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FRANCE. NEW YORK HERALD. TUESDAY, MARCH: 5, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. INDIA. Pabinet Difficultiesof M. Thiers and Ministe-| The British War Against the Looshais rial Caprice tom Official Position, Porsonalities in tle Law Courts—A Legislative Endorsement ¢ the International—Execu- tive Dread oArtisan Combination—The Governoyhip of Paris--Prussian Anxi¢y Concerning the Sta- blity of the Republic. TELGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Paris, siarch 4, 1872. Tne aisatisfaction which exisis in the French Cabinet over the conduct of M. Pouyer-Quertier, Ministe of Finance, in testifying at Rouen in favor of M.La Motte, ex-Prefect of the Department of Bure who 1s charged with embezzling funds con- tripsted for the relief of French sutterers, continues, & Pouyer-Quertier ts to have an mierview to-day onthe subject with his Excellency President Thiers. Should the resignation of the Minister of Finance Yecome necessary, it 1s belleved that M, Casimir Perier, late Minister of the Interior, will receive the portfolio of the Treasury, vacate’ by M. Quertier, NO BBSIGNATION—THE CAUSE OF TROUBLE MOD- ERATED. » Miniater Pouyer-Quertier had not resigned, and ‘the Cabinet was still deliberating at a late hour of ‘the evening. Javrier de la Motte, the ex-Pretect of the Depart- meat of Eure, whose trial at Rouen, on the charge of msappropriating funds for the relief of France, has }xcited so much attention, and was the more imnediate cause of the Ministerial crisis, was to- day acquitted and honorably discharged. THE GOVERNORSHIP OF VARIS. Ttie London Zimnes publishes a special despatch frem a correspondent in Paris, which states that General Ladmirault has reconsidered his determina- sion to retire from the Governorship of Paris, which position he threatened to resign because the Rappel newspaper has been permitted to resume publica (ion and 1s now issued from the press. PAE SUBJECT OF THE. INTERNATIONAL DEBATED, In the Legislative Assembly to-day there was a starmy debate on the bill imposing penalties on members of the International Society. Deputy Tolain madea lengthy speech in defence of the society, which, he said, “in placing the principle of solidarity above country only imitated religious associations in all parts of the world.” SECRET ASSOCIATIONS AND DREAD OF. TUMULT, ‘The Prefect of the Department of the Rhone asks ‘for military reinforcements for the maintenance of qrder, which, he says, 18 “menaced by the rapid in- q@ease of workingmen’s clubs and illegal secret gocteties.”" LOOKING TO ENGLAND. President Thiers toeday, in reply to a deputation of Englisnmen, stated that the present passport system was only temporary, and promised encbur- agement for the tunnel project of communication to Dover. Prussian Anxiety for the Future—The Begin- ning of the -End. Lonvon, March 4, 1872. A special correspondent of the London Times for- Wards a telegram to that journal from Berlin which announces that His Exceileney Count Von Arni,m German Ambassador in France, has been ordered to return home for the purpose “of reporting to the government, of ihe German empire his opinion regarding the stability of the present government -of Frauce.'’ " ENGLAND. ‘Mee American Case on the Alabama Claims Ready for Official Circulation—Strike * of Operativs—Tichborne’s Property Trial Drawirg to a Close. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YO?K HERALD. LONDON, March 4, 1872, Copies of the American case in iull, as submitted to the Geneva Board of Arbitration, wil be dis- tributed in both Houses of Pardament on Saturday. TRADE STRIKE FOR TIMP. The operatives engaged in the flax mills of Leeds have struck for the reduction of thelr time of labor to nine hours per day. They are conducting themseives in an orderly manner and no trouble is apprehended. ‘The number of persons on strike is estimated at ‘between ten and eleven thousand. THE TICHBORNE TKIAL. ‘The jury in the Tichborne property claim trial case Aave informed the Court thai they gave heard suf- ficient evidence whereon to base a verdict, and an adjournment has been taken until Wednesday in order to allow Sergeant Baliantine, counsel for the . Claimant, time to consider as to ms future course, THE COTTON SUPrLyY. Sixteen thousand three nunéred and five bales or American cotton were landed at Liverpool to-day. ” GERMANY. Mhe San Juan Boundary Arbitration and Proba- ble Decision of the Emperor. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonpon, March 4, 1872, A London Times special telegram. report from Berlin alleges that it 1s generally belleved in the Prvsstan capital that the decision of His Majesty the Emperor William, the arbitrator in the San Jaan boundary dispute between the English and American governments, will be adverse to England, TURKEY AND RUSSIA. Journalistic Prediction of a Grand Muscovite Movement. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YOR4 HERALD. Lonpon, March 4, 1872. A newspaper called the Sciavonic World, pub- fished in Prague, says the Prince of Servia 1s about to marry a Russian princess, ana it preaicts from ‘this alliance a no less important result than the driving of the Turks trom Europe. ITALY. Pore Hyacinthe Proclaiming the Bible in Rome. . TELEERAM TO THE WEW YORK HERALG. Rome, March 4, 1872, Pere Hyacinthe detivered an address at a Protest. @nt meeting to-night on the subject of the aifusion Of the Bibie in Italy. CANADA, Destructive Fire in Ottawa, Ortawa, Ont., March 4, 1872. The whole of Stewart's block on Rideau street, in this city, was burned on Saturday night, The fire commenced in Huckell’s shoe store, spreading to Mortimer's bindery, where ali the zovernment bind- ing was done. The insurance on the block was ,000 in the Phoenix. Huckeli was insured $2,000 4m the Aitna and $1,600 1n the Hartford. Preston's loss is $2,000; no insurance, Mortimer’s 1088, $9,000; insured for $5,300, Allan‘’s china store was on fire several times, but was saved, [oss about pho": Insured. ' ‘The insurance companies Ose = as Tollows:—Phwenix, $7,000; Hartiord, 4.000; Queen, $3,000; Lancasiire, $2,000; North