The New York Herald Newspaper, April 11, 1872, Page 6

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PAGE, one San ase —Advertisementa, Advert: emeutis, 3—The Presidency: Brilliant Opentng of the Re- 1 Campaigu; Henry Watd Beecher's ch Last Night in Brooklyn; ihe Venasvi- Yanta, Massachusetis, Kausas and Florida plenky Conventions; Popular Eathusiasia for ‘ant. 4—Financiai ana Commeretal: Erratic Fluctuations iu the Money Market; ‘The Rate “on Cail”? Opens at 45, Advaaces to 63, wo 7 and Closes at 12 Per Cent; fhe Pressure on the Secretary of the 1 to Buy an r. Boutwell Disap- the Stock Market jon Market; For- Extra Amount of Bonds; M l apd ‘and Brooklyn Cou sy Tine. Lock. al Jail Delivery—Rev. Dr. Vaughan ind tne Colored People, ‘iusic dud the Drata—Marriages, Birth aud | Deaths—Advertiseiments. Editorials: Leading Arucie, “The Rise ia Values | and Change in the Finauctal Amsrs of tie | World’ Mey Academy of | Music — New York Cou erence — News from Washinglou—Aimusement an | nouuceients, 7—The War tn rams frow BY Utail Churen Wreat! fe ol Shipboaruc Business Noi isements, f—Aaver 10 =the stare Ca apld Transit tn | te Sens Vienderdilt Pp pil to soive the Vexed Question; A Railtoad of | the Cuy, By the City For the City: The New York Charter; Custom fiouse Republicans Dabbling in the Mur famimaay Prima Tite ww sa Lord Charged neut—Siupping futeiligence— here was great ex- Tammany Repivives.— citement yesterday among ‘the the elections of delegates to the many General Committee. But means this great commotion? It me Tam- maoy, inthe langaage of the immortal Web- sier, proclaims to her enemies, ‘TE still liv: boy new Tam- what 3 that over Tax Senate Taree Bu some very desirable reductions has beea hung up to dry in mittee of Privileges and Electic it was referred on returaed House as a measure nol inatly to the Senate. The point is this, stitution says that all s for raising revenue shal! originate ia the House, and the House bolds to its jarisdicti But this dis- pute has very much the appearance of a con- trivance to defeat by evasions and obstruc- ti modifications whatever tional taxes to the end of this session of Con- gress. tis the Presidential year, and the | prospect of any definite action on our tarifl or interaal taxes is very slim, of the tariff, Senate Com- he 5, to from the belonging that the con- bein mons of our na- ma any Passport SysTeM ABOLISHED IN .— France is gradually regaining confi- deace in herself, One of the la is that the government has abolished the passport sysiem which it was found neces- sury to establish after the close of the war. The passport system was long a nuisance to travellers during the empire. It had been abolished, however, many years before the fall of Napoleon, Its re-establishment by the Versailles government was designed only for temporary purposes, It is agreeable to know that the lence Hencelorward travellers will be registercd at the frontic and no tax will be levied there- for, nor will they be subject to the sera civil officers while sojourning in the In‘abolishing the order President Thiers has, we The suuimer season travellers various parts of Europe aud from the United States, who would have avoided this order remained in force, will now visit the The Fraxo inconve: no loner existy, ay of ounir requiring think, clove at ha passports ed wisel Britain, sacds of from Great m France had country and spend their mouey freely among » French people, The money which ix thus brought to France every year is pot to be | lespised. It is reasonable to conclude th Vronce this year will be inundated with | travellers and that the amount of money to be pent by them in the couotry will be more than Sarge. * Some little ine ynyenience may result from the change; but, oa the whole, it minst be provonn a wie " Tu Depawrene of the democratic party leads through the bac n cinnati i ra’ Conv Belmont h Lit in callin ing of his Nati nocr Comm ° week after tae asvombliog of 1 Cocin gather whieh embraced | which } st proofs of this | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, |The Riso in Valnos aud Change in tho Financial Affairs ef the World. Ono of the most remarkable features of modern clyiligation is tho rise in values and their tendency to equalization thronghont the world, Tha discoveries of the age in sci- ence, the mechanical a the precious metals and other treasures previously hidden in the bowels of the earth, and in political economy and the true principles of government, are producing a revolution in the financial affairs and relations of all nations, And the mighty agent which is stimulating, unfolding and utilizing these discoveries is the press. Archimedes only wanted a fulcrum for a lever to move the solid globe. In the press we have found both fulcrum and lever to move the intellectual and moral world, The magnetic telegraph, that