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4 Knowteder Marniah grounds for inquiry. The name ot the Untied States mest not be permitied to be tiy-blown abroad. We cannot be arraigned st the bar of other nations without inquiry and an attempt to relleve ourselves from suspicion, Task only for inquiry. The Senator from Indians endeavors to drive me into some aliegation against some Individual or somebody. He will not succeed. 1 content twit! standing on the facts as they are in evidence —facia which cannot be questioned, and which, whatever may be the re- it, will fry, “Mr. ‘Summer then discussed nt CONGRESS. fhe Alleged Sale of Arms to the French During the Franco-Prussian War. LINGHUYSN, rep.) Of N. J., read trot - ble the paragraph which ates that it appears a Nga munteations previously mentioned that one Thomas Rich- ardson was the known attorney of Remington & Son, and por Ho sap where, in those communications, that tot appeared. ‘An Investigation Demanded by | ‘Nr:BoxNen anid ne understood tt was a well known fact that Kichardson was their agent: but he did not know that it Senator Sumner. appeared in the communications referred to. PRELINGHUYBEN—Then the preamble is i that fact, and I Uuink it is the most important tact stated in @ preatn Mr, SUMNER—I understood that, in point of fact, Richard- son was and 18 the attorney of meniaboe poo Rie Aha for him in France, Mr, Sumner, in conclusion, argued that i was the duty of pur goverameas to have made careful !n- qa ns were +o whom they sold arms, so as not to run the riak of violating our obitgation as nn neutral Power, Mr. WILSON, chairman of the Committee on Military Af- fairs, telt called upon by bis sense of duty to the War le- artment to make & brief explanation, He was now, $151,000,000 Worth of War Mate- , rial Disposed of Since 1865. shy wrong had Yoon comunited nuts matter wi Several Bills for the Construction of New Post Office Buildings Passed in the House, ty cont of whiol uad been’ faithtully: accountod for and ss paid into the Treasury. As to the alleged sate of arms to ne, French government, he was ‘wuthorized to, 1a or ‘SENATOR WILSON’S EXPLANATION wounitton vaiue of millions of — dollars, horized the Secretary of War to dis The sales commenced in 1565 and continued until 1871. &e,, sold by the government from the Ist of April, unonated to #151,026,142 81, our government never sold dollar's SENATE. worth “to thar government or to any man whom they WASUINGTON, Feb. 14, 1872. | Knew to. be it The governinent ut the time of the nt. fale wo Richardson had ho kuowledge that he was the agent, counsel or attorney of, or in any way connected with, Re ington & Son, Aato the suspicions expressed by the Frenc Assembly, it should be remembered that these purchases were made mostly by the Gambetta goverament, and that the existing French government was hostile to those men and trying to cast impntations upon them, Ir. HanLAN. made # einiilar statement, and said that the governinent had no reason to suspect Remington é Son to be acting for the French government, Mr, ConKLING coufirmed this, saying that Mr. Remington, and his futher before him, and his brothers, had long been known as very extensive’ manufacturers and purchasers of arms, and bai dealt in them for years, not with France Dut with many other and more disthnt nations; and if BILLA REPORTED, Mr. GOLF, (rep.) of Cul. from the Committee on Appro- priations, reported the Indian Appropriation bili, with amendments, Mr. TRUMBULL, (rep.) of fl, trom the Judiciary Com- ittee, reported without amendment Mr, Conkling’s bill re- ting to peremptory challenges in capital cases ALLS INTRODUCED. _. By Mr. Osporng, (rep.) of Fla, rovide for the protec- jon of the navisable waters of the United Siates from ob- truction and damage, By Mr. KELLOGG, (rep.) of La.—To relinquish tho title of | al en sh ved States to certal ur siana; to e: this invest! jon should de ordered it wou'd be shown that it ates 10 certain, lands In Lousiana; to eatend | they hat sold arms extensively at honve and In torelg in Louis to aid in the removal of tne fait from the | Countries long before the Franco-Prussiait war broke out, nd wie ie was raging ana alter ity close. He mentioned (AE ALLEGED MANUFACTURE 0) mama this fact to show that our government was in no. Reuse upon i Tx GOVERNMENT WON a Goe THPFRENOH | ig euard in respect to those gentlemen, and was not dealing with them as the agents or fflends ot france of of auybocy Mr, SUMNER, (rep.) of Mass., announced that he intended call up bis resolution providing for a special committer to Investigate the alleced manufacture ot arms for the French the workshops of the United states, Mr. CONKLING, (rep.) of N. Y., said they were very anzious to have that resolution discussed and disposed of, Mr, SUERMAN, (rep.) of Ohio, suid the resolution would Mead to a political debate, anu he appealed to the Senate not ito be diverted from the practical business before it. If the ‘enator (Mr. Sumn¢r) had been content to omit bis long pre ble and offer a simple resolution of inquiry ft mignt be assed without debate; but this preamble and resolution ust necessarily give rise to along poililcal debate. ‘Mr. SUMNER said the preamble of which Mr. Sherman plained was mainly documentary. He had heard com- laints that former resolutions o: {nquiry had no foundation, nd, therefore, he had chosen to accompany the resoiution Je showing that {twas founded on something. he facts set forth had given rise to grave suspicions and ad already arrested the attention of a foreign power. Mr. SUREMAN objected to Mr. Sumner discussing tho erits of the resolution before it was taken up. Mr. SUMNER said he was not doing so, and the Vice Presi- jent decivied that he was in order ‘Mr ANTHONY, (rep.) of R. I., objected to taking up the olution until the Appropriation bill should be disposed of, CONKLING said it was not for the importance of the solution that he wished to have it taken up at once, but on count of its peculiar character, which the rules would not rmit him properly to describe. He would, how: er, suppose a case—the introduction of a ‘rexolu- jon’ casting gross and hateful aspersions even upon @ Senate, and not, as this one vid, upon the American gov- ment and the American name; and he would say to the ator from Rhode Island (Mr, Anthony) that in such @ he would insist on the immediate consideration of the olution, even if hundred appropriation biils were wait. ig. So he wunted this resolution disposed of, beca ee ot the Whole on the Stace of the Union, where mem- 2 imputations and statements accompanying It, gr bers could have the opportunity of expressing their views on he believed them to be. it, ‘The bill was ao revered. Viok PRESIDENT said Mr. Conkling was discussing %W POST OFFIOE AND CUSTOM HOUSE BUILDINGS. 