The New York Herald Newspaper, March 19, 1871, Page 5

WASHINGTON. Senator Sumner Contemplating Another Raid on the President. he Texas Senatorship—General Rey- nolds Left Out in the Cold. Spirited Debate in the Senate Over Southern Affairs. Senator Sherman Goes for the Ku Kluxes. Proposal to Limit the Busiress of Congress. Genera! Legislation Discouraged in’ Both Houses. Wastinaron, March 18, 1871. The Condk:ion of Affairs at the South—Senator Skerman Going for the Ku Kivxer. The debate on the condition of aifairs at the South WAs fairly opened in the Senate to-day on the pro- Position of Senator Sherman to instruct the Judiciary Committee to report a bill for the suppression of the Ku Klux. Sherman bimself delivered the tirst @peech. It was very radical, and took the broad ground that the Ku Kiux should be put down by we strong arm of the government. Sherman 18 not usually an extremist, nor a seusatioualist. He 1s a man of such careful statement that what he says generally has great weight with his fellow Senators, Many of his colleagues were surprised to-day to hear his strong denunciation o1 the Ku Klux, and not a few came to the conclusion that there must be something in it, Sherman informed the Senate, before starting out, that he bad given the whole subject a careful, patient mvestigation, and what he was about to say was the result of his Geliberate convictions. He confined himself to a bare recital of facts, without attempting to poimt out any remedy, except in a general way. The remedy he proposed to leave to the Judiciary Com- mittee, His speech received marked attention, and is generally spoken of to-night as very able. Sena- tor Stevenson, of Kentucky, replied to Sherman. Unfortunately for him, and for the democratic side of the Senate, he admitted nearly all Sherman had charged. he denied that Kentucky was any worse than other States, and asserted his willingness to hunt down the Ku Kiux, if there were any. Sherman turned the tables on him by producing a copy of Stevenson's an- Bual message while Governor of Kentucky, wherein he distincily admits the existence of bodies Of armed mei Whose combinations are too powerful to be dealt with the civil law. Bayard, of Dei ware, a member of the Southern Outrage Committee, | has the floor for Nouday. Nearly all the Senators op both sides of the Chamber intend to deliver speeches during the discussion of this question, and the debate promises 1o be preionged for many duys, The Texas Senators—iiy. Hamilton Eutitied te the Seat. The Committee on Privileges and Election report to-day, say that in pursuance of the several gots of Co:gress for the reconstruction of the State of Texas, the Legislature convened oa the 8ih and completed its organization on the loth of February, 1870, Ou the second Tuesday afier its organizauion ibe Legislature elected Mr. Morgan C. Hamiltoa United States Senator for the term commencing | The same Legislature, on the same {| March 4, i871. day, elected Mr. #lauagan for the term ending March 3, 1875, and Mr. Hamilton for the term ending March 3, 1871. These last two ciections were to dil vacancies then existing, and both of these Senators Were adinitted to ther seats, By the consatution of Texus there was another session of the same Legu Jature, afier election of Mr. Mamiton and before the expiration of his term. This session commenced on the 10th of January, 1871, and on the wecond Tuerday afver its organization the Legisla ture proceeded to the election of a Senator for the term commencing March 4, 1871—the same term jor which Mr, Hamilton had been elected at the preceding session. General Reynolis was reported tw have been elccted, although the certificate re- ferred to ihe committee Was not signed by the Gov- ernor. The reason assigned for the ciection of General Reynolds is that the Legislature had no authority to elect Mr. Hamilton at the time of his election. ‘committee decite otherwise, and say, in reporting tm favor of the eiection of Mr, Hamilton, thatetne case 46 precisely like that of Mr. Gilbert, of Florida, set- tied at the last session. The report was unanimous, and having bees adopted by the Seoate, Mr. Hamil- Wn wiil on Monday take his seat. Revision of the Liaws—Eariy Completion of the Work Wesira' Messre, Abbott and Barringer, members of the Statute Revising Commission, hive addressed a letier to the committees of the Senate and the House on the revision of the laws, recommending some changes in the arrangements for that work, wiih a view of greater expedition In order to secure ine completion of their report before the expiration of the new Congress. They give the foliowing a count of Whai has been accomplished since last fall, when the present Board of Commissioners com- menced their labors, Jabor may be thus siated:— A system of classification, comprising seventy-six titles or heads of siatyve law, formed, indeed, upon aa outline draited by the iormer board, bas been adopted, ailer a careiul examimation of its appii- | cation to all the statuies, aud & disitnet collect sh has been nade in conveutent form for expediaous | NT eny tea newspaper acticle ta revision of every existing provision of law deemed appropriate to each head or Ulle of the classifica tion. These collections stand arranged im iude- pendent pertiolios, and any one oi them may be taken as the basis Statutes Upon the subject wiicn it includes with a good degree of conudence that it will present or bring to the notice of the draftsman ail laws neces- sary to be considered in framing wat title, Thus, although po title has been completed, an ; egual and considerable progress has been made upon every one of the seventy-six Utles under which the Commissioners propose to arrange the entire work, ‘the statute reviving the Commission allows ull the summer of 1913 for completing tne ‘Work; but the writers think that If certain changes Mm organization aud metnod are inade m season it is NOL Mpossivle to complete the revision BO that tt can come before the pres would be advantagevus for Ub First—The revision is needed, From every qu ter assurances are received that the United’ states Revised Statutes are desired now, not five or six years hen: ut, Wit Were possipie, immediately. Second—Aby extension of the San actual tacrease in ihe aggregate labor wo be per- formed fiom tie advance in legisiation. ‘The statutes passed ateach session must be embraced du the revision: and they come up for consideration ina way Which much increases the dimeuity of dealing with them. As between an undertaking to revise the laws within two years aud an \Wier- taking to revise them in five, we additional turee years of legisiation would Ml, very probuvly, ove of the years. Third—it the main body of the laws as revised can be brought beivre the Forvy-second Congress at 1g Session commencing December, will be that the san direct the initial labor of revision wiil have an op- portunity to pass apon the result. Pius will avoid the disadvantages Which have 89 often