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4 NEW YORK HERALD|™ BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must bo addressed New York Haran. : Eettors and packages should be properly sealed. Volume XXXV. : —aa———————————— AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. — NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—' or THE Fonty Taimvas, Matinee st Sh oe BOWERY TH ao 1 THe tagn oF 7 aed Bowery.—Riowanp ROE THEATRE, 23d st., between Sth and 6th avs.— x VERSUS GOOBE—LosT AsnoRE. WALLACK'S bane Broadway and 13th street.— OVE Cuase. Evening~Tux Lancess. CH THEATRE, Ifth at. and 6th ay.—Tor Const- ol beoruran ; FIFTH AVENUE THEATRI Twenty-fourts t.—THE Goop NatuRep Man. Mai oe at 1, THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.—Guanp VAarety ENTERTAINMENT. Matinee at 23. OLEMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tus Fars ONE WITH BLonpE Wid, Matluee at 3. P ‘WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor- -| nor Thirtieth st.—Matineo daily. Perforance every evening. 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AION A Sreeee New York, Saturday, CONTENTS OF TO-DAY?3 HERALD, PacR. ae Advertisements. Q—Advertisements, 3—Advertisements. 4—Editorials: Leading Article on the Fenian Flurry Number Three, the Canadians and the Brit sh Press—News from Washington—Per- . Sonal Intelligence—Melaucholy Death at Sea— Respect to the Memory of Judge Field—Amuse- SmTelegraphic News) ‘ron All Parts of the World lc News§ ‘rom ts of the World : ‘The War ‘News trom Canada in England and Arrests for Fenfanism iu London ; The Crown of Spain Refused on All Sides and Placed Out f Sight; North Germany Against Chinese Piracy—Text of the Bill to Enforce the Fif- teenth Amendment—Shipping Inielligence— Business Notices. G—Congress: Sipe iyo by the Senate of the Legls- lative, Executive and Judictal Appropriation Bill; The Capttat Removal Scheme Killed; The Bill to Enforce the Fifteenth Amendment Passed in Both Houses; Mr. Schenck’s Bill to Reduce Internal Taxation—New York City Courts—Yachting Correspondence in Relation to the Contest for Possession of the America's Cup—Financial and Commercial Reports—A | Heartless Scoundrel—Fatal Kaliway Casuaity— Marriages and Dea'hs. 9—A Singular Case—Another Ear-le Accident—Ad- vertisements. =The Fenians: A Skirmish near Trout River, in Canada; Rout of the Invaders and Their Re- treat Into the United States; Preparations Making for Another Invasion; Order from ay 28, 1870. Fenian Flurry Number Throe—Tho Canadians and the British Press. This fs the third Fenian invasion of her Britannic Majesty's North American posses- sions. The first was at Campo Bello, a sea- coast island on the line between New Bruns- wick and Maine; the second was at Ridgeway, below Buffalo, across the river, near Fort Erle (where they had the fight at Limestone Ridge), and the third, on a far more extensive scale than either of the others, appears to comprehend a plan of invasion extending from Minnesota and the Red River of the North, or Winnipeg basin, eastward along the frontier to Vermont and even to Maine, In the points chosen this time for a lodgment on British soil, however, the Fenians at St. Albans and at Huntington have avoided the difficulty of putting a river or an arm of the sea between them and the soil of the United States, so that in the event of an attack and repulse by tho enemy they could have a convenient line of retreat to the safe side of the line. The results of the operations of these fighting Fenians so far have shown the wisdom of this Precaution and the wisdom, too, of the old couplet, that He who fighta and runs away, May live to fight another day. According to the reports of the Fenian gatherings along the whole line of the frontier, from Red River to Maine, the sum total of their able-bodied men moving upon the Ca- nadians, or preparing to move, is about six thousand, distributed as follows:—Around Huntington, two thousand; about St. Albans, five hundred; along the border, near Buffalo, fifteen hundred ; between Detroit and Chicago, fifteen hundred, and on the Minnesota border, Red River, five hundred; and there are said to be from five to ten thousand fighting Fenians in the interior cities of our Northern States awaiting an outfit and transportation. If the managers of this invasion of Canada have been guided by anything like a plan of operations we presume it was this :—To make a lodgment in the enemy’s country at some convenient point and to entrench and hold their position till sufficiently reinforced from other points to make an advance upon some convenient town, the capture of which would furnish supplies and reinforcements for another forward move- ment. We suppose, too, that, like Lopez, when he invaded Cuba, these Fenian leaders counted upon a rising of a host of allies in the enemy's country, and though, like Lopez, they have failed, it is still probable that, with the continuance of these annual forays, Canada, like Cuba, may become a hotbed