6 merits of the resolution. Mr, TyNex, (rep.) of Ind,, from the Committee on Public Mr. CONKLING said he would withdraw that part of his | Butldings and Grounds, reported # bill for the construction else, Without acting on the resolution the Senate, on motion of PRELINGHUYSEN, adjourned at ten mibutes past four HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, WASHINGTON, Feb. 14, 1872. Mr. CROOKER, member elect from Massachusetts, in place of Mr. Washburn, resigned, appeared and took the outh of oillce. SALES OF MATERIAL BY THE NAVY DEPARTMENT, Mr. Brox, (dew.) of Ky., asked leave to offer a resolution calling for information as to the sales of material by the Navy Department since J uife, 1805, and the disposition made of the proceeds, Mr. BUILER, (rep.) of Mass., objected. PETITIONS, Mr. L. MYERS, (rep.) of Pa. from 267 cigar makers of the Third dist for increased duty on imported ciga: from 42! members of the U piversal sage of an amendment repealing the stitution, tor the gradual avolition of the army and navy, and ig that the foreigu Powers be invited to join in & gen- rmament and a system of international arbitration. THE DUTIES ON TEA AND COFPRE. Mr, FINKELNUURG, (rep.) of Mo., from the Committee of Ways aod Means, reported a bill to repeal the existing autics on tea and coffee, and said that it was reported in obedience to the order of the House, but thata majority of the com- mittee were adverse to the passing of the oll, and that he himself was o: that majority. He reported the bill without commendation, and moved {ts reference to the Com- presented a petition rict of Pennsylvania marks. (Laughter.) He was determined, however, that | of an addition to the Post Ollie Bullding at Invianapolls, ut ir. Sumner should not be aliowe: to lay ove siie of this | a cost not exceeding $100,000, and tor the purchase of addi- westion before the country unac d by the other, | tional ground adjoining the site. Passe herefore, it the Senate take up this resolution ft must be | Mx. PLA, (rep.) of Va., from the same committeo, re- ‘epared for a fuil discussion, Ported » bil or the construction of Fost Uice and Custom The resolution was taken up and Mr. SUMNER addressed | Housr, building at Hartford, Conn, at a coal not exceeding @ Senate, The subject, he said. was interesting | 40,00. Passed, id important in “two aspects—as it ns | Me. TYNER, from the same committee, reported a hill for urselves “and as it concerned — foreign the purchase of a site for a yovernment building at Cincin- It must unite in a desire to redeem our | nats, at.a cost not exceeding sino, Passed, juntry from suspicion, especially suspicion of moral ob- | Mr. FARWELL, ‘rey.) of Ill., from the same committee, re- iquity. He would speak not of med, but of facts, and if any- | ported a bill for the erection of a government butlding to iy should be pointed at by the sintement he was about to | Quincy, Ill, at a cost not exceeding $150,000, the site to be he fault of the facta and not bis, He had | donated by the city. ject with great reluctance and after | — The bill was opposed by Merars. Garfield, Dawes, W. R. delay. The main facts had been bro ohis knowl- | Roberts and Cox, and was advocated by Messrs. Hawley, fe be‘ore Christmas; Dut be ad postponed bringing tnem | Yiatt and otuer members, a nto the Senate because he knew they been | Mr. DAWES, (rep.), of Mass. appealed to the Honse to aid before the President and Secretary of | pause before passing this bil. He had no objection to bad reason to believe’ that | Quincy, which had as meritorious a claim as any other town ar, and he (they wrould institute an inquiry. They had not done | of the same sizo; but was Congress to inaugurate a hundred Be, jowever; but the Secretary of War had made to the | of such buildings and fasten the cost on the Treasury, or jouse of Representatives a report upon this subject. The | ghould it not confine itself to cases where the Post Otlice, wharacter of that report would appear as he procecded, and torn House and United States Courts combined to render The Senate would judge whether it did not fall under some of | » government buliding necessary ? Pecos which “attached to the whole transaction. In | “Alter further discussion, Mr. HOLMAN, (dem.), of Ind., he must Introduce two characters’ | ay the bill on the table. Negatived by yeas 79, The bill went over without further action, ARMY APPROPRIATION BILL. rep.) of Pa., from the Committee on Appro- ed ine Army Appropriation. bill which was Jorder for Tuesday next, The blil appropri- 08, t Samuci Rei ad been accused of fraud, \ of Remingion, | Who was authentica ed ench courts by certificate from our Secretary of War. ‘At the expiration of the morning hour the Legislative Ap- Propriation bil came up as unfintshed business. re TRU noved to v: Bussion of Mr. Sumner's resolution. Mr. SHERMAN again appealed to the majority of the nate not to aliow themselves to be drawn it i levate by taking up this resolution. If the ot be present. He warned ihe ma jority for them to permit thei rangling, politic: Mr. BOK offered his resolution of inquiry ae’ to the sale of naval materials since June, 1865, and it was adopted. POSE OFFICE DEVICIENOY AND PENSION APPROPRIA- TIONS BILE e amendments to the Post Office Deficiency bill Pension AppropFiauion bil were taken up and curred in, The House then, at two it and continue the dis- | The Seni into @ ery time Liey choowe to wave a | Wi d ting in their { body knew that there was no | jection to any 1 y into this matter; but the Benate ought to object to this attempt to getup apoitical | secretary of Mebate in advance upon alleged facts uot yer gated, | oficial would ish the navy in the affections of the tatty, LIPTON. (rep) of Nev. reminded hr, Sherman of the | people. He condemned the aystem of bureaucracy and ‘storm which greeted the tactics of those who opposed the | favoritism which bad until recently prevailed in the ‘Fesolution for the inquuy at New York, and said the real | Nayy Department, and read from @ letter of the ing this one wa \ seithad a pre- | commander of the Kearsarge, complaining of the system se it propo! maniv 10- |\an/ saying that he bad ceased to expect any attention to be majority | paid to any reauest of his, and chiefly because those who had litte | controlled affairs there id not for that he bad sunk the P. M., went into Committee of the ia the chair, on PON’ BIL. zh compliment to the xpressed his belief that that pet Alabama. tary of the Navy, however, was fast breaking v system. Mr. SARGENT, (vep,) of Cal, replied to the strictures and cbarges liad Lapel by Mr. beck in reference to the sale | of old material of tke navy, and said that the total amount stak hens, aud he did | received {rom that source Yor the last two years had gone ee oe een ee her (or the adiniu- | jnto the Treasury, and had not been used in appropriations. stration or the great repuviican party anywhere. | Ihe | The total amouit received from that source was less than @ eople vere Dow more roused than ever before against | million dollars. He also replied to and contradicted eome of Ben On Reraeee: ith ieeeie the statements made by Mr, Morgan yesterday in reference Miia ac Inte when tb © ; to the expenses of the Indian Department, ee ELE Mr. NicLAack, (dem,) of Ind., commended the economy of yo. The people undersood It all and were thn Comuiteee Gh Roprecpiasiie moved by anything done ip Congre: 0 The discussion was conttaued by Messrs. Coughlan, Beck, Sargent, Cooner and Cox. The latter condemned the gov- {he had no power to avoid it, — ernment for its lack of apirtt, as well as tor the weakness of Jus government, and reaching even w a member of the Cabi- | tom which had enobled the democratie sdministratlon in the et, If net higher. le believed there was nothing in 1t—that he nmere blank cartridge: but be knew very well tatit | geftggcemuiiice ten proceeded to consider eee z , (rep.) of full investigation of this sul Would injure the administer Mistakes might have been Pommitted, but the people were generous and charitable and Always ceady to forgive mistakes of th i, and did not fear that it no. | Ind., was ready to vote upon the | or Willam L, Marcy. apo Etre re canara aenaeatene ire rt. HinBARD, (dem.).of N. H, moved an amendment ‘hat good reason, the refusal would be mae the basis for | providing against the employment of lsborers in the navy ¢ Seuate had better, there- | yaras for polittcal motives, and against their being subjected to pohtical influences, th esers. BANKS and HALE opposed the amenament as one speech remar! g of “our adversa: that wi ey, nia nt aie 4 t a Mr. SLOOUM (dem. ) o! « Bar jt