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6 NEW YORK HERALD] BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphio despatches must be addressed New York Heap. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Volume XXXVI. sone ic AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—tar Bauier Pay- rotary or Humpty Dowpry. 1E, Twenty-third st.. corner Sixth ‘Tax Honnyaoon. KOOTIVS THE ay.—A Suxce ix WoLP’s CLormino—Tae WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street.— Bur Vern LINA EDWIN'’S THEATRE, 720 Browdway,—ALavpiy— Vou au-Vut. AND OPERA HOUSE, 4 Roown. of BU ay. and 23d st,— Broadway, between Prince and Pannen don NIBLO'S: GARDEN, Houston sts. —Pout aN WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broad formances afternoon and even or 80Un st.—Per- ov Tex. FIFTH AVENUE Anion 47. enty-fourth street.— St. JAMES THREAT! e hth street and Browdway.—MacEyoy's New Husexsicoy. BOWERY THEATRE, Bow uk Bran. TAPUL SHOKMINDER, YS BROOKLYN THEATRE. — MRS. FB, CONWA Drvoxce PARK City Hall, Brooklyn.— THEATRE, opposite Saray in Pants, &c, THEATRE COMIQUE, S14 Broadway.—Comw Vovat- | iss, NEGRO Acts, &¢,—Biack Eykp SUSAN. UN way ON SQUARE THEATRE, Fourteenth st. and Broad- | NEGRO ACTS—BURLESQUE, BALLET, £0, PASTOR'S OPERA WN UST, No. 201 Bowery. — Neauo Eocuxterertnss, BURLESG 14 4, &e. Matinee at EW OPERA HOUS! Bryany’s MINSTRELS. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HALL, 585 Brondway.— Tuy Sax Veaneisco MINSTRELS. 2d st., between oth | BRYA? and 7th a THIRTY-POURTIL STREET THEATR Ay.—Vaniery Exterrainmest, Matinee at 2 near Third STEINWAY HALT, RTRUMENTAL CONCERT, NEW VORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— | Sorencx axp Ant. | TRIPLE SHEET New York, Tuesday, April 16, 1872. urteenth street.—Vouar ann Ix. ; CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S HERALD. | CE tisements, | ee Advertisements, ses et tia Borgia Matebed; | son Tri ior Her Life | Alleged M Pas TRE Watson—Another —Whiskey Murder in Jersey. Fifteen Year: on ed | Ago—The Bar Assocht- 4—Vinancial and Commer Still Worth More Tha Stock M en 3 Erte Advance in vernment Bond: cipal Affairs—The Georgia Bonds—Des- tructive Fire at Hightstown, N. J.—Marriages and Deaths, | feluteresting Proceedings in the United States, New York and Brooklyn Courts—The Qu: men’s Strike—The New Paterson Mun Government—Fatal Occurrence in a Saw Mill—A_ Dishonest Domestic—Accidentally Crushed by a Car—Frightfal A Newark—Blood in a ments, G—tditovials: Leading Article, Geneva Yesterday—Submissi ter Claims” Methodist nouncements, 7—The Alabama Claims: can Counsel in Se: Telegrams from E Spain, Italy and Cu The Arms Inquiry—Law mons—Business Notices, Rem Advertisements, Y—Advertisements. WeNational Colored Convention: The Platform and Resolutions Adopted—Great Mass Mecting for Grant—An Anti-Grant Mass Meeting in Brook- lyn—The Committee of Seventy—Tammany * Soclety—Shipping —Intelligencé—Advertise- | ments, V—Advertisements. | 12—Advertisements. i ident Ww | Barroom—Advertise- > hington. ‘onference — Amusement An- The English and Ameri- | neva—Cable :, Germany, in Me: xico— Among the Mor- Born Houses or tHe Lecrstarver met last | night, but neither was in «a business mood. | The Senate struck out the clause in the Appro- | priation bill abolishing the office of Public Accounts. Mr. Jacobs, in the House, offered | a resolution instructing the Committee on Ways and Means to report a bill making ap- propriations to orphan asylums and charitable institutions, but it was laid over. The New York City and State Registry bills were made special orders for to-day. | Tar Larcesr Convention Ever Hetp.- The Boston Post (anti-administration) thinks, through its Washington brain, that “the | attendance at the Cincinnati Convention will be the largest that has congregated at a | national political convention in many years,”’ | Why not, when the hotel accommodations are to be held at the usual rates, strawberries will be ripe, and rum, like the necessities of life, be free? Tux Supreme Count axp THE Morons. The report of the decision rendered yesterday the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court will doubtless be read with interest to-day. After reviewing the special case of | Englebrecht and Clinton, he maintains that, | although the officers of the Utwh Judiciary are | appointed by the President, there is neither Circuit nor District Court, in the sense intended by the article in the constitution, giving the | Chief Magistrate the power of making appoint- | ments in the Territories, and consequently | there are no “United States Courts.’ The | effect of this decision will probably be to open the prison doors of all Mormons held ander indictment in the federal courts. Tax Werarnen Yesrerpay any & Yuan Bacx.