The New York Herald Newspaper, March 11, 1870, Page 4

¢ NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, THIS EVENING. BOOTH'S THEATRE, Boor 46 HAMLET, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Righth avenue and 3d st.—Trik TWELVE TEMPTATIONS, 4 at, betwoea {ih ang 6th avs.— OLYMPIC TREATRE, Brosaway.—Nuw VeRsion oF AMERY. “ria AVENUE THEATRE, Twonty-focrth st.—FR0U WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor- ‘ner Vhirtieth st,—Matinee daily. Performance every evening. NIELO'S GARDEN, TRY MEN IN THE GAP. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.Srriovs Fant.y OUR Ran—Louo BAuNey's CagiLe—Biu reKLy. Broadway.—INNisFALEEN; O8 WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 13h sireei— Low? ar Sra. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, 14th strect Dare Furwouverz, MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PAL Nor Svom « Foor as lin GERMAN OPERA TRE, Brooklya— TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery..-Oomic Vocarism, Nrono MINSTRELBY, 40. THEATRE CoMIQ"E, 514 Broadway.—-Comto Vooar iM, Neoko Acts, ao." BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Suilding, Mtb Bh—BRYANI'S MINSTRELS. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broa 'woy,—Prit10 - MIAN MINSTRELS, NeGtO ACTS, &C,—13 TRUPTATIONS. SELLY & LEON'S MID TRILLS, 720 Broadway.-—Eti0- Pram Minsraersny, Ne’ 0 ACTS, £0. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street. -—Equasretan AND GYSNASTIO PERFORMANCES, &C. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSK, Brooklyn.—HooLers Minereris—Husrsey Dumrsey, 40. APOLLO HALL, corner ‘Tur New Hisewnioon, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, b1* Broadway.— ACIENOR AND Anx, New York, Friday, ta atrest and Prosdway,— March 11, 1870. CONTENTS OF TO-DAIS HERALD. Pack, 1—Advertisements, Advertisements, B—Advertisements, 4—Editorials: Leading Artic’ on Our State Canals, Movements to Make ‘trade on Them Free—The Gold Sensation: Decline and Fall of the Golden E£mypire—Working Women tn Counell--Per- sonal Late! ence—Great Fire in Twenty-Mfih Street-—Wooden Pavement Jobs—A Bogus Capitalist—Fighting for the Spolls—A Slander- ous Charge —Amusement Announcements. S—Telegrapnic News from All Parts of the World: Flow of Bullion to the Ruropean Banks; Weather Reports from the Atlanite: Another Disasier on the Erie Rallroad—The Im- purity of the Ballot: Another the Brooklyn Election Fraud Ce ington: An Apology and Manded of the Spanish the Seizure of the Steamer Aspinwall; the Anuy reduction Bill Passed im the House— ‘The Redskins: Who Was Responsiole tor We Attack on the Piegans—New York City News-- Bank Robbery tn Birmingham, wocking of Immoralitty in Newark—Buswess on Case: Interesti Proceedings in the New teport of the Com: inaneisiand Co 8 and Deaths. elopuien ti city Courts— ot Emi vial Reports— tute Capital: Another fon Law; tue Bill Abolishing the Canal ‘acl System Signed by the Governor—lne New City Char- ter—The Voorhees Assassination: ‘Trial of ta Set Down for the Th: Vedueadoy ~—New Jersey Legisiatur Canden and Amboy Monopoly J ‘rhunphant— Shipping Intelligence—Ad nenia. Pxeumatic TuNNeL.—Mr. Tweed intro- duced in the State Senate yesierday « bill amending the act relative to the transmission of packages by pneumatic process beiween New York and Brooklyn. We would rather have the pneumatic process amend the act afterwaris GENERAL ALCORN was ivauga of Mississippl yesterday « gural address wh c torically as some parts of the roy gold pani The gist of his ad to be that he was a true Southern man aud intended io treat Mississippi just right. had an andi- ence of Queen Victoria yesterday by royal invitation. What's in the wind? The Mor- daunt divorce case affords many points for a new book. Is the Prince of Wales “trembling in bis shoes?” Has his Royal Highness been “seen through,” like the ghost of Marley, even to the brass buftovs on his coat? §=Veriwn sapient AN Is ATIONAL Exminision of fang is to be held in London at au early day. The Em- press of Russia and the Barones? Rothschild will be the leading contributors. This elegant coalition is just in taste. It is the union of the North and East as spoken of by Virgil— Una Hwesque Notusgue ruuné—hbut not with such alarming conseqnence?, The subject just now is slightly “‘abead” of the season, but very refreshing withal. Distrror Arrorney Moris could ceriainly have no greater difficulty in trying and eon- victing heft a dozen murderers thaa be has in bringing to trial the parties charged with frauds at the late elections in Brooklyn, He ia mei by opposition on ail sides. He objected again yesterday to obeying Judge Pratt's order to give a list of the witnesses before the Grand Jury to the prisoner's coun- sel, and Judge Gilbert overruled Lim, Tre Senate Cavous is divided om Bingham’s amendment to the Georgia bill. It will be remembered that the. Senate killed Mr. Bing- bam’s ataendmeut to the Virgiuia bill some time ago, and turned that gentleman over to the tender mercies of the terrible Butler. From appearances et present they iake « more sensi- ble view of tho Georgia matter, and will probably pass the bill as it is now, ‘ent to let their Georgia blunders slide 6 little noise as possible. No Tromas Yur of the steamers City of Boston end the Smidt, but we still think that we shall hear of one or both of them from the or Western Islands, The steamer Beckton, Captain Dryden, which left this city on the 3d of February for Glasgow, hea not sinoe been heard