’ Phi Co. 1868, ‘This 8 @ beautiful octavo volume of 330 pages, liber- ally illustrated, printed in large, clear type. on a supe- rior quality of paper, of » rich creamy tint—very near a first class London book in the excellent style of ita me- chanical execution. So much forthe publishers. The author is entitled to @ length:er notice. He has evi- denily had his heart in thie work, and he has reason to be proud of it, How he came to undertake it he tells us in his preface. In 1852 he was engaged in the ex- ploration of a route for a railroad to the rich iron region on the south side of Lake Superior, and it “go happened, o ways, “that this railroad passed through = beaver district more remarkable, perbaps, than any other of equal extent to ve found in any part of North America, By opening this wilderness im ad- vance of any settiement tho beavers were surprised, so to speak, im the midst of their works, which at the same time were rendered accessible for minute and deliberate investigation im & manner alogether uousual.”” “Our course in passing up and down (Carp river) was ab- structed by beaver dams at short intervals from two to three feet high (above the water), over which re competied to draw our boat, Their bers aud mag- nitude could not fail to surprise as well as interest any observer, Although constructed in the solitude of the wilderness, whore the forces of mature were stil! actively at work, it was evident that they bad exteted and been maintained for centuries by the permanent impressions produced upon the rugged features of tt country,” ‘The streams were bordered continuous! with beaver meadows, formed by overflows from thes dams, which had dostroyod tho timber upon tho adja- cont lauds Fatlen trees, excavated canals, locges aod burrows filled up the measure of their works." A m: of Carp river (a trout brook) represents some twenty beaver dains along the stream within the limit of ten miles, Another engraving represents a skeleton dain some two hundred and ftty feet long acrose the outlet of a small lake, adam which has the appearance of a long pile of firewood ent from small trees and carelessly get up by the woodchoppers. Another datn is described of four hundred and eighty-eight feet in length. ‘The general argument of the book embraces the ehar- acteristics and habitat of the beaver (which extend from the Arctic Sea to tho Gulf of Mexico) ana hi position in the animal kingdom; the anatomy of the beaver; the beaver dame, including the interlaced stick dam and the solid bank dam, mode of construction, modo of diacharging surface water, ; beayer lodges ‘and burrows; subsistence of beavers, bark, wood, roots and plants, provisions for winter, their mode of felling trees, &o.; beaver canals, meadows and trails; mode of trapping boavor; tame beavors, nursed by Indi By of the “ League of the iladetphia: J. B. Lippincott & | omen; statixtics of the fur trade, &c., including mnct- dentally a great variety of information om the game of the wild regions traversed by the author and others 1) contribeting to thie work, the Commercial reroarces of of the Hud. ig inch ‘Whore regions, the business and gamo son's Bay Company, together with many a1 dente and adventurer, We cannot conclude this brief notice without the fol. lowing extract: jn Montana Territory (p. 131) three deaver dams have been discovered in 8 petrified state, They are found upon a small stream thet runs through the Point Neuf canon, and ompties into the Snake river, one of the tributaries of the Columbia. Phe canon is about three handred miles north of Salt Lake City, In Jength these dams are from Afty to sixty feet, with o fall of water over two of them at the centre of about one foot, They were sot in that complete and finai state of petrifaction which involves the change of every particle of the inaf woody material, but rather tncrusted with ime, which, etrating solidifying the entire on, bad given to them @ permanently duravie form."’ Those dams wore probably built before Colum. bus was born, The book may be pronounced ap ard work on the Ameriean beaver bution to scienes. The abitat of ti ann, is Rochester, N. ¥ pansive and stand. valuable conirt. author, Mr, Mor. TEL BAP HIG NEWS FROM 4LL PARTS OF Th= WORLD. JAMAICA. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALO. The Outrage on the Whaler Hannah Grant— Meaaures to Obtain Redress. Havana, Feb. 18, 1868. Advices from Kingston, Jam., inform us that the American Consul (Gregg) has telegraphed to Washington demanding the services of a man-of- war to obtain redress for the outrage committed on the American whaler Hannah Grant. The captain has gone to St. Thomas to obtain assist ance from that point if possible. FRANCE. The Press Law Bill—Violent Debate on the Gov mt Adverti Clause=Foreign Newspapers, m Loxnoy, Fob, 18, 1868, The bil for the regulation of ine press is stiil under iscuasion in the French Legislative body. A violent debate sprung up in yesterday's session on the question of the distribution of the government ad- Vertisitig patronage. The opposition claimed that tho Iibera! journals were justiy entitied to a share of ihe advertisements published by the national and muuic:pai authorities, Tuig was demanded as @ matter, not of necessity, but of principle, the speakers deciaring that im @ law for the reguiation of the press ail journals should be treated with the etrictest impartialit; The effort to have tho bill modified by the insertion of & provision io t! 8 effect was defeated, but the majority In the Corps Législatif to-day an amendment to the bill for the reguiation o: the prev, permitung the fre admisesion of foreigu papers and the unrestricted sui Of French journals, was rejected. Panis, Feb. 18 ~Evening. M. Max Outrey, Ageat and Consul Genera. at Cairo, Egypt, has beea appointed Minister of France co tho Empire ot Japaa. GERMANY. The Emigrant Passenger Traffic—Prussian Plaa of Laspection of Ships. Beriix, Fev, 18, 1868, Count von Bismarck proposes the establishment the different ports of Germany of a board of federa! offi- snto the condition of vessels bound to An effort to prevent the repetition of the Lotbnitz horror is the immediste cause of this salutary step on the part of the government. ‘The Deposed Princes Held to Strict Account— Must Be Loyal to P Berwiy, The Upper House of the Diet passed the convention made with the aeposed Powers, whose terrt have been annexed ic Prusé:a, ihe King engages to suspend ail payments of money to the princes and to confiscute their property in case of disloyalty, BELGIUM. Efecis of the Antwerp Petroleum Fire-The Ineurances. Lovpow, Feb. 18, 1868. ‘Thu lous of the American bark Eureka by the fire at Antwerp is doubled coutrad:ciory reports having been TeCeiVOd as 10 the names of the vessels destroyed. Astwenr, Feb 13, 1863. ‘The losees entailed by the fire at the petroleum docks Ip this c'ty ov Saturday fai, almost exclusively on Dutct and Beig:an ineuranse companies, ENGLAND. Fenian Cofspiratore—Lord Derby's Health. 4 Loxpon, Feb 18, 1868 The examination of the persone arrested on susp:cion Of be:ng connected with the Clerkenweli expios:on has terminated, A:: ihe prisoners have been remanded io confinement except A.ian, 4; et whom ao evideuce fas Deon @::c:ted, and o8 baz been discharged Lexpow, Feb i6—Evening, The bu!io:ins im regard to the condition of Lora Derby report thas be * :mproving IRELAND The Habeas Corpus Suspension Bill—Ite Con. tinuance Vote . Lospos, Feb. 18—M:da:ghy The House of Commons io-night !o Comm ttee of the Whole agreec to renew she suspension of the privilege Of the writ of babeas corpus ‘pn Ireiand, ABYSSINIA. of General Napier’s Position. Pani, Feb. 18—Eveuing. The Moniteur du Soir has a report that sbere bas been atop in the advance of ihe Brish im Abyssinia, and that General Napier 1s cai:ing for reinforcements, French Re Oficial Examination of the Egyptian Milie tary Altinnce. Loxpoy, Feb. 18—Evonipe, Ta the House of Commons thie eing Sir Stafford Northcoate, the Secretary of e for India, made a statement in regard to the p troops tm Abvesinia, He eaid that at the request of the Eoglish government the Pacha of Egypt had agreod to recat! bie sugiliary force from Abyssinia, aad tne reports which have since veeo ed that the Pegyptians still remain in the country and were advanc- tag With tho British bave not yet Seen oxpla:ned by any official deaparch: od by the goveroment, The Secretary also steed that the exped:tion was 00 longer suSoring from scarcity of wales Marine Inte Havana, Feb 18, 1868, ‘The sazar market is dull, OMers aro made at 73 reals per arrobe for No. 12 Dutch standard, The steamers Mercedita, Captain Smith, and Tappa- hannock, (aptatn 6 arrived here to-day from New Orleans, Also steamer Eagio, Captain Greeno, from New York. The steamer Liberty, Captain Bain, arcived here yes- terday {rom Baitimore. EUROPEAN MARKETS. { | i Commerctal Loxpow Moxey Marker,—Loxvox, Feb, 18—6 P. M.