The New York Herald Newspaper, January 7, 1871, Page 5

FRANCE, Herald Special Report from Versailles. "The Germans to Occupy France After Peace is Declared. Bombardment of the Southern Forts of Paris. GERMAN SUCCESS ON THE SEINE THE FRENCH DEFEATED. More About the Battle Near Arras. ‘The Germans Claim to Have Re- pulsed the French. AFTER THE WAR. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. France to be Occupied by Germans After the War. LONDON, Jap. 6, 1871. he London Times’ correspondent at Berlin tele- graphs under date of yesterday the following im- portant intelligence, which 1 forward specially for she New York Henatp:. FRANOE TO BE OCCUPIED AFTER PEACE. After peace has been declared between the French ana Germans France will be occupied by the latter for @ome time. It is stated that the French prison- ers fow in Germany will be sent to Metz, which ts mow regarded as a German fortress, aud will be ept there until the period resolved upon for the ‘occupation has expired. THE BESIEGED CAPITAL. TELEGRAM TO THE KEW YORK HERALD. mications with Paris—The Southern Forts Bombarded. Lonpon, Jan. 6, 1871. A despatch from Brest, dated to-day, states that ‘the French government intorms the telegraph com- panies that messages for Parts will be accepted to forwarded by pigeons at sender’s risk. The pharge is ten cents per word, and messages must oot exceed twenty words. BOMBARDMENT OF THE SOUTHERN FORTS, A despatch from Versailles dated January 5 states ®hat the bombardment of the soutaern forts of Paris commenced at nine o'clock tnat (Thursday) morning. THE BATTLE NEAR ARRAS. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. utes of the French Army—Faidherbe’s Order—The Germans Claim to Have Re- pulsed French. Lowpon, Jan. 6, 1871. The French Army of the North returned to its en- eampment near Royelles after the battle of the 3d nat. ” GENERAL FAIDHERBE’S ORDER OF THE DAY, General Faidherbe, in an order of the day, says:— So.prexs—in the battle of Pont Noyelles you vic- foriously held your positions. At Bapaume you carried all the positions of the enemy. This time he ‘will not deny your victory. By your valor and con- tancy you have deserved well of your country. As Boon as We have obtained provisions and ammuni- ‘tion we will continue operations. \GRRMAN CLAIM OF HAVING REPULSED THE FRENCH. A despatch from Versailles dated January 5 states that General Manteuffel reports that an attack, made by considerable masses of the enemy, was re- pulsed near Sopignies 6n Monday with small loss on our side and a heavy loss to the enemy, tncluding ;250 prisoners. On Tuesday General von Goeben, jwith the Fifteenth division, victoriously repelled an jattack of the Army of the North near Bapaume, At jhe end of the last fight the enemy began a retreat Which soon became disastrous to them in conse- ‘quence of the close pursuit of our cavalry. We have ‘already taken 500 prisoners. THE FIGHTING ON THE SEINE. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. German Success on the Seine—Guns and Prisoners Captured—Manteuffel’s and Ben- theim’s Reports. Lonpon, Jan, 5, 1871. The Prussians on the morning of the 4th surprised and dispersed a French force on the left bank of the ‘Seine, near Rouen, capturing three stands of colors, two cannon and 450 prisoners. MANTEUFFEL CLAIMS A VICTORY ON THE SEINE. General Manteuffel telegraphs from Amiens on the 34 Instant that General Bentheim, with troops from the’ First army corps, attacked the French arly inthe morning of that day (Tuesday) on the eft banks of the Seine and captured three cannon, three flags and 500 prisoners. GENERAL BENTHEEIM’S REPORT. General Bentheim himself telegraphs from Elouen on the 4th, confirming the above Intelligence and adds that he has pursued the enemy beyond Boar- gachard, The battle lasted throughout the day. OPERATIONS IN THE EAST. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Tho Siege of Belfort—German Situat the 8: Lonpon, Jan, 5, 1871. The siege of Belfort continues. THE SITUATION ON THE SAONE. General Glumer, commanding the German forces an the valley of the Sane, reports that he evacuated Dijon in accordance with orders from headquarters and reached Vésoul on the 29th ult. He adds that ‘he stll holds the passage of the river Sadne. AUSTRIA. ‘The Imperial Relations to the Emperor of Germany. Lonpon, Jan. 6, 1871. I am enabled to inform the HeRaLp specially to-day that the London Times has just received a telegram from Vienna, which states that the gov- ernment of his Apostolic Majesty the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria will, acceding to the request of Count Bismarck, accredit a Cabinet re- tative to serve wt ‘he fourt of the King of Prugala at Veraaliies, NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1871 ENGLAND. The, Bank of England Returns. Lonpon, Jan. 5, 1871, ‘The usual offictal statement of the amount of bul- lion in the Bank of England, just made public, shows the increase of specie in (he vaults since the aate of the last weekly statement to be £321,000, Melancholy Accident on Shipboard. ee 23k °° LONDon, Jan. 5, 1871. Telegranis from North Britain report the occur- rence of amelancholy and most fatal accident on shipboard thus:—Four satlors have been suffocated vy charcoal in the forecastle of an Italtan brig an- chored in the Tyne. ‘The vessel herself took fire and was partially burned. War Alarms. Lonpon, Jan. 