ritiah, $4,000; Western, $3,000; A:lna, $2,000. A RAILROAD PRESIDENT SENTENCED. WILMINGTON, N. C., Maren 4, 1872, Andrew J. Jones, late President of tne Western road, charged with frauauient use of the bonds ‘of the company, and tried before the Superior Court Of Moore county last week, was 4 (een @ fine of a1 000, Mt yon yi : ‘a peal to the suvyeme Court. Terminated in Triumph. Peace To Be Proclaimed with Formality—Scene of the English Military Advance—A Mag- ° nificent Tea Country Opened by the Operation — Independence of China to a Certain Extent. TELEGRAM TO THE MEW YORK HERALD. Lonvon, March 4, 1872. Despatches from Calcutta announce that the British expedition against the Looshais having accomplished its object the war 18 practically ended, dad peace will soon be proclaimed, District—lts Situation and Producti The Looshai country, which has been just opened to English commerce and military influence by Ube result of tais brief war, under Generals Bour- chier and Brownlow, is an extensive tract ot hilly territory, densely covered with jungle, traversed by numerous streams, and only sparsely inhabited by a semi-nomadic race of men, who pasa their time alternately in rude cultivation, hunting and internat | wartare, varied by occasional predatory incursions on territory occupied either by the British or semi- independent States protected by Queen Victoria. The district is situated between 24 20 and 22 80 north Jatitude, and ties north of the British province of Chittagong, southwest of the Protected State of Munipore, south of the tea dis~ trict portion of British Cachar, and due west of the British protected State of Tipperan. ‘The dimen- sions of this iract may be roughly given as sixty miles broad at the widest part by 135 miles long. ‘The best way to find the Looshai country 1s to draw The Conquered @ line due east from Calcutta, At a distuge of about three hundred miies this line strikes the southeastern angie of the disirict in question, The country 1s billy, the sides of the his being rocky and precipitous, There are no roads, the territory not having been surveyed, and being as little ex- plored as the interior of Alrica, The best paths are the dry beds of streams, by traversing which the travelier not only obtains means of passage through the mills and jungle, but also shelter from the rays of the sun aiforded by overhanging trees, The beat reason for there being no roads is that there are no fixed places ot residence to. Which roads could be direcied. The Looshats prac- tise what 1s called the “Joom” system of cultiva- tlon—that ts to say, they clear a tract of jungle near their village by means of fire, and when the rainy season approaches dibble in seeds. ‘Tne followin; year a new tract adjoiming or not far from the ol tract, 18 cleared and sown in a@ similar manner. Naturally all the available ground near a village 13 soon exhaasted, and the migration of the whole vil- lage to some other spot then takes place, The aver- age interval at which Lhese migrations occur is avout five years. Nature reproduces itself rapidly in that part of the worid, and the clearance of a year is impenetrable two years later. Hence a enite tho- roughly acquainted with the position of a village one season may be auile at fault a few months later, It is nearly a hundred years since the British first came into contact with the inhabitants of the Looshat region, and about three years ago they despatched an abortive expedition against the in- habitants as pests of the Kuropean tea planters in Cachar. THE INHABITANTS AND WILD TRIBES ON THE NORTH- EASTERN FRONTIER. The northeastera frontier of the British territory in India being just now a centre of public interest, in consequence of the close of the war against the Looshais, it 18 proper to publish in the HEALD a brief account of the various wild tribes which inhabit the districts. We commence with the tribes occupyiug North Cachar and the hills round Muaipore. This tract, which lies wholly within the Watershed or the berhampootra on its left bank, is bounded on the north, east and west by large branches of that river, aud on the south by the Burrail, a ramitication of the great mountain chain which stretches from Assain to Cave Negrais, ‘rhe whole country is one vast jungle of bamboos, called Moolve or Tootah, with a few patches of cul- tivated ground on which some of the tribes tem- porarily establish their villages. The Burratl has several enormously high peaks, the summits of which are cloud-capped, and through the gorges of the whole range a strong southerly wind gen- erally blows over North har. In orth Cachar there are several wild Fribes, but they are allsupposed to be the branches, of the principal ones called Cacharees, Kookies, Loonoopas, Mee- kirs and Nagas. It is, however, a curious fact that severa! of the smaller tribes or clans not only differ from each other i manners and customs, but also in language. In the valleys of the Bernampootra alone there are uo less than twenty different clans, each speaking a dialect unintelligible to the others, as among the wild trives of Africa, The Cacharees aufer 11ttle irom the Assamese not only in appear- ance and customs, but also in dress and ornamen- tation, except in remote parts where both are rude and scanty. Tae Kookies are subdivided into two classes, the Oid aud the New. The Old Kooktles, physically the most powerful im Cachar, dress de- cently, and affect a modesty unknown to the other tribes, and the Looshais rank next to them in their apparent apiitude for the acquisition of European civilization. AFRICA. | Liberian Liberation from Prison and Death in the Path to Freedom. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK WERALO. LONDON, March 4, 1872. The regular mail steamer from the west coast of Africa, which arrived at Liverpool this moroing, brings intelligence that ex-President Roye, of Li- beria, who was imprisoned for certain illegal acts committed while in office, and escaped, was drowned in the harbor of Monrovia while endeavor- ing to swim to the steamer just before its departure for England. BRAZIL AND PARAGUAY. Reported Conclusion of a ireaty and Protectorate of Brazil Over Paraguay. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. LoNDon, Maren 4, 1872, It 1s reported that a treaty has been concluded between Brazil and Paraguay, by the terms of which the former continues to exercise a protec- torate over Paraguay for ten years, ana the latter undertakes to pay the expenses of the protectorate, and cedes certain territory to Brazil. ALEXIS IN HAVANA. Banquet and Ball in Honor of the Grand Duke. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. HAVANA, March 4, 1872, Colonel Zulueta, of the Volunteers, entertained the Grand Duke Alexis and suite and some Consuls yes- terday ataiuncheon. A ball was given last night by the Aldermen of tne city, at which there was a large attendaace. The Grand Duke visited Matanzas to-day, and was received with enthustasm, He returns to Havana to-morrow. Captain General Valmaseda goes into the interior in a few days. DELIVERING MILK, Driveriess Horse and Wagon Going the Rounds. Mr. Richard Wolf, of Brookiyn, called at Police Headquarters yesterday and told Inspector Ditks that on Thursday last he lett Brooklyn at daybreak, as usual, to go to Jersey City for milk, with a horse and wagon and eight cans in the vehicle. He crossed the ferry from Brooklyn to New York, then went to Jersey, got his cans filled and started to deliver it in this city. When he got to the ferry on the Jersey side he paid the fare to’ New York and then went to get something to arink ai a neighboring saloon. White he was induiging in the aiconolic refresh- ment the ferryboat started, with horse, wagon and milk, and waen Mr. Wolf came rushing down to the dock, ih Wild excitement, the boat was naifway across the river, With Kostnate standing Innocentiy admiring his proprietor, without peing able to com- fort him im any W Mr. Woll, in. fils excitement, shouted to the animal to watt for him on the oiner side when ‘he boat touched, bur the gentle steed only pricked up his ears at tis master’s voice anu did not even utter a neigh in reply, Arrt on the New York side,gMr. Woli’s milk deliverer fol- lowed the exampie of the other passengers and waiked ashore. Finding nobody impeded his move- ments the horse continued his peramoul Wesi street, up West street as far as Murr: he was lost sight of. At this point the animal no doubt fell into bad company, and was led out of the virtuous path of milk delivering into some Gotyam- Ile tricks by city horses. Mr. Woil now mourns the Joss of the animal; ont he will no doapt return to fe penitentiary, ie takes an ap- | Ra Rative sed in Grookiya.when, we bes onuirely seen the elephant GREAT FIRE IN PHILADELPHIA. Jayne's Splendid Granite Block on Chestnut Street Nearly Destroyed—Origin and Pro- gress of thé Conflagration. PHILADELP ATA, March 4, 1872, Dr, Jayne's granite butiding on Chestnut street, below Third street, was discovered to be on fire in tne rear, fronting on Carter street, shortly after nine o'clock, and the flames soon spread trom the third to the eighin story, The immense height of the building renders the steam fire engines almost useless in reaching the upper stories, and the build- ing will, probably, ve destroyed. It 18 just below the oMce of the Western Unton Telegraph Company. If the side wall ot Jayne's block fall the fire may spread to the te'egraph building. lo P. M.—The fire continues to burn in the rear portion, but has not yet extended to the Chestnut streetiront. The fre commenced in the third story, and the private watchman 18 unable to account for its origin, The building baionged to the estate of the tate Dr. Jayne. The loss is proba bly covered by insurance. There 18 & stationary steam fire engine located in the building and reservoirs of water on the roof, which were used with effect in checking the spread of the fire to the Chestnut street front of the building. The fire, however, gradually crept along the roof, and smoke ascending from the cupola on the Chestnut street front showed that the fire was progressing through itgentire length, Up to eleven o’ciock the Chestnut street front was still uanarmed. 11:15 P. M.—The flames are now belching out of the sixth story windows on Chestnut street, and the prospect of saving the splendid block from total destruction is almost hopeless, The stories above, however, show no signs of fire. The fire on the sixth floor has been extingut shed, and the Chestnut street front is now entirely dark, The hopes of the spectators are reviving. Shannon's tea store, on the first oor, adjoming Jayne’s drug store, is deluged with water, and a large stock of tea and coffee is ruined, ‘The firemen are making use of the section of Jaynes’ building on the south side of Carter street, of the same heignt with the main block, and from every window of the upper stories streams of water are pouring on the flames. This course was rendered necessary, as it was dangerous to occupy poems below, on Carter street, on account of the fire splintering of fragments from the granite front, The fire 1s slowly creep long towards Chestnut street; but though it has been prozrossing for three hours the Chestnut street ‘ont i still dark, 1:30 P. M.—The fire has reached the eighth story on Chestnut street, and the flames have Spread to the circular window at the corner of the building. A steady stream of water, directed to tls spot from the adjoining roof into a side window, checked the progress of the fire there; but soon it extended to the cupola, which the water could not reach, and it was soon in a blaze, presenting a magnificent Spectacle from its elevation of about 120 feet above the pavement, The cupola was constructed of wood and covered with tin. WEATHER REPORT. Wan DEPARIMENT, , OFFICR OF THB CHIEF SIGNAL UFFCO WasHINGtoN, D. C., March 6—1 A. Synopsis for the Past Twenty-four Hours, The area of low barometer which on Sunday night was over Lake Huron has moved southeastwardiy over, and is now beyond tne New England States, followed by rising barometer from the upper lake region southeastward and eastward to the Atlantic coast, with clear and clearing weather, Brisk and high northwesterly winds have extended from the Lower Lakes to the East and Middie Atlantic coasts, and falling temperature from