most potent and mysterious agent of modera progress, finds expression through the press, The intelligence conveyed by steam power, as on the wings of the wind, is rapidly diffused by the press through all the channels of society. Tho effect is wonderful in all the concerns of life, but in nothing is it more so than apon values generally and monetary transactions. In former times the valuo of things differed greatly in different localities, and generally in proportion to the amount of specie or money concentrated or held at any place. There is a great difference still arising from that cause, as we see from the value of real estate, goods, living, labor and securiiies of every kind, and in the interest of money in various countries and places. But a great change has been effocted already through the agencies we have mentioned. Where there was a difference of a hundred or several han- dved per cent in value formerly, the difference now is not balf as much, and the tendency is more and more every year to comparative equalization. But at the same time that this equalizing of values is going on there is a rise generally of the market price of everything. This, too, is independent of local or incidental causes, such as the war and debt of the United States and the temporary financial exigencies of other countries, and results from general causes, The enormous production which haa resulted of lite years from the discoveries of science and improvementa in the mechanical arts and the vast aggregation of wealth have not led to cheapen property and money as some economists might have supposed they would, because the wants that have been cre- ated have kept up with or have exceeded the increase of production and wealth. There seems to be hardly any limit to the wants of people in this progressive age. They seem to augment fally as tast or faster than the power of supply. Every new railroad put in opera- tion, each additional line of steamships launched upon the ocean, and the starting of any fresh = manufactur- ing or other enterprise create wants for more capital and labor, The and call nations of the civilized svorld cannot go back to the state of things that existed when the cost of living was only a few cents a day and | afew dollars were sufficient to clothe a man. fhe ancmentation of valnes keeps pace with | Improvement and the progress of civilization, | ‘This country has contributed more than any to the extraordinary material aud moral developments of the age. The cotton of our Southera States firs! gave the greatest impulse | to commerce and manufacturing enterprise. | The annexation of California and discovery of | gold in that country added immensely to th | siock of bullion in the world, and as a conse- sequence increased the value of everything. It was the commencement of a new era in ma- terial development and trade, and led to other discoveries of the precious metal in | Australia, Then the rapid consiraction and vaat extent of our railroad system opened an territory to immigrants and mado the United States the granary of the world. | immens | These things, together with the Pacific Railroad | and other gigantic improvements and projects, the illimitable resources that were developed by the wor and since in the payment of | hundreds of millions of debt, and the prestige | that the republic has attained among the great e'vilized nations, have directed the attention | of Bu ropean capitalists, statesmen, economists, nd of people of all classes to this country. | The magnitude of the trade with Europe, the | short t it takos now to croas the ocean and | the insiant transmission of intelligence by | the Atlantic cable are effecting a great change | in financial matters and ideas, It must be admitted that there has been an } extraordinary rise in valnes and prices in the | | United States since 1860 from the inflation of { currency, taxation, aggregation of capital and other causes growing out of the war. Sill there would have been a rise in the ordiaary course of things and from the prog- yess of development, If the war deb! were extinguished and the people were not taxed over eighty or a hundred millions a year for the cnrrent expenses of government there would be some reduction in prices and | the wages of labor, but great as such a boon | wonld and muci as it would do to relieve and stimulate industry, there would be little paratively, in the value of | is it likely that the resump- tion of specie payments or the contraction of the currency, if that were practicable or ad- d make mach change in the value The decline of gold ten, fifteea | or twonty per cent bad but little effect on the price of real estate, estion if the fall vthing like a 2 values, Of | esate or property generally, and not in particular loo: 6, as in change, ¢ | property. visable, wou of property. and we qu of