5, 1871. The alarm and fear of a general European war still prevail here, The British Cabinet remains in a vigilant yet cautious attitude, It is sald thatthe govetnment has ordered 80,000 rifles of a new pattern. JAVA. Military Conspiracy—Plot Island. BATAVIA, JAVA, } Via LonpoN, Jan, 6, 1871. Thave information to-day which conveys the tn- telligence shata plot has been discovered among the Swiss troops, who serve by regular hire, under the Netherlands oMicials, in the Dutch-Indtan army, to assassinate the Governor General and selze the sland. Seize WESTERN POLITICS. ination of Senator Norton’s Successor. St. Paun, Minn., Jan. 6, 1871. Colonel O. P. Stearns has been nominated for the short term in the Untted States Senate, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the aeath of Senator Norton, Message of the Governor of Indiana—TI! State Finances and the Railroad and Canal Taxes. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 6, 1871. ‘The Legislature met in joint convention this after- noon to hear the Governor’s message, which is very long and relates principally to State matters. Re- ferring to the State debt the Governor says that the financial condition of the State, so far as the liquida- tion of the foreign indebtedness 1s concerned, 1s most satisfactory, and practically all the foreign debt of the State, except $173,000 of war loan bonds, issued under the authority of the Legislature of 1861, has been redeemed. The domestic debt of the State, including $3,551,316 of nen-ne- gotiable bonds given to the school fund, 18 $3,970,601. There being no further need for an agency at New York or for the Board of state Dept Sinking Fund Commissioners, the Governor recommends that both be dispensed with immediately, and says there will be no tnjustice or impropriety in requiring holders of the few remaining certificates to receive their money at the State Treasury. ‘the Wabash and Erie Canal debt ts then referred to at great length, and the Governor calis the at- tention of the Legislature to a renewal of the effort which is about to be made vy the holders of that stock to induce the General Assembly to charge te payment thereof on the Treasury of the State, and earnestly recommends the passage of a joint resolu- tion proposing an amendment to the constitution, so as to declare that no act of the Legislature shall ever take effect or become a law of this State, whereby the said canal stocks, or any part thereof, shall be recognized as a debt of the State, or be charged upon the treasury thereof, by way of re- deeming the said canal stock or otherwise, until such act of legisiation shall have been submitted to and be justified by the qualified electors of this State at a special election to be held for that pur- OSC. The Governor also calls attentfon to the glaring defects in the present laws for the assessment and taxation of railroads, through which great injustice 18 done to the State and to owners of other kinds of property subject to taxation, and repeats a recom- mendation made to the last General Assembly, that provision be made tor taxing the shares and stock In national and other banks for municipal purposes as ouuer property is taxable, The Message of Governor McClurg, of Mis- souri—The Brown-Schurz Split. St. Lovis, Jan. 6, 1870. The House and Senate adjourned to-day untii Monday, after hearing Governor McClurg's message read. Governor McClurg’s message congratulates the people on the present prosperous and peaceful condition of the State; says the recent revolution of the ballot box Is creditable to the people; asserts that there was no organized party or taction’ opposed to any of the constitutional amendments recently voted, and believes there wi!l be no trouble in the future if those in power will promptly punish those wlio may attempt to disturb the restored peaceful relations. STATE RIGHTS IN CALIFORNIA. Another Amendment Case in San Francisco The State Attorney General’s Argument for State Rights as Superior to the Fourteenth d Fifteenth Amendments. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 6, 1871. ‘The case of the Sheriff Jackson, of Trinity county, charged with the violation of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments of the Constitution of the United States, by collecting a mining tax from the Chinese, has been argued at length on @ demurrer, in the United States Circuit Court, before Judge Hoffman, of the District Court, and Judge Sawyer, of the Circuit Court. The defence was conducted by At- torney General Hamilton and associate counsel, who claimed that the amendments could not affect local taxation or the administration of justice, as to hold the contrary opinion would imply a complete abolition of State sovereignty, The point made by counsel was taken under advisement, but the de- murrer will undoubtedly be overruled. The case wiil be uried by a jury on Tuesday next. ALABAMA RAILROAD BONDS. Failure of thg Alabama and Chattanooga to Pay Interest Due on their Bonds—The Bonds Endorsed by the State. ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. 