The New York Herald Newspaper, March 8, 1872, Page 6

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CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. ‘agg. 41—Advertisements. Q—Auveriisements, 3—The State Capital: wast Hours of the Erle Ring: Text of the Bill as Amended; The As+ semoly Erie Bill; Another Debate on the Sev- enty’s Charter; Important State and Local Bills Approved and Passed—The Swamp Angels: Tne Blood Trail of the North Carolina Uut- laws; How Lowery Aveuged the Murders of a Father and a Brother; A War of Races. 4—The Swamp Angels (Continued trom Third Page)—Map of the Land of the Lowerys, Show- ing the ne of the Expioits ofthe Outlaws. S—Mayor Hali: The Proceedings Yesterday; All Serene atthe Opening; At! Turbulent at the Close; A Bombshell Explodes in Court; The Great Plasterer, Garvey, Appears; What He Knows About Tweed—Interesting Proceed. Inga in the United States, New York and Brooklyn Courts—The Real Estate Market: Feeling Among Dealers Respecting Its Future; Efe of Past Operations on Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue Property; Who Consti- tute the Heavy Buyers and How They Operate; Particulars of the Sale of Park anit Boulevard Lots Te-day—Justice and the Judges. G—Eitorials: Leading Article, ‘“Outlawry in the South—Rob Roy in North 'Carolina”—Amuse- Ment Announcements. Q—Cable Telegrams from England, Scotland, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Australasia aud Cuba—The Political Campaign in New Zieeapen e- MiMCeLARSoUs Telegrams—Busi- ness Notices, S—Chamber of Commerce: The General Order Business; The Rates of Storage adopted by the Joint Committee; A New Tariff Proposed for the Country—Board of Audit: Weekly Meeting of the Board and Large Payment of Claims; List of Submitted Claims—Love and Lucre: Charge of blackmailing Against a Young Lady by the Rev. Dr. Carter; A Sensa- tional Story with a Woman in It—Payments by the Comptroller—7ne Miller Investigation— Fire in Trenton, @—Financial and Commercial: An Active Day in Stocks; Pacific Mail Assatled with Another Injunction; Erie in Albany and Wall Street: Repeal of Classification Reported and the Stock Up to 36—Meeting of the Board of Dock Commisstoners—Meeting of tne American Instttute--A Terrible Sensation: Hydrophobia in Brookiyn—dighway Robberies—fhe Shoot- 4 ing of Pat Reagan—Marriages and Deaths, 10—Washington: The New Spanish Mintster; the Rights of Lavor and Railroad Jobs in the House; District Attorney Bates, of Utah, Asked to Resign; the Wooden shipbuilding Interest; the Double-Barrelled Arms In- be asl 4 York State Council of Political elorm—Mrs, Brooker's Lecture on Free Love—The £ra of Frauds--A Murderous Mantac—St. Nicholas Society —Brook!yn’s Pro- posed Charter--Local Items--Shipping ,Intelli- gence—Advertisements, 11—Grand Cocking Matin: The Chanticleers of Al- bany aud New Jersey in the Pit; The “Up River” Men Clean Ont the Jerseylies—Aquat- ics—Unemployed Men’s Mass Mecting—Fight ing Kaptists—Advertisements. 12—Adverusements. Mysterious SrartLinec—The arrival {mo Kingston, N. Y., yesterday, of the corpse of a handsome and accomplished heiress of that city, and the subsequent secret burial within a few hours of its arrival. This is a good subject for the Coroner's investigation, who will, doubtless, find that there is more in it than at first meets the eye. Tue Viraista FinanctaL DgApLock 18 Broxen.—After one of the most desperate Struggles ever recorded in the annals of State Legislation tbe Virginia lawmakers have determined to repeal that section of the Fund- ing bill which stipulated the receipt of the bond coupons by collectors in payment of taxes, and to substitute a law providing for the payment of four per cent interest on the funded debt. According to our despatch, published elsewhere to-day, this result has arisen from a compromise or compact between the two houses of the Legislature, Tue Lion or THE Tows, the latest nine days’ wonder, turned up yesterday in the Court of General Sessions, in the person of Andrew J. Garvey. Why did you go away? Where have you been? When did youre- turn, and what for? are questions which by Mr. Garvey remain still to be answered. His presence in town is glory enough for one day. Jonn Brit aNp THE Geneva Court.— The Alabama claims case for consequential or inferential damages on the part of the United States government appears to be very dis- tasteful to the English people, if we are to judge of their exact state of feeling by the expression of the leading London press, It looks, indeed, as if Mr. Jobn Bull were anxious to retire from the Geneva Arbitration Court completely. John is bothered in his Conscience about the whole Alabama matter from the very beginning, but he remains stiff- necked in his generation, and does not wish to come down to the plain Christian duty of pontrition and open confession, 60 as that he may be prepared for the reception of our citizen absolution at Easter Day. NEW YORK ‘HERALD, FRIDAY, MAKUH) 8, 187Z.