of, but it issupposed that she hag only beon delayed and driven from her ceprse by head winds. The same winds have probabty disabled and driven the Boston and he Smidt down to the Azores, While we no report from that qaarter we shail con- entertain the opinion that the missing there. Gar State Canale-Movoments to Mako Trade on Them I'ree. ‘The meeting of gentlemen belonging to the Commercial Union at the Chamber of Com- merce‘on Wednosday to consider the question of freeing the trade on our State canals from the burdens now imposed, an4, aa conse- quence, to promote the commercial interests of this city and the State, was the beginning of an important movement. The Commercial Union has boen organized, we understand, for this object mainly. It embraces men of all parties and the leading public men of the State as well as the various commercial bodies in this and other cities. It has no political purpose in view and looks only to promoting the commerce of the city and State of New Yorksand of the country generally. Mr. Israel. Hatch, of Buffalo, who has taken an active part in the movement, hag prepared an elaborate paper on the subject of the canals, which will be published shortly, and no man, probably, understands the matter better or is more capable of performing such a work. The resolutions adopted at the meeting referred to approve of the acts that bave been passed in the Legislature and signed by the Governor to abolish the Contracting Board and the system of repairing the canals by contract, and also the acts to abolish the office of Canal Appraisers, and to establish in lieu thereof a court of claims, with com- petent judges, and to reduce the tolls on the canals. ‘They recommend, too, the fund- ing of the canal debt, so as to relieve the canals from paying such debt, and thus finally to make transportation free. There may be a difference of opinion as to the mode of reach- ing the object of making transportation on the canals free, or comparatively so. Some pro- pose a gradual process by which the tolls would be abolished after a few years, and ibis seems to be the policy of the Commercial Union; but the conviction is general that some- thing should be done at once, and that the canals in the end shontd be free. The bill which Mr. David L, Bennett, of Buffalo, introduced in the House of Repre- sentatives at Washington on the 16th of last month, ‘‘to provide for the better protection of the northern and northwestern frontier, and to facilitate commerce and diminish the expense of exchanges between the States,” has in view the same object, but proposes that the United States shall do what the Commercial Union wants the State to do itself. Without going into the question of the right or policy of the United States undertaking to extinguish the debt and to make the canals of this State free to the commerce of the country-or 2s to the propriety of the State doing it, we are convinced the time has come when it should be done one way or the other, The statesmen who originated and provided for making our canals were far-seeing. They contemplated making them ia the end a free public highway for commerce. They saw that the city and State of New York would obtain benefits far greater than the cost of the canals amounted to by such a liberal policy. She argument in favor of such a course is much stronger now. In fact there is an urgent necessity io make the canals free at the presout time in order to preserve the commer- cial interests of this city and the State. An intense rivalry has commenced among the great trunk lines of railroads and canals from the Atlantic seaboard to the West for the trade of the interior. The Baltimore and Ohio Rail- road and canal, the railroads and canals of Pennsylvania, the projects to make Norfolk, Va., the outlet of Western commerce, the various schemes in New England to tap and draw off the vast and growing trade of the West, and the efforts of the British to draw commerce of the great lakes and surround- try by the St, Lawrence and the canals ilroads of Canada, all show the struggle going on to secure the rich prize of Western commerce. In this race New York may be left behind, or at st may lose « large portion of the trade, notwithstanding her natural and present advantages, unless a broad aud liberal policy be pursued with regard to our canalsysiem. if the present burdensome tolls and mistuanagement of the canals con- tinue this commercial metropolis and the State must lose the proud pre-eminence now held. ‘Then there is hundreds of millions worth of produce perishing in the West for the want of cheap transportation to the Atlantic seaboord., It will not pay to remove this produce such a vast distance under the present high rates and burdens of transportation, Production, in fact, ia hindered to a great extent. Bat if the losses to ths farmers, merchants and to trade generally are so great now, what will they be when the West doubles or trebles her population and resources? The amount of ten or twenty willions of dollars to this great State or to the elty of New York is a bagatelle compared with the value of the trade that would come by our canals if they were freo, The interest on the funded canal debt would be a trifle to the profits on the enormons trade that must soon be developed. It is the produce of the West, too, which we musé rely upon in a great measure to make up the balance of foreign trade and hold on to specie payments whenever we reach them, But we cannot compete with Russia and other countries in foreign markets with agricultural products unless we have cheap transportation. We commend, therefore, the movement of the Commercial Union to abolish tolls on the canals and to make them a free highway for the produce of the West and the trade of the people of this State. We hope the Legisla- ture will act further upon the matter at an early day, nud before we lose the commercial advantages we now possess. Tre ANv-Stavery War Enpgp.