The New York Herald Newspaper, November 16, 1870, Page 4

4 EUROPE. Napoleon's Correspondence; History of the French Empire in Its Decay to the Fall, The Princess Louise and the Marquis of Lorne. ‘The Cunard steamship Algeria, from Liverpool on the 5th, aud Queenstown the 6th instant, arrived at {his port yesterday moruing. The Algeria landed ‘our special correspondence and mail reports from Europe, dated tothe day of sailing from England— one day later. *" A mail telogram from St. Petersburg, dated on the éth instant, 6ay8 -— ‘The new Turkish Ambassador, Rastem Rey, has presented his creaeutials to the Emperor. The Con- stantinople correspondent of the Journal de St. Pe- tersbourg states that a rapprochement appears to be taking place between Kussia and Turkey. A telegram from Bombay to London, dated 3d No- vember, reports :—~ Advices from China state that matters continue unsatisfactory at Tientsin. It is reportet that Mr. ‘Wade has applied for men and guns to patrol the gottlement, but the news is unauthenticated. ‘The London Sa‘urday Revtew believes that “Lord Granville’s last note to Count Bernatorm® will not silence angry Germans, but it will satisfy the con- sciences of Englishmen, whose convictions may have veen shaken by persistent and confident clamor. There ts too much reason to fear that the unfriendly language of the Nortn German press to- dicates a desire on the part of the Ministers, not necessarily to fasten a quarrel on England, but to keep the pretext for a quarrel open.” The statement that Greece has recognized the French republio, remarks the Saturday Review, while it is rather amusing than important, reminds the careless observer of events that there are other foreign communities besides the belligerents who have engrossed the attention of the world. Amuch more surprising statement was lately forwarded by telegraph from Florence, to the effect that Greece had concluded an offensive and defensive alliance with Turkey. If the report had but been true “it migtt have been inferved that the Greeks bad at Jast determined to concentrate their undividea efforts on domestic improvement.” According to the Wiener Press the administration of the German army had spent up to the 15th of October 260,090,000 thalers. This amount in- cludes all expenses, not omitting the cost of mobi- lizing the three armies. In all “there are now 800,000 ™Men in French territory, and their support costs 2,000,000 thalers daily. The.army of occupation consists of 560,000 soldiers and 240,000 officers, em- ployés, military train, &¢.’” The London Saturday Review says the Emperor's NEW but, as this correspondence will show, Minster, something more, From the Mini of Justice despatches went forth Whick wore ail that the most devoted could desire, Had M, Ollivier been at the Interior the proceeding ‘would have been entirely in accordance with pos dent, but that the Minister of Justice shoul electioncering commands to his order of meu who, according country, should be independent of government influ. ence—is # circumstance that may well suggest the remark with which the commission preisoee its pub- lication. On the of Aprii the following despatch 18 sent:—-“Justice @ tous les procureurs géné: aux, ‘Tell all the juges de; that I shall see them with leasure im the pl committees,—Emile ivier.” To the procureurs généraux he also telegraphs for information as to the atsttude of the clergy. To the Procurour Général of Vourges he telegraphs:—*They write to ae from Moulins that the President of the Tribunal gives the example of an apathy bordering on hostility, It is his right; yet T desire to be cei titled of the truth of the report that has been made to me.” While thus “guiding” the conduct of the judiciary M, Ollivier was not inactive in dealing with the revolutionary party, which a¢ that moment became bolder than ever in its mani- festations. He orders the Procureur Gi néial of Lyons to arrest ull the persons who are at the head of the jaternshonsle—> democratic suciety which, it will e remembered, inspired the government with great Gisquietude in the early part of the year, and whose Supposed success in the towns had probably much to do with the resolve of the Enaperor to take the plebiscite, The Minister seems to have been reall: alarmed at the state ef affairs, On the 30th of April he arrested the persons connected with the Interna- tionale at Paris, and we find him sending energetic telegrams to the procureuis-généraux throughout France:—“Arrest the revolutionaries; do not heal. tate to prosecute the journais which preach civil war and outrage the Emperor. An individual just come from London to assassinate the Emperor was arrested yesterday. He confessed his crime. Tole- rate ne violations of the law; prosecute them every- where with energy. We cannot sit by with folded arms in view ef these revolutionary excesses, Your substitutes; let them see the Juges de paix, ree ree eaten, mag M. Obi vier pennine on e eve of the iscile, Persigny co + carried devotion further, ey sida An important question was on what grounds the Internauonale Soule be prosecuted. Was it as asso- ciation non auiorisée or ag société secrite? M. Grandperret, with his usual acumen, points out to the Minister that it would be dificuit to prosecute Q8 a secret society a body of men who went to work in open day. But it was determined that this should be the ground of the prosecution, with what sxccoas we are unable tosay. Then come the despatches from the previnces on the prospecis of the 8th May, and even amid the calamities of the hour they can hardly be read without amusement, At Nimes the atitude of the Bishop is looked upon 4s of the high- est importance. The Procureur Gén¢ral tele- gp “A Paria journal announces that the op of Nimes hag written to his clergy in lavor of the Plebisctie, The thing would be very desirable; but it is false.” Two days aiter he com- municates again, “Derntere situation prise par EBvéque de Nimes. Will write nothing, get nothing sald in pulpit. Conscience requires not to abstain, but will not recommend to vote oui, If the elector demands formally what he ought to dothe clergy Would enzage him to vote aflirmatively. ‘This sup- rt, almost negative, is completely insuticient.” ‘The dissatisfaction with the lukewarmness of the YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1870.—TRIPLE SHHET, THE TRIBUNES AT WAR. Tho Demoralization of the Republican Party— ‘Will they Fight it Out to the “Bitter End?’ (From the Chicago Tripune—republican organ — Nov. 12.) Tho general results of tne recent elections indt- Cate that the issues growing out of slavery and the great pro-slavery rebellion are settle that the mere platform of “economy and reform,” with- Out specifying by what measures these glittor- ing generalitics are to be put in practice, is as available te one party asanother, and censequently 1s not available as the special platform of any party; and that, on the present living issues, as to the proper mode of laying taxes and tarlifs for the sup- pert of the government, the two old party organiza- tions can no longer be relied upen for their full party Vote. Both parties are, to some oxtent, disintegrated and disorgautzed by this change of issues, as cet naturally be expected, But the democratic party enters into the fight everywhere with the advan- tage of paving an issue in which it believes, and for which it fa Cad to vote, viz., free trade. The republican party, as such, for four years past has had no issue on this question except within tis own ranks, <A large number of its leading states- men and organs, a8 well a3 of its voters, are as heartily comunitted to free trade or a revenue tariif as an ‘pertign of the democratic party. Upon this ghost ion there must be, and, indeed, to a great ex- nt, has been, a union of the homogeneous elements, such as will enable those who think alike in the two ry poultice: partes to work together in fulure po- ane same neceeslty hich in 1843 ‘he same necessity which in 1843 induced William ©. Bryant and his journal, the New York Erening Post, to abandon the aemocratic party, with which they agreed on all other questions, to co-operate with the free soil ‘afterwards republican) party on the main question now tuduces such leaders in the late revolution in favor of human liberty as the same Bryant, Wendell Phillips, Willian Lloyd Garrison, Henry Beecher, Lyman Trumbull, Carl Schurz, David A. Wells, Charles Sumner, B. Gratz Brown, Joun A Logan, Governor Palmer, Frederick Doug- &c,, and such journals as the New Yor Eventing Post, Cincinnati Commerciat and Gazette and st. Louis Democrat, to effect such a recenstruc- ton avd reorganization of political parties as will enable ‘hem te vote squarely for such @ revenue polley and civil service system as they can comscien- Uously support withont becoming responsible for or Adeatifying themselves with the past errors of the democratic party on the slavery question, The elec- tion in Missouri is the result of such a reorganization of political paries, and is @ triumph of the distino- tively free trade party over thejprotectionist, though the iree suffrage question aided in effecting the result. In Iilinois the two parties adopted im convention substantially the same platiorm, the republican platform oppesing proteciion and the demecratic demanding tree trade. Yet in going befere the Peeple on these plaworms the republican candi- dates Were met by tae point that in Congress they woulda be compelled, by party afiiliations on Episcopal! casuist 1s quite excusable. Then comes a short and mysterious communication which will speek eloquently to the tnitiated:—“4 i, Olivier, c., Brignoles, le 4 Mai, 1870—Avant 8 Mai courant, création Mun avant aébtt de tabac; uraence. Rap- pelezvous veuve Laure, adjoint." Velumes could not say more on the principles of government in modera France ! The Letter Ait this correspon(tence 1s that from the situation of M. Ullivier the legal functionaries take the lead in the electioneering for the Pediscite, In their own especial department they show consider- pamphlet has this degree of credit to be attached to |- ble zeal, butit hardly keeps Bpaoe with that ofthe Min- 1t, “that to no one 1s the story, as he tells it, so dis- graceful as to himself.”? The London Spectatov hopes it is trae that Mr. Gladstone wrote a recent article published in the Edinburg Review. If he did, it says “our most se- rious fear for Mr. Gladstone's leadership will be at once removed, and our gravest apprehension for he future of Great Britain in a great degree allayed. ‘The author of that paper has an intelligible and great foreign policy, needing nothing for success but borough acceptance by & people whom he of all ynen could most easily induce to accept it.” “ The London Economist undertakes to prove that An the war Prussia has derived great gains from nov possessing either Holland or the Baltic coast—the two things she is believed to covet so much. ‘As is ‘well known, the direct trade between Englana and Germany has greatly diminished becanse of the war and because of the French bloekade; and if iuter aud Ms colleagues, The Procureur Général at Besancon telegraphs that the Doubs newspaper will contain @ violent article; be proposes to seize it, but sends for Instructions. The answer 13 explicit:— “Crest suriout la saisie qui est utile, Saisigsez.” Some of the suy tions from the provinces are remarkable. “The Procureur Général of Mont- pellier reports that the situation ameliorates. “rhe interventien of the high clergy is most hap} yy. I consider and think that it would be desi le to use all possible influence on the per- sonnel of the public instruction and the ratiways."’ Alaux, Maire ef Espalion, is highly humorous,’ On the 6th of May he telegraphs:—“Symptwom of the plebiscitary vote. At the sight of your letters all thi ‘nons of my canton bave suecumbed to attacks o! sudacn apoplexy. We shall bi them on Sunday” (the day of the Plébiscite). at such impudent ribaldry should have been addressed to the Consti- tutional Prime Minister of France is extraordinary, but we cease to wonder at it when we recollect the official communications that issued from the Minis- try of Justice. The preceding extracts aie suficient to show that, whatever may liave been the aspira- tions of M. Ollivier and lis Cabinet for a free and parliamentary govenment, they did not hesitate to The French blockade bad extended to the neighboring countries as well as to Holland, Germany must have lost all this trade and gone without a great many things; out, in fact, she has not lost them, at least not nearly all of them. They ‘have gone to her not directly bat Jndirectly; they ave gone round by conterminous countries,’’ The commencement of the new academical year at Warsaw has shown a falling off in the numbof of students from 1,100 to ubout 750. Aslight accident sustained by the Princess Louise necessitates a fortnight’s repose on the part of the Princess, and the return of Queen Victoria from the morth to London was consequently postponed. The Princess met with a slight sprain, and its effects not having passed away so quickly a3 such little trou- nies often do, it was thought desirable to have re- course to the services of the Queen’s surgeon in Scotland. The Princess’ knee {3 in a state of irrita- tion from sprain and overexertion. The Marquis of Lorne presided at the annaal din- per of the Glasgow and Argyleshire Society. The health of the Princess Louise was drunk with High- land honors. The Marquis, in responding, said he was sure the Princess would learn with much grati- fication the extremly cordial menner in which her name nad] been received. His Lordship, in a subse- qnent speecn, expressed the hope that he might long have the honor of representing the county of Argyle, and thought it was not a county which one would desire to degert in any case. The London Sporting Gazette announces the somewhat sudden death, on Thursday, of Captain Fredericks, well known in racing and shooting circles, Commander Breese, of the United States steamer Plymouth, proceeding from the Baltic to South. ampton, reported that on his voyage from Cux- haven to the Channel no French ships of war were sighted, - From the coast of the North Sea the Prussian Oommander-in-Chief of the Ninth Army Corps an- nounces that ‘as the French fleet is not expected in these waters the authorities permit the resteration of the coast lights, buoys and other signals, as well as the unrestricted renewal of pilots’ service.”” NAPOLEON’3 CORRESPOND- ENCE. ‘The History of the Empire from Official Sources—M. Olliviens Scatesmanship—De- cay in France. {From the