were unnecessary in a! alluded to the Senator from | the New England navy yards it was certainiy necessary in ‘ " r), who Athiapream- | Brooklyn. ‘the Brooklyn Navy Yard was rcn by political Batter he he diltensen bed umbull tO S8¥ | influence, and if the House would give him a committee of whetner ne iad ever known a Senator moving an investiga- | Jon to insist on putting into a preamble the facts to be inves- gates Jnvestigaiion he woula agree to prove it, He would prove that the Secretary of the Navy himselt had gone there and exerted bimself against his (Mr, Slocum's) ‘re-election to Congress and that gangs of laborers, were put on the pay roll who did not do a day's work in the Navy Yard, simply for political purposes. | ME "BANKS said It was not necessary to approve ever ~ | thing done in New York-(ianghter)—but he could \y ine Senator | necessity for this amendment in regard to the Massachusetts N d. n ads rag 4 t Mr, BU | bard's amendment a | men atthe navy yards sha! RUMBULL replied that the basis of the proposed ex- public, But what etd the a by talking of ad rom Massact scMr 8 rersary of the Seuator trom UO) Nd the Senator expect a pollt jurely tits was not a political question, Lan, of Mass., moved as a substitate for Mr. Hib- ion that mechanice and laboring be selected by tne heads of the (Latighten Can there be ay mouive nader hecven tirocent: | varjous mechanical departments in the yarde, without tbe in Jug this resolution ‘now except to tnvite a. 1 AVES arference of any naval oflicer. unsion the substitute was adopted, dem.) of N. Y,, then moved to amend the substi- tute by interting Mr. Hibbard's amendment, slightiy modi- fed, and it was agreed to. YHE IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT JOHNSON, The committee rose, and the SPEAKER laid bofore the | House a message from the Senate reanesting to be furnish stimony taken before a committee of the House nt of Andrew Johnson, and a resolution divecting the Clerk to furnish such testimony and Inciana (Messrs. ad my friend Tam not. I gi 0 a political disc r calls the aave: anid the country was on "1 was Well Understood hominated, und ii was also | OF the I a political campai President was to be be exploded and blow General Grant and his friends out | IMPROVEMENT OF TUE COMMERCE OF THR BCHUYLKILL | RIVER. rep. {uiroduced a blll to improve of the Schuylkill River, Referred. the House ten, at twenty minutes past four P. M., ad- Dé the water, That bombshell bad been ins , Benate; the Senator (Mr. Sumner) uad just lighted the tuse, | 4,0 T,RELLEY he (Mr. Carpenter) was in favor oi having the explosion | ‘becom (Laughter) AT, rev.) of Pas welcomed the res | jonrned. susoe' pie fat we were to have in thie country genuine civil | ae eee Bezvice reform, Afew months since the country hac been JUDGE BEDFORD'S ENEMIES. startled by the'exvosure of the corruption an mui of te | ae ‘organization in New York whicu controlled the democratic Hy. Evet since the democratic leaders had veen ereting | Attempt to a Brooklyn Deputy ine We (eaters had been srekicg | Sheriff in Williamsburg<fle is Saved by wh odapd Peat sors hcp na | eoquetting with persous who were supposed to be disatlected foward tbe edministration, and this resolution was one ot | [2/™ Mastif. he results, He hoped the resolution would be passed and | arly yesterday morning, while Mr. Harmon Eg- ao nee gon wacthen tater up by @ vote ot ddyeanto17 | SC" Proprietor of a saloon at the corner of Fourth | and South rirst streets, Williamsburg, was retarn- alors opposed 9 | ing to his residence in Kent avenue, two unknown ere | rufians, who jay In wait at the corner of Rush if they had pro- | ¢,, ees toUaaad ik Cee Or thew, Teaving Be attne oa | Street and Bedtord avenue, seized and attempted to jeneral Grant, had undertaken to detend bim. He «Mr, | Rarrote him, He resiste 1 his assailants, but would umoer) was not going to make a political speech Undonbtedly have been overpowered by them at all, He would simply “speak Of the "pubic | were it not for the threatening attitude assnmed rvice with the view of relieving his country phy his faithiul rast’, ‘Apollo,’ a magnifi m suspicion. He would neither introduce the name of | cent animal, that acco Panne mn ane General Grant nor y allusion to him. He would | ccompanied = him, ‘he Jeave thal (Lauchter.) Hewas about | (OK seized one of the highwaymen and | threw him, and would probably have torn btm to Qo consider a practical question, which bad become import. H | Dleees bad not Mr, Lgegers prevented it. The rufians not through any action, bul by events both at home and road. a He then resinied and commented upon the facts | fed, but uot Velore they. were sufficiently recog: Sand allegations set sori in the preamble. Waen he spoke | nized for future identification, Bi the alleged discrevancy between te ‘sw paid bythe |” Nir, Hartnon Eggers is & quiet and inoffensive cit) Peer en ot Soe revesve’ by the United | zen, a Deputy Saerf of Brooklyn and interpreter’ Mr, MORTON Inguired whether he meant to sate that oar | 1 Justice Voorhies’ Court. He is a man of wealth, When assaulted had over one hugdred and fifty rs on his person. This 1g the titrd pudnignt outrage that has been | committed tn this part of the city during tne past month, and great alarm prevails among Ue citizens oi the neighborhood, THE LIEDERKRANZ BALL. ‘The great event of the bali season, the annual bal masgué of the Liederkranz Society, takes place at the Academy of Music to-night. ‘The programme ts ernment sold the arme to Remington, koowing him to be in agent of the Freocd government ‘Mr. SUMNER Said he bad made no such statement. Mr. MonTON—What is there in thi discrepancy unless the to have ft tinderstood that our goverument urine directly to the Frenes government through | wa agent? ff the French government purcbased | of Remington or other private parties those parties undoubt- | pily mave their profit over and above the price they paid our ent; and therefore the statement of the difference fof tue amount paid by the French government and thutre- ved by ours bas no importance or signiticance unless the nator means to have jt understood that our government oid the arms directly to the French government and then ailed lo nccount for two milous of the money received for and doll a. Voes the Senator mean to make that jrapreseion J +7 very interesting, aud will commence at ten o'clock, r. SUMNER—Liave J not stated again and again tha ri ‘ on D tian ove given | Ptince Carnival proposes to make this his most brit oy uo allegation I merely state fc age to KuApiclon, [ Mr. MoRTON-—I understand the Senat§r to say that the hhant levée, and has made vast preparations for it. He assumes the character of Jupiter, when that ircumstances be states amount merely ty a suspicion. | Worthy old deity came down from Olympus to listen TL cenire to pew Whether ry, e suspicion is sullcient | to the complaints ane grievances of nthe cate ni elaborate speech in advance of any proot dom, The dancing floor w! converted the facts on which even the suspiciun Sigel! ts to be cre- viel ES acent into a soulorical garde, and among the many queer animals will be seen Vox Quixore De Bergh and nis taivhiul squire, The demaud tor lickets Is greater than duriog vast seasons. ted. Mr. SUMNER—The Senator is trying to drive me into mak- ailega sou; but he shall not do ven the Seuatur must ao; ARMY INTELLIGENCE. Appointments Under the New Rogister at West Point. The new register for 1872 has made its appear- ance, It was anticipated by the very full and later register compiled expressly for the HERALD and published in our issue of January 31, Subjoined 1s @ corrected roster of the academic ana military staff of the West Point Academy, at