--The Notional Anti-Stavery Standard of this week proposes, after the official proclamation of the adoption of the fifteenth amendment, to omit from fis title ‘national anti-slavery” and issue the Siandard as an indepeadent journal of reform and literature, Isn't this giving up the fight a little too soon? Suppose Cuba is annexed, with her slavery system in full blast, will not the Standard again be raised, with its old “‘uational anti-slavery” war ery ? A Wosan’s Riawrs Casz.—A lady in. this city has brought suit for a slander against a man who persists in claiming her as his wife. This is reversing the order of things, and we conjecture it is another among the many annoy- ances resulting to women from their assertion of rights. NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, Conservation in Kngland—Men Who Will Not Learn: On Wednesday evening in London was held # meeting which, in its way, was a curiosity, The mecting was held at the Terminus Hotel, 4 fitting place, and the company assembled representad the Conservative Association, This association is purely and unqualifiedly tory. It looks back and sighs for the past. It dislikes the prosent. It can only think of the future with fear aud trembling. So far as the names have been communicated to us not a single man was there but is radically opposed to everything like change. Progress with every one of them is an enemy to be dreaded. Inthe opinion of one and all of them the world in moving does not advance, but retro- grades, In place of rising to a higher platform we are sinking to a more vulgar level. They tepresent the men who would, if they could, have chopped the head off Hampden rather than off Charles I.; the men who would have tolerated the bigotry of James If.; the men who Opposed the first Reform bill; the men who oppposed Catholic emancipation and the removal of Jewish disabilities. They are themselves the men who have opposed every recent reform but one, and into that one they were cheated by a too skilful leader. They have not forgiven Disraeli for his Reform bill, and Gladstone they hate for his Lish reform measures, sit wonderful that such a party should now be a minority iu Parliament; that they should be losing the respect of all good and wise men? To all those who make it a point to watch progress in all lands, and who take any inte- rest in the politics of Great Britain, it must be gratifying to observe that from this stupid and reactionary meeting every man of the s0- called conservative party who has the slightest sympathy with ‘the progressive spirit and movements of the age was conspicuous by his absence, Disraeli himself found it convenient to be absent; so did Lord Derby, and the Marquis of Salisbury and Lord Lennox; and the name of the new leader of the party in the House of Lords, the Duke of Richmond, does not appear. These men know that the old landmarks are no more, They know that if they cannot discover some new and sensible point of departure their opposition is worth- less and their party existence is in peril, Not only is the conservative party in a hopeless minority, it is not a unit, Its best men, such as Derby, and Salisbury, and Carnarvon and othera, yield to it only a hereditary alle- giance, These men, however, have no chance to distinguish themselves so long as they remain aloof from the great liberal movements of the times. They are giving the country no cause to be grateful to them. On the con- trary they are making themselves obnoxious. For those advanced spirits we can see no field of usefulness, unless they join the great liberal party and leave those ancient fossils high and dry. Itis not now the tories or the whigs, but the people, who rute the British empire. Reform must, therefore, go on apace. The Sound Steamers. It has been argued by the opponents of the measure to compel the Sound steamers to land on the East river that it was a measure to control navigation, and that, therofore, only the national Congress had authority to force the change, This, however, is an error, The United States Supreme Court has very clearly decided that ‘‘police regulations for the accom- modation and safoty of vessels in a harbor may be enacted by the local authorities.” In a case decided in the United States Supreme Conrt in 1858 suit was brought for damages done to the brig James Gray by the ship John Fraser in Charleston harbor. The defence on the part of the Foster was that the brig was lying in the harbor in violation of a certain locallaw. The owners of the Gray contended that the local law was void. This, therefore, brought to the notice of the court the very point now mooted with regard to the Sound steamers—namely, the power of the local authorities to prescribe rules for the naviga- tion of the adjacent waters. The court de- clared :—‘‘Rogulations of this kind are neces- sary and indispensable in every commercial port@for the convenience and safety of com- merce, and the local authorities have a right to prescribe at what wharf a vessel may lie, how Jong she may remain there, where she may unload or take