6, 1871. ‘There is much excitement here in business circles over the reported failure of the Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad to pay the January inter- est on their first mortgage bonds, endorsed by the State of Alabama, and the statement that the Governor of Alabama cannot provide for the payment of the Interest by the State until the Legis- lature meets. The laws of this State make it the duty of the Governor to pay the interest on endorsed onds whenever thejroads fail to pay, so tat hold- ers of bonds endorsed by the State of Georgla are sure of their interest being paid promptly, without ‘Waiting for special legislation. MURDER TRIAL. Trial for Murder in Binghamton—The Pri- soncr His Own Co BINGHAMTON, N. Y., Jan. 6, 1871. ‘The hearing ot the testimony in the case of Edward Ruoff, indicted for the murder of Frederick A. Mer- rick, a clerk in Halvert’s dry goods store in this city, last August, was begun to-day. istrict Attorney Hopkins, for the people, is assisted by Lewis Seymour and Attorney General Champlain; while Ruloff’s counsel are Governor Becker, of this citv, N. D. Whitney and Charles L. Bearles, of Hud- gon City. It will be remembered that three burglars entered the store and found two clerks Weep The clerks awakened and a fight took place, resuiting in the shooting of one of the clerks. Two of the bur- glars, who were wounded in the affray, were their escape from the store, and Ruloff ts on trial as the third burglar and one of the murderers. To-day men whe assisted in the murder, the cross examination in his own behalf. will probably occupy a week. THE SOUTHERN RAILROAD O SASTERS. dent—Another Accident in Mississip) Mempnis, Tenn., Jan. foreseen, believed they will recover. for New Orleans, en the Mississippt Central smashed, Louis Marble, the en; qujured, but aene of the passengers were burt. discovered m the Chenango river immediately after the surviving clerk, Gilbert L. Burrows, was among the witnesses and 1 entifled Ruloi as one of the Rulod conducted The trial Nobocy to Blame in the Tennessece Acci« ‘The officers of variotis railroads here, after inves- tigating the late railroad accident, publish a card exonerating the officers of the road from all blame, asthe breaking of the axle could not have been All the wounded are doing well, and It is ‘Another accident occurred to the express train 1 road, south of Grenada, last night, caused by run- ning’ off the track. The eugine and three cars were ager, Was severely and probably fatally injured; the fireman was also PRIM’S MURDER. Special Details from the Assassination. Visit to the Residence of the Dying General— Profound Sympathy for the Wounded Soldier— The Work of the Surgeone—Death’s Fiat— Senora, the Widow—Parliamentary Tribute to the Memory of the Soldier—Party Feeling Assauged by Grief — Street Scenes During a Storm—Madrid in an Tnterregnum — Constitutionalism and Cabinet Organisation. Scene of Lonpoy, Jan. 6, 1871, Thave received 4 farther and very Interesting cor- respondence from the special writers of the HERALD in Madrid on the subject of the melancholy death of Marshal Prim. I proceed to forward the contents of the despatches by cable telegram to New York, not- withstanding your extended report by the same source of communtcation, as already transmitted, The advices bear date m Madrid, Saturday, De- cember 31, 1870. A special MERALD writer says:—General Prim Iles dead at his residence in the building of the Ministry of War. It was known tn the city during the day generally that bis wounds, received at the hands of the assas- sins, were of a much more serious character than what was conveyed to the public by the offctal bul- letins and the announcements of his medieat at- tendants, Rumors prevailed only yesterday tnat the General was already dead, but that the government was disposen to keep the matter of the fact of his decease secret until the officials had taken measureq to prevent a popular outbreak, which was antici} pated, I may say dreaded. VISIT TO THE OFFICIAL RESIDENCE. I went over to the office of the Ministry of War at the hour of three o'clock in the afternoon in quest of intelligence with respect to the actual con- dition of Marshal Prim, and aise to observe the existing situation of affairs. There appeared to be an oppressive air of re- straint hanging over and prevailing in the very midst of the groups of military men, civil officers, and palace dependents, who filled the spacious saloons, This has been so during the day and nignt which has elapsed since the commission of the mur- derous attack in the street. PROFOUND SYMPATHY. A very anxious—nervous I may term tt—watch was kept by the soldiers om the inner door leading to the private rooms of the General, the door being opened only occasionally, tu order to afford passage to some officer or servant bearing a message from the surgeons or attendamts who were serving within. On a table in the outer hali lay a large, antique fashioned basket, which was, even then, half filled with the cards of the visitors who had called to make inquiries after his health, There was alsoa book in which the more anxious friends and caliers might register their names in autograph. THE SURGEONS AND THEIR BULLETINS. Every one could learn of the condition of the illustrious patient, When I arrived the bulietin was as follows:—“Fever tellowing the usual course. Condition favorable as could be hoped.” DYING. At the hour of four o'clock the symptoms were alarming. General Prim became unconscious. There was appearance of congestion of the brain. The surgeons and physicians, seven in number, had a consultation, After due deliberation they pronounced the case beyond all hope of remedy or cure, He was, as it was written, ‘out of the reach of scienee.’