which institu- tion there are 241 cadets, a superintendent, a com- Tandant, nine permanent professors, including me Sword master, with thirty-seven officers detalied from the army as assistant and acting assistant pro- fessors and instructors, two surgeons, an adjutant, @ quartermaster, a treasurer and a subalern in command of a company of engineers stationed at ‘the post, Superintendent ant Commandant—Colonel Thomas H. Ruger, Eiguteentn infantry. commandant of Cadets and Instructor of Tactics— Lieutenant Colonel Emory Upton, First artillery. Assistants—Captain Alexander Piper, Third artit- lery; Captain Joseph §. Coorad, Second infantry; Captain John fyan, Fourtn artillery; Captain Al- frea BE, Bates, Second cavalry; Lieutenant William S. Starring, Second artillery. Department of Drawing—Professor Robert A. Weir, N. A. Assistants—Lieutenant Edward H. Tot- ten, First artillery: Licutenant Charles A, Whipple, ‘Third artillery, Devartnent of Mathematics—Professor Albert Ei, Church, LL.D. Assistants—Lieutenant Jono P. Story, Jr., Fourth erpilery Lieutenant William F. Reynolds, Jr,, Firse artillery; Lieutenant John BE. Greer, Orduance department, Lieutenant Alpert H. Payson, Engiueers; Lieutenant Frank Heath, Third ariniery; Lieutenant Phitip M. Price, Jr., Second are tillery. Department of Chemistry, Minerology and Geol ogu—Professor Henry L, Kendrick, LL.D. Assis- lants—Lieutenant John Pitman, Jr. Ordnance De- partment; Lieutenant Samuel &, Tillman, Fourth artillery. Department of Spanish—Protessor Patrice de Jaton, Assistant—Lieutenant James O'Hara, Third artillery. Department of Natural and Experimental Fhitos- ophy—Proleasor Peter $8, Michie, Assistants—Lieu- tenant Jumes Mercur, Gugineers; Lieutenant Ed. ward S. Holden, Fourth arullery; Lieutenant Edgar W. Bass, Engineers. Department of French—Professor George L. An- drews. Assistants—Lieutenant George G. Gree! ough, Fourth artillery; Lieutenant Thomas H. Bar- ber, First artillery. Department of Ethics and Law—Chaplain and Professor John Forsyth, D. D. Assistant—Captain John S, Poland, Sixth infantry, 4 Department gf Civil and Military Engineering and Science af War—Protessor Junius B, Wheeler, As- sistants—Captain Garrett J. Lydecker, Eugineers; Lieutenant John ©. Mailery, Eugincers, 3 Instructor of Practical Muuary Engineering, Muitary Signats and Telegraphing—Captain Oswald H. Ernst, Engineers. Instructor of Ordnance and Science of Gunnery— Captain Stephen C, Lyford, Ordnance Department. Assistanf—Liqutenant James W. Reilly, Ordnance Department. Adjutant—Captain Robert H. Hall, Tenth infantry. ci Gelddpesiger ag Tully McCrea, Furst ar- tillery. Treasurer—Lieutenant James M. Marshall, Fourth artillery. Surgeon—Thomas A. McPariin; geon, Van Buren flubbard, Detachment of Enginecrs—Lieutenant Frederick A. Mahan, Engineers, commanding. Sword Master—Antoué Loren. Examination of Infantry Equipments. WASHINGTON, Feb. 14, 1872. The Board of oMicers to examine and report upon samples of infantry equipments submitted for in- spection by the Quartermaster General reconvened at the ofice of the Chief of Ordnance to-day, for the purpose of examining the samples previously recommended by it, aud prepared under the orders ol the Chiet of Ordnance, ana to decide upon the ‘one best catculated for trial as regards material, &c, Major A.J. Alexander, Kighta cavalry, 1s de- Assistant Sur- tailed as a member of tue Board, in place of Major O, A. Mack, relieved. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, WASHINGTON, Feb. 14, 1872. Assistant Surgeon George P. Bradley 1s ordered to the naval rendezvous at Boston; Assistant Surgeon Howard Smith has been detachea from the Naval Hospital at Waswington and ordered to Annapolis. ‘The Board:for the examination of the midship- man class of 1869, 1or promotion to ensigns, reports the following as their standing according to merit:— ©. P. Perkins, B, H. Buckingham, c. G. Bowman, W. P. Potter, G. B. Harber, John Garvin, E. H. Wi- ley, S. C. Paine, H. M. M. Richards, A. P. Osborn, J, B. Briggs, A. M. Thackara, N. 5. Mason, H, O, Hai dy, A. P, Nazro, 5. E, Bixler, W. W. Kimball, ©. Ry Brown, W. ?. Day, J. B. Hobson, J, ©. Wilson, E. A. Fields, James Franklin, U. R. Harris, W. A. Hadden, R. G. Davenport, E. B. Barry, ©. W. Rusciienverger, C. A, Bradbury, R. A. Breck, k. J. Berwind, H. Winsiow, W. H. Turner, F. s. Bassett, D. Bolles, P. Colvocoresses, J. P. Willis, W. Kellogg, N. . Houston, A. G. Berry, J. A. Norris, W. H. Driggs, N. J. Ky ich, T. S. Phelps, E. B. Delahay, ©. Rohrer, J. A. He Hickels, OC. R, Curtis, H, A. Blanchard, . Arthur, M. £. Hall, BE, H. #aunt, D. Stuart, D. A. Ma- hon, G. H. Moore, K, Niles, C. A. Clarke, J. 8. Coflin FE, 0. M. Farlane, J. W. Grayson, W. ow, H. Monahan, &. Mitchell, jeamers Congress and Wyoming. FORTRESS MONROF, Feb, 14, 1872, Passed out, United States steamer Congress, to join the European squadron. The United States steamer Wyoming arrived here from Norfolk this afternoon and will proceed on @ trial trip to- morrow. The's THE STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. Meeting in Albany—Excellent Condition of the SocietyElection of Officers. ALBANY, Feb. 14, 1872. ‘The State Agricultural Society was called to order by the President, Richard Deming, in the Assembly Chamber at half-past twelve o’clock to-day. Tne report of the Executive Committee was read. It shows there was during the past year an unusual drought, The wheat crop was large. Spring grains showed average crops. Corn was under the average. The hay crop was better than in 1870, but consid ered a light oue. The report shows the society to be in excellent condition. The town and county societies are also in good conditio On motion of Mr . the report was sccepted, LeTaer U. TucKER, Treasurer, submitted the fol- lowlg REPORT. Receipts for the year as iollow: Annnal memberships Lite memberships Miscellaneous sou State appropriation... State appropriation for entou State Fair ticket ofMice receipts Interest account,...... ‘Total receipts..... ‘ sees + $36,005 On hand, per report, February 8, 1s + 20,152 Credit, by payments for the year as follow: Premiums, &c., at winter meeting. Premiums of previous yea Salaries and clerk jure Incidentai expenses. POSIAZE. «06646 . Library apd museum.... Printing and stauionery. Entomological! and veterinary State Fair expenses. State Fair premiums. Erections and grounds,, . 15,358 Less subscriptions and retreshment rental, $11, 783—leaving & balance ol. Total payments... .......6 ...6 Cash in United States securities ruary, 1872, $29,525. ‘Jotai, $55,247. ‘On motion the report was accepted. General PATRICK referred to an alluston in the re- port of the Executive Committee to the death of several members of the society during the past year, and especialiy to that of William Kelly, to ‘Whose memory he paid a high tribute, and conciuded mS remarks by proposing ex- pressions of sorrow of the society for the loss of Mr. Kelly and reciting the services and counsel rendered by him notoniy to the society but to various other institutions, Mr. John stanton Gould, in seconding the resolutions, also spoke of the services rendered by the deceased vo the society as well as to other Institutions ana the people. Mr. Conger Jollowed in @ sisilar strain, and (ne resolutions were adopted. On motion the usual committee to nominate oficerssfor the ensuing year Was appointed, wit power to select, it they see fit, the place for holding the nextannval fair. “The committee, however, de cided to leave it to the Execuuve Committee to select the location. i ELECTION OF OFFICERS. The following omicers were elected:—President, Milo Ingulisve, of Washington county; First Vice President, Joon D. Wing, of New York; Second Vice