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WASHINGTON. THE SPANISH CHAINS. The State Department and Dr. Howard. CONNECTICUT AND THE DEMOCRACY. LABOR REFORMERS LOOKING UP. Curious Course of the Robeson Investi- ; gating Committee. A QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE. ‘The Spite of the Wisconsin Land Lobby. THE QUARTERMASTERS’ TROUBLES ‘WaASHINOTON, March 22, 1872, The American Citizea in spanish Chaine— Dr. Howard's Case. Secretary Fish has sent Mr. Adee, our Chargé @ Affairs at Madrid, an energetic despatch upon she case of Dr. Howard, who, at the date of the lajest official advices, was in chains, with shaven head, in a Spanish prison at Davaoa, awaiting de- Portation to the penal settlements tor twenty years. ‘This vigorous action of the Secretary 1s due to several causes, chief among them, perhaps, pressure in the Cabinet from those advisers or the President Who have opposed and lamenced the weakness of our Cuban policy. General ‘Torbert, the American Consul General at Havana, spurred vo whe verge of a@ipiomatic indiscretion by indignation arising from his nearer presence to the atrocities and insults of the Spanish-Cuban officials, has galled the State Department py expres- s1ons that did not come here in the numbered de- spatches addressed vo the Secretary of State, He bas been admonished tobe more reserved in his censure of tings that caunot be rightly judged by one not conversant with the reasons of State thatcon- trol the diplomatic intercuurse of the government with other countries, Besides this the relatives and friends of Dr. iéward in Unis country have been exceedingly active in his behalf, and have been careful to anticipate and remove every objection impending or raised im the Department which would prevent or weaken the claims of the agea Convict to the {ull protection of this government. ‘whe evidence against the Doctor ts declared by the Consul General to be of the Weakest and most insuffl- clent character, a8 will appear when the papers are tent to Congress, Itis te impresston rather than the belief at the Department that the Spanish gov- ernment will waive technicalities and reiease the prisoner a8 an act of friendimess towards the United States, at the same time banishing nim from Spanish territory; but if the Madrid Cabinet should Prove to be as intractable as on other occasions, ‘here will be no necessity of pushing the matter to extremities or assuming an impressive atutude, as the proof is not clear that Dr. Howard has not, un- der the rule of the State Department, compromised hus American citizenship by acts of omission or commission, tending to show that he has in 1a‘ent avandoned the legitimate purposes of naturaliza- ton, Shuuld tne case take this turn 16, 1sar from certain that the Secretary will be sustained in Digher quarters, ‘ke Democratic Congressional Committee and Conneciicut—The Fassive Policy. ‘The Democratic Congresstonal Committee to-day had a meeting for the purpose of discussing the political situation and mapping out a plan of action. The principal subject considered was the Connecticut election and she prospects of te democracy in that State. It was determined to make an unusual effort to carry thav election, and to tnat end the committee decided to send a num- ber of their best speakers there. Mr. Voorhees and others are to take the flela early next week. The general political situation was discussed, and although no definite action was taken, tze tenor of opinions advanced were in favor of a coalition. A promiuent democrat of the House, who has just re- turned from the West, said that the feeling in favor Of a passive policy is very strong. . The Labor iie:ormers. The gentlemen engineering the labor reform Movement have estublisned @ headquarters on Louisiana aveuue, and are actively preparing for this campaign. They are daily in communication with Judge Davis, and say they are receiving much encouragement from all quarters, ‘The money necessary for the campaiga is rapidly coming in, they say, and all looks well. They scout the idea of Parker’s withdrawing and the nomination of Fen- ton or Greeley by the Cincinnati Convention, They “declare that the ticket as presented will go before the country for support, whether it receives further endorsement or not. The Roveson Investigation. A £000 deal of discussion bas taken place in regard to the examination of Mr. Robeson. Mr. Dana’s appearance before the committee was unex- pected, it was thought he would appear only by counsel, His declaration that if the Secretary was aggrieved he had his remedy im a libel suit was re- garded by the administration peopie as an abandon- ment of the gravamen of his charges. On the other hand, Mr, Dana’s friends say that he took this course to have a wider range of investigation and make an assault upon the Department of a more effective character. The course of the committee in asking Dana and Kobeson to appear by counsel 1s severely criticised by the iriends of the Secretary. They say that the whole thing 18 anusual; that tt was not Gone when Mr, Boutwell, Mr. Creswell and Mr. Belknap were examined. They regard Mr. Dans as simply a witness, who should have given nis tes- tumony and retired. Mr, Robeson does not feel that he can with dignity take any part in an investiga- tion by his counsel, as he may at any time be called to answer the charge of any nowspaper. ‘The President says that the only way is for any accused officer (0 throw open the whole Department aud let Congress investigate in gay way it pleases, Asto retaining counsel, no says there aré No sands atthe purpose ot he Sestetaty to pay counsel, and do salaries of tne Cabinet officers do not permit them tomdulge in many legal luxuries, The Sec- rewwry Will perbaps send @ communication to the Chairman, taking this ground; but the matter ts in abeyance and no action has been agreed upon. One suggestion is that Mr. Frelinghuysen and mr. Butler will be asked to attend the committee and rep- regent the Secretary. The act of the committee tn permitting private counsel to appear as a kind of prosecuting officer with the President as defendant Bnd the committee asa grand jury is regarded as a ie ges of the House, and it ts embers will call attention Bh on Monday as a question of privilege. Tne whole matter has assumed an interesting phase aud Vill tead vo a sharp discussion, (ee ane Quarlehaascte Quarrels. t ‘The House Military Committee had for considera- tion to-day the Senate bill relating to appointments made im the Quartermasters’ Departinent of thé army