the Upper Lakes to the latter. Southerly winds over the Western Gulf States to westerly over the South Atlantic States, where clear weather and rising temperature have'prevatied. The barometer has continuca falling on the Pacific coast, and is quite low, with rain, at San Francisco, Probabiitties, The barometer will probably continue rising from the upper lakes southeastwerd, and eastward to the AUantic, with northwesterly winds; clear weather very generally, and falling temperature during to-mght and on Tuesday; the winds on the Middle and East Atlantic coasts increase to very brisk and high during the night, but diminish somewhat on Tuesday; the baromeier fall on Tuesday through- out and west of the Mississippi Valley, with southerly to easterly winds and increasing cloudiness. Dangerous winds are not antici. pated for the Guif and Atlantic coasts to-night, except the very brisk and high north. westerly winds from Cape Hatteras to Maine, Cautionary signals continue at Norfolk, Baltimore, Cape May, New York and New London, Supplementary Weather Report. Snow has been reported from Buffalo, Burlington, Cleveland, wetroit, Oswego, Pittsburg, Portland, Rochester, Toledo and Toronto; sieet from New London, and rain from Knoxville and Portland, Ore- gon, Light snow feil in this city between six and seven o'clock this morning, and there was a very light fall of snow shortly aiter five o'clock this @vening. The temperature at St. Paul this morning Was at zero, 10 degrees below at Duluth, 9 degrees below at Escanava, and at Marquette 11 degrees below, having fallen 22 degrees in twenty-four hours, The barometer upon the summit of Mount Washington this evening ‘was 20.38; the temperature 2 aegrees above zero; the relative humidity 87 per cent, and a light snow was falling, accompanied by a south. easterly Bale. ‘rhe barometer in this city has risen very ae diy since five o'clock; the thermometer has fallen 21 degrees in the last three hours, and a wind from the northwest is blowing 38 miles an our. he Weather in This City Yesterday. ‘The following record will show the changes tn tha temperature for the past twenty-four hours in com- parison with the corresponding day of last year, as indicatea bythe thermometer at Hudnat’s Phar- macs, HERALD Building:— 1872, 1871, 1871, 1872, + 46 27 SP. M,.... 43 42 ed 2 6P. M. 40 29 + aL 83 9PM 40 18 40 40 12 P. M. 30 il Average temperature yesterday .. seed 2834 Average temperature for corresponding date last ear ...... Woes 41% ELECTIONS IN MAINE. Republican Victories at Portinad, Snxco, Bath, Lewiston and Aubi PORTLAND, Me., March 4, 1872, Atthe charter election to-day Benjamin Kings- bury, Jr., was re-elected Mayor, the vote standing, Kingsoury (rep.), 2,032; Cleaves (dem.), 1,648; Mor- gan (citizen ticket), 313; scattering, 12; against last year, republican, 2,317; democrat, 1,932; scatter- ing, 48. At Saco, Edward P. Barklow (rep.) was elected Mayor by 383 majority, At Bath, James D, Robinson (rep.) was re-elected by 67 majority. LEwIston, Me., March 4, 1872, Lewiston to-day elected Daniel Cowan trep.; for Mayor by 628 majority over J, P. Gil dem.) it year Garcelon (adem.) had 58 majority, Knowlton (rep.) was elected Municipal Judge, The Board of Aidermen is unanimously republican, The Com- mon Counetl stands eighteen republicans, two demovrats and one vacancy. Auburn to-day elected Thomas Lituefleld (rep.) Mayor by 187 majority over Woodmer (labot reform anddem.) The city government is unanimously republican except in one ward, in which there 14 no choice, LOUISIANA. Another Strange ReveiationWhut One Sen- ator Was to Receive for Sastaining War- moth nad Attending the Legislative Sexe sions—Sentenced and Pardoned the Same Day. New ORLEANS, March 4, 1872, Mr. Van Norter, President of the Savings Bank, was sentenced to-day by Judge Cooley to the Parish Prison for ten days for refusing to produce in Court a certain bank box deposited with him, January 19, by M, A, Southworth and Senator Lewis, containing $30,000 and an agreement that Senator Lewis should sustain Pinchback and Warmoth’s administration and attend regularly the session of the Legislature each day, the said box to be delivered to Lewis Marea 4 upon complying with certain conditions. Van Norier was immeptately pardoned by Gov- ernor Warmoth and liberated. During the investigation it transpired that South- Worth compounded with Van Norter, about a month ago, and removed the money from the box, and when finaly brought into Court this morning it cor tained Cite thee aoe above ret to. A fail stavément’ of t case will probably be sens to the Congressional Investigatiog Qomsuittee, AMUSEMENTS. Italian Opera—Opening of the Srcond Nilssou Season Nothing short of genius of .a commanding char- acier could attract such a splendid house as that which crowded the Academy of Music last evening on occasion of the commencement of the second sea- son of Christine Nilsson. The same magnetism that electrified a hard-to-be-pleased operatic audieace and gave vitality, youtu aud freshness to thread- bare and hackneyed roles was all potent when the announcement was made that the reigning Queen of Opera was to take her farewell of the peopie whom she bound to her in irreiragabie bonds of friendship. It would oe dificuit to speak of another artist, among the great uumber that Europe has sent to this country and those of native growth, who has gained such a frm nold on the affections of the public, In Christine Nils. son, when she leaves us, the opera-goers of New York will lose one, of the brightest, most sympa- thetic and most accomplished artists that ever trod our boards, and it will be long before her place can be filied. Against the most terrible obscacies that ever blocked the path of a prima donna—an incom- lete company and tucompetent management— 1lsson won a triumph of the most complete and thorough kind, in her hands the familiar Lucia, Martha, Leonora, Violetta, Marguerite and Zer- lina became actual novelties and tresn creations, and held the sympathies of the best people in New York without a symptom of ennué tor forty periorm- ances, Last night the Swedish Nightingale gave a strong proof that a short absence had