—About six o'clock yesterday evening a snow storm prevailed in this city which would | fully satisfied as he must be that such is the | have done ample justice to the middle ot De- | public sentiment on this subject, do we think | cember, and yet we are in the middle of April. | | our government. | indirect damages. NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, The Meeting at Geneva Yesterday— Submission of the Counter Claims, The long expected event of the century, the one act which was to signalize the union of the English speaking races and prevent future wars by finding in arbitration a solu- tion for the troubles which hitherto have led to wars, took place yesterday by the classic shores of Lake Leman. But the ‘event of joy” was one of sorrow. Instead of that dearly craved harmony there was sorrow, sus- picion and protest; for the act of reconcilia- tion has become really one of anger, and, in- stead of celebrating under the peaceful Alps a festival of peace, the ministers of the two great countries meet almost as ministers of war, Our despatches tell us how, at Geneva, yesterday, Lord Tenterden, representing Her Britannic Majesty, and Messrs. Caleb Cushing and J. ©. Bancroft Davis, on the part of the United States, exchanged documents touching their respective cases on the Alabama claims, the English documents being submitted with a protest, and that touch- ing the contents of these papers secrecy was enjoined unless a pressure from Parliament shall compel Her Majesty's government to divulge the character of said protest. For the information of our readers, in regard to the submission of these documents, it will be found on turning to the Treaty of Washington, that after providing for the meeting at Geneva of the five arbitrators agreed upon for the settle- ment of the so-called Alabama claims, and for fhe submission of the written or printed caso of each of the two parties to each one of the arbitrators, it is further provided that ‘within tour months after the delivery on both sides of the written or printed case either party may, in like inanner, deliver in duplicate to each of the said arbitrators, and to the agent of the other party a counter case and additional documents, correspondence and evidence in reply to tho case," &e., of the other party. Those docu- ments exchanged yesterday at Geneva between the agents of the high contracting parties were the counter cases thus authorized by the treaty. | The arbitrators were not present. But what is this accompanying English pro- test? Mr. Gladstone, in his explanation in the House of Commons, says that his counter case contains no allusion to indirect damages, but that ‘a note (the protest) accompanied the case containing a declaration on the part of the government for the purpose of reserving all rights appertaining to the Queen in this arbi- tration, so that in future the government would not be fettered by any implied compromise,”’ which is stating the substance of the protest as mildly as possible. Earl Granville, under a sharp cross-examination in the House of Lords, said that England was ina position to with- draw from the arbitration, if pushed too far on these indirect damages, but pretty broadly intimated, nevertheless, that the arbitration was not yet to be interrupted. Meantime it appears | that a majority of the London newspapers, in their discussions of these counter cases, hold to the opinion that the Ministry must adhere to the position taken against the submis- sion to arbitration of the indirect claims presented in the American case, and, judging from Mr. Gladstone's statement to Parliunent last night, in reply to Disrucli, it appears as if Her Majesty's Minis- ters have in this instance been obedient to the prompting and advice of the press. We sup- pose that this English protest is a pro- test against the retention in the American case of our claims for ‘‘consequential damages” and against the consideration of these claims by the Tribunal of Arbitration if persisted in by There may be also em- braced in the remonstrance a notification that unless this demand on the part of England shall be respected she will withdraw from the arbitration and destroy the Treaty. In the opinion of the learned counsellors ap- pointed to plead before the Geneva Tribunal the cause of our case, Messrs. Cushing, Davis and Evarts, the Board of Arbitration is bound to adjudicate the Alabama claims after | the delivery of the counter cases, even should | oue of the litigants withdraw. It is sufficient, however, for the present that the Conference is not yet to be dismissed; that the business of the arbitration is to go on, although under a | British protest in reference to our claims for | This is a point gained in | | favor of the ultimate fulfilment of the Treaty, | | and as there is no necessity for haste in this business on the part of Mr. Gladstone, in- asmuch as Mr. Fish is evidently disposed to give him ample time for deliberation, | we think that the alternative to England of a | war with the United States may be considered as definitely abandoned. In any event, as the American case, as originrliy submitted, meets the general ap- proval of the American people, it is unques- tionably a strong point for General Grant in reference to the Presidential succession, and cannot be safely abandoned. Not an opposi- sition politician, active and untiring as the opposition politicians have become in search- ing for the weak points of the administration, | General Grant before the people upon the charge of a false interpretation of the Washin, ton Treaty or of in justice to England in his bill of indirect damages in these Alabama claims. ‘The bitterest of the anti-Grant republican leaders, while assailing Grant as falling