on board particular car- goes,” &e. It is evident from the Supreme Court decision that not only the Legislature, but even the Common Council of the city is a fuily competent authority to make such a rule, Tne Army Bri. reported by General Logan, with some unimportant amendments, was passed in the House yesterday. Some of the provisions of the bill reforming matters of organization are good, but the principle of mustering out the veterans of the war who have attained rauk by hard service in the field is wrong. We can easily enough afford to re- tain these men in their positions now that the war is over,. and to do otherwise savors strongly of ingratitude. The bill would do better if it provided for the non-appointment of any more officers rather than for the mus- tering out of those already in, Tur New Hamvsmire Evxorion affords but little comfort to the arithmetician whose duty it is to cipher up democratic victories from the figures of democratic defeats, To be sure the republican majority in New Hampshire is reduced, but the democrats gain nothing thereby. If their State Committee had not coquetied with the labor reformers they might have done better; but even in this reflection there is not much comfort. The fact that the New Hampshire democratic managers were partly inveigled into a guerilla flank move- ment shows that the party has no longer any reliable backbone. Tne Am Linn Roap.—All sorts of views are evidently entertained in Congress in regard to the proposition to build a direct line of rail- road between this city and Washington, under an authority from the general government, Men who are steeped to the lips in political jobbery denounce it out of the abundance of their honesty and public spirit, and others oppose it onthe ground of State rights, The people want that road built, and are tired of hearing it only talked about. They see no other way of getting around Camden and Amboy, and of getting a straight and good route from this emporium to the national capital, MARCH 11, 1870. ‘The Oneida Disaster, The latest particulars of the catastrophe to the Oneida leave no reasonable doubt that the captain of the Bombay ran away from the acoldent fully conscious that he had left a ship in distress, even if he did not know that he was sending a hundred men to the bottom, The mere fact that he considered with his pilot the neighborhood of the damaged voasel to the spit indicates that it was between them thought possible she might go down. For the sake of humanity we would rather doubt uatil it is fully proved that he made the boast to an officer of the British navy upon reaching Yokohama that he had ‘‘just cut down a damned Yankee frigate, and served her right.” Should it be proven that he made this boast we suspect that the seas of this world will hardly be wide enough to give him comfortable navigation for the future. How the accident occurred it is impossible to see as yet. Our first report was from the Oneidy that when the Bombay was sighted ahead the order was given to ‘‘port the helm.” This would have taken the Oneida to the right, with a view to passing the other vessel just as pedestrians pass on our streets, The left side of the Oncida in passing would have been to the loft side to the Bombay. This would have been in accordance with tho rule of the sea, When both side lights you see ahead, Port your helm and sbow your red, for the red light is on the left side of the ship and the green light on the right or starboard side. In the testimony of Captain Eyre he declares that he observed the same rule— positively swearg that he kept the helm of his ship aport until he shut from his sight the green light of the Oneida. If this were true on both sides the ships must certainly have passed in absolute safety ; but the next thing that happened after Captain Eyre had lost sight of the groen light on the Oneida was that he hit her on the starboard side—the side on which she showed a green light. It is there- fore not true that he put the green light out of his sight. The Now City Charter, The latest new City Charter, proposed asa sort of compromise between the Tam- many and anti-Tammany factions at Albany, covers probably the general provisions of the scheme which will be finally adopted. The bill transfers the State commissions to the city authorities, provides for a city government more generally dependent upon the popular vote ia our annual local elections than the original Frear bill, and, upon the whole, look- ing to popular rights, municipal rights and democratic rights, the new bill has evidently been carefully considered by all the parties concerned in it. Section twenty-seven pro~ vides that “no person shall hold more than ono office under the government of the city or county of New York or both, and every per- son holding more than one such office who shall not within thirty days after the passage of this act duly resign all except one of such offices shall be deemed and taken to have re- signed all such offices ;” and this is doubtless the sine gud non of the “outs” against the “ins,” without which there will be no treaty of peace between the rival factions. There are some other good features in the bill look- ing to the city treasury, Thus something good may yet come out of Nazareth, and the more the subject is agitated in all its details the better, it begins to appear, will be the results to our taxpayers in the final shaping of the Charter. THe Lata Massaorg or THe Prraan INpI- ANS, with the disclosure of its atrocities, has brought out General Sherman in a statement charging the responsibility upon General Sully, notwithstanding Sully’s denunciations of the horrible affair. The facts, briefly stated, appear to be these :—General Sheridan, in militury charge of all that Northwestern tive equilibrium yesterday. 