? HIS WIFE. This melancholy news was broken to the weeping wife of the General and Regent, The Seflora Prim was again summoned to the place which she had constantly occupied, and only just quitted a moment before and, for a moment, by the bed of the dying man her husband. Such of the Cabinet Ministers as were immediately at hand and a few of 1@s privates friends were also called, DEAD. General Prim never rallied from the comatose state, He remained entirely anconscieus until the mo- ment when he breathed his last. THE LAST MOMENT. There appeared to be some uncertainty existing as to the exact time at which he died. As has been oMicially announced tn the Madrid Gazette, the sad event took place at a quarter to nine o’clock in the evening, but the Acting Secretary of War says in his proclamation that “Prim died at forty-six minutes past eight o'clock.” This latter is a trifling discrepancy indeed when compared with the truth that the fact of his death was known in all the principal cafés in the city of Madrid at a few minutes past seven o'clock, and that troops were then already hurrying from their quarters in order totake up positions in and near his late residence. The Ministertal journals fix om the hour of eight o'clock a8 the profound moment. My own impres- sion ts that it was much earlier—between the hours of stX and seven o'clock. ‘The news was made public at the Ministry soon after nine o’clock. It was announced to the Cortes at a quarter to ten. PARLIAMENTARY TRIBUTE, There was a night session of the Legislature. Young Mora, then Minister of the Coionles, but now, it is sald, holding the portfolio of Finance, delivered & most eloquent and feeling address on the occaston. He recapitulated the many virtues of the deceased General and extolled his elevated patriotism. Prim, he said, ‘had consecrated with his own blood the great work of the September revolution—a work which his own bands had reared.” The orator con- cluded by calling on the Cortes for a vote ‘of condo- Jence with the widow, and also one expressive of the national loss, of sympathy with the people of Spain and of confidence tn the Cabinet of the na- ton.” The parliamentary leaders and orators of eachof the different political parties followed in their turn of right of address, Seiior Aluyreda, tor the government, moved to sus pend the national business out of respect to his- memory. The flery Carlist, Vinader, added his quota of praise of Prim‘s heroism and “patriotism.” He agreed with the Cabinet in their testimony of respect and its appropriateness, The democratic leader, martos, who ts now one of the first of the adherents of the new reign, spoke with his usual felicity of expression and feel- ing and force. ‘The Montpensierists were not behind the others. Even the republican Deputies who remained in the Chamber in order to guard the observations of members of their party, after the withdrawal of their party associates from further participation in the debates of the night, spoke out, as was ex- pected they would, denouncing the crime and de- ploring its terrible issue. At iength came Sefor Rios Rosas, who had just risen from a sick bed, and asked for the reading again of the proposition for Parliamentary condo- lence. His wish having been complied with, Rosas denounced the movement as one which tended to couple a sad event with @ vote of confidence in the government—a vote which, he alleged, “many of the members could not conscientiously give.’” ‘The resolution was voted with acclamation, note withstanding Rosas’ opposition. The Cortes adjourned immediately afterwards, “to reassemble at the call of the President.” WHAT THE PEOPLE SAID, Ontside of the legislative halls, m the city, the public feeling was one of sorrow and deep alarm, although the people were not by auy means demon- strative. SEVERE WEATHER—PAUPERISM AND ROYALISM. The weather was bitterly cold during the evening and night. The streets were almost deserted by the inhabitants and visitors to the city. In the Puerta del Sol. a thoroughfare which ls usually crowded aa the lengthy houra of the evening advance, there were to be seen but a few poor strolling fiddiers, who were huddled over a couple of fires which had been lighted in order to thaw out the frost prepara- tory to the builders commencing the work of erect- ing the public platforms and grand arch for the re- ception in honor of the new King. MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS, After much exhortation admiral Topete consented to accept temporarily the portfolto of war, and per- manently the portfelio of state with the prestdenoy of the council, whiie Ayala took the} colonial office, which he held once before, To-day the same sturdy ola cock fighting sailor, who bids fair to be as game to principles as of the long-spurred birds he loves to pet on every Sumday morning in the Santa Barbara circus of cocks, flings everything to the winds, intent only on saving his country, and hurries off to Carthagena to meet the new King and to bring him to Madrkl to be crowned, THE MURDERERS STILL AT LARGE. @I need only add, to cap the climax to the last few days’ record, that the assassins have not been tracked yet. When the offensive Azearraga was murdered by the progressista mob last June, a howl was raised at the Ministry because the murderers were uncaught. The government seems powerless now, and their police at Madrid nave demonstrated their ineMciency. It is hoped that the new régime will reorganize the force and pro- vide polgcemen who will be found on duty and not “loatng ” with braziers full wf hot coal, at the cu- trance to the Corte: SPAIN. KING AMADEUS’ CABINET. List of the Ministers as Latest Revised. Lonpon, Jan, 5, 1871. I have just received a telegram report from Madrid on the subject of the Ministerial arrange- ments of the new King Amadeus, which corrects the former statements of the composition of the Spanish Cabinet, as follows:— President of the Council. Minister of Foreign Affairs. Juan Ulloa... ++» Minister of Justice, Rear Admiral Beranger.. Minister of Marine, Praxedes M. Sagusta....Minister of the Interior. Don Zorilla........ Minister of Public Works. Franeiseo Ayala.... . Minister of the Colonies. SKETCHES OF THE SPANISH MINISTRY. We give below sketches of the members of the new Spanish Ministry, a list of whose names will be found above. Marshal Serrano. It is almost superfluous to say anything about the first President of the Council of Ministers appointed by the new King of Spain. Marshal Serrano was born in Cadiz on the 10th of November, 1810, and,'enter- ing the army at any early age, distinguished him- self during the war of independence. At tie start of his public career he devoted himself to the inte- rests of the Queen Mother and in 1843 aided in the overthrow of Espartero. After the restora- tion of Christina he became an ally of Nar- vaez in attempting to drive (fozaga from power. Soon after the marriage of Queen Isabella he became 80 influential that tt was publicly charged that she was his mistress; and although he fought bravely against public odium, and succeeded in overthrowing the Duke of Sotomaya, he was finally compelled to yield. Serrano then became a iiberal, and In 1350 was appointed Captain General of Gre- nada. In 1854 he was exiled from Spain, having been implicated in the Saragossa insurrection. He soon returned, however, and was made Captain General of New Castile. In this position he aided the coup d’état of Marshal O'Donnell m 1856. The following year he was sent to Paris as Ambas- sador, from 1859 to 1861 was Director and Colonel General of Artillery, aud in 1865 was Captain General ef Madrid. Fo: a brief time in 1866 he acted as President of the Spanish Senate. He aided im the conspiracy which overthrew Queen Isabella in 1868, and soon after was chosen Regent of Spain, which position he held until King Amadeus arrived. The tile of Marshal Serrano ts Duke de la ‘Lorre. Dou Cristinos Martos. This gentieman—the new Minister of Foreign Ai- fairs—was formerly a lawyer, and used to belong to the extreme wing of the liberal party, but 1s now amonarchist. He bas been President of the Cortes, Before the revolution of 1868 he and Rivero were generally considered to belong to the republican party, but after the revolution they and their follow- ers refused to sit in the Cortes with the men who, under the leadership of Castellar and Figuera s, pro- claimed themselves publicly as republicans, He and Rivero established a new party, called ‘“democratto monarchists.”” He is about thirty-eight years of age and has already been Minister of Fcreign Affairs under the Cabinet presided over by General Prim in November and December, 1869. He undertook to promote the candidature of the Duke of Genoa for the throne of Spain, which was favored by General Prim, but it failed throngh the intrigues of parties who opposea this and managed to frighten the mother of the Duke of Genoa into a re- fusal of her consent, upon which Martos resigned, but has ever since sided with the candidature of some Italian prince. Since nis resignation as Minister of Foreign Affairs he has distinguished himself on several occasions in the Cortes, particularly by bis opinions on the ques- tions of religious liberty and separation of Church from State, which he has strenuously advocated. He 1s evidently & man of the most advanced liberal ideas, although it appears that by the peculiarity ot his manners he has not hitherto attained a very wide popularity. He will be a very strong sup- porter of the present dynasty, as his reputation as a statesman 1s set upon the success of the present King of Spain. During the reign of Isabella he was, ike many other patriots, exiled from Spain, Rear Admiral Beranger, the new Minister of Marine 18 an old navy officer, who took part in the overthrow of the Bourbon dy- nasty. He is about fifty years of age. He has not been mixed up with politics, but understands the routine of his department. He took patt in several naval engagements in the war between Spain aud Chile. Don Praxedes M. Saga This gentieman was Minister of the Interior after the overthrow of Isabella, and Minister of Foreign Affairs during the whole of 1870 under Prim. He is an advanced liberal and was exiled during the reign of Isabella. He took a prominent part in all the events of the last year, which culmt- nated in the present war between France aud Prus- sia, He advocated the candidature of the Prince of Hohenzoilern. Don Sagasta is an engineer by pro- fessions Don Juan Ulloa, new Miatster of Justice, 1s an old politician, He began his career as a journalist, and belongs to the unionist party, of which General O'Donnell was for- merly the chief. He is a constitutional monarchist, Serrano is at present looked upon