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of taxation from tea and sugar and We are asked to look at the English f os on ideal tariff, Well, the English we believe, is levied upon nine articles— and wine, tea and coffee, sugar and 900, Ourrants, raisins and chicory. Of articles tea, coffee and sugar pay thirty fllions annually, or moro than one-third of the whole revenue. Now, if the revenue J mean to popularize. their cause, if they mean to take hold of the people, let them add to their platform what the humblest ms upon the shoulders that can bear n,. John Bright recantly called upon Eag- d to give her laborifg men a “free break- table.” He proposed to do it by abol- g the impost upon the tea, coffee and which forma part of the breakfast of poorest, This is true; high democratic nd. Our friends. must not be content free iron, lumber, wool.and coal. A tax ‘these does not begin to fall upon the D as heavily as one cent a pound tea or coffee or sugar, and the (rue rm ie that which makes the necessities of fo as cheap as possible. Stil, with all of its fanits and crudities, ig is a great party, with many noble possi- Hes and a splendid work before it.” Nor ust our politicians overlook’ its importance, w the necessity of conceding to the West ind the South what they will surely demand, We do n't think that there is enough in the trength of the party. to embarrass the politi- Bal canvass of 1872, That will bo fought mpon clean and square political lines, The enue reformers in both parties will, asa ody, prefer to remain with their organizations in to risk defeat by secession in a Presiden- year, The issues will grow clearer by iscussion and argument, the true principles be found, the people will know what they aliy want and what they can really obtain, by 1876 the cause will be ripe enough for rial and decision by the people at their pupreme high court of 8 Presidential can- wags. aot Tig Bate a eye? Scientific Lectures. Professor Doremus will begin this evening, ecember 1, at the Hall of the Young Men's ristian Association, a course of lectures on A‘The Triumphs of Modern Science.” The jourse is to consist of four lectures, the ond of which will be given on Thursday, jhe 8th ; the third on Thursday, the 15th, and fourth on Monday, the 19th of December, {All will be brilliantly illustrated by chemical Philosophical experiments of a novel and teresting character, explanatory of the won- ul advances recently made in science. |, Professor Austia Flat, Jr., will also give a 3 of four lectures at the Hall of the - Noung Men’s Christian Association on Friday - during the month of December. The’ jects of the first lecture will be the general of the human body; wear of, organism as a necessary condi- of life and of exercise of the notions; relations of food to repair ; classifi-” tion of articles of food, and preparation of for digestion, and by digestion for nutri- nm. The second will relate to the properties uses of the blood, the physiology of the and circulation and the physiology of lungs and respiration. The third will t of nutrition, development'of power and pndurance by exercise and diet (training), uscular movements, animal heat, secretion ‘ excretion, The fourth lecture will explain }he regulation and co-ordination of the func- ons throngh the nervons system, the divi- ons of the nervous system, and the nerves of sensation and special sense. The lec- will be accompanied by various experi- ments and blackboard illustrations. | .It would be superfluous to tell New Yorkers ow competent are both Professor Doremus ad Professor Flint to exemplify admirably in courses at least two of the three ele- ents of which, according to Professor Hux- ey, the best method of teaching science con- igts—lectures, demonstrations and examina- tions. There is no doubt that the main pbject of lectures—which is to awaken. the_ attention and excite the enthusiasm of the ‘student—may be effected to a far. greater pxtont by the oral discourse and by the per- ponal influence of a respected teacher than in Dany other way, And there is no more doubt at appropriate diagrams, experiments and a gt ere indispensable in order to enable the scientific teacher to imprint the Jandamental, irrefragable facts of his science, not ouly by words on the mind, but by sensi- ble impressions upon the eye and ear and Jouch of the student. | The lectures announced as about to bo 'glven in the hall of the Young Men's Christian Association will be at once a recognition and an illustration of the claims of science in education. Professor Doremus will demon- strate the truth of the late Prince Albert's assertion, in an address at Birmingham, that we owe to science, and to science alone, the transformation which has gone on around ns -pince the laws of gravitation, electricity, mag- netism and the expansive power of heat have become known to us—a transformation that has altered our whole state of existence—one might say the whole face of the globe. Pro- feasor Flint will help the public to learn that, as Dr. Youmans has well said, education is an affair of the laws-of our being, involving a ses range of considerations ; an affair of the respired, its moisture, temperature, density, | purity and electrical state; an affait of food, Wigestion and nutrition; of the