1s usual appearance as a nursery for unquiet chil- dren, The brokers made various noises, said py some cynical person to be given in imitation of the prowlers of the forest, and secmed to subsist Upon their own interminable loquacity. tension of the human lungs, were to visit the pit of Gold Room he would, no doubt, find these useful bodies tn their highest state of elasticity. Atany rate he would find tongues s0 far possessing the properties Of India rubber that he would only wonder that they do not come tn material, as they often do in vocal contact. These tongues, pickled by long “1.U,” 11," 41," L1going, “11—seem to shoot the price of gold about indiscriminately, and the result has been that many operators have been perforated be necessary to give vp the Gold Room, they say, when gold touches par, audthus oue of the most interesting barrooms in the city will be closed. Despairivg of selecting a grain of good sense out of the chaotic Gold Room the reporter went in search of information among some of the mighty magnates of the Danks, A viatt was paid to where the gentlemanly manager was found. unusually large, placed tn your vaults a3 a conse- quence of the resent decline? mae been noticed. Gold deposits are comparatively posit companies, but in no instance was it found that there has been any marked increase in the hoarding of gold. If gold were being hoarded it could be done without the knowledge of the safe deposit banks, as every patron can abies beyond the espionage of the bani up” for a rise in gold, en the evidences would soon come to the sur- ee responsivle oMcer of the Fourth National bank, more gold than they have had for years. About $58,000,000 is the Buon deposit in New York. tats does not represent the actual amount of coin in possession of the banks, of gold certiticates and coin. issued by the Sub-Treasury to depositors of gold make about $35,009,000 of this amount, leaving the This is manifest from the plentitude of gold and gold; the short interest evidently docs not want its own weight bas sought o natura! equihbrium. Speculation may cause it to vibrate, but from the large amount on the market it will settle at its state of positive rest, which 13 little above par. amo: of trade is intense. and staple. feel the decline tn gold severely. ever, bas suffered as much as dry goods, partment of trade bas gone to sleep. It 18 asserted, 1s the only mercnant who has doue an active business, and his operations have been car- ried on by forced sates. is only an a concomitant of a failing market, which wi 13 pelieved par, es there if Now every evideuce tt will, the vol- ume of circulation will be increased and the insane manta of goid gambling will cease to hampe: mercantile and commercial interests of the country. ‘There is @ keen ¢, ments of the m: chandise 1s about to expire after a nomadic and atlily,. Prominent Arrivals in This City Yesterday. Coast Survey; 0. W. Peabody, of Boston, and 8, Nordheimer, of Torouto, are at the Brevoort House, Robinson, of the United States Army; General G. H, Sharpe, of Kingston, and Galusha A. Grow, of Penn- eylvania; George F. Waters, of the United states THE GOLD SENSATION. Decline and Fall of the Golden Empire—Condi- tion of tho Market Yesterday—Among the Safe Deposit Vaults of the City—Large Amount of Specie in New York-- Popular Impressions. Gold was permitted to rest iu a state of compara- Yet the Gold Room nad 2f an innocent person, bent upon investigating the SATURATION IN FIGURES, in the recent decline, It witl THE VAULTS OF THE PARK BANK, Rerorrer—Have there been any goid deposits, MANAGER—NO, 61r; 20 movement of that character mall. A visit was made to tho vaults of several safe de- lace his valu- oficials. 161s hardly likely that capitalists are “loading If such a atate of things face, The reporter succeeded In obtaining an interview He stated that the banks of the city now nold but the aggregate ‘The gold ceruiticates banks in actual possession of $23,000,000 in coin. GOLD WAS NEVER MOKE PLENTY than now, and thisis because the Treasury policy has changed. Formerly the department destred to hold coin, but now wish to throw iton the market. The Fourth National Bank yesterday had about $2,000,000 of gold on hand and the Park Bank had the same amount. Tho former institution is chiefly for brokers and the brokers all show heavy balances ot gold. People who have been wonder- ing why many failures nave not beén reported in Wall street should remem- ber that there is no considerable “short” interest. from the fact that there have been no strong at- tempts ata “corner.” Then there 1s no demand for much of it; merchants are not short, and gold from THE FEELING OF INSECURITY heavy wholesale dealers in ali departments Operators fee) that merchandise 18 & dangerous commodity until the fluances are frm Srokers in cotton and other products No interest, how- This de- A. T. Stewart, THE DEPRESSION BYERYWHERE internal § sluggishuess, & nat goon be dissipated in rosperity. It that should gol soon reach r the @ everywhere watching the move- et, and a feeling that gold as mer- eventful Iife of ten years. Gold opened yesterday at 1p and closed, after rapid and extreme fluctuations, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Professor