gold to par would produce corresponding change in course we mean re litiea, whe New York, special causes ke the enhance up o value, ix the the through The truth country has sived such prograss anit ds. railroads and ot full there rec an impetus in way 0 nt its lopti is #0 kind, that nd for capital than can be sup- provements, and ot r a8 is of dema The enterprises Hore the hig sour every | greater hundreds of pare profitable the dev of high Until al did not tlow as freely waiting is the meana to | them, cause mainly sh interest p on money, values and y foreign | vecen’ to this lifie country as might have been | exper { s not as well known bofor | the war as since, Slavery and the preaumed ¢ | uncertainty that huog over the future of the )u jited States were the bagbeara that fright- i oped timid Ky van capitalists. le war and APRIL U, 1872.—TRiPLE the issues that grew out, together with the enormous debt we plled up, kept them in a doubtful state of mind. Englishmen, particu- larly, could not see their way clear to transfer their money, which brought ouly three, four or five por cent interest at home, to a country where they woald get double that, But this {9 all changed. Our firmly-seated republic, with its wonderful resources and debt wasting away at the rate of a hundred millions a year, has inspired confidence and awakened an interest that had not existed before. European capitalisis are now making large investments in our railroads and other properties, aud there is a prospect that a great portion of the surplus capital both of England and Germany will be transferred to America, The interest on money and profits on good investments here are double, at leas!, what they are in England, Should a large amount of European capital be invested here, as an- ticipated, that would tend to equalize values and the rate of interest, It would make money more abundant here and leave less in the markets abroad. Wo do not say this re- sult would be ob'ained i in a year, {ty would como in ‘time, ‘however, and tho tendency” would be steadily in that direction, And here we have to consider the operation of the magnetic telegraph in such a movement of capital and in the equalization of values. It will ba found unnecessary, by and by, to ship specie to any considerable umount from one country to another, except in time of war or under extraordinary circumstances, or even to use bills of exchange to any great extent, for the telegraph can be used to answer the same purpose, Trangac- tions amounting to millions daily are carried out in this way now between London and Now York, Bankers and stock speculators sit in their offices in one or other of these financial centres and transact business across the Al- laatic just a3 readily aa walking into the next street for a similar purpose. No money passes, nor is it necessary that any should pass, except, perhaps, in the long run to make up balances, The deposit of cash or the use of credit in one city answers all the purpose for business in the other. The telograph does the rest. So it is between other financial centres of different countries and between cities in the same country. We see only yet the beginning of this revo- lution in the financial affairs of the world. The time is not far off when great revulsions in a commercial country like the United States will hardly be possible. Capital to any amount can be used now instantly wherever it is needed, and that, in most cases, without changing the place of deposit. Looking, then, at the vast accumulated capital in Europe, at the difference of interest on money there and in the United States, at the growing conf- dence in the securities and property of this country, and at our resources and progress, we have reason to expect great results from the operation of the telegraph. In fact, the time is approaching when New York must become the financial, and commercial cenira of the world. Tho The anaual Conference of the Latter Day Soints at Groat Salt Lake City has been in full blast for several days, and the attendance has been immense, On Sunday Jast the number of persons inthe Tabernacle was from eight to ten thousand, and on Monday twelve thousaud— men, women and children from all parts of Utab, and all in their holiday attire, all rejoic- ing in the opportunity to joia in these services in their holy city of Zion. But the Confer- ence, nevertheless, in consequence of the ab- sence of the First President, High Priest and Prophet, Brigham Young, bas been like the play of Hamlet with Hamlet left out. Second President Smith was requested by President Brigham to say that he was in comfortable health and good spirits, and regretted that ‘“cir- cumstances” prevented him from attending the Conference. The circumstances thus gingerly referred to are simply the detention, by the United States judicial authorities of the