under the reorganization act of 1866, and gave S final hearmg to both sides py counsel. Generals Ingalls, R, 0. Tyler, Rufus Saxton, Wm. Nyas and Other officers were present, The contestants for the [ete Ailed by Ingaila, Tyler and. others gave Up neit claim that iong ‘itd Continuous law, regulation And usage sustained their position, and vested their case On & regulation of 1857, repealed in 1803, and acknowledged by an act of Uongress in 1966. Un the side of the oMvers now huldiog the Grades several new points of law anu fact were ad+ duced, and thelr case was materialiy,stvengthened by the hearing granted to-day, The opposition to the Senate bill arises trom the circumstance that, tough it was introduced aa a compromine measure, i ‘Total amount of disbursements by Consular Total extra wages, &c., receiv DY CONSULS. ....cceereeesreee seeeeeee Total amount of deficiency pald by the ‘treasurer of the United State: $222,469 . NEW. YURK HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET, construction is placed on it now that was never Assented to by the officers whom it would injuriously affect by lowering thelr relative rank with other oMicers of their corps, and which was not under- Btcod when the bill was before the Senate. Tho Military Committee can be ready to report in a few days, but may wait for the forthcoming opinion of the Attoruey General to the President upon the whole vexed question of the law of appointment and promotion in the army. The Wisconsin Laud Lobby Preparing te Smash Things. Some of the people interested in the Bayfield and St. Croix job, now here from Wisconsin, being de- termined to expose the alleged complicity of the Northern Pacitic Railroad with the efforts to defeat their land grant, are preparing a statement of the Habilities that have been incurred by the Northern Pacific in the purchase and lease of Northwestern railroa‘ls. Itis possibie that voth parties will come to griet im the ena, The Wisconsin men, how- } ever, assert that they have it in thelr power to ruin the Northern Pacific, and they threaten to exert that power unless the opposition to the bill 1s with- drawn, They talk about millions of dollars as hav- ing been stolen by the Northern Pacttic “Ring” al- ready, and gay that the contracts for the building of the Dakota division of the road have been let and sub-let in such a Way that another million and « Dalf will amure to the profit of the directors or their agents atthe expense of the bondnoldera, These agents are understood to be lobbyists, King, tne Postmaster of the House, and D. Harrison, of St. Paul, When their statement is prepare1 they will submit it to the Pactfic Railroad Committee of the House. Consular Statistice. The reporton the condition of the Consular ser- ‘vice of the United States oy Mr. Keim, agent of the United States for the examination of Consular affairs, about to ve submitted by the Secretary of the Treasury to the President for transmissioa to Congresa, gives the following flatvering general ex- hivit of the state of our Consular accounts under Secretary Boutwell as compared with the same dur ing the years 1868, 1869 and 1865:— Statement of Consular salaries; fees and loss by ox. change for the year ending December 3}, 2853, and jor the fiseal years ending June 30, 1846, 1870 and 187) Total amount of salaries paid for 183 Cone BULBTOS. .....056 foe + $255, 540 Total amount of fees returned by Total amount of deficiency paid by the ‘Lreasurer Of the United States. .....+++s+$207,157 18 Total amount of salaries paid for 196 Oun- SUIALCS....... 02ers ve $345,053 Loss by exchange on same. ++ 13,708 + $358,761 287, 108 Total amount of deficiency paid by the ‘Treasurer of the United Stares.......0000 $71,653 In connection with these tables and those for 1870 and 1871 it should be stated that during the war of the rebellion the presence of English privateers on the ocean necessitated an increase of the number of Consulates. During the same veriod, also, and since, the amount of salary atracned to certain Con- sulates was increased by act of Congress, same TOUAL. .. 00.0 seeceeeee teeeenseees Total amount of tees received irom same 1870. Total amount of fees received from 186 Total amount of excess of fees over sums paid for salartes and loss by exchange.. 1871, nota amount of fees received from 184 Con. sulated...... «e Total am vunt the same.... Loss by exchang: $73,706 Total amount of excess of fees over sums paid for salaries and loss by exchange. . $147,619 Statement showing the amount expended by Con- “Bular officers of the United States for the relief of American seamen, the money received by satd of- cers for extra Wages, &c., and the loss by exchange incurred by them in drawing for balances due them during the fiscal years ending June 30, 1859, 1865, 1870 and 1871, also the commerce of the United States by registered tonnage, sall and steam, em- ployed in navigation, exvlusive of licensed and en- rolled vessels, for the corresponding years, compiled from the report of the Register of the Treasury:— }254, 572 82,103 Registered sali tonnage. Registered sveam tonnage Total tOnnage....s....+ sss seeeesseecseeee 2,507,402 ge Sines 2,507); Total amount of disbursements by Consular omcers and Joss by exchange... Tvial amount of extra wayes, & DY CONSUIB. .66eesece veers 2,414,654 92,748 Total amount of deficiency ‘treasurer of the United Sta Registered sail tonnage. Registered steam tonnage, Total VOBERGH > xroner as sane stnes eooreens 1,516,800 Total amount of disbursements by Consular onicers and loss by exchange............. $62,312 Total amount of extra wages, &c., received bY COUSUIS.... 