The New York Herald Newspaper, February 25, 1871, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Heratp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. THE DAILY HERALD, pudtishea every day in the | gear, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription Yrice S12. Volume XXXAV1..........0000+ AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNGOH AND EVENING, FIFTH Ave Sagatoca. Xi: THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street. at Lig. 28 Broadway.—VaRtrty ENTER- TUR WAR. Matinee at 23. GLOBE THEATR: TAINMENT, &0.—AP NEW YORK STADT THEATRE, 45 Bowery.—Trans AND LADGHTRR, BOOTH’S TAKATRE, Wt at. Tue KiNG or THE CoMMONS. ween Sth and 6th aya. — atinee— RICHELIEU. WOOD's MUSEUM Bre ances every afteruoun an er 20th st. —Perform- ATRE (Theatre Francais)— Evening—Lapy or Lyons. NIBLO'S GARDEN Tax Back Croos. dway.—THk SPECTACLE OF at lig. WALLACK’S TARATRE, roadway ana \Sth street.— Tux Pook GuxTLEMAN. 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Matinee a UNION LEAGUE HALL, Twenty-stxth st. and Madison avenue.—PIAsOFOLTE RECITALS. LYRIC HALL, Sixth avenue.—Afternoon at 2—Graxp Coxorrt. NEW YORK M''SEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broad way.— SOIBNOE AND Aur. DR. KAHN’S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway.— SOMENOE AND Atr. New York, Saturday, February 25, 1871. CONTENTS OF T@-DAY’S BEBALD. Pacr. t—Adverticements. 2—Adveriisements. 3—Advertisements. 4—Editorials: Leading Article, “Tne End of the Franco-German War—The Peace Treaty”— Personal Inteiligence—Joint High Commuis- sion—lLoss of the Steamship Qunker Ctty— Music aud the Drama—Board of Heaith—Meet- ing of Nail Manufacturers in Philadelph' Tornado in Missouri—The Fenian Exiles— Amusement Announcements. S—Peace: A Treaty Signed by Thiers and Bis- marck—General News from France—Impor- tant from Central and South America—Eng- land—Miscellaneous Telegraphic News—News from Washington—Views ef the Past—Busi- ness Notices. 6—Execution of a Negro in Virginia—The Broadway Job—Brookiyn Navy Yard—Proceedings in pi ag j—The Courts—Marriages, Birth and aths, ‘7—Financial and Commercial Reporta—Murdered by Mistake—Advertisements, S—The Coai Censpiracy—Custom House Affahs— A Divorce Hunt—Dice and Death—Obituary— Internal Revenue Robbery—Huropean Mar- kets—shipping Intelligence—Advertisements. Tae Connecticut Repvsiicans have re- course to Rhode Island papers for information concerning their local politics. The republi- ean politics ia the one State seem to be on a par with the geographical dimensions of the other. Tue CONGRESSIONAL APPORTIONMENT under the new ceusus hangs fire in Congress. The republican majority there should move on. So far as re sards the Congressional apportion- ment iu the S‘ate of New York the present Legislature may hold over until Congress acts, if it lasts tili next September. GREELEY AND Biair.—Philosopher Greeley seems determined to make a great man of Sen- ator Frank Blair. He bas published a charac- teristic leiter, in which he traverses General Blair's poliiical career and reviews his own. This is a very pretty tilt. Senator Blair will probably come out in a letter in response to the Philosopher, and then the public may have something both interesting and spicy regard- ing the management of the republican party during the last ten years, DIsRaELI ON THE ForziGN Po.toy oF Briraww.—Mr. Disracli keeps up a powerful parliamentary assault on the foreiga policy of the Gladstoae Cabinet. Last night he called the attention of the members of the House of Commons to the “gravity of the Eastern question and the serious consequences of Russia's repudiation of the Treaty of 1856,” remarking, also, on the hesitating course which was being pursued by the Queen’s Ministers as between Russia and Prussia, The Right Hon. the ex-Chancellor is particu- larly fluent and a most excellent authority en all matters which pertain to the Orient. Ove Sprixe Town Execrions.—In Onon- daga county the democrats elect Supervisors iu the First, Second and Seventh wards of Syracuse and carry a number ef towns. Her- kimer county stands nine democrats, nine re- publicans and one independent. In St. Law- rence county there has been elected a stronger democratic representation in the Board of Supervisors thaneverbefore. In consequence of democratic splits in Schoharie county there has been a republican gain in local offices in four towns in that county. The republicans gain two Supervisors in Otsego county. In Delaware the republicans have twelve against seven democrats, So faras we can observe ia our spring elections thus far the parties re- main in nearly the same position this spring uat they did when the demecrats carried the | Tho End of NEW YURK the France-German War—The Peace Treaty. At last it does seem as if this Franco- German war had come to anend. For some days it has seemed doubtful whether the Frénch were not