not dimmed the bright impressions left in the minds of ber ad- mirers, and her delicious characterization of Mignon was as charming, winning and artistic as ever. ‘Tho well known song, ‘Connais tu la pays,” the duet, ‘‘Leggladre rondinelle,’’ the wilet scene and the glorious /inale showed that her clear, thrilling, sympatheuc voice, which can now glow with the passion of the tropics, now tremble with the virginal tenderness of a Scandinavian maid, anon give expression to a queenly dignity, and again carol like a lark of mcrntide, has lost none of us charms during heravsence. Here lies the strength of the company, supplemented by the irresistible love-making and light, flexible voice of Capoul, Whose Wilhelm Meister 18 an earnest, pas+ sionate and compiete piece of acting. And while speaking of acting we may say that Mile. Nilsson was in unusual spirits last night, and her histrionic impersonation of the role was more forcible and deligntful than ever. As for the rest of tne cast we may summarwe them tius wise:—Mlile. Duval’s pecullar French voice, which reminas one of an oboe, or rather @ compromise between that instrument and a clarlonet, acted the role of Filina with que vivacity and coquetry. Mile. Ferettt was @ more satisiactory Frederic than her prede- cessor, and yet not an artist. Mr. Jamet acted the Part 1 the old harper to perfection, saug correctly, but lacked the power of giving expression to THE VIRGINIA FINANCIAL MUDDLE. The General Assembly Censured by the People. Review of the Legislative Tinkering with the State Credit—General Stato of Affairs Since the War—The Gold Coin and Treasury and Bank Note Bungle—A New Way to Pay Old Debts—Governcr Walker Holding the Reins. RIcHMoND, March 1, 1872, Tt ts not an uncommon thing now to hear the present members of the Legislature spoken of on the street as the vertest pack of imbeciies ever as- sembled together in a faw-making conclave. They have tampered with the debt and the state's credit until the 108s and injury to Virginia are morally and peculiarly beyond conception. A majority of the body of political demagogues, secured their election on the popular hobby of “oppressive taxa- ton,"’ which found itsecho tn Virginia from the States further South, where the people were plun- dered by carpet-bag speculators and Wall street stockjobbers, But of this Virginia can- not rightfully complain, Her history since the close of the war has been one of good government, internal peace and quiet- ness and comparative prosperity, when the con- dition of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas ts constd- ered, With the exception of the brief term when Wells was Governor of the State, by military appointment, Virginia has had her own govern- Ment, Her own Legislature, and mostly her own local officials, and even during the period the State was under @ radical administration the military commander of District No. 1 nobly sustained the OREDIT OF THE OLD DOMINION. A portion of the interest due the creditors of the State has been regularly paid since the close of the war, according to the ability of tne people to meet tt, and it was not until the present Legislature met that. there was any stigma upon the credit and integrity of Virginia. [t ig more than useless to say that the people are un- able to bear the taxation imposea by the Funding bill of March, 1871; for the taxes of that year, intense passion and paternal love by his voice. The choras and orchestra did their work a8 all peoplo in those departments do nowadays in opera; and in the fire scene the supernumeraries | tetesen tel the usual extraordinary things. on ‘ednesday evening Mlle. Nilsson appears us Leonora. in “Il 'frovatore” and on Friday in “Martha.” 1t18 the universatly expressed desire of the public that she appear in what is called her greatest réle, Ophelia, in Thomas’ ‘‘Hamiet,” belore the close of the season, and we trust that the management will not refuse such liberal patrons as thé New York public have proved themselves. Niblo’s Theatre. In spite of the weather Mrs. Wood's reappearance last evening was an ovation of the most decisive and triumphant character. To serve, perhaps, as @ foll to the main piece, the performance began With @ dull and stupid farce, entitled ‘A Model of a Wife," which went off somewhat heavily, The audience, however, bore it in good part, and seemed only the beiter prepared to be properly enthusiastic when the curtain at lengtn rose and exhibited the well-remembered circle of Indian warriors, headed by Mark Smith, in @ gorgeous new costume of an untutored brave. He was received with a storm of kindly applause, and, after the vobacco song, it was clear that “La Belle Sauvage’ was in good hands, and was as much of @ favorite as ever. From the first burst of laughter, indeed, the tn- terest of the piece never dragged, and the audience were kept in an uninterrupted ecstacy of merri- ment. To Mrs, Wood, of course, belonged the chief and crowning honors of the evening. She had been heralded by ail sorts of foolish rumors, some ot inem flattering and others very much the reverse. Not afew of ner iriends expected to find her “two hundred pounds in weignv’; some even credited the report that there were silver gleams in her hair; and last, aud worat of all, there was a current expectation that her voice had irrevocably de- arted, How charmingly different was the truth! hen the cheers of the house, after passing through eight or nine successive paroxysms ot tempestu- ous earnestness, had at length subsided she “came oul’? in the best and most pleasantly familiar veln of the ‘There was the same ex- uberant flow of spirits, the same reckless but never vulgar abandon, the same frolicsome tricks of voice and manner that made her so great a favorite in the days ol yore. Sprinkied in the audience the eye of an experienced playgoer could detect many aveteran, who had come to reiresh his memory with a revival of some of the gayest evenings of his old career, and this part of tne house must have, indeei, felt rejuvenated as they listened to an actress who appears to have defied the attacks of ume. Mr. Anson makes a credit- able Jono Smith; but he should beware, if