— | Console closed at # 92% for money and account American securiles closed at ihe following rates :— United States five-twen'y bonds, 71%; Hiinois Central Rutlway svares, 88%; Erie Railway shares, 49 y > Fraskront Bourse —Fravqvort, Feb, 18—Evening. — American bonds closed strong. Un! ates five-twen- ties closed at 75% a 76 for the issue of 2862, Panis Bourse. —Panis, Feb, 18—10e16 d. M.~1he Bourse is steady and he rentes are sirong, wt Cortoy Marker —Liverroot, P, si,—The cotton market closed active the following authorized quotations :--Middling Orleans, 9%. The saley of ‘the Livenroot, Feb 18—5 P, M.—The nel ler aro iavorable, The market for is buoyant, osccrrs MARKeT,—Lrvmeroot, Feb, 438, Sd. Wheat, 16s. 1d bs! a joe vane and las, bd, for No, 2 rea Western, 6a, 6d, Oats, 32 10d, Peas, 458. dd. Flour, 318, 61 Livewroon Provisions Macet —Livenroot, Feb, 1$-~ Heat, 1i5e, Pork, Tis, for new, Lard, 559, 64 Cusese, 624, ‘Bacon, 30, jot Propock MARKeT.—Liverroot, Feb, 13— amor at 248, for No. 12 Dutch standard, 4. medium, Lie, | Turpentine, Relited petrotoum. 1a, Lonpox, Fab, 185 P. M.—Whale ons. Sperm oil, £110 per ton. Lin. per ton, Linseed cakes, £10 68, per ez a? . a ag zo E00 10 eoed oil, EUROPEAN MARINE NEWS. Captain reer, Fob, 18,—Tho atoamship Ville do Pa arrived hore Surmont, from Now York on the 8th ima this morning en routs to Havre. QueeNerowy, Feb: 18,-The steamship City of London, Caprain Brooks, from New York on the Sth inst, bas arrived hore ou the way to Liverpeol, ANOTHER INDIAN WAR. Two Thousand Save: e War Pade Extonsiv> Depredations Reported. Sr, Loum, Feb. 18, 186%, ‘Tho Fort Sanders Inder says that am army of two thousand Indians are marching into the Sweetwater country from Idaho and Montana They are on the war path, and bave burned ai: ihe ranches north of Roda Springs and driven off all the etock, They have also burned the houses and compelied the ranchmen to seek refuge in caiions. — Se ey VIRGINIA, Pore COU Preceea.'949 pr the Convention=-The Repub- les Ricamonp, Feb, 18, 1868, The Constitutional Convention was engaged to-day chiefly on the oyster question. It was resolved not to tax citizens for the priviloge of catching ovaters with tongs, but to tax the amount of sales of oysters, During the debate one of the members called another a scoundrel, ‘A proposition to appoint a committes to devise means oF commen the Chesapeake and Ubio Ratiroad was tabled. ‘Yne Republican State Committee met to-day. A convention will be called to meet ie this city ter the adjourament ot the Constitutional The names of Messrs Hawksburst, of Aloxandria; Rivers, of Albemarle; Rice, of Shenandoah, and Thomas, ry, are spoken of i connection with the Gover. porship. Railroad Accident on the Baltimore and de ‘an, Feb, 18, 1868, A passenger train on the Baltimore aud Obio Ratlroad ren off the track last night near Farmington, Va, The tieeping car, containing twenty persons, #as thrown down av embankment thirty feet high into Buffalo creck, Tno car was eutiroly destroyed. Wiltiam Har ris, of Dayton, Oni, was the only porson seriously in- jured. GEORGIA. The Convention—Amendment to the Article ow the Legisinture. Aranta, Feb, 18, 1868, ‘The Constitutiona! Convention to-day exempted all manufacturers and instituuons of learning from taxe- tion. ‘The words ‘two-thir whorever they occur ia the report of the Committee on Logisiative Debate, were stricken out, and the word ‘majority "” inserted, to defins the powers of the Leaisiature. Mr, Benjam'n Hill will speak bere on Saturday next. De, S.ser bas been petitioned to reply to him, SOUTH CAROLINA. The Convention—Dtscussion on the Homestend Law-The Proposed Lonn to Purchase Lands for the Poor, oe eee Cuantustoy, Feb. 18, 1868. In the Canventior day twenty moro sections