The New York Herald Newspaper, April 26, 1869, Page 4

4 ee EUROPE. THE FOREIGN POLICY OF FRAN SERIOUS COLLIERY RIOTS IN BELGIUM. An English Expression of Cuban Recog- nition by the United States. The North German Lloyd steamship Donau, Cap- tain Ernst, from Bremen 10ta, via Southampton 13th, arrived here yesterday. She brings mails and de- tails of our cable telegrams up to dates of sailing. Arumor was current In political circles in Parts recently to the effect that Napoleon had purchased the duchy of Luxemburg from the King of Holland for the sum of 27,000,000 francs. In Berlin the idea prevails that the probability of war between France and Prussia depends upon the approaching elections in the former country, If fa- vorable to the country peace will continue; if con- trary, a rupture will immediately follow, The French Btendard of the 12th persists in the assertion that several members of the Orleapist family have advanced seyon millions of francs to the Duke of Montpeusier, On the 12th instant the Prince and Princess of Wales were at Sebastopol. ‘They were to visit the Alma on the following day. The operative masons in the employment of ali the principal masters in the trade in Manchester struck work on Saturday, the lth instant, the de- mand being @ reduction of time from fifty-four and a half to forty-eight and a half hours per week and arefusal to be paid by the hour. ‘The suspeasion is announced of Messrs. Hallam & Madge, tinplate manufacturers, Morriston, Swansea, Wales. The awount of the liabilities 1s not yet authoritatively announced, but it is ex- pected that they will reach from £70,000 to £80,000. The Manchester Examiner thinks there are no in- dications of an immediate settiement of the dispute at Preston, as the weavers continue to strike. An- other strike among the cotton operatives has com- menced at Chorley. The St. Petersburg journals state that disturbances continue among the students in Russia, so that the universities of the capital of Kazan and of Kiew have been closed. Areturn issued on the 12th inst. states that the Bumber of paupers of all classes in receipt of relief in England and Wales on the Ist of July, 1868, was 971,387, On the Ist of July, 1867, the number showing an increase in 1868 of 45,845 over the previous year. Prince Arthur visited Trinity College, Dublin, Ire- land, ou Saturday, the 10th inst., and was presented With an address, to which he delivered a reply. M. Dupuy de Lome, the well Known naval en- gineer, has been permitted by the Emperor to resign rE | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 26, 1869.—TRIPLE Baring Brothers & Vo., of an issue of £14,110,000 of pore government tour per cent bonds, the pro- ceeds of wich are osteasibly designed for railway purposes, The bonds are of £20 cach (though, if de- sired, quintupies of that amount can be obtained), and the equivalent ainounts 1m franes and Dutch tlorins, The price of issue 13 equal to sixty-three per cent, iess the allowances, so that £12 12s, will have to be paia foreach bond of £20, The reimbursement at par is to take place in eighty-two years, by annual drawings, the first of which is to be effected on the 1st of November, 1870, The instalments extend until the 20th of January, 1870, and, untii that date, the: imperish government has at last distinctly en- gaged that it will not put forth any further issues. It will be noticed that this respite applies only to the period during which instalments on this new loan will be in course of liquidation. Although the dividends are made payable at Amsterdam and Paris, nothing 1s satd in the prospectus about the opening of lists in those places, from which it is to be inferred that the London market is mainly looked vo on this occasion. The cash proceeds of this loan at the subscription price show Close upon £7,000,000, and it will be curious to see to what extent the Lon- don market, already Srerengelies with foreign stocks in general, and with Russian securities in particular, Will respond to this fresh demand. FRANCE. Important Debates in the French Chaubérs on the Foreign Policy of the Empire. ‘The Marquis de ta Valette, Minister for Foreign Affairs, in the sitting of the legislative body on Fri- day, April 9, during the progress of the discussion Upon the budget for foreign afars, in reply to ques- tions put by M. Juies Favre respecting the relations of France wiih Tunis, Prussia, Rome and Greece, he revenue realizes from 15,000,00Uf. to wun, The interest upon the foreign debt total amount oi the revenue, France will continue her eiforts to protect the rights of her subjects, but at the same time hor influence cannot always be at the disposal of private en- terprises. We have uot bad to pursue any special negotia- tions with Germany. ‘This attitude on our part shows our sincere desire to maintain good relations, avoiding all inter- ference whatever {n affairs that are purely German, Changes which have occurred in Germany are followed, fore complete tranquility sets in, by au interme diate period of aspirations, misunderstandings and re . Time alone can mend what time has dot ‘This state of things is for us a motive to avoid every interierence in questions in which we are not directly inter- ested. Legitimate reasons alone could lead us to depart from tuis attitude of abstention, and we do not foresee in the prescut situation of aifairs any motive for our so doing. We respect the rights of our neighvors, and we have no cause to regard to Tunis the situation of that regency ts ob- 0 1; 3 fear that ours will not be likewise be respected. Our rela- tions with Thaly are good. The Italian ministry has re-en- tered a path dictated by conservative principles. On the other hand, the Fontiucai goverament ts also progressing in the reconstruction of 1 utthe moment has not yet arrived for ug to revura, purciy and simply, to the Septem! convention and to evacuate the Pontifical territory. With regard to M. Jules Fayre’s question respect- ing Greece the Marquis de Lavalette showed that France had in the East but one policy, namely, that of peace, and added:— Such were the object and result of the conference. No doubt the difficulties which gave rise to the dispute between Turkey and Greece have not been settled; but those countries have disarmed, and have resorted to peaceful negotiations. Far from having humiliated Greece, the conference afforded the gran tacle of the whole of Europe calmly waiting several daya for the decision of @ sinali country on the ques- tion of oF war. (ireece came away from the confer- ence more powerful than before; for she had inscribed upon her dag respect for the principies of taternational law waich are in Vogue among all civilized countries. de Lavalette rendered homage to the firmness ng George, who abided by his resolutions, not withstanding the revolutionary agitation which pre- vuiled in Greece. ‘The Minister of Foreign Affairs concluded as follows:— Our foreign relations are good. We may say that peace, his post at the Ministry of Marine, and has an- nounced his intention to come forward as a candi- date for the representation of one of the seaport towns in the next legislature. The number of can- didates already amounts to nearly 1,000, A tailor, named Crawsbaw, kicked and beat his wife to death in Miller street, Manchester, recently because she refused to pay for drink which he had asked some associates to share with him !n a public house. The Grand Duke Nicholas, of fussia, when lately Proceeding by railway to Odessa, had a narrow escape from destruction. The imperial train con- tained, besides the Prince, the English Ambassador, Lady Buchanan and several personages of high dis- tinction. It had just passed at full speed over the bridge of Seim, between Koursk and Kiew, when tne whole structare fell im, and another train which fol- lowed, full of travellers, was. precipitated into the river, This accident has cost the Minister of Public Works his place, Disheartening accounts are given of the state of the cotton trade at Liackbura, England. Nine mills, including several of the largest, are entirely stopped, and others