The New York Herald Newspaper, December 20, 1869, Page 5

° a TELEGRAPHIC NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD Death of a Cardinal in Rome. General Prim on the Spanish Monarchy. Treasure Shipments from San Francisco During 1869. ROME. Death of a Cardinal~A Number of “Hats” Vacant. Roms, Dec, 19, 1869, Cardinal Pentini, a native of Rome, dicd yeater- day, aged seventy-two years. ‘There are now sixteen vacancies in tho College of Cardinals, It is understood that the Pope will make QO nominations to fill these vacancies while the Ecu- ‘menical Gouncil is in session. SPAIN. General Prim and the Monarchy. Mapnip, Dec, 19, 1869, General Prim pubifcly declares that tiere has ‘been no change in the opinion of the government or the Oortes on the question of tne monarchy. The Duke of Genoa will probably receive the crown, but, should he decline it, the government ‘will not favor the establishment of a republic, CUBA. Burning of a Foundry in Matanzas, . Havana, Dec. 19, 1869, The foundry of Sands & Co., in Matanzas, has been totally destroyed by fire, ‘Tho steamer-Fiorida satled to-day for St. Nazaire. THE PACIFIC COAST. Aeronastics in California — Departure of Coolies for the Southern States~Shipments of Gold from Sau Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 18, 1969, Ata mecting of the shareholders of the Steam Navigation Company yesterday it was decided to construct a fying machine of suMcient capacity to test the practicability of the invention of John ‘Walker Liias. Major Rhea, formerly of the Memphis Avalanche, ‘will leave to-morrow by the Pacific Railroad with 900 Ohinese iaborers for the Southern States, The party expect to reach New Orleans by the 10th of January. The Chinamen are unger @ contract for three years.. ‘The first section of the Oregon Central Ratlroad— twenty miles—will be fully completed next week. No further extension will be made this winter. ‘It is feared that this will bea dry winter. There chas been but little rain in tne valleys, and light falls of snow on the mountains, The weather this sea- son fs unusually warm. During the past week there has been no detention pf the trains on the Pacific Railroad, and the track is reported free of snow. Fiour unchanged. + Wheat—Choice, $1 60, Legal ‘tenders, 833. ‘The steamer Constitution sailed to-day for Panama, ‘With 200 passengers and $605,000 in treasure, 488,000 of which 1s for Hnglang, $56,000 for France, 30,000 for Punta Arenas, $20,000 for Panama and $12,000 for san José de Guatemala, making a total Ghipment since January 1 of $37,024,000. THE INDIANS. ‘New Mexican Indinus on the War Path— Apache Outrage on a Setticr—Determined Porsult by the Third Cavalry—Sharp Fight and Defeat of the Savages. ‘ WasHINGTON, Dec. 19, 1869. Tne Superintendent of Indian Affairs for New Mexico forwards to the Indian Ofice 4 report on the ‘condition of tne Mescalero Apache Indians, in which it ts stated they are still on the war path. On me night of November 13 a party of twenty of them took about 100 head of cattle from ® man living twenty ‘miles east of Fort Stanton, onthe Rio Hondo. The commanding oficer at Fort Stanton sent Lieutenant “Oushing and a detachment of thirty-two men of Company F, Third cavairy, in pursuit of them. The seavalry followed their trafi over very rough and bro- Ken country, and overtook the Indians in a cafion on ‘the north side of the Guadalape Mountains, about 1200 miles south of Fort Stanton, and at noon on the Masth attacked them, After fighting three hours Lieutenant Cushing completely routed the Indians, Seaptured about forty head of the stolen stock, and ftwenty-six horses and mules belonging to the sav- } ages, The number of Indians engaged in the Aight, itis esitmated, was about 100, and the number killed and twounded fifteen, They abandoned their property during the fight, and,took to the rocks, on the sides por the cafion. ‘The rocks were upwards of 1,000 high, ‘The actual loss of Mr. Casey, from whom @ Indians stole the stock, js forty head of cattle, thirty-seven of which were found dead on the trail, yhaving beea driven to death by the Indians in their ste tO ge! them away. The trail was very dificult ‘to follow, the Indians frequently dividing :nto small es a and scattering over the country to conceal 6 trail, Lieutenant Cushing travelied the last 120 ies of the pursuit without water for lis raga and PENNSYLVANIA. Cause of the Hazelton Con! Mine Disaster. § POTTSVILLE, Dec. 19, 1869, A despatch to the daily Journal from Hazelton mays the cause of the accident at Hazelton was [by “working the breast in the colliery too near the sur- Mace under the houses, there being only about twenty yt space left where they cxved in. Only a few fore @ couple of persons in a truck were hed into a similar hole, where a portion of the ndation of the railroad had given way over some ‘workings that approached too near the surface, + MASSACHUSETTS. The Boston Social Science Association ' Attempted Robbery. Boston, Doc. 19, 1869. Ata meeting of the Social Science Associatign last evening addresses were made by Mrs. Batchelder ‘and Charics B. Emerson in favor of estabiishing in- Gustriat schools in connection with the public schoola ‘eo teach girls sewing, cutting and making garments wand ali useful domestic work; also to provide a place jpimilar to that established for the Young Men's Association, where young women of the be classes can meet for tue improvement of lucation and amusement. The project met with Sympathy froin those present. Last evening John McGowan broke a plate window in the jeweiry store of John Ved es street with are nat and attempted tov a tray of watches. He was arrested. McGowan's was soverely cut by glass. EUROPEAN MARKETS. Paris Bourse.—Parts, Dec, 19.