proved jatal to extensive plans of law reiorm, arising from changes in the composition of the legisiavure. What arrangements Congress will be pleased to make for the consideration of so extensive a measure of legis- Jation as the ove now contemplated we do not an- therpate. Whatever they are to be, they are simpli- fed by expedition. The conventence of Congress and the wilimate adoption o! the work would proba- bly be promoted by the Commissioners reporting the various titles as rapidiy as practicable, submitting jot drafting a tte of revised | in their | ‘rhe result of the winter’s | ne. 1 | (Virgimma) was as peaceful and orderly as that of any Siate } in favor of Blodgett and Gotdthwaite, | iasned j horror a) .NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH J9, 1871~QUADRUPLE SHEET. tions above stated order reigns throughout the Scato of Miselesippl. Democrate Favoriog Investigation Iute South. ern Affairs. { The Southern democratic members of the House, © fn caucus to-day, resolved to advise their constitue ‘ ents to afford every facility to the Joint Committee \ for ascertaining the trath concerning violations of | the law of that section of the country. Sumner Contemplati: nother Raid on President. Senator Sumner proposes to make a speech on | the Southern Ku Klux business, It is understood that he will refer to the fact that at the beginning of the present session President Grant proposed to seud in a special message on the condition of the South, He will show that tt was the duty of ihe President to have done this, and will then argue that in bis failure to dot Grant was recreaut to iis duty to the country and the republican party. Contested Svat in ihe Senate. The Senate Commities on Elections and Privileges | held their first: meeting to-day and vook up the con- | tested seats of Hamilton of Texas, Bloagett of Gvorgia and Goldthwatte of Alabama, The commit tee agreed to report in favor of Hamilton being ad- mitted to his seat. They will probably report also | Tbe New L The subscriptions to the new loan to-day amounted i to $2,250,000, and the total amount subscrived to date 1s $15,901,500, Internal Revenue Receipts. Tuternal Revenue receipts to-day amount to $820,190; grand total for the: fiscal year to date, , $167,779, 163, ere Currency Statement. The receipts of fractional currency for the week ending to-day amounted to $611,500, The shipments | Were, to assistant treasurers, national deposivories, | &c., noies, $2,943,000; currency, $296,397. i} Treasurer Spinver holds in trust as security for national bank circulation $354,030,000 and for public | deposits $15,91 Mutilated notes burned during the w total amount burned, $40,210,582; bank currency for bills destroyed during balance due for mutilated :, $461,900; $800, 99: $1,203,089, Bank circulation outstanding, notes, $311,780,10; na- tional gold bank circulation issued to date, $221,500, | Fractional currency redesiied aud destroyed dur- ing the week, $540,700, Persoual, James Davis, of South Bend, Ind., was to-day ap- pointed Special Treasury Ageat. FORTY-SECOND CONG.AESS. First Session. SENATE. WASHINGTON, Mareh 18, 1871, ODTRAGES IN GEORGIA, Mr. SUMNER, (rep.) of Mass., prevented a memorial from the colored people of Georgia representing that they are de- nied redress tn the courts, and attacked by mobs when serting thelr rights, &c., and asking protection from Con gress. Referred to the Committee on Southern Outrages. BILL RECALLED FROM THE NOUBR. Mr. BAYArD, (dem.) of Del., moved to reconsider the | vote on the passage of the bill defining a gross of matches. | He had received despatches from large manufacturers to the effect that the bill would work most iujuriously to their inter- ests. The wotion was agreed to and an ord-r made for the | recall of the bill from the House, THE SHLYPLNG INTEREST. Mr. KPLLOGG Introduced bilis to revive the navigation and shipping interests of the United states, and maposing toa- nae duties and for other purpose SURVKAOR OF EASTPORT, Mr. CHANDLER, (rep.) of Mich., from the Committee on Commerce. reported a bili to re-establish the ollice of sur- Veyor ut Lustport, Me. Passed, ” NYRODUCED AND. REFERRED. By Mr. O8uoRN, (rep.) ot Fia—For public buildings at | Jacksonville, Fla, Referred to the Commitiee on Fublic Buildings, | By Mr. Scor'r, (rep.) of Pa.—Relating to writs of exeou- tion and otler inal process Ju couris of the United Sia Referred to the Jucictary Coiam:tte By Mr. CRAGIN, {(rep.) of N. I.-To define the relative rank of @ professor of mathematica in the navy, Referred to the Comiunites on Naval Adiire, | im trom ne | rary taste which he sooa founc the week, | i) | Chawbers must be re; (hom, He asserted the dnty of Congress to interfere to repress ‘THE TEXAS 6RNATORS! Mr. StRwant, em) of N made @ un ue report from the maittes Privileges aud tions in the case of Morgan C. Hamilton, inclu ing a rerolution that he was 4 elected Senator from ‘Teane for the term commencing March 4, 1871, and was Sartore @utitled to take the seat ou taking the required oath. ‘The resolution was adopted. The Vick PRroipRN said, if Mr. Hamilton were now pre- sent, he would come forward and take the oath, but that gen eman was absent frum the chamber. Mr. ANTHONY remarked that, on’ Monday, he would ask the Senate to remain in session tuntit they disposed of his re- solution, At half-past five o'clock P.M. the Senate adjourned till | Monday. OBLTVART. overt Chambers. Yosterday morning a cable telegram published in ; the HERALD announced the death of this eminent Scotch author and publisher, m the sixty-ninth Year of his age. The career of Robert Chambers, like that of Lis brother William, was a remarkable instance of talents and energy struggling against adverse circumsiances and coming out victorious. At Pecbies, Scotland, tn 1802, the rubject of this , sketch was born, His parents were persons of re- | but, as they | spectability aud good lacked wealth to standing; ba then t the unl versiiles, Robert and his brother were educated in | Reverses making sill narrower compelled | to return to Edinburg, where the two boys were, in , & measure, thrown entirely upon their own re- | soure their native town, an already small income the family wa Scotch pluck ana industry soon surmounted the many obstacies tn their path, began business on his OWN account as a bookseller 5 his capital amounted to a jew sailliogs, invested it judicionsly,and Was able to touke a living out of it. Bookseiling, however, was ony epgaged essity, the young man possessed a le indulging, Willlam, his brotaer, bad added’ the prin cing business to bookselling, and Kovertiuduced hit to undertake the publicat on of a sipall pertodical ‘ catied the Aeleidoscope, We latter furnisuing the | articles aud William setting the type and prinuag oi the paper himself, Altera brief existence the Kuieidoscope Was avandoned to enable Kobert to { write and bring out his “iliustrations of the Au- thor of Waveriey,” an admirabie work on tke sup posed characters whom Sir Waiter Scott described Kobert set about collecting materials for bik “Tt tions of Edinburg,” a most interesting work. Was published In 1824 and has passed through many editions, | in life was smooth and easy. of Scotland” appeared in year he publisnet bis “Pictures of Scotia Shortly alter he gave to the public tive histories of the “Scottish mi? us and Songs.’” “Biographical Dictionary of Emtneat Scotchmen," which was compicted in four volumes tn 183 ce In 1829 William and Robert, for the first time, ene tered into copartuership. Together they published a‘Gazetteer of Seotiand’ im 1582, anda “His. tory of Scouland for Juvenile Readers,” tie latter written by Robert. On February 4, 1832, the firgt nuinber of Chambers’ Journal appeared, and s00n obtained a large circulation, From that time the business of the brothers continued to improve, and at the present day 13 very larg received a rerular ed. of tils sketch produ 1 several excellent gevlogt- “Chambers’ Encyclopedta.”’ ‘the death of Robert ‘ded as a severe 108s to Seoitisi Uteratare. He was aclose and attentive student of the h.story of his naive country, and con- | tributed greatiy m the work of giving to the worid | | facts in connection with the events of the past in tland which would have been whoby lost but | Be lor his siudy and research. E. A. Nisvet. E, A. Nisbet, of that State. He was born in Georgiain 1803, recelved @ good education, studied law, and after his admission to the bar won reputation us a lawyer of ability and success, Enterlig promi. nently Into politics he became.a leader and was elected to fill numerous responsable amoug which was that of Judge of th Court of Georgia. In 1838 Judge ; chosen & Representative in Congress and served AViL LAW AT THR SOUTH. Hl te then took up asihe business of the morning | herman's resolution alleging the subversion by | armed disguised and lawless inea, niain.y suidiers of the late i thority na larze part of the | vvectionary States; taat persons and property are | unsafe, their rizlts as citizens denied, and the cvnris power- | Jess by orgomned perjury to punisa crime; and tustructing | the Judiciary Committee to report remedical tegisin‘ion. Mr, SHERMAN, (rep.) of Ohio, said every word contained in the resolution was ‘strictly true, and that in eleven Soath- ern Statea the public condition was one of unparalleled arehy. Messrs. Davis, Sievenson, Johnston and Lewis, on the democraite side, here addressed ine Ci Mr. Lewis, (rep.) of Va., said the condition of his State fza- with credit during two successive terms, retiring to private life at the end of his second term and re- suming the practice of fis profession. After the ontoreak of the rebdeiiton he was da member of the Confederate Congress, and served as such, we think, till the coilapse of the Coniederacy. Judge Nisbet was a resident of Macon, where be died at two o'clock yesterday afternoon. He was a gentle- man of high characier for personal and oficial Integrity, was quite popular with tie people througit- = the State, and was much esteemed in private e Paymaster McKean Buchanan, United States Navy. inthe Union, He denied that any Ku Klux Klan org, w existe there, Mr. Jou sirox, (dem.) of Va., the associate of Mr. Lewia, corroborated the ussersion of bis colleague. Mr. SUREMAN repliedcuat he would substantiate the asser- tions of the resolution from the tes.imony taken before the select committee of 1uvestigation, Mc. DAVI4, (deu.) ofjKy., replied, that there were disorders | in Kentucky that ought tobe put down by the proper au- thorhy he ndinitred, but It would be done sooner and mucl | more’ fully 1 Congress did not interere with the State au- The | | a Juige upoa the fac yoy O. legisiators whic will | the last one as early as the openug of the last ses | sON of Lie Forty-second Congress, December, The Mississippi Visturbaaces Being Investi« muted, Governor Alcorn, of Mississippi, has addressed a felegram t Senator Ames and Represeutatives Morphis, Harris and Perce, in which he says that th late outrages at Meridian are beimg jegally investt- gated; that some disturbances have taken place along the Alabama border, but that tiere is diM- oully in disco: ug the Quity parties, as they were tu disguise; that che power of the State gevernment is ample to preserve the peace, and with the excep. | thorities, Air. SUERMAN resumed, quoung from the report of the comluittee to show that as a resuil Of the operation of the Ku Klux in terrorizing aud Satimidatia red men, it was diagracefui to civilization and ling. ‘These men g mainly soldiers of the late revel armies bad vir violation of the very Ibe ¥ General Grant upon twelr #irrender. Arter reading from the Ku Kius oath to show that the objects of the org: Seat Aiueaidy to prevens colored mea and o(uers g thelr poitical rigits, aud that by it t ound to murder, Tob’ aud plunder under (he discipitue preserived by their former rebel leaders, Mr. Sberman said ne did not know of any organization in history | whic or utruclty cond eourpare with tire.” These inet com it aight and carried (error wherever Wicy | of the Senate would wimit that an o- | ng to humanity should ve put dos ber in North Caro ina had been stated at 40 vd, | bn! was certainly 19,.0), thouch any ren‘ler of the tostimoay’ | Would suppose It mich larger. Ta’ Rockingham county, Ii | that State, sixty tivo of these outrages had been cominitted. In one case a magistrate of a town in that county hat test. | ted to ae hanging of wgolored preacher’ at a ite hour of | the night oy seventy-five armed disguised men on horseback. The dangling body of tue victim was found suspended | to w tree in front of the Court touse, a paper pivned on it, on which were the words “Be ye Bulty, both black ahd while! Ak. Ke K." A poor, hait idiot | negro, Wuo had seen some of these men, was drowned seve- | ral days a!terwards to prevent tueir detection by hira. Thirty: | eight similar cases had been shown to have ovearred in the ame viciaily, in other instances, ag suown by the testimony, a band of dissnised men, in Alamance county, had taken colored mav froma his hose, whipped aad compe i the negroes im'th Abo-shoad to eiwear U woul i ote the radical ticket. The killing of a sher! to have been previously agreed upon ia red his democratic frieads to be convert ciained Upon the repudit Ube stopped, and with that ¥ ad various extracts from shot him, ai eastires for their repi ling among the Ku Klux | merober of the Ku Kinx an Alabama paper, the | point oF Watch was that the writer didnot thiuk it an 1 a negro. Democratic newspaper extracts detatiing the particulars of tical riot in | Alabama, ‘our Colored men were Kiled outright and iity-tour w d from the Rome (Ga.) Gomme cui ad= | Vising the Kin Klaxes not to waste their terrible e ery | until they were ready for ® great movemont, when the word | of command would be given, The murder of Mayor Crane, of Jacason, Miss., au ex-fuderal officer, by Yerger, and | other almilar