of the constitution were passed, There was a tong discussion on the Homestead ‘aw, which proposes the exemption of iwonty-fve hundred dollar homesteads from gato for aii debts, tor .ba prosent. past or future, Senator Wiison teegraphs trom Washington that wOzress Wi! out loan One m:llion doliars i the Siate to purchase laud ‘or the poor. FLORIDA. The Convention—Harmony Restored Between the Factions—General Mende av a Medi- Lae Tartanasenn, Feb, 18, 1968, ‘The Const'tut!onal Convention to-day reorganized on the basis propoved by Genoral Meade. There was much extiiemout among the delegates and Lobbyists, Genera: Mende had @ conference with the leaders, majority and m nority, and made propositions of cou- ciliation and barmony which the majority immediately accepted, an’, after alittle hesitation, were also accepted by the minority They are as foliows'— The prosideats of both winge of the Convention are to resign; the (our delegates declared inc:ixibie by the majority are co take their seats, and tho four delegates deciared eligible to vacate; the majority to decide alt questions of eligibility, which are to be determined sp fol convention; Colonel Spraguo, commanding the State, to cal: the Convention to order and a new orgaci- zauion ty be made Colon ali men and classes Fortv-five membera were presout out of forty-six. Horatio Jenkins, late President of the majority, wes re-elected by a vote of 32 to 8 The standing rules and resolutions of organizatim adopted by tho ma- jority were readopted. Genera: Meade and staff appeared in the hall afier the organ:zation aud wero intr duced to the Convention. Generat Meade said he was gratified that both sides had 4 hem im the spirit of hberality and hoped rinontous action would eusue, The strict test voto 1a members remal The Convention constitution thar far adopied by the d readopt it. W, H. Gleason bas beew e.erted Ginancia: ogent of the Convention, MISSISSIPPI. The Couventica= eilintic Members Frater. nizt Jacnsos, Fob. 18, 1868. The two members engaged in dispute yesterday made mutue. conceesions, apotogized and shook hands amid applause from Three additional sections of sbe Bui of Rights were adopted Tue Jemocraic State Convention meets bore to- morrow, ALABAMA. The Oficini Returne of the Election—Genernal Mende Refuses to Allow Their Pablicati: Montcomerr, Feb. 18, 1863. OMficiat returos frow forty-two counties Lave been re. ceived at the District. Headquarters, but undor an order from Generai Meade publication of them is refusea Th vote of the State on the question of ratifica- ton, tt # estimated from partie! returns, will be abous 72,000. Tho white vote is less than 3,000. Half the registration is 81.000 LOUISIANA. The Convention—Work 1. finite Period=A Prenmble. Without New Onzeaws, Feb, 18, 1868 To the Reconstrection Convention to-day an ordinance was ‘introduced, Which was laid over, regulating weignts and 8, The Committee on Style and Arrangement mado ew a lengthy report, describing so many alterations and amendments that one member said the Conventon comd —bard!y ~—recogotze ite own croation tbe constiution a8 reported by He moved to recommit the report. d discussion. It was finally re- commited wih ctions to have the constitution Privted without an for comparison with the copy as atended by the cammittec, Work is thus .a:d out for au indefin.to period, ibe Cor vention then discovered they had adopted no | preamble (o the constitution, ama discussed Uo matter | for a coupio ef hours, after which they adjourned. - 1 the committ KENTUCKY. Election of Thowas ©. MeCrecry as Caited States Senate: Lovreviiug, Feb. 18, 1868, The detwocratic caucur of the ature, held last bt, to nom:nate a Uolted States Senator, after eight ineffectual efferta to meko « oraination, adjourned at a into hour to MACk Again at a quarter pact eight o'clock thie §=morning. The leet ballot stood:— McCreory, 46; Bright, 20; Stant 2% «=6At the caucus mi Mr. Bright, who was not a candidat large vole notwithstanding and Stanton withdrew, and Thomas C. Me Ys, Davies county was unanimously nominated, He har democrat, has a clean record and is re- he State intellectually, wer In the Lagi: —=MeCreery, 110; Barnes ‘ood ing (third party), MISSOURI. lature to-rlay (radiem!), ¥; He orae Near St. boule, Sy. Louis, Feb. 18, 186: ‘The ico gergo in the Mississippi river os Caru and botweon that place and this city broke away yes. 4 during lam night and this morning the river has been clear of the lo for several miles above and below tho ety. The prospects are good for « for Breaking of © g out from the barbor, The report pabliohed here om Sunday that Wittam A it to compromise with George W. Pome. HEET. *" YORK. NEW ae “tHean Victory. Election in Syracuscutepar. “~" '* '*** ‘Symacue®, ¥e~ - At the municipal election in this city to-day M Charles Andrews, repubi ‘can, wag elecied Mayor ov General John A. Green, Jr., by about °8¢ hundred ma- . The entire republican city tick “8 elected by Srecsed anjorition,* OF the supervisors a ad aldermen five out of eight of the republicans were cia '4- Shocking Accident at Mudso: Hopson, N. ¥., Fob, 18, $508 ‘Aahoe,Sing accident occurred at the Caisktll stat!o.” on the Hud, 0 River Railroad yevterday as the noon ex- Press train up Dassed that pla Mr. James Dedrick, Seamaster in the > mploy of the Waterville Manutactur- sds, Greene county, had driv o Prva lied pos (of wool and hitched his team on the east side the track, Whilo he was engaged on the otn.@F side of the track, hearing the train approach (whici? suddenly came around a sharp curve), be staried 1 cross the track to altend to Kis horses, when the cow-caccuer of the engine of ee approaching train struck hin Tai completely from his feet and tbrowi race against @ telegraph pole, tani Ry y: < td completely off and mutilating b@ eee aed wan tity. manner, and killip; im instantly. x years of age an leaves a wife ant Ia;go famly. OHIO. sxork Packin, in Cincinuact. INCINNATI, Fob. 18, -!598. ‘The price current which will be published to-mee TOW makes the following report of the packing done in o's city during this season :~-Whole number of hogs packes + $56,831; rage weicht, 210 pounds; average leaf laxd, 25 pounds; showing ® falling off as compared with tast year of 10.779 head, 22 pouds of hog in the average weqht and 644 pounds in lard. WEST VIRGINIA. Commencement of Proceedings tn the Bishop Campbell Will Case Weaizsuvra, Feb. 18, 1968, The Bishop Campbelt will case, involving half a ail. Nom of dollars, commenced this morning. Tha beat jogal talent of the country is employed to conduct the case, among whoin are Judge Black, Geuoral Garfeid, Messrs, Benjamin Stanton, George W.. McCook aud Wil: Nato A. Kennon. BROOKLYN INTELLIGENCE, A Mas Snoors Hinsenr OM APYNEHENSION OF Poverty, —John Wessel, grocer at the corner of Goid and Tillary streets, biew his brains out about two ‘clock yesterday afternoon from apprehensica of poverty, It appears he repaired to his room on the second floor of the bouse about an hour previous and wrote a letter to his brother, stating that bis money was all gone and that it would be impossibie for him to ro- gain what ho had lost, and that he had therefore de- termined toend nis ife On breaking open the door the deceased was discovered tyimg upon the floor ina [ve of blood, grasping a horse pistol, with which he ad committed the deed, in bis toft hand. When discharging ue pistol he evidently hela 1 under his chin, and the ball had passed up through biv mouth and lodged tn his brain. The deceased, it appears, had raised about $4,000 with which he had purcha-ed the store, 1¢ having been represented to him as being a good inveat- sacovered, however, that the busine ry despondent. He bad only seen marned four months, and bie wife was abseus yestorday whon be committed the deed. The Coroner wil hold an inquest over the body to-night, Sciciow et Hancixc.