short of his duty or for transcending his authority upon almost everything else, is silent upon the American case on the Alabama claims. The opposition leaders dare not raise 8 voice against it sa party war cry, because they know that the universal public sentiment of this conntry is for the American case. Nor, it possible that the President can consent to can be made reduces the whole contest to retain his post as Prime Minister, and on the part of Mr. Fish to remain in the Department of State. If we amend or withdraw our case, in obedience to the pressure of English public opinion, Mr. Fish cannot in honor remain in the Cabinet, and President Grant goes before the country with a lame and halting foreign policy, one that will do his administration no honor, and put him in a defensive position, which, of all things, a party must avoid in a canvass for the Presidency. If, on the other hand, Mr, (lad- stone admits that he consented toa treaty, with open eyes, which is displeasing to England, he will most certainly be thrown out of the Min- istry, and Mr. Disraeli will go into power with a broken treaty on his hands, America in no humor to begin upon a new one, and the ‘friendly alliance,’ which has been the subject of so many prayers, further off than ever. We are not prepared to say which nettle danger contains the flower safety. Wo do not feel comfortable over the rumors that our Wash- ington people mean to save the Treaty by amending it. If this is done, it will be under a menace, in violation of the record, and yicld- ing to the suspicion of having shown bad fuith towards England. Mr. Fish cannot remain in the Cubinot as the minister of such a con- fession, and President Grant, if he consents to the sacrifice, will find it the heaviest load he can carry through the canvass, The Quarrymen'’s Vent, Vidi, Vici. The strike question, which is attracting so much attention in Europe, has latterly received some strong illustrations of how successful the movement on the part of the workers may bo when taken at the proper time. ‘The everlast- ing struggle between capital and labor is very slow, indeed, in sproading its lessons before us, from which safe generaliza- tions may be made, Capital is always oppressive, say the toilers; labor is insatiable, say the capitalists; and thus, even while the progress of the world is being forged by labor's mighty muscle on capital’s golden anvil, there isa continuous war between tho two producing powers. Capital is nearly always ahead, for its side of the fight is directed with more brains and wields its concentrated resources at a single pen-dash where most needed, while labor is comparatively ignorant, badly disciplined, and with its huge forces fighting each other in spite of themselves. Our latest illustration from the many on which the philosophy of strikes will be founded comes from the uneven region of the Nineteenth and Twenty-first wards. The quarrymen—the rock-blasters—were not satis- fied with their share of the ‘rocks,’ as the argot of the day oddly terms money. They had been striking the rocks like Moses, but the water of life did not come in sufficient quan- tity, and so their second strike was on the pro- letarian plan, and, like the great He- brew leader's, proved more _ effective. A motley and threatening procession took its march, and rolled in the fearful and timid into its ranks, and by the time it had completed its perambulation of the rocky ridges found capital at its feet, the mild municipal children of the locust club on guard and every miserable home represented by the tatterdemalion processionists prospec- tively richer for the season by a dollar and a half to three dollars a week. It may be mentioned that the highest wages achieved by this blasting body in its | Ceesarian conquest is fifteen dollars. Strike | the iron, then, happy quarrymen, into the soul of the stony island in peace, but let not the iron of discontent enter into your own Arcadian bosoms for the present ; blast only the rocks. It is not often that labor wins so easily, and we would advise the toilers not to fall into the dangerous error that the policy of brute force is likely to triumph in their cause. There is a civil power called law which cannot permit a breach of the peace to be committed with im- punity in the pursuance of ends, no matter | how just in themselves. As there was no harm done yesterday we have reason to be thankful to the fates. Axorner Apsurp Ruwor.—One of our cable | despatches gives us to understand that a rumor prevailed in London yesterday to the effect that some hitch had taken place in the diplomatic relations of Germany and that grave apprehensions were entertained lest serious trouble should be the result. It has been well known for some time that the Ger- | man authorities feel somewhat irritated by the language employed by Frenchmen of all shades of political opinion. Bourbons, older and younger, republicans and Bonapartists, all | freely speak of revenge. France recovered | must yet measure swords with Germany, must wipe out the disgrace of Sedan and restore once more to France the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine. —_ It is simply absurd, however, to imagine that for many years to come Ger- many and France can come into