as the leader of this party. Ulloa isa man of great abilities, an ex- cellent writer and speaker. During the latter years of the reign of Isabella he was Spanish Minister to Italy, For some time alter the dethronement of Isabella he and bis party were considered as sup- porters of the candidature of the Duke of Mont- pensier, but he will be a stanch supporter of Amadeus and has great influence with his party. Don Francisco Ayal: the new Minister of the Colonies, is the well known poet and dramatic author. He is a very liberal man, and threw himself heart and soul into the move- ment of 1358, which resulted in the overthrow ot Isabella. Immediately after the revoluuion he was appointed Minister of the Colonies, but resigned his portfolio, after a few months, on account of changes in the Ministry. He cannot be considered as a lead- ing politician, Don Zori We know nothing of Don Zorilia, tbe new Minister of Public Works, unless he be Don Jose Zorrilla y Moral, the Spanish poet, born at Valladolid in Feb- ruary, 1817, and distiuguished for his peems, He way ht be tue man, however THE MIDDIES BALL. Graud Display at the Annapo,'is Naval Academy. The Ball of the Midshipmen—The President and His Cabinet Prosent—Magnificent Array @ Belles and Beauties and of Military aud Naval Heroes. WASmINGTON, Jan. 6, STI. The followmg accouns of the Middtes’ Bai!’ has been received from your correspondent at Annapo- lis to-might:—The usual quietness of this city has been somewhat changed today by a more than ordinary influx ef strangers and the arrival of » larger number of the fair sex than usually falls to» the geod fortune of the capital of “My Maryland” to entertain. In the morning the weather was every- thing but inviting and it was easy vo prognosticate diappointment as to the number of visitors, but by noon a clearer sky Inspired hopes of A PLEASANT DAY, and the incoming trains, bearing ‘heir precious freights from North and South, have gladdened the hearts of our future naval heroes. Welcome faces delighted many hearts and foreshadow a festive greeting to-night, The occasion of the gathering is the annual ball of the first class of the Naval Academy, which at the moment I write (midnight) is in the full blaze of youthfal glory. Two thousand invitations were issued. Among the distinguished guests whem the youthful middies asptred to gather to their enter- tainment were the President and Vice President of the United States, the members of the Cabinet, Ad- miral Porter, General Sherman, the Ambassadors of foreign nations, Senators, Representatives, chiefs of departments, the prominent citizens of the Union and thelr own dear friends, with their families, ‘The lst of the invited speaks the budding fortt of the innate ambition of young, manly hearts, TH® MIDDIES ON DECK. The committee directing the ball ts composed of Midshipmen ©. Wood, A. Ward, H. H. Barrol, F. Hy. Lefaver, C. W. Bartlett, P, Busbee, J. ‘I. Edson and S. A. Staunton. The committee have decorated the gymnasium and. transformed it into an Aladdin's palace—a gem of beauty and everywhere abounding with the ruling thought significant of the service. the centre is a fountain send- ing forth its sprays of crystal, while its banks im green moss are inscribed with the ever-pleasant welcome in white roses, The pillars surrounding the lountain are wreathed with ever- greens, and overhanging all are the banners of the nations. The wails are ernamented with artistic designs, forming combinations of pistols, bayonets and ramrods, and illuminated by the gas encircling them nto dazzling sunlight rays and brilliant stars, LOVE MAKING. Here and there, around tne circle walls, are resting couches, where gushing love pours forth its most ardent sentiment of adoration, and, as if antict- pating their inevitable thoughts, in the roof 1g Inscribed the mottves that speak the inspiration ef warm hearts—“Talk low if you talk love,” “Forewarned is forearmed,” “Even foxes can be caught.’ Over a glittering circle of sabres is in- scribed ‘‘Fidelity to our country, right or wrong,” and anothor analagous sentiment was “Ce que dois advienne que pourra.” Some wag of the class writes the suggestive admonition “Pas & pas on va bien loin,” and a classical genius puts the guests at task With the assurance “Non nobis salum.’” THE DANCING commenced at half-past ten o'clock, and by eleven the floor was flied with as brilliant an assemblage as the most ambitious of the gallant midshipmen could have desired. At this tate hour, and im the midst of such dazziing beauty, it 1s impossible to de- scribe in detail the appearance of the bewitching creatures present. The fair readers of the HERALD need only take the latest fashion plates and in- tensify the richness and variety o1 the artist’s pencil and colors and there they will find the photograph of this evening’s ball at Annapolis. AMONG THE LADIES present I noticed Mrs. Admiral Porter and Miss Porter, Mrs. Commodore Worden and Miss Worden, Mrs. General Join ©. Fremont and Miss Fremont. I see promenading around commodores and get Tals, colonels, majors, captains, and an infinite variety of other offictais, etvil, military and naval, and belies from Washington, Baltimore, Philadel- phia, New York, Boston and Newport, and not a few of Annapolis. PER is ordered for one o'clock, and the mazy dance will continue to the break of day. Happy youth and sober age are alike enchanted