about to give the world another proof ef their apparently incurable folly. For several hours yesterday peace and war seemed to be trembling in the balance, the cable despatches, which arrived almost simultaneously, giving most contradictory reports of the situation. One report, credited to the London Times, had it that Count Bis- marck was despairing of peace; that France had asked a prolongation of the armistice ; that the guns of the Paris forts had been turned upon the city, and that hostilities were to be resumed at midnight of the 26th. | Another despatch, credited to the London Standard, reversed the picture, stating that a peace treaty had been signed by Thiers and Bismarck, although the details were imper- fectly known. According to this despatch France is jo pay three hundred and twenty millions of thalers ($230,000,000), to cede Alsace and Lorraine, including the cities of Metz and Nancy; but the German army was not to enter Paris. It also stated that King William was to leave Versailles for Berlin on Monday. Such is the amount of our information while we write. The Standard despatch is on ali hands admitted to be the later and more accurate version of what has taken place at Versailles. But there is a mystery about the money idemntity. By referring to our tele- graphic columns the reader will find that yesterday Prussia demanded two milliards of thalers ($1,500,000,000), and that France offered to pay one milliard (750,000,000). These sums are so much larger than the sum mentioned in the later report that explanation | is rendered difficult. It is possible that the confasion has arisen from the fact that the sum which Prussia now demands is the whole sam, less the moneys which have already been paid. It is also possible that, having obtained the consent of M. Thiers and Jules Favre to cede Alsace and so much of Lor- raine, Bismarck felt satisfied and lessened his cash demands. However it may ba, it is safe, we think, to take it for granted that a treaty of peace has been signed, and that this six mouths war—a war unparalleled in modern times—is ended. It is gratifying to know that the Germans have decided not to enter Paris in triumph. All things considered, this, we think, is well. | That the Germans had made good their claim | to such a triumph ali must admit. That King William and Bismarck had a perfect right to gratify the armies which have fought so well by marching them through the capital city of the other hand, however, it must also be con- ceded that France has been sufficiently hu- miliated, that no good result could flow from a useless parade through the strects of Paris, and that, as Germany and France must be neighbors whether they will or will not, their neighborly relations will be improved rather than injured by this display of Prussian mag- nanimity. No right-thinking person, the wide world over, but will rejoice that the Parisians, who bere with so much heroic endurance the horrors of a protracted siege, are to be spared the humiliation of seeing the enemy marching in triumph through their much loved city. We shall soon be in possession of all the details of the peace treaty. We shall soon know whether the National Assembly will stand by the action of its accredited represen- tatives. It is not to be doubted that hard things will be said in the Assembly, and that France will in many days give abundant proof that the pill which Germany is compelling her te swallow is most unpalatable. Meanwhile the future of France commands our attention even more than the spirit in which she will bow to her present misfertunes. After the peace treaty has been signed France will be left onee more to herself, and the question which many anxious minds are now asking is, will she give proof that she learned wisdom’ from the lessons she has afresh received in the school of adversity? No people have so eften during the course of thé last century made themselves masters of their own destiny. No people have so uniformly flung away their golden opportunities. Since 1789 France has seen the downfall of three dynasties—has wit- nessed the beginning and the end of three re- publics. Once again she has the opportunity which she found and lost in 1792, which she found and lost in 1880, which she found and lost in 1848, It remains to be seen whether the opportunity of 1871 is to go the way of its many predecessors. Practically France is once more a republic. The Ger=- mans gone, she will be asked to say whether her future government is to be a republie or a monarchy. If she has not found out the worth- lessness of monarchical institutions; if she has not discevered that all those high and noble aspirations which for a hundred years have made her restless, impatient, revolutionary, tend toward a well organized républic, the confession must be made that her much suf- fering has taught her nothing. It is not our opinion that M. Thiers will abuse