of rebellion. It is probable, however, that the miserable collapse of this latest Fenian ascent upon Canada for the independence of Ireland will result in drying up the streams which so far have supplied the Fenian treasury, and that accordingly more thana year will elapse before there will be another Fenian army put in NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 238, 1870. ‘The Purification of the Ballot Box. The bill to enforce the fifteenth amendment | was finally passed by the House yesterday, | and will in all likelihood be approved by the | President to-day. Thus it becomes a law after » long and thorough ventilation in both branches of Congress and by the genora! press of the country. It provides substantially a thorough protection of the ballet box from frauds. It imposes heavy penalties not only on fraudulent voters, but on all aiders and abettors in frauds at elections—on the judges and inspectors who ‘knowingly refuse” to receive honest votes or knowingly receive dishonest ones; on any person who at- tempts by bribery, intimidation, or threats to prevent any one from voting or from doing any of the acts, necessary to qualify him to .vote, and on any person who shall oppress or injure another on account of his vote, It gives United States marshals the power to arrest persons for such offences, and United States courts the power to try them, and it gives the President authority to enforce the execution of judicial processes under the act by the em- ployment of the naval and military forces. It provides that any person, a candidate, who has been deprived of his election by reason of the denial to any citizens of the right to vote, may bring suit to recover his office in federal or State courts, as he may choose. It provides also penalties against persons who accept offices knowing themselves to be ineligible, and abolishes special State taxes on Chinese immi- grants, The bill, it will be seen, is broad as the Union in its provisions. It protects the darky down South, the Chinaman on the Pacific coast and the honest vote in New York city. While it is purely a party measure and has been passed in both houses by a purely party vote, it is broad enough and long enough to cover both parties, and will in its provisions operate impartially and faithfully for a pure ballot box, without regard to political com- plexion. The penalties imposed by it are severe, but they are aimed at ¢rimes which need severe punishment. We have so long been under the rule of the pariy roughs of this city that we shall have reason|to rejoice if the bill becoming a law is rigidly enforced, and none but the party roughs or the Political organizations dependent on fraudu- lent elections for success are apt to regret it. Especially will the bill serve to| secure the purification of the ballot box if the uniform Naturalization bill now pending in/the Senate is also passed. The latter gives the power of naturalization into the hands of the United States courts and specifies that a foreigner cannot vole within less than six months of the date of his naturalization. The two bills, it is thereftre obvious, are admirably calculated, besides the service they may render the newly motion heading for Montreal, In fact, it must now be evident to the most hopeful of the Fenion leaders and to the mass of their follow- ers that they can do nothing in Canada without the support of the United States, and that only “England’s difficulty is Ireland’s opportunity.” They see that General Grant, in good faith and in downright earnest, is enforcing and will enforce our neutrality obligations; that he will not even wink at their violation In any way, and that, as he says in his warning pro- clamation, he will leave all hostile invaders of afriendly neighbor's territory to the conse- ‘ Washington to Seize Fentan Arms; Reports from Various Parts of the Country; The ie- muans in the Meiropolis—Advyertisements. Svocess or THe Fentan “Invaston.”—Oae of our Buffulo despatches says :—“The excite- ment is on the increase; money is paid into the treasury more freely now than at the open- ing of the campaign.” This, therefore, must be taken asa final sign that tlre last great Fenian movement has achieved all that its projectors expected from it. It has opened the pockets of the servant girls and of the gullible Lrishmen who are in funds. Tam Pouce AND THE Strerrs.—The idea involved in the proverb that ‘‘what is every- body’s business is nobody’s business” has hitherto applied well to the case of public con- tractors for such purposes as street cleaning. No one on the part of the public assumed the duty of seeing whether the work was done be- fore the pay was given. Now we have some improvement in that respect, and the order of Superintendent Jourdan to the police to ob- serve and report on the state of the streets and on the fulfilment of the garbage contract, &c., supplies a real public need. Orr ror Evrorg.