Benjamin Pierce, of the United States Governor Evans, of Colorado; Major General J. C. aaeiaoe cu of Utica; M G W. 5 ary J. Lynch, of Utica; Mrs. George W. Swill Elmira; Mrs, i tary next proceeded to read an address, took up the subject of female employment ifs various branches, and the present relation of bes laborers to tueir employers. WORKING WOMEN IN COUNCIL. Two Meetings at Cooper Institute—One of Busi- ness and Speeches and One of Speeches Rxolusively—A Constitution, Address and Resolutions Adopted—Who Made the Speeches and What They Said. Altwo P. M. yesterday, the hour aunounced in a call for a “grand mass meeting of working women at Cooper Institute,” there were about a dozem women axsetbied i one of the smailer rooms of the Institute and half this number of gentlemen, At three o'clock, an hour after the time appointea for the meeting, a pleasant-faced lady, Miss LEONARD, mounted the rostrum and called the meeting to order, be then announced as the (emporary officers Miss Linair aa president and Miss Cooper a3 secretary. Miss Linair at once came forward, and Miss Cooper with her, The former read the names of various commitiees and then calied on a Boston lady fora speech. and a8 & next effort Rey. Mr. Cummings, likewise @ representative of the Old Bay State capitat, was aol cited to try his powers at speechmaktug. This gem * tleman spoke at considerable length, tracing the pro- gress of female labor from the earllest history of the world, The Committee on Organization reported the list of permanent officers, as follows:— ‘The Boston lady failed to respond, President—Alexander ‘Troup. Vice Presidents—Miss va P, Howard, of New Whitmore, of Rochester; Miss Kate Mulneny, of ‘troy. bid Secretartes—-Mr, J, W. Browning, of New York, and Miss Leonard, of New York. Mr. TRouP immediately took the chair, and, taking advantage of the occasion as usual, made a speech. Mr. BROWNING, Secretary in Chief, next reada constitution, prepared as basis of their organiza tion, Working Woman’s State Labor Union of New York."* One dollar was stipulated as the initiation fee, object of the organization was to enable lone ana jaboring women to secure fair rates of wages, and te Uhis end to use all possible means to bring all trades under the contro! of co-operative principies, Thence (n extenso provisions were made for local unions, aud their own special government and guidance im the future, alter the customary manner of similar constitutions, ‘This constitution selected a3 their name “The The The cons.itutton having been adopted the secre- This paper alk iss ii, A. LANE, of Boston, now submitted a series of resolutions, ‘Lhese resolutions involved a closely written foolscap page of Wwhereases and eleven resolves. Ung and unjust that women should not be the same Wi luty of labor,” and that women not only have the right but that it was their bounden duty to “make an irresistibie protest against the insolent assump. tions of her employers,” and that the better way to accomplish this is by a complete organization of all the various trades into seperate unions. ‘The whereases declared as poth humilia- a8 men for the same Kind and quae The reso~ lutions declared the means by which ali the evils re+ ferred to could be remedied. There being no further business the Chetrmas agent that remarks from any 006 present were in order. Mass., made the first speech on this gener: Hon, and was succeeded by Mr, Pratt, of Boston. Mr. Wilson, of Worcester, Mas3., @ member of the advisory committee of the Knights of St. Crispin, spoke of the diMicuities in the shoemaking business in Worcester, ‘Miss Leonard, of the Workingmen’s Union of this State, Mr. Wells and others, Wien an adjournment took piace ull evening. Mr. Stoddard, of North sridgewater, invite- Seige followed by Mrs. Somerby, Misa Lihane, Mr. Jessup, President (THE EVENING SESSION was of decidedly more imposing and demonstrative character, the latter bein: the Cooper Institute. thiras full, most of whom were youn, feature that doubtless of many, toward the goal of higher inteilectual employment, was a youn ing notes of the speeches, and certainly tn the switt movenients of her pencil keeping pace with the professional scribes of the oppos: ing was called to order by the President, Mr. Troup, which, a8 at the afternoom session, was succeeded by aspeech from the latter, alike full of surring ea- thusiasm and eloquence. held tn the great hali of ‘The room was about two women. A attracted the attention as showing the progress of womem iady at the reporters’ table bustiy tak- ing sex, Tue meet s. P. Cummings was then introduced. He was pleased to see so many present, but if thia had been @ political meeung the room would be full and ablaze with enthusiasm. enthusiasm what they lacked in numbers. Thirty thousand working men in Massachusetts supported the present movement of the toiling women of the Empire state, ‘They were on the right track, This movement entered the family circle. every ieee of society, great He hoped they would make up in It ramified ‘They were now solving » labor problem. Miss Lane, of Boston, read the resolutions adoptea@ atthe afternoon meeting, aud the same met wite hearty and unanimous endorsement. Mra. Daniels, of Boston; Nelson W. Young, Prest- dent of the Workingmen’s Union; Mrs. Albertson, of Boston; Mr. Stoddard and Mr. Browning also made addresses, after which the meeting adjournea. GREAT FIRE IN (WENTY-FIFTH STREET. The “Eagle Print Works? Completely Dee