with the gorgeous galaxy of beauty before them and aroand them ad tryintium. MOUNT WASHINGTON WEATHER REPORT. SumMir MOUNT WasHINGTON, Jan. 6, 1571. Atseven v. M. the barometer showed 02%, being a change since last report of minus 04. Ther- mometer 11 degrees above zero; relative humidity, .80; wind W.; velocity of wina, 61 miles per hour. To-day the clouds on the mountains have been so dense that an object not five yards dis- tant could not pe seen, The thickness of the frost on the building has reached three feet on an aver- age. We noticed a snowflake this morning of a hitherto undescribed form. REWARDS FOR THE POLICE. The Rule Prohibiting the Acceptance of Presents to be Enforced. At a meeting of the Board of Polive Commis- sloners, held yesterday afternoon, @ communication was received from the Board of Health asking their assistance in helping remove the occupants of an unsafe baiiding at No. 69 Baxter street, who had recelved the regular notice, and ‘refuse to vacate the premises. The communication was referred to the Superintendent. The following resolution, in reference tO officers receiving money, was passed :— Resolved, That the Superintendent notify the om- cers and members of the force that the law and po- lice regulations prohibiting them from receiving any reward or presents without notice thereof and the permission of the Board will be rigidly enforced, and that hereatter neither the oficers nor the men will be permitted to receive any present for police ser- vices uniess such services are both meritorious and extraordinary. EUROPEAN MARKETS. Loxpon MoNRY MARKET.—LONDON, Jan. 5 -4:3) P. M.— pnsola closed at 92g for money and the account. Ainert- ties clesed firm. Fire torenty bonds of the tssue of 1862, 89%; old fasue 1865's, 8: ‘Ten-fort 8134, Stocks closed steady. " Illinois Central Hallway shares, 114% hares, 1944; Atlantic and Great West: Erle Kallway ern shares, 2854. Livervoot Corton MARKRT.—LivRRPooL, Jan. 5— 4:30 P. M.—Iho cotton market to-day closed flat and irre; Jar at the following prices ;--Middling uplands, 7’gd. a 8d mniddting Orteans, Sad. a Sigd. Salen 10,000 bales, of which 1,000 bales were for export and speculation. ERPOOL BRRADSTUFFS MARKET.—LIVERPOOL, Jan. 5—4:30 P. M.—Breadatuffa closed unchanged at the follow ing prices:—California white wheat, Ils. Bd.; red Westera ing wheat, No. 2 to No. 1, 10s,’ 1d. a 108. 64. ; red win- Veatern flour, 26s. 6d. ¢ 3 mixed, new, Sis. 3a. Barley, 38. VERPOOL PROVISIONS MARKET. 5—4:20 P. M.—Pork, 98. 6d. Cheese, 73 Cumberland cut. LIVERPOOL PRODUCE MARKET.—LIVERPOOL, Jan. 5— 4:30 P.M. Le eae Spot, Bi ing quotations: —Spot, iis. oil firmer, at £29 a £29 Obs. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS ITEMS. General Samuel T. yesterday morning. Timothy Roberts, aged forty years, cut bis throat fatally yesterday in Lowell, Sass, Joseph Browndich, of Quincy, Mass., committed suicide yesterday by shooting himself. A number of Californians have arrived in Sait Lake on mining business. New and rich discoveries continue to be made, Anentire block ot business and other houses in Platts- burg. Mo, were burned on Thursday. The amount of the losses ia not reported. Joseph T. Budton, a Frenchman, was blown to pieces in the Hoorac Tunnel on Thursday ‘night, by the premature explosion of adualin cartridge. On the 4th instant coal discovered three miles south of Nephi City, Utab. There are three veins, ono seven inches, ‘another two and a half ‘eet and tho third ten feet thick. for the prosecution in the simnggling case lla and others in Boston has closed, and the fence Is being presented. The tria now lasted nine AVREPOOL, Jan. Bacon, dlls, tor to arrive, 28, 64, Linseed Richards died at Warrensburg, N. Y., The testimon} against D. T. a ‘cupied with the case the matter of an in. gard to the selling of ‘The Supreme Court f Godbe & Co. vs. Salt Lake City, on granted some time ago in of ju i Another accident occurred on the Mississippi Central Rail- road on Thursday night. The express train run of the track north of Granada, smashing the engine and three cars and fatally injuring the engineer. jonded meettng of Germana was hold im St. nition : = jay night, at which resi mously adopted strongly protesting ag by the government to Fraace. Inanafray at Virginia city, Nevada, on Thursday. stable, named John Britton, was shot twice by a young named Garrawad, a son of William Garrawau, who was re- cently appointed’ Private Seeretary to Governor Bradley, The wounds are supposed to be mortal. A member of the Cherokee Nationa! Louis, states that an order has passed that body, granting to the Atlantic and Pacific Railway a right of way through the lands of the Cherokee Nation; also a right to cut timber for the construction of the road. A Cairo, Ili., despatch gays, the steamer Minneola brings intelligence of the sinkiag of the H. S, Turner, near laiand No. 16, on Wednesday night. She sirack a bidden obsiruc- tion, supposed to be a sunken flat, and lies wear the shore, badly twisted, with water up to her boiler deck, No lives were lost, but the cargo, consisting chiedy of augac, laa tlal loss, Captain Rusk (bigks goe gan be spiged: Douneil, now in St, THE STEAMER SARANAC. ne Safe Arrival of tho Minsi War Steamer Saranac at San Francisco, A despatch from San PPincisco dated the eu inate states that the United States war steamer Saranac has arrived in that port from Victoria, New