0.0506 + 30,729 Total amount of defictency eat by the Treasurer of the United states. a Registered sail tonnage... Registered steam tonnage. Total tonnage....... A Snb-Pacific Cab General T, Van Buren, President of the American and East Iadia Telegraph Company, was before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs this morning advocating his little scheme for the construction of & telegraph line to connect the Pacific and Asiatic coasts by cable. He way modest in nis desires for aul, asking only that the government make the sur- veys and lay the cables, and then protect them with the naval forces from injury, Indian-Swindling Traders. General George B, Hazens was this morning be- fore the House Committee on Military A(fairs in re. lation to post trade among the Indians, He de. clared the present system radically defective, and proposed that @ council of administration, to con- sist of army oficers on duty at whe post, have the power to recommend for appointment post traders, and to fix their price, He said the grosseat impo- sition was now practised upon the Indians by many of these traders, The committee wi'l probably ren- der a blll in accordance with General tiazens’ ideas. Paying for Piscicultare. Professor Bayard and Hon. Willam P. Frye, of Maine, were before the House Committee on Ap- propriauons this morning asking an appropriation ef $15,000 for the protection and propagation of flay Zhe committee will, soport favorably on their fequest, ~ aoe > The Interoceanic Canal Commission. ‘The Commission appointed by the Presidenr, con- sisting of General Humphries, Professor Pierce and Captain Ammen, to examine the surveys of routes for wn interoceantc canal, will not organize until the Secretary of the Navy 1s prepared to submit the re Ports, now in his possession, of the work already accomplished by sarveying expeditions of the navy. Fl ‘Tehuantepec route is not considered practi- able, pata by the $44,470 1,824,256 192,544 + $31,583 1,244,228 180, 914 ++ 1,426,142 Presidential Nominations. ‘The President sent the following nominations to the senate to-day :— David Hadiey, nt for the Pottawatomie In- ians in Kansas; M. P. Freeman, Recelver of Public Moneys: at_ Elko, Ney.; G Agent at Portland, Me.; ceiver of Public Moneys at Detroit, Mich. Registers of Land john 8. Mayhagh, at Elko, Nev., A. Cam) ted at need ue Appointments. The following appointments of internal revenue gaugers were mad jo-day:— P. 0, Koberts, We Fennessee Aistrict; Edmond & Farmer, First Ruode Isiand; Henry A. Allen, Fifth Massachusetts; Jona Crebs, Twentieth Peua- sylvanias eorge L, Beal, Pension Reuben Reynolds, Re- rom) iiiam A, Newton, ialinahte 2, Settlers in Catiforn Tho President has signed the act granting pre- emption rights to sestiers in California. Revenue Offenders in New Orleans, The rapid increase of cases in the United States District Court of New Orleans against porsous charged with violating the internal revenue laws has made it necessary for the Attorney General to Appows Roberts Hutcheson Agsstant to District AL torney Beckwith, whose duty 1t will be to atrena 1 exclusively to tnis class of cases. GHARY'S MANIFESTO. Maryland's Alleged Defaulting Collector. The amount of the defatcation of General Daniel L, Stanton, ex-Collector of the Fifth Maryland dis- trict, so far as ascertained, was reported to-day by | The Pennsylvania Governor Clear- Supervisor Fulton to be $20,000, Experts are still engaged im examiuing his books, with a probability ing His Skirts. of discovering more frauda, Persona’, = Ex-Governor Theodore F. Randolph, of New Jer- Sey, is tn the city, at the Ariington. Colonel Thomas A. Scott, Vice President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, is again at the capital. General R. 0. Tyler, United States Army, is at the Ebbitt House. ITALIAN OPERA—“ZAMLET.” After. months of weary walting and anxious ex- pectation the long promise opera of ‘Hamlet,’ the work of M. Ambroise Thomas, was brought out last might at the Academy of Music, before one of the largest audiences of the season, Miss Nilsson deserves credit /or thus iulfilling in every detail the terms of her engagement with the pubitc, and to PHILADELPHIA, March 22, 1872, her own persistent exertions the honor of placing Mr. J. W. Geary, Governor of Pennsylvania and this much-talked-of work on the American stage is | “EJaest Brother of Reform,’’ as he somewhat ego- due, The opera, to speak irom firat impressions, | tistically styles himseif, has written a letter on the as one scene—the maduess and death of Ophelia— | Evens alleged frauds. As @ aisinterested State which will, live and take @ place among the best | document it Jeserves a place, possibly @ modest one, works of the Italian, French or German school; | in the archives of the Commonwealth. Geary, it but the rest of the opera 1s hy no means up to even | tg well known, rushes into print and notoriety the average standard of these works. The first fatal | on the slightest pretence. Fearing his constituents defect of the opera 18 in the libretto, in which | nyght possibly misunderstand his position on thé MM, Carré and@ Barrier succeed im buriesquing | premises, he nas taken tne trouble to sit up THE EVANS EXPOSE. His Declaration of Innocence Backed by Figures. STATE MILITARY BUNCOMBE. GEARY- AS A NATIONAL CASHIER, Shakspeare to an unlimited extent, The Bard of Avon has received rough usage before at the hands of opera librettista, but this is the worst of all. Zingarelll, Vaccal, Bellini and Gounod have set “Romeo and Juillet” to music, each version being entirely different as far as the handling of the trageay 18 concerned. Rossini transformed “Otnello” and Beriloz patched portions of “Much Ado About Nothing” together. Then the unetuous Falstaff bas been tortured worse than at Herne’s oak by the librettists of Salieri, Nicolal, Adam and Balfe, M, Thomas, the composer of ‘‘Hamlet,’’ in- troduced Faistaff, Shakspeare and Queen Elizabeth in one of the wildest and most extravagant bur- lesques ever written, known under tne title of “A Midsummer Nighw’s Dream.” Scarcely leas absurd is the idea of making poor old | Polonius and the Queen accessories to | the murder of Hamlet’s father, introducing a ballet | to assist at Ophelia’s deain and giving very oddly | arranged selections from the original dialogue, Fur instance, the magnificent sollioquy reads thus In the | lipretto:—“To be or nov; to die, tO siegp, to dream; | Maysterg!? Still MM. varré and Baroier are not tie only people Who failed to Reon Shakspeuro im an intelligent form im a@ libretto. Composers should let these works aloue and foliow the example ot Meyerbeer, who boailively retuned to touch any of the great poet’s works, garding the music, it 1a m general a strange patchwork of Meyerheer, Auber, Gounod, Weve and Verdi, with a lew Scan- | ainavian airs thrown im. ‘the opera was first pro- | duced in Paris on March 9, 1863, With Mile. Nilsson | as Ophelia, M. Faure as Hamlet, M, Collin as | Laeriea, Mme. Gueyimard as the Queen aud M, | B.ival as the King, Iu the following year Nilsson, | Siuico, Santiey and Baggiolo sang 1t at Coveat | Garueb, London, and wien Misa Nilsson came to | America it was represented in London by Mile. | Sessi a8 Opnelia, Mile. ‘Tetjens as the Queen and | oiognt a3 Hamlet. But the Swedisn songstress alone saved the opera in Europe, as the heaviness aud mouotonous character of the music made tt almost intolerable, Last night the cast was as