—The Bourse is @trong. Rentes, 72f. Tuc. HAVANA MARKETS. « HAVANA, Deo. 19, 1869. The following 1s the condition of the Havana and Matanzas ets at the close of business yester- = oper Want of stock and the diflicultios between an absence of business Oceasionéd anda merchants relative to the new arrange- lasoovadouns if, tares; quotations are irregular, Kos, Ce ' rm 4s" reals. Stock in ware- in Havana and Matanzas, 60,000 bo. 500 ages Exported during the past week, 7,000 boxes to foreign countries, 6,500 boxes to the States. Lard firmer~in | tierces, 22c.; in Pound ting, 240, Flour steady at, $0 16 n $10 15 barrel, low active at 12 Bacon firm at Feat pa ahaa : lon. atoea oasier; quoted at 75.8 $4 por barrel. Hams advancihge common , WArgc; Sugar cured, 28 sc, per pound. Lum- ‘Yellow pine in demana at g26-9 28; white pind eee Ml on, inna } b id ‘ xchange unchanged. ie ties aE ; offers of the Cincinnati presses to compromise at WASHINGTON. Tuesday and Friday’s Sales of Gold ~ to be Omitted. Murder of a Merchant in Allogaay County— One Thousand Dollars Roward Offer od for the Murderer. ALLEGHANY, Dec. 19, 1869, One of the most brutal murders that ever occurred in Western New York was committed at this place last night. Dr. Andrew Mead, a resident of county for the past fifty years and a very respect- able and influential man, was murdered and robbed in his store between seven and eight o'clock. Dr. Mead was between seventy and eighty years of ago, but very muscular and ‘active, and there is every &ppearance of a violent: scuffle having ensued. The deed was committed with s common stove poker. The most intense excitement prevadia throughout the county. A reward of $1,000 been offered for the arrest of the murderer, Dut as yet no clue to him has been obtained, Navigation of the Hudson Closed Above Poughkeepsie. PouGuKRErsiz, Deo, 19, 1880. The tce on the Hudson has broken away Dear Ger- mantown, and is floating down the river in heavy; masses, ‘The steamboat Rip Van Winkle triea to reach Ron dont yesterday, but had to put back, Her freight was unloaded bere and sent nerth by ratlroad. The propelier V. Clement, en route to Rondont, was also obliged to put back, and ‘passed this city going south this morning, A sudden cold snap will now close navigation to fiw point. Anticipation of the Payment of the January Interest. RUMORED CHANGE IN THE CABINET, ¥v Secretary Fish Intending to Resign His Portfolio. WasainaTon, Dec, 19, 1869. Pierrepont to-be His Successor. Rumors of Cabinet changes are very likely to be merely sensational, bat have to be given to the pub- lic for the reason that once in a while they prove to have some foundation. To-day one prevailed bere to the effect that Secretary Fish would soon retire from the Cabinet and be succeedod by Judge Pierre- pont, of New York city. Your correspondent 1s unable to ascertain whether or not there ia the; slightest foundation for the ramor. Unpopularity of Attorney General Hi is Rejection by the Senate a Foregone Cou- olaston. Judging from the givings out in republican circles it looks as if the rejection of Judge Hoar for Asso- Ctate Justice of the Supreme Court was a fixed cer- tainty. In addition to the unpopularity of Hoar already set forth it appears that there are othor reasons operating agatnst his confirmation. Ali the democrats in the Senate are solid against him on account of his opinion in the case of the man from Texas tried for the murder of ® negro. The radicals say that they have had such @ disappointment in the cases of Chase, Davis and Field, three of Lincoln's appotatees, that they propose to be very careful in confirming nomi- nees forthe vacancies occasioned by the death of Mr. Justice Wayne and the resignation of Mr. Justice Grier, It 1s safe to say that no men can secure these places except such as are sound in the republican faith, It has transpired that Judge Hoar does not fill the biliin thidrespect. In addition to his being con- servative in politics if appears that ne expressed himself strongly in favor of the acquittal of Andrew Johnson, when that official was under trial before the Senate on articles of inypeachment. A majority of the republicans in the Senate have arrived at the conclusion that Hoar cannot be trusted, and as there are asuMcient number of Justices on the Su- preme Bench already who fall under the Same condemnation they do not propose to add to their strength by placing Hoar there. The vacancy to which he has been nominated comprises tho circuit composed of Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, Alabama and Louisiana, Mr. Justice Wayne's old circuit. There is a strong feeling on the part of the Southern Senators that this appoint- ment should be given to a Southern man, especially as there is no man now on the Supreme Bench from that section. The names of Judge Erskine, of Georgta, and Thomas J. Durant, of Lonisiana, have been pressed upon the attention of the President, not only by the Southern Senators and members but by-several Northern men, as eminentiy tt tor the position. Both of them are regarded as truly loyal, and their qualldcations are fuliy equal to those of Judge Hoar. Judge Erskine, who has been nere in consultation with bis friends, has made a very favorable impression upon ali the Senators with whom -he has come in contact. He MAINE, Preparations in Portland for the Reception of the Remains of George Peabody. PORTLAND, Deo. 19, 1860, A committee of our city government visited Salem on Saturday to confer with the truateea of the Pea- boay Institute in relation to the reception here of the remains of Georgé Peabody. The trustees will consent to any mark of respect that may be thought proper to make here, but will send a committee to Portiand upon the arrival of the fleet, to advise with Georze Peabody Russell, who accompanies the re- mains, and to, arrange the details of the ceremontes, Tt ts thought ‘the final ceremonies will take pigee at Peabody Institute a week or ten days