Presiient, Edwin Thorne, of Dutchess; ‘Turd, Daniel Doncaster, of Albany; Fourth, Frank D. Curtis, of Saratoga; Fifth; James Geddes, of Onon- daga; Sixth, Alexander L. Devine, of Chemung; Seventh, Benjamin. Angel, of Livingston; Eighta, Win. H. Pendry, of Orleans; Corresponding Secretary, Thomas S. Harlson, of st Lawrence; Recording Secretary, William H. Bogart. of Cayuga; Treasurer, Luther H. ‘Tucker, Albany; Executive Committee— Harris Lewis, of Herkimer; J. W. Wadsworth, of Livingston; Adam Thayer, ‘Jr, nssiiaer; Wil- Ham M. Holmes, of Washington; Join 1. Oole, of Wayne; Josepa Juleaud, of Chenango; Wheeler H. Bristol, of Tioga; Rovert J. Swane, of Ontario, aed baad pg doh Church delivered his an nual address, and Ue newly elected officers ye installed. ee POLITICAL MOVEMENTS ARD VIEWS. Connecticut—Acceptance by Mr. Hubbard of the Cemocratic Nomination for Governor. HantrorD, Feb. 13, 1872. A, E, Bun, Ei DEAR Sin—I take occasion through you, as Chatr- man of the late Democratic Convention of this State, to say a word in regard to the nommation which the Convention has been pleased to confer upon me, ‘The honor, I need not say, came to me wholly un- solicited; I may also add, wholly unwished, Ihave no itch for office, This, however, shall now prevent me from accepting. Only let me add that, as I have not solicited tne nomination, so I shall not, by any of the too common arts and practices of the times, solicit an election: and this not because am careless of the political result or disdain the honor—very far irom it—but because such practices are against all my habits of ife ia the first place, and in the next aguinst all my convictions of propriety. If elected, therefore, it must be by une voluntary and unbought sufrages of my fellow citizens, Such must be my pee and course in the coming canvass, It may unis will be my Weakness asa candidate, Be it so. It cannot change my determination, I accept also the principles of liberal and con- servative democracy expressed in the platiorm of the Convention. ‘Ihe resolutions in the main touch the living issues o/ the day, and are wise and siates- manlike. Unless I deceive myself the great exl- gency of the times ts not alone the adopuon of just be of government in politics—of this there surely need enough and more than enough— but, what 1 of more consequence, MU pos- sible, @ purification of the morals of politics, These—bad enough to begin with and none too food at the best—have become tainted with an in- heritanee of evils consequent on the late civil war, evils waich have become terrivly aggravatey by the wantonness aud shameless corruption of the iong- continued and trresponsivle supremacy of @ single party in power. ‘These evils pervade vhe whole body poliuic, from the petty muntetpalities up to the suin- mits of the State. Legisiauon, which should ex- press the best morality and wisdom of the’ best men im the State, has fallen too largely into unclean hands and become perverted to the uses of per- sonal aggrandizement, Knavish rings and hired and corrupt combinations in the lobby. The civil administration of the government 13 full of fraud, bribery and pecuiation. it has come to be almost putrid, Witness the recent developments in New York, both in the State and federal service. And finaliy the judictal department—usually the last fortress to Jail, and fortunately in our own State sill clean and above reproach—has not escaped the general contagion. ‘These impeach. ments are harsh, Lknow. I shall be glad if they are undeserved, Where, now, !s the remedy for these evils? I answer:—In a general burying, ina general grave, of all dead issues and surviving prejudices, and in & league of good men against every torm of corrup- tion, both at the polis, Where it imiects and fester: and in office, where it nepotizes, takes giits anc steals, By the larger spread of popuiar education, without which universal suffrage will become a deadly curse, and wil prove here~as it has already proved in France twice over—a breeder of anarchy and rapine in the first place, and then, as a remedy for these, of milltary rule and Bonapartism. By a curtailment of the usurped powers of the general government. Jt will be found, as a general thing, that free governments are corrupt tn the direct rano of size and centralization, while tne liberties of the people decrease In @ corresponding ratio. And, as Mavolved in this—the restitution to the States— those smaller and more primitive democracies es- tablished by the faimers as barriers against centralism—of thelr just constituuional rights of self-government, freed irom every form of disiranchisement for political — offences, and 80, by consequence, from plundering carpet-baggers in oftice, as well as from federal interiereuce at the polls, no matter whether in the Shape of oficial patronage or custom house steal- ings or federal soldiery, By @ reformation of our excessive discriminating and inquisitorial systems of taxation, so that they shall better promote the economies of the revenue and the industries of the people, and shall not herealter tend to convert the taxpayer into @ perjurer ora cheat, And in con- nection wiiu this by aresumption of specie pay- ments, abolishing that false pretence, an irredeem- abie paper currency, the delay todo which is not only a duty postponed without cause, and a shame to our public credit, but tends to debauch the mor- als of trade and commerce, Finally, by asystem of purgation and civil ser- vice reform 1n its most comprehensive sense, em- bracing the most caustic remedies of prevention, discovery and punishment. In a word, by scourg- ing out of the places of public trust the Tweeds and Murphys of iraud and ropvery, and every other devil of evil-doing which possesses the body politic, The way out should be, as in the case of Tweed, with hue and cry into the crimmal courts, and not with plaudits aud honeyed commendations iuto the embraces of the Chief Executive. Let parties and partisans perish if need be, but let the the republic live ! With these few words of plain speaking I accept the nomination conterred, and commit my name to the fortunes of the canva: Tam, very respectiully, ¥ ur obedient servant, RD. HUBBARD. The tottiative-The Democratic New Hampshire Speaks. {From the Concord (N. ‘H.)—democravic—Patriot, Feb, 13.) The democracy are abead to-day; we have no shadow of doubt that if the election was to take place to-day Weston would be triumphantly elected. ‘The question is, can we hold our present advantage? We think we can, and we shall do it if our friends do the work they ought to do and can do. We start with a decided aavantage; we have no drags upon US, a8 Ollr Opponents Nave, We have a candidate who was the first choice of every man ot our party; @ man in whose integrity every voter has entire confivence, avd Whose fituess no one questions, And then we have no oficiai iniquites to apologize for, no national corruptions to gloss over. We come before the people literally “with a clean bill of neaith,” asking their support of measures and policy which they approve, and which their own present and future welfare imperatively demands. ‘The radicals, on the contrary, are weighted down, locally and nationally; they lave a candidate nomi- nated against the sober judgment of avery large Proportion of their own party—one whose chief ‘qualification is his supposed ability to control and bring Lo bis support the vast corporation power of the State. ‘Thousands of their party preferred another man, and many of them will not vote for nim. Then they have to carry the national administration and all its admit- ted corrupiions and rascalities. The people see that every vote for Straw 1s a vote for Grant— Not only # vote to endorse