are running short time, It is stated that the Poor law officiais are overbfirdened with appli- cations for relief and that the appointment of assist- ant relieving officers will be necessary. A letter from Ostend, in the Independance Belge, states that intelligence has reached that port of two attacks by armed pirates close to the island of Petala, near the coast of Acarna- nia. The first was on « three-masted vessel of Samos, from which the marauders carried Off a sum of money and all the clothes of the passen- gers, besides taking away with them the captain and his young son, whom they kept in durance as hostages for the payment ofaransom. The same gang afterwards made an assault on the Galacsidi, a veasel of about the same tonnage as the other, bu’ were received with a well sasiained fire of musketry and were compelled to sheer « ENGLAND. The Kecognition of Cuban Indepeudence by the United States. Tho Lonpon Times of the 19th tust. contains a column editorial on the recent action of the House of Representatives of the United States in relatign to the prospective recognition of Cuban independence, from which we make the following extra The House of Repr tives at Washington has closed its session with a characteristic act. It has passed a prospective resolution jor the recognition Of Cuban independence by a majority so Jarge that one report describes it as carried unanimously. More tuan a mouth ago a similar resolution was adopted by the late House of Kepresentatves and strangely coupied with @ profession of sympathy with the revolution in Spain. in both cases the vote could nave none but @ moral effect, since the consti- tutional responsibility rests with the President, who has already received 4 inemorial on the subject from the Cuban insurgents. The House of Kepresenta- tives, however, assures President Grant of its sup- port iu the event of his seeing fit to recognize any de facto government in Cubs based on republican principles. The belief of the American people that Cuba must Sooner or later fall into their hands has long beea all but openly avowed. Not only the intrinsic value Of the isiand, but the consciousness that i might be worth infinitely more to America than to Spain, ir- resisubly recommends the idea of annexation. * © ©” Par ve it from us to represent this action, however premature, as 4 moralenormity or as ap intentional insult to Spain. Even if it were an in- tentional insult it might well have been provoked by certain high-handed proceedings of th feet, which concern ourselves as well as the it is utterly and fagrantiy imconsiste grounds upon which the Alabama claims have been always supported by American diplomatista, The complaint agains: Great britain ts Wiai we couceded belligerent rights to the Confederates with undue haste, though not til! alter belligerent rights had been assumed by the United States government through @ prociamation of blockade. Witu # far weaker justification the American House of Com- mons now urges the President to wake a far stronger course. So faras the facts are known there Is no comparison between the position of the Cuban in- surgents and that of the Confederates in the first year of the war. ‘The utmost that is alleged on behalf of the former, in the duress to President Grant, is that two-thirds of the island is under their control, and @ majority of tue population in their favor. In respect of capacity for seif-government, they are immeasurably behind the Southern whites, and. nothing but the internal embarrassinenis oF Spain has enabled them to hold their own against General Dulce, Yet it is proposed only to recog- nize them as belligerents, but to recognize them as an independent State, without awalting the issue of the contest. Again, we say, this may be right, but if it be right, how frivolous are all the charges against the British government in respect of its attitude towards the Southern confederacy. Let us immagine @ simi- lar resolution having been carried in our own House of Commons and communicated to Mr. Seward. ‘There is a difference, indeed, in constitutional power between the House of Commons and the House of Re- resentatives, and (he possible secession of Cuba has ong been familiar to the American mind, but ail other differences tell on the opposite side. It will greatly surprise us if Mr. Motley does not emphati- cally repudiate this ex post facto precedent and give up its defence in despair. We freely admit, on our et that President Grant is in no degree responsible or it, and ts perfectly tree to open negotiations on Mr. Seward’s basis, as if it did not exist. We only commend it to the attention of those who, forget- ting what passed when Hungary revolted, draw une favorable contrasia between American and English observance of neutrality. In the diplomatic inter- course of great nations fu quoque arguments are wholly out of piace. If England has done a wron to the United States a subsequent wrong done by the United States to Spain cannot be set olf against it, ‘The real moral of the case is that, #o long as govern- ments act honorably by each other, too much weight should not be given to manifestations of feejing in popular aasembiles. Issue of a New Russian Railway Loan for ©11,110,000 Stock, {From the London Times, money article, April 13.) ‘The prospectus vas put forth yesterday, by Messrs. the object o( our wishes, is avither compromised nor un tain and that we shall maiotain ik by all legitimate meat Tu the West we shall do, uader different circumstances, that which we did to preserve peace in the East. A fearful re- sponsibility would attach to whomsoever, giving way to na- tional susceptibility, should huri two’ great nations one against the other. ‘The policy of France is the policy of peace—a policy which we shall uphold with the aid of the great powers of the State and with the help of Almighty God. ‘The Marquis de Lavalette resumed his seat amid great cheering from all parts of the house, M. JULES FAVRE rose to express satisfaction at the declaration of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. M. Thiers aiso thanked the government for its statement with regard to Germany, and recommended absolute non-interference with the German movement, which, he said, should be allowed to develop itself. In the sitting of the Senate on the same day Count Bouet de Willeaumez endeavoredgto show that the French armaments were not excessive, He was fol- lowed by M. Michel Chevalier, who said that he did not think it could be questioned that 100,000 men per auDUM Was & serious drain for the country, and even admitting that there was less squandering in military and naval expenditure in France than there was elsewhere, yet that the armaments were a very heavy charge for the budget was so self-evident a proposition that he might well decline to demon- strate it, The disease of overgrown armaments was, he would admit, @ general one; it was a European disease, and he had no hesitation in re- garding it as ove of the greatest calamities that had ever afflicted Europe. This was the more to be. regretted as that prague of soldiering did not exist in the United States. This reference of M. Chevalier to the Yankees caused a storm. Mar- shal Canrobert exclaimed, ‘The Americans have no neighbors?’ Vice Admiral Count Cecille ejaculated, “They have only the red skins to pro- tect themselves against;’? General Meliimet shouted. “They cut their own throats—they fight among them- selves.” Several Senators called out, “How about the secession war!’ M. Michel Chevalier went on, nothing daunted, and ally, in the teeth of what is uow going on in the United States, asserted that aithough there ftad been a certain amount of antipa- thy between North and South, yet on bemg ap- pealed to by their leading men the Americans had Suppressed all these antagonistic feelings, and they had had the wisdom of establishing friendly relations between the various secuivns of tue great Common. Wealta, and they were reaping the healthy fruit which they had sown. M. Rouland refuied M. Chevaler's statements and approved the measures taken for the deience of France. He said that perfect union existed between France and the Emperor. His speeca was toudiy cheered. Marshal Niel said that the present footing of the army was suited foratime of peace. The present budget, as it stands, aud the budget to come tn 1870 were both peace budgets, and it was the most traperative duty of the government to secure tbe safety of the country. The number of men draited for actual ser’ amounted on the Ist of March to 430,000, whereas formerly it reached as high a figure as 400,000 men, Marshal Niel, in con- clusion, sald, “The army could, uf circumstances de- manded a slep, pass Irom a peace footing. The following are the expressions used by M. Thiers in reply to the Marquis de Lavalette at yes- terday’s sitting of the legislative body:— ‘The sentiment in favor of confederation tends to reawaken in Germany, since there has been a conviction prevalent that France harbors no thoughts of this confederation m event ul, turee y France. GERMANY Strength of the Confederate Army. ‘The Confederate Army, which in general annually COStS 55,585,965 UM year 1570 py 1 army be composed of 116 regimencs of infantry, of which 103 are Prussian, % Saxon, 2 Mecklenburgers and 1 Hessian; 16 battalions of chasseurs; 75 regiments of cavalry, of which 66 are Prussian; 22 regiments of artillery; 15 battalions of engineera and 15 bat- talions of military train. The strength of the army is as follows:—12,924 officers, 34,923 non-commissioned officers, 9,498 musiclans, 245,965 privates, 2,185 hospital attendants, 1,289 su velerinaries; total, 209,734 men and 73,307 horses. ‘This does not include the armies of Baden, Hesse, Wurtemburg aud Bavaria, The two first named States bave estavlished their troops on the Prussian organization. Bavaria has accepted the Prussian division, but presery istinctarmy. The German forces at present consiata ol sixteen corps Warmeée, of which ten are suppiled by Prussia, one by Sax- ony, two by Bavaria, one by Baden, one by Wurtem- burg and one by Hesse. e entire force, without counting the , Consists, when on a war foot ing, of 600 PRUSSIA. ‘The French Press on the Present Position of Prussian. ‘The Opinion Nationate of Paris of the 10th men- tons that a serious question has late been the or- der of tne day in Prussia, The national liberal party, energetically following ap its only ain, reqaires Prussia to endorse the North German Confederation, with federal responsivie Ministry. Such a prope would evidently result in the restraiming, and to a certain extent the annailing, of the present federal Councli, which represents the confederate sovereigns, and would consequently bring down those same sovereigns§ from the rank of viceroys to thatof simpie prefects. But discontent aiready rife among the confederate and annexed population, and Count Bismarck thinks it imperatively im- prudent, under the existence of such excitement, to call forth the anger of the sovereigns. Consequent- ly, there is aconflict between him and his oid friends, aud tn Berlin public opinion is deeply preoceupied respecting the result of this political struggie, Both parties are animated by the same desire, but do not agree on the question of opportiuevess of circum. sianc BELGIUM. Grent Colliery RiotsLoes of Life. Accounts from Brussels, dated April 10, say thata strike, accompanied by disturbances, has taken place among the workmen, puddiers and colliers of the extensive coal works and machinery establish- lishments of Messrs, Cockerell at the village of Seraing, near Liege. The police and gendarmes have restored ‘order bat it is feared that further dis- turbances will take place this evening on the fort- night's bein ven out. The garrison at Liege has mone to Bersing, d the Bowe Bilge s that a detachment of gendarmes has also proceeded tuither from Brassels, Brosee.s, April 11, 1869. At Seraing—the scone of the great strike of colliers and incers—after the usual payment of the fort Highs wages had quietly taken place. a sanguinary collision occurred between the rtoters and the troops. ‘There were several kilied aud wounded. During the might ers were comparatively quiet; the milt- tal ver, remained under aring. er cuilieries ha rather sinister rumors respe: rioters are in ciroulation, the strike, and Affairs in the Eastern Department=The Cap- ture of Mayari--Heavy;spanish Losses—Vale maseda Shut up by the Insurgente—Excesses of the Spaniards. From an interesting correspondence addressed by @ resident of Santiago de Cuba to a friend in New York we make the following extract:— SANTIAGO DB CuBa, March 39, 1899, The column which, under the command of marched Colonel Lopez Camara, lately to Mayari, had on its way various encounters with the insurgents headed by General jo. This ofticer understands ambuscade warfare and Fabian policy most perfectly, and the Spaniards themselves confess that he outwits them at this game. Camara spent fourceen hours in performing the last ten miles of his journey from the numerous ambuscades he was eX} to. Behind every tree and rock, from the top of every hillock, the patriots kept up & constant fire. He lost altogether eighty-tive to nine- ty men, among them a captain and two lieutenants Killed, and on arriving at the vill @ desperate re- sistance Was made, which lasted tive hours and cost the Spaniards the loss of seventy-six men, among whom was @ captain whose wile is a native of San- tago de Cuba. Marcano retired when he had com- pletely exhausted his ammunition, If the patriots had arms and ammunition in abundance, not a Spanish soldier could traverse the country. On his way back to this city, Camara met with similar losses, and, although the government have done their best to conceal them, bringing in the sick and wounded at might that the people might not see them, they are well Known. ‘The muskets, cartridge boxes and other yalprecnts be- longing to soldiers who die in the fleld are also se- cretiy brought into the city, but there is always some one to watch and see, Yellow fever also begins to make havoc among the troops. On one aay twenty-two men were takea to tue hospital, of whom seventeen died, ‘Tis sick- ness is & formidable ally of the Cuban patriots, ‘and 1¢ Wilt doubtless show all its force during the coming summer months, A small body of sixty or seventy men, who, taking a circuitous route and disguising them- selves aS insurgents, succeeded in making their way from Bayamo, where Vaimaseda is shut up, to Manzanillo, was met on their way back by Modesto Diaz and completely routed, losing niue pri- soners, twenty-one killed and any wounded, ‘The forces under Generals Figueredo and Donato Marmol are encamped at Ramon, near Cobre. A body of 200 of these was detached towards the Puerto de Bayamo to capture a convoy composed of fifteen pack mules that was going from Cobre to Paimna, escorted by eighty men (intantry) and twen- ty-five cavalry. Figueredo attacked the coavoy, aud alter fifteen minutes tring captured it ‘Tie escort not being abie to defend it, fled, after losing six men Kilied, eighteen wounded and four prisoners, ‘the convoy carried provisions for the garrison at Palma. In these several encounters the patriots have suf- fered few losses on account of the nature of their warfare, for which they find great facilities in the thickly woodea plains of Cuba. Their greatest loss lately has been at Mayari, where they had ten Kuled and twenty-one wounded, In tie meantume the government, despairing of Morten g the insurrec- tion by other means, is rendering itself guilty of bar- barities worthy only of the dark ages and of the reputation for crueity and despotism which the Spanish government enjoys. A Mr. Arveaga was imprisoned a few months ago on suspicion. No evidence being found against him, he Was set at livery and went oi to the imsurgent camp. His unhappy family are now suffering from the cruelty of the authorities, who ordered them to leave the city within the pe- riod of twelve hours, But the unfortunate people had not the means to go abroad, and in con- sequence Mrs, Arteaga, a respectable aged lady, and her daughter, a young gurl of eighteen, were pub- licly led through