—One of our new Board of Aldermen, Lawrence R. Jerome, leaves for Europe to-day. He will return about the time - the Atlantic Ocean yacht contest culminates, and bring with him laurels which all his con- stituents will doubtless hail with cordial satis- faction. Why don’t more ofour Aldermen and Assistant Aldermen go abroad for aseason? It would no doubt do them good, and when they entered upon their arduous municipal duties at home they would do £0 like giants refreshed with rare old foreign wines. The experiment is worth trying. In Tramine.—Our criminal authorities may look out fer a fine crop of murdera upon the return to this city of all the hard cases who are now on the border ready to follow in the wake of the Fenian “army” for plunder and general recreation. Tho restraints of the cural district and enforced sobriety will be hard on them, and they will indulge an un- usual hilarity when they get once more in the free, familiar air of the city. Ovr Latg Stare Exxorion A Fizzix.—It appears from official returns from most of the counties and from unofficial returns from the rest that the whole vote cast in this State will not exceed 430,000, Compare this with the fall vote of 1868 and it will be seen at once that this late election was a fizzle which signi- quences of their own acts. While General Grant is thus effectively act- ing for the suppression of these warlike Fenian movements the Canadian and the Bri- tish journals appear virtuously indignant that he bas permitted these troublesome Fenians to gather on the border and has failed to guard the outraged Canadians with a standing army on the frontier sufficiently strong to keep the peace. These reflections and suggestions are very refreshing, considering the active sympa-~ thy of these same Canadians for Jeff Davis in our terrible struggle to maintain our national existence; and the advice from the leading British journals to our government is exceed- ingly cool, considering the disastrous conse- quences to our commerce resulting from the piratical depredations of those Anglo-rebel privateers, such as the Alabama and Shenan- doah. Absurd and ludicrous as these Fenian forays may~appear, however, they will serve, perhaps, to teach some wholesome lessons to the Fenians themselves, to the Canadians and to England—first, to those honest, credulous, hardworking Irishmen and Irish women who have furnished the funds for these Fenian enterprises in Canada, that money for such senseless forays is money thrown away; the Canadians ought to learn that one good turn from & friendly neighbor deserves another from them, and England will be apt to see that so long as the United States on a thirty days’ notice can muster two hundred and fifty thou- sand Irish volunteers for the invasion of Canada or Ireland peace with this country, on such reasonable terms, Alabama claims included, as our government may propose, is the only alternative of safety for the British empire. Tue Frexca Maw Steamsnre Prereims— Her Run ro Brest.—The French Transat- lantic mail steamship Pereire, which sailed from New York on the 14th inst., having on board the distinguished company of American passengers whose names were reported in the Heratp next day, arrived at Brest early on Monday evening, the 23d igst., having made, as usual with the vessels of this line, the passage within nine days—an exceedingly rapid run, when we consider the greater sail- ing distance to Brest over a trip to Liverpool or Queenstown. Strange to say, the “arrival out” of the Pereire is only reported by the cable to-day. This is termed in the telegram “a shameful neglect of somebody.” So it is, as will be affirmed by the relatives and friends of the passengers. But who is the somebody ? Who’ delays the news? Who interrupts the delivery of mail reports by this French liae on fies nothing :— Total vote of the State, 1868.. 840,776 Total vote of the State, 1870... 430,000 Or say about one half the vote of the State, of which loss the stay-at-home republicans count, on their vote of 1868, 250,000, and the demo- crate 180,000—the democrats, whose strength 1s tn cities and towns, always doing better on ® short vote than the republicans, whose almost every occasion of the voyages of its vessels ? ena Some or THe Newspapers are criticising Genegal Grant’s grammar inhis late neutrality proclamation. It seems now that the tele- graphers and not the President were blamable. As these papers usually say the worst they can about the President itis encouraging to atrength is in the counffy, And this is all there | know, however, that they have no more is tn the result of our late election, It is a | serious fault than a grammatical error to Aemogratic victory which signifies nothing. charge him with. made voters of another race and complexion, to rid New York of the infamous frauds so long imposed on honest voters by the hurried naturalization of all the newly arrived foreign element a few’ days before election, and the repeating and intimidation practised by ruf- fianly voters and ruffianly inspectors at the polls, Tho Question of