—TRIPLE (SHEET) | Outlawry tm ‘the Souti—Rob Roy in Nerth Carolina. The narrative of brigandage aod outlawry in North Carolina which has already appeared in the Heratp, and another chapter of which we print this morning, has attracted universal attention. We can hardly realize that these events occur in the United States, in our own time and in a Commonwealth as old and civilized as that of North Carolina, The stories of Robin Hood and Rob Roy belong to a rude civiliza- tion; but the adventures of those merry old foresters and cattle-thieves are tame and meek compared with what we know of Henry Berry Lowery and his band. The home of these outlaws is in the mysteri- ous region of the Dismal Swamp. Since the settlement of the Carolinas and Virginia this swamp country has been the refuge of the out- law and the fugitive slave. Naturo has made it almost impassable to the porsuer. _ The refugee has endless means of subsistence and concealment. The natural obstacles will enable an enterprising outlaw to successfully hold the region against large forces It is practically as impossible to execute a warrant or pursue an offender as it was to serve the King’s process in the Highlands in the seven- teenth century. In the days of slavery the fugitive regarded the swamps as his first step towards freedom, and the poetry of Thomas Moore as well as the prose of Harriet Beecher Stowe have told the weird, pitiful legends to a wondering world. During the war our poor soldiers, escaping from the rebel prisons, found safety in the swamp. Our romancers have preferred to give their heroes a home on the Plains or in the Mississippi, or to make them rangers in Texas or pirates on the Sparish Main, But no romancer has, as yet, told us a story as interesting as this history of these merciless bandits, now first printed in the Heratp. ‘ Henry Berry Lowery is said to be a light mu- latto, with Indian blood in his veins, By his white ancestry he is Scotch, as his name would indicate, and among his companions and townsmen we find names as suggestive of out- lawry as those of Macgregor and Campbell. As ason of the Highlander his roving pro- pensities are natural; as a descendant of the Indian we can comprehend his cunning and fortitude as well as his skill as a woodgman, As a descendant of the negro we can appre- clate the docility and ferocity so strangely united in his character. His band, as far as we can comprehend the story, are men of his race and class, numbering perhaps, a dozen, Originally civil enough and peacable, and earning honest wages as a carpenter, Henry Berry Lowery first accepted a life of lawlessness when he saw his father taken from his home and killed in cold blood for supposed sympathy with the North. This event is said to have taken place nine years ago. Lowery took to the swamps, and with his band holds a mastery over the region, robbing whomsoever he pleases, taking life when prompted by self-defence or revenge, or, what he calls his ‘honor ;” ‘‘protecting” the railway track, defying the authorities and holding friendly relations with the poorer classes, especially the negroes. He knows the Swamp as well as the eagle knows his eyrie; and as every cabin is his home and every poor man his friend, and the law can- not menace him without his receiving warn- ing, it will be easily seen how he has been able for these many years to do his rade will upon society and hold the law at bay. The unsettled condition of the South has given every opportunity to Lowery. And, indeed, it is as an illustration of the unhappy condition of the South that we study his career with so much interest. With the romance of his story we have no sym- pathy. There was never a robber who died at Tyburn tree in whose life there were not some sympathetic and romantic fea- tures, Jack Sheppard could climb like a cat ; Dick Turpin could ride like an Arabian; Robin Hood would send a fat buck to a poor family; Rob Roy never robbed the poor; Henry Berry Lowery will play the banjo all night to a circle of chanting and skipping negroes. But he and his band represent lawlessness and crime and licentiousness, The crimes that one man like this may commit, even with his band, are trifling compared with the evil example they pro- duce upon the country. If Lowery can live nine years an avowed robber and murderer, warring upon society, bis pride gratified by the consideration and immunity he receives at the hands of the people of his