his authority by restoring against the will of the people either a Bourbon or a Bonaparte. It is more than possible, however, that the factions will create the necessity for a strong central authority, and that this central authority may find expression in a monarchy. Should such be the case France will have lost this ether opportunity and another period of adversity will lie before her. The French republic would be a blessing, not to France alone, but to Europe and the world. Her example would tell immediately on Germany. The Germans, of all the peoples of Europe, are best qualified for republican in- stitutions. They are intelligent, freedom- loving and capable of self-government, After the war Germany will find quite as mach as will France heavy reconstruction work on her hande. The bonds of union which have made her so strong during the war will im- mediately be relaxed when the sword has been restored te itsscabbard. The lesser gov- ernments will find cause for being jealous of Prussian supremacy. But the German people will not be driven from their purpose. Disin- tegration is impossible. The popular feeling will be louder, firmer, more emphatic than ever. Coust Bismarck and his master will find it State in the fall of 1870 by over thirty thou- | more difficult than ever to rule in spite of the fand majority, easemblies of the people. Even now a power- the enemy no military man will deny. On-4) die th gd ira | ful republican sentiment pervades Germany, and all high-handed policies will but hasten the day when that sentiment will be trresisti- ble. A republic in France would give Ger- man liberals that very courage which they need. It would not be otherwise with Italy and Spain. If France knows how now to con- duot herself she may yet, in spite of her mis- fortune and weakness, prove the regenerator of Europe. Let the French people only look across the Atlantic and they will learn the value of republican institutions, oY Latest from St. Domingo. We gave our readers yesterday another batch of interesting letters from our corre- spondents in St. Domingo, touching the move- ments and discoveries of the High Commis- sioners sent down by General Grant to spy out the land, the beauties of the island and its people, and the advantages and drawbacks of annexation, As to the tropical products, beauties and fertility of the island, they can hardly be exaggerated. From all that we hear from this exploring expedition, and from all that we have heard and read heretofore of the marvellous fertility of St. Domingo, we have no doubt that with anything approaching a reg- ular system of cultivation, this island, hardly larger in its area than South Carolina, could be made to yield subsistence equal to the ne- cessities of the whole pepulation of the United States in bread, three crops of tropical corn a year, in rice, beans, potatoes, yams, bananas, pork, beef, poultry, fish, milk, sugar, choco- late, coffee and tobacco. We dare say that half a million of industrious people on that island could in ten years raise its exports in the three articles of sugar, coffee and tobacco, to two hundred millions of dollars a year. So far so good. The Dominicans, in the next place, want to be annexed to the United States, in order to be protected against the ferocious niggers of Hayti, at the other end of the island. The popu- lation of Dominica, the Spanish mixed republic, is about one hundred and forty thousand, while the population of the little French coal- black African republic of Hayti is over six hundred thousand ; and those Haytien niggers are a constant source of apprehension to the Dominicans, just as the Russian Bear is to Turkey. The Haytiens occupy only a third of the island, and they want it all. They have several times invaded Dominica, only to be driven out again, and nowit is said they are at the bottom of Cabral’s insurrection. Of course the annexation of Dominica to the United States will bring at once those Hay- tien niggers to terms of peace, and next to annexation, and thus both ends of the island, under law and order, will begin a new career of industry and prosperity. So far, we say again, very good. But it appears that the land jobs and water lots and railway schemes, and the debts and liabilities in which the Dominican republic is involved, are so amazing and outrageous as to be positively preposterous. A squad of specu- lators, for instance, have secured all the valu- able water lots of Samana Bay, and another coalition are to have one-fifth of all the lands of the State in payment for a scientific survey of the republic, and they are to choose their lands themselves. These enormous jobs, it is feared, will be too much for Congress, unless the parties concerned know how to work the lobby, and perhaps they do. At all events, the Commissioners, in going actively at work upon all the inquiries with which they are charged, have stumbled upon