Reviving Amefieau Come. merce in Congress. Mr. Lynch deserves credit for his persever- ance in the House of Representatives for reviving and promoting the commerce and shipping interests of the country. At firat he claimed too much, particularly in the matter of subsidies or direct appropriations from the Treasury ; but seeing this was impracticable he accepts: the substitute to the original bill, which does away with that feature of a direct bonus to shipbuilding. This shows that he is intent on reviving the shipping interests of the country andthat he will accept anything to that end he can get from Congress. The sub- stitute to the original bill provides for a draw- back of duties on all materials used in the construction of ships and of stores used on board of them afterwards. This is undoubt- edly a fair and reasonable proposition, No one who has the interests of our commerce at heart or who takes a broad view of the na- tional welfare could object to such a proposi- tion. There is, however, a serious objection to granting a bonus—a direct payment from the Treasury—upon American materials used equal to the duty on foreign materials. This would be in the interest only of a limited class of the community, and must lead to ex- travagance and corruption. It is wrong in principle, an outrage upon the taxpayers and contrary to sound policy. Mr. Butler's plan of favoring American shipping’by a reduction of duty on foreign dutiable articles carried in American bottoms would be better, The debate on the bill to revive our com- merce developed great ignorance and a lament- able want of national feeling in Congress. Some of the Western members showed a con- tracted sectional feeling that was a disgrace to the country. They seemed to think that the West—their section—had no interest in our shipping or foreign commerce. How short- sighted! How unpatriotic! Whatever tends to promote the shipping interests and to en- large our commerce must be a benefit to their constituents. But even if they were not direcily benefited these narrow-minded legis- lators ought to remember that it is their duty to legislate for the general welfare, and not for any particular section. Indirectly the West would reap the advantages of an enlarged American commerce and an increase of Ameri- can tonnage as much as the commercial cities of the East. The debate on this subject’shows what small local politicians we have in Con- gress and how much we need statesmen of broad national views there. Still we have hope, from the large vote of 105 yeas to 61 nays egainst Mr. Allison’s motion to lay the bill and amendments on the table, that some measure will be passed in favor of reviving American shipping and commerce. Countine THE Forozs.—Old Abe Lincoln when once asked the-force of the Confederates said they had from one to two million men in the field. He justified this computation on the ground that every one of our generals re- ported half million in front of him, We are having in much smaller numbers about the same sort of counting just now. Everybody who sees twenty Fenians on the border re- ports five hundred, and the same twenty is seen by twenty different persons; so the Fenian forces are augmented in magnificent ratlo. Latest from the Fenians. The news of yesterday morning might have led to the supposition that a battle would have taken place during the day at Huntingdon, which the Fenians were said to have occupied, and which, of course, the Canadian troops would not permit them to occupy very long in peace. But it does not appear that.the fill- busters had taken possession of the town at all, but had only advanced a short distance into the Dominion territory by crogsing Trout river, where they intrenched themselves. Despatches from Toronto state that they were driven from their works by aforce of a thousand Canadian volunteers, and recrossed the border into United States territory, where they scattered towards their homes. From the same Canadian source we learn that one puissant general, being super- seded by another, left his command and the cause in disgust, If all the leaders did the same thing {¢ would be good for the poor fel- lows of the rank and file, who aré certain to be left in a wretched, penniless and hungry. condition to seek their homes as best they can when this miserable fizzle reaches the climax. It appears that the fight on Trout river lasted only a few minutes; the Cana- dian troops, deploying into line, opened a brisk fire, to which the Fenians responded only by about twenty shots and thon aban- doned the field, in spite of all the efforts’ of their officers, by the use of their swords and revolvers, to keep them in line, The news also states that Prince Arthur’s appearance in the front at the head of his regiment created great excitement and enthusiasm. This ap- pearance of the royal scion of the House of England is the more notable because the Fenian invasion was not thought worthy even of a proclamation by the Governor of the Do- minion or an order