district; if he can not only defy law, but transcend it, and assume the power of fife and death over all who offend him, there is an inducement and an invitation toa thousand others of as easy amoral natore to imitate his example and make robbery an honorable calling. So long as the law stands powerless, and con- fessedly powerless, to hunt down Lowery and destroy him, any attempt to punish the most abandoned criminal in a Carolina is simple cowardice. The very essence of law is secu- rity, and Lowery’s reign makes the security that we suppose to be guaranteed by law im- possible, i The sad condition of the Southern States is painfully seen in the career of Lowery. We see the widespread misery and unhappiness of Ireland by the occasional agrarian outrages, the shooting of a constable or a landlord, and the appalling fact that the public opinion of the county sustains the act, The Irish county of Meath is virtually under the orders of a Lowery gang. Law is defied, the Queen's powers are scorned, murderers are acquitted by sympathizing juries and justice is paralyzed. English statesmen see in the condition of Meath an evil deeper than the mere surface indication. Communities never commit crime, When crime becomes representative of the suf- ferings or demands of a class or of a section it cannot be treated as acrime. The instinct of every society is for its own protection—for law, security and peace—and there is some- thing radically wrong whea we find popular sympathy attracted to men like the Ribbon leaders of Ireland, the chiefs of Ku Klux clans, or to bands of outlaws like Lowery. What legal or legislative remedy would be necessary to make the existence of bands like this im- possible in North Carolina our correspondent does notinform us. Probably the whole busi- ness is a protest or @ reaction against slavery and the wrongs heaped upon the black man by the while man for generations, If this is all— the immunity he enjoys—then it cannot last very long. America hag never taken very kindly to the spirit of the vendet- ta; and the negroes and farmers of North Carolina will find that nothing does them and their interests more harm than the tolerance of Lowery and his retainers. We prefer, therefore, to look at Lowery and his bloody exploits as a phenomenon of the restlessness, a manifestation of that social irresponsibility necessarily resulting from the war. He is something between a robber and arebel, and as robber or rebel he should be arrested and put to death. The law belongs to North Carolina as much as it does to New York, and the State should capture this man and his band and exterminate them even if it required an army of men and the fighting of a battle. No Commonwealth can violate, or permit to be violated, any cardinal principle of civil rights, and there is none more sacred than the sanctity of person or property, This car- dinal principle is dead in North Carolina, When @ mob of angry citizens resolved that another mob of citizens should not parade the streets of New York with Orange flags and banners, in memory of King William, the Commonwealth of New York determined that the parade should take place, if it were necessary to fight a pitched battle on Broadway. Whatever we may have thought of the taste or even the propriety of Orange demonstrations in a coun- try of religious toleration, the law was the law, and there was no alternative. So with the Ku Klux demonstrations., We have no doubt that there are many districts of the South wiiere the crimes of adventurers and carpet- baggers and vagabonds will, in the eyes of many, apparently justify the unlawful deeds ofthese bodies of men, But this does not dull the edge of their crime, and the President cannot too rigorously suppress their unlawful efforts at vengeance and retaliation. So with this Lowery clan! We read their story with intense and wondering interest. We lament the disorganized condition of society which generates them. We believe there is some latent evil or injustice at the bottom of it all that must be remedied by wise legislation. But in its present aspect it is an offence to private morals, a disgrace to public law, and should be utterly stamped out if it takes the whole power of the State of North Carolina or even of the United States. The Erle Roform Bill in’ the SenatemA Better Prospect Ahead. The Judiciary Committee of the State Senate yesterday reported favorably Senator O'Brien's bill to repeal the Classification act and ta pro- vide for an election of directors of the Erie Railroad on the 2d of July next. The bill is nearly the same as when introduced, except that the provision requiring the transfer books to be deposited with a trust company for a cer- tain time prior