alter the arri- val here of the remains. A apecial train will besent —o Portland to take the body of Mr. Peabody to elem. TELEGRAPHIC MEWS ITEMS. William Logan killed John McOartny in a drunken quarrel at Standish, Me., on Friday. Considerabie snow has lately fallen along the line of the Pacific belt. No delay to trains has occurred during the past wook. Hugh H. Henry, President of the Vermont Valley Railroad, and United States Marshal for the district of Vermont, died at his residence, in Chester, on Saturday night. Two notorious characters, named Thomas Webb and Edward Pendergast, were arrested in Albany yesterday morning for assaulting and attempting to rob A. E. Barnard and Warren Bernett in the street, The igtest advices from Cheyenne indicate that the gold excitement concerning the Big Horn Moun- tain continucs raging, and large numbers of mmers see Gore preparing to stagt for that place carly uext 8p a Louis Bates, who has beon on-trial in Chicago during the week for hing ole nephew, a child, 60 badly that he died, was Saturday evening con- ‘victed of manslaughter and sentenced to the Penl- tentlary for one year, John Stewart, a worthy coloret man of Louisville, Ky., Was assassinated yesterday morning by either George Hoffman or George Anstead, white men. Stewart was shot through the lett breast, No reason, except a thirst for biood, is assigned for the deed, The cotton brokers of Memphis, Tenn., on Satur- day evening, resolved to form a stock company to compres thet owa cotton rather than compromise with the sonsolidated presses. They also reject the seventy-five cents, The grocery store of Potts & Sheldon and the boot and shoe store of H. G, Sharpe in Hudson, N. J. were entered by burglars on Saturday night and goods to the amount of about $1,000 were carried off, An attempt was made to enter the store of Messrs. Howe & Wattles, but proved ineslectual, Nicholas Troesch has just obtained a verdict againat the Columbus, Chisago and Indiana Central | ts highly endorsed by the leading mem- cailros ompany for loss o1 arm and leg. | bers o® the bar in the otrcutt to which ‘Troesch was a switch conductor, and claimed that through the carelestness of the engineer and the baa | * 8 Proposed to appoint Hoar, while condition of the locomotive he was thrown from the cur and run over, CITY INTELLIGENCE, the latter, being a New England man, naturally ex- cites prejulice. Should Hoar be raected, which, as I have already intimated, seems vo be generally understood, a decent self-respect will require his retirement from the Cabinet, Whether he will take the nint remains to bo seen. The President, how- ever, 1a not over solicitous about his remaining, and itis hinted that bis némination as Associate Justice ‘was merely a pretext to get rid of him. Whother or not he is condrmed by the Senate it looks as if he would be compelled to retire from the Uadinet to Tag WeaTaRk YESTERDAY.—The following record will show the cuanges in the temperature for tne past twenty-four hours in comparison with the cor- responding day of last year, -as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s pharmacy, HexaLD Build- tng, corner of Ann street:— 1868, 1862, 1868, 1800, - Ht ead make way for Judge Strong, or some other man ac- 26 oP. ceptable to the Senate. The President ts not dis- 13N. 28 30 12P. M.. posed to thwart the will of tnat body by appointing Average temperature yesterday Average temperature for corresponding date last OUT... 2... +sseeseeee Average for the weck last yet Avorage for the week this year. FRLL IN THR STREBT.—Yesterday morning August Mantzin, of No, 34 Gates avenue, Brooklyn, fell on one of the streets of the First ward and cut is head badly. THe HAHNEMANN HosprraL (Homeopathic), lo- cated in Bast Fifty-fifth street, near Second avenue, is now ready for the reception of patients and will be open for inspection to-day and to-morrow, from two to four P. M. each day. Srreer Can ACCIDENT.—Cornelius Harigan, aged thirty-eight yeara, of Yonkers, was last night run over by a Third avenue car (No. 86) and dangerously injured. He was sent to Beilevue Hospital and the driver, Bernard Murtha, was locked up at the Twenty-firat precinct station house. HvuRLED Down STAIRs.—About two o'clock yes- terday morning John Cook, of No. 307 West Thirty- ninth street, and John Statsburg, an octnpant of the same house, became involved ina diapute, In the affray Cook was hurled down a flight of statrs and had a shoulder dislocated. He was removed to Mount Sinai Hospital, DEATH FROM STRANGULATION.—It was reported at the Coroner's office yesterday morning that Daniel Griffin, two years of ago, whose parents live at No. 606 East Fourteenth street, had died from strangula- tion, the result of croup, from which he bad been suffering. Coroner Rollins has charge of tue case and will hold an inquest on the body, DANGEROUSLY BURNED.—Ann Myers, of No. 230 Church street, was last nignt badiy burned about the hands and body by her clothes taking fire from asiove. Sent to Bellevue Hospital. $ apy person obnoxious to it, as is witneased in the case of George H. Yeaman, withdrawn. Judge Hoar’s snubbing of the Senators has occasioned the institution of an investigation of his antecedents and opinions on allthe great issues of the republi- can party, and the resuit is so unfavorable to him that his rejection is regarded as merely a question of time. ‘ Sales of Gold to be Omltted—Payment of the January Interest. The’ Secretary of the Treasury has directed the Assistant Treasurer at New York to omit the sale of gold on Tuesday and Friday of the present week. This order does not affect the sale of gold on Thurs- ay or the purchase of bonds, a3 advertised, The Secretary has also given orders for the payment of the January interest on and after Friday next with- out rebate. As the interest to the extent of thirty millions will