serious colli- sion. France may talk as graudiloquently as | she chooses. So long as the government of | not one, we say, has been found to arraign | Versailles abide by their obligations and con- | tinue to pay the war indemnity punctnally | Prince Bismarck can afford to be indifferent | to the blustering language of proud but humil- | iated Frenchmen. France is not in a condi- | tion to provoke war, and Germany is too high- | souled ta take advantage of her superior | strength and trample upon a neighbor who is | already in the dust. | Gone Ur—The Parkersburg (West Va.) Chase National Convention. ing exercised to its fullest extent the privilege of free speech, listened to the oratory of the and the friends of universal liberty for emanci- Old winter is making a vigorous fight with | the abandonment or abatement of his Alabama , Pation, citizenship and enfranchisement; after spring for supremacy, and so far bas had the | claims. | pledging his faith to the radical party, tender- best of the battle. ‘This time Inst year we had | We are not withont hope, ascending to | ing, in the most flattering terms, his gratitude July weather, with April showers. Before the middle of the month was reached the weather was oppressively hot, and several cases of sun- stroke resulted from it, At the great German Peace Jubilee, which was celebrated about this time last year, thousands of patriotic Father- Junders marched through the streets singing “Die Wacht am Rhein,’ with the thermome- ter at 84. Yesterday the temperature averaged about 40. There is a wide difference between these figures, I winter forces the fight with spring we possibly may have skating before the week is out, and furs and overcoats be Again brought into requisition. ‘The tradi- tional April showers, it wor Wray ‘0 Apxil snow storwa, higher ground, that this gloomy, protesting | meeting of the arbitrators will end in peace, | The excitement in England came simply from the desire of Mr. Gladstone to retain power. Rather than lose his Premiership he sacrificed the moral alliance that existed between America and England. Rather than concede that his treaty was not pleasing to the English mind, he did not hesitate, through his newspapers, his organs in Parliament and by every influence acts of bad faith and chicauery. | he could command, to charge npon America Y. Phis iy the misfortune of our present position, Could this be avoided or explained there would be no dd seom, have given | difficulty in coming to a harmonious result at Something like a cliqne move: Geneva, Tho tact that no such explanation | tible, | to General Grant, eulogizing Charles Sumner | asthe Gibraltar of his cause and the North Star of his hope, honoring Colfax for his zeal in his service and the cause of civil rights; condemned all unfaithful national representa- | tives, endorsed the Philadelphia Convention and demanded his full share of all public lenefits, Pompey leaves New Orleans and re- turns to his friends, conscious of having per- formed a great duty. ‘Tur Moxxrary SimixcENcy has almost dis- appeared, and the “bulls? in. Wall street are | hoppy. A new subject for reflection ‘is offered in the gold market and its rising quotation. jovement 1s percep Frvaxe or THe Cororep Coxventioy. —Hav- | great African chief from Ohio, thanked God | to a strife on the part of Mr. Gladstone | APRIL 16, 1872.— The ‘‘average American," whatever his politics, is a “bear’’ on gold, and will not join a move- ment to put it up. What Is To Be Done with Sprint Our latest telegraphic advices from Madrid state that a general rising of malcontents has taken pluce throughout Spain, What is to be done with that unhappy country and with that wretched people? In his inimitable sketch of Spain, in his ‘History of Civilization,’’ Heury Thomas Buckle said hard things of Spain and the Spanish people. But few, looking at the actual condition of the Spain of to-day and at the conduct of Spanish political parties, will refuse to admit that of such a people it is impossible to say anything too hard. Accord- ing to Buckle Spain in the seventeenth cen- tury fell into a sleep, from which as a nation it has never since awakened. “It was a sleep not of repose, but of death; a sleep in which the faculties, instead of being rested, were paralyzed, and in which a cold and universal torpor succeeded that glorious though par- tial activity which, while it made the name of Spain terrible in the world, had insured the respect even of her bitterest enemies.”” Since the days of Charles the Fifth and his son Philip the Second Spain has most certainly been the most backward of the nations. Amid all the active forces and quickening impulses begotten of the printing press, of the Reformation, of the discovery and application of the power of steam and electricity, Spain has failed to give any indications of returning life and vigor. More than once during the nineteenth century a spirit has manifested itself which gave some encouragement to hope. In 1812, in 1820, in 1836, and more recently within the last few years, attempts have been made to put life into the nation. Up to the present all these attempts have been failures, and, judging from appearances, the present failure promises to be the most complete and disastrous of them