to the election is omitted. The clauses requiring the present directors to make transfers, issue certificates of stock and per- mit free access to the books of the company appear to be carefully drawn, and the bill seems to be an honest measure of reform. It should be passed without any unnecessary delay and sent down to the Assembly at as early a day as possible. No trifling with the bill should be permitted, now that it is fairly before the Senate. There seems to be a disposition in the Assembly on the part of some republicans to adhere to the fortunes of the Ring, and the lobby will not cease their efforts to buy a sufficient number of votes to prevent the passage of the O’Brien bill or any other measure hostile to the inter- ests of the present directors. But the republi- can leaders are beginning to recognize the fact that the corruption of the present Legis- lature, with so large a republican majority, would be fatal to the prospects of the party in the approaching Presidential election, so far as the State of New York is concerned, and hence they will bring all their influence and authority to bear upon those who evince a disposition to sell themselves to the Erie lobby. The prospect now appears to be more promising for the overthrow of the men who have so long set law and justice at defiance, and have brought discredit upon the nation. There are rumors that the Erie directors are quarrelling among themselves, and that the more honest of them are pre- paring to denounce and repudiate the acts of Gould, Lane and their immediate creatures. But there must, nevertheless, be no abatement of vigilance and perseverance on the part of the honest reformers in the State Legislature, Senator O’Brien must see to it that the bill reported by the committee is pushed steadily forward to a final vote. We shall then see whether the reform republicans will learn a lesson of wisdom and vote unanimously for the measure, or whether some of them will be found rash enough to risk political infamy for the sake of a few thousand dollars of Erie money. Not Mvow Like War.—General Schenck, our Minister to England, is on a visit at Edin- burg, and gave a public reception yesterday, which was attended by a large number of the moet P a gficials and residents of the city. Now, Cotsidering that General Schenck was one of the members of the Joint High Commission which made the Treaty of Wash- ington, and that he endorses the American case, it is apparent that the hue and cry of the London press against our case has not yet reached Edinburg, or that it has spent its force. Mr. Bull has discovered that “bluffing” will not do with Brother Jonathan, and that the American case is something more than a game of bluff. So, after the storm comes a calm, and with the calm will come the sober second thought to Her Majesty’s government. Having submitted our case to the tribunal of the treaty, the issue, peace or war, remains with England, and we begin to see that Eng- land, not less than Scotland, is really in favor of peace. American Suippinc Inrgrests.—The Presi- gent of the Board of Trade of England an- nounced to the House of Commons yesterday that the Queen's government is engaged in negotiating a Shipping Convention with the United States. The American Minister in London, as well as Secretary Fish, must keep their eyes very wide open during the progress of the diplomacy, If they do not some of the Alabama escape principle will be engrafted into the protocols without their at all perceiv- ing the intent of the clauses, Our shipping and we see no other moral reason for the | interest needs a home tonic courgg of treat- popularity of Lowery among the negroes and | mont just at present, ‘Tae Great March Frost—Its Causes and Consequences—Early Iceberg Seasou. Only a day or two ago the Heratp chroni- cled the great Southern cyclone and the open- ing battle of the equinox. We have just had its severe and stunning counterpart in the intense frosts and boreal blasts of the cold snap just beginning to moderate. This tremendous conflict of atmospheric forces is not meaning- less, and is worthy of attentive notice and study. There can be no doubt that the northern and eastern parts of the country have for two or three days been in a powerful stream of polar air descending with almost torrential rush, The Signal Service and other reports reveal the velocity‘and intensity of this cur- rent, which has spread itself out in fan-shape all the way from Lake Superior to our Atlantic seaboard, and formed a majestic air-wave covering the whole country from the lakes to the Alleghanies and pouring over their sum- mits. At this season of the year Northern and Eastern British America, with its numerous