by the Cémmander-in- Chief of the militia. The whole work seems to have been done by the local volunteers, without any specific orderg, except such as the admonition of self-protection suggested. The concentration of United States troops along the frontier, under General Meade, will probably cause a speedy dispersion of the Fenian boys in the different towns, where they are now lingering in despair over the fate of their ill-jadged expedition and cursing their officers for the sad plight to which they have been brought. And thus will end the Fenian Jiasco of 1870, as the attempt of 1866 was brought to an unhappy and disgraceful ter- mination. . No King for Spain. By our latest advices we learn that General Prim regards the declination of General Es- partero to accept the Spanish crown as final, and recommends the consolidation of the Spap- ish regency. As at the same moment our ad- vices inform us that there is very serious ob- jection, inside and outside of the Cortes, to the confirmation of plenary powers in the hands of Serrano, the inference is that, quite in accord- ance with what we hinted some time ago, General Prim himself may be the man of the future. But there is more than this in the present tendency of Spanish affairs. The Na- poleonic dynasty rises like a giant: refreshed with wine from the recent plebiscitary contest in France. Almost simultaneous with its suc- cess occurred the Saldanha revolution in Por- tugal and the suggestion of an Iberian union, The Portuguese Deputies of the old Chamber have separated with solemn pledges against a subordination to Spain, but not, it may be re- marked, against any union which should re- cognize the autonomy of their country while combining its strength for good results with that of their cousins beyond the Spanish fron- tier, who are of the same religion, speak a language very similar to their own and have some traditions in common with them. The disorders in Spain and in Portugal have re- cently afforded France nearly as good a pre- | text for interference as ‘that which has called her troops to Italy, and should those disorders continue and the regency be found im- practicable under certain conditions, why might not the preponderating influence of France be exercised in a peculiar way? Spain secks for a leader, and General Prim, in something of that capacity, has had frequent counselling at Paris, Could he not prepare the way for a plediscitum in Spain which might result in the selection of a Napoleonic prince to head the nation? How would the candidature suit the idea of a political fraterni- zation of tho Latin race? Stranger things than this have happened. A brother of the First Napoleon was once made King of Spain’ by force; suppose that a cousin of Napoleon TIL. should rise to the same eminence by popu- lar vote, and that his rule shotld, in time, cover the entire Iberian peninsula? Would the latter really lose thereby, or would the security and peace of Europe be any the worse off for an arrangement that would repose upon so many guarantees of strength and order? This is a question which may have more significance and be more nearly in accordance with the French Emperor's new map of Europe, bearing the ante-date of 1872, than most people imagine. “Loyatty” oF Prestpent Grant.—The London Times talks approvingly of President Grant's “loyalty.” His loyalty to the Union and fo the government and people of the United States was never doubted. Does the Times mean to intimate that his “loyalty” has adifferent application, and that the non-en- forcement of the Alabama claims is evidence that “loyalty” to the British throne is believed to be not yet extinct among the American people? That sort of “loyalty” was melted out of their hearts when the statue of George the Third, in Bowling Green, was torn down and molten into bullets for the defence of American liberty. ADOLISHMENT OF THE CARTAGE BurEAv.— On Saturday last we exposed the abuses of the Cartage Bureau, that has been managed in the interests‘of private parties in this city against the welfare of the port and the best interests of our merchants, and we urged the Secretary of the Treasury to abolish it as an obstruction to commerce. We are glad to see that the Secretary has accepted our sug- gestion. The cartage will hereafter be con- ducted on the old system, a few additional safeguards being thrown around it to protect it from the abuses that have been pre- vailing in the new system without let or hindrance. Comgreas Yesterday. In the Senate yesterday the Legislative, Executive and Judietal Appropriation bill gave rise to several warm discussions, which defl- WASHINGTON. enema WaAsainaton, 1, 1810. Health of the nomial nitely settled one important point at least, re Presidout The Prestient lias entirely recovered trom Among the amendments proposed was an | cent siokness, and 18 to-lay attending ppt pam appropriation of five hundred thousand dol- duties, . lars for the improvement of the Capitol | The Presidents Neutrality