be due January 1 the anticipation of one week will give suficient time for its entire pay- ment at that date, The Senate’s Midnight Meeting. A night session of either house in the second weei of a Congresstonal session is something a little out of the beaten track. It 1s not often that a spirit of expediting the public business seizes so early upon Congressmen. It generally comes, if it comes at all, about the last days of the session, and is more a matter of necessity than of choice, An understand- ing was had among the republicans that the Georgia bill should be passed without delay, so that its provisions might be executed and the State again in Congress before the prosent session nad an a :* No. 183 Cannon street, was also | far advanced. In @ body like the Senate, where badly burned in the samo manner and was sent to | there is mo limit to debate, and where Bellevue Hospital. The latier was the result of {n- | neariy every man can talk two or tires hours on a straight heat, the only hone of crowding a Dill through is to weary the minority, so that they shall be content to come to a vote. Night sessions of the Senate are always interesting. Senators seem less restrained than they do during the day, and assume altogether a negtigé air. Even tho prim Conkling andthe dignified Sumner ‘“unbend’’ themselves a little, and lounge around the chairs and sofas as freely as if it were no serious breach of Senatorial dignity todo so. The cloak rooms become smoking saloons, and every few seconds you see a dense cloud of tobacco smoke, puffed from a dozen cigars, floating into tho Senate chamber. The THe EXTRAORDINARY CORPORAL PUNISHMENT Case which was brought up at the Jefferson Market Police Court on Friday, in which a boy named Dewitt was beaten and kicked by a teacher (L. Buckley), has a new phase. The texcher ae & punished the boy because the boy had hit him, aud was making an effort to throw a slate at him, and he was forced “to oppose violence with violence,’ FIRE IN GREENE STREET.—About noon yesterday a fire broke out under the stairs of the firat oor of No. 60 Greene street, occupied by Trow & Smith, rinters and publishers of directories. The di Pan Goncioed to that floor, but about $5,000 loans 4 sustained On stock, and $200 to $600 on building, ich is owned by H. J. \. ter ; Insured for. $0,0608 sites” how Pomitere "ine Senate hasn’t got the endurance of the House for surance Was Rot dscertained, night sessions, The latter body is full of young WARNING TO PEOPLE WHO HoLp RecRIPr3—It ts reported that government officials are going around investigating every receipt book, bill, &o. The rea- 80n of thia is to see if Mag revenue stamp is blood, which, when gently stimulated, as it always is on such occasions, by a little generous wine, “keeps growing brighter ond stronger for work. But majority of the Senators have passed beyond the adjusted or not, If the la the case a fine is he timulate tl ‘the hold | age when even wine can stimulate their powers of en- epee rokat Heglest, has Onn tee! RO PSE. | aorance. After the frat few bottles effervesce in one Fan aetninntaat*pcply a ote a ore, may not be victimized, sc daideas at ‘Tue Ecuirses oF 1870.—During next year there will be six e¢lipses—four of the sun and two of the ‘moon. Of the two herein mentioned the first will ipse of the moon on January ae i or two buncombe speeches the reaction sets in, and they become heavy with sieop. Then the strong, steady glare of gas, streaming down from the ceil- ing like the powerful rays of the sun, has a bad effect upon the bald pates of men like Garrett Davis, Sawyer, Pomeroy, Casserly and Morton. They want to go home. Of course the republicans had no desire to stay in session until half-past one g’clock in the morning. But the demo- crates were disposed to discuss the Georgia bill; to go back, in fact, over the old debate about reconstruction and the war, and the repubdiicans had no way to stop them. ‘The principal talking was done by Thurman and Casserly. While the former was speaking I heard a republican Senator Bay, “This night session is @ legacy of the Diunders wmen wilt x invisible in the Ui which" w: iivisible in the United States Pertiy wahie at Greenwich, England, The second will a Jal ecli i) in, also here tn- visible, and visible only to the regions within thirt; pg of the South Pole. It occurs on Ji . next ecit) visivle in this Taeitade, wil 4 partial one df tho moon on January 6, 1871. ‘Tue PARK MBTEOROLOGICAL Reronr for the week ending December 18, 1869, ahows the following atmospherical conditions of the weather during that Pe ie age to age em 80,042 Looe maxt mam at nine ogi A. M., Decei r 14, 30.398; Mminunum at nine o'clock P. M., |«Of Our own party. The present Secretary of the bc ig gM Tange, 1.250, ~Thermo- | interior gave us Tuurman, and the pig-headed stu- ; Maximum, five o'clock Siclodk A Me Deotmbor 18, sab; range ah oe ovcl oy e 3 Tan December 16’rain fell ‘orciook 4 pidity and stubbornness of Conuess gave us Cas- gerly, and they have done ail the talking that’s been done here to-night.” ‘Yos,"’ said another, “and Wo'll have gome moro legacies of tho same kind if We ain’t more careful.’ ‘This individual went on to exoorlate Secretary Cox at a fearful rate. aud wound ap by Genouncing him as @ “Johnsonized can, who diin't deserve a place in Grant's ‘any more than Bill Seward.” The Georgia Bill~Its Speedy Passnge by tho House Determined Upon. ‘The Georgia bill, already passed the Senate, wiil be brought to the House to-morrow and will be tm- mediately referred to the Committee on Reconstruc- tion, That committee, naving considered the bill informally at its meeting yesterday, will be prepared to report it to the House on Tuesday, and as it isa privilege report it will pe taken up and considered tonce, Under tue operation of the previous ques- tion. ‘which allows but one hour for debate, it ts thought the bill will be passed the same day on which 1t 1s reported. Opposition will of course be made on the democratic side, but under the rules of the House it cannot be of such a character as to postpone the passage of the bill. General Butler, chairman of the Reconstruction Committee, who will have the measure in charg, ts anxious to ha’ tt put through before the recess, The fact that the! bill in tts present shape is known to meet the wishes of the President will be a suMctent argument with ‘the republicans tn its favor, and Butler is not the man to consuit the wishes of fhe democrats one measure of this sort, The Senate on Ita Rights. The Senate has determined to assert its rights and stand upon its dignity. It will have its cham- bers cleared in time for business, and now while tt ig in session {i won't allow inquisitive people to walk up and down the lobby and peep in at the Senators through the giass doors, Ali around the chamber ts to be “mos sacred,” devoted exclu- sively to the use of Senators, and not to be poached upon by the vulgar, staring crowd. In the days when Oid Ben Wade presided over the Senate there ‘was 00 particular dimiculty in passing through the lobby, at least newspaper men were nevér stopped. ‘The new order was issued by Vice President Colfax and goes into effect at once. If it has the offect of Keeping away the men and women lobbyists who hang around the doora and buttonhole Senators tt will do very well, but Lexpect to aee them as thick as ever, Congressmen Getting Away from Thelr Con- stituents. In seeking lodgings for the winter one of the main objects of Congressmen was to get out-of-the-way places, 50 that they could not be easily found by thetr office-hunting constituents. Some of them have gone away to the outskirts of the city and only tell of their wlereabouts to particular friends in a contidential way. A Senator informed me the other day that he bad either to get away from his constitu- ents or elso resign his office. He could not stand the pressure. Another Congressman says he did ali he could to keep niS name and residence out of the newspapers, but one constituent, who happened to find him out, published it in the newspapers for the benefit of the others. Troubie for the Postmaster General. ‘The resolution of Mr. Dawes, making inquiry cous cerning the appointment of @ special agent to nego- tiate a postal treaty between France and tne United States Is endorsed by a majority of the republicans In the House, and is intended as @ diréct thrust at Mr. Creswéll. The special. agent referred to is, of course, Senator Ramsey, and the republicans hold that the Postmaster Generat had no warrant of law for sending Mr. Ramsay to Europe without a special resolution or act of Congress. In their opinion this holds good with regard to any head of a department except tle Department of State, which has some special privileges in that regard. ‘ Army Contracts for Arizona. Mr. Sylvester Mowry, who is here on business con- nected with Arizonu and the army contraets for that Territory, had an interview with with the President and the Secretary.of War yesterday. It ts under- stood the transportation of army stores through Sonora for Arizona is a complete succeas. Trans- portation has heretofore been by way of the Gulf of California and the Gila river. By the new arrange- ment, calculating the yearly transportation at 2,000 tons, the saving will be $240,000 over the old rates. {umbcr Wanted in South America. The Argentine republic has instructed its Mints - ter here to enter into contracis for furnishing the prepared lumber for the buildings to be constructed for the use of the Public Indusirial Exnibition, which 1s to tak 6 place at tne city of Cordova, on the 15th of October, 1870. Petition of the Now York Bur for In- crease of Jndicinl Salaries. Mr. E. W. Stoughton yesterday delivered to SAMANA BAY. Return of the United States Steam Frigate Albany. Brother Jonathan “Getting Things Fixed” in the West Indies—The Peninsula and Bay of Samana to be Leased for a Period of Fifty Years—The Stars and Stripes in the ‘Tropics—Par- tlenlars of the Cruise. The mission of the United States frigate Albany, which sailed from this port on the 10th of November last, so adroitly conceived and carefully executed, is atlength understood. Its object is mo longer a mystery. What occasioned no little excitement at the time, in public as well as governmental circles, produced by the fact that a swift naval vessel bad been hastily fitted for sea and with three United States commissioners and a large number of guns as fapight on board, had left her anchorage at Sandy Hook at midnight, can now be stated to be the qual movement by the government in,the negptiation for the bay and peninsula of Samand, island of St. Domingo, ‘The Albany arrived at this port yesterday morning, after an absence of nearly seven weeks, witn the intelligence that the flag oi Brother Jonathan “spreads over that sectton of the West Indies, the spacious land-locked bay and an area of 2,500 square miles of territory, having been formally transferred to the authorized agents of the United Staves—General Babcock, General Ingals and Gen- eral Sackett, United States‘Army—on the 6th day of December instant, on @ “Jease’' for Mfty years, tor the sum of $150,000, in gold, per annum, and the “heavy freight’ the hold of the Albany contained. The frigate, after its hurried preparation on November 10, and with officers all “at sea,"’ regara- ing her destination, dropped to an anchorage below the Lower Quarantine, where, at ten o’clock on the night in question, the commissioners wept on boara from @ tug with a iarge amount of specie, which waa at once transferred to the tron safe {n the ward- room. Anchor was immediately weighed, and at midnight the vessel, under steam gnd sail, bowled oceanward. The