sheets of water, may be regarded as a vast ice-clad continent—an immense mer de glace— over whose dry and glassy surface our polar winds have swept before they reached us. Hudson Bay, the great Mediterranean of North America, is also, at this time, doubtless covered with a solid surface, and would now present to an explorer the sublime spectacle of the Baltic Sea in the winter of 1658, when Charles X. led his whole army across it from Holstein to Denmark, as over an immovable bridge of ice. The great polar current which moves down over Hudson Bay and the east- ern half of British America, in nearly meridi- anal lines, during the winter, is now pushed aside and diverted eastward by the vast equa- torial current that sweeps from the Pacific and streams through the passes of the Rocky Mountains in Idaho and Montana; so that in- stead of descending, as it did in January, into the Mississippi valley, the boreal current is projected southeastward over Canada and the Northern States. Only a few days ago the evidence of this was afforded by the startling intelligence of the breaking up of the ice in the Upper Missouri at Fort Benton, and as late as Monday (the 4th inst.), while the mercury was rapidly falling below zero on the lakes and over Canada, the Signal Service reports showed the high temperature of fifty-one de- grees Fabrenheit at Fort Benton. Such spells of cold as the present sometimes mark important periods in history, as well as in climatology; and itis of the first impor- tance to all classes of men to understand their causes and to be forewarned of their conse- quences. We have already suggested the chief agent at work in the production of such weather in the northern part of the United States and Canada, in the southwesterly winds from the Pacific. Formerly we have been taught to suppose that when we had a cold snap at this season in New York it was due to a band of wind moving directly over the sum- mits of the Rocky Mountains, and thus becom- ing intensely chilled, The published weather reports from the region west of Lake Superior, extending to the Upper Missouri, explode this theory and fully establish the fact that the zero tempera- ture comes from the far North. The weather map daily éxbibited in this city presents also the additional and beautiful phenomenon of an enormous wave of atmosphere heaped up on the lakes southward, around whiob, in accordance with the celebrated law of Buys Ballot, the winds are powerfully drawing in the direction of the hands of a watch. It is to this circumstance that meteorologists show we are indebted for the violent northwest winds of the last few days on the coasts of the Eastern and Middle States. So potent are these waves of high pressure in causing cold winds that in the great December frost of 1860, in Great Britain, the thermometer ranged near zero for eight days, and in 1867 the same conditions produced, even in January, a fortnight of frosty weather in the sea-girt island. Mi tis gate ce Interesting as it is to got the few rays of light science has been able to throw over the causes of these thermic phenomena, their re- sults aré what more deeply concern us. ‘These northwesters of March on the American seaboard, attended by. terrific snow storms, both on and off the coast, have been the terror of homeward-bound mariners from time im- memorial. Many ships annually founder in these gales between the capes of the Delaware and Chesapeake and Boston, and instances abound in which vessels making this port have encountered freezing snow storms, which have covered their masts and rigging with dangerous masses of ice, stiffened and frosted their crews, baf- fled all their skill, and driven them back time and again into the Gulf Stream, and kept them out forty and fifty days. Our coasting steamers and revenue cutters should now maintain 9 sbarp lookout for such craft in dis. tress and lend them every assistance. The extreme and concentrated violence of this spring's northwesterly gales, it is to be feared, will put our transatlantic steamships also in early and imminent peril of icebergs on the Newfoundland Banks and southward. The Greenland and Labrador currents and the whole of Davis Strait—the great channel of polar water in the Atlantic—are now gorged with floating ice islands, and the immense cur- rent of polar air which has for several days been sweeping over us and our Canadian neighbors has, doubtless, been prematurely at work hurrying these dreaded monsters southward into the main highways of naviga- tion. Only the finest steamship and the most sleepless vigilance on the part of our steam- ship commanders cao avert such catastrophes this spring as but yesterday, in all probability, overwhelmed