quantity, quality and speed of the blood sent to the brain ; of clpthing and exercise, fatigne and repose, health and disease ; of variable volition tnd automatic nerve action; of flugtuating feeling, redundancy and exhaustion of nerve wer; an affair of light, color, sound, resist- ance; of sensuous fmpressibility, tempera- ment, family history, constitutional predispo- sition and unconscious influence; of material wurroundings and a host of agencies which ‘stamp themselves upon the plastic organism and reappear in character; in short, that it involves that complete acquaintance with cor- poreal conditions which science alene can give. The Lecture Committee of the associa- tion has deserved well of the community by ‘providing for this winter courses of scientific ectures which cannot fail to prove equally ‘useful and popalar. NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1870—TrRIPLE SHEET. - aubjeot, af piooven. ‘Fee soporte fall of interesting din —— facts and statistics relative to the diveralty of public school systems in the States and Territories of the Union; to provision for the education of Indians; of the lately emancipated negroes aud.of the Chinese who are pouring into our country frem Eastern Agia and its islands; to a suggestion made at the National Teachers’ Association in Cleveland, Ohio, last August, in favor of the establishment of an American University, for which, as Commissioner Barnard intimates, some of the essential eie- ments already exist in the city of Washington ; to the three hundred and sixty-nine colleges, and the theological, medical, law, agricultural and scientific and commercial schools in the United States; to the Military Academy; to schools for the deaf and dumb and blind, for {idiots and imbeciles ; to asylums for the insane and for inebriates, and to reformatories and prisons, It appears that the average attendance in the schools of the whole country is 8,377,069, while the avorage number of absenteds of school age is 4,843,568, The average yearly school expenditure per head of the school popalatioa varies from $19 17, in Nevada, to 48 cents in North Carolina, In the latter State and three other States—Tennessee, Florida and Kentucky—less than a dollar a year is de- voted to the education of each child. Massa- chusetts spends $16 45 and New York only $688 per head yearly for common school edu- cation, The large influx of ignorant immj- grants must be added to the inadequacy of our school systems and the superficial instruction in our elementary schools as causes for the la- mentable fact that, ‘‘comparing the effort made, the money expended and the amount accom- plished with similar particularsin the Prussian system, theirs will undoubtedly be found to ex- cel the Auiérican in economy, in the universality of intelligence, in the training of teachers and in the ratio of highly trained, sclentific and lite- rary minds to the whole population.” Com- missioner Barnard is constrained to endorse the recent declaration of President Folwell, of the University of Minnesota, that with a world- wide fame for our free schools, with civil insti- tutions not merely tolerating, but presupposing and demanding, the co-ordination of *educa- tienal agencies, we Americans, accustomed as we are to organize and co-operate, stand far behind many European nations in this matter of the organization of education in general, Prussia, France, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, have for many yoars had all their schools, colleges and universities, public and private, so co-ordinated and subordinated as to form harmonious systems. The report of the Commissioner of Educa- tion gives the most complete view of the sub- ject which has ever been presented. It con- cludes with a nungber of practical recommen- dations, after having stated seven things which the government may do in relation to educa- tion. Of these the sixth—‘‘the national gov- ernment may know all about education in the country, and may communicate what it knows at the discretion of Congress ond the Execu- tive”—is unquestionably the most important, Tage Comine Exxorions in Cusa.—The deoree for the election of members to the Con- stituent Cortes in Madrid has been published in Cuba. The island will be represented by eighteen deputies. What avail legislation can have for Cuba is not quite clear. The Cubans now went independence, and ag the Spaniards will not legislate in that direction the Cabans* have, therefore, to fight and win ii, Personal Intelligence. Baltazzi Efendi, Chargé d’Affatres of Turkey, who came to the city to aticnd the wedding of selor Roberts, the Spanish Minister, eccupics upartments at the Albemaric Hotel. Mr. Thomas H. Dudley, United States Consul at Liverpool, England, arrived yesterday by steamer City of Brusscls and 1s staying at tne Metropolitan Hotel. : Commodore Jamos Aahvury, of the yacht’ Cam- bria, reached the city at seven g’clock last evening and is now statloucd at the Brevoort liouso, Str John Findiey, of Victoria, V. ls awong tho latest arrivals at the Metropélitan Hotei, where ho will remain afew days. His present intention is to goto Washington on @ brief visit before returning home. Baron Lederer, the Austrian Minister, is staying at the Albemarie Hotel, General B. F. Butler is expected to arrive