London ‘Times, Noy, 5.] The eleventh Uvratson of the papers and corres- Ppondence of the imperial family follows the Min- istry of M. Ollivier up to an important point of tts brief and troubled existence. A number of des- patches and letters are published concerning the plédiscite, and the coumiasion prefaces them with The remark that by reading them the public wif ve able to form an idea of the respect of the Cabidet of the 24 of January for the right of meeting, for the lhberty of the press, and for the censcience of the Junctionaries of the judiciary order, In reading them, however, we do not ourselves become con- scious of any new idea concerning the second em- pire or French governments tn general. They do vot In any Way surprise us; we only find the slate- ments, the methods and the political reasoning which have marked every Freach goverument during the present century, and which a similar exposure of former bureaux, repub- ican, royal or imperia!, would reveal to quite as fall an exvent. tis prove what hardly needed proot—that M. Ollivier, however virtuous his intentions on are. office. worker the oiiclal machinery which he found existing, an¢ no more hesitated to influence elections, to check obnoxious journalism, to encourage expectant friends, to cajole or terrify opponents than the Min- isters who wens. before him lad done, or than—Iet us say—M. Gambetta and his friends will do if the receding tide of German invasion leaves them su- preme, It 1s not a creditable method, and French oppositions have always denounceq it; but, as we know, oppositions take thelr stand on high moral principles from which they come down a good many steps when they cease to be op- positions, We have not qet the means of fully yud, ing M. Ollivier’s career, but ite chief characteristic Reems to be that he allowed his own opinions to be Soutnated by the will of the Emperor, It is certain that the polioy of the Cabinet was not his own indi- vidual policy, and that, though he took office with silpulauons for independence which were honora- ble to him, he soon ceased the real director of public afairs, lf we may joa e by bis letters he had a real admiration for tie Emperor, and @ sympathy which might naturally soon ripen into attachment. As a sensitive man, imbued with a refined liberalism and shrinking from vulga- rity, 2e Was disgusted with the noisy violence and the coarse mvectives of the democratic orators, and, ‘as is often the case with those who are not “rebust’? politicians, his antipathy made him more angrily severe in than a born conservative. His dis- like of the repul ht him aally nearer and nearer to the ‘whom they assailea, ana of May he had the he hot theenergy. resist it. , not only did he acquiesce, but he became at once xeslous for its compiete success. He not ouly did bia duty as @ use the means Which the official system omfcred for gratifying the imperial will. AS @ sequel M. Ollivier says that political talent was becoming scarce in the legisiative and public service of France, and that the empire did nothing to supply the places of those of its elder ad- herents removed by death or incapacitated by the advance of years. Iu peace as in war France bad able men, but the government gave itself no trouble to find them. The pire bas nitherto been content to accept the men ho had rallied to it, without care for the fuiure; but sixtecn years had elapscd, the elder men are passing away, and it begins to perceive that la matiére mintsteriable se raréfe, If 1t 1s dificult to find o man fit to be a minister it 1s not easy te find one fit tobe a préfect. Two great careers of gov- ernment diplomacy and_ civil service are invaded by le dandysme, and moreover, the existing dandysme is very degen- erate. The lion has become the elit creré; tt 13, indeed, not even dandysme, but rather gandinisme; and while the elder men are serious, the younger think of nothing higher than leading a colilion, The government does nothing to encourage tulent and industry; it accepts for its candidates in the previnces either “old” men or their sons, or rich men, wlio can bear their part in tuose expenses, whici are yearly increasing. The mercantile and manu- facturing deputies understand nothing beyond their special busine ® questions, and are Do real help to the government in the political s:ruggle. Yet they and the landiord proprietors are ambitious of Legis- lative functions and fill the benches of the Chamber. Les banquets, lanceurs Mafaires sont egalement gourmets de (a députations but their presence tn the legislative body 14 almost always useless, and often dangerous for the majesty of that Assembly. Some of these observations migit apply to another country that we know of, buf the remedy proposed is essentially French. It 1s that the gov- ernmens offices should prepare lists of the most able men in the civil service, in the army, and among its adherents generally, select from them not only the persons who are to perferm the most important functions of the State, but those who are to be sent to the provinces as imperial candidates at every vacancy in the representation, This paper is remarkable as showing that, in the secret conn- cils of the Empire, the same political impoverish- ment and decay were acknowledged which had attracted the notice ef Frencimen and foreigners duriug the Inst few years. UNITED GERMANY. The following telegram, dated November 3, has been forwarded by telegraph from Berlin:— learn, upon the most trustworthy authority, that the long pending negotiations between Prussia and the North German States have just terminated most satisfactorily in every way. Jn the second er third week in November the Diet of the North German Confederation will be convoked to ratify the uego- Nations. Quite unselicited, Wuriemburg, Bavaria and Baden offer their allegia to the Kin Prussia, thus completing the circle of German unity. The great effeot of this resolve cf the three States wit bothe offering to King William the proud title of Emperor of Germany. The King of Prussia is a monareh of such extreme simplicity of mind that, under other circumstances than those which accom- pany the offer to him to ruie over all Germany, he would decline the new honor; but, as to do so now would be ungracions, kis Majesty nas decided to accept the onoreus position which 1s, $0 to say, thrust upon him. MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN ITEMS. Herr Stephan, the Prussian Postmaster Geucral, will go to Metz to arrange the German postal service. A battalion of the Moblies of the Marne brought smallpox into Amiens, and in « few days, at we Hovel Dieu, there were over dfty cases of a very violent uature, The King and Queen of Sweden arrived at Copen- hagen, in order to be present at (he baptism of the | infant son of their daughter Louisa, the Princess Royal of Denmark. Queen Victoria contributed £100, the Prince of Wales fifty guineas, Princess Louise and Prince Arthur twenty pounds each and Prince Leopold tif- teen pounds te the Captain Belief Fund. The Ozar has sanctioned new regulations for ac- celerating the mobilization of the Russian army. They provide for the cailing in of 427,297 mon, 170,000 of whom come from Poland and the pro- vinces of mixed nationality belonging to ancient Poland. Edinbui recoguizes the right of women to study her