fol- Tuws:—Ophella, Mile, Nusson; tne Queen, Mile, Cary; Hamlet, M, Barre; the Klas, M, Jamet; Laertes, Signor Briguoll; the Ghos', Signor Coletti, Hamict | and Opnelia are in reality the only roles worthy of | note in the opera, all the others be- | ing subordinate, ‘Io speak of the music in | detail. we Can only meu.tion some of te | sources from which M. Thomas drew his inspira- | tuon, The “Coronation Marcn” irom the “Prophet”? | fornished the ground for the opening march and | chorus, the first scene bemg the coronation of | Queen Gertrude by the usurper Claudius, A short | ‘eeilo g0lO announces the try of gamiet, to | whom Ophelia makes viclent love, and remirels | him of his plighted word to her. ‘The first passage | of interest in tile score 18 the filustrauon of the | words:— Doubt that the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun aoth move, Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt 1 love, ‘This 1s a solo of Hamlet, strangely reminding us of one of the selections irom “Attila.” It recurs very oiten during the opera in mstrumental form aud is ‘used to mark the love between Hamlet and Opheita, In the duet which follows many ideas are borrowed from Verdi. Laertes has there bis only solo, and, tn fact, makes his first and last appearance in the opera. ‘The soio was well sung by Signor Brignoll, | bat does not call for spectal commendation as a | composition, The courtiers then enter and sing } old German volkslied and the curtain falls, scené on the battlements (set last night with the | tower from the ‘Lrovaiore,” part of the wood scene from ‘Martha’ and at tne back a view from “L'Africaine”) followed, and the guost | made his début, ‘Lhe instrumentation of this scene | is mghly dramatic, cousidermg that “Der Frey- | schutz” furnished no iuconsiderable share of ihe | materials, Marcellus and Horauo were represented | Jast night by gentiemen whose acting and singing | were not of a high order of merit, The ghost was | clad marmor as usual, but with the singular ap- | pendage of a long bricS veil. mamiet’s invocation, | Spettro infernal, astrong, Vigoru1s plece o1 de- | lineation, for which Mr, Barre’s voice . was nade: | uate, a stately, solemn theme for the ’celio of | the Meyerveer pattern succeeds the disappearance of the ghost, this Te ated often during the opera, individual- ened that Inguiet denizen of the other world. ‘The third tableau 1s a garde scene which is bodily taken from the corresponding scene in “Faust.’? uphelia here laments the indifierence of Hamlet to her love in strains very like the “King of Tnule,’’ A little of the Donizetti spirit ts showa in her suc- ceeding aria. A. very interesting arioso for we Queen follows, which did not receive from Miss Cary due spirit and expression. ‘Lhe cuorus of the players in tnis tableau is Meyerbecr 1u both theme | and instrumentation, Hamict then sings a common. place driuking song (shade of the divine Wiiltam!) ; and the curtain fails, A fine, surring march intro- duces the scene of tue players before the King. The | well known play of ‘fhe Mousetrap” 1s entirely done in pantomime. by three ballet dancers, and Hamlet accuses the King before the entire Court with the marder of his father. The fiith tableau commen with the monologue, a fine specimen ot Meyerbeer. | ish instrumentation. In this Faure made a great | hit in London and Paris, but it fell without effect last night. In fact, M. Barre is not capabie of sus- taining such a rele. The id between Uphelia, the theme 18 ween and Hamlet, which follows, is very | Tamatic and well written, and was weil ; rendered last evening. ‘he tableaa closed | with the sccie between Hamiet and his mother, im which the Ghost look a pare The sixth and last | tableau, aud, as we have said hefore, the best part | of the opera, introduced a ballet of ten coryphees | and one mule dancer and the mad scene apd seat of Opnelia, ‘the ballet in Parls 7 Loudon, a8 we asthe magnificent mise en scene, would be caicu- lated to save @ Worse Opera than “siamiet.” But the wondrous acting aud vocalism of Nilsson in this scene inst might wrought the audience | up to o pitch of enthusiasm rarely witnessed in | the Academy, and went far to compensate tor the | shortcomings of the composer aud thie impresario, | A pecultar efiect 1s producea here vy the chorus bee hind the sceues singing @ Swedish melody, & bouches Jermees, With & harp und flute accouipa- niment. Ophelia then laid herself duwn to die at lhe edge of the stream, and was carried away by the waters. Without disparaging tne poetic idea of the deach, it is necessary to speak of the me. | Chanicai illustration of tt. “The stream” consisied of three tiers of painted boards, and on the middie One Of these Miss Nilsson was slowly wafted down | on what is Known tn stage parlance as a ‘travel- ler.” Certainly something should have been dune to save this scene, at least, by tne ‘son in charge 1 the scenic deparument, The chorus and or- | chesira were above the avetaga standard, aud | rs zek broagni them through without & halt | or break. It is, indeed, a singular instance of the want of appreciation that sometimes will warp the | judgment of musicians, M, Thomas should be- ‘come the successor of A: at the Conservatoire of Paris, instead of Gounod, who ts now living in | London, One page from the pen of the composer or “Faust? 6 world all 4 scores lous M. ‘Yh et i wrilien or ever will writé, Sissy Nilsson | jast evening was the recijtent of showers of bouquets, and was recalled repeatedly at each fall | Of the curtain. Poor slakspeare | In music or the drama he is selected a3 the savorite target for un scrupulous actors and composer Before wo £1088 the subject of the frat representa- tion of Hamlet’ ig necessary to that the score Was cut with an unspai hand, judiciously Vy instances aud iadicr. for the story at | least, In otherg. The opera ended with the death of Ophelia, and the last act was entirely omitted. The ravediggers were allowed to sink in oplivion, the | fuer between Hamlet and Luertes was unfought and Claudius escaped svot tree; We doubt very much ff, after the exit of Ophelia on the bosom of | “the stream,” many of the audience would have | cared to wait to hear what became of her lover and brother, “Roberto Li Diavolo’” will ve given at joe matinee to- BOILER EXPLOSION, A Boiler Forty Feet Long Li.ted a Disiance | of A Hundred Feet -One Man Misowg and de MAGS Nee Trenton, March 22, 1872. Boller No. 3 at the New Jersey Steel and iron Works exploded to-night, at avout ten o'clock. The boiler 1s forty feet iong, and