the streets, surrounded by guards, to prison, where they are yet detained like common criminals, Adolio Rodriguez, a native of this city, was sick on a farm in the vicinity of Jiguani. This young man was among the insurgents two months ago, but through tll health retired to that farm. He remained there all this time confined to his bed till the moment in which Valmaseda’s column passed there, twenty-five days ago. ‘nrough conversation with the servants the Spaniards found out that Rodriguez had been in company with the patriots, dragged him from his bed, though he was suifering from fever at the time, and shot him dead. Francisco Puent y Aguirre, with three compa- nions more, were accused at Mayari of having given. succor to the insurgents in the shape of provisions and ammunition. Nothing was proved against them about the ammunition, and as to the provisions, all their crime was that when the insurgents passed throug Puente's estate he gave them food and ci- garg. But this was suilicient, and they were all shot on the plantation. ‘The day beiore yesterday a poor negro was pub- licly executed because tt was said that during the proceasion ou Good Friday he tried to raise up a tu- mult and cried “Viva Cuba libre!” No tumult took piace, and as tor the cries, they were heard all over tue population, A body of troops left here three days to attack the encampment at Ramon ago bur could not get further than six miles from Cobre, being met by considerable forces under Figueredo, and was obliged to retreat. From an officer belon; ing to this corps I learned the foliowing gfact:—A colored man named Batista, who had been with the insurgents ana was one of the few who availed of the ainesty, was found by the troops on the road, and, being searched, a letter was discovered on his person, in which a brother of his told him that the mobilized volunteers had been on his plantation and robbed him of ali he possessed, including hia clothes, This incensed the soldiers, and they reil on the poor man with their bayonets and murdered him, The slightest suspicion is enough to cause a man’s house to ve searcued, his papers examined and him- self dragged to prison, Not even foreign citizens areexempt from this dangg. and as there are no foreign War Vessels In the i bor the officials have not even this check upon their unruliness. An American man-of-war 18 much needed here to pro- tect the lives and property of American citizens. On awaking this morning the inhabitants of San- tiago de Cuba were apprised of a lamentable event. A son of Lius Tejada, a young man of eighteen, was, with his father and an elder brother, in the insurgent cump. He Was taken ana brought to this city. Several days ago a rumor was heard that he was to ve shot, but no one could believe that such rigor would be displayed towards a youth of such tender years. ‘The report, however, was too true. At haif- past four o’ciock tis morning, when it was yei dark, and the streets deserted, the poor boy was dragged from his prison and silently led to the Campo de Marte, where he suffered death. A few early risers, who were going to market, were the only spectators of the deed, and they all agree to the heroic courage and fortiiude of the boy. Two or three times on his way to the execution he cried out “Viva Cuba livre!” and the soldiers attempted forcibly to reduce him to silence. His strength did not fail him a single instant, and before receiving the jatal discharge he said:—“I die for Cuba. i die happy. Toey wanted victims, and they chose me. My death wiil not prevent Cuba being free and independent.” He died like a hero. ‘The officiais say that they wished to pardon him; but on being examined he repeatediy sald, “If 1 am killed and come to life again | would still hate and fight agatast the barbarous Spanish government.” Another Spanish Outrage on the American Fling. New York, April 24, 1969. To THe Eprror or THk Heeaup:— On the Ist inst., while the American schooner Ela, M. Pennell, of Machias, Maine, was off Stirrup bay, Great Bahama Bank, in British waters, a Spanish war vessei fired a gun across her bow, compelling her to heave to. An officer and force of men were then sent on board, who demanded to sce her papers, as also to search her. Finding nothing of acontraband character on board, they then re- tired and allowed her to proceed. The schooner was all thia time in British water, and had the na- Uonal flag fying when fired at. Wnen compelled to heave to se was boarded without being asked where she was bound to, as is customary in such cases. Will you be kind enough to intorm me by What laws of pations the Spanish naval officers were authorized to perpetrate this indignity on the fag ot the United States? If our vessels are to be searched, or even stopped on the bigh seas with im- punity, it would ve best to inform Americ: of the fact. THE FOURTH WARD MURDER. Post-Mortem Examination, Ab inquisition in the case of Thomas Hughes, who Was kilied at No, 16 New Chambers street, by being Shot with a pistol in the hands of Emil Butts, as already reported In the Herato, was not held yea- terday. Deputy Coroners Shine and Oy assisted by Dr. Thomas ©. Finnell, mad post mortem examination of the body at the Oak strect police station, and found three pistol shot wounds on the ast §=6bone; one of the bullets pierced both the right aud left ventricles of the heart and jodwed in the pericardium sack; the pericardium contained at least a pound of clotted blood, Death, in the opinion of tue medical gentie- men, resuited from hemorrhage in the pericardial sack, caused by the wounds received. Two of the bullets from the pistol lodged in the breast bone. Coroner Piyon will hold an inquest on the body at twelve o'clock this morning at the Fourth ward ata: tion house, No. 9 Oak stres Deceased was @ mar ried man, hut, it would seem, did not live with his wife, jis father-in-law lives at No, 26 Mott street. DAMAGE TO RAILROADS BY THR FLoops IN VI MONT.—The Burlington Press says the severe flood in Vermont have occasioned serious injury to UW railroads, The Kutiand Ratiroad is carried away in Pittsford, ocoasioning a break which it will take several days to repair, compelling the road to carry ita [7 and baggage nine miles round, to Ratiand. No mails arrived from the South on Thursday, There is-a break on the Mena J Central at Braintree, The Rutland Herald has details of the flood in that sectiop. No very serious injury 16 reported, thongh the raiiroads are under water aad trains stopped. SPRAGUE. The Senator from Rhode Island at Home What is Thought About Him—The Quarrel Between the Spragues and the Browns Sprague on the Inside Track. PROVIDENCE, R. 1, April 22, 1869, ‘This, after all, is the proper place to comprehend our friend Sprague. Those fellows in Washington— those lawyers of-the Senate especially—have no competent idea of the breadth and ability of his character, They laugh at his utterances and put him down generally as @ nuisance and an enigma. ‘They know better here. True, they feel very indig- nant at his wanton assault on the honor of the First Rhode Island regiment, but beyond that there is little disposition to criticise Sprague. Nevertheless, though I have been here the best portion of a week talking with scores of men who were either for or against Sprague, I have felt considerable hesitation in sitting down to write under the perplexity of hearing both sides of the story and always hearing some new fact either pro or con, Coming here as the representa- tive of an independent paper, with instructions to tell the truth about this Sprague quarrel, I have found myself a good deal in the position of the man in Balzac’s tale who was always starting out to avenge some fancted aspersion on the character of an ac- quaintance, but changed his mind on hearing that the said acquaintance had & reputation not exactly sans reproche. Let me, however, in a@ few lines, put this case of Sprague’s so that your readers can understand the whole dispute that has agitated Rhode Island and made a chapter of novelty in the records of the United States Senate. Sprague, the Senator, has immense