university, but declines to afford the means by which that study may be pure A majority of the Senatus Academicus de- cided that women were entitled to enrol themselves as medical students, while a majority of the General Council decide that they shall not be admitted to the lectures, In Afghanistan the movements of Yakoob Khan, October 10, are for the moment the centre of interes. After making his escape from Kabul he marched ‘apidly to the south, but received little encourage- Irent till he arrived before Kandahar. Here we was joined by Mohammed Hashum Khan, gon of Shurcet ‘Khan, who bad already veen intriguing in his favor, aud cavalry regument from Girishk. The Holy Father, in spite of the urgent advice of his physician, still (October refuses to take an airing in his carriage, and declares he will never leave the Vatican while the Italians occupy Rome, As he seems to resign himself to this voluntary se- Cluston for the remainder of his life, @ drive is being made to allow of his using a carriage in the Vatican gardens, while the walks are boimg oxtauded to adord @ louger promeuate, other quoslibas, to come under the lead of pro- tectionist caucuses, to vete for a protectionist Speaker, to see their business referred to protec- tionist commitiecs, and a general protectionist incl ‘ion given to their votes, whatever might be their poragnal predileclions. This migut nave been met by the assurance that the candidates would vote and act with free traders in all matters in- volving this question, irrespective of their previous associations. In the abyence of this assurance Many republicans who desired to sustain the free trade policy either did not vote or believed their vetes could we cast most effectively for the democratic candidate. Tris fact has had its potency in changing the Con- gressional delegation in Ilimois from eleven republicans and thr2e democrats to seven republicans and seven democrats, The same in- Aniuences have had an effect in Indiana, Missouri, Michigan and Wisconsin. Had it been clearly un- derstood beforehand that the next Coagress would organize, elect its Speaker, appoimt its committees and held iti ucuses upon @ division of parties based on new and living jnanes, 39 people would have voted in accordance with that understand ng. But so long as that is doubtiul the party whose posi- tion ig uncertain must continue to give place to the candidates whese position is declared. In Schenck’s district, D. J. Morrell’a and McCar- thy’s, of Syracuse, the issue Was made up mainly om the question of protection and free trade, the friends of free trade voting in some degree without regard to past political afiiliations, and carrying M "8 district for a republican tree trader’ in the Conven- tien, and the other two districts for a free trader at the polis. ‘rhe time has now come when the twe real par- ties ef the country, the free traders and pretec- Uonists, must cast their votes where they will tell most effectively for their principles, both in Congress and out of it. It 1s impossible that we Shall continue voting on dead issues, and dodg- ing the living and vital As our New Yor! despatch iutimated yesterday the Revenue reform party will enter the next Congress prepared to claim the Speaker, the organization of the House and the appointment of committees, so that the busimess before Congress may be presented in & manner to carry out the views of the majority of the people, as indicated in the recent tions. If tne protectionists of the country desire to carry this 1ssue to # general election or to form a national party on their own basis we shail at all times siand ready to meet them. If not, it 1s pretty clear tnat, 80 long as the democratic party elects none but free traders, and the free trade republicans vote for none but [ree traders, while the pretectionists rely on the restige of the republican organization and shirk he issue, the complexion ef Congress will rapidly change ito one for revenue reform, and, possibly, democratic. On the whole, in the recent elections the democracy have made gains, But their gain has been very light compared with tne heavy gain over the high turiif party in the prestige of 81 in organization, confidence and power. All these will make themselves felt at the outset in the meet- ing of the next Congress. Another Chapter on the Same Subject. [From the Chicago Tribune, Nov. 14.] “There are republicans enough in this State,” says the New York 7rtbune, “for one successful party, but not enough for twu, Such is, in short metre, the explanation of our late defeat.” One hundred thousand republican voters, it says, stayed at home on election day, and thus lost the State. As the Legislature 1s a tie, or within one or two of it, and as Governor Hoffman's majority in the State is only about 33,000, the Tribune's conclu- sion is legitimate, that the republicans were de- feated by their Own default if 100,006 of them stayed away trom the polls. And itis fair always toas- sume that those who do not vote are, at least, not democrats, for they always vote early if not often. But in accepting the Tribune's conclusion the reasons it gives forg it will bear criti- cism. 1t denies that there is any “question of prin- ciple which seriously divides and weakens the re- publican party;” and it asserts that “we are dis- tracted mainly by our devotion to certain men and our antipathy to others.” To the denial it may be answered, we think most conclusively, that the re- publican candiaate for Congress in the Sixth dis- trict (Horace Greeley) Was opposed by an influential republican journal, the Now York Even- ing Fost, on @ question of principle, and was de- feated. How many republicans voted against him, and how many declined to vote, in his district, we have no means of knowing; but the fact that, in 60 significant a case, a strong republican journal threw its influence against a Setanieied republican leader 1s very positive proof that there is a principle at stake which 1s seriously dividing aad weakening the republican party. Now, if we accept this as @ fair conclusion in one remarkable instance, and as likely, therefore, to be true in many others, it neces- sarily modifies the assertion of the rt bune that the party is distracted mainly by its personal devotions and antipathies. Yo sey that the arty was lefeated by &@ quarrel among candidates and leaders, is to say that the party nos, no principles which it esteems so highly as itesteems Fenton and Conkling. The uestion, we apprehend, would be and was wita the hundred thousand stay-at-homes, Do these men represent any principles that we believe in? Is the party ny, longer a party of principle, or a mere political faction, ‘on the make,” fighting for power and plunder from personal and seltisn motives, and not for any public cnd? Say what we will of the duty of exercising the elective franchise, there always was, and always will be, a large body in the community—and, by no means, the worst part of it—who will ask these ques- tons every time, rdingly as they can answer them to their own satisfaction, they will vote or let tb alone. Lt ts, we belleve, one of the ele- ments whereby politics and parties are purified. ‘The balance of power 1s, a3 in the case of New York, at this moment, in the hands of voters who will not be whipped into the traces for mere