the Iniquities and frauds of the past and present, but a vote lo continue them Jor another four years, If the radicals carry this election it will be heralded throughout the land as “a Grant victory’? and wiil insure his renomination, This fact alone 1s enough to insure Straw’s deieat it it is properly placed before the people; for it is apparent to all that thousands of our opponents are opposed to Grant's re-election and will do nouhug knowingly to favor it. Hence we believe that as the case stands to-day We are ahead in the race, and whether we maintain our advantage to the end or fall behind depends en- urely upon the efforts to be put forth, the work to be done in the next four Weeks. Our Iriends know what they have to encounter—the army of office- holders “upon the stump and the larger army of corruptionisis in every nook and corner of the field; the vast power of incorporated wealth, and the no iess power. ful infucnce of national patronage. These must be met and overcome by direct appeals to the patri- otism and personal welfare of the people. The work to bé done is plainly po.nted our; the pubite mind must be kept upon the reai questions at issue. The people now see that their own best interests require @ reform in the administration of public affairs, and that no retorm can be obtaiaed without a change of men and of policy ja the administration of the gov- ernment. This great 1 must be kept constanuy before thein, ‘The aemocratic organization in every town shoul be perfected at once; that is where we have failed heretofore, and that 1s the great thing to be looked to now. Where that is completed, the victory 1s more than half won: without that, victory 1s im- possibie. Hence we urge our friends everywhere to periect their organization. And then with that harmonious and untiring work which they know so well how to perform, they are sure to wig a victory which will be more important, locally and nation- Sei than any ever achieved in this or any oiher Scate. THE STATEN ISLAND ELECTIONS. At the town elections on Staten Island yesterday the reform ticket swept the entire county. The foi- lowing are the candidates elected:— SUPERVISORS. Miadletown—A, C. Bradley, by 414 majority over S. R. Brick. Castietor by 15 majority over Richard Christopher. Nortnfleld—J, B. Hillyer, by 184 majority over J. i. Van Cllet, . woe J. Wood, by 252 majority over B. P. yinant. Southfielid—G. J. Greenfield, by 109 majority over D, Keeley, This gives to Richmond county an entire new Boara of Supervisors, ‘The other principal town oficers chosen are the following: r Middietown—Town Clerk, (. T. Voss; Justice, W. i. lens Assessor, Willian Lockman; Collector, J. D. Dix. ‘Castieton—Town Clerk, ©. B. A, Chilton; Assessor, M. Ww. Kennedy. Northfleld—Town Clerk, A. M. La Forge; Justic Thomas Saddler; Assessor, A. Crocheron; Collecto: A. Christopher, Westfield—Town Clerk, J. La Forge; Justice, 8, B. Halle; Assessor, J. U. Dissosway; Collector, H. LU. Seguine. Soutnfela—Town Clerk, §. Hornfager; Assessor, J, L. Garretson. RAILROAD AGENTS’ CONVENTION, Plausible Subject for Discussion. pt. Louis, Feb, 14, 1872. ‘The meeting of Western and Southern general passenger and ticket agents adiourned from Cul- Organ in D. Vermeule, F. McCarthy: Justice, Wheeler; Collector, v. L, Keenan; Justice, W, } Y, Wiluams; Collector, NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 15, 1872.-TRIPLE SHEET, cago some weeks ago was resumed’ at the Southern Hotel this afternoon. Nineteen Weatern roads were represented. The princ}, objects of the meeting are to discuss rates ait conoimusns and deters mine, if possible, some plan for the transportation of emigrants and colonies of people designing to setlle in the West, Nothing has been done yel ex- cept to appoint a committee to devise a plan for the above object ana the selection of Louisville as the place for holding the next general meeting. THE PEARL STREET “BUCKET HOUSE” HOMICIDE. Investigution Before Coroner Herrmau—Ver- dict Against McGlone—He Is Committed to the Tombs. Coroner Herrman yesterday morning investigated the Pearl street “bucket house” homicide, a report of which has heretofore appeared in the HERALD. Thomas Bell, whose death Hugh MoGlone was charged with causing, was a seafaring man, or very intemperate habits, was in the babit of “bumming’’ about Develin'’a “bucket house,” No. 477 Pearl street, and other similar resorts, and on Sunday, the 4th inst., it is charged that McGlone, without provocation, kicked and beat Bell tn such a manner as to cause his death. Subjoined will be found a report of the testimony adduced and the verdict of the jary:— James Gill, of 59 Mulberry street, deposed that on Sunday, the 4th inst., he was in Develin’s distillery, 477 Pearl street, when he saw the prisoner, Hugh MeGloue, who 1s a barkeeper, let a dog run out in the street for the purpose of fighting another dog in the street; the witness followed to see the fight, Dut it did not take place; witness advised McGlone to take the dog in, dnd just as he was doing so de- ceased came towards the distillery, and the prisoner remarked that he (sell) had kickea his dog and taken him away; prisoner repeated the remar! and immediately suruck deceased in the face with nis fst and knocked him down; prisoner then struck deceased while down, and then kicked nim repeatedly avout the head, face and boay; deceased exclatined, “Don’t Kill me;” witness then went away and returned in three hours and found deceased lying asieep in the same position he nad been knocked down; deceased and prisoner were intoxicated at the time of the alfray; deceased did not insult prisoner and did not strike Jolin Fitzgerald, keeping a place corner of Baxter and Worth streets, testified that on Sunday evening, the 4th inst, saw deceased with blood on his fa and he said né had been fighting with MvGlone; witness then gave deceased fifteen cents with wich he could pay nis lodgings at 94 Park street; while there he became sick and partially desirious, and the following day the police removed him to the Centre Street Hospital, Hugh McGlone, the accused, was then piaced on the stand and pee astatement, He said that de- ceased kicked him first, and then he (McGlone) struck him with bis open Hand and Knocked him down; did not strike deceased again and did not kick him; deceased came in the place where he (Mc- Glone) 1s bartender, “bumming” for drinks; before the witness Was accused of beating deceased he was arrested for petit larceny, on complaint of his sister, and locked up in the Tombs, Captain Kennedy, of the Sixth precinct, testified that upon questioning the prisoner about the assault he coniessed striking deceased three times with his fist, and he subsequent) made a similar confession to the Captain, ‘aptain Kennedy also stated that James Gill was an unwilling wituess, and said he did not wish to be mixed up in tue matter. John Beach, M. D., who made a post-mortem ex- amination on the body of Bell, testified as to the cause of death; after which Coroner Herrman sub- bie the case tothe jury, who rendered the fol- lowing VERDICT. “hat Thomas Bell, the deceased, came to nis death by compression of the brain, the result oi vio- lence 1nfiicted at the hands of Hugh McGlone, at 477 Pearl street, un the 4th of February, 1872," McGioue 13 twenty-five Male Ol age, born in Ire- land, and lives at 477 Pearl street. me pieaued not uilty, and Coroner Herrman committed him to the ‘ombs for trial, Deceased was thirty-eight years of age and born in Ireland. Gill was sent to tae House of Detention. Mr. Henry Develin, proprietor of tne disullery, de- sires to state that he was in Norfolk, Va., at the time of the occurrence, aud left McGioue in charge of the business at home