Pro- phet in his own house as a prisoner, indicted for marder, The indignity is great, but the oll patriarch, sustained by the home comforts of his harem, bears it like a soldier, But this indignity was not overlooked in the Conference by Elder Howe, who said that should the government continue to listen to landers and lies and refuse to admit decent Mormons they will still go onward and up- ward, for Zion must be built up and redeemed. Meantime Judge Hayden, formerly of Nevada, has been added to the Gentile delegation who goto Washington to protest against the ad- mission of Utah as a State, while the Suainte, as usual, are sending out their missionaries to bring in more Mormons from Europe. Elder Sloan goes in this capacity to Ireland, aud a dangerous field of labor is this assigned to Elder Sloan. The chances are very poor for any con- verts to Salt Lake polygamy in that quarter, but very good for a rough campaign to this advea- turous Mormon, Touching the admission of Utah as a State with this Mormon saintly appendage of polygamy, the Gentiles of the Territory need be under no apprehensions whatever, It is the fixed policy and purpose of the national administration to abolish Mor- mon polygamy as the first essential in the preparations for a State government for Utah, and Congress will assist rather than int with General Grant in this undertak cause it is the uoiversal wish of the country that Mormon polygamy be abolished. The Salt Lake Conference may resolve to build np | Zion on the system of a plurality of wives ia xpite of the government; but within the next | six months, we dare say, the Prophet Brigham and his adulterous hierarchy will choice but the abandonment of polygamy or a departure from Utah, Mormon ©. have uo w ArLantic CABLE Proseor.—Tt appeara 8 a movement in London to lay another vle aeross the Atlantic, and, itis | to New York and thence | to the West Indice, We are not Informed of | sph © felew said, from Bugland Three or four Atlantic cables, probably, aoe find employment and ample remuneration, and competition would prove beneficial to the public, We hope the project will be carried out promptly, Opening of the Presidentt: The Voices of the States. The unmistakable clearness of the popular endorsement of President Grant and his administration which came from the closely contested States of New Hampshire and Connecticut is finding its prolonged echo all over the Union, It might seem superfluous to glory in the fact that little Bhode Island stood stanchly by its colors, but it is a matter of congratulation that the sturdy, thoughtful, solid Bay State has made a most emphatic declaration of republican policy in its Convention at Worcester yesterday. While pronouncing in favor of General Grant's election, it may be pardoned for coupling with him the name of one of its own sons, Senator Wilson, for the second place on the ticket; but there was something of the mauly, patriotic rlog in Governor Clifford’s remark that, no matter how the National Convention decides, J Massachusetts men “will keep.” In our sister city last night an enthusiastic mass meeting, which crammed the Academy of Music, was addressed by Henry Ward Beecher, Hig eloquent approval of the work of the adminfstration, and his purpose to sup- port the re-election of Presideat Grant, will tell all over the country, as the utter- ances of an independent and pure-minded man with more swinging force than the innuendoes of a hundred glib-tongued ‘‘sore- head” enemies. A strong and ringing note comes, too, from Pennsylvania, The Keystone State declares unequivocally for the administration which has collected the revenue, reduced the debt and protected iis labor, Another notable feature of the campaign, of which these are the first sounding notes, is the assembling of the National Colored Con- vention in New Orleans. Remembering the leader who closed in around Richmond, and whose work in peace has been to protect the interest of the poor freedman against bloody persecution, their votes and voices will bo for Grant also, Piping ont from Kansas comes the first squeal of the ‘‘soreheads” which has answered the squeak from Missouri, and a debilitaied effort it seems, serving as a sort of weak side wind whereby to let the country judge the force of the mighty breeze which floats the flag of “‘a wise, honest and economical administration.” Under no uncertain auspices, then, will the National Republican Convention meet at Philadelphia, with a platform built not on mere promises, but on triumphant experiences to call the present incumbent of the chief magisterial chair to . second term. The flatulent platitudes of a hungry oppo- sition will be left to the men of uncer‘ain princi- ples, who can only agree to disagree on national polities, and who will be bound to each other by no tie save that of condemning an honest