lustances, were reforred t) as showing that every victim of suca outrages was a repuilican, every perpetrator a democrat, aud that no man througiout the Whole South had yeu veen convletod of any auch oifence. LIMITING THE KUBINKGS OF THE At the close of Mr. Sherman's remarks his resolution was Inid aside for Mr. Antnour's peading resolution, simitiag the business of t ‘sion to the Deficiency Appropriatioa ‘ill and a resoluidon for # jolut committee of favestigation into aTairs at the Soath, ant Mr. Sherman's n instra jag the Judlelary Commulitee to bring in bill y suppress Ku Wiax organizations, Mr. SHERMAN moved to amend so far as to provide for action on the report of the Judiclary Coumitiee ou the uth. Mr. TROM thought sot He proceeded to (rep.) of Ti, oppowed the resolution, and vagure of revenue reform ehould be passed. ree the necessity of un early reduction uf | jonding diminution of go: ernment e: roe of passing the bills repeat ‘SUME: Mr, SevENso%, Wem.) of Ky., would vindicate the rizhis of the peopic of ail sections to protection ia the enjoyu-ent of their { Ht ed that Sir. S good his assertion that oret ors rebel soldiers | re of & politi ained by ville | cial Investigation, imatead of mere newspaper rumors pre. Fented by the Senator trom Quio, should ve the basis of leyislation. ‘That Seanior had shown his incapacity to sit as by his prejudice against the Souk, Bn ently ace! as Governor of Kentucky be | (Mr. Stevenson) was able to deny that secret organizations | Of any consilerablo numbers exited there, Disorders havi occurred there, but if the Senate would vote him an in: | veatigating committee he would undertake to show that In the aaine length of ime more crim> and outrage was com: | miited iu dhe elty of Claclunati than to the whole Slate of Kentucky. But God 8 the basis of legisiativa for the xocial condition of one- haifol the country. But the speech of the Senator from ! Onio had been mage marnly for political effect, and ona | i roid that he shoud make isolated | woitld not bave ven uttered so far in advance of the Test duntial election except for the at famiiy jare im that Senator's party. After stating two instances m which | White men were promptly cted aod punished for | the murder of color that the boldest in | denouneing disor: ex-Confederaty off- | cers, Mr. Steven ent sloppage of the mail service, by fea the fine Of the railroad between Louisyiile and Lexington, This une just and tyrannical act of the Postmaster General was mado Lo give color to the representation that ku Klux depredations were committed there. The oniy possible } Was an assault upon a newly appolnt ising from ® personal rivairy between li 9 plok, tween New York and cause an assault hi been made upon aa after the assault upon him } ers, ant the lives of and upon informa: Al suspended the mail service t Mr SHERMAN further argued that Mr. ~ ernor of Keniucky, had fully admitted the #0 in w message to the Legisiature, compalning of | | trugate Congress when th | been in the State f | ing bill, which passed last | company for fifiy-fiv | teries ot I | computed as follows ) palm ; me } Lieutenant Commanrer 0. B. ‘ tached from the Naval Acalomy and ordered to Ba- es A Boston telegram reports that McKean chanan, retired Paymaster of the United + i Navy, died at the Navy Yard in that city yesterday, He was on board of the | aged seventy-four years, t vessel was sunk by the | rebel ram Merrimac, the later being commanded by bis orother, ARKANSAS LEG SLATURE. The Imprachment of Chief Justices McClure Resiguation ot Govecvor Cinyton—A Host of Fricads Provided for--Antics of the New Governor. MeMPHISs, March 18, 1871. Aspecial despatch from Little Rock says: In the House yesterday, a till was introduced to provide for flillng the oiice of Governor, ia case of vacancy. It provides that the President pro ter. of the Senate shall become Governor, and if there is pone, thea the Speaker of the House, The Senate assembled at one o'clock as a High Court of Impeachment, Acting Chief Justice Why. tock presiding. A communication was received from Chief Justice McClure acknowledging the ser- | vice and saying he was ready jor the trial, The counsel for the respondent subinitied a general demurrer to the articles of imps whieh the Conrt adjourned till Monday, when argu- ment will be had on the demurrer, It wiil, doubt- Jess, be sustained and the defendant released. Mr. Clayton sent in his resiguatton to tne House this morning, announcing that he had turned over the books and papers of his oitice to the Presulent pro tem. of the Sen Mr. Clayton leaves for Wash- ington to-morrow. Mr. Hailey was sworn tn this afternoon and en- tered on the discharge of his duties as Governor. About three years ago he was a merchant and failed. He took the benetit of tne Baukrupt law, and has years. When the Reconstruc- tion bill passed he entered into politics (radical), | succeeding to be elected “Senator from this district. He was one of the strongest advocates of the Fund- sion. He is now well om. fore Mr. Clayton resigned he signed nearly two usand commissions for treads who had veen provided for, among them Speaker Tankersley as Superintendent of ine Penitentiary. ARUY ORDER. WASHINGTON, March 18, 1871. The act approved July last, having directed the President to reduce the number of enlistea men tn the army to 30,000, the following army order has Just been issued, giving the table of organization from and after July 1, 1871:— Enlisted men of engineers, 301; enlisted men of ordnance, 475; orduance sergeants at posts, 700; military academy bal 24; ty enlisted men per companies ut artillery, 3,300; eigity-iour enlisted men per battery for live bat- ht ariliery, 420; eighty-four enlisted meu per company for 120 companies of cavalry, 10,090; Sixty enlisted men per company for 250 com: panies of infantry, 15,000; nou-comiuission:d staff of regiments, 200; total 30,009, mimissioned staft of regunents are Sergeant majors, 40; quar- termaster sergeants, 40; ciel musicians, 40; princl- 3 Oi artillery and infantry, 60; saddier valry, 19; clef truimpeters of cavairy, The non-¢ sergeants 10; total, 200. The rate of enlisted men per company fs to In- clude non-commissioned olticers and all other grades. 3 To provide for the reduction of any surplus num- ber of men which way be Im the service Junes30, 1870, company commanders Will report to their Legi- tal comimanders the names of all tudiferent | soldiers of their command who ought to be dis- charged for the good of the service In season to secure the action of the department cominanders, Who Will issue necessary orders for sucn discharges, | to take effect Jun companies above the standard and filling those below It by transfers from ove company to another of the same regiment. Ins‘ructions will be given to recruiting oMicers to dimintsh the numoer of re- cruits eniisted by raising the standard o: height and other qualiications, wid @ view t improving the character of the rank and file of the army, ——————_———— WAVAL O; DEAS, Assistance Paymaster Robert Dickey has been ordered as assistant to the Paymaster at the Wasn- ington (D. @.) Navy Yard. Lieutenant Commander T. F. Jewell tas been detached from the Naval Observatory aud ordered to the Naval Acadeniy, mils has been des Mound iy, iu In 1818 Robert but he | an opportunity of in his novels, Shortiy after this book appeared | ‘The deceased author had now made a reputation vn the worid of letters and beaceforward lis path lils “Popular Rnymes $26; during Je follow ng oiumes of Rebeliions,”” two of a “Life of James 1.’ and three of “Scottish Ballads He alsu began the publication of lis Although he never { tion in science the subject | A telegram from Macon, Ga., reports the death of | hinent, after | , 1871, and aiso for reducting | | LITERATURE, | Criticiowe on New Books. PRESBYTERIAN R&UNION. 1887-1871, DeWitt C. Lunt & Co., New York. | After thirty-three years separation the two great | Presbyterian bodies of the United States of Ainerica, Known vaguely for a protracied period, known dia- : tinctively since the disunion tn 1837 as the Old School and the New School, became during the course of | last year once more one. Afier lengthened, and, as drawn out courtship, the reunion, which, perhaps, ougit never to have been necessary, has been hap. pily effected. Of this reunion the volume now be- Yore us Is designed to be a memorial, A very hand- some and useful memorial it is It contains a nis- torical sketch of the Old School and a historical sketch of the New School, other interestiug matter, The contributors among the best men in the Chureb, the historical revtew of the Gid school, Gives the histurical review of the New School, biographical sketches of the Old S: uied by Dr. Sprague, and those of the New by Or. Tiwuphrey, Dr. Adams, of this city. are Dr. Stearns: The this paper we have 10 confess ourselves somewhat | ope is limited, its langvage in | altiongh it | offers some sensible advice which it would be well | for the Presbyterian Church of the Future to follow, |; tended tae fourth popular conc lsappoinied. Its se several instances painiully slovealy, Memorrat Vourie— | we think, unnecessary bickerings, and after aloug | biographical sketches | Nilacon of the leading men on both sides and much | ler gives | chestr: id were contrit- | ‘There is an able paper on reuntout, by | Drs. Jacobus aud Fowler | give an admirable sketeh of the Assemblies of 1869, | ene | also to | sang better | was tne following:—Orchestra, AMUSEMENTS. Nriseox's MATINEB.—If any one entertained the Jeast idea that the popularity of the Swedish Night- ingale was on the wane, the audience that attended her matinéo @t Steinway Hall yesterday would be suMecleat to remove such an idea. The hali was crowded to its very utmost capacity, and ladies were in the majority, Outside, Fourteenth street | and Union square were filled witn carriages; in short, ft was au audience such as very seldom giad- dens the eyes of & concert manager, It seemed inspire the fair cantatrice, for she than asval, = Tho “Mercy Wives of Windsor " Nicolai; duet, “Rataplan,? Alard, Sig. nors Brignolt aud Verger; violin solo, “Fantasia Appasionata,” Vieaxtemps, Mr. Henry Vieuxte eps duet, “A Night in Venice,” Arditi, Mile. Christine ant Signor Brignoll; aria, “Ne a Pk rt ’ Mozart, Siguor Ve ; flower song, “Faust,"? Gounod, Miss Annie Louise Cary; grand mad scene, “tianiet,? A, Thomas, Mile. Cliristine + Ore programme | —— (PULLING TIE | 5 KENO PLAYERS, A Grand Raid Last Night on AI the Gabe bling Hells in the City. Eight Hundred Prisoners Scooped Int and Locked Up. For some time past Superintendent Kelso has had in contemplation @ grand rait on all the gambling hells throughout the entire city, and, having cone summated his arrangements, he yesterday morning called all of his captains together and gave orders for the pull’? to be made at aqiarter past wm ofelook hast night. i DESPITE THE SRORESY ‘ with which the whole thing was shrouded news of graud march, “fannhauser,? Wageer; oe | masa, “Traviata,” Verdi, Signor Brignolt; Caves tna, 'Betley,’? Donizetti, Mile. Cristine Nilsson; Murde non douin, ‘*Lrovotore, . AMIS Louise Cary and Signor “Galop.” SteAUss. Mile, Nilsson’s rendering of the scene from “Mfam- let” was particularly fine, aod fairly surpassed ail her loriner eilorts. Lt intensiied the desire of the audi and her adinirers to hear her in There Brignol; orchestra, there was scarcely # Maw in the readermg of une en- fire pr Mile, Nil will next Wednesday evening. EUTERrE MATINER.—About on appear in rt given at Associay ‘The publishers have done their pari of the work | thon Hall yesterday bv this excellent soviety. The weil. in tine, round, clear type, om excellent paper, the | style of the ¥ook isin admirable harmony with its | purpose, STORY. By George Raw- A. Harper & Brothers, New York. Is is beyond all question the best manual of ancient history in the Hnglish lauguage. its aathor, Mr. Rawlinson, Professor of Ancieat History in the University of Oxford, ts, | haps, of all living men, vest qualified for the work he has performed. The hiStory carries us bask Lo the earliest times and bru Us up to the fali of the Western Empire. the year 1823; but as this work ts no longer in print in an English form and as the march of modern dis- covery has made large portions of it antiquated, Professor Rawlinson deemed it desirable to replace ! the “fMandbuch” of Heeren by a “Manual” coucetved | om the same scale, extending over the same period | and treating dn the mam) of the same nations, In all our advanced schools, in our collegiate Insti uuitions and in the wiiversities this book will be cal works. The jatest of bis historical produc- | found an invaluable text book fur the study of Uons Is the * Domestic Anpais of Scotland.” He | cient hist also edited, with his broiier, a targe number of | ®2chen ory. are ey Works, one of the most important of which ts “SLOow Horsks Mane Fast AND Fast Horses MADE Fasrer,” is the Utle of a work published by ! Jesse Haney & Co, The work is from the pen of Mr. John Elderken, a gentlenan Who has given the | subject on which he writes much study, and he cer- tainly has produced a very readable and profitable work for breeders and trainers of the trotting horse, The work treats of the origin of the American trot- ter, the high values of fast horses, large protits from raising them, achievements of celebrated trotters, improvement in the stock, how to produce the best trotters, triiuing, shows low good horses are spolled by Jallacious theories and faulty appnances, | tells now to make pacers trot, and how to take care of colts, and other matters, ; Tye Lire or St. PaTRICK, APOSTLE OF IRELAND. of New York have Issued a volume embracing an | account of the life and missionary labors of Ireland’s | patron saint, The author, Mr. M. FP. Cusack, ap- | pears to have had access to very valuable and ap- | parently accurate sources of in‘ormation, and to have utilized nis material with care, In tine type and @ style of workmanship worthy of the subject, TaE PRINCIPLES OF PSYCROLOGY; parts three and four. by Herbert Spencer. Tluis appe.ra to bea very learned, slightly ab- struse book, in continuation of parts one and two of the same work. The author goes to contirm the | popular belief in the saying, “We are fearfully and wonderfully made.’