interests around here, He has been marvellously successful in business in connection with his brother, Amasa Sprague. Perhaps, after all, Amasa deserves the most credit for this sue- cess. He is older than William, though he looks much younger. He is young America personified. Very juvenile mm appearance for one at the head of such enormous business, but possessing a fund of energy, sound sense and forethought that is in evi- dence all around this city, William Sprague has ac- complished some famous things also in business. The two brothers have been absolute chilaren of for- tune so far. Whatever they touched turned to gold. There are no failures in their history. They employ over ten thousand people and wield their millions Loeeane Brown & Ives are a firm of rival wealth. ‘hey have mulls like Sprague, and their money is in- vested in all sorts of ways. They are without the dash of the Spragues; in fact, -they are an old- fashioned, conservative kind of family, very ex- clusive, very aristocratic, I would say almost feadal in their notions of how _ society ought to be organized. Between these ae feud, pie and the Spragues there is a deadly ‘oth are fabulously rich; both control Rhode Island, Sprague attacked this family in that extraordinary speech of his in the Senate that aroused the ire of Anthony and drew from that genial gentleman such areply as Cato in his mood of scorn might have made. Sprague thought he saw Brown & Ives at the battom of Sxere ting nae has worked agalust his ponses or commercial interests for seme years. Anthony took the Brown & Ives side of the quar- rel, Sprague struck out with abandoned reckless- ness and raked the whole crowd with @ merciless severity. He accused Anthony of being the bribed henchman of Brown & Ives. He accused the First ode Island regiment of cowardice at the battle of Bull Run, and attributed their action in that curtous fight to the influence of the million dollar power—meaning Brown & Ives. ‘There were some relations of this famity inthe regl- ment. Robert Ives was killed. Frank Goddard was the coward, according to Sprague. He shirked the responsibilities of the fight, as Sprague states, Sprague himseif took the regiment to the front. He was imperious and arbitrary, but at the same time daring to rashness. He thought he saw cowardice in the First Rnode Island regiment. He thought he saw the influence of this million dollar ower at Work to save its relations in the regiment, herefore it was that he flung recklessly out in his remarks about it; and yet, I can give credit to some of the statements 1 hear, the First Rhode Island Was a mighty conservative regiment at the battle of Bull Run. its composition was eminently aristo- cratic. Some of the privates were representatives of tuillions of dollars, It was the créme de la creme truly of Rhode island. The loss of any of its members would involve money and mourning on a large scale. Sprague did an awful offence in Leptin pope I have met a good many members of the regimentand there is a unanimous feeling of fretful ind! tion among them on this score. “Why did he do sot? “What cause had he for it?” and other such inter- rogatories of reproachful ire break forth from every one of them without exception. “His theories,” they continue, “about the finances and so fortn are all right enough, but his assault on the Fivst Rhode Island 1s without justification altogether. That alone 18 enough to make him the most unpopular man in Rhode Island.” They say, further, that Sprague wants to rule Rhode Island and destroy the influence of Brown, Ives, Anthony, Tom Jenckes and that entire concern. He wants, they say, two votes in the Senate in place of one. He desires to kill Arthony’s chances for re-election next spring and get a man, perbaps Smith, sent by the Legislature of the State to the national Senate. Now you may begin to realize this Sprague quarrel. Let me, however, teil a story | heard tis morning, not vouching for its correctness, but offering it as a sample of the information tendered to a newspaper correspondent, Congress, as you remember, granted some time ago a certain amount of the public lands out West to the colleges of the country. The Brown University here got its share. Sprague and Anthony worked together to secure the location of that land in the most profitable part of the West. A Baptist minister named Love went out, as it is aileyed, at the instigation of Brown & Ives, saw this land, and came back with a report to the trustees of the uni- versity that it ought to be sold, being poor land and rather a worthless bargain. It was sold for $59,000, It was worth, according to my informant, $1, ‘ and was purchased by Brown & ives. Sprague got mad when he heard of the transaction. Anthony went over to the Brown & Ives side, and there is the source, as I am informed, of the present preity quar- rel between these two great houses, In another letter I shati go fully into the question of which house isthe richer. 1 1s a subject of eter- nal argument here, one man contending that Brown & Ives have three times the wealth of the Spragues, which would mean that they owa seventy-ilve or eighty millions of property; another says the Spragues have one hundred thousand spindies more than the Browns, and 50 on. Sprague is into everything. His enterprises are all-embracing. He has an immense concern across town, where horseshoes are made by machinery. People predicted it would be @ taiiure, but their many predictions avout Sprague have been falsified. He has gone along, like Napoleon, from one triumph to another, and there are plenty’ of wise folks here who say “Sprague knows what he is about this time, and he’ 1} come out right, you bet,’? ‘There is no great fecling that J can discover of ad- miration for Sprague. Nothing, for instance, of that sentiment that greets John Bight when he goes home from Parilament. The tyes of this State are @ good deal conservative, like all manufacta communities, and they have naturally but a smail apprectation of Sprague’s revolutionary theories. hen, again, he fails to possess those elements of character that contribute to popularity. [is ap- pearance, Voice, manner and disposition are not what you woaid call Pa ills brother, Amasa, ws of @ diferent style, He is an ardent horseman, very free and easy in disposition, @ whole-souled fellow that takes at once with tue democratic masses of the peopie. There is that splendid park at Nar- inset which Amasa started, and which has afforded 80 much enjoyment to the people of Provi- dence and to strangers generally. He went into that affair with his habitual dash and enterprise, and made it @ great success, Krown Ives attempt nothing of that kind. Amasa is a democrat in two senses. He ts a democrat in politics and a democrat in lifo—thinks one man as good as another and puts on no airs whatever. We ought of course to expect this under Our republican form of government; but here we find such people as Brown & Ives living after a fashion that would only be adapted to the atmosphere of some suctt monarchical country as England. Yesterday | had a giance at one of this family, Mr. Williata Goddard, as he strutted along Westininster street, with a huge camelia in his but- tonhole and his hands encased in @ pair of verv showy kid gloves, and it was impossibie to refrain from thinking, a8 You noted the manner of thaman, that just such @ type of people breed the novioh that has found tt* champion in New York in the shape ot @ newspaper advocating imperiatism. Brown & Ivea are individually very excellent men, so far as | can learu. They are both very old, past the age aiiot- ted by the psalmist, well educated and highly refined. Tue Spragues are both young people, witi- out much of & disposition for those intellectual pursuits that characterize the other family. Tuer social standing i duferent. The one is iatensely ex- clusive, the other exactly the reverse, Amasa Sprague will shake hands with his hostier; one of the other famuy would bardly notice the yor of the city. This very thing is enough to breed antagonism. However, J stall (ev ote another letver to the luterest- ing subject of whether the Spragues or the Browns are the richer—both, as you know, are tremendously wealthy. Sprague has wo me lis miilat Cranston; to-morrow | go W see Brown's at Lonsdale. PROBABLE MURDER IN MAINE, Another Mystery. Last Friday, at Bath, Me., a box was found foat- ing in the river, It was about a@ foot deep and two feet square, strongly nailed together and bound with hoop iron. When opened it was found to con- taina human skeleton, An examination showed the flesh remaining upon the hands and feet; the knees Were nujointed, apparently for the pu of being put into the box, but were held together by the ligaments. With these exceptions the skeleton was totally devoid of flesh or other subtance pertain- ing toa human body. Thore.was @ hole in the back of the akull which surgical testimony before @ coro- ner’# jury said must have been made when the per- son Was ali The jaw was also broken. The ver- dict Was th he person had come to his death b; means of blow or wound on the head by som sharp-pointed instrument. The skeletom was that of |, a0 aged person, SHEET. 