all. Amadeus is as good a King as Spain is ever likely to find. It is his desire to rule over his people as a constitutional sovereign. The elections have clearly turned out in his favor. But the factions will not submit. Anarchy, it would seem, is preferred to order. It is quite possible that the young King may leave the country in disgust. What is the use of exer- cising patience with such a people? Why should we tolerate the government and the in- stitutions of Cuba? Why should the European governments tolerate any longer anarchy in Spain? It is our duty at once to occupy Cuba and make an end there of negro slavery and wipe out of existence a government whose cool- blooded atrocities are a disgrace to a civilized age. Should Amadeus retire the European nations ought to agree on an armed occupation of the country, as in 1822. Or, what would be better still, a Hohenzollern should be invited to take up the lapsed reins, and he should fora limited number of years have at his service some thousands of the best trained soldiers of Germany. Bismarck is the man who knows what Spain needs, and a Hohenzollern would but carry out Bismarck’s instructions. We have our work to do in this matter. Let us do it. The European nations have their work to do. Let them do it. Let the work be done at once and effectively, and Spanish misrule will cease to be a scandal in the Old World and the New. “On to Crxcrnnatr’’ is now a supplement to the old war cry of ‘On to Richmond.” The Musical Mania Still Spreading. ‘When Italian opera commenced, last fall, its new career, which now bids fair to become a long and prosperous one, we predicted such a revival of popularity for music in all its branches as New York had never known before. The result has far exceeded the most sanguine ex- pectations of every lover of art, and the mania for music has extended beyond the aristocratic precincts of Italian opera, invading concert hall, church and even the theatres. We have had opera in every shape and form in the Academy, Stadt Theater, Lina Edwin’s and Grand Opera House, and the concert season is now in a white heat of excitement, benefits in- numerable cropping up every day. Some of these take the shape of pleasant little reunions of the pupils of a distinguished maestro, in which the ear is regaled by vocal and instrumental talent born and developed in this city. Oc- casionally at the pretty little Union League Theatre an entire opera or an act or two is given by ladies and gentlemen who have received in- struction from one of the many eminent pro- fessors residing in New York, aud the result is generally very flattering to those who favor American talent. Then comes a Conservatory of Music, with a host of pupils who, at least, evince an earnestness in their pursuit of art, and not infrequently add new candidates for public recognition, Hardly a night passes at the principal music halls without some large concert in which may be found the names of artists whose names have been long ago in- scribed in the tablets of fame. Then the churches seem to be inspired with the prevail- ing spirit of the day, and we hear of numer- ous changes, additions aud improvements in choirs, and a broader, more artistic feeling in music matters among pastors and church com- mittees. All this gives » healthy and inspir- ing toue to art, and must eventuate in cloth- ing it with such life and vigor as will make it a permanent resident among us. When we have succeeded in developing the priceless treasures of American talent for music, which sordid speculation in stars from other lands | | | city, from the days of Malibran to the present the lyric drama have done has been to drain our pockets, without leaving any substantial good for art behind them. Better, then, to bestow more attention upon the talent at home and create here a school for Italian opera and every other branch of music, which will in time prove an exhaustless supply. This result has been attained on the dramatic stage, where the days of stars (in the popular sense of the word) are well nigh numbered. It must come sooner or later in the field of music which has been hitherto monopolized by high-priced ntits, ‘whose claims have been in many instances confined to some European endorse- ment, dating back to some remote et of their artistic career, The atlention bestowed npon conéerts and amateur essays shows that the public are determined at present to give home talent chance to present its claims for but it lacks outside helu and enthusiasm, | seoognition | ‘They will insist on the production of the original has hitherto kept out of sight, the earnest wish of every true patron of art will be gratified to the fullest extent. When we look back upon the long | and checkered career of Italian opera in this | time, it will be seen that all that these stars of | SHEKT. WASHINGTON. ——_+—_—_—- Completion of the Tariff and Revenue Bills. The Rivers and Harbors Ap-| propriations. Ee Hard Luck of Civil Rights in| the House. A MEXICAN OUTRAGE INVESTIGATION. Pennsylvania Republican Stumbling Block. ~ caraeees The WASHINGTON, April 15, 1872. The Tariff and Internal Reve e Bill Completed by the Ways and Means © mittee. The Committee of Ways and Means were in ses- sion to-night until half-past eleven