officers were yet in doudt as to the '’s mnission, although surmises were plentiful, and asthe commissioners guarded well their tongues the object of their voyage was unknown until after the 17th of November, when the vessel dropped apchor in the harbor of St. Domingo. The follow- ing ‘morning the commissioners, first meeting the United States Consul, Mr. Perry, went ashore and met President Baez and his Cabinet, when nego- uations wero formally commenced with the Dominican authorities. One week was ex- hausted in dipiomatio harangues for this chor- ished landmark, when cauttous Baez and his Cabinet, bishops and laymen, on the 24th, were taken by the Albany to Bani, thirty miles d'stant, to consult with some inferior official regarding the important subject. Baez and his suit were left there, and the frigate, after a short excursion up a pleasant river near by, returned to St. Domingo the following day. ‘twenty-four hours afterwards the character and ex- tent of the negotiations and of their successful com- pletion, with the interchange of treaties or the necessary documents was announced, amid great satisfaction. On the 1st and 2d of December the ordnance on board the Albany, consisung ol a battery of eigut guns, both mountain howitwoers aud rifle, the latter adapted to coast defence and ports, 1,000 breech. loading muskets, several thousand stand of small arms and a large amount every character of ammu- nition of which thad so exercised the enthusiastic aamirérs of the Cuban cause and stimulated the hope of the Junta at the time the frigate’s prow was turned to the Narrows, was landed and turned over to an oficial, deputized by President Baez to recieve them. These, with the $160,000 in gold in possesstui f the United States commissioners on board, the; aid to the Dominican authorities, was the first jn. iment necessary to secure the grant in question. preliminaries thus satisfactorily settled, and the payments agreed upon made, the Albany, with the commussionera and one of President Baez's stat sailed to the Bay of Samana, 0 take formal posses- sion of the waters and peninsula in the name of the United States. Tne good ship arrived in the bay at half-past eleven o’ciock on the morning of the 6th of December, and ater visiting the shore the com- missioners proceeded to fulfll the pleasant portion of their duty, that uf setting up of the “Stary aud Stripes,” demonstrating that this country to just such an extent had developedits greatness in the . Lie stall was procul and, in company Senator Carpenter the petition of the New York bar ry a5 ny ae officials, includin, Cane fof an increase of judicial salaries, Mr. Stough- | tain Balch, of the Albany, Baea’s chief ot staff, several shore Officials, and @ quota of ton stated, in the strongest manner, that the petition met the universal approval of the profes- sion; that the only objection made to signing it was that the salaries named in the petition were too small, and that he believed, if desirable, tne signa- ture of every member of the New York bar could be procured. He also expressed the warm approval of the course pursued by Senator Carpenter, and hoped that his bul would be extended to all the federal jadiciary and promptly passed, Amount of Gold in the Troasury. * There 18 now in the Treasury about $108,000,000 of 0010, $38,000,000 of which consists of deposits for which gold certidcates have been issued. the frigate’s officers, Generals Porter, Ingals and Sackett repaired to tne littieisiand of Care- nero—a beautiful spot in the mouth of the bay, long used as & naval depot—and, selectiag a mound over- looking the surrounding rolling land, the staf was planted; ‘and at twenty-five minutes to tures o'clock, with Genera Porter and others at the halyards, the flag was run to the peak, amid the belching ot the cannon on the frigate, the cheers of the crew and a return salute of twenty-one guns from a shore bat- tery. The time of planting the emblem of this coun- try’s greatness seemed pegauiariy appropriate, aa it was the anniversary of Columbus’ running to tho breeze 377 years before—tne token of authority in the Caribbean Sea. The island re- nero convains several shops, used for mechanical purposes, and has long been @ coal depot of no mean importance. Oonveniept and accessible, it wili be invaluable to United States naval vessels. Demonsirattons of joy were universal *‘on shore” during the ave the 6th and tue foliowing day, ‘od, as many of the inbabitants are extremely in- telligent, particulariy those who speak the English language, and they are those who are ‘ready and eager” for annexation to this country, an enthust- asm was enkindied that gave vent in all characters of follification and satisfaction, Meetings were held to express their gladness, and one of thelr priests heid Tong Sues: the Co aes § of tae Gti to a crowd! church upon tho eventful oc- casion, fie toid his aualtors, in substance, that ‘now had the long-wished for and prayed for occasion arrived. ‘fhe flag of the most liberal goverament in the world now floated over them, (ts folds representing @ uation just, gencrous, courageous and forgiving. Linerai in religion, fiberat ta politics, liberal iu policies and great in all things, a new era bad dawded upon them, and no longer need internecine wars divide and destroy them, but industry, hovesty.and a faith in progress, h to earn himself. a name, should usurp ail antictpations of future strife.” This is but one tn- stance of the goneral feeling developed upon this— to all Dominicans—auspicious occasion. Several of the officers of the Albany took advan- tage of the opportunity to examine, so far as practl- cable, the character of the 2,500 square miles thus onteined by the United States, and they were charmed at the profiictiveness of the soil, especially Qs 1egarde the raising of sugar cane, honey, tobacco, coffee, cocoa; that