1 MUSICAL REVIEW. Lyon & Healy, Chicago, publish the following:— “La Clochettg Bleue.” Mazurka, C. Fontaine. A rather pretty mazurka, with some show of briliiancy. There are a few awkward hitches tu it. “The Muleteers of Castile.” Bolero, Fellx Gode- froid, A very ordinary and uninteresting piece, with commonplace themes, “La Réve d’ Esprit.” Waltz, 8, Q, Pratt. A very brilliant and effective waltz, easy and varied. The finale might be improved, however, as it is rather weak, “L'Oiseau du Desert.” Transcription of E. Land’s melody. By EF. L, Hime. Exceedingly attractive and well constructed variations on a simple but beautiful melody. They are not of the hackneyed order either, but have @ character and brilliancy of their own, which sets off the theme wluch they ilus- trate to the best advan! “Rosati,” Polka mazurka, J. Leybach. Another work of a high order, probably one of the best salon pieces we have seen from the fertile pen of this fa- vorite com| r. Itis adaptea for the concert hall as well as parlor. Ditgon & Co., who are algo agents for tne above, Publish the following:— “The Bell.” Sacred song. Olaribel. Doesn’t amount to much, either in melody or sentiment. “Morgengruss.” Mendeisso! hn. A little song in 9-8 time, unpretending and fey “The Maid of the MUL” Song. Shirley. A hand- some edition of a fine old English song. “Bow Down Thive Ear.’? Opening anthem. 8S, Behrens. Very neatly constructed and pleasing in Boe melody and harmony. The bass solo is rather ame. “The Hearts That Love Will Ne’er Grow Cold.” Ballad. Wm. T. Meier, A beautiful melody, and one that would be sure to become a favorite if brought out in concert. “Trembling and Cold.” Serenade. G. Linder. A te of meiody, with a novel and effective accompa- iment “The Snow Drift Galop.” ©. Coote, Jr. ‘The least interesting of this favorite dance composer's works. W. A. Pond & Co. publish the following:— “Mazurka de Bravura.”” James Best. Brilliant aud sparkling, with many beautiful passages for both hands, “Perkins’ Vocal Exercises’? will be found of great service for the daily practice of the voice. They are allin the natural key, and intended principally for the cultivation of the middle register of the voice. Litolil’s library of classical music has been en- riched by very handsome and weli engraved voiumes of “Alexander’s Feast,” an oratorio by Handel; Haydn's “Creation,” the “Messiah,” ‘Samson’? und “Judas Maccabeus.”’ They are got up in a su- perior manner and the price 1s 30 low that no lover of ma should be without these great standard works. Harding, Bowery, has added some very pretty songs to his collection of music for the millon. ‘They are extraordinarily cheap. Louis Dachauer & Co. publish a piano edition of Rossini’s posthumous work, ‘*Messe Soleneile,” and selections trom it in sheet form. THE CANAAN CHILD HORROR. Close of the Trial of Josephine Brown at Hudson, N. YW.—A Verdict of ‘Not Guilty” Given by the Jury—Scenes in the Court Room—A Hidden Confession of Joseph Brown Coming to Light-The Real Mure derer, of Angie Stewart Still at Large. POUGHKEEPSIE, April 25, 1869. For aix long days and nights the trial of Joseph- ine Brown for the murder of Angle Stewart, a little child eleven years of age, at Canaan, Columbia county, has been in progress at Hudson, closing yes- terday with the jury rendering a verdict of “Not guilty.’ The parti culars of che murder are condensed as follows:—In December, 1867, Brown and his wife were at Dayton, Ohio, where they became acquainted with Angie Stewart and her mother, and prevailed on the latter to allow her child to accom. pany them to Canaan, Oolumbia county. On their way East with Angie the “party stopped at Cleveland, where an insurance of $5,000 Was effected on Angie Stewart’s‘life, They reached Canaan in due time and hired a house for three months, The insurance on the child’s life was to run only one month. Before the policy expired their house took fire one evening about eight o’clock and Angie Stewart was found dead and burned toa crisp in a pantry, with seven bushels of rubbish bey on topofher. A hurried burial of the body k place and Brown made application at the office of the Travetlera’ Insurance Company, Hartiord, for the insurance money, That company, noticing his haste to secure the money, supposed all was not right and propecia to have the body of Angie Stew: disinterred. A rigid examina- tion of the remains was then entered into by a shrewd oi err and surgeon of the company, which impr the minds of all the parties inter- ested with the idea that the child had been mur- dered. A warrant was issued for the arrest of Brown and his wife and they were lodged in Hadson jail, and about tg he Brown was tried, found guilty and on the 3oth of May last hung for the mur- der of the ciuld. The trial of Josephine Brown for “being an accessory before the fact’? commenced on Monday last, her counsei being Robert EK. Andrews, who alsodefevded her husband. ‘fhe counsel for the people were District Attorney John W. Longley and Attorney General Champlin, By Thursday night tne evidence was ali in, so that the counsel on both sides had all day Friday to sum up, Mr. Andrews occupying five hours and a hall and Attorney) General Champlin two hours. The charge of Judge Ingalls followed, and at six P. M. on Friday the case was given to the jury. That body immediately retired and remained out all night and all the next morning until twelve o'clock Saturday noon, when tne foreman sent word to the court room that they had agreed. A little boy overhearing the announcement left sud- denly for the street, and in twenty minutes there- after the fact was known ail over the city and there ‘was a general rush to the court house. ‘The Sheru? proceeded after Mrs. Brown, who was in her ceil, and brought her inio the court room, which by this tume was crowded almost to suffvcation, a large number of females being present. Every available Standing and sitting piace was filled. As the jury entered the room the badged officers in attendance shoved the crowd back aud opened the way for their advancement to the jury bux. Mrs. Brown eyed the foreman of the jury closely, and her features wore a painful expression of alternate hope and despondency. Assoon as possible after the command of the officers, *Siience in the court,” order was restored. County Clerk Terry then in- quired of the foreman of te jury if they had agreed upon a verdict, When the person addressed supply nodded in the afiirmative, and in reply to the legal question, “Do you find the prisoner at the bar guilty or not guilty? repiied, “Not guilty.” Before the last words were pronounced by the foreman the countenance of Mrs. Brown underwent very noticeable changes. There was @ tremor upon her lips and an imploring look from her eyes, which showed how deep was her emotion. iow her face was pale, and in an instant it would be covered With red flasves; but as soon as the words were pronounced which set her free the blood leaped im her veins, her eyes sparkled, and there was an expression of joy upon her countenance which will never be forgotten by those who watched her closely, For an instant thereatter all was still in the court room, and then Rovert E. Andrews, Mrs. Brown's true counsel througuout the trial, advanced to her side and congratuiated her with a hearty shaxe of the hand, she returning it vigorousiy. They then separated, and for a few moments no business was transacted in the court. Meanwhile Byron G, How- ard, the local editor of the Hudson Star, received from Mrs. Brown a statement, which in itsel! 