—George Jochum, a native of France, forty-four years of ago, committed suicide last evening by banging himself to the rafters of his rs! dence, in Cook strect, sear Morreii. KD. Deceased leaves « young wife. No cause ty assignod for the aci, Tuk Mcnowr ov Heyny CongLonG,--The inquest on the body of Heary Conkling, the cld man who is alleged to havo been murdered by Peter Connors, was to have been concluded yesterday afternoon hefore Coroner Smith Owing to the absence of severai of the jarymen the case war sdjourned wi Thursday aficrnoon, Jersey v. Fav. rrom «4 Scarroto—One Man Kuieo,—Shortly after one o'clock yesterday afternoon two carpenters, named Joan Ford and Francia Devany, who were em- ployed on the Louse 334 South s:ctn street, had just re- turned from their dinner and mounted the acaftold,when nd both men were dashed to the Uy killed and his companion severely injured, The was taken to his residence, only four doors from the ‘The body of Ford was taken by the friends to the corner of South Second and Prospect streets. An inquest will be held by Coroner Warren this evening. Ford was forty years of age and leaves a wife and one chiid, Tur Tucnoat ExrLosion —The body of the missing fireman, Alonzo Diver, wax found in the wreck of the* James A. Wright yesterday afternoon when the water liad been pumped out. er Warren wil! bold an quest this evening, The injured men are still in great auiter- ing. Diver was only twenty-one years of age, South Orange. ACCIDENT TO A BRaKEMAN OW THE MorRis ano Lacnx Raixoap,—Osear (. Crane, 9 brakeman aitached to ine traim which loaves this station al 7:15 A. M narrowly escaped being crushed to death yesterday morning, It appears that while adjusting tue coup lings of the onuine te the train tho ‘atter unexpoct edly moved forward and caught the unfortunate man im the abdomen Fortunate.y, however, ihe engine was get forward a few inches and the poor fellow's saved. As it was he sustamed inunes of « but pot necessarily dangerous character Tre Tox Jersey Crry Potca Bite Passxn,—Thie bi!) was brought up for a third reading in the Senate ex Mouday evening A petit signed by some pergous, princi+ ora in Jersey City, was prosented, ask. nck be retained in the commission. The a portion of tt gave wa: ground, Ford being in: tife erious ing that Mfr. promoters of the bili refused to entertain any euch proposition, wrgi woul 4 ig that the retention of Mr, Finck also (bat of two subordinates, and & «most objectionable — feature in people of Jersey City, to whom ether of KZ commissioners would be mor imnitied even on the republican side ce the retirement of Mr Pangborn the working of the dd invel ote of oleven to fv Tuk SeNeeT AND Recisrey Laws,—The bill repealing at law passed the House yesterday afternoon by a vote of forty-five to five. ‘The bili repealing the Re- gisiry law) was brought up, when the members trom Fasex apd Barlington asked that their constituencies be ted from its provisions. The House refused to a, and the bijl wae ordered to @ third reading, After the expression of the majority of the House hes of the dissenting members, Mr. Pric id be regretted very much that the ark shotild be Coeroed in this matter by the but the Speaker declared the gentietan's re. out of order. Tan CoNsTiTUTIONAL AMENDMENT IN THE LrortsLaroR® — In the State Senate yesterday, when the it resolution withdrawing tho assent of Now Jersey (o she fourteenth constitutional amendment was called, the committee offered a gabstitute, the same in effect, but presenting reasons for te withdrawal of the agseut of the tare ai length the consideration of which was postponed uni to. morrow SeA°HING EXMIBITION—JAGK HICKS” FAREWELL. About four hundred of (he many friends this weil known pugilist bax made duriog his recent eojourn in this city assembled fast evening at 609 Broadway to wit- ness an exhibition of the fetic art for his benefit. Owing probably to she announcement that Jack, having be come weary of remaining in this country without the promise of w fight, intends ebortly to return to his native beath, a great deal of interest was mani. fosted in the entertsiament, many of the sight. goers being prominent men of the city, Among the n present, who have gaimed ai times renown in the “myatic ring, ‘ore John C, Heenan, Rocky Moore, Jimmy Elliott, Joe Coburn—the lesser lights of thie ik being innumeradle Order was maintained during the various sets-to of the evening, altho by occasional encouraging cries o respective performers, it wae evi- dent » flame of feolin 4 ng beneath the ealin exterior. ‘Unole Bul i oMeiated as the btlity and grace ve unmistakable carefaliy at- mek hard end young Shaw, whe @ that their “istic cu: bad Before he h is Maion « id with aa “Good Sized on. Je latter was euffering some- what from an excess of bourbon or kindred