these stupendous jobs and speculations, upon which President Baez can give no very definite statistics. And it appears to be the same with the debts, obliga- tions and Mabilities of his government. The Commissioners will have to bring him to some specifications and limitations upon all these things, or we fear that honest “Old Ben Wade” will be apt to go for a postponement of the annexation to a more convenient season. The worst of it is, however, that all the prin- cipal water lot and land speculators concerned have mysteriously disappeared from the island, such as Fabems, Cazneau, Madame Cazneau and their old associate Dominican annexation diplomats of these last twenty edd years. Having at length gained over the Adminis- tration at Washington and Congress to this preliminary exploring expedition, they per- haps think that General Grant, without further trouble, will carry it through to the ultima- tam of annexation, and that until it is carried through it will be best to keep in the back- ground with all their little bills. In a week or two more, however, we expect to have more light upon the subject. From all the information so far obtained the case looks rather smoky. Tho Pence News in Wall Street. The stock market has been always one of the most sensitive barometers of political events, and has recorded the changes from peace to war and war to peace with unswery- ing fidelity. Our own Stock Exchange is com- patatively new in experience of this character, but, for its time, has enjoyed a rather lively one. We cannot, of course, point te the fre- quent fluctuations in the “funds” which have entered so largely into the history of the Lon- don Stock Exchange; fer, until our civil war gave usa great national debt, and its paper money started thousands of railway and other enterprises into life, the list at the stock board comprised only a few old fogy affairs, which, ifthey moved a quarter ora half per cent, produced immense excitement among the con- temporaries of Jacob Little. In fact, it is on record that when, a few years ago, a man in Wall street drew his check for a hundred thou- sand dollars, the wonderful piece of paper was taken about from bank to bank and among the brokers to be shown as an immense curi- osity. Nowadays a check for half a million or a million dollars is not evena rarity in Wall street dealings, such has been the enormous growth of financial business im this city. When New York Central was 200 a 213 in 1869, previous to the separation of the scrip dividend, it was no uncommon thing for a broker to buy a thousand to two thousand shares and give his check for two hundred thousand to four hundred thousand dollars. Just now Wall street is apparently in the throes of a great movement following the sign- ing of a treaty of peace between France and Germany. The stock market yesterday was buoyant, with heavy dealings in all the specu- lative shares which are more directly suscep- tible of such influences as the one referred to, © ttl ey AY, FEBRU. the stock market from its long dormant stag- nation and provide brokers once more with business and commissions. The Coal Famine Threatening. The conspiracy en the part of the Pennsyl- vania railroads and the coal mining companies still holds its own, The prices have not actu- ally increased in this city, because the whole- sale dealers are frightened at the popular in- dignation which is directed against the con- spirators, It is estimated that only about four days’ supply for the consumption of the great mass of the people is on hand, and when that is exhausted the coal famine is upon us with all its severity, and the rugged month of March is before us. The compromise offered by the operators, at the meeting in Philadelphia, to the Miners’ Association for the resumption of work upon what they call the $2 50 basis, is a despotic measure, which the men have yet shown no disposition to accept, and which is probably thrown out by the operators with the hope that they would not accept it. Thelr aim fs to throw all the odium of this conspiracy upon the miners themselves ; but in truth it lies alto- gether between the coal carrying companies and the operators, who, after all, are one and the same thing. It has occurred heretofore, no doubt, that “strikes” have been made at the instigation of the owners in order to enhance the price of coal; but the operators have long been opposed to the system of pay- ing wages according to the “‘price basis,” and having the strikers in their power at this time, owing to the exhaustion of the long winter strike, have now determined to fight for the abolishment of the system altogether. This they are doing in connection with the despotic railroad monopolies, which they own. The result is that the strikers cannot resume work with the hope of any reasonable wages, and thus a coal famine, as rigorous as the provision famine in besieged :Paris, is