the City of Boston. It is reason- able to hope that the month which ‘‘comes in asa lion may go out as a lamb,” to the great advantage of the country in an early and set- tled spring, 80 propitious to the agricultural and fruit-growing interests, The Weather Bureau at Washington is now asking the government for means to extend its observations to the West Indies to enable it to gain early intelligence of approaching cyclones, in the premonition of which it has had such brilliant success. But the anti. cyclones of which we have spoken are quite as important phenomena, and come from the opposite quarter of the Continent, It will be agrand step in advance if the Ohief Signal Officer could push his observations north of the Amerigan frontier, Republican Canvass of Now Hampshire. | Congress Yesterday—Appropriation Bille The republican canvass just completed io New Hampshire gives the State to the repub- licans by about 1,200 majority ; but competent judges admit that this estimate is too high, ag there has been a slight increase in the tem- perance vote since the canvass was made, which vote, it is expected, will be drawn al- most exclusively from the republicans. There are four general tickets in the field—the re- publican, democratic, labor reform and tem- perance. In 1870 the labor reformers polled 7,369 votes, last year but 780; temperance vote in 1870, 1,167; last year, 314; republi- can majority in 1870, 1,353. There was no choice for Governor by the people last year, the democratic candidate lacking 829 of the necessary majority over all out of a poll of 69,729. The Legislature, however, by & coalition between the democrats and labor reformers, elected the democratic candidate, and the State is now in the hands of the demo- crats, The recent canvass puts the total vote of the State this year at 74,000, being an increase of about four thousand over last year, leaving, it is calculated, 72,500 to be divided between the democrats and the republicans. Of this number the republicans claim 36,600, and hope to get u little over 37,000. We have not yet seen any report of a democratic cangass of the State. Perhaps the party managers are too lazy to make one. It is said the democrats are working quietly but very assiduously, and claim the State by a fair majority. The fact that the Legislature to be chosen on Tuesday next is to elect a United States Senator for six years may be the means of considerable ‘‘iruck and dicker” between all parties, and the grand result prove to be the election’of a democratic Governor and a republican Legislature. The republicans are always ready to surrender a Governor to secure a United States Senator, and they act wisely, too. Bismarck’s Views on the British-American Trenty Difficulty. Any opinion the great German statesman, Prince Bismarck, may express on international questions or difficulties must have weight in the world. There is not, perhaps, among all the great men of the time one more clear- headed, far-seeing and comprehensive than he is. When we are told, therefore, that he takes a favorable view of the position the United States government has taken with regard to the disputed point of submitting the question of consequential damages to the Geneva Alabama Claims Arbitrators, and that England is wrong in her attitude of hostility to the American case being submitted to these arbitrators, the jus- tice of our position is strengthened. The expression of. such views by the famous German Chancellor will have a good effect, no doubt, in England. Bismarck, according to the reported conversation he had with a member of the German Parliament from Ham- burg, when he spoke in this manner, said also that there was no fear of war between Eng- land and the United States; that England was clearly in the wrong, and that she would ex- tricate herself from the exceedingly unpleas- ant predicament, The language of the news- paper organ of the German Premier seems to confirm the opinions expressed in this re- ported conversation. It says:—‘‘Apprehen- sions have been manifested at some of the commercial centres of the German empire in consequence of the complications that have arisen between England and the United States owing to the interpretation of the Treaty of Washington. The German press has had so much to say about the injus- tice of the English view of the question that we need not say anything on the subject, ex- cept that we consider that English view un- tenable; and, because it is unjust and untenable, we think it is a foregone conclusion that the English government will not persist in it,” It is evident that the sentiment of the statesmen and people of neutral nations is growlng more in fayor of the United States and against