was carried one hundred feet into the blacksmith shop, which it Mashed into ruins, The expiosion was heard for miles, A man named Hughes, the boiler tender, cannot, id, be found, ‘The following are injured :— Will m Tearle, head and ori Jonn Buckus, hur fn the neud; Jonn McLea, leg broken; Patric McTie! in the nead; Frank McOormick, hurt } im the ‘Tne acoue 1s one Of great confusion. | pointed State Agen! | img any knowledge had of the con nights and substitute a lunch for dinner during the day, that we might write a fuil history of the Evans busimess, He says:— f ~ °é* _ Exgcorive OMAMBER, HarnissurG, March 14, 1872, To the Hon. Jaugs 8, GRAHAM, Cuarman 3 pe epaines to Investigate the pettlemen! the Claims, &¢.:— Siz—On the 29th ultuumo I had the honor to recelve from you the following communication:— SENATE CNAMBE! uy Par bebe 2 iie.t GEARY, Governor of Penn en directed by the commutes appointed to inves- tigate the collection of ‘the “War Claims” of the State of Pennaylvaniy against the National \overnment, by George ©, vans, to present to you the following, resolution, which Was passed at a meeting of the commiuiee, beid February 27, Kesolved, That His Excellency the Governor is most re- ‘spectfuily Teanested to communtoate, at as early a day xe possible, any information ju his possession relating to the Sppolutment and proceedings of George 0. Evans, ap- pursuaut toa resolution of the’ Ley: Iniature of March, 1867, and his subsequent appointment to collect claims filed in the Auditor General's office, inelud- vn of the sus- pended and ditalowed ciaims previous to the appoint- ment of Mr. Evans, and of each and every report made by Mr. Evans while ‘discharging his duties as State agent, and the reasons on which the claims marked “suspended and disallowed” by the Secoad Comptroller were alterwards allywed. and any other information bearing ou the subject. Very reapect{iuiy, JAMES 8, GRAHAM, Chairman Committee, In complying with the request contained in the resolution it givcs me pleasure to avail myseit of the opportunity thus afforded to communicate to you in detail the facts relating to a mater about Which there has been much misrepresentation and no litte display of acrimonious feeling; regretting tat the condition of my neaith has made an early response Impossible. ror several months past my name has been associated with vague but unfounded rumors relating to these public claims. Conscious, how- ever, of the integrity of all my actions in the discharge ot my official duties, 1 feit it due to myself and the honored position 1 oc cuny to decline all controversy on the subject, HAR To His Excellency Joun W. sylvanta:— Thave | and I therefore remained silent in the miast ol wits. Tepresentations, iully convinced that a plain and truchfut history of ine facts, when 1 had an oppor- tunity of presenting them ofictally, would CORRECT THE MISCUIEVOUS ERRORS which had been so insidiously and industriously circulated, a in cominunicating under these circumstances the intormation asked for by your resoiution, it will be necessary to go back and examine the matter irom the beginning, 60 that a clear understanding may be had of tne various facts aad incidents as they have arisen and presented themselves in tne history of these slaims, Huving mduiged in his usual amount of buncombe the-sfiusiwious. Geary proceeds to give the figures, thus:—The obligation of the State to the United S.ates for the diract tax became fixed and sett.ed go that the claims of the national government against the State and admitied by it amounted to $2,652,719 33, made up as lollows:— 1, September 19, 1861, money obtained from the United States by Henry U. aM State Tr surer, as Le.ore explained. 8606,000 09 a 1,946,719 88 2 February 1, 1862, the SI tax for 1842, assumed by State as avov Total... Against this large claim on the part of the na. tional. government the State held vouchers tor war @xpenditures which entitled it to claim, under act of Congress of the 27th July, 1861, United States, the expenses incurred ing, clothing, supplying. equipping, paying and transnoriing troops employed in aiding to suppress the insurrection. These vouchers, ay may readily be conceived—con- sider the circumstances under which the ex- penscs were incurred—were in great con- asion. Fully impressed, however, with the importance of having the claims upon the vouchers so held for settlement to the proper accounting officers of the Treasury of the United States, Governor Curtin, acting upon What he deemed the necessary autnor- ity devoived upon him by act of Congress, July 27, 1861, appointed a member of his stam, Lieutenant Colonel Morton McMichael, as special agent, de- talied to attend to this tmmportant duty, {Colonel McMichael thereupon prepared and filed on March 1, 1862, an abstract Of the case as below.) The United States to the Commonwealth of Pennsyivania, For expenses incurred previous to July 97, 1661, in enrol. ling, trausporting, subsisting, and eqiipping troops to ald 20 wuppressiag the present insurrection against the United Le, RECAPTITUL ATION, Quartemmasier's Department, Abstract A. jummi ary. Expenditure under act of Assenibiy, 12th April, 1961 :— Abstract A. a. Clothing manufactured by the State of Fong \vania. $187,246 86 Abstract A. b. Ciothin; ment. &o.. Expeniitul 16th of May, 161 Abstract A. ¢. Clothing and equipment.170,024 OL Expenditures under act of Assembly, 16th May, 186 fro for? arming, Abstract’ A. ment . bata i $516,956 1546, Transportation and Telegraph Department, Abstract 4, bed ‘Summary. Expenditures under act of Assembly, th Apri, te Bopengiares, ih May, (861 S— Abstract B: b. Transportation of troops. 75,318 89 Abstract Bc Telegrapuic wervices.... 