thid morning at the Astor flouse, en roue for Washingtot. Lieutenant Commander Schooumaker, of the United States flagship Delaware, ieft ie Byerett House last evening, , Secretary George A, Robeson, of the Navy De- partment, arrived at the Filth Aveiiue Hotcl last evening. He will lay the corner stone of the Sea- man’s Exchange this afternoon, Mr, D, G. Mitchell, the author, better known under the nom de piume of “Ik Marvei,”’ came to this city yesterday from New Haven and is temporarily at the St. Denis Hotel, Mr. W. H. Manville, from England, arrived yes- terday by the City of Brussels and put up at tie Everett House. There 1s @ bevy of Senators at the Fifth Avenue Hotei, where the following are registered’ among the arrivals last evening:—Senator Conkling, of Utica; Senator Morrill, of Vermont; Senator Stewart, of Nevada. They are en route for Washington. Major Oglesby, of the United States Army, 13 quartered at the Metropelitan Hotel. Mr. L. P. Poland, member of Congress from Ver- mont, is at the Grand Central Hotel, on his way to Washington. Colonel Charles Sharpe, of the United States Army, is among the last arrivals at the St. Denis Hotel, Senator F. M. Symonds, of Delaware, came to the city last evening and put up at the Astor House. General George W. Cook, from New Mexico, is stopping at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Senator A. A. Boyd, from Delaware, arrived yes- terday at the Astor House, General Morell, of the United States Army, left tne Everett House yesterday for Philadeiphia. Sefors Rivera, Franquelo and Falles, Secretaries to the Spanish Legation, are at the Aibemarle Hotel, Hon. E. A. Rollins, ex-Commissioner of the Inter- nal Revenue, arrived yesterday from Philadelpiita, and ts temporarily at the Astor House, Hon. William Dorohetiver, United States District Attorney for the Northern district of New York, who conducted the prosecution of ue Fenian raiders a Canandaigua last summer, is among the arrivals at the New York Hotel. General De Trobriand, of the United States Army, and General Beauregard, of Coniederate renown, sailed yesterday for France by the Ville de Paris, Colonel Mahlon Chance, United States Consul at Nassau, N. P., leaves for his post of duty by the sleamship Missouri this afternoon at four Q’¢lgek, THLEGRAPUIG. NEWS - ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD Queen Victoria Visits Chisel- hurst. A Three Hours’ Talk Between Her Majesty and Eugenie, Tho German Mail Steamship Union - Ashore and Wrecking, ENGLAND. Queen Victoria Visite EngenioA Mutronly Chat During Three Hours. Lonpow, Nov, 30, 1870. Queen Victoria visttea the Empress Eugénie to-day et Chiselhurst, remainiug three bours, Womews Rights at the Polls. Lonbon, Nov. 30, 1870, Partial returns of the election for members of the School Board in London have been received, Miss Garrett nas been chosen from Marylebone by 47,000 yotes, Mr. Huxley comes next with 13,000 votes. Five others are chosen by from 8,000 to 12,000 vores each. Next to Huxley comes the Rev. Mr. Tharold, vicar of St. Pancras. Mrs, Gray for Chelsea, and Miss Davis for Greenwich, are-probably elected. GERMANY. The Mail Steamship Union AshoreAil Hands Saved. Liverroor, Noy, 39, 1970, The German mat! steamship Unton, from Bremen for New York, with 320 passengers, 1s ashore at Rat- tray Head, and will probably be a total Joss. All hands saved. {The Union was built, In hull and machinery, by Messrs, Catrd & Co., Greenock, in 1866, She was 340 feet long ondeck, 40 feet breadth of beam, 33 feet depin of hold and of 2,811 tons barden. Sho had three decks, seven water-tight bulkheads ana was brig rigged. Her hull was of wrought tron plates and double rivetted. Her engines were of the vertical direct description, having two cylinders, T2iuches in diameter by 4 feet stroke of piston, and an effective horsepower of 2,000 horses. Her boilers, Ave tu number, were of the tubular pattern.) BELGIUM French Prisoners Attempting to Bronk Jail. ANTWERP, Nov. 30, 1870, The French prisoners confined here recenuy made an unsuccessful effort to escape. The government has tukea precautions to prevent a similar attempt. CUBA. The Communder of the Central Department Wants to Resign. HAVANA, Nov. 30, 1870. General Caro, dommanding the Centra: Depart- ment, has tendered his Yesignation, but it as not been accepted by the home government. Barrios, Quintillo and Villareal have beep kiled. ARIZONA. Immigration from Mexico—Movemont to Aa. nex Sonora to Arizona. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 80, 1870, Advices from Arizona te the 20th state that Gov- ernor Safford has returned to Tucson to remain un- til after the session of the Legisiature, which meets in January. Many of the leading families of Sonora, Mexico, have arrived at Tucson, It 3s stated that a move- ment 13 On foot to annex the novthera part, i not the whole, Of the State of Sonora to Arizona. THE ALABAMA MUDDLE. Government Troops Removed from the Capi- tol—Smith Depending upon a Negro Posse. Montaomary, Nov. 30, 1870. Last night Captain Drum, commanding the post here, had the troops at the Capitol removed by an order from General Terry, commanding this depart. ment. Smith and Bingham ha @ sherk’ o of negroes guarding the Execuilye and Tr rooms, Nothing was done in the Legisiatura to-day. LONDON MONEY MARKET. Console cloved secur Loven, Nov, 3)—4:3) P, M.