1s of the highest importance, and, if all is true, will in a few days give tothe public the full details of the horrible murder of Angie Stewart, TUR STATEMENT. She informed Mr. Howard that Joseph Brown wrote @ confession vefore he was executed, in which, as he himself informed her, the name of the real muar- derer of Angeline Stewart was made known. The contents of this confession she was bound by a solemn oath not to make public, unless it was to save her own life, or unless she was acquitted. This confession was written ip French, and is now being translated, aud as soon as this ls accomplished wii be placed in the hands of District Attorney Lougiey, so that the reai murderer may be brought to that punishment Which tue enormity of the crime de- mands. Mrs. Brown eald that she took an oath, at her hus- band’s command, never to divulge the secret of the existence of the confession until the stipniations above named should be fuifliied—that ts, unless to save her own life and if she should be og nana tn answer to @ question put to her, “what Brown said to her as he was ted out of the cell on the morning of the execution,” Mrs, Brown replied that he again cantionel her to be true to her oath, Mrs. Brown also said that her husband mstigated the perpetra- tion of the murder, and that was the reason why he 414 not make a confession before he died or on his trial, being Katisfed that he would be found guilty of being ‘an accessory vefore the fact,” and having made an oath of secresy With the real mur- derer never to disclose the crime, he kept that oath inviolate, ‘These facts were told Mrs. Brown by her hi as Well as the port of the contents of the cones. sion; but she could not read French, and cvherefore did hot know what the details therein contained were, Mrs. Brown remarked that if she had been convicted and sent to State Prison she never would lave told of the confession, but she felt it her duty, now that she was clear and her innocence proven, to disciowe such facts as Would place the murderer im the same position she has occupied so long. She stated that the theory of the prosecution that the child was firet kitied and then heat was applied was untrue, She also said that one witness swore falsely when he stated she slapped Brown on the face at Caanan, and , “Yea, we may have gow in a few days.” He should baye sworn that Brown made that remark, Sle asserts that Brown was guilty of many crimes. The plan to murder Angie Stewart was concocted at payton, Ohio. The confession in French from Brown was in| a session, in @ sealed envelope, since Brown's execu- tion up to within two days of the termination of her trial, when she placed it in the hands of mother, Mra, Lydia Fox, to take with her to West Granby, Conn., for transiation, with instructions to have it sent back a translated to District Attorney Loudiay, of Columbia county. It wilt divutge a full hise tory of Brown’s life from nis childhood, aud of the murder, from its conception to its cousummation and the name of the real mur derer, Mrs. Brown states that the latter person visited Brown three times previous to his execution. ‘The writer of this remembers seeing him five minuted previous to the hanging of Brown, walking awa; from the enclosure wherein Brown was han; Ovhers aiso saw him aud remarked hts saddened, downcast countenance, : In to the verdict of not guilty Mrs. Brow: said it completely surprised her, as she expected to be sent to Prison for two or ten years. At four o'clock yesterday afternoon she left Chatham on the train en route to West Granby, Conn., saying, a8 she left, that it would not be lo before she would be back again, put in a differen! position, to confront the real murderer of Angic Stewart, and, so far as she was concerned, would de all in her power to bring him to justice, THE EIGHT HOUR LAW. Senator Henry Wilson’s Letter to the Seore- tary of War Dissenting trom the Official Construction of the Law. Senator Wilson has addressed the foliowtng letter to General John A. Rawlins, Secretary of War, in reference to the Eight Hour law:— Senate Cuampen, April 20, 1869, Major General Joun A. RAWLINS, Secretary of Ware RAK Sit—I am clearly of the opinion that the construc- tion put by oflicers of the government upon the ing eight hours a day's work for all laborers, workmen and mechanics employed by the United States is & palpable viola- tion of the letter and spirit of the act, of the intentions of Congress and of the desires of the men who:petitioned for its pAssuse. ‘The recent action of the House of Representatives is the completest demonstration that the action of these gov- ernment oillicials is in direct violation of the will of the rep- resentatives of the people. Could a vote of the Senate have been obtained 1 am confident that body would have proved that government ollieers acted u dellauce of the will of Gon- gress. During the past third of a century the hours of labor for manual faborers have been largely diminished. Thirty yeara ago the hours of labor in manulacturing establishments, ma- chine shops in the various mechanical industries were generally from twelve to thirteea hours a day. Laboring nen and peraons who realized the fact that capital Las its dutios ‘a8 well as its rights sought to reduce the hours of uabor to ten hours a day, and they have been generally successful. 1 think there cannot be a doubt that hours of: labor for persons employed in mechanical and manufacturing industries b been diminished during the third of a century two hours day. That this reduction of the hours of labor has been con- ducive to the pecuniary, physical, mental, moral and social improyement of workinginen there can be hu question what- ever. ‘Many workingmen, who realize the measureless blessings flowing from the reduction‘of the hours of lavor already #e- cured, demand further reduction, so that eight hours shall constitute a day's worg. Many other, ns too, compre- hending the wonderful improvements and immense produc- tive power of machinery, have come to believe that labor as well as capital should ‘share in its benefits. Congress was asked to constitute elght hours a day's work. | Cougress was not asked to reduse the pay in proportion to the reduction of the hours, but to fix the number of hours that should make the day's work. Congress was asked to try an experiment, and Congress, believing that the government could afford to test the experiment, enacted the eight hour law. By that law eight hours constitute a day's work—a day's work that com- mands a day's wages. The bill, under the lead of General Banks, with little de- bate and dlight opposition, passed the House early in 186%, On the 24th of June it was taken up in ate and passed by avote of 26 toll. The debate clearly shows tho meaning of the act and the intention of the Senate. Mr. Sherman moved to amend it so as to provide that the rate of paid by the United States should be the current rate forthe samo labor for the same time at the place of employment. Mr. Conneas, who had worked at @ mechanical employment in New York before going to California, opposed the amendment. He maintained that “every man who labors knows very well, by experience, that he can perform as much labor inelght'hours as he can inten, taking the average of the season through. I know, by actual experi- ence, that when T worked at a, mechanical employment’ aud worked by the piece, being did, I never was so well satisfied with the work I did nor the quality of it as when I worked about eight hoursa day." He maintained that it was a “very smal) boon that the working- men of