Souts Pies. She left Honolulu for Midway fslanda, aud them? for San Francisco, four months ago, and much Auxiety has been felt concerning her fate, om? Much 80 fhat the steamer Ja pan, whtef! sailed from? San Francisco for Yokohama on th? 31gt, war instructed to look for her on the route, a2d vas filled with supple {rest and salt provigioms td relieve the scurvy, which, tt was feared, had broken Midway Islands. The safe arrival of the will relleve the great auxlety whi.” friends relutives of her offigers and crew u.7re in New York and elsewhere must lave felt conce."hing ber probur ble Tate. \ MURDER AND ROBBERY AT 4..BANi. The Express Messenger om the Bost ¥ Trai Shot ia His Car by = Robber—TL@ Safe Then Robbed and the Murderer Kar eves— Statement of the Dying Rxpressman. Atuany, Jan, 6, 18 TL & damning crime was perpetraced) in the Unton depet yard here to-night. As the 8:20 °xpress tra t2 was leaving for Boston a desperate rowber jumpe.€ Into the express car of the American’ Merchanta’ Union Express Company, and presentin,g a pistot at the messenger, Thomas A. Halpine, shot bine in the head three times, the fiat ball passing through the neck aud the other two lodging: in bis bead, The villain then robbed ther safe of $2,259 in currency and is suppesrd to have jumped from the train the mpment it touched the Greenbush side of the river. The whole atfatr occupied only two minutes;, and was not discovered until the train stopped a ¢ the Greenbush station, when Halpine was discovered lying at the bottom of the car, weltering in Libowe! He makes the following statemen:— My name is Thomas A. Halpine; | am twenty eight years of age and reside at 213 Jay street, ims Albany; Nave been in the employment ef the American Merehants’ Union Express Compamies* nearly four years, Have run on the Albany” and Boston railroad route since July last as messen- ger. Started ous on the 8:20 train to-night, being ims the express car at the time, When the attack Wag made upon me, engaged in footing up the weights in the bills, Just as the train got under weigh, a mam: about five feet nine tnebes in height, having on dark clothes but no overcoat, and who were a heavy moustache, jumped on the car through the south: doer, Which Was open at the time. When he obtained » @ sure fooung he drew a pistol and tired ab me across the car. the ball striking me in* the neck and [ ell to fluor, — That man then came up, bent me aa - lay on the floor and fired again twice, the powder burmimg my lace, I became uncouscious, and do * not remember anything until 1 was found on the Greenpush side, The affair occurred on the Albany side of the drawbridge. Could recognize the man it I saw lum again. Halpine is twenty-eight years old, served during the war in company A, of the First Connecticut volunteer artillery, has been married three year4 and has one child. He cannot live over night. Every effort is being made to discover the robver, but ne clue has been obtained thus far, KEWARK MUNICIPAL ‘JOBBERY” FRUSTRATED. In the Newark Board ot Common Council last night among @ batch of Mayor Ricord’s vetoes, which weresustatned, were those against the South Broad street and Mount Prospect avenue Nicolson pavement “jobs.” Tne latter were approved by the old Counell by a vote of over two-thirds. Last mghe the vote sustatning the Mayor's veto by the new Council was:—South Broad street, 13 to 12; Mount Prospect avenue, 7 to 18, In both ‘cases it required @ two-thirds vote, This 1s regurded as a severe blow to “Nicolson Champion” Stainsby & Comes pany. Justice Mills was appointed in the place of Justice Dean at the City Police Court. The excite- ment tn the Council Chamber over the pavement job defeat Was so great that President Baker thi ened to call the police and have the galieries cleared if order was not mal ntained. VIEWS OF THE PAST. sae JANUARY 7. 1869-—William A, Walley executed for murder of Ry Fleming, at Freehold, N. J. 1862—Battles of Romney ana Paintville, Ky. 1859—British bark Franklyn wrecked at sea. 1354—The Cusiom House, Post Onice, Court House and other buildings destroyed by fire in Port land, Me. 1863—M. Langdon, the spiritualist, committed aul- cide in this city. 1850—Large amount of P capo sd and twenty-eight lives destroyed by fire in Killarney, Ireland. 1549—The Pope issued a proclamation ‘threatening excommunication to all who should aid in the election of the Republican Assembly of Rome. 1841—Battle of Chuenpe, India, occurred. 1558—Calats, France, retaken from the English, hay- iag been In thelr possession for 210 years. The expression, “When I am dead Calais will be found written on my heart,’? made use of by Queen Mary when informed of its loss, is am index. to the great grief that ts said to have caused ber death, THE WEEKLY HERALD. 1 The Cheapest and Best Newspaper in the Coumry. ‘The WERKLY HERALD of the present week, now ready, contains @ splendid cartoon representing “Rig ” Feeding the Chicks, together with the very latest News by the Cable up tothe hour of publica- tion of the Great European War; also Telegraphic Despatches fiom All Parts of the World, including ‘The Assassination of General Prim; The Arrival of the King of Spain in Madrid ; Am Inveresting Letter from Wilhelmsh5he; Canadian Annexation, and an OMecial Report of American Vessels Seized by British and Canadian Cruisers during 1870. 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