officer whom they hate because they fear, The country will not look at these men’s likings or dislikings, but at the record to which those who own unbought intelligences can point with perfect satisfaction as one worthy of the country, whose interests it has guarded and | whose prosperity it preserves for the good of the masses. The Rovolution in Mexico. It will be seen by our special despatches that the contest in the Northern States of Mexico is about to be brought toa decisive issue, the rebels feeling that the defeat in- flicted on them by Rocha and his sieady ad- vanca northward will completely dis- courage their , adherents unless some counterbalancing advantage can be gained over the government troops. ‘ley | have, therefore, resolved to make a bold effurt to capture Matamoros, where they would find considerable munitions of war and a new field for the imposition of forced loans, as well as a basis of supplies, of which they stand badly in need, The Mexican government seems thoroughly alive the importance of to guaranteeing Matamoros from capture, ard | is hurrying troops north by sea under the command of General Cevallos to streagtuen the hands of General Palacios. For a mo- ment it appeared as if the advance of the rebels was about to cause serious complica. | tions with the United States, on account of | the action which. the Mexican commander thought fit to take in relation to the free navigation of the RioGrande. However, the strong protest made by General McCook brought the Mexican commander to a sense of what was due to the honor and dignity of the United States, made to enforce the obnoxious of the proclamation so far affect American citizens or tected by the American flag. action of the goveramenit in ordering troops to the frontier will meet with the ap- proval of the country. We have only one ob- jection, and that is that there are not enough of them, siruegle for the possession of Matamoros, our borders will be infested by bands of lawless brigands from whose depredations our cit zens have a right to be protected. the first consequence that the military force on the frontier should be sufliciently strong to with any force which it might be obliged to engage. It is, therefore, desirable that our force wlong the Rio Grande should be further increased, Should V in mnlsing tho attack of Trevino's army the advance of Rocha will leave the rebel leaders no resource but to break ap their army into provisions as they ships cope Hogland where the cable fs to | from nor where exactly it is to be landed | bu. we infer trom the language that i n | | the point i | start | patel the Auerican terminus ; aud that commu- | of the be at or ne ity, | very day gives stronger prool | will demand that our gove swaill bands avd curry on a desultory guerilla The position of our citizens along the feoutier would in’ that not unlikely event become decidedly aupleasaut unless troops are at hand to suppress in a sharp and decisive manner any j inroads into our terrifory. It is use less to expect protection from Mexico, that that un- | fortunate country is destined to be the prey of } anaroby aatil the time when the public con- rroused, mout shall pat an at is sclence of our country, thoroughly an outrage end to a state of society ti | nication will be made direct from England to » | New York, Subseriptions aro invited for the | There seems to be no reason why wild not be laid direet to this great centre, and there ia no doubtthe busiaess would be iully eausl to its capagity, civilization, Tre Lisera, Repveircan Conys To judge irom appearances it is evident that i Convention of liberal conub- the approac and no attempt bas been | pro- | Whatever may be the issue of the | It is of | lacio succeed | on | SHEET, lieans at Cinciunati, with its “banjo ldo show of reunionists and reformers, isto be no pica- yune affair after all, Appearances, however, are often deceptive, and it remains to be seen what the liberals and reformers propose to do ere a safe calculation can be made upon the tendencies of the coming May Day festivities in the “Queen City of the West.” THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC. Verdi's favorite opera has obtained such a hold on the aflecuons of the lovers of good music that it was nowise surprising to tind a britiant audience assembled to hear it rendered by the company at tho Academy last night, The manner in which tt is put upon the stage reflecta credit on the management, and is certainty a desirabie improvement on the past. The happy alternations of charming arias and effective choruses lend peculiar interest to “Il Trovatore,” espe- claily when ordinary care has been given to the organization of che chorus Last nightit was not by any means inmacilate, but gave proof that some pains had been taken to train it, The preponderance of mate singers gave to the