not of widows, at least of songs. His acting 1s funny, though in @ manner that reminds one rather too strikingly of a London music hall; but he ts utterly uniitted for musical exercises. The other parts are reasonably well filled, Perhapa it is well to add that the piece Is little changed irom what it was when it was last given in New York. The “Broadway Swell” and a few new songs Lave been imported into it, but the dialogue has @ familiar sound, aod in some paris has, indeed, a somewhat musty and venerable flavor. ‘There can be little doubt that Mrs, Wood will draw full houses for the Short season that she remains with us. ms Wood’s Museum. In spite of the snow storm a very large audience witnessed last evening the performance at thig theatre. The programme embraced comedy, bur- lesque and various warlike feats executed by the Fijian cannibals, who appeared for the second time yes! jay. As% @ curiosity the Fijians are worth seeing; but their periormance 1s neither pleasing to the eye nor the ear; for noise seems to be its princi- pal, if not only, ingredient. In ther war dance and sham fight they deal thé most terrific blows at each other, giving vent at the same time to an outlandish jabber and hideous, unearthly yells. Chief among them is General Ka Blau, the Fijian dwarf, who appears to be the most agile and the most vicious cannival of them all. In fact, the programme has It, entre parenthese, that he is the worst savage of his race. When running wild in his native Fiji, and know. ing .no other code than his own sweet wil, he ts said to have indulged to an unlimited extent in his Propetisity for human flesh. According to an equally credible report a baker’s dozen or 60 of unfortunate tars and mis- sionaries have ound an untimely tomb in his capa. cious stomach. ‘The wonder 1s that being now un- muzzled he does not chaw up one or two ballet girls as they caper about the stage. In his costume, and with the various colors daubed over his face, Ra Biau looks a very hideous demon, mE , ms noble company there is also @& ‘yan damsel, no less of rank than prin- cess, ‘who passes for @ beauty in her own country. The cannibals are no douot interest- ing in their Way, but when they take their departure from the stage a seuse of relief appears to come” over the audience. The periormance of the Fijians ‘was followed by tne burlesque called “Luna; or, The Litte Boy Who Cried For the Moon, which Miss Beile was of attraction. She sal several songs pleasing manner, and played her part with @& graceiul dash which seemed take with the audience. Miss Pauline Markl.am as the representa- tive of the chaste goddess Diana, and Messrs. Howard and Shelion in their respective comieal parts, were equally satisiactory, The comedy of “A Bull in & China Shop’ was also enacted, Mr. T. W. Keene as Bagshot and Mr. A. H. Sheldon as Mr. Piper caused muca merriment to the audience, Driftinas Abroad, Fifty madrigals, hitherto unpublished, addressed by Torquato Tasso to Bianca Capello, Grand Duchess of ‘fuscany, of romantic celebrity, have been printed at Fiorence, The edition, however, is limited to 250 copies, and is not for sale, Count Andrassy, the Prime Minister of Hungary, supported himself when an extle in London by giving music lessons. He was often so poor that he walked the streets all night supperiess, having not a cent to pay for food or lodging. No wonder that he gave up such an unprofitable pursuatt to be Prime Minister, and go frou au hungry life to a life in Hungary. Signor Arditi gave his benefit concert in St. Pe. tersvurg on January 2%, and it was a magnificent success, The house was crowded in all parts, the receipts amounting to 30,000 irancs. ‘“fantarella,” @ new song, Which Was expressly composed 1h Signor Arditi for Mme, Adelina Patt, was received With Immense enthusiasm, the composer and singer being recalied several times, A correspondent {rom Naples writes:—There Is little to report of theatrical interest. A new drama by the Duke of St; Arpino, entitled ‘Savouarola,’ 18 announced for performance im the epring. It will be brought out ai the me and Sadowski wilt take @ partin it, As for St, Carlo, one cannot but say, ‘How are the mighty fallen! on reading that for two nights recently it fas been given up to the Pertormance of juggling wicks (prestigio) By vay. fo fg a Very clever they were, but suiil it Is a Muses." descent In the /history of tne Temple of wa, | amounting to $1,800,000, were cheerfully paid into tne treasury \where it now remains), for the purposes of defraying the current expenses of the government and paying the interest due on the debt on the 1st of January and 1st ot July of the present year. The Main objectionable feature of the Funding bill— making the coupons receivable for taxes—could have been repealed at the opening of the session, aud ‘the provision lately passed requiring the payment of taxes In gold or sliver coin, United States ‘lreasury notes or notes of the national banks substituted in its stead, and the bonds and securies of the State would not have been materially at- tec; But almost the first act of the Legislature was to attack the Funding pill in all tts provistons, and in the heat and excitement which their reckless course carried wich it to pass a reso- lution refusing to make an appropriation TO MEKT THE INTEREST ON THE DEBT falling due on January 1, 1872, besides prohibiting the Collectors and County Treasurers trom receiving the matured coupons in payment of debts due the State. The result of this action, as the public 18 tully aware, was most damaging to the credit of the State, If retrenchment ana reform were needed, there was no statesmanship in destroying the state’s credit in the first attempt to secure either. If the people in some sections of the State were restive under the “oppressive taxation” called for by the present constitution, in vhe shape of school taxes, road taxes, township and county taxes, and, lastly, State taxes, this was no way to remedy the evil. 1 do not hesitate to reiterate the general opinion here Uhat these resolutions of the Legislature were as unexpected and astounding to the great maiority of its Constitaunts as they