threatening this city and the other great cities of the Eastern seaboard. Indeed, the encir- cling lines of King William could not keep bread out of the city of Paris more completely than the conspiracy of coal operators threatens to keep coal out of this city; and Paris, with her few days of preliminary previsioning in anticipation of the siege, was far better pre- pared for a scarcity of the one than we are for a scarcity of the other. There must come a time when we are to be well rid of these blood-sucking corporations, and now is the best time. A monarchical or despotic government would have obliterated them at once; but in our country, and under our system, we must follow the regular routine of the law in all emergencies. Congress has already taken up the case, and a motion was made in the House yes- terday to repeal the import duty on Nova Scotia coal. Of course, some soulless Pennsylvania protectionist objected, and the measure had to go over under the rules. But it will be or ought to be pressed until itis made alaw. There should be indignation meetings held in this city and in Philadelphia and Boston and all the cities affected by the grind- ing tyranny of these Pennsylvania oorpora- tions, to urge immediate and decisive action upon Congress. The unscrupulous monopo- lists who think to play upon the winter needs of the poor and to grind their own employés for the gain of a few thousand dollars must find that their ‘‘vaulting ambition has o’erleaped itself,” and that their inordinate demands have proven their ruin. The reopening of free trade in coal will do all this. It will raise the coal slege of oar cities, and leave the monopo- lists so much in arrear that they will be glad enough to resume their operations, with fair wages for thelr men and honest prices for their coal. Congress can alone do this, and the indignant sentiment of the people must be brought te bear upon Congress. Congress Yesterday—Pacific Railroad Mat- tere—Purity of Elections—The Omnibus Bill. Two important reports were made yesterday in the Senate in connection with Pacific Rail- road matters. One of them was from the Judiciary Committee, on the subject of the liability of the Union Pacific Railroad Com- pany te refund to the government the amount paid as interest on the government bends issued in aid of the road. The company claimed that it was not subject to be called upon for either principal or interest until the full maturity of the bonds, and that in the meantime the government could not withhold more than fifty per cent of the amount due by it to the company for transportation. The Secretary of the Treasury and the Attorney General bad insisted on the right of the govaliifiient to retain the whole amount due by it for marta. Sooper to apply it in restitution of the interest whic® it paid on the bonds issued in aid of the road. But the Senate Judiciary Committee reports in favor of reversing that decision, limiting the amount of stoppage to one-half of the trans- portation aecount, and postponing the respon- sibility for the interest until the full maturity of the bonds. It is easy to comprehend that this must be a very forced and partial con- struction of the law, and that the decision of the Senate committee is more in the interest of a huge monopoly than of the rights of the peo- ple and the government. The other report comes from the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, and is still more stamped with favoritism and injustice than that to which we have just referred. It recommends that, so far as the government is concerned, another serious blow shall be struck at eur ocean commerce, and the Pacifie Mail Steamsbip Company still further crippled by prehibiting the transportation of government freight and mails by sea to the Pacific and giving that whole of the business, no matter at what increased cost, to the railroad companies. The government has already, by immense railroad subsidies, managed to destroy the business of our only surviving line of steamships, and this propo- sition of the Senate committee is another move in the same direction. It is bad enough to have our commerce rained by the restric- tions which the high protective tariff policy ef Congress has imposed upon our shipping interests, without having legisla- tion levelled directly and in so many words against steamship lines. The influence of Last summer the war in Europe was followed | these raflroad companies must be by a general decline, the tendency to which | in Congress when such propositions can be was afterward helped by the drain of specie | reported from cemmittees of the Senate. No to Europe. Now comes what appears to be | action has been taken on them; but we have the reverse movement, which promises to lift | mo right to suppose that the action of the | Senate will be different from that of the two committees referred to. An attempt was made in the Senate