choruses a ruggedness and want of balance thas we would lke to sce remedied, Tho cast was the same as im _ tormer representations, Mr, Sautiey appearing as Count Do Luna, Parepa-Rosa as Leonora, Wachtel as ihe Trouvadour and Miss Philiips as Azucena, Santiey Was in exceileat voice, and earned a rapturous encore by lis sweet and tenderful render. of tho arta “fl Halen del Soriso,’? Hivery note came ont clear and qulinet wits the ease ant wbsenes of etort whieh lend 36 much charm to Saniley’s singing. Wachiel’s ren- dering of the serenade, “Deserto Sulla Terra,” was not pleasing, ‘there was a total absence of the expressiveness = that belongs — to this melodious — complaint. straining after | effect with fis high notes, he imparted a ruggedness to the song which was strangey out of keeping Wit Its sense. ‘The same objection cannot be i in the case the scene with Azucena, where ne sings “Un Momento puo Involarmi.” Bere te use of the higher poles as tie yentele for the expression of violent passion Was most effective, but more than once the singing waa out of time, In the quartet the lower notes were often inauainle, and the sudden, jerky uttering of the tigher ones protncea’ ‘an unpleasant effect. “ue way In whieh this artist sang the delight j fal aria, “Amor, subume Amor,” Wout go fur 10 prove tat W.ta care he coula free timse.t fiom the objectionable uneven mode of singing of wich we complain, and which secks to make an impression by sensational efecis rather than by logliimate eifort, ours de jorce may satisiy We uneducated, bul cau never compensate jor the want of truth and correctness to tae minds of an educated auitence, ‘The rendering “Amor, suvlime Amor,’ was marked by the greatest ud gave ubundant evidence of a cultur couid scarcely be suspected from tue cr 38 which constantly marred this artist's sluging. His graud erved for the outburst of passionate id quello pira TY orrenslo foc,” whick he sang with wgudrous vigor, The piich was ce tainly marvellous, and the clear, distinct ma ner in whi he rolied ont the upper brought down the house aud earned a well des “AL nosbet Monti was well given, but ‘he la morte” was entirely wanting in teéuder- andexpression, Indeed, we caunot uncer. stand low he throws so much feellug into “Amor, sublime amor’ and $0 utterly fails in sympathy = owilh = “An che la morte.” ‘The final scene was also weak and unsatisfactory. Madaine Parepa-Rosa was Lit good voice, and abstained from he straining efforts that so constantly mar her simging. The manner i which sue sang tie lovely aria, “Amor che Intendo fo sola” was sweet and touching, but “la questo astl remoto’? was weakly given, In the rene dering of “Vanne, sospir dolente’ she displayed brillant vocalization, Miss Phillips appeared to bo suflering from a slight hoarseness; her voice was wanting in clearness and flexibiliy. The orclestra on several occasions during the periormance quite drowned the voices of the singers, Cannot Car Rosa try to moderate taeir zeal? u erved NEW TORK METHODIST COXFER cE. Anonal peseteiuPusas Caracter—Appoint. ing Comealitees--Gi t of Another College by Daniel Drew—\lethodist BP: areas Heard Krom, The New York Conference of the Me*hodist Epis- copal Church assembled yesterday m annual session in the Kighteenta street Metiiodist Episcopal chureh. Tae opening religious services were conducted by Rey. 8. J, Ferguson. Rev. Bishop Ames presided. Atter roll cail Rey. A. K, Sanford was chosen Se taryand Revs, A, Mebean and & Osborn assist. ats, The appotut ment of the standing comintttees hav. tng been moved by the Conference cpenty, Dr. CRAWFORD moved that A Nominating commitree be elected for such business, Drs, Crawford, Muey, G, D. Townsend, J. Millard, a. B. Henry and J, Y. Bates were appotnied such committee, The Conference sessions were dxed rom nine A, M, to twelve daily, ‘The examination of character and election of dea- cons to elders’ orders was proceeded with. ‘The late W. W. Cornell conveyed to THR MELHUDIST CONGREGATION OF HEIGHTS certain lands there for church parposes, with; how- ever, a proviso, that the property shall revert to the New York Conference in case 1 shall ever be de- Yoted to any other purposes, The Chured, because of tms restriction, bas not yet butt, and cannot. ‘The Conference, tierefore, resoived to give, through Ils trustees, a quit claim to any interest’ whien it may have, prescat or prospective, to that pro Last year a spectal committee wa pointed to ascertain what could be done toward es silo | Conference seminary. ‘The Rey. Drs Perris, chair ported that Mr.’ Dautet iy acres of grvomnd in el to build at ones, _sirictnres there for coi piv. The report ions accepts Ansa Or Che sat Ith wud prosperity, WASHINGTON was ndopien, thevitt of ME Dre and pray! ing, for his continued istitntion is to be Kaowa as — COLLEGL ire E NEW YORK CON} | the name to be filled in antly by the Confe: rence or Its educations Des, and Crawford were vey the action of the Conte: ce trustees. intaisterial patriarchs were present at Con- Rey. Fatner Richardson, of Poughkeepsie, ray tor the sixty-third | tere! Fou ferenc | answered to his Mame y | ume tn Annual Conference. years of age, Fathor Reynolds, now in is eaghty- first year and the sixty-first year of ins mintsury, Was skipping about as lively as a kitten, The ven- erable Father Bronson, of | Milwauxce, who is making a tour of the Eastern Conferences | before te. Depara ne Cee ae bried, adresse M Merence, two Yeas ago he Was HF eonged to preach by MS | New York Conference, and two years later he emi- grated to what was then tie “Tar West," and thirty- SIX years ago he wert to Wisconsin and saw TUE FIRST CHURCH EVER BUILE IN THAT Sta) erected. The people (Meviodisix) worshipped ina ‘ log cabin, and he suggested that tiey should manu facture some walking canes out of a log, whicn they did, and sold tour for si, whieh sum became the nucleus for a sund of $80,000, wilh wilten they put up their church, Ano‘her Father Bronson, of the New Bngland Conference and an ovicer mt American Bibie Society, and in iis exguty-lirst yes & alao futroan The standing committees were then appointed as tohowst=« onlerence Stewards, Necessitous Suntay Schools, St Post Onice and al’ commiliee: Tracts, Ti Amerivan AWS) nit Foreign y and Pubs Manat Assurance Soci | Christan Union, Freedien's | lie Worship. Prayer meetings are to be netd daily at enh! A.M, and three P.M, duvmg the sesstous of Conferences f CONPERENUK SERMO: was preached m the evening by Rey. A. Ml V | ine reuriug pasior of Washington square dist Kpiscopal churgi, The Conterenee wall te Ht session one wees. ‘The Kivctora: Conte will meet ia Bighteenth street church on Peuis choose delegates (o the General Conference THE CALIFORNIA BARTNQUAKE, Owen's Volley Moved Pouricen eetDe- | mtraction in ihe Yosemite =A Venncl | Shook trom Der Moovis | SAN FHA vil 10, 1872. i Letters from Lone Mine ta i) of Owen's | | Vaitey bas been moved soathward fourteen feet Over 7,000 sioeks had ocenrced to date, and they | still continued, but wot with sa nt force too | | es aqnake March 206 hurjed immense | rocks down the ¢) mito the Valley of the | Yosomit shite it pine trees te splinters, } but di nothing from thy scenery of (he | *\Windian ranner gas A desparch froin the moulnol the county continue, with Ton’ tee eta cant soding from. te stuns mutt of Mowat Ure SINCE the final eHoCK, while folt_ft Jenvera. ™ which was felt from Orewon fo Ger s | tne distavoance nas heen purely lycal, nor far rha sierra Nevada OF OWL OL Layo godin Drs. Prince, Crawiord and Browa were cuosen Con- | WASHINGTON. The Senate Alive to Its Questioned Privileges. ACTION ON THE FRANKING SWINDLE, Service Reform and the House Opposition, Civil The Gold Jobbers and the Alabama Lahiri WHISKEY. AND ToBacco TAXES. Wisconsin Hurrying to the Aid of Its Land Steal, The Senate on its Diqnity About Privilores. ‘To-day's Session of the Senate started off with aa indignation meeting over the message of the House returning the Senate Tarif bill with a rebuke for its interference In the exclusive prerogatives of tne itouse., Air. Sherman opened the debate by saying that it was the unanimous opinion of the Finance Committee that the Senate had aa much right to pro- bose amendments to revenue bills as 10 any other, and that us was the first time in the history of the government that such right had been questioned, He proposed, as this was a question which afectods the privileges of the Senate, that it be referred to the Commitiee on Privileges and Elections for in- Vestigatioa avd report, which was, alter consider- able debate, agreed to, Mr. Trumbull and Mr,j Chandier pointing out, as they had done when tue ‘Tariff bill was \efore the benate, the unconstitu- Uonality of the Senate’s action, ~ Yne Indiav Appropriation bill was then taken up and occupied the remainder of te day's ses sou, being fually passed at a late hour, The Kranking Question in t flouse—The Civil Serview Reform Appropriation. There was another attempt in the [Mouse to- to avolish tho frauking privilege, or fraaking Durden, a3 some members style it, The question wis discussed by a few who scemed to havo # duty to perform, Mr, ulier, of Massacuusetts, opposed the bill, He satd it was a privilege that veionget to the people, and resultet in more good to them than tho abolishment of ti could pos- sibly do He said he ‘voted tor this wilt | before because ne Kuew the Senate would never do 30 foolish a thing as to pays I. A considerable amount of buncombe was tnduige tin tor the bens- fit of the ruval districts, but when the question came to a vote Mr. Sargent, of Calioraia, moved’ to recommit tie hii} and amendments, which wat done. Mr. Holman objected, suving