spirits, and coneeg: there was fun for the erowd. t little selence di of daring which both Young Quinn and followed, and detighted the audience, sbioned low, Duoney Hi exhibited Noonan practic Le NM, after whi came 1 6: . Who received their mend of use, As a pleas. W diversity, Harry Hill introduced his wrestling nov- tired hie skill against Roverts, the English puree, Conditions were vest two out of and olbow hold, with “square back falla’’ nite animated upon thie match, The borts quite easily, awd won the money ‘or three, collar Astting was Novice threw with many rounds of apptan’e. staction, For ihe w nd tently much to his » De ouciary Bud PF? eted theraselves. i! “eft a all parte of the M08 a maniiesved ia tbe “aity rego ved itself ip *. Lowry had ‘many friends present. wince tim by the:r shouts, Each was very © sourtton got to work, and seldam has ® oe sty geen so much of * almost ini bition ia ip, S's gloyicat “ Py A $24 Geter! catiod as n “7 ea decidedly four Himes ct, te stage and o. owe FOUgD Jack demon tQuse he used ns in the rigs pimgnat ated that bis sk:t! and rus. exh:b:ticn crosea ans Of Service as the proper time, Lm @ comparat ‘ly hour, mat embracing ihe opporiuane fee eae our, mn wed bin « vy the hand and ——__ eet THE WERALO AND THE WESTERN UNION COMPANY. [rem the Tslegrapher | Tho Naw Youe Hamaco still coutinues :ts criicisues ow the management of the Western Vaion to egraph Com - . In reply to the denial of the oticers of tiv company that its !: have been offered ‘or sale to tue goverument, or anybody else, and ther assertion that they will not be wh:ie under the present management, i asserts that prominent stockbolders not in ibe man- agement a1 meer the job, (hough doubt tess withous 1 of the present execuuve officers. The agqment next annuai «tection, Anconnection wiih this matter, the communication annexed trom -W.iiam,"’ will ve read with interost:— To THe Ep:ton oF THY TRLEGRAPHER:— 1 bave noticed the comments of the Heranp and its Washington correspondent upon the over of the West ere Union Petegrap Company to sei! ‘is propeny to the government for $60,000 000, ‘Ther ou which the HeRaLD has overlooked. Western Union Company soms timo s.ce ceptance of the provisions of the Nat onal lelegraph buf, under which the government has the right to take the Property of the Western Caion Company at an appraisad to be made by one agent on the pari of the government, one on the part of the compagy and a third w bo selected by these two, It would be hardiy sate for the government (o trust 0 large a job to tires men—(be o,muuces for br.bery would be too great; bue we euppoas yn would be meccssary after the rove Te upon @ price, and tue whole mattor wou come before Congress. Ti any such sum aa sixty mili 1§ should be tised upon, it would atord awple margiu, 49 the HekaLo sugeeste, for the Wesera Untom Company’ to buy cp tne todby, aud to secur every mem= ber of Cagress Who might be willing to uccept a re tainer. But the to such a many iptimases bli ei7 to be cb: is one phase Vpe Ountey cannot afford and will never submis inte; and we do vot beheve that there are mbers Of Congres who would dare (ace thee consutueuts attey’ favor ng 8.ch ao enormous Iraud. Compeutiva—em eting and prospectve—in tho tele groph.c business 148 removed the best argument in favor of interference’ On the part of the coveromont, and if busineas mem and the puolic generally will bestow their patronage judiciousiy they will secure foe themselves, without government intervention, wil thas they have a right to expect—viz, prompt Falla bility aud fa.r rates, WILLIAM, The PCOR ANO THE POLICE. Superintendent Kennedy yesterday ieued to the cap. tains of the various preetncts tho following generat order: — ‘The Commissioners of Public Charities and Correcuom of the cty of New York, at the request of the Com- missioners of the Metropolitan Police, will, on and altor thia Gay, and unut otnerwise determined, muke pros vision to feed such worthy destitute persons who, being out of employment, may have lodued the pre- codiug night im the s.auon house of your precinct, ab the Tombs, Jefferson uarket and Essex Marko prisons, datly between ihe boure of seven and eleven o’cloce A. M. These meals are to be