5.173 W Subsistence Department, Abstracs C, Summary. Expenditures under act of Assembly, April 12, 1861 7, Abstract C. a. Subsistence in kind. ....125,980 46 Abstract ©. b, Boarding troops, 12568 23 Ex sg pe ander act of Assembly 16th me Abstract G.c Subsistence in kind, ‘Abstract Cd, Boarding troops, Ac... 5 BO — 240,529 98 Total....eeseeee ees e SBT 182,977 22 [This abstract was accompanied by statements of Governor Cartin and Auditor General Cocn- ran, certifying to its correctness, ‘Through the exertions of Colonel McMichael, principally, the assage of an act of Congress, approved March 8, Rect, ‘was secured, by which the provisions of the revious act were extended to expenses incurred aiter {ts passage; and Colonel McMichael then pre- pared a secona instalment of claims, embracin: ‘what he then considered the entire expenditures o} the State for military purposes, claimable trom the national governmeat, made up to the 30th of May, 1862, and amounting in the aggregate to $854,337 20, ‘This statement was a8 beiow:— ‘Te United States to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, For expenses incurred to May 80, 1862, in’ enroling, trans porting, auvsieting, euutpping and axing troops to ald ta Polatmens of George'O. ns as special agent, He Ine by quoting @ resolution from Mr, Davis. Mare 22,. vis, Irom Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was committed resolution No. 931, entitled ‘Joint resolution authorizing the appointment of a special agent to coilect disallowed and suspended claims against the United States,” repo the same as committee. ‘The resolution was before the Legislature for @ pertod of twenty-one hes =f and it received full and careful consideration. Through all the stages of its rogress it has the unanimous support of each jouse. Indeed, the only opposition from any quarter, so far as I am advised, to Making an attempt to settle the accounts at Washington was irom Mr. Wiliam H. Kembie, then State Treasurer, He freqnently and persist ad urged upon me the fact of the clams having been disaliowed and suspended, and not having been insisted upon for so long a period, showed that they were really ot little Do value, and the only result therefore, of the re- newed agitation would be a speedy demand upon the State for the amount due to the United States, which was then stated to be “upwards of two mil- ons of dollars, with tive years’ interest thereon.’? My conviction, however, was already exPlained— that in the interest of the State a settlement ol these Huancial differences was imperatively demanded. [ theréfure cousidered that the State was bound, if justice 80 required, to pay in money the “two mil ons and upwards of dollars,” Du the pendency of the resolution Mr. Geo Sy, Eva of Philadelphia, was intro- duced to me, represented as a person in wer way qualified to perform services de Bu His ti rity of character was vouched for by many highly respectable citizens and mem- bers of and House of Represematives, After the most diligent inguiries I found that Mr. Evans’ experience as to the WORKINGS OF THE DEPARTMENTS AT WASHINGTON and his knowiedge of the rulings of the various Treasury oMicera on tne subject of war claims, and his general intelligence and character a8 am accountant and as @ man ere represented in such @ manner as could not ia}! {0 satisfy any one, When the joint resola- tion, theres was passed, I, without uny hesi- taney, desigt nim as tal Agent, ana commissionéd him accordingly. Fe receiyod his appointment and commissidn on the under- standing agreement that he was to have no compensation {or his expenses or services un- less he succeeded in his undertaking; but that upon SREP SPU Plt intdm of tne ‘amount thus collected, Tin teri vided: centres St: At the time tneré was not to my knowledgo any objection or unfavorable criticism upon ft by any individual, or from any portion of the newspaper press of the State. ‘here was no concealment on the part of any one, The claims. then on file were “suspended ani disallowed,” and their settlement and collection was quite as proviematical at that time as are the “iquidation and determimation” of the amount of sus. pended and outstanding claims, amounting to $361,749 v8, now on file at Washingtun, yet w be collected, He then Evans as therefore EXACTSD FROM EVANS AN AGRREMENT AND BOND, both of which were entered into ny the lat By the agreement Evans obligated —him- self to forthwith pay over to the Stave Treas- urer all monies which he might be able to collect lesa the commission allowed. To make semi-innual reports to the State ‘Treasurer, and annual reports to the Governor under oath and to ive bonds 1m the sum of $10,000, The bond of Evans was signed by himself aud Thomas Woods and John F. Gratf, and witnessed by M. J. Evans and Agnes Bvans, itis easy Jor parties actuated by motives very different irom what appears on their tace, to come forward now and, by ignoriny the facts and surrounding circumstances at the time, endeavor to misiead the public in reference to the understanding at the date of these instru- ments. Tuese claims had been filed in Washington in March and June, 1862. They had been carefuliy examined with the account-paying vouchers in the Third Auditor's and Second Comptrolier’s depart- ments, where they were entirely disallowed and suspended, with the exception of $112 60. ‘The report of the Tuird Auditor was made on No- veinber 1, 1865, and that of the Second Comprroller on February 2, 1866, ‘The sheets of difference show- ing the tems suspended and disallowed were re- ceived hy Goveruor Curtin, May 23, 1866, but no ac- tion was taken thereon by any of the State autnorl- thes belore | entered on my oilicial duties, Whatever any oue may now say in the ilgnt of the present result of the agent's labor, as to the supposed value of these claims when they were placed im bia hands for coliection, I then feared that no considerable amounts could be Yeaiized therefrom. I considered tne question at the time with all the information I could obtain, and 1 do not hesitate to say 4 was mucn impressed. With the feclings and convictions of the Treasurer, Mr. Kemble; and every member of the Legisiatare ‘with whom I converse expressed the opinion that nv large sum would ever pe collected, The paene might have had a dierent impres- sion; but as to this I know nothing. ‘hose act- ing on behalf of the State proceeded on the best information they could obtain, and they considered ‘Une arrangement with the agent to be one lu every sense benefictal to the State. IT WAS PURELY A BUSINESS TRANSACTION between the State and @ private individual, ‘he latter undertaking all the risk, and the Stato being subjected to no expense whatever, If no collection was made the ageut was to receive no remuneration, and had _per- sonally to provide for ail the expenses he might in- cor. ii there were collections he was to receive the rey allowed under the joint resolution upon he amount collected to cover all his expenses and recompense him for his labor, It the result tas turned out well for the agent, it has turned out equally well for the State; and this, quotes at length the resolution appointing Me collector of the claims. He says, supreasing (he prasent re! ellion against the government of a bt sie AQOOUNT NO, 2, Rerunitulation, Quartermasters General's Department, Abstract A, Summary, Abstract A F, Clothing and equipment, $179,864 80 Abstract AH. Miscellaneous expeu: tures... oe +5 + 40,008 42 Transportation Depart: rect B, Abstract B. ¢, Transportation of troops ‘and munitions of war... 108,044 18 ‘Abstract B. F. Telegraphic services. 