— road stock 19 Railway shares, 2034; 11 niral Ratlway snares, lip; Atiantic amd @reat ANK¥ORT BOuRsR—FRANKFORT, Noy. $0.--American etwenty bonds, M44 for the issue of Livenroor, ( Liyr2r001, No 4:30 P. M.—T df iddling. - lands, ‘9igd. a 2 Orleans, 94. Hy sales of tho da 4,000 bales, facia tag 2,000 for port and specu! Lrveeroor, Nov. vbl. for per owt. tor the best ¢1 . por Uierce for new. Bacon, Livenroor, Nov, 30—- tine, S28, Linseed oil, £31 ls. MAtKr.—LONDON, Nov. 50 sates at 4, Refined pe The Laquest Opened and Aéjourned. Yesterday the inquest in the case of Haward Hines Was to have taken place at the Morgue, Crowds of the friends of both Hines and MoNevin were congre- gated near the gates, which were woli guarded by the Police, and several jurors gained a passage through the crowd with diMculty, while one is supposed to have retreated with discretion, as he failed to make his appearance. The testimony of Sergeant Nicholson, of the Eighteenth precinct police, was taken, embodying the facts which were previously reported in the Henanp as occur. ring at the station house, He stated that the priso- ner was brought to the station house on Sunday Morning at hull-past one o'clock, charged with shooting Edward Hr as brought in and was.asked if hte could r the nian that shot him; he said he could ievin and, @ man named Murphy were ‘then brought “ta and placed before htm, and he —tmmodiately Pointed to the prisoner aud said that he was the Inan that shot him; he said he was positive; that saw the pistol in‘ McNevin's hand; saw tho fa from it, and immediately after felt the pein in his roin; he described the distance he was from Me- Nevin, when hie fired, to be about eight feet. Several witnesses being absent and the funeral havmg been orered for to-day, the inquisition was adjourned to Friday next at eleven o'clock in tue morning. STEIMWAY HALL—R0SE D'ERINA’S DEBUT. ‘This lady, who came a short time ago to this city with a trunk full of newspaper recommendations from Europe, made her débit last night at this hall before an immense audience, The hail was crowded to it fulost extent, and the small hall was thrown open to accommodate the surplus, It fs very diMeult to get together such an audience to welcome an untried prima donna, She gave no rea for comptatat in point of variety of Selections, for she sang everything, from Moore to Mozart. We are orry not (oO be able to say anything commendatory of Mile. D’Erina’s yolce or style. Both are of the crudest possible kind, and do not entitie her to the ci#im of artist. We need not specify the exact defects where there aro No merits Worth Speaking of, a8 shown last night, in voice or style. The only redeoming feature in tie concert was the traly ariistio rend nt of the second concerto of De Berrtot by ML Fernande Tedesco, a young violiniste of remarkable talent and reater promise, Her tone and execution are fauit. leas, and her expression and conception of the teas of the comp: are surpri ng for one so young. ‘The other artista were Mossrs, Konconi, Filippi and Nore WASHINGTON. The Committee of Ways and Means at Work. THE WHISKEY TAX NOT TO BE INCREASED, The New York Custom House Troubles. The Alabama Muddle—Governor Smith Not Sostained by the Administration, WASHINGTON, Nov, 30, 1870, The Commities cf Wave BAF Means at ewe ong, Work, Bie Geheral Schenck, Chalrman of the Committee of Ways aud Means, arrived to-day, and with Messrs, Maynard, Niblack, Allison and one or two other members of the Committee, now here, proposes to go to work and prepare legislation for the coming ses- son, General Schenck,. with » majority of tie comuitice, who Lave been heard from on the sub. Ject, 14 opposed co any ingiease of tho vax on Whiskey. In this respect they endorse the viows Set forth in the report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Schenck has no doubt, however, that a streng effort will be made by the Westeru whiskey ring to bave the tax mecreased, but he does not Whtuk they will nave any effect upon the House, With reference to the rumors which have been afloat for soe time about Schenck being offered the mis- ston to England, while he 13 very reticent about tt, he neither denies nor contirms thereport, He ways the newspapers seem to know all about it, or at least 45 much as he dees. The bellef is general among Westera members and Senaiors that Sclenck is te Man fixed upon by the Presulent. Ou account of so Many ,persons having refuscd it, the President is deteriuined not to announce the appolutment antil he bas assurances that It will be accepted, More VKighting Over the Spoils—Wi President Tulnks of Polit 1s. Abram Wakeman, Henry A, Bowen and other Now York politicians are here bringing a pressure to bear upon the President im favor of certain changes in the government oices in New York, ‘The changes, 16 is understood, do not affect the heads of these of- fices, but some of their subordinates, The Presi- dent, in conversation with a Western Senator to- day, said he had more trouble since the November election with the New York politicians, in connec- tion with the changes in the federal oflces in that city, than he had with the distribution of the patron- age at his disposal unmediately aiter his