* is Yonges. D. Appleton & Co, Ts. HRARTSRASE. By New York, Puolis A new and handsome edition of a most popular we To say more than this ig unn ary, as the author's writings are loo well known and ilked to require more commeat. TUE JOURNAL OF THE E1GHTY-SEVANTH CONVEN- viON Of the Protestant Episcopal Cuurch in the Diocese of New York supplies a very in ung reoord of the position of this venerable religious | institution as it exists among us. PULLING A HOUSE OF TLL FAME. Yesterday afternoon an order was issued by Su- periutendent Keiso for the arrest of parties keeping, as alleged, a disorderly house at No, 26 East Thir- | teenth street, between University place and Broad- | way, The complainants were James Pott, of the | Cooper Iustitute, whose residence is at No. 30 East | Thirteenth street, and Dr. Brouson, Who is also a 1 neighbor. ‘The house is kept | pamed Elizabeth onerts, At a late nour m= the evening Captain Irving, Chief of the detective squat, accompanied hy a number of | lis officers, m: raid upon the premises of Mine. | Roberts, and arrested the proprietress and a woman | named Henrietta Mavoceht, | Hurry Tewksbury were aise captuied. Keehen and Mazoccut Were released, ‘The latter was accom. | panied by her child, a girl of four years, who, by her | Iuiocent and happy demeanor before the detectiv | won from the tender liearted Superiniendent Kind | treatment for her unfortunate and misguided motier, The parties now held will be brought } before the Police Justice at Jefferson Market this MAD FOOM LIFE'S HISTORY A Weman Hangs Herself in Her Own Room. Yesterday afternoon a woman named ann Donlin | reported at the Twenty-eightn precinct station house that she kad called to see another woman— the top floor of finding the door lov parties living lu the lioase, who told her that Mrs. Lone had not been seen for some time. As she feared all Was notas it should be she requested that an oitcer be sent to open the door and see if the wo- man wasinthe rovin, Accordingly officer Ryan accompanied her back lo the house, aud upon fore- ing the door open found the unfortunate woman | hanging by the neck, in which position she had evi- ly been for about twenty-four hours. The | officer took the body oner Young, who will to-inorrow hold an inquest on it. CEAMARS IN AMERICA. — The growth of tne new German city, on Long | Island, called Bresian, astonishes almost everybody, | It was incorporated eighteen months ago, and covers | 3,000 acres of land. | Dutlaings quite as handsome, as any of the antic qua‘ed villages on the Island. It has churehes, | hotels, stores, mannfxctories, and all that goes to | constitute a coutry village. On Easter Monday | 30 Tnans Will hold @ peace jubilee, the new | be delivered in the afternoon and a ball given inthe | evenimg. THE CAME QU-STION ON LONG ISLAND. Much indignation is felt in the eastern part of Long Island on account of the numerous bills wren | have been presented in Legisiature through the mte- rest of the sportsmen, purse nets which had been in bly Would have estroyed larg: | the eastern towns. fu its present shape it i¢ not } quite 80 obnoxious, 1c having been arnended except- | ing the waters of Little Pecenic and Gardiner’s bays, | Another bill fu relation to the game tnverests 13 ¢x- | ceedingiy ubnoxious, TELEGRAPHIC WEWS ITEMS. A leary fall of enow is reported throughout Montang Ter- rilory within the past few Gaye. ~ ‘The damage to the planting interests by the floods in the Mississipp) lias been very great. All the lowianda Lave been overiiowed. Arepori from the mining district near Salt Lake, tab, rays there wil be 200 tous of silver oro gotten out there day during tae comlag summer, ¥ co Chamber of Commerce yesterd roduced in the Ass Kdward Kechen and ; down and tnen nottfed Cor- | ‘Tastefully yet not expensively got up, printed | It comprises the his- ; tory of Chaldea, Assyria, Media, Lydta, Puewnicia, Syria, Judea, Egypt, Carthage, Persia, } Greece, Macedonia, Partia and Kome, ‘Ta annual’? j ls based on the “Handbuch? of Heerén, originally published in 1799 and corrected by its author up to Under this tlle the Catholtc Publication Society | macy, HERALD Buiiding, coruer of Ann street: The book ta | | | It fs now guite as large, and its | avenue, between Twenty-sevenia aud Twenty~ | woman"—toox attractions were Miss Maria Brain Mrs. Dr. Ay and the grand direction of Jon) ude up of se |, Miss Sawyer, chaunler, cuterps The programme was se hue’ udelssolin, Hanptuna ly and Webi. xeellont nai entertainments aro deserving of a laser share of patronage than what they ti ACADEMY OF Music, cert was given last A grand testimontal con- uing for the benefit of Society, It would be unfair to cayil where all the Principal artists volunteered their services, orchestra, composed of the members of the Philbar- the signs of careful traming, also heard at great advantage in the song “in Herz Mir Heréin,” by Abt, which she rendered in a spirited manner. fhe charming Clara Louise was in both cases redemanded, but, like a sensible artist as she is, deciined to be too lavish of her delighttul organ, Miss Pauline Nimninger deserves her singing of “D'Amore,” irom ‘Trovatore,” and was encored, As & mutter of course, the — stcreotyped floral offering = was not wanting. Siguor Leout (tenor) rendered the song ‘Noel Cantique’? with devotional feeling and pas+ expression, too much of the latter, in fact, Jeol is @ good siuger, bul Le must not pitch severe strain upon nis organ. Mr. Whose interpretations of classicai music are always Welcome, Was ,the pianist, His playing of “Cou- certo,” in & minor, by Chopin, could not be sur- passed. Nor must "we omit Master Willic Hess, the youthfut violinist, who rendered Vieuxtemps’ fanta Lucia,” ant whose playing was charac- terized by refinement and delicacy of touch. The whole performance was artistically, if not finan cially, & success. NEW YORK CITY. Ss. B. Mills, The following record wiil show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours ta com- parison with the corresponding day of last year, as Indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s Pare 5. ‘Is70, 1871, 1870. IATL. BA. M. aL 63 P.M. 44 64 6A. M.. 34 49 43°80 9A. M. 87 49 or) ed 12 M. 39 63) 1PM. ~ 3 48 Average temperature yesterday 50% Average temperature for corre: Tast Year sees eeees The police arrested 1 week. persons ‘The amount of taxes paid at the oMce of the Tax Receiver during the past week was $2 Ou Thursday next the New York State Poultry So- ciety will sell at auction a large number of the finest breeds of poultry, 155, Fire Marshal McSpedon reports that