8061 67 re f expenses "h} 22,897 61—198,461, 92 ‘Subsisience Deparim ©.—Suminary. Abstract C, ¢, subsistence in kin’ aL Abstract G Boarding troops, inci &e. 16,148 67 == 19,828 88 Adjntant Generale Department— ‘Apatrack Dy Summary nt + ‘ccou ‘Ahar ‘®% arms, 11,481 89 Amnastor General Master Gent a Voucher No, 778, Atctaprpety Ss Staif, ete... ov ——— 100,201 69 Surgeou-General's Department Ab- stract BE, Abstract P, rv aalanssctprcgendae oP 291,605 58 1,837 20 This statement was accompanied by letters from Governor Curtin aud Auditor General Cochran cer- tifying to Its correctness, and stauing that fnrther accounts ia oy claim oy UreTSeUE for future exe nditures and for such previous expenditures as Pould hot then be sactaagl ee ause een had not been presented to the accouuting oifice of the State, aLe 2 ™ MENT OP RVANS. Having given the amount of claims of the State of Pennavivania Governor Geary comes Ww the aD in my judgment, is matter for congratulation and hot for complaint. The contract with the agent, whether good or bad, was made by the Legisiature when it enacted the joint resolution authorizing his Sppointipent. r. Evans reported to me in May, 1567, The result surprised me much-more, indeed, than I can now express. Claims which were lookea on in all sincerity as comparatively worthless | Proved “in his hands to be possessed or great value, At last the large debt of the Commonwealth to the national goverament was pala in twil—a@ re. sult the accomplishment of which was highiy creditable to the special agent, He had succeeded at that time m optaining a Uacaation and determinauion by the accounting officers of the national government of we claims of the State to the extent of $1,989,115 62, as certificd by the Second Comptroller of the Treasury in we a ienewnnd i. Wit iS TRASURY EPARTNENT, ECOND CoMPTno! ¥ Orricr, May & 1807.—In a special settlement of the accounts of the State of rennsylvonia, No, 3.833, made fa this ollice in the month of April, 1807, the ‘snm of $1,989,115 £2 heretofore suspended and disallowed, has been allowed and pues 6 te) rou Lo. Vag 8, crplanations ane and ; . Evans, Eaq.. mi the weitlement of the wat late of Penniyivanie oe oF A. M. BRODHEAD, Comptroller, THE CLAIMS THUS LIQUIDATED and determined to the amount certified by the pe cele Ltn beehee enon) fn rebatement of tean per cent on juota of the direct ti amounting hed orc “ be ad The amount so liquidated was collected by Mr. Evans, and d.sposed of by him as follows:— fins Amount of iquidation as certitied by Comptro! Tee. 5 snopes cane « . .'81,989,1 1867, May 8, paid quote of direct tax.91,946;719 ie mage Lens 15 per cent secured ae -$292,007 90 350,000 00 ———- 13, a 1,804,71 1867, May 8. repaid cash ad- . ning vance ito Stale on Septem. ber 19, 1861... =13606,000 00 Less amount liq t ‘allowed of claims on No- vember 1, 1865, and applied towards the payment of this |. Gis soreserseeeen seseree asi Retained agent an nc Count of kis estauilaton-<, 78,016 89 - (684,404 89 Ota sbecvoss cpeonesoversoeeed 81,080,116 8 The following account shows clearly the debt of the State to the national government, and the se: tlement of the same:— The state of Pennsylvania in account with the United States, Ir rs of direct tax.. $1,946,719 88 jah advanced to Hi. D. Moore, state Treusurer, September 19, 1841,..... 606,000 00 ——-- $2,554,719 Jane 14, 1862, By cash per H. D. Moore, ban! hal State Treasurer 350,000 00 ae 60 November 1, 1865. By allowanee onliqui- dation of claims 00 this date. ,...ece0« May 8, 1857. By rebatement of 15 per cent on direct tax, obtained on this date by the liquidation id determi. nation of claims of mount... 222,007 90 By special scttlement of claima I. dated and veterinined on this date, and through which paid: a uate of dirett Le 1,946,719 83 YP pf Soabene os 007 90 Mir Btate dupe 14, 1863, as above... 960,000 00 ——— 64,007 9 —— $1,047 8 (2) Cash advanced as above— ‘On September 19, 1861. Leas allowed ‘above, on ment of this advance... 118 50 ——=-—— $9,662,719 33 During the year 1867 and 1868 Mr. Evans gave his attention to the collection of the balance of tue | claims remaining suspended and disallowed, and etlecied a further setiiement on October Hivans’" boing ‘expressly. cantuorized. ‘by ths ans yo ie ¢ resolution of the Legisiature to cotleci the ms, and veing Commissioned to do eo in accord- ance with the authority of that resolution thts sun Of $105,651 46 was paid to him by the Treasury at Washington and applied by him to tho payment of his commissions. Upon receiving this pay ment Mr. pin 9 4 Ave gts for commissions as stated by bin Bt U3 — Gomnlsslon of ten per cant on collections made— May 2, 1867, on, $1,989,115 82.. $198,011 58 October 27,1807, of $106,061 45, _ ee Total commission to October, 1868... co BUI ATS Balance retained by Mr. Evans on col lections made May 2, 1867, a #! ov 78,516 89 ber B86. +1 1O,EOL 48 a4 165 05 25, 2U8 mission due, aa claimed by Mi é mens ao Made On Uctoher 7, 1! Balance of com the claims of the State Mea against the Nation: Government stood thus :— me af First, Ciaims fled March 1862, Bec Chains Bled July 1 td, Clalans fled February Total... -..ee00 Of tese clatins there was collecied by the State, a8 above expiained, the foliowing sums :— November 1, 1855 May 2, 1862 1.9e0 113 8 jay Nees 988, October 27, 105,651 46 Balance of cl fled, suspended and dis- at tire elbesensacemag 4 vesceateeess B28,530 56 In the moath of snne, 1869, 1 was informed by Mr. Evans that, after a careful examination made by nim of the accounts filed in Wastington and the Annual Revorts of the Auditor-General and State Treasurer for @ series ears, existed other State claims whica had never been filed at Washington, ‘They consisted of disbursements for quarter- Masters’ stores, trausportation, and telegraphic accounts, and sims paid under the acts of Assembiy, April 16, 1862, and April 22, 1863, passed to provide patter adjudication and payment of certain military alma, The Governor reviews at sore length the pros and cous of this very celebrated case, and continues in detail the story of the collection and receipts rs moneys by the State Treasurer. It is diMealt conceive how the State can recover anything from air, Evans, who has, 80 far a8 proved, retained only, his legitimate commissions, EVANS DYING, It is stated that Mr. Evans at the present