par- tisan prrposes. The party must prove to their satisfaction that there is, in any given election, @ principle at_stake worth contending for, and thal its success will be the wlumph ot that principle. Granting, then, that the 7rivunets right in supposing. that there are republicans enough in New York for @ successful party—or, in other words, that the majority of the people of that State is of that class which for the Jast ten years has belicved in and labored for the saving prin- ciples of popular governmeni—it is quite as clearly wrong in supposing that these people have rerrained from voting without a reason. They refrain precisely because they have no assurance now, a8 they have had in the past, tiiat the repub- lean party yee principles which they believe to be vital. If they have also refrainea vecanse tney ure diagusted with the wrangles Of tivo selfish factions this reason is included in the other, as the greater includes the less. They neither respect ner longer love a party which has become a series of rings, re- volving in opposi:e directions, They, will be ready to act again, and wait anxiously for that time to come when the republican party, or some other purty, shalt have living principles to contend for—princt- ples which affect the well being of the race and the country to-day. In the meaniime the number of votes that is wanting In the ballot boxes is one of the indices to a transition period in politics, one of the evidences thai the present political par- ties are no longer living entities, inspired by thought and manliness and truth, but mere ma- chines, Which the poorer sort of political bummers are permitted to run and make what they can out of them, till, presently, there shail be a rally af menof another sort, who, wader one] name or another, shall Drectptkare into @ new affiliation for new and higher The New York 7rioune wt come wo it cannot better interpret the signs and 4 DOTdENtS WHA (he Gods VOUCIEA/E (0 G18 Uy BROOKLYN CITY. Miccellaneous Items of General and Criminal News. ‘The mortuary reports from the Brooktyn Board of Health shows the numvor of deaths in Brooklyn dur- ing tne past week to have beon 161, Joseph MoDonald was arrested and locked up yes: terday on a charge of kt and robbing the liquor store of Robert Murray, No, 228 Bridge street. Alarge safe at John Darley's oyster saloon, No. % Myrtle avenue, was edroitly opened with a et and chisols by burglars on Monday night. he thieves only obtained twetve dollars in silver, Charlos Moore was taken to the City Hospital yes- terday, suffering from @ dislocation of the hip, re- ocived by the caving in of an embankment at which he was working, at the corner of Classon avenue and Dean sweet, Patrick Dooley was committed, to await the action of the Grand Jury, yesterday by Justice Delmar, of the First District Court, for shooting William Fitz- gerald during an altercation io O'Brien's liquor tore, at the corner of Van Brunt and Sullivan streets, Now that the hurry of business is over the Police Commissioners are endeavoring to ascertain how the police force looks on the whole, so yesterday tho off platoon was drawn up in front of Poliee Head- quarters and duly Inspected. The men looked passa- bly. weil, bat there are many raw recraits among them and a wide margin for improvement. The committee of the Board of Aldermen to whom was referred the petition of 800 laborers at Prospect Park, who ask that the Eight Hour law be adopted, waited on the Park Commissioners yesterday in order to ascertain their views on the matter, Commissioner Stranahan said they were obey- ing the law, for the men have worked by the hour since it was put in operation. The greatest concern of the Commissioners at the pre- sent time was as to how they should keep the men at work during the winter, The men, he satd, had the right to fix the time tney should work, but the Park Commissioners had the right to Ox the rate of pay. The commuttee then retired, and will re- port the result of their interview at the next meet- ing of the Board of Aldermen, BROOKLYN'S NEW REGIME, ‘The new Board of Aldermen for the city of Brook- lyu will be organized on the first Monday after the 1st of January. The Board Is constituted as follows:— Ward, Ward. 1—Miller, D. 12—Ooffey, D. 2—Dwyerz, D. 13—Harm: D. 8—Thern, K. 14—Nel: A 4—Stryker, R. 15—Ounningham, D. 5—Clanoy,'D. 16—R re 6—Dunn, D. 11—Eniott, D, 1—Stewart, B. 18—Dawson, R. 8—Bolan, D. 19—Walter, R. 9—MoGroarty, D. 20—Bozgs, D, 10~—Bergea, D. 2zl—Weekes, R. li—Burrows, R. 22~—Richarason, B. ‘Which makes fourteen democrats to eight repubit- cans, At their frst meeting they will eieot a Presi- dent of the Board, who will act as Mayor in the absence of that official. They will also elect the fol- lowing city otficials:— City Clerk, term two years. Corporation Counsel, term two years. Messenger of the Board, term two years, Keeper ef City Hall, term two years. ‘Two inspectors of pavements, term one year each, Two sealers welghts and measures, term one year each. Two keepers of parks, term one year each. Three bridge keepers, term one year each. One keeper water closets, Oity Jai, one year. THE BURDENS OF WEALTH. The Rate of Taxation in Kings County—Tho Property Owners Groaning. Taxes in Kings county have an elevated tendency. ‘They are going up with a hop, skip and jump, and the property owners are of the opinion it will be impossible for them to reach the figures this year. The clerks in the ‘Tax Collector's office are now preparing @ list of the property to be sold for non-payment of taxes. The list was large large last year, but this year it will be greatly increased. The following table of figures will be read with interest by the property owners. Icshows the rate of taxation in the city wards and county towns, the valuation of the property and tne smount levied:— Valuation, fvaat fie; io: 18,400,406 G1,748 57 842A 4 ORS 8,046,825 802,443 23 B87 8 80.6 4 185,114 = B 4584 O81 17199,20«GTL787 9 = 310.48 BGS 11/496,990 455,882 GB BERT 896.4 Seaseo7 14018 = BUT BOTT Hot hd 45 3578 } 18 16, 948 07-8 G08 98-1 8,907,695, 344,191 07 345.9 386.5 749,646 (ATSB BAND 8 BTLT UjSB64l = 44G,77B BS HL BLD Bal Ck a 8 U8 Swiss lene 2068, Bre Bor 17 BIN NB CB beg 4,135, 563 148,220 70 275 3 68. 8,175,210 294,602 46 3B 008 8 61.5 tis Ge TR tel 9,208,076 ee aS eee} ‘otals. 201,254,092 7,897,688 BL Fear) tate wipe for io $3. 86.9 ‘Average rate per ward for 1869 a "8 368 COUNTY TOWNS. Valuation. Amt Levied, Reg. Rate. iiee = “Semin = LBL 9,410,452 42,626 18 176.8 978,874 15,884 19 162.8 085,573, 17,504 57 108 ++. 