furniehed only on the recom mendation of the captains of police of the respec ive pre= cincts im the city cf New York, and to faciliiae your procedure therein order tickets on the (ommisiousrs of Charities and Correction will be furnished, ou which you wil. write the mame, age aad sex of the person to ‘whom it is delivered, and be signed by yourseif in order that che tickets may not become an articie of trattlo. The tickets wili only be good for one meu! each on the day of its date, to furn.sheng these tickets care Is to be taken that the Yy Persons alone are supplied, The regu- not to be regarded of tuts class, destitute wi lar “bueamec’ —————— GENERAL NEWS ‘TEMS. The ‘nsang woman Mrs. Weaver, confined im jail tm Pembroke, Canada, for the murder of her five children, hung horee!f to tho grate over her ceil door on Monday and when discovered she was doad, Democratic ciubs are being organized in Augusts aad other o:tiea ia Georgia. A dioodiess due! took place on the Arkansas side of the M:ssins.pp: river, opposite Memphis, yeaterday be- twoen (wo drug of Memphis, After an exchange of tifty pacea, without damage to either party, ‘cably settied. Horace Groeley iectured.im Louisville, Ky., last might on “'Self-made Mep,'" Fiacl her's grocery store and three or four ad~ joining buildings ip Aiton, Ill., were burned on Suu~ day night. The losa is about $15,000, A committee of the Ohto State Board of Agriculture left Cotumbus yesterday for Cleveland and Toiedo tw make arrancements for holding the woxt State Fair. ‘Aman named James Henry was fatally injured yore \drday on the Aibany and Susqu Railroad, near ~chenevas, while endeavoring to teat of horses from running before th The Evening Telearam tion equal to all the other city ev is constantly ahead in news, ani temporaries in the following ftem: IN THE FIRST EDITION IT CONTAINED— BROOKLYN SAENGER. THE FESTIVAL OF THE, MORNING DESPATCH ES FROM WASHINGTON, OL US IN NEW ENGLAND. MORNING REPOLTs FROM WALL STREET, IN THE SECOND EDUNION— TEL! io 11 FROM ALL PARTS, DESPEKA’ ENCOUN WITH A BURULAR IX OHIO, EXPLOSION OFA LOCOMOTIVE, KILLING SEVEBAL BN, PROCEEDINGS IN THR LAW COURTS, CRIMES, ACCIDENTS, axe Usots AND LOCAL IN THE THIRD EDITION— * SHOCK TRDER OF A CAR CONDUCTOR, THE COMPLET UNY IN THE FIRE DEPART. MENT INVESTIGATION, DERPERATE ENCOUNTER WITH HIGUWAYMEN 1 DINGS OF CONGRESS, EGRAPHIC DESPATCH ES ano TOCK AND MARINE REPORTS. MONEY, TRADI A.-A.—Jnpanese Hair Stain Colors the chair, whiskers and t cor he a beautiful black reparation. Color will a box. iway, aext to Metres All Who Suffer fi find relic WISTAR'S Batchelor’s Hair Dye.—The Best in the world. theonly Dye; harniiess, ro! instaataaee ous, Facvory 16 i street E ys For Young Men, on The Keror Ab in nt to Youth and Karly Mw . wit mane view of te ddress deiphla, Pa, Be Sure and € MES, WINSLO! having the fre simile ho outside Printing of Every Executed neatvess and despaten, and at lower rater ‘lau clad patel, ani BIRUPOLITAN JOB PRINTING ESTA. a atreet, Paid tw rave pad [or na and ott kinds of Gold ond Stiver. TAYLOR & OO,, Bavkers, 16 Wall stract, Nt. ae Metropolitan Job Printing Establigh. M Nassaa sireel, le) prapared to furwish Garas. Cir. rosters nud every dusctiption an be * twenty five pe n the city. “cent less thaa iu These Wood Hangin decoration all the appearance of soild woodwork, ther « cheaper prices than paperhanuings are m elegant aad are durable. Th old methods of wain Drawing Rooms, de, tour at 179 Broadway the paving ; neat had passed that Hoard of Alde. men (or thei wet e oden pareme t edly in favor Of wou D ‘ouch hasty i perior to the other wooden pareruent ask permission of the Common Couweil to lay & sample, the me as the MI s Her Wooden Pavement Company dit urday, ‘They asked permission to ia Wreck, beiween Browdway and Mereer The Stafford want to pave trous failure sotae twenty years aac superior to the Nicolson or other w will termine, and we think ih wou hy ty themselves and the prope fore applying for @ coutra ‘any of the properiy owners un tbe tition for the f ays i of the sirect vin we sign, ir the Nicolson--the and Brond sireets— wae |s 40 oF for a Covgh to Go as ft a the foohdnt on came you are ete 4, hint A ‘asing that 8 tw Vroame d Hai Dyeing wil