America asked from the Congress of the United Stater—namely, that the example be set by the goverument of reducing the hours of labor.” ‘Mr. Sherman maintained that ifthe hours of daily labor were fixed at eight in all the States the price of eight work would be less than ton hours’ work. ired that if the United States chose to take tho lead in making eight hours a day's work it should not, be compelled to pay for elght hours’ work more than private in- divduals would le emphatically declared that a vote inst his be a declaration that a laborer of the United States is “a privileged character, is entitled to higher wages than he would be if he worked for an indi- vidual.” “He deolared that there was in no righteousness in it; that it id be “unjust, imy and unpopular,” opposed’ Mr. the operation of the law was not very Valuable as an example, “My opinion,” ie said, 4! sight hours of labor, faithfully applied, are quite suflict that the health of the laborer and the clety will be promoted by this reform." that Mr, Sherman's amendment “virtually defeated the ob- jects of the bill; that its adoption “would be to reduce the amount of wages one fifth, the time of labor was shortened much.” He said that the fundamental proposition, on which the proposal was based was, that in regular mechanical employ- ments men would perform as much in eight hours as they would inten; that the rest and intellectual vigor and freshness ee to ope tora would e1 ‘th form as much labor in eight hours as in that that was an experiment which could be very in government workshops, but ‘the experiment could not be tried, and the question could not be settled if the wages, in the beginniug, were reduced twenty per cent.” Mr. Stewart that’ men would do more work per hour if they work eight hours than they would if they worked ten hours a 5 ae ‘rou put the value of men ou the amount of labor they can do in the course of their natural lives, I think men will be more valuable if they work eighthours a day than if they work ten hours a day. I think they will accomplish more in the course of thelr natural lives ; they will not wear out #0 soon, and if there i# any object in prolonging human life and ‘increasing the aggrejate of human happiness the argument would be tn favor of this bill,” Mr. Cole expressed the opinion that eight hours’ labor in the mechanical its, and in all other branches of labor was quite sufficient ; that the residue of the time not devoted to sleep cry well be employed for the improvement of the mind and the other faculties. ir. Morrill, of Vermont, declared that it was absurd to sup- id for the amount of work [ roper pular.” Mr, Hendric! erman'’s amendment. He said the field for it might be eneral interests of s0- Mr. Morton declared + pose that aman could earn as much in eight hours as he could in any larger number of hours. He was for “leav the people of the country at perfect liberty to make any cor tracts they pleased.” He believed that it was “a degrada. tion of the workingmen of the country to deprive them of thi rivilege of working for just such sums and Lor such tim as they pleased.” He thought, after all, if the bill should pass, would result ‘in the ‘reduction of the amount of wages. Mr. Buckalew thought the bill % “to be encumbered and embarrassed” by "1 amendment. Mr. Fessenden opposed it proposed “to give one-fifth more to persons who worked for the government than to those who worke for private individuals.” He maintained that we should raise the wages of laborers in government employ one-fifth by the pasaace of the bill, “because that is the effect of st by cutting of one-fifth of the labor and leaving the wages the same. Mr. Ferry would vote for Mr. Sherman's amendment, be; t to it was gjust to ti ould prevail. that thi feu! years i “it was striking a deadly blow at bis rights.” During the debate I took occasion to say, in substance, that I should vote against Mr. Sherman’s amendment, for the for the reason that { wished to give the eight hour movement @ tair trial; that [thought the government employing a few hundred mechanics and laborers could afford to test the eight hour experiment; that I was not convinced that toiling men co form at much work in eight houre ae in ten houre, or that they would receive as much compensation for eight hours as for ten hours, but that ft might for the material, fnteliectnal and moral interests of the masses of the people, whose lot it was to toil for thelr subsistence, to reduce tha hours of labor, and if that reduction would be conducive to the i laboring women it would be tification to every benevolent heart and every generous mind, [maintained tliat capital needed no cham: pion in this country and in this age; that we were made for something better and higher in this country than to plie up one thousand millions yor g! that what we wantedto grow in this Christian land was a bealthy race of men and women with cultivated beads and bearts and consctences ; that whatever tended to dignify manual labor or lighten its burdens, to increase iis rewards or enlarge its knowledge, should receive their sympathy and command their sapeensé that, animated by these sentiments, I should vote agai Mr. Sherman's ameodment and for the bill as it came from the fs tenstor on Ci eet thm of the bill redneti jo Senator suggested that thm pastace of the jncing the hours of labor one-fifth reduced the wages of labor one- fifth. On the contrary, ali admitted that it reduced the hours of labor without reducing the rates of wages, Mr, Sherman's amendment was intended to reduce the rate of wages in pro- ‘tion to the reduction ot time. Sixteen Senators voted for to accomplish that avowed purpose. Twenty-one Senators voted against ft to defeat the accomplishment of pose. action of officers of the opposition to the declarations of Senators, and in oj to the vote of the Benate. The recent action of the Representatives is an emphatic declaration against the con- siruction put upon the law. [think this action of the House should be admonition to aoe a a revise their opinions and revoke their orders. Respectfully yours, : PTLEN KY WILSON, GENERAL NOTES. Maine las a “potato king.” Wid pigeons are very numerous ip this State. Worcester, Mass., claims that her oldest inhabitant 1s 107, lowa mplains of a “threatened deluge of wild pigeons, Sussex county, N. J., produces 25,000 tons of zinc ore annually. Orchard mice are destroying fruit trees in Maine by the thousand, The wo: sufragers meetin convention at Fond du Lac, Wis, on the 27th. Mrs. Susan Lioyd, aged 101, recently Bracken county, Ky. Robinson, the alleged Saratoga county, murderer, fs to be tried May 12. Anewspaper paragraph says that 196 shertiTs in Virginia ave delinquent in their accounts. There ts great mortality among sheep in certain hag of Verinunt—supposed from eating badly cured way. . is going to have & baby show on judges to be young unmarried died in N.Y, Savannah, the ist of May, mea, The trial of Willlam A. Robinson, for the murder of Murray McConnell, will be commenced at tho Morgan county (Iil.) cireuit court to-day. ‘The Clarksville (Va.) Tobacco Plant says that the purchases of real estate in that vicinity by Northern sottiers within a few days past amount to $200,000, By agreement among the aoctors in a town in Michigan, any person allowing his account to run over sixty days will be refused the services of a phystcian. ‘The oldest house in the United States retaining ita original form is to be found in Neponset, Mass. tt was built by Johu Minot about the year 1640, and is still in good repair. The South Carolina Logislature at its recent sea- sion eo an act. Sppropriating $200,000 for the purchase of waste lands and tusir saie to actual settlers on a credit of five years. ‘There is @ house in Chichester, N. H., known as the “steel house,” which 1s 130 years old. Mrs, Steel, S4 years of age, is now living in a room of the house in which she wae born. New Hampshire and Vermont pay agingly concerning the amount ot crop, and, notwithatas will be, without doubt, ra speak encour. the maple sugar ng the “growlers,” there good ordinary supply,