811,867,871 $213,665 67 In the southerly part of New Utrecht the total rate is $8 74.1, which includes the regular rate and an extra rate for arainage. In the gas district of Flatbush the total rave is $1 99.5, which includes the regular rate and an extra rate for atreet lighting. In that part of New ‘Lots lying between the Ninth ward and Flatlands the total rate is $1 92.6, which mee the regular rate and aa extra rate for map- ping. PING QHERE THE MONEY WENT LAST YEAR. The following were the amounts raised in the year 1869 and purposes to whichjthey were applied:— Si SB Seeanseeenesesesenseteer ea 3 = Fire Department, Principal of de! ese EBs ESSS2ES2S2R82 Pia au 5 dened ‘This year the total tax to be raised upon the city wards and county towns is $7,897,538 on the city and $213,583 on the county towns—total, $8,111,131. ‘The Uses to which it is to be put, as well as the points at which the increase has taken place, will-be seen by comparing with the foregoing table the following vord of recor WHERE THE MONEY 38 TO Go Xow Btate tax of 1870. County tax... City budget, including parks A CONVICT MADE HAPPY. [From the Rochester Chronicle, Nov. 14.) George D. Cary, confined in the Syracuse tlary, convicted of murder and sentence niten- ited by Gi riie hung, nas had his sentence commuted by Governor Hoffman to tinprisonment in the Auburn prison fer ltie, When the document was to him on Fri- day last le was overjoyed, dancing about his cell and frequently exclaiming, ‘Bully for the Gover- nor! Ae’s @ democrat and so am i!” On the same day he wrete the following letter:— ONONDAGA PRNITRNTIARY, Nov. 11, 1870, Drax MotHER—I ha this morning. ve good 1 Mo'olng to Biate Prison’ for lifel Oh, alg’t I glad or thst Ttncwifi a word touay—I'm glad to go to State Prigon for iife, PBut think of thp pg ey wrecks 1 Ob, Mot! ge bas voy bao ta oman ara me another, yeariand eee Jou get ia trouble, ask God to. Kelp ¥eu,,ane He wil, as He for t amin tim ask Gi ‘Oh, bow can 1 thank Him lis lov= Fe ae oe aay en aeeskat when aoa in Since sou, you will come sometimes to, see me—won't you Mother Mother, don't forget God. Thank, what He has done for me. I shall not forget Him. He is friend forever—in this world and the next. Mother, God hi saved your son from the wa} 1 never see again after I leave this place. Yate may heaven. Jesus said He would go an: pad ‘and then He would come for us. You wi dit an the four- teenth chapter of St. John, fhe third verse. Mother, Tet you all, to seek for it now—so He can have teady. had Father be here aa I now feel ese and have all Baw upon me as they were when J came 9 inet spring. jother, says, e. m6, Fon Pins and say, “Blessed Jesus. email on me, Ob, you don't know Leetal yy Bovey fan's because I am going to Gate Prison. it te fe with and Ji my ‘Sat | Good ie a dear sao then, Tour a = GBORGE Me , NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Ghips Fitting Out in Brooklyn, Boston and Portsmouth—Movements of “quadrons in Foreign Waters, The activity recently observed in the Brooklyn Navy Yard stl! continues, and the authorities are fit- ting out for sea, with considerable haste, the frigate Minnesota, first rate, forty-six guns; the corvette Tennessee, second rate, twenty-three guns; the cor- vette Wachusett, third rate, six guns; the corvette Canandaigua, third rate, ten guns, and the gunboat Shawmut, fourth rate, three guns. In the Boston Yard there is also considerable animation. Tho frigate Wabash, first rate, forty-six guns, is well advanced. The Cultfornia, « twenty-one gun corvette, is quite ready for sea, and only awaits @ crow. The corvette Worcester, second rate, sixteen guns, is almost finished, and work on the corvette Ticonderoga, third rate, ten guns, after @ thorough overhauling is getting in @ ship-shape again. The splendid old frigate Niagara, second rate, is being torn to pieces, with a view of altering her into 4 broadside tron-ciad, as it 1s thought that our navy ought to have one broaa- side armored vessel at least. ‘This is an experiment as yet, and it 3 mot knowa what sort of craft she become when her plating is on, It is to hoped that the resulc will be satisfactory. The doubvle-turreted monitor Mianto- nomih, third rate, four guns, has had a new wooden deck put on her, as the old one was found to be rot- ten and leaky, ‘The old deck plating, which is unin- Jured, Will be replaced, and the ship turned out of dry dock as good asnew, The newly invented hy- draulic apparatus for raisin; the turrets of the ship has been applied on the Miantonomah and found to work well. It is easily handled, aud the turrets can be elevated so aa to revolve on their pintals or low- ered in a very few moments, At the Portsmouth (N. H.) Navy Yard the cor- vette Monongahela, ten guns, is repairing, pre- pores to belng placed in commission for a foreign cruise, The corvette Wyoming, third rate, six gana, ts also in the hands of the workmen, and is being pushed ahead as rapidly as possible, All these vessels will be needed at an early day to send to our squadrons abroad, 3 The corvette Juniata, eight guns, Commander Stephen P. Luce, was at Havre on the 5th of November, awaiting the arrival of her relief, the Shenandoah, eieven guos, Commander Clark H. Wells, expected soon jrom Lisbon, One of tho vessels of the European squadron will be stationed at Havre wuitl the war is over. Another i+ ordered to remain at Marseilles to look out for American in- terests, while others maky frequent v.sits to Spanish and Italian ports. ‘The gunboat Palos, Commander Lester A. Beards- lee, wus at Penang september 21, and satled on the 224 for China. Lieutenant Commander Dichman 1s ordered to duty in the North Atiantic feet; Surgeon Hochling, to special duty at New York; Unief Kugincer George R, Johnson, to League island. Lieutenant Commander Harrington has heen de- tached from torpedo duty and placed on waiting orders; Lieutenant Commander Keauedy, Licuten- ants Waterman and Day, from the Saranac, and or- dered to return home and await orders; Lieutenant Swinburne, from the Kearsarge, and placed on walling orders; Mas:or Belden, from we Nyack, and granted Bick leave, ARMY INTELLIGENCE, Second Lieutenant A. 8. Hardy, of tho Third artillery, has resigned; First Lieutenant Thomas EK, Lawson, unassigned, has been honorably dis- charged; Vaptain G, A. Hall, military storekeeper, has been ordered to duty in the Department of the Platte; First Lieutenant Marks Walker, of the Nine- teenth, ana W. E. Horton, of the Twenty-fourth in- fantry, and Second Lientenant W. R, Dunton, of the Nineteenth infantry, have been ordered to’ ac- Company troops to Texas; First Lieutenant E. A. Rigg, of the Twenty-fifvh infantry, and Second Lieu- tenants J. H. McDonald and D. H. Flaya, of the Ninth cavalry, have been ordered to join their com- mands sa the ‘Department ot — me conowwiing ry point ments were signe jay :—H. ite! ta ited States Attorney for the astern Distriet of Texas, and J. H. Beckwith, United States District Attorney for Louisiana, EXPLOIT OF A CONVILT. Wilson, tho Murderer of the Warden of the Connecticut State Prison — Interesting Acvount of His Escape from the Ohio Penitentiary. (From the New Haven Register, Nov. 14.) Since the irial and sentence of this man, Mr, Morris Chambers, foreman of the Beehive File ‘works in this city, has been of the opinion that he knew Wilson as an employé, while foreman of the file department in the Ohio peniteniiary, A few days since he visited Wethersieid, and, upon con- sulting ben my! Warden Martin, an interview was granted. To test his suspicions Mr. Chambers stopped at the cell door, when Wlison at once arose and called him by name. The inter- view was less than five minutes im duration, yet @ good deal was said. Mr. Chambers told him he that suspected him of being an old acquaintance, and thought he would come ‘up and see him. Wilson expressed himself pleased, and recalled some incidents of his Ohio experience. He that after he broke from prison, in 1866, he entered a tailor mop spent the might in cutting out a suit of clothes and tuen took to the