during the past week there have been in tng city fift fires, invyiving a loss of $26,758, and on which there is an insutance of $185,000, Marshal Alart, of the License Burean In the Mayor's office, granted the following Icenses last weel:—Boarding hous s3 wagons, 14; Venders, 60; caris and cartmen, i ters, 4;' junk shops, 1; drivers, Amount received, $388, Lewis Weigandt, @ iad nine years of age, diea suddenly on Friday nigit, at the residence of his parents, 105 Eldridge street. The day previous de- ceased, while at play in an old buliding corner of Broome aud Bldriage streecs, which was being de- Molished, jumped from the second feor to the paye- ment, and tc 18 suppose! injured himself internaily, Coroner Hermann was notified to hold an inquesi, Mr. James Donahue, Superintendent of the Free Labor Bureau, Nos. 8 aud 10 Clinton place, makes by a woman | the followiog report of business for the week ending March 18: these there were 144 males # help required, 63; female, 5! for 54 maies and 464 te situations procured for the weel 518. Coroner Young yesterday concluded his investl- gation previously commenced in the case of Honora Leahey, the eblid three years of age who was killed oy the 10th inst., corner of Barrow and Fourth sireets, by beiug ran over by car 39 of the Bleecker Street Rativoad Company. The evidence showed chirence Was accidental, and a verdict % was rendered by the jury. The parents of deceased live at 186 We t Fourth street, id 495 females; maig 3 situations procured whoie nuuiber of ending March 18, Twenty-three bibative devotees of [reland’s tutelar saint, among Whom were Lwo full-Liooded Teutous, were brought before Judge Scott yesterday morning. a friend of hers—named Mary Lone, who lived on | The magistrate gave the geutiemen a severe repri- 63 West Houston street, and, | mand for being so careless d, made inquiries of other | drowning of the shamroc 1 heir devouion to “the »" whereby they got drowned themselves, Afier receiviug coplous pro- talses of juture amendment he told them to **go ther ways in peace; their sing would be torgiven thoi, for they loved much.” George Shortell, a child three and a half years of age, while crossing Twenty-cighth street, near Sec. ond avenue, yesterday afternoon, In advance of & team of horses attached to @ heavy truck, was struck by one of the horses and knocked under the wheel, which passed over his body, causing 1 from which death ensued in a few minutes. mains were removed to the Morgue and Hermann notified to hold an inguest. The truck dviver was arrested and detained at the Twenty-tirst precinct police station to await the action of the Coroner. ‘Tie parents of ased live in Se re- streets. An audience of nearly seven hundred people as- sembled in the great nall of the Cooper Institute Catholic charch wil) be dedicated, an oration wiil | Yeslerlay evening to hear a lecture on ‘Work, Weather and Weaith,’? piar as the ‘ture was concerned the “work"’ was iedious—the “weather” was dry and as for the “wealth’'—well it was a free lecture. The lecturer, Mr. Hodgskin, seemed to please end interest his audience, aud ‘his remark, “rhe weather 18 fickle—more fickle even than a immensely. Bat when he said “Work only comimences when nian has learnt thal A bill prottoiting the use of | first question of civilization, laying by somethin: Re | fora rainy day,” the gall fishing inverests 1M | pegan to look drowsy aad d at six hundred present notevmee very muca interest in the lecturer's concluding remarks, AD FOR HE POOR OF BROOKLYN. Rey. Father Cassidy will deliver a lecture, entitied “Travels in Ireland,” in St. Mary’s Hall, Court street, Brooklyn, this evening. The proceeds are to be de- voted to the aid of the poor of the parish of the Star of the Sea, The arain upon the resources of tne | pe St. Vincent de Paul Society has beea very heavy, owing to the severity of the past season, and it is to be hoped the ataount realized by the sale of tickets for the lectare wilt be suiiicient to enable the ru vi ca by ibe lave | Charitable oficers of the society In question to con- al Bosrdot Wradeat Huan ee “* | tinne where Wie need of the rig greatest, ‘Tue 2 ful o Ml Jama’ ainw, Maes, on Pras | Well Known avitty of the ml an hoquen i age Sisione: Gara toes kilns fen ieee: nd’ iimbe brnkens | gentleman is suiicient guarantee of the fact Una the + wnu’a fourth man Was teriously iniureds theme will be fupely dealt with, during the past oroner | " r . 1 tne | Was not yesterday @ trace of the mdisposition whteh | » Pl ily « coustructlon. Mr. Floaey writes skilfully. on reconstructions The | marred er eiforts in tire oratorio last week, and. WO Jast cbapter is entitied “Tae Future Chuarch,’’ and |s | trust thatit shall never return again. ary from the pen of Dr, Haul, of Fifth avenue, With | and Brigaoll wei olnnuusdally das valve, and | hundred people at. | other houses | went, under the | per- | Mr, U. ©, Hill, the founder of the Philharmonte | The | monte and Aschenbroedel Societies, was nader the able direction of Herr Carl Bergmann and showed Beethoven's over- tare “emont? — wi: given with astonish- Ing vigor and precision, The ke may be said of the finale of the second part— Weber's overtare “Kuryanthe.” Miss Clara Louise Kellogg sang ‘aggio,”” trom Kossini's opera “Semiramide,” and cxrried oi the honors of the | evening. Her beautiful, ciear and ringing voice was Aut for | his voice too high, for he cannot do 1 without @ | + any body of an oMeial chara it somehow leaked out, aud all day yesterday it wag discussed by partes throughout the ety, In cons Kequence of this the only wonder 19 that the raik Was hill as suecessiul as th was, Superiutendent Kelse’s orders were that each captain should start out with every avallabla man in his preeinet at precisely Miteen minutes past uw and go for every den within reach; Gut Caplata M ary, of the Kighth, being somewhat TVO ANXIOUS IN THE MATTER, concert. on Started at ten Instead of the thine devignated, aud the result was that parties escaping bin rau w tid and carried the news, which, of ¥ blocked the game wherever the Whiten suffered least by net oureendi and Fifteenth, ag they, the places they were to “pull,” it securely volied and barred and th Upon “ AVING THE STATION HOUSE course, found 0 birds down. li Verdi, | Captain McCleary, at te head of his sqnad, marehe: up Prince street to Broadway, and then turned up Ulat thoroughfare towards iiouston street, As tha men passed vies on the street begin ASKS what's up clunations of “something's wrong here ! bave got them this ume! were heard on every hand, [a a few minute: Florence’s place, co! vor of Houston and Broadway i was capture’. Wit all the players, the dealer and 4% While & part of the oficers were vybody and everyting here the otnerg sect went for th VARIOUS OTHER ESTADLISHMENTS ' in the vicinity and scooped them ail, Not leas thant 400 persons, inciuding players and dealers, toget | with all the traps, were captured im this precine | alone, So wreat