yester- day to have the House amendments to the Southern Pacific Railroad bill concurred in, but it was resisted by some of the Southern Senators, notably Blair, of Misseuri, who contended that the bill, as passed by the House, was a delusion and a snare, so far as the interests of the South were cen- cerned; that the road provided for was in reality a Northern, not a Southern road; and that the gauge and the connections even related tothe Northern and not to the Southern existing lines. The amendments will probably be rejected, and referred to a conference committee, which will be able to reconcile conflicting interests and opinions, The Senate, under the influence of party feeling and the whip of party discipline, laid aside the Appropriation bills and the ordinary business of legislation and took up the House bill which virtually places the elections in the several States under the police supervision and control of the federal government. During the entire day and night sessions the debate was continued, and was some- times marked with considerable acrimony. The House, on the contrary, attended steadily to business, keeping at the “‘Omnibus” Appropriation bill from the hour of meeting until the hour of adjourn- ment, near six o’clock. The aggregate appropri- ations in this bill are over thirty-three millions ef dollars, including four and a half millions for pensions to the veterans of 1812—a new item of expenditure ; over six millions to indemnify States for expenses in raising troops to put down the rebellion; over five millions for post offices, custom houses and other government buildings all over the country; and about two millions for lighthouses. Several of our city members endeavored to introduce propositions for the abolition of the duty on coal, ascribing to that duty the enormous cost of coal in this city, but they were ruled to be not in order as amendments to an ap- propriation bill, Congress should certainly abolish the tax on foreign coal, which, though only adeollar and a quarter a ton, prevents our Canadian neighbors from mining it and sending it to this market. But we hilieve that, in respect to that and to all other neces- saries of life, the people suffer very little from taxation as compared with the exactions to which they are subjected by mercenary specu- lators, traders and dealers. It is a disgrace to our free system of government that it can- not protect the poor from fraud and rapacity and heartless conspiracy. Under no other form of government would such things be tolerated. Personal Intelligence. Secretary of War Belknap is stopping at the rifth Avenue Hotel. General N. B. Forrest, of Tennessee, is among the latest arrivals at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Bovis Dawzas, Secretary of the Russian Legation, is sojourning at the Brevoort House. General DeRussey, United States Army, Is a guest at the Astor House. Ex-Governor Clifford, of Massachusetts, yesterday arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Francis 8. Hayes, of Boston, President of the At- lantic and Pacific Railroad, with wife, have avart- ments at the Brevoort House. Judge Theodore Miller, of Hudson; 4. B. Chaffee, of Colorado, and E. M. Madden, of Middletown, N, Y., are among the sojourners at the St, Nicholas Hotel. A. B. Meecham, of Oregon, and J. V. Cornell, U. 8. A., are registered among the latest arrivals at the Metropolitan. Colonel H. Brigham, of Savannah, Ga.; Captain c. A. Gosnell, of England; Dr. A. A. Roth, of Pennsyl- vania, and Colonel T. R. McGahon, of South Caro- lina, are at the Grand Central. MUSIC AND THE DRAMA. THE EUTERPE hangs forth a musical shingle this afternoon at Association Hall, Miss MARIE KRess gives a piano recital to-day at Steinway’s, as does Wehil at the Union League. APOLLO HALL, at least the lower part, has been leased to the Arlington Minstreis, and will be fitted up for that purpose in the summer. HEDWIG RaaBE, Who comes here next season un- der Grau’s management, ls a German comédtenne of rare talent. SEEBACH Will tako a benefit at the Stadt theatre to-night. She is the most spiriiuetie actress we have had here since the days of Rachel. SARATOGA, at the Globe, Boston, has proved a tre- mendous success. The management sent out every- where through the country for a competent cast. DALY has dene a smart thing in the purchase of “Our American Cousin” from Laura Keene. Soth- ern comes to Wallack’s in the fall, and his great and only popalar réve is that of Lord Dundreary. Mrs. AGNES RoBgRTSON BovcicauttT will only Play in four eities this season in this country; Wal- lack’s bere, on dtt, to commence with, then Boston, Washington and Philadelphia, * MarINBEs Will be given to-day at Daly's Pifth Ave nue, Booth’s, Wallack’s, Lina Edyin’s, Nibto’s, Fourteenth Street, Globe, Comiqué, Bryant’s, Bow- ery, Olympic, Tony Pastor’s and Wood's. = uDRR, Who by some unknown means gained a ditous