woods, where he spent several 3 1n making them. Thus disguised he felt quite le, and boldly took the train forthe Kast. It pened that Mr. Chambers was traveling Kast at the seme time, and at the interview in Wethersfieldg he ‘was quite surprised to hear Wilson recall one or two incidents that occurred on the train. It turns out that he travelled alljonejday on the same train with his former keeper. At one stopping place ho was uneasy for a few mom2nts, as he saw Mr. Chambers speak to a policeman standing on the platform. Upon being reminded of the circumstance Mr Chambeca remembers it, aluhougii Wilson's fears were ground- leas, a8 NO one suspected him of being a fellow pas- senger. ‘fhe time bemg up the Deputy Warden closed the interview, and Mr. Chambers returned to New Haven. Itseems that Mr. Champers was fore- man in the Ohio prison, at Columbus, when Wilson (then Dave Kentiey) came 1n, in 1866, having been sentenced to a six years’ imprisonment fer burglar; 1n Cleveland. Wiison (whom we will Kentley, whici ig said to be his right name) was at once sent to the file department. ‘he first day he made bungling work of it, and pretended that he knew nothing about the business. The foreman, however, knew better, as his keen éye dotected a certain skilful handling of the chisel that could not be disguised. Before noon of the first day he told Kentley that he had cat files before and that his blundering opera- tions with the chisel could not deceive any work- man. Kentley then owned up, but avowed nis de- termination never to do any work in that depart- ment. He said, “Go and tell the warden that I will net cut files for him or any other man.” ‘The fore- man reported the case and the refactory prisoner ‘was placed in the dungeon, where he stayed forty days. He was only taken out then to prevent his dying, as the laws of Ohio provide that no prisoner shall be leit to die in his cell, It appears that for the last ten or eleven days of this confinement Kent- ley refused to take foed. It was passed into the dark cell every day, and the esual questions asked as to whether he was ready to cut files. By this abati- nence he became co weak that he was unable to speak, The prison physician at last directed his re- moval to the hospital, and by careful attention he was finally restored to health. He having in the mean- time sworn vengeance on the warden, Mr, Chambers Was requested to communicate with him and ascer- tain his idea of cutting files, Kentley consented to fo to work, but remarked, “I won't cut files long.” le recommenced operations, but ina few days com- lained that the strap which passed under bis toot urt him. The officials believed that Kentley irrita- tea lis foot at night on purpose to get relieved. If 80 his scheme was successful, for he was sent into the tailor shop, where he also appenred perfect; gt nome. It was while in this shop he plannei his remaakable escape in April, 1366, Fe plan was the same as the one adopted by the Confederate Colone! John Morgan in the early part of tne war. Morgan gained access to the long air chamber which runs the entire length of the prison, underneath the lower cells, then broke through the foundation, scaled the walls by means of a gate grating, and then descended with a rope, which he made from bedticking. Kentley says tnat he was three months engaged in this work. Like Morgan, he was cou- fined in one of the lower cells, He first dug through the solid brick and cement door, and gataed an en- trance to this air chamber. ‘This work had, of course, to be done nights and in the brief absence of the watchman, who passed the cell at stated in- tervals. The rubvish he carried out in his Kets ae to work, and disposed of it as he had an opportunity. When once in the long air chamber the road was cicar to the foundation wall. Digging through this wall he describes as tedious, He spent about six hours each night in the work, and of course could not be present in his cell when the watchman passed. His absence must not be de- tected, and to this end he made a “dummy” man and placed it in bed. As the result of his three months’ labor he removed the last obstruction, and crawled through the foundation wail into the yard, By means of the grated gate he ascended to the top of the yard wall. Now he must test the strength of @ cord made out of pieces of thread, saved at yarious tines from the tailors shop, The cord broke, and ly Te @ twenty foot fall, which he haa. not bargain for. Although severely injured, bo got away in the darkness, concealed himself in the Woods, and left tho State in the manner detailed tn the early part of this article, AN EBRING GIRL’s WILFULNESS.—A women Ramed Marrom, from Cohoes, called at the First istrict station house, Alb: penterday and re- juested Captain Domcry to aid her in rescuing her ee from a bagnio on Madison avenue. Officer Kelly was detailed to accompany the woman, and On entering the den the young woman was poin' out to him by the mother, who requested her daugh- ter to accom! herhome, This she refused to do, gaging she had determined to live life of shame. She was then arrested as o disorderly person and committed to @ cell in the First date a station house. 'a name fs Mary. is desoribed as being very comely in person. The mother is almost broken-hearted, ha’ n looking for her dauxlser fox the Daat UX Troy Times. Now 14 THE GALLOWS. Execution of Two Negro Murdorevs in South Carolfna, Horrible Scone at the Soaffold~Bungling Work of tho Hangman, Newsuny Court Hous, 8. C., Nov. 11, 1870, Aterrible scaffeld scene has just been witnessea here by an immense crowd of citizens of all races and colors, but mostly black. Lewis Berry and Jona Sweedenburg, both colored, were executed for mur der comuiited some months since, THE CRIMES for which they paid so dear a penalty were distinct, though they perished together. Berry was one of the parties to the murder of a man named Dur- woody, while Sweedenborg was convicted of the murder of hisown cuild by drowning. Both were atrocious crimes; the evidence in their respective cases was well weighed; taey were found guilty and sentenced, wilhout the hope of executave clemency for either of them, and no one seemed to question the justness of the terrible penalty fixed by the law. On the morning of the execution the people from the surrounding country came thronging into towm tn great numbers, with iale and repxehensible morold curtosity, to witness the dying and agonia- ing tortures of the miserable criminals. There were at least 2,000 persons congregated uround the SCAFFOLD, which was @ rude structure erectod near the rail- road depot, At about haif-past cleven A. aM. the peadaaned aay were cep cag ee — cells in the Jali tghily pinioued and placed ina w: neve they took Feats upon the rough pine cont which were to receive their bodies when their spirits bad taken Might to the regions of immor- tality, Round the wagon was a atrot guard of soldiers, outside of — whi was the crowd of eager, curtous and half- excited negroes and indeed many whites, ‘The sheriff, deputies and other officials of the law bein; ready, the solemn cortége moved slowly to the pia of death, both the condemned men singing hymns aud ejaculating prayers to the throne of mercy, al- ternateiy. Arrived at the scaifold they were con- ducted upon the drop, upon which