o'clock, They completed the Tarif and Internal Revenue bill, They had an earnest debate, and did not seem to part in good hnmor, The four protectionists of the committee will probably present a bill of their own. The committee to-day placed ginger root on the free list. Corks and cork bark, manufactured, to pay fifty per centum ad valorem; boards, planks, lathes, scantiing, spars, planed and smoothed tim: ber, and timber used in building wharves ten per centum ad valorem; freestones, sandstones, granite, and all building and Monumental stones except marbles, seventy- five cents per ton; all medical prepara- tions, 380 per cent ad valorem; boracic acid, crude, and acetate of copper are placed on the free list, which goes into operation on the 1st of July next; upper leather of all kinds and skins tanned and dressed of all kinds, twenty per cent ad valorem; band or belting leather, and Span- ish or other sole leathor, fifty per cent a@ valorem. ‘The Committee of Ways and Means to-day agreed that in lieu of the duties now imposed by law there shall be paid on all copper imported in the form of ores two and one-half cents on each pound of fine copper coutained therein; on all regulus of copper, and on all black or coarse copper, three cents on each pound of fine copper contained therein; on all old copper fit only for re- manufacture, three and a half cents per pound; on allcopper in plates, bars, ingots and pigs, and in other form not manufactured as herein enumerated, including sulphate of copper or blue vitrol, four cents per pound; on copper in rolled plates, called “prazier’s copper,” sheets, rods, pipes and copper bottoms, and all manufactures of copper, or of which copper shall be a compound of chief value, not otherwise herein provided for, forty per ceut ad valorem. ‘The committee decided to take off the stamp duty on matches, which makes a difference of $2,500,000 in the revenue, On insulated wire, whether of iron or copper, covered with gutta percha or other in- sulating material and submarine, other telegraph and electric cable of every kind used exclu. sively for telegraphing, thirty-tive per cent ad valorem. Polished sheet iron remains at three cents per pound ; woinen’s and children’s}goods, and all merinos, poplins, delalnes, composed wholly of worsted or wool, imported in the gray or uncolored condition, ten per centum ad valorem less than when in colors; wools and carpets of wool a reduction of five per cent ad valorem; Rochelle salts five cents per pound; satpetre, refined | or partially refined, three cents per pound; sal soda. and soda ash, one-quarter cent per pound, Under the present Internal Revenue law the fraction of a An gallon of spirits pays the same tax as a gallon, alteration has been made exeinpting from such tay less than halfa gallon, Stamps on bank checks are repealed, Pennsylvania’s Gubernatorial Dim- culty—What Her Congressmen Say. Some of the leading republicans in Congress from Pennsylvania declare openly that the nomination of General Hartranft for Governor was so unfortunate that his defeat and the possible defeat of Grant in | the State are events to be anticipated. They say there is much discontent in the State, and that the political “Ring” which nominated Hartranft declare that the administra- tion must carry them through the fight. “The State election,” these politicians say siguiflcantiy, “comes a month before the Presidential election,” thus leaving the Inference that if Hartranft is not carried through the State will go against Grant. The O11 Freight Monopoly That Failed. The examination into the South Improvement Company, which sought to control the oll trade of Western Pennsylvania, was resumed before the House Commerce Committee to-day. Proceedings | were, however, deferred on account of a telegram | received from P. H. Watson, President of the com- pany, dated at New York, saying his trunk, which contained the original contracts of that concern with the railroads, had been lost and could not be produced before Wednesday. As this is the third time that Watson has failed to answer, a feeling prevails in the committee and among the aggrieved parties that the present answer is a subterfuge to escape Investigation. contracts at Wednesday’s meeting. If these be not forthcoming they will demand that, as the originals are lost in the missing trunk, the Com- merce Committee shall admit sworn copies of the contracts instead, whereon they may base Con- gressional action to prevent such ruinous combina- tions In future, The House on Harbor Improvements—A | Mexican Outrage Investigation Bill Passed—That Civil Rights Bill. ‘The Civil Rights bill has come to be a standing Monday joke. Why it is persistently kept in the morning hour by its friends, if they really wish to pass it, is not apparent. Both sides seem to be stubborn in regard to it. The democrats wished tt referred to the Judiciary Committee when it was first introduced, and if it had been so referred its chances could certainly have been no nt appearances seem to indicate that | it cannot come toa vote in the morning hour during | the session, although they have got the previous question on it. A bill was offered, providing for a commission of three persons, to be appointed by the President, to inquire into the