SOitugry and advertisement, without having yet sho: off thi sal coil, is under en- gagoment to Fisk at the Grand Opéra House in the Philbarmonte Rebearsal. *”Y%. The Academy of Mume, thanks to the admirable system of management inaugorated by Professor Doremus last season, was again crowded yesterday afternoon at the Philharmonic rehearsal. The former president, whose name we nave just men- tioned, brought the society up from the very dregs of bankruptcy, where Mr. Scharfenberg had left it. le =removed it from Steinway Hall to the Academy of Music, the orchestra to 100 musicians, and used all his large influence in society to gain Subscribers. Him alone can the Philharmonic mu- sicians thank for their large sul ‘this sea- a ne opreniine Tor the next te tae tet umsi 8 jony, No. major; Bargiel's overture to “Medea” and Remeck’s over ture to “Aladdin.” The principal, and we might say only, attraction at this concert will be the peer- less American prima donna, Miss Clara Louise Keilogg. She will sing “Ocean, thou Mighty Men- ster.’ that aria beyond price from ‘Oheron,” and, likely, “Bel Ragglo,” from “Semiramide.” Her sweet, cultivated voice will bea relief trom bass clarionets and dreary violoncilit. TOINADO IN MisSOURI. Great Storm in Jefferson City—A Portion of the State Penitentiary Blown Down—The Guard Fatally Injured. Sr. Lours, Feb. 24, 1871. Atornado passed over Jefferson City last night, lasting about thirty minutes. Portions of the Peni- tenmiary were unroofed and part of the walls was blown down, injuring the engine room so much work must be stopped in the shops operated by steam. ‘The damage on the building ts about 000. i ‘The roefs wf SO oe ety ar ngs were pa! remeved, and const aginage was dens. The ‘suerd at the Penitentiary vo s soverely and perhaps fatally tnjared by falling Te Informal Visit of the British Commimionety to the Secretary of State~An Early Adjust ment of Differences Between the Two Governments Looked For. WASHINGTON, Feb. 24, 1871. ‘The British members of the Joint High Commis- sion who arrived in Washington last evening palda visit to Secretary Fish, at the State Department, tnia morning. They were accompanied and introduced by the British Minister, Sir Edward Thornton. Tho visit was simply for the purpose of mutual introduc- tion. The interview was brief and necessarily in- formal The conversation was, of course, gen- eral in its character and exceedingly agreeable. Tho only allusion to the matters which caused tne crea- tion of this High Commission was a mutual expres- sion of the hope that all the questions of difference between the United States and Great Britain mignt Soon be brought to @ satisfactory conclusion, Sec- retary Fish and Earl de Grey seem to be quite san- guine that the points at issue will be harmonieusly @rranged in a month or so, It appears that Lord Tenterden inclines to the same opinion. The Alabama question however will undoubtedly be the subject of much discussion, and the preconceived opinions of Professor Bernard will be opposed by ‘the well established views of Amertcan statesmen upon that tmportant guestion, Hence tt 13 ander- stood that Professor Bernard and Sir Edward Thornton coincide with some of the United States Commissioners tn the opinion that if a full and final Settlement of all our differences with England shall be arranged the stay of the Commissioners here cannot be of very short duration. This afternoon the British Commissioners visited the Capito! and took a look at the Senate and House of Representatives in session, To-morrow they will be introduced to the President at the Executive Mansion. The Masonic fraternity of the District of Columbia are making preparations to give a grand ovation to Earl de Gray, who 1s Grand Master of the Masonic order in Zngland, . The meetings of the Commission will be held in the building occupied by the State Department, where three rooms are being prepared for their accommodation, The re- ception room has been set apart as a council cham- ber for joint deliberation and the two adjoining rooms will be reserved, one for each set of Commissioners, for private con- suitation, During the course of the discussions the British Commissioners will, when necessary, re- ceive structions from the home goveroment by cabie. It 13 understood that the first informal meet- ing of her Majesty’s Commissioners will be held on Monday next, and that they will contunue such in- formal meetings daily until the arrival of Sir John A. McDonald from Canada, and Sir Staiford North- cove from England, Sir Stafford is nowon the Ocean and Sir John is not expected fora week. Meanwhile their colleagues who are here will im- prove the time in making private preliminary ar- Tangements aud tn iorming the acquaintance of pub- lic men here, through the instrumentality of Sir Edward Thornton. Blt is not expected that the Joint Commission will get regularly to work until