England on this disputed ques- tion, The English will not fail to see this, and will, probably, change their tone. We have never had any apprehension of serious difficulty, and believe, with Prince Bismarck, that England will find a’ way to extricate her- self from the unpleasant predicament she has placed herself in. Activity of Political Partics in France. Political parties in France are energetically at work laboring to hasten or to delay the crisis which appears almost inevitable, Bona- partists, Bourbons and republicans are all playing their little games. M. Rouher, since his election to the National Assembly and his return to Paris, has become the central figure of, the imperialists, The ex-Minister of Napoleon shows, in his recent course, a deter- mination to become the leader of the free trade party in the Assembly. Reaching this position he would secure a strength not to be undervalued. Then, again, we are led to be- lieve he intends taking the side, in some shape or other, of the Pope; and his coquetting with the generals of the army in and around Paris is already 9 matter of considerable gossip. Ia all this there is an evident intention of preparation for the laying down of a pro- raat. President Thiers well anderstands what these tactics mean, and is somewhat alarmed at what may probably result from them, The Bourbons, legitimate and otherwise, are not less active. Conventions across the bordef, dinners, meetings and proclamations distinguish their workings. In the South of France monarchi- cal agents are at work preparing the public mind for the restoration of Henri V. as King of France. In republican circles there is much that is mysterious going on; but tho trouble with the republicans is that they will not recognize the fact that they have already a republic which needs only strengthening to render it stable and lasting. It is really hard to define a French republican, The uncer- tainty which prevails in France to-day is well calculated to shake a much more secure gov- ernment than that of M. Thiers, Every per- son is looking for a change, prospects are discussed and probabilitics considered, Par- ties are preparing for the grand tableau which cannot be much longer delayed. A week may change the whole aspect of affairs, and it may take months, but when the last actis played we fear the curtain will drop on the fall of a republic, the place of which will be supplied by cithor # kingdom or an empire, Goveramont Bulldings—Yerba Lucena. Both houses were at work yesterday on the Practical business of legislation. The Senate passed bills for the erection of goverament buildings at Albany, St. Louis, Hartford and Raleigh, and then took up and spent most of the day on the General Civil Appropriation bill. It also adopted a resolution instructing the Committee on Commerce to make « thorough inquiry into the subject of immigra- tion, and of the treatment of immigrants after their arrival and on railroads, and also into the subject of quarantine and health reguls- tions at the ports of New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore. In reference to the proposed strike on the part of the great railroad cor- porations, to exact one-half larger compensa- tion for carrying the mails, a letter was read from Mr, Thomas A. Scott, Presi- dent of the Pennsylvania Central Railroad Company, denying that he bad authorized the use of his name to the circular addressed to railroad men. But his letter does not seem to have gone to the point of denying that he had given his assent to the proposition, and that is the main point in the affair. The House disposed of all the pending amend- ments to the Deficiency bill, and then passed the bill. Mr, Dawes succeeded in getting into it an item to pay to workmen in the gov- ernment navy yards a full day's wages for eight hours work—a remarkable piece of in- consistency on the part of the leader of the House, who has pretensions to be considered a reformer and econ- omist. The Senate bill for the redemp- tion of the thirty million three per cent loan certificates was reported back to the House adversely from the Committee on Bank- ing and Currency, and was, after an irregular skirmishing fight, defeated by being laid on the table, A proposition for an investigation into newspaper charges against the Secretary of the Navy was objected to, although it was stated on behalf of the Secretary that he de- sired an investigation and courted It to ita fullest extent. Mr. Bingham, of Ohio, would not consent, as he said, to have the House converted into a Star Chamber Court, and he was supported in his objection by Mr. Banks, of Massachusetts, on the ground that there was no allegation specified in the reso- lution which would justify the House in origi- nating such an inquiry. The House spent several hours over the Yerba Buena bill, but adjourned without reaching a vote. It will not come up again before next Tuesday. Governor WarMots Pronounogs AGAINST GENERAL GRANT.