that would kul it, and when the ayes and noes were asked for only thirteen voted tu order them. The question was thus summatily disposed of for tis sesston, ad tt Will not be reached again, ‘The frst discussion upon the merits of the Civil Service Reform movement was indulged in fo-day, upon @ motion to noa-concur in Wc Senate amend- ment to the Legisiattve Appropriation bill granuing 090 to pay the expeases Ol an advisory board to put Into operation the system elaborated by the Hoard of Commissioners appointed by the Presley deut, Consiicrable curiosity has been excited upon the course Congress would adopton this question, and the discnssion to-day develops great strengin with Lhe Opposition, Who Wish to deny the President the amount of mou Ked lor to experiment Upon the plan which has m adopted, ‘The Chairman of the Commitee oa Approprias | lions spoke 4areesuly in favor of the appropriation. Tle said, thac white he did not approve of many ot the provisious of the regwations reported vy the Board, he still ought that good faila toward the President required t.em lo give hun the opportu nity to perect a better plan, Mr. Buier disapproyea of the whole arrange. ment, irom first to lash Mr. Beck took oc on to | Vonulate fits opinions in regard to tae Secor clainet aud the Robeson investigation. sast how he got the matter 1a Was not clearly seca, but he managed it very surewdly. te suid le did nol see why that iorm of making appropriavious need be gone through wiih When there was no reggrd paul to the law when made; and “as for any desire to reiorm the service, he was an unveliever, when men ilke Lewis Porter, waa had been prove. by afiidavits before the Senate Judiciary Commutice to have offerca $10,000 to any person who could imduce a certain Senator to vote against a pending mea be, Was appotmeed and re- tamed as Assistant Postinasier of the national metropolis. Pending the discussion of this amoude ment the House a rned, and te question weat | over for another Pee ay ye tue Boud Lobby and Cou sequentint Damages. resuuon introdaced imto te Hoase yesters day by air. Peters, of Mame, In Javor of withdraws | ing the claims Jor consequential damages from the | Geneva Tribunal was tic most audacious piece of * ‘The | joobery of the — session. Peters is well Known “ws one of the worst of ihe | jopners m Congress, and in this case he acted | with the woret lobby iu Washington, ‘The vesolue fon Was written by the notorious sem Ward, and Was ollered by Veters for tbe simple purpose of price of gold and overniaent bonds. ‘There has nor been a disposition either on the part of Congress or the President to moaify our case, and there Is a good deal of indignation to-day , ever the daring and criminal specutation to whitch | Peters lent bis name and position, } ng the Withicey Taxes. | The Commitice ou Ways and Means was in ses. | slow for several hours to-day Giseu sing the revenue vill and the proposed amendments Secretary Joulwell urged that the tax on whiskey shoutd not be less thun s uty cents, Tis te commilice aid ate and Tobacco Consolic | | noe agree 0, a8 te siatemeat lurnished | by the Commissioner of tutermal Revenne | showed that the revenue derived from ait fuxes on distitied sptrits—stamp tax, barret | tax, capacity and per déin Wax together— | with the cost of storekeepers’ aud gaugers’ fees | agvreguted only sixty-dve and eight-touta cents | per gallon, and tocomply with Secretary Boutwells proposition would be to chance the value of every | gulion of whiskey on the market over four cents per gallon, Toe committee agreed to report the seu fous allowmyg a drawback on ail stamp paid goods exported and not 1a bona, an uniforne to The ¢o.o0 ve also adhered ‘tax oa manifactured tobacco of twenty cents per pound, which is to go inte operation tmumediatoly oa the age ot the bili, | Ht is expected, howeve (even af tho vit paevos 1b will be 40 near she close of the fycut | year, June 39, that for cot eeu sake voit the hew whiskey nud tobacco (aX wil MOL commence | wat diy L next. j Nu arrangemenis have been made by the Burcai of Bugraving and veintnig tO supply the stamps | thar may be required, but the present series Witt be | sca watil a pew series cau be engraved, Laut Steal Cuening te hee ommitice o8 the St, Croix and fats Souud LE inpossibte fact WUL be reported to the House ends of the bul expect ta irom its former action aud How to agree, and the Tomerrow: ia the Senate. A large | aelogation of prominent gentlemen from Wisconsin | gre here to lobby this Anat action through the House, Scerewry Han, Whose resiguation tas been ab the disposal ol the Prestdent jor some Une past, | nas dually resolved to remain in tig Cehinet ane | Ast next March, ana le will reinstate nimascit | dn the vestdouce of ex-Senktor Morgan to-morrow, | preparatory to Mlug Boca TelAlONs WHA Ua ' AIPLONA LG GOLD