after the 4th of March. SHIPWR=CK. Loss of the Haytien War Steamer La Repub- icy Formerly the American Stermship Quaker City. : By the steamer Perit, which arrived at this port yesverday from Bermuda, we have the news of the loss of the Haytien war steamer La Repubitc, formerly the Quaker City. She reports that the bark Howard, of Yarmouth, N. S,, Captain Shaw, bound to Gottenberg, put into Si. Georges, Ber- muda, on the 19th inst., to land the officers and crew of the Haytten steamer La Republic, late the Quaker City—forly-seven in number—which had been abandoned sixty miles east of Cape Lookout on the 12th inst. When left by officers and crew she ‘was on her beam ends, with sixteen feet of water ia her bilges, smokestacks carried away and fires put out by the water. It was said that her boilers had exploded, but this 13 not a probable story. The La Republic, or Quaker City, was built to rua between Philadelphia and Charleston, ana was for some time in that trade. She afterwards found her way to New York. When the war broke out sho was purchased by the government, and did active duty as a blockader and cruiser. When she wag commanded by Captain J. M. Frailey, United States Navy, sie captured the British steamer Adela off the east end of Abaco. When hostilities ended she was sold out of the service and soon after made the Holy Land cruise that has been immortalized by Mark Twain, She then became the property of the Hay- tien republic. She has seen some fightiag under her new owners, and at last has fallen a prey Ww tne winds and waves, and now, probably, all that 1s left of her rests quietly at the bottom of the Atlantic. am = ale oererremmemmmne THE Nal MANUFACTURERS. a Meeting of Nail and Spike Manufacturers ta Philadelphin—New Tarif of Prices Estab- lished. PHILADELPHIA, Feb, 24, 1871. A meeting of the natl manufacturers of Kastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey was held to-day in parlor © of the Continental Hotel. William Stokes presided and John Wister, Jr., acted as secretary. There were present, by invitation, manufacturers from New York and New England. The following, works were represented:—Cumberland Nail Works, of New Jersey; Northumberland Nail Works, of Pennsylvania; Duncannon Nali Works, of Penne sylvania; Hollidaysburg Natl Works, of Penn- sylvani Pottstown Nail Works, of Penn- sylvania; Reading Nail Works, of Pennsyivanta; Birdsboro Natl Works, of Pennsylvania; Harrisburg Nail Works, of Pennsylvania; Chesapeake Nalt Works, of Maryland; Duncasville Nail Works, of Pennsy!vania; Williamsport Nall Works, of Penn- sylvania; Old Colony Nail Works, of Taunton, Mass.; Parker Natl Works, of Wareham, Mass; Boontown Nall Works, of New Jersey; Oxford Ni Works, of New Jersey, and a numbop of tndivid m3. 9 ey In view of the ruinous ue f prevailing ot BY ¢@paaially for siti! nalis, v jul prices was adopted, 10 take ettoot f Seneca ‘fe 1871:— i + Ae me From tenpenny bo sixty-penny, also brads and fencing, from tenpenny to sixty-penny, eas tenpenny nails; all cut spikes 25 cents per keg above tenpenny nails; elghtpenny and mihepelny nails, fen and brads, 25 cents per eee re ten- penny a aixpeuny and sevenpenny nails, fencing and bi cents per keg above tenpenny natis; i enny an ‘abc ingaetd nalls, fencing and brads, nit i keg above tenpenny nails; threepenny aa fda," areas ak a , 4 ; Anishing, casing tobacco, slating and ger to be 50 cents a keg above same size of cot meeting then House, New York, on BOARD OF BESLTH. The Coming Smalipox Epidemic—Routine Business. The Board met at one o’clock yesterday afternoon, President Bosworth presiding. ‘The attorney was directed to commence suits in five cases of violation cf the Tenement House act, one for violatton of the Sanitary code and thirty- two for non-compliance with orders from the Board. Dr. Morris, City Sanitary Inspector, submitted the following report of contagious diseases for the week ending February 24:—Typhus fever, 2; typhoid fever, 8; comalag fever, 1; scarlet fever, "sa; smallpox, By measies, 58; diphtherta, 14. A communication was received from the Register of Records, complatning that tne Board of Coroners had failed to report to the board the number of in- quests held by them since September last. Dr. Carnochan, Quarantine Inspector, presented a list of several vessels which had discharged their cargoes of freight and passengers at the New York docks without a Quarantine permit. A communication was received from the Consul at Rotterdam, informing the board of the alarming in- crease of smallpox in the latter city. THE FENIAN EXILES. BALTIMORE, Feb. 24, 1871. Ten of the Fenian exties, among them General Burke, Dr. Power and Captain John McUlure, now visiting this city, were formally received by both branches ci the City Council last evening. The Councti gives them a banquct this afternoon at Barnum’e. journed, to meet at the Astor oh 2, 1871, at eleven A, ML