stroyed—Loss Estimated at $200,000. A very disastrous fire occurred last evening im West Twenty-fiith street, the loss consequent npon which, a3 estimated by the proprietor of the prem- ises and stock, was unusually heavy, The fre was remarkable from the fact that the consuming cle meat was very quick in its work of devastation, de- stroying everything within the walls and causing the walls thomselves to fall within the short space of one hour. Navy. Major S. H. Barker, or Baltimore, and A. M. Sut. ton, of Detroit, are at the Irving House. H, BR. Whitehouse, State Medical Surveyor of Towa; Senator A. H. Cragin, of New Hampshire; Judge J. Belfour, of Indiana; Judge W. Reid, of Mexico, and A. Reed, of the United States Navy, region to the Rocky Mountains, suggested to General Sherman that it would be a good thing to pounce upon and “‘strike” some of those hostile Blackfeet gangs in their winter quarters; that General Sully seconded the pro- position ; that General Sherman approved this anggestion; that Colonel Baker accordingly was detailed with a strong force against the Piegans in their winter encampment; and that without much discrimination in favor of age, sex or condition, he made a fearful slaughter of the Piegan encampment, men, women and children. General De Trobriand, also in com- mand out there, thinks that this affair entitles Colonel Baker to promotion. We think, if the facta are as reported, that this shocking mas- sacre calls for a court martial by order of the President and an investigation by order of Congress. Tax Tennessee Birt.—A delegation of colored people from Tennessee called upon President Grant yesterday and asked for mili- tary protection in that State. He referred their request to the Secretary of War, but stated that any proposed interference with the civil law was a matter requiring very grave consideration. In this he is right and prac- tical as usual, and we suggest that Butler, Maynard and company give the matter very grave and serlous consideration before they determine to reconstruct the State, and then, probably, they will conclude not to do it, Tax House ComMitrer oN Foruren Reva- ‘ions, in order to muddle themselves as much as possible about Cuban affairs, propose to invite Secretary Fish to sit>with them on Monday noxt, They will be all at sea if they foliow Fish, FIGHTING FOR THE SPOLS> The Consequences of an Llopement—The Sen- sation-Mongers Cheated. Mrs. Mortz and Hessler, her companion, who, a8 stated in yesterday’s"HeraLp, arrived by the Silesia tu Hoboken, and who were arrested on the charge of robbery, were brought before Justice Whito yesterday for examination. Mr. Hoifman on behalf Ol the prisoners moved for their discharge on tho grounds that no law of the State had been violated, Uhat a justice’s court had no jurisdiction m the mat- ter of an offence committed In @ foreign countrys, and that the only tribunal whtch could fake cogni- wance of any such alleged offence was the united States Court. The woman, it appears, brought out with her from France a@ large sum of money, and the relatives of her husband, whom she abandoned, as she alleges, for his crucity towards her, are trying to Ret possesston of her money on tne plea that she stole it, Justice White discharged the prisonera on thelr own recognizance to appear again for examination next Thursday. In the meau- ume the relatives siluded to were not idie, and they procured warrants for the arrest of bot Mrs. Mortwz ana Hessler on @ charge of adultery. They also made aMdavits on which the sheriff seized all the money and effects of the woman. The case Is a most gricvous one, and, as Mr. Hoffman remarked, 18 an attempt to plunder the woman in the name of law. The Bohemians, who tried to make @ sensation out of this case, are sorely chagrined av the result of the investigation. Should the woman be detained in cusiody on tue first charge her coun- gel will apply for & writ of habens corpus te Judge | Bodie, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. ton; P. Galvez, Peruvian Minister; Colonel D'Arcy E. Boulton, of Toronto; and A, B. Patterson, of Baltimore, are at the New York Hotel. port, R. 1; J. S. Gaddes, of Baltimore; and Rk, G. Derbyshire, of Central America, are at the St. Denis Hotel. body Russell, of Salem; Captain Edinborough, of London, and M. Chadwick, of Washington, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. aud J. J. Calhoun, of Boston, are at the Hoffman Salisbury, and Captain J. Williams, of Sandusky, ore ‘The First Avenue Property Owners Resolve nue property owners yesterday afternoon, at the corner of Fifth street and First avenue, who are opposed to the paving of the avenue with Nicolson pavement, The meeting was called to order, when Mr. Guttman was elected cuairman. Colonel J, G. Berrettand J. E. Henry, of Washing- Lieutenant Commander E. 0, Mathews, of New- Colonel E. J, Curley, of Kentucky; George Pea- Captain J. E, Hyde, of the United States Army, House. Protessor Dawson, of Canada; D. G. Wilbur, of at the St, Elmo Hotel. WOODEN PAVEMENT JOS, to Fight the Comnion Councils Weeden Pavement Job. ‘There was a well attended meeting of First ave- Discussion concerning the action of the Common Councti in passing over the Mayor's veto the resolu- tion to pave the avenue, from Houston to Thirty- ninth street, with wooden pavement, notwithstand- ing the protest of the property holders, then becamo general. The “city fathers” were denounced in the most emphatic German for the “outrageous. part they had played