of tobacco péing particularly val- uabio, and under proper and energetic management may be made @ crop of such magnitude as to yield a handsome revenue and occupy prominence in the market. The Albany presents the appearance of rather continued cruising, and of eacounter with severe gales, as her foremast head, with all above it, had been carried away and her Sowaptt badly Comeese. ‘This mishap ed pe ina gale the day ir Leavi St. Domingo, causes the staunch frigate to loo) rather foriorn, aan’ Albany did not tarry long i msl BASE BALL NOTES. Trip of the Mutual Club. The Mutuals left this city last evening at half- past wx o'clock, by way of the Erle Railroad, bound for New Orleans, whore they are to play tnree games, Thistrip has been spoken of during some time past and the project was fora time almost abandoned. Senator William M. Tweed, who taxes an active interest in the Mutuals, has helped, how- ever, to push the matter and to complete the neces- sary arrangements forthe trip. Through hia kind- ness and influence 4 spoctal ear has been obtained for the usy of the club, on the Erie Railway to Cu ctunati, witch place the tourists will reach on T day moruing at six o'ciock, They will I nati at @ quarter past seven A. M. and arrive at Loutsvitle at noon of the same day. Leaving the latter place at half-past four P, M. they will go direct to New Orieaus, arriving there on Thursday at eleven A. M. On Sunday, the 26th, they will play the Southern Clab, On Monday they will be te dered a grand reception and a ball in the evening. ‘They will play also with the Pelican Club and a picked nine—three games in all. Tho nino of the Mutuais will be as follows;—Wol- ters, p.; C. Mills, c.; BH, Milis, 1st b.; Flanley, 2d b.; Hathel |, 8d b.; Nelson, #. 8.; Patterson, |. f.; Egger, of; Swandell, r. f. The Junior Association. An informal meeting of delegates from the several Junior clubs of this vicinity was held at “The Study” , on Friday evening last, for the purpose of reorgan- izing the Junior Association, Mr. W, H. Kelly, Jr., of the Fly-away, of New York, was chosen Chair- m: ‘0 tem.; Mr. T, EB. Leary, of the Montauk, of Now York, Corresponding Secretary; Mr. W. 0. Til- ton, of the Young America, of Brooklyn, Recording nitem A committee was appointed to prepare constitution and bylaws, and to report at a general meeting to be held at “The Study’? on Friday, Jan- uary 28, 1870. The Corresponding Secretary, Mr. Leary, can be addressed at 21 Vestry street, where clubs desiring information can address him. necessary that the commissioners should speedily return to report at Washington the resuit of their important mis-ion, Consequentty, om the sth of December they steamed from che bay, touching at St. Thomas on the 12th, and arriving at Sandy Hook esterday morning at half-past four, and off the Battery At hait-past ten o'clock. All ate well on board and in exceilent spirits, ‘The following 1s a list of her oMcers:— Captain Commanding—George B. Batoh, ~ Lieutenant Commander and Executive Oficer—R. 8, McCook. Lieutenant Commanders—B. F. Day, G. W. Ar- menirout, G. P. &. Wtide. Master—J, 0. Mowing. Ensign—ié. D, ¥. Heatd, Chief Engineer—J. W. Taompeon. Assistant Engincers-H. McEwan, J. Watts, Hl. Spear, J. Howell, _. Paymasier—W, W. Wiliams, Surgeon—J. McMaster, Assistant Surgeons—Jobn Pitcher, George Grimn. Mates—Edward vayro, Edward Bonsall Carpenter—G. E. Anderson. Boatswain—Edward Keaney, Gunner—James Hayes, Sailmaker—W. Lynch, Commissioners Porter, Ingals and Sackett left for Washington tn & special tri REPORTS FROM WASHINGTON. yesterday. News of the Arrival of Goucral Babcock and tho Haytion Commissioncr=The Presi- dont in Favor of a LoaseAunexation to Follow. . That Chicago Nine. A report is going about to the effect that the great Professional nine for Cuicago has been completed and is as follows: Catcher—Birdsall, from National, of Washington. t Pit eer nee from Forest City, of Rock- ford, Til. First base—Fisher, from Athletic, of Rrooklyn, Seoond base—Wood, from Eckford, of Brooklyn. Third base—Hatfeld, from Mutual, of New York. Short stop—Nelaon, from Eckiord, of Brooklyn. Left deld—Tracy, from Eckford, of Brooklyn. Centre field—Sensenderier, from Athletic, of Phila- deipaia. Bige fleld—Cuthbert, from Athlotte, of Phila- deiphia. Wood ig to be captain at $1,800 a year, ali the others getting $1,500 a year. This makes the yearly salary of the nine $13, to which add expenses and extras and nearly @ total of $2u,000 will be reached. ‘This report is by no means reliable. Tracy will not leave Brooklyn; Nelson has joined the Mutuals and will piay With them next season, and in regar ‘to the others there may not be any more reliabilllf’ . Miscellancous. The clubs in the New Yorg State Association whigh are in arrears, and which have been soverat tim notified of the fact, should remember that the sixty days’ grace allowed them 1s fast dying out and ex- paleo: from the association is staring them in the jaca. The prodiem of directing the vourse of balloons at Will has apparently been solved by a Frenchman, His {nvention consists of a powerful exhauater, by which a partial vacuum tsformed before the batioo.:, which is consequently driven forward. The Kiperor of the French takes much interes: im the idea, and baa conirivuted funds towards Ourcying ib ous On & large acale, Wasntncton, Dec, 10, 1869, A statement reached here to-night from Now York that the United States steamer Albany nad arrived at that city from St. Domingo, with General Babcock and Dominican Commission from President Baez, empowered to negotiate a Mfiy years’ lease of Samana Bay to our government. Presl- dent Grant and his Cabinet were not aware Of the fect up to @ lav hour als evoulng, bub : died at Rome, had lived in the Eternal City {6 ia no longer s, that, suo c are expected here dally with powers to treat