Mexican outrages. | After the usual call for resolutions and bills the | House proceeded to the consideration of the River | and Harbor bill, reported by Mr. Sawyer, of Wis- consin, from the Committee on Commerce. This bill reports $4,500,000 for the improvement of rivers and harbors. The only interest created over a bill | of this kind is the jJealousies and selfishness in- | dulged in by different members in regard to local interests, Some reflections were cast upon the disproportionate amount appropriated for the | South io comparison with that given to the North, Out of $4,000,000 only $834,000 was given to them, Mr. Cox, of New York, spoke of this apparent in- justice and said that the South not only had a | large sea coast to protect, but that more than | half the exports of the whole country are sent from it. Mr. Holman defended the committee from this insinuation, and insisted that the action of the committee had been fair, and local interests had been sunk In the consideration of good to the whole, Mr. Cox asked his friend to explain | then why Texas, with 1,700 miles of sea | | coast to protect, had been given but $16,000, while Michigan had more than ler share by any rule of fair play. Mr. Conger “rose to expluin,” at left the question in about the same position, | The amendments were of no special interest, #8 ite Dill was not amended except in a general way. The Hill passed, and, after a dull day for all eoucerned, the House odjourned, ‘Customs Collectors’ Salaries. ‘Tha Comunipsiouer of Customs has ceturagd from, St. Louis, where he went under orders from the Secretary of the Treasury to adjust the cases of ex- Collectors of Customs of that port, It ap- pears that not only in St. Loula bat at other points there have been differences of opinion as to the amount Collectors were allowed. The St. Louis officials held they were entitled to $6,000 per annum, while the Treasury Department decided they were entitled to only $5,000, To test the matter a case has been drawn up and will be tried in the United States Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, The Court of Claims—A Wholesale Clear- ance § Under a rule of the Court of Claims, all cases that are filed, but in which no steps to obtain testimony are taken within six months from the date of filing, are subject to be dismissed, Assistant Attorney General McMichael has already made motions to dismiss 1,460 cases, returnable on the first Monday of May and June, There are also 1,400 cases in the Court of Claims, involving claima for twenty per cent additional to salaries of govern- ment employés in this city during the year 1866, ‘Test cases now in the Supreme Court have been ad- vanced on the docket in order that the entire num- ber may be disposed of without delay. The Late Louist Anarchy Report. Many hard words are indulged in because the report of the New Orleans Investigation Committee has not been made to the House, the democrats charging that the delay in printing the evi- dence ts at the instance of President Grant, because his brother-in-law, Casey, 1s implicated by it. This is strenuously denied on the other side, the assertion being that the majority report 1s ready to be presented at any time, the delay having beem on joned by diiferenves on unessential points, Vreasury Department—Civil Service Board. Messrs, J. H. Saville, Chief Clerk of the Treasury Department; D. Graves, Chief Clerk of the ‘Treasurer's OMlce, and 3. J. Kimball, Chief of the Mariye Division of the Treasury Department, have been appointed a Board of Examiners for the Trea- sury Department under the new rules of the vit lon. Service Com: Personal Intelligence. Sefor Lopez Roberts and lady have arrived in this city from Washington, and are now staying at the private residence, No. 15 West Thirty-tirat street, Jommander J, H. Beaumont, of the United States Navy, ts at the St. James Hotel. General 8. KE. Marvin, of Albany, 1s in town, at the New York Hotel. Judge K. B. Wells, of Georgia, has arrived at the Grand Central Hotel. Homer A, Nelson, of Poughkeepsie, has arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Niles G. Parker, Treasurer of the State of South Carolina, yesterday arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel, . Professors Hartt, of Ithaca, ond J. Hall, of Albany, are at the Astor fouse, General A. $, Diven, of Eunira, is sojourning at the Hoffman House. Colonel J. F. Ritter, of the United States Navy, has taken quarters at the Grand Central Hotel, Scfor Pedro Ferrer y Lauda, of Santiago de Cuba, Is at the St. George Hotel. ‘The Rey. Dr. 8. H. Tyng 1s to sail for Kurope on Wednesday, and will be away several months. A short time since the revercnd gentleman was pre- Sented with $5,000 by members of hig congregation with which to defray the expenses of the pleasure tour he is about to make, The Rey. Theodore Cuyler, of Brooklyn, will leave for Europe on Wednesday. The purpose of his visit abroad is to attend the Assemblies and Synods of the Presbyterian Churches of England and Scotland as a delegate from the Presbyterian Church General Assembly of the United States, Signor Enrico Tamberlik, the celebrated tenor singer, will soon leave Havana. The representa- tives of foreign journals in Havana yesterday gave him a splendid banquet. Fitth Day’s Sessions—Resolutions, Discas< sions and Addresses on Popular Am: ments, Education, the Episcopacy, &o.