inaugura- tion, It seemed impossible, he sald, to satisfy them, ‘There were so many factions, ana so many persons wanting place, that no sooner did he make a change than he was besieged by a host of those politicians, The same, ho remarked, was true tow great extent of Pennsylvauta. It seemed next to impossible to make asatisfactory apportionment there, ‘This-con- dition of affairs had made it necessary ror him to dis- regard the claims of Pennsylvania to @ piace in the Cabines, Tho Internal Revenue Commissionership. It ramored to-day that the President had settied upon J. W. Douglass for Commissioner of interaal Revenue. Mr. Douglass, who is the present acting Commissioner, was among those who calicd upon the President curing the day, but he failed to ascer- tain that he ts to be the comirg man 1m the revenue bureau. As already stated in these despatches, tt 14 not probable that any appointment for this place will be made until after the meeting of Congress, Washington Gossip—A Slander on the Tapis. The irrepressibie Mrs, Edward A, Pollard, whose incarceration in the government insane asylum in this city a couple of months since created some com- ment at the time, is again at liberty and threatens to bring & suit against the parties who were instru- mental in depriving her of her freedom. Mrs. Pol- lard was adjudged insane by competent authority. Her insanity was attribated to depression of spirits at the resulting from published rumors that im- Proper relations had existed between herself and a certain steamboas capiain, It 1s reported that since her release she bas stated that her lusanity was the result of drags administered by the owner of the hotel of which she was lessee, with the design of getting her out of the way and securing Control of the property. She has retaincd eminent counsel and latends to bring suit against the owner for damages for false imprisonment, and alsoona charge of assault and battery. Her hus- band, the well known historian of the lost cause, Edward A. Pollard, of Virginia, from whom she has been separated for two or three years, is now in New York, ana it ts re- ported that she has written him with a@ view to a reconcthation and to seoure his ald in the intended suit. The Alabama Troubles=No Government [n+ terference. The troubles between the State oMetals at Mont gomery, Ala,, has led to the belief that the Presi- dent would direct Secretary Belknap to give orders to the general commanding that department go in- terlere, Inquiry at the War Department to-day failed vo obtain anything justifying such a@ report. The (roops now at Montgomery have been there for some time, and it was not intended that any more troops would be ordered tnere forthe present. The gov- ernment does not intena to interfere tn these dis- turbances or political squabbles in any way what- ever. The oflicers of the army in the South have been duly instructed that the civil arnfof the sev- eral Stave governments must in all cases be re- spected. If, however, the sherlf of a county, tm tho execution of his duties, should find it necessary to invoke mi itary aid In order to main- tain peace, troops may be used for that purpose, Beyond that tho government does not sanction in- tecference, and if any ofticer of the army transcends his authority he will lay himself liable to the sume punishment that he would if found guilty of dlsobedience of orders of a ditfer- ent tenor, In the present Instance the guard was furnished Governor Smith by a tocal com- mander and without the sanction of the department commander, General Terry, who 1s temporarily on duty in Washington. As soon as General Terry heard of the requisition tor troops, and before the guard, was furnished, he telegrapned different instructions but the guard had been turnisied before the instruc. trons not to furnish it reached thelr d:stination. Tho Postal Velegraph System. General Washburn, of Wisconsin, 18 at work pre- paring @ speech in favor of the postal telegraph sys- tem, which was cefore the House last winter, He Proposes to show from the official statistics of Great Britain and France, where the system has been in operation for some time, that the work can be Gone cheaper and more efllciently by the gov- ernment than by private companies. The special Committee on Postal Telezraph, of which Mr. Wasli- burn 1s chairman, wili report at an early day a new bill on the subject, and it will ve pressed with vigor. Reports of Co: ealir Asonts. The commalssions of fk. B. Dennis and William J. Armstrong, appointed Consular Agents under a resolution passed at the last sesston of Congress, expired to-lay, Mr, Dennis was sent to examine the affairs of the Consulates in the British Isles, and having completed his labvrs has returned to this country. He has not, however, forwarded his report. The reports of Mr, Armstrong, of his visits to the Consulates of Norway, Sweden and Denmark, are new on fite at the Treasury Depart- mei. DoB. R. Keim, who was also appointed a Consular Agent and gent to the East Indies, nas forwarded his fitst report from Yokohama, but there is nothing of particular importance tn it, General F. A, Starring, the regular United States Consular Agent, has completed his Investigation at ShemMeld, and writes that le will forward his report without delay, He was