every eye La that vast crowd was then turned, Berry was persistent in denying his guilt, and deciared he knew nothi of the Crime ior Which he Was about to suffer unt the morning after it was committed; and he evea went #0 far as to say that two others, whom he named, were the real actors in (he tragedy. He ex- pressed strc ne hopes of forgiveness, basing them upon the fact that ie was innoceat; and with these few remarks he said he was prepared to die caim and lke a man in accordance with his verdict which was so hard and terrible, Sweeden- burg, fils companion in death, had nothing to suy as to the legality or tegalily of his senten except to the clergyman who attended both tn thelr last moments, and that divine did not enlighten tne cyowd upon the Subicet fle madg the usual sei fold sermon—waralng his hearer’ against crim! holdiug up the condemned criminals as a terribl example ot heavenly vengeance, aud exhorting them. to repent and turn from their evil ways The time—half-past twelve—tixed foy the A " ? FINAL SORNE es) ‘ now rapidly app ued, and, as a last favor, the friends and relatt of the condemned mea were allowed to come Within the guard and take an eternal farewell, This sad ccremony concluded, the caps Wore drawn’ over the heads 01 both she uten, who stood erect upon the drop, bound, and Joking like living efigies of retributive justice. The n were then adjusted on theirnecks, 1n a momenttne scaffold was cleared. A deathlike stiliness prevaiied in the crowd, Which seemed to hold its breath even. Another instant and the drop fell, the bodies of the two miserable wretches epringing, out into the air, snapping the popes which were Intended to hi them, and then ning heavily upon the gro ‘here was A OBY OF HORROR from that vast crowd upon witnessing the awful scene, and the masa of excited humanity rocked to and fro Like the billows of a tempestuous sea. Every check was blanched, and the soidiers themselves stood almost transfixed with horror. 2bosmenalr murdered wretches writhed and twisted in their death-bonds, snd @ rattle or gurgling Sonia ve heard in their hatf-strangled throats. People turned away fvom the awful sight sick and faint be oarried out, legalized brutal ing. But the law mst whether the case is one of murder or not. Again the condemned wrotehes were walked upon the ie the same proliimi- naries of death, as before, had to be gone through in the tying of ropes, fixing the caps and making finally ready for the lawiul dagedy. it was too trying to the nerves of many and now the crowa was perceptibly smaller than before. At last the hour had come. ‘the drop fell again, and the ropes this time being of a sullictent strength the bodies of the two men di ied in the alr, where they remuined hanging until life was pronounced extinct by two piysicians, an they were cut down. Berry, during the whole this @wiul and trying scene, maintained his caim- ness; but his companion seemed to be fearfully tated and terror-siricken. It was a brutal pul exhibition, which 1t was never intended should be witnessed by a vast concourse of people; and it is another sirong argument against public executions, A more horrible or revolting sight was scarcely ever seen. TUE ACTORS’ FROLIC, Tho Benevolent Protective Order of Miks— Third Annual Benefit Gelebration—How tho Elis Acted, At two o'clock yesterday afternoon every seat in the Academy of Music was filled and every available foot of s:anding room was occupied. For some weeks past tne officers of the ancient and quaint “B. P. Order of Elks’ had the city placaraed with notices of their third annual celebration for the benefit of the society, which was announced for November 15, at two P.M. Lively conversation killed the few moments that elapsed before the cur- tain rose, the prevailing !dea among the members of the audience being “You know how tt ts your- self,’ while the ladies discussed the latest fashions, and analyzed the dreas and carriage of every one within reach of the naked orb or the opera giass. The Order of Elks numbers among its mem- bers the leading stars of the theatrical profession, wnhile many members of the preas and of the bar adorn its ranks, Noticeable among the audicnce were Dan Bryant and his anuable pea, Nell Bryant; Judge Hartmann, Billy Birch, kus, and Mr. Kelly, the manager of Kelly & Leon's minstret troupe. Fully 150 of tné leading stars of the light theatri- cal profession occupied the boards during the per- formance, and rollicking wit, mingled with side splitting jokes, kept the attention of the audience spellbound. When the curtain rose Johnny Hart performed upon the ‘bones’? in peculiar style, and was followed by the whole impromptu troupe, who di "1 fun, folly, old and new Jests and witticlemg in commendable big Injun style. McAndrews gave a new version of his burlesque, ‘‘Oarry the News Mary,” and the Clodoche ‘4 consist! Messrs. Wild, Kearns, Seymour an ees ave a milky representation of the mo ge French per- formance and were loudly encored. Archy Hughes ard Fayette Welch surpassed themselves and were dalyapplauded. The finale of the entertainm ‘Was a walk-around to the tune of “Auld Lang Syne"* by the members of the order, theatrical as wal lay, the former belng dressed in black and the later in white apparel. The aifair wad well managed and the di received the hearty thanks of the members of order, The performance notted about $1,000, which amount goes tuto the funds of the society, THE COMING ECLIPSE. The Ectipse of the Moon in December. Our astronomers, says an English journal, have received an invitauion which is as pleasing to them as men of science as it 13 painful to them as Engitsh- men. As our readers know, sixty-eight persons had volunteered to to Spain and Sicily to view the total selene of December 22; our scientific societ! had voted large sums of money for the equipment of the two observing parties, and every one was certain that government would supply the means of transport, But every one was mistaken. The Ad- miralty discovered that tue nation would assuredly disapprove if room were found for mere men of science and their trumpory in any of her Majesty’s ships, and, accordingly, ust when the extensive preparations requisite for the expeditions were ia Tull progress news came that the means of transport must be found by the observers themselves, DARTMOUTH COLLEGE ALUMNI, The alumni of Dartmouth College expect to have @ good time at their seventh annual reunion, which takes place on the first Thursday of next month, in the evening, and the preparations for the ovens ameng old Dartmouthers aro Immense accordingly. Velmonico & Co.%s, of Fifth avenue and Fourteenth street, will be the rendezvous, where a four dollar ® head dinner will be served up fo a style to gult the tastes of the association, which are said to be very epicurean on these annual occasions. Politics and every subject, not tiquid, hich Con & man & headache when over ins ulger in, will be ith, dd song and story Will jake thelr jase, General. SI aig ttorney Genoral Akerman, Senator #atterson Other eminent graduates will be present on the occasion. oupe, BREACH OF PROMISE.—In @ breach of promise case in Lee county, betwoon Emily J. Evamy, @ waewer, ( E rent Sao tae iy. Lae, re ‘ ‘widower, of seven! 1 jury last Tondered w veratct fom piaunvur for You suse Do MOE (IQ Gate Cher