— Reports of Committces—Memorial Ser vices. Immediately after the preliminary exercises yes- terday in Conference the Committee on Popular Amusements offered and advocated the following very non-committal report ou this subject, whictt was adopted :— as in popntar amusemen: subtle temptations, it becomes us as having the care of souls, tres Ject to our people words of We by no ineans condemn amusements indiscriminately ; they have their plac value. We w ‘er, earnestly dissuade them from thow ainusements which tend to late hours, ov at e t the Word of God, and to indulge In none which ot conscientiously approve. Equally, however, them to exercise charity which bove reproach who differ in concerning the propriety of any d to respect the conscien we are thers, we advise <e'p he may decom right f ch a d by the popn- lar judgment as inconsistent with the Christian name, or which are discouraged by the general sentiment of the hui rely belleve that ments, hy a just y inculcating usefulness in gard for the sentiments of by conslderite treatment of those who err, wa most effectually ¢ the tendeney to frivolity ‘and AdMness which threatens to mar the strength and effi- cleney of the Chu The Committee on Sunday Schools also reported, calling special attention to those Interests, Revs. J. N. Shatfer and L. H. King presented re- solutions expressing the feeling of the Conference as being phoned to any change in the Episcopacy or toany .innovation tn the consecration services. Mr Shatfer and Dr. Foster defended the resolution, but on a motion to strike out the words “innovation in the consecration,” a discussion arose, in which Rev. A. McLean took the Episcopal side, and called to ac- count the bad grace with which such a resolution came from -his brother Shaffer, who has been ten years settled at the Five Points and may be called the Bishop of that part of the Church, Mr, Shatter defended himself and declared his readiness to go poping! other fleld of labor that the Confe- rence or the Bishop might see fit to send him. On motion of Mr, Wheatley the entire subject was laid on the table, Subsequently, ho rT, on motion of Dr. Crawford a resolution was adopted that the Conference did not Intend by this action to expres¢ an opinion one way or another, but merely to put an end to a useless discussion. The Secretary was thereupon instructed not to place the matter on the journal of the Conference, ‘The Committees on Foreign and Christian Union, Freedman’s Ald and Church Extension made their reports. Dr, Rynett addressed the Conference on the claims of the last named interest, and urged the preachers to ta ip collections annually therefor. ‘The Committ Nducation having reported rably on the condition and prospects of ‘al institntions nnder the eee of the ce, Dr. Foster addvessed the house elo- the conriiiton of Drew Theological Sermai- he past year, he said, had been one prosperity, The Board of Instruction ts full, for the first time in its history He had received during the year about three hun- dred and enty letters from young men desirous of entering the ininistry, but who have neither the means hor the time to spare to enter college and prepare for admission to the Seminary. They have accommodations but for ninety-cight students, but by hiring # house they have now 112in the school and had they greater accommodations they could easy have double that number. There is a very wide- spread inclination of young men of the lower or middie walks of life to enter the ministry, but many of them cannot bear the expense of training. The cost of educating ® young man in Drew is $160 a year, while in preparatory schools it ts sel- dom lessthan three hundred dollars, He had raised this yeur, by letters and personal applications, 300 to aid twenty-three poor, but deserving stu- ts, and last year lai ath 10,000 for a similar object. The McClintock Association of this city, composed of noble Christian women, are doing what they can in thi direction, but the demand ts greater than the supply. Bight hundred men will come into the Methodist ministry this year, and in three years 2,400 willenter, and ifall the churches in the land wilt do their duty in or regard they can educate this number perpetually. The Committees on Pertodicals and on Necessitone Gases reported, The latter appropriated the Con- ference funds to forty- superannuated preachers to the amount of $8, © the widows and or- plans of deceased ministers, $3,575, and to a few effective men, #425, The prospective claims for the next year ave fixed at $15,000 vided among districts as follows:—New York district, § Rhinebeck, $1,150; Prants $1,050; Newbury, $1,050. rontine business the Con- ference adjourn lee P.M, at which hour, it reassembled, and held memorial services for tha Neve, A.C, Fields, 8. ©. Perry, DB. Tarner and Bishop D. W. Clurk, who died daring the past yoar. This was followed by a solemn suctamenta. service, alter whieh the Conference adjourned, In ihe ning Rev. R. W. Keeler, of the Upper Jowa Conference, preached in the Eighteenth street chureh, ‘To-day the appointments will be made and the Vouterenge WIL Brobably adiowen sine die, ES