in the matter,” and it was au- nounced by some of the speakers that when the aforesaid fathers would have a hankering alter a re-election they would find it to be one thing to hanker for itand quite another to secure the opject of the hankering. Agreat deal of time was wasted in a desultory confab about what cach property owner would be willing to pay to head off the wooden pryemeat ina legal way; but it was finally resolved that each should be assessed tive Gollarg, and a committes of seven was appointed, with power to coilect the funds, which are to be used exclusively in getting out an Injunction against the laying of the wooden pavement and in fighting the ‘jobbers’ in every possible manner which the courts will alow. It Was also resolved #5 the sense of the property owners along that part of the avenue which the Common Council have their contracting eye upon that Belgian would be acceptable imstead of the Nico!son pavement. ‘The meeting then adjourned tn a bappy frame of mind, A “SLANDEROUS’’ CHARGE. A Luwyer Committed in Defuxts of $10,000 Bail. During the recent sitting of the County Court and Court of Sessions at Bedferd, Westchester county, Charles L. Halberstad, a lawyer doing business at 202 Broadway, New York, was tried on an indici- ment for forgery, the result being that ho was ac- quitied. Before leaving the county named, how- ever, Halberstad was again arrested on a warrant tasued by the Comaty Judge of Rensselaer gouniy, at the instance of #pilatus W. Bishop, on a charge of glander. Ja dyfault of $10,000 dail the accused wis committed (9 the White Plains Jal, Where ho 13 BOW continad: e in depth by 150 feet in were five heavy pres: Ata quarter before six o’clock the belis rang out analarm of fire for Twenty-iifth street and Tenth avenue. and discovered thgt flames were issuing trom No. 654 West Tweity-fifth street, known as the Eagle Print Works. Tae apparatus was soon at work, but the fire spread with such rapldity that before the flames could be got under Nos. 554, 556, 553, 560. and 662, all comprised in the Eagle Works building, were entirely at tle mercy of the ire. Alter battling with the fiames for avout half an hour the endea- vors of the department were stayed by the falling im of the four walls, and in less than an hour from the ringing of the alarm nothing but the chimneys of the works were lett standing. The department at once turned ont ‘The building was a two story brick one, thirty feet igth. Onthe second hoor and it is supposed tbat 16 was their accumulated weight which caused the walls to fall, The premises were owned and occu- pied by Mr. Charles Manly, and in his ab- sence through sickness it was vory dilill- cult to obtain any definite intelligence as to the amount of loss or insurance. The son of the proprietor estimates the loss upon building, ma- chinery and stock at from $175,000 to $200,000, whic. 13 almost entirely covered by insurance, in what offices could not be ascertained. The fire originated, as supposed, In tho storeroom m No. 654, but the cause Of its origin could not be ascertained. The workmen and workwomen were many of them te the building at the time the tire was discovered, bunt, fortunately, they were all abie to leave the premises iu safety. : A BOGUS CAPITALIST, Tho Latest Confidence Swindle~A Reat Ese tate Fancier on Wheels. A well attired man, of portly figure and pompous address, called ac the residence of an extensive property owner 1n Morrisania, Westchester county, ®@ day or two ago, and presented his card, on wick Was inscribed the name “M. 0. Davis? On the ap- pearance of the host he was informed by his visttor (who represented bimself as a “capitalis’’ from New York) that his object was, if possible, to nego- uate for the broad acres of the former, the market value of which 18 perhaps not less tham $250,000, Wishing to dispose of some of his property, and doubtiess betteving that he had caught @ milllonpaire, the real estate owner readily accompanied ihe supposed bondhoider to ® livery estaultsument in Railroad avenue, where the latter, in tones of princely condescension, directed the most stylish turnout to be piaced at their ser~ Having driven for some hours over the pic- sque jands in question, and afler the visitor nad conciuded to tuvest largely m the same, the livery stable was duly reached, when the warm hearied landowner insisted on paying for the use of the horse and yehicle, waich the real estate fancier, after asiigh’ opposition and the studious display of what purported Lo be a well fled pocket- book, fnaily assented to. Next morning the benignant patron again ap~ peared at tne ivery stable alone, and requested that the horse and buggy which had givem hnuseit and “friend” so much satisfaction om the precedmg day be again furnished him. jor afew nours. Having completely disarmed sug~ picion by appearing in the company of a well knowag and Wealthy cluzen on the day previous, the turay out Was cheerfully furnished, and thus controlling the rems over property valued ab $500, “M. O, Davis” statted mm the direction of his prospective estate, Since then hours have chased each other in rapid flight and nights nave succeeded days, and althongh the telegraph has been Sreély used, the “real estate’? man has faued to return with the horse and vehicle, nor 1s ne expected fo put in ay appearance save “With gyves Upon his wrists.” Mrs. Saran Ferrin, a@lady seventy-one yeyra of age, died yesterday at No. 210 Kast Hleventh gtpeet from the edfects of burng lately rocolved. = +