Proclansation Orist< grounds. This brought out several Western Senators, who opposed the appropriation and cised. The Piesident's recent neutrailty proclamation having in-some quarters been criticised arunfram- took occasion to ventilate the proposition of | matical on account of the alleged expression, “with: the removal of the national capital. Their | whom the Untied States és at peace,” it should be eloquence, however, was unheeded, and the Senate put a finish to the insane project by Passing the appropriation by the overwhelm- ing vote of 42 yeas to 10 nays. Other amendments were adopted increasing the sala- ries of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to ten thousand dollars per annum, Asso- stated that the document as written.and Med for telegraphing contained the verb ‘are’ in that con- nection. The word “is,” as printed in some of the newspapers, 1s therefore a mistake, Protection of the Canadian Border. The rumor from: Ottawa that aflinister Thorntom has Been directed by-the Secretary for Foreign At fairs to demand protection of the Ganalian fronties by President Grant ts untrue. On the conwary, the clate Judges to eight thousand dollars and of | British Minister, on behalf of his government, i Circuit Judges to seven thousand five hun- satisfied with what President Grant is doing to sup- dred dollars, the increase of salaries to com- | PFess the Fenian invasion, and has so expressea mence July 2, 1870, and the bill passed. The himself to our government. ‘The Fenian Prisoners in Eagland. Committee on Appropriations reported, with | Tne House Committee on Forelgm Atfutrs con- amendments, the House bill for deficiency in | sidered the petition of General Negley, who was im- the appropriation for the payment of mileage prisoned with Colone) Warren by the British autho. for members, the amendments appropriating one million'two hundred thousand dollars to rities, The petition 18 much like that of Warren, and demands reparation for false unprisonment. The committee fluatts passed a resolution referring: supply the deficiency for the collection of | the matter to the President, with the reqnest that custom duties and twenty thonsand dollars for | he open a correspondence through the: State De- special counsel fees, Senator Trumbull said | Pattment with the British authorities upoo the sub- Congress appeared to have thrown aside all ject, and ask that the proper reparation be made. The Fifteenth Amendment Enforcement Bill ideas of economy, and suggested that while } wnich passed the Honse to-day, received: a strict thus lavishly squandering the people's money | party vote, all the republicans voting for it and alt it might be well enough to raise the pay of the democrats voting against tt. It 1s expected that members of Congress, The House took up the Sonth Carolina con- tested election case—Wallace against Simpson. the President wiil sign it to-morrow. The Currency Inflation Bill. The Banking and Ourrency Committee are still engaged tinkering the bill to create additional Simpson not being reconstructed according to | bonding facilities, otherwise known as the ninety- the acts of Congress, the House, -with its usual five million bill, It 1s understood that to-day they sense of political consistency, awarded the seat to Wallace, although there was a majority of four thousand against him in his district, The Legislature of Idaho, faving become some time ago impatient of federal control, assumed even more than State sovereignty and passed several laws discriminating against race and color. To keep the now too progressive Legislature within due bounds the House annulled the obnoxious laws and placed Johu Chinaman upon the same footing as other un- naturalized foreigners. The report of the con- ference committee on the bill to enforce the fifteenth amendment was taken up and agreed to. The President will probably sign the bill to-day. ‘The Internal Tax bill was then taken up. It is:presumed to be, on Mr. Schenck’s authority, a short substitute for the annual bill, which is often of immense proportions ; but when the Clerk commenced reading it was found that the first section took up thirty pages, whereupon the House, at the hour designated, adjourned without hearing tho end of it. Tae Vircinta Exzctrion has probably gone republican throughout the State, and certainly has in Richmond, This is the first election since the State was readmitted, and the radicals in Congress, who believe that loyalty means republicanism, have the privilege of rejoicing over the thorough reconstruction of the Old Dominion, while they have also the option of blushing at the useless conditions they im- posed upon the State before readmitting her. Chahoon was elected Mayor over Ellyson, in favor of whom the United States District Court was about to render a decision when the fatal disaster at the Richmond State House occurred. How many houses now in mourning would have been still joyous and cheerful had the difference between these opposing candidates been