—Governor Warmoth has de- fined his position in a warlike pronunciamento against General Grant, embracing the declara- tion that “I intend to support the nominee of the Cincinnati Convention.” Governor Grate Brown, Senators Trumbull, Schurz and Tipton are four, and Warmoth makes five. Tally five for the Cincionati Convention, MOVEMENT OF THE PRESIDENT. President Grant at the Quaker City—The Wedding of Miss Drexel—Reception to Ex- Collector Forney and Dinner by George W. Childs. PHILADELPHIA, Marcn 7, 1872. President Grant and Genera Porter arrived here this afternoon and will spend several days here. To-night the President attends the wedding at Drexels. Miss Drexel marries Mr. Biddle, a scion of one of the leading families of this city anda partner in Drexel’s Banking House. Mr. John W. Forney will be the recipient of a ban- quet at the Acaaemy of Music to-morrow evening from the merobants of Philadelphia, The President will be present. y Mr. George W. Childs, the proprietor of the Public - Ledger, gives a dinner on Saturday next in honor of the President. The Centenntal Commission will also be present at this reception. Personal Intelligence. Ex-United States Senator Ben Wade, of Oblo, ar, rived at the Astor House yesterday morning, but left in the evening. Collector James F. Casey and United States Mar- shal James B. Packard, of New Orleans, yesterday reached the Fifth Avenue Hotel from Washingtoa. Judge Joseph Vilos, of Wisconsin, is sojourning Qt the Grand Central Hotel. =~ General Edward M. Lee, of Connecticut, ts stop-, ping at the Hoffman House. R. M, Pulsifer, editor of the Boston Herald, 13 at the St. James Hotel. Commander H. A. Adams, Lieutenant Commander F, R. Smith and Lieutenant &, E. Impey, of the ‘United States Navy, have quarters at the St. Denis Hotel. PR A Captain U. 8. Roberts, of the United States Army, is domiciled at Earle’s Hotel. Colonel P. Moffatt, of the United States army, has temporary quarters at the Grand Central Hotel. General A. E. Burnside, ¢x-Governor of Rhode Island, ts at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Congressman James F.. Wilson and General G. M. Dodge, of lowa, arrived at the Brevoort House last night. The former of these gentlemen has been spoken of asthe probable nominee of the National Republican Convention for Vice President, Ex-Senator Alexander McDonald, of Arkansas, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Mr. John R. Thompson, of the New York Evening Post, left yesteraay by the steamer Morro Castie for Nassau and Havana. § Ex-Congressman Demas Barnes, of Brookiyn, has declined to accept @ reappointment to membership of the Board of Education of that city, He intends to signalize nis departure from the Board bya dinner to his associates at his residence, immedt- ately after the meeting of tue Board Ong the frat Tuesday in April. . ‘ ‘The visit to this city of Admiral Englefelt, navat: attaché of the British Legation, has been for the purpose of inspecting the naval and military sta- tons and engineering enterprises in this vicinity. On Wednesday he vistted the Navy Yard, and from there proceeded to Hallett’s Point to view the ope- rations to effect the removal of the Hell Gate ob- strnctious to navigation. He intends, tt 1s gald, to visit every place where he can gain a knowledge of the progress of this country in engineering skill and tts exact miiltary and naval power, NAVAL ORDERS. WasaInaTon, March 7, 1872, ant A. 8. Crowninsitield has becn ordered so Gone duty at the Boston Navy Yard; Ensign EJ, Berwind, W. E.B. Delahay, Wiliam P. Day ‘and Clinton R. Curtis nave been ordered to duty on the Powhatan; First Engineer James P. Sprague, to we Jroqats; Lieutenant Joseph @ om the Boston Navy Yard to Fo Powhacans Assistant Surgeon Fitzsimmons, from the Philadelphia Naval Hospital to the Saranac; ‘Assistant Surgeon R. A. Morrison, from the Sara- nac to return home; Assistant Surgeon Abel FF, Price, from the Juniata aud granted six months? leave of abseace, with permission to remain in Europe. SEIZING THE STOCK OF THE OSWEGO RAILROAD, » Ronpovr, N. Y., March 7, 1972. The Vollecter of the town of Kingston this evens ing seized five locomotives, seven passenger cars and other property of the Rondout and Oswego Ratiroad at this place, to satisfy a tax claim of $3,000, and advertises to sell some of them on the 16th inst. ‘The Collectors of the towns of Olive aud Hurley have also claims for unpaid waxes agains, the company. .