were to the holders of the bonds of the State. ‘The effect was almost magical; financial distr it once became manifest; REPUDIATION SEIZED HOLD OF THE PUBLIC mind, and the bonds of the State fell fifwen per cent, from which they have not yet recovered, nor is there at present the slightest prospect of an ad- vance to their iormer standing in the market, and this, Wo, With $1,800,000 of tne people's money de- posited in four of the Richmond banks at four per cent per annum, where it is used for purposes of speculation, and lent to neeay merchants and farm- ers at probably treble that rate of interest for short perioas, Nearly three months bave expired since the Legislature assembled, and during that period the subject of the State finances has been discussed from day to day and from week to week, without any other practical result than the virtual repeal of the coupon feature of the Funding bill, and it 18 now certain thatthe Governor will veto that, as 1¢ violates a contract with the bondholders, which stipulated that the coupons should be receiv- able for taxes, Since that, however, the following bill, as already briefly stated in the HERALD by tele- graph, has been “ordered to engrossment by the Senate, and 1s now the pending Fag cared im both Houses as a final disposition of the whole subject THE PUBLIC DEBT. Re it enacted by the General Assembiy, That for the 1872, upon all the interest-bearing bonds Of the State issued under act of March $0, 1871, entitled an act to provide for the funding and payment of the public debt, there shall be paidon the lst day of April, 1872, four per centum. Upon that part of the debt bearing an interest of five per centum there shall be paid at the same time three ang one-third per cent; and upon that portion of the debt, the form of the securities representing which have not been changed under the resaid, the payment shall the same time and at the same ral of the principal of said bonds or securities; a1 the duty of the Auditor of Pubilc Accounts’ to pay into the atthe time required, subject to the warrant of the treasury Second Auditor, 80 much of the public revenue as the Second to be mecensary to pay the interest on fe be demanded in nd become Auditor may certif the public debt as lerein p: 2. When the interest shi ayment of © jue under the pon celied by the Auditor, and for tht the Second Anditor shall give to the party so surrendering the sald coupon s non-intereat-bearing certidcate stating the amount so due and unpaid. B. This act shall be in force from its passage. With tnis Legislature there 1s no telling “what a day may bring forth,” and before this letter 13 pe- rused by the readers of the HEKALD tne aspect of the whole matter may be changed. In any event,.1t 1s claimed oF the best legal authorities that both the act making coin and United states vank notes receivable unly for taxes, and the proposed act quoted above, are unconstitutional, and will so be declared by the courts, if the Governor’s antici. pated veto does not effectually dispose of them. The Finance Committee of both houses, with com- mendable consistency, nave hit upon ‘A NEW AND INGENIOUS SUBJECT OF TAXATION, which, it adopted, will be as effective in excl capital from seeking investment im the State a tue novel action of the Legislature on the debt. The new plan proposes a stamp tax on commercial paper and a tax on the interest or mortgage bonds issued by railroad companies and otner corpora- tions, the companies to deduct the amount of the tax where they pay the interest to the bondholders, It is claimed by the advocates of this scheme that it bears the merit of forcing capitalists without the State to contribute materially to its revenues. The consolidated debt of the Virginia railroads alone would amount to $30,000,000, a tax upon the in- terest of which would be no inconsiderate source of revenue, It is said to be further in contemplation of the committee to create @ stamp tax on the in- verest on the State debt, This is all to be done for the relief of the agricultural classes, but itis more than probable that such @ scheme will depreciate the value of land, and thus prove an oppression in- stead Of a reilet. SOUTH CAROLINA FINANCES. Governor Scott’s Veto of the Blue Ridge Ralirond Reliet Bill Approprinted by the Mea lions of Bonds E: raed by the si most Worthless—The Flow of Bo Wall Street. Cotumsta, S. C., March 4, 1872, On Saturday last the bill granting $1,800,000 in aia of the Blue Ridge Ratiroad passed both branches of the General Assembly over the veto of the Governor. The bill provides for the cancel- ation of four millions of bonds of the road endorsed by the State, the holders of which have never been able to realize $50,000 by this sale of the whole $4,000,000, The State could not have been neld re- sponsible for either the principal or Interest unul ail the assets of the road, on its completion, had been disposed of, the bonds having twenty yearsto run. jovernor Scott, alter stating his objections to the bill, ended bis velo by saying:—“Up to this moment No disposition appears to prevatl otf the part of the General Assembly to even recognize ihe obli- gation that is due from the staie to those who came forward in the hour of our danger of failure for the want of money to sustain the government, but with an tnditference wht yond the comprehension o1 any mind, the Assembly seeins devermined to tax the resources of the State to meet a mere contingent obligation, not due for many years, and which, to a very limited extent, has become @ ilability to the Hiue Kidge Ratiroad, or the State as its endorser, trom which the legitimate creditors are led to miler that they are to be left victims of misplaced confidence. ) ‘The Validating bili is now under debate, and Is sure to pass under the strong pressure brougnt to 7 SBTONECOTTERS’ STRIKE. The Goverament Mechanics at Colamni: Awaiting the Action of Chief Supervis. ing Architect=The Eight Hour Law to bo Sustained by the Men. Co.umata, 8. C., March 4, 1872. The surtke of the stonecutters engaged here om the government buildings stili continues, The mem are waiting for the reply to their communicauon forwarded to Supervising Architect Mullett in Waah- ington. The greater number of the strikers have returned to the town and have determined to walt until the matter is settled one way or the other. If the Eight Hour law passed by Congress be of any validity, then, itis argued, the Superintendent of the new government works has no mgit to de- mand that the mechanics shall work ten hours ® day. No disturbance is apprehended by the police authorities. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS ITEMS, Senator Morton arrived at Indianapolis yesterday. ‘The Mirsissippt River at Fort Madisou, Towa, opened yew terday for navigation, The Union Pacitic Railroad is still blockaded between Cheyenne and Rawlins. Mr, William Sheets, an old resident and prominent citizem of Indianapolis, Ind., died yesterday morning. The Volunteer Fire Devartment celebrated their thirty eighth anviversary witha procession in New Orleans yes- terday. Robert Ward, of Medina, N. Y., yesterday broke throug the ice on the Grand River, near Jackson, Mich., and was drowned. Mra, Bramleue, wife of ex-Governor Bramlette, died at hee residence in Louleville, Ky., last evening, atter an illness of four months. A fire in Chariton, Mass. yesterday afternoon, consumed tne shoe factory of E. 8. Southwick. Loss, $18,000; inaur- ance, $14,000: Judge Primm, of the Criminal Court in St, Louis, create® something of -a sensation yesterday by appeuring on the bench in a black gown. he steamer Alaska, which left Panama February 13, hae not yet been heard from at Franclaco, The steamer China nails in her place for Panama to-day. Daniel Nason, formerly Superintendent of the Boston and Providence Railroad, and Ezra Forristall, late Superinten@- ent of Health in Boston, died yesterday morning. Josepbus Baldwin, the first Mayor of Nashua, N. H., under the city charter, and for many yeara Chief Engineer ot the Fire Department, died yesterday. of age. ‘The Apaches are makii Central Arizona, and He was sixty-eight years numerous attacks on trains im Tun large quantities of stock fron veral of the Indians have beea ‘The sixty-fifth annual Commencement of the School of Medicine of the University of Maryland was held in Baltt- more yesterday, fh Ford's Opera House, Fifty-five gradu- ated. A large audience was present. ‘Tentius Wadaworth, one of the oldest citizens of Hartford, Conn., died laat night, aged eighty-two years. He had lange real eatate investments in Chicago, and lost sixteen stores by the fire there. He was quite wealthy. Frank Anderson was arrested at Portland, Oregon, Sunday, for the murder of James Quigley at Sncramento. Ander- son's friends made an atterapt to rescue him from jail, but failed, and the ringleader was arrested. Mrs, A. B. Downes, Hartford, Conn,, was arrested yeatee- day, charged with arson in firing the Sigourney House. she ave bonds in the sum of 3,000 for her appearance at the ‘oltce Court on Monday of next week, Resolutions were offered in the Obio senate yesterday afternoon asking Congress to yote for an amendment to the national conatitution making foreign born citizens eligible to the office of President of the United Sgates. ‘The funeral of Dr. Thomas R. Crosby, Professor of Animal and Vegetable Physiology in the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, who died suddenly on Friday morning, took place inthe College church at Hanover om Sunday. ‘The largest republican rally of this campaign took place inthe ‘Neahua (Ne H.) City Hall last night.” Keg. Coup pr sided at the meeting. Addresses were inade by D. T. Corbin, Of South Carolina, and ex-Governor Harriman, of New Hampshire. ; ‘The large comb factory of the Union Comb Company at Leominster Centre, Mass., employing nearly one. hundred and fifty hands, was totally destroyed by fire on Saturday night. ‘The loss is $100,000 and insurance about thirty-five thousand dollars Ex-Senator Thayer, of Nebraska, and 0. J. Averell, of New York, Commissioners appointed by, the Secretary of the Interior to examine the Cairo and Fulton Railroad, im Arkansas, passed through St. Louis yesterday en, route tor Washington. They report favorably on the work ao far as done, 3 < A= 4 PROGRESS oF THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD, ITs 130 BONDS. BANKING HOUSE OF - JAY COO & CO. The Northern Pacific Rond is now (March, 1872) finished 2% miles—from Duluth, on Lake Superior, to Fargo, at the croaaing of the Red River of the North, on the eastern, border Tuning over the completed section, ‘The work is rapidiy progressing westward through Dakota, The track is contracted to be finished in early of Dakota, Regular train autumn (1872) to the Missour1 River, at the crossing of wnict. tha road will connect with the lines of steamers running 709 miles further West, to Fort Benton, and will thus at once command the large carrying trade of Montana and the trail of the Upper Missouri country. In the meantime work has been steadily progressing om the Pacific coast. A section of twenty-five miles was finished in December last, and is now in oporation, while torty miles. more are under construction, connecting the Columbim River (at Kalama) with the terminal point on Puget Sound. During the past year careful surveys have been made at nearly the entire distance across the Continent, which fully ceedingly favorable char- acter of the route and country. The work of construction will continue to be pushed both eastward and westward with such rapidity as the interests of the road may warrant. In- cluding the purchased lines of the St, Paul and Pacific Rail- road, the Northern Pacific Company now has under its mam- agement 675 miles of finished track. Contracts are let and the means provided for the construction of several hundred miles more during 1872 in Minnesota, Dakota and Washiag- ton Territory. ‘The redemption of 5-20°s by the Treasury indicates low rates of interest to the public creditors hereafter, and as verify previous estimates of the | $46,000,000 more are called in for March, we strongly recom- mend to the hoiders thereof an immediate exchange Cor the 7: GOLD BONDS OF THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD. 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