time is dyinx in Brooklyn trom chronic diarrhwa; that he is penolicess Uhat the proceeds of hts speculation have long ago been divided among @ certain ring Of politicians, and Mr. Robert H, Strachan, member of Assembly irom Newburg, N. Y. His counsel with two physicians, alone know of his wherea- bouts; and, flaally, that no one can reach him, and all this fuss and first class excitement ht just as well be stopped now, as in all probability Mr. Evans will never recover from uls present illness, and 4p such @ cage What will Pennsylvania do avout is? Persona! Intelligence. Judge Samuel F. Rice, of Monte omery, Aln,, ie at! the Metropolitan Hotel, | =*" JT. W, Williams, “nto of the Messenger, of Mil- Waukee, Wes, ts ar the Firth Aveaue Hotel. Chief Justice Jonn McClure, of Arkansas, has ar- rived at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Colonel George A, Mills, of Baltimore, is sojourn- ing at the Grand Central Hotel. Mr. Thomas McGreavy, a member of the Canadian Parliament from Quebec, 13 stopping at the Gilsey House, Lieutenant Commander F, FE. Chadwick, of tne United Statea Navy, has taken quartets at the Brevoort House, Ex-Mayor EK, D. Briggs, of Springfield, Mass., is among the latest arrivais at the Filth Avenue Hotel. General W. Clark, member of Congress from Texas, 1s at the St, Nicholas ilotel. Colonel Wiliam, t, Stewart 13 at the New Yor Hotel. The Colonel has been retired from the busi- ness of sugar refining, to connection with which his name had been so well Known for @ number of years, the greater part of which time he has resided 1n Paris, France, Judge J. T. Abbott, of Boston, 1s sojourning at the Brevoort House, Ex-Governor Alexander H. Bullock, of Massachw setts, reached the Fiftn Avenue Hotel last evening. A. B, Mullett, Consulting Architect of the Treasury Department, arrived from Washiagton at the Astor House last evening. United States Senator Thomas F. Bayard, of Dela ware, the democratic member of the Custom House Tavestigation Cominitlee, yesterday arrived at the Brevoort ilouse. Governor Ito, Minister from Japan, and six subor- dinate ollicers of the Japanese Embussy, left the | St. Nicholas Hotel on their return home on Thurs day evening. A Japanese oMcial named Sourawara left the St Nicholas Hotel last evening to join the Embassy ip Washington. This oficial was for several years in Europe studying its institutions and fitting himseli to aid in the introduction into Japan of their beat features in accordance with the plans of the Mikado’a counsellors, He has been here for some weeks, having been recalled to give the benefit of his ex- perience tothe Embassy which he has now gone to Join, THE WEATHER, WAR DEPARTMENT, OFFICR OF THE OMIRF SIGNAL OFFICRR, Wasittncton, D, C., March 23-1 A. M. Synopsis for the Cast Twenty-four Hours, An area of rain has extended from the Western Gulf States eastward to the South Atlantic Coast; that of snow from the Northwest to Tennessee, Vir- ginia, New Jersey, Lake Erie and the upper lakes, Rising barometer, northwesterly winds and clearing weather is now prevailing throughout the Ohio Valley. Probabilities, The area of snow will extend eastward over the Middle Siates and Southern New England states to-night, and over the latter on Saturday, Rising barometer, falling temperature, northwesterly winds and clearing weather will extena eastward during to-night over Lake Michigan, Inatana, and thence to Northern Florida, and on Saturday over the South Atiantic and Western Middle States, Dangerous winds are not anticipated for the Atlanuc and Gulf coasts, Supplementary Weather Report. Snow is reported {rom Cairo, Davenport, Cincin. nati, Duluth, Escanaba, Indtanapolis, Keokuk, Iowa; Leavenworth, Knoxville. Marquette, Memphis, Milwaukee, Nashviile, St. Pani, and St, Louls, Mo Rain has fallen at Augusta, Ga, Galveston, Sareveport, Vicksburg, and Savanuah, The rainfail at Vicksburg is reported one inch and forty- four hundreatis. A storm of sleet has succeeded the snow of this pect | at Davenport. Threaten. mg weather is reported, at last advices, trom Charleston, Chicago, Grand Haven, Jacksonville and Norloik. ‘The Weather in This City Yesterday. ‘The following recor! will show tha changas in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in com- parison with the corresponding day of last year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hadnuvs Phare macy, HERALD Building:— 18 1871, 1872, 56 40 71, 4872, 20 8p. 19 6P. 69 36 22 OP, 62 36 50. 12P. 52 36 Average temperature yesterday. see 29) Average temperature for corresponding date last year... THREATENED TYPOGRAPHICAL STRIKE IN CANADA, Toronto, Canada, March 22, 1872, The Typographical Society of Toronto, acting 18 concert with the National Labor League of the United States, have served notices on the Toronto printers that a general strike will take place on the Ast of June, auiess tiie nine hour system 1s adopted, and there 1s a corresponding advance for news composition and other wo.k. The master printers, including the publishers of all the Torouto ers with one exception, puolish a card asserting their determination to resist their demands, RAILROAD SNOW PLOUGHS WRECKED. Sr. Paut, Minn., March 22, 1872. A snow piough train on the Northera Pacitic Rail road, consisting of threo engines, became separated during a dlinding snow storm, and when the for- ward section stoppea at Hancock the aiter engine Came Up and telescoped two cars, Killing Conductor Fitzgerald and iatally injarmg another man, SNOW BLOOKADE. “Bosros, March 22, 1872, ‘The snow biockade on the European and Nort® American Ratiroad at last gives promise of » speedy raising. The train which left st. John on Thursday morniug nas again become stuck mm a drift at Winn, fiity-fve ites above here, where itis now (imdnigne waiting the arrival, irom Dan- forth, of the relief train wita three eugiues. Should no further obstructlou occur the train will reack this city at six A. M., Saturday. EUVROPBAN STSAMERS OUBA AND AMBRIOA, Hauirax, N. 8., March 22, 1872. The steamera America, from Havre, and Cuba, froin Liverpool, arrived here last night, short of coal Cunard & Co. will supply the Cuba, but the America Will have vo wait for coal, the supply bemg detained by the snow blockade. FIRE IN OENTRALIA, Mo.. Sr, Louis, Mo., March 22, 1872, A special despatch from Centralia, m0, saye & firg last night desiroyed the Masonic Hall, Flag’s | Hall, @ drug store, @ hardware store and @ dry tore. The joss is estimated at $36,000; | Sigs This 18 the fourth time shar tralla has been nearly destroyed by Ore