with our government either for the sale of Samana or 8 lease Of It for from @fty to 100 years, The President con- aiders that en immediate acquisition of St, Domingo would not be desirable for various reasons, among them that of the great difference in the habits and tastes of the people ot that country and our own. A trial of how the thing would work under the sys- tem-of gradual acquifition he deems it the part of wisdom to try. If, after a proper trial by & lease of the bay for a term of years, it is found that it works smoothly and satisfactorily, and to the ad- vantage of both countries, then there is no doubt. ‘hat annexation will follow, Indeed, the President belleyes that the operations of the leasing system, in three or four years’ time, will 40 convince the Dominicans of the superiority of our style of government that they will be not only witling but clamorous for annexation. ‘The acquisition of this bay, with the ion the entire Dominican portion of the isiagd in pros- pect, meets witn great favor in oMicial circles here. It 18 Considered that the possession of this bay witt be of far mora advantage to the United States than the annexation of Cuda wore that to be made the inducement for the exercise of the'moral power of the United States in the troupes now pending between Spain and the Cubans. The bay of Samana commands one of the main avenues between'the Atlantic Ovean and Caribbean Sea. The adjoining peninsula is covered with valuable woods and has a vein of coal, whion would be accessible to our ships. ‘The necessity of having naval depots tn foreign waters was carly felt by our government, end as far back as 1918 the United States had estab- shed a naval station on the isiand of Minorica, in the Mediterranean ‘Sea, about 200 miles from Gib-" raltar. The isiand, though used for over thirty years by our government, when ‘the question of acquiring possession waa ofigi- niated, the Spaniards, who had @ small garrison there, deprived the United States government of the unrestrained privileges tt had enjoyed. The government then removed its depot to Spezzia, where our ships have wintered and been supplied ever since. It 1s considered that thia government having be- come involved in negotiations with Denmark tn regard to the island of St. Thomas should ratily the treaty on a point of national honor, though i ts admitted that St. Thomas will be of little value to the United States compared with Saman#. The istand is smal and without any value tn an agricultural point of view. The bay ts small and not capable of accommodating alarge fleet. The acquisition of Saman4 Bay is certainly the most statesmaniike inauguration of the American policy towards the West India Islands. It ts under- sod that the Nantucket received orders to remain at San Domingo during the absence of the Commi sioners in the United States, as a sort of moral back: ing for Baez pending the negotiations, PERSONAL MOVEMENTS, Vinnie Ream was borh in Canton, Ohio. Smith O'Brien's son ia a High Sheriff in Ireland. Chinese testimony 18 accepted in the United States courts in California. “Gincinnatt Bills” 13 the name of @ Portlana, Oregon, insurance agent. Bighteen Alabama families have combined to seteie in Texas. Mr. Henning, of Baltimore, 13 on a buat of Heary Ward Beeoner. ‘There is a majority of twenty-nine whites in the Virginia Legislature, The King of Prosata 1s going to visit England in course of a few weoks. Misa Poindexter is la lady Spiritualist who has come to grief in Terre Haute, ‘The mother of Anna Dickinson is seventy, sad dresses in ‘‘a rich Quaker costume.” A bandsome young lady is candidate for engroas- ing clerk in the California Legisiatura. Un @ train that reached Knoxville, Tena, from Virginia lately were forty-seven vabies. A lawyer of Atlanta, Ga., recofved a counterpane asa fee from a woman in that clty in a divoroe sult. Max Kllngler, the boy murderer of St. Louis, haa bm respited by the Governor until the 19th of next arch. Overbeck, the great German painter, who 1810. Horace Greeley, by special request, erore his “old white coat’ at a lecture he recentiy delivered at Lewiston, Maine. Eider E. M. Cannon, one of the Mormon han been diffusing light on the principles of the Bea satnta, at Cleveland. General Reynolds ts to tender tho Proviaionat Governorship of Texas to the Governor elect aa aoon as it is known Officially who that individual us. CELTIC LITBRARY OLUB.—A number of young Inshmen of the city, conceiving the necessity for an exclusive Irish literary society, have banded them- selves together under the above title, and are now laying the foundation of what its intended to be 8 first class literar; A few meetings have already been held and with very satisfactory resulta, At the first meeting, hela on tho 10th instant, & prospectus prepared and has been widely circulated. On Friday evening auother eae J was heid at St. Denia Hotel, and the committee on organization com- Pieted. Mr. James T. Maguire, the chairman of the evening, volunteered to give secarity for a hail tothe amount of $1,000 forayear. More room being alread: required than ‘ts afforded by the chamber of the hotel A committee was appointed to select @ large nall in some respectable locality for future meet where the business of organization can be p: led with uninterruptediy, At the next meetings draft of & constitution will be laid before the ciub for tts action and other steps taken to get it into worktag order, Another Great Story in tho Ledger by Mrs, HARRIET LEWIS, author of “The Double Lice," “Pho Rival Cousins,” “The House of Secreta.” &e., do. It isentitled THR BAILIFF'S SCHEME, OR THE BURIED LEGACY. This story has been written expt for the Ledger; it ia a narrative of absorbing interest, and ite poru- sal will give new life to every person who reala it. 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