sent to that piace under sealed mstructions from the Secretary of the Trea- sury to obtain certain information respecting the controversy tn the price at which steel was invoiced to importers in this country, There have already been Wo commissions sent out for the same purpose within @ few years past, neither of which was in gpy way savlajaotory, attention of Sec'etary Boutwell was called to the subject by the Committee on Ways and Means ac the lost session of Congress, and on General Starring receiving his new commission he was, a8 apove stated, directed to give the matter his special atten- “on, The amount tnvolved in unpaid duties is quite large, affecting New York nouses principaily, and the report of General Starriug will be anal. The Additional Tax on Bonded Merchandise. The Secretary of the Treasury, in reply to a letter of Collector Murphy, of New York, relative to question arising gut of the new tariff, has answered it as follows: — e Nov. 29, 1870. Smm—The question has been presented to this De- partment ay to whether goods, wares a merchandise which have remained in ware- wuse for more than one year from date of importation will be lable, on withdrawal for consumption, after the Ist of January, 1871, to the ten per cent adalttional duty provided ‘for by | the first section of the act of March M4, 1808, In view of the twenty-sixth section of the Tart of duly 14, 1870, which provides “th t all in ed goods, Wares and merchandise whieh may be tn ‘the public stores or bonded warehouses on the day pe this act shall take edect shall be sub- uo other duty upon the entry un for consumption “than if the sawe ‘were im poe respectively after that day.” After careful consideration of the questions involved, 1 opiwion that it was Rot the inten. e latter mentioiéd act to repeal or Us ee of ons ye Ms, ati “tng Autles aforesaid, bot that th Tana Ee atte so tuceaal WaNto iodity what ] No ee ties ocunn ak ad WitoF Utley — Per tiee abe nibs ait oiromese 98 attac’ one goods iumediately upon importation. This (ol et | cent additional duty, however, must be estimate? on the rates provided for by the suid act of duly 14, 1840, Very respectiuily, GEORGE 8, BOUTWELL, Secretary of the Treasury. Proposed Postal Conveution with Ruasin. Negotiations, which wave been pending for some Ume between the government and Russia respect. lng 4 posial convention between the two countries, culminated to-day in the Postmaster General seud- lug to the Russian Minister a drat of articles to be Presented for ratification. It provides for an ex- change of correspondence between the two coun- tries by direct steam rs via Bremen, Cherbourg aud North Germany, and also via England, Belgium and North Germany. The rates on clo: letter mails transmitted in cither direction between the United States and Russia average abont three and one-half cents per single rate of fifteen grammes when conveyed by direct steamer via Biemen or Hamburg and North Germany, and about five and ope-balf cents when conveyed via England, Belgium and North Germany. This acdinits of the establishment of an international letter rate of eight cents by the direct German steamers via Bremen or Hamburg, and of ten cents by the route via Eng- land, Belgium and North Germany, Jeaving to Russia the, usaal profit for iniand service respectively, of two and one-quarter cents on each single rate of fifteen grammes, or under. Otherwise the provisions of thearticies sub- Mltted are similar to those of the existing postal convention between the United States and Italy. Each governinent will make its own internal regu- lations, which will bo mutually respected. The ef- fect of the convention will be to render mati com- munication between Alaska and Russia direct and cheap, and will eventually lead to the establishment of @ transcontinental postal route between the United States and Russia and the several Asiatic countries. The only European Powers with which We now have postal treaties are Turkey, Greece and the Scandinavian countries, As the main points of the articles of this convention had been previously submitted to the Russian Minister thelr prompt ratification will follow a3 a matter of course. Attempt to Bribo a,Zreasury Clerk, A gentleman who holds a subordinate position in the Treasury Department was calied on at his lodg- ings a night or two ago, and was offered $3,000 for an advance copy of the report of the Secretary of the Treasury. Several of the other Secretaries, owing to the recent premature pubilcation of oMtcial docu. ments have lost confidencs in their ability to keep private their own printed reports until the proper time for their oMcial promuigation, but seem una ble to provide a remedy. Report of the Land OMice Commissioner. The report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office has been completed. It is a vo- luminous document, which contains etaborate chapters on the vartous subjects connected with the public land system, and em- braces comments on the present situation of emigration, the naturalization laws, railroad in- terests, and an elaborate essay on California. The report also shows the aggregate amount of public land disposed of during last year for agricultural Durposes and actual homestead, and gives details of surveys of now lands, &c. 4 A General Indian