during his absence, believ- ing that he would keep sober ard manage it with judgment and discretion, THE JERSZY CITY HOMICIDE, of the Trial—Harnoed Found Guilty of Manslaughter. The trial of Officer Charles Harned for the murder of Henry Nolte was continued at Jersey City yester- day morning. Mr. Winfield, counsel for the prisoner, summed up the case for the defence, putting forth the theory that Harned fired the first and second shots but that the third shot, which, he contended, was that wich killed Nolte, was fired by the young man who ran away after striking Mrs, Gath, wife of the proprietor of the lager beer saloon. District Attorney GARRETSON replied for the State and d.sposed of ‘the theory of the defence very ertectively, He said that such a theory was the outgrowth of counse!’s ingenuity, and astonished the prisoner himself, who never ior a moment aoubted that he killed Noite. Judge BepLE then charged the jury. He defined the first and second degrees of mur- Conclusion der, and reminded the jury that this was a case of circumstantial evidence, and that the verdict might be murder in the first or second degree, manslaughter or acquittal. There are but two degrees of murder, and but one of manslaughter. Even if the jury found that Harned was acting ia an omectal capacity he had no right to shoot Nolte. A man whose offence ts only a mis- demeanor must not forfeit his life if he endeavors toescape. It were better in such a case that the man should escape than that life should be imper- illea. ‘The jury retired, and after being absent one hour and ahuaif returned into Court with a verdict of guilty of mausiaughter. The prisoner was there- upon remanded for sentence. The punishment for this offence 18 imprisonment for a term not exceed- ing ten years. THE PORT MORRIS MURDER. The Case Closed Yesterday. Yesterday the counsel for the State and the de- fence “‘sammed up” in the Grinder murder case, at Morristown, N. J. The announcement that the jury would render their verdict during the afteraoon drew a vast multitude of people to the court cham- ber. Among them were many residents of Port Morris, the scene of the tragic affair. They with one accord, strange as it may seem, were in favor of Grinder’s acquittal, although the man bears an unenviable reputation in that village. When brougnt into the court room Grinder looked pale and sat with his eyes cast down throughout the ar- gument, He satnext to Mr. Henry C, Pitney, senior counsel for the defence, and at intervals twitched the latter gentieman’s coat and whispered in his ear suggestions as to his case. The deience based their argument for acquittal on the grounds tnat their client did not wilfully shoot Foster, but wnat tv was an accident and was brought about by the ac- ton of the deceased, Who clutohed the revolver while yet in Grinder’s nand and, caused the explo- sion, The testimony of some three or four wit- nesses were cited in support of this theory. The counsel for the prosecution, Mr. Alfred Mills, betan his argument at eleven o’clock and closed at three P.M, The accused stood mdicted for murder in the first degree. This Mr. Miils discovered he could not properly sustain, as it was not proven that Grinder had _ premedi- tated the crime. Accordingly he ceased to prosecute on that count, and pressed his conviction on the charge of murder in the second degree. He explained the position of the parties at the time of the shooting, and illustrated by demonstrations the utter impossibility and faisity of the notion that Foster received his death in the manner as alleged by the defence, Before Judge Dalrymple delivered his charge to the jury Mr. Pitney arose and requested that the Judge would charge “that if the jury hac any rea- sonable doubt as to the crime they must acquit the defendant and allow no compromise.” Upon the conclusion of the counselior’s remarks Judge Dalrymple preceeded to read his charge. 11s delivery was listened to with profound attention, none bemg moro interested than Grinder, wuo airained to catch every word. The Court defined to the jurors the imterpretation of the crimes of mar- der in the second degree, mansiaugnter and assanit and battery, f the three ob witch might be against the prisoner. He rapidly over the testimony of both sides, and instructed the twelve men on various points, Among them was one upon which he dweit with considerable emphasis, ‘Ihis ‘was, that if they believed the story of Grinder him- seit, taking Into consideration his situation and his interest in the case, then they were to render a ver- dict of ‘not guilty.’ The charge was an ableone and gave general satisiaction, both to the prosecu- tion aud the defence. At four o'clock the jury re- tired and had not given thelr verdict when our re porter le!t at seven o'clock. RAILROAD ACCIDENT. Two Trains Completely Wrecked and a Man Badly Injured. MADISON, Wis, Feb, 14, 187% A railroad aceldent occurred about @ mile north of Evansville, Wis, on the Chicago and Norti- western Railroad, yesterday afternoon, between & passenger train coming north and a freight gong South. Both engines and two or three cars were badly wrecked. The only person badly injured was Gen- eral Barker, an express messenger. His Haron are bad, but not serlous, The conductor of a passenger train had orders to wait at Bvaevil 4 unuil the arrival of the freight train, but forgo! pul orders, and the accident was the consequence. id wreck’ wiit be eleared away by noon t-day, and the trains will run as usual MUSIC AND THE DRAMA. Footlight Finshes. The Nilsson Opera Company commence 4 twe Weeks’ season in Boston on Monday. “Zamps" will be given this evening at the Brook- lyn Academy of Music, with Santiey and the Parepa- Rosa Troupe in the cast, Mr. W. J, Hill announces a benefit concert at Steinway Hall on Tuesday next, at which Miss Ster- ling and other artists will appear, Aimée and the Florences are in Pittsburg, the former commence ng her season there to-nignt; and Mrs. Moulton sings for the smoky citizens om Monday. Zimmerman has already commenced the an- Desnoemane cs Mrs. 4000 aoe. engagement at Niblo’s, notwithstan rapturous reception accorded to the goat, ‘and shake. m Miss Kellogg, Mrs. Gulager and other vocalists will sing at Steinway Hall on Monday, for the benef of the schools in India, under the direction of the ladies of St. Paui’s Methodist Episcopal church, Davis, the ventriloquist, and Fisk, the comedian, Will shortly reappear at the Union Square Theatre. “The Veteran’? pone to eclipse ‘John Garth’ in popularity, and will likely boid the boaras at Wallack’s for months to come. On this night week Mr, Daly takes his company te Philadelphia, where a matinée of ‘Divorce’ wul be given at the Walnut Street Theatre, and roturna ‘With his arcists in the evening in time to give we 176th performance of that now famous play at the Filth Avenue Theatre, The Fabbri German Opera Company appear next ‘week at the Grand Opera House, The following is the programme:—Monday, “Merry Wives of Wind- sor;” Tuesday, “L’Africain Wednesday, “Ivan. hoe; Thursday, “Der Freischutz;” Friday, “von Juan;’? Saturday matinége, “Joseph im Kgypt;!? Saturday evening, ‘Faust.’ Mule. Fernande Tedesca, the charming young vio- linist, 18 engaged to appear at the concerts at Asse- ciation Hall vowards the end of the present month, Mile. Teaesca, Quring the short time she has been om the stage, has evinced a rare talent, and her perse- verance 1n study has resulted in bringing her style Of playing to a high standard of merit, Mr. G, L. Fox warns the public against certain Irresponsible parties who are travelling turough the country giving representations of whav tney call “Fox’s Humpty Duimpty,’? the fact being that they have appropriated ms name and the title of his pan- tomime without any authority. There 1s not the slightest resemblance between these pantomimes and the original, now playing at the Ulympic, A San rraacisco paper thus speaks of Mme, Veneta, Who was formerly a member of Seebach’s company :—‘'Mme. Veneta, the German actress, made her rst appearance to Knglish tragedy at the Ualt- fornia Treatre, giving “Lady Macbeth” with genuing fire and true appreciation of tne part. Her accent 1s wonderfully correct, and with a little experience she may expect to rank with Fecnter as an Engle artist.” Miss Vienna Demorest sang recently at Eimira, and a local critic thus speaks of her:—*Possessing a voice of remarkable trueness, of excellent com- pass, In quality sweet and melodious, Miss Demo- rest Sings with unusual ease and expression, 60 much so as to make her déout in thts city a brilliant success, ‘The opening piece, ‘Reguava Nel Stlem aio,’ Was @ dificult operatic selection, whtch wee admirably rendered, and evidenced a high state cultivation already attained. Une of tae most de- licious musical treats of the evening was her ‘Goat Bells’—echo song—in which the sweetness of her voice was well evinced. In response to an encore Miss Demorest charmingly sang a damty ballad, which was heartily appiauded.?’ A correspondent, writing from Cincinnati last week, says avout Wachtel ‘For Tuesday, the opening night, ‘Ii Trovatore’ was given and, not- withstanding tt had beea sung the week belore by, the Nilsson troupe, drew a fine house, and Wachtel made what may be fairly termed a prodigious bit. On Wednesday night the ‘Postillion of Lonjumeaa! attracted provably the largest audience ever concen- trated in Mozart Hall, which ts the most capacious in the city; and this, too, in the face of the fuot that the entire Nilsson troupe were singing at Pike's 1n& potpourri programme. ‘The receipis exceeded $6,000, The support given has been quite good, by Madame Licutmay, Miss Canissa, Miss Krause, Messrs. Hermans, Vierling, Franosch and @ very fair orchestra and strong chorus.” Driftings Abroad. Mme. Patt! 1s engaged to give twenty represe nta» tions in Vienna atthe close of her St. Petersburg engagement. So says Ze Ménéstrel, ‘The direction of the Vienna Opera House have resolved to reduce the salary of Mile, Lalviont, their danseuse, from 18,000 florins to 15,000. After being successful everywhere else Herr von Flotow’s latest opera, “L’Omore,” was not even allowed to be played at Trieste. The curtain had to be dropped in the miadie of the second act. Under these circumstances we feel fully justified in saying lor the ten thous—— well, in saying ence more, “De gustibus,” &¢. A London epee thus speaks of the last bat Wopéra at Paris:—“A favorite costume was one compromising between the symbolism of mourning and the lact of shamelessness. Imagine a black pair of stays, rounded off by short, tigbtly-fitung biack silk bathing drawers covered with jet beads, Ada to this pon ye garment a cap and boots of the same color, and 1magine the libs to be encased in siate colored tights, and a black piume trailing from the hair, and you have a very fair idea of the opular female dress of Saturuay’s bal Wopéra. (hese Nioves did not disdain to fling their legs about and hold their tocs between their fingers with the less bereaved habitués, A watery drunken- ness pervaded the atmosphere of this instructive exhibition of republican virtues,'? Mme. Rossini has commenced a very remarkable action against a gentleman from whom she claims 50,000f, damages, on the ground of his having sung or caused to ve sung at oue or more private parties compositions, a3 yet unpublished, by ber late hus- band. M. Aichotte, the defendant 10 the suit, had been entrusted by Mme, Rossini with a number of new pieces ior voice and pianoforte formally be queathed to her by the great composer. It was ne~ cessary to fit many of the vocal pieces with words, and this task was at M. Michotte’s request under taken and performed by M. Wilder. During the two sieges oi Paris M. Michotte, with Rossini’s last productions in his possession, was in Belgium, and at Louvain and elsewhere he committed the offence charged against him Rossinv’s widow. M. Michotte does not deny the allegation; but be pleads that, so lar from depreciating the pieces confided to him’ by introducing a few oi them to the notice of connoisseurs at musical parties, he by that very course increased their salable value. ART SALE, An interesting collection of paintings will be soi@ to-day at Schenck’s auction rooms in Liberty street. There are many excellent examples of foreign art, and many of our most distinguished native painters are represented. James Hart has a charming little bit of Woodland river scenery with cattle, excellent m execution and deligitful ia sentiment. Wyanvs “Kenmore Bay” displays poetic feeling. The nit forms are well studied, and the sky treatment gives evidence of close attention to nature, but the color strikes us as peculiar. Moran contributes two of his excellent MARINE PAINTINGS, which give us, with great force aud truth, a water feeling very rarely found in marine pictures. His waves seem to rise and fail with the ceaseless, powerful motion which we Ooserve in nature, which proves that tnis artist can paint what he sees, which 18 by no means s0 common @ qualll as some would have us believe. David Johnson has a litde bit of juiet lake scenery, in in which tie so delights. It 18 cool, reposeful and not wanting tn suggestiveness. “In the Blue Ridge” Sonntag telis us that this scene ts from Virginia, bus ail don’t believe him. It ts irom dreamland, Where this aruist, Who 18 @ great fa- vorite with the fairies, makes constant incursions, and brings us back scenes tfat no other mortal eye than his has ever behela. He paints poems without words, and makes the mistake of calling them prosaic everyday names. We confess we don’t know ox clearly understand the language in which this last poem is written, but we could sit down pleasantly and give tullswing to the imagination picturing that GORGEOUS SCENB ‘With elfs and beautiful fairies, Why does not the aruist wy his hand at some allegorical iandsca Where his rainbow hues will not have to be jud; Z too strict rules? Carolus, Buckalowicz, Leloir, ferzog and other painters of European reputation are represented in this collection. WEST VIRGINIA, ‘The Constitutional Convention Declare Alt Men Qualified to Exercise the Franchise— Activity of the Legislature. CHARLESTON, Feb. 14, 1872, In the Constitutional Convention yesterday, after several days’ warm discussion upon the subject of ne words “white citizens’? in the See naw constitution as @ definition of q the report of the committee was adopted giving all citizens the right of suffrage. An made necessary for the qualification to vote, but falied. system of voting was adopted. Tie tn oranches of the Legisiature are industriously at work, having but twenty days to complete their bupne supreme Court of Appeals for West Virginia is also in session here. BURGLARY IN MOTT STREET, The Operators Arrested. On Tuesday night three burglars—Jonn Murray, Wiliam Lyons and James Wiikinson—forcibly en. tered the first floor of No. 21 Mott street by break- ing open the faniight over tne front door, and stole thereirom watcnes and jeweiry of ihe value of $73. Eliza Perry, Who occupies the floor and to whom the property belongs, susnected Lyons, conse. quently caused his arrest, and while at the station house yesterday morning he acknowledged having been implicatea in tne affair, and aiso gave the names of the other two above mentioned. They were arrested also, and on being arraigned at the ‘Tombs Police Court were comuitted to answer Us Gefault of $000 Dail eack,