was the excitement along Broad< | way that it was almost impossible to pass murders | ers’ block, or the streets in that immediate Vicinity. Sen were seen running in every direction, CARRYING TH NEWS TO THE DENS } that were not yet captured, and confusion worsd confounded reigned supreme, y In the Twenty-first precinct about x risoners were captured in some tive or six establishments, Joe Gleason’s place, 615 Third avenue, was scooped, and here dity persons, tcluding the dealer and all his implements, were captured, At 220 wast ‘Thirty~ fourth street ‘i THIRIY PRISONERS WERP GOT, and here, too, the dealer and the Lmpiements aw® the money were captured. Corner of Tweatie: sircet and Eighth avenue thirty-five persons we hand ln; at 64 Bowery twenty-live were caught; at 92 Chatham street tuirty-flve mora were captured, and, in fact, the pull wae successful everywaere save in the — precine! above mentioned, and to say that the sports med amazed, that they were thrown into a state of utte contusion, does hot half express the situa‘ion o! alfairs between the hours of ten and eleven o'clocig last night. Not ouly were professional gamblers arrested but bank clerks, 5 HACK KEEPERS, LAWYERS, MERCHANT, and, ta fact, men im ail stations of hie wer@ found trying thew luck at the little game, aud all were alike — carried off tgnowil. niously between a file of blue coats and bra» buttons and were furnished with Iree lodgings the various station houses, While the “sport” wi going on Superintendent Keiso was in lus oMce at headquarters receiving despatches from the differs ent precincts, and to say that he was disgusted « the partial failure of the scheme conveys but a fatn! Ifea ot his feelings. He was confident of caprurin not less than 3,000 prisoners, aud instead of this the. did not get upwards of 800, ; As soon 44 the prisoners wero got within the stad tion houses and the news had spread around tha city parties who had friends among the rea fo nates, or Who supposed they had, made a break for ue different station houses, and literally besteged them, Every lady wanted to get inside to see he brother, father, husbaud, man or friend, and ii the scene that ensued the HkRALD rter div not take a hand. All hands commenced growlingg cursing and swearing i a most trightiul manner, and ere long A GENERAL FREE FIGHT : was going on, to quell which the police had thew bands full. Heads were punched, eyes wera blackened = and uged, shins vere kickedy toes were mashed snd pocketbooks few ground in wonderful coafusion. It was indeed a huge ume for the light-fingered gentry, who wer: not slow In availing them-eives of ine opportunity and so rich a harvest has noc beea gathered by thi for many a day. 4 Until ater one o'clock the Metropolitan Hotell and vicinity was ti as great confusion at was ever witnessed in any single lve ih ths city. To ebtau tn eutrance utterly Impossible, for the crowd swayed and backwards and ‘orwards through wat td the street, cursing like inad and making the uight most ro, hideous, For some reason unexplaine| to the res porters police oficers were placed at the eatranca and for a tine would not allow a soul to enter tung building. This again was the occasion of 4 FRESH OUTBURSTS OF PROFANITY, 4 and the police, the Superintendent and every andy er Wito chanced to bat anywhere around were avased In real old ting lashion Superintendent Kelso is deserving of tho greatesti praise and ¢.edit for the way la waieh hep! one he whole aifutr, and thatit not a complete suce sis due vot at ail to hin, bat to Captain M Cleary, of the Kighth precinct, who, as stated above, was In quite too big aliury. Had he waited unul THE PROPER HOUR FOR STARTING, and then shows balf as much zeal in carrying out thal plan in concert with the otter 2 streeti of New York city would have Cra a cleaned of all gamblers for at least a couple of dayne But let these blacklegs beware; for Kelso will t ; the last one of them, if suck w thing 1s 5 Applications for employment, 629; of | #¢eoutplishment, D i | give up the game this way, but will follow the from house to house until he vids the ATTEMPTED BANK ROSBERY, Bold Attempt to Rob the First National Dank of Ladiaon, Pa. Prrrseure, March 18, 1871. At eleven o'clock last nizht a telegraph operator, at Indiana, Pa., was entering his omee, which Is ing the same bullding with the First National Bank, when he was attacked by jour men with blackened! faces, who knocked him down, dragged him inte the bunk, gagged and handeatted hin. One of tug men stood over him with @ revolver while the other undertook to break open the safe, but soon becomes ing alarmed left the premises without effecting their purpose, They got no money excepting eighty dol- Jars, which they took from the operator, Who wag found at five o'clock this morning, badly injured. He deseribes one of the men as a large, muscular Irishman, but is unabie to describe the thera, THE EXFORCEMENT ACT. Vhe Virst Case In Alabama Cuder the Exe forcement Act. Monrconeny, March 18, 1871. ‘Shere was bronght before Judge Busteed, o1 the Uplited States Court, to.day 2 case involving the En- forcement act of Congress. He ueld that ander the act in all cases where there was complatat of at- tempt by two or more persons to deprive any one of auy right guaranteed by the constitution and laws of the United States that federal courts had exeln< sive ‘urisdiction, aud that »tace courts were divested, Of jurtsdicuon. THE BOSTON, HASTFOSD AND EAiE RAILADAD. Bostox, March 18, ISTL. The frst mecting of the creditors of tne Boston, Hartiord and Erie Railroad was held to-day, sowe fifty creditors being present. They elected for as- signees Judge Charles 5. Bradiey, of Providences Mayor Charles R. Chapman, of Hartford, and Georg M. Barnard, of Boston. Anotiver meeting of creditons as to be held in Hartford on Mona EUROPEAN MARKETS. ne ° LoxDON MONEY Mankrr.—Lowpon, March 181300 M.—-Consols closed at ¥2s_ for money and 92 a 924 for the new count, American securities easier; five-twenty bonds, M24 + 1385, Old, $434 5 1887, do., GU. ; ten-(orties, 89. Erie Rati- Way spares, 13.4; Tilinols Central, Vivig; Atlantio and Gremgy. eatern, . FuANKFORT Bourst—Frankrovn, March 1?—Eve United States Gvetwenty bonds closed at 06% for We anh LAWERPOOL, March facie. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKRT. Be The cotton market ciosed dull aud eas Uplands, Tad. Tad. middling Vrieans, 7 euies of the day have veea 10. (00 bales, fay pecuiation. Stock ‘01,000, Of which i6,0 ‘is with American cotton carg day the steamer Virxinia, trom New Jay steamer Kulssia, from New York, with 910¢ BREADSTUEYS Annee Lr eenoond 9d. per bbl. for Weatert VERPOOL Mareh 18—1:0 U', al. LAVFRPOOL PROVISIONS MARKET. —Liverroot, Marck. P.M. —Pork, is. pex bh ira prime mess. Y Lryexvool PRODUCE Mar Lavenvoot, Maveb 18—< 1:30 0. M.—Spirite of tarpentine, Jss. per ew, March 18--(io. Mnaeed M.—Flour, 9 Lox box PRODUCE MARKET =O ON, a fs, pes cwt. fur Amecloan red Ba £58 We. per ton. -