War Apprehended. An oficial letter has been recetved here from @ prominent military officer, now iv the West, in which he declares his impression that the Indians will enter upon a general war on the opening of the spring. The reasons given by the author for the apprehensions conveyed are that the Indians assert they have been badly treated by the army officers in command near their Reservations, Activity in the Navy Yards. Orders have been issued from the Navy Depart. ment to commence repairs on the United States steamers Powhetan and Canonicus, both of which have been for some time out of commission. It wil take some months to prepare them for sea service. The Army Retiring Board. Several chaplains have applied to the War Depart- ment with a view to retirement under the recent law, but have been unsuccessful, owing to the tact that none but line officers have been sent before the boards for examination, From among those who tired is 300, Imstead of 114 as hitherto, The number o1 applicauts, however, is much larger than can be accomm cdatea, Meantime, under the board of which General Hancock 1s president, some officers will be dropped from the service or allowed to resign with one year’a full pay, qualified or otherwise vice. Competent officers, unassigned, will be @ppointed to the places thus made vacant, Attempted Frauds on the Ponston Bureau. Dr. Salter, medical referee of the Penston Bureau, left here this evening for the North and West on important business connected witn bureau. The Commissioner of Pensions desires the professional opinion of Dr. Salter as to the nature and extent of physical disability ex- isting in a number of claimants, whose claims in- volve large sums of money. It has been ascertained that in many instances the government has been imposed upon by the reports of examining surgeons, and it fs now proposed to obtain satisfactory evi- dence through the regnlar medical referee of the Pension Bureau before admittwg the claims of cer- tain parties, having been reported as dis. upfittea for the ser- that @ Consul at Cork. William H. Townsend, appointed Consul at Cork, recetved his instructions to-day from the Treasury Department and will leave in a few days for his =, Visitors at the Executive Mansion, The number of visitors at the Executive Mansion to-day was larger than on any former day since the last seasion of Congress. They included members of both houses. The President gave an audience to only a few of the visitors, Teclegraphing tho President's Message. The President’s Message wil ‘e telegraphed on the day of ita transmission to Congress to the distant newspapers, which, accordtug to present tndica- tions, will be on Monday next INDIANA. Desperate Affray fa Vs Twe lilinois Deapera: EVANSVILLE, Nov. 30, 1870, A desperado named Pelham assaulted an inoffen- sive colored man at Falrplay, Union township, in this county, about dirk last night, and in the course 1 nit wantonly shot him ip the back and fimieted what is cupp wed to be a fatal wound, Peiham then turned on Mr. Cravens, the proprietor of the store in which the attack was made on the negro, and snapped A pistol at hum, Cravens tmme- diaiely seized his revolver and shot Pelham through the breast, and another rough, named Paterno, who drew a knife on Cravens, received a bullet throagh tie shoulder. y= Patern then fled, and avoided arrest. Petham 18 sry, dying, however, These two men are membors of @ gang called the “Shawnee: town Boys,” from Shawneetown ani Cave-in-Rock, Ti, and have been a terror to the people of the The | nemhverhoods have been thirty years in military service, or . incapacitated by reason of wounds or physical dis | 2%4Inst General Gideon Pillow and others, for coal ability, the number which can be re. | 8¢1Zed here at the outbreak of the war to the amoun{ —- WOMAN SUFFRAGZ. The Northwestern Woman Suffrage Convene tion at Oecetroit—Election ef Oficers—The Republican Party Reviewed by Mis» An- theny. “ DeTaorr, Nov, 30, 1870, The Convention of the Northwestern Woman Suffrage Association reassembled forstts fourth sea sion at Young Men’s Hall this morning a tem o'clock. Tho attendance throughout tho forencom was good for an early gathering. The following oMcers were reported for the ensuing year and duly elected :— Prosident-—Mrs, M. A. Hazlett, of Hillsdale, Mich. Vice Presidents—J, &. bioss, of Michigan; Mra. Myra Bradwell, of Ltinois; Mrs. BE, B, Collins, of Ohie; Mra. Dr. Fegarson, of Indiana; Miss Phobe Cozzeus, of Misgour,, Secreary—Mrs. Rebecca W. Mout, of Chicago. Corresponding Seoretary—sdar- niet Brooks, of Clieago, ‘reasurer—Fernande Jones, Of Cuicago. Aecuave Commitiee—E. B, Wi of Chicago; J. Campbell, of Detroit; Madame an- make, ot Y asin, and Mra. Frances Miner, of sno, It was announced that letters of cordial appreval had been received irom Henry Ward, ‘Bocchon, ai Stanton, Wendel! Philips, Auna Diekingoa, » Mra. Robert ieee cramer tiicy’ Stone th Bt Josephing T, W. Higginson, Der ote Rd ine eae vaaataa ak to ogee amar te we ad tbcduimendoa wing the Jeg 4 re eat Mahe Daatee lon : ae the ry Festi er rane) we to vote th: ei, in the Senate, Mr, Prom! it, of Minols, ig man of the Judiciary and ta the Honge Mr. Blagham, of Ohio, Aw yet they Dave kept in then pockets the claims of women for the right of sufirage, end