settled at first by the ballot! PERSONAL INIELLIGENC 3, Prominent Arrivals in This City Yesterday. Governor J. W. Geary, of Pennsylvania; Captain Cobb, of Massachusetts; Rev. 8. L. Baldwin, of Foo Chow; Judge Stryker, of Syracuse; 8. C. Pomeroy and ©, Storrs, of Washington; General.G. H. Pierce and Calvin Hall, of New Hampshire; General J, G, Foster, of the United States Army, and Rey, T. J. Kelly, of Philade!phia, are at the Astor House, Lieutenant Commander N, Ludlow, of the United States Navy; John Jeffrey, of Scotland, and General J. 8. Whitney, of Boston, are at the St, Nicholas Hotel. General Allen Rutherford, of Washington; General E. 8. Pierce, of Michigan; Dr. J. 8. Adams, of Bos- ton; Colonel R. H. Perry, of St. Domingo; Dr. T. Fitler, of Philadelphia; Judge E. U. Russell, of Ten- nessee; Colonel W. J. Hendrick, of Saratoga, and 8. P. Teasdale, of Salt Lake City, are at the Metropoli- tan Hotel. Colonel C. L. Allen, of Maine, and Major H. W. Gear, of New Jersey, are at the St. Charles Hotel. Protessor H. Goldie, of Torouto, and Dr. W. Ed- monson, of Pennsylvania, are at the St. Elmo Hotel. % Licutenant Commander E. E. Preble, of the United States Navy; L, B. Bradley, of New Haven; W. E. Eaton, of Halifax; Thomas E. Davis and C. F. Moore, of Boston, are at the St. Denis Hotel. Francis Fellows, of Hartford; C. W. Chapin, of Springceld, and C. T. Stewart, of New Jersey, are at tho New York Hotel. Promiucnt Departures. Judge Nelson, Judge Peltoa and Judge Comstock, for Syracuse; State Senators Ely and Minier, for Binghamton; D.C. Littlejohn, for Albany; W. A. Wood, for Senaca Falls; J. A. Ordway, for Boston; Colonel H. 8. McComb, for Delaware; J.C, Harris, for Buffalo; General George G. Meade, for Canada; T. M. Pomeroy, for Auburn; Dr. G. Lindeman and W. P. Dale, for Washington. Count De 1a Tour, Italian Minister to Japan, and Countess De la Tour, Captain Samuel Samueis, Rev. Dr. Clinton Locke, Chicago; Lawrence R. Jerome, New York; Mr. and Mrs. R. I. Livingston, New York; Mr, ana Mrs. C. T. Bowen, Chicago; Mr. Heury A, Cram, New York; Hon. Mr. Vidal and wife, Wash- ington; Mr. Harry McCali and family, Philadelptua: Mr. and Mrs. Camilla Urso, New York; Mr. EL Godeaux, French Consul at New Orleans; Mr. © Cararoc and family, New Orleans; Mr. B, Cortes, Counsul General of Spain; Mr. C, H. Spang, Pitts- burg, and Mr. Bibridge T. Gerry and family, New York, will leave for Europe to day im the French steamer Latayette, KLLEO ‘A Melancholy Death at Sea—The Way Sick Steernge Passengers Are Treated. Coroner Flynn yesterday commenced an investi- gation touching the death of Mrs. Ellen Bohan, a steerage passenger on board the steamship Nevada, from Liverpool to this port. Soon after leaving Liverpool Mrs. Bohan became very sick, and, it 1s alleged, that Dr. Hamath, surgeon of the Nevada, grossly neglected his duty in omiting to furnish the necessacy medicines and nourisament when called upon by the husband of the sick woman, The result ‘was that before the ship reached her destination the sickness of Mrs. Boban resulted in a premature birth of @ child and her subsequent death. The re- mains were brought into port, and Surgeon Hamath testified that peritonitis was the cause of death; but ing, unsatisfactory to the Board of Health tion was ordered. The taken in the case "gpd Was juite voluminous. Owen Bohan, the ead of jeceased, testified that the surgeon had treated his Fiving her noceseary aeee OM As agaab dine bo ber n 8 x er 4 he should. The further hearing of e case. Is postponed to'a future day, whew MAe witnesses will ye examined. amended it so as to provide thatin the withdrawal of the surplus circulation from banks having more than their quota the first call shall be made upon banks having an excess of one million circulation, and the second upon banks with an excess. of two hundred thousand circulation, The object seems to be to take currency from the Eastern banks and give it to the West and South. They also struck out the word “sitver’ wherever it occurs in the bill, on the ground that it is not alegal tender except im sums of five dollars and under, Tue bill will be reported next Wednesday for action. Abolition of the Cartage Bureau in New York. The Secretary of the Treasury has ordered the abolition of the Cartage Bureau in New York; be- cause he 13 of the opinion that the-establishment of such @ system is not strictly legal, and that it is: neither advantageous to the interests of the govern- ment nor to the business community. The Col- lector 1s directad to change the cartage back tov substantially the old system, witha few additional safeguards. The Removal of the Capital~Aw Insaue Pro-« ject Defeated. The capital movers got another black eye to-day. It was a square stand up fight between the Senators ‘pro and con, to-day, aud the Senators pro ought to feel satisfied that it is perfectly usciess for them ta provoke a contest any more for some time to come. ‘The question came up while @ proposition was before the Sanate to appropriate $500,000 ior the im- phage of the Capiiol grounds, Harlan, Ross and Dick Wates were the special advocates of capital moving, and opposed strongly expending any more money upon the improvement or adornment of the clty of Washington. Nearly every other Senator, however, took ground against the removal project, though some of them argued that the country was burdened with too much debt just now to justify any appropriation for any unnecessary work. Howard, Stockton, Stewart, Drake, Davis, Morrill of Ver- mont, Tipton and Corbett spoke very senatbly on the folly of agitating removal, demonstrating clearly that it could never happen and-was only calculated to do mischief without doing good to any human being except certain land jobbers. Stewart well said that if anything ever did grow out of the agita- tion to remove the capital one thing was certain, and that was that it would go to New York, the seat of the commercial glory and power of the country, and not to any city out West. The proposition to make the appropriation was.carried by the over whelming vote of 42 yeas to 10 nays. Vindication ‘of the Special Revenue Commise sioner. . Some time ago the House of Representatives or- dered the majority and minority reports of the Com- mittee on Manufactures in respect to the Special Commissioner of the Revenue to be printed tov gether. It was the original intention of the high tarli! party to ask of the House a largo extra edi~ tion; but finding their charges against the Com- missioner completely answered and refuted in the minority report, and themselves placed on the defensive, they have aban> doned, it 13 said, the idea of extra official editions of both reports, and have adopted the plan of ordering on private account a large edition éY the majority report alone for circulation, thus leaving the impression that no answer had been made to it or even attempted. The plan will not work, for measures have been taken to give the minority report an equally extensive circulation. Pt The Theatrical Tax. It would appear there was a mistake im thede- spatch which I sent you last night in relation to the means by which the reduction of the theatrical tax was secured. Congressman Cox declares that Gens eral Schenck isentitled to the entire credit of the reduction. Mr. McVicker, of Chicago, appeared po~ fore the committee, urging it with great force and cogency. Mr. Cox merely represented the desire of the managers who had written to him on the subject. American Consul to Barcelona. Mr. Henry Ruggles, of Connecticut, United States Consul to Barcelona, Spain, is in Washington to re- ceive his instructions from the departmeat prior to his departure for that post. Exploration of the Colorado River. Captam J. W. Powell las asked, and the proper department has endorsed the request, that an appro- priaiion of $12,000 be made to prosecute to compler tion the geographical and topographical exploration of the Colorado river and its tributartes. Nominations by the President. ‘The following nominations were sent to the Senate to-day by the President:—Samuel Ruth, collector of internal revenue for the Second district of Virgina; George Geddes, postmaster at Johnstown, Pa; Pever A, Jones, postmaster at Uniontown, Pa. Increase of Internal Revenue in Virginia. Supervisor Presbury reports that @i1 bat one dis- trict In Virginia have returned their lists of assess- ments, and there 1s shown an increase of twenty five and a half per cent over last your. - Personal. Mr. Hiram Calkins, Secretary of the New York } Senate, isin town. Mr. Calkins was authorized at the last session of the New York Legislature to of the United States Senate Chamber ¢o Mt up and alter the State Senate Chamber in @ similar style_ Mr. Calkins has gathered the required information, and will return home to-morrow. RESPECT TO THE MEMORY OF JUDGE FIELD. A meeting of the Mereer county bat convened yes. terday in the Court Housé, Trenton, N. J., for the purpose of paythg a tribute of respect to the memory of the late Judge R. Field, whose death at Priace- ton, N. J., on Wednesday night, was noticog in yes- terday’s Hgranp, The meeting was predided over by chief Justice Beasley, and 1 u‘dons were. <Lexpressive of sorrow and regret at the sud~ en demise of the deceaved, as well ag Of sympathy forand condolence with his family and relatives. The mecting showed that the deceased lad yaluad for himself the unqualified esteem and frigndsiip of the Mercer county bar and bench. Soe very im- ‘pressive and feeling remarks were mad‘ on the ooca- sion, and the professtonal and social ‘qualities of tha lave Judge were spoken of in eulogistic torms, On motion it was agreed that the Courtof Special Ses- siuns should adjourn over until next Moniay, 80 is to give the bench and bar an opyortumity of attend- ‘dng at the deceased's foneia’., which takes piace { from his tate residence, At Princeton, Ny do. Us AG ‘Vernoon. come on here for the purpose of obtaining plans , . POE EE ORE CNA OY ONE ORT, IY BIR BRE REN AE