bavog taiiea to present a report on the subject, through which the question might come up for discussion aud ac. tion,”” Miss tony thought the women oi the Northwest might, during the coming year, cause ‘Trambuil aud Bingham to tremble for thelr posi- tions and compel thei them to make reports which Shall inaugurate the desired attention in Congress. She declared her couviction that the ye gee party was no more worthy of sympathy the Women of the country than the democratic party, . and-sue cared not whether reltei from the repnbil- cans or democraty, At the conclusion wise Anthony's remarks the Association took a recess, ‘The afternoon session commenced at nalf-past two o'clock, the attendance betng consid larger tan in the morning. Resolutions were adopted providing for the cor- Poration of State sociviies in the Northwest ou de- Claring themselves auxiltary bodies, and providing also that the president of each’ State assoom- tion shall be an ex-oficlo member. of the Executive Committee and the secretary be one of the secretaries of the Nortnweste: organization; alse providing for the appointment A committee to prepare an address from the associa. Uon to the people of the country upon the subject of woman suffrage. ‘The rest of the afternoon and evening was devoted to gpecones, The Northwestern Woman Sufrage Association fixed its headquarters practically at Chicago. To night resolutions were adopted for starting a news- paper by January 1. THE GREAT WESTERN ‘ PASY A Profitable Contract—Damaging Exposures Shrewd Manipalation of an Illinais Core poration, CuIcaGgo, Nov. 80,°1870. The Tribune this morning makes an exposure of the financial transactions of the Great Western Telegraph Company, which has two lines in ope- ration from this city; one to Milwankee and one te Omaha, which, if true, offers somethmg new in schemes for raising money, The Tribune says the capital stock of the company 1s $300,000, in 120,008 sharesof twenty-five dollarseacn. Of the 120,000 shares copstituting the whole stuck 111,807 snares were subscribed by one Selah Reeve, and by bim conveyed to Josiah Snow in trust tor the 4 to sell the same and puy the avails back to ve in fuitliment of # contract made by the Compe 4 with Reeve to consiruct 2,000 miles of the —- line. In accordance with this arrangement stock is being soid by the company throughout the country. One of the bylaws of the company pro vides that no certificates of stock shall be issued ‘until forty per cent of the capital shall be paid in, end it is leit envirely optional witi the company a to when and how much of the assessment under forty per cent may be paid in, lt seems probable that those who subscribed to the stock on those conditions will have to wait some time before they have any voice in the election of di or maua- gers of the company. Tie namesof twenty-two of the most respectable business men of this city are pubs shed as directors of the company, and though hey have been formally elected It is alleged that none ol them have been qualified as directors, and that they Know nothing of its business, Recent; suit has been brought by some persons in this cl Bony” sub- scribed for stock Iu the company. They have flied @ bill alleging fraud in the contrect. made by the cour pany with ve, in which it is agreed to pay bi at the rate of $300 per mile for a line, the poles to be furnished with one wire, and an additional $100 pet mile for each additional wire, Vid. i—$400 per mile when the poles are furnished with two wires, $604 when furnished with three wires and $600 whe furnished with five wires. It is alleged that a, line or ny with one wire can be erected tor from $120 to $1s0 per mile, and the oa ae is sustained by at least half a dozen telegrap!| builders of experienced and established reputation, If the company shall pay Reeve at the rate of § per mile It would leave a net profit of 000; ans when he had Onished the fall complement of tour wires—making the total cost to the company $606 rtmile—the net profiton the contract would be 700,000, ‘The forty per cent of money whicn th stockholders are to pay in before any certificates stock are to be issued to them would amount t¢ $1,200,000. This corresponds to the amount of the construction contract to Reeves at $600 per mile, which amounts to just $1,200,000, The construction contract and the payments on the stock are arranged 80 that the money paid in snall be patd out to. Reeves before the stockholders have recetved any cerilf cates of stock or have any volce in the disposai of thelr moncy. TENNESSEE, Suit Against General Pillow. Memrnis, Nov. 30, 1870. A telal sult of Reddle, Colman & Co,, of Pitisburg, of $125,000, was commencea jour J8 the United States Circuit Court, before Judges Freigg and Eu mous. Tiffany & Co. i Union equare, offer a turge and choice stock of Ladies’ Watches, 0 a sizes and every variety of casing, with movements of tue finest quality, ta HOR A.—Geatlem: reas of Sup quality are to be obtained from ESPENSCHEID, manu turer, 118 Nassau street, —Herring’s Patent - mw OMAMPION SAFES, 361 Broads XK corner Murray sr syt A.—Unnatural Redness of the Nose, Biach wort or grubs, pimples, eruptions and blotched tions on the face are positively cured by Dr. B. 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